Newswatch

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Monday, April 26, 1999

Ocean discussion at the Waikiki Aquarium

Hawaii's ocean resources will be discussed at 7 p.m. Wednesday as part of the Waikiki Aquarium's 95th Anniversary Celebration lecture series.

Craig MacDonald, marine biologist and ocean resources development manager for the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, will explain how technologies allow benefits from the ocean not possible before.

Discussing the "Progress and Paradox" of ocean resources, he will address the problems of balancing their use and protection and present new thinking on market-based solutions that may permit both.

The aquarium's lecture series, titled "An Island View on a Global Ocean," features marine science developments and the role of Hawaii researchers in understanding the sea.

For a brochure outlining the lecture series dates and titles, call Carol Hopper in the aquarium's education department at 923-9741.

The aquarium is administered by the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

Military meeting covers health plan

A meeting will be held 6 p.m. Wednesday at Tripler Army Medical Center for beneficiaries in the TRICARE health care program.

Maj. Gen. Nancy R. Adams, commander of the Pacific Regional Medical Command, will host the meeting in the Kyser Conference Room.

Members of the military medical system are urged to ask questions and express concerns and suggestions.

For more information, call Maj. John Lee, TRICARE operations branch, at 433-7073.

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Police, Fire



By Star-Bulletin staff

Woman stabs boyfriend who was with another

A 20-year-old woman stabbed her boyfriend in the arm after finding him in bed with another woman and then tried to take her own life.

Police said the stabbing took place at the man's home on Alencastre Street in St. Louis Heights yesterday afternoon.

After the incident, the woman went to her Aina Haina home, where she tried to commit suicide.

The man, 24, was in guarded condition at Queen's Hospital this morning.

The suspect was taken to Queen's for treatment for cuts on her wrists, and later was taken to the Honolulu police station cellblock, where she remains pending charges. Bail was not set.

In other news ...

Traffic was blocked on the Kapahulu side of Ala Wai Boulevard for about 90 minutes yesterday afternoon while police investigated what appeared to be a fake bomb on the sidewalk along Ainakea Way, behind Jefferson Elementary School.

It turned out to be a clock attached to some flares, police said

A 7-year-old boy is in guarded condition at Queen's Hospital after being hit by a car yesterday afternoon in Waimanalo. Police said he ran into the side of a 1979 MG convertible on Kalanianaole Highway near Bell Street.

Police this morning captured an escapee from Kahi Mohala about an hour after he left the behavioral health facility. The man was apprehended along a Waipahu street around 8:30.

The escapee, Ian Hunt, has a history of schizophrenia and was considered extremely dangerous.

Two 19-year-old men were arrested early yesterday morning, reportedly after beating up six others in the 400 block of Hobron Lane near Eaton Square in Waikiki.

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