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...This was unexpected bad luck. We had observed this site for weeks, and traffic near it was rare. Almost immediately after our landing, though, there was a busload of people, and then a fuel truck, followed closely by a pickup truck. The two latter appeared to be driven by smugglers of gasoline, who took off in the pickup. It was highly unlikely that they would go to the police. In fact, Colonel Beckwith believed they thought our team was Iranian police. But the bus passengers would have to be prevented from sounding an alarm. I approved the removal...
...same the year before. First the living room and an upstairs bedroom moved, then the library and kitchen. The garage, or at least one side of it, followed a little later. Walls cracked, ceilings split and doors jammed. Before long, scientists and sightseers were arriving by the busload...
...lifelong Hawaii resident, I read with concern your article "We've Lost the 'Aloha' Feeling" [June 1]. As you reported, two teenagers recently hijacked a busload of Japanese visitors. However, you failed to mention that the community contributed more than $22,000 to assist the victims, a sum twice that lost in the robbery. Later, when the stolen cash and valuables were returned, the Japanese donated the money to a special fund to assist visitors who become victims. No, the aloha feeling has not been lost...
...park near Honolulu in 1979 attracted worldwide attention, as did the murder of a young California couple on a popular hiking trail on Kauai last March. Perhaps the most audacious crime of the past year occurred in early March, when a pair of armed teen-agers hijacked a busload of Japanese tourists at Honolulu airport and robbed them of $11,000 in cash and a stack of cameras and jewelry; two suspects were arrested the same...
Meanwhile the crime rate in Hawaii keeps going up. A Canadian tourist was recently murdered in his apartment in Waikiki. In February a busload of Japanese tourists was hijacked at Honolulu International Airport just minutes after their arrival. And last week the bodies of a vacationing California couple were found on an out-island hiking trail. "I feel sorry for Hawaii," said Anna after the acquittal of the four. "I'm leaving, though, and now it's your problem. You're the ones who will have to live with this...