CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 19, 1986 | GABE FUENTES, Times Staff Writer
Terms of a $500,000 endowment for a history professorship at California State University, Northridge have been agreed upon by the university and the donor, the W. P. Whitsett Foundation, the university announced Tuesday. The agreement appeared to resolve a dispute within the CSUN history department over several conditions in the foundation's original proposal, which some history professors said infringed on academic freedom.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 1, 2001
In "Terrorists' Use of Hazardous Materials Seen" (Sept. 25) John Conley of National Tank Truck Carriers states, "Security measures in the industry have focused much more on keeping hazardous material inside the trucks, rather than keeping terrorists out." We now know that these terrorists have been in this country for several years as moles. They are ready to strike our schools, shopping centers, commercial buildings, entertainment centers. If terrorists are in position, then they are "in the trucks" already.
OPINION
September 6, 2003
Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba traveled to China this week in a high-level response to the recent poisoning of dozens of Chinese by mustard gas left behind by the Japanese army after World War II. How sharply that visit contrasts with Japan's refusal to own up to its germ warfare experiments on Chinese civilians more than half a century ago.
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August 12, 2003 | K. Connie Kang, Times Staff Writer
Researchers who have been investigating Japan's germ warfare experiments on Chinese civilians during World War II visited Los Angeles on Monday to urge the U.S. to release documents that they say would shed light on that chapter in history. Survivors of those experiments have endured six decades of suffering that continues today, said Ignatius Ding, a spokesman for the Alliance to Preserve the History of WWII. "It's real, it's ongoing," he said. Ding's group is hosting a tour of six U.S.
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August 6, 1995 | K. CONNIE KANG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A heart-wrenching exhibition, scrutinizing atrocities committed against tens of millions of Chinese and other Asians by the Japanese military before and during World War II, has opened at the Weingart Gallery at Occidental College. The Los Angeles showing of the "Forgotten Holocaust" seeks to refute decades of Japan's denial, followed by distortion, about its aggression in Asia.
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August 4, 1995 | K. CONNIE KANG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A heart-wrenching exhibition, scrutinizing atrocities committed against tens of millions of Chinese and other Asians by the Japanese military before and during World War II, opens today at the Weingart Gallery at Occidental College. The Los Angeles showing of the "Forgotten Holocaust" seeks to refute decades of Japan's denial, followed by distortion, about its aggression in Asia.