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MOKE AN ORNA AAA. 0 U.J vv A Dec embe 12 19 9 5 5 0 Gents Tl'E DAY AFTE OON Through Christmas, the Moke Seal is pre- IV I 1 senting holiday ornaments designed by the Star-Bulletin's young read Gift shops offer mall-ternative 1 (Sfflffi Flag amendment rejected The Senate defeats a constitutional amendment ers. Today's designer: Elena Brown, 8, Puohala Elementary School warn unique, orrDeai ginst' ii Try gift: shops at nonprofit institutions. iT 11 ---jU: to bar desecration of the U.S. flag.

A-6 C-l -v Ice climber shivers with success torm socks Costs rest power, stalls flights Heavy wind and rain punish San Francisco and cancel ferry runs Associated Press BREAKING TODAY What's happening around the world AAA Japanese will holiday in record numbers TOKYO A record 632,000 Japanese will travel overseas in the Christmas and New Year holiday season, a major Japanese travel agency said today. Topping the list of popular destinations are Hawaii, Hong Kong and South Korea, it said. The year-end exodus will push the number of Japanese going abroad this year above 15 million, the Japan Travel Bureau said. That's a record high for the holiday travel season. Propelled by a strong currency and sky-high prices at home, the Japanese tourists will spend about $2,258 each during their trips, the agency said.

Fort Shatter soldiers get Bosnia assignment Ten Fort Shaf ter soldiers left today for a six-month temporary duty assignment in Bosnia. The soldiers, all enlisted members of the 45th Support Group, are mapmakers. They will report first to Fort Benning, for NATO orientation and more training on threat assessment and instruction on the rules of engagement. Eight Tripler Army Medical Center doctors and nurses also have been alerted for possible duty in various European military health facilities so as to free up other Army medical personnel who may have to go to Bosnia. Those alerted are five Tripler nurses, two doctors and one psychologist.

From staff and wire reports Chris Wojick of Bloomington, is euphoric as he relaxes at the top of a 65-foot-high column he successfully scaled yesterday on his first-ever attempt at ice climbing. The super icicle was created by playing a column of water down a farm silo in near-zero temperatures Oregon coast. This morning's high tide in Seattle was 2 feet above normal. The storm buffeted the San Francisco Bay area with gusts reaching 83 mph, making for a white-knuckle ride across many of the regions' bridges. The Richmond-San Rafael bridge was closed to trucks after one big rig was overturned by the wind.

Two of three ferry systems canceled service. Downtown skyscrapers creaked and moaned. Roads were a mess nearly everywhere. San Francisco International Airport spokesman Ron Wilson said high winds delayed some inbound flights up to IVt hours, and takeof were stalled by 20 minutes or so. Power was knocked out for 235,000 customers in Northern California, said David Bicha of Pacific Gas Electric.

PLEASE SEE STORM, A-8 Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Hurricane-force wind and heavy rain blasted the West Coast today, overturning trucks exposed on bridges and knocking out power for tens of thousands. "It's going to be a nasty, bad storm," said Bob Salmon, public works director in Aberdeen, Wash. "This is a get-your-can-dles-ready kind of storm." Officials said two women were killed when, in separate instances, storm-ravaged trees crashed into their homes. Many Oregon and Washington state schools canceled today's classes or closed early as the storm rolled in from the Pacific, and wind gusted to than 100 mph along the Naval officer facing misconduct charges A captain is accused inci1dents ny involving senior general officers, in- Ot sexual harassment eluding Adm. Richard Macke, and adultery Pacific Forces commander at CampSmith.

Macke was fired in Novem vt HGEA, state team up to find lost children By Gregg K. Kakesako Star-Bulletin The Navy is again sailing into troubled waters with a senior officer in Hawaii facing charges of sexual harassment, conduct unbecoming of an officer and having an adulterous affair with a civilian. Capt. W. Fred Dew, 47, was relieved A cyber search may help locate a person who was abducted in 1953 when she was 4 it Saturday as commander of 1 I jjmi-i 1 'S the Navy's ber after telling reporters that three U.S.

servicemen accused of raping a 12-year-old Japanese girl in Okinawa should have hired a prostitute instead. Other incidents include: A 30-day house arrest and loss of one star and position as NATO Atlantic command for Rear Adm. Ralph Tindal for carrying on a one-year affair with a female junior sailor. Tindal, a submariner, was deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic for the Iberia area. Navy Secretary John Dalton withdrawing the promotion of the Navy's former top equal opportunity officer, Capt.

Everett Greene, accused of sexually harassing a woman who worked for him, even though a Navy tribunal cleared him. A Navy petty officer groping a female sailor on a commercial airliner last month, while 20 other sailors and officers did nothing to stop him. Twenty-two midshipmen implicated at the Naval Academy last month for either selling or using illegal drugs. i Public Works Center while the charges are investigated. A Navy spokes 1 Total contributions $12,850.06 Frugal family needs help with six young children.

A-4 State Clearinghouse on Missing Children. "We don't even know if the child knows she is missing." But Clarkin hopes the technology of the '90s holds the key to finding this child of the '50s. Today, Donna Kempton's photograph, computer-enhanced to simulate the aging process and just placed on the Internet for the world to see, may finally lead to a break in one of the country's oldest and most puzzling unsolved missing child cases. "It's the only hope I've ever really had," said David Kempton of recent efforts to find his daughter. "It's all sort of fallen into my lap.

I'm getting publicity and activity that I never even dreamed of." The Clearinghouse today announced it is teaming with the Hawaii Government Employees Association to help find PLEASE SEE MISSING, A-6 Fred Dew 1 By Jim Witty Star-Bulletin When 4-year-old Donna Rae Kempton was abducted, Rocky Marciano was heavyweight champ, Ike was in his first term and "From Here to Eternity" was a box office smash. It was 1953 when Kempton's father, David, who had custody, left her at her mother's apartment in Ohio for a regularly scheduled visit. David Kempton, who now works for the University of Hawaii chemistry department, and her brother Steven then 6 haven't seen her since. "We hit a blank wall on that one," said Anne Clarkin of the man said the charges of sexual harassment and adultery are not related. Dew, a 25-year Navy veteran, assumed command of the Public Works Center, the Navy's fourth largest, in 1994.

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296 46 Pages, 6 Sections Copyright 1995 Honolulu Star-Bulletin All Rights Reserved and processing water samples. The scientists used the habitat Aquarius 50 feet below the sea as the base for their research. They're trying to learn what goes on inside the reefs, how nutrients survive in the open ocean and are recycled, said University of Hawaii oceanog-rapher Frank Sansone, project leader. "One of the great puzzles about reefs is how they get beautiful, luxuriant reef growth in desertlike ocean that is nutrient poor," he said. UH geologist-geophysicist PLEASE SEE UNDERSEA, A-S mil! Scientists from the University of Hawaii used the habitat Aquarius, left, as a base SO feet under water to study coral reefs.

Photo courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration By Helen Altonn Star-Bulletin A six-day stay in the world's only underwater mobile home off Key Largo, wasn't exactly a vacation for a team of Hawaii scientists. All scuba divers, they worked six to eight hours a day down to 100-foot depths drilling monitoring wells in the Florida Keys reef, collecting III! OFFICE THE FIXED PPOM THE HEAD "40901 00002'.