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...Cavalry, only to drift to Mexico and then Hawaii. He supported himself by growing the powerful local variety of marijuana known as pakalolo but, after a recent crackdown by drug agents, has switched to fishing. Patrick Barnett (not his real name), on the other hand, who is originally from Honolulu, lived for years under trees and bushes in the Waipio Valley, subsisting primarily on breadfruit, mangoes and bananas. "My first 14 years on this island were spent in hiding," says Barnett, who is stooped, almost toothless and looks decades older than his 41 years...
Samuel A. Tiano, director of the regional VA office in Honolulu until a recent transfer, says dismissingly of the bush vets, "Some of these people would live this way if they had not been to Vietnam. We have some who are always wanting this and wanting that." But such service requests, says Tiano's boss, Edward Derwinski, the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs, are exactly what the veterans should be making. Says he: "The customer is always right." Derwinski, whose department has been embarrassed by recent reports of negligence at VA hospitals, concedes that his bureaucracy has not always acted compassionately...
...Justice Department has urged the Federal Reserve Board to reject Simon's latest deal on the ground that it would substantially lessen competition among Hawaii's banks. In its application, First Hawaiian, which has 58 branches, said it would sell three offices outside Honolulu once the merger was approved. Bank officials had hoped the step would help eliminate antitrust objections to the purchase of First Interstate. Even if the Federal Reserve ultimately approves the merger, Justice could go to court to block the deal...
Environmentalists also worry about how the electricity would get from the plant to Honolulu consumers, some 320 km (200 miles) away on the island of Oahu. Part of the plan calls for an undersea cable 222 km (138 miles) long, traversing the 1,920-meter-deep (6,300 ft.) Alenuihaha Channel. That would be the longest and deepest undersea electrical transmission line in the world. No one knows whether such a cable could operate reliably, nor whether its construction might harm the Cape Kinau nature reserve on Maui...
...everyone cheering a plan to destroy some of them now? The U.S. Army last week began moving 100,000 artillery shells loaded with nerve-gas chemicals out of NATO storage dumps in West Germany. They are to be incinerated on Johnston Island, a U.S. atoll 825 miles southwest of Honolulu. The idea has touched off protests across the Pacific...