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...shortage of skilled workers has gradually been building. Even the least academically inclined high school graduates now set their sights on college rather than on a technical education. Says Karl Sjogren, 60, a Finnish immigrant who owns a one-man tool-and-die shop in Redford Township, Mich.: "My son is not interested in this at all. He is an auditor for a big company...
Though some 90% of the crimes in Hawaii are committed against permanent residents, it is the remaining 10%-those committed against tourists-that cause the biggest headlines. The trials of nine youths for the rape of a Finnish dental student in a 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...
...young woman was not unlike the fading Hawaiian afternoon: sunny and unhurried, going with the proverbial flow. A Finnish dental student halfway through a round-the-world vagabondage, she stood at the side of the oceanfront highway at Nanakuli Beach Park, waiting for a bus that would take her back to Honolulu. But she did not arrive at her hotel until late the next day. During the intervening hours she was raped repeatedly, a11 night long, by more than a dozen local punks, many of them stoned on marijuana. Hawaiians, especially those concerned with an enormous tourist industry, were already...
...betrayed me--I was a foreigner, an alien. Petya was implicated for associating with me, and all three of us knew it. Petya, a Russian, had left his papers at home. The policeman's eyes narrowed when he heard it. He searched Petya's pockets and found a Finnish coin about the size of a dime, but not quite as valuable. It surprised me that Petya would have had it on his person. He claimed not to have known of its existence, or whence it came. Asked about me Petya dissembled and mumbled something about a "droog"--friend...
...Cool Cash 24-hour teller card to prove my identity. He grunted knowingly upon receiving each one, convinced by the power of the color pictures and strange language that I was a Finn and in Leningrad only to drink. ("Drunk Finns" make the pilgrimage to escape Finnish liquor taxes and dry laws...