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Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi wants to put a stop to it. He has called for a state law banning most foreign ownership of residential and agricultural land. Reason: the payouts have driven up real estate assessments by as much as 100%, so that people who do not sell are facing a crushing tax burden. Though Fasi's proposed law may not be considered by the state legislature this year, many Honolulu residents now support his call for action...
Even during one of the holiest times of the year, the bloodshed would not stop in the Holy Land. From secret locations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last week, leaders of the Palestinian uprising issued leaflets addressed to their stone-throwing followers. The order: step up the violence on Land Day, the twelfth anniversary of the deaths of six Israeli Arabs who were killed while they protested Israeli government confiscation of their property. Anticipating trouble, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin took the unprecedented step of sealing off the West Bank and Gaza for three days. He warned of harsher...
...test of wills exploded into the worst violence since the troubles began in December. Though additional security forces were poured in, thousands of West Bank Palestinians commemorated Land Day by burning tires and attacking soldiers. By week's end, as Christians and Jews began their Easter and Passover observances, 18 more Palestinians had been shot dead by Israeli troops, which raised the toll to 139 in the four-month uprising...
...some waved the banned Palestine Liberation Organization flag, thousands of Israeli Arabs staged nonviolent Land Day demonstrations in sympathy with the Palestinians under occupation. The restrictions were lifted on Good Friday, but Israeli leaders did not withdraw their threats to quell the rioters. Declared Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We say to them, from this hilltop and from the perspective of thousands of years of history, that in our eyes they are like grasshoppers...
...exorcism. In a sense, all Wilson's plays are exorcisms, doomed but determined attempts to drive out the demons of memory. Says he: "The stigma of slavery is powerful. A few years ago, I went to a Passover service, and the first words were 'We were slaves in the land of Egypt.' They are remembering events of thousands of years ago, not just a century. My work is about how the past must inform your future...