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AGANA, Guam (AP)-A Ko­rean Air jet carrying 254 people crashed and burned in a rain­storm early Wednesday, and rescuers who trudged through the jungle with flashlights found at least 35 survivors. U.S. Navy crews were trying to crack open the fuselage to see if anyone (!]se could be saved.

Flight 801, aBoeing747from Seoul, South Korea, was carry­ing mostly Korean tourists, in­cluding several couples on their honeymoon, when it went down in the lush green hills as it was coming in for a landing in the middle of the night. At least one Japanese and 13 Americans were on board.

..,.There.was a big ball of fire

just before the crash," said Rudy Delos-Santos, reporter at radio station KOKU who lives near the crash· site on Nimitz Hill, three miles (five kilometers) from the airport on this U.S. island posses­sion. "The plane plowed through the jungle for a minute or so be­fore it came to a rest."

He said he ran to the area through the darkness and got within about 80 or90 yards (73 to 82 meters) before law enforce­ment officials stopped him.

"The fire was still going, and I could see the silhouettes of bod­ies in and around the pla,ne," Delos-Santos said. "It was like a giant bonfire."

Rescue workers had to take breaks· to get fresh air because the

smell of burned fuel and flesh was unbearable, he said. The survi­vors came from the front of the plane, which was largely intact. The back was in ruins.

A White House official, speak­ing on condition of anonymity,

· said authorities have concluded there was no fire and no distress call from the pilot prior to the crash, as was previously believed. The official said earlier accounts contained information that proved unreliable.

As the plane crashed, it snagged a pipeline, causing the line to rup­ture and spill-about l ,OOb gallons (3,800 liters) of aviation fuel. But U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Jeff Alderson emphasized the fuel did

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The tail section of Korean Airlines flight 801 lies on Nimitz Hill early Wednesday after the flight from Seoul crashed in a rainstorm with 254 people aboard. There were 35 reported survivors in the crash. AP

IF U.S. insists on takeover

Better to have 'independence' or 'free-association'-- Tenorio

Froilan C. Tenorio

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

SA YING that he had had enough of the Clinton administration's "unfair" criticism of the CNMI's immigration and wage policies, Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio yester­day announced that he will ask the federal government to grant independence or a "freely associ­ated state" status to the Northern Marianas.

Tenorio, in a media conference, said he will make the "request" when he testifies· in September before the U.S. congressional

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hearing on President Clinton's proposed federal takeover of local immigration and wage policies, and through the re­sumption of the Covenant Sec­tion 902 talks.

He said Guam is also asking for a change in its relationship with the U.S., "(so) maybe it's time (Guam and the Northern Marianas) get together and form our own country, the Republic of the Marianas."

Embarrassed Tenorio said the federal gov­

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A young survivor is rescued from the wreckage of Korean Airlines ,. flight 801 by U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and Guam civilian rescuers : early Wednesday. AP/US Navy/Michael A. Mayers 1,-

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Guam crash rescue bid ·

Carl T. Gutierrez

AGANA, Guam (AP) - The teJTain where a Korean Air jumbo jet crashed and burned Wednes­day is so rugged and chocked

' . with tropical vegetation that it ·· took rescuers four hours to get I: survivors to a hospital only a \ mile away. '.;

The rain-soaked sawgrass '.1·

covering rocks made it so slip- \ pery it was impossible to pick ; up and carry anyone more than :·j a few hazardous steps, said I 1 Gov. Carl Guiterrez, one of the : ! first on the scene.

The plane with 254 people on board went down in an early morning downpour, skidding : i through the jungle in a ball of /I/ fire before coming to rest in a / d~ep ravine carved by the Sasa Lj River. I:,

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Legislators now serious about worker stay limit

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

CONSIDERED "dead" only a few months ago, the bill that would limit the stay of alien workers has been resurrected, and is now be­ing seriously considered by the Legislature.

Speaker Diego T. Benavente (R-Saipan), who was opposed to the bill, yesterday said most leg­islators feel that "now is the time" to restrict the stay of the CNMI 's estimated 30,000 alien workers, in light of President Clinton's pro­posal to impose federal immigra­tion and minimum wage laws in the Commonwealth.

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Relatives of victims check lists of survivors after arriving at the Korean Airline office in Seoul Wednesday. . South Korean Air flight 801 from Seoul carrying 254 people crashed in Guam earlier in the day. AP

By SANG-HUN CHOE SEOUL,South Korea (AP)-Some cried and others broke down in de­spair Wednesday as ci1ey anxiously awaited news on ilie fate of relatives on bom-d a Koremi Air jumbo jet which crashed in Guam.

111e Boeing 747 carrying 254 people, mostly South Koremi tour­ists, went down in flames shortly before it was to land in the U.S.­owned South Pacific island.111e pas­sengers include at ]e:L~t one Japanese rn1d 13 Americans.

All Souili Korean television net­works intenupted their regular pro­gramming to repo1t ilie news non- . stop.

At Seoul's Kimpo International Airport, about two dozen relatives gailiered to get the latest info1mation. Many protested angrily when ci1ey felt they were being denied infom1a­tion about tl,e crash and ilie status of

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the passengers. "It's like the sky falling down,"

Sohn Sun-hwasaid, wiping tears from her cheeks. She said her younger' sister, Sohn Sun-nyo, 24, a company · official, had left on a sightseeing trip i.;}' to the island. t1 '

Kim Young-rae, 40, a house wife,~ ( could not sto~ weep!ng ?11d clutched illi a passenger hst which includes her J/i younger sister, her husband and two I',/ children, aged 8 and 5. . 1

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"M. ~y people died and it's dread- 11 ful toci1mkthattheyareamongthem," · ,~

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She said her sister's husband, an t~ official at tl1e Seoul office of Japan's ~/, Nomura Secmities Co., won two [ ! round-tiip tickets to Guam as a raffle /( p1ize at a Ch1istmas prn"ty last year. t\

A wommi in her 50s broke down ( after scrernning repeatedly, "Search , and b1ing my son." She said her son, J Yoo Sung-jae, 24, an engineer in I

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after learning tl1eir loved ones had su1vived. i'.I

Th k od 58 /il · an G ," Kim In-yong, a - !! year-old woman,shoutedafterwatch- ;1

inga television1epo1tconfitming ci1at i / her 23-year-old daughter was alive.

The souci1em city ofK wcU1gju was gripped wiili so1row afterrepo1ts iliat one ofits lawmakers, Shin Ki-ha, and his wife, had been among the passen­gers. The couple were u·aveling wiili about two ·dozen supporters. Their fate was unknown.

In another crash involving the air­line, 269 people were killed in 1983 when Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet fighter plane after the jetliner st111.yed into Soviet air space.

Guam is a favo1ite destination for South Korem1 tomists and honey- .·J· moaners. About 151,(X)() Souili Ko-rcm1s visited ci1e islm1d last year. In the ·,·· .. ·! first five months of this year, more thrn1 55.(XX) Souci1 Korem1s traveled i to the ishmd. l

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a Korean Air jet crashed during a tropical downpour in Guam, the airport had neither a crucial land­ing system to help guide planes :j nor a government-staffed control ;I tower, federal officials said.

In fact, the Guam airport is the only U.S. airport with a tower operated by privately hired work­ers to direct 747s and other large passenger planes, said FAA spokesman Tim Pyle.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall, who ,

1 was in the Seattle area for previ- ! ously scheduled meetings with r,

Boeing officials, would not dis- 11 cuss the Guam tower or the inop- ) · erativc glide slope transmitter.

To questions about each in a news conference, he replied, "That's something that we 're cer­tainly looking al in the investiga­tion."

Pilots were notified July 7 that· the glide slope equipment at.

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I offers Gumn help Tenorio sends CHC sends symp~t~i~s to medicines crash victims and supplies THE CNMI yesterday extended sympathy and offered assistance to Guam, as well as, to relatives of victims of yesterday's plane crash that killed over 200 and injured scores of passengers.

"We feel bad about it," Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio said.

"On behalf of the people of the Commonwealth, I send our sym­pathies to the people of Korea, as you know we have a big commu­nity of Koreans here," he added.

Tenorio said the CNMI has sent medical supplies upon request of the rescue team of Guam.

''They have asked for other items but some of them [are not] available here," Tenorio said.

He said the CNMI also offers manpower assistance to Guam

"(But) I don't see that happen­ing because there's a lot of mili­tary personnel in Guam who have been helping out with the task of finding survivors and looking for bodies in the place," the governor said.

Vince An"iola, an aide of Guam Gov. Carl Gutierez, said hundreds of volunteers have taken part in the rescue operation.

"Rescue operation is still on­going but I don't think we can find any more survivors," Vince said in a telephone interview from Guam.

The Commonwealth Ports Au­thority also offers to send man­power, according to CPA 's infor­mation officer Frank Rosario.

"We have highly trained fire fighters here who can be of help to Lhein. Some of their fire fight­ers were supposed to come to Saipan fora joint training but that

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N_avy, Air Force, Coast Guard and c_ivilian rescuers remove a survivor from the wreckage of Korean Airlines flight 801, after the 747 crashed with 254 persons onboard. AP Photo!U.S. Navy, Michael Myers

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I NMI Red Cross team on standby I THE NORTHERN Marianas Guam International Airport early ter, Red Cross assistance is en ChapteroftheAmericanRedCross· yesterday morning. route to Guam from the Hawaii yesterday began calling its disaster The 747 jumbo jet, canying some State Chapter and the National volunteersonstandbytoflytoGuam 254passengerscU1dc1ewfromSeoul, Red Cross National headquarters. to assist in responding to ilie Korean burst into flames as it hit the slopes of 'These disaster workers will be AirFlight801 disaster. NimitzHill.Atleast223peoplewere providing mentai health and coun-

Cheny Schadeck, emergency killed. sellingservicestoiliesu1vivors,fami-se1vices director for the chapter, Rescuers led by US Navy person- lies of victims and to relief workers. is being sent over to Guam to nel and Guam government offi- They will also be assisting families assist in the organization and cials were on the site soon after cllld continue with diaster services," provision of disaster relief ser- the site,extricating survivors from the chapter said. vices to the victims of the plane the wreckage. Some 33 survivors The Chapter pointed out that Red crash, survivors and their fami- were reportedly brought to the Cross assistance is being provided lies and relatives. · Guam General Hospital (GMH) free of charge cU1d made possible . According to a press state- and the US Naval Hospital, many throughdonationsfromiliecommu-

ment, the NMI chapter, is cur- with bums, fractures, serious lac- nity. rently working closely with the erations and suffering from To volunteer for ci1e American Guam chapter to se1ve the needs of trauma. Red Cross or make a monetary do-the vic~ms of the tI-agedy. Two of the survivors later on nation,pleasecallthechapterat234-

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THE COMMONWEALTII Health Centersentyesterdayemergencymedi­cal supplies to Guam Memorial Hos­pital where some of the victims of yesterday's plane cra5h were taken into.

Department of Public Health Ser­vices Secretary Dr.IsamuJ. Abraham in an interview said cile "mercy mis­siondonation"wastransported through ilie Governor's Office and CNMI's liaison officer in Guam.

"My concern is mainly on tl1e unof­ficial report iliat 12 US citizens were among iliose on board in cilat plane. I don't know ifiliose were from ilie US Mainland,Guam orCNMI," Abraham said. (see related story on page I)

The secretary said the la5t report he had received from Barbara Vanmeter, the government's I iaison officer from Guam, had it iliat 13 persons were taken to GMH while 22 oiliers at ilie Navy Hospital.

Abraham said CHC is prepared to accommodate some ofilie victims al­iliough tl1ey have not received infor­mation yet on ilie possibility iliat oilier patients maybe broughthereonSaipan.

The secretary believed more vic­tims will be taken to GMH and Navy Hospital as search and rescue teams continued looking for bodies at ci1e cra5h site.

···n,e crash happened three miles from the main airport. They (authori­ties) have been so slowly hauling people to the hospital," Abraham added.

He, however, pointed out that ilie department is maintaining an ·'open line" wiili tl1e government's liaison officer in Guam to see what other possible assistance CNMI can offer."

Abraham said he learned about ilie incident when medical referral pro­gram Director Jack Taitano called at 5:40 a.m. yesterday infom1ing him about tl1c crnsh which wa~ relayed tl1rough CI-IC' s contact point in Gumn.

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'independence' proposal . . . By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

"Our political (union) with such a great nation ,L~ tJ1e United States is more impoI1,mt," he said. "'We would st,md to lose a lot wici1out (it)."

Tenorio to fire appointees who will campaign for Borja, Teno

LEADERS of tJ1c Legislature yester­daysl,unmcdGov. Froil,mC.Tcnorio's proposal to seek independence from tl1e United States (see re/med stol)') , saying tliat tl1e Norci1cm Marirnm~ is "better off' witl1 it~ current status.

Speaker Diego T. Benuventc (R­Saip,m)called tl1cgovemor' sannouncc­mcnt ,L~ going against '"tl1c wishes of tl1e people."

For his part, Senate Vice President Paul A. Mrn1glona (R-Rota) said tl1c governor wa~ being "childish" again, adding tliat it is Tenorio 's attitude that should be blamed forci1c CNMI's cur­rent problems witl1 ci1c federal govern­ment.

Not just about immigration Calling Tenorio's statements as

"alam1ing," Benavente said the Cov­enant that established the CNMI in political union with the U.S. was overwhelmingly approved by the people in a plebiscite .

And the Covenant, he said, is not just about the CNf\11 having control over its immigration and wage poli­cies.

Benavente noted t11at even Guam is ,L~king for ci1c smnc commonwealtl1 status granted to ci1e Norci1ern Marimias.

Attitude problem M,mglona said the current "strain"

in CNMl-lcderal relations w,L\ caused mainly by tJ1e governor's "altitude, by t11c way he presents himsclf-,-it's re­ally shameful."

.. , ,111 not saying we should bernJ down ,md kneel, but we should show respect so that wc may also be re­spected in turn," he said.

'Ilic governor, he added, should stop acting "childish."

·111esc issues concern real people's lives cllld should be dcaltwici1 in a more mature ,mmner," Mrn1glona said.

"Forexample,youdon 'tsay 'To hell wici1 ci1e Covemmt' just because you' re fnistrnted. 'n1c Covemml wa~ approved by tl1e people, m1d tl1erc are processes available, like Section 902, which we c,m use to address ci1esc problems.

·~n1ere is notl1ing tlmtcclll 'tbe solved by communicating," he said.

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

GOVERNORFroilm1C. Teno1ioyes­terday said he will fire ,my of his political appointees foundcm11paign­inb for c,mdidates iunning against. him.

Teno1io, in a media conference, said while he is not requiting ,my one to vote for him, his appointees, in tum, should not c,~npaign against his c.m­didacy.

"ldidn 'texpcct...tl1em tocu11paign for me, (:md) I don't w:mt to see tl1cm campaigning for m1ybody," he said.

Anyofhispolitical appointees who would w:mt to suppott eici1er ci1c Re­public.u1 bet, fo1mer governor Pedro P. Tenorio,or LL Gov.JesusC. Bo1ja, who is running :L, ,m Independent, could doso by leaving hisadministra­tion, tl1e governor said.

"l ci1ink it's only fair." Tenorio, at ci1e same time,justified

ci1c recent filing of Roque A S,mtos as Fish m1d Wildlife Division direc­tor, saying tliat S,mtos was a political · appointee.

··when I appointed Mr. S,mtos he didn't have to compete against (:my-

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one). He didn't get his job because he was more competent or more quali­fied th.m anoci1er person.

"So for ciiat smne reason, I have ci1e autl10tity lo remove him."

According to Tenorio, however, if Sm1tos's replacement, Democratic Pmty chair Dm1iel 0. Quitugua, fails to do his job, ''he's going to fly also."

Tenorioalsoconfinnedmmorstliat iliere m-e otl1er political appointees who may be fired.

He said ilie Democratic Party has

recommended tJ1e fizirw: of at lea~t l 5 otl1crpolitical appointeei bu~ he added, "I told ci1em I'm ooino to review first ci1e recomrnenda~ns!'

Lt. Gov. Botja called ci1e firing of Sm1tosa,··p\aying with people's lives," and may be in violation of the eci1ics code.

Citing ci1e Public Auditor's Office (OPA) pm11phleton "political hm,L5S­ment," Bo1ja said ci1at Sm1tos should take legal action ifhe h,L, evidence iliat he was fired by tl1e governor for pol i ti­cal reasons.

S,mtos, in ,u1 em·lier inte,vicw wicil tJ1e V m·iety, lw;hcd out at tl1e governor for filing him.

He said he will sue Tenorio who, he added, fired him for being a Bmja suppo1ter.

However,newly-installedlandsand Natunll Resources Secretary Mm·gmita DLG. Wonenberg has said S,mtos's ouster was legally "appropriate," as he se1ves at the pleasure of the govemor. · For his part, Tenorio spokespe~on Mmk Broadhurst, in a media state­ment, said S:mtos's firing stemmed from "several complaints received over a period of time."

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PIA expands Tinian sked1[ Wonenberg I Says misuse o_f DLNR vehicles not to be tolerated

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5

warns st PACIFIC Island Aviation, Inc. will expand its 30-seat, turbo-prop airplane service between Saipan and Tinian beginning August 1 1th, the company announced.

The Saipan-based airline, ii1 a news release said it will add two additional round trip daily flights to its cu1Tent scliedule and pro­vide same plane service between Tinian and Guam.

This expansion of service is expected to provide business trav­elers, tourists and shoppers with moming. afternoon and late after-

noon flights to and from Tinian, to and from Guam, Rota and Saipan.

Beginning August 1 1, flights will depart Saipan forTiniandaily at 7: 15 and 9:25 am and at 2:30 and 6:45 pm. Flights will depart Tinian for Saipan at 7:40 and 9:50 am, 2:55 and 7: 10 pm.

Travelers from Tinian can get to Guam in less than two hours flying on PIA departing Tinian daily ateither7:40amor2:55 pm. Flights from Guam with through service to Tinian will depart at

7:45 am, 1:00 and 5:15 pm. PJA President and Chief Ex­

ecutive Officer Robert F. Christian described the ex­panded turbo prop, aircraft service "as another sign that the Mariana Islands are forg­ing closer economic links."

''This enhanced schedule flown in the comfortable

Shorts SD3-60 aircraft pro­vides a convenient way to get to and from Tinian in keeping with Tinian's expanding role in the Marianas' economic community, Christian said in a press statement.

Travelers may make advance reservations from Saipan by call­ing 234-3601. Same day flight

arrangements can be made on Saipan by calling 288-7301/

Tinian residents may make res­ervations or obtain flight infor-. mation by calling 466-3600. Guam residents may call (671) 647-3600 for similar information and reservations.

Inquiries can be made through Jim Stowell at 288-740 I.

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Wonenberg, in the memo issued to all of DLNR 's eight divisions, warned disciplinary action awaits those found abusing government vehicles .

MTC: FCC turned down challenge byIT&E, PCI

Saipan mayoralty GOP candidate to guest on tonight's 'I Taotao Ta'

I TAO-TAO-TA host Frances Sablan has invited Saipan Mayoral candidate Jose Camacho Sablan (George Pitu) as quest for the program this evening.

release from MCV said. I Tao tao-Ta (Our

People') is a live talk show in Chamarro.

Margarita DLG. Wonenberg

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

NEWLY-installed Lands and Natu­ral Resc;>Urces Secretmy Margarita 'Maggie' DLG. Wonenbergscolded

"IL has come to my attention that some employees within this Department are abusing govem­men t vehicles," read Wonenberg's memo, a copy of· which was obtained by Variety.

"Please be reminded that gov­ernment vehicles are to be used only for government business in accordance with the law. No one is exempted," it further stated. THE FEDERAL Communi­

cations Commission last Thurs&ay turned down IT&E and PCI's request to block the implementation of Micronesian Telecommuni­cations Corporation's latest long-distance rate reduction, MTC disclosed in a news re­lease.

··we conclude that none of the parties filing petitions against the tariff transmittals listed in this report have pre­sented compelling argu­ments,·· the FCC's Competi­tive Pricing Division said in its ruling.

According to the release from MTC, the FCC found that nei­ther IT &E nor PCI raised sig­nificant questions to require an investigation of MTC' s tariff filing.

IN particular Per argued in its petition to the FCC that MTC's

new rates are ''predatory' unrea­sonable·. and designed to. dri'{e competition from the market~ place."

IT &E and PCI's complaint petition followed the FCC's decision to force MTC to set its long distance rates in line with those of its parent company GTE Corporation.

U.S-based GTE initially set its long distance rates to con­fonn to the conditions in its pri­mary marketplace within the 48 contiguous states, MTC said.

Likewise, MTC had originally wanted to set its long distance rates to conform to the condi­tions in its primary marketplace within the Northern Marianas.

MTC's long distance rates range from 14 cents per minute for off-peak calls to Guam to 40 cents per minute for calls to the U.S. mainlandatall timesofthe

Jose Camacho Sablan

With the elections not far away, Sablan will discuss his proposed plans and platform on tonight's edi­tion of I Taotao-Ta, a news

Meant as a channel of in­formation for the people of the Northern Marianas, I Taotao-Ta airs this and ev-ery Thursday evening at 7:00 pm on KMCV Chan­nel 7.

NMHC says infrastructure projects moving at quic.k pace JUAN S. Tenorio, chairman of the Northern Marianas Housing (orporation board reported that infrastructure projects administered by the corporation are moving at a quick pace.

The Beach Road Pathway Project from San Jose to Garapan is 29 percent com­pleted, according to a press release from the board.

Appro.ximately one- and-a­half mile of pathway has been poured, it added.

t' . her Depaitment's staff after it was ·I established that a number of them ~ have been misusing government 'l vehicles.

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Wonenberg, in her Aug. 4 memo, said abuses include using govern­ment vehicles for"unauth01ized mis-

"Anyone found violating the use of government vehicles will be dealt with disciplinaiy action as re­quired. Should you have questions as to the proper usage of government vehicles, please consult Public Law 9-37."

The memo was given out to the

New NMIRF building soon ,. (,'

By Gerr R. Cayabyab, Jr Variety News Staff

THE RETIREMENT Fund said yesterday that its new building on Capitol Hill is expected to be com-· pleted by May of next year. .

The completion, he said is not­withstanding the strike staged late last month by workers of Sablan Construction Company, contrac­tors for the project- · · ·

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The projects under the Com­munity Development Block Grant (CDBG), and are ad­ministered by NMHC, are funded by the U. S. Depart­ment of Housing. and Urban Development.

The board however said project has not been com­pleted, however, people are already making use of the walkways.

In the past, people had 110

choice but. to walk or ride their bikes 011 narrow shoulders along the road resulting in personal injuries, even death.

Retirement Fund Administra­tor Edward H. Manglona said the $2.8 million building is ex­pected to be completed within Edward H. Manglona

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The Marianas Visitors Bureau (MVB) has begun planting flow­ers and hedges along the pathway and will also be responsible for the maintenance in future.

ln Rota, the Pinatang Park Swimming Pool and the Septic Tank Projects are progressing as scheduled, the press release said.

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equipped with a water slide and a pump which will make the pool functional even during low tides. The septic tank servicing the residents in the As~Liyo Sub­division commenced construc­tion-contractors have cleared and in the process of digging the i ! areas. 1 i

The finished project will re- l'j solve the raw sewage overflow into the subdivision and the ocean, the board said.

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tion began last year, will be oc­cupied by the Fund on the ground floor. The rest will be rented out.

"We estimate 14 years tocoverup with our expenditures," Manglona also said. . "We're just going to open it up,

mid the paitition will be made by the tenant\" he added.

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"It has been a while since we had a DLNR Secretary. We were head­less. I think it's a natural conse­quence for things to go haywire es-

pecially in the area of discipline," said one official.

Fo1mer DLNR Secretary Benigno Sablan gavehi s post up three months ago after Gov. Froilan Tenorio aave h

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Bangladeshis deD1.onstratel 6 nabbed for rioting at By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

ordered them to put down the placard saying it was not allowed inside.

Labor Secretai)' Thomas Sablan was not available for comment.

permit." He has asked the labor de-

partment to either give him a temporary working permit or a repatriation ticket back to

Bangladesh. About 400 Bangla~esh work­

ers who were gypped by recruit­ment scam have been wander-ing on Saipan streets, desper-

ately looking for jobs. , Only one illegal recruiter has fi

been convicted by the U.S. Dis- \,:

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MORE than a hundred displaced Bangladesh workers yesterday staged a demonstration inside the Department of Labor and Immigration Office to air their displeasure over the department's alleged failure to act on their cases and requests for temporary working permits.

Bangladesh workers from various companies jampacked the DOU office in San Antonio, with one and the same story to tell.

Hossain Iaman told the Variety that he tried to talk to Sablan when he came out of his office, but that the secretary declined.

"He told us he has no time to talk to us;" Iaman said.

lamas said Bangladesh work­ers may be able to receive "char­ity" but "we want to eam money by working. We don't want to beg."

Business sector not too keen on hiring new Bangladeshis

Most of them are victims of illegal recruitment. They paid the recruitment fees with no actual jobs awaiting them in the island.

They filed complaints at the la­bor department.

··we want our [temporary work­ing permit]"' How can we work without permits?" said Abdul J(uddus.

The workers were carrying a placard that read: "We don't want to leave Saipan. Give us jobs."

Labor Director Jeff Camacho

lamas and Kuddus were .Trnong the 12 _complainants in a labor complaint against Benavente Se­curity Agency.

Abq Hassan s-aid he had paid his recruiter in Bangladesh $3,000 for his entry permits. He was promised to get a job as either security guard or salesman.

"I believed him and gave him money but he (recruiter) is a fraud," Hassan said.

He later found out that "he lied to me, and he fabricated my

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

A CNMI BUSINESS group yes­terday said it may not anymore hire new Bangladeshis due to the proposed $5,000 placement fee for each worker and problems about language barriers.

"There are indications we can not afford to bring in anyone from Bangladesh with that amount," said Saipan Chamber of Com­merce. President David M. Sablan in a phone interview.

"Chamber members might not be doing that (hire Bangladeshis)."

Despite this, Sablan said the Chamber, is nonetheless await-

ing a rate schedule promised by Bangladeshi Labor ar\d Man­power Minister Mohammed Abdul Mannan during the latter's recent visit to the Commonwealth.

The delegation proposed that CNMI employers pay $5,000 to . hire a Bangladeshi worker.

Mannan, proposed that an agreement. be forged between Bangladesh and the CNMI on the continued employment of Bangladeshis workers in the Com­monwealth.

He also vowed to enforce a "qualification" scheme where his government would train the work­ers to speak English to enable

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"But we feel that this method is questionable. We don't need I newly trained ones .... we need ,'i skilled English-speaking work­ers," said Sablan.

Mannan, along with two other Bangladeshi officials, have ex­pressed hopes an MOU will even­tually be signed next month.

The delegation was also seek-ing the lifting of the ban imposed I by both parties on the deployment : of Bangladeshi workers in the Commonwealth.

The ban was imposed last April following the discovery of ram­pant illegal recruitment practices that have left close to 400 workers displaced and jobless.

Mannan has admitted that his government has been lax in imple­menting rules and regulations gov­erning the employment of its work­ers abroad.

"We have 111lesa11d regulations ... we have laws. But there wa~; 1axity in observing these," said Mannan.

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SIX male teenagers were taken into police's custody for alleg­edly assaulting two fellow stu­dents at the Marianas High School in Susupe Tuesday morning.

One victim suffered black eye while the other received lacera­tion to the head. 'i'he victims, both

male teenagers, were taken to the Commonwealth Health Center.

Acting information officer Maj. J .J. Castro said investigation showed that prior to the incident, the two victims were sitting be­hind MHS Building B with a girl.

The six suspects came and asked the victims why they pushed the girl. At the.same time, "the sus-

pects teased the victims, resulting to an argument.

Castro said the suspects then started punching and kicking the victims. They also threw rocks, bags, books and other items at the victims.

One victim, Castro stated, grabbed a metal pipe, but one of the suspects grabbed it.

The suspect hit the victim with the pipe on the head, Castro added.

School security guards aITived and pacified the fight.

Meanwhile, in Papago a 41-year-old man sought pol ice's as­sistance after a man allegedly as­saulted him with a metal pipe and rocks Tuesday morning.

s The suspect failed to hit the

victim, but the rocks damaged the car, police said.

On the other hand, the suspect, described as 41-year-old man from Capitol Hill,, also filed a report stating he was the one who was assaulted by the victim's brother with rocks.

Farrell: Annual PSS budget should be OK'd before July 1

The complainant told police that a man came to their residence and started honking a vehicle's horn.

The victim told the man to leave the place, but the latter got out from the vehicle and tried to hit him with a metal pipe and rocks.

The suspect said his vehicle was damaged.

He stated he went to the resi­dence in Papago to talk to his ex­fiancee who has been ··'dating" with the victim.

No arrests were made yet.

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By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

BOARDofEducationchairmanDon Fanell 1-ecommended yesterday that the Public School System be given its annual budget before each school yem· begins to enable the system to meet its needs al1ead of time ..

"At least for education we need a budgetpassed before July I ,just as in Hawaii and otl1erstates," Fan-ell said, speaking at the general membership meeting of the Saipari-Chamber of Commerce.

By having its budget em·lier than usual, PSS would be able "to match up with federal gnmts," Fan-ell said.

But more impo1tant, Frurcll added, "it allows us toorderthe matelials that we need so that they m1ive before school stmts."

'Ilic Legislature usually fails to act on the Commonwealth's mmual ap­propriation act, even after anew fiscal yem· begins.

Fiscal yem· ends on Sept. 30, but government agencies usually don't get their budget even aftertheir funds from the previot1s fiscal yem· m-e used up.

PSS In~ always ~en among the casualties of ycm·Iy budget stm1doff.

PSS operated under a continuing 1-esolution from I 995 to 1996 with 71 budget level of $37 million.

uL~t yem·, the Legislatu1-e agreed to give PSS a piece me,tl budget of $42 million ahead of other dcpmtmenL~ :md agencies.

'111e main problems in the Public School System have ~en caused by lack of attention to well laid plans ,md inconsistent, inappropriate budgeting procedrn-e," Em-ell lold the Cham­ber.

He also prodded tl1e Legislatw-e to give PSS some reprognm1ming au­tl10rity to enable it "to meet contin­gencies."

"Proper budgeting is die key to prog1-ess in m1y orgm1ization. And if the budgeting process b1-eaks down, tl1eneve1ything m·ound itgoesdown," Fm1-ell added.

PSS has requested a budgetof$76

million for fiscal yeru· 1998. Fru1-ell also recommended recom­

mended that PSS be given a lump­sum budgeL

available," he said. Each school, Farrell added, would

be able to process its own purchase orders on July I.

ISlANfl SPECfAL 'That is the only way that deprut­

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He also prodded the Legislature to give PSS some reprogramming au­thority to enable it to m.xt contingen­cies .

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Petition seeks Mafnas 'ouster' SOMt 276 people have repmtedly signed a petition seeking the removal of Jose P. Mafnas as chainnan of Tinian's Casino Gaming Control Commission.

The petition was submitted yes­terday to Tinian Mayor Hennan M. Manglona.

1l1e petition asks Manglona· to either call for the resignation of Mafnas or initiate pe1tinent ac­tions.

Two weeks ago Manglona re­quested the resignation of all five gaming commissioners by July 3 l , but not one responded accord­ingly.

The petition was initiated by Jose P. Cruz, former Vice-Chair­man of TCGCC.

Cruz himself was the second sig-

natory to the petition, the first one being that Joseph M. Mendiola who completed a full six-year tenn as a member of the commission and preceeded Mafnas as its Chairman.

Other signers include· J.P. San Nicolas, independent candidate for House of Representatives, and sev­eral recognized supportersofTinian 's Unity Party under whose banner Manglona is seeking election to a Senate seat

'The wording in the petition speaks for itself and I will not try to put additional words in the mouths of the good residents who documented their agreement with its recitals," Cruz said.

However, he added, "in my personal opinion, the current situa­tion at TCGCC is deplorable and ,:·-···· ....................................................... ~

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Man, sentenced for ki~king, punching cop

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

SUPERIOR Court Associate Judge Timothy Bellas con­victed yesterday a man who punched a police officer in the mouth after being issued a boat­ing safety citation.

During a change of plea hear­ing, Bellas sentenced Lawrence Mendiola Flerr:ing to one year imprisonment, all suspended except three days.

Bellas ordered Fleming to pay $200 fine to the court and $50 restitution to the victim P02 Juan D. Diaz.

The defendant shall be placed on probation, the judge stated following a plea agree­ment.

Failure to comply with the order, Bellas said constitute a violation of the terms and con-

ditions of the suspended sen­tence and shall subject defen­dant to probation revocation proceedings.

Fleming was charged with assault and battery. He and counsel Perry lnos signed a plea agreement with the gov­ernment represented by Assis­tant Atty. Gen. Nicole C. Forelli.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the offense.

Pol ice report showed.that Diaz issued a citation against Fleming for boating safety violation at the Smiling Cove last Feb. 22.

Fleming became belligerent, prompting the officer to hand­cuff him.

The defendant, however, punched Diaz's in the mouth and kicked the officer twice, the re­port added.

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To go after homesteaders who sold deeds

· '\ Vanety News Staff . land. Koblerville; I 00 in Tanapag; said DPL is further i~vestigat-·,1 THEDIVISIO~ o~Pubhc Lands _She said DPL has yet to deter- I ,000 in Dandan; 2,000 in ing the purchases to see if the

:/_ has s~ught the assi~tance_oft~e mmewhethertherehavebeennew Kagman; IOOinLowerNavyHill; lots can still be transferred to

I. Atto\ne)'. General s Office m cases of sell out. and 70 in Capitol Hill. part of the 3,000 waiting home-

prosecutmg homestea~ owners Then: are an estimated 3,500 The bulk of homestead stead applicants. fou~d to ~a~e sold their lots to applicantswhohavethusfarbeen awardeeswhohavesoldtheirlots, The CNMI Constitution pro-foreign businessmen and other awarded homestead lots. it was gathered, is in Dandan, hi bits transfer of homestead

. lo~als. Government has awarded 250 Koblerville and Tanapag. ownership within IO years. II/ They (AGO) are aware of i.~.:·.1·.· some (cases of violations), but

•· the actual complete research on l this has not been completed," ' said DPL Director Bertha

Camacho. "I understand they are pretty

tied up with some other litiga­tions that have to do with us," she added.

Camacho said DPL has still to inquire with AGO on the progress of the probe. · She said the violations will be handled on a case-to-case basis.

"It (reprimands) is going to depend on the kind of transac­tion that happened and why it happened.

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Camacho said that as of last count early his year, an estimated 30 homestead awardees have been found to have leased-out or sold their lots to buyers, most of whom, in tum, put up marts and other commercial establishments on the

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A MAN who was sentenced last June for causing partial blindness to another person during an assault incident was convicted anew yes­terday of another criminal offense.

Superior Court Associate Judge Timothy Bellas sentenced Jeffrey J. M. Rangamar to six inonths in jail, all suspended except the first 30 days ..

Following a plea agreement, Bellas said Rangamar will be placed in six months' active pro­bation.

The judge required the defen­dant to complete substance and alcohol abuse counselling at the Commonwealth Health Center.

Rangamar was charged with criminal contempt and disturbing the peace. He and counsel Chief Public Defender Dan DeRienzo entered a plea agreement with the government.

Rangamar pleaded guilty to criminal contempt. In return, the Attorney General's Office rec­ommended the dismissal of the remaining charge.

The court accepted the agree­ment.

According to Assistant Atty. Gen. Frieda Leonard last June I 4 Rangamar failed to comply with the court's order to obey criminal laws in connection with the defendant's previous criminal case.

Leonard said Rangamar dis­turbed the peace when he shouted at former court marshal Anthony Gomez in.the carnival booth area at Micro Beach in Garapan.

Rangamar yelled: "Do you have a fu-ng problem, Marshal, are you carrying a fu-nggun on you now?"

Last June 17, Associate Judge Miguel Demapan sentenced Rangamar to IO years in jail, all suspended except three years for aggravated assault and battery.

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For victims of Korean Air 801 crash

InoS sends s ROT A MAYOR Joseph S. Inos yes­terday expressed srnrnw over the Korean Air plane crash on Guam yesterday.

.. The people of Ro.ta express their deepest sympathies to tl1e fmnilies

who lost loved ones in this tragic air crash," said Rota Mayor Joseph S. Inos.

TheislandofRota,forty-threemiles northofGuam, is thenearestneighbor to the crash scene of Korean Air Lines

flight 801. The commercial flight ended· in

tragedy, early Wednesday, as the giant airliner struck mountains south of Agana while landing in cloudy weather.

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"We pray for the departed souls. We ask for G\){l's tender mercies to comfort those who lost family. And, ifitis the Lord's will, we pray for the deliverance of those survivors," said Mayorlnos.

"I wish we could do more. We feel this loss so strongly. Our islands are lightly populated. The loss ofone life strikes us hard. And this morning hundreds died.You can 'timagine the impact on island peoples."

Rota, the southernmost island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, is about 12 miles long and 3 miles wide, and 43 miles from Guam.

"Planes landing at Agana come over Rota all the time. We often look up at these slender, silver tubes, when

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we hear the noise. This is the first major air tragedy in our area. We '11 never look up, again, without a prayer," said the Mayor.

The Marianas Visitors Bureau is soliciting proposals from interested companies to provide one year-service for the removal of trash refuse from selected tourist sites and road shoulders on Saipan. The scope of work, listing of sites.and pertinent package materials can be picked up at the Marianas Visitors Bureau Main Office at San Jose from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday starting August 8, 1997. Proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m., local time on September 5, 1997. Proposals must be sealed and marked "RFP-MVB-9705" and submitted in duplicate to the Marianas Visitors Bureau Main Office in San Jose.

CNMI panel submits MOU draft to RP side

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

A non-refundable fee of twenty five U.S. Dollars ($25.00) must accompany the Proposal. The twenty five dollars may be a certified check, a cashier's check or other forms acceptable and payable to the Marianas Visitors Bureau. The proposer is requested to submit with his/her proposal a copy· of his/her business license. A pre-bid conference is scheduled for 2:00 · p.m., August 15, 1997 at the MVB Conference Room in San Jose.

THE CNMI panel is set to submit to its RP counterpart, a final draft of the agreement the two parties have reached on the entry of Fili­pino workers to the Common­wealth.

David M. Sablan, President of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce who was among those represent­ing the CNMI business sector in the talks, said that consequently, the formal signing of the second Memorandum of Understanding reached in three years, should be coming "very soon." /s/ ANICIA Q. TOMOKANE

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he fundraising dinner for SIGI TUDELA at the Garapan

Central Park last Friday was a huge one and was

tremendously a successful one. The Committee together

with SIGI TUDELA and his family are very much indebted to our many

supporters, family members, relatives, friends and the business

community for their help and financial contributions.

From all of us, Un Dangkulo Na Si Yuus Maase, Oloomway,

Maraming Salamat Po, Mesulang, Thank You and Faafetai Lava

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warded this week to Philippine Labor and Employment Undersecretary Jose Espanol, a former deputy administrator of the Department's Overseas Work­ers' Welfare Administration as­signed by Labor Secretary Leonardo Quisumbing to oversee the negotiations.

Sablan said the CNMI panel has just concluded its review of the initial agreement which was arrived at following four days of discussions in Manila late last June.

'There were a lot of changes that had to be done to reflect on what was discussed (in Manila)," explained Sablan.

"I suspect that (with the sub­mission of the final draft,) it (for­mal signing) will be very soon," he added.

Formal signing of the MOU has been slated for July 31.

RP Consul Julia Heidemann, in an earlier interview, said the draft MOU has also beens sent to the US Department of State for re­view

"to ensure that it is consistent with the US foreign policy."

CNMI and Philippine govemment officials have agreed to implement a "three-tieredapproach"inimplement­inganRPpolicyrequiringhost-coun­ny employers to shoulder fcxxl and lodging expenses of their Filipino workers.

None of the "approaches" how­ever guaranteed tliat free fcxxl will actually be given to Filipino workers not belonging to the exemtcd catego­ries -- fishe1men, faimers, and domestic helps.

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De Villa resigns, Ramos accepts

Renato de Villa

MANILA,Philippincs(AP)-P1-esi­dent Fidel R,unos on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Defense Seci-etary Renato de Villa, who h:L~ announced he will iun for pr-esident nextyear.

Opposition politicim1s had de­mm1ded that de Villa step down :L~ defense minister and chai1m,m of the National Dism;terCoordinating Coun­ci 1, saying he might use the v:L~t re-

. sourcesoftl1oseagenciestolaunch,m early campaign.

De Villa ,tlready appem-s in televi-

Fidel Ramos

sion spot.~ for the disaster council, which critics say is pm1 of :m early campaign effo1t.

Ramossaid,however, that de Villa would stay in office until Sept. 15 while he looks for a replacement.

Rm11os told a weekly news con­fe1-ence it was necessmy for de Villa ··toexit properly" toensw-e an orderly ll,msition at tl1e defense depm1ment.

On his 62nd bi11hday last montl1, de Villaaimounced that he would run for president in general elections scheduled next May. He tendered his

RP gov't; communists make progress in talks MANILA, Philippines (AP)- Gov­ernment and communist rebel nego­tiators on Wednesday said tlley have made progress in talks in the Nether­kmds, more than tl1ree months after fom1al negotiations to end 28 years of . insurgency were suspended.

In a joint statement distribt.ited to . news agencies in Ma11ila, the two sides said their representatives held "discreet talks" July 3 I to Aug. 5 that resulted in the signing of three "tenta-tive agreements." --· .

Tlie statement was sih'Tled by tl1e government Solicitor General Silvestre Bello III a11d LuisJalamloni, the chief negotiator for the rebel um­brella group, the National Democratic Front.

TI1e three accords included one on respect for hurrnm rights m1d interna­tional hum:uiitarian law. intended to be tl1e first of four main agreements

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tl1at would lead to a comprehensive political settlement of the Communist rebellion.

Another agreement covered rules I on gra11ting immunity ,md safety guar­antees to negotiators m1d their staff. 1l1e tl1ird concerned joint government a11d rebel support for socio-economic project5. Details of tl1e accords were not released.

1l1e three agreements are to ·be presented to tl1e respective negotiating pa11els for approval, which "will hope­fully be done"within August, the state­ment said.

The Communist rebellion began in tl1e late 1960s and reached its peak in the mid- I 980s, when the party's am1ed wing,tl1eNewPeople'sArmy,reached a peak strengtl1 of 26,000 guenillw;. Since tl1en, its nmks have tl1inned due I to battle c:t,ualties, surrenders ;md fac- i tionalism. ___________ /

resignation ,L~ defense chief on tl1e same day but Ramos ,L~ked him to stay on.

About a dozen government offi­cials and politicia11s have announced phms to seek the presidency, includ­ing seven from the adminisn·ation paity, tl1e People's Power-National Union of Ch1istian Democrats.

An endorsement by Ramos and access to the administration pmty's _nationwide political machine1y will

rrovide a c11Jcial advantage. De Villa h,L~ joined tl1e 11Jling

pm1y andseeksitsendorsementas the pm1y standmd bearer in a national convention later this yem·.

Among theothera~pinmt~ m-e Sen. Leticia Ramos-Shahani, the president's younger siste1~ House of Representatives Speaker Jose de Venecia, and Vice President Joseph Estrada, a former movie stu· belong­ing to the opposition.

Ra111os, who w,L~ elected in 1992, is limited to a single six-yem· te1m by the constitution.

His supporters have c,unpaigned for lifting of the term limit, despite widespread opposition to such a step.

De Villa headed the now-defunct Philippine Constabulaiy, the prede­cessor of tl1e national police force, m1d served :L~ mmed forces chief of staff befor-e being appointed to his CUITent post.

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12-MARIANAS V ARJETY NEWS AND VIEWS-THURSDAY- AUGUST 7, 1997

Clinton inks budget, tax bills By Alan Fram

WASHINGTON (AP)-President Clinton signed the budget-balancing m1d tax-cutting bills into law Tuesday in a showy White House t.Jibute to political p:utnership, formalizing the two p:uties' 1rnce in a decades-old war over erasing federal deficiL~.

With a red-jacketed Mmine band perched on a White House balcony booming ··God Bless America," Clinton walked to the residence's South Lawn to put his pen to two measures that most Democrats and Republicans consider paramount achievements. Whilethe1ewe1eclear signs that battles lie ahead over other spending p1imities, tl1e day's spot­light shone on the two bills Congress sent Clinton by one-sided margins last Tirnrsday.

Clinton called the legislation ··a trne milestone for our nation," :u1d mm-king the signific:u1ce signed tl1e bills with:4D pens to be presented to lawmakers and White House aides who helped craft the accord. The ~umbers in the bills spoke for them­selves.

tions that occuJTed." McCurry told reporter-s. "1l1erc rn·e a lot of other items that don't fall in that category."

McCuny said Clinton would not veto a provision that credit, 1cvcnue raised from the cigm-ette tax incre,Ls;c towm-d ,my final legal settlement with the tobacco indusuy. Gephai·dt had called for Clinton to kill that provi­sion, calling it a "special inte1est giveaway."

In the longer term, the two pai1ies still face prickly questions over what to do about the skyrocketing cost.~ that Medicai-e ,md Social Secu1ity will face when tl1e huge Baby Boom genemtion begins retiring. Both pro­grams rnn the risk of insolvency and promise to renew big federal deficits unless something is done, even with the new budget agreement.

Amid the day's good spirits, Gingiich promised "to enact in 1999 the right savings and the 1ight steps to refo1m the system for the baby boomers ai1d their children."

But he did not mention tl1e wari­ness both pai1ies feel about changing both Social Secuiity ,md Medicm·e in ways that directly reduce benefits or increase costs for recipients.

The promised balanced budget by 2002 would be the first since 1969, along the way reshaping Medicare and boosting spending for welfare and children's healtl1. The $152 bil­lion in tax cuts formillionsoffamilies with children - plus investors, col­lege studenl~ :u1d oiliers - is the biggest since 1981. It is accompanied by $56 billion in tax increases on cigm-ettes, airline tickets and other items.

President Clinton smiles after signing the balanced budget bill, Tuesday on the South Lawn of the White House. Applauding around him are members of US Congress and Vice President Al Gore. AP

Most of the $115 billion in Medicare savings in this year's bill come from reducing reim­bursements for hos pi ta! sand other health-care providers.

"We c,m say with pride ,md cer­taint-y that those who saw tl1e sun setting on America were wrong. The sun is 1ising on America again," Clinton told nem·ly 1,000 onlookers.

Underlining the bipai1isan natu1e of tl1e pact that took months of bar­gaining to achieve, House Speaker Newt Gingrich :md three dozen otl1er

lawmakers of both pai1ies stood by the president as he signed, Ame1ican flags flapping behind them.

"This has been a long time com­ing,"Gingiich, R-Ga., told the crowd. Headded, "We reached beyond par­ties, we reached beyond institu­tions and we find ways to get things done.'"

Both men called for bipartisan cooperation in the future. And strikingly, each began by praising the other party.

"Their willingness this year, coming off their victory, to reach out a hand and say, 'Let's work together,' was the key from which

everything grew,'' Gingrich said. Glaringly absent and not mentioned

by either Clinton or Ging1ich was House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., who opposed both measu1'es because he said they dispropo11ionately helped the rich and hurt the poor.

"I felt we could do better ;md I continue to feel that way;· the potential 2000 presidential can­didate said Tuesday during a po­litical trip to Boston.

Even with the camaraderie, par­tisan budget clashes were brew­ing.

White House spokesman Mike

Records: Gore made fundraising calls from_ his White House office

Al Gore

By Larry Margasak WASHINGTON (AP)-In his ag­gressive attempt to raise money for President Clinton's re-election cmn­paign, Vice President AI Gor-e made 44 fund-raising calls from his office in tl1e White House, phone records show.

lntemal memos, obtained by 'Inc Awx:iated Press, also lay out an extensive effort by Gore's staff to block out time in his schedule to make phone calls from his desk near the Oval Office sol ici ting cam­paign money.

"Do you think we could get more timconthcsked(45min-l hr.)tomake more of tl1esc calls?" said one internal

: memo from Gore's office. It is illegal for federal employees to

solicit money in federal buildings. Gore has maintained he was not subject to

tl1al 1-esl!iction even though ilien­White House Counsel Abner Mikva wmte in l 995 that "no fund-raising calls... may emm1ate fmm tl1e White House."

"You ml'. making several DNC phonec:tlls,"Gotl'. ww; told in a Feb. 2, 1996 staff memo, which was similrn· to memos sent him tl1atye:u· on Feb. 9, Ap1il 26, May 2, ,md OcL 4. An ad­ministJ-ation official, speaking only on condition he not be named, acknowl­edged tl1ecalls weremadefromGor-e 's office.

In March, when the story of Gore's White House phone calls surfaced, tl1e vice president told a news confe1encc tl1at "On a few occasions I made some telephone calls from my of­fice in the White House ... " using a campaign credit card.

Gore's spokeswoman, Lorraine Voles, said Tuesday, "the state­ments made by the vice president were accurate.''

Telephone records turned over to a Senate committee and first reported Tuesday by Ll1e New York Daily News show Gore made 48 tclc-

phone calls to donors from his office. An administration official, speak­

ing only on condition of anonymity, said 44 of them were solicitations for money ,md four were calls tl1a11king individuals for their work on a Demo­crntic gala.

'foe phone records, given to Senate investigators by the Democratic Na­tional Committee, show the dates of each c~tll, the individual Gore uied to contactand tl1e length oftl1econversa­tion.

Some of the calls lasted less than a minute, indicating that Gore may never have reached some of the actual or potential donors on the DNC list.

One person on the list, New York real estate executive Julian Studley, said, "It's possible a call was placed here but I didn't talk to him." But he added, "I wouldn't have ncc<led ,my pmmpting" to cont.Jibute to tl1e I~moc,~tl,.

111c phone list included tl1e names ofphilm1tl1ropistAnn Getty ,Amernda llcss Corp. chainmm Leon Hess, bil­lionaire oil mid n:al estate investor Mm-vin Davis, Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos mid Dcl01cs Weaver, co-owneroftl1eJacksonville Jat:,'lUU"S football te,m1.

McCurry said administration aides we1-e studying the two bills to see if Clinton would make first use of tl1e line-item veto. Gingiich has said doing so would violate the spirit of the agreement.

The president 1-eceived that power this yem·, which allows him to sign bills but st.Jike specific provisions witl1in five days. 1l1e1e ,u-e 80 tax provisions he can cut, bestowing wx b1-eaks on everytl1ing from the Big 1l1ree automakers to Mississippi county clerks.

"'n1erc me some things in therl'. that wer-e clem·ly tdlected in negotia-

The measure also gives benefi­ciaries new insurance options be­yond the predominant fee-for-ser­vice system.

The tax bill creates a $500-per­child credit for most families and $40 billion worth of higher edu­cation credits, deductions and other breaks; reduces the capital gains and inheritance tax; creates new incentives for savers and gradually boosts the 24-cents­per-pack cigarette tax by l 5 cents.

Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo gestures while addressing the National Urban league in Washington Tuesday. Cuomo spoke on how to develop minority businesses and create iobs in cities through partnerships between government ancJ private groups like the Urban League. AP

House ol Representatives Precinct I KARL TUDELA REYES

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House ol Representatives Precinct J

JESUS TORRES ATTAO

Hause ol Represantatives Precinct 4

FRANK G. CEPEDA

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PEDRO P. TENORIO c"TENO" GOVERNOR

JESUS R. SABLAN CCPEPERO"

LT. GOVERNOR

AUGUST 10, 199'7 10:00 AM· 5:00 PM Sunday • Civic Center Basketball Court

House ol Representatives Precinct 1 HERMAN TUDELA PALACIOS

House al Representatives Precinct 3

JOSEPH P. ROSARIO

House ol Representatives Precinct 4

MARIANO M. FALIG

House ol Representatives Precinct 1 ANA SABLAN TEREGEYO

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Hause al Representatives Precinct 3

BENETT T. SEMAN

House ol Representatives Precinct 1 JGNACJO "IKE" DELEON GUERRERO DEMAPAN

Hause al Representatives Precincl 3

HEINZ HOFSCHNJEDER

Senator !ROTA)

EDWARD U. MARATITA

Hause ol Representalives Precrnc1 2

OSCAR MANGLONA BABAUTA

Hause at Representatives Precinct 3

CRISPIN DELEON GUERRERO

Senator !ROTA)

RICARDO S. ATALIG

House ol Representalives Precinct 2

DIEGO TENORIO BENAVENTE

House al Representatives Precinct 3

MELVIN 0. FAISAO

House al Representaliies (ROTAJ

ALEJO M. MENDIOLA

14-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-THURSDAY- AUGUST 7, 1997

Israel firm on sa11ctions By Hilary Appelman

JERUSALEM (AP)- Israel !;tood fo111 Tuesday against gmwing inter­national pressu1e to e,L-e harsh new sanctions against Palestinians, witl1 Arab leaders accusing it of pmvoking violence ,md evcri its U.S. ally urging 1esn~tint.

Islamic militants tlneatened even mo1e attacks like tl1e July 31 market bombing tl1at prompted the Israeli crackdown. A leaflet issued in the name of Hamas militants recom­mended Israel "open its hospitals and medical centers again" to prepare for a flood of new bombing victims.

For its pmt Israel insisted it would

not ease up on its sanctions-which have potential to devastate fue fragile Palestinian economy - until Y asser Arafat's self-mle government cracks down on Palestinian militants.

"111e policy is going to be a sliding­scale policy," said David Bm·-Jllan, a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyal1U. "If we feel the Palestin­ians are doing some of what fuey are supposed todo, there will bean easing of some of the measwes."

In response to last week's double bombingata Jerusalem market, which killed I3victimsand the two bombers, Israel has sealed fue borders of the West Bank and Gaz.a Strip, blocking

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many Palestinians from tl1eir jobs; suspendcdpeace talks;andcutoffthe transferofvitaltaxrevenuestoArafat's Palestinian Autl1ority.

Israel also arrested 11 more Pales­tinians on Tuesday, b1inging to 156 the number rurested

since the bombings on suspi­cion of "hos ti le te1rnri st activity."

In Jordan, Arafat called the Is­raeli crackdown "a criminal mea­sure" aimed at ''starving the Pales­tinians."

Even the United States, Israel's staunchest ally, questioned the wisdom of striking at the Palestin­ian Authority.

"We believe it's in Israel's interest to pursue the security challenge in a way that does not unde1111ine the Palestinian Authority and ilieirability

to uphold their own secwity obliga­tions," State Department spokesmm1 Jim Foley said.

In an unusually hru,h statement, the 22-nation Arab League accused Israel ofbringingon fue violence itself by failingtoimplement its agreements with the Palestinians and suspending peace talks.

The Arab League declmed it "holds Israel responsible for poi­soning the climate and the acts of violence, and ... vehemently con­demns the Israeli measures."

After meeting with Israeli For­eign Minister David Levy in Cairo, PresidentHosni MubarakofEgypt - long Israel's partner in peace­making - called Israel's mea­sures "a siege on the Palestinian people."

Echoing earlier Israeli claims that the bombings would not have hap­pened if Arafat's government had reined in militants, Levy s.aid Israel was only trying to make sure d1e Pal­estinim1s "fulfill their commitments, like fighting tenu1ism."

Palestinian ofiicials sitid · 80,0CO public employees - including the policemenwhowould mTt:stmilitants -can't be prud iflsrael continues to hold upd1etransfertax revenues. Israel collects employment and other taxes from Palestinians who work in Israel. The revenue is then transfened lo the Palestinian Authoiity.

Palestinian Finance Minister Mohammed Nashishibi said Israel was keeping $41 million that was sup­posed to be transfenedJuly 30, theday of the bombing.

s Thomas J. Camacho Executi1 e Director

Palestinian women and girls watch in horror as an Israeli Army bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian's house in the West Bank town of Sa'ir Tuesday. Israel destroyed the house because it was built without a permit. AP -==============:!..--------

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Sealed proposals will be received until 10:00 A.M., FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1997 at NMHC's Office in Garapan, Saipan, or at our Tinian office, at which time and place all proposals will be publicly opened and read aloud. The proposal documents, which are available at NMHC's Office, shall be signed by the owner or authorized agent of the firm, and shall be enclosed in an envelope which shall be sealed and clearly labeled. "TINIAN-BUILDING MAINTENANCE PROPOSAL". Companies shall be responsible for the placement of its firm's name and address on the outside proposal envelope. ·

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held on TUESDAY, AUGUST 05, 1997 at 10:00 a.m. at Tinian.

NMHC hereby notifies all proposers that it will affirmatively ensure that, in any contracts entered into pursuant to this advertisement, small business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit proposals and will not be discriminated against on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, handicapped/disabling conditions, or national origin.

Proposal Specifications may be obtained either at the NMHC Office in Garapan, Saipan or the Tinian Office in San Jose, Tinian, anytime between the hours of 7:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. Questions or additional information may be directed to Shirino Ngirasmau, Manager, Technical Maintenance Division at 234-7689/6866, and in Tinian, F ranees Diaz Field Office Representative may be contacted at 433-9213.

NMHC'reserves the right to waive any informalities and to reject any and all proposals in the best interest of NMHC.

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Iraq submits to UN its oil pricing plan

By Martha Slud UNITED NA TIO NS (AP)- Imq on Tuesday submitted its proposed selling price for oil exports, m1otl1er step toward resuming oil sales under the U.N. oil-for-food plan.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday approved an Iraqi plan for distributing food and medicine pur­chased with oil revenues. Iraq then was required to submit its pricing proposal to U.N. ofiicials, who will determine wheilier it is in line with industry standards.

The plan will go to the U .N. Sanc­tions Committee, probably by Wednesday morning, said U.N. spokesman Biro Ueki. Each of the 15 committee members, including the United States, then will have 48 hours to raise objections or tl1e plan automatically takes effecL

Assuming no objections, buyers d1cn can submit purcha<;e contracL~ . for approval by the United Nations, which has 24 hours to acceptor reject them. Oil could begin flowing by this weekend.

Details of1tl1e price pl,m were not mmounccd.

lrnq ha~ been ban'Cd from export­ing oil freely under U.N. sm1ctions imposed in 1990 after President Sadd,m1 Hussein sent troops into Ku­wait, touching off the Persian Gulf

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War. The U.N. Security Council has refused to I ift the sanctions until it is satisfied Iraq has destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction.

Under a plan iliat went into effect last December, Iraq may sell up to$2 billion wortl1 of medicine. TI1e plan was renewed June 8 for another six months.

Iraq slopped selling oil on interna­tional rnarkel~ in late May, insisting tl1at Annan first appmve iL~ distribu­tion pl,m. Iraq was believed to be trying to pressure the Security Coun­cil into speeding deliveries of hu-1rnmitari,m goods purchased under the oil-for-food pl,m.

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THE TINIAN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES Cordially Invite You To Join Them And Their Supporters At The

Saturday, August 9 • 6:30 PM • Next to Q-MArt • San Jose Village

"Please Join U,.. For An Evening of Food, Drink, Entertainment and Convensation"

THE TINIAN INDEPENDENTS ginen i taotao, pot i taotao yan para i taotao

Ignacio "Ike" Quichocho CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR

James M. Mendiola CANDIDATE FOR SENATE

Ramon M. Dela Cruz CANDIDATE FOR SENATE

J.P. San Nicolas CANDIDATE FOR

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tinian Independent Candidates Ginen 1 Taotuo, Pot f Taocao Yan Para I Taorao

San Jose Village, Tinian

OPEN I.ETTER TO TIIE PEOrl.E OF TINIAN

July 23, 19'l7

Hafa Ado.i Too~o Tinian:

As 1hc 1997 cumpaign 11,ets going, !hen~ arc some immedintt.' is~ms which we wish to brinE? 10 vour attenlH\n. \Ve bclic1c thal truth . .imJ not unruundcU rumn/\. ,~ 1mpurun1 tr.furm:i.tmn for y1iu to 1.:onsiCer ,1~ you mul.c )OLJr choices for !he Nm·embcr {!Cnc:rJI clcL"11on

I. Dcspile o.ny politically mot1vattd rumon )OU may have heani, those cmplo)OO by g(wcmmen\ arc OQJ in danger or losmg )'Our jobs \\'hen I ~c Quichocho or lhe other Tinian lmkp::ndcnt C.indiJatc:. urc clcc1cd. It is p<M1blc LhJl )ll\Jr pb ll'ill be rcJclint'fJ hi 1nduUc mnrc lr.i1ninl,! and ui.l\'iirKCmcnl opponunity bul no rcJwltom, in :o;l.':lff ~izc arc phinncJ.

Different lc:l(Jcrs have J1ncrcn1 apprrochcs ltl their offices and we belitve Iha! rm·cmmcnt employee~ \IKtuld bc . .ibk It\ 1mpnwe 1hc111'icl\c, 11n the J1ib \1·hcne1·er fXK.~1blc Dunn~ r-.fo)'l\f Q11u.:ho1.:hu's prc1·111L1, term, he cmpln)c:LI In.Ill) induLlml:! d1~blcU pcr1,1in, .md htth·\Cl~-.ol nun-gr.lUuJll..'\ ll..c I~ •;till the ~.imc pcr,nn l!K.1.i) bul ~'tindilllln'i 1m 11tH 1,l.1011 .ire t.·11n,1t.kr..tbly d1flcrcnt .tnd 11ur ~,ivcrnmcnl 1n11,·1 m111 c 111m ard 11r Ix: left bch1ml.

Under lhe nel\l ndmimslmtion, thn.,;c withnul u hiph ,;c.:hnol diplom11 will be tivcn 1hr oprn<\Unll) 111 ,eek .i GED dunn!! norm.ii w11rl..1n~ hc,ur,. O\her st.ill m..iy be 1r.uncd in

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m,lna~cmcnl \kilh i.:11unc wh1c.:h will be puwnlcJ tiy prulc~"wnal m~lrrn.:lur, ,ind C.:U1ird1natet.l through the Nl1rthcm MariarnL, Cl1llc~c.

The old clays or do-~olhing government employment arc no longer appropriate ir we o.rc to rclain contrnl nr T1rn11n illld real11c benefit lrom the .cnrirmous de\·elopment 1n store ror t,ur 1')lamJ. Once ilgain, govcmmcnl cmplo)·ec'i will rcia.m their JObs under lhc new ad1111nistrat1nn :md evel)'l.lnc \1·111 be 81,·cn on-thc-Ji)b 11pp0nuni11es IC\ improve U1em"-Ch·e, uml m.:elve promotions ba~cJ on men! and nccompli,hment.

2. The comlitions which forcod lhc current investigations into our gamin~ commission arr shumcful amJ could h:t\'C been 1111oiJe<l with pwpcr leadenhip from the c.uncrn m.lm1nistra11on. ll 1s too hue n<:>w, howcrer, wid lhc agenr1cs in~oJ\·cd mus1 be left lrcc IO du Ihm work. We ml.:c no prn,1tio11 on thest ln\'CSUF,nuom or rcs1gna1ioo rcque!:il!. but 1rul) hope th.ii, when eVCr)1hin~ ,.~ 1.-omplclcd. s,;1mc sense 01· pr_aJc and. 1n1egrity cnn be rc~tor"C"d to the rcl!ulalll\n of nur c.;aqm1 industry !.l..1 th~I 1hc bcncl1t'> rcal1zeJ m our ln11m111c ,u-c rc.illlcd.

We nre prepared to dcnl wi1~ any rcsignatio1i, or rcs1rur1urin,I! ol TCOCC top management which may resull but, as \\'llh other gmcmmcnl cm pin) cc~. Commission 1n.~pct:tors .i,nd nlhcr stall arc m absolutely no danger or Jo~rng )Our Job. You arc bccomm~ trJrne<l pmfc~itinal!i. and urc badly needed under the new admrn1s1ra11on.

3. 11 is grossly illegal for staffs of the Mayor w,J Om·cmor, or ariy other ci,·il r.c.nricc cm~lnycc, to be threatened, inl1mi1.fo.1ed or pre:;surcJ intn supponmg nny pah1ic:al t:trnJ111Uc. This includes being mlllc 1u perfonn an>· ;,chons rcfa1cJ m u 1.<1mp:11g.n Uunni_! nNmal worl.:.mg hours or while c·.u-rnng comp tin1t:! !I 1s .ilSCl o.gainst the law and our sp.lcm ol

Tiniilll Independent Candidates • Gr-:n U:ncr w the People of Tinian July 23, l<J<n

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free c:cclinnt if you .11e pcr.;LLu:kd Lo -·,rl/untccr" for pohlic.il Cl'Cnls dunng }our off-dul) huur'> v.,!r-.~ 11 1\ yPur l rn n fndcpcnd<'nl dcc1s1~n 1r. Jl1 ,1,

If you rccei\e tm11mcnt of lh1.\ kind in ynur BO\'l"mrecnt J')O',il1on, w~ offN you o t.:hMce 10 \Jo the nc_ht 1~11nt? anon)-m1111,1y. Plc:L'>C r:pcTI any, 1,1l,11111ns ,i i.:amprugn JJ11, 10 c".(Jc of the: tmdcrng.ric<l lnc.!cprnl!cn\ Cand1J.JLcs at the phor.c number ~hnwn. Your 1dcn11t\' \nll t,.; rro1cx1cJ anJ "c will m1ti:itc 1hc r,ropcr cnfon:cmrnt m~u:.irc, ·

Whether ll'e- like ii nr nm. Tini.:an ,~ \lndcrgrnng. 1t~ grc:i.le!I pcrind of ch.lnfe since 1he enJ 11( WWII. We c.1.n wkc 1.un111.1.I c,I our fulurc. or rt'm:iir1 .l,. \,e Jh\a)\ h.in· anJ 11·:itch .i.,. foreii;n rnlcrc.~LS Uec1dc p.>/1<.)' by cnmh,ng u <wekt:t few.

The Tirtiill': Independent Candld.J.te,; stand logcthu IO n:tJJn fu.lure o::>nlrol of our isl.ind in !ht hand~ of lht pro pk 11 hn p.;rm11tcJ t:i1s Jc1c'npmcnl to Ul.:Cur • you. T..iul.Jt• T1niW1. We 1r11 uc )OU m Jnln w; in our i;u1d1ng r.,.1mm1tmentto a belier T1n1;in {or evcl'),,nc

Si Yu'u.~ Ma.uc,

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Paid By Committe to Elect Tinian Independents

Manny Villagomez, Treasurer

Tinian Independent Candidates Glnen I Taotao, Pot I Taorao Yan Para I Taotao

P.O. Box 65 Tlnlan, MP 96,52

(670) 433-BIBA or ~JJ-0026

OPF.N I.ETIER TO CIJRRENT A:-O PROSP~CTl\'E TINIA:- DEVELOPERS

July 23, 19117

To set lhe rnunJ ,1raight, the T1nian Independent Candidille:'I arc ,trong pmpor>t'nt5 0i"

~~;e;:;,:n~l~::c~;;J ~ ':~'.n~ ji~Ji~~: ~;\'t:u;~:1~J 1::dasl!t;~~c;~rj:~~II~~~ :~ numerous c:LPJ,L1t1r.'>

During hi, prior term as Mayor, Ile Qu1chocho appointed and directed lhc gaming millulive tJ.~k force w:11d rcsc:Jn.:hcd the r..i<.rn,;1 1ndus11y. brou11h1 lhc pt1pu\Jr initialJ\·e Lt1 L1c t:r.ilt,,1 ,mi.I succe:.sful:y .c:impu,gncd for :he lc~ali,..illon or TiniJn c.1.•,rno.,; When Ja1m."S Mcmfol;1 ~l"\·c.l a., Mayor of Tm1a.n, he appoin\cJ lhc ong,nal TCUCC member.. dnd comm1~,1nnC1.l the f1r,1 c\r1 Ti.'l.iHn Dtvel:1pmen1 Mi1Sttrplnn. R..:ay Dela Cruz. w:i.,; amllng lhe lira g.1m1ng C1'1Cl1m1,--.111ncr;

No stronger voices e,ust on TiniM for prudent Col.'lino and 1ourism development lhnn tho-c of 1hr undersigned,;. We arc very ple.L<::cJ ..,.,th lhc ne~· T1ni:in D)na.~l> .ind the (1ll1cr pr11JC1.:l, tu rolJ.1,i !vfany )'CUn: nf lkd1rntc<l local effort ha\·c provided the pmpcr 1r:.imework v.:h11.:h now allm\., >uur derclo;,mcnts to proceed on our nland. Oni>' scvm: lun;i,;) c:ould bes~ :hill µ e il."C ~mchlJ" now optx):ied 10 C.:l.'ilfltl development.

We 11trongly support your projt.:tll and, .,.,hen elected. off er !he continued ll!i!lancc of our offices whcnc\'~r nttdCU. We an: proud or our ca.lime law, tt:c only of 1:s k.in<.J in the Pacific. and proi.;d 10 shaft with you the r~urus or ou1 luJme i~lllfl<l am! our Clumorro culru1e. Our onl~ request i~

tho.t you npprooch dc\·dopment or, Tmian in !hi:, .W11t !!p11ic uf Li.,.ipcruliun :md pannc-~sh1p. \\.'c look for.v:ud to supporting your developmenl cllott.s in lhe future Jnd plcao;c reni~n,ber ih.u. 111 1!,t" C1',.,_1l, tl~t1rin-)e..U fal,e rhtlon.: :s .u. common a.sour reJ nee

Sincerely,

Bank of Th~iland Gov. Chaiy~wat Wibulswasi, left, responds to questions Tuesday as Thai Finance Minister Thanong B11aya looks on during a news conference in Bangkok. Thailand will borrow at least $1 O billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of a rescue package for the country's ailling economy. AP

By Robert Horn BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -1l1ailand on Tuesday accepted aus­tetity mea.~ures ordered by the Inter­national Monetary Fund so it can bonuw at least $10 billion as part of an economic rescue package.

The IMF ha.~ demanded closing 42 finance companies hmt by bad property loans.

The govemment also will in­crease the value-added tax to IO percent from 7 percent, increas­ing the prices consumers pay and potentially worsening inflation.

The Stock Exchange of Thai­land index fell on news of the finance company shutdowns, dropping as much as 3.4 percent. Trading was suspended in bank­ing and finance stocks. By the close, the index was down by only 2.3 percent.

At the close .of Asian trading today, the U.S. dollar was up slightly frcim Monday.

More bitter medicine may still be coming. IMF officials said the

P U B L I C . N D T I ·c E ( 07 / 29/ 97)

l:1 S IS TO INFORM ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT THE GOVERNOR'S JTPA OFFICE IS SOLICITING ONE HUNDRED (100) APPLICANTS FOR THE YOUTH

VACATION EMPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAM.

GIVEN THE CRITICAL NEED OF ESTABLISHING WORK EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS

EXITING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, PRIORITY CONSIDERATION WILL BE ACCORDED TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AaEs 16 & UP, WHO ARE BELOW JHE POVERTY INCOME

GUIDELINE (ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED).

HOWEVER, DEPENDING ON THE AVAILABILITY OF LOCAL FUNDING, THE PROGRAM MAY

ACCOMMODATE THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE CONSIDERED HIGH INCOME TO FULFILL

THE 100 SLOTS.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1997. N_o APPLICATION

WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE ESTABLISHED DATE.

ALL STUDENTS ON GREEN TRACK ARE ENCOURAGED TO VISIT THE JTPA OFFICE

LOCATED DIRECTLY ACROSS CUC, OR CONTACT MRS. LAURENT T. CHONG OR MR.

MARTIN C. PANGELINAN AT 664-1700/4 FOR MORE INFORMATION.

RESPECTFULLY,

ls/JOSE B. AGULTO ACTING JTPA DIRECTOR

xc: PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER

entire package had not been worked out and more details would emerge in the coming week.

Analysts had expected demands for deep spending cuts by the govern­ment, in pruticular in military spend­ing, but none was included in the package outlined today.

Some in Thai business and poli­tics have opposed the 1MF res­cue, fearing a loss of sovereignty.

The economy has been spiral­ing toward recession following a sever_e slump in exports, exces­sive lending by financial institu­tions to an overbuilt property sec­tor, and heavy borrowing in for­eign cuITencies by companies.

The $10 billion emergency credit line the IMF will make available to Thailand is intended to help stabilize the economy and add liquidity to markets.

The credit line and other de­tails of the IMF package were announced by Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya and Bank of Thailand governor Chaiyawat Wibulswasdi.

By far the toughest part of the deal was the closure of 42 troubled finance companies, bringing the total shut down since June to 58. There were previously 91 such companies.

Many finance companies were in deep trouble because of over-

. lending to the property market. Developers have overbuilt, leav­ing a massive supply that can't be sold, so they can't repay their loans.

Chai yaw at said the central bank already had lent 500 billion baht or $15.6 billion, ~o keep financ; companies afloat.

Other announced measures in­cluded a govemment pledge not to let foreign reserves fall below $25 billion. The last available fig­ure from the central bank put foreign reserves at $32.4 billion in June, down from $33.3 billion in May.

More- climbers die in the Alps

BOLZANO, Italy (AP)-Seven Alpine climbers fell totheirdeaths Tuesday in the Italian Dolomites and another had a fatal plunge in Switzerland, raising to 37 the people killed in the European Alps in four weeks.

Four climbers, identified as firemen from Reggio Emilia in central Italy, were killed near the 12,700-foot Gran Zebru peak in the South Tyrol, the ANSA news agency reported.

A few hours later, three other climbers died on the same moun­tain, the report said. They were not immediately identified.

Swiss authorities said a climber was killed in a fall from Wetterhorn mountain near Grindelwald in the central Swiss Alps. The climber's identity was not released.

.~ Most of the other deaths have i- occurred on Mont Blanc, on the ~ bor<lersofFrance,Italyand Swit­lii zcrlaml.

By Gretchen Peters ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -After a suing of anti-Amelicru1 pro: tests across Pakistan, the U.S. State Depaitment apologized Tuesday for an Ameiican prosecutor's deroga­tory comment about Pakistanis.

Robert Horan, a disuict attorney for Fairfax County, .Va., was com­menting in a television interview on reports the U.S. government paid millions of dollru-s to capture a Paki­stani chru·ged in the 1993 slayings of two CIA officials.

In the interview, Horan said sus­pect Mir Aimal Kansi could have been bought for far less, because Pakistanisregulru·ly"sell their moth­ers for a few thousand dollars."

U.S. authmities snatched Kansi last month fmm a hotel in southeast­ern Pakistan after a four-year man­hunt.

Kansi '& capture and exu·adition to the United.Stateshadalready touched a nerve in Pakistm1, where many criti­cized the government for allowing U.S. autl10titiesextradite Kansi with­out a routine heruing.

In ast.atementreleased by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, the State Deprutment said Tuesday Horan's remru·ks were "insensi live and offen­sive to Pakistanis" and said the U.S. position had been conveyed to Horan.

Horan said Tuesday hedidn 't mean his remark as an insult, but was

Report: -130 arrested· .· in Turkey·

KOCAELI, Turkey(AP)-Police aJTested about 130 people in two cities Tuesday for protesting the pro­seculm· government's plan to curb religious education, a news agency reported.

1l1e demonstration in this western city begrn1 as people came out of mosques after noon prayers.

Autl10rities, who have banned such protest.,, m;ke<l demonstrators to disperse, then aJTeste<l I 00 pmtici­pants who ignored the order, the Anatolia news agency said.

1l1e otl1cr aiTests occmred in the eastern city of Erzurnm.

At issue is legislation that would incrc:L,e compulsory education from five to eight yem'S.

1l1e move would effectively close down tl1e junior high sections of Islamic schools, which the militmy regai·ds as breeding grounds for Is­lamic militants.

1l1e legislation is expected to come . up for a pmfounentmy vole later this montl1.

and Aunty Sue DLGuerrero

From: The Family

refening only to the "lawless ele­ment.-;" who were protecting Kansi from U.S. capture.

"In tl1e course of that interview, I expressed the opinion that within the group he was nmning with, some of them would sell their mothers for far less than $2 million," Horan said in an interview.

The U.S. Embassy tightened se­cmity at its missions and residences throughout Pakistan following pro­tests in several Pakistani cities.

In the Punjab provincial capital of Lahore, 120 miles southeast of Islamabad, 50 Islamic activists dem­onstrated outside a mosque Monday demanding an official apology from Washington. On Sunday, hundreds of protesters burned aneffigyofPresi­dentClintonanda U.S. flag in Karachi.

P1ime Minister Nawaz Sharif, President Farooq Leghmi and other Pakistani officials have also con­demned Horan's remarks.

People protest out!:fide !he U.S co,:,sul~te fn Lahore, Monday condemning the remarks of a U.S. district attorney abou~ Paktstams. The Pakistan, pnme minister and president also condemned the remark during a court proceeding. AP

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Cigarette Smoke Contains Carbon Monoxide.

18-MARIANAS V ARlETY NEWS AND VIEWS-THURSDAY - AUGUST 7, 1997

Thursday TV TV SAIPAN LOG

5AM .

3 CBS Morning News (CC) 4 NBC News At Sunrise [30ml 5 Saipan Mabuhay (1 hi 7 World News This Morning i30m) 8 KRCA: KTAN News iMBC News Desk) (30ml

1 o World Headlines 19 Teysl Ng Tahanan 20 Mask 22 Music Videos - Variety 24 Bloomberg Morning News 25 Monkees- Comedy 26 Bloomberg lnrormation Television 29 Soul or VH1 - Rhythm and blues 30 31 34 35 48 50 55 56 S9 Paid Program 32 Smurfs 36 David the Gnome 39 Blessed Faustina 40 Flex Appeal 42 4:30AM to 7:30AM (Event no: 4443)

The Best or Mis~y Beach Babe Trackers

46 Classroom 47 CNBC Programming (th) 49 Petticoat Junction - Silcom 51 Shopping Channel 54 Rooms ror Improvement

5:01 18 MOVIE- Comedy II' The Day the Fish Came

Our 196i (2hl 5:30

3 Action News At 5:30 A.M. (30m) 4 Today In L.A. [30m) 7 Eyewitness News 130m) 8 KRCA: Paid Program

10 World Reporl 19 Philippines Tonight 20 Masked Rider (CC) 24 In the Pr/me - Lifestyle (CC) 25 Teacher to Teacher With Mr. Wizard 29 New Videos - Rock 30 31 34 35 48 50 55 56 59 Paid Program 32 Srnur/s 36 Madison's Adventures Growing Up Wild 39 Brighi and Good 40 Bodyshaping 49 Ed Sullivan - Variety 54 Help at Home

5:45 25 Teacher to Teacher With Mr. Wizard

· . . . 6AM .

2 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Fantasy 3 Action News A.M. (1h) 4 TodaylnL.A.(1h) 5 Saipan Mabuhay (1 hi 7 Eyewitness News (30ml 8 ICN: SBS Drama

10 World News 14 Mickey's Mouse Tracks ICC) 17 MAX: MOVIE 11( The Five Pennies 19 Sang Ling go Napo Sila 20 Reboot 22 Wake-Up Call - Rock 23 Drama: Wanted Perfect Mother 24 Sesame Street (CC) 25 Beetlejuice 26 Bloomberg lntormatlon Television 29 New Videos - Rock 30 31 34 35 55 59 Paid Program 32 Tom and Jerry Kids 36 Little Star 37 Evening at the lmprov 38 Wild Guide/Spirit 01 Adventure (30m) 39 Divine Mercy Chaplet 40 Crunch Fitness 46 History Showcase 47 CNBC Programming (1h) 48 World Class Cuisine 49 White Shadow - Drama 50 Collectibles Show· Collectibles 53 Club Dance· Dance 54 Carol Duvall 56 Fit TV Sampler 58 CMT Morning 60 Cable Karaoke (2h}

6:15 39 More Reflections

6:20 16 TMC: MOVIE II The Masque ol the Red Death

6:30 2 HBO: MOVIE I Leonard Pan 6 1987 3 CBS Morning News (CC) 4 NBC News at Sunrise (CC) 7 Eyewitness News (30m)

10 Insight 12 Saipan Cable News (Wednesday Ed111on) (30m) 14 Tale Spin (CC) 20 King Arlhur & the Knights of Juslice 25 Muppet Babies 31 34 35 59 Paid Program 32 Taz-Manla 36 Rory's Place 38 In Care Of Naufre/Wildllre Journley/Proflles or

Nalure (30m) 39 Rosary rnternational 40 Co-Ed Training 48 Graham Kerr 54 Simply Quilts 55 In Food Today- Heallh

6:45 15 30-Minute Movie- Drama 39 Precious Blood Litany

, .. 7AM

3 Action News A.M./Thls Morning (1h) 4 The Today Show ('l,a Salell,te Delay) (2h) 5 Salpan Mabuhay (Ill) 7 Good Morning America 12h)

10 World Business Today 12 AnimalsAtLarge(1r) 14 Donald's Quack Altack (CC) 19 Christy Permmute 20 Mask 22 Grind - Dance 24 Barney & Friends (CC) 25 Inspector Gadget 26 Sonic the Hedgehog (CC) 30 Golf Central (Repeal) (30m) 31 Everyday Workout 32 2 S1upid Dogs 34 59 Paid Program 35 Bionic Six 36 Pappyland 37 Classroom 38 Animals At Large 1, 1 hJ 39 Re11g1ous Catalogue 40 Perlecl Parts 45 Beavis And Sutt-head Do America 46 Real West 47 CNBCProgramming (11,1 48 Home Matters 49 St. Elsewhere - Drama 50 Batman· Fantasy (CC) 51 Shopping Channel 53 VldeoMorning - Music 54 Company ol Animals. Pets

55 Cooking Monday to Friday 58 Nonstop country

7:01 18 MOVIE-Drama (((Three Coins In the Fountain

7:30 8 ICN: Arabic News

14 Goel Troop (CC) 15 SHO: MOVIE((' A Walk With Love and Death 19 Valiente 20 Bobby's World IOC) 22 Summer Jams - Rap 24 Storytlme (CC) 25 Looney Tunes 26 Street Sharks (CC) 29 Crossroads - Variety 30 Golf Central (Repeat) (30m) 31 Dally Workout 32 Woody Woodpecker 34 59 Paid Program 35 Stingray 36 David the Gnome 39 St. Francis: Mirror 01 Christ 40 Bodyshaplng 42 7:30AM to 10:30AM (Event no.: 4444)

Pick Up Lines #2 Beavenman's House Party

44 Ransom (Event no.: 85891 50 Batman - Fantasy (CC) 54 Room by Room 55 Cher du Jour

7:45 23 Drama: Maglng Akin Ka Lamang 15

7:50 16 TMC: MOVIE (I The Baby-Sitters Club

. 8AM

2 HBO: MOVIE 111 The Truth About Cats and Dogs 1996

3 This Morning 11 h) 5 Saipan Mabuhay (I h) 8 ICN: Asia Business News

10 WorldVlew (CC) 11 News: Good Morning, Japan (30m) 12 Wild About Animals (30ml 14 Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (CC) 17 MAX: MOVIE (( The Power Within 19 Annaluna 20 Bobby's World (CC) 22 Popular Videos People Prerer. Variety 24 Lamb Chap's Play-Along (CC) 26 Mighty Max (CC) 29 Greatest Hits or Music Video - Rock 30 Goll Central (Repeat) (30m) 3t What Every Baby Knows (CC) 32 Bugs & Darty 34 Dr. Katz, Prolesslonal Therapist. Comedy 35 Transformers 36 Swamp Critters or Lost Lagoon 37 McMillan and Wire 38 Animals A-Z (1 h) 39 Image cl God 40 Golla Sweat 46 A.D. 47 CNBC Programming (I h) 48 Housesrnart! 49 Cannon - Crime Drama 50 Eight Is Enough - Drama 53 Dallas - Drama 54 Decorating With Style 55 Pick of the Day- Cooking 56 Father Dowling Mysteries (CC) 59 BRV: MOVIE ((( lndochine 1992 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

8:30 8 ICN: May Ngan News

11 Local News 115m) 12 Amazing Tails (30m) 14 Little Mermaid (CC) 19 Mara Clara 20 Masked Rider (CC) 24 Arthur (CC) 25 Rugrats (CC) 26 Sailor Moon 30 Golf central (Repeal) (30m) 31 Kids These Days (CC) 34 Daily Show 35 Inside Space . Science (CC) 36 Iris, the Happy Prolessor 39 Stories ol Fai1h 40 Flex Appeal 45 Michael Collins (Even! no: 6846) 54 Fix It Up! 55 Too Hot Tamales

8:45 11 Local News (30ml

8:55 14 Adventures of Spot

·.· ·.- . . 9AM·.-.. · ·. · .,·

3 The Guiding Light (1 h) 4 Leeza (lh) 5 Saipan Mabuhay (1 h) 7 Live! Wllh Regis And Kathie Lee (lh) 8 ICN: Arabic Programming

10 World News 12 ?etcetera (30m) 13 Gym Team 14 New Adventures or Winnie the Pooh 19 Mr. Cupldo 20 Fox Arter Breaklast ICC) 22 Music From Motel Calllornla - Variety 24 Barney & Friends (CC) 25 Little Bear 26 Facts of Life· Sitcom 29 RuPaul 31 Sisters - Drama (CC) 32 George of the Jungle 34 MOVIE· Comedy 11 The One and Only 36 Carlo Cooks Italian 38 WIid Guess (30m) 39 Martyrs: They Died ror Christ 47 CNBC Programming (lh) 48 Starl to Finish 49 Mister Ed· Sitcom 50 Collectibles Show - Collectibles 51 Shopping Channel 53 Aleene's CraHs 54 Hands On 55 Ready ... Se\ ... cook! 56 Waltons 58 Signature Serles

9:01 18 MOVIE-Adventure((' Lure of the WIiderness 35 Lost In Space - Science Fiction

9:15 . 11 Drama Serial: Futarlkko (15m) 15 SHO: MOVIE II All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

9:25 14 Disney Sharl 16 TMC: MOVIE: Honey Sweet Love

9:30 10 Moneyllne (CC) 11 Uews At 8:30 A.M. 15m) 12 Pet Connection (30m) 13 Asia Business News 11 h30m) 14 Katie and Orbie (CC) 19 Sineskwela (Replay) 24 Puzzle Place (CC) 25 Blue's Clues 26 Facts ot Life· Sitcom 29 Pop-Up Video. Rock

5:00AM-4:00PM

32 Tom and Jerry 36 Blba's Italian Kitchen 37 Banacek 38 In Care 01 Nature/WlldlUe Journeys/Prorlles

or Nature (30m) 39 Stories ol Hymns 44 Halloween (Event no.: 85901 48 Interior Motives 49 Petticoat Junction - Sitcom 54 House Doctor

9:35 11 Have A Good Day! (55m)

9:45 2 HBO: MOVIE (( Spies Like Us 1985

17 MAX: MOVIE(((' True Grit 1969

. . 10AM

3 The Price Is Right 11 h) 4 In Person With Maureen O'Boyle (I hi 5 Sal pan Mabuhay (1 hi 7 Caryl And Marilyn: Real Friends (1h) 8 ICN: SBS News Magazlne

10 World News 12 Jim Hensen's Animal Show (30m) 14 Mickey's Mouse Tracks (CC) 19 At & P !Replay) 20 Gordon Elliott 22 Beach MTV· Variety 23 Drama: Reputasyon 18 24 Sesame Street (CC) 25 Busy World of Richard Scarry (CC) 26 Major Dad - Sitcom (CC) 29 New Videos - Rock 31 Handmade by Design 32 New Scooby Doo Movies 35 Voyage to the Bottom or lhe Sea 36 Homeworks 38 Paid Program (30m) 39 Our Lady of the Angels Monastery Dally Mass 46 High Points In History 47 CNBC Programming (I h) 48 Home Mailers 49 That Girl - Sitcom 50 Vega$ 53 Wlrdhorse Saloon 54 Gardening by the Yard 55 Mollo Mario 56 700 Club 58 Big Ticket 60 Cable Karaoke (2hl

10:15 10 American Edition

10:30 10 Q &A 11 News: Good Morning, Japan (30m) 12 Madison's Adventures (30ml 14 Adventures In Wonderland (CC) 19 Ang TV 25 Muppet Babies 26 Major Dad - Sitcom (CC) 31 Frugal Gounmet 36 Lynelle Jennings Horne 38 Odd Couple (30m) 42 10:30AM to 1:30PM (Event no.: 4445)

The Happy omce Dr. Freckle & Mr. JJve

45 Big Night (Event no.: 6847) 46 High Points In History 49 Ed Sullivan - Variety 54 Victory Garden 55 Julia Child

10:45 15 SHO: MOVIE (II The Second Time Around

·. 11 AM ·

3 Beverly HIiibiiiies (30ml 4 Channel Four News: Mid-Day Report (30m) 5 Salpan Mabuhay (1 h) 7 The City (30m) 8 ICN: Asia Business News

10 Larry King Live (CC) 11 News At 10 A.M. (Sm) 12 Acorn The Nut (30m) 13 World Of Animation (Pan I) 14 Gumm! Bears (CC) 16 TMC: MOVIE II' Heanburn 1986 19 Hoy Gislng (Replay) 20 Paid Program 22 Music From Motel Calilornla - Variety 24 Storytime (CC) 25 Allegra's Window 25 Wings - Sitcom (CC) 29 Greatest Hits or Music Video - Rock 31 Our Horne 32 Centurions 34 Saturday Nigh! Live - Variety (CC) 35 Dark Shadows· Horror 36 Dream Living 37 Mike Hammer 38 Paid Program (30ml 39 Lire on the Rock 46 Air Combat 47 CNBC Programming (lh) 48 Housesmarl! 49 Addams Family - Sitcom 50 Harl to Hart -Advenlure 51 Shopping Channel 53 Club Dance - Dance 54 Carol Duvall 55 Dining Around 58 Nonstop Country 59 BRV: MOVIE II( Our Man In Havana

11:01 18 MOVIE- Drama II' A Walk With Love and

Death 1969 (2h) 11:05

11 Cooking For Today (25ml 11:25

14 Curious George 11:30

2 Real Sporls (Repeal) (CC) (1 hJ 3 Andy Grltlllh (30ml 4 NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw 7 Eyewitness News (30mJ 8 ICN: SportsRAP (Mandarin) (30m)

11 Fun And Fashionable Home Handicrafts (25m) 12 Jim Hensen's Animal Show (30ml 13 Sine Skwela 14 Madeline (CC) 20 Judge Judy- Reality (CC) 24 Shining Time Station (CC) 25 Gullah Gullah Island 26 Wings· Sitcom (CC) 32 Pirates of Dark Water 35 Dark Shadows - Horror 36 Greal Counlry Inns 38 Marlin (30ml 44 Kounterfelt (Even! no: 85911 49 Hogan's Heroes - Sitcom 54 Simply Quilts 55 Too Hot Tamales 56Flt TV Sampler

11:55 11 World Music Album 15m) 14 Paddington Bear

NOON

Action News At Noon (30ml Another World (1 h) Salpan Mabuhay (1 hi

7 All My Children. Serial (1h) 8 JCN: Taiwan News (Mandarin) 130ml

10 War Id News 11 News At 11 A.M. (5ml 12 Salpan Cable News (Repeal) (30ml 13 A.T.B.P. (At Iba Pa) 14 Little Mermaid (CC) 17 MAX: MOVIE (( Mr.Sardonlcus 1961 (1h29m) 19 Home Along Da RIies 20 Judge Judy - Reality (CC) 22 Plnffeld Sulle, Rock 23 Drama: Akin Ang Pangarap 18 24 Puzzle Place (CC) 25 Little Bear 26 MOVIE- Fantasy (I Heanbreak Hole! 1988 (2h) 30 Gair Academy Live (Repeat) (1 hi 31 Marlha Stewart Living (CC) 32 SWAT Kats: The Radlcal Squadron 34 Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Comedy 35 Ripley's Believe It or Not 36 Wedding Story 37 Quincy 38 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 h) 39 Psalms In the LIie or David 46 Real West 47 CNBC Programming ( 1 hi 48 Interior Motives 49 Green Acres - Sitcom 50 Trapper John, M.D. 53 Aleene's Cralts 54 Decorating With Style 55 Taste 56 Rescue 911 (CC) 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

12:05 11 Japan's Famous Mountains (10m)

12:15 11 All Around Japan (15ml

12:25 14 Curious George

12:30 HBO: MOVIE (II Soul ol the Game

3 The Bold And The Beautllul (30ml 8 ICN: Fujlsankel News

10 Showbiz Today. Entertainment News 11 Health For Today (15m) 12 Amazing Tails (30m) 13 Ang Alamat NI Snow White 14 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 15 SHO: MOVIE ((( Master or the World 20 Paid Program 22 Music From Motel CalUornla • Variety 24 Mister Rogers (CC) 25 Blue's Clues 31 Main Ingredient 32 Super F"rlends 34 Tracey Ullman· Comedy 36 Wedding Story 39 Rosary In the Holy Land 45 101 Dalmatians (Even\ no. 6848) 48 Start to Finish 49 Phil Slivers 54 Room by Room 55 Essence al Emerll

12:45 11 Japanese Little Museums (I Om) 39 Faith Matters

12:50 16 TMC: MOVIE((' Almost You 1984

12:55 11 Weather Report (Sm) 14 Disney Sharl

· 1 PM ·

3 As The World Turns (1 h) 4 Days DI Our Lives (1h) 5 Saipan Mabuhay (1 hi 7 One Lire To Live - Serial (I h)

10 World News 11 News At Noon (20m) 12 Human Nature (1 hi 13 Teyslng Tahanan 14 Ducktales (CC) 20 Baywatch-Adventure (CC) 24 Reading Rainbow (CC) 25 Rupert 30 Goll Central (Repeat) (30m) 31 Supermarket Sweep 32 Thundercats 34 Daily Show 36 Gardening Naturally 37 Law & Order (CC) 38 Odd Couple (30ml 39 Dana: 25 Years of All Kinds of Everything (I h) 40 1996 Auto Racing Thrills and Spills 44 Ransom (Even! no 8592) 46 A.D. 47 CNBC Programming (1 h) 48 Great Chels -- Great Cities 49 Gunsmoke - Western 50 Picket Fences· Drama (CC) 51 Shopping Channel 53 Dallas - Orama 54 Rooms for Improvement 55 Mollo Marlo 56 Home & Family 59 Secret - Drama

1:01 · 18 MOVIE· Musical ((' Can-Can 1960 (2h30m)

35 Mysteries, Magic & Miracles - Investigative 1:20

11 Japan At Noon (25m) 1:25

14 Disney Short 1:30

3 Bold and the Bcautllul (CC) 8 ICN: Hum Paanch Zee TV

10 World Repon 14 Donald's Quack Attack (CC) 17 MAX: MOVIE ( A Fine Mess 1986 19 Maalaala Mo Kaya 24 Magic School Bus (CCI 25 Papa Beaver Stories 29 Pop-,Up Video - Rock 30 Paid Program 31 Debt 32 Super Adventures 34 Dr. Katz, Proresslonal Therapist 35 Monsters, Horror 36 Homellme 38 Blossom (30ml 42 1 :30PM to 4:30PM (Event no.: 4446)

Crystal Blue Persuasion Czech Mate

48 Great Chefs ol the South 54 Help at Home 55 Ready ... Set ... Cook! 59 BRV: MOVIE II Bobby Deertleld

1:45 11 Drama Serial: Futarikko (15m) 32 Voltron: Dclender of the Universe

3 The Gordon Elliott Show (1 hi 4 Sunset Beach ( 1 h) 5 SalpanMabuhay (lhl 7 General Hospital - Serial ( 1 h) 8 ICN: Clnemaglc Zee TV

10 World News 11 With Mother (25m) 12 Zoo Venture (30ml

Saipan Cable TV

13 Sang Llnggo Napa Slla (1 h30ml 14 DIS~: MOIIJE ((( Snoopy, Come Horne 20 Computer Man , Computers 23 Drama: Ang Tang! Kong Paglblg (BIW) 24 Merrow Report -l'ubllc Atralr (CC) 25 Tiny Toon Adventures 26 MOVIE - Fantasy(' Hello Again 1987 (2h) 29 Top 10 Video countdown· Rock 31 MOVIE - Drama II Beverly HIiis Madam 34 Soap - Sitcom (CC) 35 Night Gallery - Science Fiction 36 Homebodies 37 McMIiian and wire 38 Dinosaurs (30m) 39 Spirit of John Paul II 47 CNBC Programming (I hi 48 Travelers 49 Cannon. Crime Drama 50 Ure Goes On· Drama (CC) 52 Sarlmanok Network News (Live) (1 h) 53 WIidhorse Saloon 54 Gardener's Journal 55 Grlllln' & Chlllln' 58 Nonstop Country 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

2:15 2 Conspiracy Theory: First Look (Repeal) (CC)

15 SHO: MOVIE I(' Brother Sun, Sister Moon 32 Super Advenlures

2:25 11 I Can Dolt Myself! (15ml

2:30 2 HBO: MOVIE (( Chain Reaction 8 ICN: Andaz Zee TV

10 Insight 12 Buck Staghorn's Animal Bites (30m) 16 TMC: MOVIE [((Ona Clear Day You Can See

Forever 1970 (G·2h9m) 19 Midday Reporl (Live) 20 Paid Program 25 Looney Tunes 32 Real Adventures of Jonny Quest 34 Make Me Laugh 35 Beyond Reallly- Horror 36 Home Pro 38 Bananas In Pajamas (30m) 39 Choices We Face 40 ESPNews (Repeal) (30ml 45 The Mirror Has Two Faces (Event no.: 6849) 54 Gardening by the Yard 55 In Food Today- Health

2:40 11 Children's English Lesson: Fun With English

2:55 11 Lei's Meet The Animals! (Sm)

3PM ·

3 Hard Copy (30ml 4 The Rosie O'Donnell Show(1h) 5 Salpan Ma bu hay ( t hi 7 Oprah Winfrey (1 hi· 8 ICN: ATV Drama

1 o World News 11 News (5ml 12 Petcetera (30ml 17 MAX: MOVIE((' The Indian In the Cupboard 19 Oh No! It's Johnny! 20 Adventures orsatman and Robin 24 Newshour With Jim Lehrer (CC) 25 Nick In the Afternoon 29 MOVIE - Musical ((( Grease 1978 (2h30m) 30 GoU Talk (Repeat) (1 hi 32 super Friends 34 Saturday Night Live - Variety (CC) 35 Incredible Hulk - Adventure 36 Furniture to Go 38 Darkwlng Duck (30ml 39 Our Lady or the Angels Monastery Dally Mass 44 Kounterfelt (Even\ no.: 85931 46 High Points In History 47 CNEC Programming (lh) 48 Movie Magic 49 White Shadow 50 Pet Department • Pets (CC) 51 Shopping Channel 52 Kang Klnsa lsabwabg Ang Mga Eulak (30m} 53 Du~es of Hauard · Adventure 54 Victory Garden 55 Recipe ror Health - Cooking 56 New Shop 'TII You Drop

3:05 11 German Conversation (20ml

3:25 11 Weather Reporl (5ml

3:30 3 Real Stories Of The Highway Patrol (30m) 8 ICN: lnlernalional Repon News

10 Moneyllne (CC) 12 Pet Connection (30ml 13 Christy Permlnute 14 Charlie Brown and Snoopy ICC) 20 Eek!stravaganza (CC) 22 Music From Motel Calllornla - Variety 32 Scooby Doo 36 Renovation Guide 37 Banacek 3B Gargoyles (30ml 40 Auto Racing (Taped) (30m) 46 High Polnls In History 48 Beyond 2000 50 FXMD- Heallh 52 Maayon~ Buntag Sugbu (I hi 54 Fix It Up. 55 Julia Child 56 Shopping Spree

3:31 18 MOVIE - Comedy 1(1 The Magnificent Dope

·· · . 4PM

3 Geraldo I I h) 4 Channel Four News (1 h) 5 Salpan Mabuhay (1h) 7 Eyewllness News (1111 8 ICN: CCTV Drama

10 World News 12 WIid About Animals (30ml 13 Mara Clara 14 Tale Spin (CC) 19 Sang LlnggoNapo Slla (Replay) 20 Stlckln' Around (CC) 22 Summer Jams • Rap 23 Concerl: Rachel Reveals 24 Wishbone ICC) 26 Big Date 30 Goll Talk (Repeal) (1 h) 31 Commlsh - Crime Drama (CC) 32 Freakazoid! 34 MOVIE - Comedy II The One and Only 35 Land ol the Giants 36 Hometlme 38 Aladdin (30ml 39 World Over: Catholic News 46 Air Combat 47 CNBC Programming (lh) 48 Sea Wings 49 St. Elsewhere . Dre'1'a 50 A-Tc""', Adventure (.:..C) a3 Dukes cl Hazzard - Adventure 54 House Doclor 55 Cooking Live 56 Animal Adventures

Saipan Cable TV

59 South Bank Show - Prorlle 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

4:15 2 Making or Chain Reaction (Repeat) (CC)

15 SHO: MOVIE ((( Tap 1989 4:30

. 2 HBO: MOVIE: In the Line or Duty: Mob Justice 12 Amazing Tails i30m) ' 13 AngTV 14 Ducktales ICC) 20 Round the Twist (CC) 24 Where In Time Is Carmen Sandlego? 26 Big Date 32 Bugs & Dairy 36 Hometlme 38 Quack Pack (30ml 40 Cycling: Tour De France (30m) 42 4:30PM to 7:30PM ( Event no. 4447)

· ,he Best or Missy Beach Babe Trackers

44 Party Incorporated (Event no.: 85941 52 Slya Ug Ako Sa Kangltnglt (30m) 54 Hands On 56 Animal Adventures

4:40 16 TMC: MOVIE(((' Burnt by the Sun 1994

(Repeal) (2h14m) 17 MAX: MOVIE 111 Roxanne 1987

5PM

3 Action News At 5:00 (30ml 4 Dateline NBC (Via Satellite Delay) (1 h) 5 Sal pan Mabuhay ( 1 h) 7 Eyewitness News (I hi 8 ICN: World Report News

10 World News 12 Zoo Venture (30ml 13 Sarl-Sarlng Sine: Babe, lkaw Ba Y Maka

Salanan (2h) 14 Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (CC) 19 P&A 20 Saved by the Bell - Silcom (CC) 22 Grind. Dance 24 Kratts' Creatures (CC) 25 Are You Afraid or the Dark? (CC) 26 Wings- Sitcom (CC) 30 Paid Program 31 Golden Girls - Sitcom (CC) 32 Cow and Chicken 35 Six MIiiion Dollar Man- Science Fiction 36 Medical Detectives 37 Mike Hammer 38 Hang In' With Mr. cooper (30m) 39 Mother Angelica Live 40 World's Strongest Man Competition (Repeat) 45 Star Trek: First contact (Event no.: 68501 46 Bloody Dodge Cily (Repeat) (1 hi 47 CNBC Programming (1 h) 48 Wild Discovery 49 Hill Street Blues - Crime Drama (CC) 50 Fall Guy- Adventure 51 Shopping Channel 52 Maayong 1luntag Mindanao ( 1 hi 53 Yesterday & Today- Country 54 Gardening by the Yard 55 Ready ... Set... Cook! 56 Highway to Heaven (CC) 58 Big Ticket 59 BRV: MOVIE ((( Sirens 1994

5:01 18 MOVIE- Biography 1111 Pallan 1970 (21150m)

5:30 3 CBS Evening News With Dan Rather (30m) 8 ICN: The Phlllplnes Tonl~ht

10 Showbiz Today- Entenarnment News 12 Buck Staghorn (30m) 14 Goar Troop (CC) 20 Calllornla Dreams - Sitcom 22 Pinlield Suite - Rock 24 Graham Kerr's Swirtly Seasoned 25 Rocko's Modern ure (CC) 26 Wings - Sitcom (CC) 29 MOVIE - Comedy Ill( The Graduate 1967 30 Paid Program 31 Golden Girls- Sitcom (CCI 32 Flintstones (CC) 36 Trauma: Lile and Death in the ER 38 Full House (30m) 54 Buy Srnan - Consumer 55 Dining Around

3 Hard Copy (20ml 4 Channel Four News (30m} 5 Saipan Mabuhay I 111) 7 Eyewitness News 130ml 8 ICN: Mara Clara

10 World News 12 Saipan Cable News (Live) (30m) 14 Flash Forward · Sitcom (CC) 20 Beverly Hills, 90210 - Drama (CC) 22 Music From Motel Calirornia - Variety 23 Comedy: Dunkin Donato 15 24 Nightly Business Rcpon (CC) 25 Clarissa Explains It All - Sitcom (CC) 26 Renegade· Adventure (CC) 31 Supermarket Sweep 32 Jetsons 34 Tick (CC) 35 Twilight Zone - Fantasy (CC) 36 Alien Secrets: Area 51 {Pan 2 ol 2) 11111 37 Quincy 38 The Simpsons (30ml 39 Gospel According to Luke (Repeal) (1 h) 40 World's Strongest Man Competition 1995 44 Halloween (Event no.: 8595) 46 Civil War Journal 47 CNBC Programming (1 h) 48 Mysterious Universe 49 Hogan's.Heroes· Sitcom 50 Han 10 Harl - Adventure 52 Milyonaryong Mini 130m) 53 Prime Time Country - Varlery (CC) 54 Furniture 55 Emeril Live - Cookln~ 56 Carol Burnell and Friends 58 Signature Series 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

6:05 15 Good Burger: On the Job With Kenan and Kel

- Comedy 6:15

HBO: MOVIE Ill The Truth About Cats and Dogs t 996

6:30 3 Entertainment Tonight (30ml 4 NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw (30m) 7 ABC's World News Tonight 130ml 8 ICN: May Ngan News

1 O Newsroom (CC) 12 Wild Guide (30ml 14 Torkelsons. Sitcom (CC) 15 SHO: MOVIE 11 All Dogs Go lo Heaven 2 17 MAX: MOVIE II Carpool 1996 24 Newshour With Jim Lehrer (CC) 25 Tiny Toon Adventures 31 Debt 32 Eugs & Dally 34 Make Me Laugh 35 Tales From the Darks1de - Harrer 38 Mad About You (30m)

40 Women's Professional Fas\ Pitch Sortball 48 Movie Magic 49 Petticoat Junction- Sitcom 52 Hoy Glslng! Cebu (Live) (30ml 54 Home & Garden Almanac 56 carol Burnett and Friends

3 Diagnosis Murder ( 1 hi 4 Extra! (30m) 5 Salpan Mabuhay (1 hi 7 Jeopardy! (30m) 8 ICN: Vietnamese Drama

10 World News 11 News At 6 P.M. (5m) 12 Human Nature (1 hi 13 Hoy Glslng 14 DISN: MOVIE((' Benji the Hunted 1987 16 TMC: MOVIE ((( Thunderheart 1992 (Repeal) 19 Hoy Gislng (Live) 20 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol • Reality 22 Oddvllle, MTV 25 Doug (CC) 26 Highlander: The Serles- Fantasy (CC) 31 lntlmate Porlralt • Profile (CC) 32 Tom and Jerry 34 Dally Show 35 Making of Contact (30m) 36 Solar Empire - Science 37 Law & Order· Crime Drama (CC) 38 Rainbow Wahlne Sortball (2h) 39 Religious catalogue 45 Beavis And Butt-head Do America 46 Automobiles - History 47 CNBC Programming (1 h) 48 Wings, History 49 That Girl - Sitcom 50 21 Jump Street. Crlme Drama (CC) 51 Shopping Channel 52 TV Patrol Cebu [Live) (I hi 53 Marty Party (Repeat) (1h) 54 Working Fron, Home· Careers 55 Motto Marlo 56 Wattons - Drama 58 Nonstop Country 59 Cold Lazarus • Science Fiction

7:05 11 Local Reporls (25rn)

7:30 4 Access Hollywood (30ml 7 Wheel Of Forlune (30ml 8 ICN: Ral News

10 World Report 11 Whiz-Kids TV (25ml 20 Access Hollywood - Entertainment News (CC) 22 Singled Out 24 ure and Times (CC) 25 Rugrats (CC) 32 Scooby Doo Where Are You? 34 Win Ben Stein's Money 35 Sci-Fl Buu - Entertainment News 39 Blessed Faustina 42 7:30PM to 10:30PM (Event no. 4448)

Pick Up Lines #2 Beaverman's House Party

49 Mister Ed - Sitcom 54 That's Home Entertainment 55 Grlllln' & Chlllln'

7:51 18 MOVIE- Musical((' Love Me Tend~r 1956

7:55 11 Weather Report (5m)

8PM .

2 Real SpDr1s (Repeal) (CC) (1 hi 3 Moloney 11 hi 4 Friends (30m) 5 Salpan Mabuhay (lh) 7 High Incident (1h) 8 ICN: Jaam E. Jam

10 World News 11 Evening News At 7 P.M. 12 Animal A-Z ( 1 h) 13 TV Patrol (Live) 15 SHO: MOVIE ((( The American President 17 MAX: MOVIE(' Polson Ivy II: LIiy 19 TV Patrol (Live) 20 Martin • Sitcom (CC) 22 Music From Mole! Calirornia - Variety 23 Drama: Palabra De Honor 18 24 America's Scenic Rail Journeys - Travel 25 Secret World of Alex Mack (CC) 26 Murder, She Wrote - Mystery (CC) 29 RuPaul 30 European PGA Goll (211) 31 Unsolved Mysteries - Realily 32 Speed Racer 34 Sin bad: Brain Damaged (Repeat) ( I h) 36 Medical Detectives - Science 37 Biography - Prolile 39 Via Dolarosa 44 American Stripper On Tour: Las Vegas 46 Year by Year - History 47 CNBC Programming (1h) 48 WIid Discovery • Nature 49 Addams Family - Sitcom 50 A-Team - Adventure (CC) 52 Hoy Gislng! Davao (30ml 53 Dallas - Drama 54 Gardening by the Yard 55 Ready ... Set... Cook! 56 Rescue 911 - Reality (CC) 60 Cable Karaoke (2hl

8:01 35 Seaquest DSV - Science Fiction (CC)

8:05 59 BRV: MOVIE II( Anna 1987

8:30 4 The Single Guy

10 American Edl\lon 20 Living Single· Sitcom (CC) 25 I Love Lucy· Sitcom (CC) 29 MOVIE - Musical I(( Grease 1978 (2h30m) 32 Real Adventures of Jonny Quest 36 Trauma: Life and Death In the ER - Reality 45 Michael Collins (Event no.: 6852) 49 Green Acres - Sitcom 52 TV Patrol Davao 54 Buy Sman - Consumer 55 Dining Around

8:35 14 DISN: MOVIE Ill While Fang 2: Myth of the

White Woll I 994 (CC) 8:40

11 Shon Drama Serials: ltsuka Mita Sora (20m) 8:45

10 Q & A

HBO: MOVIE: Perfect Target 1997 48 Hours Selnrleld

5 Saipan Mabuhay (I hi 7. Movie (2h) 8 JCN: English Program

10 World News Asia 11 Comedy: Here's Edo (45m) 12 Salpan Cable News (Repeal) (30ml 13 Home Along Da RIies (1 h30rn) 16 TMC: MOVIE (I(' The Usual Suspects

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND YIEWS-19

5:00PM-4:30AM

19 TFC Forum 20 New York Undercover- Crime Drama 22 Beach MTV - Variety 24 Mystery! - Mystery (CC) 25 I Love Lucy - Si\com (CC) 26 MOVIE· Adventure I(" Shootto Kiil 19BB (2hl 56 Hawaii Flve-0. Crime Drama 31 MOVIE -Drama: Dancing In the Dark 1995 32 Cow and Chicken 34 Pee-wee Herman (Repeat)l1 h) 36 Allen Secrets: Area 51 (Repeat) (Part 2 ol 21 37 Touch or Frost -Mystery 38 News At Nine (30ml 39 Book or Genesis 40 World's Strongest Man Compelltlon 1995 44 The New Video Vixens 7 (Event no.: 8597) 46 Bloody Dodge City (Repeal) (1 h) 47 CNBC Programming (lhl 48 Mysterious Universe - Reality 49 Sonny and Cher - Variety 50 Miami Vice. Crime Drama (CC) 51 Shopping Channel 53 Dukes or Hazzard· Adventure 54 Furniture 55 Essence or Emerll

9:01 35 MOVIE· Horror((' Alligator 1980 (1h5gm)

9:18 18 MOVIE - Drama ((( Three Coins In the Fountain

9:30 4 The Naked Truth 8 ICN: English Program

12 Guam Cable News (Wednesday Edilian) (1 h) 25 I Love Lucy- Sitcom (CC) 32 Flintstones (CC) 38 Cops (30ml 39 Cree En La Santa Iglesia Catollca 48 Movie Magic - Science 49 Sonny and Cher - Variety 52 TV Patrol Zamboanga (1 h) 54 Home & Garden Almanac 55 Taste

9:45 11 TokyoNews(15m)

. 10PM ·

3 The Young And The Restless 4 ER • Drama (CC) 5 Salpan Mabuhay (lh) 8 KRCA: Super Music (30m)

10 world News Asia 11 NHK News At 9 P.M. 15 SHO: MOVIE ((( The Birdcage 17 MAX: MOVIE(' Freeway 1996 19 Stock Market 20 Two - Drama (CC) 22 Shaq Session (30ml 23 Drama: Sana'Y Mahalln Mo Rln Ako 15 24 Era ol the Deal (1 h) 25 I Love Lucy· Sitcom (CC) 30 Golf Academy Live (Repeat) (1h) 32 Jetsons 34 Viva Variety - Comedy 36 Solar Empire- Science 38 Mad About You (30m) 39 Divine Mercy Chaplet 40 Auto Racing (Repeat) (1 h30m) 44 Ransom (Event no.: 8598) 46 Civil War Journal - Hislory 47 CNBC Programming (I h) 48 Wings - History 49 Hogan's Heroes - Sitcom 50 In Living Color. Variety 52 TV Patrol Cagayan De Oro (45m) 53 Prime Time Country - Variety (CC) 54 Working From Home - Careers 55 Too Hot Tamales 56700 Club 58 Nonstop Country 59 Cold Lazarus - Science Fiction 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

10:15 39 More Rellectlons

10:25 14 DISN: MOVIE (( The Ugly Dachshund

10:30 2 Arllss- Sitcom (CC) 8 KRCA: ACTV Children's Program

10 Business Asia 11 Toda,'s Closeup (30m) 12 The Jeff Evans Show 13 Maalaala Mo Kaya (1 h30rnl 22 To Be Announced 25 I Love Lucy· Sitcom ICC) 32 Bugs & Dally 34 John Mendoza: Over Easy i30m) 38 Extra! (30m) 39 Rosary in the Holy Land 42 10:30PM to 1:30AM (Even! no.: 44,19)

The Happy Olfice Dr. Freckle & Mr. Jive

45 The People vs. Larry Flynt (Event ~o: 6853) 49 Phil Slivers 50 In Living Color. Variety 54 That's Home Entenainment 55 Grlllln' & Chlllln'

10:45 39 Loretto Litany

10:50 16 TMC: MOVIE (( Lord cl Illusions

1-1 PM·

2 To Love or KIii: Man vs. Animal (1h5m) 3 Action News Nlghtcast (35m) 4 Channel Four News (35m) 5 Salpan Mabuhay (1h) 7 Eyewitness News (35ml 8 KRCA: Paid Program

10 World Headlines 11 To Be Announced (30ml 20 Cops - Reality (CC) 22 Oddvllle, MTV 24 Charlie Rose . 25 I Love Lucy. Sitcom (CC) 26 SIik Stalkings - Crime Drama (CC) 29 Top 10 Video Countdown- Rock 30 Goll Central (Repeat) (30111) 31 Homicide: Lile on the Street· Crime Drama 32 Tom and Jerry 34 Dally Show 35 Making al Contact (Repeal) (30m) 36 Hometlme 37 Law & Order (CC) 38 Paid Program (30m) 39 Our Lady ol the Angels Monastery Dally Mass 46 Automobiles 47 CNBC Programming (I h) 48 Movie Maglc 49 Mannix - Crime Drama 50 Picket Fences. Drama (CC) 51 Shopping Channel 53 Marty Parly (Repeal) (59m) 54 Victory Garden 55 Emeril Live. Cooking 56 Three Stooges

11:01 1B MOVIE -Adventure((' Lure or the WIiderness

11:05 59 BRV: MOVIE ((( Sirens

11:15 52 Tunog 'n Tunawln [fNT) (15m)

11:30 8 KRCA: Paid Program

10 World Headlines 11 Discover Asia 125m) 12 Pet connection (30m) 20 Real Stories or the Highway Patrol - Reamy 22 Lovellne 25 Newhart. Sitcom (CC) 32 Scooby Doo Where Are You? • 34 Win Ben Stein's Money 35 Sci-Fl Buzz· Entertainment News 36 Hometlme 38 Paid Program 130m) 40 RPM 2Nlght (Repeat) (30m) 48 Beyond 2000 52 Sarlmanok Network News (1 h) 54 Gardener's Journal

11:35 3 The Late Show With David Letlerman (I hi 4 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 7 Nlghtllne (30m)

11:45 17 MAX: MOVIE ((I Patriot Games 1992 (Repeal)

( 1 h56m) (CC) 11:55

11 Weather (5ml

. MIDNIGHT .

5 Salpan Mabuhay (1 h) 8 KRCA: Llt\le Saigon TV News

10 World News 11 NHK News At 11 P.M. (35m) 12 Salpan Cable News (Repeal! (30m) 13 The World Tonight 14 DJSN: MOVIE((" White Wolves II: Legend ol

the WIid 1995 15 On the Set· Entertainment 19 Slack Markel 20 Strange Universe - Reality 23 comedy: Neber 2 Geder 18 24 Lire and Times (CC) 25 Odd Couple - Sitcom (CC) 26 Renegade, Adventure (CC) 29 Crossroads - Variety 30 Gou Talk (Repeal) (t hi 31 Unsolved Mysteries - Reality 32 Rocky & Bullwinkle · 34 Dream On , Comedy 36 48 54 Paid Program 37 Biography 38 Jerry Springer( 1 h) 39 Best or Motlier Angelica Live 40 Auto Racing (Repeat) (30m) 44 Hot Date Ill (Even! no.: 8599) 46 Year by Year 47 CNBC Programming (lh) 49 Addams Family - Sitcom 50 Miami Vice - Crime Drama (CC) 55 Chef du Jour 56 Carson's Comedy Classics 58 Nonstop Country 59 BRV: MOVIE 1(1 Sirens 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

12:01 35 Seaquest DSV - Science Fiction (CC)

12:05 HBO: MOVIE (( Chain Reaction Politically Incorrect (30m)

12:25 15 SHO: MOVIE: North Shore Fish 1997

12:30 8 KRCA: LIiiie Saigon TV News

10 World Sport (Repeat) 130ml 12 Petcetera (30m) 13 Asslgnment(1h) 20 36 48 54 Paid Program 22 Adult Videos - Rock 24 Impressions or CalUornla 25 Taxi - Sitcom (CC) 29 Insomniac Music Theater- Rock 32 George or the Jungle 34 Saturday Night Live • Variety (CC) 40 Women's Professional Fast Pitch Sortball 49 Green Acres - Sitcom 52 The Morning Show (lh) 55 Too Hot Tamales 56 Carson's Comedy Classics

12:35 3 The Late, Late ShowWilh Tom Snyder (lh] 4 Late Night With Conan O'Brien (1 h) 7 Late Report News Repeat (30m)

11 ComrnenJary 11 Om) 12:45

11 Modern Masters (I Sm) 12:55

16 TMC: MOVIE(' Shopping 1994

5 Salpan Mabuhay (1h) 8 KRCA: Prime News

10 WorldNews 11 Mini Pro~rarn (10m) 12 Madison s Adventure (30m) 20 Gordon Elliott 22 M2 24 Classic Arts Showcase 25 Mary Tyler Moore - Sllcom (CC) 26 Magnum, P.I. - Crime Drama ICC) 30 Goll Talk (Repeal) 11 hi 31 Sisters - Drama (CC) 32 Speed Racer 36 48 54 56 Paid Program 37 Touch or Frost 38 Sararl (1h) 39 Feminism & Femlnlnlly: A Catholic Perspec-

tive 44 In Search or A 10: The Clubs (Event no.: 8600) 45 Star Trek: First Contact (Event no.: 6854) 46 Civil War Journal 47 CNBC Programming Ith) 49 Sonny ancf Cher - Variety 50 In Living Color - Variety 51 Shopping Channel 55 In Food Today- Heallh 58 Nonstop Country 59 South Bank Show - Pro/lie

1:01 18 MOVIE-Drama((' A Walk With Love and

Death 1969 (2hl 35 MOVIE-Horror((' Alligator 1980(1h59m)

1:10 7 Movie (2h)

11 NHK Business Line 1:30

8 KRCA: Spring Breeze Knows Own Way 10 Business Asia 11 NHK News Japan Update 12 Acorn The Nut (30m) 13 Clnemaglca: The Day The Loving Stopped 14 DISN: MOVIE((' The Wolves or WIiioughby

Chase 1989 19 Prlmetlme News 25 Dick Van Dyke. Sllcom 32 Real Adventures ol Jonny Quest 34 Dally Show 36 48 54 56 Paid Program 39 Miracles of \he Eucharist 42 1:30AM to 4:30AM (Event no.: 4450)

Beach Babe Bonanza Fire In The-Hole

49 Sonny and Cher - Variety

Thursday TV 50 In Living Color· Variety 52 Hoy Glslng! Bacolod (30m) 55 Ready ... Set... Cook!

1:35 3 Action News Nlghtcast (30m) 4 La\er (30m)

1:50 17 MAX: MOVIE I Married People, Single Sex II:

For Belter or Worse 1994 1:55

2 Hookers at the Point: Going Out Again 11 Weather Report (Sm)

. 2AM

3 CBS Up to the MlnuJe 5 Sal pan Ma bu hay (1 h) 6 Gymnastics (Repeal) (Joined in Progress) 124h)

10 World News 12 In Care or Nature i30m) 15 SHO: MOVIE (( Money ror Nothing 19 Senate At Work 20 Judge Judy , Reality (CC) 22 Muslc Videos- Variety 23 Drama: Babangon Ako'T Dudurigln Kita 25 Bob Newhart - Sitcom 26 MOVIE- Fantasy(' Hello Again 1987 (2h) 30 Gou Talk (Repea1)(1 h) 31 Designing Women- Sitcom (CC) 32 Bugs & Datry 34 Slnbad: Brain Damaged (1 h) 36 48 50 54 55 Paid Program 38 Human Nature (1 h) 39 Religious Calalogue 44 Kounterfelt (Even! no.: 8601) 46 Automobiles 47 CNBC Programming (1h) 49 Hogan's Heroes - Sitcom 56 700 Club 59 South Bank Show - Prorile 60 Cable Karaoke (2h)

2:05 3 The Gordon Elliott Show ( 1 h) 4 Channel Four News (30m)

2:25 16 TMC: MOVIE ( Cracking Up 1977

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GUAM ... Continued from page f not catch fire because the break came away from the crash site, and the flow of fuel from the Naval Station Guam to Anderson Air Force Ba.e was stopped immediately by automatic shutoff valves.

Some witnesses reported hearing an explosion before the jet went down, s:lid Ginger Cruz, a spokeswoman for Guam· s governor~ Carl T.C. Gutierrez.

We the family of the late

Gutierrez was among the first on the scene and pulled crying survivors from the burning wreckage. Among the four or five survivors· he pulled from the plane was an 11-year-oldJapanesegirl he found trying to tend to a critically injured flight attendant The girl suf­fered only cuts and bruises.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent an IS-member team from Washington to investigate. The lead investigator will be Greg Feith, who headed t11e investigation of the V aluJet crash last year in the Everglades that

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was blamed on a fire aboard the plane. Before leaving from Andrews Air

Force Base, Maryland, NrSB Mem­ber George Black Jr. said the voice and flight-data recorders had been recov­ered from the wreckage. ·

The crash site is iri a dense jungle, inaccessible by road. Rescuers using flashlights had to make their way through mud and razor-sharp sawgrass up to 8 feet (2 1/2 meters) high to reach the wreckage.

With the jet still smoldering, U.S. Navy Seabees bt;gan moving in back­hoes to crack open the fuselage and try to rescue anyone wlio might still be alive. ·

In Seoul, Korean Air began the task of notifying relatives of the victims. A few female relatives collapsed on the floor when they were told. One airline

· official ran away when a female rela-

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Navy CH-46 "Sea Knight" he­licopters hovered to light up the site as hundreds of military and government rescuers walked gingerly down a steep

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emment "doesn't appreciate" the U.S. citizenship of the local people.

"I guess they're embarrassed by whatever is happening over here," he said.

"I never want to embarrass the U.S., so if they don't like us anymore, then I say, maybe it's time we should go our own way.

"If the U.S. government were to take immigration (control) away from us we're nothing anyway. (So) if they really feel that we're a bunch ofhuman rightsabusersoverherethennoamounr of (reforms) will convince t11em other­wise.

"So maybe the bestthingtodoisjust totem1inateourrelationshipwith them. It's either leave us (in control of) immi-

Legislators. Continued from page 1

He said the House-Senate con­ference committee on House Bill 10-136 has already met, and may come up witl1 a final draft by next week.

Benavente said the Clinton administration's highly-critical report on tl1e CNMI's immigration and mini­mum wage policies was the "wake up call," but added that legislators have always been concerned with the num-

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH

OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

IN THE MATIER OF PETITION FOR ADOPTION OF: SONGSAK KRASUAYTHONG, minor, BY: JUAN METTAO OLOPAI, Petitioiner. ADOPTION CASE NO. 97-56

NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that on Sept. 11, 1997 at 9:00 AM in the courthouse of the Superior Court in Susupe, Saipan, Com­m on wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the petitioner will petition the Court to adopt the above named minor.

Dated this 29th day of July, 1997.

/s/ REYNALDO 0. YANA 1;ittorney for Petitioner

tive tried to hit him in anger. South Korean President Kim

Y oung-sam issued a statement on the crash.saying "I can 'tsuppress the over­flowing sorrow."

111e airport control tower lost con­tact with the plane around 1:50 am. Wednesday(l550GMTTuesday),said Jackie Marati,anairportst)Okeswoman. Police confirmed about 40 minutes later that the plane had crashed. The plane ordinarily lands at Guam and then returns to Seoul as Flight 802.

A landing system known ast11e glide slope, which leads planes to the run­way, had not been in service at the airport since last mont11, according to sources at the FAA, speaking on condi­tion of anonymity. According to a no­tice the agency sent pilots, the guidance system was to be down for mainte­nance until Sept 12.

slope to search the smoldering wreck­age. l11e helicopters were then used to hoist survivors to safety.

Navy Seabees construction crews . used a bulldozer to carve a makeshift road into the site so backhoes could be moved in to tear open unburned parts of the wreckage to check for possible survivors.

gration or . ..let us go." Tenorio stressed, however, that he is

speaking as "an individual." "Most of the Oocal) people would

probably stay the way it is," he said. Still, he added, the CNMJ will sur­

vive being independent, but not with­out the 30,000 alien workers it cur­rently employs.

And the Clinton administration would probably "love to let the CNMJ go," Tenorio said.

Blame the feds Asked ifhe is now admitting tliat the

President's federal takeover proposal will push through, Tenorio said, "No, I don't think so."

He added, "I hope that when I testify (in Congress) I could convince tl1em that the problem over here is not immi­gration and in fact I'm going to lay tl1e blame on the federal government for not sending tl1eir own officials ... to go

ber of alien workers in tl1e CNMI. Two-year limit

The current conference draft, ac­cording to Benavente, would retain tl1e Senate proposal, which limits alien workers to a two-year stay, but allows tl1em to return to tl1e CNMI after 30 days.

I-le a.ddcd. however. tl1at tl1e House will propose at le,L,t a one year period before an alien )VOrker who finished his two-year contract could be hired again by a CNMJ employer.

"Wearenotaddressingt11esituationif weallowtheworkerstoretum afteronly (abriefperiodoftime),"Benaventesaid.

At present, he said, temporary guest workers can work in the CNMJ as long a<; tl1eir contracts are renewed.

As a result, a considerable numberof alien workers have settled in the CNMI, eventually raising tl1eir own fan1ilies. Eighty percent of newly-born children in the CNMI have nonresident parents.

"'There is really a need to control t11e number of our alien population," Benavente said.

'Sensitive' The issue, he added, is a "sensitive"

one, and if the bill becomes law, would be bad for local businesses and may lead to higher prices for local consum­ers.

Bu~ the speaker said, "we have to weigh the possible effects on tl1e economy with the possible loss of con­trol over our own immigration if we don't do anyU1ing."

I-le added, "Some legislators are now saying tliat maybe it's about time we make sacrifices."

Benavent~ said the legislation may also convince tl1e Clinton administra­tion tl1at tl1e CNMI is willing to make tl1e necesary changes in its immigra­tion policies, and t11at t11ere is no longer a need even for a federal takeover.

Still, he said, "not11ing's final yet."

When glide slope guidance is not available, pilots can use ot11ermetl1ods, including an electronic devicetl1atgives tl1em tl1eir distance from the airport Knowing that distance, t11ey follow a stairstep pattern to the runway.

The tiny island of Guam is the UnitedStates' westernmost possession. Its population is 150,000. Guam is 4,000miles(6,440 kilometers) west ofHonolulu and 2,200miles (3,540 kilometers) southeast of Seoul. Roughly one-third of Guam's 212 square miles (550 square kilome­ters) is taken up by U.S. military bases.

In another crash involving the airline, 269 people were killed in 1983 when Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet fighter plane after the jetliner strayed into So­viet air space.

By dawn, some 200 rescuers and medical personnel were at the crash site with anot11er 300 personnel supporting tl1e operation from other locations, Guiterrez said.

As dawn broke, a crowd of onlook­ers gatl1ered along a narrow road that provided the closest ground access to t11e scene.

after (human rights abusers)." Tenorio said it is the federal govern­

ment that is not living up to its obliga­tion under the Covenant, the 1976 U.S. law which established the CNMI in political union witl1 the United States.

The Commonwealt11's basic politi­cal document, the Covenant also ex­empted tl1e Northern Marianas from federal immigration and minimum wage laws.

However, tl1e Covenant states tliat Congress could makes these federal laws applicable in tl1e CNMI.

The Covenant's Section 902, in tum, cal Is fora series of discussions between the federal and CNMI government~ on issues affecting the t11e relations be­tween the two governments.

Tenorio suspended t11e talks shortly after President Clinton proposed a fed­eral takeoveroflocal immigration and wage laws. ·

Exempted 111e original House bill proposed a

four-year limit for alien workers, but the Senate an1ended it to a two-year limit.

Exempted from tl1e limit are profes­sionals,mdexecutiveseaming$30,000 a year.

Senate Majority Leader 111onn, P. Villagomez (R-Saipan) told the Vari­ety la,tFebrnary tl1at tl1etwo-yc.u·Jimit will prevent tl1e federal government from imposing stricter immigration re­quirements.

In a session last Feb. 19, the House rejected the Senate amendments. Benavente tl1en named Reps. Karl T. Reyes (R-Saipan), Maria T. Peter (R­Saipan), Heinz S. Hofschneider (Jnd.­Saipan) and Crispin I. DL Guerrero to tl1e House-Senate conference commit­tee which will reconcile the House and Senate versions oftl1e bill.

Senate PrcsidentJesusR. Sablan (R­Saipan), for his part, muned Senate Vice President Paul A. Manglona (R­Rota),Sens. DavidM.Cing (D-Tinian) and Juan P. Tenorio (R-Saipan) as the Senate conferees.

At this point, a ranking legislator, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Variety that t11e bill "will now die a natural deatl1."

Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio, for his part, has said he will veto tl1e bill.

Opponents of the bill, which include t11e Saipan Chan1ber of Commerce, said the legislation would mean greater expenses for employers who would pass on tl1e additional costs to consum­ers.

TI1e bill's original version wrn; intro­duced more than a year ago by Rep. Ana S. Teregeyo, and is cosponsored by ~eps. Karl T. Reyes (R-Saipan), Dav1dM.Apaumg(R-Saip,m),Michael P. Tenorio (R-Saipan) wid Rosiky F. Camacho (D-Saipan).

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH

OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR ADOPTION OF: JEANELYN L. CAGUIMBAL, Minor, BY: CANICE PATRICK M. DIAZ, and ELENA LAT DIAZ Petitioners. ADOPTION CASE NO. 97-57

NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that on Sept. 4, 1997 at 9:00 AM in the courthouse of the Superior Court in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the petitioner's will petition the Court to adopt the above named mi­nor.

Dated this 31st day of July, 1997.

/s/ REYNALDO 0. YANA Attorney for Petitioner

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COl,IMON\'/EALTH

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IN THE MATIER OF THE ESTATE OF: BERNARDO LISUA, Deceased. CIVIL ACTION NO. 97-8706

NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that on September 9, 1997 at 1 :30 PM

. in the courthouse of the Superior Court in Susupe, 1he petitioner, Rafaek K. Lisua, will petition the court to be appointed executor of the estate of Bernardo Lisua.

Any person, who has any objection 10 said petition, may appear in said court on said date and time to make such objection.

Dated this 31st day of July, 1997.

/s/ REYNALDO 0. YANA Attorney for Petitioner

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH

OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: FELIX ITIBUS SARONG, Deceased.

CIVIL ACTION NO. 97-8698

NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that on September 9, 1997 at 1:30 PM in the courthouse of the Superior Court in Susupe, the petitioner, Stanley C. Torres, will petition the court to be appointed administrator of the estate of Felix ltibus Sarong.

Any person. who has any objection to said petition, may appear in said court on said date and time to make such objection.

Dated this 5th day of August, 1997.

/s/ REYNALDO 0. YANA Attorney for Petitioner

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COM~IONWEALTH

OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

IN RE THE ESTATE OF MATILDE ROLIGAT LIMES, Deceased. PROBATE ACTION NO. 97-634B

NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Iha! Petitioner, lhe Commonweallh Heallh Center, has filed a Petilion in lhe Superior Couri of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands praying lhal an administrator be appoinled to adminisler the eslate of MATILDE ROLIGAT LIMES, deceased. The attorney of record is Celesle E. Andersen, Special Assistant Attorney General, Departmenl of Public Health, P.O. Box 409 CK, Saipan, MP 96950.

The hearing on the Petition is set' for August 12, 1997 at the Commonwealth Superior Court, Susupe, Saipan, at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom B. Any person who has any objection to the petition may file his or her objection with the Superior Court at any time before the hearing. or may appear al the lime set for hearing to present such objection or interest in the above-captioned mailer.

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned to the creditors of. and all persons having claims against the Esta le of MATILDE ROLIGAT LIMES, that within sixty (60) days after the publication of this notice, they must file their claims with the Clerk of Court of the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any claims not so presented shall be barred. Dated: June 12, 1997.

Jovie Flores Clerk of Court

is/Deputy Clerk of Court Commonwealth Superior Court

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Born today. you tend to do things your own way, even when domg so brings about a good deal of sacrifice and hardship. This atti­tude causes some people to call you stubborn. and this label would be justified if not for the fact that your headstrong ways produce good results again and again. The more farfetched a plan or idea is the more likely you are to embrace it wholeheartedJy. Indeed, the pro­ject which offers the greatest chal­lenge to you both personally and professionally will be the one which gives you the greatest satis­faction.

When it comes to family and friends you will be generous and supportive, but you can be a little too protective at times, particular­ly when you anticipate dangers and hardships that elude other people. You do not want others to be burdened unnecessarilv.

Also born on this date are: Keith Carradine. actor; Dino De­Laurenti s, producer; Dustin Hoffman, actor; Mel Tillis, singer; E~ther Williams, swim­mer and actress.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) -Do not be so impractical today that you t1J171 away from an oppor­tunity that would enable you to in­crease your financial security at this time.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Today you may feel as if someone has made some changes in your life without asking you first. You may have to make some quick ad­justments.

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By ROBERT MILLWARD ATHENS, Greece (AP)- Forget that 150-meter loss to Donovan Builey. Ignore the fact thut a 58-race winning streak got blown away by a fifth-place finish in Paris.

Michael Johnson proved he was still the best in the world at 400 meters and ran around Olym­pic Stadium Tuesday night hold­ing up a Superman T-shirt after retaining his title.

"A victory's a victory and I'm happy." Johnson said. ''I defended my title. It's very satisfying that I can come back after adversity and that I can be good.

"I wasn't looking for any vin­dication," he said when reminded of those setbacks in June.

"I've put that situation behind me and also the main thing is I'll never get that mi II ion dollars back {from Bailey)."

June was a disastrous month for the Olympic 200 and 400 champion and world record­holderfortheshorterdistance and widely considered unbeatable at both.

The showdown with Canada's Bailey in Toronto was both pain­ful and embmTassing. Johnson pulled up injured just over half­way with a leg muscle injury but can't ignore the idea that he rrob­ably would have been a loser.

A little over three weeks later he was back in action, maybe too early, and lost over400 meters for the first time since Febrnary l 989.

He didn't only lose, he fin­ished fifth behind three of his countrymen and Ugandan Davis Kamoga and went quietly back

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Guam would be down for main­tenance unti I Sept. 12.

The transmitter, which shows a pi lot how far he is frnm the ground, is one of two principal components of an instrument land­ing system. The other, a device called a localizer, shows how the plane is lining up with the run­way.

Glide slope trnnsmitteroutagcs arc "not uncommon," and pilots routinely land by using the local­izer readings and following a stairstep pattern to the airport, said Jeff Guzzetti, an NTSB investi­gator in this Seattle suburb.

Under those circumstances, Guzzetti said, the minimum vis­ibility requ~rcd for landing is usu­ally increased.

Visibility landing requirements in Guam could not be immcdi-

Tenorio . .. Continued from page 3 would probably be on hold be­cause of this incident," Rosario said.

"We have contacted Guam In­ternational Airport and we offered our assistance if they need any. They said-they were still assessing what they need," Rosario said.

Saipan 's business community also expressed sympathy for the

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son still tops at 400

Michael Johnson raises his arms, after winning the gold medal in the Men's 400-meters at the World Track and Field Championships in the Olyme_ic Stadium in Athens Tuesday. AP

into training for five weeks. He didn't look quite right in the

early stages of the World Cham­pionships and almost failed to qualify after finishing fourth in his second-round heat.

But he got it right in the semifi­nal and final.

fourth, !wan Thomas sixth and Jamie Baulch eighth. They likely will be joined by Olym­pic champion Roger Black in the relay.

The U.S. quartet could eas­ily be the four athletes who made it to the 400 final -Johnson, third place Tyree

Washington, Jerome Young, who finished fifth, and seventh place Antonio Pettigrew.

Johnson's return to winning titles came on the day South Af­rica won its first world cham­pionship, Ivan Pedroso expectedly won the long jump, Carla Sacramento won a acrimo­nious 1,500 meters and 19-year­old Sally Barsosio became the first Kenyan winner to win a title at a world or Olympic level.

The day after countryman Llewellyn Herbert won South Africa's first world championship medal by finishing second in the 400-meter hurdles, Marius Corbett went one better. He threw an African record 88.40 meters (290 feet) to take the gold medal in the javelin.

He was helped by the fact that world and Olympic champion and world record-holder Jan Zelezny departed early.· The two-time defending titlist, who had tri­umphed at the last two Olympics, had two fouls and could only come up with 82.04 meters (269-2) to

finish ninth and out of the final eight.

Cuba's Pedroso won the long jump title for the second-time in a row by reaching 8.42 (27-7 1-2) on his first leap. Erick Walder of the United St~tes leaped 8,38 (27-6) for the silver.

Sacramento took advantage of some bumping and pulling to win the 1,500 meters. After-the race, silver medalist Regina Jacobs yelled at Sonia O'Sullivan, who eventually finished eighth, that the Irish runner had cost her the gold medal when they collided on the final lap.

Jacobs couldn't get away from the Portuguese runner, who over­took her in the final straight to win in 4:04.24.

Barsosio took the women's I 0,000 in a world junior record 31 :32.92.

She overtook defending titlist and Olympic champion Fernanda Ribeiro 1,400 meters from the end to win by 40 meters. This time, Ribeiro had to be satis­fied with silver. Perhaps significantly, Kamoga

finished second this time as Johnson started off slowly, pro­duced a mid-race burst of speed, then held off a late charge.

Argentina downs Canada, 70-66 "Some people said Michael

Johnson can only win from the front," he S(lid, after winning the title for th·e third time in a row. "I've showed today I can win from the back. I can win from anywhere on the track."

Maybe he can prove it again in the 1,600 relay when the Ameri­cans again take on the British trio who made it to the 400 final.

Mark Richardson finished

ately determined. Weather at the time of the crash was described as heavy rain with broken clouds at 1,900 feet and overcast at 3,500 feet.

Thcuscofcontract towers dates l'rom 1982, beginning as an out­growth of the air traffic control­lers stri kc and later expanded as a cost-cutting move.

Out of 684 towers nationwide, 125 at "low activity" airports are staffed by privately employed air traffic controllers, rather than by FAA controllers. said Fraser Jones, an FAA spokesman in Washington, D.C.

"Low activity" refers to the number of flights, although the type of planes and other factors also are considered in tower staff­ing decisions, Pyle said.

The Guam airport handles 64,124 flights ,i year, well within the typical contract tower range of 50,000 to l 00,000, he said.

plane crash victims. Members of the Saipan Cham­

bcrofCommercc said a brief prayer for the victims at 12 110011 before the start of their general member­ship meeting at the Hyatt Hotel.

"We extend our condolence to the families of the victims. We'll communicate with our contact in Guam and ask them if they need any assistance from our business community," Chamber president David Sablan said. (MCM)

SAO PAOLO, Brazil (AP) - victories to advance, is expected Canada blew a I 0-point lead to beat the Dominican Republic over Argentina with four min- Wednesday but faces the power-utes left before losing 70-66 in house Americans on Thursday in the first game of the women's its final round-robin game. basketball world champioru.hi~ .. , The top two teams in each pool zone qualification tournament qualify for the world champion-Tuesday. ships.

Canada's chances to make it "We played outstanding de-to the world championships in fence but just couldn't execute Germany next year are slim with offensively," said Canadian head

. the defeat. Canada, needing two coach Bev Smith. "Unfortunately,

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left trailing 3-2. Thompson ( l 0-8) gave up three

runs on six hits with three walks and three strikeouts. Manny Ramirez touched him for a solo home run in the fifth, but Thomp­son stranded five Indians in scor­ing position.

The Tigers broke a 3-3 tie on Bobby Higginson's RBI groundout off Eric Plunk (3-3) in the sixth. Nevin'ssolohomcr,his fifth, off Jason Jacome in the sev­er.th made the score 5-3.

Todd Jones pitched the final 1 1-3 innings for his 22nd save, and 19th in his last 20 opportunities.

Blue Jays 8, Twins 3 In Minneapolis, Ed Sprague had

two hits and three RBIs, and Jose Cruz Jr. hit his. 14th home run as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Twins.

Ed Sprague finished 2-for-5, including a two-run single in the fourth that tied the game 2-2. Ouz hit a two-run homer in the seventh - his second in five games since being acquired from Seattle last Thursday.

Robert Person (5-7) allowed two rnns and five hits in seven innings. After a rocky first two innings, Person retired 16 of 20 batters.

Tim Crabtree pitched the eighth,

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Drummond said. Olympic bronze medalist Ato

Boldon of Trinidad ,md Tobago, world and Olympic runner-up Fr,inkie Fredericks of Namibia and world indoor 200 ti tlist Kevin Little had a much easier time quali­fying for the second round.

Boldon. who finished a disap­pointing fifth in Sunday's I 00-meter final, won his heat in 20.48, Fredericks advanced in second place behind Belgium's Erik Wijmeersch after clocking 20.74 and Little won his heat in 20.68.

"The IOOs are all dead and gone now,"said Boldon, who had predicted he would win the title and break the world record. "If I want to be the future of this spo1t, I have to lemn to take a defeat I think I will be OK. I just have to irnmage myself through thise 2CXJ-meter rounds."

Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perce ,md two-time world ch:m1pion Merlene Ottey both made it comfort­ably to the second round of the women's 200.

Perce, the double Olympic cham­pion who deaided not to rnn the 400, won her heat in 22.87 mid Ottey cmised home third in hers in a faster time of22.47.

But Perce, who hm; been nuubled by injuries, said it would take a

we've lost control of our destiny and must now hope for a victory by the Dominican Republic over Argentina on 111ursday by far greater than four points." ·

Argentina went on a 13-2 run to lead by one with under a minute left. Canada turned the ball over twice against the press down the. stretch which Argentina converted into points.

"miracle" even to win a medal. "I don't think I'm JOO percent,"

said Perec, who had initially planned tosk.ipthecharnpionshipsbutchm1ged her mind after the IAAFthreatened to suspend ,my athlete who failed to appc,U' without a legitimate excuse.

Another easy qualifier was the surprise l 00-meter silver mcc.bl­is t, Zhanna Pintussevich of Ukraine, who won her heal in 22.85.

American champion Inger Miller won her heat in 22.55 and the two other U.S. runners, Cheryl Taplin and Zundra Feagin, also qualified smoothly.

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season Aug, 31 against Kansas City. Shanahan said Elway could be ready as early as Denver's Aug. 17 exhibition game against New England.

"I'm planning on playing in one more preseasongame, '' Elway said after the MRI. "It's just a matter of getting the soreness out and going from there."

The 37-year-old Elway under­went off season surgery on his right shoulder. While removing scar tissue during that surgery, doc­tors discovered a previously un­diagnosed frayed tendon in his biceps which they did not repair. It was the same tendon he com­pletely tore Monday night.

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5th Annual Mobil All-Micronesian Fishing

Palau eyes title defense By Giff Johnson for the Variety

MAJURO-The fifth annual Mobil All-Micronesia fishing tournament will kick off in the Marshall Islands next month, with Palauan fishermen preparing to defend a title they have held for two years running.

Tournament chairman Baron Bigler is anticipating strong com­petition from the more than I 0 teams that are expected to come from al! comers of Micronesia for the regional fishing event. The tourney will be held over the

weekend ofSeptember 10-14. "We used to worry if anyone

would come when we first started the 'All-Mike' tournament in 1993," Bigler said. But now, with a dozen or more teams expected to compete, Marshallese fishermen just have to worry about C!ying to beat the off-island competition.

Palau's Sportfishing Club is the defending All-Micronesia cham­pion_and is expected to send two teams· to defend its title, Bigler said. Palauan teams have won the tournament two years running, catching the biggest marlins in

1995 and 1996. Bigler said that this shows that off-island fisher­men can come into the Marshalls and successfully compete against their local counterparts.

This year, fishermen from Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Saipan, Pohnpei, and Guam will challenge local fishermen from Majuro and K wajalein. Teams have also been invited from Chuuk and Kosrae. Several of the islands will send two teams to compete, Bigler said. "We 'II definitely have more than IO teams and possibly as many as

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'Broncos' Elway out 2 to. 4 weeks DENVER (AP)_ -'John Elway, who has a ruptured biceps tendon in his right arm, could begin throwing later this wee_k and I ikel y will be ready for the National Football League season opener, Denver coach Mike Shanahan said.

The durable quarterback was injured Monday night in the Bron­cos' 38-19 exhibition loss to the

. Miami Dolphins in Mexico City. Elway returned to Denver and an MRI at the Steadman-Hawkins clinic Tuesday afternoon con­firmed the injury.

"Overall, the news was very positive looking at the MRI, what happened, how it happened," Shanahan said Tuesday. "I don't think there's any question he will be ready for the 31st."

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The tournament is organized by the Marshalls Billfish Club, which recently completed a 30 boat two-day annual fishing com­petition during which J..2 qualify­ing marlin over 100 pounds were caught by local anglers.

Despite smaller than usual mar­lin, "The numbers were there dur­ing the July tournament," Bigler · said of the bill fish hauled in by competitors. There were also a large number of yellowfin tuna

caught during the July tourna-ment. .

While Mobil Oil Micronesia is the major tournament sponsor for the regional fishing tournament, many other businesses in the is­lands have lined up to support the "All-Mike," including Continen­tal Micronesia, the Wall Street investment company Smith Barney, Deloitte and Touche of Saipan, PM&O shipping line and Hotel Robert Reimers in Majuro.

Anke Huber, of Germany, returns against Anna Kournikova during their Acura Classic match in Manhattan Beach, Calif., Tuesday. Huber won the match 6-0, 6-1. AP

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US 200 cha1np alntost bows out in 1st round

By ROBERT MILLWARD ATHENS, Greece (AP) Nearly losing his balance and going out of his lane, American 200-meter champion Jon Drummond barely made it through the first round at _the World Championships on Wednesday.

Leading the field with 20 meters (yards) to go, Drummond suddenly threw up his right hand and contorted his body to avoid being disqualified by stepping into the inside lane.

"At about the last 50 meters I realized that the line, instead of being on the left, wasn't there," Drummond said. "It was in front ofme.

"I said to myself, 'I have to get out of this line.' I threw my arm up and I tried to thrust my torso. When I lost my balance I panicked but I don't think I hit the line. I think I did a good job to avoid it."

The crowd gasped as he slowed so much that he appeared to be caught by four other run­ners. When the times went up on the scoreboard, Drummond had the third qualifying place by .01. If he had finished fourth, he would have made it as one of the fastest losers.

"When I saw the Q (for quali­fied) pop up I said, 'Lord, I thank you for this one',"

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