Word: hawaiians
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...suffering. The islands are now facing such mainland problems as crime and tacky development. In the past two years, robberies have jumped 23% and murders 67%. Often the victims are tourists. Among the more serious incidents reported: a gang rape of a 24-year-old Finnish woman by eleven Hawaiian youths, and a sniper attack that left four injured in the heart of Waikiki. More common are purse snatchings, muggings and car lootings. Much of the violence has been attributed to the descendants of the islands' original Polynesian inhabitants, an underemployed and poorly educated class. Kept at the bottom...
Traffic on Hawaiian Air Lines and Aloha Airlines, which carry sightseers between the islands, is down 10% this year. The two carriers have launched sweepstakes with prizes like new cars to lure local residents into seats vacated by tourists. Inter-Island Resorts, the oldest hotel chain in Hawaii, lost $1.25 million in the third quarter, compared with a profit of $769,000 during the same period last year. On the island of Maui, which had been developing rapidly, business is off 3.4%. The hotel occupancy rate in October was only...
Tourists looking for a quiet vacation are becoming nervous about a Hawaiian retreat. Says Paul Abramson, who owns a Manhattan travel agency and recently visited Waikiki: "Tourist guides warned that we should go out at night only in pairs and that ladies should hold on to their handbags. I think a lot of people come home afraid." Complains Peggy Ontai, who sells conch shells at a roadside stand on Oahu: "This crime has to stop. Tourists are too frightened to drive around the island and get out of their cars." Travel agents report that greater numbers of vacationers are opting...
...House they call him "Butt-fucker" because he does all the dirty work. He's the guy they turn to when a hot water pipe bursts in the gameroom at 2 a.m. or when the Toast-R-Oven short-circuits the entire first floor. When they had a Hawaiian party and didn't know what to do with all the sand, he figured out a way to truck it down the block to a tiny tributary of the Charles. To this day, Butt-fucker's Beach lies invitingly under the overpass, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Charles Gate...
David Kittelson, Hawaiian Curator University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu...