Golf tourney nets $30,000
for isle Republican Party

The Hawaii Republican Party netted $30,000 in its first major fund-raising event since Linda Lingle was elected chairwoman of the party last May.

About 200 people participated in the party's first-ever golf tournament Wednesday at Pearl Country Club. The sold-out event also raised $2,000 each for Palama Settlement and the Girl Scouts Council of Hawaii, Lingle said Friday.

One player, Jeff Deer, won a Nissan truck after he made a hole-in-one at the Par-3 16th hole during the tournament.

Lingle said about 75 percent of the golfers had never participated in any type of Republican Party fund-raising event.

CAYETANO HONORED: Gov. Ben Cayetano's college alma mater has honored him with the creation of the Benjamin Cayetano Professor in Public Policy and American Politics endowed academic chair.

The Asian American Studies Center of the University of California at Los Angeles, in its summer 1999 newsletter, announced a campaign to raise $500,000 to create the endowed chair, which would be filled by the nation's leading scholar who focuses on Asian-American public policy and political issues.

Cayetano is the first UCLA alumnus elected a governor, and the first Filipino-American to hold such an office.

DIET TROUBLE: Having participated in Dr. Terry Shintani's low-cholesterol diet, Cayetano endorses it.

But, Cayetano confesses, he's not the diet's best poster boy.

The most difficult part of the diet, Cayetano recently said with a laugh, is "sticking with it -- as you can see."

He added: "You got to exercise with it. What happened to me was that I got sick for awhile. So I got off of it.

"And then -- I just love to eat all kinds of food."

The 5-foot-6 Cayetano now weighs about 192 pounds, two pounds more than when he began Shintani's diet a couple of years ago. Cayetano said when he was on the diet, which emphasizes vegetables, fruits and brown rice, he lost 18 pounds in two months and saw his cholesterol significantly lowered and his blood sugar reduced.