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...took a prodevelopment stance in various environmental disputes. Conservationists thought then that he was a poor choice to head Interior, and still do. The Environmental Defense Fund, a legal action group, announced last week that it will sue Watt for delaying the addition of 44 species, most of them Hawaiian snails, to the endangered species list. The San Francisco-based Sierra Club, one of Watt's most vocal opponents, is continuing to circulate impeachment petitions. And Friends of the Earth, an environmental advocacy group, has sold 1,200 DUMP WATT T shirts (some of them to Interior Department employees...
There the story rested until Lucas, cooling out on a Hawaiian beach after launching Star Wars, began embroidering his tale for Spielberg, his friend. "I felt like I was eating a barrel of popcorn at a noon matinee," Spielberg recalls. Two years later they called in Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, who shared the screenplay credit on Empire, for a marathon "pitching" session. For five consecutive nine-hour days the three men shouted, argued, paced and acted out the story until its line was firm. "We are general practitioners," explains Spielberg. "The best work I do is when I'm locked...
...activists can claim at least one victory: the state in 1978 created the office of Hawaiian affairs, whose nine trustees were elected in a Hawaiians-only ballot last November. The office is still hiring staff members, but for the first time the islands' dispossessed minority has a popularly elected agency to represent its interests...
...Hawaiians have also begun to take greater pride in their ways and customs as they struggle to reassert their identity. Two decades ago, churches on the islands routinely refused to baptize children unless they were given Anglicized names; Hawaiians now openly give their children traditional names (most common: Kimo for boys and Mele for girls). At Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, 90 students are now studying Hawaiian; the course did not exist three years ago. Since 1974 ten outrigger racing clubs have sprung up on the island of Hawaii alone. Governor George Ariyoshi, for one, applauds the Hawaiians...
...nearly a decade, many Hawaiians have been pushing to reclaim the lands that were seized from their ancestors when the U.S. annexed the islands in 1898. "We were seeing everything slipping out of our hands," recalls Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell, a retired Maui policeman. "The native Hawaiians felt that the only thing they had to hang on to was their land." In 1973 the first of several bills claiming reparations of 2 million acres and $1 billion was introduced in Congress. Hawaiian activists believe that any settlement will have to await the report of a Native Hawaiians Study Commission...