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...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' new assertiveness. Says Ariyoshi, a Japanese-American: "In Hawaii more people understand other...
Their resentment is only sharpened by the haphazard development of the islands over the past two decades. Between 1970 and 1980, the 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...
...Pacific surf still spills across powdery white beaches, and the scent of lei still perfumes the air. Yet amid its travel-brochure lushness, Hawaii is struggling to cope with a surge in crime, a slump in tourism and the social strains caused by two decades of rapid growth. Laments Honolulu Mayor Eileen Anderson: "We've lost the feeling of 'Aloha' for one another...
...clearest sign of paradise lost is the state's crime rate. Between 1976 and 1980, murders climbed 53%, rape 61% and robbery 55%. Among 18 U.S. cities with a population of 500,000 to 1 million, Honolulu ranked fifth in larceny and ninth in car thefts last year. State officials last week reported that crime was down 8.1% for the first quarter of 1981, compared with the same period in 1980, but the dip hardly dents the growth of the problem in recent years. Admits Deputy Chief of Police Harold Falk Jr.: "Honolulu is no longer some isolated South...
Though some 90% of the crimes in Hawaii are committed against permanent residents, it is the remaining 10%-those committed against tourists-that cause the biggest headlines. The trials of nine youths for the rape of a Finnish dental student in a park near Honolulu in 1979 attracted worldwide attention, as did the murder of a young California couple on a popular hiking trail on Kauai last March. Perhaps the most audacious crime of the past year occurred in early March, when a pair of armed teen-agers hijacked a busload of Japanese tourists at Honolulu airport and robbed them...