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...host of cruisers, destroyers and submarines would set sail from Japan for the Kuriles, then deep into the Pacific toward Hawaii. Shortly after 6 a.m. on Dec. 7, dozens of Japanese Zeros would take off from the carriers, head south and within 90 minutes sight the coast of Oahu -- and Pearl Harbor. Japan, its fortunes yoked with Germany's, was launched on the road to double suicide...
...commercial aircraft have lost huge sections of their fuselage in midair. Last April a flight attendant was killed and 61 people were injured when a sizable piece of the fuselage of a Boeing 737 peeled off on an Aloha Airlines flight from Hilo, on Hawaii Island, to Honolulu, on Oahu. A subsequent inspection of all 737s ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration turned up tiny stress cracks in nearly half the planes. In December an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 was forced to land in Charleston, W. Va., after a 14-in. hole blew open in the plane's body...
...Marcos' designs sounded improbable, the Reagan Administration took them seriously. Early last week State Department Legal Adviser Abraham Sofaer and Gregory Walden, a Deputy Associate Attorney General, traveled to Honolulu, where the deposed leader has been living in exile. They informed Marcos that he cannot leave the island of Oahu, and gave him a personal letter from President Reagan reminding him that he is subject to American laws...
...noose tightened, Kesselman headed for Oahu. But by then marshals there were keeping watch on half a dozen likely hideouts. They lucked into someone who remembered seeing the 6-ft. 4-in. blond at the Aloha Towers condo near Waikiki. The marshals staked out the lobby and grabbed Kesselman when he stepped off an elevator with a couple of women. "He was very surprised," says Deputy Marshal Gary Shuler, who made the collar. "If it hadn't been for WANT, there's no question that this guy would still be out there...
...mayor of Honolulu has suggested settling Marcos on the island off Oahu that served as a set for the television series Gilligan's Island. That bears exploration. The others could join him. There is something to be said for Alcatraz, which shut down its penitentiary 23 years ago. It is secure. The decorators responsible for Caesar's Palace might redo the prison in red velvet flocking and gilt. Still, the island is small, the night air chilly and the foghorns mournful. Strongmen from sunnier latitudes might find themselves depressed...