2) TV coverage was dying, and audiences were diminishing.
3) All headquarters were running out of food.
4) The Sunday newspaper did not have final elections results.
5) Removal of these responsibilities from the lieutenant governor's office resulted in no improvement.
The integrity and reliability of this election will be questioned.
Jerry Souza
Pearl City
The student demonstration in that country became "violent" because the students themselves resorted to using pipes, "molotov cocktails" and other lethal weapons against the riot police. Their supposed motivation - the unification of two Koreas - is a much misused theme for the students, year after year.
During the summer, the students feel less inclined to study or work and would rather resort to demonstrating against the establishment. The profile of the typical demonstrator is that of a student enrolled primarily in a liberal arts college who is majoring in political science, philosophy, etc.
In the latest confrontation, the students estranged themselves from the general public because of their violence and overall behavior. Assuredly, some students were injured but so were some of the riot police.
In the final analysis, South Korea is a sovereign government which should be permitted to settle its own internal problems with no outside interference, not even from the United States.
Lloyd Y.S. Kim
Lt. Col., U.S. Army (Ret.)
As part of the "evidence" for this reflexive charge, Abercrombie cites FAIR Director John Tanton's reference to "Latin American traditions of bribery, civic apathy, and . . . high birth rates." Abercrombie doesn't deny the truth of these statements; he merely implies their political incorrectness. That, of course, is supposed to silence dissenters.
To put U.S. immigration policy in perspective, consider these statistics: With less than 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. legally admits roughly 70 percent of the world's total legal immigrants, a ratio of nearly 50 to 1 on a proportionate population basis.
Like the world at large, the U.S. is becoming socially and environmentally overloaded. An avalanche of irresponsibly conceived babies has multiplied U.S. illegitimacy rates from 5 percent in 1960 to 30 percent-plus in the mid-1990s. (The black rate is an outrageous 70 percent and the Hispanic rate roughly 50 percent.)
Is it racist to cite such facts? Or is it cowardice to suppress them?
C.W. Griffin
There seemed no awareness that we have never considered children to be property. This is as it should be; this is the Hawaiian way.
The other 49 states will follow our lead as they all did with mixed-race marriages. When they do, we will all be the better for it. There is too much hoomalimali and humbug, and not enough hooponopono.
Wilfred AhQuin