What's Happening
in San Jose Vietnamese Community & Interested News:
July 30,
2003: Little
Saigon Complex Proposed. The cultural center would be set on 3
acres in Garden Grove. If OKd, the two buildings would take five years, $10
million to complete. A small, nonprofit group has proposed building a $10-million
Vietnamese library and cultural center on three acres of city-owned land in
Garden Grove, signaling the further expansion of Little Saigon, Orange County's
rapidly growing Vietnamese American community. More
LA. Times.
July 29, 2003: Protesters see red over S.F. flag veto. South Vietnam's banner unlikely to fly. Hundreds of Vietnamese Americans gathered in front of San Francisco City Hall Monday to denounce Mayor Willie Brown's veto of a measure recognizing Vietnam's pre-communist flag as their community symbol. More SF. Chronicle.
July 28, 2003: THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES. Bob Hope, ski jump-nosed master of the one-liner and favorite comedian of servicemen and presidents alike, has died, just two months after turning 100. Hope died late Sunday of pneumonia at his home in Toluca Lake, with his family at his bedside. More NBC.
Jul. 25, 2003: South Vietnam flag resolution wavers in S.F. To huzzahs and consternation, this week San Francisco became the latest city, after San Jose, Milpitas, Falls Church, Va., and Houston, to recognize the former flag of the South Vietnamese government. How it happened in the Left Coast City was purely by accident, which is a pretty amusing story if it weren't such questionable policy for any public body except the federal government. More SJMN.
July 24, 2003: FBI looks at fatal shooting in S.J. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed late Wednesday that the agency has launched a ``preliminary inquiry'' into the shooting death of Cau Thi Tran, the 25-year-old mother killed in her kitchen by a San Jose police officer over a week ago. The agency is reviewing the fatal officer-involved shooting to see whether there were any civil rights abuses during Tran's brief encounter with the police. More SJMN.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis will face a recall election Oct. 7, the lieutenant governor said Thursday, giving his fellow Democrat less than three months to campaign to keep his job or become only the second governor in the nation ever to be recalled. More NBC.
July 22,
2003:
S.F. supervisors in hot water over flag vote. Symbol honored was that of South
Vietnam. San Francisco Supervisor Fiona Ma was trying to please
local Vietnamese American activists when she got the city to honor a flag
they said was a symbol of their community. What Ma and most of the other members
of the Board of Supervisors did not realize, however, is that the yellow flag
with three red stripes they unanimously voted to honor last Tuesday was that
of the defeated government of South Vietnam. "I did not know that this
was the exact flag of South Vietnam," Ma said. "That was my bad."
More
SF. Chronicle.
July 21, 2003: Police air condolences over Vietnamese radio. San Jose police have begun airing Vietnamese radio spots expressing sympathy and regret for last week's fatal shooting of a young mother by an officer in an effort to repair relations with a community outraged by the tragedy. More SJMN.
July 18, 2003: S.J. police striving to repair their image. VIETNAMESE-AMERICANS SUGGEST STEPS TO TAKE AFTER SHOOTING. As police took steps to win the confidence of San Jose's Vietnamese-American community on Thursday, strangers continued to drop by the East Taylor Street home where an officer shot and killed a 25-year-old Vietnamese-American woman on Sunday night. More SJMN.
Vietnamese community rallies. Dozens march to protest slaying of woman wielding kitchen tool. About 150 members of San Jose's Vietnamese community held an emotional march to City Hall and the Police Department Wednesday, demanding to know why police didn't overpower a distraught woman instead of fatally shooting her as she waved a 6-inch blade. More SF. Chronicle.
San Jose cop kills woman in front of her kids. Dispute over what victim held in hand. San Jose police checking out a report of a child walking in traffic ended up killing the child's mother after she allegedly advanced on officers with what police said appeared to be a cleaver but what the woman's brother said was a dull vegetable peeler. More SF. Chronicle.
San Jose cops deny slain woman unarmed. She was holding a 10-inch knife, they say. San Jose police refuted claims Tuesday that a disturbed woman was holding nothing more than a dull vegetable peeler when she was fatally shot by police, displaying the 10-inch knife they say she was waving when officers opened fire. More SF. Chronicle.
July 15, 2003: Budget Deficit May Surpass $455 Billion. War Costs, Tax Cut, Slow Economy Are Key Factors. That is 50 percent higher than the Bush administration forecast five months ago. More Wash. Post. Text of Iraqi council’s duties, responsibilities.
July 14, 2003: Bush 'Bundlers' Take Fundraising to New Level. Each donor wrote a four-digit "solicitor tracking code" assigned to Burd on his check so that the Safeway CEO will receive credit from Bush campaign officials and they can keep a running tally of his efforts.
The possible rewards, depending on how much money he can bring in, include cocktails with campaign architect Karl Rove, dinner with Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans and photo opportunities and sessions with the president. More Wash. Post.
Iraq council to send mission to U.N. The new Iraqi governing council a U.S.-sanctioned first step toward democracy in postwar Iraq voted Monday to send a delegation to the U.N. Security Council. More NBC.
July 10, 2003: Iraq costing U.S. $4 billion a month. Costs to continue longer due to ongoing attacks, reports say. The Pentagon is spending nearly $4 billion a month in Iraq, a burn rate that is likely to continue far longer than the Bush administration intended due to ongoing attacks on U.S. forces, according to private and government cost projections. More NBC.
June 30, 2003: Katharine Hepburn dies at 96. Screen legend, icon of style, redefined roles for women. OLD SAYBROOK, Conn., Actress Katharine Hepburn died Sunday, leaving behind six decades worth of classic screen appearances that redefined America’s image of a leading lady. She was 96. More NBC.