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Hawaii Plans Quiet, Sobering 50th Anniversary

• AP
Hawaii turns 50 years old as the 50th state, but there will be no grand parades, no dazzling fireworks, no lavish displays of native culture.   Organizers of the observation are not even willing to call it a party. It is simply a "commemoration," one that is sensitive to a painful history of the Hawaiian monarchy's overthrow and unresolved claims of Native Hawaiians.

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