Pacific Islanders Los Angeles

Five individuals and one organization will be be honored for their contributions to the Asian and Pacific Islander communities at the 10th anniversary dinner of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics Inc. on Friday . The honorees are: * David Barclay, vice president and chief developer of work force diversity programs at Hughes Aircraft Co., * Helen Brown, founder and director of the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library, * David H. Kim, chairman of the Korean American Grocers Assn.

Five individuals and one organization will be be honored for their contributions to the Asian and Pacific Islander communities at the 10th anniversary dinner of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics Inc. on Friday . The honorees are: * David Barclay, vice president and chief developer of work force diversity programs at Hughes Aircraft Co., * Helen Brown, founder and director of the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library, * David H. Kim, chairman of the Korean American Grocers Assn.

Asian and Pacific Island students at Mount St. Mary's College in Brentwood were the focus of an AIDS Awareness program Thursday at the school. The AIDS program was a joint effort between the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, a nonprofit group that works to promote AIDS awareness among Asian and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles, and the Asian Pacific Affiliation, a campus group. "Most Asians don't think that AIDS affects them," said Que Dang, of the Intervention Team.

The number of businesses owned by Asian Americans, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles County grew 64% between 1982 and 1987, according to a survey released Thursday by the Commerce Department. The county also continues to rank first in the nation in the number of businesses owned by members of those groups. Additionally, total receipts generated by the Los Angeles companies more than doubled in the five-year period to $687 million.

Acknowledging that its amnesty program has not been a success among Asians, the Immigration and Naturalization Service on Tuesday named three Asian-Americans to help set up an outreach program to recruit more applicants. Western Regional INS Commissioner Harold Ezell introduced John Tu as the newly named Asian-Pacific outreach coordinator.

Twenty years ago, they came to Dr. Man Chul Cho suffering from symptoms of hwa-byung, the "anger sickness" of Korean folklore: They couldn't sleep, felt anxious and depressed, had muscle aches and stomach pains. They had survived the riots, but couldn't forget. Some were considered fierce defenders -- they'd battled looters in public shootouts. Others had been all but invisible, pleading vainly for help from police while their shops burned. They were so angry, bewildered and frightened that they were willing to buck custom and culture and trust a stranger for therapy.

Publicly funded AIDS services in Los Angeles County remain disproportionately concentrated in Anglo communities despite the steady spread of the disease among blacks, Latinos and Asians, two county advisory boards reported Tuesday. The Human Relations Commission and the Commission on AIDS called on the Board of Supervisors and Department of Health Services to decentralize their AIDS programs in order to better serve the minority and lower-income neighborhoods that increasingly need them most.

Acknowledging that its amnesty program has not been a success among Asians, the Immigration and Naturalization Service on Tuesday promoted three Asian-Americans to help set up an outreach program to send agency vans into Asian business areas and translate information to recruit more applicants.