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champion in the dressing room — Physics Let's go on the stage! We wanna help, we wanna help! We wanna help, we wanna help! I would commitment is to see that the homeless people have a place to live that they can call home as opposed to shelters. There are 2,645 units out here. We intend to be here until we see that 2,645 occupied units are occupied by people who don't have places to stay. How long that will take God on the nose. Several ministers recruited about 70 homeless people to turn vacant public housing in West Dallas into a squatters camp.

Peter Johnson heads the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They're in horrible conditions because they've been bordered up for more than 5 years. The government has allowed them to be vandalized. Their millions and millions of dollars were for vandalism taking place in these units simply because nobody was living in them. It does not make sense. To the homeless it doesn't make sense that these vacant apartments will be torn down. It's a court order demolition, part of the solution to a lawsuit challenging years of discriminatory public housing policies. Those policies turned the West Dallas projects into a city run ghetto. But the homeless who spent the night here didn't mind. Hey man, not only for this long and rising but we're thank you for tonight. I was here, I was at the Salvation Army and a shelter. And before there I was at another shelter, the downtown Dallas Family Shelter. This is great. This is something that we wanted to do and everybody is looking forward to.

Now for us a lot of people that want to be, want to get things right in their life. They want to turn their life around, but how can you get the life turned around if people don't want to ever get your chance? You go to a plough for a job, you put that on the application that you stand at a shelter and they look at that. That's not a solid base, a solid foundation enough to hire you and figure your uses. The director of the Dallas Housing Authority, Alfonso Jackson, bent the rules, letting Jones and the other squatters spend the night. He had them fill out housing application forms and promise those who qualified could stay. The next morning, Jackson had bad news, only eight qualified. That of the 55 applications that we took, the bulk of the men who were single males, had serious criminal records. The other thing that is most important to us at this point in time is that we have 10

or 15 seniors sitting in their special purpose area absolutely frightened. They asked us this morning when they asked to meet with me and the people of my staff, we need home, with new challenges, we need Hallo, with new challenges, we need Home, we need Home Red Medical Free! And we share the bridge. This is what The City of Dallas does to his homeland, and it's all reckoning to be good. We all be in the world, we all be there! Sixteen people went to jail for six hours. They promised to return to West Dallas. 에도 Kessler heads the Dallas Housing Authority Board. Dale Kessler is not the vehicle or the organization to handle the issue of homeless. who is in our area. It's the county government has that responsibility. Dallas County, a state

district court has ruled, is responsible for the homeless. The county has as many as 14,000 people living on the streets. Some of them filed a lawsuit saying the county hasn't provided adequate services or housing. I think we've done that. I'm, I'm real, um, disgusted and frustrated with the lawsuit. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price was a swing vote in the decision to oppose the lawsuit. We can get into blame shifting, uh, but no one can show me, uh, yet where there's a county responsibility to take care of the homeless. I mean, while we blame shift, it's all of our responsibility. The housing authority, the city of Dallas, the county, the hospital district, mental health, mental retardation, it's all of our responsibility. So I'm not going to get into blame shifting with them. I think that somehow the winds have been blowing and it appears as though they're blowing toward the county. So now it's very easy for everybody to pass the buck and say it is the county's responsibility. While county officials talk about sharing the burden,

they've stayed out of the housing authorities problems with the homeless. And the city council has done the same thing, although it oversees the housing authority and appoints its board members. That connection pulled the city into the West Dallas lawsuit. Lawyers for residents who filed the lawsuit want the city to help pay for housing improvements. They also want city sponsored programs for business and job development in neighborhoods around the projects. They say the city settlement offers have been worse than inadequate. Dallas City Council member Harriet Myers is on the city's negotiating team to settle the lawsuit. Well, the city is approaching it, to see if there isn't a community solution that would be a positive way to address the housing problem. Housing director Jackson has been critical of the city stand and has said so publicly. He is a strong leader. And in fact, when we were looking for a new executive director, we had some particular criteria that we wanted. Communications with our publics, the city, the residents was very high. A better image, a better perspective of the Dallas

housing authority in the community. We were interested in and then building an internal organization to be successful. The housing authority wants public support, but the homeless controversy has made the housing authority a magnet for criticism about society's neglect of the needy. So we are here to redeem the soul of our nation. Not get for homeless people in our city, but for homeless people who watch the home. This morning, we have come to offer a care. We still have the stick available. Our crowbars are still ready, but we do have a proposal and a plan. The homeless advocates wanted to move street people into West Dallas, letting them fix up the apartments. They wanted the housing authority to pay for the repairs.

Jackson agreed to look over the proposal. For all its merits, it risked confining poor minorities to segregated housing. That's contrary to the housing court order. You know, there's not very many wants here today, but the homeless situation is at least 50 percent. You know, they're just not as willing to speak up, you know. So, but you gotta remember, this small crowd out here is representing thousands of people, you know, not just this small crowd. Well, I do not see any reason why we should feel that we should re-segregate that with persons who are not capable of earning a living. What we should do is start those persons moving toward a progression to earn a living, to making them economically viable. Jackson's solution, the housing authority would lease this apartment complex in Northeast Dallas to the homeless advocates, and they would pay for the work about $10,000 per unit. What Jackson didn't know was that scavengers looking for rugs, pictures, and copper pipe had vandalized the complex. But vandalized or not, Jackson said these apartments are

cheaper to fix and in a better location than the West Dallas projects. DHA is pretty much put the ball in your court. Well, look, it's a very old tactic of a bureaucracy that has been presented with demands to come back with a token response in order to shift responsibility away from themselves and to put it on us. If he wants us to give him handouts, it's what he's asking for, then we're not going to do that. But we've done, they asked us for an effort to address the needs of the homeless. We're trying to do that. If the issue is West Dallas, that's a totally different issue. And I think they should stop lying to the public if the issue is West Dallas. That question put ministers on the defensive. Were they exploiting the homeless for political reasons? But are you giving them false hope? No, we're not giving them false hope. We're not giving the false hope at all. And to prove that, the ministers went back to West Dallas with pro-borns. For the second time in two weeks, they moved homeless people into the projects.

All right, I got it. Well, in one sense, it's kind of a battle of nerves, battle of wits. We're trying to establish the right to open these units and we're trying to demonstrate by showing a few of them that they are fixable and livable. It's in DHA's interest to keep these boards up here. But the housing authority, in a surprise move, let the boards come down and gave the homeless advocates 15 more apartments. I don't think it's a matter of surrendering. I think it's a matter that we do not need to perceive ourselves as adversaries when basically our goal is to provide decent safe and sanitary housing. .

Ask almost any child in America where they like to eat best, and the overwhelming response is likely to be McDonald's. Since Ray Crock began his restaurant chain 35 years ago, children have had a special relationship with the fast food giant. McDonald's has cultivated that relationship with costumed characters like Ronald McDonald, who have become well-loved friends, and few kids can resist the free toys in those happy meals. As for the food, the numbers speak for themselves. An average of 22 million people a day will purchase something from a McDonald's restaurant. Most of those consumers are children. McDonald sold an estimated 500 million of the popular happy meals last year. So it's hard to imagine this love affair on the rocks,

but kids all across the country are choosing to stay away from McDonald's. If all of us keep on riding to McDonald's and boycotting it, then I really think that they're going to stop, they're going to use less styrofoam. Styrofoam, the stuff the restaurants clamshell containers are made of have become the object of a boycott by kids. E-cology-minded clubs like this one in Ulyss, called Earth Kids Operation, or E-co, are focusing in on McDonald's, hoping their voices of concern can help prevent the golden arches from tarnishing. This day, E-co members are planting acorns to sell for their upcoming ecology festival, but in December the group focused its energy on a letter-writing campaign. E-co joined 500 other kids against pollution groups and writing letters to the corporate office of McDonald's, complaining about the company's use of styrofoam.

To really add a mcpunch to their effort, the kids also decided to stop eating at Mickey Dees. We didn't want McDonald's to use the styrofoam because it's killing our nature. Was it hard to do this? Was it hard to boycott a place like McDonald's? Yes. Why? Because I like their ice cream cones. It's important because they're geared toward kids. They have a little Ronald McDonald and all that, and it's geared toward kids, and I think they'll listen to kids more than adults. They want us to buy their food, so if they want us to buy their food, we shouldn't be intimidated by anyone. The concerns about styrofoam usage aren't limited to mcdonalds or children's groups. Fast food retailers have come under fire recently from environmental groups and legislators for their excessive use of styrofoam and plastic packaging. The citizen's clearinghouse for hazardous waste in Arlington, Virginia is conducting an ongoing mctoxics campaign. To counter McDonald's publicized claims that foam is safe and vital to its goals in serving the public,

the citizen's clearinghouse publishes its own facts about foam. For example, foam may be 100% recyclable, yet McDonald's plans to recycle only 25% of its foam by 1995. Over 7 million barrels of oil, a non-renewable resource is used to make foam packaging. Foam cups keep boiling water only half a degree hotter than paper cups after six minutes. When foam breaks down in landfills, toxins are released. 57 toxins are emitted when foam is burned. McDonald's had been burning styrofoam and incinerators at three of its midwestern stores. They called them Archie McPuffs. Operations at all three have now been phased out the latest as recently as last week. The emissions from incineration of polystyrene were very clean and very safe and very much in keeping with the EPA standards. But because of the way McDonald's is located throughout the country,

you know, multiple locations and way it spread out, it really is in a program that works for McDonald's. And we felt that our best efforts were towards the area of source reduction and recycling. Nancy Reeble is eco-sponsor. That group and others fought against the incinerators. She never felt they were the solution. The thing we're trying to do is not say that we have all the answers. We're saying that we want them to know that the kids care and that we want them as the big people to find some answers. We say we see a problem. We see that you're contributing the problem. Please contribute to the solution. Actually, we've taken the time to write to a lot of children and to place personal calls in a lot of times. And basically what we tell them is that first of all, McDonald's really cares about the environment. Eco members have heard nothing from McDonald's. McDonald's may not admit its incinerators were shut down due to public outcry. Still, kids against pollution groups

like Eco feel their efforts had an impact. For them, these last few months have been a learning experience to rival the lessons of David and Goliath. Having stood up to the big guys makes them feel a sense of accomplishment, even though it wasn't always easy. I just couldn't help it. I just got a few happy meals before the boycotting or in the middle of it. I couldn't help it. So do you miss going to McDonald's? Yeah. If you're tempted to dismiss this group as a bunch of kids who don't know what they're doing, think again and listen. They may be young, but there's wisdom in their words. Already, they're learning the power of economics and the significance of the future. Well, I thought it was very important, especially for the kids to send in because the demand is for the kids and they're putting out toys so that they can get more kids. And without the man, their system would be cut off. We haven't done very much, but what we have done, we are proud of, because not a whole lot of kids are really getting into this and it's got to start with us because

or the next generation to be up there. And I mean, the futures are. So we have to take care of our earth. There's not going to be one to even worry about for our children. This exhibit is actually a result of the three-year program signed between the US and the United States of America. We are now changing our political pattern. We're bringing

much more democracy to the country parliamentary democracy. We are changing, we are changing over from highly centralized economy to collectively owned economy, which means socialism, but without that much of centralization, without that much of the money in the part of the state. At this exhibit we have several computers which store various information about the Soviet Union. Like, for example, this computer will give those interested various information on joint ventures operating in the Soviet Union now. Several years ago, it would have been impossible to place any of these pictures on view in any art gallery or museum or such an exhibition. We have had many years of cold war unfortunately and now it's time for us to establish better

mutual understanding between the two countries. So we just wanted to show your regular life some of our achievements, some of the opportunities which the business community in the US has now in the Soviet Union. They're contemporary people, but they've made contact with something that has grounded them.

And I think that they're asking all of us to do that or to think about that. What is it, you know, in your past and your background and in your upbringing that has made you what you are? In tribal spirits, the tribes has been separated, but the spirit is still one. The tribal spirits, the way the faces and things is done is in a disguise because we have lived in a disguise. Our ancestors lived here as happy people with their heart longing for the homeland. We have lived out under what we have been taught, but deep down inside that tribal spirit is there and that goes

for the blacks down through generations. We have kind of stepped out of our identity, our true identity for the sake of assimilation and for the sake of integration. However, in all too many instances that has been at the expense of knowing who you are. Once you begin to understand who you are, then you begin to look deeper into your history, and then you begin to find out all the things that you've done and all of those problems of identity and feeling less than the next person and all of those kind of hang-ups that many of us have experienced begin to evaporate. You have to remember that word black meant the devil. It meant

something negative, you see. So, Africa itself had a completely negative connotation. Now, I stopped this trust in this early. This didn't make sense to me because after all, I was a black person and I knew I was human and I knew I had sensitivity. So, something was wrong with the information. And so, very early, I wanted to go to Africa. I wanted to find out about my own cultural roots, and arriving in Africa was a tremendous experience which I have never gotten over. My first trip to Africa was in 1972, and the thing that had the strongest impact on me, I think, was my feeling was the fact of the living art, and to me the living art was the people. The people themselves were like sculpture, moving, living sculpture. When I got to Africa here, this kind of atmosphere was everywhere. Women with their claws, and as they

would move, they looked like exotic birds. It was the presence of the people. People looked you dead in the eye. Nobody looked from side to side. People looked you. They confronted you. A man may be barefooted, but he confronted you with such presence. You forgot that he was barefooted because that was such humanity that it came forth. So, I found, for my inspiration, purposes of growth, I found the art to be in the people. That's what I found. As opposed to a sculpture in a case in a museum. They said, Al King shines brighter than the sun. He's most splendid than the sun. He gives life to all of us. Al King, she's more peaceful than a full moon. She also gives radiance. The moon itself goes behind the cloud when we bring her forth,

and the people are carrying them in the palaklands. A hundred drums are moving with nothing but energy, energy, but the vibration of energy. You become energy yourself. You are no longer having an ego. Suddenly, I realized here was a great culture beyond any kind of description. Here was such a revelation of such great beauty, such profound beauty and such profound meaning. I realized then, as I realized now, I can never, I can never exhaust so it's inexhaustible. So, I thought that if I brought forth my heritage, the concepts of my heritage, the imagery, that then I would make some kind of positive contribution to the overall integration of America. So, I held fast on to Africa because I realized that was the only way

that I could really contribute something positive to the block of awareness situation in America. The worry is a sculpture that tends to have a proud stance, chest rolling forward, shoulders leaning back, head tilting forward, looking down as a tall, elegant, dominating type of a figure and is looking down on the world and saying that I will protect you. The warrior and I are one and the same. What all of these artists share is a very human need to communicate, to relate to you, to all of the viewers, to share information about what it is to be human, to be human beings and to have a body of experiences that may be different in some ways, but emotionally we are all connected.

In this painting you've seen two women, one is black and one is white, think in terms of our history here in this country and what happened in that plantation setting also leads us to know that out of that horrible painful institution of slavery, again we have two families being cultivated. I'm saying that we are sisters because of what happened during this time period that my blood flows into yours as yours flows into mine and so we are indeed one family. We are one family.

I am not the artist. God is my artist because he blessed a stick and he gave it to me and in the scriptures he said, but he be lifted up that you draw all man can on him so my sticks lift him up and it's going about all over the world to draw me. I think the reason that you don't find a great deal of angry art or protest art within this body of work is because this represents the ultimate conclusion that the artist reached after going through the frustration and anger. They as artists had to reach another plateau, another level and their awareness of their African heritage was a means of reaching that level which is the

celebration. This exhibit really is a celebration of like it really is and it is positive. It's something that doesn't emerge all of the time so clearly so when it does express itself this way with this excitement and power it's a moment you know a real real pride for me as an African American. Thank you.

My work comes from a source, from a source that I have no control over, and I thank God for all His patience and understanding and His teaching, because He teaches me through a source that I don't even explain. It just comes from the man, and I just start working, and I just do, as though I want to school court, and I know it's a God gift. It really started in love with Texas.

I'm originally from love of Texas, and it started in love with Texas. I had a vision, which was a very, very unusual vision. One night, me and my wife were in the bed, and we were talking, and this, I assume it's spirit. It took over my body to where I couldn't even talk. I couldn't move, and my words were mumble and studded. My wife said there, asked me what was wrong, and I couldn't communicate with her, but I knew I was in, as though my spirit was being taken out of my body. There's no words really to explain what it actually was, but I knew that it wasn't evil, and that was my first premonition, that God had His hand on me. I got up the next day, and I started working, and so I was being pooled into this work, and I knew then I had no control over what I was doing, and I was enjoying what I was doing,

and I didn't know what I was doing, but I started just messing around and messing around what the hell was the stuff, and I started putting two and two together instead of getting four, I got six, and then I started getting this feeling about myself, that it was art. So I started liking it. I didn't know anything about art. I started, I didn't know anybody to contact, I didn't know anything, but this drive in me just kept pushing me and pushing me, and it pushed me and pushed me, and I worked for me to sun up, to sun down, I'd do one art object, I'd start on another, I'd do a painting. One week I'd be at all paintings, next week I started doing a wood carving. Here's a piece! What started, you need to get in the cans, was real, real strange.

We went to fishing loads one day as our normal procedure, we go every day, about 11, 30 or 12, to eat a good meal, and then I never done anything with cans, and I used to pick up looming them cans, how you doing, okay? The cans, the cans, I can't get the cans any day, okay, thank you. And I never knew I had to sacrifice so much, because I go along to life, I learned that I

could do these things, and I learned that I could live just as comfortable, be just as happy, and evolve, have a true love and understanding, and be willing to share this with society, because I don't know if very many people would, and their times go through these type of hard times, when there's no work, when there's plenty of drugs, when there's a lot of wrongdoing, and sacrifice this is still a whole tight to your belief. I like to go and just find ordinary things, and take those ordinary things and turn them into art. For me, I found out it's a relief, it takes tension off, I walk, I find different art objects that are old, that rusty, they've been there for years, and I take it in somehow

I polish it up with my artwork, and when I polish it up, it gives it a unique, a unique whole new style. Some of my artwork I've done it in money, some of my artwork I've done it in different wires, some I've done in cans, some I've carved out of trees, you name it, I've done it, and I never went to school for it. I lose time, you know, when I work with my art, time doesn't have a value to me, as for days and numbers, I started an art project, I made work from sun up to sun down with it, and I work constantly, I work as though today is going to be my last day on this earth. When you feel your life's too far, just go ahead. Each time I got a chance to buy a car or something, it seemed like a good law wasn't ready

for me to have a car, and right now in the day, it seemed like it's still not ready, so I wait on God. When God knows first, I know something, there's probably no theory. When God knows first, I know something, there's probably no theory. Walking home, these boys look like typical teens, and when they get home, they act like typical teens.

They take it easy and raid the refrigerator. It's a life so different from the one they left behind in war-battered Central American countries. Their faces mask the terror they felt. Francisco Duque and Jose Garcia are from Guatemala. Hansen Perez is a 17-year-old refugee from El Salvador. I'm not in danger like I was there, the fear has left me. Always I would leave home to study, and I was afraid I would get hit. When I walked, I would look all around because something could happen to me. It's very different here. The life is better here. Hansen is one of four teenage boys living at Casa Ricardo Jacón in Fort Worth, a shelter for Central American refugees. The boys at Casa Jacón fled because they did not want to become soldiers. Hansen has friends in the Salvadoran Army, and uncles fighting for the guerrillas.

I would feel bad following orders to kill someone. I would not like it. I know I would have fought with my own people, my own brothers, neighbors. I wouldn't like it. I would prefer to be punished. I don't like the army. I don't like to kill. I don't like it. Salvadoran, Rigoberto Cisnetos, was drafted two years ago. He was 17 and refused to carry weapons for religious reasons. He left the army but faced constant harassment. I would be stopped by reserves who wanted to know why I was on foot. Am I a deserter? What group do I belong to? When I said no group, they told me to join them and get in their truck. I told them no. My religion doesn't permit it. Diane McDonald runs Casa Jacón. They only have two choices, actually. There's no way that a young man can continue to go to school in Salvador, Guatemala, unless

he's rich. People who are in the middle class or poor are either inducted into the army or are killed not in the army, or they have to go off and fight with the resistance. That's really their two choices. Instead, the boys fled alone. Here at Casa Jacón, the would-be boys' soldiers can be children again. They attend a Fort Worth High School and are learning English. Despite the war, Rigoberto is homesick for Soyapango, a town outside El Salvador's capital city. It's very pretty there, very happy. Perhaps one goes into the street. You see many people walking. Here it's a little different, but you get used to it. It's more quiet. It's better so you can concentrate on your studies. These kids are so beautiful. They go to school and their teachers call me to tell me not every bad reports, but how wonderful these kids are.

They come home with gleaming report cards. They get along well. They have certainly their teenage problems, but not anything real severe. They're very grateful to be here. They know that they are among the lucky people. Yes, I have many friends who have disappeared and their family couldn't find them anywhere. The disappearances happen every day. Just many. Or they would disappear when the army came to a person they thought was a gorilla. If they found him in his house, they grabbed and took him and he wouldn't reappear. Or he would reappear dead or in pieces, tortured. It doesn't surprise you. It's natural there. Comprehend de operación. Comprehend de operación. Comprehend de operación. Comprehend de operación. For my mother. Su mamá fue operación, or necessita. With Donald expects an increase in teenage refugees following new battles in El Salvador. Rebels and the government army need fresh troops to feed their war machine.

Since half the population of El Salvador and Guatemala are under the age of 15, then we know that there's a huge percentage of young men who are vulnerable to be forced to violence. The army is very young. The majority is between 14, 13, 16 years old. There are persons much older, but most are 15, 16 and 17. Because of the conflict, most of the older ones have died. Most of the soldiers have to grab young people and most are boys. The boys say they may be marked as subversives for refusing to fight. They are afraid to go home and want political asylum. At the moment, their chances of receiving political asylum are not very good. Refugee advocates say to U.S. immigration authorities, the boys are not political refugees,

but draft resistors. My sadness about them is that something violent might happen to them again. I know from being with them that they've had to grow up very fast. The young people here lead a normal life, there, no. Each year that passes, you age two or three years because of the experiences. Someone dies in front of you, you go hungry. So when you're in the army at 12 years old, it's as though you're already 16 because you know how to operate arms and perhaps you've already killed people. You grow up more quickly. In El Salvador, the fighting stems from a 10-year-old civil war. It pits leftist rebels against a government infamous for human rights abuses and most recently for the murders of six Roman Catholic priests.

Human rights groups say USA to El Salvador prolongs and immoral war. They want funding stopped. In Dallas, they held a sit-in at the office of U.S. Senator Lloyd Benson, whose finance committee makes budget recommendations. You gave him more money, they killed six priests, would you give him some more? I'll be with you. You got it. We'll never be defeated. I'll be with you. You got it. I'll be with you. I'll be with you. I don't think that for a reason it would be good or not, it would be good if the United States stopped helping El Salvador because the war would stop. For many of us who have loved ones and would like to go back and start life over again, but we can't do it. As long as the United States continues to help, the war will continue and will never end. Though Rigo Verto thinks about returning to El Salvador if the violent stops, Hansen says he will never go back. If I returned, I would have memories of the things that have happened, and that's frustrating to remember.

Maybe I'll walk down a street and know here a friend was killed. I'm very frustrated because of the war. Because the boys are denied asylum, they can't appeal. That buys them another two years in the United States, another two years away from the poverty and violence. They live day by day by knowing or by not knowing what their future is going to be, but they have a very special faith that just won't die. American church worker Jennifer Cusolo was arrested three months ago in El Salvador. Government soldiers dug up the garden behind her house and covering rounds of ammunition and hundreds of weapons.

Cusolo says the army planted the weapons, but government officials say Cusolo had been hiding them for communist rebels. She was arrested, but not tried. Instead she was deported and announced by Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani. We are convinced that she is guilty and that she knowingly was following the explosives. We're not talking about a small package of pistols here. We're talking about tons of equipment and mortars and dynamite and rounds of ammunition and explosives. This is hardly a case of someone having a few things slipped in their shopping bag on the way home. His name is Paul Ty and these are his people.

They aren't blood relatives, but they are family. When you look into Paul Ty's face, you see a ready smile, a pleasant expression, but underneath the quiet confidence and humble demeanor is a man with a tortured past. And in spite of the images he carries around with him, Paul Ty has managed not only to survive, but to dedicate himself to making other people's lives worth living. They line them up, took them to the killing field and killed them all. Kids with skin, please don't take my father away or please don't kill my parents. Ten years ago Paul Ty and members of his family escaped the nightmare existence of Cambodia's killing fields to begin new lives in the United States. Coming to Dallas, Texas was a chance for a new beginning. When we came, we were so lost.

So I never thought that it could be this way. And especially I never thought that I could join the Dallas Police Department at all, because of the image we carry from our own country. The decision to join the Dallas Police Department wasn't an easy one for Ty to make. Most of the killing in Cambodia was at the hands of so-called uniforms. Many of the people brought their fears about the police with them to their new country. Some community leaders came to my house and said, Paul, we need you. In the police department, you need to represent us. So I thought about more and more than I said, well, I'll try, you know. I myself that time had a fear of police, too, because what I've seen in my country. Ty did join the department, working for almost three years as a public service officer. After going through academy training, he became a full-fledged police officer. But because family members feared for his safety, he returned to duties as a police community service worker at the East Dallas storefront, still serving the area just east of downtown

Dallas, where many of the city's Asian refugees call home. The position allows Ty to help the community he loves. Yeah, they will work on the rent. This day, Ty spends his morning, as he does so often, serving as translator, building a verbal bridge between a group of health care nurses and Paul's hang, a Cambodian widow dying of lung cancer. Would you please tell her, Paul, that I know that this is very different from anything that she's used to eating, but that might be something that would work for her and on top of that, we can get it free at Parkland. As Paul Tang is put to bed, another widow has arrived, eager for the chance to get medical attention. Like Paul Tang, she has no family and no money. Again, Paul Ty acts as an intermediary.

She said she cough a lot, and she said the doctor told her that she may have TB. The scenario is a familiar one, and unfortunately, there's little the nurses or Ty can do. This woman needs immediate attention by a physician. She doesn't compromise. She has a worse life than her, since we've been dead. For Paul Tang, it's just a matter of time. Still, the visit has made a difference. Ty's afternoon has spent delivering rice to family, struggling to simply put food on the table. Although the rice is the reason for Ty's visit, his trip evolves into a lengthy discussion among the families as they share their problems and concerns. This man tells of losing his job.

Ty promises he will try to help. Although he spends most of his time in the East Dallas community called Little Asia, Ty sometimes ventures out of that nucleus. Whenever he gets the chance to speak, especially in front of students, Ty jumps at the chance. Imagine you were sleeping soundly at night and you hear the scream, you're going to be shaking. That's what happened to me. Things from the Cultural Exchange Club at Berkner High School in Richardson sat spellbound as Ty spoke to them recently about his experiences, reliving the horrors of his family's escape. We didn't drink for a few days. I remember well clear when we got to a river, real shallow, just not much water. People when they saw water, everybody rushed down. I was lucky I was in the second line to rush down and the first line they were all blowing pieces and the white clear water became red bloody and we drank it anyway. The reason I'm telling y'all this is that I want to let y'all know why we came to America.

We didn't just come here and say, hey, we want to have a better life here. We came here to survive. For nearly two hours, the group of mostly Asian students listened intently as Ty told his story. It's plot rivaling that of a Hollywood movie. You know that from now on, I can stay in America forever, I'm not going to go back. No matter what I said about the problems we have, about the housing condition, about the unemployment, about the sickness, about the transportation problem that we have, but still, this is so much better than what we came for. For many Asian refugees, the key to success in America lies in mastering English. About those skills, a wall still separates them from the bounties of the land of opportunity. Finding a good job is virtually impossible without English. Paul Ty recognized that early and took evening classes to learn the language. Now he's studying yet another language.

Because so many Hispanics live in the area near the East Alistair Front, Ty felt frustrated when he couldn't communicate with them. So he decided to take a Spanish class at El Centro Community College. Ty will receive an associate's degree in criminal justice from the school in May. Free time is a precious commodity for Ty. When he gets it, he likes to spend it with his family. Ty met his wife Marina at a local church shortly after they both arrived in this country. Their children, 5-year-old Chetra and 3-year-old Molly learn American ways, but the parents work hard to keep Cambodian traditions alive. We don't want them to call themselves like, I'm Cambodian either. And also we don't want to see them say, hey, I'm American. We want them to say, I am a Cambodian American. Although his family is important to him, Ty's work in the community sometimes interferes. I have to tell the truth that the job is not that easy, it's kind of stressful.

Because a lot of times I took the problems home too from work. Many times I saw people cry and I couldn't help them, I felt so bad. And I came home, I may not talk to my wife or my children. Ty and others in the Cambodian community are trying to reorganize a Cambodian association, a group that would, among other things, focus on helping the young people. It's good for our children to know where we were coming from. It's good also for our children to know that they are lucky that they are born in America. Stay tuned now for the Cambodian show, right here. Ty says the Dallas Cambodian community is still young. It is struggling to pull together. The opportunity to broadcast an Asian languages on Sunday night at KNON Radio is a part of that effort. Now, Chrome will school protest over time, yet, so far, mental. International news is broadcast in Cambodian.

And Paul Ty gets a chance to broadcast local information. Ty lives in the heart of the community he serves. He likes being accessible to people when they meet him. Ty's involvement in the community is time-consuming and often draining emotionally. He says it's worthwhile. And he says once the community rises up strongly on its feet, maybe then he'll consider taking a break. For now, he still has work to do. I just believe in righteousness. I just don't want to see anybody being abused, just like what are you coming from. That's why we escaped. And that is part of the reason why I joined the Dallas Police Department, too, is that because I believe that I can help a lot of people.