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---------------��-------�---�--,. Deja Voodoo -Page 3 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The Nuclear Testing-Page9 Calendar •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• that gets YOU throu Roy's Park Bistro- Page 11 ght he week HONOLULU Volume2, Number34, August 19, 1992 PHOTO: KEITH KEAU / DLNR To many, they are fearsome horrorsof the deep. To others, they are an awesomespectacle of nature. To some Hawaiians, they are revered ancestral gods. But one thing's for sure: Severalshark attacks in Sea Life Park fisherman the lastyear have gotthe Steve Kaiser (kneeling) and the 13-foot tiger shark that ancient predators on he caught off Olowalu, Maui after a woman was killed everybody's mind. there last November. Mary Sano bites off a chunk- Page 4. HONOLULU Editorial Vol. 2, No. 34 20TH CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS TheGreat Horwlulu August 19, 1992 Weekly DumpingCaper Publisher and Managing ••• Editor Laurie V. Carlson ART DECO HAWAIIANA Senior Editor Julia Steele Arts & Calendar Editor Derek 40'S & SO'S COCA COlA SIGNS Ferrar oy, somebodysure don't want force the dumper (or dumpers) to Calendar: BlONDE fURNITURE "\t __ • AND MACHINES you to hear no bad news. stop; and, second, because we Associate Editor Last Wednesday, as soon as thought people ought to know that Matt Uiagalelei Contributing Editor our issue with the cover story there was someone out there who John W. White "Rick Reed's Inner Self' hit would go to such undemocratic Film Critic the street, someone started extremes to protect Reed. Bob Green GfORGENElSON: BAll ClOCK circa 1950 removingthe papersen masse We filed a complaint with the Theater Critic :.;�·· Karyn Koeur fromour racks. On Wednesday after Honolulu Police Department, who Contributing Writers 1149 S. BfRETANIA(BE1WHN KHAMOKU & PIIKOI) - 591-1227 noon, one of our delivery men have openeda harassment case. Then Cecil Adams, Alan Bunin, Louis returnedto a rack he had filled with we took on a new, and somewhat Dubose, Kelly Malone, Mary Sano 200papers that morning,only to find uncomfortable role - we switched CopyEditor Kathy Luter Reimers them all gone. He refilledthe rack frombeing news reporters to being Art Director Bud Linschoten and went to his car formore papers. newsmakers. We wrote a press release ProductionManager Matthew J. Ghali Whe!J.he came back two minuteslater, on the dumping and faxed it around ProductionAssistant the rack was empty again. town. Two radio news stations picked Isabella Forster By Thursday afternoon, at least the story up, and by nightfall, Weekly Cartoonists Matt Groening, Slug 6,000papers ( out of a total of 23,000 editors Julia Steele and Derek Ferrar Signorino Photographers Walter Ikehara, distributed) had disappeared with were on the Channel 4 News. The Keith Keau, Kirniro Kondo, David mysterious speed - particularly next morning,the story was in The L. Moore, Paul Siepmann from the downtown, Moiliili, Honolulu Advertiser. Administrative Support University of Hawaii at Manoa and The reactionfrom Reed's camp has Catharine Gregory Advertising Kapahulu areas. A worker at one of been one of the most interesting Leo Geensen, Donovan Slack our distribution points told us he aspects of the whole event. The sen A Member of saw someone come into his store ator's press secretary, Richard Sale, .At&B the Association and walk out with all 300 papers in told TheAdvertiser he was "extreme- • • of Alternative k X ' Newsweeklies our stand. (Luckily, our printer acci 1 y disturbed" by the dumping and ISSN #1057-414X dentally ran 8,000 extra copies of called the Weekly's article "well Entire contents© 1992 by Honolulu Weekly, Inc. "Griffin-Foolish � > last week's issue, leaving us with researched," "well-written" and a All rights reserved. man. You cannotturn plenty to refill the racks.) "sincere effort."That tone contradicts me into a phantom Manuscripts should be accompanied by becauseyou are Anyway, there'sonly one-word for earlier Reed statements that branded a self-addressed stamped envelope: Honolulu Weekly assumes no responsi frightened. You donot what was going on: bogus. Not that the Honolulu story a joint Inouye bility for unsolicited material. dismiss a muse at a �ABmr�nrrrrn��H � Subscription rates: Sixmonths $30. ARHIVIJlGsoorn : , : we were too surprised, though: In the homosexual"smear" and accused the whim. !fyou willnot One year $50. join me, thenI will 1 > spring, when Honolulu Magazine Weekly ( even before our article came cometo you. -Sabine" RESERVEVOUR COPV TOilflV.c 1200 College Walk, Suite 212 TilJIIImoons BOOH SHOP .ffi 111111lORTHE 111/lRHITPIJl[E ·98R706� C f undertook an article forits August out) of"misrepresentation"and "bias." Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 issue that included information on Back when the Honolulu article Telephone: 808 528-1475 Reed's relationship with renegade was beingput together, Reed'sprotests Krishna guru Chris Butler, that pub and those of the anonymous cam- ,- - - - - - - - - ' lication, too, was subject to vituper paigner bore hauntingly similar I . ativesuppression effortsfrom a party themes. Now, it seems, the official I �"1{al,-- I or parties unknown. While the arti Reed camp and the Unknown I ii ;jLA1(iA \I cle was in progress, Honolulu pub Marauder are gaining some philo- - I Presents our I lisher and editor Ed. Cassidy received sophical distance. Quitepossibl y, that FRY& CO. II II I Bishop Trust Building a letter and severalphone calls, threat distance representsthe effectof Reed's 1r 11· ·V', 1 U,'p ening to ruin his career. When the new campaign handlers, Sale, a for- D• e-' 1000 Bishop Street, Suite 802 f I magazine went ahead with the story, mer journalistCwho presumably can D/ n ner Dea /. I Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 an anonymous letter was circulated tell the differencebetween an expose I to the media accusing Cassidy of pre and a smear) and campaign manag- I Phone (808) 531-6726 posterous sexual encounters and of er Richard Frias, a Republican Party taking money fromDan Inouye and pro with 20 years of experience. I homosexuals to "smear" Reed. Presuming we're seeing a "new" (or I On Friday morning,we decided at leastbetter-h andled) Reed,the ques- ·.. I tion now is: Will he be able to sue- . - Providersof confidential investment to make a case out of the dumping 1 for two reasons: first, because we cessfully wade the murky waters the ' '.I' I servicesfor global Stocks Bonds, and hoped maybe the attention would old Reed stirred up? Stay tuned. • I ) •• Futures Management. I I Missed. last week's issue? 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Ross forbearance,financial advisers now fiscal year, despite Congressional Perot alluded to it once, authorization of a $70 billion tax agree that it is better to take c�ntrol telling a talk-show host that of a bank as soonas it becomes msol payer-guaranteed loan to quickly one of the largest banks in vent. Waldman pointsto the one-year shut down insolvent banks, and thus the country(read: Citicorp) delay in last year's takeover of the reduce the loss to the Bank Insurance is insolvent. But other than Ross' Bank of New England, which Fund. That amount represents more moment of candor, no one is dis increasedbailout costs to $2.5 billion. than one-third of the $215 billion cussing one of the most importa�t Though promptand fiscally pon the federal government spends on Only � issues of this election year. if sive action by the Bush adIDJrustra all discretionary domestic programs. you read and listen, paying careful tion now could help turnthe tide and (April 1, 1992) attention,will you beginto have some save billions in taxpayer dollars, don't • Disregarding recommendations of COFFEE MANOA idea of what's waiting for you after count on it. "When regulators seize FDIC Chairman Michael Taylor that the election. the premiums banks pay to the insur . a bank,it means bad headlines, con MANOA MARKETPLACE • HONOLULU, HAWAII Henry B. Gonzalez knows. The sumer jitters and economic disloca ance fundbe substantially increased, San Antonio congressmanhas known the five-member FDIC board voted tion," Waldman wrote. Not the sort A place to unwind ...relax ...Collect scattered tho�hts. fora long time,probably even before of things that George Bush has much for a very modest increase to take June 22, 1990, when, obviously con stomach for. effect Jan.1, 1993. (May 12, 1992) Visit with friends ...A place with �ood coffeeand tea. cerned about the odd arithmetic by The Financial Democracy The president's behavior .

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