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With damage tentatively placed at $1.2 billion, and four deaths blamed on its swirling Category 4 winds, hurricane Iniki remained front-page news in the U.S. for much of the week. One-third of the homes on the Hawaiian island of Kauai were destroyed, and damage to agriculture is estimated at $78 million. Heavily dependent on tourism for its income, as are all the Hawaiian islands, Kauai may lose $400 million to $500 million in revenues...
Only three weeks after Andrew struck Florida, another hurricane steamrollered on Friday across the Hawaiian island of Kauai. With gusts of up to 160 m.p.h., Iniki was the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii this century, but its course took it over the lightly populated western side of the island. There were no first reports of serious casualties, and this time the Federal Emergency Management Agency could not be accused of a slow reaction. It dispatched teams to the area even before Iniki struck...
...American airlines is limited to a 49% stake and 25% of voting stock, European and Asian carriers have rushed to make deals. KLM Royal Dutch bought 20% of Northwest in 1989, and in 1988 Pan Pacific Hoteliers Inc., a subsidiary of Japan Airlines, took a 20% position in Hawaiian Airlines...
Jonathan Fisher and Nicole Armenta also shine as Bob and Wendy Fate, two Hawaiian-shirt clad, camera carrying tourists on the vacation of life. They grin goofily as they play "tricks" on the rest of the cast, shaping destinies with hand buzzers and squirt guns...
...that the U.S. military's Operation Magic had deciphered Japan's sophisticated Purple diplomatic code in 1940. But that triumph had its drawbacks. U.S. intelligence officials had to sift through so much trivia that they failed to react to some important messages, such as a Tokyo request to its Hawaiian consulate for the exact location of all ships in Pearl Harbor. Also, the code breaking was kept secret even from some key officials. While the British were plugged into Magic, and MacArthur too, Kimmel and Short were...