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...population of Hawaii registered its greatest increase ever. Around Honolulu, subdivisions have sprung up on land once covered by pineapple plants and sugar cane. On Maui, the once pristine coastline between Lahaina and Kaanapali is now studded with hotels and condominiums. Says Kazu Morita, 62, a third-generation Japanese Hawaiian who owns a gas station on Kauai: "When we were kids, we could go through anybody's property to the sea. Now they've built houses, and we cannot get close." Most annoying to many Hawaiians is that so much of the development is controlled by Japanese...
Though the increase in theft and violence cannot be pinned to any single cause, many blame the influx of outsiders, which has increased the gap between rich and poor. Among the most downtrodden: the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians. Those descendants of the islands' original Polynesian settlers make up less than 20% of the total population of 975,000. (Of the rest, 26% are Caucasian, 25% are of Japanese stock and the balance Filipino, Chinese and Korean, among other ethnic groups). Poorly educated and relegated for the most part to the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the Hawaiians...
...slowly. No one doubted, though, that the teen-agers involved would be brought to justice. They ranged in age from 12 to 17, and four of them had signed confessions at a local police station. But three weeks ago, when the case against these four was finally tried, a Hawaiian jury acquitted them. Since then there has been an eruption of local outrage against the island's criminal justice system. Two thousand protesters picketed outside the state capitol and the judiciary building. Last week Governor George Ariyoshi called on the Hawaiian legislature for a change in the state...
...arrests some of them gave a group interview to a Honolulu reporter, in which they admitted they "climbed her." Six months later, Anna flew back to Hawaii to testify at a juvenile court hearing on the cases of the five youngest attackers. The boys were judged guilty by the Hawaiian family court and dispatched to a juvenile prison...
...Hawaii Visitors Bureau has set up a special fund, which helps pay the way of crime victims who agree to return and testify, as Anna did. If Governor Ariyoshi and the protesters get their way, the Hawaiian rape statute will be rewritten so that it conforms to the law of many mainland states. Rape victims will have to prove only that force was used or threatened-not that they tried to fight off attackers...