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...article "Frank Fasi Fights Fiercely" [Feb. 23] stated that the Star-Bulletin printed a line that said, "Wake Up Hawaii -Vote Republican" on a political ad of Democrat Fasi. The implication was that the Star-Bulletin had done this deliberately, which, if true, would be reprehensible. The truth is that this line on voting Republican was offset on a press blanket from a previously run ad and, by sheer coincidence, the ghostly image appeared in a black area of Fasi...
...Mayor Fasi of Honolulu, a dedicated public servant battling an impacted Establishment. These days, Frank Fasi, 49, is easier to talk about than read about: since last July, the mayor has barred all interviews between his administration and the reporters from Hawaii's largest newspaper, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin...
...feud began in the fall of 1968, when Fasi, a onetime junk dealer and perennial political campaigner, was making his fourth attempt to win the mayoralty. Both newspapers, the morning Advertiser (circ. 72,000) and the evening Star-Bulletin (circ. 123,000), endorsed his opponent. In one issue, the Bulletin ran a photographic view of Honolulu's memorial to the battleship Arizona, marred by junked automobiles on property incorrectly identified as leased to Fasi. The candidate seethed. He seethed again when the paper enjoined its readers to "Wake Up Hawaii-Vote Republican" beneath a full-page advertisement for Democrat...
...Advertiser sided with the Bulletin, saying that the ban "interferes with the public's right to know." The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, among others, objected on the same grounds. Unfazed, Fasi departed on a worldwide good-will tour, refusing interviews to Associated Press reporters along the way, because the Bulletin subscribes to that wire service. "I was elected to represent all of the people in the community," says Fasi, "not just the chairman of the board or the editor of the Star-Bulletin...
...crusade, but as a publisher he seemed to lack his predecessor's skills. The Advertiser, which had long been Hawaii's leading daily, went into a decline, beginning about 1930. After World War II, it started losing $100,000 a year and dropped behind the afternoon Star-Bulletin in circulation...