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...small bits of Government-owned land near large urban areas are often this country's most valuable recreation assets. To sell to a developer a parcel of beachfront property like Fort DeRussy in Honolulu, the last open spot along Waikiki Beach, is not just shortsighted, it is criminal. Such choice pieces of real estate should be recognized as national treasures...
...Werner Stoy, who chartered a helicopter to photograph Fort DeRussy, on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, the problem was not trees but dense commercial high-rise developments surrounding the land, which made it difficult for his pilot to maneuver. David Falconer was luckier. He expected visibility problems when he rented a plane to shoot pictures of Oregon's Bald Mountain Lookout. But shortly before he arrived, light broke through the soup-thick clouds just long enough...
...this all. Uncle Sam is selling off prime property in the heart of New York City and on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a piece near the Las Vegas Strip and a chunk of Waikiki Beach. It is unloading Air Force bases, military ammunition plants, and dozens of dams and water projects. For those who might want to acquire apparently useless land for the simple satisfaction of owning it, the Government is offering? at bottom dollar, if necessary?watersheds, flood plains and deserts...
Fort DeRussy. Most of this military installation, which occupies 72 acres in Honolulu, will remain in Government hands. But the 17 acres that are for sale constitute one of the last bits of open space along Waikiki Beach, where high-rise hotels and condominiums have sprouted like goldenrod along a highway. Back in 1905, the military bought the entire 72-acre tract for $200,000. David Stockman, the President's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, values the parcel today at upwards of $220 million. There is one drawback for potential buyers: the beachfront property is not zoned...
Meanwhile the crime rate in Hawaii keeps going up. A Canadian tourist was recently murdered in his apartment in Waikiki. In February a busload of Japanese tourists was hijacked at Honolulu International Airport just minutes after their arrival. And last week the bodies of a vacationing California couple were found on an out-island hiking trail. "I feel sorry for Hawaii," said Anna after the acquittal of the four. "I'm leaving, though, and now it's your problem. You're the ones who will have to live with this...