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showers.

ANOTHER typhoon is headedtowards the Northern Marianas,the Emergency Management Of­fice warned yesterday.

As of 10:00 a.m. yesterday, ty­phoon Zelda was located at 11.4degrees north and 149.4 degreeseast, or 362 statute miles south­east of Saipan and Tinian, 346statute miles southeast of Rotawith maximum sustained windsof 86 mph with gusts to 104 mph.

Typhoon Zelda is moving to­wards a northwest direction at 8miles per hour,

Typhoon Zelda has tracked in anorthwestward direction and hasintensified over the past six hours.

Typhoon Zelda is forecasted topast directly to the southern tip ofSaipan and northern tip of Tinianbetween 36 t048 hours with maxi­mum sustained winds of 127 mphto 155 mph and expected to tumtoward the west-northwest direc­tion after 36 hours.

Becauseofthe anticipated threatfrom typhoon Zelda, GovernorFroilan C. Tenorio has 'declaredTyphoon Condition III for the is­lands of Saipan, Timan and Rota

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the insurance applications, Chris­tian coerced and forced other.employees of PIA to state thatsaid insurance was not to take .effect until November 1, 1992,"Sherry alleged.

Christian was not available for'comments. PIA employees saidhe was off island. Jim Stowell,PIA's Chief Operation Officersaid the airline had no commentsto make regarding the lawsuit.

The complainant is demandingunspecified amount of punitive

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ditures; they carry on and onand may lead us to furtherdeficits," Mafnas said, appar­ently concerned about the rategovernment hiring is beingdone.

Mafnas warned that employ­ment in government is sup­posed to .be done taking intoconsideration the ceilings im-

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the company failed to fully repairit after it was damaged while taxi­ing. Before April 1992, the plane,while being piloted by PIA presi­dent Robert F.Christian, was dam­aged when it struck a cow whiletaxiing, the complaint said.

Prior to the accident, the com­pany informed plaintiff and herhusband that they would be pro­vided with life insurance cover­age effective October 20, 1992.On December I, 1992, Christianinformed Sherry' that PIA hadfailed to process the life insur-

. ance applications and that thepilot's life had not been issued,the complaint claimed.

Sherry also accused the PIApresident of attempting to hidePIA's alleged failure to processthe life insurance applications ina timely manner.

"In a further attempt to hidePIA's failure to timely processEfrain F. Camacho

SpeakerJesus P; Mafnas took in­terest at thevacancy certificationsrecently issued by the governor,saying there may have been posi­tions that were unnecessarily cre­ated and filled in by the governor.

He specifically asked the lead­ership to look into the new posi.tions being filled up and seewhether they are in line with law.

"These are not one-time expen-

demise.Jesse F. Richardson, who ac­

cording to the complaint wasemployed from April 1992 toOctober 27, 1992, was killed in a"fatal" airplane crash while pilot­ing a Cessna 3 lOR.

Sherry claimed the light air­craft exploded in the air because

arianas %riet~~Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ~ evvs

By Rafael H.Arroyo

House looking intogovernment hiring

HOUSE Speaker Diego T.Benavente yesterday directedhis Committee on Ways andMeans to review all govern­ment positions certified vacantby Governor Froilan C.Tenorio since he assumed of­fice.

This developed after Vice

Friedman were new faces in thechamber board.

All of them, except Hawkinsand Friedman, were elected un­opposed. Linda Cabrera, presi­dent of Esco' s Enterprises, wasnominated as director but lost toHawkins and Friedman.

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Sherry MJ. Richardson, wifeof Jesse F. Richardson, alsoclaimed the airline company failed .to provide life insurance cover­age for the pilot.

In a civil suit filed with the. Superior Court last week, Sherry

alleged that the airline was partlyto be blamed for her husband's

By Rafael!. Santos

Camacho gets 2ndterm as SCC head

Pilot's widow sues P

'Yes, mylformer colleague.' Vice Speaker Jesus P. Mafnas (right) lends an ear to former Saipan senator, now banker Juan S. Torres, duringa lull in y~terday's session at the House of Representatives. the former lawmaker was part of the gallery that watched the proceedings eagerly.

SAIPAN Chamber of CommerceChairman Efrain F.Camacho wasre-elected to the same post by hiscolleagues during a luncheonmeeting at the Gilligan's in theHyatt Regency Saipan.

"Efrain is very successful in hisprofessional category...He has alot of influence among local busi­nesses," said Dennis Yoshimoto,head of the chamber's Nominat­ing Committee.

Camacho is the president ofEfrain F. Camacho ConsultingEngineers, which offers consult­ing services to both local and for­eign developers.

Chamber members elected SamMacPheters as vice president.Elizabeth Rechebei was given thesecretary position while GlennPerez took the position of trea­surer.

The two board of directors whowill serve together with Camachoare David Hawkins of the DutyFree Shoppers and Ellie Friedmanof Micronesian Telecommunica­tions Corporation.

MacPheters, Rechebei and

THE WIFE of a Pacific IslandAviation pilot who was killed in aplane crash two years ago hasfiled a lawsuit against the airlineand its president, claiming thatthey failed to fully repair thedam­aged aircraft before the accident.

PAC Nfl!.'.':' '.r~r. STP,CKS. ,

Lucia Sablan

authorities fnm the vehicle duringSablan'strial.

REPORT card distribution atMarianas High School is sched­uled today, November 3, 1994from3-6p.m. Parents andGuard­ians may pick up Ist Quarter rc­pons and a Parent-Student Hand­book from the HomeroomTeacher.

for participating the turn-off theviolence poster contest.

Crime Stoppers CoordinatorSgt. Edward Manalili on theotherhand, urged the public to partici­pate, walk and support the "Tumoff the Violence."

"I am inviting the communityto join the rally. It's not for us.The whole community involve­ment is needed for its (program)success," Manalili said. (FDT)

haIfhours between thearrest andthesearch, Manibusan said.

"Therefore the searches are notvalid,underArticle 1.Section3oftheCommonwealth Constitution. Thiscourt finds thatboth searches of thetruck thedefendant wasdriving werenot valid searches...Nor were theyvalidinventorysearches,"Manibusansaid

The ordermeansthat thegovern­mentwould not be allowed to intro­duceas evidence the itemstaken by

La Fiesta.The boyescaped by running to­

wards a get-away vehicle whichwas parked atLaFiestacompound.

Responding policeofficers how­ever,spotted thevehicleandrourdedupthe five malejuvenileoccupants,

Out of five, two of them werefound consuming liquor. At DPStwoconfessed they were involvedin the La Fiesta snatching.

LastOctober 20,another femaletouristlostherhandbagtoasnatchsrwhile walking on Beach Road inGarapan.

DPS expressed alarm afterfourother successive snatching caseswerereportedonSaipaninJulyandAugust.

aimed to have all citizens awareof violence, drug, and other crimepreventionefforts within thecom­munity to take action themselvesand nurture a safe, caring envi­ronment for future generations,

Frances M. Sablan, MHS viceprincipal andAyudaNctwork Inc.Education Committee chair­woman, lauded thestudents alongwith the teachers particularlythose from MHS and Koblerville

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what thecourt called "exigent cir­cumstances" andthe inability to ob­tainawarrantfromajudgethatwouldjustify the searches.

According to the judge, the truckallegedly usedin therobbery shouldhavebeensearchedirrunediately.Thegovernment offered no legitimatereason asto whythefirstsearch wasdelayed three andahalf hours.

Theprosecutionalsofailed toshowwhyawarrantwasnotobt.ainedfroma court judge during the three and a

was walking on 2W Highway, anunidentified man, riding a motor­cycle came behind and grabbed thevictim's black bag which he heldunder therightann.

The suspect fledThe tourist chimed his bag con­

tained one gold necklace, one goldbracelet, a diver's watch, calculator,and$100cash.

It wasthefirsttime,a maletouristbecame victimin the recent rashofsnatching cases on Saipan.

All earlier snatching victims werewomen.

Last October 24, a boy snatchedthewalletcontainingmoneyandothcritems from a female tourist whohadjustcameoutfromoneofthc stores at

postponed following the havoccreated by Typhoon Wilda.

It is thefirst time the CNMI wasinvited by the Crime PreventionCouncil in Washington throughthe Governor's Office to join themonth-long celebration.

The Crime Stoppers arrangedthe celebration with the theme"Working Together To Stop theViolence."

The October celebration was

Tourist loses valuablesto motorcycle rider

By Ferdie de laTorre

A MOfORCYCLE-riding manreportedly grabbed the bagcontain­ingmoneyandjewelryfrom atour­ist who was walking along 2 WHighwayinGarapan'Iuesdaynight,

The incident camea week aftersnatchers struck atLa Fiesta inSanRoque, taking a handbag from afemale tourist.

Department of Public Safety In­formation Officer Cathy Sheusaida report was received Tuesday atII :03 p.m, about arobbery incidentwhich occurred near the OrientalHotel inGarapan.

Sheusaidaccording tothereportwhile a 51-year-old male tourist

motion, saying searches of thetruck conducted by police inves­tigators were unreasonable,

In a l4-page order, Judge Ed­ward Manibusan acknowledgedthat there was probable cause forthepolice to believe that the truckcontained some evidence in con­nection with the armed robberywhich left Lea Gaspar with head

. injuries.However, the government

failed to prove the existence of

The march/rally will end at theAmerican Memorial Park wherea program will be held,

The guest speakers are Gover­nor Frcilan Tenorio, BishopTomas A. Camacho, Rev. Bar­bara Grace Ripple andDPS Com­missioner Joe Castro.

Ms. Lauri B. Ogumoro is thekeynote speaker.

The rally was supposed to kickoff last November 27 but was

Committeem~J'!lbers of the "Turn<?ff The Vio/enc? Rally"hold a press conferencebeforeconducting a meetingyesterday. (From left to right) Sgt.Edw?rdManahh, MartinDuenas,VictorMesta,Ma louC. Sabino, FrancesM.Sablan,JuanL.Babauta,FranklinBabauta,RemayRiosandAbsalonWak, Jr. . .

By Rafael I. Santos

Search on suspect not proper

Thousands expected to join rally

THESuperiorCourthasgranteda motion to suppress items takenfrom the vehicle of armed rob­bery suspect Lucia Sablan, say­ing the search and seizure wasunreasonable.

Sablan was accused in Marchof attacking acashier at Poker andGames Kingdom with a hammerand robbing the Cabrera Centerestablishment of more than$2,000.

At around 9:39 a.m. on March19, a witness informed the De­partment of Public Safety that arobbery was in progress and pro­vided a description of the assail­ant alongwitha licenseplatenum­ber.

A few minutes later, a policeofficer spotted a vehicle and adriver on Middle Road, in SanJose, fitting the witness's descrip­tion. Sablan was pulled over andwas positively identified by thewitness at around 9:55 a.m.

Sablan was then advised of herrights, arrestedadbroughtto DPS.A crime scene technician tookphotographs of the vehicle anddiscovered the evidence in ques­tion at around 1:25 p.m.

The vehicle was taken to DPScentral where it was impoundedandanothersearchwasconducted.

Sablan moved for the suppres­sion of theevidence,claiming thatthe search and seizure was illegal.

The court granted defendant's

ORGANIZERS of the first of akind"TurnOff theViolence" rallyareexpecting thousandsof peoplewho will participate today's pro­gram which is the highlight ofCrime PreventionMonth celebra­tion.

The committee members con­ducted a press conference beforethey held a meeting at NauruBuilding yesterday morning tofinalyze the details of the rally.

Juan L. Babauta, Director forAyuda Network, said they are an­ticipatinga bignumber of partici­pants as different governmentagencies,organizations,students,and other members in the com­munity expressed support withthe program.

Officer Franklin Babauta, As­sistant CrimeStoppers Coordina­tor said the rally will start at theCarolinian Utt at 6:30p.m. Free t­shirts and balloons will be givenfor the first 200 participants.

He said during the rally, par­ticipants.will be guided by DPSmotorcycle and traffic vehicles.The ]ROTC marching unit andDPS Firemen will follow.

The participants include' theAyuda Network and volunteers,Elementary Drug-Free Students,DARE instructorsandvolunteers,Middle School Drug-Free stu­dents, MHS Stuco, High SchoolDrug-Freestudents,DPSstaffandvolunteers, other governmentagencies, DPS ambulance, DPSfire truck and NMC drug aware­ness program.

',.;

.'lawmakerOdellHuffmanstandsagood chance Ofbeing re-elected,whichwouldn't bemuchofa storyexcept that he committedsuicidelast month.

Thenthere's LennieThompson,aDemocraticnomineeforthestateHouse in Montana. Thompsonvolunteered at a candidates' fo­rum last spring that his resumeincluded a stint as a bank robber.

He had, in fact, served i 1/2years for robbery in Washingtonstate in the late 1970s. "There'snothing to be gained by trying tohide something in your past," hesaid. "My past is not who I amtoday."

As a campaign slogan, thatshoulddo in thisera of diminishedexpectations. Still, it doesn't quitehave the ring of "Elect me. I'llresign."

Then again, what does?

outside in the streets," said a re­lieved Reynold Louis, 28, of thecoastal townofSt. Marc, about60miles (l00 kms) north of Port-au­Prince.

They left the Bahamas earlySaturday on the vessel East Ore,theNassauTribunereportedTues­day.

A spokesman for the GrandBahamas Human Rights Asso­ciation, D' Arcy Ryan, expresseddismay that the refugees were re­patriated just two weeks afterPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristidereturned to Haiti. That wasn'tenough time for the governmentto prepare for them, Ryan said.

Ryanalsocomplainedthatsomeof the refugees had been in theBahamas long enough to qualifyfor immigration status.

The U.S. Coast Guard hasrepa­triated thousands of boat peopleto Haiti in cooperation with the .Haitian Red Cross, which pro­vides the refugees a small amountofmoneyfor transportationhome.

Aristide was ousted by a mili­tary coup in September 1991.Hereturned with the help of the U.S.military on Oct. 15, shortly afterthe coup leaders left for exile.

Earlier Tuesday, Paul, forcedinto hiding for much of the pastthree years, visited a cemeteryforDay of the Dead celebrations tohonor those ki"lIed under themili­tarydictatorship.

Paul cautioned that Aristide'sreturn would not bring instantchange to this country, the poor­est in the Western Hemisphere.

"The struggle we are leading isa struggle for change," Paul saidas he laid a huge bouquet of mari­golds at the Universal Tomb inthe capital's main cemetery.

The tomb was built in 1990 toholdbonesfoundscatteredincem­eteries or in rented tombs withexpired leases.

"Change means that the unem­ployed can find work; changemeans that those who are hungrycan get food; change means thatchildren can go to school, thatpeople can have shelter," intonedtheenonnouslypopularPaul,whowas surrounded by jostling fans.

cial, her image slowly vanishesas she intones: "Fewer bureau­crats, less waste, starting withme."

Who knows? In a year of anti­incumbency, it may be the ulti­mate campaign strategy.

In Hawaii, Republican con­gressional candidate Robert Gar­ner has issued no ultimatum - oranything else. He has disap­peared.

Garnerdefeated two opponentsin the Sept. 17primary to take onDemocrat Patsy Mink. That wasabout the last anyone heard fromhim.

Gamer is said by acquaintancesto be alive and well and on a boatsomewhere. Hawaii RepublicanChairmanJared Jossem calls him"anextremelyindependentRepub­lican."

In West Virginia, popular state

More than 350 Haitianrefugees dumped at port

By LISA M. HAMM

PORT-AU.PRINCE, Haiti(AP) • Cash-poor Haitian offi­cials scrambled to provide foodand shelter to dozens of Haitianrefugees who were dumped at theport by a Bahamian vessel.

The refugees had fled Haitiunderthemilitarygovernmentandwere detained in the Bahamas asillegal immigrants. The Britishcommonwealth dropped morethan 350 Haitians off in Port-au­PrinceonMondayinwhatitcalled"an early repatriation exercise."

"It's an inhuman way of deal­ing with refugees," GeraldNicolas, a spokesman for MayorEvans Paul, said Tuesday. "TheHaitian government doesn't havethe infrastructure in place yet tocare for such people."

Paul's office rushed to provideaid to 110 of the refugees at thecapital's home for the elderly.

Those in the group had no wayto get home,

"They couldn',t just leave us

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this year that is harder to catego­rize as negative or positive. Whatdo you say about someone whopromises to quit if elected?

There are several of these ka­mikaze candidacies around thecountry. In Sheridan County,Mont., Mary Nielsen is runningfor assessor with the slogan:"Elect me. I'll resign."

There is some logic to this.The Montana Legislature abol­ished the duties of county asses­sors last year, but SheridanCounty missed the deadline forabolishing the post locally.

Nielsen,a Republican, says shecould save the county dlrs117,000 in salary and benefitsover her four-year non-term.

In Texas, State TreasurerMartha Whitehead is looking toabolish not only her job, but herentire agency. In a TV cornmer-

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tered press and the mandates ofthe First Amendment, but I mustalso be mindful of the vital im­portance ofcompliance with or­ders of the court," Hoeveler said.The First Amendment of the U.S.Constitution guarantees freedomof the press,

Sentencing was set for Dec. 9.CNN spokesman Steve

Haworth said, "We continue tobelieve we acted properly andwe are reviewing the decision todetermine whether to appeal."

Frank Rubino, a lawyer forthe former Panamanian dicta­tor, said Hoeveler made the rightdecision after weighing the rightto a free press against the rightto a free trial.

'There wasn't a need to playthose calls," Rubino said. "Thereporting could have been donewithout playing the calls,"

CNN broadcast segments ofthe tapes II times overtwo days,even after Hoeveler learned oftheir planned broadcast andwarned any use of the tapeswould violate his order.

ispartly bald, is attacking Demo­crat Tony Knowles for, amongother things, having "good hair"like President Clinton,

From Alaska to Alabama,negative campaigning is the fa­vored tactic this year. But somecandidates are willing to balancethe attacks with some referencesto their own qualifications,

For instance, Joseph Brennan,a Democratic candidate for gov­ernor inMaine, says he has "moreexperiencewithfirearms than anyother gubernatorial candidate."

Specifically, Brennan, anArmy veteran, has attested to hiscompetence with machine gunsand bazookas.

This has prompted somechuckling in Maine - cartoons ofBrennan in full combat regaliaand so forth.

There is one tactic taking hold

U.S. District Judge WilliamHoeveler found the televisionnetwork guilty of willfully vio­lating his 1990 order againstbroadcasting the calls, which hadbeen taped as a matter of routineby the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

"I am ever mindful of the im­portance of an essentially unfet-

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Bets resort to negative campaigningNEW YORK (AP) - Things aregetting strange out on the cam­paign trail.

AHawaiiancongressional can­didate has vanished. A bank rob­ber is running for the state Legis­lature in Montana. A dead man islikely to be re-elected in WestVirginia.

And around the country, morethanone candidate is making thispromise: "Elect me. I'll resign."

Putting aside the serious is­sues in next Tuesday's election,1994has had more than its shareof political oddities.

Take Alaska. While voterstherehave been enthralled by thequadrennialdebate over whetherto move the state capital fromJuneau to someplace colder, areal issue has taken root in therace for governor.

RepublicanJim Campbell, who

MIAMI (AP) • The Cable NewsNetwork was convicted Tues­day of contempt of court forairing recordings of deposedPanamanian leader ManuelNoriega's jailhouse phone con­versations with his lawyers.

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accounting rule.""It seems they just used the

Gaming Commission as aspring­boardto sell land andto travelallover the globe to sell Tinian as acasinodestination. Butfor thelastseveral years they have failed,"Santos said.

BothSantosand Mafnas askedTinian Representative JoaquinAdriano to relaytheirdisappoint­menttoTinianleaders at thesametimeexhorting themtotakeamoreaggressive approach atestablish­ing the industry.

"Let's gets serious. Saipan alsohas its economic needs too. Theyhadfouryearsand thathasbeenalong time," Santos said.

Mafnas said he hopesTinianwouldworkveryhardtomaketheindustry work.

"People are suffering becauseof thelackof visionandactiononthis. We want to help make theindustry areality. Let's stopcom­plainingand do somethingaboutthe inaction," said the vicespeaker.

their work schedule is," saidSaipanCableNewsBureauChiefJohn Ryan.

"Now SCTV subscribers canwatch the news live at 6:00p.m.daily, or catch one of the fourreplays at either 9:00p.m., 12:00midnight, 6:00a.m .. or 12:00noon," addedRyan.

The news in Chamorrois tele­vised every Saturday night at6:00p.m. with newscaster JohnOliverDLR. Gonzales.

Replaysof theChamorronewsarealsoat6p.m.,midnight,6a.m.and noon.'

Saipan Cable also announcedthat you can see weatherupdateson typhoon Zelda rninutes aftertheyare releasedby the Office ofEmergency Management onSaipanCableTV's weatherchan­nel41.

Alvaro Santos

tempt to bring full blown, un­regulated casino gambling intothe Commonwealth through theback door, he said they will killthe casino industry on Tinian.

But according to Santos, thereis nothing to kill in terms of acasinoindustry onTinianbecauseit has not existed.

Citingarecent auditof theCom­mission, Santos said .the Tiniangaming bodyhas violated "every

aipan Cable addslocal programming

DRIVE WITH CARE

BEGINNING tonight Gover­nor Tenorio's weekly press con­ferences canbeseenthesamedayonThursday nights from 8:OOp.m.- 9:00p.m. on Saipan Cable TVchannel 12.The program will bereplayed on Sunday nights from8:00p.m. - 9:00p.m. on SaipanCableTV channel 12.

The actual press conference isheld on Thursday mornings be­ginning at 8:30a.m. on CapitolHill. Although the lengthof eachpressconference varies,theywillbe televised in their entirety.

The SaipanCableNewsdepart­menthas also announced thatbe­ginning tonight there will be a12:00midnightreplayof alldailynewscasts.

'This addedreplayshouldgiveall our viewers an opportunity tosee Cable News no matter what

Herman Manglona

House Bill 9-262, establishesthegamesofTwenty-One, High­Low and Baccarat while HouseBill 9-79, the Pachinko and slotmachine actof 1994. Tinianoffi­cia�s noted thatthetwobillswhentaken at the same time in effectestablishes casinogambling intheCNMIwithout goingthrough theinitiative process.

Thegambling billshaveaspur­pose the need to generate morerevenues for the CNMI govern­ment as the Commonwealthmovestowards greaterself-suffi­ciency and less dependence onthe federal government.

According to the mayor, thepractical effects of the bills willhave more than just a fiscal im­pacton theCommonwealth Gen­eral Fund.

Referring to the bills as an at-

officers of both houses, the gov­ernor said collections surpassedthe$140 million mark, anincreaseof about $6 millionover the$134million actual collectionnoted inFY 1993.

He quickly attributed the addi­tional revenues to an increase ineconomic activity in the islands,especially since there were nochanges in the tax laws.

"We have every reason to ex­pect that this upward trend willcontinue," the governor toldSpeaker Benavente and SenatePresident JuanS. Demapan in anOctober 27 letter.

"Major construction startsfor capital improvementprojects and new tourismprojects will will further in­crease tax revenues and we ex­pect additional funds from ag-'gressive collectionofoverdueandcurrenttaxes,"he said.

All in all, the governorsaidheexpects that the CIPs and im­provedcollection efforts will re­sult in an additional $10 millioninrevenue collections during FY1995, for a total of $150 millionunder thecurrent structure.

According to the governor, thetax reform bill submitted by hisAdministration inJulywouldfur­therincrease revenues byanaddi­tional $40 million, for a total of$190millioninFY1995, thesameamount he earlier proposed forhis FY 1995 budget.

Jesus Mafnas

sored. The mayor said the twobills in effect establishes casinogambling inall of theCNMI,ren­deringTinian's exclusiveright toput up casinosuseless.

Under ArticleXXloftheCNMIConstitution, gambling isprohib­ited in the NMI except as pro­vided by Commonwealth law orestablished through initiative intheCommonwealthorinanysena­torial district.

The island of Tinian has beenthe only island so far to havelegally acquired themeans tostarta regulated casino industry, hav­ingbeentheonlydistrictthatrati­fied a casinoGaminginitiative.

Both the other islands of RotaandSaipanhave previously triedto do the same, only to be metwithopposition by their elector­ates.

owntaxproposal after the Houseleadership earlier indicateditwillnotconsider thechiefexecutive'sproposal onhowto reform the taxsystem.

Speaker DiegoT. Benavente inanearlier interview saidtheHousewill be supporting an alternativereform version proposed by theSaipan Chamber of Commerce inthat it is the least burdensomeamong thethreeversions underHouse consideration.

Seeing this as willingnesson the part of the Legislatureto consider some form of taxreform, Tenorio offered tolower his proposal's projectedrevenue increase if the law­making body would just con­sider his proposal.

"We are convinced that thebasic shape of our tax reformproposal is far superior toother proposals being consid­ered by Legislature. If you arewilling to work from our ba­sic proposal, we are willing toaccept a smaller revenue in­crease," said Tenorio.

He said if the Senate and theHouse can agree on an increasebetween $25 and $40 million,resulting in total revenues inthe $175 to $190 millionrange, he is willing to adjusthis tax reform measure andhis FY 1995 budget accord­ingly.

In his letter to the presiding

GAMING proponents in theHouseofRepresentatives yester­day blasted leaders of the islandof Tinian for not accomplishingenough in terms of establishing acasinoindustry on the island.

In separateprivilege speeches,ViceSpeakerJesusP.Mafnas andRepresentative Alvaro Santosad­monished TinianMayorHermanM. Manglona for his criticism ofgaming bills thatoriginated fromthe Houseof Representatives.

Bothsaidthepursuitofthebills'goals arejustifiedconsidering thattheCasinoInitiative inTinianhasyet to accomplish its goal of es­tablishing the first casino in theSecondSenatorial District.

"I can't see whyTinianshouldkeepon complaining whenit hadsix years to implement the Actand have not done so," saidMafnas.

"It is not fair for them to con­tinue to complain when Saipanand Rotaare readyto set up suchan industry," he said.

On the otherhand, Santos wascritical oftheTinianCasinoGam­ing Commission for not havingproducedresults over theyearsithas been in existence.

"It seemstheyhavespentfundsand nothinghas come out of it,"he said in his privilege speech.

Both lawmakers clearly re­sentedcriticismthatcamerecentlyfrom Mayor Manglona over twogambling bills they have spon-

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Tinian told to push casino harder

GOVERNOR Froilan C.Tenorio has called the attentionof the Legislature to a healthyrevenue collectionfor fiscal year1994arid hasexpressedoptimismthat the trend will continue onuntil FY 1995.

This,he said, coupledwithhisproposed changesin thetaxstruc­turewouldamountto some$175million to $190 million in rev­enues, depending on the adjust­ments the Legislature wouldliketo have on his Administration'sproposal.

The governor last week re­sponded to a draft audit reportfrom theDepartment ofInterior'sInspector General who said theCNMI tax system didnotproducetheadditional revenues neededtofundgovernmental operations.. He provided both the Houseand the Senate copies of a letterhe received from MarvinPierce,the acting Assistant InspectorGeneral .for Audits, and his re­sponse to thatletter,inthehopeof::onvincing the Legislature intoconsidering his administration'sproposed tax reform measure.

"Please note that the audit re­port recommends an increase inlocal tax revenues and greaterequity in our taxsystemalongthelines proposed by this adminis­tration," thegovernor toldthetwohouses of Legislature in a ietterlastweek.

Tenorio made a pitch for his

Tenorio asks solons towork along his tax bill

Another smuggling group,fromLisbon, Por­rugal, tested theuse of hollowed-out shippingcrates by concealing 43 bottles of wine. Oneconfidentialreportnotes that"itwas anapparent'dryrun' test ofthe false floored shippingcrate"which U.S. Customs discovered.

One interesting method originating inThai­land is the use of plywood sheets speciallylaminated tocreate internal compartments, orastack of plywood sheets strapped together toconceal a large internal void area

Inthefirst instance, DEAagents discoveredaDile ofplywood ina Bangkok storage facilitywhosesheets were 1-1/8inches thick. "Plywoodsheets are seldom manufactured inthicknessesgreaterthan3/4inchessosuspicionwasaroused,"anintelligence report says. Though itappeared.extemallythatthesheets were threesheetsgluedtogether, the middle was afalse one concealingalarge quantity of'Thai s~ck" marijuanapack­ages.

Some traffickers are noteven above mixingsymbols of hearth and home-like bread­boards-withhashish: Thereportnotedamulti.kilo hashish seizure at Amsterdam which in.volved the useofbreadboards hollowed outtohide the drug.

REDMENA~Judging byCIA reports,Americans might find themselves longing forthe good old days of the Cold War before thedecadeisout

CIAdirector James Woolsey recently told aCongressionalcommitteethatanestimilted5,700organized crime groups have cropped up inRussia and threaten to auction off the fonnersuperpower's nuclear arsenal to rogue ThirdWorld nations. With the dismantlement ofap­proximately2,OOOnuclearmissilesevecymonth·under theStART Treaty, there is a growingsurplus ofweaponready plutonium inRussia

Unlike during theCOld War, theenemy thistime isnotaforeign government, aDd problemscannot besolved with summit meetings, diplo­macyorhotlines. 'The(organizedCrimegroups)feedoffofsocieties' weaknesses, conupting theDOnna! course oflife, and destroying civic cul­ture," Woolsey said 'Their quest for profitmocks all laws, mores and values: They erodewhathope isleft innations newlyemergedfromtotalitarianism."

If the United States cannot find a way tocontain the nuclear threat posed by organizedcrime, theworld's sole remaining superpowercould soon find itselfbargaining forpeace withmobsters.

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WASHINGTON- Thegovernment's muchballyhooed war on drugs shows scant signsvictory, perhaps becausedrugrunners areusingever'more ingenious ways of concealing thecontraband they ship tothe United States,

Afederal information sharing unitrunbytheDrug Enforcement Administration and a halfdozen other federal agencies inEl Paso, Texas,keeps track of the concealment methods ancprepares special reports forother law enforce­ment agencies.

The reports arestamped "Confidential" and.1Ot intended for publication, but we've re­viewed several ofthem.

Among other things, thereports show thatsome drug runners arealsoadept wood crafts­men and metal workers. For instance, U.S,Customs officials inNew York City recentlyfound more than30pounds ofopium sticks inthe hollow backings of pictures andplaquesarriving from Iran. Ironically, all ofthese pic­tures and plaques bore the stem visage of theAyatollah Khomeini,

Hiding drugs inside large containersostensi­bly carrying innocent items, like farm'equip­ment and wooden furniture, into America issuch afavorite ofsmugglers, theDEA recentlyprepared anadvisory tolaw enforcement offi­cialsabout someofthe more creative "contain-

."ers.Eight pounds of heroin were found inside

four handcrafted wooden room divideis arriv­inginSan Francisco from Thailand. Woodenlamps and gaming tables coming from Leba­non into the San Diego airport were found tocontain260poundsofhashishinbackgammontables and 15poundsofhashishoil inthelamps.

Carved wooden figurines areanother favor­ite. DBA agents in Seattle reported seeing acrackina wooden bust of a South AmericanIndian coming from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Suspectirig thepiecehadbeensawedinhalfandgluedback together, agentspopped it openandfound 4 kilograms ofcocaine.

Another confidential DEA report notedthatU.S. Customs marijuanaseizuresofthistypeatMiami, Atlanta and Guatemala City have gen­ernlly involved commercial air couriers fromCaribbean countries.

Traffickers will also hollow our the framesand runners of wooden shipping crates andpallets toconceal drugs. One seizure of ship­ping crates arriving at Miami InternationalAirportonacommercial flight from Colombiayielded 94pounds ofconcealed cocaine.

JACK ANDERSON and MICHAEL BINSTEIN

.WASHINGTON, MERRY-GO-ROUND

Drug smuggling isa sinister art form

4-MARlANAS VARIETY NEWS AND.VIEWS-THURSDAY-NOVEMBER 3, 1994

...................................' .Komprendiyon na ayo siha na gaseta i manmalagnos pot abuson taotao

hiyofig guine hana' fan bubo hit sa' pot checho' un taotao, todos manmanmirese fache' achog i asunto rnemegaifia ti man pattisipao osino manmanisague. Lao ta sufigon gi hilo' pinasensiasa' hu tufigoha' lokue' naguahagi entre hita man manisague gi abuson direchon empleaota ginen Filipinas.

Klaro lokue' na ti taotao tano' ha' manaonao guenao na inakusa. KontodoKoreano, Japones, Chino yan Filipino man acha isao ha' todo gi abuson

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empleao ginen hiyoiig. Ni uno soplu sa' todo ha' man gai liheiig gumaespehos, Ayo mina' tai balii para tana' kahulo metbiosta sin presiso. Mailata aksepta na hungan maiiasaonao hit gi este naabuso.

Rason na hu yayama .attension miyo nos pot para ta atisa i asunto gi tikombene na manera. Lao seguroyo' na mafigonfotme hamyo na debi tana' fanmaagim korasonta ya ta ke satba este na atetuta osino maiiata sa' taotao ha'lokue' i prohimo osino prohima ni fumachuchuchue' hao. Gi kadada ha' .namanera, mufiga hit manman dispressia sa' ni uno prefecto manaifia. Dispues,ti ennao man mafanagueta nu i mafiainata. Maila ta onra siha gi hechuranpropio na disposision para maseha haye na kilisyano.

Hungan siempre hana' fan masa' hit man manemplea ginen Filipinas manmauleg siha yan professionat na man fafachochu' piot ayo siha na kategoriaitaya' kualifikao gi halom yan entalo' taotaota. Sifia ha' lokue' gumuahadispues mobimento para ta chague' Filipinas na metkaon hutnalerospot todois keha gi kotte pago na tiempo. Dipotsihe matto i tiempo 'nai debi tafanmapaiigon na ni hita mismo man tai direcho man manabusa direchon taotao.Mauleg ta komprende lokue na i direchon nih a pareha yan hita mismo ni taotaotano. Estague' sustansiaiia i man halom hit petmanente patte gi familianpolitikan Estados Unidos de America.

I asunto afafielos ti pot Filipino, Koreano, Japones osino Chino. I checho'gaige direktamente na ta diskrimimina un taotao osino grupon taotao sa' taaatan papa' komo tagpapa'. Lache este na hinaso ya seguroyo' na ni hagomismo ti un konfotme yangin hago fumachochuchue' siha gi tano' niha.Seguroyo' lokue na siempre un demanda na un marespeta yan matrata komotaotao,

Hatme pot unrato sapatos niha este sina na taotaogue i hagas hasufigon todomattiro ginen hita yan otro siha na manman emplelea, Chage kumekomprendehafa mohon sifiienten niha, pot ihemplo, i muchacha an humalom gi kuattofiadispues de oran chochu' ya inistane ni tatan guma'. Osino, haso kao un magofyangin todo membron familian amumo man eesalao na chogue este yan ayogi etmismotiempo? Fueraha' de bulacho hao, siempre unlalalo' sa' ti esklabohao na finafiago.

Haso lokue' pot unrato komo saina kao un magot yangin rna afuetsaspatgonmo palaoan muna' magof un estrafighero sin konsimentofia? Kao pattegi kutturata i para ta bendin 'iiaihon famaguonta fama1aoan pot dinisponen untai konsiensia na amo? Halom fan pot unrato gi titanos ennao na prohima yaun siente hafa mohon sifiientefia an ha konsidedera hafa para ususede anmachom i adao 'nai siempre rna afuetsasgue' ialo man dalag otro estrafigherosin minalagofia? Fuera ha de serioso na abuso hafafana' gi hilo minaa'fiao,hatufigo i prohima na ti marespeta dig nona, yan isao i para ufannae' ni uttimounrofia yan guinahafia pot salape'. Maila ta aregla este na problema ya tana'fan metgot hit prumaktika hafa finanaguen nana yan tata. Si Yuus Maase.

**** """,Sumen na' magofi kantidan taotao ni muna' gasgas yan umadotna i siputtura

antes de Haanen Tolos Santos. Bonito i naftan siha ya anog na para todo iminapottagi preparasion para ennao na haane, memetgot ha' trabiha i kutturanrelihion gi inaassisten man matai.

'Nai tumotohgeyo' gi menan naftan tataho mananayuyot, ha yamaattensionhopot unrato i taihinekog na pas yan trankilida gi ayo siha na taotaota i estamangaige gi taihinekog na diskanso. Uno ha' yo' umestotba: I kantidan padetni manmahogse i los pobres. Yangin un dia ufato i hinekog i tano', dudayo'kao guahamakenaria sifia manma atkila pot para uma mueba ayo siha na padet.

Lao gaige giennao siha na pidason padet i ansia giya hita pot para ta proteheman guinaiyata ni esta hadifigo hit. Maila pago tatayuyute siha kosake sinaufaiiiha yan i Nanalibreta gumosa i kabales yan tai achaigua na pas yantrankilida gi prefekto paraiso-i langet, Si Yuus Maase.

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assist island countriesand territo­ries to improve the economic andsocial lives of Pacific Islandspeople," Borja said.

The Secretaries of the CNMIDepartments of Lands and Natu­ral Resources and Public Healthwill submit their program priori­ties to Herman Guerrero, whoserves as the SPC Coordinator intheCNMI.

Borja credited Guerrero and theother members of the CNMI del­egation for their hard work beforeand during the conference. DelRosario chaired the SPC Com­mittee ofRepresentatives ofGov­ernments and Administrations,which met twice earlier this yearto prepare for the Conference.

Staffed with experts from Pa­cific and other countries, the SPCis a non-political organizationthatoffers assistance to cortununityprograms and projects with em­phasis on training, self-reliance,and development.

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to manage their marine resourcesin "a rational and sustainableway," it was reported. "This in­cludes upgrading the technicalexpertise in the government andprivate sectors," Borja said. "Italso means helping the govern­ment and private sector as well asthe general public to understandthe importance of fishery man­agement and conservation issues,"he added.

While off-shore fishery in theCNMI still needs to be developedin regard to the catching, process­ing and marketing of tuna andother pelagic species, Borja saidthere is a greater need to seriouslyconsider measures to conserve thein-shore fishery before this finiteresource is depleted.

In regard to social programsidentified as the third priority for1995, Borja .acknowledged theNorthern Marianas has benefitedtremendously from past SPChealth training programs. "Giventhe spiraling costs of health care,it is important for the CNMI tocontinue its relationship with theSPC so that we can improve ourpreventive health care," said thelieutenant governor.

Preventive health care, whichincludes educating the generalpublic about healthy nutrition andlifestyle, was noted to be the mostcost-efficient and beneficial healthcare in the long run.

"There are other areas wherethe Northern Marianas has ben­efited from various SPC techni­cal assistance. SPC is the onlyregional economic and social or­ganization in thePacific that hasexisted for 47 years. We appreci­ate the SPC's dedicated efforts to

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sistence and commercial farmingand livestock production. So theeradication of plant and animalpests is an important goal," saidBorja.

A recipient ofpast SPC techni­cal assistance for plant and live­stock production, Borja stressedthat the CNMI intends to fullyutilize the technical expertise ofthe SPC to help our subsistenceand commercial farmers.

With fisheries identified as thesecond most important programfor 1995, the SPC will assist SouthPacific countries and territories

Hyatt Regency in Maui, Hawaii.While with Hyatt in Hawaii, heassisted with the opening of finedining establishments'and enter­tainment centers. He was also amember on Hawaii's Food Advi­sory Board and Coordinator forBig Brothers/Big Sisters 'ofAmerica,

In April of 1991, Schwartztransferred to Hyatt Saipan wherehe managed the Oceana Houseand Teppanyaki Restaurants. OnSaipan, he introduced the "SaipanCellarmasters" which is an infor­mational programoffood and bev­erages from around the world.

Schwartz is married to BrendaSchwartz and became a proud fa­ther to a daughter on September22,1994.

Sohale Samari joined NMCwith a wealth of experience,knowledge, and skills which mostdefinitely complement his teach­ing career.

Samari received his B.S. inChemical Engineering fromNortheastern- University in Bos-

Guerrero, executive assistant toGovernor Froilan C. Tenorio;John S. Del Rosario, a public re­lations consultant, and ElizabethD. Rechebei, a special consultant.

Program priorities for '1995were based on the results of aquestionnaire submitted to eachof the 27 member-countries oftheSPC. Agriculture received themost support followed by fisher­ies and social programs, it wasreported.

"Most Pacific island countriesand territories, including theCNMI, want to improve their sub-

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1994 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS ;\..ND VIEWs~7

SPCsets priorities for 1995Borja leads NMI delegation. to Vanuatu confab

ALAN Schwartz and SohaleSamari have joined the NorthernMarianas College School ofBusi­ness and HospitalityManagementthis fall. Prior to joining NMC,Schwartzand Samari gained valu­able experience with the Busi­ness Sector.

Alan Schwartzjoined the NMCSchool ofBusiness and Hospital­ity in August 1994. His profes­sional training, background, andexperience make him a definiteasset to the School of Businessand Hospitality Management. Heis a Vietnam Veteran and wasborn on November 30, 1951 inChicago, Illinois. He is a graduateof the Culinary Institute ofAmericain Hyde Park, New York(1974) and completed a WineStudy Program in Europe in 1975.He joined the Columbia Collegein California as an Instructorwhere he supervised students un­dertaking their training in a hotelrestaurant which was used as aliving laboratory.

In 1985 Schwartz joined the

ttSI).t\. begins reorganization ·, ,',<\';, "l.: •. :: : ,. 'I"~ . ". ".

'WITll;paSsage',~pegislation ployment by 7,500 over the next bined under a new Consoli-'~'authorizing reorganization of '. five years (though .this figure dated Farm Service Agency,.the.,m$;DeparttnenfofAgri-, may change upward):·,··. . (CFSA)includingfunctionsof:,'C~~1plans~U~d~~aYJo'. *Clos.e <and/()[ consolidate .ASeS, FCIC and.farm-lend-ti~gin~e·p~~eis,si#tb~adquar~.. 1l00USD4fi~ld,~ffi~es.. . in~ activi~e.s of FmHA. ~~A' .~TterswbichlDclu.destheWll8h-' .. ·Strea.mJme·natlonaloffice will administer commodity'ti,~gt~~);c:~f~iiip~eXi~~,toP . with six b~icnUssionareas:. priceandinco~esupport,pro-":'~dmiW$~tive officesm the·"'ComblDe. farmer.jservice grams, crop insurance, farm:?~te~;;1t;~S:,}:>:::;::::;,'>: •.... ;.... :,,:.,. ." a¢e~,cie8 intp~.~l1g1~f~~~r- ·lendin~ ..the Agriculture Con- I .m;~i\:n~~S:lteleaserecelvedby ..VIce Agency;", :' ..."';. .',' servation Programs (ACP),;'"theVaa.~:yesterdayhad US .'*Blevatefoo(hafetyfunctions and the Conservation Reserve '

<..$~...... re.·;e~.".:.:...).. ~s.,p.. ·yr.'~'.;.•.!l.;~ing$..·#U.h.e.,.Withappoin.~-. en.t Of.'an... pn~er ··Pr.ogr~ (CRP)~ The law at-·;P.t:bC~:iwlllbe.::carried out m Secretary forfood Safety.." lowsInterchangeableuse of(~:'''~mPJpyC¥,Al¢pdlY.man- , "'Maintainaseparate resource . ,federal employees and non-2!t~r~~:~Jpe~~.~()n,~illbeconservat~onag~ncy.' . . . federal employees. of county,.:::AA8Y.;f91;~!npl'?Y~s;:',;<: ..,! ··''''Estabhsh an Offic~ of Risk area farmer committees oper-:!iJ::tR~f$a:~z~ti()~i:;raskForce Asses~ment, Cost. .Benefit ating CFSA offices,i;()mc.~~Y1Pmostcasesem- AnalYSIS ". .:'. A. Natural Resources Con-\p19Y~j!Vfi~9()~th.iue:todothe . *Bstablisha single.jndepen- serv~ti.onService~RCS)will'{.~....t:I.~'.··:p.~:~.:.9t.'.'.~.·'same·geo- dentNational ~pp.ealSDiViS~on administer all. a.gnculture-re-fgtlM>~i~~oJ;t;.~erreorga- . ~e law provides f~r creation lated conservation programs\:',o,izati~P.i;j::':':-"~ . • . of SIX U':ldersecr~tanes: Farm except. those assigned to(~~:Jniti8llt, :Agencyftnanclal and Foreign Agncultural Ser- CFSA,.i:~d.,~is~~~e.f~nctions vice, Rural and c:omm~~tyDe- NRCS will be assigned the.,willblcQDsohdated into one. velopment, Food Nutrition and Wetlands Reserve Programs,~f~n~~~t.'i;~(~f,~:~;:.;. '.' ').,'" . ConsumerServices, Natural Re- Water Bank J?rogra!D,_Colo-~t;t,The:~iga,Di~on legisla-: sources and Environment, Re-. rado RiverBasinSalinity Con->1~~9.~·.~~~:~Yi4e8 the ~c;c-~arch,Education and :Eco.no~- trol :,-ct Prog~, Forestry ~-\. >t~~t~f\gt~,?~l~ur~ ~~th ics, and F~d Safety, ..~hich IS centJ.ves}>r?~ram,GreatPla1Ds

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THE RECENTLY.concludedThirty-Fourth Conference of theSouth Pacific Commission (SPC)has identified agriculture, fisher­ies, and social programs as theCommission's budget prioritiesfor 1995, Lieutenant GovernorJesus Borja said in a news releaseyesterday.

Borja headed the CNMI del­egation to the SPC Conference inPort Vila, Vanuatu from October24th to October 26, 1994.

The other members of theCNMI delegation were Borja'swife, Mary Anne; Herman T.

NMC welcomes new facultyton (1972) and his MBA fromBabson College in Wellesley,Massachusetts (1974). He laterjoined his family business whichincluded sales 'Il1ddistribution ofpharmaceutical, cosmetics andbaby food products in the MiddleEast. After the 1979 revolution inIran he moved back to the UnitedStates where he started his ownconsulting business in Interna­tional Business Administration.

His work included PortfolioManagement as well as creatingManagement Information Sys­tems. In 1984 he joinedPanametrics Incorporated ofWaltham, Massachusetts wherehe worked as a Product Managerfor Ultrasonic Products used bothfor medical applications as wellas inspectionofengineering prod­ucts. At Panametrics he also es­tablished elaborate ManagementInformation Systems and SalesLead Tracking Systems. He hasdelivered technical and businesslectures and has authored variouspublications.

In addition to receivingachievement certificates, thewomen graduates will dem­onstrate verbal strategies,kicks, strikes, and how to getout of grabs and pins. Theywill also be challengedthrough some rigorous role­plays and group encounters.

address public beahh coecems, DEQmaintains its policy of advising Irepublicrot to fishorswim within 300feet of these locationswithin48bours,of this ootice.

'Ire Division of EnvironmentalQuality analyzes samples of marinerecreatiooal andstoondrainage waterfrom 37locationsonire westsideofSaipan island each week. DEQwel­comes allinquiries astoIrequalityofire beachwater. Tbepablic isencour­aged tocootactDEQat234-6114withanyquestions corceming thismatter.

and supervision of key' per­sonnel, a nun would be CUltur­ally appropriate consideringthat the 'people in the' com­monwealth are very religious.

At present, Public HealthAdministrator JosephineSablan serves as the actinghospital administrator afterPete Untalan, the former ad­ministrator, resigned severalmonths ago.

ter, power and wastewater ser­vices on the islands of Saipan,Rota and Tinian. Most recently,the EPA granted full certificationto the CUC Water Quality Labo­ratory and liftedprevious Admin­istrative Orders against theutility's wastewater operationsindicating that CUC consistentlymeets federal regulations andproperly treats all wastewater.

As Wednesday's meeting con­cluded, EPA's Jim Branch notedthat the CUC had made tremen­dous progress saying, "I don'tknow if the public is aware of it ornot, but you've (CUC) done agood job on all of these (environ­mental) issues."

Branch said he had monitoredand analyzedCUC's water reportin Saipan, Rota and Tinian, andhe was about to lift Administra­tive orders for Rota and Tinian."In the past, the quality of thewater in Rota and Tinian did notmeet good standards. Now, theCUC has solved those problemsby upgrading the system andtreat­ing the water. All data shows noviolations of the Safe WaterDrinking Act, so I am ready to liftthose orders," he explained.

The EPA and the United StatesBureau of Reclamation (USBR)are working with the CUC onadditional system improvementsfor the Saipan water supplies.

lian, and mainland-American- and they represent ten dif­ferent professions, and sev­eral age groups, shapes andsizes.

The ceremonies start at 9:00at the Vocational EducationBuilding at the NorthernMarianas College.

*Beach at Tanapagmeetinghall*Drainage south of Hafa-Adai

BeachHotelHigh concentrations of Fecal

Coliforms may be the result ofstormwater runoffdueto rainstorm'>.

Fecal Coliform bacteria are rot usu­ally disease causing. 'Irebacteriacanindicate the presence of human andanimal waste in ire water. Studieshavesbownthat storm waterruroffintropical environments may also con­tain fccaI coliform bacteria fromirenatural environmert. To adequately

development programs.Last September, the DPHS

sought assistance from GlenHaydon, president of theMercy International HealthServices in Farmington Hills,Michigan, to provide them anun who is interested to workas hospital administrator.

Abraham earlier said he be­lieves that aside from beingan effective in management

EPA cites CUC formaking progress

REPRESENTATIVES fromthe U.s. Environmental Protec­tion Agency (EPA) met yester­day with managers of the Com­monwealth Utilities Corporation(CUC) in an evaluation of envi­ronmental programs and regula­tions.

The EPA has been instrumentalin educating and regulating wa-

This weekend you can seefor yourself why neither ofthese images is correct.

On Saturday fourteenwomen will graduate from thefirst Self-Defense for Womencourse offered on Saipan.They are Chamorro, Japanese,Filipino, Lebanese, Austra-

TIIEDMSIONoffnvironmentalQuality (DEQ) analyzed watersamplescollected from Saipan's rec­reationalbeachesandstorrndrainagesthis week.Thesamplescollcctedfromtt¥: following locations contained ex­cessivecooccntrationoffecalcolifonnbacteria, whichexceededire CNMIMarine WaterQualityStandards.*~h at San Roque School*~h at AquaResort Hotel*Smiling Cove Marina*Drainagesouth of Dai-Ichi Hotel*Beach at Plurreria Hotel

14 women finish self-defense course

Weekly water report

Dr, Isamu J. Abrahamsues.

Variety learned thatWardlaw's special areas ofinterest concern institutionalleadership and governance,hospital/medical staff rela­tions, merger and affiliationactivities, and strategic facil­ity development projects.

She has also extensive ex­perience in project financingand the management and co­ordination of major hospital

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and our liberal tax structurewith a 95% rebate," Abrahamtold Wardlaw.

The DPHS secretary re­sponded to Wardlaw's letterlast October 26, expressing thelatter's desire to get the posi­tion.

"I am confident that we willmake a good team. I am' veryeager to start the position,since it involves not only therunning of the hospital but alsothe development of healthpolicy re NMI's medically un­insured," Wardlaw said.

She asked Abraham to pro­vide her a table or organiza­tion from the department andhospital, general backgroundinformation on the hospitalsuch as types of services pro­vided, number of admissionsand outpatient visits, numberof employees, description ofaffiliation agreements, healthstatus indicators for the NMIpopulation, and summary ofoutstanding health policy is-

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OFSHAREHOLDERS

S.H.A. PROJECT, INC.Called by: Hiroshi Alba, TreasurerlMajor Stockholder

NOTICE ishereby given that, pursuanttoa call by the Treasurer/Major Stockholder of the corporation, a special meeting of thestockholders of S.H.A, Project. Inc., a corporation of the Com­monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, will be held atGarapan, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana is­lands, on the 7th day of November, 1994, at the hour of 1:00o'clock, p.m., for the purposes ofelecting new directors of thecorporation, and forsuch other matters as may come later beforethe stockholders atthat time.

The close of business of the 6th day of November, 1994, hasbeen fixed as the record date for determining stockholdersentitled to receive notice of and to vote at this meeting, or anyadjournment thereof.

Dated this 21st day ofOctober, 1994.

Hiroshi AlbaMajor Shareholder/Treasurer

Employees of the Governor's Office beautify the surroundings of the Administration Buildingyesterday. The recent Typhoon Wilda left plantdebris

around the Vicinity necessitating some sweeping and painting touch-ups. .

By Ferdie de laTorre

THE DEPARTMENT of Pub­lic Health Services has offeredthe Commonwealth HealthCenter's top position to a NewYork-based marketing finn presi­dent.

The DPHS expressed interestin hiring Ms. AngelaM. Wardlawto be the hospital administrator, asensitive CHC post left open for afew months already.

Wardlaw is the current presi­dent of the Wardlaw Group, afirm based in Syracuse, NewYork. specializing in strategic,market and facility planning forme Central New York health careindustrj.

DPHS Secretary Dr. Isamu 1.Abraham sent last week a letterenclosed with the job descriptionand employment contract toWardlaw for review.

"Perhaps the greatest benefit ofthe position is the satisfaction youwill get from your contribution tothe development ofanew system,

New York exec eyed for eHe post,~ :";, ~ .~t~.I':':"J .... s >; .>. "~.~.'. \',','1 'J! ~ ,\',,0'\1,_,,1., ""~I.'" "1

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Serbattitude mightbe contagious."The great danger is the other

combatants will follow the samepolicy, and we'll end up in a hu­manitarian morass."

The recent Serb refusals to al­low medical evacuations followsa series of other incidents under­mining humanitarian work.

One reason Gorazde' s hospitalis short-staffed is because twoSarajevo doctors, who volun­teered to help ease the shortage,have been detained for a week bythe Serbs. The doctors had beengiven Serb clearance to travel byroad between the two besiegedareas, but.were arrested anyway,even though accompaniedbyU.N.personnel.

Last month, a U.N. food con­voy driver was killed by Serbgunfire near Gorazde, a day afterSerb soldiers hijacked and looteda medical supply convoy nearSarajevo.

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ButKesslersaid thisagreement,.frequently violated in the past, isnow in danger of collapse be­cause the Serbs want to set up anew, potentially obstructive sys­tem for advance review of re­quests for convoy passage.

"We don't want to send faxesback and forth, and perhaps betold we can't go through becausethe fax machine isn't working,"Kessler said.

The Serbs also were refusing toallow the UNHCR's local inter­preters to accompany relief work­ers traveling into Serb-held areas.Kessler rejected as unacceptablea Serb proposal to provide Serbinterpreters for these missions,saying the agency needed to relyon its regular staff.

The Muslim-led Bosnian gov­ernment and Bosnian Croats whocontrol thesouthwest of thecoun­try have been less obstructive, butKessler said his agency feared the

could lose a leg shattered in agrenade blast, Kessler said.

The UNHCR hoped to evacu­ate 22 other patients to Sarajevofrom Gorazde, where the hospitalisunderstaffedandcriticallyshortof medicines, but Serbs also areblocking that transfer, he said.

"These obstructions are need­lessly prolonging the agony ofcivilians," Kessler said. "Thesepeople are suffering. They arenon-combatants. They have theright to medical treatment, to diein surroundings they are familiarwith."

He also asserted that the Serbswere attempting to pose new re­strictions on the movement of re­lief convoys from Sarajevo's air­port into the city.

Under a June 1992 agreement,the Serbs promised to let reliefconvoys pass freely through theircheckpoint between the airportand city.

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chanical systems. Both deviceswere recovered from the wreck­age and sent to Washington foranalysis.

the U.N. High Commissioner forRefugees, assailed the Serbs onTuesday for repeatedly obstruct­ing humanitarian work.

He said the Serbs have refusedto let five seriously ill womenreturn to their homes in the north­ern city of Tuzla from besiegedSarajevo, where they caine inAugust for emergency medicaltreatment. Two of the women areterminally ill with breast cancer,and want to return home to die.

Serbs also are refusing to allowthe evacuation to Sarajevo of aiO-year-old boy in the besiegedeastern enclave of Gorazde who

By DAVID CRARY

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - TheAmericanEagleplanethatcrashedin a farm field was almost newwith only one maintenance prob­lem on record - a broken interiorlight.

The twin-engine, high-wingpropellerjet went down Mondayas it approached Chicago'sO'Hare Airport in a rainstorm.AIl68peopleon boardwerekilled.

The Super ATR was registeredin March and had gone through1,671takeoffs and landings, log­ging 1,352 hours of flight time,said AIMarucci, a spokesman forthe airline based in Fort Worth,Texas.

Through September, the onlyproblem reported with the planewas a broken floor light, accord­ing to Federal Aviation Adminis­tration records. It was reportedApril 3 and fixed May 2.

The aircraft's last "line check,"conducted every 50 flight hours,was Oct. 28.lts last "A-check," amore extensive systems checkdone after 250 flight hours, wason Oct. 2, Marucci said.

The Super ATR and smallerATR-42 aircraft are built by aEuropean consortium comprisedof Aerospatiale of France andAlenia ofItaly. About 130 are inservice worldwide, said AlainBrodin, president of ATR Mar­keting Inc., the planes' Americanmarketer.

The flight records of 30 SuperATRs and ATR-42s operating intheUnitedStatesare"exemplary,"said Charlotte Casey, a NationalTransportation Safety Boardspokeswoman in Washington.

Twenty-three of the SuperATRsareregisteredwiththeFAA.Inall,they haveexperienced threemaintenance problems assignedthe highest FAA severity code,"frequent accident relationship."

All three were landing-gearproblems that were "repairedwithout incident," according toFAA records.

Noneof the problems occurredon landing and none involved theplane that crashed.

NTSB investigators hope tolearnmore from the plane's cock­pit voice recorder, which recordscockpit conversations, and theflightdatarecorder. whichrecordsthe operation of the plane's me-

US' plane that crashedhad only minor problem

By RICK CALLAHAN

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1994 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-9

Hum.anitarian aid obstructedSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Some ofBosnia's most vulnerable civil­ians - wounded children, dyingcancer patients - face added suf­fering because of Serb obstruc­tion of humanitarian operations,according to U.N. officials.

While attention focuses on thebattlefields,where Bosnian Serbsare experiencing their worst de­featsof the war, reliefworkers arestruggling on the sidelines to aidthe wounded, sick, and hungry.

Peter Kessler, a spokesman for

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thatdirect flights cansoonbeginbe­tween JapanandPalau, theministrysaid.

State Minister Andres Uherbelausigned thediplomatic documents forPalau.Palaubecame~O:t I after

beingadminiseredbytreUnitedNatioossince 1947. It bOO been ruled ~~GmmynlSrcintdaethn

cast on 162.4 and 162.55megahertz or the EmergencyInformation Hotline at tele­phone numbers 322-0222 or322-0220 or the EmergencyManagement Office at tele­phone numbers 322-9529/9572/9274/9530/9528.

such actions."...Plaintiff and her two minor

children have suffered a pecuni­ary loss through the loss ofdecedent's financial support,"according to the complaint.

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possession with intent to dis­tribute controlled substance.The methamphetamine in­volved weighed about 190grams.

He and the other defendantsareaccused of conspiring together toimport, importation of and pos­session with intent to distributemethamphetamine.

They were arrestedwhileawait­ingtrial inSuperior Courtonsimi­larcharges. Their arrests followedmonths of probe by federalinvestigators into the allegedimportation of 'large amountof methamphetamine into, thecommonwealth from the Phil­ippines.

Palau's "nation-building" throughtraining andotherefforts.

Nakamura,whoseancestryisJapa­nese, thanked KonoforJapan'shelpin building ports, roads, water andsewagefacilities,accordingtoJapan'sforeign ministry.

Nakamura saidPalau wants tobe­come a United Nations member assoonaspossibleandreiterated hopes

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as of 1:00 p.m. yesterday.The Emergency Management

Office will be monitoring themovement of typhoon Zelda andwill be issuing-bulletins as soonas it becomes available. Pleasecontinue to monitor the officialbulletins which will be availablethrough the local media sourcesandNOAAWeatherRadioBroad-

Clarissa A. Alejandro

on December 19 at 9:00 a.m.Agulto is charged with con­

spiracy to import, importation of,

island.However, he had previously also.

aired some concern about theAdministration's hiring practices.

TOKYO (AP) - Promising to helpthe people of Palau run their newlyindependent nation, Japan onWednesday established diplomaticrelations with the fanner U.N. trustterritory.

Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, be­fore signing thedocumentsestablish­ing ties, told President KuniwoNakamura that Japan would help

Rodolfo G. Manuel

tained in a complaint from theU.S. Attorney's Office.

The threeare scheduledfor trial

In a privilege speech during thesession, Mafnas saidthere areposi­tions specified underthegovernor'sExecutive Order94-3which arenotapproved by Legislature by resolu­tion, thereby rendering them ques­tionable.

He asked the speaker to ask theWaysandMeans Committee to un­dertake a review ofallvacancy certi­fications fromthe startof Tenorio'sterm,forwhichtilelatter agreed.

"I direct theCommittee to reviewall certifications from day one andcomeup witha report," thespeakersaid.

Ways and Means CommitteeChairman PeteP.Reyes could notbereached forcomment as hewasoff-

Japan opens diplomaticrelations with Palau

The Chairman for the Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association, Mr. James Lin, presents a $ 300.00contribution to the Veterans Day Committee. Pictured (L to R) are Pete A. DL. Guerrero, Asst. VeteransAffairs Officer, SGMA Executive Director Richard A. Pierce, Chairman Lin, Joe P. Guerrero, Veterans DayCommittee member and Joseph M. Palacios, Division of Veterans Affairs Chief.

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meeting will be held at theBoard of Professional Licens­ing Office located at the Is­land Commercial CenterBuilding 2nd floor, Gualo Rai.

Arnold Z. Agulto

Monday's arraignment fol­lowed the filing of an indictmentwhichcited thesamechargescon-

that, any new positions are sup­posedto be approved by thelegisla­ture viaa jointresolution.

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rolemodel... [he'scapableof]attract­ingandmaintainingparticipationfromlocalbusinesses."

Membersofthepowerfulbusinessorganization holdan election everyyearduring themonth' of Novemberto choosea newsetof officers.

Meanwhile, winners at the 1994Beautification Poster Contest wereannouncedyesterday.Winnerscomefrom various schools in the CNMl,bothpublic andprivate. Prizes werecourtesy ofsome generous Saipancompanies.

Mt. Carmel SchoolTanapag ElementaryTanapag Elementary

By Rafael!. Santos

1st Place2nd Place3rd Place

Ist Place2nd Place3rd Place

Elementary School:Grades 1-3:Ist Place KristineZepeda2nd Place Noby Crisostomo3rd Place Zenylyn GuzmanGrades 4-6:lst Place Jun Miyata Mt. Carmel School2nd Place Hedwig Hofschneider Mr. Carmel School3rd Place Michael Santos W.S.Reyes Elementary

Junior High School:Jessica Kisa Mt. Carmel SchoolJonathan Sin Marianas BaptistAcademy

Niko Q. Tomokane Marianas BaptistAcademyHigh School:

Lawrence Hocog Mt. CarmelSchoolJoan Sablan Mt. Carmel SchoolValerie Demapan Mt. Carmel School

THE BOARD of Profes­sional Licensing will be con­ducting their November Boardmeeting on Tuesday, Novem­ber 8, 1994 at 9:00 a.m. The

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certified by Dave Burger, whoowns an accounting firm,Yoshimoto said.

The new set of officers are ex­pected to be installed next year.The induction maybeheld inmid­January, according toYoshimoto.

Camacho was considered forthe same post because the nomi­nating committee fled that he iscapable and willing to serve thechamber and the community,Yoshimoto told the Variety.

"On that basis, we gave ourvote of confidence," he said, add­ing that they deliberated and se­lected the "best" possible candi­dates in September and October.

"Efrain Camacho is the perfect

Grand PrizeGwendolyn Tudela

12thGrade, MarianasHigh School

Gaskins & Associates; Herman's Modem Bakery, IT&E Overseas,Island Bottling Company, Joeten Motors, MacDonald's of Saipan,MTC,Pacifica InsuranceUnderwriters, SaipanBowling Center, Saipan,Plant Center, Saipan Stevedore, Tropical Plaza

Saipan Chamber of Commerce1994 Beautification

Poster Contest Winners

The Saipan Chamber of Commerce would like to Sincerely Thank theFollowingCompaniesWhose Generous PrizeDonations haveMade thisYear's Poster and EssayContests a Success:

BPL holds Nov. meet

THREE suspects in a majordrug traffickingcasehavepleadedinnocent to methamphetaminecharges contained in an indict­ment from a federal grand jury.

At an arraignment in the U.S.District Court Monday, ArnoldZ. Agulto, Rodolfo G. ManuelandClarissaA. AIejandropleadednot guilty to the drug charges lev­elled against them.

The defendants are being heldwithoutbail because theyarecon­sidered as flight risk. The sus­pects are citizens of the Republicof the Philippines and the courtsaid they lack family ties.

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selves inside a house inHoetzelsroda, 43 miles (70 kms)east of Fulda.

The escapees later fled, drop­ping the children off, switchinggetaway cars and grabbing twomore hostages, a man and awoman, police said. The man, theonly hostage wounded, wasgrazed by a bullet.

The fugitives sped east intoformer East Germany in the carstolen from the television cam­eraman, headed toward Berlin,then turned back.

The outlaws escaped fromHamburg's FuhlsbuettelprisononOct. 10 by sawing through theircell bars, using an electric cableto lower themselves down to thecourtyard, then climbing over thewall with a handmade ladder.

The chase recalled the 54-hourpursuit of two bank robbers inAugust 1988 that ended with thedeaths of two hostages. Reportersoutraged many Germans whenthey interviewed the criminalsoncamera as they held guns to theirvictims' necks.

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ness, but had kept the area sur­rounded by 300 officers.

Policesaidtheywerestillcheck­ing the identity of the man whosurrendered, but German televi­sion said it was the second gun­man.

Albert had been sentenced tolife in prison for strangling a tav­ern owner and cutting off theman's head. Reports that Albertused a machete in the 1991 mur­der could not be confirmed.

The drama began early Mon­day, near

Stuttgart in southern Germany.The two fugitives, who broke outof prison three weeks ago, kid­napped two police officers whoapproached the minivan in whichthe fugitives were sleeping.

The fugitives drove to Fulda,where they robbed a bank of250,000 marks - about $160,000­using one of the kidnapped offic­ers as a shield, police said.

After the robbery, they freedtheofficersona highway,grabbeda man and his two children, aged3 and I, and barricaded them-

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They said they wanted to gosomeplace warm, like Spain orFrance, and hadn't planned tocommit crimes after escapingfrom prison.

Officers ringed Heisterberg, alakeside hamlet north of Frank­furt, after the convicts abandonedtheir black Mercedes Benz andfreed their last hostages Tuesday.

Gerhard Polak, 35, a convictedSwiss extortionist, was foundTuesday afternoon hiding in un­derbrush. Polak was carrying aknapsack containing a dummyhand grenade and loot from theprevious day's bank robbery.

He also had a handgun and amachine pistol.

Convicted murderer RaymondAlbert, 32, a former memberof aneliteunitof the EastGermanarmy,surrendered to police in the samearea several hours later after hedrew their attention by shootingin the air.

Police spokesman Kurt Maiersaid Albert offered no resistance.Police had earlier stopped look­ing for the man because of dark-

The driver backed up about 30meters (100 feet) to block theirpath, jumped the curb onto thesidewalk and pinned Rohanaagainst a wall.

Damron said the passengerstuck a pistol out a window andshot Rohana, who was listed insatisfactory condition Tuesday.The bullet pierced Rohana's lung,missing his heart by about an inch(two centimeters), Damron said.

"Maybe theyjust thought itwasmacho to shoot a gay guy,"Damron said. "They madeajudg­ment that being gay was bad andtheir way of expressing that wasto shoot Victor,"

Officer Sandy Bargioni of thepolice Hate Crimes Unit spentMonday stuffing fliers with adrawing of the attacker into mail­boxes near where the attack oc­curred.

Rohana wasn't the type to lookfor a fight, said a friend, StevenUnderhill. "He's very quiet andshy, certainly one of the mostsweet, kind individuals I've evermet," he said.

Despite thecity's reputation fortolerance, there were 366 anti­gay attacks and incidents of ha­rassment reported in San Fran­cisco last year, said LesterOlmstead-Rose, executive direc­tor of Community United AgainstViolence. The group believes thatonly about 10 percent of harass­ment is actually reported to po­lice.

Advocates said attacks on gaysare very deliberate, with peopledriving into the city's gay sectionfrom the suburbs with the expresspurpose of harassing gays.

"It's not like somcones walk­ing down the street and sees a gayperson and gets upset," Addisonsaid.

Cable TV and tabloid newspa­per reporters did, however, takeadvantage of the cameraman's carphone to conduct interviews asthe fugitives 'sped along theautobahn, pursued by police se­dans, vans and helicopters.

But the chase never got theminute-by-minute play that ac­companied formerAmericanfoot­ball star OJ. Simpson along thesouthern California freeway lastsummer. Most coverage was con- ,fined toregularlyschedulednews­casts.

The convicts said they had ma­chine pistols and a grenade andwould blow up themselves andtheir hostages unless police keptback.

"You can take us out, it's all thesame to me,because I've gotnoth­ing to lose. Same for my friend,"said one.

School is open drive with care

Escaped German convicts capturedBy MARK HELM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) • Justblocks from the Castro district,the very hub of San Francisco'sgay community, Victor Rohanawas pinned to a wall with a four­wheel-drive vehicle and shot inthe chest, apparently because hewas holding hands with his boy­friend.

Civil rights advocates said theshooting, which left Rohana seri­ously wounded, was an exampleof the growing ferocity of attackson homosexuals.

"Whereas in 1992, somebodymay have just yelled, 'Faggot,'nowthey're yelling, 'Faggot' andclubbing you or raping you," saidLeslie Addison of CommunityUnited Against Violence.

The shooting has shocked thecity, in part because it prizes itsreputationforsocialtolerance,andin part because it has one of thelargest and most celebrated gaycommunities in the UnitedStates.

Police developed a compositesketchof the suspects, young menin theirlate teens or early 20s, andMayor Frank Jordan offered a$10,000 reward for informationleading to the arrest and convic­tion of the person responsible.

"It isdismaying to think that ina city that is known for accep­tance of individual freedom thatthis senseless act of violence stilloccurs," he said.

On Sunday, 24-year-old VictorRohanaand Steven Damron werewalking to theircar after dining ina neighborhood restaurant. Justafter 10p.m., two men in II whiteSuzuki Samurai jeep drove byand yelled at them, Damron said.

Rohana said something to themen before turning to catch upwith his friend, Damron recalled.

Man holding hisboyfriend's handshot by gunmen

By ELIZABETH WEISE

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HEISTERBERG, Germany(AP)· The two fugitives said theyjust wanted to get somewherewarm - like Spain, or France.

They gave it their best effort: abank robbery using policemen asshields, seven hostages, five get­away'cars, and a more than 800­mile (l,300-kilometer) chasethrough six German states.

But less than two days later,both were in police custody.

The case was a test for Germantelevision, which agreed after asimilardrama in August 1988notto interview kidnappers in the act.

The country's two main televi­sion networks and most majornewspapers observed the agree­ment this time - even after theoutlawscommandeereda carfroma television cameraman.

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people wakeup withbruises."Clodagh.oncofNewYork'slead­

ing designers, worked with anotherfeng shui masteron her interior de·sign at Fclissimo, a oozyNew Agedepartment storejust off Fifth Av­enue.

"She helpedus locate thebestp0­sition to generate money," saidC1odagh, who uses only one narre,"The Chinese are very pragmaticabout money. Clean running waterdenotes money, Sowren youwalkthrough Felissirro, you'll see thatthere's a 101. of watergoing00."

ClodaghworkedonFelissimoamother projects withSarahRossbach,theauthorof threebooks onfeng shuiwhostudiedfor10years tobecome amaster.

When she steps into a room,Rossbach said,"I'm seeinghowthestructure ex- the layoutof Ire homeand Ire officeand Ire external ele­mentsare affecting thatperson,"

Focexample, Rossbach told oneclient designing a penthouse apart­ment that therewas a bad feeling asyouentered.

"Whenyouwalked in,shewanted10 have an angle pointed at you, al­mostlikethisthreatening knife, am Ithought that was very hostile,"Rossbach said.Sotrey softened theanglewithlightam plants.

Price rises inUkraine get offKIEV, Ukraine (AP) • The firstmajor round of long-awaited pricerises, part of Ukraine's recently 00­

veiledeconomicrefoonprogram.gotoff to a faltering start Tuesday. Aplannedfive-fold price increase forbread failed to be introduced andshoppers, whowereoutingreatnum­bersMondaypanic-buying goodsatheavily subsidized rates, milledaroundstatestores'Iuesdaycoofusedandsurprisedtoseepicesurchanged,

Chaos in a Moscowtrading center

MOSCOW(AP)-Mcrethanirooenraged investors shouted andthrewbottles at the central exchange officeof theMMM investment fund Tues­day after it announced a freeze rntrading of old shares. Discorneru isgrowing among MMM investors,thousands of whomvoted its head,SergeiMavrodi, intoparliament in aspecial electionSunday. Hisbackersalso stoodby him afterhis arrest fortax evasionin August.

on fcng shui for Chinese-languagepublications.

'The universe is"'"; mysterious.There's so muchenergy to pickup,but most people don't know how,"saidthe 66-year-old master.

11 wasTin whoadvised theownerofLasAmericas oneverything fromlighting, wall 00100 andtheaquariumwithninefish, anauspicious numberinChinese culture.

'The two block fish always diebecause theyabsorb thenegative en­ergy," said his daughter Pun Yin."1always tell people not to buyexpen­sivefish."

MuchofwhatTindocssounds likecommon sense renovation. Whilethat'strue, hesaid, mostpeople don'tknowhow to apply itproperly.

Soheguides them,using aChinesecompass calledaIuopan, theChineseAlmanacandalunarcalendar10com­binemetaphysics and intuition,

Working with Pun Yin, also amaster, they entera horne and deter­minethemostauspicious positioningfa'desks,beds, thedining-roomtable,thc kitchen stove and mirrors, whichshO'Jld neverbe placed infront oforover the bed.

"Everyone M" a soul," Tin said."Somepeople believe when thespirittravels, trying togobock 10thebody,it can bounce off the mirrors. Some

tariffs and other barriers among123 nations should reduceAmerica's annual trade deficit byalmost $20 billion and boost theU.S. economy 'by' nearly a fullpercentage point, according to aprivate study. The .Institute forInternational Economics said the'agreement was the most ambi­tious trade pact in history.

US will negotiate with smallEuropean nations on airtravel

WASHINGTON (AP) • TheUnited States is turning to a groupof smaller European nations as itpresses 10end or reduce restrictionson international air travel and trans­port. PatrickMurphy, thetransporta­tiondepartment's assistant secretaryforaviation policy, saidthenewne­gotiations withnine European COWl­

tries willbebasedonthecurrent dealwiththeNetherlands, which permitsfree access by U.S. and Dutchairlines to both countries on inter­national flights.

dueinparttotheenormous influenceof Asian financiers.

"Hewhohas the dollars will makethe decision" on how buildings areoriented and designed," says AbeWalJach,viccpcsiccntfrr theTrumpOrganization.

Andthose whohavethe dollars forDonald Trump's billion-dollar Riv­erside Southproject arc from HongKong, where the useof fengshui isrampant.

"If thecapital sources arecomingfrom this part of the world, thosecapital dollan; comewithcertain per­specuvcsthatnccdtobcrccognized,"Wallach said in a telephone inter­viewfromHong Kong.

Longbefore mainstream Manhat­tan discovered the practice, the an­cient Chinese believed there wereshaman who could interpret sign"from theelement" on where tobuilda houseor cemetery to besthanna..nizewithnature.

Known asgcomancy in theWest,feng shuimasters have been reveredintheFarEastforcenturies aspriestsand doctors able to read the heavensandlake the pulse of the Earth.

TinSun,oneofthemost respectedfeng shui masters in New York,trained at a temple for nine years inCanton, southern China. Today,hehasaradioshowand writescolumns

Trade accord tolower US deficitWASHINGTON (AP) • A newworld trade agreement lowering

December 1987.

Canada cites 52foreign vessels forviolating fisheryregulationsST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland(AP) • Canadian enforcement of­ficers have cited 52 foreign ves­sels for fishery violations outsidethe 200-mile (320-kilometer) ter­ritoriallimit so far this year - a 37percentjump over 1993.Asourcewithin the federal Fisheries De­partment said 47 of the citationswere issuedtovesselsfromSpain.The other five citations were is­sued to ships registered to othermember states of the NorthwestAtlantic Fisheries Organization.

By BETH DUFF-BROWN

Chinese design becoming popular in NYNEW YORK (AP) - It mighthavebeen the seven gold and two blackfish.

When theowners ofLas AmericasJewelryputthenineIishintheirsmallChinatown store, as recommendedby their feng shui master, businessjumped 12perccnt by theend of lastyear.

The personal lives oftheir employ­eesarelooking up,the ownerhas newbusiness deals and the prescriptionmarble floors generate great trafficnow.

"NotonlyLhat, there'saharmony inthe store, there'sno internal feuding­and we're having two girls gellingmarried this year!" beams managerAnna Fung.

Just about anyone in New York'sChinatown will tell you whatthey'veknownforyears: Tbeancient practiceof creating positive energy flowthrough a homeor place of businessbringsgoodluck andfortune.

But today, fengshui - the Chinesecharacters for wind and water, pro­T1OI.1OCCd FUNG-shway - is makingits way uptown. Wayuptown. As inDonaldTrump uptown.

The architects, designers and realestate moguls in Manhattan's sky­scrapers arealldiscovering fengshui,

Stocks tumblewith bondsNEW YORK (AP) . Stockstumbled with bonds Tuesday fol­lowing the release of data show­ing a strengthening Americaneconomy. The Dow Jones aver­ageof30 industrial stocks tumbled44.75 points to 3,863.37.

Economy surgedlast monthNEW YORK (AP) • The U.S.manufacturing sector and overalleconomy surged during Octoberand will likely grow further in thecoming months, hid a widely fol­lowed survey of corporate pur­chasing executives released Tues­day. The National Association ofPurchasing Management said itsmonthly index of economic activ­ity rose sharply to 59.7 percentfrom 58.2 percent as productionreached its highest level since

US-Japantalks toresum.e

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER

WASHINGTON (AP) • Failingto make the deadline for an agree­ment opening Japan's glass mar­ket to imports, both sides willcontinue negotiating "a limitedperiod of time," U.S. Trade Rep­resentative Mickey Kantor saidTuesday.

B.S. and Japanese negotiatorsmet through the night Monday inTokyo in an effort to meet a U.S.deadline for reaching final agree­ment to open theS4.5 billion mar­ket to American and other foreignmanufacturers of flat glass.

At a news conference inTokyo,Japanese Trade Minister RyuiaroHashimoto said the two sideswould continue 10 negotiate afterdiplomats agree on a new sched­ule for the discussions.

In a statement, Kantor said thatonly a few "technical and sub­stantive" issues remain to be re­solved. Neither U.S. nor Japaneseofficials would specify the stick­ing points.

In a later interview on CNBC,Kantor said the talks would goforward for a "limited period oftime" as long as progress is beingmade.

"If we think the talks havereached an impasse, we will useother alternatives," Kantorsaid ina clear reference 10 possible U.S.trade sanctions.

Both countries announced Oct.I they had reached an agreementin principle. to lower trade barri­ers that have virtually frozen U.S.and other foreign manufacturersout of Japan's flat glass markerthe world's second largest.

The two sides said they wouldcontinue talks over the next 30days to wrap up the agreement.

The Japanese flat glass marketis dominated by three Japaneseproducers. American flat glassmanufacturers have less than 1percent of the Japanese market.

Britain poised to become top investorBy ERIC R. QUINONES that tracks financial market data. Foreign direct investment rc- the late 1980s. . . Japanwilllike!yusemore~and

According to Department of fers to the establishment, expan- "There '.s an expe,tat,lon that mcrease d~ue aDSumpll~ .Commerce statistics from 1993, sion or acquisition of U.S. busi- Japanese investors. having been redu~ taxes m ord~ to revive ItsJapan had the' largest cumulative nesses by foreign inves~ors. ~ume~ onc~, may, be more cau- slu~sh economy, said UCLA~U.S. investment with S96.2 bil- New York was the pnme loca- tIOUS, Sterling said. norrucs professor Fedencolion. Britain was close behind at tion for investment at more than Sterling said the high cost of Sturzenegger, .595.4 billion, the study said. S7billion, followed by Texas and land in JaPaIl: make~ it hard for Sturze~gg~alsoSaId~Japa-

But British investment nearly California. The study said the U.S. companies to invest there, nese foreign mv.estment Will go.toquadrupled to 59 billion last year, decline in West Coast investment which provides J~pan with !ess such A,slan ~lIons as Ind~esla,more than a third of the 526.2 reflected Japan's economic funds to invest In the United Malaysia, Vle~ and Thailand,billion in new investments in the troubles. States. rather thanthe Uruted States. .United States. William Sterling, manager of The United States has had con- The East Coast should remain

Japanese investment dropped to international econom!cs f?r sistently strong inv,estment~ in the premier location for inv~st-51.8 billion, down more than SI Merril Lynch and Co. financial Europe, particularly m the Urnted ment, beca~se most foreignbillion from 1992. firm in New York, said it has Kingdom, he said. money goes mto such financial

Canada, Germany, the Nether- been estimated that Japan lost 25 "One of the differences with services as banking and insu.r-lands and France also increased percent to 40 percent on its West Japan has been it's not a two-way ance that are pn~anl~ based ill

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Economists said Japan's heavylosses in U.S. real estate invest­ment and the need to rebuild itsown economy will reduce itsAmerican investments, whileBritain will continue to increaseits American investments.

Conducted by Los Angeles ac­counting firm Arthur Andersenand Harrison, N.Y.-based Inter­national Business magazine, thestudy shows Britain has investedmore than 52 billion in the UnitedStates in the first half of 1994.

Japan's 1994 investments to­taled only 550.2 million, accord­ing to statistics complied by Se­curities Data Co., a research finn

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are passed through an ascendingkite most people participate in thekite festival just for fun."

The more religious tend to fam­ilygrave-plots, painting, ornatelydecorating and adorning tombswith fresh flowers.

Graveyards lose their drab greylook and become alive with color.

"We decorate and make thegraves pretty so the dead can restin peace," said Mario Arevalo, ashe hung purple ribbons of plasticover the tomb of his deceasedmother.

Special food is also prepared ­"fiambre," a dish imported fromSpain during the 16th centuryconquest, has at least 75 ingredi­ents, incliuding meat, fish, fowl,vegetables and spices.

"Bunuelos," a sticky, doughysweet is also traditionally served.

grown. The company pioneeredthe Flavr-Savr tomato, altered tostay ripe longer, and has won ap­proval of an herbicide-tolerantcotton.

The department so far has alsoapproved an herbicide-tolerantsoybean produced by Monsanto.A virus-resistant squash is underreview.

The government determined thecanola product was safe after re­viewing three seasons' worth offield trials and public comment,scientific literature and other ma­terial.

Senior scientist Jane Rissler ofthe Union of Concerned Scien­tists praised Calgene for the thor­oughness of its review but saidU.S. regulation of biotechnologyis too lax.

Rissler said more field trials areneeded to assure that genetic ma­terial does not flow from the plantsinto their wild relativesand createa weed problem.

She also noted that the canolaplant could harm economies inSoutheast Asia that depend 'ontropical oil exports.

At least two large studies havefound that high cholesterol inccreased the likelihood of heartproblems, and at least four foundthat such levels did not, said Dr.John D. Brunzell, who was notinvolved in the new research.

The apparent conflict may beexplained by the varying healthof elderly people enrolled in thestudies, said Brunzell, a profes­sor of medicine at the Universityof Washington in Seattle.

The studies in which choles­terol seemed harmful in later lifeinvolved unusually healthy sub­jects, he said. For such people,heart disease may occur muchlater in life, and high cholesterolmay playa role, he said.

paper frightens bad spirits away,and allow the good spirits to restin peace.

The largest kite at Sumpangovillage, 50 kilometers (30 miles)north of the capital city measured36 feet (I I meters) in diameter,weighed 800 pounds (360 'kilo­grams), took 30 days to build and30 people hang onto guy ropes tostop it flying away.

Kites are constructed out oflightweight bamboo. paper andglue. .

Ancient traditional indigenousbeliefs, a Christian holy day andfriendly competition have beenall rolled into one in Guatemala.

Sumpango celebrated its 17thkite competition this year.

Kite Judge German Jeronimosaid "although some people stillbelieve that messages to the dead

division."Development of a dependable

supply of a key raw material usedby a range of industries furtherdemonstrates the benefits of agri­cultural biotechnology to Ameri­can farmers and consumers," hesaid.

Right now, canola is a minorU.S. crop, although productionhas steadily increased, accordingto Agriculture Department fig­ures. Europe and Canada are themajor world suppliers.

Canola is a form of rapeseeddeveloped in Canada during the1960s. The name is a shortenedversion of the descriptive"'Canada oil-low acid." The low­acid quality made the oil suitablefor human consumption.

Calgene scientists altered thecanola plant by adding a genefrom the California Bay tree. Theresult was canola varieties withnearly 40 percent laurate.

This is the third approval by theAgriculture Department of aCalgene product as the depart­ment begins allowing more ge­netically altered plants to be

Krumholz, an assistant professorof medicine at Yale UniversitySchool of Medicine. He empha­sized that more research is needed.

One possibility is that choles­terol levels in the old may notreflect lifelong levels. Another isthat people who have survivedwith high cholesterol may bemore resistant to its artery-clog­ging potential than other people,the researchers said inWednesday's issue of The Jour­nal of the American MedicalAssociation.

Previous research on high cho­lesterol in the elderly has yieldedconfusing findings, an Ameri­can Heart Association spokes­man said.

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SUMPANGO, Guatemala (AP)• Hundreds of giant colorful pa­per kites launched heavenward tocarry messages from the living tothe dead fluttered throughoutGuatemala during traditional AllSaints Day celebrations.

In Latin America. Tuesday'sholiday was known as EI Dia delos Muertos, Spanish for the Dayof the Dead.

"Flying kites was born out of anancient tradition." said kite makerJose Anona. 'The Mayan Indiansbelievedthe beginning of Novem­ber was an excellent period tocommunicate with the dead. goodwinds to carry their messages andno rain to interfere with its ar­rival."

Others believe that the rustling

CHICAGO (AP) • A new studyshows high cholesterol may notbe much of a threat to healthypeople over age 70, leading someto suggest doctors may be need­lessly prescribing cholesterol­lowering drugs for many olderpatients.

People ages 71 to 104 with el­evated cholesterol levels sufferedno more heart attacks or deathsthan their counterparts with nor­mal cholesterol levels, the studyof 997 people found.

"Cholesterol in older peoplemay mean something very differ­ent than in younger people," saidthe lead author, Dr. Harlan M.

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WASHINGTON (AP). CalgeneInc., thecompany that geneticallyengineered a tomato to stay ripelonger, has won approval to growand ship a hybrid plant full of thefats used to make shampoos anddetergents.

Oddly enough, the Davis, Ca­lif., company will use genetic en­gineering on canola, known forproducing a cooking oil low insaturated fats, to make the seedsproduce laurate.

Laurate is a fatty acid found inpalm kernel and coconut oils, onthe forbidden list for health-con­scious diners but prized for mak­ing soaps, detergents and sham­poos.

The approval was announcedTuesday by the Agriculture De­partment.

"The commercial production oflaurate canola will offer, for thefirst time, a stable domestic sup­ply of laurate to be used in prod­ucts ranging from laundry deter­gent to shampoo," said AndrewBaum,president of Calgene 's oils

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Part of the specific actionsto be taken by league officialsis to survey the AMP and con­sult an architect for a blue­print.

"Then we will coordinatewith National Parks Servicessuperintendent Ed Wood andparks ranger Tom Workmanabout our plans," Romishersaid in closing. (Sony Daleno)

George Masga did a great jobfrom the rainbow area, connect­ing five attempts. His tour ofdutywas cut short when he fouled out.

Tom and Joe Tudela likewisefouled out in the game. (AAPD)

stopped the Kautz Glass Glazersin the sixth, 17-7. Coca Cola putthe game away in the second in­ning with an 11-21ead and nevertrailed the rest of the way. JulieAldan went 3-for-3 with a doublefor the Glazers. W.P. ponyOmechelang (7-4) L.P. LoraineBabauta (1-4)

Guzman combined 15 points.George Masga and Jerry

Benavente led the resistance fromthe Sunrisers Squad with an im­pressive 28 and 23 points, respec­tively.

plan's location. "It would be niceto have it in a centrally locatedneutral place like the AMP," hesaid.

Romisher said that he, at onetime, broached the approved 1989plan to Governor Froilan Tenorioand the governor showed "nonegative idea" about a footballpark in Garapan in the near fu­ture.

The YFL body will immedi­ately work this big task right after

next thirteen runs for their tenthvictory to lead the league. W.P.JulieOmar(10-1) L.P. Irene Facey(3-4)

Mariana Sakau ripped twohomer and knocked in five runsand Alvina Harurni and DorisNgiraidis both crosses the platethree times as the IBC Coca Cola

Triathlon SundayTHE NORTHERN Mariana Islands Triathlon Federation will put on atriathlon Sunday, November 13, at4:00 p.m. at Pau Pau Beach near theHotel Nikko. The event will consist of a 500 meter swim, 12mile bikeride and a 3 mile run. Rudolpho' s Restaurant is the sponsor and will hostthe post-race party beginning at 6:00 p.m. following the race. ContactStuart Smith at 256-0292 for more information.

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Rivera and Felix Palacios charted34 and 23 points respectively fora 57-point total out of the 103final score.

It was a second half upset winfor the Cyclones who were be­hind by three points in the firsthalf, 44-41, in favor of theSunrisers.

John Palacios scored 16 points,Jerome Iakopol5 points whileGus Palacios, Frank Iglesias,Charlie Sablan and George De

breezed through the final threegames to take the match over the19th-ranked player in the world.

Stich trounced Roux in theFrench Open two years ago 6-1,6-4, 6-4, and was impressed withthe Zl-year-old Frenchman's im­provement.

"I saw him playing othermatches where he missed a lot ofballs, he made a lot of unforcederrors," Stich said. "Buthe is serv­ing pretty bit and he can hit theforehand very hard."

"But l felt pretty tired and didn'treally play the way I am capableof playing," Stich said.

Stich was the ATP Tour cham­pion last year but now stands indangerofnot qualifying this year.

Currently fourth in therankings,he will drop after the opening­match loss here. He needs a goodperformance in next week's Eu­ropean Community Champion­ships in Antwerp, Belgium, tofinish among the top eight.

Korda maintained hissupremecy over Edberg, who wonthe title here in 1990. Korda nowhas a 5-3 record in head-to-headmeetings including four of thelast five.

Pete Sampras isNo. 1seed whiledefending champion GoranIvanisevic is seeded second. Bothbegin their play Wednesday alongwith Boris Becker, who beatSampras, Stich and Ivanisevic inconsecutive days at the Stockholmtournament last week.

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NOVEMBER CALENDAR

SPORTS DATENovember 3

SABA playoff games at the Ada gym. First game, 7 p.m., Hawksversuswinner of Brothers-Lite match-up last Monday. Second game is 01"Aces versus winner ofCyclones-Sunrisers match-up also last Mon­day.

November 3Deadline for submission of resume of individuals interested inapplying as coaches for the 1995 SPG. Submit your resume at theNMASA office.November 36:30 p.m. meeting at the Ada gym conference hall for all NMASAmembers

November 4Meeting of managers and coaches of the CNMI Amateur SoftballAssociation will be held 5 p.m. at the Royal Taga Beach Clubconference room.November 5National CrossCoutry track and field championship to be heldaround the field across the AdioslWelcome marker near the Red·Cross office. First race will start at 6 a.rn.

NovemberSNew schedule of the start of the second annual Government Inter­Agency Women's (GIAW) Softball league. Original schedule wasOctober 26. Games will be played at the Garapan ball field.

November 6CNMI YFL match between Northern and Southern Divisions at 12noon. Central meets Eastern at 2:30 p.m.

November 13CNMI YFL match between Eastern and Southern Divisions at 12noon. Northern faces Central at 2:30 p.m.

November 16Deadline of registration for the Saipan Chamber of Commerce(SCC).fund raising golf tournament at the Coral Ocean Point resortClub. Submit application and fees at the SCC office, COP GolfPro­Shop, Guam Savings & Loan. Funds to be raised is for the 1995community service and events program. An additional of $10 willbe paid for late registration after deadline.

Opens, defeated Javier Sanchezof Spain, 7-5, 6-4 and PaulHaarhuis of the Netherlandsdowned Czech Daniel Vacek, 7­6 (7-4), 6-2. Vacek was a latereplacement for AmericanMaliVaiWashington who injuredan ankle.

Also American David Wheatonbeat Italian Andrea Gaudenzi, 6­2, 6-3 and German Carl-UweSteeb defeated Carlos Costa ofSpain, 6-4, 6-3.

In Agassi's only other appear­ance at the Paris Open, he lost in1992 to Brad Gilbert, who is nowAgassi's coach.

Agassi remembered the en­counter.

"Very painful," Agassi said. "Iwon Wimbledon that year, but Idon't think I have had the direc­tion I needed to really come intothe fall or come into any tourna­ment prepared. "

"I think now Brad has me verydirected and very focused,"Agassi said. "It just feels like awhole different ballgame than itever used to be.It is enjoyable forme now to play."

Against Stoltenberg, Agassi,seeded eighth, suffered a dry spellin the second set, dropping twoservice games while the Austra­lian evened the match at a setapiece.

However Agassi took controlin the fifth game of the third set,drilling a forehand winner tomake the break at 3-2. Then

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DATE BOOKNov. 3, 1994

By Stella Wilder

STELLA WILDER

14-MARIANASVARIETYNEWSANDVIEWS-THURSDAY-NOVEMBER~3~,1~9~94~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_

Born today, you may have towork extra hard at times to getpeople to take you seriously. Youpossess humor and such a light­hearted, joyous demeanor that younever seem to let anything touchyou too closely. But the fact of thematter is that you take everythingseriously. So seriously, in fact, thatyou look upon life from a perspec­tive that is uniquely your own, andyou are able to laugh at virtuallyeverything and everyone. Thisdoes not mean that you don't care;rather, it is a sign that you caremore than anyone else. This carefor the world and the people in itcharacterizes everything you do.

You enjoy taking care of yourbody and your mind. You are livingproof that health is a result of bar.ancing your physical, mental, andemotional needs. You're not one tolet yourself swing from one ex­treme to another. You are gener­ous, loving, and always looking outfor the other guy.

Also born on this date are:Edward Douglass White, ninthchief justice of the UnitedStates; Roseanne, actress, come­dienne; Charles Bronson, actor;Michael Dukakis, governor ofMassachusetts; Phil Simms,football player.

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At present, the SYFL holdstheir inaugural season games atan improvised vacant area acrossthe Adios/ Welcome marker near

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runs for the Sunrisers. W.P. JovieOmar (8-1) L.P. Doris Robert;o(1-4).

The Lite Mix-A-Lot behindJulie Omar's grand slam and sixRBIs and Analisa Erniliano's 4­

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William, who negotiated the Cov­enant and the establishment oftheCNMI government, and an archi­tect from Hawaii who worked onthe plan, Romisher added.

Ambassador William is alsoregarded as the 'father' of theAMP.

"That was the birth of the ideaof having a football field in theCNMI," Romisher added.

Tanapag Lady 8'ers passed SanVicente Sunrisers, 17-10. Trail­ing 9-6 after 3 1/2 innings, theLady8'ers then streaked with thenext eleven runs for the victory.Doris Roberto went 3-for-3 witha triple, two RBI's and scored two

TeamLite Mix-a-LotTanapag Lady S'ersSakau WomenIBC Coca ColaDFS IslandersQueen's BudHafa Adai ExpressKautz Glass GlazersSan Vicente Sun Risers

Batting Leaders: (based on 27 or more times at bat)Player Team AB Hit BattingThelma Flores Mix-a-Lot 36 23 .639Jovie Omar Tanapag 30 19 .633Julie Omar Mix-A-Lot 34 20 .588Emy Quitugua Tanapag 29 17 .586Semerina Simram Sakau 29 17 .586Doris Roberto Sunrisers 33 19 .575Beverly Skerei Islanders 28 16 .571Pola Franz Coca Cola 27 15 .555Liz Lebria Mix-A-Lot 38 21 :553Dora Palacios Queen's Bud 28 15 .536

Runs: (21) Bert Sablan, Thelma Flores, Emy Quitugua (20) Lilian Duenas(19) Analisa Emiliano

Doubles: (5) Liz Libria (4) Bert Sablan, Thelma Flores (3) Sly Ubedei, GinsSablan

Triples: (4) Doris Roberto (3) Analiza Emiliano (2) Beverly Skerei, LizLebria

Homeruns: (7) Emy Quitugua (6) Julie Omar (5) Jovie Omar (3) JenniferGermance, Polly Omechelang, Sly Ubedei, Evelyn FranklinRBI's: (26) Emy Quitugua (23) Liz Lebria (20) Analisa Emiliano (19) JulieOrnar (18) Jovie Omar

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general plan having successfullychaired last year the fund raisingcommittee for the said park.

At the end of the plan was aprovision for the creation of an"all-weather track and field ringencircling a football field",Romisher said.

The inclusion of the footballfield in the plan was influencedby then U.S. Ambassador Hayden

discussion on the proposed base­ball fee and wall, update of theSouth Pacific Games (SPG)coaches, athletes for the month ofSeptember and October,old andother new business.

NMASA is likewise, remind­ing all individuals interested inapplying as coaches for the 1995SPG, that the final deadline forsubmission of resumes will bethis Thursday, November 3, 1994.

THE SAKAU Women explodedfor seven runs in the bottom ofthesecond and went on to stop theQueens Bud in the sixth with a19-9 ten run rule shutout.Semerina Simram and Kapinaboth went 3-for-3 and combinedfor seven run RBIs to lead women

. to their second victory over theBuds, Candy Fernandez went 2­for-3 including an inside the parkhomer for the Buds. W.P.Semerina Simram (6-3) L.P.Remy Celis (4-7)

Jennifer Germance blasted twohomeruns and knocked in six runsand Emy Quituguachipped in witha homer and five RBIs leading the

First SYFLCommissionerJohnRomisher provided one approach- the revival and pushing for theconstruction of a football field atthe American Memorial Park(AMP).

The commissioner said that in1989, the General ManagementPlan for the memorial Park wasapproved by the National ParkServices and was signed by thenGovernor Pedro P. Tenorio andLt. Governor Pete A. Tenorio

Romisher is privy to the AMP

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THE NORTHERN MarianasAmateur Sports Association(NMASA) is calling on all itsmembers to attend an importantmeeting, 6:30 p.m., November 3at the Gilbert C. Ada gym confer­ence room.

NMASA/NMOC SecretaryGeneral Rose L. Igitol said theagenda will include adoption ofminutes, financial report, discus­sion on different fitness programs,

points.Dela Cruz, James and Tony

Diaz lead the Brothers Team inthe first half for a combined 27points.

Tony Luzama, Mike Wright andDennis Camacho were the topthree producers for the Lites thatnight with 20, 16 and 14 pointsrespectively.

Juan Salas contributed 11points, Mat Devine chipped in 8points while John Duenas paddedfour points for the Lite Team's

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Agassi advances; Stich,Edberg upset in Paris

LOCAL football movers don't be­lieve in the saying - "historyrepeats itself." Not in football andnot a repeat of the said sport'sshort-lived history in the CNMIin the early sixties.

After having successfully or­ganized the Saipan Youth Foot­ball League (SYFL) and beforethe league got started over theweekend, league officials already

.got their heads together on how to,have tpe American football gainperpetual foothold in the CNMI.

Aces face Cyclones;Brothers vs, HawksMARPAC Brothers defeated Pa­cific Trading Lite while the L.A.Cyclones squad won over SaipanStevedore Sunrisers at the start ofthe 1994 Saipan Amateur Basket­ball Association (SABA) playoffseries Monday.

Both earned the right to meetpennant titlist Takai Hawks and'American Pacific 01' Aces, to­night at the Ada gym.

The Brothers bested Lite by 16points, 89-73, while the Cyclonesestablished a 4-point distancefrom the Sunrisers at game's end,103-99.

The Brothers' win enable themto meet the Hawks in the 7p.m.opening game tonight while01' Aces will mix it up with theCyclones at 8:30 p.m.

1n last Monday's opener, theBrothers were ahead over theLite team by a hairline in the firsthalf,42-41.

Brothers' James Diaz, Jess DelaCruz and Ed Diaz topped the Dis­tributors' score chart with 18, 17and 12 points respectively. TonyDiaz contributed II points whileJuan and Jeff Diaz unloaded 10points each.

Oscar Masga, Mel Sakisat andJack Diaz combined a total of 10

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PARIS (AI') • Andre Agassi,the U.S. Open champion, madeit successful return to the ParisOpen hut Michael Stich andStefan Edberg had short onesTuesday in the second round ofthe $2.25 million tournament.

Agassi beat JasonStoltenberg of Australia, 6-4,3-6, 6-2. Lionel Roux, a wildcard entry from France, upset

the third-seeded Stich,jeopardiz­ing the German's chances to ad­vance to the ATP finals, which hewon last year,

Petr Korda of the Czech Re­public surprised fifth-seededStefan Edberg by come from be­hind, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Two seeded players.lost. CedricPioline of France upset 10thseeded Wayne Ferreira of SouthAfrica, 6-4, 6-4 and MagnusLarsson of Sweden edged 15th

seeded Thomas MusterofAus­tria, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-3), 7-5.

Also in the second round,Marc Rosset of Switzerland,14th seeded, eliminatedArnaud Boetsch of France, 6­4, 7-6 (7-4).

In first-round matches GuyForget beat fellow FrenchmanGuillaume Raoux, 6-4, 6-4:Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland,who has played in all nine Paris

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PitchingPlayer Team G Inn ER WfL ERAJulie Omar Mix-a-Lot I I 68 25 10-1 2.57Jovie Omar Tanapag 9 52 22 8-1 3.36Polly Ornechelang Coca Cola II 70 34 7-4 3.40Sernerina Simram Sakau 9 53 28 6-3 3.69Leilani Taro Islanders 8 44 25 4-3 3.98Irene Facey Hafa Adai 7 44 29 3-4 4.61Remy Celis Queen's Bud I I 73 51 4-7 4.89Debra Camacho Glazers 8 31 25 0-5 5.65Lucy Ada Sunrisers 6 32 30 0-5 6.56

Strike-Outs: (39) Polly Omechclang (38) Rerny Celis (26) Julie Omar (25)Jovie Omar (22) Leilani Taro. Semerina Simram