Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Friday, December 13, 1996
Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Friday, December 13, 1996
Chef Sam Choy will open what he calls a "combination family-style diner and crabhouse" in Iwilei next year. Chef Sam Choy
plans Nimitz restaurantChoy, a television chef, cookbook author and operator of restaurants in Kona, Tokyo and on Kapahulu Avenue, said the restaurant will seat 350.
It will feature many of the menu items from the Kona Diner, including the beef stew omelet, seafood loco moco, a Hawaiian plate, fresh fish and fried rice. At night it will turn into crab restaurant, featuring crabs from around the world.
The restaurant, which as yet has no name, is scheduled to open in May at 580 N. Nimitz, sharing a building with Garakuta-Do Japanese Antiques across Nimitz Highway from the Gentry Pacific Center.
SEATTLE - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has proposed requiring periodic inspections for cracks to prevent possible leakage from the center fuel tank of later-model Boeing 747 jumbo jets, officials said. FAA proposes checks
for Boeing jumbo jetsHowever the agency's order would not affect the oldest 747-100 models similar to TWA Flight 800, which crashed in July after an explosion that investigators believe occurred near the nearly empty fuel tank between the wings.
A notice filed by the agency yesterday said the rule would apply to 747-200, -300 and -400 models and would require inspections for fatigue cracks in front of the center fuel tank.
Such fatigue cracks were found on several 747-100 models, the agency said, but because of a "dry bay" at the front of the fuel tank on those models, such cracks posed no danger of fuel leakage, said Doug Webb, a Boeing spokesman.
The later 747 models, however, have larger-capacity fuel tanks that abut the section where cracks have been observed, raising the possibility of leaks into a cargo bay, the FAA said.
"This leakage, if not corrected, could result in a potential fire hazard," according to a notice published in the Federal Register. The rule could become effective after a comment period that ends Dec. 30.
NEW YORK - Citicorp recently held talks about buying American Express Co., but the discussions ended without an agreement, the Wall Street Journal said today. Report: Citicorp merger talks
not successfulA deal would have united one of the nation's biggest banking companies with a huge financial service provider.
It likely would have topped the biggest U.S. takeover on record - the $25 billion acquisition of RJR Nabisco. American Express' current market value is about $25 billion.
The newspaper said Citicorp chairman John Reed and American Express chairman Harvey Golub met several times during the talks that began in November and ended last week. It said Golub initiated the talks.