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John Vernon Head
John Vernon Head (1927–2007) after a 40-year teaching career, founded CALM, the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines in 1993. He boosted New Zealand's awareness of the scale of worldwide landmine problems and his efforts were the catalyst for the Anti-Personnel Mines Prohibition Act 1988, which became New Zealand law early in 1999. He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for Public Services (QSM) the following year.
Personal life.
John Vernon Head was born in Napier, New Zealand on
Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing Lieutenant General John DeWitt (as head of the Western Defense Command) to exclude certain persons from "military areas", regardless of their ancestry or country of citizenship. Over the course of several weeks, LTG DeWitt issued several public proclamations, which first imposed a curfew upon Japanese American citizens and resident "aliens" of Japanese descent. (The Issei, or first-generation immigrants, were prohibited from naturalized citizenship as members of an "unassimilable" race.) Later orders confined Japanese