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asmowor stops . By Rick Alberto

Variety News Staff TINIAN-Most of the construc­tion work on the unfinished multi­million-dollarTinian Dynasty Ho­tel and Casino has stopped as soi:ne SOOworkers, mostly Chinese, went on strike Monday allegedly be­cause they had not been paid their salaries for as long as four months.

The strikers are involved in "civil work," which was described as the main aspect of construction. They had been hired by the contractor Checo. The workers who did not join the strike are involved in the finishing work. They get their sala­ries from a different contractor,

SanAkai. Sources quoted reports that the

Chineseworkerswereoffered$200 each if they returned to China, but they reportedly refused the offer. The disagreement led to the work­ers' walkout

The Checo general manager, a certain Tongie, was not available for comment

The Variety talked to Kenneth Yeung, deputy general managerof Hong Kong Entertainment (Over­

·seas) Investments, Ltd., owner of the 410-room hotel and casino but

he had not much to say about the walkout

Yeung oversees the construction of the hotel-casino, which is slated to open in March.

He said he only learned about the walkout yesterday morning and had no details yet when interviewed in the afternoon.

"We are \n the process of finding out what the problem is," he said.

"It's a little bit of maybe just misunderstanding each otherorthe way they (contractor) pay," he added.

Yeung, however, confirmed that the complaint from the workers had to do with late payment of salaries.

He said he still had to hear the side of the contractor.

It was learned from sources that

Checo had subcontracted the civil work to some local firms including one reportedly owned by Juan Tenorio, a brotherofGov. Froilan C. Tenorio.

"Right now I can't tell you much because we don't know much. We're trying to find out," Yeung told the Variety.

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FBI, OPA investigators swoop down on Tinian Mayor's office

. vaneiy 'Ec:itor . . tr MARKED the "downfa11" of ·· Froilan C Tenorio and Pedro P. Tenorio's rise to power. It saw at . 1eastrourmun1ers,somerooqxx>p1e ·

· drowning, at least three fatal road accidents, bigtime court battles.

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

TINIAN-Combined elements of the Federal Bureau of Inves­tigation and the CNMI Office of the Public Auditor swooped down on the Mayor's Office yesterday late morning, armed with a search warrant from the federal district court.

The office's staff, including Mayor and Senator-Elect Herman M. Manglona, were asked to leave the building as the seven-member team con- Herman M. Manglona

DOLi applying brakes on influx of Chinese workers?

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE CNMI Government has started to "carefully monitor" the entry of Chinese nationals to the Commonwealth even as China is also reportedly poised to restrict

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sending their workers over. Acting Department of Labor

and Immigration Secretary Will­iam Anthony Jones yesterday said DOU is now carefully watching and reviewing the applications for workers from China.

Specifically, Jones said DOLi in coordination with the Depart­ment of Commerce are screening the employers and their establish­ments as to the necessity of hiring these non-resident workers.

"We are very strict now. All documents submitted must be authenticated," Jones told the Variety in a telephone interview.

A government source disclosed that the Chinese government will start restricting the deployment of workers to the Commonwealth in 1998.

China's action is intended to clean-up "their own ranks" and prevent labor exploitation, the

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ducted its search for the perti­nent documents it needed.

The reason for the search has all been speculative as none of the FBI agents wanted to talk.

FBI Special Agent George Nolan, when contacted at the Bureau's Saipan office, also offered no details except to say an investigation was ongoing.

The Variety also called Pub­lic Auditor Leo L. LaMotte for comment but he also de­clined. ~C-on-t~in_u_ed~o-n_p_a_g_e~3~6

And. of course, the devastating typhoons and El Nino.

It was also the year-when tourist arrivals went plunging, when the currency· crisis in nearby Asia caused bani times in the region.

But the year 1 WI, tumultuous by all s~dards. goes down in his­tory as the year when the proopect of the much-dreaded federal take­over became more imminent than ever.

US President Bill Clinton's an­nouncement in May that he wants

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the application of federal immigrn­tionand minimum wage laws in the NorthemMarianaswasviewedasa most serious threat to the well-be­ing of this young Commonwealth.

It brought fears within the politi­cal and business community, ow-

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Philippine President Fidel Ramos, right, looks up as he leads the flag-raising ceremony yesterday at Manila's Rizal Parle to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the death of RP national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. With Ramos are, 1-r, former vice president Salvador Laurel, Education Sec. Ricardo Gloria, Executive Sec. Ruben Torres and House Speaker Jose De Venecia whom Ramos chose as the ruling party's bet in the '98 presidential elections. AP

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ltaD1adan m.onth begins CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Cler­ics around the Islamic. world

· spotted a new moon Monday, signaling that Ramadan -the holy month of dawn-to­dusk fasting - will begin Tuesday.

Egypt's grand mufti, Sheik Nasr Farid, the government's ranking 'cleric, made the an-

US .. criticizes Iraq ration cut

WASHINGTON (AP) - Call­ing it appalling, the State Depart­ment criticized on Monday an Iraqi decision to cut food rations for its people on grounds that food received under its oil deal with the United Nations has been in­sufficient.

Spokesman James Foley said Iraq ordered the cu ts even though it had acted to defer U.N. ap­proval of $120 million worth of contracts far food purchases.

It is '.'really appalling and in­deed tragic" that Iraq can claim to be concerned about the humani­tarian plight of its people while consistently thwarting the efforts of the international community to ease their suffering, Foley said. It· was not clear why the Iraqis de­cided to withhold approval of the

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nounccment in Cairo. Similar announcements

came from clerics in countries across the Middle East, includ­ing Saudi Arabia. Kuwait. Le~banon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain and Qatar.

Egyptian phone lines were clogged with families calling to inform each other and relay

Ramadan greetings, making it hard to get a dial tone.

Ramadan's starting date changes each year and is de­termined by the sighting of the new moon.

It marks God's revelation of the Koran, Islam's holy book, to the Prophet Mohammed some 1,400 years ago.

The world's one billion Muslims mark the holy month by abstaining from food, drink, smoking and sex dur­ing daylight hours as an act of sacrifice and purification.

During Ramadan, extended families gather at sunset, await­ing the blast of a cannon or the start of the evening prayer that

6 die in Massachussetts fire By Jean Mcmillan

.l\.1EDFORD, Mass. (AP) - As many as s0 people were feared dead in an apartment house fire, including a mother, three of her children and the father tliey had come to see for the holidays.

Some of the victims, all Haitian · immigrants, appear to have died because they turned into a dead-end hallway while stairways and floor collapsed around tl1em.

Flames and smoke meed through the three-strny, wooden building Sunday evening, apparently mov­ing up from the basement

One tenant, Marie Jackson, 52, · said she was able to escape through the blinding smoke with her 9-year-old granddaughter only be­cause she knew where the door of her apartment should be.

··r could see nothing," she said,

motioning to show how she felt around forthedoor. "Iflgo back to take a pocketbook, I'm dead."

Atleasttwooftheapproximately 40 people in the building had to l:e rescued by ladder from a third­floor balcony.

"People were hanging on fire e...<capes.Iheard aboyandhismother crying for help," said Gabrielle Celestin, 29, one of the many Hai­tianimmigrantsinthe 12-unitbuild-ing. .

The cause.of the blaze was un­der investigation. The building sits across a street from a fire station, and authorities said it had working fire alanns.

Fire Chief Lawrence Sands said thefirekilledJeanManieJeanrisme, 27, hi~ wife, Alta GraceJeanrisme, 31, and apparently killed three of their four children: daughters Sa-

rah, 7, and Jasline, 5, and 8-month­old son Kevin.

A Medford, Mass., fire marshal surveys damage with a fire photgrapher Monday in the af­termath of a four-alarm fatal fire. AP

allows them to break their fast. Ramadan will last 29 or 30

days, depending on the next lunar crescent sighting. The fast will end with the three­day feast of Eid al-Fitr.

In Turkey, Muslims were ad­vised Monday they may toast the arrival of 1998, but not a drop ·after sunrise.

Many Turks had wondered how to celebrate a New Year's Eve that falls during Ramadan.

Even though the parties culmi­nate at midnight, many Western~ oriented Turks were concerned that public New Year's events would have to be called off or toned down.

''It is important to take stock, reflect on the past year and to abstain from excesses, luxuries and waste," MehmetNuri Yilmaz said in Ankara.

In other words: drink if you must, but keep to your fast after­

. wards. The more conservative sections

of Turkish society object to cel­ebrating the New Year's holiday whether it coincides with Ramadan or not, arguing that is the start of the new year according to the Christian cal­endar.

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D.C. paper raps U.S. visits By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

IBE CNMI's aggressive lobbying efforts in W,L~hington, D.C. hascaught the attention of ru1 influential Capitol Hi II newspaper, c:tl ling ita' 'hotsp:it' s'' $ I million campaign to counter alle­gations that it serves as a "truiff-frce haven for exploitative gmment facto­ries."

Entitled "Faraway Isles Beckon Members, Staff by tlie Score for Lobby Visits," Roll Cali's front page story noted thatsincelastyear, "alittle known U.S. tenitory" has been vjs­ited by six congressmen, 70 House and Senate aides and GOP campaign committee officials, costing roughly $5,000 per visitor.

Roll Ca!l 's article came out almost two weeks before the arrival Satur­day of U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Del.ay (R-Texas), his wife, daughter and two staff members.

RollCallsaidthatthoughtheCNMI government is paying for the nips, the islands "did receive nearly $44 mil-

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lion in federal funding in 1996." So far, moreover, thelobbyingcam­

paign is working, Roll Call said. It quoted a staff director of U.S.

Rep. George Miller (D-California) who said that. the CNMI's efforts have "stymied" the congressional Democrats 'pushingforapublicprobe of the islands.

One of the most vocal critics of the CNMI's labor and immigration poli­cies, Miller sponsored last April a bill that would extend federal immigra-

Revelers warned about firecrackers

By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

NEWYEAR'sdayhasalwaysteen welcomed with a bang. While oth­ers do it the safer way, some people prefer doing it the other way.

Firecrnckers may appear harm­less since it has been perceived to add "spice" to the New Year cel­ebration, but this is not always the case.

The "spice" may mean a reveller his life, at least when he sustains wounds from firecracker blasts re­cause they contain substances that pose threat to public health.

.Manufacturers in the Philippines use animal wastes to highlight the firecrackers' blasting effects. It was notclearwhetherthe same thing goes with other firecracker producers.

Health officials said firecracker­related injuries may cause tetanus infection which could be fatal espe­cially when the victim manifests symptoms 10 days after sustaining the injury.

Tetanus infection is caused by

unclean delivery practices sud i as the introduction of tetanus spores from soil through poor hygiene or the use of unsterile instruments.

Health experts said people who manifest infection symptoms after 10 days are "more fortunate" than · those whose infection developed earlier.

The level of (!!tanus toxin in the human body is lower and weaker if the infection develops later than 10 days, compared with those who manifest symptoms within the in­cubation period.

Tetanus symptoms include spasms and lack jaw .

A random interview conducted by the Variety among Common­wealth Health Center staff showed there was no significant number of firecracker-related in juries brought to the center during the previous New Year celebration.

But they were one in saying that the use of firecrackers is discour­aged because of the threat it poses on public health.

Speaker airs displeasure over $800,000 11CGCC loan

By 2aldy Dandan Variety News Staff

HOUSE Speaker Diego T. Benavente (R-Saipan) yesterday expressed grave concern overout­going Gov. Froilan C.Tenorio's additional $800,000 "loan" to the Tinian casino gaming commis­sion, which is currently under in­vestigation for the $2.6 million "loan" it received last year· from the Office of the Governor.

Calling it as another example of the governor's "uncontrolled spending habits," Benavente ~d the House of Representatives ,is willing to form a joint comm• with the Senate to further investi­gate the commission, as sugg~

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by Senate president-designate Paul A. Manglona (R-Rota) Mon­day.

Benavente added, however, that such a joint committee might be unnecessary -if the incoming ad­ministration and its Attorney General's Office (AGO) take the lead in investigating the "mis­spending" of public funds alleg­edly committed by members of the commission, and the po~sible liability of the outgoing gover­nor . . 'Tm glad that Sen. David 1\.1. Cing (D-Tinian) is ready to look into the governor's spenc;ling hab­its, and the House will certainly · Continued on page 6

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tion and minimum wage Jaws to the islands.

A similar measure has also teen filed in the U.S. Senate.

Citing persistent reports of labor, immigration and tariff abuses in the CNMI, the Clinton administration has urged the passage of "federal takeover" legislation.

l\.1oney,111oney,1noney However, two of the highest rank­

ing U.S. House leaders-House Majority Whip Del.ay and House Majority Leader Dick Anney lR­Texas}-haveassured theCNMI that aGOP-contJulled Congress will block any such legislation.

"Obviously with that expenditure of money, you ortly have to persuade a small number of people not to pro­ceed with hearings," the staff director told Roll Call, refening to Miller's repeated request to U.S. House Re­sourcesCommitteeChairDon Young (R-Alaska) to hold hearings on three separate occasions.

Basingitsestimateonanemployee travel disclosure of a staffer who was here last May, Roll Call said the cost of a week-long nip to the CNMI is $5,745.

The total travel tab could then reach a, high as $454,000, Roll Call said, noting that the CNMI's total lobby­ingexpenditure for the firstsi x months of 1997 is $1 million.

Roll Call did not mention if this figure includes the$84S,000spent by the CNMI in retaining the Seattle­based law firm Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvellas Meeds during the first halfof the year.

· In addition, the CNMI also hired former Reagan administration Inte­rior secretary Manuel Lujan and former Hawaii governor John W aihee to lobby on the CNMl's behalf, Roll Call said.

Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio, however, has terminated the contracts of Lujan and Waihee months ago.

Let us be Roll Call also mentioned that the

islands"boastthe United States' only elected, publicly paid lobbyist, (Resi-

. dent Rep.) Juan N. Babauta." . In an interview with Roll Call, Babauta acknowledged that "there are still some outstanding labor issues that need to be addressed" in the Northern Marianas.

But Babauta, at the same time, said Congress should let CNMI officials "tackle the problems instead of (im­posing federal) wage, labor and im­migration requirements."

"When you begin to talk about a federal takeover of a local jurisdic­tional responsibility, then you begin totalkaboutself-govemmentissues,'' Babauta told Roll Call.

"We would like to preserve the control on these policy issues," he said. .

Roll Call likewise interviewed Preston, Gates' Jack Abramoff who

defended the CNMI's "educatiomtl effort," saying that if federal stan­dards were extended to the islands it, economy would collapse.

Abmmoff is among the Preston, Gates lobbyists who have teen ar­ranging the congressional aips.

For his part,anothercongressional aidewhovisitedtheCNMlwa,quoted as saying that "Any perception that a nip to the Northern Marianas is about suntan oil, getting a tan and drinking a fruit drink with one of those little umbrellas is unfair and misguided."

The aide said that the congres­sional visitors met with Clinton offi­cials and Philippine government rep­resentatives critical of the CNMI's policies,andasked"toughandpointed questions" of their hosts.

Not bad; not so good either But one congressional staffer who

was here last April came away with a mixed impression from the nip,Roll Call said .

'They're going to show you what they want to show you," the staffer told Roll Call. "It's not as bad as what we feared, but it could probably be a lot better than it was."

Still, Abramoff told Roll Call, 'Those who come with an open mind come away, Republican and Demo­crat, very impressed."

Withfewexceptions,however,Roll Call noted, the congressional visitors have been Republicans.

Outgoing Governor Tenorio, in past interviews, have said that the cost of his administration's lob­bying efforts is "worth it," adding that the local economy would lose hundreds of millions of dollars if a federal takeover bill becomes law.

PSS to deploy central staff By Lalla C. Younis

Variety News Staff TH!i BOARD of Education an­nounced yesterday plans to re­deploy Public School System Central Office staff to school sites in an effort to "decentral­ize" PSS, according to top offi­cials.

"The main purpose of this re­deployment is to enhance em­powerment at the schools," said Acting Commissioner Marga­ret Dela Cruz ..

"This goes in line with the 'School Community Base Edu­cation' plan, which one of the programs we would like to see go forward," she said.

"As decentralization occurs, there will be niore work at the schools, so more personnel is needed," she added.

Dela Cruz also noted that the PSS Central staff have "the op­portuni.ty to volunteer which school they would like to work in".

"There will be consultation, and the staff will work together to make the transition process easier," said Dela Cruz.

In a letter to PSS Central Of­fice siaff, BOE Chair Don Farrell "cordially invited" the PSS staff to "take the initiative and state which school" they

would prefer to work in "rather than having the decision made on their behalr'.

"The Board of Education fully supports the efforts of our schools to implement school­based management and to as­sume functions that previously were performed by staff located at Ce-ntral Office," said Farrell.

"We ask that Central office staff and school principais collaboratively work out the de­tails on this re-deployment," he said.

Farrell also noted that the Cen­tral staff have to include second and third choices for schools, in case the first choice "cannot be accommodated".

"We do have to be careful, because there is a diffaence in deploying employees and hav­ing FTE's (Ful!-Time Equiva­lence)," she said.

"We have asked the school principals to state their needs in terms of positions and we will determine who goes where based on those needs," she added .

Delacruz noted that the pro­cess of deployment will occur after the school principals turn in their assessments of the posi­tions.

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ment happening very soon, but the principal 's assessments should be in within two weeks," said Dela Cruz.

"Right now, my role is to en­sure continuity, despite the change of leadership," she said.

"I have no plans to make any major changes in regards to the on-going PSS projects or any. programs," she added.

Dela Cruz also said that the "two goals she would like to conti'nue is to focus on SCBE and the evaluation of school principals".

"When the new BOE takes over, new priorities will be set and I will work with them to get· ' c:: •.· the groundwork," she said.

4-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-DECEMBER 3 I. 1997

House mulls CPA's $2.5M reques_t By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Slaff

HOUSE Speaker Diego T. Benavente (R-Saipan) yester­day said he will urge the Leg­islature to pass a $2.5 million appropriation bill reimburs­ing the Commonwealth Ports Authority, which used the amount for improving and renovating Rota International Airport.

CPA 's acting chair Anto-

nio S. Camacho, in a recent letter to the Legi5'lature 's pre­siding officers, admitted that because of the delay in the reimbursement "and a few other similar financial under­takings by CPA," the agency is "beginning to encounter fi­nanci;l difficulty in making payments on its projects." -

Camacho said the 1994 mea­sure appropriating the $2.5 million for the improvement

of Rota's airport was passed with the understanding that CPA.will use its port revenues for the project, but will be re­imbursed for it.

However, Camacho said, the project has already been com­pleted but CPA has yet to be reimbursed.

He added that the Finance Department will only forward the $2.5 million to CPA after an appropriation bill is passed.

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Benavente, in an interview, said the Legislature made the commitment to reimburse c·PA, and should therefore honor it.

"We thought the outgoing administration has already re­leased the money, but if it did not, then the Legislature should work on an appropr.ia· tion bill," he said.

He added that though the CNMI government's financial

state "doesn't look good," CPA 's projects are worthwhile and should be given adequate funding.

At the same time, Benavente said the Legislature will look into CPA 's reported "finan­cial crisis," but only if it ex­ists.

"We hope that (CPA Chair Victor B. Hocog.'s) statement that there is no such crisis is true," Benavente said.

Girl, 14, was allegedly molested by neighbor

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

POLICE are investigating a case of alleged sexual molestation in­volving a 14-year-old girl.

Department of Public Safety In­formation Officer Maj. J. J. Castro s-aid initial investigation showed that the girl was taken Monday by her mother to the Commonwealth Health Center when she com­plained of pain to the ribs and back.

A doctor, however, found that the girl was sexually mo­lested.

The mother confronted her daughter, prompting the latter to confess that she was sexually mo-. Jested by their male neighbor.

No arrest was made yet, po­lice said.

Meanwhile, a 22-year-old man was in ju red after two men report­edly attacked him while he was walking near Downtown Market in San Jose Monday night.

Basilio Taman of Garapan was taken to CHC for multiple inju­rieson the head and different parts of the body.

Prior to the incident, Taman was walking with his two cousins when the suspects ap­proached and started beating him.

One of the suspects struck Taman with a lead pipe on the head and arms, police said.

In other reports, unidenti­fied person/s broke into the Oleai Market in San Jose and stole coins worth $100 at the cash register Mo11day night.

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By Ferdie de la Torre. Variety News Staff

SUPERIORCourtAssociateJudge Miguel Demapan yesterday issued a bench wammt to be executed 24 hours daily against a man charged for kidnapping and beating a man at the Capitol Hill Cemetery in an alleged extortion racket last year.

Demapan asked the Department of Public Safety lo a!1'estand bring Lin Hua to the court.'

HuaandWuZhcngwerecharged withkidnapping,assaultwithadan­gerous weapon, and attempted theft by exto1tion.

Zheng was convicted last year after he signed a plea agreement ~ith the Attomey General's Office.

A trial date for Hua was set last Dec. 9, but he failed to appear. Demapan issued a bench warrant stating that "this warrant shall be executed during normal working hours between 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday ex-

cept holidays." Assistant Atty. Gen. James

Norcross told the court that Hua 's whereabouts are unknown.

"The last known employment of defendant was working nighttime in a club, therefore he would be un.availableata placeofbusiness to be served with the bench warrant during daytime," Norcross told the court as he requested to amend the wammt

Norcross explained that the vic­tim, an off-island witness, is cur­rently on Saipan for the purpose of testifying and is provided by the government with board and lodg­ing.

Court information showed that on March 5, 1996 HuaandZheng grabbed the victim in Gmapan and brought him to Capitol Hill Cem­etery.

The defendants beat the victim for refu~ing to give them money, court records indicated.

RP mulls extent of its trade ties with CNMI

By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Slaff

THE PHILIPPINES has been try­ing to establish the extent of its trade relations with the Northern Mariana Islands, in an attempt to improve "repairable" areas.

Vice Consul Ronell Santos, however, said it is difficult to char­acterize, in terms of exports, at this point the trade relationship between the Philippines and the CNMI.

"I really cannot talk about CNMI-RPtrade relations.in terms of actual figures yet because that remains to be seen and the figures are yet to be sort our," Santos said in an interview.

He said the Consulate has been trying to communicate with the Departments of Commerce and of Finance for the actual volume of trade between the country and the US "trusted" island.

"Basically, our figures are tied up with the United States main­land, that's why we are really coming up with official uala." he tokl the Variety.

Samos said the DOC am! the DOF are yet to respond to the Consulate's request for the offi­cial figures for the determination of the kind, the quality and the quantity of trade entered into by the Philippines to the CNMI.

He added it is specially diffi­cult to tell this time the extent of trade ties between the Philippines and the CNMI because previous

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allowing the Iraqis to sell $2 bil­l ion worth of oil every six months.

The proceeds are to be used solely for humanitarian purchases.

Foley said the United s·tates is "doing everything possible to al-

statistics in the US did not specifi­~ally mention Saipan in terms of actual volume.

"Unless we can have those fig­ures, then we can't say ifwe are doing this much or we should hope to achieve this much next year," he told the Variety.

He added that the delay in the acquisition of information from the commerce and the· finance departments· is barring the Consulate's trade promotion of­fice from "pushing forward."

"It is becoming difficult for us to work everything out even our expectations and projections on what we should do next year," he continued.

The Philippines has been orga­nizing a business mission among Saipan investors in its bid to strengthen its trade relationship with the Northern Marianas.

Santos said the Department of Foreign Affairs has advised all diplomatic offices around the world lo focus on ··economic diplomacy" other than labor is­sues.

He said the Consulate is ex­pecting a retum tra~e mission by Filipino businessmen to CNMI after the proposed visit of Saipan investors to the Philippines in February next year.

This is going to be the first trade mission ever to be conducted by the Philippine Consulate and the Saipan ChamberofCommerce, if the plan pushes through.

leviate suffering in Iraq while Saddam Hussein continues to in­crease and then use this suffering for political purposes."

Iraq had said on Sunday that obstructionist tactics by the United States at the U.N.promptcd the decision to reduce food ra­tions. Items affected by the cuts include baby milk, cooking oil, tea and detergents.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5

AGO opinion fails to clarify agency roles

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

A RECENT legal opinion of the Attomey General's Off:.~e fal led to clarify the authority over public lands of the Department- of Lands and Natural Resources, its Divi­sion of Public Lands and the au­tonomous Bureau of Public Lands, it was learned.

Variety sources yesterday said DLNR Secretary Maggie DLG. WonenbergmetwithGov.FroilanC. Tenorio, DPL Director Bertha Camacho and BPL Chair Tomas B. Aldan to discuss the legal opinion, which merely stated that BPL has no expenditure·authority over DLNR.

But this, according to a Variety source, is not the issue DLNR wants clarified.

"What the secretary wants to know is the roles of DLNR and DPL, on the one hand, and BPL, on the other, over public lands," the source said.

"She already knows that DLNR holds the expenditure authority," the source said.

The Variety tried to reach the involved officials for a comment, but was told that none of them were "available."

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pinning the blame not on AGO, but on the ambiguity of P.L. 10-57 for causing the current confusion.

P.L. 10-57 created an autono­mous Board of Public Lands to be composed of five members.

Tenorio, in vetoing the bill that became P.L. 10-57, predicted that

· such a confusion would arise, but his veto was ovell'idden by both houses of the Legislature.

Prior to Tenorio's being sworn into office in 1994, the autono­mous Marianas Public LandsCorp. (MPLC) had sole authority over the management of the CNMI's public lands.

But citing the allegedly anoma­lous practices of MPLC, Tenorio abolished the agency and placed its

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functions in the Division of Public Lands which ls under DLNR.

The Legislature, in tum, alleged that the setup merely allowed Tenorio to abuse the granting of public land leases.

Last year, a bill reestablishing an independent board of public lands was passed by the Legislature, only to be vetoed by the governor.

Legislators then tried to override the veto, but failed to muster the required 213 majority votes in both houses.

Undetmed, the Legislature early this year passed a new version of the same bill, which was again vetoed by the govemor.

This time, however, the veto was overridden by a margin ofone vote.

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A MAN who was recently con­victed of robbing two Japanese tourists was found guilty again yesterday to another case in which he was charged of escape.

During a bench trial, SuperiorCourt AssociateJ udge Timothy Bellas said after listening to testimony of wit­nesses and looking at evidence the court found that William C. Sablan was guilty of escape.

Bellas said based on Sablan' s

own testimony the defendant in­deed left the custody of the Divi­sion of Co1Tections on Oct. 4, I 996 where he was detained for a separate criminal case.

Bellas refused to accept Sablan 's argument that he simply walked away because three in­mates had threatened to kill him.

The judge said Sablan's con­tention is not reasonable citing an action taken by a police officer who tried to pacify the three in­mates during a fight against the

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may however, be made in the morning up until 12:30 p.m. or at local banks during regular business hours.

CUC operations will then re­sume on Monday, January 5, at 7:30a.m.

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defendant. Bellas said evidence showed

"there was this (kind of) protec­tion by the institution."

Assistant Atty. Gen. Robert Steinborn, on behalf of the gov­ernment, said Sablan walked out from DOC and ran away when he saw Police Major Santiago Tudela.

It was gathered that some in­mates were taken out from jai I at the time to give way for renova­tion at DOC.

"Once you get out (from DOC), the escape is complete. The de­fendant was not threatened by imminent danger. Based on his

own testimony he ran away when he saw officerTudela," Steinborn pointed out.

Sablan was represented by Atty. Joshua Berger.

Escape carries a maximum pen­alty of three years in jail and $3,000 fine.

Bellas set the sentencing onJan. 11, 1998 ..

A jury recently reached a deci­sion declaring Sablan guilty of (unarmed robbery) in connection with the incident at Laolao Bay Resort on Sept. 29, 1996.

Cou1t documents showed that while two tourists were playing golf, Sablan suddenly jumped in

from the bush area. Sablan, armed with a knife,

grabbed bags belonging to the tourists and dived into the sea.

Police officers searched the cliffline and arrested Sablan hid­ing in a small cave, court docu­ments indicated.

Sablan has another pending criminal case ch~rging him with theft of vehicle, obstructing jus­tice, disturbing the peace, and criminal mischief.

The case stemmed from an in­cident last February when Sablan, armed with a gun, allegedly stole a vehicle from a priest at Happy Landing in San Vicente.

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support the Senate's efforts," Benavente said.

"1l1is is a major issue, and I believe that there is a mess in the commission," he addc:d.

Cing, who chairs the Senate probe, has vowed to go after the outgoing governor for approving an additional "loan'' to the com­mission despite the senator's "warning" last month not 10 re­lease the funds.

Cing said he has "no choice" but to summon Tenorio after his term expires on Jan. 12.

He said he will ask Tenorio "to tell us where in the CNMI Consti­tution does it say that he can be a lending institution."

Cing, in a letter last month to the Finance Department, said tht department head and the gover­nor would be liable for any future disbursements to the commission.

Without a budget of its own, the commission "brnrnwed" $2.6 mil­lion from the Office of the Gover­nor in December 1996. which Cing has described as "illegal re­programming" of public funds.

The ongoing Senate investiga­tion has so far revealed highly questionable expenditures by the commission, amounting lo nearly $2.6 million by April 1997. ·

WEDNESDAY,DECEMBER31, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-7

BOE's DWz disappointed: . ,

'Election law needs changes By Gerr R .. Cayabyal>, Jr. Variety News Staff

BOARD of Elections Execu­tive Director Juan M. Diaz yesterday expressed disap­point.men! that the current Sen­ate will no longer be able to act on House Bill 10-140 to amend election laws.

"The House approved last Feb. 2 this year the bill, and was pending in the Senate when the Ninth Legislature adjourned," Diaz said.

According to Diaz, one of the proposed amendments gives partisan and non~~arti­san candidates an add1tional 15 · days to submit campaign financial statements.

"The existing Jaw does not allow candidates any exten­sion. And so, candidates have to submit their CFS 50-day after the election day," Diaz said.

A House Committee chaired by Rep. Oscar M. Babauta finds that the election laws of the Commonwealth are anti­quated and in need of reform.

Senate Legal Counsel Stephen C. Woodruff yester-· day said that when the bill

Red.Cross center on . Rota will.•· close· today. By Gerr R. Cayabyab, Jr. Variety News Staff

TEMPORARY relief opera­tions center of the American Red Cross on Rota due to supertyphoon Paka closes at 5 p.m: today, ARC-NMI Chap­ter Emergency Services Di­rector Cherry Schadeck yes­terday said.

Schadeck said the period of relief operations to assist Paka victims on Rota had lapsed.

·"Despite this development," . Schadeck said, "Paka victims

who need Red Cross assistance after the closing date may cal] the ARC HELPLINE on Guam at (671) 477-0616. Collect call will be accepted."

She said approximately 232 families received disaster re­lief assistance from the Red Cross after Paka struck the island on Dec. 1-6.

Schadeck added that Red Cross assistance will continue to be available until all emer­gency disaster-related needs are met.

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was transmitted to the Senate on March 18 of this year, the political season had already begun. ·

"It was already late 10· be considering issues such as whether the law ought to pro­vide for primary elections. Review began, but it soon be-

came very clear that it was too close to election time to be passing a new election law. The Senate Leadership there­fore gave other matters prior­ity," Woodruff said.

Woodruff said the bill is 43 pages long and involves elec­tions, a critically important matter.

"It concerns something of great importance to every voter in the Commonwealth. The bill involves exercise of the most basic of all rights, the franchise."

For both practical and po­litical reasons, Woodruff said,

· election law changes need to be considered well ahead of the date for the next election.

Woodruff noted that the bi­cameral process ensures more thorough deliberation, careful reasoning, broader represen­tation of views, interests and

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perpectives in the legislative process, and consequently bet­ter legislation.

Obviously, he said, the bill required careful study based on its length, the complexity of the underlying issues and its fundamental importance.

"From a practical stand-

point, any new law needs to be implemented. Legislators need time to consider the pro­posed changes. Politically, re­view also has to be done well away from the election season so that deliberations (and de­cisions) will not be colored by political self-interest," Woo­druff explained.

He said the Commonwealth's election law needs to ensure free, fair, and efficient elections; without ad­vantage or disadvantage to any particular party, person or in­terest.

"The purpose must be to fa­cilitate and effectuate the democratic process, not to achieve political victory or defeat," Woodruff pointed out.

Woodruff anticipates that up­dating and revision of the Elec­tion Law will receive high prior­ity in the 11th Legislature.

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8-MARIANAS VARIEfY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-DECEMBER 31, I 'YJ7

This section, Afoond Ille lslafxls COVlllS communily stories, local evesrts, 800 culllral activities. Shoold fOU have a start you woukl li<e to share, or an event Iha! needs to be CO'«illld. coolact Laia at 234-6!41

Spring registration at·NMC begins soon MORE 1HAN l ,(XX) students are ex­pected tosignupforclassesatNorthem Marianas College next week when Spring Semester 1998 registration be­gins for on-going students, the College said in a news release,

'Weofferfreshmanandsophomore college fundamentals, career paths in teaching and nursing and course in computers, business, technical qades and adult education," Vice president for Support Services Jack Sablan said.

More than l 00 different courses will be offered this semester.

"We're as prepared as we can for registration," said Registrar Janice Tenorio, ''but it is a process that re-

quirescooperationoneveryone'spart." Registration for on-going students

will be held January 6-8 from 9 am to noon and 1-5 pm.

Registration fornew students will be held those same hours January 12-14.

"New students should contact the Office of Admissions and Records to learn about placement testing and aca­demic advising," Director of Student Services George Pangelinan said

Copies of the Spring Semester class schedule are available at the As Terlaje campus.

For more information,call the NMC Office of Admissions and Records at 234-5498, ext 1400'0 I •

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FAIRIE Songsong and Mi Sik ExcelJence and a $ I ,000 (Mindy) Jen were named the check, a news release from I 997 Employees of the Year DFS said. for DFS Saipan Limited. Fairie and Mindy were rec-

Marian Aldan-Pierce, Presi- · ognized their strong atten­dent, and June Oyakawa, HR · dance records and exceptional Director, presented the awards work attitudes as role model to Fairie and Mindy during for other DPS employees, the the annual DFS Christmas release said. party held last December 19 Fairie was selected from the at the Grand HoteL Sales category and Mindy was

Each Employee of the Year selected from the S.ales Sup-was awarded a Certificate of port category. Both were also

1997 Perfect Attendance awardees.

In addition, 13 employees were awarded with Perfect At­tendance.·

The I 997 awandees are: Cannen CepedaThiperval Olopai, Emilita Pascua, Felicitas Reyes, Andrea Sablan, Connie Averion, Arsenia Benavente, Margaret Matagolai, Rufina Guevarra, Marcelo Centeno, Alicia Duenas, . Fairie Songson, Mi Sik Jeon.

Nissan Motor's .top exec donates to Guam relief A GANA, Guam-Nissan Mo­tor Co., Ltd. Executive Vice­President Tetsuo Tabata will present $50,000 to the Ameri­can Red Cross, Guam Chapter in the presence of Governor Carl Guiterrez and the First Lady at Government House on Wednes­day, the company announced in a news release.

,;fabata is visiting Guam to discuss progress of the typhoon recovery work with Van Shelly, President and CEO of Nissan Guam and review ways to as­sist.

Because of the extensive dam­age to the island and the great need for relief, Tabata agreed that the contribution to the American Red Cross, Guam Chapter was. necessary to en-

hance its ability to assist Guam residents in need.

Tabata succeeded in restor­ing Nissan 'sslumped operations in the U.S. during.his tenure as President of Nissan North America ( 1993-1996) and made a considerable contribution to solidifying the position of Nissan as one of the Japanese Big 3 automakers in the U.S. market.

After returning to Corporate Headquaners in Tokyo as Execu­tive Managing Director in 1996, he was instrnmental in increasing Nissan's sales in Asia.

In June 1997, Tabata was pro­moted to Executive Vice-Presi. dent. · He currently is the Chief Ex­

ecutive in charge of all Nissan overseas operations.

Pohp.pei Assoc. on Saipan to hold New Year's party THE ONE Thousand Strong Pohnpei Association on Saipan will be hosting its annual New Year's Party this Sunday, Janu­ary 4th at Hopwood Jr. High School Beach.

The party will commence at I 0:0 am with children's sport­ing events, to be followed by youth and adult games.

Lots of prizes will be given out to athletes who excel in their individual sports, the Association said in a news re­lease.

A raffle will also be held to · determine the lucky winners of a free round trip ticket to Pohnpei, cash and many other prizes donated by businesses and concerned individuals.

All Pohnpeians are requested to attend this special occasion.

For more infonnation, please contact your village leaders: Joe Villazon at 288-1910, Alkantro Sarapio at 322-0422, Welson Saimon at 235-0352 or-Association President, Mr. Nick W. Benjamin.

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TIIE SOCIETY for Human Re­sources Management(SHRM) will be holding its first monthly membership meeting on January 8th, from 11 :30 a.m.-1 :00 p.m. at Giovanni's in the Hyatt.

Members and non-members are encouraged to attend. The cost for the luncheon is $15 for mem­bers, and $20 for non-members.

Interested persons may contact Cate Nunez at 322-620 I for more information.

SHRM is a nonprofit organiza­tion and is dedicated to assisting professional in Human Resource management to ensure sound HR practices in our community.

It affiliated with an International organization, and formed a CNMI chapter in November of '97.

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CPA 'adopts' m.edia policy By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

THE Commonwealth Ports Authority may yet "tighten its lips" to the media following controversies hounding the agency's financial condition.

This is apparently what Chairman Victor Hocog was trying to say when he stressed that m'edia men who would want to scout for stories at the CPA will 1:,e required to ask permission in writing first.

Hocog, apparently irked by the recent publication of the CPA's financial status, said media men will have to deal with the public information officer when looking for sto­ries.

"From now on, if any of the media would like to find story from the CPA, they have ·to pass through our PIO and they have to do that in writing," he said.

He added the media is not supposed. to use its "immu­nity" as a reason in bringing out ''one-sided" stories "if there is immunity."

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"Insufficient information re­ported makes an agency looks stupid," he said, contending that the CPA was not bank'­ru pt despite Comptroller David Demapan's disclosure that the agency has been suf­fering a shortfall of $200,000 a month.

During the CPA board meet­ing Monday, Hocog was irked when asked why he ."chickened out" during the previous meeting at the Saipan Seaport conference room.

don 'l chicken out. It was un­fortunate that in that situation I was sick. Even day to day we argue on the newspaper, you will not chicken me out and I'll guarantee you that. .. whatever I do, for better or for worse," Hocog told a lady reporter.

In an apparent argument during the meeting, the CPA

chief was also questioning the reliability of the source who leaked the information on the fin,mcial status of the agency and the con tracts submitted to CPA .

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It was also unfortunate, ac­cording to her, that some mem­bers of the CPA board could not even explain what a debt service is.

Hocog was asking media men to give CPA a positive report. When asked what he meant by positive report, he only said both sides must be presented

"I don't want you to use that word because I never chickened out, in everything I

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On campaign financial disclosures:

BOE bares late, non-filers By Gerr R. Cayabyab, Jr. Variety News Staff

OUT OF the 103 candidates who ran for public office in the Nov. 1 general elections, 49 either failed to submit their detoiled camp:iign financial. statements on time or failed to submit at all.

Of the 49 candidates, 16 candi­dates submitted their CFS past the deadline (Dec. 22) and the rest, 33 candidates, did not com­ply with the requirement as of yesterday.

The list of candidates who did not comply includes the follow­ing: Re-elected Reps. Melvin Lawrence 0. Faisao (R) and Ana S. Tercgcyo (R);

Congressional candidates Crispin I. Deleon Guerrero (R), Mariano M. Falig (R), Alejo M. Mendiola, Jr. (R), Luis M. Sablan (I), Pedro P. Castro (D), Christo­pher S. Tenorio (D), and Celeste S. Mendiola (D);

Mayor-Elect Jose C. Sablan (R­Saipan), Saipan mayoral candi­date Edward M. Deleon Guerrero (D), Rota Mayor Joseph S. Inos (D), Tinian mayoral candidate Henry DLG San Nicolas (R), Northern Islands mayoral candi-

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date Teodoro R. Romolor; Senatorial candidates Jovita M.

Taimanao (I),. Ramon M. Dela Cruz (I), Estanislao T. Torres (I), and Glenn H. Manglona (D);

Municipal council candi­dates Pedro T. Borja, Antonia. N. Manibusan, Bernardo .R. Cruz, Jesus M. Castro, Magdalena T. Sablan, Pedro T. Nakatsukasa, Jose P. Cruz, James T. Atalig, Fermina M. Atalig, Jose M. Rosario, Steve K. Mesngon and Alexander A. Apatang;

Board of Education candi­d.ates Daniel 0. Quitugua, Felix R. Nogis, and Florine M. Hofschneider.

Melvin Lawrence 0. Faisao

Among the 16 late filers of CFS are: re-electionists Sen. Edward U. Maratita (R), and Sen. Thomas P. Villagomez .(R), senatorial candidates Joaquin Q. Atalig (D), Herman M. Manglona (R), and Joaquin G. Adriano (R);

Congressional candidates Ignacio DLG Demapan (R),

· Joaquin M. Aguon (D), Pedro I. Sablan (D), Rep.-Elect Herman T. Palacios (R), re­elected Rep: Manuel A. Tenorio (R);

Rota Mayor-Elect Benjamin T. Manglona (R); gubernatorial can­didate Jesus C. Borja (I), It. gu­bernatorial candidate Benigno M.

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Sablan (I), Board of Education candidate Thomas J. Camacho, and muni~ipal council candidates Michael M. Ogo and Henry F. San Nicolas.

The Board of Elections said candidates are required by law to submit a detailed financial state­ment to the board within 50 days after the election, showing the names of supporters, contribu­tions over $100 and a detailed

statement of campaign spending. "Any candidate violating the

law shall, upon conviction be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for no more than 60 days," Elec­tions Executive Director Juan Diaz said.

Diaz said the names of candi­dates who did not submit their CFS will be forwarded to the At­torney General's Office for ap­propriate action.

PWDs make·up 5'% of CNMI population

By Gerr R. Cayabyab, Jr. Variety News Staff

THE CNMI COMMERCE Department's Census and Sta­tistics Division indicated that in 1995, an estimated 1.8 percent of the total Coinmonwealth's. population have severe disabil­ity.

However, the total percent­age of persons with disability (PWD's) is placed at5 percent.

GDDC Executive Director Thomas J. Camacho yesterday said the 1 995 census, close to 60,000 CNMI population, in­clude guest workers from vari­ous parts of the globe.

The 1995 population census indicates that Filipinos have the largest population, with Chamorros ranked second place.

"Filipinos, 32.8 percent; Chamorro, 28.4 percent; Caro­linians, 25.2 percent; Chinese, 11.9 percent; Micronesians, 8.5 percent; Caucasian, 3.6 percent; Japanese, 1.9 percent; and all

others including Korean, 7.7 percent," Camacho elaborated.

He said the total number of persons with. disabilities in the CNMI have been included in the U.S. Census Bureau reports

· between Octooer 1994 and January 1995.

It indicated that there are ap­proximately 54 million Ameri­cans with disability, Camacho said.

Of that number, Camacho said, 26 million were described to have severe disability.

"Severe disability refers to PWD's suffering from either chronic illness, mental retarda­tion or major injuries on any part of the body like the spinal cord or head," Camacho said.

Camacho noted· th11t the data collected three years earlier than 1995 showed nearly 49 million people with disabHity, in which 24 million of whom said their disability was severe.

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A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Busine$S Administration, Finance, or related field with at least two . years progressively responsible experience in a workers' compensation program or a combination of a high school diploma with at least five (5) years of experience in a workers' compensation program. The beginning salary range is at Pay Level 31/1 to 31/5, depending on qualifications and experience.

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Int'l group that monitors Pacific: •

More needed to fight corruption By Aldwin R. Fajardo

Variety News Staff·

STA TES in the Pacific Islands will need extra effort to fight graft and corruption in the

government, according to an international group.

Transparency International said there appears to be a widening of a rash of moves in the Pacific

island states directed against just and honest government.

The group, an anti-corruption advocate based in Berlin, has national chapters in over 70

Saipan & Northern Islands District wins National Conservation award SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., - The Saipan & Northern Islands was recently honored as one of only 57 districts from nearly 3,000 nationwide to be named a Grand Award District in the 50th Annual Conservation A wards Program.

Sponsored by the National Association of Conservation Districts and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, the nationally recognized pro­gram encourages conservation districts to protect and con­serve soil, water, forests, wild­Ii fe and other natural re­sources.

As they have for the past five decades, officials from Goodyear, N ACD, the Depart­ment of Agriculture and rep­resentatives of 57 conserva­tion districts met last week to share their experiences and the latest developments in conser­vation practices.

Patrick Calvo of Saipan, Pa­cific Basin, represented the Saipan & North Islands at the awards program Dec. 11-14 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Winning dis­tricts were selected based on their success in developing and implementing an annual plan for delivering district programs and services.

"Th.is designation is quite an honor for members of the Saipan & North Islands be­cause less than two percent of the districts nationwide re-

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ceive a Grand Award," accord­.ing to Tom Ford, marketing director for Goodyear's farm and off-the-highway tires.

"The conservation districts' work is vitally important to protecting our nation's natu­ral resources and ensuring their viability for future gen­erations."

The alliance between Goodyear and NACD grew out of a national catastrophe in 1947 as the nation, and farm­ers in particular, coped with the Dust Bowl's devastating aftereffects.

Today, the Conservation Awards Program is the cor­nerstone of NACD's continu 0

ing efforts to guide local con­servation districts and develop more effective programs that help land managers solve con­servation problems.

"NACD takes great pride in recognizing these award-win-

ning districts because their work is proof that significant strides are being made in the conservation and development of natural resources," said Ernie Shea, NACD's chief executive officer.

The Goodyear Tire & Rub­ber Company is one of the world's leading manufactur­ers of tire and rubber prod­ucts. Sales in 1996 were more than $13 billion and the com­pany manufactures products in plants in the United States and 27 other countries.

The company is a global sup­plier of farm tires as original equipment to a·number of trac­tor and implement manufac­turers and offers a wide range of replacement tires to meet the needs of farmers.

NACD, founded in 1946, is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization representing nearly 3,000 local soil and water conservation districts and their state associates in the 50 states, Guam, the North­ern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

It is financed and controlled by its member districts and state associations.

The primary function of NACD is to serve the member districts as one voice, utiliz­Jng the force of local ini tia­tive and self-government, in tJ:i._e conservation and develop­ment of natural resources.

countries throughout the world and is the leading global

·movement for just and honest government.

It noted the latest attacks on the office of the Ombudsman in Vanuatu as among the moves made against honest governments.

In Western Samoa, the organi­•zation said, the Constitution was changed simply to remove the auditor-general.

Transparency managing direc­tor Jeremy Pope, of New Zealand, claimed the change enabled the legislature to dismiss the auditor­general "for doing no more than his job."

The group said it has been campaigning for honest and

independent watchdog insti­tutions throughout the world as a key element of any system that hopes to be effective in con­troJJing corruption.

Pope said actions such as those instigated against the office of the Ombudsman in vanuatu lend sup­port for the viev.:s that the region is suffering from a rash of incom­petent and often corrupt adminis­tration.

He said it "was not a coinci­dence" that there were no national chapters. for the organization m the small island states of the Pacific.

"We would like to help, but only those who recognize that they need assistance are ca­pable of receiving it," he said.

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Ebola vaccine slows prom.ise By Malcolm Ritter NEW YORK (AP)-Guinea pigs that were injected with genes from the Ebola virus gained protection against infection, a possible step to­ward creating an Ebola vaccine for people.

The injections protected nearly all the animals, a better result than swn­dard vaccine approaches have achieved against Ebola in animal stud­ies.

No vaccine or specific treatment exisL, now for Ebola hemon-hagic fever, which kills its victims 50 pers cent to 90 percent of the ti me.

Outbreaks occur in Africa, includ­ing one tliat ki lied 45 people between July I 996 and lastJm1umy in Gabon. A 1995 outbreak in Zai11.! claimed 245 lives.

Often, vaccine appmaches involve injecting a perwn with dead gem1s, or live but weakened germs, or an

innocuous virns that resembles the one doctors m1.! trying to inoculate against.

The idea of injecting DNA ,L, a vaccine has recent! y caught onan10ng scientisl~. who are testing it against several diseases.

As with standard vaccines, the goal is to make the body's im­mune system build specific de­fenses by showing it what the targeted germ looks like.

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WHEN YOUR child has a runny nose and a fever, is it the "flu", a cold, or something more serious, like a sinus infection? How can you tell? What can you do?

The "common cold" IS common. Real common. The average child has some 5~6 colds every year. Each one lasts a week. That's 30-10 days, each and every year. A lot of Kleenex.

What causes colds? Viruses. Viruses, that nasty word doctors use when they are trying to say, "You have a disease and we don't have a treatment.. .. " In fact there isn't just one cold virus, there are lots. Enough so we can keep getting new ones year after year after year. Not a pleasant thought.

Most colds begin with a runny nos.e and a cough, usually at night when a child lies down and the mucous runs down the back of the throat.

The mucous can be waterclear, or cloudy, or even yellow. The old wife's belief that you can tell if it is a cold or something else by the color of the mucous is not true. Darn.

Many colds are accompanied by a low fever and a headache, both fairly easy to help with mild non-prescription medicines, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol and Tempra are some common brand names). Keep in mind that a fever is one of the body's weapons to help fight virus infections, like the cold virus.

By getting rid of the fever, you may feel a bit better, but you may actually make the infection last longer.

So when should you worry? • Colds that last longer than a week or JO days are more likely

to be something else, like a sinus infection or allergies. •Colds don't usually occur in children Jess than 5 months of

age (especially if they are breast fed). A cold in a young infant should be seen by a doctor.

• Colds can go int·o ear or sinus infections, so an earache or bad headache may also be signs you should look for.

• While children with colds often have a cough, it is usually at night and not all that bad. If your child has a bad cough, especially if it is in the daytime or accompanied by fast breath­ing or a high fever, he should be seen to be sure this is not some more serious problem, like pneumonia or asthma.

• The final "warning sign" is to use your common sense. If your child seems "too sick" or if you arc worried, that is a good reason to have your child checked. ·

There are a number of so-called "Cold Medicines" available to treat the runny nose and cough. These medications have a number of ingredients which are supposed to relieve these symptoms.

The "decongestant" shrinks the membranes lining the nose and tries to "open up" the nasal passages. They don't he! p much, and they make many children feel "wired" or hyper.

The antihistamine ingredients are actually allergy medicines included to dry up or thicken the mucous. They also make many persons sleepy, and are some ti mes used to counteract the "hyper" side effects of the decongestants.

Cough medications rarely help in children, and again may work against one of the body's defenses, the cough, Which tries to eliminate tlle virus by blowing it away. Far away.

So if these "remedies" all fail, what can a parent do? Well, they could ask my great-aunt Teena. Teena had a treat­

ment for everything, including colds. Garlic. Teena wou.ld be pleased to read in my medical journal today that some scientists in Israel have identified an ingredient in garlic, allicin, which actually docs treat some infections (not including the cold virus, sorry).

I remember when Teena came to visit me in Hawaii, and caught acol<l. As a new doctor I tried to counsel her, "Teena.just wait it out. You will be fine in a week." But no, Teena had her own ideas.

For the next day my house reeked as she brewed her garlic soup (a p1etty simple recipe-water, lots of garlic, and boil it all day). Then she drank it. An<l sure enough, she was fine a week later.

My mother had a more pleasant alternative, one used by generatious of grandmothers - chicken soup. Intensifying, both Mom and Teena had something in common.

Warm steam from the soup Warm steam has long been known to help the body eliminate the cold virus by thinning the mucous in the nose. So maybe you

need to inhale when you are drinking these soups? Easier with the chicken soup, believe me!

These two "cures" also provided lots of liquids to the sick person, another well known help in fighting a cold.

And they also had a final special similarity. They were both taught by loving and caring adults who really wanted to help Teena and my mother feel better.

So there you have it. Warmed steam. Lots of liquids. TLC (Tender Loving Care). And a week.

Dr. William L. Flood, a pediatrician with Saipan Health Clinic will be doing rhis healrh column to bring more public awareness about common disease and other health-related issues. -Ed.

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In the Marshall Islands

'Snail mail' to get US wings By Giff·Johnson For the Variety

MAJURO-The U.S. Postal Service said last week that "significant progress has been made towards increasing the mail lift into and out of Majuro.".

Since Air Marshall Islands cancelled its Honolulu­Majuro jet service more than 18 months ago, mail delivery to the Marsh alls capita! has been fitful].

During peak summer and Christmas travel months, out­bound mail has often been de­layed for weeks at a time, lan­guishing in the Majuro post office for lack of space on the three weekly Continental Micronesia flights.

In October, the U.S. Postal Service advertised for air car­riers to submit bids for dedi­cated mail service to Majuro, and is negot'iating with U.S. Army officials who operate a missile test range at Kwajalein Atoll for increased use of mili­tary transport flights to de­liver mail into Majuro.

Missing men found dead

PORT MORESBY (Pacnews)-The two men who have been missing in the waters of Papua New Guinea's Western province since Fri­day have been found dead.

The two men went missing in Karamia river near the Fly River after they went for a swim, NBC reports.

Marine and Search Rescue officials say the bodies were found by their company SGS company's search party Sat­urday.,

The bodies have been flown to Port Moresby for burial.

30USpeace co.rps volunteers are in Kiribati TARA WA (Pacnews)-A new group of30 United States Peace Corp volunteers.has ar­rived in Kiribati for different assignments.

The peace corp members are now undergoing an intensive cultural program on the island of Aranuka in Central Kiribati, Radio Kiribati reports.

Under the program, each member is living with a Kiribati family and learning local customs, skills and lan­guages.

After four weeks on the is­land they will return to the capital Tarawa where they will be signed their different tasks.

The government reports that most of the peace corps. wi II be involved in four newly up­graded junior secondary schools in the country.

At a meeting in Washing­ton, D.C. earlier this month, the Department of Interior in­dicated that funding for in­creased "guaranteed mail lift" may be available, Leo B_ Tudela, the senior executive advisor in the USPS's Inter­national Business Unit, said last week.

Tudela and the USPS Hono­lulu transportation manager met with officials from the departments of Defense, Inte­rior and .State in Washington, D.C. to discuss possible solu­tions to the critical mail bottle­neck affecting .delivery to and from Majuro.

''At that meeting we wi:;re pleased to learn that based upon the dollar amount the USPS is projecting for guar­anteed mail lift, the Depart­ment of Interior indicated funding may be avaialble," Tudela said.

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Increased funding for gov­ernment programs "is very difficult under the current bud­get constraints of the U.S. Congress," he added. Inte­rior, however, worked very hard to "find funding not origi­nally in the current year's bud­get" for improving the mail delivery to Majuro, Tudela said.

He pointed out that the USPS receives its reimbursement from the U.S. Interior Depart­ment under the Compact of Free Association, a treaty which governs relations be­tween the U.S. and the Marshall Islands.

The. Marshall Islands post office. is independent of the U.S. system, but follows the same postage rates as the U.S. and utilizes a U.S. zip code.

Although Continental Micronesia is the only carrier servicing Majuro from Hawaii

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and Guam, it does not have a mail contract with the post office, so mail does not get priority space on its three weekly flights into the islands.

During the June-August summer months this year, let­ters mailed from Hawaii in some cases took six-to-eight weeks for delivery when nor­mally they would arrive in a matter of three or four days. On Monday this week, Conti-

nental operated a special freight-only flight ca

The USPS received a num­ber of airline bids in response to its October request to pro­vide guaranteed mail delivery service to Majuro. "Our pro­curement office in Washing­ton, D.C. is reviewing the·so­licitations which were re­ceived," Tudela said.

The USPS, however, is sev­eral months away from award­ing a contract, he said. "In addition, the U.S. Postal Ser­vice continues to work with the Department of Defense in further seeking an interagency solution with an increased dependence on military airc

In the meantime, Tudela said staff at the Honolulu USPS facility continue to "monitor the flow of mail into and out of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to minimize back­iogs."

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3 die in Fiji from dengue SUVA (Pacnews)-Fiji 's Min­istry of Health has warned of a major dengue fever outbreak.

The warning comes after the disease claimed three lives in the Suva this week and many others are being admitted to hospital, Radio Fiji reports.

A ministry statement says in the last 11 days 31 clinically sus­pected cases of dengue have been reported at the Colonial War Me­morial Hospital in Suva. In addi-

tion, three to four new cases are reported everyday.

The director of Primary and Pre­ventive Health Care, Doctor Asinate Boladuadua, says the three deaths are suspected to be due to dengue haem0Ii1agea fever.

Dr Boladuadua has urged people to destroy all mosquito breeding grounds, use mosquitorepellants and wear protective clothes to guards themselves against the mosquito borne disease.

NOTICE OF MEETING FOURTH SAIPAN AND NORTHERN ISLANDS

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL Pursuant to Public Law No. 8-41,

a notice is her_eby given that a meeting of the Fourth Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council will be held on December 31 , 1997, at the Conference room of the Municipal Council at Chalan Kanoa, at 10:00 a.m.

Solomons PM refutes reports he nixes Bougainville independence HONIARA (Pacnews)­Solomon Islands Prime Min­ister Bartholomew Ulufa 'alu has described as "grossly mis­leading" media reports quot­ing him as saying that "he did not favour independence for Bougainville".

He is alleged to have made the comment during last week's visit to Bougainville island with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Bill Skate as part of peace efforts for Bougainville.

"During my entire three-day visit to Bougainville never did I raise the issue of indepen­dence for the island. Instead I called for reconciliation be­tween the warring parties to ensure peace returns ·to Bougainville", he said in a statement.

Ulufa 'alu was quoted as say-

ing during a speech in Bougainville that he hoped PNG and his country would one day. merge to form one nation. And that unity in the Melanesian region would be more productive rhan the cre­ation of more small nations.

The Bougainville Freedom Movement (BFM) in Austra­lia described the remarks as "outrageous".

Spokesman for the BFM in Sydney Vikki John called the statement a political stunt to entrap or deny the people of Bougainville their rights for self-determination.

John (Ms) also said the an­nouncement by PNG's prime minister to provide $Aus6 million ($US3.9 million) to Solomon Islands was an en­couragement for Ulufa' alu to make "such an outrageous

statement". But Ulufa'alu said calling

the money an encouragement for him to say such "outra­geous" statement is being insentive to the cordial bilat­eral relationship and Melanesian brotherhood that exists between the countries and the people of PNG and Solomon Islands.

He said such misleading and mis.interpreted statements are not going to help the peace process currently gaining mo­mentum among the leaders and people of Bougainville.

The Solomons Prime Minis­ter reiterated that the com­bined Christmas visit was a success and his participation was sanctioned by his cabinet and whatever statements made during the trip had the full backing of the government.

Skate: More sackings com.ing PORT MORESBY (Pacnews)-Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Bill Skate, says more sackings are expected in the new year as a move to fight corruption and restore efficiency in the gov­ernment ranks and the defence force.

Skate was speaking at a meeting with members of the PNG security forces and the local business community on Bougainville, NBC reports.

Skate told members of the military there were problems in the military bureacracy that needed to be sorted out.

He said upon his return to Port Moresby he would be roll­ing heads in his capacity as head of the defense force, be­cause there were too many people in the force who were only interested in themselves and not their country.

Skate adviced such people to get a new job or face sacking.

Tonga to have more development projects NUKU'ALOFA (Pacnews)-Tonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV says Tonga will embark on a number of major develppment projects during 1998.

He revealed in his Christmas and New Year message that the projects in'clude improvements to roads and airport runways on Tongatapu and Vava'u islands, Radio Tonga reports.

King Tupou says the Lupepau 'u .international air­port at Vava 'u will be up-

graded to accommodate more flights to neighbouring countries.

At present Lupepau 'u ca­ters for flights to .and from Nadi and Apia.

The king says under the new proposals flights from Vava'u to Ouvea island in New Caledonia via Samoa is being explored.

For this route Neiafu will be the starting point for French air

. services to New Caledonia, Australia, France and Japan.

Fiji on 'alert' for bird flu SUV A (Pacnews)-The bird- · flu which has killed four people in Hong Kong has forced Fiji's health ministry to monitor the disease tn

preparation to combat it. The virus believed to be

spread through direct contact with chickens, has had hun­dreds of people queuing at hospitals in Hong Kong who fear they may have contracted the bird-flu, Radio Fiji reports.

The health ministry's Doc­tor Lcpani Waqataircwa says there is a good possibility that

the disease can spread to Fiji although they do not import chickens from Hong Kong.

He says another possibility that the ministry is looking at is the threat of Hong Kong tourists bringing the disease into Fiji.

Doctor Waqatairewa says they arc waiting for the World Health Organisation to issue an official warning before in­siructing the immigration de­partment to monitor Hong Kong tourists coming into Fiji.

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Passengers recount United Flight 826:

'Plane just dipped in fall'

Wrapped in blanket, the body of Konomi Kataura, who died of internal bleeding in her head, is carried into a vehicle while leaving a Nari/a hospital Monday_ Kataura was one of 374 passengers of a Hawaii­bound United Airlines jumbo jet which plummeted 1,000 feet without warning by sudden turbulence over the Pacific. AP

By YURI KAGEY AMA NARITA, Japan (AP) - Hiroaki Hanai had finished his dinner and wa,abouttodoze off when the Hono­lulu-bound jumbo jetsuddenly shook for a few minutes, then plunged like a broken elevator.

Hanai was tossed from his seat and slammed into the aisle. His 70-year­old mother t:Iied to reach toward her husband but was hurled off her seat and banged her head on the ceiling.

"It was as though the plane dipped in a free fall beneath us, leaving our bodies behind," said Hanai, 38, one of the many vacation-bound Japa­nese on United Airlines Flight_826, canying 37 4 passengers and 19 crew members.

Screams and sounds of shatte1ing glass filled the cabin of the Boeing 747 after it hit rough air, lurched, ratµed, then plummeted 300 meters (I ,COO feet) late Sunday. ltwasforced

. to tum back to Narita airpo1t, 65 kilometers ( 40 miles) northeast of Tokyo, em·ly Monday.

Konomi Kataura, a 32-year old married employee of a Tokyo-based household gocx:ls sales company, died of internal bleeding in her head, air­port police said. Most of the mme thlli1 I 00 people who were hurt suf­fered head orneck in juries, they added.

A total of I 05 passengers sustained in ju Ii cs - three mo1e than had been repo1ted eai-Iier- including eight who were seriously injured, the Asahi newspaper said Tuesday. One Ameri­can crew member from Hawaii w,t~ also seriously inju1ed. United Air­lines officials in Tokyo were unavail­able for comment e:.u·ly Tuesday morning.

At le,t,t three people remained hos­pitalized late Monday, but hospital officials would not 1~lea-;e their con­ditions.

Tnc plane left N:.uita about 9:00 p.m. Sunday night with 374passen-

gers and I 9 crew aboard for what is normally a 6 1/2-hour flight. It new into rough turbulence about two hours later, while at cruising altitude over the Pacific Ocean, 1,800 kilometers ( 1, I 00 miles) east of Narita.

Most of the passengers had fin­ished their meals of grilled salmon or breast of chicken, but some still had drinks. The seat-belt sign was off, they said, and some people were wandering around the aisles.

United spokeswoman KristinaPtice said the fasten seatbelts sign went on less than a minute before the turbu­lence hit. Announcements were also made in English and Japanese alerting passengers to buckle up, she said.

In response to the conflicting in­formationaboutwhethertheseat-belt light was on oroff, Matthew Furman, a spokesman for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said: "Weneedtointerviewtheflightcrew first before we '11 have any definite answers ... for now it's just rnmor-s."

. Those interviews were not yet scheduled, but "we've made a re­quest to United Airiines and we're certain that they '11 honor it," Furman said.

In av ideotape taken by a passenger aboard and shown on Japan's NHK television, oxygen masks swayed from the ceiling and people lay in ,m aisle. Screams could be heard.

"Suddenly the pltme dropped i.llld people we1e jumping and falling, and things came flying at me - like juice cans, focx:1," said Chieko Ejiii, a 28-year-oldclothingcompanyemployee, who was on her way to a vacation with her boyfriend.

Ejiri saw one woman, who had just walked out of the restroom, flung against a seat.

"When she got up, there was blocx:I on her shirt," Ejiii said at the hotel where the airline took the pa,sengcr-s to wait for another flight. "I saw

people with bleeding bandages on theirheadsandsomeonewithhis,urn in a sling. And one person wa, c1ying out in pain that his ribs hmt."

Ejiri escaped unscathed. Another passenger, who wa, trav­

eling to a family wedding in Hawaii, said her son-in-law bruised his aim and suffered a nose-bleed after his face smashed into the ceiling.

The Nation,tl TranspoI1ati;n Safety Board said the Ilight recorders were on the way to iLs office in W,l,hing­ton, D.C., for mi investigation.

The fall was over in a flash. When the pl,me finally settled down, pas­sengers saw that the ceiling was sprayed with red wine, ,md broken plates lay scatte1ed in some p:uts of the aisle.

The bottles of cologne in the restrooms were broken. 'l11e over­head luggage comp,utmenL, we1e cracked in some spots. And the oxy­gen masks had popped out :md we1e d,mgling from above.

school student from Osaka who had been headed for a srnfing vacation in Hawaii. ··oncer decided I W,l, going to die, I kept my eyes closed ai;d s,~ there breaking out in a cold sweat."

His seat beltsavedhim from inju1y, although he felt his body floating from his scat during the descent.

Turbulence causes ,m average of 58 inju1iesaycarin tl1e United States ,md has killed two other people since 1981, said U.S. Federal Aviation

Administrntionspokeswomw1Alison Duquette.

Mm1y such injuries can be pre­vented if people keep their seat belts fw;tened, Duquette said in a telephone interview.

··Jfelt, 'Sothisiswhataplanc.crash feels like,'" said Yoko Hanai, who W,ls aboard with her husband, son I Iiroaki, daughter-in-law ,md two gr,mdchildren, for a wccklong vaca­tion urning New Year's.

l11ose seated toward the back of the plane were mote se1iously injmed than those in the front seats.

"I thought I was dying," said Kiyotaka Eto, a 16-year-old high

Air bags and passengers' belongings are scattered on the isle of United Airlines Boeing 7 4 7 after the jumbo jet hit heavy turbulence sending passengers and flight attendants into overhead luggage comparlments and the ceiling. AP

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Thailand aims to meet I MF terms But Cabinet member says it hopes for better deal BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A

Cabinet member said Monday tliat ll1ail,md will meet its obligations umkr a $17.2 billion dolhu- 1escue package from tl1c International Mon­ct,ll'y Fund. cl:uifying caution,uy re-111,u-ks made by P1i111c MinisterChu,m Lcekpai.

Prime Minister"s Oflice Minister Abhisit Vcijajiva s,tid, however, that :u1 c:asi11g or h,u,h fiscal tcnns might he workcdoutjointl y i11 lightofchw1g­irig rnnditions.

Chu,m, quoted in the newspaper B,u1gkokPostovcrtheweekend,said that despite deep cuts in phmncd spending for tl1e fiscal ye:u· ending September 19!.J~. it would be virtu­ally impossible to balmiccthc budget, much less to meet the IMF's 1cqui1c­ment for a su1plus cquivaknt to I

percent of grnss domestic product. "What tl1c government ,md the

prime minister have indicated is that there is a continuous need for a rea~­sessmcnt of the situation witl1 the Fund," Abhisit told Dow Jones news service. "Obviously there have been changes in external factol'S, and the deflationruy effects of the program have been stronger than expected ...

Abhisitemphasized,howevcr, that "there is no question of tl1c 1l1ai government renegotiating tem1s or asking the IMF to c,L'iC conditions. We are going to continue to impk­ment the progr;_U11 ,Ls agreed."

Chuan was reported to haw criti­ciz.cd the previous government for failing to reveal the seriousness of the situation. "The most shocking thi.ng is about the rc:v­enue," the prime minister was quoted as saying.

Tax collections have nose-dived as a contraction in ccono111ic growth has taken huge chunks out of corporate and personal earn­ings.

Chuan 's comments indicate that

A Thai couple, former finance company employees, sell off their used clothes, shoes and other household appliances to make cash in Bangkok Saturday. There was a mass-layoff/ after the Thai govern­ment ordered a permanent closure onto 56 insolent finance companies on Dec. 8. AP

revenue will fa! I short or planned budget expenditures of 800 bil­lion baht ($16.8 billion), despite three rounds of cuts by the previ­ous administration totaling l 82 billion baht ($3.8 billion). "If there needs to be adjustment to suit the situation that will be what the Fund and the government have to work out together," Abhisit said. "This is something the fund has agreed to do:"

Chuan warnd th1.: public that a tax inrn:,L'iC might be 1c4uircd to keep the counuy 's finances in line with !Mf provisions, but said he would announce the politically sensi­tive move in advance ,m<l lly to pm­tcct low-income groups from it~ ef­fects.

Abhisit said government cffor1S to comply with the fiscal te1ms of tl1e IMF program focusc<l on cost cut­ting, rather th,m hudget cutting.

Amid currency crisis, Thai banks double profits on forex trading BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)

- Who's making money from Thailand's currency crisis? The foreign exchange departments of Thai banks, which recorded a doubling of profits on exchange transactions, according to sta­tistics released Monday.

Through the first nine months of 1997, Thailand's 15 com­mercial banks recorded a com­bined profit of l 6.74bi1Jion baht ($ 372 million) compared with

smaller. Timiland floated the baht for the first time in 13 years on July 2, and it has since lost more than 45 percent of its value.

At the rate used last ye.:r of 25 baht to the dollar, 7.99 billion baht equaled$ 319 million, but at today's rate it is about $ I 77.5 million. ·

But Thai banks still came away with a$ 53 million increase over the previous year.

Some 111ai politicians and bank-

dollar. The only one of the 15 Thai

banks to lose money on foreign exchange trading was the small­est, Lacm Thong Bank.

Thai banks in general, how­ever, are facing a liquidity crunch, as many have taken · loans.in foreign currencies am! also are saddled with bad debts from overextended Thai busi­nesses.

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Vice President Lien Chan, second from left with glasses, jogs with others along a Taipei street to mark Christmas Day. Lien, a golfer, made his first attempt at jogging to gain popular support after the long entrenched Nationalists lost in the November local elections to the opposition Democratic Progressive Party. AP

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China. to stop buying. blood· . .

BEUING (AP)-Aimingtomake its blood supply safer, China will rely entirely on voluntary donations next year and stop buying from profes­sional sellers, who often are in­fected with hepatitis B.

The legislature passed a law Monday to outlaw sales by blood sellers, the source of half of

China's blood supply, as of Oct 1, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

A survey by the Ministry of Public Health showed 30 percent to 90 percent of the blood pro­vided by professional sellers tests positive for hepatitis B, Xinhua said. ·

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After political setback

Taiwan's Nationalists try a folksy approach

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -Taiwan­ese leaders are at their folksiest these days.

President Lee Teng-hui shrugged off public criticizm with a rare sense of humor. Vice President Lien Chan put down his golf clubs to jog, and Premier VincentSiew grabbed McDonald ham­burgers while 011 the road.

Such gestures have followed local elections in November that trounced the long-entrenched Nationalists for the first time since opposition parties were legalized a decade ago.

On Chrismas Day, scores of right­ists burned Lee's effigy outside the Presidential Office for what they saw as his pro-Japan remarks. Lee re­cently accused rival Beijing of fan­ning anti-Japan sentiment on the mainland to stir up nationalism.

Instead of getting angry, a smil­ing Lee told visitors at his office," Everyone in Taiwan can now curse me anytime they want to."

Lee, in office since 1988, won a landslide victory in March 1996 in Taiwan's first direct presidential election, an event that highlighted his transformation of Taiwan into a de­mocracy.

But he has come under increasing criticism for failing to aggressively at­tack conuption and incompetence in government. A recent Gallup Poll

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showed Lee's approval rating at 36 percent," down from more than 70 per­cent in 1996.

Lien, the vice president, marked Christmas by putting on a sports jacket . and jogging 4.2 kilometers (2.5 miles) along a Taipei street. It took Iii m 41 minutes, while his companion and frequent jogger, former Justice Min­ister Ma Ying-jeou, finished in 17 minutes.

An embarassed Lien said he had learned from his first jogging ef­fort.

"It's like building a career_ you cannot stagger off the line or start so fast you can't keep going," he told

reporters. Most Taiwanese leaders play golf on

holidays, but are criticiz.cd for engag­ing in an expensive pa,ttime and losing touch with the grass roots.

Premier Vincent Siew has been trav -cling around the island more fre­quently to visit homes for the eld­erly, farms and public projects. He's taken to stopping his limousine at McDonald'sforahamburger,arare gesture for an official more accus­tomed to fonnal Chinese banquets than Western fast food. · Sie.w has vowed to shake up the

Cabinet to replace ministers "who are more concerned about their public image than their public du: ties." The officials to be replaced have not been identified. The leaders may want to catch up with Taipei Mayor Chen Shui-bian of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, who has won respect for a clean and efficient administration.

Chen, expected to be his party's presidential candidate in 2000, sought to appeal to youths by mas­querading as Peter Pan and Santa Claus during the holidays.

Embattled in domestic politics, the Nationalists als

0 suffer dwindling public sup­port fortheirzealous efforts lo break Taiwan's diplomatic limbo.

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South Korea to test all Chinese pottltry imports SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -

South Korea's government said Monday it was testing all poultry irnpomxl from 01ina for possible bird flu conraminacion.

The Minisl!y of Agriculture and Forestrv has collected several samples fmm every poull!y con­tainer from China :md tested them. So far no evidence of contamina­tion has teen found, it said.

The ministry started such testing IO days ago, after media reported that the disease might have con­taminated poultry not only in Hong Kong but also in China

Korea does not import poul­try" from Hong Kong, where there have been 12 confirmed cases of humans contracting the disease, previously found only in birds.

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tons of chickens and ducks, mostly from China, in the first 11 months of tl1e year.

It plans to continue the testing until Chinaofficiallyconfumsthatnoneof its poultry exports has been contami-

nated by the disease. On Sunday, the Hong Kong

government rumounced it would slaughter all 1.2 maillion chickens in tl1e tenitory in a move to prevent tl1e spread of the flu.

A chicken peers from a cage at a poultry wholesale market in Hong· Kong. The chicken flu disease in Hong Kong has prompted South Korea to test its poultry imports_ froin China. AP

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Dollar crisis in S. Korea threatens wine imports W ASHINGTON(AP)-AsSouth Korea sorts out its shortage of dollars, one casualty could be its booming import of American wines.

'"The future looks bright," Phillip Shull chief of the Acri culture Trade Offic~oftl1c U.S. E;b:L~sy in Seoul, said immm1icle written for Arnciicm1 vintners before tl1eSouth Korcm1cri­sis broke.

··Korem1 winei mpor1s me expected to grow at double-digit rates through at least the year 2000.'' ·

TI1e mticle appears in the Decem­ber edition of"AgExpor1er," a maga­zine publishe<l by tl1e Agiicultrne Depmtment's Foreign Agricultural Servioe.

But South Korean government ef­for1s toconserveuollm-s and prospec­tive declines in income for prosper­ing South Koreans are posing tlueats to tl1e trade.

A bottle of U.S. wine selling for$ 10 in the United States already was fetching tl1e equivalent of $ 22 in Riot policemen stands guard to

keep an eye out for the South Korean bank union menbers on protest at the Shin Han Bank in Seoul Monday. Unioo Members protested the government's plan to make /ayoff_s easier under $57 billion IMF bailout. AP

discount stores,$ 46 in supennarkets and $ 64 in a hotel restaurant, Shull said.

He attributed tl1e high cost to taxes, import duties and distribution costs.

In recent months the value of South Korea's currency, tl1e won, in U.S. dollm-s has been cut in half-which would tend to double local prioes.

French and Gennan wines were more popular than American wines in South Korea last year. ·

But Arnericm1 wines were moving al1ead as total Kon:m1 wine imports mrne than doubled between 1993 and 1996,from$5.9rnillionto$16.4 million.

By last June, U.S. expo11S alone were already worth more than $ 13 million, Shull said.

The American share oftl1e market has been increasing by more than half every yeru·. Shull predicted tl1at by the tum of the century, one of every four dollru-s that South Korcm1s spent on wine would go to the United States.

Korea's own small wine produc­tion could not compete, he reported, m1d muchoftl1e wine locally labeled m1d bottled w,L, actually impor1ed in bulk.

South Korean gowmmcnt 1egula­tions require that a health w,uning and aqum1tityol"dctailcd inlo1mation be included on the label in the Krncm1 hmguage.

Shull notc<l tl1atrecenlrepo1tsabout the beneficial effccL~ foroldcrpeople of drinking red wine have helped ,st1cngtl1en sales.

France traditionally has dominated 80 percent of the South Korean mar­ket, but by last year the American shruc reached IO peroent.

Shull said medium-and high-qual­ity red California wines were being favored.

He quoted one importer as saying that U.S. impo11S could be up by as much as 30 percent this year.

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Gov't officials warned in S. Korea:

'Don't destroy docum.ents' By SANG-HUN CHOE

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The prosecution warned Monday that it will punish government officials involved in destroying sensitive documents that could link them to illegal activities.

"Destruction of documents to hide alleged wrongdoing is an anti-state behavior which should be sternly <lea! t with," senior pros­ecutor Park Sun-yang told rep·ort­ers.

The prosecution warning came after President-elect Kim Dae­jung 's party charged that destruc­tion of sensitive documents was widespread at police, intelligence and other government agencies.

Local media quoted an aide to Kirn as saying he had received a tip that the main government ,py agency, the Agency for National Security Planning, has illegally destroyed a truckload of sensitive documents in violation of gov­ernment archives regulations.

The destruction is an effort by officials to eliminate evidence of any wrongdoing, thus evading re­sponsibility when the new gov­ernment is inaugurated in Febru­ary, the aide was further quoted as saying.

Kim, running as an opposition candidate, was elected president on Dec. 18. The election marked

· the first real transfer of govern­ment power in South Korean his-

tory. Although Kim has repeate<lly

promised not to seek political re­venge, some government officials, especially those from police and intelligence agencies, are report­edly worried about their future.

For 40 years as an opposition politician,Kim, 73, had been sub­ject to political persecution. He spent more than 10 years in prison, under house arrest or in exile.

He was abducted by govern­ment agents, sentenced to death and, by his account, targeted for assassination four times by those who saw him as a threat to ruling regimes.

A hearing aid he wears in his left ear, he says, is the result of damage caused when he was tor­tured by government agents in 1980.

While ruling out any political reprisals, Kim has promised to let Parliament hold hearings to look into official responsibility for the current financial crisis.

A mid-ranking Finanoe Ministry official claimed last week tl1at he had Wilffied of a looming financial crisis -as early as April but said his superiors ignored tl1e warning.

Meanwhile, parliamentary adoption of a set of reform bills that, among other things, would make layoffs easier was bogged down as rival parties wrangled over procedural matters.

South Korean President Kim Young-sam, right, walks with President­elect Kim Dae-jung before their talks on foreign currency crisis at the Presidential house in Seoul Monday. AP

Adoption of the bills is consid­ered crucial to shore up interna­tional confidence in South Korea's ability to liveuptorefonnpromises it has given the International Mon­etruy Fund in return for a $57 billion bailout.

Under current law, layoffs are vir­tually impossible without approval from labor unions.

Seeking to persuade foreign banks to roll over short-term lolll1S to South Korea and thus help it avert severe dollar shortages, President-elect Kim wants tl1e bills passed before Parlia­ment ad joumsTuesdayfor New Year holidays.

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Ourside Parliament in soutl1ern Seoul, 300 bank workers, shouting anti-govemmentsloglll1S, held a rnlly to protest the financial bills, which they said would tlueaten tl1eir jobs.

"We oppose the financial reforms to death!" they shouted.

Hundreds of police were sent to guard against violence. No clashes were reported. .

The protesters also included work­ers from the central Bank of Korea and tl1e three · financial supeNisory boards. They opposed a bill that they said would unfairly change the bal­m1ce of power among South Korea's financial autl1orities. The bill

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would strip the central bank of iL, supervisory functions and create a single government watchdog to ab­sorb the present tl1ree 1egulatory bcxl­ies in charge of banking, stock, and insurance.

Parliamenlal)' debate Monday fo­cused on whether to place the con­sol i date<l watchdog under the country's already powerful Finance and Economy Minislly.

'This is not refonn at all. It will only strengthen the government's contJ·ol of the finm1cial industry," the protesters said in a staternenl

Similar bills were shelved in No­vember when Kim's part; opposed them, fearing political rnmifications on the presidential election. Kim now says he supports the bills because the nation's financial situation was far worse than he had thought.

"It is essential that we should pass the bills by year's end to boost inter­national confidenoe," said legislator Kirn Y ong-hwan, a key economic adviser to President-elect Kim.

MostSoutl1 Korean banks aic gov­ernment-controlled and always have been vulnerable to lobbying and out­sidepressure.1ney lent huge amounts of money to companies that rapidly expanded business operations in tl1e 1980s and early 1990s, when the economy was growing fast

Some of the corporate giants -including Kia, South Korea's No. 2 car maker - failed this year, saddling tl1e banks witli billions in bad lolll1S.

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AG220-1 Accounting Principles I 101 4 m 09:30-10:SOAM v.21s G. Waller TS165-1 Front Desk Operations 83184 3 MW 10:30-11:SOAM V-108 Y.Rich

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CS103-1 Intro. lo Computers 831B4 3 MWF 08:00-08:55AM W-2 S. Mensah CE092-1 Experiential Training II 83/84 6-8NDU TBA TBA TBA V.Merlalen

CS103·2 Intro. to Computers 83184 3 MWF 10:00-10:55AM W-2 S. Mensah CE093-1 Experiential Training Ill 83/84 6-13NDU TBA TBA TBA V.Merlalen

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NU095-1 Nursing Assistant NU095-1 l Lab/Clinical

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Staff . 83184 4NDU M-Th 09:00-09:55AM A-9 83184 4NDU M-Th 11:00-11:55AM A-9 M. Jenck

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S. Gugliotta 93194 4 MWF 02:45-04:00PM N-5

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MT 10:00-12:00PM C-5 J. Avery WTh 07:00-12:00PM C-5/CHC M. Wachi-Te:I

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Public Safety Administratiot} CJ101-1 CJ106-1 CJ150-1 CJ200-1 CJ206-t CJ209-1 CJ250-t ES103-t ES103-1L ES220-1

Intro. to Criminal Justice 93194 3 MW 09:00-10:20AM Z E. Camacho B. Paraz Report Writing 93/94 3 TTh 10:30-11 :SCAM Z

Consitutional Law for Police 93194 3 MW 05:00-06:20PM Y-2 W. O'Roarty W. O'Roarty D. DeAlenzo F. Babuta

Criminal Law 93194 3 TTh 05:00-06:20PM Y-2 Social Values/CJ Process 93194 3 MW 06:30-07:SOPM N-5 Concepts of Police Operations 93/94 3 Tih 06:30-07:SOPM Y-2 Police Organizalional Theory 93/94 3 TTh 05:00-06:20PM R-1 Emergency Medical tech.-Basic 93/94 10 M-F 05:00-08:SOPM Y-1

E. Camacho J. Allison J.Alllson Lab S 09:00-12:00PM Y· 1

Mobile Health I 101 13 MWF 08:00·11:SOAM Y-1 J. Allison

Sciences B1100-1 Environmental Science 93/94 4 MWF 09:00-09:55AM Bl100-1L Lab T 09:00-11 :SSAM Bl 101-1 Principles of Biology Bl101-1L Lab .

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B-4 B-4 B-2 B-2 B-1 8-4 8-2 8-2 8-2 8·2 B-3

R. Luclwlck R. Luclwlck K. Brostrom K. Brostrom A.Church A. Church K. Brostrom K. Brostrom K. Brostrom K. Brostrom A.Church R. "church R. Church R. Church L Seaver

91103-1 Manne Biology Bl103-1L Lab

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Bl120-1 Human Biology 93194 4 MWF 10:00-10:55AM Bl120-1L Lab T 08:00-1 O:SSAM Bl120-2 Human Biology 93/94 4 MWF 02:00-02:SSPM B1120-2L Lab T 12:00-02:SSPM 81225-1 Basic Microbiology Bl225-1L Lab

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B-3 8-2 A-4 8-3 A-8 B-1 8-1 B-1

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22-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- DECEMBER 31, 1997

Top level gathering in New York:

Banks discuss Korea plan By GREGG STEIN

NEW YORK (AP) - Several of the world"s biggest banks met in search of a coordinated plan to renew loans to troubled South Korean companies, but concluded talks without announcing specific action.

The ba'nks issued a joint state­ment Monday saying they .. share the view that the Korean economy is strong" and would look for ways to help South Korea through its credit crunch.

Major investment firms, mean­while, said they were ready to join an effort to keep Korean com­panies afloat.

TI1e talks were a crucial part of an effort to speed up financial assistance to South Korea, a push that has boosted confidence in recent days that the country will avoid a financial meltdown.

The International Monetary Fund has put together a record $57 billion bailout for South Ko­rea, with $IO billion to be deliv-

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ered as early as next month. But the country has a total of about $100 billion in foreign debt that must be paid or refinanced within a year.

The banks feel they must act in unison to renew their short-term loans or hand over more money if necessary. The concern is that if some pull out of the country. the rest will be left holding even riskier loans.

The talks began at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then moved to the nearby head­quarters of J.P. Morgan and Co.

After the meeting at the New York Fed, the investment firms Goldman Sachs, Lehman Broth­ers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Solomon Smith Barriey issued a joint statement saying they "are ready to partici­pate in the program of support for Korea."

Also at the Fed meeting were officials from U.S. multinational banks such as Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, Bankers Trust New York and Bank of New York.

Joining the J.P. Morgan meet­ing were representatives from Japan's Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank, France's Societe Generale, Britain's HSBC Holdings, Deutsche Bank, Swiss Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal and Banca Commerciale ltaliana.

At day's end, the U.S. and in­ternational banks issued their joint statement expressing a willing­ness "to support efforts to allevi­ate Korea's short-term liquidity concerns" and to help Korea quickly resume borrowing in open markets.

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The banks did not say whether they had reached an agreement to roll over their loans to South Ko­rea.

HSBC said earlier in the day that it already had decided to re­new its loans to Korean banks. There also were reports last week that Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Lloyds Bank of Britain had rolled over loans.

Monday's talks helped boost U.S. banking stocks, which had been hurt recently because of con­cerns about their exposure to South Korea and other parts of Asia. Citicorp rose $3.93 3/4 to $125.87 1/2, Chase Manhattan rose $2 to $ I 08.68 3/ 4, and J.P. Morgan rose $2.18 3/4to$1 l 3.62 1/2.

Also Monday, South Korea's parliament passed a financial reform package aimed at sharpening its ability to regu­late its banking system and encouraging more foreign in­vestment.

"In the name of global financial

stability, the events over the last week must be viewed as construc­tive," said David Rosenberg, se­nior economist at Nesbitt Bums Securities in Chicago. "Down the road these moves wi 11 prove beneficial, just as they did in Mexico.

"I'm not trying to say we're out of the woods. The critical question will come in the next few weeks, when we see how much international confidence is boosted by these moves.""

South Korea's currency has surged in recent days after the IMF and major industrialized countries announced they would speed up delivery of $10 billion in loans from the bailout package.

The won closed Monday at 1,395 to the dollar, up from Friday's close of 1,498 and more than 24 percent higher than its level last Wednesday. Stock markets were closed for a holiday, but are up about 7 percent over the same span.

From prison to Partiament Bhutto's husband sworn in as Pakistani senator

Asif Zardari, husband of Benazir Bhutto former Prime Minister of Pakistan, /eave Parliament house in Islamabad Monday after taking the oath of.office as a Senator. Zardari was in an Armored Personel Carrier (APC) in police custody as he has been in a Karachi jail since his wife's goverment was sacked on corruption .charges last year.

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By Gretchen Peters ISLAMABAD,Pakistan(AP)-Lc·umchinghisjoumeyfromprisoncell to parliament in an annored personnel carrier, Benazir Bhutto's husband took the oath of office as a senator Monday - nine months after he was elected ·

AsifZardari, who has beenjailedin the southern city ofKarachi since his wife's government was dismissed last year, was flown to the Pakistani capital and driven from the airport in a convoy of police vehicles.

. Zardari is being tried for the murder of Bhutto's estranged brother, · Murtaz.a, who died in a hail of police bullets outside his home in Karachi, just two months before her government's dismissal in Noveml.x:r 1996. ·

Zardari has denied that he ordered Murtaza's killing, or that he siphoned off millions of dollars while Bhuuo 's government was in power.

Her government was dismissed on charges of runaway corruption and economic ineptitude.

Her husband, the investment minister in her disgraced cabinet, figured prominently in the graft allegations.

A court last week ordered the government to allow Zardari to attend Senate sessions, something authorities have refused since he was elected last March.

In a speech to the Ser.ate, Zardari said he was ·innocent, accused the government of obstructingjusticeto keep him in prison and vowed to fight the charges against him.

"I will fight out all the cru;es, be it the murder case or the others," The · Associated Press of Pakismn quoted Zardari as saying.

Zardari willremaininpolicecustody in Islamabad whiletheSenateisin session.

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Soothsayers' prediction in 1998:

'More bad times for Indonesia' By GEOFF SPENCER

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Fires, choking smoke, drought, riots, jetliner crashes, a financial crisis and an ailing president - 1997 has been ~ c:1tamitous year for Indone­sia.

Now soothsayers predict I 998 could be worse.

"Almost all kinds of disas­ters economically, politically and socially will erupt next year," the Indonesian Times on Monday quoted Permadi Satario Wiwoho, who is known as a clairvoyant, as saying.

'"Many events in I 998 will go beyond reason, difficult to rationalize. The distinction between good and evil will be blurred," Ki Ageng Selo, a spiritual healer, forecast in the Sunday Jakarta Post.

They and other seers pre­dict a worsening economy, big rises in unemployment, fac­tory closures, r,1ce rises and civil unrest matched by volca­nic eruptions, flood, drought and disease.

One fortune teller, identi­fied as Mrs. Lauren, called on readers of the Indonesia Ti,rnes to stockpile food as a precau­tion against bad times.

Another, Putri Wong Kam Fu, warned of disasters but said the country would cope ahead of a '"murky 1999." About 90 percent of Indonesia's 200 million people are Muslim. Neverthe­less, ancient pre-Islamic be­liefs in things paranormal re­main strong, particularly in uncertain times.

And uncertainty is some­thing that marred the past I 2 months. ·

"In fact for many people it bas been downright horrible" the Jakarta Post :aid of 1997.

Violence erupted early in the year when irldigenous Dayak tribes people in Borneo at­tacked and ki lied hundreds of newcomers, who had set up farms and businesses under a government-sponsored re­settlement schemes. Hundreds of lndoncsi:111s wcn: kilkd in violence or accidents during a campaign for p:1rlia-111entary election in May. In the worst case, 123 people died when rioters from opposing political parties set fire to a shopping ma! I. Violence continued in the former Por­tuguese colony of East Timor, invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and wracked by bloodshed and human rights abuse ever since.

By midyear the abnormal climate pattern EI Nino was being blamed for widespread drought. Harvests of rice, cof­fee and other crops failed or were severely down.

About 700 people in remote Irian Jaya province, in west­ern New Guinea, reportedly died from malnutrition or dis­ease after village food gar-

dens withered and sources of clean drinking water dried up.

Hundreds of forest and brush fires, many of th~m deliberately lit to clear land, burned out of control across the country.

The flames not only took their toll on dwindling rain forest. TI1ey also produced a choking smoke haze that threatened the health of millions over a large slice of Southeast Asia.

The thick haze may have also contributed to the crash of a Garuda Airbus A-300 that slammed into a hillside near the city of Medan in Sumatra on Sept. 26, killing all 234 people aboard. A mix-up between the pilot and an air traffic controller has also been cited as a possible cause.

Disaster struck the .previ­ously booming economy as the value Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, slid about 60 per­cent amid a crisis of confi­dence across Southeast Asia.

The International Monetary Fund has put together a dlrs 40 billion rescue package as Indone­sia grapples with long overdue economic reform. ~

Adding to the uncertainty is the state of President Suha,10' s heal th. The 76-year-old retired general is Asia's longest-serving leader and has been in power for 30 years.

Wild rumors that he was seri­ously ill and even that he died sent the battered rupiah into a nose dive earlier this month after doc­tors ordered him to take two weeks rest. A Singapore-operated SilkAir

Boeing 737 disintegrated when it crashed into a river in South Sumatra on Dec. 19, killing al I 104 passengers and crew. No cause has yet been deter­mined.

lndo,:iesian Muslim fami/lies Monday pray before a grave of their relatives. The lnd'?nesian Muslims traditionally visit the cemetery to P_ray fo~dead_relat1ves every year a bead of the fasting month, which this trme will beg,n on Dec. 31, 1997. AP

A 1,000-member assembly is expected to elect Suharto to a seventh consecutive five years term in March. Even so the future remains unclear as he so far failed to name his likely successor.

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Former nurse arrested in Indiana hospital deaths TERRE HAUTE, Indiana (AP) - A fonner intensive care unit nurse who was on duty during dozens of unexplained deaths a hospital in the American Midwest was arrested Monday and acx:used of killing six people_

Death penalty phase begins in Nichols trial

Otville Lynn Majors, who was a licensed practical nurse at$! former VennillionCountyHospitalinClinton,Indiana,wasarrestedonsixcounts of munler, state police Sgt Mark Hartman said_

An affidavit filed in court said the deaths were by injection but did not say what.substance or substances were used. It listed six deaths between Jan_ 8, 1994, and Feb. 16, 1995.

"I am shocked, stunned and severely disappointed," said his attorney, I. Marshall Pinkus of Indianapolis. He said he would not comment further until he had a chance to ~dy the charges. ·

Majors has maintained his innocence throughout the more than 2 1/2-year investigation into a series of suspicious deaths from May 1993 to March 19')5. He was suspended from his job after authorities realiz.ed the death rate when he was on duty was triple the normal rate.. . . .

Majors was on duty during l 30deaths at the hospital, and was publicly named as a suspect in ;m unspecified number of them in July. · ·

Duringtheir$1.5 millioninvestigation,authoritiesexhumedandautop- · sied the bodies of 15 patients who died during the 22-month:(Xlriod. Thef · also conducted a dlrs 300,CXX) computerized study looking for_ex>millQ!l.· patterns in more than I 00 deaths. · . . . . .. · ·. .. .. . ....•. ·.• •.. •.

Artaffidavitunsealedearlierthisyearsaidpolicehadsemmedl\.fajols' i former residence.and seiz.ed several syringes and needles. there. · . ····•· ·

ThestateNursingBoardsuspendedMajors'licenseinDecemberl995,· ~ying he failed to apprise doctors of patiei1t c:onditions and exceeded his · · authority in one case by increasing a patient's oxygen stipPly.

Marjorie Doran also told investigators that her 7&year--0ld father-in­Jaw, John, died after Majors made unidentified injections intcrhis intrave­nous tube. But John Doran was not on the list of six patients cited in Monday's charges. As a licensed practical nurse, Majors was not authorized to give injections, hospital authorities said

Majors, 36, was to be hold without bail pending a court appearance Tuesday, authorities said. He was arrested at his parents' home in Linton. ·

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Prosecutors limited the most provocative testimony during the guilt phase after defense objections that it could be prejudicial. But stories of\oss were expected to be at the fore­front in the death penalty phase scheduled to begin Mon­day.

"I think this part of the case is going to be so much tougher for jurors," said Denver law­yer Andrew Cohen, a media analyst for the trial. "It's go­ing to be a very strong emo­tional push-and-pull, tug-of­war. The enormity of the crime is going to sink in in a way it hasn't yet."

The same jurors deli berated 41 hours over six days before convicting Nichols last week of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168

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people. But they· found Nichols innocent of using a truck bomb to kill and destroy the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and innocent of mur­der, concluding he did not set out to kill anyone.

Last June, Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of conspiracy and murder

· charges for the same crimes and sentenced to death. His appeal is pending.

After hearing witnesses for both sides and arguments from the attorneys, ju.rors will have to decide .whether Nichols should be executed or spend his life in prison. If they can't decide, it will be up to U.S. District Judge Ri­chard Malsch to decide on a lesser sentence.

Denver defense attorney Scott Robinson, who attended Nichols' trial, said prosecu­tors will have to play the emo­tional card if they hope to get the death penalty for Nichols.

"It will be worse now, be­cause the jury was kept from hearing most of this during the guilt phase," Robinson said During the trial, for example, Helena Garrett de­scri bcd waiting three days before learning her 16-month­old son, Tevin, was killed in the blast. Prosecutors steered

her from the most emotional testimony that reduced jurors, spectators and even attorneys to tears during McVeigh 's trial as she told of telling firefighters not to place dead babies on broken glass after the bombing.

Jannie Coverdale, who will be called as a prosecution wit­ness, said she plans to intro­duce the jurors to her grand­sons killed in the blast, 5-year­old Aaron Coverdale and his 2-year-old brother, Elijah.

"I'm going to tell them what sweet little boys they were," she said. "The jury needs to hear from us. I want them to hear of the deaths and destruc­tion that that bomb caused. Terry Nichols knew what was going to happen and he kept his mouth closed. Even though he was not in Oklahoma City, to me, he is just as guilty as Timothy McVeigh be

cause he didn't try to stop it."

Stephen Jones, McVeigh's former attorney, said Sunday he'd be surprised if Nichols gets the death penalty after the jury found him innocent of murder .charges.

"It would be a major upset if the government were able to obtain a verdict of death," Jones said on CBS television's "Face the Nation."

Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy vowed to try Nichols and McVeigh on state murder charges. Others said it would be impossible for the two men to get a fair trial in Oklahoma.

Defense attorney Gerry Spence said on ABC television's "This Week" that trying McVeigh and Nichols in Oklahoma on murder charges would amount "to a legalized lynching."

Suzanne Nichols McOo'!ne/1 and Joyce Nichols Wilt, right, the sister and mother of Terry Nichols, arrive at the Federal Courthouse in Denver on Monday for the penally phase in the trial of Nichols. rhe government is seeking the death penalty for Nichols who was con­victed of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter for the Oklahoma City bombing. AP

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·Clinton okays raise for federal workers· WASHINGTON (AP) -President Clinton on Mon­day authorized pay raises for federal workers, including increases .averaging 2.8 per­cent for civilian employees and members of the military.

The raises, approved by executive order, take effect with the new year beginning Thursday.

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Passengers look out over the snow-dusted tarmac and aircraft as they waitfor their flights at Hartsfield At~anta International Airport in Atlanta Monday. An overnight dusting of snow delayed or cancelled numerous fhghls at the facility. AP

Civilian federal workers get a raise of 2.3 percent plus a "locality adjustment" that varies by geographic loca­tion but averages 0.5 per­cent, said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart. The locality adjustment does not apply to the pay of the vice president, federal judges or members of Con­gress, he said.

President Al Gore, federal judges and members of Con­gress. The raise for mem­bers of Congress - from $133,600 to $136,700- is based on a provision in a spending bill signed by Clinton in October. The vice president's pay rises from $171,500 to $175,400.

DOJ: Micro.soft violating court order All members of the mili­tary will get a raise of 2.8 percent. By LAURIE ASSEO

W ASIDNGTON (AP)-The Jus­tice Departmeqt pressed its bid for a contempt citation against Microsoft on Monday, saying the software gi­ant "is in clear violation" of a court order in a lawsuit involving Win­dows computer software.

Government lawyers accused Microsoft of "jerry-rigging its own products" to get around an order that it quit requiring com­puter makers to distribute the Internet Explorer browser pro­gram as a condition of installing the popular Windows 95 opera­tion system software.

"Microsoft is in clear violation of both the in junction's letter and spirit," Justice Department law­

. yers said in court papers. U.S. District Judge Thomas

Penfield Jackson issued the order Dec. 11. A week later, the Justice Department asked him to rule Microsoft in contempt.

Government lawyers also asked Jackson to impose $1 million a day in fines if the company re­fuses to obey a contempt finding. ·

Microsoft denied it was violat­ing Jackson's order, saying in court papers last week that the Justice Department's proposals showed that "poorly informed law­yers have no vocation for software design."

Jackson has scheduled a Jan. 13 hearing for arguments in the case.

Microsoft argues that the latest version of Windows 95 that includes the web browser is one producL 1be J usticeDepartmer.taccusesMicrosoft of illegally tying two separate prod­ucts together.

Government lawyers said Microsoft misinterpreted Jackson's Dec. 11 order.

"Under Microsoft's reading of the in junction, it is entitled to offer as the only :~tcmative to its conditioned license a version of Windows 95 that simply will not work," Justice De­partment lawyers said.

That, in effect, would rcquirecom­putcrmakerstocontinueusingintcmet Explo1erifthcy install Windows 95, the government brief said.

Microsoft also offered computer makers a second software alternative that government lawyers said was "commercially worthless" to com,

puter makers. But government lawyers said

Microsoft itself has advertised that Internet Explorer can be easily uninstalled.

Microsoft' sefforts to create improved products, but rather to prevent Microsoft from using its Windows monopoly to place a thumb on the scale in browser competition," Jus­tice Department lawyers said.

· The order authorizes pay raises of 2.3 percent for Vice

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PUEBLA, Mexico (AP)- With pis­tols drawn, looking ncrrnusll' into the hills, federal polic/and soldic.rs 1nm·cd info rJ1is soutl1em 11101111rain cor11111t1-nity on Monday to rt·scuc residents held in terror I, ,r 111,1111l1s lw anned gunmen.

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Spidiers move into the town of Pue/ba during a rescue operation to take v;l/agers to a refugee camp in Po/ho in southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas_ Monday. Soldiers and federal police moved into this southern mountain community on Monday to rescue residents held in terror for months by armed gunmen. Forty-five villagers from nearby Acteal died last week after armed gunmen attacked their village. AP

tl1ey were terrorized since September by gunmen who dcmandcda"wartax" of $ J.25 every couple of weeks mid tJ1reatened them if tl1ey refused. The money is a large ;unount in tl1is poor, subsistence-fmrning area.

"ll1cy lin:d shots at us because we didn't want to help pay for their ammu-11 it ion," said Pedro Hernandez Gutierrez, a coffee farmer who fled his village with seven family members.

He said tl1at in September.PR! activ­isL, had distributed guns to allies in all oft11e villages in the area-atleastone AK-47 per village, as we II as other weapons.

Hours before tl1e federal forces ar­rived, slate police in Puebla told The Associated Press that there were no problems in the village.

··Everyt11ing is in peace here. Every­tJ1ing is calm," said 2nd Lt Humberto Perez Gonzalez of the state public se­curity force. He was sitting inside a ring of s,mdbags in the village's square.

The federal forces were less relaxed. They looked nervous as t11ey fanned out through the village and pointed t11eir guns into the mountains, where they said the gunmen were lurking.

Commander Miguel Alfonso Labat of t11e federal judicial police said tl1ey were under orders not to arrest anyone. "Inc orders arc to escort people out and protect tl1em," he said.

Vi II agers named people they said were members of the armed gangs, but tl1e officers made no attempt to locate tl1em or their houses.

A PR! member in Puebla, Lorenzo Gomez Gomez, blamed the trouble on sympathizers of the Zapatisla National Liberation Anny, which rose up four ycai:; ago demanding right, for Ch iapas slate's poor Indians.

"n1ey are committing acts of mis­chief and blaming it on t11c PRI," he said. 'They quit the peace talks and now they are complaining."

The refugees were taken to Polho, just north ofhere, where Zapatislasym­path izers have set up a parallel local govern:menL

In Polho, the refugees felt bolder, and began taking the law into their own hands.

On Sunday, angry refugees pulled four men off buses and Jocked them up in a schoolhouse, claiming they were allies of tl1e death squad that killed the 45 villagers. A spokesman for the fed­eral attorney general 'sofficesaid it was unclear if the villagers would tum the men over to police.

TheextentoftheviolenceinChiapas appears lo have taken federal officials by swprise. Before the Dec. 22 massa­cre, federal government spokesman Alejandro Carrillo Castro said, federal authorities had only a "generic knowl­edge" of the problems.

More than 300 people - 600 by some counts - have been killed in Ch iapas in the four years since Zapatista rebels rose up. In the wake of the January 1994 rebellion, which itself killed 145 people, villagers aligned

· themselves either with the rebels or with the PRI.

The atlac~. which also left3 I people wounded, has provoked international condemnation and become one of t11e most serious crises of the 3-year-old government of President Ernesto Zedillo, a PRI member.

Attorney General Jorge Madrazo said Monday that investigators are looking into who planned the attack, as well as the possible complicity of slate police officers. He said the killers ap­parentlymettheday before the attack to plan iL

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F-117s send Saddam a message

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By John Diamond AHMEDALJABERAIRBASE, Kuwait (AP) -The F-117 only does one thing - attack - and that's exactly the point in keeping stealth aircraft on call next door to Iraq. They send a· not-so-subtle message to Saddam Hussein.

On the flight line at this air base about 60 miles from the Iraqi bor­der, Air Force Lt. Col. Gary Woltering, a stealth fighter pilot, explained Monday that the F-1 I 7' s sole mission is to deliver bombs and missiles to targets.

That capability, he said, i5 the reason for bringing the plane·s to the Persian Gulf region.

"We are totally offensive. We don't have any defensive capabil­ity," Waitering said. "So Saddam knows when we're brought to the theater it's time to step up to the (negotiating)

table. Saddam has backed off, but we 're prepared to deploy."

Behind Waitering at this joint U.S.-Kuwaiti air base stands the black-painted aircraft with its geo­metric shapes and smooth, com­posite-coated surfaces. Inside the fighter's bomb bay may bea pairof 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs, or any one of a number of other precision weapons in the Air Force arsenal.

For a plane tl'tat 's supposed to go unnoticed, the message is direct.

President Clinton ordered the stealth fighters to the region this fall, the second year in a row he has had to do so in response to rising tensions with Iraq.

Last year it was Saddam's mili­tary attacks on his Kurdish popula­tion in northern Iraq. This time the issue surrounded Iraq's refusal to fully cooperate with U.N. weapons inspections. In panicu/ar, Iraq is refusing to allow access to Saddam's presidential palaces, which may be hiding places for biological or chemical weapons or weapons manufacturing equip­ment.

!fit were to come to conflict with Iraq, those palaces might be just the kind of heavily defended target the stealth fighters wou Id be sentto attack.

"We hope there's a peaceful settlement," said Weltering, who flies out of Hollomon Air Force Base, N.M. If not, "Our jets rn·e full-up combat ready. Our guys are full-up combat ready,"

Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, the overall commander of U.S. forces in the Mideast, says the U.S. 's Arab allies would suppoI1 strikes inresponse toan Iraqi provo-

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Thus symbolism-such as high­profile weapons systems like the F-117 - takes on more importance . The idea, Zinni says, is to deter Saddam from doing anything to provoke a military response and to leave some uncertainty about what that response might be.

Message-sending was also be .. hind the just-completed exercise held by the 13th Marine Expedi­tionary Unit. Zinni, who is touring the Gulf region this week, chatted with his fellow Marines cleaning up their tanks and annored person­nel carriers after a 24-day exercise in the desert a short drive from the Iraqi border. The boom of their cannon was almost certainly au­dible in Iraq.

28-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 31, 1997

Congress pensions hit big By Anick Jesdanun

WASHING TON (AP) - Long­time se1vice in Congress pays nicely at retirement, with some lawmaker., 1:oing home with :umual pensions of ~ughly $100.00J-abourfivetimes the national average.

So says the National Taxpayer., · Union, a conservative group that advocates less government spend­ing.

'This is the Rolls-Royce of pen­sion plans," said David Keating, vice president for the taxpayers' group, which calculated the congressional pension estimates at the request of The Associated Press. "You can't get a pension like this in the private sec-

tor.'' Reps. Joseph Mc Dade, R-Pa, Lee

Hamilton, D-Ind., and Sidney Yates, D-Ill., will be eligible for $98,694 each. about three-fourths of their $133,600 salary, when they leave office in 1999 after a combined l 04 years.

Other members' pension could approach $100,000 as well.

According to a 1994 Labor De­partment study, the latest available, a private sector employee earning $50,000 or more was eligible for pension benefits averaging $17,062.

Why are lawmakers' retirement benefits so lucrative? A principal reason is that congressional pensions

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are adjusted each year for inflation, Sen: John Glenn, D-Ohio, will ex-something that sets them apart from ceed$90,000afi.erfactoringinasepa-most other retirement plans. · rate Marine Corps pension for his

Rep. Henry Gonzalez, D-Texas, past duties as a combat pilot and will be eligible for at least $96,462 if astronaut he resigns as planned before the end Member., of (:)ingress defended of his term, for instance. Benefits for the retirement system.

"Almost all my adult life has been spent in public service in the Marine Corps and the Senate," Glenn said. "I have made the required contribu­tions to the system and will retire from the Senate at the end of next year withapensionbasedonthoseyearsof service."

Aides for Yates and Gonzalez said the lawmakers deserved hcalthypen­sionsaftermore than three decades of public service. Yates spokeswoman Mary Bain added that the 88-year-old lawmakercould have opted to collect benefits over a longer period by retir­ing at 65.

Hamilton' sofficedeclined to com­ment, while Mc Dade's did not return telephone calls.

McDade,inhis 18thtwo-yearterrn, is the most senior House Republican. Hamilton and Yates have served 17 tenns each. Gonzalez is in his 19th tenn, whileGlennisretiringafterfour six-year tenns.

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Lawmakers elected since January 1984 fall under a less generous pen­sion system, but members who joined before then have continued earning pension credits using the old fom1u: las.

' , FREE food for everybody but do not include all kinds of drinks. Must be 21 and above , FREE Jewels and T-shirt to customers who will win in any contest and raffle.

· In 1995, Congress approved lan­guage that would have brought future earnings more in line witli those given to other federal workers, but it was part ofa brol)der budget bill 'ietoed by President Clinton forotherrea­sons. Congress has not passed similar legislation in the ·current session.

Pension figures aren't readily available on Capitol Hill, but the National Taxpayers Union has de­vised a computer program to pro-· vide its own estimates based on a survey it took of members of Congress. Members who did not respond were assumed to be in the main civil service pension program.

Members planning to leave Con­gress after 1998 stand to receive at least$42,CXJOeach if they were elected before 1984, while those under the

Big pensioners REllRING lawmakers who stand to earn at least $50,000 in ~nsion benefits and year in which benefits start

•Sen.Dale Bumpers, D-M., $82,060, 1999 ..

~ Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., $71,518, 1999.

• Sen. Wendell Ford, D~Ky., $79,031, 1999. ' . • Sen. John Glenn; D-Ohio, $72,972, 1999, plus Marine Corps . pension, which in 1996 paid $18,829.

• Rep. Ronald Dellums, J)..Ca.; lif., leaving mid-term, $87,745,

· l9<J8. · • Rep. Vic Fazio, D-Calif.,

$59,037, 1999. . • · Rep. Henry Gonz.alez, D­

'Texas, leavingmid-tenn,$96,462, 19<)8. .

• Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., $98,694, 1999.

• Rep. Barbara Keruielly, D­Conn., $51,767, 1999.

• Rep. Joseph McDade, R-Pa, $98,694, 1999.

• Rep. Charles Schumer, D­N.Y ., $54,797, 2010 (at age 60).

• Rep. Sidney Yates, D-Ill., $98,694, 1999. Source: National Taxpayers Union.

Note: Schumer' s figure assiunes Ire

loses bid for Senate. Otherwise, he will continue earning adoitional benefits as a senator.

ACIU£2l benefits may depart from the estimates depending on factors such as whether participant opts for survivors' benefits or requests . that military credits be tramf ared to the congressional plan.

newerpensionsystem will be eligible for between $12,000 to $29,000 when they hit retirement age.

However, a stock investment plan for· the newer members can boost retirement savings by hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the taxpayers' group.

Rep. Paul McHale, D-Pa, who joined Congress in 1993 and de­cided against seeking re-election in 1998, said the days of exorbi­tant pension benefits are largely over. McHale, 47, will get about $13,000 when he turns 62.

"Pension benefits tonewlyelected members of Congress are really quite modest,andthevastmajorityofmem­bers (still serving) will fall under the new system," McHale said.

In general, a member's pension is based on the number of years of service and the average of the three highest years' salaries, with a 1991 pay raise helping to boost pension levels.

Sen. Thurmond hospitalized·

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, 95, the nation's longest-serv­ing senator, was hospitalized Monday with a bad cold.

The South Carolina Repub­lican said he went to the Eisenhower Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Ga., Sunday night complaining of laryngi­tis and a cough, spokesman John Decrosta said.

Doctors diagnosed

Thurmond with a mild respi­ratory infection and expected him to be released Tuesday, Decrosta said.

Thurmond was hospitalized for a day in Washington in October after getting dizzy during the Promise Keepers rally.

Thurmond, president pro tern of the Senate and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, was first elected to the Senate in 1948.

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On behalf of the Secretary of the Department of Community & Cultural Affairs, Mr. Jesus M. E1ameto, the CNMI Office on Aging, and most gratefully from our Man Amko on the islands of Tinian, Rota, and Saipan. I would like to extend a heartfelt Thank You and Dangkulu na si Yuus Maase for all of those who contributed, one way or another, big or small, during the Year 1997. Your unselfish contribution and timeless effort during this eventful year has made it a successful and memorable one. Words cannot express your kind and generous assistance during 1997 for our Man' Amko.

Governor & Mrs. Froilan C. Tenorio Lt Governor & Mrs. Jesus C. Borja

. Special Assistant for Administration SAA Staff House of Representatives 10th Commonwealth Legislature Governor's Staff Lt Governor's Staff Marianas Visitors Bureau Carolinian Affairs Office Arts Council Historic Preserv~tion Office Language Commission Nutrition & Assistance Program Sports Division Lands & Natural Resources Parks & Recreation Commonwealth Health Center Medicaid Services Social Security Office Department of Public Works Commonwealth Ports Authority Northern Marianas Islands Housing Corp. Retirement Fund Office Northern Marianas College/Land Grant NMOOpward Bound Program Public School System San Vicente Elem. SchJStaff Garapan Elem. School MHS Special Ed. Garapan Headstart MHS National Honor Society Koblerville Elem. Sch. Tanapag Elementary Sch. PSS Early Childhood Program HopwoodJr. High 1'JHS Saipan Stevedore

SPECIAL TIIANKS TO:

Island Apparel NMI Investment Kwek'sEnt C-Mart (Carmen Safeway) Pacific Development Inc. Hafa Adai Beach Hotel j's Restaurant L&TEnt Marianas Cleaners IT&E Pacific Island Club {PIC) Tasi Tour Clark Nursing Home Serv. Saipan Cable TV Marianas Cable Vision Holiday Tours Micronesia Duty Free Shoppers Ltd. Pacific Trading Inc. Joeten Ent M.icrolCorporation Tropical Plai.a Continental Air Micronesia Saipan & Ice & Water Hennan's Modern Bakery Town House Dept Store Payfoss Supennarket Freedom Air Pacific Island Aviation Hai1Sae (Saipan) Inc. MarPac McDonald's Saipan Saipan Bowling Center Jin Yong Americana Yaong Corp. Advance Marketing AGAPE Group Top Fashions

Kumkyuog Corp. Coca Cola Beverage Co. Roadside Fish Market Esco's Bake House Korean Association Whispering Palms School Damian Day Care Center Korean Presbytirian Group Korean Women's Association Korean Catholic Bible School Grp. Hotel Association Northern Marianas Island (HANMI) Japan Ground Golf Association TagaRide~ Triple J Wholesale Mr. Felix Hofschneider Mr.Juan S. Tenorio Mr. John .Oliver Goni,ales Mrs. Alicia DLG. Leon Guerrero Mr. Yoichi Matsumura Mrs.FrancesS.Sablan Mr. Gregorio V. DLGuerrero Bank of Saipan Hofschneider I.ands & Survey Calvo's Nursery & Landscaping Island Marketing & Management Services Island Family Band Onan Ichihara) Global Traders Calvary Christian Academy Congressman Crispin Guerrero (Kuri) Congressman Dino Jones Pacific Islands Bilingual Bicultural Association (PIBBA) Stepping Stone Pre School Mt Cannel School · Church of Latter Day Saint Christine's Collection Two Season Tailoring 1997 Miss CNMI Universe (Ms. Melani M. Sebitang) Northern Marianas Gannent AsscJMr. James Lin

To those whom we have failed to mention, we express our sincerest appreciation. Your continued support, assistance and timeless effort to our Program and most of all our CNMI Senior Citizens, is greatly acknowledge. May all of you have a healthy and prosperous NEW 1998.

Thank You - Si Yuus Maase - Olomwai Komk Mal Me Sulang - Kamsabamnita -Domo Arlgato Gozaimasbita - Maraming Salamat Po

HafaAdai,

ls/Pedro I. Sablan Director, CNMI Office on Aging

30-MARIANASVARIETY NE'\}v'_S /\ND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- DECEMBER 31, 1997

US president orders Medicaid outreach

Bill Clinton

regardless of the numbers or the cost.

A compkx set pf cirrnmst,mccs hdpcxplain why f,unilies would p,1ss up the ch,u1cc lc)r free health c:ue. !'\fany p:u·c'nt., do11 ·11ealize thcirchil­d1t·11 :ue eligible for Medicaid. Some ,ue daunted by a complex set or mies ,md paperwork. 01hers don't want to be pan of a wclfrue-typ; prog1:m1.

T11,: problem is likely 10 worsen \\; d1 welf:ll'e refom1. Eunilics on wclf:m; have been automatically en­rolled in Medicaid, but :t, they move off the rolls they may not teal i ze that their child1en remain eligible for the program.

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By Laura Meckler WASHINGTON (AP) - A yc:u­after Ll1c White House focused on uninsured children. President Clinton is dismayed to find I ittle progress on enrolling 3 million who arc eligible for the Medicaid health care pro­gram.

"Inere ,ui.: about IO million unin­sured children in the United States. including the 3 million who me eli- · gible for Medicaid. Clinton fought this year fora new,$24 bi Ilion, 5-year children's health program for work­ing {X)OI' families, which is expected to 1each a few million kids.

Daniel Obeler, 9, center, is given a tour of the Holocaust Museum Monday in Washington by Nissi Godim, left, herself a Holocaust survivor. Obelerdonated a $5,000 prize to the museum that he won in an international art contest for children sponsored by Northwest Airlines. In back are his parents Mark and Rita Obe/er. The prize had to be donated to some type of charity the choice of the winner. AP

Promotingafieshoul!each.Clinton plans next month in his State of the Union address to order federal and state age11cies to try harder to find children who are {X)Or enough to qualify, but who have been left out.

Medicaid-eligible children are barred from tl1enew initiative, but tl1e program is bound to draw fresh atten­tion to the system, said N,mcy-Ann Minn DcPrn-\e, adminismnor of the agency that tuns Medicaid.

Mom. tried in 'obesity death' "He talks about how we 're doing

all this work to expand health care coverage to uninsured kids and there are mi 11 ions of kids who are eligible who have just not signed up fort he pro~ram, "White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said Monday.

States recruiting child11.:n for the new progrrn11 will find kids eligible for Medicaid m1d sign them up. she said. Meanwhile, she hopes the spot­light on uninsrni.:d child1en will boost inte,est and enrollment for both pro-grams.

"We 're starting to see more in­terest in it and more energy in the bureaucracies at the state levels," she said.

By Michelle Locke MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) Children with a rare syndrome linked to obesity are experts at manipulating people into feeding them, an expert testified today at the child abuse trial of a woman whose 680-pound daughter died at age 13.

Lawyers for Marlene CotTigan maintain she did what she could to help her daughter, Christina.

··we need to get out there and get these people onto the rolls. It is something he feels passionately about." De Parle would not say whether

the new outreach will be backed with new money in the administration's upcoming bud­get. Lockhart indicated it's doubt­ful: "There's not necessarily a big price tag." he said.

The defense has suggested that Christina had Prader-Willi syn­drome, whose sufferers have a raging desire to eat, slow metabo­lism and a tendency to pick at sores.

Studies show tl1at uninsured chil­dren ,ue f,u-\css likely to get health services, particularly preventive care.

As an entitlement, Medicaid is provided to every eligible perscin.

On the witness stand today, Dr. Bryan Hainline said some parents

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CUC-RFP-98-0007 December 31, 1997

The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) is soliciting competitive proposals from qualifiedArchilectural/Engineering firms capable of designing the upgrade of the low voltage eleclrical system for the operation of 118 each -24,000 BTU split air conditioning units at the Marianas High School on the island of Saipan, Commonweallh of lhe Northern Mariana Islands (CNMIJ

lnteresled parlies may pick up the scope of work at CUC's Procurement & Sup.Jly Ottice in Lower Base, Saipan, CNMl, during work hours [7:30 am tc 4:30 pm).

Offerors sr,all :ro,;ide a certification. signed by a principle of the company stating that the company has in the past, and is curr~ntly 1n comol1a~ce with all aJp!icab:e CNMI and federal laws. Should the company be unable to provide such certification. tne con1:pny must ::;rovide written explanation :is to why. including a description oi any violations to such labcr laws and any re,- ,, '' action taken. Fa1lu 0e o1 this company to provide the certification or explanation is grounds to re1ect the entire proposal.

Six set (",-original and 5-copies) of proposals marked CUC-RFP-98-0007/Design of Electrical Work for Operation of Air Conditioning Units at Marianas High School Project may be submitted in a sealed envelope to Mr. John C. Malnas, Acting Chief of Procurement & Supply, Lower Base, P.O. Box 1220, Saipan, MP 96950, no later than 3;30 p.m., local time on January.

Proposals will be evaluated and selection made based on the following technical criteria: Cost. 50 points, Professional eleclrical engineering license registered in the CNMI -15 points, Experience· 15 points, Design Methodology· 10 points, and Schedule- 10 points,

Awards of this project is contingent upon receipt of the necessary funding and/or required approval to enter into legally binding agreements to complete the entire project.

Discussions may be conducted wilh responsible offerors who submit proposals determined to be reasonably s.usceptible of being selected for award for the purpose of clarification and to ensure full understanding of, and responsiveness to solicitation requirements. Otterors shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with respect to any opportunity for discussion and revision ol proposals and such revisions may be permitted after submission and prior to award for the purpose of obtaining the best and 1inal olfers. In conducting discussions, there shall be no disclosure of any information derived from proposals submitted by competing Offerors.

CUC reserves the right to reject any and all proposals for any reason and to waive any defect in said proposals, or any them if in its sole. opinion to do so would be in the best interest of CUC. All proposals shall become the property of CUC.

For further information please contact Michael W. Randall, P.E. at telephone number (670) 322-4033 Extension 55 or facsimile number (670) 322-4323.

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whose children suffer from the syndrome eventually give up and either lock their youngsters away or beat them in a vain attempt to curb their endless appetite.

"ll1ese are individuals who are very quiet," Hainline said. "Any kind of effort to encourage good behavior is often me! with ,7rgu­mcn ts.··

Ms. Corrigan's lawyers were expected 10 finish presenting their case today. The trial could end this week.

The trial and Christina's death from heart failure have become public lightning rods for attitudes toward food and weight. Activ­ists for the obese blame the death on a society they say is prejudiced against obese people and doesn't know how to help them.

"It's the last safe prejudice," said Frances White, president of the National Association to Ad­vance Fat Acceptance. "This woman would not be on trial if her daughter h'ad any other condi­tion beside being large."

Prosecutors say they charged Marlene Coffigan strictly because of the condition in which her daughter's body was found on Nov. 19. llJ%-lyingonadirty sheet. scarn.:d with bedson.:s a!lll wilh feces trapped in the folds of her flesh.

Christina spent the last months of her life lying in front of a tek­vision, barely able to hoist herself up to go to the bathroom. accord­ing to police reports.

Defense attorneys portray Ms. Co1Tigan as a caring but over­worked single mother who was working full time and checking in frequently on two sick pa1·cnts while raising Christina and her brother, Chad. Ami they say police exaggerated the apartment's conditions.

Defense attorney Michael Cardoza said Christina didn't tell her mother about the bed­sores.

Prosecutors question why Christina had not seen a doc­tor since 1992 and dropped out of school after the sixth

Christina Corrigan

grade. Doctors saw Christina 90 times

during her life - the last time when she was 9 and weighed at least 237 pounds. ·Instead of call­ing in specialists they advised her to "eat less, exercise more."

And school officials, accord­ing to Cardoza, ignored Ms. Co!l'igan 's requests for help in gelling Christina up a steep hill to a junior high school.

Endocrinologist Dr. Dianne Budd testified that putting Chris­tina on :t diet prnbably only made her fatter bcc.1usc as food is re­stricted. 1hc body switches into starva1ion mlllic. lowering its meta ho I ic rak.

Weight experts say the case highlights the shame altached to obesity and how dillicult it. is for obese people to get he Ip.

"We arc so al'raid of what fat has come to mean ... we are so tc:rrificd of it and we so w,,nt t control it and get rid of it and surgically remove it and suck it out of our bodies,'' said Debora Bu1-gard, a psychologist who treats people with eating disorders and weight preoccupation.

Marilyn Wann, editor of the San Francisco-based magazine FAT!SO? who herself is 5-foot-4 and 270 pounds, said the trial has generated a lot of interest but not much sensitivity, judging by the phone calls sile has !Uken while doing talk radio shows about the case.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, I 997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-31

· · - "TERRY'' 0

was called to her Eternal Rest on December 26, 1997 ~t the age of 46.

Father: Alejandro L. Cabuang Father-In-Law: Sylvestre T. Cruz

Brother: Hermie A. Cabuang Sister~In-law: Rosemarie E. Cruz

She will live forever in the hearts and memories of her:

,i:'-_?:.\:::{t·:.:)~.;::-::ii -.: . · . ·. ··.· · .. ·.·.. : · Husballd: Jose P. Cruz ,:;{\{);,\;\:/:.~~}~':!:;:_: Joanna &}loDle, Qhristoplie:(lail, I\ellflY Kurt, Joseph Jr., Gavin Kerry and Reeka Janae ', \{\\'+X,\\'::/{;'.' .; .. :::_ -.·, .... , . . Mother:·· .. ~ai::ina A. Cabuang ,\;\1,,,w,:,\' }:'\'·.-.- ·· ···· Mother-lri~Law: · Ana P. Cruz

. :::':~;,~>:k::\'.iE~'.';'.''.:\~;.~\, ,· .. ·,.,·:· .. ·.· . Brothers/Sisters/Spo~ses and.their children; "·" " ·' · .·· ,i:;,\\ ,·;:,. Rudy A. Cabuahg: (Cheryl, Arcie, Stella, Angela, Maridel and Boots) ·

,w· . , :,,:,::';;A;ma.D:i;lo'.& Miria Cabuang: (Ronaid, Lyrilyn, Emmaruth, Espie Edith, Margaret & Carmen) ::i/)55~.::::ir}}'.:i;:-.: .. •'. · -· -:.Tony & Teyang Cabuang: (Cecil) . , ::~{(:}/:/:.::~f:'f]:/3:. · .. Cecilia &_iJeffrey Cruz: (Jecelle, Raymond & Jam.illa) ·· -::{_::i/::.~::)~i:?:: · · Connie & Lyndsy Hinoguin: (Benedict & Lin,dsy Jr.)

· ·:: ,:~_ · Rafael A. Cabuang ·

Brothers/Sister-In-Law/Spouses and their children; Edward P. Cruz

Dolores & Samson Palacios: (Dwight, Verna & Betsy Ann) Jesus & Edna Cruz: (Conrad & Jason)

Bernie & Peter Palacios: (Regina, Reena, Peter Jr., & Reallyn) · Lorenda P. Cruz: (Milton Brent)

Luis & Marciana Cruz: (Emerson, Elizabeth, PeeJay & Jennifer) Jeffrey & Cecilia Cruz: (Jecelle, Raymond & Jamilla)

· Principia & Melvin Mokeya: (Thealanie Mae) Close Family Member: Cynthia A. Borja

She is additionally survived by numerous Aunts, Uncles, Godchildren, Nieces and Nephews

. : . Rosary is being said at daily at 12:00 no.01;1 at nightly at 8:00 pm at Tinian Health Center. . Viewing will be on Saturday, January 03, 1998 commencmg at 8:00 am at the residence of Mrs. Ana P. Cruz in San Jose

Village Tmian. Mass of Int.enlion will be offered on the same day at 2:30 pm. Burial Services will . . .. ' : follow immediately after the mass. .

' PLEASE JOIN US THE FAMILY

Pinochet asked not to talk politics until he left army

By EDUARDO GALLARDO SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The government Monday told Gen. Augusto Pinochet to refrain from political remarks until he steps down as commander in chief of the army after the former Chilean dictator threatened to reveal in­fomiation in a bid to silence his critics.

Pinochet caused an uproar over the weekend by saying he had information that wou Id prove damaging to two pro-government senators, and that he would pub­lish it if the legislators continued to criticize him. ·

Immediately after leaving the am1y Pinochet will become a sena­tor for life, as provided under the constitution written by his 1973-90 dictatorship.

His decision to enter the Senate has prompted strong criticism from elected pro-government leg­islators. Some have warned that as a senator, Pinochet will have to endure criticism from his col­leagues that he has been spared while serving as army chief.

'"Let them tell me things. I can tell them a few things myself," Pinochet said over the weekend whilevisitingPuntaArenas, a city 3,300 kilometers (2,050 miles) south of here.

Defense Minister Edmundo Perez summoned Pinochet to his office Monday afternoon to tell him to limit his public remarks to military matters.

"I told him it is necessary that he abstains from these political remarks until he leaves his post" as commander in chief of the army, Perez said after the 15-minu tc private meeting with Pinochet.

And he said he has intelligence information that would damage Socialist senators Jose Viera­Gallo and Sergio Bitar. The dossier on Viera-Gallo "'is one inch-thick," he said.

Socialist Senator Carlos Ominami called Pinochet threats "Mafia-style tactics."

Gen. Ricardo /zurieta, who in January will replace Gen. Augusto Pinochet as commander in chief of the Chilean army, leaves the government palace La Moneda followed by an aide, after he announced (o the pre~s the appointments of four retired military commanders as members of the senate in Santiago, Chile Wednesday. AP

There was no immediate re­action from the army or Pinochet to the reprimand.

Senator Bitar, referring to the Pinochet regime's massive human rights abuses, said ''Pinochet should enter jail, not the Senate."

Police: Two Japanese students murdered by soldiers in Peru

Pinochet, ll2, is to step down next month as commander in chief of the army, a post he has held for more than 24 years. I-I is appointed successor is Gen. Ricardo lzurieta, 55.

Both Viera-Gallo ·and Bitar said they have nothing lo hide and challenged Pinochet to pub! ish whatever information he may have on them.

By DAVID KOOP LIMA, Peru (AP) - Two Japanese students robbed and murdered while exploring the Amazon River in a flimsy raft were beaten with machetes

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and rifle butts, dismembered and buried in the jungle, po­l ice said Monday.

Police have arrested 16 sol­diers belonging to an army patrol based in the district of Pebas, 700 miles (1,125 kms) northeast of Lima along a re­mote stretch of the Amazon River, for the crime.

Investigators are examining the bodies of the students found this weekend buried in three graves in dense jungle 1600 feet (500 meters) from the Pijuayal army base where the soldiers were stationed.

Earlier reports had said the bodies were thrown into the Amazon River.

In one grave, police found the students' skulls, in the sec­ond a number of small bones and in the third larger bones, said Maj. Jaime Massey, a·po­lice official in the nearby city of Iquitos.

Reporters who saw the corpses said one skull was missing most of its teeth, bones were broken on both bodies and there were signs of cuts. The students were murdered and buried on Oct. 28, police said.

President Alberto Fujimori on Monday called the crime "monstrous" and said it could effect Peru's image as a safe place of visit. He called for severe sanctions against the ·soldiers.

"This act, though isolated, may create an erroneous im­pression of conditions in our country today. We do not have

the violence that we had in the 1980s and early 1990s," he told reporters.

Although few foreigners have been killed in Peru in recent years, political violence continues between leftist guer­rillas and soldiers in remote parts of the countryside.

Overall political violence has fallen sharply since the

. capture of iop rebel leaders in the early 1990s.

Dozens of Japanese journal­ists have arrived in Peru to cover the story.

Police last week found the students' camera, sleeping bags, Ii fc jackets and a small quantity of yen in the house-of_ a family living near the army base.

The soldiers stole about $ 2,500 the students were carry­ing, police said.

The students ~ Chiaki Ito, 22, and Takairo Miyashita, 23 - were members of the ex­plorers' club at Tokyo's pres­tigious Waseda University. They left the northern jungle city of Pucallpa in October en route to Manaus, Brazil.

Ito and Miyashita were at­tempting to navigate the Ama­zon River in a 6-by-9-foot (2-by-3 meter) raft made of balsa wood with a canopy of dried leaves. The boat was modeled after those used by the Amazon Indians. They spoke no Spanish and were not accompanied by a guide.

Fellow students said they be­came worried after the two failed to call in earlier this month as expected.

BETTER DRIVERS BUCKLE UP.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-33

· 11us1Nl:!SS Et illAl)I: !!F.!!1!-Stocks end mixed in Tokyo; dollar lower

Newest Lexus SUV introduced TOKYO (AP) - Japanese stocks

closed mixed Monday as some in­vestors sold on worries about the

· economy and others bought in case of a rally before the New Year's holidays. The U.S. dollar edged lower against the yen. The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell 27.38 points, or 0.19 percent, to 14,775.22, its lowest closesinceJulyS, 1995.0nl-'riday, the average had shed 497 .50 points, or 3.25 percent.

Yet the broader Tokyo Stock Price Index of all issues listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 4.28 points, or 0.37 percent, to I, 147.87. It had declined 18.64 points, or 1.60 percent, on Friday.

Trading was thin ahead of ex­tended New Year holidays that be­gin after a half-day of trading Tues­day, traders said. They said some investors, rocked by a string ofJapanesecorporatefailuresinrecent months,soldoff stocks amid worry that more Japanese companies could face insolvency soon.

Recent collapses include Y amaichi Securities Co., Japan's fourth-largest brokerage, and Nitto Kogyo Co., a major golf course management com-. pany that applied for a court-mediated settlement with creditors last week.

Other investors, many of whom had been bening the market would extend la~tweek'ssharpdeelines,boughtback some shares a~ a hedge against a pos-sible rally. traders said. ·

"Amid the lack ofboth fresh incen­tives and participants, furthersellingof stocks is unlikely at least for tomorrow (f uesday)," said Kunihiro Hatae, gen­eral Ill3fl.agerof the equities division at Tokyo Securities Co. "But the Nikkei average could again try the downside early in January."

An estimated 310 million shares changedhandsonthefirstsectionofthe

HK share ·prices close much higher

HONG KONG(AP)-Shareprices on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed sharply higher Monday aftera two-daybreakfortheChristrnasholi­days.

TheHangSenglndex,themarkct's key imlicatorofbluechips,rose I ffi55 points, or 1.6 percent, closing at I 0,502.99. The market wasclosedon Thursday and Friday.

Turnover amounted to a thin 3.25 billion Hong Kong dollars (U.S. $ 416 million) as many investors re­mained on the sidelines ahead of the New Year holiday.

Brokers attributed the rise to fu­tures-related buying in blue-chip stocks.

'"There was some technical buying ahead of the (Hang Seng Index) fu­tmes' expiry" on Tuesday,saidSean Li an associate director at Amsteel ~urities (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Among gainers, HSBC Holdings rose 3.00 Hong Kong dollars to 189.00, Hang Seng Bank rose 1.25 dollars to 74.25, Sun Hung Kai Prop­erties also rose 1.25 dollars to 52.75, and Oieung Kong rose 90 cents to 48.70.

Tokyo Stock Exchange, down from 381 million Friday. Declines outnum­bered gains 630 to 472, while 169 issues were unchanged.

Meanwhile, the dollar slid lower against the yen following comments Sunday by senior Finance Ministry official Eisuke Sakakibara that Ja­pan would take decisive action to support its currency.

In late afternoon, the dollar was trading at 130.08 yen, down 0.16 yen from late Friday in Tokyo and also below iL~ late New York rate of 130.41 yen.

"The market responded because the vice minister made strongly worded remarks for the first time in a while," said Makoto Miyazaki, chief manager of the foreign ex­change department at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. The dollar's decline was stopped, how­ever, when Japanese banks and in­stitutional investors moved in to buy the U.S. currency on dips near the 129.80-yen level, traders said.

Lexus Senior Vice President Jim Press introduces the new Lexus LX4 70 ::;port utility vehicle to members of the media at the Gr~ater Los Angeles Auto Show Monday. The LX470 was created to be roomier and more powerful than its predecessor, the LX450. AP

From: The [)epartment of Public Safety (December 12, 1997)

Renewal Fee for Personalized Vehicle License Plates Beginning in 1998 the required registration fee for all Personalized vehicle li?enses will be $100. This fe~ will be required on all new applications and on all renewals. These fees are required by Bureau of Motor Vehicles Regulations which were adopted in Qctober 1988,

These Regulations require an additional fee schedule_to the f~ sched~le_ set_ forth in 9 CMC 2104. The following additional fees will be collected pursuant to this Regulatmn beginning in 1998: 1. Personalized license plates: $75 + $25 (required by statute)= $100 2. Sample (collector's plates): $75 + $25 (required by statute) = $100

All motor vehicle used for commercial purposes will also be required to pay additional fees pursuant to the Regulations: 1. Taxi: $25. + the appropriate fee required by statute. 2. Dealer: $200. + the fee required by statute. 3. Trailers and Low Boys: $25. + the fee required by statute. 4. Trucks: $100 + the fee required by statute. 5. Buses: $25. + the fee required by statute. --------------------------~-~-----------~~-In· the past, additional fees for these special· categories were only charged for the initial application. The Regulations make no such distinction and require these fees to be additional to the fees charged by statute. This includes renewal of registration of the vehicle licenses.

All safety inspections for motor carriers are the responsibility of the Department of Public Safety, Office of Highway Safety (Special Programs). All motors carriers m~st have satisfactoril~ pass~d a current safety inspection conducted by the Office of Highway Safety (Special Programs). These 1nspect1ons are conducted free of charge.

Only those safety inspections conducted by the Office of Highway Saf~ty (Special Progra~.s~ or by U.S. Department of Transportation will be accepted by the Department of Publ~c Safety and the D1v1s1?n of M_otor Vehicles. Previous licenses or authorizations by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to conduct safety inspections for motor carriers are revoked.

Questions concer~ing safety inspections for motor carriers should be directed to the Office of Hig;iway Safety (Special Programs).

:;. .....

To all the people of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, may the new year bring more opportunities

for our beautiful paradise the rising

SA\PAN, TINIAN AND ROTA (and the N orthem Islands)

of the Western Pacific

from the entire family of

MVE:3

Takeover ... Continued from page 1

ing to the possible adverae effects federalization may have on an economy nurtured over the years by US assistance funds.

Whiie the idea of a takeover was not new, in as much as US Congress has fot years teen discussing it, there was never a time when it was given a push bythePresidentofthe United States'.

Everyone waited in bated breath. . Congressional visits

Faced with grim possibilities of severe worker shortage, businesses closing and an economy collapsing, Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio went on an intense lobbying campaign both here andin Washington,D.C. tothwartthe move.

WhileTenoriodefendedtheCNMI from takeover proponents both in Congress and in the Clinton Admin­istration,hisconsultants fromreputed D.C.-Iobbying firm Preston Gates worked behind the scenes setting up a series of fact-finding visits to the CNMlby Members of Congress and staffers. ·

Thevi8itsweretogiveMembersof Congress a first-hand look at the CNMI situation and how "unfairly" the Commonwealth has teen con­demned .•

Over a span of several months, there were at least six US Congress­men, about 70 staffers from the US House and the Senate, including sev­eral me_mbers oill.C. think-tanksand conservative groups, who also joined the trips to the islands.

Apparently, the strategy worked as the year seems to be ending without incident, despite the takeover legisla­tion introduced by known CNMI sympathizeis US Sens. Daniel Akaka and Frank Murkowski. ·

For how Jong the effort will keep federalization at bay, nobody knows.

Lately, Tenorio 'srelianceonHouse Republicans helping status quo in the CNMI gained a notch higher with the yearendvisitofHouseMajority Whip Tom Delay who assured the CNMI the takeover bid "doesn't have a fu­ture" as Jong as Republicans control Congress.

Local politics Meanwhile,thegovemorgrappled

with problems he faced in the local political arena at a time when he was seeking reelection for a second and last term.in office in November l st

It was in February when his very own lieutenant governor, Jesus C. Borja, officially broke up with him and announced a team-up with Natu-

. ral Resources Sec. Benigno M. Sablan.

After efforts by Democratic pruty leaders to unify Tenorio. and Borja failed, a search for a Tenorio runningmate ensued ,md outgoing Saipan Mayor JesusS .. DL Gumero was tapped.

TI1e tandem got a big boost when Republican fom1er governor Lany I. Guerrero, Tenorio's.opponent in the 1993 gubernatorial elections, swung over to his side.

The three-way gubematoiial con­test was to be exciting like no other. It was a battle between Tenorio, Borja and the CNMI' sonly two-term gov­ernor, Pedro P. Tenorio.

The latter, known in local circles as "Teno," won convincingly.

That 'Teno' magic 111e phenomenal comeback of

former governor Pedro P. Tenorio for .m unprecedented tl1iitl tem1 as gov­ernor 1emains one of tl1e top stories

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-35

for the year just about to end. Tenorio' s electrifying win at the

polls last November could only be eclipsed by his convincing victory in the courtroom.

After winning over 5,CXX) votes in the elections, Teno's win was chal­lenged by Democratic Party officer Manasses Borja who invoked the provision in the Constitution that sets a two-term limit for governors.

But the court ruled the provision, which was ratified during Teno' ssec­ondterm, wouldnothavetakeneffect onTenoretmactively,andthathecan still serve as governor.

The ruling seals Teno 's place in Northern Marianas history as the the only governor to ever serve a third term.

Although the case has been el­evatedtotheSupremeCourt, Teno's overall political victory will go down in CNMI'srecord books as the great­est of all political comebacks, one that may remain unparalleled.

Withtheappealbroughttothehigh tribunal, preparation for a transition, meanwhile, has began only to be snagged by the post-election firings and forced resignation of officials in the Froilan Tenorio Administration.

Disasters come Teno will be assuming power at a

time when the CNMI is reeling from the damages brought by a numberof devas!Rting typhoons, the last two

necessitating federal disaster decla­rations from US ~ident Ointon.

The destruction caused by supertyphoon Keith a day after ihe Noveml:er 1 general elections ren­dered a lot of residents homeless and reeling from severe financial losses.

1her islands' crops were wasted, the power infrastructure got messed up and everybody had to struggle with days even weeks of having to endure electricity-less existence.

Hundreds of residents, whose homes were either demolished deshiveled, took comfort at the help extended by Red Cross volunteers who planed in from the US and else­where for the relief efforts.

But just when the islands were about to rise from the "rubble" of Keith, another supertyphoon Paka, came early Decembertothwarthopes of an early return to normal I ife for islanders.

Ifitwasanyconsolation, however, Paka proved not too destructive on the main island of Saipan, although Rota was severely damaged.

· Federal assistance in the form of grants and other loans for those af­fectedbythetyphoonsareupcoming.

El Nifio effect One of the main factors cited as a

possible cause of these massive weather disturbances is the ongoing El Nifio phenomenon which has gripped not only the CNMI but the

entire world. El Nino isdescribedas a large mass

of warm water finding its way onto the surface of the ocean, subsequently causing unpredictably warm and dry or cold climates in some parts of the world. ·

Aside from the weather, El Nino is expected to have a direct effect on the region's fishing industry as well as cause a longer than usual dry season.

Other notable<i headline<; Of all police headlines that graced

the newspapers for the year, nothing may compare to the grisly murder of government employee Bennet Mendiola and the stabbing of her children in their Koblervi lie residence last January.

Later in the year; Antonio P. Villanueva, a family friend, was con­victed for the crime.

Another disturbing crime was the murder of Daiichi Hotel employee Eutropia Carlos whose body was found in shallow waters off a beach in Susupe.

Carlos'husband,whowasarrested asasuspectinthemurder, was subse­quent! y released after the court found insufficient evidence against him.

Another honible murder was that of Alan M. Obak whose lifeless body was found near Dandan Homestead recently.

Two suspects were arrested only last week.

In termsofaccidents, the year 1997 saw several both on the road and in the water.

The July drowning of two Japa­nese children at the Plumeria Hotel pool shocked the Saipan community.

The incident prompted a renewed drive by authorities to compel com­pliance to~ regulations concerning existing lifeguard requirements.

Anotheraccidentthathuggedhead­lines was the Beach Road accident that killed Police Sgt Joaquin K. Camacho in Noveml:er.

Police believe alcohol wasinvolved in the accident

(With reports from Ferdie de la Torre and ?.aldy Dandan)

Casino • • • Continued from page 1

Yeung said a "group of people" was trying to negotiate with the con-tractor yesterday. .

Yeung said the workers who walked out were still not back in their jobs. They included Chinese and locally hired individuals, he said.

Yeung said Hong Kong Entertain­ment was promised that the problem would be resolved quickly.

Yeung said tl1e st.like won't "nec­essarily" result in the delay of the hotel's planned opening in March because "the civil work is 90 percent done."

. T: Is IS TO INFORM ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT THE GOVERNOR'S JTPA OFFICE IS SOLICITING ONE HUNDRED (100) APPLICANTS FOR THE YOUTH

VACATION EMPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAM.

GIVEN THE CRITICAL NEED OF ESTABLISHING WORK EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS

EXITING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, PRIORITY CONSIDERATION WILL BE ACCORDED TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AGES 16 & UP, WHO ARE BELOW THE POVERTY INCOME

GUIDELINE (ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGE).

HOWEVER, DEPENDING ON THE AVAILABILITY OF LOCAL FUNDING, THE PROGRAM MAY

ACCOMMODATE THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE CONSIDERED HIGH INCOME (WITHIN THE

SAME AGE RANGE) TO FULFILL THE 100 SLOTS.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS FRIDAY, JANUARY 02, 1998. No APPLICATION WILL

BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE ESTABLISHED DATE.

ALL STUDENTS ON BLUE TRACK ARE ENCOURAGED TO VISIT THE JTPA OFFICE

LOCATED DIRECTLY ACROSS CUC, OR CONTACT MRS. GINA S. WESLEY OR MR.

MARTIN C. PANGELINAN AT 664-1700/4 FOR MORE INFORMATION.

RESPECTFULLY,

/s/ MARTIN C. PANGELINAN Deputy Director, JTPA

36-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-DECEMBER 31, 1997

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSING

Pursuant to P.L Secoon 11. GovernorFroilan C. Tenorio and LL Governor Jesus C. Borja thro~h the Board of Professional Licensing (BPL) are hereby g,il1g notice that ~ wiil hokl Is regular month~ meeting on Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 10:00AM at the Board's Office localed on the 2nd Floor of the Island Commercial Center Building in Gualo Fla( Saipan. The Board \\ill also meet in E!ecutiveSessbnlhesamedayat I :OOPMatthe same locatio~ Agenda for the board meeting ~ as lol~ws:

1. Call lo Order 2. Determination ol Quorum 3. Review and Adoption al Agenda 4. Review and Adoption ol MinL~es -

December 1 B, 1997 Meeting Minutes 5. CommunicaGons from

Governor's Olfce & Legislature A. Governor's Olf~e. B. Leg~lature

6. Chairman's Report

is/Juan a. Jnos Chairman

7. Board Admin~trator's Report 8. lnves~ator's Report • 9. Comm~ee Reports .

A. Establ~hment of Standing Comm~ees 10. Oki Business:

A. Appli:alons for Boan!'s Review 11. Nr:w Business 12. Miscellaneous Business

A. P. Rasa's Re:iuest (REA) 13. Ad~umment of Meeting

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SL \1\10\S FOi( l'LBI.ICATIO\

TO: THEABOVE-NA~ll:D DEFENDANT:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and notified to rne any answer you wish 10 make to the Complaint. a copy of which is served upon you hereby, within 1wenty-one (21 J days alier the founh publication of 1his Summons, and to deliver or mail a copy of your answer to White. Pierce. Mailman & Nulling. 1he Plaintiff's Attorneys. whose address is P.O. Box 5222. Saipan. MP 96950, as soon as practicable after filing your answer or sending it to the Clerk of Courts for filing.

You answer should be in writing and filed with the Clerk of this Court at Susupe, Saipan. It may be prepared and signed for you by your counsel and sent to the Clerk of this Court by messenger or mail. It is not necessary for you to appear personally until f unher noti(e. If you fail to answer in accordance with this Summons, judgment by default may be taken against you for the relief. demanded in the Complaint.

By order of the above court:

ls/Deputy Clerk of Court

DATE, this 19th day ofDecember, 1997.

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.f IN TIii, SUPERIOR COURTOfTIIE

COMMON\\'EAU'II Ol'TIIE NORTIIERN MARIA\/A ISi.ANDS

In the '.\1atter of the Adoption of KADYA LITIL!lWOL IGNACIO

ROGOLIFOI ,\ Minor Female Child.

By LAN.\ LYNN Ll~!ES FITIAL, Petitioner. Adoption Action No. 97.0203

NOTICE OF HEARING

Notice is hereby given that a verified petition was tiled in the above-entitled

court for the petition for adoption of Kadya Litilbwol Ignacio Rogolifoi by Lana Lynn Limes Fitial, ihe petitioner. The original pclilion is available for review at Jhe Office oflhe Clerk of Court 31 Susupe, Saipan.

A hearing of the above-entitled matter will be held on February 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m. at the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Dated L~is I 5th day of December, 1997.

ls/Deputy Clerk of Court

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN

MARIANA ISLANDS ·

In Re The Estate Of Lourdes Ogo Taitano, Deceased. Probate Action No. 97-1052

NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner, !he Commonwealth Health' Center, has filed a Pe1i1ion in the Superior Court of !he Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands praying lhat an administrator be appointed to administer the estate of LOURDES OGO TAITANQ, deceased. The attorney of record is Celeste E. Andersen, Special AssistanJ Attorney General, Department of Public Health, P.O. Box 409 CK, Saipan, MP 96950.

The hearing on the Petition is set for Janua1y 6, 1998 at the Commonwealth ~uperior Court, Susupe, Saipan at 1:30 p.m. in Co"rtroom B. Any person who has any objection to the petiiion may file his or her objcciion with Ihe Superior Court al any time before Ihe hearing, or may appear at the time set for hearing Jo pn:senr such objection or interest in the abovc-capiiuned maucr.

Notice is hereby given by Ihe undersigned to the crediiors of, and all persons having claims against Ihe Estate of LOURDES OGO TAITANO, that within sixty (60) days after the publication of this noJicc, they must file their claims with the Clerk of Court of the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any claims no! so presented shall be barred. Dated: December 3, 1997.

ls/Deputy Clerk of Court Commonwealth Superior Court

IN TllE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN

MARIANA ISLANDS

In Re The Estate Of Julian Norita, Deceased. Probate Action No. 97-1053

NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner, the Commonwealth Health Center, has filed a Petition in the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands praying that an administrator be .appointed to administer the estate of JULIAN NORIT A, deceased. The attorney of record is Celeste E. Andersen, Special Assistant Attorney General, Department of Public Health, P.O. Box 409 CK, Saipan, MP 96950.

The hearing on the Petition is set for January 16, 1998 at the Commonwealth Superior Court, Susupe, Saipan t 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom B. Any person who has any ob}ection to the petition may file his or her objection with the Superior Court at any time before the hearing, or may appear at the time _set for hearing to present such objection or interest in the above-captioned matter.

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against ti1e Estate of JULIAN NOR!TA, that within sixty (60) days after the publication of this notice, they must file their claims with the Clerk of Coun of the Superior Court of tl1e Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and any claims not so presented shall be barred. Dated: December 3, 1997.

ls/Deputy Clerk of Court Commonwealth Superior Court

FBI • • • Continued from page 1

Speculation among certain resi-. dents here, including elected offi­cials, was that the search had something to do with the investi­gation of alleged misuse of casino funds initiated by the Senate.

This reporter entered the Mayor's Office building at around 4:30p.m. throughabackdoorand saw cabinets containing papers flungopen. Membersofthesearch team were in one rooin conferring with one another.

Two FBI agents, however, led this scribe out of the building as only members of the raiding team were supposed to be inside. They then locked the back door.

Mayer Manglona, meantime, cooled his heels in an office at the unfinished Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino. The Variety tried to ask for an interview but an aide said the mayor could not make himself available.

The mayor returned to his of­fice after the FBI agents had left the building at almost 5 p.m.

There were speculations, too, that the search team had received "helpful information" from Paul Palmer, director of the Tinian

DOLi Continued from page 1

source said. Some Chinese officials are to

be sent over to look after the hir­ing and entry of their people, said the source.

"They want to double check, triple check the entries and they want to be more careful on the number of people coming here," the same source added.

Government records showed that last year, Chinese nationals comprised I 52 of the 209 for-

IN TIIE SUPERIOR COURT OP THE COM~ONWEALTII OFTI-IE NORTHERN

MARIANA ISLANDS

In Re The Estate Of Juana Francisca L. Villanueva Deceased. Probate Action No. 97-1187

Notice of Hearing and Notice to Creditors

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Iha!

Petitioner, the Commonwealth Health Center, has filed a Peli lion in the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of the Nonhcm Mariana Islands praying thut an administrntor be appointed to administer the estate of JUANA FRANCISCA LIZAMA VILLANUEVA, deceased. Thl' ·attorney of record is Celeste E. Andersen, Special Assisranl Attorney General, Department of Public Health, P.O. Box 409 CK, Saipan, MP 96950.

The hearing on the Petition is sci for January 6, 1998 al the Commonwcalih Superior Court, Susupe, Saipan, al 1:30 pm in Counroom B. Any person who has any objcciion to the petition may file his or her objceiion with the SuperiorCoun al any time before the hearing, or may appear at the lirnc set for hearing to present such objection or interest in the above-captioned mallcr.

Notice is hereby given by 1he undersigned lo the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the Estate of JUANA FRANCISCA LIZAMA VILLANUEVA, that within sixty (60) days after the publication of this notice, !hey must file their claims wilh the Clerk of Court of the Superior Coun of Ihe Commonwealth of lhe Nonhcm Mariana Islands, and any claims nor so prcsenJed shall be barred.

Dated: Dccemocr 2, 1997.

lsiDcputy Clerk of Coun Commonwealth Superior Court

Casino Gaming Control Commis­sion.

Palmer is a central figure in the investigation being conducted by the Senate committee on execu-. tive appointments and govern­mental investigations headed by Tinian Sen. David M. Cing.

The Office of the Public Audi­tor is also involved in the investi­gation.

Tinian Assistant Police Chief Antonio 0. Kiyoshi said the FBI called late morning when the search team arrived to conduct its operation. . "The FBI called just to inform

us, as a matter· of courtesy," he said, adding that the police was not involved in the operation.

"It's a federal search warrant," Kiyoshi said.

Kiyoshi also said he did not know what the search was for.

The team took with them sev­eral boxesofdocumentsandother materials including computers from the Mayor's Office. Some of them were loaded in a commer­cial ferry boat. An FBI agent was seen securing one box of docu­ments. A Department of Public Safety bo'at arrived from Saipan late afternoon. It was supposed to transport the more important documents.

eigners deported by the CNMI government mostly for overstay-. ing.

The bulk of.those deported this year is also composed of Chinese nationals--120 of the 215 deportees.

Jones said although he has not received any fonnal communica­tion from Chinese government as to their action, he welcomed such restriction plans ..

'Tm glad that everybody is doing it. The entry of workers has to be in true purpose," Jones pointed out, adding that other countries should follow suit in determining that all documents are not fabricated.

He said DOLi is not only very particular with Chinese workers, but with Filipinos, Bangladeshis, Koreans and other nationalities working in the CNMI as well.

tN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE C0MMONWEALTH OF THE NORmERN

MARIANA ISLANDS

In the Matter of JOVIARICE a minor child By: ROBERT B. & EDNA SINGSON ORTEGA RICE Petitioners. CIVIL ACTION NO. 97-206

NOTICE OF MOTION FOR PARENTAL DECREE AND/OR ADOPTI°ON OF JOVL\ RICE BY FATHER ROBERT B.

RICE AND NAME CHANGE

Time: Date: Judge:

9:00am January 15, 1998 Virginia S. Onerheim

TO: EDNA SINGSON ORTEGA RICE, ALL INTERESTED PARTIES

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that petitioners Rohen B. Rice and Edna Singson Ortega Rice, petition for pauental decree and/ or adoption of Jovia Rice by the Natural and Legal Father Robert B. Rice and name change shall be heard before the Superior Court of the Northern Mariana Islands and request thal the above court issue a Decree of Parental Status and/or a Decree of Adoption staling that the petitioner Robert B. Rice is the legal and natural father of Jovia Rice and the name of Jovia Rice be changed to Jovia Ortega Rice. This notice will be published on three consecutive weeks in a CNMI publication the last being no less than seven days befor~ the hearing. ·

Dated this 18th day of December, 1998. is/Robert B. Rice

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-37

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01 SEAMAN-Salary:$550.00-850.00per month 01 DIESEL ENGINE MECHANIC-Sal­ary:800.00-1, 000.00 per month Contacl: JG SABLAN ISLAND SHIP­PING. INC. Tel. 234-3221(12/ 31)W67203

01 MAINTENANCE REPAIR-Sal­ary:$3.05 per hour Contact: JAMES D & JESUSA R. CABRERA Tel. 322·5989(12i 31)W25002

----------03 H.E. MECHANIC-Salary:$3.05-4.sa per hour 01 QUARRY MANAGER-Sal-ary:$900.00-1,500.00 per month 06 H.E. OPERATOR-Salary:$3.05-4.5D per hour 01 BATCHING PLANT SUPERVISOR­Salary:$90D.00-1,500.00 per month Contact: JG SABLAN ROCK QUARRY INC. Tel. 234-3221(12/31)W67205

01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour Contact: MARGARITA DLG. CASTRO dba Mamis Catering Te!. 235-1569(12/ 31)W24998

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$4.25 per hour Contact: ANTONIO S. CAMACHO dba Westpac Freight Tel. 322-5537(12/ 31)W25000

02 COOK-Salary:$3.05 per hour D1 WAITRESS RESTAURANT 1-Sal­ary:$3.05 per hour Contact: JNM KINTOL CORPORATION dba Auntie Mag's Diner Tel. 288-0375(12/31)W24997

06 LANDSCAPE GARDENER-Sal­ary;$3.05-3.25 per hour Contact: CALVO'S DEVELOPMENT INC. dba Calvo's Nursery and Land­scaping Tel. 234-6120(12/31)W24995

01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal­ary:$3.05 per hour Contact: YOUNG CHUL PARK dba Pro­fessional Enterprises Tel. 234-720D(12/ 31)W24993

01 ELECTRICAL ENGINEER-Sal­ary:$1,500.00-1, 750.00 per month Contact: SPECTRUM ELECTRIC, INC. Tel. 322-4600(12/31)W25003

01 GENERAL BUILDING MAINTE­NANCE-Salary:S3.50-4.5D per hour Contact: TOWN HOUSE, INC. dba De­partment Store ( 12/31 )W67208

01 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 TRUCK DRIVER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 APPLIANCES REPAIRER-Sal­ary:$3.05 per hour Contact: YCO CORPORATION dba YCO Servi star Hardware/Liberty Plaza/ YCO Construction Tel. 235-6604(12i 31)W67211

02 ELECTRJCIAN·Salary:$3.05-7.00 per hour Contact: KIMCO ENTERPRISES, INC. Tel. 234-3201 ( 12i31 )W25004

01 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Sal-ary:$805.00 per month 01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Sal­ary:$7DO.OO per month Contact: UNIVERSE INSURANCE UN­DERWRITERS (MIC.) dba Hafa Adai International Travel Agency Tel. 234-7134(12/31)F25021

02 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:S600.00-1,900.00 per month Contact: NIIZEKI CO. LTD. Tel. 234-5D50( 12i31 )T69927

01 SALES CLERK-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: 3A'S POLYSHINE Tel. 235-8418 24828

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$6.75-7.5D per hour 02 WELDER-Salary:$3.50 per hour 02 STEVEDORE 2-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: SAIPAN STEVEDORE COM­PANY, INC. Tel. 322-6469(12/ 31)F67354

----------01 MUSICIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: ROLAND G. JASTILLANA dba Elite Personnel Services Tel. 235-1629( 12/31) F67356

01 GENERAL MANAGER-Sal-ary:$15.00-20.00 per hour 01 (SUPERVISOR) SALES SECTION­Salary:$5.00-8.00 per hour 01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal­ary:$3.05-5.00 per hour 01 TIME KEEPER-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour 02 (OVERHAULER) SEWING MA­CHINE REPAIRER-Salary:$3.05-5.00 per hour 01 COOK-Salary:$3.05-3.50 per hour D4 INSPECTOR (QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER)-Salary:$3.05-3.50 per hour 08 CUTTER, MACHINE-Salary:$3.05-5. DO per hour 10 PRESSER, MACHINE-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour 50 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary:$3.05-5.00 per hour 01 SHIPPING AND RECEIVING (CLERK)-Salary:$3.05-3.50 per hour Contact: NEO FASHION INC. Tel. 234-9642( 12/31 )F25036

D1 NC TECHNICIAN-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: NARUSE IDIP Tel. 322-9797(12/31)F25035

D1 MECHANIC MAINTENANCE SU­PERVISOR-Salary:S1 ,D00.00-2, 100.00 per month Contact: SAIPAN SANKO TRANSPOR­TATION, INC. Tel. 235-7621(12/ 31)F25034

01 GROUND HOST/HOSTESS-Sal­ary:SS00.00-1,800.0D per month Contact: R & C TOURS SAIPAN, INC. Tel. 235-7621 (12/31)F25033

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:S5.00-10.00 per hour Contact: VIT11 MICRONESIA COM­PANY Tel. 235-7621(12/31)F25032

01 MAINTENANCE REPAIRMEN (BUILDING)-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: JOHN C. SANTOS dba J & P ENTERPRISES Tel. 234-9458(12/ 31)F25031

01 AUTO MECHANIC-Salary:$3.50-4.00 per hour Additional allowance: Housing allow­ance $110.00 plus $50.DO gasoline al­lowance per month taxable 01 BUS CLEANER-Salary:$3.05-3.50 per hour Additional allowance: Housing allow­ance S110.00 plus $50.00 gasoline al­lowance per month taxable Contact: STS ENTERPRISES, INC. Tel. 235-3760(12/31 )F25028

01 CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVI­SOR-Salary:$1,200.00 per rnonth Contact: KIM ENTERPRISES, INC. dba Auto Repair Shop & Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Tel. 322-0469(12/ 31)F25018

01 SUPERVISOR (PRODUCTJON)­Satary:$3.50 per hour Contact: YOUNIS ART STUDIO, INC. dba Marianas Variety News & Views Tel. 234-6341 (12/31)F67352

03 SCUBA DIVING INSTRUCTOR-Sal­ary:$1,000.00 per month 01 SCUBA DIVING INSTRUCTOR-Sal­ary:$1,D00.00 per month Contact: BIG DOG CORPORATION dba Big Dog Dive Station Saipan Tel. 322-2363(12/31 )F25020

01 BUTCHER-Salary:$ 4.50 per hour Contact: PACIFIC WORLD ENTER­PRISES, LTD. dba Sugar Dock Markel Tel. 235-1492(12/31)F25024

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01 SALESPERSON-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: LETICIA E. PADUA dba JP Ent./Double L Mini mart (12i31 )F25027

01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSJSTANT-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour 01 CASHIER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: INTERNATIONAL INC. dba Cost & Save Wholesale Tel. 288-0201/ 2(12131)F25045

01 ADMINJSTRATIVEASSJSTANT-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour 01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary:$3.05 pe rhour 01 MAINTENANCE REPAJRER(BUILDING)-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: SAIPAN HOUSING DEVEL­OPMENT dba New Classic Apartment Tel. 234-1073(12/31 )F25044

01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSJSTANT-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour Contact: NOEL M. SORIA dba Com­puter Bus Services Group Tel. 235-6056(12i31 )F25043

01 TUTOR-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: THE JINS INC. dba CSTV & Solomon Academy Tel. 235-5501 ( 121 31)F25041 03 REF. &AIRCON TECHNICIAN-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour Contact: JAMES P. REYES JR. dba Erik's Refrigeration Tel. 235-7093(12/ 31)F25D12

01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary:$3.05 per hour Contact: JAIME AGLIPAY dba Good Samaritan Tel. 234-1118(12131)F25D11

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$700.0D-1,500.0D per month 01 CARGO AGENT-Salary:$3.05-5.00 per hour 01 FOREIGN EXCHANGE TELLER­Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour Contact: PINOY EXPRESS (PX SAi PAN) I NC. Tel. 235-5006( 12/ 31)F25019

01 SALES SUPERVISOR-Salary:S3.05 pe rhour 01 SALES PESONNEL-Salary:S3.D5 per hour Contact: NAINA ENTERPRISES INC. dba Roshis Variety Store Tel. 234-6533( 12/31) F25025

05 WAITER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 CASHIER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 BARTENDER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour 05 WAITRESS-Salary:S3.05 per hour 02 MUSICIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour D4 COOK-Salary:SJ.05 per hour Contact: DIONNE A. CASTRO dba El Toro Contento Tel. 234-2176( 11 14)W25117

01 EQUIPMENT PARTS MAN (WARE­HOUSE WORKER)-Salary:S4.50 per hour 02 HEAVY EQUIPMENT FOREMAN (TRUCK SUPERVISOR)-Salary:S5.50 per hour 05 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC­Salary:$4.50 per hour D5 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR­Salary:$4.50 per hour 01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR­Salary:S4.50 per hour 01 CONSTRUCTION LABORER-Sal­ary:S4.00 per hour Contact: HAWAIIAN ROCK PROD­UCTS CORPORATION Tel. 322-0407(1/14)W25119

01 MANAGER-Salary:SB00.00 per month Contact: MST PACIFIC CORP. dba Sakura Sushi House Tel. 233-0432(1/ 14)W25118

Studio Type-$370/monlh, utiltty excluded

1 Bedroom-$550/month, utiltty included Furnished, in Koblerville

Quiel, single or couple onty Da - 234-1233 • Eve-288-2222

01 BARTENDER-Salary:$3.05-6.00 per hour 02 NIGHT AUDITOR-Salary:$4.00-9.50 per hour 02 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$4.00-13.00 per hour 04 COOK-Salary:$3.05-7.50 per hour 01 ASST. CHIEF COOK-Salary:S3.05-10.00 per hour 04 WAITRESS, RESTAURANT-Sal­ary:S3.D5-6.00 per hour 01 WAITER, RESTAURANT-Sal­ary:$3.05-6.00 per hour 02 CASHtER-Satary:S3.05-5:00 per hour 01 FRONT DESK CLERK-Salary:S3.05-4. 50 per hour 01 POWER PLANT OPERATOR-Sal­ary:$3.05-7.00 per hour 02 POWER PLANT MECHANIC-Sal­ary:$3.05-7.00 per hour 01 AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC-Sal­ary:S3.05-5.00 per hour 04 SECURITY GUARD-Salary:S3.05-7.00 per hour 01 GOLF COURSE STARTER-Sal­ary:$3.05-4. 75 per hour 01 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER, BU ILDING-Salary:$3.05-10.50 per hour 02 LABORER (BRUSH CLEARING)­Salary:$3.05-5.75 per hour 03 HOUSEKEEPING, CLEANER-Sal­ary:$3.05-6.00 per hour 01 GREENSKEEPER-Salary:$3.05-8.00 per hour 03 (BELLBOY) BELLHOP-Sal-ary:S3.05-6.50 per hour 02 MASSEUSE-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour 01 ASSISTANT MANAGER-Sal­ary:S800.D0-2,975.DO per month 01 CHIEF ACCOUNTANT-Sal-ary:$800.D0-2,500.00 per month Contact: SUWASO CORPORATIOI~ dba Coral Ocean Point Reson Club Tel. 234-7DOO( 1114 )W70020

01 SALES SUPERVISOR-Salary S3.05 per hour Contact: YU'S ENT. (U.S.A.) INC. LTD. dba Chotto Ettchina Omiyage Ya San Tel. 233-1390(1114)W25123

IO PAINTER-Salary:$3.05 per hour IO MASON-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: PHILIPPINE GOODS CON­STRUCTION. INC. dba Gen. Construc­tion Contractor Tel. 234-6485( 1/ 14)W70028

01 LATHE MACHIE OPERATOR-Sal­ary :$3.05-3.20 per hour 02 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary:$3.50-10.00 per hour Contact: WESTERN EQUIPMENT, INC. (1i14)W70030

01 CARPENTER-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: H.S. LEE CONST. CO., INC. dba H.S. Lee Eqpt. & Aprt. Tel. 234-6856(1 /14)W70040

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:S850.00 per month Contact: BLANCO VENDE LTD. dba Kiosk Shop Tel. 322-3313(1/14JW25112

01 WAITRESS-Salary:S3.05-3.15 per hour Contact: DEVELOP IDEAS CORPORA­TION dba Yamazato Restaurant Tel. 233-0350(1/14)W25111

0 I SALES MANAG ER-Salary:S90D.OO per month Contact: ROLANDO C. MANUNTAG dba Breadline Marketing Tel. 235-8987(1/14)W25116

01 WAITRESS-Salary:$3.05-3.15' per hour Contact: DEVELOP IDEAS CORPORA­TION dba Yamazato Restaurant Tel. 233-0350(1/14)W25111

01 BAKER HELPER-Salary:$3.25 per hour Contact: MEITETSU SHOPPING CEN­TER, INC. dba Meitetsu Mart/Penny's Meitetsu (Rota) Tel. 234-7313(1/ 14)W25114

~Jfl•X~•I•) total fixed price mon ly income SB,000.00

16 units apartment & 3 commercial stores-fully occup,oo

12 years le.sse remaining Call Da 234-1233 • Eve 288-2222

,. .... ------------------------. 38-MARlANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-DECEMBER 31 1997

EEK-& MEEK® by Howie Schneider

PEANUTS®. by Charles M. Schulz

STELLA WTLDER

YOUR BIRTHDAY By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a por­

trait of inconsistencies that, taken individually, may serve only to confuse your friends, family and co-workers. How­ever, when unified and taken as a whole, these paradoxes make you one of the most in­teresting, complex and human individuals born under your sign. You are indescribable, for as soon as the description is established your behavior or character seems to defy it in some unexpected way. You ·may be mistaken for a Gemini native, or perhaps for a Cancerian who behaves one way in public and another in private.

You are creative, but some­times troubled, and you often find yourself worrying over issues that do not affect you at all. To say you are conscien-

?tious is putting it mildly; you are sometimes.far too eager to do what is right, and you often cannot live up to your own expectations. ·

Also born on this date are: John Denver, singer; Ben Kingsley, actor; Donna Sum­mer, singer; Diane von Furstenberg, fashion de­signer.

To sec what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birth­day and read the correspond­ing paragraph·. Let your birth-

id:ay star be your daily guide. I;'. THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1998 f. HAPP\' NEW YEAR!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Your day - and your year - are likely to be­gin in a fashion that surprises you. Despite your planning, you 're going to have to im­provise.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - See if you can't do more right from the start to

.lend a hand to those who need it. Even in social situations, you can be more cooperative.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - A promise that you know cannot be kept will be made before the day is out -but you'll be more than will­ing to accept what comes in­stead.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - You may not be able to believe everything you hear today' even when news comes from reliable sources. Your perceptions are out of whack.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Wh"at transpires at the greatest pace today may be worth some further study -and possibly a little suspicion as well. ls it what it seems?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) - You can get what you want, but you may have to wait. Pa­tience is a virtue; take the ti me today to plan a few steps ahead.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)- You may be in no mood to tackle the same old prob­lems today, but one or two must be solved before the new year is very many hours old.

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Team ... Continued from page 40

Taitano. Team P.L consisting of Aorence

Antonio, Patrick Antonio, Ronald Rafella, Amalia Balcita and Amalia Keene came in third in the senior's division, with a total time ofonehour, 36 minutes and 50 seconds.

In the junior division, Ladies & Agent consisting off racy Feger, Eun Jung Lee, Audra Winkfield, Tammy Winkfield and Jeremy Winkfield won first place.

Second place went to the Interna­tional Buccaneers, with memlx:rs from St. Mary's Buccaneer Swim Team of Japan. Last week they came to compete in the swimming meet with the Saipan Swim Club and an­other swim team from Senkai,J apan,

Tiger . .. Continued from page 40

the Masters last April was also voted sports Story of the Year by the AP.

Woods was the first golfer to Ix: honored as Male Athlete of the Year by the AP since Lee Trevino in 1971 and is only the fifth golfer to receive the award since it was instituted in 1931.

He joins Gene Sarazen ( J 932), ByronNc!son(l944-45),Benl-log,m ( J 953) mid T1evino in receiving tl1e awmd. It is an honor never won by Jack Nicklaus or Amold Palmer.

"It's really signific,mt m1d I appre­ciate d1e fact tl1at so few golfers have won it," Woods said. Tm swprised it turned out this way, but I am vc1y pleased with the awru-d."

Woods finished with 231 points in the voting to easily outdistance the National Football League's Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders, who had l 00 points, and boxer Evander Holyfield, third with 98 points.

Sanders joined Elie Dickerson and OJ. Simpson this year as the only NR. players to rush for more than 2,roJ yards in a season.

Holyfield lost a piece of his ear, but retained the WBA heavyweight title in June when Mike Tyson was dis­qualified for biting him twice.

the Central Sport. International Buccaneers com­

prised Tomoko Kitami, Kristi Goodrick, Aya ·suzuki, James Kimura-Green and Kento Yrunaki.

International Buccaneers clocked one hour,50 minutesand34seconds.

The Northern Marianas Track & Field Federation also acknowledge a runnerfromRota,DavidCalvo, who was able to run the 14.2-mile relay, andanotherrunnerfrom Ttnianwhose name was not immediately !mown.

TheNMTFFalsothankedthespon­sors which provided the prizes: Duty Free Shoppers, Rudolpho's,Plumeria Hotel,SaipanStevedore,PacificTrad­ing and Payless Supermarl<:et

Three police officers-Anthony Macaranas, Sylvan Rangamar and Charley Patris-guided the runners from Pacific Islands Club all the way to the Last Command Post

Rounding out the top-five vote getters were the National Basketball Association's Michael Jordan and the NFL's Brett Favre. Baseballer Ken Griffey Jr. was sixth, followed by auto racer Jeff

Gordon, baseballer Roger Clemens, base baller Marl<: McGwire and ice hockey star Mario Lemieux.

Woods likely won the award as much for his persona as for his perfor­mance. His enthusiasm, flair for the dramatic,aggressive style of play and ethnic mix in an overwhelmingly white game made him ru1 almost unlx:lievable marketing package.

And he wa~ the equal of the hype. Woods won the opening tourna­

ment of the year in dramatic fashion when he neru·Iy made a hole-in-one on thefirstplayoffholeatthe Mercedes Championships in January.

He then took the Asian Honda Classic tl1e next month in Thailand, his mother Tida's homeland, where his anival received live TV covernge usually reserved for heads of state.

His victol)' at the Masters in April was by a record-shattering J 2 strokes and took on added social significance tlmt put golf on the front pages lx:­cause Woods not only became tl1e first non-white to win a major golf championship but also did it at Au-. gusta National Golf Club, a virtual symbol of racial separation in the spo11.

WE.DNESDAY,DECEMBER 31, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-39

Nagano Olympics

Holums' first and her last? \VEST ALLIS, Wisconsin (AP) -Speedskater Kirstin Hoium is only 17, has broken her American record for 3,000metersthreetimesthisyear,made the U.S. Olympic team and is on the brink of international stardom.

That fame could .be fleeting. The 1998 Winter Olympics at

Nagano, Japan, will be the first and possibly the last for Hoium, of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

After winning the 3,000 Monday at the Pettit National Ice Center, Holum said she probably would quit after this season to pursue her dream of becom­ing an artist.

"'There's so much more out there than speedskating," said Holum, the daughter of Olympic gold medalist Dianne Holum. "It's too consuming. I don't know what it's like not to skate. I want to get on with (my life)."

That includes going to art school after graduating in the spring from Milwaukee Pius High School. But the best art schools are in the east, which would mean leaving the U.S. training

Palacios . .. Continued from page 40

am. to get ready for the.swimming practice which lasts two and one-half hours.

His classes atart at 9: 30 and ends at 2 p.m. on Mondays.

On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sat­urdays his classes start at 8 am. and end at 2 p.m., after which he goes straight to swim training until 4:30 p.m.

Palacios will be leaving for Hawaii on Jan. 7 to meet his team­mates. They will have their spring training there.

From Hawaii he and his team­mates will go back to Stockton for more training until the school starts Jan. 27.

Hingis . .. Continued from page 40

fell from a horse for the second time in the year. An earlier fall in Australia didn 'thamperher march to the year's first Grand Slam tournament crown.

On Monday, Hingis was voted Female Athlete of the Year with 92 first-place votes and a total of 363 point,.

"lt is especially nice for me to receive this award from American writers because it is always impo11m1t to be 1-ecOb'Tlized as the best outside of your own country," Hingis said.

Golfer Annika Sorenstam finished second with 20 first-place votes and 178 points. Socccrplayer Mia Hamm was third with nine first-place votes and 95 points, and basketball st.u· Chm11ique Holdsclaw 1ecei ved 8 first­place votes and 69 points. Basketball playerCynthia Cooperwas fifth with 67 points.

Rounding out tl1e top IO we1e fig­ure skater Tara Lipinski (66 points), track and field star MruionJ ones (35), boxer Christy Martin (34), tennis player Venus Williams (25) ,md fig­ure skater Michelle Kwan (22).

Athletes received five points for each first-place vote, three point, for each second-place vote mid one point for each third-place vote.

Trained to be a champion from

facility for speedskaters at West Allis. "I like painting and drawing and

when colleges (looked at my portfolio) they thought I'd be good at illustra­tion," she said. "I want to go to college and have a job and evel)'thing else that comes with it."

Thatdecisionisfmewithhermother, who also is her coach and who won a gold; two silvers and a bronze at tl1e J 968 and J 972 Olympics.

"She has a Jot of God-given talent that she'd like to explore," her mother said. · The surprise announcement came after Hoium had broken her J 996 track record of 4 minutes, 18.3 seconds, with a time of 4:17.20_ Her U.S. record is 4: 13.05. She also is the 1997 world junior speedskating champion.

Hoium also could still qualify for the Olympics at 1,500 meters. It may be her only year at Olympic glory, but her motherunderstands why her daughter wants more out oflife than just skating.

"When I skated, when Eric Heiden (who won five golds in I 980) skated,

Asked why he chose Stockton to further his education, he said, "Stockton is one of the best schools offering computer engi­neering."

He encourages all kids in the CNMI to study harder and his swimmates to train harder.

"If a person wants to achieve his goal, he has to study harder and train harder in whatever field of endeavor he wants to succeed," he says.

He reserves his special thanks to his parents, David S. and Mar­garet M. Palacios, Coaches Jean an.d Bill Sakovich, the Saipan Swim Club members and his friends for giving giving him the much-needed push and encouragement_

Without them, he says, he wouldn't have achieved anything.

birth, Hingis was named after tennis starMartinaNavratilovaAndin Im, Hingis had the kind of year Navrntilova had in 1983, when she went 86-1 while winning the Austra­lian, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, stumbling only in the fourth round at the French Open. Hingis finished this year with a 75-5 record, won 12 titles and earned dlrs 3.4 million _ not to mention the millions she made from endorsements.

Vivacious and nearly always smil­ing, on tmd off cou11, Hingis showed both a fn:c spi1it and a tenacious will towin.Whenshewasn'tridinghorses she was mllerblading tl1rough a park alongside her mother and coach. Melanie Molitor, both of tliem un­concerned about potential inju1y. When Hingis hurt her knee beforetl1e French Open, she proudly spoke of going tl1rough surgery, saying that now she could really say she's an athlete.

No doubt Hingis lx:nefited from tl1e absence of in ju red Steffi Graf most of the year, and the inability of former No. l Monica Seles to regain herfonn and confidence after a series of in juries.

But whenever that fortuitous ab­sence of top competition was pointed out to her, Hingis confidently re­sponded that she was on the rise and their time was passing anyway.

you had your trials, your World Cham­pionships and you wenthome,"Dianne said. "But that was 100 years ago."

Holum said her daughter, who "has a real talent in art," has been having trouble finding time just to complete work so she can apply to colleges while gearing up for the Olympics.

"You've got these two huge goals going on at tlie same time," sii~ said. " She's had so much todo lately. 'The rest of them (art student,) gettokeepwork­ing (on theirportfolios and applications to different schools)."

Even though Dianne has always coached Kirstin, and is the U.S. Olympic Committee 1997 devel­opment team coach of the year, she won't be allowed to coach her daughter at the games.

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2. Justin Pierce SSC 1.18.28 3. Kimura H. CS 1.18.71

1. Jennifer Pierce SSC 1.28.10 50 Back I. Dean Palacios SSC 40.67 2. Nijimaru Ohno SM 53.86

I.KawmaA. cs 34.38 50 Breast I. Masashi I. cs 35.17 2. Hiroaki T. cs 36.09 3. Shunsuke A. cs 42.68

I. Maya S. cs 39.83 50Fly I. Seung Jin Lee SSC 32.54 2. Oikawa T. cs 33.47 3. Sho Saso SSC 39.13

I. Izumi I. cs 31.76 50 Free I. Jimmy Heagle SM 26.78 2. Kenia Yamaki SM 27.93 3. Ashton Degenhardt SM 28.21

I. Yuka K- cs 28.93 Relays 4x100 Medley I.SSC 5.05.96 4~50Medley SM 2.05.45

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curing home-field advantage for Saturday's AFC divisional play­off game.

The Steelers ( 11-5) fell behind 14-0 and 2 J -13 - they've trailed in seven victories-only to rally after Kevin Henry· intercepted Drew Bledsoe's screen pass just as New England was about to run out the clock.

In Pittsburgh, the Steelers pre­ferto think the comeback stamped tbem as a team of destiny that now mustwinonlvtwic~ more­possibly without· leaving home - to make an AFC-record si.xth Super Bowl appearance.

"Hey, we won the game. I don't think there was anything lucky about it," Cowher said. "I don't think we stole anything."

Asked if the Patriots might have the emotional edge just because of the way they lost in Foxboro, a surprised Cowher said, "Oh, I don't think so. From what stand­point? ... We're not going any­where. We'll be here Saturday."·

None of the Steelers, least of all Cowher, will say so, but they couldn't be happier. with this weekend's matchups.

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SPORTS

By RON SIRAK NEWYORK(AP)-Tiger Woods ha<; a smile that won the hearts of even non-golf fm1s and a game that matchedouthmdishhype. Wit)l that combination,he pushed his sport to unprecedented popularity in 1997 ,md became one of the most talked

i' about personalities in the world. Woods, whose success on the

com~ - where he won five times and set the PGAToursingle-season money record- matched his social and economic impact off it, today became the first golfer voted Male

~ Athlete of the Year by TI1e Associ-ated Press in 26 years.

. The award came as a birthday ·1: present for Woods, who tumed 22 i today. ~. "I thought l had a good year, but K I never expected this," said Woods,

whose record-shattering victory in

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Teain Handicap rules NMITFF Island Relay

By Priscilla T. castro Variety News Staff

11-IE NORll-lERN Mmiana'> Track & Field Fedemtion held it~ 19th An­nual Island Relay la~t Saturday with Team 1-hmdicap besting all other se­nior-<livision teams in the 14.2-mile­long distmce from Pacific Ishmds Club to LL~t Comm,md Post.

Each p,uticipating team w,L~ al­lowed only a maximum of five nm­ners. Each oft11e runners had to com­plete a maximum of two one-mile segment~.

Team H,muicapped consisting of

Dr. Steve Sullivan, Sports and Recre­ation acting Director Bill Sakovich, lawyer Steve Pixley, Stuart Smith, and Hugh Tait came up with a record breaking time of one hour, 26 min­utes ,md 32 seconds.

1eamHandicappedbeatlastyear's record of I :26.51 by 25 seconds.

Water Logged came in second with a time of one hour, 32 minutes and 25 seconds. Water Logged included some members of the Saipan Swim Club,Jacoby Winkfield,JustinPierce, Josh Taitano, Keoni Ichihara, Jake

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Palacios rising star in CNMI swimming

By Priscilla T. Castro Variety News Staff

CHAMPION swimmer David Palacios ha~ honed his skill, having been with the CNMI swimming team forabout IO years now.

Palacios won first place in the 200-m individual medley during a competition Friday participated in by the Saipan Swim Club and two teams from Japan.

Palacios was enrolled in the Saipan Swim Club when he was 8 years old.

Thesportrunsinthefamilyblood ashisyoungerbrotherandsisterare also members of the Saipan Swim Club.

Palacios, who studies at the Uni­ver-sity of tl1e Pacific at Stockton, Cali fomia, is here for his Christmas vacation.

Palacios aims for a degree in Computer Engineering.

Alsoamemberoftheuniversity's swimmingteam,Palaciosprac~ces nine times a week, two and a half hours in the morning and two hours in the evening.

Hesaysitisprettyhardtobeboth attendingtoacademicconcemsand being a member of the swimming team.

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Palacios wakes up at 5

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NEWYORK(AP)-ThatMartina Hingis won The Associated Pres.<; FemaleAthleteofthe Yearaward shouldn't come as a surprise. Af­ter all, she captured just about everything else in 19W.

"1997 was a dream come true for me," the 17-year-old tennis diva said from her home in Swit­zerland "I still sometimes can't even believe it"

She won the Australian Open in January, then followed up with victories at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, three of the four tour­naments that make up the Grand Slam.lnthefourthone,theFrench OpeninJune,shesufferedherfirst loss of the year when she was upset in the final by Iva Majoli of ·croatia •;'

The Paris defeat came after she underwent knee surgery after she

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SSC Swim results

Swim Meet Resutts December 26, 1997 St. Mary's Buccaneers, Central Sport(Sendai),

Saipan Swim Club

200 Individual Medley I. David Palacios SSC 2.24.45 2. Tatsunori N. cs 2.36.82 3. Kento Yamaki SM 2.39.52

1. Kristi Goodrick SM 3.05.66 100 Back I. Josh Tafano SSC 1.07.95 2. Jimmy Heagle SM 1.10.66 3. Robert Jordan SSC 1.16.82

1. Xenavee P~nan SSC 1.13.14 200 Free 1. Robert Jordan SSC 2.15.30

1. Tomoko Kttami SM 2.22.62 100 Fly 1. David Palacios SSC 1.02.15 2. David Moodie SM 1.06.20

1. Xenavee Parg:fuart SSC 1.13.73 100 Free I. Josh Tattano SSC 58.72 2. Jacoby Winkfield SSC 1.02.40 Tasunori N. cs 1.03.49

1. Tomoko Kttami SM 1.05.83 100 Breast I. Jacoby Winkfield SSC 1.16.70

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