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Peers in the past brought to life by those who were there this week amid the climate of fear after the 911 attacks in 2001 a new threat the shoe bomber somebody says something about he's trying to light something that's when you know everything is kind of stopped also the forced internment of more than 100000 Japanese Americans during the 2nd World War We can only take. In a suitcase we didn't know how long we would be gone plus a British theatrical group that toured the Sahara in the 1970 s. The real life behind the Mary Poppins story and from the 1960 s. How it came about that we all now need computer passwords. Based type a number up to 6 digits but that's 4 point one effect on the figure I don't get it . For you Ok. First here's today's. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jim hock secretary of Homeland Security to Nielson was in Yuma Arizona Saturday as N.P.R.'s Jon Stewart reports the visit comes after 2 migrant children died in u.s. Custody this month citing a quote humanitarian crisis Nielson visited both human and El Paso Texas to meet with health officials and Border Patrol officers to review new medical check up policies for migrant kids all children detained at the border are now supposed to get secondary screenings for health issues Nielsen announced the more thorough exams earlier this week after the death of an 8 year old Guatemalan boy which she called deeply concerning and heartbreaking in a tweet President Trump blame Democrats for the deaths of the children without mentioning his administration's tightened immigration policies apprehensions of migrant families quadrupled in October in November from $27000.00 levels here on Stewart n.p.r. News Austria says it's going to impose more taxes on high tech companies like Facebook and Amazon Teri Schultz reports that the Austrian plan comes after the European Union failed to agree on a joint policy during its 6 month presidency of the European Union which ends Tuesday Austria wasn't able to gain consensus among the other $27.00 countries over forcing a higher tax rate on multinational tech giants so us tranches are Sebastian Kurt says his country will go it alone the aim is clear Kurt says in a statement taxation of companies that make large profits online but barely pay taxes he mentions Facebook and Amazon by name says there is agreement among all e.u. Countries that there should be a digital tax but how that will work and how much it should be remains under debate details of Austria's plan are expected to be announced in early January for n.p.r. News I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels health officials and guns as a Israeli troops killed a Palestinian along the Israeli border as N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin reports guns are rocket fire and an Israeli airstrike followed the Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman. In Gaza says a 26 year old Palestinian with Down syndrome was shot in the head by Israeli troops Friday at the Gaza Israel border the Israeli Army declined to comment on the shooting it said some 5000 Palestinians gathered along the border fence with some throwing explosive devices rocks and burning tires Palestinians in Gaza have been holding protests for months demanding Israel ease restrictions on the territory Israel calls them violent riots more than 200 Palestinians and an Israeli soldier have been killed officials say and he Gyptian mediators have tried to lower tensions overnight Gaza militants fired a rocket into Israel and Israel responded with an airstrike with no injuries on either side Israeli officials said Daniel Estrin n.p.r. News Jerusalem a passenger walkway collapsed at b.w.i. Airport outside Baltimore Saturday evening with at least 6 people reported injuries and all of the injuries non life threatening this is n.p.r. News. German police say a man forced open a locked gate on the security perimeter of Hanover airport and drove a car under the airfield the 21 year old from Poland was pursued by police until they came to a stop underneath a Greek Airlines Airbus a $320.00 that was standing on the tarmac with $172.00 passengers on board no one was hurt in the incident but flights were suspended for more than 4 hours in Florida there's been a reported sighting of a North Atlantic right whale calf the 1st in a year N.P.R.'s Jenny gas ride reports the whale population is critically endangered with not even a single calf spotted last season only 5 North Atlantic right whales have been born in the past 2 years the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says 19 of them died during that same period mostly from ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear at the same time the whales have started to travel further north to find food which means they have to expend more energy travelling south to the areas of the Florida and Georgia coast where they gave birth for this struggling population a new calf is a sign of hope according to Florida's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute that baby and its mother were spotted near the entrance to the St John's River Jenny Backus right n.p.r. News a u.s. Health care worker who may have been exposed to the a bolt of virus while treating patients and Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in the United States on Saturday and was put in quarantine and the brassica the medic who was not exhibiting symptoms of Ebola will remain under observation for up to 2 weeks I'm Jim like n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the Wallace Foundation fostering improvements and learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and the vitality of the arts for everyone ideas at Wallace Foundation dot org and the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station. Hello this is the history hour with Max Pearson this week an apology from the u.s. Government to Japanese Americans interned during the 2nd World War The man who helped make and then break computer passwords from the 1970 s. a Theatrical journey across the Sahara Desert and p.l. Travers the creator of Mary Poppins But we begin with a potentially terrifying moment from the early 21st century when the world was in a state of general anxiety following the al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington These were followed by President George w. Bush's so-called war on terror which in turn at the effect of turning many people in a variety of countries against the u.s. So it was that in late December 2001 a 28 year old British man tried to detonate explosives hidden in his shoe on a transatlantic flight from Paris to Miami by clenching has been hearing from one of the passengers who helped to overcome Richard Reid the man known as the shoe bomber. Good afternoon the f.b.i. Is questioning a man who tried to blow up a transatlantic passenger jet with explosives hidden in one of issues the plane was on its way from France to the United States when it was the 1st major terror attempt since the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington now in the hands of the f.b.i. In Boston the man traveling on a British passport under the name of Richard Reid had again used low tech weapons to evade airport security when he boarded a Paris the passenger became violent in part with 2 flight attendants who were injured one was transported on arrival here in Boston and other passengers joined in to subdue this individual one of those passengers who helped overcome Reid was professional basketball player ko Army James who'd been living in France he was a strapping well built and very tall young man a lot of people in general not as each other you know if you 630. $64.00 and above you walk in a room is anybody 6465 and above you tend to notice Kwame James is 6 feet 8 and Richard Reid 6 foot 4 both around 2 meters tall they were both standing in line for the night flight from Paris I think I kind of noticed he doesn't have any you know carry on but out there was that I didn't I didn't have any r.v. And anything towards him or anybody on the flight I was I was going to travel to the Caribbean so I was there when a good mood it was Christmas break so I was in good spirits apart from the fact that he didn't have a carry on and he was quite tall Did you notice anything else about I don't know what he was wearing or anything he was doing I did notice you know what he was wearing also but I try not to be judgment also but I did think to myself why he's he's traveling you know from Paris to the States in a tracksuit the fact that Richard Reid was casually dressed and more importantly without any hand luggage didn't set off any security alarm bells despite it being only 3 months since $911.00 and the 23 year old James didn't think any more of his fellow passenger as he boarded the flight and settled into his seat literally as we start rolling down the runway for takeoff started those of and what was the next thing you were aware of I was a walkin by some screams next to me and the girl to the left of me she was screaming and screaming like we're on a roller coaster scream it wasn't immediately clear why she was screaming though he was still groggy and half asleep James tried to get a better view towards the back of the plane where they seem to be some sort of commotion taking place it looked like a scuffle from a vantage point and if not a scuffle and somebody was having a seizure just like my mind didn't go to anything was completely wrong at that moment I was literally watching this and then a flight attendant came from the other direction from 1st class and tapped me on my shoulder and said you know can you please help I kind of they're like you know I'm not sure what we're. Going on she didn't say anything else again past that because well and back at her she was very pale like she was you could tell she was scared James followed her back down the aisle the commotion was about 10 rows back and as he got nearer he saw what he thought was a fight going on between passengers and I'm thinking Ok I got to break up a fight as I got closer and was about to start holding people back I realize there was another flight attendant that you couldn't see from just where I was sitting at looking back where she was on the ground and you know if somebody says something about trying to light something that's when you know everything just kind of stopped but you know it's very much of a September 11th there's a commotion a plane somebody says something by shine a light something I think the word bomb was used and it was just it was a surreal stop in your tracks moment there was still a lot of confusion about exactly what was going on one of the flight attendants said that she'd seen Richard Reid trying to set fire to his shoe some passengers had reported smelling smoke and it's seen him stuffing papers into his show another air hostess had been bitten by Reid as she tried to grab a box of matches from him whatever the sequence of events a struggle was still going on yet he was definitely fighting back with all his power I think it's like 642423240 so he was a big guy and it took you know every bit of effort to really control him you know we were able to kind of subdue Richard Reid get him under control still not quite understand what's going on and at this time a captain who was flying back to the states not the one flying the plane we just happen to be in 1st class and he came back and started to kind of taken control of what needed to be done so he looked at me and I was the biggest guy said you know we need you to stay here and be you know essentially in security mode one of the passengers kind of the guards to guard his reader the rest of the flight there was no marshals there. No Hank of so what exactly to do so we have passions you know hey we got a time somehow some way passengers pass belts and shoe strings and anything that could tie and we actually tie them to the seat and what would the other passengers doing at that stage do with a aware that there was something serious going on the rest of the plane was actually relatively calm to the point where our later while actually standing over each reed standing guard over him they actually put on the in-flight movie so you know just imagine the mental the mental sway in my mind of going back and forth between While this is happening here and they have the in-flight movie on for the rest of the passengers at some point the decision was taken to continue on to the u.s. And to land in Boston not in Miami Kwame James another passenger took up positions on guard in 6 directly behind the now subdued Richard Reid I just can't understand hate the hatred and you know why you want to you know kill somebody or kill people that you don't know who are attached to the course that you claim to be fighting towards So I remember you know call a you know where you're really trying to do something we're really trying to write something and I do remember him as calm as they saying you see. And I was that was that was probably the scariest moment for me because at that stage it still wasn't clear whether Reid was acting alone or whether there was another bomb on board perhaps in the luggage these fears proved unfounded but further precautions were still taken before the flight was allowed to land u.s. Air Force fighter jets escorted the plane as it was diverted to Boston while 2 doctors on board sedated the man 3 times and once on the ground a swat team came aboard and Richard Reid was arrested when his shoes were x. Rayed they were found to be packed with plastic explosives and a crew detonator enough so the f.b.i. To have had catastrophic consequences afterward. When you sort of sat back and had time to think about it what were your thoughts then in the following weeks you know it becomes a surreal is like having contact with f.b.i. Agents and and agencies and different things and you know they kind of give you the rundown of what could have happened that it was confirmed there was plastic explosives and and you know I guess he had matches a match box that had been wet in his shoes and had they not been wet I wouldn't be hit on a story so to just know that you were that close to not being here and that definitely things in on you but I just took the approach that I was going to be positive and turn that moment into a positive lesson of how everything can change in a split 2nd and you could not be here so you need to deliver every day to the force you need to do positive things and impact people's lives in a positive way and don't get caught up in the more day to day things that can bring you down Richard Reid the shoe bomber was sentenced in January of 2003 to serve 3 consecutive life sentences and 100 years in prison with no possibility of parole he said that he has been inspired by al Qaeda and considered the United States to be his enemy who Army James is now retired from professional basketball like luncheon the sense of paranoia which was in evidence during those years after the $911.00 attacks is something which has recurred throughout history when one country culture or group feels threatened by another it was certainly present in the 1940 s. When the world was at war and it led to some extreme and unjust actions to reflect on this we're going back to $988.00 and the signing of a Civil Liberties Act in the USA which awarded a presidential apology and compensation to Japanese Americans who were interned during World War 2. Has been speaking to Norman Minetta who campaigned for the act my fellow Americans we gather here today to write a. Grave wrong President Ronald Reagan and that grave wrong so 120000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese navy on December the 7th 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by Mabel and the forces of the Empire of Japan yes the nation was then of war struggling for its survival and it's not for us today to pass judgment upon those who may have made mistakes while engaged in that great struggle yet we must recognize that the internment of Japanese Americans was just that a mistake. For through it took us close to 10 years to get the bill passed which is needed a lot of t.l.c. And a lot of attention to working on a nonpartisan basis with Republicans and Democrats to get supporters Nomen mean that a congressman from San Jose California was instrumental in pushing through the Civil Liberties Act as a child he drew me from his home with his family in 1940 along with tens of thousands of other Japanese American citizens now regarded as enemy aliens by the wartime u.s. Government President Reagan mentioned that his own experience at the signing ceremony Congressman Norman Minetta with us today was 10 years old when his family was interned in the congressman's words my own family was sent 1st to Santa Anita racetrack we showered in the horse paddocks some families lived in converted stables others in hastily thrown together barracks we left Santa say on May 29th 1942 and we could only take what we were able to carry in a suitcase we didn't know how long we would be gone until you remember that day in May 942 and how you all parents reacted Oh I can remember that very vividly some Caucasian friends of ours came to your house and then took us to the railfreight garden center is a I mean they weren't even going to let us board the trains at the passenger terminal and remember when the train was pulling out and I looked around and saw my dead crying and I'm almost all I saw my pride 3 times once was on March 29th 1942 as we were pulling out of Santa Fe The 2nd time was when my mother asked away and on December 7th 1941 because he couldn't understand why the land of his birth was attacking now the land of his heart off to the end of the war the family returned to San Jose. In 1906 picked up their lives after serving in the Army as an intelligence officer Norman joined his father in the family insurance business his experience of helplessness led memetic to become involved in politics as well as Japanese American community organizations in San Jose I saw the impact on my 3 older sisters my older brother my parents so you're cognizant about what was happening to you but not able to do anything so when I got into the whole political system I had this very strong desire to make sure that I represented those who had no voice who are 100 represented in 1971 he became mayor of San Jose the 1st Japanese American man of a major u.s. City and in 1974 he was elected the Democratic representative for California 13th district it was in 1978 that Norman Mehta and 3 other members of Congress of Japanese origin approached by the Japanese American citizens leak he was seeking an apology and compensation from the u.s. Government the congressman decided the best way to make it happen would be to investigate what exactly had gone on during World War 2 So in 1981 the Commission on water time you look Asian and intendment of civilians got the testimony from Japanese Americans across the u.s. After 2 years study they came to the conclusion that the evacuation and internment came about because of historical racial discrimination wartime hysteria and the lack of political leadership but it took several more years before the Civil Liberties Act came into being minister and his colleagues along with community groups lobbied Congress relentlessly He says it was a question of compensation that was the sticking point people would say why are we having to compensate people for something they have been in a. 142. Would you give up your liberties for 4 years for $20000.00 home no no no absolutely Yeah well that's why we have this provision in there because people were and deprived of their ability to exercise all of their constitutional rights as citizens and permanent residents of the United States of America finally it was announced that on August the 10th 1988 the bill would be signed by President Reagan b

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