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Tenorio warns of 'chaos' By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

GOVERNOR Froilan C. Tenorio said Friday that the House of Rep­resentatives· veto override on the bill that 1,ould reestablish an au­tonomous board of public lands will lead to "chaos."

"It's going to be the public who will suffer." he said.

··Nothing is going to get Jone. ;\ lot of people (who are supposeJ 10 be) compensateJ for lanJ we aequireJ through leases ... wont get paiJ now.

"Any lanJ exchange, land lease-forget it. There will be nothing now."

He said he will not make any appointments to an autonomous board of public lands, as the new

Froilan C. Tenorio

law requires. House Bill l 0-325, sponsored

by Rota's Rep. VicenteM.Atalig,

'Stale products' bill now law sans Gov's signature

By Zaldy Dandan. Variety News Staff

CONSUMERS rejoice. The House of Representa­

tives, by a 13 to 4 vote Friday, overrode. Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio veto on a "consumer protection" bill that would re­quire stores to separate expired goods from fresh ones, and sell expired goods at half-price.

Sponsored by Senate Major­ity Leader Thomas P. Vi llagome;,_ (R-Saipan). Senate Bill 10-66. or the "Stale Prod­ucts ;\ct." is now law.

However, a legislator who re­quested anonymity said the "problem" now is enforcement. ·

The legislator did not elabo- · rate.

In vetoing the bill last March 19, Tenorio said he "sympa­thizes" with its intent, but added that to require stores to sell ex­pired goods at half theiroriginal price would be "too severe."

He said the.resulting "gigan­tic, CNMI -wide half-pri;e \ale for many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of perfectly

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is a badly-written piece of legisla­tion · that may even fail to meet constitutional requirements. Tenorio said.

He added that he didn't expect the House to follow the Senate's move to override his veto.

"I thought the House members were smarter," he said.

Too late When told that Rep. Heinz S.

Hofschneider (lnd.-Saipan), who

cast the deciding vote for the over­ride, will soon submit a bill "cor­recting" the new law's deficien­cies, Tenorio said ··rt's too late."

He said "very big investors" he met during his recent trip to South Korea wanted to lease lands for new hotel and golf resorts will now lose interest in the CNMl.

Prior to the override of the bi 11, the governor has the sole duthor­ity to grant land leases.

I ]is power to do so stopped when the bi II became Jaw Friday.

'Mess' ;\11 administration official who

requested anonymity said Friday that the o\·crride wi 11 create a "hor­rible mess" in the 111anagemcnt of public I ands.

The official said it would be impossible lo draw up a board. considering the requirements spelled out by the new law.

"Even if the governor wanted lo appoint a board he would have

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A group of San Antonio Elementary School pupils delivers a song number during the 2nd Annual Governor's Office on Youth Affairs Spring Youth Concert held last Saturday at the Charley's Cabaret at the Pacific Islands Club.

Democratic Party returns Borja's money--with interest

Farrell asks OPA to probe Tinian project

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

TIIE DEMOCRATIC Party's Central Executive Committee has refunded the filing fee which Lt. (iuv. Jc~us Borja had paid for his

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candidacy. Borja has even ea,:ned a 5 per­

cent interest from his$ I ,500. The committee issued him a check amounting to $1,523.63.

Party chairman Daniel Quitugua initially turned down Borja 's demand for a refund, say­ing candidacy fees arc nonrefund­able under the party's by-law.

While maintaining that such fees are nonrefundable, Quitugua said the comm illee, du ring a mcel­i ng on April, decided to return Borja 's money just the same.

"In light of public statements suggesting concerns about the adequacy of financial backing to support your independent candi­dacy, the commillee has also de­cided to include an additional sum of interest on your fee computed al the annual rate of five pcrcrnt for the I 15 days between the d:itc of your original payment and the

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date of his leucr," Quitugua told . Borja in an April 17 letter which accompanied the check.

The camp of Bo,ja, who is run­ning for governor as independent, earlier threatened to take court

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By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

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2-MARIANAS Y ARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDA)'.- APRIL 21, 1997

Gujraldesi atedPM By DONNA BRYSON

NEW DELHI, India (AP) India had a new premier-des­i gna tc Sunday, but the countrv's governing coalition 11 as b:;d 1/ batterei by weeks of debate over who should lead the country.

But debate on. India's leadership.continues Indian voters are more prepared to give any party a clear majority than they were went they went to the polls last year.

The United Front was ex­pected to approach President S hankar Dayal Sharm:.i l:.iter Sunday for his endorsement of Indcr Kumar Gujral as prime minister. Sharma will set a date for Gujral to hold a \'Ole of confidence to prove he h:t~ the support of a majoritv in parliament. · ·

Like his pre1.kcessor 11.D. One Gowda, (,ujfal will likely struggle to hold onto the support of all the members of their United Front, who range from Communists 10 free marketers. He also needs the powerful Congress Party. which backs the from but has not formally joined it - and which brought down Gowda' s government.

he accused the United Front leader of failing to govern effec­tively. The m;ve :vas seen by many as an attempt to weaken the coalition by sparking an internal power struggle that would in the end open the way to a Con­gress-led government.

Kesri welcomed Gujral 's nomination and repeated prom­ises to renew his support to the United Front. But. speaking to n:poncrs late Saturday. he refused to say whcth<?r Congress would join Gujrars Cabinet: a move that could brin~ stability to the gov­ernment.

.. When all parties in a coalition arrangement are broadly equal in terms of scats and influence, the strnggle for power becomes too intense to be controlled," politi­c:.il columnist Chandan Mitra wrote in The Pioneer newspaper Sunday. "Frequent changes of prime minister followed by fre­quent elections seem to be India's fate at least for the remaining years of the millennium."

ment seats are open. The Bharatiya Janata Party,

which was asked to forn1 a gov­ernment after last yea.r's elections, failed to establish a clear majority in the Parliament and iis adminis­tration lasted for abouttwoweeks.

The United Front and Congress then banded together against their common foe, the Bharatiya Janata · Party, the BJP.

TI1e BJP has insisted on new elections since Gowda's govern­ment fell. But it seems unlikely that

A series of corruption scandals and a growing sense that politicians are more interested in power than in leading the country have left voters disenchanted.

Gujral 's nomination late Saturday was quickly fol­lowed by an announcement that a coalition partner was withdrawing from the front, leaving it with 12 members.

Tamil Manila Congress leader G.K. Moopana/ was apparently angry that he had not been chosen coalition leader. He pledged that. like Congress, he would support the front from outside the gov­ernment.

Gujral would be the third premier India has had since elections last year left no party with a clear parliamentary majority.

A Peruvian N_ation~I Police officer gives orders during a shift change in Lima, Peru, Friday near the Japanese ambassadors residence. Tupac Amaru rebles continue to hold 72 hostages inside of the compound. AP Photo

The United Front has 158 lawmakers in the 545-mem­ber lower house, or Lok Sabha. The Congress has 140 law­makers and the Bharatiya Jana ta Party and its allies con­trol 193. The rest are indepen­dents.

Peru security chiefs resign over hostage standoff

When Congress president Sitaram Kesri withdrew sup­port from Gowda last month,

A 272-membercoalition would gain control because two parlia-

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have resigned , citing secmity lapses that allowed leftist rebels ·10 seize hostages at thcJ apanese mnbassador' s residence.

Interior Minister Juan B1iones, m1 aJmy general, said he wa.s IL,suming political responsibility for tJ1e hos­tagec1isis,nowsb-etching intoiL, fifth month. He said tJiat he ,md tJ1c police comm,mc.lcr. Lt. Gen. Antonio Kctin Vidal, we1e brave cnoul.!h to lake office at a time when the co~nl.Jy was bleeding from tc1rnrist attacks ··,md we achieved iLs pacification."

Now, he said, "'it is also with tJ1is same valor ,md nobility that we rcc­ogni7.c thc1-e was deficiency in the secu1ity that led to tJ1e taking of tJ1c Jap,mcse emb,t1sy (residence)."

'll1e national police have been sh,uply cdticized by PrcsidentAlbe1to Fujimo1i ,md others for failing to prevent tl1e takeover of the diplo­maticcompou111.l, whichwa.,strnmcd Dec. 17 by a baJ1d of about 15 Tupac Amaru 1,ruc1rill,L,.

The national police also have come undercriticism recently for inc1-emcd c1ime rntesand thcirfailurc to back up municipal police ina violent confron­tation with street vendors ..

Briones said he had infrnmcd Fu jimod ofhis resignation, ,md that it wa.s accepted.

Gen. Cesar Saucedo, a militmy commander whose region of autJ1or­ity included Lima aJ1d neaiby ,u-c,t<;, wa., sworn in later Saturday ,L, the new intc1ior minister.

Vidal, seen by mm1y a.s a national hero for capturing tJ1e lemJcr of the Shining Path guenillas in I 992, re­po!tcd to Briones.

The 1ival Tupac Amaru rebels originally seized mo1-c tlmn 500 hos­tages attending a gala cocktail paity to celebrate the birthday of tJ1e Japa­nese emperor. TI1ey still hold 72, includingPern 's forei6'11 minister, tJ1e president's brother :md Jap,m 's am­bassador.

1l1cy arc dcmw1ding tJ1at Pcnr re­le:L,e hundreds of imprisoned com­

raucs in cxchw1gc for freeing the c:1ptivcs. l-'ujim01i In, rcl'uscd t;con­sidcr it.

In Feb1uaiy, Fujimori bl,uned the police for not acting on a National Intelligence Service repo1t w:u11ing tJ1at Tupac Amm1r 1ebels wer-e.mov­ing weapons into Lima.

He w:uncd at tJ1e time tliat some officials might be punished.

Vidal was rcplaccc.l by Gen. Femm1do Diandem,, whopr-cviously was chief of training for the police force.

As head of !'em's ,mti-teno1ism police, Vidal arTested Abimael Guzman in a suburban Lima apart­ment in September 1992. He was named the top police commander in January 1996.

Earlier Saturday, a top Red Cross official left the country at the government's request, calling into question the organization's role in trying to resolve Peru's hostage crisis, a newspaper re­ported.

Jean Pierre Schacrer, assistmt di1~ctorof the international Rec.I Cross in Pcn1, left llrnrsday, according to J_.1 Rcpu blica. Palaccspokesrrnm Luis Zuta said Saturday that he had no information on the rcprnt.

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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VJEWS-3

DOLi cites Saipan Grand By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

THE Saipan Grand Hotel has been served a notice of viola­tion by the director of labor in connection with its imposed curfew hours for 59 employ­ees from Sept. 19, 1994 to Sept. 28, 1995.

Employee- curfew may cost hotel $.5M The amounts were accord­ingly based on the computa­tion of the hotel's payroll records.

The hotel allegedly owes a total of $489,928.36 to the affected employees as a re-

suit of the imposed restric­tion time. The amount sup­posedly represents unpaid compensation in regular and overtime hours during the hours they were kept in their barracks.

Labor Director Patrick Guerrrero said in the notice

Mayor seeks relocation of Tinian dumpsite

Herman M. Manglona

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

TINIAN Mayor Herman M. Manglona is seeking the assis­tance of a United States senator and Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio in carrying out the municipal government's relocation plans for Tinian's dumpsite and power plant.

Manglona proposes to move the dumpsite to the military lease­back area, and the power plant to the cuITent location of the dump.

Manglona wrote to Sen. Daniel K. Inouye requesting the lawmaker's assistance in secur­ing the Navy's approval of the municipal govemment 's dumpsite relocation plan.

In a separate let!er, the mayor requested Tenorio to designate the Tinian dump area as the relo­cation site for the power plant.

In an April 17 leuer, Manglona told Inouye that the relocation site for the dump will not cover the Exclusive Military Use area, "therefore there should be no ob-

jection to the site being desig­nated as a dump area."

The dumpsite relocation plan, Manglona said, is "a matter of great importance to the people of Tinian."

The relocation project, he added, "is becoming increasingly urgent" considering the continu­ous growth of the island's popu­lation and the progress of major construction projects such as the Voice of America Relay Station, and the hotel-casino reso11 which are both under constrnction.

"We are very optimistic that ·four other 300 room hotels will be under construction in the very near future and that we will also witness the advent of the necessary related support and service industries," Manglona told [nouye.

"In order to be able to effec­tively cope with the projected population increase," the mayor added, " the dump needs to be relocated at the earliest possible time."

The power plant relocation is equally urgent, Manglona said.

"The current location of the power plant raises concerns because of its proximity to residential properties and the in­convenience of the noise and po­tential danger th:.it it poses to gen­eral public," Manglona told Tenorio in a letter dated April 15.

Manglona said the munici­pal government has chosen the Tinian dump urea as the "most appropriate" relocation site because it is far away from residential areas.

served last April 16 it had been determined that Micro! Pacific Development, doing business as Saipan Grand Hotel, vio­lated certain sections of the Non-Resident Workers Act as amended and the Minimum Wage and Hour Act as amended.

It was found that the hotel management imposed four­hour curfew on their employ­ees from l:30a.m. to5:30a.m. on Sept. 19, 1994-Sept. 28,1995.

Accordingly the employees were required to be in their living quarters during the cur­few, which was enforced with

a "threat of written warning." "Although no employee was

terminated and/or given writ­ten warning during the dura­tion of the imposed restriction time, employees were intimi­dated by such threat for fear of loss of employment," the notice of violation stated.

The labor director also noted that three written warnings warranted immediate termina­tion of an employee.

Guerrero said each of the 59 employees was owed varying amounts for the restriction time imposed by the employer . The amounts range from $2,437.88 to $18,539.88.

The Grand Hotel has also been accused of wrongfully terminating Eleanor C. Pena after she had allegedly failed to attend an anti-union meet­ing called by the hate I on Sept. 21.1995.

Pena was allegedly termi­nated the <lay after the meet­ing took place "without cause and without advance notice in violation of the terms and con­ditions of the employment contract."

An administrative hearing has been scheduled for May 27 at the CNMI Department of Labor and Immigration,

Construction gets underway on Rota's Sinapalo School project CONSTRUCTION of a new elementary school in Rota's Sinapalo village is well un­derway and is proceeding smoothly.

Commissioner of Educa­tion William S. Torres and other PSS officials toured the project site last Tuesday

(April 15) and were impressed by the progress.

Torres said that once the school is completed and ready for use, elementary school children from Sinapalo will finally be able to attend classes on their own village, instead of having to wake up very

early each morning on school days just to be trans­ported to Songsong village.

The project, which for­mally started with a groundbreaking ceremony on March 19, is scheduled to be completed eight months·from the start of construction.

. .. /Jf!.. ,. Commissioner of Education William S. Torres (second from right) and other PSS officials visited the · SinaP..alo school site last week. Shown here are, from left to right: Two workers from the contractor (L VP Pacrfic Development), PSS Vocational Education and School-to-Work Program Coordinator Patrick Te/lei, Commissioner Torres and PSS Federal Programs Officer Bill Matson.

Hocog: Continental faces labor shortage in Hawaii By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

CONTINENTAL Micronesia faces an acute labor problem in Hawaii .md mayconsequentlyhavetospendmor-e despite the$ I million tnx exemption it r-eceived from the latter, the Com­monwealth Ports Authority said over the weekend.

"I think Continental played games with us. That is their problem ... we gave them the best deal, tl1ey pt-e­fen-ed another ... now let tl1em be," sail.I CPA chief Victor Hocog.

He said CNMI would have come out with a belt.:r Ill)( exemption offer had the airline "spr-ead its cmtl on the table."

"'l11cy (Continental) may be all

smiles now because tJ1ey received the $1 million break.

"But tJ1ey 're going to be hit hard on tJ1e labor cost," wained Hocog.

Saipan 's atu·action, he said; is iL, ability to provide sufficient mid flex­ible labor.

It wi II be 1-ecal led thatJ an1es Rem11, in a1ecent inte1view that followed his speech before mernbersof theSaipm1 Chamber of Commerce on Mmd1 12, said tl1e decision on whe1-e to put up the $24 million wide-body maintence center '"is a push between Saipm1 :UJd Gumn."

"Mrn-c wide bodies touch ground on Guam, but it has a labor sfi011age you cm1not igno1-e," he told the Vmi­ety.

Guam's ab,mdoned milituy han­gru'S,newairpo11,ru1daviationschool, were seen by CNMJ negotiators as factrn'S that may eventually attract Continental to the isl,ITTd.

Hawaii, observers noted, has al­wavs been considered as the '"odd­man-ou t.''

Hocog, capitalizing on Saipim's labor supply, has repeatedly aired confidenceCNMI will eventually win the bid.

CNMI's offer include tlx incen­tives, the upgrnding of the hub site at no cost to the airline, and a one-stop processing of all pc1tinc11t require­ments among otJ1ers.

Continent.ii, on April 12, an­nounced it is building the repair facil-

ity in Hawaii citing tJ1e island's acces­sibility to the bu! kof tJ1e firm 'sl'acific fleet.

Rean1, in a statement released to media, said the decision "was based entirely on how the widebody aircraft will be flown in the Pacific."

'The flow of our operations wa., tJ1e reason for selecting Hawaii .... (having the hubtl1ere) will effectively save one full aircraft versus basing the maintenance facility on the West Coa.~t or in tl1e Micronesia," he ex­plained.

S:mcly Paeste, Contincnt:ll spokes­person, contirn1ed though tJ1at tJ1e airline received t;l)( incentives from Hawaii. She could not howevercon-111111 a Jo\lar fi~u1-e.

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4-MARl~NA~ Y ARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- APRIL 21. 1997 ___________________ _

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

Files reveal Dietrich as 'the Blue Agent'

WASHINGTON - So paranoid and intrusive was the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover that agents inves­tigated movie icon Marlene Dietrich for suspected collaboration with France's Vichy govemment--even as Dietrich was traveling across the United States selling war bonds

Though the bureau compiled extensive infonnation about the star's affairs with men and women, it found nothing to suggest the German-born Dietrich was collaborating with the Nazis. To the contrary, Dietrich considered using AdolfHitler's apparent sexual attraction for her as a way of getting close to the Fuhrer-and then killing him_

In 1936, while the Blue Angel was in Paris, German envoy Joachim von Ribbentrop contacted her on Hitler's behalf. An entry in her FBI file, which was reviewed by our associate George Clifford III, states, "Von Ribbentrop attempted to get her to return to Germany to make a picture there."

The file continues: "Dietrich said that after von Ribbentrop's messenger had left her she debated with herself for two hours whether she should call Hitler directly telling him that she would go to Germany to visit him and then when she arrived there make some plan to kill him."

In an interview with the bureau, Dietrich described Hitler as "not a normal human being mentally." As for the fascination that the world's most infamous leader hetd for the woman who is one of its most enduring sex symbols, Dietrich described it this way: "He has a tick for me."

Apparently unaware that she had ever been spied on by the bureau, Dietrich then volunteered to work as a spy.

In 1944, she received a letter from a German prisoner of war who said he was a relative. The prisoner said he had information for her. After conferring with the FBI, which asked her to open a line of communication with the prisoner, Dietrich sent him a handwritten letter in German. The famous seductress proved ably coy when it was information she was after.

"The things you want to tell me-I would like to hear," Dietrich wrote. "Maybe you will be able to write ~ome of them" Later that year, in a memo to an FBI agent in Paris, Hoover referred to Dietrich's work for the bureau. ·

"Miss Dietrich, as you know, has been developed into a special service contact for the Bureau," the late director wrote.

UNDER THE DO ME-Harry Truman once said that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

One man who might consider visiting his local pound is House Speaker Newt Gingrich, RGa., who suddenly is under attack from the very same right-wingers who owe their seats in Congress to the pudgy gentleman from Georgia

Many of the conservatives who are now sniping at the speaker are the very same folks who urged him to "stand tough" during the 1995 budget showdown with President Clinton. Gingrich, you 'II remember, lost that famous confrontation after taking the youngsters' advice, and his approval ratings have been antarctic ever since.

What was Gingrich's apostasy? Only that he reiterated the advice given by another conservative stalwart, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R­Texas, by suggesting that tax cuts be considered only after Congress completes the difficult task of balancing the federal budget For that, his colleagues are now trying to run him out of town as yesterday's "road kill"; and all because he wouldn't repeat the hard-line posture that nearly ruined his majority 18 months earlier.

Didn't the current crop of Republican sophomores-- members of the l 994 f rcshman class--lcam their politics from Gingrich? ll1ey listened to the tapes of his speeches; they read his advice; they eagerly accepted the money he raised on their behalf. A lot of good that's doing for Newt now.

The Republican revoltcameonlydays after more than 200membershad returned from a bipartisan retreat in Hershey, Pa, where lawmakers discussed ways that they could all get along better in the future. The retreat was thought up after several members of Congress became disgusted with the partisan back-biting that characterized last year's session.

Apparently the lessons of Hershey got lost somewhere along the divided road back to Washington.

Victims of change, homeless children worry Russia

By DAVE CARPENTER MOSCOW (AP) - When the authorities picked up Oleg and Sergei, the youngsters were sleeping in telephone booths with cardboard boxes for mattresses.

Wild-eyed and filthy, as snapshots taken by social workers show, the brothers wandered the desolate streets of Moscow looking for handouts.

They weren't alone. Thousands of children, abandoned orneglected, have been left to fend for themselves in a country where the changes of the past decade have plunged millions into poverty.

Months later, Oleg, 8, and Sergei, 9, live in a crowded but cheerful shelter where children are introduced to such social niceties as hygiene and table manners and share hugs with a director they call Papa.

But some experts worry it's getting too late to save what they fear may be a lost generation of· abandoned children. A new subculture is taking root in Russia's biggest cities - children who have slipped through the cracks at a time of social upheaval and become homeless, beg­gars, glue-sniffers, con artists, even prosti­tutes.

Since being picked up, Oleg has run away from the shelter twice to return to the street life - where a few hours of panhandling can earn him the equivalent of $20 for new toys or treats. He eventually returned to the shelter both times.

"Nobody knows how many kids are out there, but it seems to be a catastrophic situation," says Sapar Koulyanov, director of On the Road to Home, a government-financed children's shelter.

Under the authoritarian controls and guarantees of communism, there was no such problem as homeless children. Kids without families were whisked away to government orphanages. But the problem has exploded amid the economic crisis that has followed the Soviet collapse.

Scruffy, nervous-looking children are visible at subway stations and markets around Moscow -

sometimes even begging in the middle of busy intersections.

The Moscow Human Rights Research Center estimates l million children arc homeless in Rus­sia, although the problem is so new that the figure is little more than a guess.

Often they arc the children of the unpaid or unemployed, driven into the streets by unbearable conditions ut home - cruelty, heavy drinking or neglect by their parents.

Oleg, an impish boy with big cars and a crazy laugh, seemed like any other child as he assembled a model helicopter at his shel­ler. But his intensc look hinted at a troubled pust he wouldn't discuss.

After Oleg and Sergei's father died, the shelter director Koulyanov explained, their mother became an alcoholic and took to the streets.

"It's good here," said Sergei, the calmer brother, as kids whooped and raced around him. "You can get cold and hungry on the street."

Their pal Maxim, I 0, came from even grim­mer conditions. When police burst into his family's apartment on a drug raid last year they found his alcoholic parents living in squalor. Maxim and his younger sister were emaciated and barely able to talk.

"I have a lot of friends here," lisped a beaming Maxim, whose speech is still la­bored because of fetal alcohol syndrome. "I just wish I had a mama here."

Because of the government's sparse fi­nancing for social needs, there are only about 15 shelters for young children in this city of l O million people. Virtually all are packed beyond their capacity. At a Red Cross shelter in southern Moscow, children often sleep in offices or hallways.

"Quality time" for the youngsters hardly exists. The staff is undersized, under-quali­fied _and badly paid, averaging only 300,000 rubles ($52) a month at Koulyanov's shelter.

But these kids are the lucky ones. Most end up in huge children's homes run by the government, where hundreds of children live in barracks lined with row upon row of beds.

A reporter's requests to visit two of the big centers were rejected. One was under a ty­phoid quarantine.

Koulyanov describes conditions at the state shelters as alarmingly inhumane - illness, delinquency and sexual aggression often are rampant.

"You can put a psychologically sound child in one of those large homes and, for lack of attention, within three months. he could be diagnosed as disturbed," Koulyanov said.

. Meanwhile, many children are struggling to cope with an even worse alternative - the street.

Four-year-old Irina Skornyakova has spent most of her life sleeping in Moscow train stations. Her homeless mother, Valya, on a recent visit to the Red Cross to have her daughterdelouscd, admitted prospects for the child are bleak.

We~ring a gnmgy parka and a black wool cap, she hung her head as a worker scolded her for Irina's miserable upbringing.

"We live te1Tibly," she said sadly. "It's no way for children to live."

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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5

Sablan warns vs 'inaction' By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

THE SAIPANChamberofCom­merce yesterday warned government's alleged inaction on the issue of granting free food to Filipino workers is now begin­ning to take its tol I on the business community and may result to an economic slowdown if nothing is immediately done to resolve it.

Says free food policy to result to slowdown through its Overseas Employ-­mcnt Administration, has, be­ginning last Jan. I, held back CNMl-bound workers whose contract docsnot guarantee free food provision;.

"We have to resolve this (issue) as soon as possible because it is beginning to affect our hiring pro­cess ... if it continues this way, it will drastically affect business," said Chamber President David M. Sablan.

"We are not totally prepared to

Palau's Chamber elects new set ·of officers KOROR, Palau -Polycarp Basilius, outgoing President of

_ the Chamber of Commerce en­courages i-nore businesses to join the organization.

"I am proud at what the Chamber of Commerce has ac­complished this last year as an organization," Basilius said during the annual election of Board of Directors and Officers at the Palau Pacific Resort on April 8.

In his opening statement, fBasilius said he was confident about the future of the Cham­ber.

The Chamber elected Sandra Pierantozzi to be the President of the Chamber of Commerce and three other females members to the Board of Directors, Ernestine Rengiil from Ernestine Rengiil Law Of­fice, Frida Loftis from Bank of Micronesia and Jacqueline Alexander from Deloitte & Touche, the first Palauan CPA-certified pub­lic accountant.

It elected Joe Koshiba from Guam Savings & Loan,

Dean Tinker from Palau Pa­cific Resort, Francis Toribiong from Fish N'Fins, Dean Bates from Black Mi­cro Construction and Denis Coughlin from Toribiong & Coughlin Law Office to pi·o­vide Chamber with balanced representation and dynamic leadership.

The Chamber of Com­merce, an organization of businesses, is established to promote business and commer­cial opportunities in the Repub­lic of Palau and the develop­ment and improvement of com­munity facilities.

Palau ChamberofCommcrce membership currently have 73 members, two ex-officio mem­bers and 8 honorary members, totaling eighty-three (83) mem­bers.

Any company, firm, or cor­poration, holding a cunent na­tional business license is eli­gible to be a member of the Palau Chamber of Commerce. For more information, call 488-3400 or stop by Chamber of Commerce on the 3rd floor of Ben Franklin, WCTC.

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By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

THE PUBLIC School System's plan to build a new high school on Saipan m.oves ahead, as the Board of Education won Gov. Froi Ian C. Tenorio 's support for the loan scheme proposed by the Califor­nia Financial Services for the project.

CFS has offered to loan PSS money for the construction of a new high school in Koblerville at an estimated cost of$8.5 million.

CFS and BOE. under the gen­eral financing pl:111, have agreed on a I 0-year payment term with an annual interest of 5.6 percent. PSS would be al­lowed to defer payment for the first two years.

"The l 0-year term would be reasonable," BOE Chairman Don Farrell said at Friday's board meeting.

"The longer we stretch the payment term, the bigger the interest we would have to pay," he added.

Farrcll assured board mem­bers that thc CFS deal "docs not commit us to anything."

"We don't have to present a collateral. All we need is the signature of the governor and the approval of the legisla­ture," Farrell said.

Board members unani­mously expressed support for the Memorandum of Under­standing signed between Tenorio and Fanell, in which the government agreed to serve as "the conduit agency for the fi. nancing of the PSS 1997 Facili­ties Funding Program."

As such, "the government shall cooperate with PSS lo identify, allocate and recommend the ap­propriation of funds to PSS suffi­cient to timely satisfy repayment obligations under the agreement."

FmTell told board members that the MOU has not closed any deal.

"We have no decision yet on the design. We have no contrac­tor yet. All we did here is find the money," Farrell said.

PSS envisions the establish­ment of a new high school to ease the overcrowding prob­lem at the Marianas lligh School, cL1rrently the only public high school on Saipan.

make any shift. We want to main­tain the status quo by hiring people from the Philippines. If this (de­lay in talks) continues, it will prob­ably reach the point where we may experience an economic slowdown," he added.

The Chamber has been review­ing all necessary documents on the issue in a bid to draw up a proposal that could serve as a starting point when negotiations between RP and the CNMI fi­nally commences.

Among these include the Memorandum of Understanding reached between the two govern­ments on the lifting of the partial ban on the deployment ofFilipino workers to the CNMI in May last year.

It can not however push through with the negotiation for lack of official status.

"The Philippine Consulate is an agency of the Philippine government. We can not deal with them on a direct basis," Sablan said.

He expressed hope Gov. Froilan Tenorio as well as the Philippine government will grant the Chamber the go-sig-

David M. Sablan

nal for it to begin the talks. ··so that they (RP govern­

ment) can hear from us firsthand on how we feel," Sablan said.

He said the Chamber will seek to join the CNMI government in. negotiating with RP on the issue ifitfailstoachieve official char­acter.

"I'm going to ask the gover­nor to allow us to do that (Join CNMI government in talks) ... either unilaterally or jointly," Sablan said.

The Phdippine government,

The move came as part of conditions al!rccd by C:',J.'vll and RI' gov:rnment.~ on the last year·, lil"ting of the h,1n. the others of \\'hich include reforms pledged by the former in uphold­ing the workers' rights ,1ml wd­farc.

Records at the Philippine Con­sulate showed that at least 1.000 Filipino workers have been sent to CNMI with such provisions included in their respective con­tracts since January.

Tenorio cancelled a planned trip of a delegate of CNMI repre­sentatives who were bound to ini­tiate talks with the RP govern­ment on the matter last January.

The issue has since began to drag with employers beginning to experience problems on the rehir­ing of their Filipino workers.

"(The effect of st al led ne go­ti at ions) is beginning - to show ... generally speaking. some of the employees that are up for renewal are being declined by POEA because of this," said Sablan.

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Prevention is the key Borja

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

LT. GOVERNOR Jesus C. Borja has stated that prevention which is a difficult idea for the young people to grasp is key in address­ing the challenge of health .

··when we arc young, we think we arc going to live forever. And when we arc middle-aged, we arc too busy to think about preven­tion. Well. maybe not too busy lo think occasionally. but too busy to do anything about it:· said I301ja in his speech during Friday's In­stitute of Medicine meeting at Hyatt Hotel.

B01jasaid it is only when people arc told that "we wish we had been wiser and that we had taken better care of ourselves."

By that time. the acting gover­nor continued, it is very difficult to change habits, or worse, it may be too latC'lo correct problems.

He pointed out that the CNMI, through its nutrition council, in coordination with the World I lcalth Organization. is imple­menting a comprehensive plan to address the nutritional needs on every level.

Jesus C. Borja

The plan, Bo1ja explained, in­cludes major education about the i 111 po11ance of nu tri ti on and proper exercise to good health.

"I look fo1ward to the time when individuals police theirown health and work hand in hand with the health care professionals," he said.

The Lt. governor urged health officers to provide the people best possible service through careful monitoring and evaluation.

Borja told !OM participants that CNMI is doing good with the health care using federal funding and "there is. as always. room for improvement."

Stories of the Pacific Festival set on Guam THE GUAM Humanities Coun­cil is inviting storytellers, pub­lishers, writers, cultural practi­tioners, exhibitors, oral histori­ans, concessionaires, and ar­chaeological/archival collectors from throughout the Pacific re­gion to its second annual Stories of the Paci fie Festival '97, "A Festival of Pacific Cultures Through Books, Film, & Storytelling," to be held this coming October 8-11, 1997 al the Hyatt Regency 1-Iotc I in beautiful Tumon B:1y.

The festival will begin with a kickoff gala banquet followed on the succeeding days by work­shops in film production, song writing, book writing, cultural dance, storytelling, and oral his­tory. Performers will include individual and group talent in ethnic and indigenous storytelling, puppetry, mime, theatrical vignettes, mid a film festival. Exhibits will feature history, folk ai,s, and archaeo­logical/archival collections. In addition, a Pacific Fair focusing

on books, music, films, video, and arts and crafts will go on throughout the four day event.

Those interested in partici­pating are encouraged to write to: The Guam Humanities Council: Renaissance Plaza Suite 2A; 272 West Route 8; Barrigada, Guam 969 l 3 or by calling (671) 734- J 7 I 3/4orfax (671) 734-2475. E-mail ad­dress: ghc@kuentos.guam.net.

The Guam Humanities Coun­ci I (GI-IC) makes grants in sup­port of projects which help broaden citizen understamling and appreciation oi'the humani­ties disciplines. GHC is a pri­vate nonprofit corporat·ion which recieves operalional funding from the National En­dowment for the Humanities in Washington D.C., as well as from citizens and corporatior.s with a commitment to the fu­ture of the island.

ll1e Council is not an agency of, nor docs it receive funding from the G ovemmen t of the Guam.

MHS ·green-track students, ~eachers return. next week

STUDENTS and teachers on the "green track" schedule at Marianas High School arc scheduled to return to school next week, the Public School System said in a news release.

Students attending "green track" classes are expected to return to school on Friday,

May 2, while teachers teach­ing "green track" classes are expected to report to work on Wednesday, Apri I 30, accord­ing an announcement released by MI-IS this week.

For this information, con­tact the MHS office at 234-6204.

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND YIEWS-7

US affiliation a 'cross to bear' By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

CNMI'S affiliation with US "bear a cross" of having to maintain federal health care standards with no budget in­crease and explosion of people using the system.

This was according to De­partment of Public Health Ser­vices Secretary Dr. Isamu J. Abraham as he discussed the accomplishments of CNMI's health services program dur­ing Friday's Institute of Medi­cine meeting at Hyatt Hotel.

Abraham stated that main­taining US standards with a constraint budget has made staffing of critical health po­sitions a tremendous chal­lenge.

"At first the changes were rather simple and came from the insides of the Department of Health. Government ve­hicles for government busi­ness only. Shorter cafeteria hour-s. Cut the 20% duty dif­ferential. Cut the travel. And all these small things contrib­uted to our coffers," the sec-. ret~ry told participants of IOM meeting.

He said the people in the

Sablan. sues ~ver mishap· By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

BUSINESSMAN Nicolas C. Sablan has demanded damages from the Duty Free Shoppers over a vehicular accident in 1995.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in the Superior Court, Sablan said the driver of a DFS bus failed to use due care, result­ing to a collision with his ve­hicle.

Sablan said on Dec. 7, I 995 at I 0: 19 a.111. his vehicle was tr,1velling northward along I3tach Road at a moderate rate of speed. A Df-S bus was trav­elling south direction along the highway.

Al a point of approximately 25 meters, the bus driver sud­denly and without warning carelessly made a left turn across the road directly in front of Sablan's vehicle.

The bus coll ii.led with plaintiff's car. The car was "demolished" as a result of the collision,"said Sablan in the complaint.

Sablan stated that his auto­mobile was operated with due care and was without fault or negligence ··on the driver's part."

He said the DFS bus driver railed to keep a proper look­out and was negligent in mak­inQ ,1 left turn from the road without first ascertaining tlrnt the highw,1y was clear of on­('ominQ traffic.

"Th; collision and resulting damage to vehicle and injury has sole, exclusive and proxi­mate result of the negligence of driver,'' he added.

CNMI enjoyed carte blanche referrals for many years to Hawaii, San Francisco·, and San Diego.

In 1995, Abraham said, the government ran out of referral money so they had to take some drastic steps.

The end result, however, was a new set of more equi­table referral procedures and policies that had never been done before, he pointed out.

The secretary said the de­partment took their savings from referrals and other cut­backs and put the money into staffing and more modern equipment.

At present, the Common­weal th Heal th Center has a CAT Scan and a mammogram machine. The hemodialysis equipment has been updated.

With the help ofCHC's Vol-

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unteers Association, Abraham added, over $750,000 worth of equipment was purcl1ased.

Other cost saving measures, he said, are privatization of services such as hiring of nurs­ing staff, ground maintenance, linen supply services, labora­tory and pharmacy.

Abraham foresees the CNMI future as a regional center for eye care, TB control, and chronic disease prevention, including breast and cervical cancer, diabetes and hyperten­sion.

The DPHS secretary said the time comes when the North­ern Marianas College, which now has an accredited two­year nursing degree program, expands to include allied heal th careers.

"We are also working closely with the College as

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they move into the realm of long distance education and telemedicine-which will re­alize even more cost savings and better health care at home," he said.

With CNMI's insufficient local manpower pool to pro­duce enough nurses, Abraham

urged the people in the Pa­cific region to send their stu­dents here on Saipan to pur­sue their health careers.

On the problem of getting doctors, Abraham said they are now trying to amend the law in order to hire physicians from other countries such as Australia and New Zealand.

Abraham underscored the need to educate the community about the CHC's capabilities, and what the people themselves must do to help prevent illness and to have some kind of health insurance.

The Pacific Islands Health Of­ficers Association conducted a two-day meeting at Hyatt with IOM committee members where they discussed, among ·other things, the effectiveness of health care services in the Pacific Basin areas and decreasing federal as­sistance.

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8-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY APRIL 21, 1997

Victims' Rights override fails By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

ON /\ DI\ Y when the North­ern Marianas was observing "Victims' Rights Weck." and CNMI flags ,;ere at half-mast to mourn the victims of vio­lent cri111c, the House of Rep­rescntativcs twice atte111pte<l Friday to override the vcto on the Vicrims Rights bill, but failed 011 both tries.

President Paul A. Manglona (R-Rota), Senate Bill 10-29 w_ould establish an Office of Victims' Rights, and require informing crime victims of their rights.

Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio, in a letter last month to the Leg­islature, said he vetoed the bill "reluctantly."

Tenorio, who vetoed an ear­lier version of the bill in 1995,

said S.B. 10-29 fixed many problems of the earlier ver­sion, but it also "introduced many problems and compli, cations."

He recommend a consulta­tion with the Criminal Justice Planning Agency, the Depart­ment of Public Safety, and the AttorneyGeneral'sOffice to rem­edy the bill.

But Manglona, in his letter to

the legislators urging for an over­ride, said the bill, though "not perfect," would assist crime vic­tims and their families get avail­able services, and "protect a:id preserve their integrity."

"Crime is on the rise in the CNMI," Manglona said. "The longer it takes to get this leg­islation passed into I aw the longer the innocent victims must suffer."

The first motion to override fc II short by a vote- I 1 were in favor. with 3 111embers vot­ing a qualificJ "No," while 2 abstained and 2 were absent.

/\n override requires the 2/3 votes of all members of both the House and the Senate, which unanimously voted for an override last April 2.

Paul A. Manglona

San Antonio sixth graders get to learn all about 'rainforests'

After Speaker Diego T. Bcnawnte (R-Saipan) ruled that the ovcrriJe attempt had failed. Rep. Melvin 0. Faisao (R-Saipan). who voted "No," said he may reconsider.

House Majority Leader Pete P. Reyes (R-Saipan) then moved for another vote, say­ing that the overriJc is for the sake of cri111e victims.

Faisao. however. did not change his vote. but four did­Rcps. Ana S. Ten.:gcyo (R­Saipan). Maria T. Peter (R­Saipan ). Oscar M. Babauta (R­S :1 i panJ. and Rosiky F. C:1111acho ( D-S aipanJ.

Tcrcgno. ll'ho earlier ab­stained. 101ed '"No," while Peter anJ Ca111,1cho switched from ""Yes"" to "No."" and Babauta from ")\;s"" to ab-stain.

Those who voted "Yes" were Benavente, Reyes, Joaquin G. Adriano (R-Tinian), Vicente M. Aralig (R-Rota), Crispin I.DL Guerrero (R-Saipan), Karl Reyes (R-Saipan), Michael P. Tenorio (R­Saipan), and Stanley T. Torres (lnd.-Saipan).

Those who voted "No": Vice Speaker Jesus T. Attao (R­Saipan), Minority Leader Dino M. Jones (D-Saipan), Camacho, Faisao, Peter and Teregeyo.

Those who abstained were David M. /\patang (R-Saipan) and Babauta.

Manuel A. Tenorio (R­Saipan) and Heinz S. Hofschneidcr (]nd.-Saipan) were absent.

Final count: 8 in favor. 6 ag,1i 11st, :111J 2 abstentions.

/\II those who did not vote for an override stressed that they are in support of the bill's intentions, and will, in the fu­ture, vote for an "improved" version of it.

Sponsored by Senate Vice A classroom at San Antonio becomes a virtual rainforest in itself as students are taught about the importance of green surroundings is to the environment.

~.~~.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :ft1 @ SIXTH GRADE students at { { San Antonio Elementary F)'i .§a;u/ it w.itJl jlmu.er&- &n, tfzi& 1 School made a special presen-'l --a- tation Wednesday evening

J ~Vi'&k sharing what they have learned . 1 .. ~1

11· during the past nine weeks

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.f about the Rainforest. In attcnJance were parents,

;r··-.. friends and relatives, Patrick Tellei from PSS, and a group

,;,•• r of NMC stuJents from the teacher education program,

~~ the school said in a news re-{ lease.

Sixth grade teachers, Mcrly (//) Yamazaki and Gideon Will­{ iams have been working

~r·•-. collaboratively with Special EJucation teacher, Patti Gault, to create fully inclusive class-

"<1 rooms, so that all students, re-,.,,.,

gardless of their ability or dis­@ ability can learn together, anJ { from each other.

. t;f Throughout the past nine 1{1 weeks, these students have

taken an imaginary trip ~1, through the rainforest of In­f donesia using a Computer pro-

f" gram, and the Internet, and

have taken a field trip into the Limestone forest al /\sTeo

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under the guidance of Mr. Noel Quitugua.

The students learned about each layer of the rainforest and the various plants anJ ani-

mals in each layer, and then replicated these making trees for each layer, using tall car­pet bolts, paper, paint and wire. They made stuffed ani­mals and plants and pl accJ them in the four layers of the forests.

Non-English speaking stu­dents and stuJcnts with learn-ing disabilities, as well as stu­dents who are gifteJ and tal­ented, benefit greatly from the integrated Thematic teaching approach.

;\JI students can contribute to the class, when teachers use this approach. These three teachers at San Antonio starteJ using this integrateJ thematic teaching last spring using the theme Oceanography, and saw such great improvement in their students. that they have continued to use it this entire school year.

Since then, most teachers at San Antonio have started us-ing these strategies.

The Language Ans T,rsk Force at PSS has written The-matic Teaching into the O\'CJ'­

all action plan, so that all teachers thrnughout the CN MI can be trained anJ start usin!! !his dfcctive approach 1(i teaL·hing.

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PORT MORESBY (Pacncws)­"Il1c full deployment of I 000 De­fence Force soldiers to help police in Papua New Guinea's national elec­tions h,L, come under serious doubt.

"Il1is is especially Jue tothemmy's involvement in the counuy 's recent 1x1litical crisis, Post-Courier reports.

Police and government officials have conlinncd privately that Police Commissioner Bob Nenta and "cer­tain qua11crs of government" m-e wrnTicd about the use of the ,umy during this vital Jemocratic process in which national leaders will be elected.

'Il1e 1mm who led the mmy in

Panel to.-. question .Fiji PM-· SUV A (Pacncws)-Fiji prime minis­ter Sitiveni Rabuka will be vigorously questioned on his return from Brussels over allegations that some Fijimi mem­bers of tl1e Joint Parlim11entary Select Committee may have been 'cheated' into signing the now inf mnous "Agree­ment No2".

Leading the charge are members of his own Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei(SVf)caucuswhichmermurs­day under the chaim,anship of acting prime minister Taufa Vakatale, The Daily Post re perts.

SVT members claim they signed other than what they were led to believe in the first place. The cheating allega­tions surfaced Thursday after some Fijianmembersoftl1eJPSCwereques­tioned on the provisions of Agree­ment No 2 - seen as a sellout of Fijian interests in the new constitu­tion.

Agreement No 2 which was signed Monday, relates to the com­position of the House of Represen­tatives which would comprise 46 communal seats and 25 open seats. But some members claimed that other provisions in the final agree­ment were not there when they were asked to sign the agreement.

US offices in Pacific to merge HONOLULU (Pacnews}-The top­level US government Office of Pacific lslandAffairsin Washington will merge with the Office of Australia-New Zealand Affairs sometime this sum­mer.

l11e US Department of State's Suzanne Butcher confinned the plan during a PACNEWS Honolulu Bu­reau interview.

Butcher, who has directed the Of­fice of Pacific Island Affairs since last July, said she will become head of the new Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island Affairs when the merger officially takes place.

As the merger follows the shutdown of US infommtion, consular, and aid offices in tl1e region, as well a., a cut­back in Pacific Basin Peace Corps ac­tivities, somcobserverssee tl1e move as anotl1erUS downgradingofit, involve­ment in Pacific Islands affairs.

Operation Rausin, Kuik, Major WalterEnuma, was the chief milila!y liasion to tl1e Electoral Commission but In, returned to other duties at mmy headqumters since the c1isis.

While the miJit;uy h,L, WiSUl-eJ it would be a neutral prnty 111e1dy keep­ing the 1x:ace, that w,su1:u1cc hm; not been received with the s,m,c conli­dcncc anc.l uust in political circles because of its role in the Srn1dline issue.

Nenta,actingPNGDFcommander Jack Tuat ,md Electoral Commis-

sioner Reuben Kaiulo will hold an emergency meeting at Murray Bm·acksthismoming, lolly tosrntout the issue.

Dengue alert SUVA (Pacnews)-Fiji 's health ministry has issued a second den­gue fever alert after a recent sur­veillance report found an increase in the number of people contract­ing the virus in neighbouring countries.

A government statement says the Cook Islands mid New Caledonia were experiencing new ca<;es of dengue fe­ver, the Fiji Times reported.

Common symptoms of dengue fe­ver are sudden onset of high fever, severe head and back ache, pain on · moving thceyes,jointand muscle pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting mid weakness.

The ministry warns that the risk of dengue fever outbreak is high particu­larly as Fiji is currently having rainy weatl1er and is a rn,uor trm1sit country for travel lcrs.

Telekom bars, Solomons gov't phones HONIARA (Pacncws)--Solornon Islands telecommunications corn­pany,SolomonTelekom,hascracked clown on the cash-strJpped govem­mentovernon-payment ofil~ bills by barring outgoing phone calls and fox traI1\missions. Apart from a few es­sential telephones, all otl1er govern-

ment telephones and fax machines have bL°t!nbarredsinoe Wednesdayh,tweek.

111e accotmlimt general, Peter Lokei, says Solomon Telekom has taken tl1c action because or government's inabil­ity to pay up it, ouL~tanding bills of 224,CXXJ US dollars for the last two months.

He would not say when tl1e out­st,mding bills will be settled-but tl1ey would be settled along with other priority government commitments as soon w; funds arc available. Lokci says the main concern now is tlie salaries and wages of government employees tl1is week.

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Defector arrives in Seoul By SANG-HUN CHOE

SEOl;L, South Korr:t (AP) - '111c hid1cst r:mkin,! o1licial C\'cr to tkc N:111h Krnea ,u~·i1·ed in South Kmc·:1 Sunday. dcd:u·ing he· 1\':L, dckcting t-,_•c;n1sc he· Jost "all hope" in a com-111u11istregimc unabk to kcd its hun­gr:, r~:opk'.

I !11·:u1g fang Yop "s :u1i1·a! at a mi lit:u~, aiqxi11 outsiJc of Seou I ended a 6 7-Jay 0J1 ssc1· that took him fi-0111 Beijing.to tl;c Pl;ilippines :mJ tinall> to tl1c capital of South Korea. his ht1111d:1ml's most h:1ted til'al.

A fom1er scrretary or Nonh Kore:1 · s highest decision-making bcJy, the Central Committee of tl1c \Vo;.ker, · P:u1y. Hw:u1g i!i lx:licved capable of spilling a t.rnve of eagerly sou~ht infonnation about tl1e worlJ ·s mo;t doscJ society.

"(People l have long since lost all hope on the unethical, l<:uJal Nmth Kore:u1 1egime:· said Hw:mg in :m cmotion-filkJ. yet energetic voice. His brief ,u,ival statement w,t, broad­m,l live by South Ko1ea 's three na­tional TV stations.

"I c:m1e here to spenJ the rest of my life doing what I c:m to stop a war breaking out." Hw,mg said. accusing North Korean leaJcrs of prep:uing a second w;u· on tl1e Kore:m Peninsula while iL, people went "witl1outclo1hes :mu wen: st:uving."

A cha11creJ Air Philippines Bv-:ing n7 jct. l',UT\'ing I !11:u1g :md :maide.:mivcdat I l:39(0239GMT)

at the airp.:i11 in Songnam.just ouL,idc of Seoul. atk1· flying from the Philip­pines.

Ilw:u1g. 74. a chk>f :ui:-!1itcct of North K~n::1 's isolationist policy of ··juchc.·· orsclf-reli,mce.oncc tuto1ed North Kore:m leader Kim Jong II. He coukl provide a trove of pnxious infrnrnation to a worlJ clllious about tl1e inner workings of tl1c wodd 's most closcJ society.

Despite nt::u·ly ten week.-; oflik in jealously guarded confinement. Hw:mg lookcJ healthy. Wca1ing a d:u-k suit :u1d c:m-ying a felt hat. he raised both h:mJs th1ee times tx:fo1e stepping tlo\111 tl1e 1ed-c,ur,ctcd stairs from tl1e pl,u1e witl1 his aide. Kim Duk Hong. 59. he:td of a North Ko-1ern1 u·ade fitm.

After a brief welcoming ceremony. Sou tl1 Korern1 inte Iii gence a gen Ls took the two to a safe h;use fo; medical checksandcxtcnsi ve debriefing. TI1ey said Hwang would speak al a news confen~nce later, but not within the next several weeks.

Philippine officials who accom­p,mied H wrn1g hrn1ded over the de­fectors to South Korean autl10Iities at tl1e aiqxin. Hwang was g1eeted by friends from his hometown living in South Korea and other Nortl1 Korc:m defectors.

H w,Ul!'. w;tlked into South Korea's consulate-in Beijing on Feb. I 2on his wav home from:m international semi­nrn. in Japan. China ,t,kcJ tl1c Philip-

pines to allow him toslopofftl1c1eon his way to South Krnea lo avoid a symbolic slap at N011.h Korea, its longtime ally, that a ditect nip to Seoul would have c:msed.

111c Philippine govemmenl haJ kept his whe1eabouts sern~t since ar­riving in tl1e counu-y M,u-ch IX.

llw;mg's uipSunday 1cscmblcd a high-wi rc spy operation.

Ap!.meleftM:mila 'sNinoy Aquino lnternation;tl Aiqxin at 7:05 a.Ill. Sunday (2305 GMT) on a confiden­tial tlieht to Seoul. said Marlyn S ineso;1, a senior airU'clffic conuul l~r, Philippine President Fidel Ramos confim1ed Hw:mg 's dcpanun; about tl11ce bout, after the pl:mc left.

"I am pleased to ,mnounce that Mr. Hwm1g Jrn1g Yop :md Kim Duk Hong depai1ed from the Philippines e,u,ly tl1is morning for Seoul, S0utl1 Ko1ca without any untowrn-d inci­den~ .. Ramos said Ju ting a news conference al Manila's Villamar Air Base.

"Upon consultations with the Re­public of Korea, we have decided that tl1e opponune time for the final jour­ney of Mr. Hwang ,md his compat1-ion 10Soutl1 Ko1ea, tl1e counu-y of his choice. has come,'' Ramos saiJ.

Hw:mg is the highest-nmking communistofiicial toJefccl to Soutl1 Korea since tl1e division of the Ko-1e;m Peninsula more thrn1 a h,ilf-cen­turv a:..?o.

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China reportedly approved Hwang ·s trip after South Korea agreed to keep him in the Philip­pines for at. least a month.

Pyongyang initially accuscJ Seoul of kidnapping Hwang and tlm~atened unspecified retaliation.

But it later announced that it Jecideu to banish him. North

Korea will be hit with a famine this spring as a result of poor communist management of its agricultural industry and severe flooding the past two years, U.N. officials have said.

International charities were ap­pealing for mass relief aid.

The Koreas have been bitter enemies since the division of their peninsula in 1945 into the com­munist North and the capitalist South.

They fought a three-year war in the early 1950s, and their border remains the world's most. heavily armeu.

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Crashed Indonesian turboprop had history of problems-report JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)- An Indonesian airliner involved in a crash that killed I 5 people had a histo1y of teclmical problems. in­cluding an engine that caught fire in flightin 1992,anewspaperreponed Sunday.

The Biitish-made ATP turbo­prop belonging tostate-rnnMerpati Nusantara airlines crashed Satur­day during an approach to the air­port inTanjungPandanonBelitung island.

The pilot, co-pilot and a flight attendant were among the dead, while dozens of other people were injured. Rescue workers were still looking for some passengers. Con­flicting rep:irts of the number of people aboard ranged from 52 to 62, including four children.

Investigators are considering sending the "black box" flight re­corder abroad for analysis, the offi­. cial Antara news agency reported.

"Aninvestigatingteamwillmeet . Monday to discuss !,he sending of the black box to Australia or Bri~­ain," Prasetyo Witjaksono Sernbodo, Merpati 's operations di­rector, was quoted as saying Satur-

day. Prasetyo was quoted as saying

the aircraft was declared safe to fly before it took off Saturday.

The newspaper Kompas, Indonesia's largest, quoted uniden­tified sources who said a fault in one of the plane's two engines was repaired Friday.

However, the sources said that even if the engine failed, the plane should have been able to land, be­cause it was designed to fly with only one.

Oneenginecaughtfireduringan approach to J akaria airport in No­vember 1992, but the plane landed safely 10 minutes later, according toKompas.

Witnesses and rescue workers were quoted by Indonesian news mediaassayingtheplaneexploded in mid-air arid broke apart before it crashed into a palm plantation.

Prasetyo said the pilot had re­quested pennission to land several minutes before the crash.

Merpati, a subsidiary of the na­tional airline Garuda, began flying A 1P aircraft in 1992, and has four others in its fleet

WB, IMF examine shrinking roles

By HARRY DUNPHY WASHINGTON(AP)-The World Bank and the International Moneuu-y Fund holu their spring meetings this week to examine their shtinkingroles in a world where the flow of private capital to developing counuies is mushrooming.

Finance ministers from the United States and six other major indusuial­ized economies will get together dur­ing the session to discuss tl1e sh;up rise the Jollrn· has taken against tl1e Jap.u1ese yen in the past two ye;u,.

"n1e meetings begin Wednesday. Among the topics tl1e two 180-

nation international development in­stitutions \Viii discuss me debt relief for the world's porncst counuics, banking crises in emerging rnrn·ket economies and prospects for the new European cuncncy called tl1e euro.

A leading international aid or­ganization,Oxfam, warned Thurs­day that the World Bank-IMF debt relief plan is in danger of col­lapse, meaning governments that were supposed lo benefit from it will have less to spend on health and education projects.

Oxfam accused the heads of the World B:mk :md tl1c IMF of bureau­cratic foot-Jra!!ging in strn1ing the pl:m :u1d warned most of the 20coun­llies that were suproscd to n:ceivc help will not get it until a tier the: year 2(XXJ.

It urged World 13:uik !'resident Jamc:s D. Wollcnsohn to drive the debt initiative: frnwrnd, "openly chal­lcn~ing the IMF :md G-7 counuies lx:n°l 0~1 consigning (the plan) to a slow death."

At the week-long mc:cting. the WorlJ Jl:u1k :u1d the IMF ;u·c ex­pcctcd to approve economic lenns

for the first two counuies to get relief, Uganda and Bolivia Delegates also may agree on Burkina Faso and I vol)' Coas~ next on a list of 20 mainly Afiican countties.

In addition to debt relief, the del­egates at the two institutions will ·discuss the role of official aid to de­veloping counuies at a time when private finance is pouring into these emerging mat"keL~.

Private rnoney to these countties has grown tenfold, to$ 230 billion in 1996, ;md now dwmfs official aid, which amounts to about$ 50 billion a ye,tr. Pressme on governments to reduce budget Jeficit~ and public cynicism about the effectiveness of frncign aid has teduced official aid to it~ lowest le:vel in 45 years.

But much of this private money is 1estricted to a group of high-income, fast-growing counuies in Asia and Latin Ame1ica. 111e bank and tl1e fund have to decide how to use their resources to help the poo1ercounllies develop institutions and facilities so they become atmtctive to forei1c,'I1 in­vestor,.

Another topic will be the growing number or counu·ics hit by b,mking crises. ·111e IMF h,t\ a special kitty established for such emergencies that was used ctlcctively in the Mexican peso crisis two years :1~0. Dclcgalcs will decide wl1dher to i;1creasc the available funds.

The IMF also wants its mem­bers to plan for the introduction of a singl.: cuITcncy in Europe, called the curo, in 1999. Fund director Michael Camdessus says the euro cou Id become "a strong new pi l­iar for the international monetary system" rivaling the dollar.

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1997-MARIANASVARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11

39 Pakistanis killed in Saudi fire, officials say ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -Strnggling to identify those Muslim pilgiims from Pakistan who died in tl1e u-agic fire in Saudi Arabia, Paki­stani officials said Sunday they have 39 confinned deaths, but expect that figure to 1ise.

A fire last Tuesday that nwaged a tent village for Hajpilgrims to Islam's holiestsiteatMeccainnSaudi Arnbia killed more than 300 people, most of them Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

"When we release a new name we immediately get thousands of calls from wonied 1elatives saying they had a relative at Mecca by that name." said Mian Mohammed Iqbal, an offi­cial at an emergency center in Islamabad.

The 24-hour center has re­ceived more than 50,000 calls in the past two days, the state-run As­sociated Press of Pakistan reported Sunday. ·

Iqbal said it wa~ likely more Paki-

stanisdied in the blaze, but said it may be :mother week before their identi­ties were tim1ly established.

Em·Jier estimates put the death toll at 60 Pakistanis. At least 184 Pakistanis were injured, several of them seriously, the state-run news agenry, Associated Press of Pakistan, 1eponed.

The first group of injured are due to return to Pakistan Monday evening, said Farooq Zaidi,. di­rector of the emergency center.

Body· of missing. boy· found i~ hills BEA.UMONT, California (AP) - The body of a IO-year-old boy abducted by a knife-wielding stranger more than two weeks ago was found Saturday in a rugged stretch of southeast California, a television station reported.

The decomposed body of Anthony Martinez was found near Interstate IO in the Indio Hills about 70 miles (II Oki­lometers) east of Beaumont, KTLA-TV reported, citing sources close to the investiga­tion.

Police could not verify the

report. "We won't know until to­

morrow or when the autopsies done, whenever that's going to be," said Scott Beard of the Beaumont Police Department.

Sheriff's deputies who were at the scene said they found the body of a small person, nude and partially buried.

Anthony was grabbed and forced into a pickup truck on April 4 as he played with his stepbrother and friends in a dirt alley behind his apartment building.

The disappearance sparked

a massive search and hundreds of interviews.

Earlier this month, FBI agents, sheriff's deputies, po­lice officers and residents on horseback looked for Anthony in the rugged wilderness sur­rounding this mostly poor desert town of 10,000 about 80 miles ( 130 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. :: : Anthony's parents were

hoping a segment Saturday on "America's Most Wanted" TV show would yield the lead they needed to solve the disappear­ance.

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Fire rages in flooded US city

Meredith Baumann, right, director of social work, hugs Trudy Nepper, 96, as she explains the flooding along the Red River while at a shelter in Grand Forks, N.D., Friday. AP Photo

By BOB MOEN GRAND FORKS, North Dakota (AP) Fire raged through downtown buildings in this tloo<lcd Midwest city e;u·ly Sunday as firefighters sUuggkd in water-clogged sUt:cts to save other busincsses.--

··our entire 10\\11 is nooJcd, ,U!d now our town is bu ming," Battalion Chief Jeny Anderson s;id.

Fin~ officials said the fitt: covered approximately a city block, but they did not know exactly how many build­ings were buming _ ;md said tl1ey probably would not know until morn­ing. After uying without success to fight the blaze, tl1ey said it might have to bum itself out.

Sh01tly before midnight Saturday, a fite truck from tl1e Grand Forks Air Force Base w;L, able to get through the water. - -

"It's not under control, but we 'tt: making headway,"' Anderson said.

ll1e blaze staited Saturday after­noon in a tlmx-story building and spread to ;mother building across the sUt:etin tl1e commercial disuict. Crews uied to fight the fi1t:s by dropping chemicals from planes but sus­pended the operation at nightfall. Some fire trucks were blocked by abandoned cars tloating in the streets.

Three firefighters were treated for hypothermia, but no other in­juries were reported. Emergency officials said 20 people were evacu­ated from the building where the fire began, two hours before it caved in.

Firefighterscouldn 'tgettlieirequip­ment through the streets, which were flooded with up to four feet of water, and water p1essure was low.

MoslofGnu1d Forks' 50,(XXltt:si­dents ab,mdoncd tl1e city cm-lier Sat­un.lay ,L~ the water moved in. But p.1 lice and National Gu.u-dsmcn uicd Lo get the holdouL~ to leave, th1t:atcn­ing ,u1t:st for those who 1efused. In ncighbo1ing East Gr;u1d Forks, Min­nesota,ofli~ials WClt: also urging rcsi-denL, to leave. - -

Mayor Pat Owens said 1csidc11L'; might have to stay out of their homes for two weeks while the city's swm11pcd water pkml is rcpai1t:d.

Officials said 60 percent of Grand Forks, a city of IO 1/2 squm-e miles (27 squait: kilomctc1s), was covc1cd with water. Police Lt. Byron Sieber said he expected most of the city to be noodcd.

'There arc a few high m-eas, but they're rare," he sail

The flooding also knocked out power to the Grand Forks police department, including its radio communications. Officer Joann Chaput said the city's 65 police officers had to rely on cellular phones while it was being fixed.

Joann Hurley left her home on a National Guard truck at 4 a.m. Saturday.

"This is frightening," she said. "None of us believed this could happen."

She regretted "just walking out and leaving all your treasures," adding: "I'm 72 years old. You have many treasures." .

An Air Force base 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of town prepared to accept as many as 5,000

refugees. Other shelters were readied at three eastern North Dakota colleges, the closest of

which was 35 miles (55 kilome­ters) south. Long lines of tlceing traffic headed west out of the city.

Karen Watt had ti111c only to pack two s111all suitcases with a chanee of clothes and food for her dog, Otis, before she was evacu­ated shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday.

"Our lives arc more impm1ant than furniture," she said as she sat at Red River Hieh School, wait­ing to be sent on-to another shel­ler.

On the opposite side of the river, residents of part of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, also were evacuated Saturdav after an 8-foot (2.5-metcr) dike burst.

The break left an estimateJ 3,000 East Grand Forks residents with no way to get over a bridge into the rest of the city, said Lynn Stauss, mayor of the town of8,500 people.

The Red River stood at about 53 feet ( ! 6 meters) at midday Saturday. The National Weather Service said the river would rise another foot (0.3 meter), slowly over the next few days. Flood stage is 28 feet (8.5 meters).

In the tabletop-nat Red River Valley, police said the water that swirled hip-deep around down­town buildings Saturday could linger for more than five days.

The river's rise overwhelmed weeks of backbreaking .work. Dikes built of clay and sandbags, in anticipation of the melt of a record winter snowfall that also flooded other wide areas of Min­nesota and North Dakota, were washed away in hours.

New Ideas Needed to Fight Crime and Make Other Changes We Need in the CNMI

1·vc never been embar­rassed about favoring new ideas or fresh approaches about how to rnn our govern­ment and to change our lives. I think with a n~w crntury just up ahead. we can no longer af­ford to sit back on the old fur­niture left behind by the Trust Territory and let the world pass us by.

With our Internet hookups, dramatically lower phone rates coming up within weeks and even better air service than be­fore, we have no excuse lo lag behind or any lack of new ideas to think about.

I am not surprised when ideas I've supported for a long time gel borrowed by others when they finally recognize their value. I come out in favor of a ··t1at tax" and, surprise, Con­gressman Pete Reyes has been working on one of his own for months. he says. The legisla­ture turn.s down my changes at the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, but now they want to do tht:ir own version. Frankly, these arc good things

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for the CNMI and if others want the credit in this election year, that's OK with me.

But we had better speed things up. Back in 1989 when I favored privatizing CUC, candi­d a le Larry Guerrero was screaming, "what's the rush?" Well, the rush is that the rest of the world is moving at a faster pace and if we want to maintain our position in it, we'll have to get going. Ask yourself, how long can we afford to take?

l know that some· of you would like to blame modern life for the unprecedented level of crime that we have experienced in recent years. But I say that crime is a perfect example of an area where we have failed to take a fresh look at our problems

and develop new solutions.

That is why, for example, have asked the Baltimore Police Department to give our Depart­ment of Pub! ic Safety a hand in solving the kind of tough murder cases that we rarely saw in the past. That is why I have also asked for technical assistance from Japanese law enforcement to help crack cases within that community on Saipan. But we can still learn a lot from how other ju­risdictions deal with crime.

A few years ago, New York City decided to take a new ap­proach lo cleaning up its sub­way system. If you've ever been there, you 'I! understand how big a problem they were facing. In.stead of looking the

other way when people did the ··small stuff," transit cops and police starting making arrests of people jumping turns ti !cs to beat the fares, graffiti painters and people who even urinated in full view of the other passen­gers. Outside of an amazing ovcr­all 75 percent drop in crime on the subway, New York found out that the effect of this new policy was to wipe out the notion-shared by most tourists and certainly the crooks-that no one in the city cared and would tolerate anything.

An interesting finding was that one out of seven of the people arr~sted for non-violent crimes such as not paying fares turned out to have out­standing warrants for serious and often violent crimes. I guess disrespect for the law shows up in different ways.

The experience with the New York subway system is leading many forward-think­ing law enforcement officials in a direction that can only be described as back to the com­mon sense that we abandoned some time ago. We can't af-

ford to tolerate the smallest criminal acts. because that just encourages the large ones!

There arc some losons that we might apply to our own lives in this. It is time lo stop tolerating actions that bring down our community. even if they arc small or involve our relatives. This isn't just the job of the police, ohviously. and our families should be right in the middle here, sending the right message to our young people.

Crime and drugs arc closely linked in our community mind these days, but as for as I am concerned, our drug problem is just a symptom of our own de­cision to loosen up the social controls that used to prevent such things.

Let's take the opportunity of a new century to reass.::ss our lives and how we gC1 about them in the Common­wca l th ·of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Si Yu'us Ma"asc.

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Gingrich focuses on GOP agenda By RUSS BYNUM

WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) -Newt Gingrich promised con­stituents Saturday that energy spent resolving his ethics problems will be refocused on a Republican agenda that in­cludes tax cuts and swift death sentences fordru" smuo<>lcrs

About 200 °su pp~~tei~ greeted with raucous applause the embattled House speaker and his wife Marianne as they arrived 30 minutes late to ad­dress a GOP convention 111

Gingrich's district north of Atlanta.

The crowd whooped and waved red-and-white signs with hearts alongside the speaker's name, val­entines from the Gingrich faith-ful. -

"Because all of you have backed Marianne and me, because you stayed with us no matter how bad the attacks, how vicious some of our opponents got. we were able to have th~ moral courage,"

Gingrich said. "Because of your support and enthusiasm, I will go back to Washington more determined than ever."

Thus Gingrich, R-Ga., took an­other step toward putting his eth­ics troubles behind him after an­nouncing Thursday he will pay his $300,000 ethics penalty with a loan from former Senate Major­ity Leader Bob Dole.

Gingrich told reporters after his speech that he feels "liberated to

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focus back now on the bigger agenda" after agrceine lo the loan \;hich he does -not h;ve to repa;

. until 2005. '·It's the sort of thing which

is always there until y~u get it done," he said. "So, in that sense, thinking it through and trying to decide what was right and trying to execute it in the right way took a substantial focus."

Gingrich agreed to pay the $300,000 after admitting that he violated House rules by failing to seek proper legal advice of using tax-exempt projects to advance his politi­cal goals and signing inaccu­rate statements submitted to the House Ethics Cammi ttee.

He said he's at ease leading a House Republican caucus that includes members who

Retired.Gen .. Colin Powell, .left, shak.es hands with Sen. Arlen Specter on Capilol Hitt Thursday prior to testifying before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on Gulf War Illnesses. AP Pho1o

Report: Brooke Shields Andre Agassi wed

. MONTEREY,California(AP) -Actress Brooke Shields married tennis star Andre Agassi in acer­emony Saturday evening in this scenic coastal city, the Monterey County Herald reported.

The wedding took place at St. John's Episcopal Chapel, the Rev. Jerome Politzer told the

, newspaper. The bride and groom slipped

into the small church as four helicopters filled with paparazzi circled overhead. About 100 guests were on hand.

Shields, 3 l, is currently the star of the television comedy

"Suddenly Susan." A model since she was 2,

Shields has appeared in several films, including Louis Malle 's "Pretty Baby" and "The Blue Lagoon." She is a Princeton University graduate.

Agassi, 26, won tlle gold medal for the United States in the Olym­pics last summer. He also won the Australian Open in 1995, the U.S. Open in 1994 and Wimbledon in 1992.

Telephone messages left at Agassi Enterprises in Las Ve­gas and with representatives for Shields were not returned.

have questioned his leader­ship. He eve!) predicted most Democrats will let the ethics issue rest, leaving only "a small group of bitter people who sort of chant anti-Newt slogans and march in circles."

Marshal I Bandy, Catoosa County's GOP chairman who attended the speech in Dahlonega in extreme north-

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east Georgia, said he admires Gingrich's resilience through­out the ethics ordeal.

"He's been picked apart, picked apart and picked apart," Bandy said. "If you pick anybody apart as much as he's been, you 're going to find something."

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Gingrich gadfly since the speaker hired and then fired her as House historian, handed the Woodstock crowd copies of a newsletter with a cartoon mocking the speaker as a game show contestant picking poli­tics as usual.

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US Navy activates warship •

By RICHARD PYLE The high-tech Aegis-type de­stroyer, one of 32 being built, is named for brnthers George, Jo­seph. Francis, Madison and Albert Sullivan, of Waterloo, Iowa. who wer·e killed when the cniiser USS

"Your courage is an inspiration to us," he said, noting that the Juneau,builtat the Brooklyn Navy Yard, sailed from the same har­bor 55 years ago. The Sullivans was built in Maine.

fam i I y, and the youngest... he was like five brothers to me."

The -Sullivans was moored at the former Naval Station New York, which opened in 1990 as the city's first naval

homeport in decades but closed just three years later as part of a Pentagon shutdown of surplus bases. The land is still owned by the federal gov-ernment.

'iE\\' YORK (AP)-Thc Navy formally commissioned its new­est \\·arship- a drstroyer· named for five bro1hcrs killed in World W:ir II - with bands. flags. sprcchcs and 200-year-old naval rilll:tls on Saturday.

Thr ceremony drew a crowd of about 4.000 to a cold, blustery Staten Island pier when: USS The Sul]i\·~ms was officially declared ,,n a,·1il'e duty.

Juneau was torpedoed by a Japa­nese submarine during the battle ofGuadalcanalonNov. 13.1942.

Their deaths - the only time since the Civil WarthatanAmeri-can family lost five sons in battle - became a national symbol of sacrifice am! commitment to vic­tory over Germany and Japan.

The Navy's search efforts in the aftermath of the Juneau sink-ing were a debacle. After aneight­day search, rescuers found only 10 of the ship's 700-man crew alive in shark-infested waters - Zook and Holmgren among them."It seems like a long time ago,'' Zook said. He said the Juneau was for a long time forgotten and still would be, "'if it wasn't for the five broth-

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Crndr. Gerard D. Roncolato. skipper of the ~.500-ton guided missi k Lkstroyer. ordered his 341-member crew to man the ship. ritual called "coming alive ... The s:rilors filed quiL·kly aboard. most manning the rails while some ac­li\ ated the ship's radar. 5-inch deck gun and \\'hist\e.

Just before that. an old-fash­ioned spyglass - symbolic of deck com111:1nd - was pnsscd from Luk.: J\liller. the last drck offin:r or an earlier USS The Sullinns. 10 Petty Officer !st Cla~s J..l. l Iarrington. of Eric. Pa ..

Guests at the commissioning included the last two living Ju-neau survivors. two dozen crew members from a World War II destroyer nlliTled for the Su 1li vans. and Kelly Sullivan Loughrcn and John Su1livan, two grandchildren of Albert, the youngest Sullivan brother.

Ronco! ato led the crowd in three cheers for the Juneau survivors. Frank Holmgren, 74. of Eatontown. N .J., and Lester Zook. 74, of Springfield. Ore.

ers. He said the commissioning

of a new The Sullivans was "really an emotional thing. We've come almost full circle.''

Patricia Jacobson showed snapshots of her twin brother, Paul Leddy, who she said per­ished at age 19 aboard the Ju-neau. '"He was the only boy in the

By GENE KRAMER WASHING TON (AP) - It's time for the Ame1ican black community to part company with Afric,m dicta­torships and their U.S. ethnic sup­po11ers, the outspoken chairwom:m of the Congressional Black CaucLIS said Saturday.

Counuies like Nige1ia spend "ue­mendous,m1ountsof money" on pub­lic relations, with the resultthat "I am const,mtly contacted by African American (church) ministers, heads oforganizationsaml business people·· on their behalf, said Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

Among otl1er things, they ask her

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"And I almost always answer, 'Yeah, in the name of dictator­ship,"' Waters added in a speech to a forum organized by the Af­rica Fund, a New York-based pri­v,ne, foundation-backed organi­zation that promotes expansion of U.S. relations :ind investment in Africa.

To maintain friendships with people in the black community, Waters said, ''We arc allowing them to advance the wrong leaders, lead­ers that are not about democracy' leaders that are starving people, leaders that ,ire killing people."

Besides Nigeria's Abacha, Waters namcl Zaire President Mobutu SeseSeko. After years of U.S. backing, she said, "Mobutu's dictator·ship seems to be on i ls last legs .... His departure will be the most promising political event in Africa since the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa."

Without naming U.S. apologists for Abacha, Waters said she re­cently rejected a U.S. black leader\ proposal to report on elec­tions in Nigeria, Africa's most populous co~mtry, to the Congres­sional Black Caucus, made up of 39 members of Congress.

Citing U.S investn1cnt and en­gagem;rll with China as "somc­thi7l!.!. no one would have thoul!ht possible: just a few years ag7J, .. Waters urged :1 similar ,tpproach to Afric:111 countries. Much more African debt ncl'.ds to be for!.!ivcn than the $22 million budget;d by the Clinton administration for this year, she said.

By KEVIN O'HANLON CINCINNATI (AP) - More th,m 12,S(Xl workers at nine Goodye:U" Tin: and Rubber Co. phmts in seven states walked off thcirjobscm·\y Sun­day, minutes after their contract ex­pired.

"Associates at all nine pl;mts went on strike at midnight Saturday," Gocxlyc,u-spokesmrn1 r1ed Haymond said. A statement from the United Steelworkers of Amc1ica also said workers had walked out.

Union spokcsrmm Cu11 Brown said he did not know whether talks we1e continuing ,md Haymond had no further details.

Negotiations between North America's lm·gest ti1e maker and the union on a new thrce-yem· contn1ct began March 6.

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No indictment for Netanyahu By JACK KATZENELL

JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be prosecuted for the in­fluence-peddling scandal that has paralyzed his administration for the past I 3 weeks, Israel radio and television reports said Satur­day.

But threats? opposition to his government still exist city of Hebron. In return, a little-known l:tw­

yer and Likud politician was lo be appointed attorney-gen­eral, and he was to reduce the charges against Dcri to mis­demeanors.

But members of Netanyahu's coalition still threatened to bring down the government, and minis­ters from Netanyahu 'sown Likud party hinted that they might n:­sign.

The reports came as Attorney­General Eliakim Rubinstein met with State Attorney Edna Arbel late into Saturday night to finalize a report on who, if anybody, in Netanyahu 's inner circle will be prosecuted.

Rubinstein has decided that that there is insufficient evidence to go after Jnstice Minister Tsahi Hanegbi or Avigdor Lieberman, director-general of the prime minister's office, Israel television's Channel 2 reported.

The attorney-general had not yet decided whether to accept Arbel's recommendation to in­dict Arieh Dcri, leader of a gov­ernment coalition party. Channel 2 said. The repor1 said Arbel main­tains there is enough evidence to indict Deri forex.tortion by threats.

The police had recommended that all four be charged, although they conceded that the case against Netanyahu was incomplete. The police report said there was evi­dence that Netanyahu, Hanegbi and Lieberman committed fraud

and breach of trust. Public Security Minister

Avigdor Kahalani, who heads a centrist party known as The Third Way, said Saturday that Netanyahu may have to resign whether charges arc filed or not.

"We stand for decent gov- -ernment,'' Kaha\ani told Chan­nel I television. "If there have been serious cases of miscon­duct we cannot remain in the government."

The loss of the.Third Way alone would not affect Netanyahu, as the party has only four of the 66 seats that the six allied parties control in the 120-seat parliament.

But Natan Sharanksy's Im­migrants Party, which controls seven seats and has broad in­fluence in the Russian immi­grant community, also has threatened to leave.

Sharansky repeated on Fri­day that there will have to be new elections if even· one­tenth of the allegations against the government are true.

Deri 's Shas party has threat­ened reprisals if Deri alone is indicted, but has not said spe­cifically whether it will leave the coalition. Shas, a religious party with 10 members, could also topple the government on its own.

Communications Minister Limor Livnat refused Satur-

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves back to cheering supporters at a Likud party meeting in Tel Aviv Thursday. Netanyahu said he had no plans to leave office early because of the current scandal over influence-peddling. AP PHOTO

day to confirm or deny reports that she and Finance Minister Dan Meridor, both from the ruling Likud party, will re­sign if the prosecution's re­port taints the prime minister or his aides.

The scandal erupted in J anu-

ary when Channel I televi­sion reported that Deri, who has been on tr·ial for seven years on corruption charges, arranged for two Shas Cabi­net ministers to support the withdrawal of Israeli troops from much of the West Bank

The lawyer, Roni Bar-On, resigned after only one day in office. Critics said he was un­qualified for the job.

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Kostov,leaderofthevictrnious United reported thcs,UTieoutcomc a~ the exit and NATO; and tefmming the finrui-Democrntic Forces. poll. · cial system.

Kostov's alliance won 56 percent One independent telephone poll Under the ex-communists' mis-of the votes, according to rui exit poll concluded the anti-communist alli- management and conuption, infla-by Gallup International. The fotmer ,mce would probably gain 136 seal~ tion soared to 300 percent by the end communists' renamedSocialistP.uty in tl1e240-seatPm·liamenL That would of last yeai·, pushing wages mid pen-won 19 peroent, with smaller pwties give itthe majority it needs to govern. sions fm· below subsistence levels. taking the test, Gallup said. "'Frankly, I don't have much mrne Bulgmians elected Stoyanov as

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emment would make p1irnities of Saturday. opening the tiles of the communist "We tumbled for a long time .md secret police; fighting corruption and lost tempo. That's why we have no org:mized ctime; winning tJie nation's more time for f u1ther expe1imenl~," admission to the European Union he said.

Croats win control of Vukovar city council

By SNJEZANA VUKIC ZAGREB, Croatia(AP)-Croats have won control of the city council in Vukovar, thcmostcontestedtown in the last Seib-held enclave of Croatia, according to preliminary election released Saturday. .

Croats also won in the city of IJok and 15 other municipalities in the April 13 vote for local assemblies. Serbs prevailed in the city of Beli Manastir and 10 other municipali­ties.

In many areas, thedifferencewas narrow. ·

Unofficial and incomplete results su ggestecl that the ruling Croatian Democratic Union - led by Croatia's nationalist president, Franjo Tudjman - collected

enough votes to command a major­ity in both the counties that encom­pass the area, known as eastern Slavonia

The region's Serbs fieroely op­posed Croatian rule for six yc:urs.

Last weekend, they cast their ballots for the first time as Croatian citizens, in nationwide elections for the upper house of parliament and the municipal governments.

The results, and their implemen­tation, will be a crucial testofwhether the fonner enemies could live -and rule - tngether again.

TherearestillconcemsthatSerbs may leave the areas they lost, and that Croats would not dare ID return !o places where Serbs won major-11:y.

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-17

French newspapers report:

Chirac 'dissolvin gov't ebbing popularity, along witJi bigh unemployment.

A ftesh victoty by the governing majoiity would give the p1esident a new legitimacy and u.,surc him · a f,iendly audience among lawmak­ers for the next five years -prac­tically until the end of his seven­year term in 2002.

Le Monde quoted an unidenti-

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llic left-le:ming daily Liberation also said Monday W,L, the likely day: 'The othcrnighL,of the week already taken up witJi the Europcmi Football (soccer) Cup."

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Legislativeelectionsdonothave to be held unti I Maidi 1988. The h,t election w,L, in 1993 when theSoci,tl­ists, dogged by conuption scruidals after a dozen ycm-s in power, wete crnshed by the right.

Chirac's pcrpetu,tlly low rating in public opinion polls, a record 12.8 percent unemployment rate this month mid ic,U'S that F1,mce may not qualilY to join the single Europe:u1 cutrcncy in 1999, havesputredspccu­lation that ch,mgc is in order.

Talk of a Cabinet shuffle h:L, over the past week given way to mm ors of a mote drastic tactic: an c,U"ly p,ufo1-mentmy vote.

Tiie presidential Ely see Palace has refused to comment, simply letting the tumors sptead.

Michel Pericard, president of Chirac's conse1vative Rally for the Republic prnty in the National As­sembly, said Saturday that rui eai·Iy vote was "the most probable" sce­naiio.

''111e1e is a kind of ctisis in the count1y, or rather a blockage." Pericard told Eumpe I radio. The president "must make a strong move to give public opinion a voice and assure that the situation is unblocked."

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Officials from the two K areas and the US are joined at the negotiating table by their delegations at a New York hotel Wednesday. The U.S. and South Korea hoped to hear whether North Korea will accept an offer for four-way peace talks as they met for the second time in two months. AP Photo

By ROBERT H. REID NEW YORK (AP)- Talks aimed at convincing North Korea to join peace talks appeai-ed nem· collapse ,t~ the North for a secor.d straight day ,t~ked for mor-e time to decide whether to accept the U.S.-South Ko1-em1 offer.

U.S. of-ficials hoped a formal meet­ing among the three delegations could be held Monday. In order to keep tl1e talks from collapsing, Americ,m mid South Koreanofficialsconvinced tl1c North Korern1s to agree to low-level contacts Sunday after efforts to ,u·­rm1gc a high-level meeting Saturday broke down.

South K01-em1 sources, also speak­ing on condition of not being mm1ed, said it appeaied tl1e North Kore:m govemment in Pyongy:mg W,L~ hold­ing out for11101e concessions on food aid and other issues.

The head of the U.S. delegation, acting Assisumt Sec1etw-y of State Chm-Ics Kmtmm1, returned to W ,L,h­ington on Saturday after railing to amU1gc a Cace-Io-facc meeting with his N011h K01ern1 countcqxut, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gyc Gw,m.

U.S. w1d South Ko11:w1 oi'licials appc,m:d clearly rrnstratcd by the North Korcm1 rdusal to give w1 ,m­swer to m1 offer or rour-way peace negotiations, which l'n:sidcnt Cl int on ,md South Korc:m Pn:sidcnt Kim Young Sam made l,tst yc,u·. China

would join the fo1mal negotiations. ··we me working on u-ying to ob­

tain a 1esponse from the North Kore­;ms to our proposal which we hope will be ,m acceptance of that pro­posal," a U.S. official said. ·Toe No1tl1 Kon::m1s at this point me still not pr-ep:u·cd to have a meeting with us at heads or delegation level.''

It appcmed that Nortl1 Ko1em1 negotiator Kim w,L, not cmpowcr-ed to make decisions ,md had been ovcr­mlcd on some points by Pyongym1g. the South Korem1 sources said.

No11h Korea's reply had been expected Friday following two days ofmectings:m10ngdelcgationsorthc threecounuies. But Ftiday 's meeting w;Ls rescheduled for Saturday after the No1th Korc:ms said tl1ey were awaiting insu11ctions from their gov­ernment in Pyongyang.

A111e1icm1 ,md South Kon:m1 ne­gotiators waited for the No11h Kon:­m1s at a midtown M,U1hattm1 hotel Saturday morning. But a half-hoUI· al"tcrthc meeting 'sscheduled st,uting time, U.S. oflicials said Ll1c North Kon:,ms had ,1skcd for 111ore low­kwl discussions. presumably to re­solw di t"fc1·cnccs raised by Pyongyang.

But those discussions l;1ikd to sat­isly the North Koreans, ,mc.l nD full delegation meeting was held. The South K01e,u1 delegation was to have

Camel milk eyed as famine solution TELAVIV,lsrael(AP)-kecream madcfromcmncl milk may not sound like a ueat, but it could be a stopgap solution to mass hunger in drou,,ht­su·ickc11 Africa, ,m l,raeli scier~tist says.

''In Kenya, all tl1c cattle have died because of the prolonged drought, but they have a surplus of 2 1/2 million liters of camel milk per day," said Reuven Yagi!, who has devel­oped the product.

Visitors who sampled the dese1t desse1t at an exhibition Friday found it tasty and smooth, with a faint mid plea~ant bittemess that comes from the plants that camels eat.

Yagi!, a physiology professor at Ben Gu1ion University in southern

lsrael,said hem1d hisassociatcscould help set up small-scale n;frigeration plant., to produce the ice cream for local consumption.

Like cows' milk, cmnel milk does not keep long, even in refrigerntors. The u~1ditional mctl10d of preserving cows' milk is to make cheese, but tl1at does not work for camel milk, Yagil said.

It c,m, however, be made into ice cr-e,m1, which h,ts much longer in deep freeze.

"It is iich in insulin, and has a very high protein and low fat content," Yagin said. "There is a limit to how muchmilkanyonecandrink,butyou can eat a~ much of this ice cream as you like."

returned tu Srnul late Friday hut agreed to stay at Nrntl1 Krnea 's re­quest.

U.S. officials have insisted that food aid should nut be a pre-con­dition for the peace talks. South KDrca has promised to increase aid after North Korea c:nters peace talks.

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North Klll'L'.a t'l'.JCctcd silllilar proposals in 1995 ,111d I 'J%.

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GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. Hu­man Ri 2hts Commission de­nounced-Iraq on Wednesday for ··all-pervasive repression:· re­buked IncJoncsia for abuses in East Timorand criticizccJ Cuba forvio-

lations of civil liberties. It expressed concern about ex.­

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The voting. which ends the 53-

nation body's six.-week annual session, came down to Europe and the United States against Af­rica and Asia on the most conten­tious issues -Cuba, East Timar, Nigeria, China.

China escaped possible censure

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late Tuesday by winning enough support for a procedural "no ac­tion" motion on its human rights situa(ion. Also on Tuesday, Nige­ria was put under special scru­tiny, a procedure reserved for the worst violators.

The commission voted 19- l 0 on Wednesday to extend the U.N. watch on Cuba for another year. Rcnecting misgivings from de­veloping -countries -who didn't want to criticize Cuba orupsct the llnitcd States, there were 24 ab­stentions.

The commission saved its toughest language for Iraq, a po­litical outcast since it invaded Kuwait in I 990.

In a resolution adopted 31-0, it condemned "massive and ex­tremely grave violations of hu­man rights ... resulting in an all­pervasive repression and oppres­sion sustained by broad-based <lis­c1imination mid widespread tenor.''

The1e were 22 abstentions from developing counuies. Iraq is not a commission member.

CitingcboperationfromRwanda's Tutsi-led government, the commis­sion dropped the central Africm1 na­tion - site of a 1994 genocide that killed a half-million iople, mostly

Tutsis - from its list of worst viola­tors. It suessed that some form of human 1ights monit01ing should con­tinue.

The commission voted 20-14 on a European Union resolution voicing "deep concern at the continuing 1e­ports of violations of human rights in Ea,t Tim or, 'including reports of extrJ. judicial killings,disappearances, tor­tu1e and m·bim1ry detention." TI1e1e we1e 18 abstentions.

Indonesia had hoped for a niil<lly worded chainmU1' sstatcment. A 1cso­lution is more politically embmrnss­in~!.

Invaded by Indonesia in 1975 after 4(Xlyem,ofPrn1uguesccolonial1ule, E.L,t Ti mor w,L, annexed a yem· latcr. For years, human 1ight, h'TOUps have maintained that Indonesian troops have to11ured, beaten and killed thou­sands of E.L,tTimo1ese to stifle ~pa­ratist yearnings.

On Bu1ma, the commission urged the military junta to take quick steps toward democracy and stop harassing Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. It also con­demned executions and deaths in detention, torture, forced reloca­tion of ethnic minorities and forced labor by both children and adults.

Thousands rally to back . asylum for East Timorese

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Thousands of Australians sang and danced Sunday at a rock concert as part of a rally urging the government to grant asylum to 1,360 East Timorese who fled Indonesian rule over their homeland.

.The organizers called on the government to establish a special visa category for. the East Timorese to give them refugee status just as it did to 20,000 Chinese after the Tiananmen Square ·massacre.

The rally was one of the biggest in Australia in support of East Timar. A former Portuguese colony, East Timar was invaded byfadonesia in 1975 and annexed a year later, sparking a popu Jar independence campaign the latter seeks to control through military force.

About 400 East Timorese also attended the rally at Melbourne's Treasury Gardens where some of Australia's best known rock bands and East Timorese dance troupes performed.

COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PUBLIC NOTICE April 17, 1997

Pursuant to Public Law 8-41, Section 11, Governor Froilan C. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus C. Borja, through the CDA Board of Directors, are hereby giving notice, that the Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors for the Develop­ment Corporation Division (DCD) of the Commonwealth Development Authority scheduled on April 17, 1997 was cancelled due to bad weather conditions. The. meeting is rescheduled for Tuesday, April 22, 1997 at 10:00 A.M. It is further noticed that immediately after the DCD Board of Di­rectors meeting, the CDA Board of Directors will reconvene it's meeting of April 16, 1997. The meetings will be held at the CDA Conference Room, Wakin's Building, Gualo Rai, Saipan.

/s/ JUAN S. TENORIO Chairman, CDA Board of Directors

/s/ JESUS D. SABLAN Chairman, DCD Board of Directors

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Vatican declares m.iracle By ROBIN ESTRIN

BOSTON (AP) - Ten years ago, a little girl named after a Jewish­born nun killed by the Nazis lay <lying in a Boston hospital.

The doctors didn't expect 2 I/ 2-year-ol<l Teresia Benedicta McCarthy to make it. Her parents prayed to her namesake, Edith Stein, who was known as Sister Teresia Benedicta. ·

Their prayers were answered and the girl lived. Now, the Vatican has ruled that her recov­ery was a miracle attributable to the nun and moved Stein a step closer to becoming a. Roman Catholic saint.

"The choices are either it's an accident or purposeful - there's nothing in between," said the Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, the girl's father. "And our position is that this is not an accident, that it is purposeful and it is within the providence of God."

McCarthy isa priest in the East­ern Rite of the Catholic Church, a branch that allows a married man to become ordained. He and his wife, Mary, had long been fasci­nated with the life of Stein and named their <laughter, now 12, in her honor.

Born to a Jewish family in what is now Wroclaw, Poland, Stein convertecJ to Catholicism, became a nun in 1933 and took the name Teresia Benedicta. She died in an Auschwitz gas chamber on Aug. 9, 1942, two months before her 51 st birthday. She was beatified by the clrnrch in 1987.

Benedicta McCarthy was born on Aug. 8, 1984 - Aug. 9 Auschwitz time, the anniversary of Stein's death. her father said.

She fell ill after swallowing a potentially fatal dose of Tylenol. For four days, she barely clung to life. Her liver and kidneys failed, she <lcvclopc<l an infection and drifted toward a coma, said Dr. Ronald Klei nm an. who treated her at Massachusetts General l lospi­tal.

"Siu; was quite a sick little child," Klci11111an. a pediatric gas­trocnterologist, said Saturday.

Although most children recover from Tylenol overdoses, the doc­tors were pessimistic about Benedicta's chances. Then, all of a sudden, she turned around, saicJ Kleinman, who testified before Vatican officials.

Although Benedicta had been diagnosed with irreversible liver damage and was put on a waiting list fora transplant, she is a healthy adolescent today.

"I think it was miraculous that she recovered," Kleinman said. "I think you have to be humble. We <lo our best and when we <lo our best in spite of that some children die. But when they tum around, I think you have to ac­knowledge that there are other forces in play there that arc be­yond what we 're capable of do­ing."

Benedicta said Saturday that she doesn't rcmt:mbcr her brush with death but believes a miracle took place. She believes

Stein is still watching over her. The Vatican announced April 8

Pope John Paul II waves to the faithful in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican Wednesday during the weekly general audience. Earlier this month, the pope recognized a miracle pertaining to a nun beatified in 198 7. AP Photo

that Pope John Paul lI had offi­cially recognized the miracle, the final step before canonization. Some Jews criticized her beatifi­cation in 1987.

The Nazis killed her, they said, because of her Jewish heritage, not because she later embraced Catholicism.

The Rev. Kieran Kavanaugh, who investigated the case for the

Archdiocese of Boston, said the · girl's recovery was only one of. several factors behind Stein's nomination for sainthood.

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The Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) at the Saipan International Airport is looking lor applicants for the following position:

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K OTA KINABALU, Malaysia(AP) -:\ Frenchm;m who In, been rebuffed in his attempt to climb die world's t,tl\cst skyscrap:rin die M,tlaysi,mcapi­tal scaled a 32-story building Sunday.

:\lain Robert,34.beg,mhisclimbm tlie 16th floor of the Y ayasan Sabah building wid1 hundreds of spectators watchinf! from below. He had wanted to climb from die ground level, but said aluminum sheeting on lower floors made that impossible.

Robert. of Valance. France. makes

his living scaling t,tll buildings as pub­licity for his sponsors. using only his bare h,mds.

He has climbed more d1an 30 sky­scrapers, including the world· s fifth­tallest - the Empire State Building in New York City.

Robert was arrested last month when he tried to climb one of the 88-story Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The government later gave pennis­sion, but managers of the 451.9-rneter­ta\1 /1.482.61-foot-tall) building said

We, the family of the late

iL5exteriorfittings couldn't support tl1e weight.

"What I w:mt to do is to climb tl1e Twin Towers," he said Sunday.

Dressed in black jeans, Robert climbed the Yay,t5an Sabah building by gripping tl1e frmne holding the gla5s facade togetl1er.

The climb on Sunday brought in 445,000 ringgit ($ 178,000) in dona­tions from corporate sponsors for a group of charities including Malaysia's AIDS Foundation.

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Dissident's wife refused entry BEIJING (AP) - Chinese cus­tomsofficers refused to allow into China the exiled wife of a dissi­dent blamed for instigating the massive 1989 anti-government protests, a friend said Sunday.

Hou Xiuotian, wife of Wang Juntao, flew from Seoul to Beijing Saturday, hei" first trip home since she left for Columbia University as a visiting scholar in September 1993.

She was stopped in customs and put on the next flight back to South Korea, said a friend in Hong

Kong, Liu Qianming. Customs officers told her she

was being turned away because of her "anti-government activities,'" according to a statement from the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and the Democratic Movement in China.

Liu said Hou traveled to China on business representing a U.S.­based consulting· firm. He said llou flew to Hong Kong late Sat­urday and was tired from the or­deal. She plnnned to tnlk to report­ers in a day or two.

For much of the 1990s, the rul­ing Communist Party has pushed its political opponents into exile, knowing they lose influence once abroad and isolated from China. Increasingly, the government has baJTed re-entry to the exiles' fami­lies.

Hou is the second wife of a well-known exiled dissident to be turned back at the border in two months. Chinese border officials in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, last month ref used entry to Han Xiaorong, wife of veteran democ-

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racy and human rights campaigner Liu Qing.

Hou served four months in jail in the nationwide crackdown on dissent that followed the milit:.uy ,L5sault on pro-democracy demon­stratorsinTiananmenSqu.u-ein 1989.

Her husb:md, newspaper editor W;mg Juntao, was sentenced to 13 yem, foradvisingunivcrsity student, leading the protest.s.

After her release, Hou cam­paigned tirelessly for Wang's re-

lease, despite relentless intirnida­tion. She lost her government _j<1b, could not find other work anu" a, detained several ti mes for short pericxls. once in asw1at01ium outside Beijing.

W;mg was given medical 1xu-ok in Ap,il 1994. five years into his sen­tence and ,unid the ;umual ucbatc in Ww;hington over whether to renew China's- low-tariff trading rights. Ww1g fled to the United States. I le and Hou live in Boston.

The CNMI Public School System is soliciting /or eo,11pe:,•:•1e sealed b.cdmg l,om ,n:eres·ea :rrrcs ·,, :.ne proposed renovation ol foian Elementary and Jr H,gil Schoo: Bullaing "K" and Slcdent Cen:er. 9,ds ,n duplicate will be accepted in the PSS Procuremen: & Supp::es Ollice on the 3rd lloor oi Ire IJaur J ou11,j11J. Susupe, Saipan no laler than 2:QD p.m., May 30. 1997 al which time and place all bids will be pctirciy opened and read aloud. Any bids receive,J al:er the above dale and t,crie will not be o:cep:,j snde any circumstances.

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Bid documents will be available on or alter April 2J, 1997 al the PSS Procueme·,1 an1 SJpc:y O"ce. ;'] ltoor ol lhe Nauru Building, Susupe, Saipan A nan relundcble payr,,er,I o! Se•e1ty F:ve rSi5.001 US Dollars is required lor each set. A pre-brd corleren:e ·1or !he alorementioned oro:ec: wrll be r,,:,, a' 2:Q; p.m., Local lime at the ProcLrernenl and Supply Ollrce, 3r,j 1100', fJecrc Bcrld,n,i. S•,succ. Sa,ceo. l.!ay c. 1997.

All prospective oidders are reqUesled in writing lo submit all questions perta n rg to tr.e b d docucH,ts r,•,; days prior lo the pre-bid conference in which time and place seecilied above. All ques!:ons mus! oe sub"II t:ed directly to lhe PSS, CIP Coordinator Mr. Cemer,,e Sablan al ,he Depanment or Public Works. Technical Ser1ice Division at Lower Base, Saipan and maybe contacted at telephone numoer 322-9.;36 e"ens or, 5:

Attention is called to the labor Standards Provisions lor Wage Rate Deierminalron oi ire CNMI Classili,:a: en and salary structure plans, and payment ol not less lhan the minimum salaries and wages as set lorlh. A I documents received shall be the sole propeny ol lhe Public School System. Governmenl ol l.1e tlorthern Mariana Islands with the exceplion al the bid bo.nds, certilied checks, or casnrer's check 'llhrch '11111 be returned lo the bidders in accordance with the spec1i1cal1on "Invitation for Bidders" page 1-2 paragraph No. 5, Bid Guarantee.

The CNMI Public School System reser1es tr,e rigit to rajecl any or all bids 10 tre best inlere,t ot CNl.11 Public School System.

Isl WILLIAMS TORRES is/ LOUISE CONCEPCION Commissioner ol Education Procurement & Supply

COMMONWEALTH UTILITIES CORPORATION 11

INVITATION TO BID CUC 1TB 97-0017

April 21, 1997

The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation is inviting qualified individuals or firms to bid surveyed items (as is). Generally, the surveyed items consists of the following types of items. 1) Electric typewriters 2) Facsimile Machine 3) Line Conditioners 4) Computer monitors and screens 5) Stretcher 6) Electric time clocks 7) Emergency lights 8) Electric calculators 9) Vehicles (Saipan) 10) VHF Portable radios with charger & batteries

Specifications and Bid Forms for the above may be picked up at the cue Procurement & Supply Office in Lower Base, Saipan during normal working hours (7:30 a.m. to 11:40 a.m., and 12:30 p.m., to 4:30 p.m.) before bid closing date and time. The items may also be inspected during normal work­ing hours at the new CUC Warehouse Building in front of the Power Genera­tion Building at Lower Base.

All inquiries may be directed to Mr. Frank T. Flores. Manager for Materials !

Management Division al phone number 322-4033 extension 16 or fax num­bers 322-6582.

All bids must be in a sealed envelope marked CUC-IFB 97-0017 and submit­ted lo the Special Advisor for Procurement & Supply at CUC in Lower Base. Saipan, before 3:00 p.m., local time. on May 7, 1997. Bids will be opened and read aloud immediately after closing in the CUC conference room.

CUC reserves the right to reject any and all bids for any reason and to waive any defect in said bids, or any of them if in its sole Io do so would be in the best interest of CUC. All proposals shall become the property of CUC.

TIMOTHY P. VILLAGOMEZ Executive Director

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24-MARIAN AS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- APRIL 21. 1997

LEAVING ISLAND SALE CONTINUES!

Huge quantilyolqualily stateside household items: Furniture, lamps, pictures, kitchen materials, clothes, books, Harvard C.lassics/ Great Books, tapes, records, vacuum cleaners and MUCH MORE at drastically reduced prices. Cash and Carry and Save! Daily 8 00 AM to 7:00 PM #4A Village View Apt., San Rocue, nex1 to San Roque Church, Tel. 322-9876.

Also: AfrK:an Grey Congo Parrot, Tame, Talks, Friendly St,200.00 t990 Suzuki Swrll, $4,200.00

COUPLE • WANT FREE HOUSING?

I need houseworker, 40 hrs week Phone 233-2350 tor details

Call after 4:00 p.m.

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A·ONE SHOES Needs Full time/Part Time

Sales Clerk Application available al

A-One Shoes Susupe Across Saipan Community School

Prime Location lnfront of Grand Hotel

APARTMENT FOR RE.NT Owner's Leavi11g Off-Island Call: 235-0256; 235-6699

Studio, 17x15ft, free water, free power, air con. (no kitchen), $300.00 mo. (285, if cut grass bi-weekly) 1st & last up front. Ron 234-6401 thru 05.

FOR SALE 1987Toyola Crown Approximately 800 square

meters with 100 feet frontage on W-2 highway in Tanapag. $75,000.00 for 55 year lease.

Fully loaded, stereo, AM/FM, AC, New tires, excellent interior, Auto

Must see to appreciate Call Ravi 234-6266

Good commercial location, great inyestment. I RECYCLE Call 235-6633.

CHOI, YONG HWAN LOST HIS BLACK CLUTCH BAG

in Beach Road, Garapan Important documents such as credit cards. passport, CNMI Drivers License #T96-321, Air Ticket (Northwest), Entry Permit & $200.00 Cash.

If Found please call Tel. 288-6233 (Harlene Tour) or 322-4472.

If found, please call SHARP TRAVEL & TOURS at

Tel. No. 235-3971 or 235-3901

Motivated Individual for Outside Sales of Gift & Souvenir items.

For an appointment, call Dorothy at THE NEW STONE A(;i.: CORl'Ol{ATION,

Tel. 234-7625 Health Insurance Provided, Benefits Ne otiable

PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CNMI GOVERNMENT

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP NO. RFP97-0115 FOR: PERFORM AND PROVIDE SERVICES TO SEVERE DISABILITIES OPENING DATE: MAY 07. 1997 TIME: 1:00 P.M.

GOVERNOR FROILAN C. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS C. BORJA, THROUGH THE DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, ARE SOLICITING COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS TO PER­FORMAND PROVIDE SERVICES TO SEVERE DISABILITIES. INTERESTED INDI­VIDUALS OR FIRMS MAY PICK UP PROPOSAL FORMS AND SPECIFICATIONS AT THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, LOWER BASE, SAi PAN, DURING WORKING HOURS (7:30 A.M. TO 4:30 PM.).

IS/EDWARD B. PALACIOS DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT & SUPPL y

KEEP CNMI LITTER FREE I

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Farrell . . . Continued from page 1

struction ofTinian High School." PSS and the Department of

Public Works tenninated on April 7 GB I's contract for default. · Alleging that PSS was to blame for

the delay in the completion of the projecL Pedro R. Guem:ro, geneml manager of GB!, on 1lmrsday ap­pealed PSS and DPW's decision.

Guen-em said he would take coutt action against PSS "'if tl1e problem is not res;lved to the satisfaction of Guen-ero Brothers."

'"Let'sall gotocou1ttl1en.Gue11-em Brolhcrs is ~sing federal money for the project. Whe1-e is the money go­ing?'" Farrell remarked during F1iday's lxxu·d meeting.

Stale ... Continued from page 1

good retail merchandise" would be "a serious blow to our private sector."

The Senate voted unanimously to override the veto last April 2, with the bill's author claiming that some administration officials 1 ied when they said thatthe Saipan Chamber of Commerce (SCC) opposed the pill.

Tenorio . . . Continued from pa~

a real hard time," the official said. Furlher, the official added, the

Division of Public Lands will be retaim:c.l under the new law, but the same law said DPL will be answerable to the new Board of Public Lane.ls.

This set-up will create a con­flict. according to the official, as the DPL di rector is under the secretary or lands and and na1ural res0t1rces. and b0th arc the governor's appointees who can be fired by him at will.

Tht: only ··good thing" with the nvt:rride. the official said, is 1ha1 i1 1urned all lawsuits ;1gainst Tenorio 's land lease decisions "p,Jintlcss."

;\ .similar hill was vclocd by the go\'crnor last year, but a move lo override i l failed.

Short In Friday's House session,

the first motion to override actually fell short of the re­quired 12 "Yes" votes, gar­m:ring the support of only 11 members, with 4 voting against, I abstention and 2 absent members­Hofschneider and Rep. Manuel /\. Tenorio (R­Saipan).

But Speaker Diego T. Benavente (R-Saipan) called for another vote when Hofschneider showed up more than an hour after the session started.

Before casting his vote,

The board chief, during intelv'iew with the Variety.said "Idon'tbclieve that PSS isat fault for the noncomple­tion of that project."

He said" an independent third pruty with the ability to make an impartial judgement" has to step in ''to set the record straight. "

Farrell lodged the request for audit to Public Auditor Leo LaMotte on Friday.

"I made the request as a citizen of Tinian and as the elected Tinian 1ep-1esentative to the boru·d, ., Fan-ell said.

Suspecting that some supplies and materials for the project we1-e unac­counted for, Fm1-eli has also asked OP A to inspect the construction site.

··1 have had report; from faculty staff and student~ at Tinim1 High School who observe vehicles leaving the construction site cru1ying materi-

Villagomez said he learned that SCC ;as never consulted, and that its officers were in favor of the bill.

During Friday's House session, it was Rep. Melvin 0. Faisao (R­Saipan) who moved to ovenide the veto, and was seconded by Majority Leader Pete P. Reyes (R-Saipan).

A~ide from the two, those whe voted for an ovenide were Speaker Diego T. Benavente(R-Saipan), Reps. Joaquin G. Adriano (R-Tinian),

Hofschneider said no matter what the set-up is, there wou Id still be problems with pub! ic lands.

Any big !and lease propos­als involving foreign inves­tors would still be opposed in courts, he said.

In an interview with the Va­riety after the vote, Hofschncidcr admitted that the new law will affect pending lease agreements, which is why, he a<lded, members to the newly-created Board of Public Lands sliou Id be ap­pointed immediately.

1-Iofschneider said lie voted for the override c.lespi te his reservations because of the peoplc 's clamor agai 11st recent public land leases.

··we should listen lo the people.'" he said, adding that he will soon rile a bill to "cor­rect" the new law.

Those who voted against an override-Vice Speaker Jesus T. Attao (R-Saipan), Minority Leader Dino M. Jones (D­Saipan), Reps. Rosiky F. Camacho (D-Saipan) and Ana S. Tcregeyo (R-Saipan)-saic.l a better plan would be to in­troduce a legislative initiative that would require a referen­dum.

After the override was an­nounced by the speaker, Jones asked that the vote of Karl T. Reyes shou Id not be counted due to a "conflict of interest."

Reyes has earlier said that he is a "'victim" of the government's land lease poli-

als and supplies," Farrell said. "I don't know whether those be­

long to PSS or to Guen-ero Brothers, or co somebody else. We have to have somebody go down there, inspect the site, and record the mate1ials on site to determine whether they've been paid for by eitl1er PSS or Public Works."

GB! and PSS have been pointing fingers at each other for the delay in tl1e completion of the school project

Last November, GB! put the con­suuction work athaltbecauseof PSS 's 1-efusal to reimburse it for the extra cost;, which Gue1Tero said he had incun-ed from inc1-ease in labor ex­penses, p1icesof supplies, and changes in plans and designs.

Gumero said PSS had b1-eachcc.l the conuacl when it te1minatcc.l his company's se1vice without giving him a chance to respond.

Vicente M. Atalig (R-Rota), Ctispin I. DL Guen-ero (R-Saipan), Heinz S. Hofsclmeider(Ind. -Saipan), Maria T. Peter (R-Saipan), Karl T. Reyes (R­Saipan),AnaS. Teregeyo(R-Saipan), Michael P. Tenorio and Stanley T. Tom:s (Ind.-Saipan). ·

Those who voted "No": Vice Speaker Jesus T. Attao (R-Saipan), Minority Leader Dino M. Jones (D­Saipan), Reps. Oscar M. Babauta(R­Saipan) and Rosiky F. Camacho (D­Saipan).

cies. Benavente, however, ruled

that Rcyes's "Yes" vote stays. Problems

In his veto message, Tenorio said giving autonomy to the board is "the single biggest problem with that system," citing a report made by the U.S. Inspector General on the now-defunct Marianas Public Land Corp. (MPLC).

Board appointments would be made for political reasons, not based on expertise, expe­rience or integrity, he said.

Once in office, according to the governor, board members were not subject to any mean­ingful control, and the execu­tive director was even less accountable.

Another problem with the bill. he said, is the qualifica­tions required of a board mem­ber-should be NM I-descent, has rive years residency, speaks Chamorro or Carolin­ian, has two years managc­men t experience and no pre­vious government employ­ment record.

Tenorio said the restrictions make the pool of potential board members "almost ri­c.licu lously smal I.''

Shortly after becoming gov­ernor in 1994, Tenorio signed an executive order that abol­ished the autonomous MPLC. transferring its functions to a Division of Public Lands which is under the Department or Lands nnc.l Natural Re­sources.

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE <fM_arianas %rietr •: 1 =\'+'SIJ: • •1!4 • =\t+'E•

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01 CARPENTER-Salary: $2.90 per hour 01 CARPENTER-Salary: $3.30 per hour 01 ELECTRICIAN-Salary: S2.90 per hour Contact: ROLAND G. JASTILLANA dba Arjay Construction Tel. 234-7666(4/ 28)M65376

01 MARKETING MANAGER-Salary: $1,500.00 per month Contact: TINIAN SHIPPING CO., INC. Tel. 233-1133(4/28)M65381

02 WAREHOUSE WORKER-Salary: $3.05-3.25 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $825.00-925.00 per month 01 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary: $1,000.00 10 1,200.00 per month 01 COMPUTER ENGINEER-Salary: $700.00-900.00 per month 01 PURCHASING MANAGER-Salary: $700.00-950.00 per month 01 INVENTORY AUDIT CLERK-Salary: $700.00-900.00 per month 01 DRAFTERS-Salary: $3.05-4.00 per hour OB MASON-Salary: $2.90-3.50 per hour 02 SHEET METAL WORKER-Salary: $2.90-4.00 per hour 09 CARPENTER-Salary: $2.90-3.25 per hour 01 DRAFTSMAN (ARCHITECTURAL)­Salary: S1 ,625.00-1,700.00 per month Contact: SABLAN ENTERPRISES Tel. 234-1558( 4/28)M65382

03 MASON-Salary: $2.90-3.15 per hour 01 CARPENTER-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per hour Contacl: M.S. VILLAGOMEZ INCOR­PORATED dba MSV Construction Com­pany Tel. 234-7723(4/28)M65385

01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT­Slary: $4.50 per hour Contact: RELIABLE COLLECTION AGENCY, INC. Tel. 235-3530(4/ 2B)M65387

01 WEDDING CONSULTANT-Salary: $800.00 per month Contact: FUKADA ENTERPRISES, INC. dba Fukada Wedding Tel. 235-3935(4/28)M228837

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Sf'lary: $3.05 per hour Contact: CLASSIC DESIGNS, INC. (4/ 28)M228836

01 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary: $3.50 per hour Contact: SAIPAN MYUNG DONG CORP. dba Italy Shopping Tel. 233-3341 (4/28)M228841

02 WAITER/WAITRESS-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: POWER CORPORATION dba Power Restaurant Tel. 288-5874(4/ 28)M228843

01 SUPERVISOR-Salary: 51,000.00 per month Contact: M. SANWA PLANNING, LTD. dba Mitsue's Restaurant Tel. 235-7102(4/28)M228844

01 SALESPERSON-Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 FASHION DESIGNER-Salary: S1 ,000.00 per month Contact: KAZUE INTERNATIONAL, INC. Tel. 322-6338(4/28)M228845

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01 MANAGER, BRANCH-Salary: $1,000.00-3,400.00 per month Bilingual in Japanese language. Contact: HANKYU GUAM TOURS Tel. 235-3935(4/21)M228745

01 ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK-Salary: $4.67 per hour 01 WAREHOUSE WORKER-Salary: S4.00 per hour 01 SALES MANAGER-Salary: S1 ,300.00-1,800.00 per month 01 ACCOUNT ANT-Salary: S4.36 per hour Contact: MICRONESIAN BROKERS (CNMI). Inc. Tel. 322-0318(4/ 21)M228751

01 MECHANICAL DRAFTER-Salary: S900.00-1,0DO.OO per month Contact: EMC2 MECHANICAL, INC (CNMI) Tel. 322-3532{4/21)M228746

02 AUTO MECHANIC-Salary: $2.90-3.50 per h~ur 15 STEELMAN-Salary: $2.90-3.50 per hour 02 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $4.00-5.50 per hour 25 MASON-Salary: $2.90-3.50 per hour 15 ELECTRICIAN-Salary: $2.90-3.50 per hour 25 CARPENTER-Salary: $2.90-3.75 per hour 15 PLUMBER-Salary: $2.90-3.50 per hour 02 AIRCONDITION & REFRIGERA­TION MECHANIC-Salary: $2.90-3.50 per hour 15 PAINTER-Salary: $2.90-3.75 per hour 15 WELDER-Salary: $2.90-3.00 per hour Contact: REMEDIO S./DANIEL S. BUNIAG dba Marfran Enterprises Tel. 322-0414(4/21)M228748

02 COOK-Salary: $2.90-3.00 per hour 10 CUTTER, MACHINE-Salary: $2.90-3 .DO per hour 10 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER­Salary: $2.90-3.00 per hour 40 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary: $2.90-3.00 per hour 10 MACHINE PRESSER-Salary: $2.90-3.00 per hour 02 ADMINISTRATIVE-Salary: $2.90-4.00 per hour 01 (EXECUTIVE) MANAGER, INDUS-

. TRIAL ORGANIZATION-Salary: $4,500.00-5,000.00 per month Contact: MARIANA FASHIONS, INC. Tel. 234-8607(4/21)M228749

01 AUTO PAINTER-Salary: $4.50 per hour Contact: HAWAIIAN ROCK PROD­UCTS CORPORATION Tel. 322-0407(4/21)M228747

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01 (SUPERVISOR), TRAVEL CLERK· Salary: $2,257.90 per month 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $900.00-1,040.00 per month 01 MANAGER, TRAVEL/TOUR AGENT-Salary: $1 ,500.00-5,800.00 per month, Bilingual in Japanese Contact: R & C TOURS·SAIPAN, INC. (4/21)M228741

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01 BRANCH MANAGER-Salary: S4.50 per hour Contact: AUSIA INT'L. (SPN) INC. Tel. 235-3772(5/5)M228922

01 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary: $600.00 per month Contact: RONG HUA CO. LTD. dba Sachiko Karaoke Box Tel. 233-0776(5/ 5)M228926

01 CABINET MAKER-Salary: S4.00 per hour Contact: JO RETH TRADERS, INC. Tel. 234-5D00(5/5)M22B927

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01 OVERHAULER (SEWING MA­CHINE REPAIRER)-Salary: S7.00-13.00 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR(SHIPPING SEC­TION)-Salary: S4.00-9.00 per hour 50 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary: S2.90-5.00 per hour 04 INSPECTOR, QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER-Salary: S2.90-5.00 per hour 04 CUTTER, MACHINE-Salary: S2.90-5.00 per hour 01 MARKER-Salary: S2.90-5.00 per hour 10 PRESSER, MACHINE-Salary: S2.90-5.D0 per hour 01 SHIPPING MANAGER-Salary: S 10.00-15.00 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $4.00-8.00 per hour Contact: NEO FASHION INC. Tel. 234-9642(5/5)M228928

03 TOUR COORDINATOR-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: HOSANNA CORPORATION dba Hosanna Tour Agency Tel. 235-7535(5/5)M228923

01 OPERATIONS MANAGER (POKER MACHINE)-Salary: S3.50 per hour Contact: YOU RIM CORPORATION dbaAmusementCenter (Poker) Tel 235-1325(5/5)M228925

01 DENTAL ASSISTANT-Salary: S4.25 per hour Contact: GENTLE GRIN CORPORA­TION dba Smile Saipan Dental Clinic Tel. 235-3720(5/5)M228929

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01 SECURITY GUARD-Salary: S3.05 per hour Conlact: MYLENE P. MATTHEWS dba MFM Enterprises (5/5)M65522

01 COMPUTER GRAPHIC ARTIST­Salary: S6.50 per hour Contact: HOTEL CINEMA INT'L. INC. Tel.235-4246(5/5)M228939

01 SEWING MACHINE MECHANIC (REPAI RER)-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per hour Contact: FAIRTEX MANAGEMENT CO., LTD. Tel. 234-9522(5/5)M228930

01 SEWING SUPERVISOR-Salary: S2.90-3.05 per hour 01 PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR-Sal­ary: S2.90-3.05 per hour Contact: ONWEL MANUFACTURING (SAIPAN) LTD. Tel. 234-9522(5/ 5)M228931

05 DANCER-Salary: $3.05 per hour 05 WAITRESS-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: WAYNE A. SHIMABUKURO dba Stop Light Nite Club Tel. 287-7817(5/5)M228933

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: S4.80 per hour Contact: FAMILY ENTERPRISES, INC. Tel. 233-4997(5/5)M228934

01 WAITRESS, RESTAURANT-Salary: $3.05 per hour . Contact: CHALON INTERNATIONAL OF SAIPAN, INC, dba Indian Curry/ Ram en House Mandarin (5/5)M228935

ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS .

MEETS . The Saipan Group of Alco­holics Anonymous meets every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m. at the Kristo Rai Church Social Hall Kitchen in Garapan, across from the Horiguchi Building. If you have a drinking or drugging problem call 234-5100 and they will put you in contact with someone who might be able to help.

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National Basketball Association

Knicks deny Bull's 70th win

Charlotte Hornets center Vlade Divac, right, battles for a loose ball with Toronto Raptors center Marcus Gamby during first quarter action at the Charlotte Coliseum in Chwlotte, N.C. AP Photo

CHICAGO(AP) The New York Knicks clinched the third seed in the Eastern Conference and kept the Bulls from repeating as 70-

San Vicente Sunrisers 3 D San Vicente Athletics · 1 1 Tanapag Braves · O 3

THE S/\N Vicente Athletics leaned on a seven rnn explosion in the top of the sixth inning last Thursday night to wipe out a six run deficit en route to a 19-15 comi:-from-behind victory over the Tanapag Braves in the 1997 CNMI Big League at the Frank M. Palacios Ball Field.

Mike Aguon and Jon Joyner combined for five hits out of nine attempts to lead the A's to an even l • 1 win loss slate.

Aguon went for 3 or 4 with two runs and knocking in two rbis while Joyner fared 2 of 5 in scoring three rnns and driving in two rbis as for the winners.

The Braves took the early af­ter scoring twice in the bottom of the first inning but in the

game winners by beating Chi­cago I 03-10 I Saturday night.

The Knicks finished 57-25 and earned the right to avoid the de-

changeover, the A's came back with three runs to take the lead, 3-2.

The one run was immediately wiped out as the Braves exploded with five runs in the bottom of the second to reclaim the driver's seat, 7-3.

The Tanapag IX increased the margin to five, 8-3, after holding the A's scoreless in the third.

In the top of the fourth, the A's came up with two runs cou1tesy of Mark rlorcs and fack Allao to cut the Braves' leat.1 to tlirt:e, 8-5.

The Braves, however, contin­ued to hold their sway by rattling three more runs in the next two innings to post a 11-5 advantage.

With the ballgame on the line and a six run t.leficit staring ,tl their faces, the A's came up with the clutch hits in the top of the sixth scoring rallying for seven runs to reclaim the lead, 12- I I.

The Braves could only counter with a Jone run in their own half of the sixth.to tie the game at I 2-12 goii1g to the pivotal seventh.

fending NBA champion Bulls until the Eastern Conference fi­nals, if both teams get that far.

New York won at the United Center for the first time. The Knicks had lost eight in a row in the building, which opened in 1994, and 11 straight at Chicago.

The Bulls ended up 69-13 after going 72-10 last season, when they became the only team to break the 70-win barrier. The loss also snapped the Bulls' 32-game home winning streak and pre­vented them from matching the 1985-86 Boston Celtics' 40- J home record.

Patrick Ewing scored 27 points for the Knicks, while Michael Jordan led the Bulls with 33.

Hawks 136, 76ers I 04 In Atlanta, the Hawks, despite

a win over Philadelphia, lost its bid to gain the No. 3 seed in the East when New York beat Chi­cago.

If the Knicks had lost, the Hawks could have grabbed third Sunday by winning at New Jer­sey.

Steve Smith led Atlanta with 21 points. It was the final regular­season game at the Omni, which will be tom down this summer. A new arena will built in its place

With the momentum favor­ing their side, the A '.s continued to rain hits on the Braves' bullpen, gunning five runs for a 17-12 with two innings left in the ballgame.

TI1e Braves made their last stand in the ballgame rallying three more runs in the bottom of the seventh to cut the lead into two. 17-15.

The A's sealed the win by blanking the Braves in the lat two innings while putting in the last two runs of the ballgame for the final score.

Joyner took the win after sur­rendering seven hits, seven runs, six bases on balls while fanning three batters in three and one third innings of a relief job at the mound.

Overall, the A's went 17 of 42 attempts while the Braves coun­tered with 13 of 30 attempts at bat.

JJ Saralu led the Braves with a perfect 3 of 3 attempts with four runs and drove in an RBI.

Sugiyallla wins Japan Open By PHIL BROWN

TOKYO (AP) -Japan's Ai Sugiym11a won her first professional title in her hometown Sunday, edging Americm1 Amy Frazier4-6,6-4,6-4 in tl1e final of tl1e Japan Open.

It w,L'i tl1e founh consecutive Jap;m Open where Frazier met Japm1 's top player for the tillc.1l1c p,L,t three were against Kimiko Dale, who retired hL,l year. Frazier won tl1e tournament in 1995.

Sugiy,una,"thc lt>tirth seed. broke in

tl1e final g,une, coming back from 4().

30 witl1 a forehand serve n:tum into the comer mid tl1en winning tl1e 2-hour, 7-minute match on two error.; by No. 3 rrazier · a lorelumd long and a back­lumtl into tl1e net.

Sugiy,una, 2 J, r,mkcd JOtl1 by the WTA,had reached tl1m: previous tour­n,uncnt finals before finally gaining a title, before about 9,(XXl p,utis,m spec­tators.

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the Olympics h;t year, ,md over Mary Pierce. for Jap,m 's only point against F11mce in a 1997 Fed Cup meeting.

Against frazicr, ranked 29th. Sugiyama won two key maratl1on g,uncs, for a 5-3 lead in tl1c second set ,md for a 3-2 lead in tl1e tl1ird.

·n1c second set g,m1c hstcd IO min­utes, w itl1 livc dcL1ccs. Sugiy,una cmnc back frorn 40-15 ,md won on her third break poinl, hitting a forehand ser­vice return on to thi: badd1and side­I inc.

and should open for the J 998-99 season.

Heat I 02, Magic 88 In Miami, the Heat and Magic

didn't put on much of a playoff preview as both teams rested their best players.

The teams will meet in the first round of the playoffs beginning nextThursdayorFriday. Miami's Tim Hardaway and Alonzo Mourning and Orlando's Rony Seikaly and Horace Grant didn't play. Magic point guard Penny Hardaway played the first five minutes and didn't return.

Dan Majerle scored 18 points and John Crotty had 17 to lead the Heat, who made IO 3-pointers.

Nuggets l 00, Mavericks 95 In Dallas, Ervin Johnson had

21 points and a career-high 26 rebounds, and Kenny Smith made four free throws in the final 32.5 seconds as Denver avoided its worst record ever.

111e Nuggets also avoided their first-ever winless month, ended a I 0-game losing streak and stopped a 14-game road losing streak.

Athletics ... Continued from page 28

Neil McMillin slammed a double in the I st inning then fin­ished the game by knocking three RBIs as the Tigers scored all but in the fifth inning for the 11-6 victory.

The Tigers opened the scoring parade by crossing the homeplate twice in the I st inning then added four more in the next for an early 5-3 lead.

The Hustlers could only score in the second and sixth innings as the team could not avoid ubsorb­ing their fifth loss in seven out­ings, the same mark being held by

Jack ... Continued from page 28

an 88 gross. And with his -16 hant.licap, Diaz finished the tour­nament with the day's second best score.

Annie Pickdsima put up rounds of' 5 J and 59 to have a I l 0 gross. Pickelsimer's -36 handi­cap gave her the third spot, two shots behind Diaz ant.1 four off .Tenorio.

Pete Tenorio came up at fourth with a net 77 after grossing an 89

Democratic Continue~ frompage 1 action against the party ifit LtikJ to return his money by April IS.

The lieutenant governor had sought a primary between him and Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio, but

Denver ended the year 21-61, narrowly avoiding a tic with its 1990-91 squadfortheworstrccord in team history at 20-62.·

Tom Hammonds Jed the Nug­gets with 24 points.

Jazz JOI, Timberwolves 89 In Salt Lake City, Karl Malone

scored 26 points in 25 minutes and John Stockton added 14 points and 12 assists as Utah prevented Minnesota from reaching the .500 mark.

James Robinson led the Timberwolvcs with 28 points. in­cluding seven 3-pointers.

Although denied a break-even record. the final 40-42 mark was Minnesota's best in eight l\'BA seasons and was enough to get the Timberwolvcs into the playoffs for the first time.

Utah, which wrapped up the best record in the Western Conference 11101c thm1 a week ago, will open the first round oftl1e playoffs against the Los Angeles Clippers on TI1ursday night TheJazzwonafranchise-recortl 63 games and finished with a club­record 38-3 mark at home.

their tormentors. AJ Taitano took the win after

retiring seven batters, issued four bases on balls and surrendering four hits.

In the last game, the Lions erupted with five consecutive hits enroute to a five run blitz in the 5th inning as Kagman halted Garnpan 's four game winning rampage, I 1-3.

The game between the Lions mid the Pirates was marked by several high and low balls from both mounds allowing opposing runners to reach the bases on walks.

The Lions' five run rampage in the pivotal fiftl1 ended the poor pitching from both tc,ui1s.

James Sabl:m llXlk tl1t! win.

and ,1 -12 handicap. l'vbnny Tenorio wound up fifth

with his rounds oi'-+7 ,llld -+.' 1·,11 a 90 gross. llis -12 handicap g:1,c: him a net 78.

Rudy Sablan. Edt.lic Tcnorio. Joe Songsong. Paul Tenorio and Perry Tenorio compriscd the rest of the top IO finishers.

Sablan had a net 79: Edt.lic an 80; Songsong. an 81: whik Paul ant.1 Perry ncttcJ an iden· tical 86s.

A tlltal or 15 golfers 1·ied for the monthly golfing event of the Tenorio clan.

the party shot his bid down and endorset.1 the candit.laL'Y of the in­cumbent governor, instead.

This prompted BL1rja and his · running mate former party chair­man Benigno Sablan to declare eandit.lacics u mlcr an imlepL'llLknt banner.

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SPORTS Lions end Pirates' winning run

By Erel A. Cabatbat Variety News Staff ·

National Division San Vicente Athletics 7 O Garapan Pirates 4 3 Kagman Lions 3 4 MVR 01' Aces 3 4 Kautz Glass Tigers 2 5 St. Jude Hustlers 2 5 THESANVicenteA'sstreaked

to their seventh straight win after pounding a 13-4 victory over the MVR Ol'Aces in the third game of the National Division of the 1997 CNMI Little League at the San Vicente Elem. School Ball Park.

over the St. Jude Hustlers. The San Vicente Athletics,

sponsored by Adventure Store and McDonalds, leaned on Jesse Aguon's 4 of 4, including two doubles in leading his team for the best mark in the 1.:11tire league at 7-0.

Aguon also drove in four RBIs as he vaulted on top the doubles and most runs categories in the National Division.

Franklin Muna took the win after going the entire distance fanning IO batters, issued four walks and yielded six bases on balls in a no earned run stint at the mound.

The loss dropped the 01 'Aces in joint third and fourth with a 3-4 slate.

Five Little Padres and one-Five members of the CK Little Padres and a young fan eagerly watch the game between the San Roque D-9ers and the Dandan Jets yesterday in the 1997 CNMI Little League Baseball at the San Vicente Elem. School Ball Park. (Photo by Erel A. Cabatbat)

In other results, the Kagman Lions halted Gara pan Pirates' four game rampage with an 11-3 vic­tory in the second game while the Kautz Glass Tigers roared to their second triumph in seven games after posting a five run, 11-6 win

In the first game, the Tigers finally ended several weeks of frustration by beating the Hus­tlers for their second win of the season.

Continued on page 27

1997 Saipan Men's Fastpitch League

Underdogs make presence felt By Ray Palacios and Erel A. Cabatbat Variety News Staff

SS Mauleg 3 O SeaBees Four 3 O Tanapag Waves 2 1 T earn Budweiser 2 1 MTG 2 1 Amigo's 1 2 B/S Sunrisers 1 2 Islanders 1 2 Its Okay 1 2 DOC Brothers 1 2 Lite Beer No Fear 2 Beach Boyz O 3 A PAIR of upsets rorked the

ongoing elimination round of the 1997 Saipan Men's Fastpitch League at the Susupe Softball Field as the Amigos scored a come-from-behind 19-16 vic­tory over Cong. Karl Reyes Is­l anders while Borja/Sablan Sunrisers broke into the win column by ending MTC Slug­gers two-game winning run.

The Islanders appeared to be headed to their second victory in three starts after Angel Falig and Larry Tenorio 's two-run single sparked the Cong. Reyes' team to an early 7-0 lead.

After the Amigos scored tw:ce in the bottom of the second, the Islanders exploded for another seven run blitz lo post the big-

gest lead of the ballgame, 14-2. Then the Islanders' offense went haywire the rest of the way.

The Amigos silenced the Is­landers in the last three innings while gunning 17 of the last 19 runs scored to complete the amazing comeback.

Jess Cabrera led the Amigos' big turnaround knocking three RBIs as the team racked five, four, and eight in the third, fourth and firth innings before the game was stopped because of the two hour limit.

Tony Camacho yielded just four hits as the sun finally rose for the Sunriscrs after two suc­cessive losses.

The Borja/Sablan team scored a 5-3 win over previously un­beaten MTC Sluggers in the nightcap.

With the score pegged at 2-2 after four innings, the Sunrisers took the lead for good after Kirk Yirgith and Mars Kilelernan's rbi singles for a 4-2 advantage.

The Sluggers took advantage on two Su11risers' errors in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead into one, 4-3.

The Sun risers preserved the win by scoring the insur­ance run for the 5-3 victory.

The Sunrisers improved to 1-2 mark while. the loss dropped the Sluggers to a 2-! slate.

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