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Still, volunteers cleared 16 tons of trash from 82 miles of shoreline across the state. Among the oddest items found: a cow head, two engine blocks, a safe and a gold credit card.
The annual beach cleanup is organized nationally by the Center for Marine Conservation. Nationally, the 1995 cleanup attracted 135,000 volunteers in 43 states. A total of 1,272 tons of debris were cleared away.
In Hawaii, the effort traditionally has been organized by the state Litter Control Office. But the office was eliminated in a cost-cutting move last year, a month before the cleanup. The University of Hawaii's Sea Grant Extension Service stepped in to coordinate the event.
But the Board of Water Supply said it ran into unforeseen problems this morning which might keep the highway partially closed for the rest of the day.
At least two lanes in either direction were open for the morning rush hour.
The 16-inch water main break at 2:43 p.m. yesterday, near the Weyerhaeuser building and Pier 35 in the medial, forced Nimitz's afternoon rush-hour traffic in both directions to be diverted around highway sections buckled by the flood.
By the time, the Ewa-bound lanes of H-1 freeway were closed for repaving about 8 p.m., five of the six lanes of Nimitz Highway - an alternate route for H-1 traffic - were open.
Dave "D.C." Carter of Pacific Environmental Corp. lays down oil absorbent material on the oily water that flooded Nimitz Highway. Photo by Dennis Oda, Star-Bulletin
Pediatrician Helen Caldicott, who formed Physicians for Social Responsibility, says the spacecraft will carry 72.3 pounds of the highly toxic plutonium 238.
She says one pound of the plutonium could theoretically cause lung cancer in all people on Earth, and calls for activism to stop the launch of the probe.
Caldicott is to arrive today for lectures on the Big Island and Oahu this weekend.
Windward crime reduction units and detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division arrested the man at a Kamanaoio Place home at 7 last night.
He is being held at the main police cellblock for investigation of attempted murder, auto theft, kidnapping, terroristic threatening and 15 counts of sexual assault, police said.
An officer on routine patrol on Kapaa Quarry Road just after midnight June 8 got out of his car to investigate an Acura parked on the side of the road after police dispatchers confirmed it had been reported stolen hours earlier.
He was assaulted from behind by a man who fled after a brief scuffle and escaped in the stolen car.
The officer, who suffered a broken nose, was about to radio for assistance when he spotted a man standing on the opposite side of his police car, pointing a handgun at him.
The officer allegedly drew his handgun and fired at the man, who returned fire and escaped in the brush, police said.
A week ago, police arrested a 26-year-old Waimanalo man after finding two stolen cars - including the Acura that fled the Kapaa Quarry Road incident - parked at his Poliala Street home. He was released pending further investigation.
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