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Bill Wittig-Harby hits the street - Page 4. ---------- -.-.---___,_;.------�---··--- Letters Doctoringthe Lo.'iruling populace It seems that those favoring A heattfelt "mahalo" to Douglas destructionof the Hawaiian taro patch Cruickshank forhis humorous and at the University of Hawaii are over informative article,"Tum On, Tune looking one important fact. The UH In, Fry Up." (HW 7/22).The truth is Board of Regents ruled in 1989 that always stranger than fiction when the building would be built on the ever the governmentgets the oppor high ground and thelower (lo'i) area tunity to spend our money for more would be preserved as open space. control of the citizenry. Which citi · How do the architects and Haunani zenry, I heard someone say? Hmrnm. Trask now feel they can encroach on Sometimes the chemists do it right, the lo 'i - despite the decision of the JLLBC/lJ however, or so I am told. Board of Regents and with little or 3198 WAIALAE AVE - HONOLULU no regard for preserving the lo'i as 808/732-3133 In the March issue of New Sense Bulletin, a review of Ann and bio open space as directed by that body? STORE HOURS: TUES-SAT Those who support keeping the 10:00AM - 5:00PM chemist Alexander Shulgin's book, Pihkal:A Chemical Love Story, states lo'i intact also want the Center for that, "in 1960 Alexander was quizzed Hawaiian Studies built, but not in the by scientistsfrom Blackwood's arse taro patch. Did you knovv nal, a U.S. military chemical and bio So move it 40 feet; build it; keep that a three-foot logical warfare facility, on ways to the lo 'i intact; abide by the decision mimic the structure of marijuana. of the Board of Regents and make ANNA BANNANA'S stack of news everyone happy. 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FamilyLaw - CriminalLaw All rights reserved. 1188 Bishop Street, #1005 Manuscripts should be accompanied by a self-addressedstamped envelope: Located in Century Square Honolulu Weekly assumes no responsi bility for unsolicited material. 526-0395 1200 College Walk, Suite 212 \ Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 ValidatedParkin g Telephone: 808 528-1475 2 • August 5, 1992 • Honolulu Weekly ------ �--� ---�-... --.,.--------- �-·-��-..-------�-�- ---......- ··----- --------�- ------- --- � -- Ideas What Went Wrong? t's the American nightmare. On and decided to look at exactly what June 8, 1988, governmentchi Greg Cahill happened to some of the companies canery and corporate greed paid that went through this process." a visit to Charlotte L. Mitchell beleaguered American public that The veteran reportershave worked in a most unexpected way. has come to realize in recent years together for 22 years as one of the Mitchell was a secretary at the that the legacy of Reaganomics - leading investigativeteams in the pro Simplicity Pattern Company epitomized by the Gordon Gecko fession,tackling everythingfrom oil HANDCARVED plant in Niles, Mich., with 18 years dictum ("Greed is good!") from company manipulations during the SOAPSTONE Oliver Stone's 1988 film Wall Street of service under her belt. She was 1974 "oil crisis" to the giveaways in KENYAN celebrating her birthday at an office - is a falling standard of living for the federalTax ReformAct of 1986. JEWELRY party when she got a big surprise. the middle class that means the end For thisseries, each set out across the of the American Dream. Amid the revelry, the boss abruptly country to see for himself how the DR!J_f1.S-,.ttA5KS told Mitchell that she was being let The systematic, comprehensive highly aggressive business practices &s� go becauseof debt and declining sales investigation offered clearanswers of the Reagan era were playing in the EBONY at the company. forthose who sensed that the rules of heartland. They compiled thumbnail FIGURES But that wasn't the real reason. the game had changed in some vague, sketches of various companies and After nearlya decade of corporate undefined way that rewards the few interviewed hundreds of workers and CERAMIC raids, the dowager firmhad been and hurts the many. The articles company executives alike. Back in eusrs picked threadbareby avaricious mon prompted 20,000 letters fromappre Philly, they exchanged transcriptsof LARGEWA eymen like Charles E. Hurwitz, a for- ciativereaders and more than 250,000 their findings. The two reporters were POTS mer business partner of convicted requests for reprints. They have since stunned at the similarity of accounts. insider trader Michael Milken. been compiled into a paperback book "The stories were almost identical, KIONDOBAGS Hurwitz is now chairman and CEO and served as the basis for a recent even though theindustries were quite SAFARI of Maxxam, Inc., which owns the two-episode PBS-TV special hosted different,the people involved were ANIMALS Mill Valley-based Pacific Lumber by Bill Moyers. "In print and on TV, quite differentand the regions were (the series) pours fuel on the smol AND MANY OTHER 1) Company. When the raids began in quite different," Steele says. "That ONE-OF-A-KIND �I 1981, Simplicity reported a modest dering election-year rage of the mid- really rang a bell with us and we HAND CRAFTED 1 $7 million net income and a $100 . dle class," USA Today opined. began to start thinking about this in ITEMS million cash reserve. By July 1990 Though the Pulitzer Prize nomi terms of a broader story instead of 'I - after four takeovers, including nating jury snubbed the series in just a plant-closing story. , Hurwitz's 1982 to 1984 stint- the April, its impact is indisputable. The "Still, it was a very, very long time once-stable company was $100 mil Bush administration has issued a 125- before we realized the magnitude of r------- lion in debt as each successive owner page response to the articles, though the story that we were on to." invested its reserves in everything soaring unemployment and a widen The scopeand scale of their inves , fromgold minesto golf links. In the ing recession have made it hard for tigation into the dismantling of course of that financialbinge, the the White House to dispute the America is overwhelming, indeed. 1 I workers took drastic pay cuts and a reporters' conclusions. Democratic Deregulation alone, particularly in pair of heftypension fundswere plun presidential candidates Bill Clinton the savings-and-loan, airline and dered to near depletion. and Jerry Brown used the series to truckingindustries, have resulted in I I Theraiders themselves prospered, provoke voter outrageduring their a huge jump in bankruptcies (four thanks to several provisions in the primary campaigns. And some times the 1960s level), a $500 bil federal tax code -including the net observersbelieve it helpedSen.