Hawaii's Hidden Treasures

July, 1980

Hawaii's Hidden TreasuresMy arrival in Honolulu could hardly have been less auspicious. Oh, the plane landed on time, and the requisite lei was duly draped around my neck at the airport, but as our car pulled up in front of the hotel, the sound of shots was heard echoing through Waikiki's concrete canyons.It turned out to be a typical urban misadventure: A recently released mental patient turned sniper was firing at nobody in particular. He was quickly subdued and taken off by the local police,...