JAPS ASK TO BE CITIZENS AGAIN

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13.--(AP)--United States District Judge A.F. St. Sure today issued a show-cause order shortly after 985 American-born-Japanese filed suits to regain their United States citizenship.

The Japanese contended their deportation to Japan would be unconstitutional and that they had been forced to renounce their citizenship.

Judge St. Sure made the show-cause order returnable December 10.

In mass petitions filed in the U.S. District Court, they asked writs of habeas corpus to release them from detention and requested that their renunciation of citizenship be cancelled. The court also was asked to declare them U.S. citizens and grant an injunction to restrain the Justice Department from deporting them to Japan as aliens.

The suits charged that the renunciations of citizenship were not "free facts but were compelled by government duress and by fanatically pro-Japanese groups."