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1A ir Clinton picks 1st female attorney general 6 New car sales in islands off 15 percent page ci Kansas has hopes, BYU has experience wi gef no Spartan Christmas faces the mighty who've fallen Page B-1 wu 111 ''Li Worn 7Tb pto torn mk omteace On Earth CHRISTM AS STO story before, this is what happened on a night when God came to dinner. ilia Rod Ohira Star-Bulletin FORMER President Ronald Reagan calls it a story that "needs to be told and retold because none of us can ever too much about building peace reconciliation." During his 1985 visit to Germany, told the story of a Christmas supper in 1944 hosted by the late Vincken and her 12-year-old son, Fritz. Today, Fritz Vincken operates a bakery-deli in Kapalama. His account that harsh winter night in the Forest near the German-Belgian border was first published Star-Bulletin in 1964. those who haven't heard the It was December and two months had passed since Hubert Vincken brought his wife and son to a small cottage in the Ardennes Forest for their safety.

"We were isolated," Fritz recalled. "Every three or four days, my father, would ride out on his bicycle to bring us food. When the snow came, he stopped coming." The family's home and 88-year-old bakery in Aachen (Aix-La-Chapelle) were gone, destroyed in an April bombing raid. Hubert drafted for civil defense work, remained in Aachen with his daughter, See CHRISTMAS, Poge A-6 A UPDATE By i LL hear and Reagan Eve Elisabeth of Ardennes by the For 1 PP 'UL1 lempjiP mj 1 I By Kvln Hond, Star-Buiiettrr a flat year time goes on, he said. The forecast is for a slight improvement in the tourist count in the second two quarters of the coming year.

It predicts the count of mainland visitors to drop between 3 percent and 6 percent during the year, while the number of Japanese visitors is expected either to stay the same or improve by 3 percent. The number of European visitors is expected to remain unchanged while the number of visitors from Canada is expected to decline by 2 to 5 percent. HVB's vice president of mar- ket research, Joe Collins, said that the forecast is most accurate for the first quarter and that it will be reviewed and revised as the year progresses. The HVB has not released tourism figures for November, but October was the best month for tourism this year, 1 again! Wahiawa police officer Lance Haya-shi, seated at the typewriter, is framed by a 1 5- by 9-inch chunk bitten from Gary Chun's surfboard. Chun was surfing at Chun's Reef on the North.

Shore yesterday when a shark took a bite out of the board. Chun suffered cuts to his hand from the attack, By Dernili Oda. Star-Bulletin not able to say what size it was. He said he pushed his board toward it, then paddled back in to shore." Pestana administered first aid while another lifeguard warned other surfers to get out of the water. Ocampo said Chun was surfing near a channel where "the current flows like a river" through a break in the reef.

Pestana said the bite taken from Chun's board was not as large as the 16-inch chunk bitten from surfer Rick Gruzinsky's board in an Oct. 22 attack at Laniakea, a surfing spot along the same coast. A shark attack is also considered a strong possibility in the Feb. 19 disappearance of Bryan Adona. He was last seen body-boarding at Leftovers, about a mile from Waimea Bay.

His board was found the next day with a piece missing. The attack on Gruzinsky and a fatal shark attack Nov. 5 on surfer Aaron Romento, 18, at Keaau Beach Park on the Leeward Coast led the Shark Task Force to hunt and kill several sharks. Pestana said Allen Wick-lund of Wahiawa, who surfing near Chun, saw a shark over 10 feet long. "He said he saw it between the surfer and surfboard.

He saw a surfer in the water yelling. He caught the next wave in. "I had him draw what he saw, trying to identify the shark," Pestana said. "He drew the dorsal fin and back. It had a blunt broken fin, almost like ish fin." Pestana said officials may close the area tomorrow.

Ocampo said Chun's hand cuts were treated by ambulance paramedics from Wai-alua station. Star-Bulletin reporter Devi Sen Laskar contributed to this report Christmas is early for key figures in the Iran-Contra affair By Harry F. Rosenthal Associated Press WASHINGTON President Bush granted Christmas Eve pardons today to former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-Contra figures, saying he wanted to "put bitterness behind us." "Caspar Weinberger is a true American patriot," Bush said in a grant of executive clemency to the 75-year-old former Cabinet officer. "He has rendered long and extraordinary service to our country." Weinberger, who had been scheduled to go on trial here Jan. 5, said he was grateful for being "spared this terrible ordeal" and said he relished "a very special Christmas for me and my family." Bush's move effectively slammed the door on a protracted investigation of the Iran-Contra affair by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh.

His probe came under increasing fire late in the recent presidential campaign. A new indictment of Weinberger, released just four days before the election, contained disclosures of handwritten notes by the defense secretary which flatly contradicted Bush's public statements. Bush said that he hadn't known until mid-December 1986 that the Reagan administration was trading arms for hostages. Bush also pardoned Elliott Abrams, a former assistant secretary of State for Inter American Affairs; Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George all CIA figures and former national security adviser Robert McFarlane. Of the five, Abrams, McFarlane and Fiers have pleaded guilty to charges.

George was convicted and Clarridge had not yet been tried. The president's power to pardon is absolute under the Constitution and not subject to appeal. The ones bestowed by See WEINBERGER, Page A-6 for tourism with 522,300 visitors in the islands. During that month, total visitor arrivals were down only 2.2 percent from a year earlier, and they stayed longer. Westbound travel declined 3.2 percent, due solely to an 8.5 percent drop in travel from the mainland.

Eastbound traffic was down just 0.3 percent. The statewide total for the first 10 months of the year was down 4.6 percent from 1991. The tourism industry was hit hard earlier in the year by the national recession and mainland fare bargains that did not include Hawaii. The HVB is seeking a huge increase in its budget for next year to help boost the industry. In a preliminary budget request, the visitors bureau is asking for $54 million for the year beginning July 1, 1993, more than double the $21 million in its current fiscal year.

Inside Hawaii's economy near the bottom of national ranking. Page C-1 Isles fare poorly in national study of job growth. PogeC-4 a State unemployment rote edges up to 4.9 percent. Page C-4 MVB predicts 1 jr 32 pages, 4 sections B-2 Rodio Horns D-5 B-4 Sports D-l A-10 Stocks C-2 A2 Television B-2 D-5 Today B-1 is Shark hunt planned for weekend Yet another surfer on Oahu is attacked By Mary Adamski Star-Bulletin The state Shark Task Force plans to launch another shark hunt off the North Shore this weekend after a shark bit a mouthful out of a surfer's board yesterday. The attack on Gary Chun, 30, of Kaneohe, was the third attack this year along the North Shore.

Chun received a cut on two fingers of his left hand while he was surfing at Chun's reef just after 5 p.m. Bill Paty, head of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, said this morning that a group of six will be shark hunting this weekend at the North Shore. "We'll initially go out to that area and see how it goes," Paty said. But he said he was not committing task force members, who last week suspended shark hunts indefinitely, to any more hunts. Paty said the shark-hunting group is the same one that laid hooks off the North Shore a week ago.

"None of them were touched," Paty said. "We assumed that since none of them were touched, the problem had disappeared. We were wrong." Yesterday's attack was re ported after Chun came ashore with his board and the chunk bitten by the shark, said Sunset Beach Fire Capt. Jacob Ocampo. Other surfers described seeing a shark about 10 to 12 feet long.

The attack occurred about 75 yards offshore, in about 5 feet of water above the reef. About 30 other surfers were in the water at the popular surf break, said Lt Edmund Pestana of the city Water Safety Division. He said he was lying on his board and had just pulled his hand up," Pestana said. "He came eye to eye with the shark, but he was Diver saves boy under water one hour CHISAGO CITY, Minn. An 11-year-old boy is in critical condition after being trapped under water or an hour-" Billy.

of Chisago City was going ice fishing with a friend" yesterday on Green Lake when their truck broke through the ice. The driver escaped. A diver brought the youngster to the surface about an hour later. Dr. Robert Dahms said in cases such as Billy's, doctors hope a victim's body cooled enough to decrease the need for oxygen while under water.

"The problem is, they may come around with a heartbeat but has there been brain damage? It may take hours to days to determine that," Dahms said. From Star-Bulletin news services The number of mainland visitors is expected to tumble 3 to 6 From staff and wire reports The Hawaii Visitors Bureau forecasting no growth in the visitor count for 1993 and, if anything, a slight decrease in the number of tourists coming to the islands. The HVB's visitor forecast, released yestef day, pegs tourism growth this coming year at zero to minus 3 percent. HVB's president, Stanley Hong, said the forecast is based on a poll of 430 travel agents around the world. The forecast represents a snapshot of current conditions, conditions which can change as INDEX WEATHER Volume 81, Number 359 Astrology B-4 DeorAbby Business C-1 Donnelly Classified D-6 Editorials Comics B-4 Kokua Line Crossword B-4 Obituaries Chun's v-V- Reef Shark attack JrV yesterday Laniakea jKamehameha ry Hwy.

1993 Hawaii visitor forecast United States Japan Europe Canada Total -3 to ooV fi0 2 to I 0 to I '0p 3 U0 -5-3 Source: Hawaii Visitors Bureau Weather: Mostly sunny, a few showers today, high in the mid-80s. Mostly fair tonight, low near 70. Some sunny periods, occasional showers tomorrow, high near 80. Southerly winds 1 0-20 mpti. Details, Page A-2.

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