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The controversial Wu, who has compared Communist China to Nazi Germany, made four clandestine trips into China to film labor camp abuses.
On his fifth attempt to sneak into the country in June 1995, he was taken into custody, detained for 66 days, sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying, then expelled from China.
The University of Hawaii College of Continuing Education and Community Service is funding Wu's trip here as part of the distinguished lecturer series.
Wu was branded a "counterrevolutionary rightist" by Beijing and spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps before moving to the United States in 1985.
His release from detention in 1995 paved the way for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to attend the U.N. women's conference in Beijing after Republican Congress members insisted she cancel the trip in protest of Wu's detention.
Wu's major appearance will be a public lecture titled "Behind Prison Walls: The Red China." Wu will talk at 6:30 p.m. March 20 at the St. Louis High School theater.
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The last few years have witnessed an invasion of tour buses and rental cars because of an illegal bed-and-breakfast operation, says the 71-year-old Peck.
"We have a concern similar to what happened to Waikiki years back. The residential areas disappeared piece by piece and in the end, it all became commercialized," Peck said.
Maui County Council members are considering a bill that would legalize some bed-and-breakfasts in neighborhoods.
The Council Land Use Committee will discuss the bill at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the Council Chambers in Wailuku.
This time he's got colleagues John Henry Felix and Steve Holmes behind him as co-introducers of a bill that seeks an outright ban on sale and consumption at the outdoor auditorium.
The public now can purchase alcohol at the Shell and consume it there - but cannot take it in.
In 1995, DeSoto led a failed effort to ban alcohol at all city facilities including the Shell, Blaisdell Center and municipal golf courses.
The man was pronounced dead at Castle Hospital at 11:30 p.m. after being pulled from the water near the Oneawa Street bridge by firefighters. Police have classified the case as a drowning.
A 39-year-old Kaimake Loop resident called police at about 10 p.m. to file a harassment complaint against the Kaneohe man. A police officer briefly chased the suspect, who fled the scene in his vehicle.
The same officer responded to a traffic accident at Mokapu Boulevard, which runs parallel to the channel, and spotted the suspect from the earlier incident standing near a vehicle involved in the accident.
The man ran off with the officer in pursuit. He then jumped into the channel and began swimming away. The man began treading water about halfway across the channel but refused assistance.
Two 15-year-old girls reported being sexually assaulted Saturday night. They reportedly left Hickam Air Force Base with two men, between 20 to 30 years old, after accepting an invitation to a party at a Pearl City apartment.
The girls told police they were raped at the apartment and then brought back to the base by the men.
Meanwhile, a 42-year-old Kailua woman said she was attacked in her home Saturday at 5 a.m. by an intruder.
Police have no suspects in either of the cases.
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