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Hawaii Tribune Herald, Monday, January 22, 3 After 42 years, a father reunites with his daughter rights. Kempton said after he dropped the girl off for her first visit, he returned to find the woman's home empty and both mother and daughter gone. He said he never called police but contacted a private detective who all but laughed at him. "She was a war bride with no connections in this country," Kempton said. "Her boyfriend was an avowed itinerant, so there was no way to trace them, even if I had the resources." Kempton eventually remarried and raised his son, Steven, and three new children.

He moved to Hawaii in 1970 and lives here with his third Television show helps Hawaii man rend a long search HONOLULU fAP) A Ha- waii man's 42-year separation rrom nis daughter ended after a television show aired his plight to a national audience. jjavid Kempton of Nuuanu had been apart from his daughter, Donna Rae, since the girl was 4. According to Kempton, Donna Rae was abducted by her mother his ex-wife in 1953. Equipped with a photo of the girl and her older brother taken a week before her disappearance, Kempton began a search that ended with the Jan. 12 broadcast of "Unsolved "I really think they have waited all these years for the FBI to show up at their door and arrest them for kidnapping." 1 Roe said her parents do not watch "Unsolved Mysteries" and do not yet know about her conversation with her biological father.

1 Kempton, a machinist at the University of Hawaii, said he forgives his ex-wife. "Apparently, this whole thing has weighed very heavily on Barbara all these years," he said. "I told Donna that I would like her to tell her mother I bear her no grudge. 1 would hope that would lift some of that burden." ognized it on the show. "No way, no way, no way, this can't be," Roe said she told her husband after hearing of the broadcast.

Roe, who grew up in Northern California, said she had a normal childhood. But she said she began to suspect Semmler was not her real father at age 17, when she found her baptismal certificate hidden among her mother's belongings. The name on the certificate was Donna Rae Kempton. Ten years later, she confronted her mother. Roe said her mother admitted the story during a long talk.

"I had always put off looking for him because I always thought I had to protect Barbara and Charles," Roe said. wife. Pyne married Charles Semmler. Word of Kempton's predicament eventually reached Anne Clarkin, coordinator for, the Hawaii State Clearinghouse on Missing Children in the state Attorney General's office. Clarkin sought out an age-progression specialist to produce a computer-generated image of Donna Rae based on the 1953 photograph.

Clarkin also sought to have Kempton's story aired on "Unsolved Kempton said he did not expect results. But within hours of the broadcast, the show's producers heard from Donna Roe's half sister, who had seen the 1953 photo and rec Arafat wins historic Hawaii report State disclosure forms changed HONOLULU The State Ethics Commission has changed its financial disclosure forms after more than two dozen top state officials, including Gov. Ben Cayetano and Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono, filed incomplete forms last year.

Cayetano and the others said the old disclosure forms were confusing and ambiguous. Dan Mollway, the commission's executive director, said this past week that he hadn't heard of the confusion cited by Cayetano and other state officials during his 14 years on the job. The new forms stress that the reporting period begins Jan. 1 of the pervious year, just as income tax forms for any particular year cover the year before. Cayetano had listed his occupation as governor on his 1995 88 percent margin of victory called a mandate for peace By Donna Abu-Nasr Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Winning 88 percent of the vote, Yasser Arafat emerged yesterday from the first Palestinian election with a resounding mandate to complete peace with Israel and lead his people to independence.

Final results of the race for presidency released by the Central Election Commission late yesterday gave Arafat 88.1 percent of the total vote and his opponent Samiha Khalil 9.3 percent. Officials said that 2.6 percent of the ballot slips were invalid. "I am very proud of this very important historic democratic election in which a very high majority of our people have participated," Arafat told reporters after the results were announced. "We hope that (it) will be one of the most important efforts on the way to an independent Palestinian state." Arafat loyalists will also control the newly elected 88-mem-ber Palestinian parliament, though they may have to share some power with uprising activists, outspoken women and other independents who until now were shut out of Palestine the Palestinians one step closer to independence. "This is the most important moment for the future of the Palestinian people, and we hope that very soon, we will have our independent state," he said.

Crucial decisions await Arafat and his legislature in the coming months. Negotiations with Israel on the final status of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem are to begin by May. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres congratulated Arafat, saying the election "was an approval for the agreement between the Palestinians and ourselves by a very impressive majority of the Palestinian people." But during a phone call with Arafat, Peres also reminded him of his promise to revoke sections of the PLO Charter that call for the destruction of Israel. Under the Israel-PLO agreement, the charter must be annulled within two months after the first meeting of the Palestinian Council. Peres announced he would permit the return from exile of all 483 members of the Palestine National Council, the Palestinians' parliament-in-exile which has to revoke the charter.

The members of the newly elected Palestinian legislature automatically become members of the Palestine National Council. In all, a two-thirds majority is required to revoke the charter. All HEAT-N-uLOJ Mi I STOVES FIREPLACES $100-3400 OFF Hurry! SALE Ends Jan. 31 110 Keawe Street Downtown Hilo Tel: 961-5646 Open: Mon-Sat9-5 THE FIREPLACE CENTER Since 079 am M. musm Hmm 1 II UN election in YASSIR ARAFAT victory in historic election to leave a polling station.

The gunman was arrested by Palestinian police. In Hebron, also on the West Bank, one candidate said he was told that some 30 ballot boxes had disappeared and that were discrepancies in counting. Carter said yesterday there were some problems in the voting, but not on a scale that would have altered the outcome. "I look upon yesterday as one of the historic turning points in the history of Palestine and the Middle East," said Carter, who brokered the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty, the 1979 accord with Egypt. Arafat said the elections took woman, a 23-year-old 3rd class petty officer, who was sitting next to him.

Powell said in a hearing that his erratic behavior and alcoholism were caused by posttraumatic stress disorder brought on by combat in Vietnam. The female sailor has said moved, but even then he would not leave her alone, she said. Once, when she fell asleep, she awoke to find his hands on her breasts, crotch and legs. At one point, she pushed him off his seat and slapped him. She said both military and civilian passengers offered to help, but she told them she could handle Powell herself.

7 vl Mysteries." Last week, Kempton, 73, spoke by phone with his daughter, now Donna Rae Roe of San Jose, for the first time since 1953. "I'm someplace else besides he said. "It's great." Kempton was in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1946, stationed in Calcutta, when he met his first wife, Barbara Pyne, of Burma. The couple moved to Cleveland that year and had a son, Steven, two and a half years before Donna arrived.

The marriage broke up in 1952 after Pyne fell in love with another man, Kempton said. Kempton said he received custody of the children while Pyne got visitation Kahoolawe pilot model cleanup project 28 pieces of unexploded the reliability of equipment hazardous ordnance. So far, 175 and 250 acres of the OHA's help help her county purchase a Waihee development to pre burials and an ancient com patches, an irrigation channel parcel Saturday at the Sokan Hawaii, has been try disclosure form, even though he was lieutenant governor for most of 1994, the year being reported. Hawaiians mull activist's death HONOLULU About 60 Hawaiians representing various groups came together Saturday in the wake of the fiery death of Hawaiian homesteader on Kauai. Hilbert Kahale Smith died Thursday in his Anahola home.

He set it on fire while being evicted by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands for non-payment of his mortgage. "Many, Hawaiians have come together today because we're so that this should never, ever happen again," LU-ikala Kame'eleihiwa said outside the meeting at Kaumakapili Church. "We feel that Hawaiian Homes is responsible for this death." Among the items discussed was a call for the ouster of Hawaiian Homes Chairman Kali Watson. A news conference was to be held tomorrow to announce any specific actions. A new push to get homesteaders to catch up on their mortgage payments was announced by the department last May.

The state auditor had faulted the department the previous month for allowing mortgage delinquencies to swell to $16.8 million. That represented 683 cases, or 42 percent of outstanding loans. Smith had refused to make his mortgage payments, claiming he had been sold a defective new house in 1977. Report: Cruise boat hits whales WAILUKU Reports that a Lahaina-based dinner cruise boat collided with two humpback whales is being investigated by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The agency isn't commenting on the reports that said the Navatek II hit a mother and calf last Tuesday night.

A wo-man at the boat's office in Lahaina said managers able to comment on the reports wouldn't be available until today. Greg Kaufman, president of the Pacific Whale Foundation, said his organization had received a number of calls about the incident. One report said a passenger on the vessel videotaped the whales before and during the collision, Kaufman said. Meanwhile, the federal agency has decided not to assign a full-time enforcement agent to Maui for this vear's humDback Sailors cleared in harassment case At least 50 of the legislators were members of Arafat's Fatah faction, including 10 who had served in his appointed interim Cabinet, according to unofficial results released last night. Official results were expected today.

Despite the historic event, the mood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was subdued yesterday as Palestinians began to observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with dawn-to-dusk fasting. Winners postponed celebrations until after the "iftar," the festive meal that breaks the fast after sundown. Arafat will convene the legislature for the first time after Ramadan ends, said spokesman Nabil Abu Irdeineh. That date was not yet set. Arafat joked yesterday about his landslide victory, suggesting a lower rate of approval would probably have looked more democratic.

"I was looking for 51 percent," Arafat said after meeting with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who led a 40-member election observer team. The voting was marred by reports of fraud, violations that ranged from stuffing ballot boxes to voting more than once to illiterate voters having their ballots filled out for them by Arafat loyalists. In the West Bank village of Salem, an election official was shot and killed Saturday night by a Palestinian security agent who became enraged when told sailors on the flight, Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr.

Bruce Cole. Last month, investigators recommended nine charges against the cook, Chief Petty Officer George Powell, who will be tried in a special court martial scheduled for Feb. 26. The charges include four counts of indecent assault, two counts of simple assault and one count each of drunk and disorderly conduct, showing disrespect for a commissioned officer and failure to obey a lawful order. Officials have said Powell, 49, was drunk on the Oct.

27 American Airlines flight from Virginia to California during which he allegedly groped the ladelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and was scheduled to die by injection last August A judge granted him an indefinite stay of execution and he is seeking a second trial. Abu-Jamal went to Ooddard College near Montpelier between 1978 and 1980. He reapplied last year and was accepted into the off-campus program. He did all his work through the mail. His adviser, Margot Ma-cleod, said Abu-Jamal wrote his final 75-page study titled, "The Emergence of a Black Psychology" in longhand because he was not permitted to use a typewriter in prison.

"Fortunately, he has beautiful handwriting," Macleod said. They were aboard plane during alleged groping of a woman By Amanda Covarrublas Associated Press SAN DIEGO Sailors aboard a commercial airline flight on which a Navy cook allegedly groped and harassed an enlisted woman have been cleared of any wrongdoing, a Navy official said yesterday. Vice Admiral David B. Robinson, commander of the Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, decided that no disciplinary action would be taken after reviewing statements from other whale season.

Bombs found on WAILUKU A $20 million on Kahoolawe is turning up about ordnance per acre, the Navy said. One recent find was an unexploded 100-pound bomb buried under two feet of sand at Hakioawa Bay, a popular gathering spot on the former "Target Island," Capt. Mike Benn said Saturday. Abu-Jamal awarded college degree Protect Kahoolawe Ohana member Leslie Kuloloio said the bomb was situated only inches from where Ohana members dug during a planting project last year. The cleanup project is testing and techniques used in detecting the project has covered between island.

Maui County asks WAILUKU Maui Mayor Linda Crockett Linele wants the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to sand dune area in the proposed vent it from being turned into another golf course. Death-row inmate earned half his credits in prison PLAINFIELD, Vt (AP) Death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal was awarded a bachelor of arts degree in psychology yesterday from a small college, earning about half of his credits from prison. "This day has truly been long in coming, several decades long, in fact That it is here borders on the miraculous," Abu-Jamal said in a statement read by his son, Jamal, who was present to accept the degree. Abu-Jamal, a former reporter and Black Panther, was convicted of the December 1981 shooting death of Phi The sand dunes cover several plex of house sites, walls, taro and three heiau. Hawaii Preparatory Academy Prospective students and their parents are cordially invited to meet Director of Admission Whitney Laughlin and Associate Director Beth Nakamaru '87 at a reception on Tuesday, January 30, 1996 Hilo, Hawaii Please call us for the time and place.

Hawaii Preparatory Academy is a fully accredited K-12 coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students. A boarding program is available in grades 6 through 12. Average class size is 15. Hawaii Preparatory Academy Admission Office P.O. Box 428, Kamuela, Hawaii 96743 Telephone (808)885-8207 Fax (808)885-8211 OHA trustees toured the 320-acre mayor's request.

Waihee Oceanfront, owned by ing to develop the land since 1988. The company's latest proposal includes plans to build a golf course and clubhouse on 144 acres of the parcel while leaving the most archaeo- logically sensitive areas untouched. About 40 island residents attended a discussion session with OHA trustees after the tour ended. Many residents urged the agency to help preserve the site as a cultural reserve. By Associated Press 1.