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...though Richard Tregaskis, the war correspondent (Guadalcanal Diary) and novelist who died last August, was writing about the ruler of a small island kingdom a millennium removed from Camelot. In telling of Kamehameha, the very real soldier who waged a 30-years' war (1780-1810) to create an Hawaiian nation, Tregaskis leaned indulgently on legends of the sort that defy time and locale. The Polynesians had neither calendar nor alphabet before English-speaking traders started settling in the islands in the 1780s. Knowledge of Kamehameha's early career is misty, accounts of his later life were colored...
Milton Yasunga will spell Silver man at 120 lbs. against U Mass. Freshman Yasunga, a two-time Hawaiian high school champion, is also favored in his U Mass contest...
ARGUMENTS for secession have been bolstered by Hawaiian groups which last year attacked the federal government for its illegal seizure of Hawaiian lands during the U.S.-incited revolution...
...congress of the Hawaiian People, a collective of several political action groups, charged that American revolutionaries, led by Yale graduates Sanford B. Dole and Lorrin A. Thurston, took lands without Hawaiilan consent...
...Hawaiian businessman said last fall, "If we threaten to secede from the Union, restore the monarchy and then threaten to accept aid from Russia or China, it might be enough to get recognition of our problems...