the hottest CALENDAR in townl FREE! CW) D.i II ,::sca za, H O N O L U L U .s ,::sca za, II Volume 2, Number 10, March 4, 1992 LINDA FONG ILLUSTRATION Poi Dog FrankDrrall Ponders le Umelighl . .. - ... "Okay,"he said. "lhisis a wonderfulstory abouthow your worst nigl1bnares can come trueat anymoment, with no waming at all." "Good," I said. "let'shear it. I like those stories.TIiey speak tofears." mydeepest "TIieyshould," he said. "Paranoia pays, over here." -Hunters.1homosan 1heCurse of lono It started out as an innocent Bureau, the institution that enough idea: We'd get stink­ thinks Waikiki is Hawaii's ing drunk on blue pineapple greatest natural resource. It drinks and stoned on SPF 48, would be, we felt sure, an then attend the Chamber of afternoon of High Artifice Commerce's 90th birthday not to be missed. bash for the Hawaii Visitors Continued on Page 11 .. Fear & . Loathing Letters and sensitivity to - indeed, even Harkin,Round One admiration for- NativeHawaiians. To the{Operation) I was astonished to see that in your In just one example, she counselled Rescue article on the Democratic candidates a sister missionary not to hesitate to As I read your 2/5 article on the Tom Harkin was nicknamed "PAC use Native Hawaiian nurses for her top 10 censored stories of 1991, I man"(The Contenders, 2/12).All the children, since the one she herself thought of another censored - rather, literature I have says his campaign used to tend .the young Judds did so blatantly misrepresented - story of accepts only money fromindividua ls. "with more skill than some white 1991, that of another "operation": It clearly says they cannot accept con­ mothers I could name." The waxy Operation Rescue. The media has tributions from corporations, grimness noted by your writermust continually portrayed the non-vio­ churches or labor unions. Is there any be attributedto the artistand perhaps lent civil disobedience of Operation way to check out this discrepancy?· the fashion in portraitureof the time; Rescue as the opposite: fanatic, vio­ Regina Gregory lent and anti-freedom.The unbiased Harkin has receivedfundsfrqm a it certainly does not match the pic­ ture of Mrs. Judd as it appears in her reporter(perhaps they do not exist?) number of PACs, most notably the could have told you that the pro-Israel lobby, trade unions and letters and diaries. Otherwise the review was superior to any other I Operation Rescue volunteers remain the National Abortion Rights Action on their knees throughout their sit-in League. have thus far read of this, as noted, "not to be missed" show. as a sign of submission, peacefully Linda Peterson protesting,in particular, the late-term SwissAccuracy termination of pre-born infants Thanks afor lot your nice articlein Harkin,Round Two (fourth through ninth(!) month of the Weekly(The Swiss Cafe, 2/12). Hawaii forHarkin is concernedthat pregnancy). Reports of aggressive Yet we would like to make some cor­ , thesketchy profiles of the Democratic behavior are unequivocal lies. rections which we think are very presidential candidates (The In fact, the rescuers have them­ . important Geschnetzeltes is a tradi­ Contenders, 2/12) mayhave leftyour selves beenvictims of violence. Why tional meal in Switzerland and it readers with some mistaken ideas has the ptess remained mysteriously doesn'tmatter what kindof meat you about theHarkin campaign. First and silentin regardto the policebrutality use. The recipesvary fromcountry to most important,Sen. Harkin has the (i.e., use of Nanchukas) inflictedon country. It is a Century-old recipe. strongest record on reproductive these peacefulprotesters, despite the This recipe has been created a long choice of all the candidates. Bill factthe U.S. Ambassador Armando timebefore the returnof Marco Polo Clinton and Bob Kerrey both favor Valladares issued a report concern­ to Europe, long time before the mandatory parental notificationlaws ing it to the U.N. Commission on arrivalof MSG. We Swiss are called and would forbid the use of federal Human Rights? What of the two narrow-minded people, traditional fundsfor abortions except in cases of women raped by guards. in a bonded and we never ever change rapeor incest. Harkin is 100percent Pittsburgh prison; what of the asso­ tradition and we never ever would pro-choice for all women. On a sec­ ciate of Mother Teresa who was change a traditional recipe and ond point: "Harlancampaign workers beaten to such a degree that he was change it by adding Aromat. arehumorless party types."We had a unrecognizable? Lily and Hedwig good laugh over that at our last meet­ I find it ironic that many of the Mal ..... ing. Hawaii for Harkin was formed same people who saw through the by myself and two former board censorship of the war blindly accept MiSS1onary members of SANE Nuclear Freeze the reports of the same news media While I do not consider myself a and is made up of people active in when it comes to the slaughter of our defender of the missionaries in the Rainbow Coalition, anti-geother­ newest oppressed minority: the Hawaii, I must object to your mal, pro-initiative, civil rights, pro­ unborn. I must say that my opinion of reviewer, Nikki Ty-Tornkiqs' char­ gressive trade unionists, LACASA the pressis at an all-timelow - can't acterization of Laura .Fish Judd as. members, etc. The "humorless party anyone tell the truth? "grim" (Encounters with Paradise, types"are those beingcoerced by the Susan Cooper 2/5). Even a slight familiarity with Democraticparty machine to support THE The Honolulu Weekly welcomes your letters. this remarkable woman's diary, the anti-choice, anti-labor, anti-envi­ Honolulu: Sketches of Lifein the Write to: Editor,Honolulu Weekly, 1200 ronment candidacy of Bill Clinton. College Walk, Suite 212, lfonolulu,HI 96817. ARSENIO Hawaiian Islands, will yield flashes You must include your name, addressand tele­ HOW,. Bart Dame, co-vice-chair, of humor, courage, political acumen Hawaii forHarkin phone number (only your name will be HALLS printed). All submissions aresubject to editing HONOL ULU SUNDAY-FRIDAY 10=35PM Vol. 2, No. 10 March 4, 1992 -The leading edqe in Custom Photo Lab Seruices- Publisher and Managing 1os1 Waimanu St. Editor Laurie V. Carlson Senior Editor Julia Steele · Honolulu, HI 96814 Calendar Editor Derek Ferrar Tel S33·2836 Fax S21·73Sl Editorial Assistant Ann Marie Swan Contributing Writers Bob Green, Mary Brennan, Cecil Adams, Alan Bunin, Karyn Koeur, Erica Steele, Ray Pace, Liza Simon, Mary Mitsuda, Benedici6n & Fatima Gonzoles Contributing Illustrator Linda Fong Cartoonists Matt Groening, Slug Signorino Art Director Bud Linschoten Graphic Production Matt Ghali, Isabella Forster Contributing Photographers Charley Myers, Franco Salmoiraghi Advertising Mindy Jaffe Honolulu Weekly ISSN #1057-414X Entire contents © 1992by Honolulu Weekly, Inc. All rights reserved. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope: Honolulu Weekly assumes no responsi­ bilityfor unsolicited material. 1200 College Walk, Suite 212 Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 Telephone: 808 528-1475 Politics WHERE PRINTING MEANS ... o Complete Line of ReqJcled Papers Available o Sou-based lnRs - Made with The Battle to Win Hawaii's 35% less petroleum oils Electoral Delegates o Io uears Experience Serving Hawaii o Custom Qualitu Printing vs from Single Color URLf nTI to 4-color Process dsonFirst? BROTHfR� o Binderu Services 6RRPHIH·LTD o Complete In-house There are three possible outcomesemerging asthe vote nears: a last... Graphic Department minute, three..-way race for delegates between Clinton, Harkin and Kerrey; a head..-to..-head,split ..-votebetween Clintonand Harkin; and an outside chancethat one candidate, Clinton, will walk with all, or nearly all, the delegates. "It was like deja vu happening all Gov. John Waihee's endorsement of That's too bad, because he has the over again." - Yogi Berra Clinton, which Shea believes will worst record of any governorin any go a long way toward winning del­ state on theenvironment, and he sup­ A Word to the Fashion Wise n Feb. 18, people once egates on March 10. ported the Contras." more sat glued to CNN for "The two men have a lot in com­ Brilliant also complains about the Hair scrunchies make a live blow-by-blow of a mon," Shea says of the two gover­ mechanics of a closed caucus. "You battle thousands of miles terrific nors. "They've shared their have to join the party 45 days prior to away. Again, a line had experiences as chief executives. the caucuses," he notes. "Other states T-shirt been drawn and again Clinton has visited our islands and have open primaries where any reg­ came the remark, "This ties. is familiar with some of our prob­ istered voter can walk in and vote on will not stand." lems. He's not going to get offthe election day. Here, the Machine But this time the derrieres at risk plane here like Dan Quayle did and doesn'tcare ... they just let their zom­ didn't belong to Saddam Hussein start mumbling about Hawaii being bies come out on election day." and his generals, they belonged to in the middle of the Pacific." Though Tsongas has done well Honolulu Fencin the men who had braved the battles g in New England, that success hasn't Academ Ward Warehouse· 531-1108 of the New Hampshire primary to y translated into much support in Call today for upcoming class information Haleiwa Shopping Plaza fightthe larger war over who would Ray Pace Hawaii. rule the nation. 531-3208 637-9260 Shea admits that in Hawaii the big "There hasn't been anything orga­ Island voters have beenpreparing challenge to Clinton comes from nized,"said JoeCorrea, 'a general con­ for their part in the struggle. Richard Port and the Rainbow tractorwho labelshimself "temporary Democrats are readying for their Coalition, who have thrown their support staff' for Tsongas.