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Murder in Hannon Supreme Court sanctions AGO

lently. The 42 year old Korean was

employed at the Dallas Lounge, in Tamuning.

Kennedy was found dead in her apartment by police officers on Labor Day. For ignoring court orders

Heun Sun Kennedy

By Jacob Leon Guerrero Variety News Staff

HAGATNA, Guam - The police department announced yesterday that the woman who was found on Monday was mur­dered, based on autopsy results.

Police spokesperson Ron Taitano said the victim, Heun Sun Kennedy, died sometime last weekend.

He said the woman died via-

Officers on the scene re­ported that Kennedy had bmises on her body, head and face.

Taitano said because the case is still under investigation, he could not disclose whether the woman was married, or the iden° tity of friends or relatives.·

What is known at this time is that she was not an H-2 worker. The police department is still trying to determine her citizen­ship status.

The police are asking the public's assistance in their on-going investigation. .

If you have any information cal I the police department at 472-8911 or Crimestoppers at 477-HELP.

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

THE SUPREME Court has sanctioned the Attorney General's Office for its·fail­ure to follow-up on the appeal it filed regarding two traffic cases.

The CNMI's highest court dismissed AGO's appeal, and ordered it to pay a fine of $320.

Legal experts yesterday noted that it is "highly un­usual" for an AGO to be sanc­tioned by the court.

"It means there's a manage­ment problem in that office," they said.

The Variety tried to reach, by phone, acting Attorney

A Guam fire department inspector look at the debris following a structural fire in Dededo. No injury was reported, but nothing much remains of the building, which was once used as storage for construction materials. Photo by Eduardo c. Siguenza

General Maya Kara for a com­ment, but was told that she was in a meeting.

This reporter's phone call to AGO's Criminal Division Chief Ross Buchholz wasn't returned either. .

AGO appealed the Superior Court's decision on CNMI vs Juan D. Aguon in November of last year, and on CNMI vs David R. Quitugua last Feb. 20.

According to the Supreme Court's order dismissing the appeal, AGO neither filed their opening brief, nor did it request for an extension of time to file a brief.

Last July I 0, the court or-

dered AGO to show cause within seven days why )ts ap­peal should not be dismissed for failure to prosecute.

But AGO did not respond, according to the court.

Last Aug. 13, the court is­sued a second order, to which AGO, again, did not respond.

"Given the fact that the gov­ernment has failed to respond to two separate orders to show cause, has failed to file any requests for extensions of time, and has not taken any action to (effect) this appeal, the court finds it necessary and proper. .. to not only dis­miss this appeal, but also to

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No bail for Ishibashi By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE US District Court yesterday ordered no bail "at this time" for the temporary release of businessman Kojo Ishibashi in connection with last month's drng bust after evidence showed he was lying about his financial statement. ·

Chief Judge Ale'x R. Munson during a hearing denied Ishibashi 's motion for bail and withdrew the previously set $25,000 bail for the defendant.

Munson asked Ishibashi to provide a complete financial statement to be filed in court.

Ishibashi and anotherJ apanese, Michihide Izumi, were arrested in a drug operation last month in which over I 00 grams of '·ice" were confiscated by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration/ CNMI Task Force.

The federal government charged Ishibashi with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine while Izumi with importation of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute "ice."

At yesterday's bail hearing, defense counsel Yoon Chang pre­sented in court a preliminary survey report regarding Ishibashi 's two fishing boats. ·

Chang requested that the boats be posted as bail so that Ishibashi may be temporarily freed.

Assistant US Attorney Kevin Seely, on behalf of the US govem-

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Starr triggers impeachme:t;1.t review By DAVID ESPO

WASHINGTON (AP) - Inde­pendent Counsel Kenneth StaIT sent Congress 36 sealed boxes filled with .. substantial and cnc!d­ible'· evidence of wrongdoing by President Cl in ton on Wednesday. triggering the first formal im­peachment review in the United States since Watergate a quarter­cenwry ago.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democrntic leader Dick Gephardt pledged before StaIT acted that they would make a bi­panisan effon to review the po­litically explosive report. deliv­ered in the shadow of the mid­te1m elections. ll1e two men then met into the e\'<:ning to thrash out plans to make several hundred pages public within a few days­including posting it on the Internet - and to govern Con-

gress' subsequent review. With the delivery of StaIT·s

long-awaited report to Congress. that will be for the House to de­cide. whether before or after foll elections.

The repo11 was expected to lay out evidence of possible obstrnc­tion of justice. perjury. witness tampering and abuse of power by Clinton in his effort to conceal an affair with Ms. Lewinsky and thwart the Paula Jones sexual ha­rassment lawsuit.

In his letter-to Congress. StaIT also hinted the report might con­tain graphic details. "Many of the supporting materials contain in­formation of a personal nature that I respectfully urge the House to treat as confidential." he wrote.

Rep. Je!T)' Solomon. chairman of the House Rules Committee. told reporters at an evening news

conference that Starr's' office had informed congressional leaders the material included a 445-page report. buttressed by 2.000 pages of backup material and voluminous additional ma­terial that includes grand jury transcripts.

At least the 445-page report will likely be made public on Friday. Solomon said. He said Starr's office had told congres­sional officials in an evening phone conversation the report includes a 25-page introduction: a 280-page narrative and a 140-page description of grounds for impeachment.

Solomon also said he expects the Judiciary Committee and the full House to decide by year's end whether Starr's report war­rants a full-scale impeachment mqu1ry.

Clinton vows to regain trust ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -President Clinton, his voice fall­ing to a murmur in a banquet hall of friends, appealed to Demo­crats on Wednesday: '·I ask you for your understanding. for your forgiveness.''He promised to set the Monica Lewinsky matter right before the November elec­tions.

The president, under ongoing pressure from Democrats and Republicans alike to express more contrition for his actions, said he wanted once more to be

a role model for the nation's chil­dren - and didn't want his per­sonal behavior to darken his pub­lic record.

·Tm determined to redeem the trust of all the American people," he said, asking donors at a fund­raising luncheon for Florida gu­bernatorial candidate Buddy MacKay to spread the word.

He added: ··1 also let you down and I let my family down and I let this country down. But I'm trying to make it right.··

He warned against those bent

on making his crisis a cam­paign issue in November. "Don't be fooled-not for a minute, not for a day -elec­tions are about you and your children and your community and your future," he said.

Clinton spoke just as spe­cial prosecutor Kenneth Starr sent to Congress by van 36 boxes containing what is ex­pected to be embarrassingly detailed information about the president's relations with a young White House intern.

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Documents relating to President Clinton from Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr arrives on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Starr sent Congress a report and two vanloads of supporting evidence of possible impeach­able offenses by President Clinton, posing the gravest threat to a president since Watergate. AP

What's in those m_ysterious boxes?

By Deborah Zabarenko WASHING TON (Reuters) - In­dependent counsel Kelllleth Starr sent to Congress two vanloads of "sub­stantial and credible" evidence of possible impeachable offences by President Bill Clinton, but not one word was made public on Wednes­day.

The anival under armed guard of the three dozen ordinary cardboard boxes -and speculation over what the reams of paper may contain - created enormous tension in the nation 'scapi­taL

The evidence, which was immedi­ately locked away under the watch of the U.S. House of Repn.:sentatives sergem1t at mms, may hold the key to Clinton's undoing in the Monica Lewinsky sex<md-perjury investiga­tion.

Even tl1e memoc1, of Cong1ess whocould ultimately decide Clinton's fate will not se,~ t11e report until t11ey hammerout rnlcs for how it should be handled.

Stan· recommended that some of the more intimate details be himdled gingerly.

.. Many of the supporting materials contain infom1ation of a personal nature that I respectfully urge the House to treat a5 confidential," Starr wrote in a letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Georgia Republi­can.and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missou1i.

Two complete repo11s and seL~ of documenL~ were fotwarded to Con­gress.

The report is about SCX) pages, in­cluding an intrcxluction of just over 20 pages, plus mme th,m 400 pages divided between a nam1tive account

of Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and its cover-up and a discussion of the grounds for Clinton's impeachment

ll1ese grounds include perjury. obsnuctionofjusticeandabuseofthe office of the president, sources famil­iar with Starr's investigation said.

The repo11's appendices fearure evidence, including grand jury testi­mony.according to one source famil­iar with the case.

Beyond that. there were few details immediately knovm about t11e repon and iL, supprnting cartons of evi­dence,compiledoverthe cour.;eof an eight-month investigation of the af­fair.

The source declined to comment on whether some of the juiciest t:J!is­mans of the scandal were contained in t11ose boxes of evidence.

Lewinsky's much-discussed se­men-stained blue dress could L~ pall of tl1e documentation of tl1e presiden­tial affair. So could the 20 hour.: of secretlytapedtelephonecallsbetw.xn Lewinsky 211d herfom1erfiiend Linda Tripp.

Clinton's own testimony. made at the White House ,md captured on videotape, could also be pmt of the record in this case.

Mementos of the relationship - a oookofWalt Whitman's pcetry tl1at Clintonallegedly gave Lewinsky, and a novel about phone sex that Lewinsky reportedly gave Clinton- might be in those boxes.

The relationship iL,;elf, long a mat­ter of conjectu1e while Clinton de­nied it fmm Januaiy to AU!,'l!St, i~ no longer in doubt following Clinton\ testimony ai1d confession of tl1e affair· onAug.17.

Teen suicide attempt rate up by 5-percent

By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

A SIGNIFICANT number of CNMI students-some as young as six graders--have "tried to kill themselves," according to statistics.

The current statistics on "considering" and "attempting" suicide has actual I y increased by five percent.

Approximately 987 students of the 2,057 suiveyed students grades six to 12 revealed that they tried to commit suicide.

This figure comprises 19 percent of the surveyed population, according to the recently-released I 997 Youth Risk Behavior Suivey Results which :vas conduc~ by ~e Public School System's HIV prevention program m cooperation With the US Center for Disease Control.

Jackie Quitugua, coordinator of the PSS program, said the suicide attempts rate actually increased from the 1995 survey considering that this is the first time that grade six students were included in the survey.

In 1995, the suicide attempt rate was pegged at43 percent, but this is only among grades seven ID 12 students.

Problems on love and relationship (whether fmnily or fiiend), Quitugua said, were the main reasons why teenagers attempt suicide, or c.onsider suicide.

"We knew beforehand why anumberofyouths consider suicide as the answer to their problems which are mainly due to family and relationship problems. But now that we have actual figures, we really need to do something," Quitugua said.

She added that the survey results give clearer picture of what teenagers are going through, which will help teachers and parents in helping these youths get over their problems.

Twenty nine percent or 270 of the surveyed high school students reported that they attempted suicide one or more times during the past 12 months before the survey has been conducted, while 4 I percent seriously considered it

"Chamorro and Carolinian girls (high school) have a significantly higher risk for considering and/or attempting suicide among CNMI youth," the survey said.

Among grade six and junior high school students, 19 percent or around 214 teenagers, mostly eight graders, attempted suicide.

The American Association of Suicidology reported in 1994 that an average of 31,000 Americans committed suicide each year. Suicide ranks as the ninth leading causes of death in the US.

Benavente pushes for easier worker transfer

By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

HOUSESpeaker Diego T. Benavente (R-Prec. 2, Saipan) is urging the De­paitment of L'lbor and Immigration to expedite the processing of applica­tions to u·,msfcr by nonresident work­e1, from one employer to another.

lkriavcntc is raising concerns on the possible Ji,1hility ot·cithcr the gm -enm1e nt or tJ1e rormer e 111ploycr du r­ing the 45-day gr,1cc pcricxl when fon:ig11 workc1,can stay on the isl:u1d ,u1d Jook lix ,molhcr job atkr tile expiration of tl1cirprev ious rn11tr.1cts.

"We would not want to ere.rte a situation in which the government ends up with a liability whether it concerns health or repatriation dur­ing that 45-day period."' he told re-1x111e1, yesterday.

He, however. slJesscd that he w,Ls not suggesting to sh011en the tr:msfer pe1ic.xr but for;Ul expeditious process­ing of the worke1,' ll,msfer papers fmm the frnrneremployer to an0Ll1cr comp.u1y.

"ll'we can do it in less t11,m 45 days. it may be better for the nonresident worker. t11c fo11ncr employer mid the govemment," he said, but promptly added t11at Ll1en.: should not be any let­up in the enforcement or existing l:ibor laws.

Although he w,L~ pressing for a fa~tcr lnmsfcr, Benavente said t11is does not suggest tl1at the labor :u1d immigration depmtment should ex­empt comprn1ics that may be hiring b,msl'cll'ing worke1, from existing requirements like the job vac;mcy rn1nounccmcnt.

Speaker Diego T. Benavente

I-le mentioned tl1at in some cases. DOLi may allow nonresidents tost,u1 working for ,motlier company while their D·anst'cr pape1, me still being processes to also tmnsfcr the respon­sibility to tl1e new comp,u1y.

'"We m·e asking DOLi to expcdit<.! the proccssingoftl1e u·.u1sfcrapplica­tion but not to exempt tl1c111 from :my or t11e existing,tatutc that al lows local people to get into t11esc 1xu1icul:u· positions," he added.

Senate President Paul A Manglona (R-Rota) cm-lier disclosed pl.ms to n.:l:L\ tl1c 1esD·ictions on tl1c nonresi­dent workc1,' ability to transfer from one employer to another.

Manglona said employers should give a 30-day notice to employees whose contracts will not be renewed or terminated so they may be able to find new employtrn.:nt even before their contracts expire.

FRIDAY.SEPTEMBER 11, 1998-MARJANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3

Rep. Herman Palacios hands over a House resolution lauding the appointment of Mark Zachares as Department of Labor and Immigration secretary. With Palacios are (from left) Senate President Paul Manglona, Hous1: Speaker Diego Benavente, Representatives Alejo Mendiola, David Apatang, Mafua Peter, DOLi official Jeffrey Camacho, Rep. Karl Reyes, House Majority Leader Ana Teregeyo and David Sablan of DOLi. Pholo by Aldwin R. Fajardo

For alleged failure to pay loans

Feds sue residents, bank By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE US government has filed three separate lawsuits against those who have refused to pay their loans from the US Small Business Administration.

Special Assistant US Atty. Rob­ert W. Pearson in the first suit filed before the US District Court named as defendant Vicent K. Pangelinan aka Benny K. Pangelinan.

Also named as defendants in the same complaint were Califor­nia First Bank, Hali mu yak Diver­sified, Inc., Teresita Bahtlthazar, Aida Sabino, C.C. Enterprises, John and Mary Does 1-20, Doe partnerships, Corporation and other entities 1-20.

Pearson said USSBA included the California First Bank in the suit as it may assert lien, rights, if any, through a mortgage executed by Pangelinan to the bank.

Bahtlthazar :1ml Sabino were also named clcl'embnts bec.1use

By Aldwin R. Fajardo Vaiiety News Stall

1\MID co111plairn,: on alleged inegu­hu·ities su1rnu1Kling the aw,mli11g of the 80 megawatt power plant project. C,ov. Pedro P. Tenorio y.:stcrday th1ew his suppoI1 to Ll1e Common­wcalLl1 Utilities Crnporation.

"I have conlidcncc Lliat CUC did its p,u1 in making sure t11at Ll1ey fol­lowcxistingprocuremcnt1cgulations when tl1ey aw,u·d the proj.:ct to the winning bidder. '"/.::norio told 1epo11-~rs.

At the same time. he expressed optimism tJ1at the power plant will be in J'ull operation as scheduled dcspi re the apparent delay in the cxcrntion of the contract bcrausl! or the formal complaints lodged by other bidders.

"We would not want to encoun­ter power sl1ortage problems in the fu turc only because th is project will be delayed. I hope the issue will he resolved so that there will be no further delays in the project," he said.

·111e governor said Ll1cconstn1ction

they had obtained a judgment against Pangelinan in a 1985 civil action and may claim an interest in the property being foreclosed upon.

Other persons, corporations, en­ti ties or governmental units who are presently unknown to USS BA were included because they may claim ownership. lien and r;ghts in the property. said Pearson.

According to the complaint, Pange I inan executed to the USSBA a promissory note in the amountof$60,800. He m011gageu as security for repayment ~(the note a piece of land in Susupe.

"More than 30days have passed since service of the notice of de­fault without cure, and defendant is now in default under terms of promissory note," said Pearson in the complaint.

In the second case, the US gov­ernment sued Golden Talent In­tematirnwl. Jnc .. Ramon M. Dela Cnu :rnd Dolores T. Dela Cruz over rHlll-p,1_1me1Jt of dis:1skr

of the poll'er plant should s1,u1 /:11cr this _1c,u· so it "·ill be in rnmplcll· opc'r:11ion by Lill' tu111 of tJ1cce111u1y or the C'Nl'vll r:1ces a possible poll'er crisis.

i\lthough he said he is rnnt\knt the utilities crnporatic)n followed CNMl procurement regulations. Tenorio said he c:u1 only ho1x t11at CUC In~. imked aw,u'dcJ the project to the right company.

Rep. Fr·ank (,. Cepc'da (R-Prcc. -1. Saip:111) e:1rlier sought the :1s­sistance or the kdnal jus1icc dc­p:1nment in thc~ CN Ml l lousc pub­l i <. ut i Ii I ics com 111 it1c'c' 's re, ic'\\ of prnpos.ils suhmitred for the ~() megawatt po\\'er plant prnjcct.

In :1 letter to l11spect,1r General Michael Bromwich. Cepeda men­Ii onc'd n11Kems ovc r· the award· ing or the proj<:ct. following ror-111al complaints filed by se\·cn of Ll1e 13 comp,micsthat subni'1ttcd pro­posals to CUC.

1 le said complaints filed by seven of the I .'I rnmpanie,: is alarming since more than h:llf of the total firms that submitted pro-

loans. Pearson said in Fcb.1987 de­

fendants Dela Cruz and Ciolden Talent executed two written prom­issory notes to USSBA for disas­ter loans amounting to $15,000 and $9,400.

USSBA demanded payment against the defendants in the prin­cipal amounts of $4,768.84 and $7, l 49.66 plus accrued interests in the sum of $3,294.3 l and $2,437.81.

In the 3rd complaint. 1he US government named as defendant Esperanza S. Borja aka Espy Borja.

Pearson said in March 1987 Borja executed two promissory notes to USSBA for disaster Joans amounting to S9.900 and S4.300.

The defendant, however, failed to pay the $50 and $22 monthly ins ta II men ts.

USSBi\ demandeu pavmcnt for S9.56l .::!2 :llld S:!.%6.07 plus ac­nucd i11tcrc.,1s i11 rlic ,um c>i' s~.~75.13 ,111ci sM;u.<J,,.

p,is:lis :rr·c' disp111i1112 Ille· Ct:("., w:1.1 of comluctin_s: 1l1c sL'lcc'li,ll1 :ind :1warding rile pl'llj,·c·r.

Companies th:11 arc di,puting the selection process inc'!udc: D:1n\'oo. Panda International. Saipan l'ower Partners. Al3B En­ergy Yrnturcsil'acit'ic Century Inc., Alson Tomcns aml Enron I11tm1ational.

"I have also found llLil that these cornpanic's spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each to sub­mir offers 10 rile Cli( ·. I w:1s 1,1/d that the ,1rkrs "h1d1 were· dimi-11:11ed in lhc' firsr sekcrilln pre­dorni11:mtly offered a tc:cl1110Jugy b:1scd ,in a grade ofl'uc'I tlwt CLIC later decided is not t'c'asible." Cepeda said.

I le is questioning CllC's ap­parent negligence in failing to identify the grade of fuel that has to be used, paving. the way for international companies \lasting monc·y 011 "useless or noncom­petitive" rcquc'st for proposal,; that are not consistent with the nc..:ds of the CNMI.

No to the three-year limit bill. LEGISLATION to limit the stav of our alien workers will neither impro\·e our "image" in Washington. D.C., nor the condition of these workers. Yet here we are again. hearing the \'cry same justifications for another \ersion of the same bill. Worse. it seems that the Legislature has chosen a most inappropri:lle time to discuss a proposal that would disrupt the hiring policies of p1·i\'atc firms. which arc already reeling from the curr.:nl .:conomic situation. The yen, it should be noted, continues to weaken: 1he 01hc1· key Asian economies arc still slrug­r.linr.: in\·cs1ors· rnood 011 \Vall S1rccl is starting to gel bearish. In short. !her~ is not e\·e11 a glimpse 01· a quick fi:-. for-ou1-~busi11essmcn in the horizon: but no\\'. the: also ha\e to contend with the possibility of losinr. their \1·orkers.

lnd~ed, if1he CNl\11 has a stock market. ;111J .1 similar bill is brought up in tht Legislature. the resulting market plunge would have hit the bottom of the 1\.farian;1s Trench.

To be sure. the threc-vear limit bill was introduced because its sponso1·s thought th.it such a proposed law could reassure Washington that something is being Jone to correct our labor and immigration problems. 13utthis bill \\~ill notaJJressthese concerns. Such a bill is not c\'en incluJeJ in rhe reform proposals outlined by the GOP leadership of the US House Resources Commiltee. E\ en Insular Affairs Director Al Sta,man admitted that such iel!islation would not convince anyone in the ('linton administration 10 ;hangc his or her mind 1·egarding the neeu for a federal takeowr of local labor and immigration bureaucra­cies.

Half-baked solutions. like this bill, arc no solutions at all. It is hoped that our legislators. particularly the sponsors of the bill, will realize this. Consiuering that these gentkmen are sincere in their efforts to improve life in ;ur common,~·eallh it is likely that they would.

Meanwhile. the: Lcgislatun:: should instead consider a hiring quora for :ill industries, particularly the garment industry. which hires almost half of the Ci\M\'s total number of alien workers. ln addition, the housecleaning al 1he Department of Labor and Immigration should continue without letup. Lastly, the government should forcefully enforce existing labor and immigration laws. the existence of which are sufficient t; address the problems the bill wants to solw.

Yes to downsizing the government ITS TIME has rn1m:. The r_o\ ernmen1 no longer gennatcs the samc amount of rcvcnucs

that on~·c enahli:u it to invent such nice sounding titles as "community worker" for pl1sh tha1 require nothing but the willingness of :1 pc1·son eli~iblc tu , 01e tu !,'Cl paiJ C\cry other two \\'Ceks. This scarcity of public funds 1, ll<l\\ SO p:1iniul[1· oh1·ioLJS ID all th,lt lhc gU\CJ'I11lll'.lil

could nut be blamed ii ii gr:1du:tlly ph:1scs oul most ol the non­esscnti;tl posilions in the burcaun:1cy. The administration, which is not vet as vulnerable: to the clccturatc 's wrath as the lt:gislalors. could ~tart the proverbial hall rolling. Or, rathcr. lo kccp it rolling. This administration's austerity efforts arc genuine, and should be commended.

But what about the soon to be unemployed government workers·1

If DOLi is enrurring rhe laws as rnnsistc:nrly as the Orficc of the Governor is ,ticking to its c1us1eri1y mcc1surc:s. any qualiried resi­dent job ,!pplic·:rnt c:1n !:ind a job in the private sector. The law. after all. savs th<.:\ an: the priorit1 applicanls.

;\ t an 1· ral~. if o~ r highest ofti ci a ls arc s i nccrc whc ne v<.:r they Sa) that th: priv:1tc sc:c·tor slwuld hire mor.: locals. thc:y thcmsclve, should sec tu it lh:1t mon: loc,1ls ;m:, in a m;1nncr ol speaking. rclcascJ to the business c·ommunity.

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Fat! HALF of the 9 year old girls in the 50 US states diet, according to Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman. They do so, the poor dea~s. be­cause according to countless TY and print ads pounded on their heads everyday, to "look hot" is to look like a fashion model. Which at this stage of human civilization, says Goodman, is defined as someone with a head of a 25-year old woman and a body of a 12-year-old boy. Ala Kate Moss in those Calvin Klein print ads, which could be mistaken for a "Help the victims of famine'' campaign pitch.

I've always equated feminine beauty with corporeal abundance-what I call the Rubencsque factor. Not incluucd in this cat­cgorv. however, are those women who have n;ad~ it tu the "Guinness Book of World Reco1·ds"-1hosc with a gr:1vity-punishing 100-pouml to I-ton immensity. More 1'1·cc-Willy­esquc than Rubenesque. /'111 all for the whales thou~h-as H'hules, nul as female bipeds.

A \ex symbol is a Marilyn Monroe or a Jayne Ma1;sficld, ,111 Anna Nicole Smith, and nol those size-2, anorexic "beauties" with more rib bones than a Smithsonian dinosaur ex­hibit.

i\.t any rate, the more insidious-and some­limcsc:vcn ratal--result of the fashion worlu's idealization of the skeletal look is the spread 01· cating Ji,urders among women. As Cinodman points out, every time a woman secs those fat-1.rce print and TY commercials, she knows that Fashion is laking an editorial stand on the proper !Jody size as if it wc1-..: a domes­tic policy platform.

!knee, an obscs,iun willt lite "right" weight resulting in :1 IH!Q:1tive attirudc to one's own bouy or-even an(;rexia. Now if I happened to bc a right wing nut I would, at this point, accuse ~odlcss. immmal Clinlonitc inf'iltra­turs in tile editori,1! staffs of Vogue:. Harper's Bazaar and Mademuiscllc !'or causing this outrage. llowevcr, / do not p1·dcr to wear a puliti~al str.1iglnjacket and thus have a lcn­Jem·y tu rely on the cxpens for saner opin­ions.

Dr. Jamcs Rosen is one such cxperl. ;\ psy­chologist at the University of Yennont in Burlington, Rosen, says The New York Times, has dcvclupeu an "effective body image

therapy" that teaches well-endowed people ("obese" for the Fashion world) to shed a negative self-image and !earn to feel good about themselves-even without losing a pound.

Rosen's eight-week program, reports The New York Times, has a 70-percent success rate. The following are among the steps he teaches:

• Do not badmouth your body. Instead of negative thoughts-"I'm such a pig"-prac­tice more forgiving, non-judgmental self-de­scriptiuns-"Laiia, Jon 't I look. healthy!"

• Learn to take a compliment. Other people me likely to be more objective and positive about your appearance; listen to what they say. Talk lo rnc, for instance.

• Takt: in your whole being. Study yoursclr in a full-length mirror until you can calmly look at the whole picture, 1101 just your "l'laws.··

• Pul appearance in its place. You are far more than a body. Give more "air time" to your other attributes: your intelligence, your social self, your ability lo work, your good sense lo read my column.

, Develop more positive image behaviors. Stop checking your reflection or your weight at every opportunity or hiding your body behind baggy clothes. Dress smartly, experi­ment with hair stylcs and makeup and !t:arn to act seli'-conf'idrnt.

"Gradually," says Rosen, "we teach them to stop hiding thcir bot.lies-to wear more revealing clothing, including shorts and bathing suit, to stop undressing in the dark, to exercise in public-by desensitizing them lo the negative reactions they have lo their bodies."

Now because negative body images usu­ally begin at home. parents arc also advised not to spc11k badly about fat pcoplc or cvcn the chi Id's, um, heal thy body. I nstcad of with­holding food to a child who is "getting fat," Charles River Jlospital 's Eleanor Jacobs sug­gests that parents should try to motivate the child lo seek 111Ul'C activities.

Mcantimc, I'm setting up a Feed the Fash­ion Models Foundation. Food dona-tions, par­ticularly taro and empanada arc now being graciously accepted.

TOURIST ATTRACTION. One of Guam's newest tourist attractions is the dinner cruise boat now plying nightly the Philippine Sea in East Hagatna. Photo by Eduardo c. Siguenza

According to researcher

Feds should be responsible for Tanapag du1npsite

By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff A WRITER workingonabookabout the "la<,t years of the Japanese em­pire," yesterday insisted the ab,m­doned dumpsite in UpperTanapag is made up of "99.99 percent US mili­t:.uy equipment."

B111ce Petty, who has done ,m ex­tensive resemd1 ,md on-site inspec­tions on vmiouspa11softhc island for his book project, said the site is lit­tered with old US ai1plm1es, 111sty bmTels, personnel equipment like mess kits and helmets.

He said there m-e also acetylene Ulllks 1md batte1ies scattered about.

"I've been up the1-e," said Petty. "It is definitely US milita1y equipment."

The US Army Crnps of Engineers has said the durnpsite is not listed in the defense dep:U1111cnt 's md1ives.

But Petty counte1-ed that the ab­sence of the site in the wd1ivcs "still docs nol :u1swer the question ,L, to why all that US milit:uycquipment is

the1-e." "I cm1 't imagine theJ apanese com­

ing back after the war to clean up their mess. I (also) can't imagine the Chamo1rns going muund in all of Saipan with their bullcarts and haul­ing old ai1planes and throwing it right there," said Petty.

"Maybe it is not in the m·chives but it is US :md somebody had to dump it there. They did not all just land there by tl1emselves," he added.

The Co1ps has said the CNMI will have to conduct fu1ther investigation and come up with :m invento1y of what m-e at tl1e dumpsite to substm1ti­ale its claim ,md to boost effo1ts to have it listed in the feueral government's list of Fonnerly Used Defense Sites (Fuds) so that a cle:m­up may commence.

But Petty insisted one docs not have to be :m expen to conclude that the: dumpsite belonged to the US government.

.. Any idiot with a tl1ird grade edu-

cation cm1 go up there, walk tl1rough there for l O minutes and see that that is a dumpsite and tl1at 99.99 percent of all the stuff up there is US militaiy ," he su-essed.

Concerns have been mounting on who is supposed to clean up the dumpsite, which is situated nem· a 250-lot homestead project.

EnvimnmentaJQuaJityDircctorfke Cabrera said his office still needs to work witl1 Rep. Dino Jones for mi

invent01y before asking Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio to r-equest the lederal gov­ernment to include tl1e site in iL, Fuds list.

Jones has ern·Iier implied the US Naval administration, which was t:.ISked to clean up tl1e isltmd after the wm·, could have been 1-esponsible for the dumping.

US forces invaded Saip,m in 1944 ,L, p,u10fa milit:uycampaign to deny Japan its defense line.

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Ayuyu says DOLI should train local job seekers By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Immigration's employment services division shoulJ bc "rc­structurcd" to provide training for local job seekers, according to Chamber of'Commcrce President Jose C. Ayuyu.

In an interview, J\yuyu said DOLi should be abk lo assess a job applicant ri,rst "1·athcr than just placing them at the work­place and hoping for the best tha1 they will be hired ...

"We scc a need for that office (employment services) to be re­structured," said J\yuyu.

I le r0com111cndcd that guvcrn­mcnt invest more mom:y into thc department's Division of Employ­ment Services (DES), ocxplaining that DES "plays a key role" in integrating the local labor 1'01·ce into the mainstream employment scene.

"In our opinion." said Ayuyu. "(]) I :s) plays a kc y mk in pre par-

Jose C. Ayuyu

ing our people in c1Ileri1tg the job market. ..

lie said invcst1m:nl that needs b..: pmm:d into DES has to be a "substantial amount" which will be used to train the applicants.

AyuyJ.I reasoned that training resident workers is a step towards the Com111onweallh 's deviation rrnm its depemlencc to foreign contract workers.

I lis rc1na1ls rn1nc :11 thc heels

of the Chamber uf Co111111c:rcc ·s opposition 10 a proposeu kgisla­tion imposing a thrcc-yea1· limit to the stay of nonresident workers in the Commonwcallh.

The local business community. citing the acute shortage of local workers, has warned Senate 13ill I I - 71 will disrupt operations of several establishments and "kill" the garments industry in tlm,t: years.

"The Chamber of Commerce'." said /\yuyu. "has alw;1ys taken the position lhal the: rnn1111unity, if it wants to grnw. must :dlow the bus·iness community 10 grnw also."

"U nfonunate Iv, .. he added, "we need to hirc peo1;1e (from) outside for positions that locals an: nut available."

i\yuyu said CNMI's depen­dence: un contract workers will continue "so long as we do not have locally-available, capable. and trained cmployccs 10 fill in these jobs ...

paynient for I&S By Aldwin R. Fajardo

Variety News Staff BOTH HOUSES of tl1c Legisla­ture, in sp.:cial back-to-back~ ses­sions, yesterday passed a bill ap­pmp1iating the $2.2 million p11y­rnenl lo l&S Crnp.

111c bi II now heads to Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio. Under the te1ms of the settlement agrccd upon by tl1d ap,mcsc adver­tising company :.md the Attomcy General'sOfiice(AGOJ,theCNMl will begin its payment this month.

1l1e Senate previously requested and r-eceived assunmces from the Office of the Governor that no pay­ment should be made to l&S based on the settlement agi-eement prior to September I 0.

In urging for tl1e bill's pa~sage, Senate Majority Leader Pete P. Reyes(R-Saip,m)noted, '11iatdate is fa,t approaching as is the dead­line for payment under the terms of the settlement agreement iL,elC

"!lit: Senate special inwsligative committee h,L, concluded tl1al tl1e settlement agrccment ha, violated CMv1 I laws, and that it is not bind­ing, but added th:Il tl1e MV ;\ Bcxud should be given the authority to delc1rnine whcthc:rtl1e govc111mc1ll will pay or not.

"/lie Senate committee earlier urged the House to p,L,s the bill. in order to would cmixiwer MY i\. to use FY 1998 fundsrn1dpay l&S,m amount commensurate with the benefit received by the CNMI.

It said, however, that the amount should not exceed $2.2 million. J&S claims that it htL, 1-endered promotional services, products ,md materials that would help advance CNMI's image as a major towist destination in Japan.

The legislation requi1-es MY A :md the A ttomey General's Office lO pmsue l'CCOVety of any mnount~ paid from tJ10sc past or pt-esent

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8-hr power outage tomorrow By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff

A LARGE part of the island from Kagman to Sadog Tasi will experience an eight-hour power outage tomorrow, according to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.

In an advisory, CUC explained t11e outage, which starts at 9:00 in the morning, is necessary to enable iL~ crew to install l1igJ1 voltage wires as part of die completion of its feeder IV project.

CUC said this will be the la.~t power outage required to f mish the project. 'TI1e feeder IV system mns fmm Lower Base through SadogTasi, Capitol

Hill, As Teo, Denni, Santa Lourdes back down to the Kagman homestead area~.

It took CUC almost two year:, to complete the $3.6 million Feeder IV renovation pmject which was done in six parts.

The Feeder IV system Was built after the war by the Trust Territory government and has been considered as the ishmd 's "weakest,'' CUC said.

Its powerpoles have, thmugh the years, been covered by thick foliage deep in steep te1Tain by the forest, giving CUC c1-ewmen difficulties in repairing broken lines whenever a weather disturbance hit the island.

Feeder IV has always been the first to go breakdown in times of typhoons. The renovation was meant to fortify thee/ectJical system by 1ep/acingok.l

power poles w1d moving t11em closer to the madside. 1l1e design forthe renovation was completed in 1996 whi Jc i./1e tin,t of the

six-pmt project kicked off in Ap1i/ 1997 for Kagm;u1 Ill. 1l1c Kagm,m m line was completed in June J 997. Second to be completed was the power line from ci1e finance depaitment

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-SGMA to follow Chamber. ethics ' ' ; . . .

By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff THE SAIPAN Gannent Manufac­tun:rs Association (SGMA) will ob­serve ethics being pr:1cticed by the Chtu11berofCommerce in joining the businessgmup,,L,stm:dSGMAPrcsi­dem James Lin.

In an inte1vicw, Lin said the busi­ncsse1hics being implemented by the: Chamber nms p.u·allcl to SGMA 's "nxleofronduct .. which is still l.::ing completed :md iruncd out.

''l11at is how it is." said Lin. "\-Vc h,1vc to follow the ethics of the Cha111-h.:r," he addcd.

Lin said SGMJ\ is "willing to con­sider joining" the Chaml.::r anJ is "encouraging" the 1cst of its mcm­lx:rs to lile applications.

·n1us f.u·, only the United Intcma­tio11al Co1p. ( UIC),a gmment factoiy operated by Lin, has lxen conlirmcJ lo have likd for Chm11lxr member­ship.

The gam1ent imlusu1 , in ,m app,u-­cnl biu to 1csu11cture iL, tainted image here .u1d abroau, lu, emlxu'kcd on a campaign tocbmsc iL,rrn1ks by l'orm­ing ties with a S.m F1:mcisct}-based hum,m 1ighL, group. the Business for Scx-ial Responsibility (13SR.

·n1e g.umenl scctor is also rnr­rently org:mizing an internal moni­toring commiltec tl1at will e11force 1egulations oftJ1c SGivli\ 's "codi: of conduct."

"/11.: committee is seen 10 l,:: mm­prisc:d ui'at k,c,l two 1cp1escntativcs from hu1mm rights advcx·acy groups and the local Church.

It will be 1ccalled that Ch:m1ber Prcsidcnt Luncs Lin, l,L,t week, said SGMA mcmlx:rs may be allowed mt:mkrship to their 1:mks provided the latter will not engage in unfair business practices. · "Il1ey will be welcomed if they

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· 6-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- SEPTEMBER 11 1998

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DPS to deploy bike patrol ![funding is available

By Zaldy Dandan

Variety News Staff THE DEPARTMENT of Public Safety m:.iy deploy a police bike pa­trol in December-if it gets the fuml­ing. accorJing to DPS .~ting Deputy Commissioner Clvdc :\rnita.

·-n1e bike pau·~l"s on hold right now. We ·ve the e4uipment, which are in storage. but the personnel's not

yet available," he said. The deployment of a bike patrol

was first announced in June of last· yem· by then DPS commissioner Jose CL,tro.

Underthe pilot program, the patrol will haveeightofficers, including the supervisor.-m1d will cover Gar:c~an, Nrnita said.

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. in the community. 111at way they cou Id be mrneeffectivc," Noriu.1 said.

He added, however, that a bike/ foot patrol works only in ce1tain ar­eas.

"Garapan is pe1tect for it," No1ita said.

In an earlier interview, Nrnita said DPS will need$227,CXXJforthe n·ain­ing of 45 new police officers, which will include personnel for d1e bike panul

Ofthisnumber,25 will be assigned on Saipan, while 10 each will be assigned on Rota and linian.

D-PS already has federal grant money from the US Justice Depai1-ment to pay for these ofticers' sala­nes.

It needs the $227 ,<XXJ for the train­ing of the 45 new officers.

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Jobless non-resident to be deported

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff LABOR Hearing Office Supervi­

sor Linn H. Asper has referred to the Division of Immigration a nomesi­dent employee for 1epalliation or de­portation for 1efusing lo work.

Asper in an administrative order said Xiang Lan Jin no longer has an employment or residence status tJiat allows herto 1emain in ilie Common­wealtJ1.

Asper said Jin was; ttansfem:d to Ju Lim Ente1prises by a Labor adminis­U,ttive order issued last May 6 in connection with her labor C,L'>C.

Last ScpL 4, Asper said, the Dc­pmtmentof Labor aiid Immigration's Co111pliai1ce ai1d Monitrning Section

By Zaldy Dandan

Variety News Staff LA WYER David A. Wiseman has sued a former client for unpaid legal fees amounting to $28,000.

Named as defendants in the civil complaint filed in the Surcrior Court arc Linda Min Wang and her company, M&H Corp.

Su pcriorCourt Associate J udgc Timothy H. Bellas granted Wiseman 's motion last month to withdraw as counsel to Wang, who 1s accused of promoting pros­titution and illegally withholding documents.

Wiseman no longer has direct communication with Wang, who is believed to be still in China.

The court has forfeited her $10,000 cash bail, and the Attor­ney General's Office will now go after her $40,000 unsecured bail, the Variety learned.

Bellas has said, that if Wang would no longer return to the CNMI, her assets and properties here will be seized by the govern­ment.

The court allowed Wang to visit her ailing father in China due to

reported that Jin left Ju Lim 's Enter­prises ,md refused to work for the transfer employer.

The supervisor pointed out that no Labor pe1mit application has been filed for Jin.

'The employer of record (Ju Lim Enterp1ises) shall immediately pur­chase a one-way repatriation ticket and deliver it lo the DircctorofLabor for the use of the nomesident worker (s)," he added.

Meanwhile,LaborHearingOfficer Herbe1t D. Soll has granted an appeal of an employer to appmve the work pennit applications for his nine alien workers.

111c applications ofBaikHongSik Continued on page 57

David A. Wiseman

her having substantial investments on Saipan.

She left on July 12 and has yet to return.

Bellas has issued a bench war­rant for her arrest, with bail set at $50,000.

Wang is facing a maximum penalty of 60 years in jail.

She was charged with six counts of promoting pros ti tu tion, includ­ing five first degree counts, which involved threatening persons to commit prostitution.

Wang owned the Linda House Karaoke & Gift Shop in Garapan.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS 7

Despite college's limited finances

NMC enrollment stable By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

DESPITE limited source of fi­nancial aid, the Northern Marianas College' enrollment figures for this fall has remained stable with I ,239 students.

The figures on the new semester's full time equivalents (FfEs) or the number of students getting at least 12 credits has also increased, according to Janice Tenorio, NMC's director for the Office of Admissions and Records.

'"'Despite the decrease in our budget, and also the limited source of financial aid that's given to the College, the enrollment is stable. This fall's approximately 940 FfEs increased from last fall which was just around 900 flat," she said, adding that the FfEs during the past three to four years ',l{ere just pegged at around 600.

Majority of the enrollees, or 58 percent, comprise of women, as has been true for years. Around 1,068 students are enrolled at the . . . .

Schools urged · totake upnew PE programs ·

By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

11-IEPUBLIC School System wants more schools to apply ,my of the physical education programs that are cunently lx:ing developed by the cen­tral office.

Sid Kani, PSS coordinator for PE, said the1e are three specific programs that the schools can choose from. While the "Sports, Play and Active Recreation for Kids" (Spai"k) is al­ready being implemented in at least six public schools, two more pro­grams are cun-ently being srudied. These are the Australi,m-inspi1-ed "Spott it towai"ds 2(XXJ" mid the "Presi­dential fitness" programs.

"We w,ml to see all tJie schools adopt Sprnk, ai1d the olhertwo which me still lx:ing developed to suit tlie needs of the CNMl students." K,uii told tl1e Vmiety.

While six public schools have al­ready adopted tl1e entite concept of Spm·k, tlie 1est me still on basic PE progr,m1s although they also apply some concepts of Spark.

"Spai·k is all about redefining spot1s skills," said K,mi. "We 'II teach kids tJie skills like ball tossing, passing, dribble, shoot, but not necessmily engage in actual competition. If their skills m-e aheady been mastered ,md redefined, then that's tJ1e only time they get into the actual ga111es."

·n1eschools which apply Spaik me tJ1e Garap,m Elem. School, G.T. Omiacho Elem. School, Koblerville Elem. School, T,mapag Elem. School, S,m Vicente Elem. School ,md Oleai Elem. School. .

"It's diffe1ent from die cUJriculum we had.in the past because the Spm·k has very prnctical applications. It has certain insuuctional materials set for teachers btL~ed on diffc1ent levels," Kai1i said.

In tl1e elementaiy, boys we tJ.Iught basketball, flat football rn1d softball, while girls rne taught volleyball, soc­cer ,md also flat football. All high

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As Terlaje campus, while 68 stu­dents go to classes at Rota and 74 at Tinian.

According to a report from the Office of Admissions and Records, 86 percent of the enroll­ees qualify for resident tuition, while the rest pay non-resident tuition.

Chamorros and Carolinians comprise the largest ethnic groups among the enrollees, followed by other Pacific islanders with 142 students. Asians attending NMC rank third with 250 students, and the rest are from other ethnic groups:

"A total of 638 students have declared theirmajorfields of study to be business, hospitality, educa­tion, nursing, public safety, techni­cal tn1des and maiine technology," said the 1eport.

These fields aie all apprenticeship programs under P.L 5-32 whose fis-

cal yem· 1999 budget was 1-ecently 1educcd to FY 1992 levels through legislative budget cuts. Under the 1999 proposed budget which is now with the governor to act on, NMC apprentice pmgnUTI 's rniginal $3.5 million appropiiation was slashed by $2. l million.

Another 508 students are ma­joring in liberal arts, while 93 are non-degree students for this fall, or from September to December.

"The students can expect that the course and programs that they enrolled in will keep on going. We have not cancelled any of the programs due to austerity mea­sures or any cut in budget," said Tenorio.

NMC is a US Land Grant insti­tution continuously accredited by the California-based Western As­sociation of Schools and Colleges since 1985. It was last accredited in 1996 for up to six years.

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AS HASbeen .. tnJe for yean;, the majority of students attending 1-egular ac.ademic prognu;ns at Northern Marillilas College 1his fall semester are women, according to a media release.

Atota1or117wornen (ss percent signed up tor classes trus semester compared to 5.22 men (42 percent) out of a total of l .239 students.

()f that total, l,Q83students (87.5 percent) attend college classes at the As Tedaje cwnpps while 82 (6.5 percent) go to classes on Rota and another 74 (6perceritJ attendda~~s on Tini,m.

Of .the 1,239 sttJdents enrolled, 1,068 (86 percent) qualify for resident ruitionwhileanotherl71 students (14 percent) JYciY non-resident tuition.

Charnonos comprise the largestsingle ethnic group among students with 606 ( 49 percent} One hundmd and six Carolinian students (8.5 percent) are also f\!gistered, Ethnic Chamortos and Carolinians are 34 IJCrcentof the CNMI's total population (CNMI census, 1995).

Chamorroruigptrqlinianstudents (712)are 66.6percentofNMC' s 1,068 residentsruderit population. The groutY.5 comprise 7 l percent of the CNMI' s US citizen populatiOll {CNMI census,• 1995). ··•·.Other pacificisfondets attending NMC numberJ42 ( 1 J 5 percent) while students of Asianetiniicitynumber 250(20 percent). Students from all other ethnic groups than those fourlisted nunibe(l35(l 1 peirent). ·

Atotalqf 63~ ~tuden.ts(:i l§percent) have declared thei.rrnajor fields of study to bebusinessihospi@io/, eflucation, nu1:ing, public safety, ~nical li:ades lllld Jll2I1[l(: techriol9gy. . .. ······· .·.· < .• . •• . • . . ,' .• ..• ·• .... · "fhese~all''apprenticeship"prqgrnms underP.~5°:,Z whose FY J9<.J9

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SGMA begins house cleaning TIIE S:\11':\N liannent i\l:111u­Licturc'rs :\ss,1c·iaticlll is still w,,rking tn ;1d,1pt ;111d irnpk­mcnt its c·,,,k ,,1· cunduc·t for all ·'-' Pl. S;1ip;111·s garlllent ma11ur'ac·t11ri11g c,1Il1p;111ics. ,1c­c·,11·di11g t,, a mc·di;1 rc•lc;1sc'.

"Bur. ,omc thill!,!S _jusi c';lll't 1\;1it." acc·ording tc1 SGl\L\ chair Limes Lin.

\\'itlwut the bcndit of ;111 adopted cGJc' of conduct. but rn,ercd under the SGMA ar­ti,·les and byL1ws. SGMA cx­ecuti,e Llircctor Richard :\. Pierce has Jcli,crcJ ktters anJ strong 111css;1ges to two S(i\l:\ member companies. rcg;1rJing proprieties u11Jcr the fcJnal Fair L1bor Stan­Jarels Act. the local C NM I i\on-Residrnt Worker Act and t-.linimum Wage Law. anJ the nc;1rly adopteJ SG!vlA code of conJuct.

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quested to provide full disclo­sure to SGMA with respect to their current payroll practices for their non-resident work force.

Pierce further requested the immediate scheduling of meetings with the respective company representatives for disclosure purposes.

"We must drive our points

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home immediately." stated Pierce, ··this association stands for the protection of its collerti,e membership through an all out effort at compliance with all local f<.!d­eral laws."

"We will no longer allow the indiscretions of a few. whether they be intentional or uneducated, to have a nega­tive effect on the overall wel­fare of this industries' posi­tive economic contribution to the CNMI. I don't even want to talk about black eyes, any­more."

SGMA code of conduct in­stitutionalizes guidelines for compliance with wage laws, OSHA regulations and other human rights concerns. Cur­rently, SGMA is working with non-profit, human rights groups and training firms, to build internal and external monitoring systems.

Richard A. Pierce

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"Industry unity translates to a positive situation for the CNMI. The dollars we provide to this Commonwealth will be good clean dollars. One way or the other. And, our buyers won't have it any other way."

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By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Immigration has denied the application for Labor permit to a construction firm's nonresident worker who missed for one day the deadline on hiring morato­rium law.

Labor Hearing Office Supervi­sor Linn H. Asper instead in­structed Roland Jastillana, doing business as A1jay Construction, to fi 11 his employment needs through resident workers or from the pool of nom:esident workers cu1Tently in the CNMI.

AspersaidPublicLaw I l-6will inevitably work hardships on em­ployers who wish to import non­resident workers to fill jobs that did not exist before the effective date of such law.

"It was the clear intent of the Legislature to restrict the inflow of new nonresident workers and to force employers to look instead to resident workers and nonresi­dent workers already in the Com­monweal th for their labor needs," he said.

Arjay's Labor permit applica­tion for Agripino Capuno was denied last June 20. Jastillana, on behalf of Ar jay, appealed the de­cision of the Labor director.

Asper in an administrative or­der said Capuno' s permit was denied because it was submitted on May 26, 1998 orafterthe March 27, 1998 effective date of PL I 1-6.

That law, Asper stated, severely restricted the importation of new nonresident workers.

The supervisor said appellant does not meet any of the excep­tions to PL 11-6 that would allow him to hire Capuno from the Phil­ippines.

At the Sept. I hearing, appel­lant relied on the fact that the hiring process started before the effective date of the new law.

Jastillana said the job vacancy announcement was first published in Dec. 1997.

Jastillana argued that the Divi­sion of Employment Services ex­tended the job vacancy announce­ment certification until June 13, 1998.

The Department explained that extending the certification is not the same as allowing the filing of the Labor permit application to relate back to a date before the effectivity of such law.

In affirming the Labordirector's decision denying the application, Asper said although appellant started the hiring process before the effective date of the law, he did not identify Capuno as his prospective employee to DOLi after March 27.

Asper noted that almost al I of the Capuno documents arc dated in April and May 1998.

'Thus appellant did not meet the deadline imposed by PL 11-6 and he cannot hire Capuno as a new nonresident worker," the su­pervisor said.

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Public Health bats for better diabetes awareness program

By Haidee V. Eugenio

Variety News Staff VEERING away from the tradi­tional concept of educating the community about diabetes where patients are the ones going to clin­ics and hospitals, the Department of Public Health wants employ­ees and volunteers to reach out to villages.

Health Secretary Joseph Kevin Villagomez yesterday said that by going out to the community, more people will become edu­cated about the nature and pre­vention of diabetes which has ranked as one of the top ten causes of indigenous mortality in the

CNMI. ''What needs to be done is to

ensure that more community workers do 'needs assessment'. And that means we should liter­ally go out to the community to educate the people about diabe­tes, and not the other way around," Yi llagomez told reporters.

Diabetes, which is metabolic disorder marked by excessive dis­charge of urine and persistent thirst, is al so one of the leading causes of lower extremity ampu­tations, end-stage renal disease and even blindness.

"We should be focusing more on prevention and education than

treatment," he said. The health chief remarked that

there may be some individuals who need information or treat­ment but that they have no means of going to the hospital.

'Transportation is also an issue in a small place like the CNMI. Some may not have cars to visit the hospital so we should find our own means to reach to them. Oth­erwise, we 'II be risking the whole community," he said.

Villagomez, in reacting to the newly-enacted "The Diabetes Control Act," said the task at hand is more than having the facilities and equipment to cure diabetes.

Disaster prevention at MHS By Louie C. Alonso Variety News

AFTER Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio pro­claimed September 8-11 as Disas­terP1-epruedness Week, the officials of Maiianas High School stm1ed including disaster p1eparations in their cuniculum.

MHS held a disaster p1-eparation drill yesterday. TI1e activity wa~ made through the cooperation of the Division of Fire Safety, Com­monwealth UtilitiesCorporationand Emergency Management Office.

Fireman Glenn Dikito demon­stratedhowtocleanupthechemical spills befo1e hundreds of Ml-IS stu­dents.

They also demonstrated the im­portance of weming safety geai'S in cleaning up some chlrnine spill.

Daire] Buttler, a sophomo1e stu­dent, volunteered to fit into the fue­man gear to the delight of the MHS

crowd. The safety gear, according to Ernie

Dela Cmz of DFS, is a "must wear" for firemen who are responding to chemical spill siuiations.

The gear, Dela Cmz adde<l, keeps firemen away from the hazardous effects of chlorine and other chemi­cals that could damage theirrespira­to1y system.

Dela Cmz also said that chlorine spills take two weeks to clean up.

It would even take another week to make sure that chemical spill is not present in the area.

LanyGueneroofCUCsaid MHS studenl~aieregulaiiypracticingsome earthquake preparation drills inside theirclassrooms. Thedemonstration of chemical spills,headded, is related to fire p1evention because chemicals _usually causes fire in the community.

ButDikito said that chlorine spill in the water system is not a major prob-

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Tenorio also added that as the 1990s has been declared by the United Nations as the "In­ternational Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. This is made to "increase public awareness of natural hazard risk and of the mitigation ma­jors, that can reduce the impact of those risk."

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"A $300.000 budget for the Center is a good beginning but we have to be more 1·ealistic. We need to bring out treatment to the people," he said.

Introduced by Rep.Max O lopai. the signed bill mandates the es­tablishment of a ·cNMI disease management Center for Diabetes Care and Control, a separate sec­tion in the DPH' Divi8ion of Pub­lic Health Services. The Center will focus oh care. treatment and research, scl f -monitoring and out­reach program, and prevention and public education program.

Class reunion THE MARIANAS High School Class of 1989 will be havi~,g a "plan­ning meeting" on Thursday, Septem­ber 24 at the Civic Center pavilion.

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10-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- SEPTEMBER 11. 1998

Gunfire erl.lpts · in Yigo--Law against sexual harassment urged By Jacob Leon Guerrero

Variety News Staff YIGO, Guam -Police have ar­rested a22 year old man for shoot­ing at two residents of the Chalan Maanao area in Yigo, Wednes-day evening. -The two were unhanned.

Police spokespersonR~ Taitano identified the suspect as Albert Charfauros Moniz. 22. also of Yim

He was charged with aggrava~ assault. reckless conduct. possession of a fireann without a fireann TD card, criminal mischief. unlawful discharge of a fireann. possession and use of a

deadly weapon in the commission of a felony.

He was booked and detained. Police said one of the victims, a 21

year old Yigo man. heard gunshots coming from outside his house, at around 8 p.m.

When the man checked around his house he found his uncle fighting with another man in his yaitl •H~ pulled his uncle away and went into their house.

Minutes later they saw the man sitting in his car a short distance away from the house.

The suspect then drove off past the

house. at which point the men heard gunshot,. The suspect fled towards Route 1.

At 10:35 that evening, the 21 year old saw the suspect in his vehicle driving down his street. As the man drove past he heard a single gunshot.

Officers investigating the case found what appeared to be a single bullet hole on the front door and another on one of the wall's in­side the house.

At around 2: 15, Thursday morn­ing, officers located the suspect at his residence, where he was arrested.

By Louie C. Alonso Variety News Staff

FAMILY Court manager Maria Atalig-Gutierrez yesterday appealed to legislators to pass a bill against sexual harassment.

Gutierrez made this remark during the monthly conference of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) at Giovanni's private room in Hyatt Regency Hotel yesterday.

Gutierrez stressed that sexual harassment is not part of any culture, as some people may try to imply.

However, Gutierrez said House Majority Leader Ana S. Teregeyo (R-Prec. I, Saipan) will be introducing a bill soon regarding sexual harassment. .

CPJA takes credit for anti-sex crime bill "Sexual harassment is a serious problem that has affected the lives

of many people. It is any unwelcome sexual advances committed against other people," Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez said that there are two kinds of sexual harassment. The first kind is the "quid pro quo," which means "something for something."

THE Criminal Justice Planning Agency has successfully lobbied for the passage of a bill that re­quires sex offenders toregisterwith the law enforcement agencies. ac­cording to a media release.

The agency also sponsored a con­ference to better handle the prob­lems of child abuse and sexual assault. according to report sub­mitted recently.

CJPA Executive Director Harrv C. Blanco strongly lobbied for th~ bill. designed to better protect the community. especially children,

which passed the House of Repre­sentatives and sent to the senate recently.

The Jacob Wenerling Crimes against Children and Sexually Vio­lent Offender Registration Act must be in effect by Sept. 13, as required by the Bureau of Justice Assis­tance, Office of Justice Programs_ and US Department of Justice.

The act proposes to require sex offenders to register with the law enforcement agencies and to allow those agencies to release relevant information necessary to protect

the public. States not in compliance with

this legislation will lose 10 percent of the total awarded funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement As­sistance Program.

The CNMI recently received $464,640 for the fiscal year 1998 grant funds.

Law officers and social workers recently attended the CJPA-spon­sored child abuse and sexual as­sault conference held at the Dia-

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"Quid pro quo" usually involves supervisors who use threats like firing, blocking promotion, transferring or giving bad evaluation to a person who does not go along with sexual advances. Or if the employer uses rewards such as hiring, promoting, or giving a raise if a person does go along with his advances. ·

The second kind of sexual harassment, Gutierrez said, is the hostile environment.

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Man arrested for threatening to shoot his brothers

B_y Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

Selective Servi<?e offic~r to visit Saipan POLICE have arrested a man who allegedly punched, aimed a rifle at, and threatened with a sword his brothers, according to Department ofPublicSafetyspokespersonRose T.Ada.

An argument broke out between the two, with Alfredo allegedly punching Richard repeatedly, Ada said.

Richard then left the ranch with Antonio E. Reyes, 29, aboard a vehicle, but they were allegedly followed by Alfredo, Ada said.

THE Senior Operations Officer for the Selective Service System in Denver, Colorado, to Col. Glen Ford, is visiting the Northern Mariana Islands and meeting_ with officials in an effon to help ;pre ad the message that young men must

register with Selective Service, according to a media release.

Men who don't register might be permanently ineligible for federal stu -dent loans, job training, and most federal jobs.

"It is very important that young

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man register, and we especially need to get the word out in our tenitories," Ford said.

He is meeting with government officials and education leaders on Sept. 17, 18 and 19 in an effon to shore up awareness of the registration requirement.

Historically, compliance rates in U.S. tenitories lag behind the na-

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Superior Court Associate Judge Timothy H. Bellas has placed the suspect, Alfredo C. Reyes, 36, in police custody, with bail set at $ I 0,000 cash.

Citing the brothers· account, Ada said Reyes on Monday "picked up" Richard E. Reyes, 24, from his work place at Eurotex, and brought him to their ranch in Papago.

Upon reaching San Vicente, Alfredo allegedly aimed a rifle at the two, who fled.

Alfredo allegedly followed them again, this time chasing them with ''what looked like a sword," Ada said.

Richard and Antonio then to the police headquarters in Susupe to report the incidents.

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'Great Guam duck race' lnt1 reef check on Sept. 30 By Tanya M.C. Mendiola

Variety News Staff HAGA TNA, Guam - Some­thing will go a fowl at Tum on 's Ipao Beach Park during the month of October. Victim's Advocates Outreach program a non-profit organization that provides support services to victims of violent crimes and trauma on Guam. will hold the first annual ··Great Guam Duck Race," October I 0th, co­inciding with Family Violence Awareness month.

Fifteen thousand rubber duck will race down a preset course in Tuman bay for a fund raising event for V ARO. Ac­cordi;g to the organization chairp;rson, Patie;ce Smith, the idea for the event was ob­tained from the Internet through a website dedicated to different types of activities to promote fundraising events

for non-profit organizations. Smith said the event (duck

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::It's something different, in­teresting and fun to bring to the island.

We (VARO) hope (to use it as a way to raise money and) increase awareness of family violence on Guam," said Smith.

The ducks will be set afloat in the bay and the first l 0 ducks to cross the finish line will win prizes donated by various island businesses. A small fair will also be held along with the race. Other non­profit organizations will be invited to set up shop and edu­cate the community about their individual cause. There will be door prizes as well as en­tertainment for kids.

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Smith said throughout the month of September V ARO plans to have booths at the Chamoru Village's night mar­ket, the Hagatna Shopping Center and the Micronesia Mall to promote the event.

The community and busi­nesses can "adopt" a duck for $5 or they can raise the odds by opting for a "Six Quack," six rubber ducks for $5. Un­fortunately, according to Smith, participants won't be able to keep their "quackers" but they are invited to join the event annually.

All proceeds from the duck race will go to V ARO to fur­ther their efforts as a support service. Corporate sponsors of the event are Mobil Oil Guam and guam Medical Specialists. For more information, contact the V ARO Duck Adoption hotline at 477-7984.

By Tanya M.C. Mendiola Variety News Staff

HAGATNA, Guam - The is- . · land will once again participate in the International Reef Check to be conducted at 3 p.m., Sept 30. This is an annual effort to scientifically survey coral reefs throughout the world. So far, 30 divers signed up and participated in the training sessions for the event.

The Univer.iity of Guam Ma­rine Laboratory, organizers of the event, participated in the annual event in 1997; but on a smaller scale.

Volunteer diver.; were invited to participate in the survey.

UOG Marine Lab scientist will supervise all activities and vol­unteer divers were required to attend at least one of two training sessions, conducted by the pri­mary organizer of Reef Check 1998, Dr. Sandra L. Romano, and several pother Marine Lab

Street names for Carolinians By Louie C. Alonso

Variety News Staff HA VE you ever been to Aghurubw Street or Olomwaay Avenue~

According to Carolinian Affairs Office Executive Assistant Frank Rabauliman, CAO is consulting the whole Carolinian community on the different Carolinian names they will be submitting before the street naming committee.

"The office is very much ex­cited on this project. We actually have a list of several Carolinian names and we only need the ap­proval of the whole community," said Rabauliman.

Rabauliman added that Caro­linians will have a fairrepresenta­tion on the total number of street names on the islands.

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Secretary of State Madeleine Albright fired back Wednesday at critics who accused her of eas-ing away from tough U.N. in­spections of Iraq's suspect weap­ons sites.

"TI1ey are sincerely wrong:· Albright said.

In ; speech to. the American Legion in New Orleans, Albright said the United States has been the strongest international backer of the U.N. Special Commission.

"We have pushed and pushed and pushed some more to help UNSCOM break through the smokescreen of lies and decep­tion put out by the Iraqi regime,'' Albright said.

The critics include Scott Ritter, an American who quit the moni­toring commission and com­plained the administration and the

Security Council were Jetting President Saddam Hussein off the hook.

Richard Butler, the head of the commission, took on Ritter Tues­day, telling The New York Times that Ritter's testimony to the Sen­ate was often inaccurate in chro­nology and detail and had dam­aged UNSCOM. -Butler also said Ritter. who re­

signed on Aug. 26, had inflated his role and made misleading statements about Butler's dealing with U.N. Security Council offi­cials, and particularly with Albright. .

"The critics are sincere," Albright said in her speech .. ··we are, after all, on the same side. But they are sincerely wrong when they blame America for the world's failure to uncover the full truth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs," she said.

Last month, Albright acknowl­edged under fire that concerns ab;ut creating a deep split in the U.N. Security Council had prompted her to oppose certain inspections of suspected ·weap­ons sites in Iraq. Britain has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States, but France, Russia and China are all reluctant to take

. Saddam on. In confronting Iraq, she said in

Wednesday's speech, it's best"to be able to choose your own tim­ing and terrain."

"In fact," Albright went on, "the United States has been by far the strongest international backer of UNSCOM. I, along with Secre­tary (of Defense William) Cohen and other members of the president's foreign policy team have traveled the world, demand­ing that Iraq cooperate with UNSCOM."

Anti-Pope threat in Italy CHIA VARI, Italy (AP) - Po­lice searched Wednesday for the people responsible for violent anti-pope fliers that appeared in the northern coastal city of Chiavari, the site of an upcoming pastoral visit by Pope John Paul II.

The fliers accused the pope of supporting racism, the death pen-

alty and compromise with dicta­tors. One urged murder of the "Pope of Rome, killer of liberty and tyrant."

The authors signed themselves only as "anarchists."

Authorities removed the fliers after they were posted in the cen­terof town, 75miles westofltaly's border with France.

John Paul is scheduled to visit Sept. 18-19. A Vatican spokes­man did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday.

The pope survived a 1981 as­sassination attempt in which an assailant shot him in the abdomen in St. Peter's Square. He also is believed to have been the target of other plots.

Thai business OKs debt restructuring BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -Thailand's central bank and five pri­vate sector associations on Thursday signedanagreementtomakeiteasier for Thai corporations to deal with their massive debts.

structuring debt under a recently implemented bankruptcy law. But Thursday's framework is an attempt to get companies to enter voluntarily into negotiations with their creditors.

Foreign Bank Association, said the guidelines encouraged debt­ors to disclose full information to creditors who, in tum, should "stand still" on demanding loan repayments while companies try to restructure debt. Guidelines already exist for re- DavidProctor,chairmanofthe

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1\vo large Korean banks to merge SEOUL,&mlhKorea(AP)-Two large and relatively healthy banks have decided to merge to create the second largest commercial bank in South Korea, banking officials said Thursday.

Kookmin Bank and Kon~a Long­Tenn Credit Bank, twoofthenation 's lql~ven banks, plan to sign a rremcran­dum of uncmtanding Hiday to rrerge effective Jan 4, bank officials said

It will be the thirrl merger of Ko­rean commercial banks this year.

Banks recorded acombinednet profit of 57.7 billion won ($41.2 million) for the first six months this year. The combined bank will have a~sets of 84.6 trillion won ($60.4 billion).

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'There are three major ways to improve banks' finances: foreign investment, capital increase and merger. For now, merger seems to be the most feasible way," said Suh Young-ho, an analyst at Daewoo Securities Co.

bad loans, JJiggering a sudden loss of international confidence that led to the financial crisis.

South Korea was forced to accept a $58 billion bailout fund from the International Monetary Fund in De­cember. In return, the nation is re­quired to refonn its bloated industrial and financial sectors.

The government had previously shut down 14 troubled merchant banks, or finance companies, and five small commercial banks. But critics said that was not enough. HanilBankandCommercia!Bank

of Korea announced plans to merge in July and Hana Bank and Boram Bankearlierthis week, l:xltheffective Jan.4.

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When the economy slowed down and companies begancollapsing last year, banks wereleftwithmoundsof

To boost voluntary mergers to cre­ate more efficient, stronger banks, the government has promised to help by writing off bad loans and giving tax benefits.

Hana Bank president Kim Seung-yu, left, shakes hands with Boram Bank counterpart Koo Ja-jung after announcing on merger of the two banks at the Bank Association building in Seoul. It will create the seventh largest commercial bank in South Korea. AP

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RP activists vandalize US embassy MANILA, Philippines (AP) -Student activists splattered red paint on the U.S. government seal at a gate of the American Em­bassy in Manila Thursday to pro­test a proposed accord allowing U.S. troops to train in the Phi lip­pines.

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pine army camp. The small-scale training is intended to ensure joint combat efficiency while the ma­jor exercises remain suspended.

Military ties with the United States have remained a sensitive issue since a nationalist Philip­pine Senate forced the closure of

the last U.S. base in the country in 1992, ending close to a century of American military presence in its former colony.

US Legislators to 'kill' Chinese project over security concerns LONG BEACH, California (AP) - National security con­cerns have prompted U.S. law­makers to agree to kill a Chinese company· sport development plan despite fears that the Chinese gov­ernment may respond by retaliat­ing against U.S. companies.

Congressional conferees in Washington agreed to include language in the annual defense authorization bill that would bar the China Ocean Shipping Co. from leasing space on the former Long Beach Naval Station. port officials said Tuesday.

The Port of Long Beach. south of Los Angeles. had wanted early use of the closed station and shipyard so that it could lease part of the property to Cosco. which has operated in Long Beach for 17 years, for use as a massive container ter­minal.

Cosco has said suggestions that it poses a security risk are ridiculous.

Critics have said Cosco could use the site for intelligencc-gath-

ering operations on the U.S. main­land. Supporters said those fears were unfounded and noted that the project would have generated hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars for the port.

Port officials, President Bill Clinton's administration and their pro-trade supporters have fought hard for the project. but lost ground recently amid con­troversy over the export of U.S. satellites to China and alleged Chinese contributions to U.S. political campaigns.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James M. lnhofe, chairman of the Senate Armed Services sub­committee on military readi­ness, pcrsua<lcu his colleagues to add wording to the defense authorization bill to bar the project.

The clause would rescind the president's authority to approve the Cosco lease. Clinton cun-ently can approve the deal if the FBI ,m<l Pentagon certify that the Chi­nese presence poses no national security threat.

Long Beach officials warned that th; Chinese government may retaliate by rejecting pending pro­posals by two U.S.-based ship­pers, Sealand and APL, to build new facilities in China.

''This has ramifications way be­yond the city and port of Long Beach," said Randel Hernandez, chief of staff for Long Beach Mayor Beverly O'Neill. "'This action would destroy efforts by U.S. companies to expand and open markets in China."

Congressional aides said the decision to bar the Cosco port project is not a <lone deal -- the conference report must be ap­proved by the fu II Congress and the bill signed by Clinton. But Cosco 's advocates acknowl­edged that their chances of win­ning a reversal are not good.

The Pen tag on in 1991 ordered the closure of the Naval Station, once home port to more than 16,000 sailors. The City Coun­cil then held hearings on rede­veloping the Terminal Island property.

Delta II launches 5 satellites VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- A Delta II rocket can-ying five satellites was launched into space to complete the$ 5 billion Iridium global com­munications network.

The Boeing Delta II rocket, similar to one that blew up over Florida last month, was launched at 2: 13 p.m. Tuesday, Air Force and Motorola Corp. officials said.

The rocket carried a cluster of satellites into orbit to complete the Iridium system of 74 satel­lites. capable of providing wire­less telephone, data. fax and pag-

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The Del ta III' s system was de­rived from that of the Delta II. and the Iridium launch was put on hold for a few <lays to ensure there were no problems with the Delta II.

The Iridium project also was delayed in January 1997 when a Delta II canying Air Force guid­ance satellites exploded. A cracked .booster motor casing was blamed.

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Kohl under threat in home-district By Robert Mahoney

OGGERSHEIM, Germany, (Reuters)-Judging by the way Doris Barnett swings a ma11et German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had better watch his back.

The Social Democratic candi­date is getting plenty of practice tappipg the beer barrels without which no campaign rally in the chancellor's home district seems complete.

Although a political light­weight, Barnett thinks she has the blow to fell the West's longest­reigning political heavyweight.

"I do weigh less than Mr Kohl," says the trim, 45-year-old law­yer. "But this is not about weight, it's about action. That's why I'm miles ahead of the chancellor."

Barnett and heropposition SPD party are going all out to try to humiliate Kohl in his own back yard in the election on September 27.

Kohl's popularity has already slumped nationally, and polls show him losing the chancellery to SPD challenger Gerhard Schroeder.

Barnett is on the stump up to I 0 times a day to hammer home this message to the army of unde­cided voters in Kohl's home town of Lugwigshafen, a riverport on the Rhine.

Locals understand Kohl's standing as statesman

"Kohl has been chancellor for 16 years now and most people know how much is left in the their wallets at the start of the month after all the deductions," says Barnett, threading her way through a street market.

"I have done something for the people," she says, picking up an opposition charge that Kohl bas lost touch with ordinary Germans beyond his Bonn chancellery walls.

"Go and ask the local people what he has done for them ... He's never here,'' she adds.

"You have to understand,'' countersJosefKeller, local leader of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union party. "The chancellor is the party's top contender and is in demand everywhere."

Kohl, 68, is an international statesman and local people un­derstand that, argues Keller.

On this point Barnett treads carefully, sensing that local pride is a factor, especially for those with no patty ties.

In speeches she tends to stick to issues ratherthan launch personal attacks on the chancellor who put Oggersheim on the map by tak­ing home friends like Bill Clinton and Boris Yelstin for dinner.

Unemployment, crime, immi­gration, welfare, pensions and education are the issues for Oggersheim's 26,000 residents, just as they are for many of this nation of 80 million.

Kohl's place in history won't win votes

Kohl's record on foreign policy and his place in history as an architect of German and Euro­pean unity are not big vote-win­ners.

German reunification helped Kohl win Oggersheim's directly

elected seat for the first time in 1990, ending nearly a century of SPD dominance. He hung on to it in 1994 against Barnett by just 3,540 votes.

Both he and Barnett entered parliament in any case because they were on their parties' lists for the half of the lower house seats that are not constituency-based.

But the ignomony Kohl would suffer if he lost his seat is a pow­erful incentive to the SPD which feels it has the weapon in unem­ployment.

'"We have almost 10 percent unemployment here," says Barnett. '"BASF has been cutting back," she adds, refening to the chemical company that dominates the job market in a community that is split between industry and agriculture.

As she drives herself to yAt another round of handshakes, beer and sausages, Barnett passes rows of posters reading: "Out with For­eign Criminals" and "German In­terests First."

The advertisments are for the Republican party, one of three

far-right parties running nation­ally. They hope to tap into fears about immigration, especially from east and southest' Europe, rising crime and drngs.

"If you are angry, come and speak to us instead of voting for extremist parties,"says Barnett, sounding as much like a social worker as a political brawler.

Undecided voters bedevil pollsters

The next campaign stop takes her across the wrong side of the tracks to a housing estate where foreigners and asylum-seekers are mixed in with Jong-term unem­ployed and families on welfare.

A group of men nursing beer cans look up as Barnett passes but show no interest in following her to the tent the SPD has set up beside a grey block of flats.

"Eighty percent of people here are unemployed," says one man between sips.

This should be fertile ground for the centre-left SPD but few residents venture out to meet the woman who says she wants to solve their social problems.

"Ifl vote," Alfred Kimmel tells the candidate, "it wi11 probably be SPD." '

The "ifs" and "don't knows" are a headache for both parties. Pollsters say anywhere between a fifth to a half of the electorate are undecided.

"We have more undecided vot­ers than four years ago," said Heinrich Jaeckel, as he tried to entice rain-drenched shoppers to stop at his CDU stand.

The CDU, trailing the SPD nationally by up to five points. hopes this uncertainy will swing voters at the last minute to Kohl. who beams down from posters offering ··security instead of Risk."

It's a struggle some call 'Doris and Goliath'

Barnett, lacking the chancellor's track record, is paired in posters with the telege­nic Schroeder.

The SPD hopes to turn out the yourig vote, presenting the middle-of-the-road Schroeder as a fresh face to a generation that was still in diapers when Kohl

took office. "It a11 depends on the advertis­

ing," says 19-year-old Thorsten, when asked how he would vote. The first-time voter, attending a fair opened by Barnett. says he has no strong convictions and will probably not decide who to vote for until ,he last week. His girl friend agrees.

Older people seem less hesi­tant but fall into two camps. They believe either that the left-lean­ing SPD will look aftertheir pen­sions or that "the reds" wi 11 tax their savings.

"Look, all this political stuff is a load of bull," confides one 75-year-old shopper, suddenly delighted by herown strong lan­guage. "It's just that Kohl is the lesser of two evils.'·

Untroubled by such thoughts of defeat in her '"Doris and Goliath" struggle, Barnett battles on to a street festival. The sun pokes through and her mood brightens, although all the hand-shaking and baby­kissing doesn't seem to come naturally.

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WASHI7'GTON (AP) -Former President Bush worried he might be impeached if the Gulf War dragged on. but after rushing the battle lo conclusion. he re­gretted that Saddam Hussein sur­vived in power, he reveals in a new book.

··rt hasn't been a clean end -there is no battleship Missouri surrender," Bush wrote in his di­ary Feb. 28, 1991. saying he felt no euphoria after announcing the conflict was over. "This is what's missing to make this akin to WWII. to separate Kuwait from Korea and Vietnam:·

In the book. "A World Trans­formed." co-written with his na­tional security adviser. Brent Scowcroft. Bush is shown fret­ting about how to stop the war quickly - and crush Saddam -while avoiding the mistakes of a drawn-out Vietnam.

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In the middle of the I 00-hour ground war t~at pushed Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Bush feared Saddam would survive as power­ful as ever.

"We don't want to have an­other draw. another Vietnam, a sloppy ending ... where this guy emerges saving face." Bush wrote on Feb. 25. 'Tm not interested in his saving face and neither is the rest of the world."

That is what happened. how­ever. Although the U.S.-led Gulf War smashed Iraq's military and forced Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait, the Iraqi leader claimed victory and never surrendered. Today. he remains in power and

Former President George Bush is shown in this photo. In a new book, "A World Transformed," co­written with his national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, Bush says he was worried he might be impeached if the Persian Gulf War dragged on, but after rushing the battle to conclusion, he regretted that Saddam Hussein survived in power. "A World Transformed" is being published by Alfred Knopf Inc. on Sept. 28, 1998. AP

in frequent defiance of United Nations resolutions requiring Iraq to allow weapons inspections to ensure the nation has disarmed.

Bush, a Republican, had trouble getting Congress, then controlled by the Democrats, to approve us­ing force~ something he said he didn't really need. After heated debate, both houses approved, but Bush said he would have gone to war anyway, even at the cost of his presidency.

'Tm going to have to share credit with Congress and the world if it works ·quick ... a quick defeat for Saddam," Bush wrote in his diary Dec. 20, 1990. ''But if it drags out, not only will I take the blame, but I will probably have impeachment proceedings filed against me."

Bush and Scowcroft argue that the U.S.-led coalition achieved its objectives as outlined in a U.N. resolution authorizing force-to stop Iraqi aggression after Iraqi

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The White House debated re­quiring Saddam to surrender at Safwan just north of the Kuwait­Iraq border, but Bush concluded that if he refused, the coalition would be forced to continue the war until he backed down.

"Under those circumstances, there was no viable exit strategy we could see," Bush and Scowcroft said in the shared nar­rative portion ofthe590-page book in which each writes first-person versions of events.

"A WorldTransformed,"which is due in stores this month, also covers the collapse of the Soviet Union and reunification of Ger­many- the end of the Cold War, a legacy of the Reagan adminis­tration - and the effect on U.S.­China relations of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democ­racy demonstrators in 1989.

Bush, despite his hatred of Saddam. initially appeared reluc­tant to stand up to Iraq. Then­British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher boosted his resolve, tell­ing him at one point. "This is no time to go wobbly."

Soon, Bush was comparing Saddam to Hitler over objections from his advisers and saying he hoped the Iraqi leader might be killed in the crossfire or over­thrown by his own military or by popular revolt.

"This is a war and ifhe gets hit with a bomb in his headquarters, too bad," Bush wrote in his diary Jan. 31.

In a tactical error after the war, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, acting without White House instructions, granted Iraq's request to use its helicopters for communications. Saddam then employed them as gunships to put down rebellions­which helped him reconsolidate his power.

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, consid­ered rescinding Schwarzkopf's ap­proval. according lo the book, but decided they didn't want to 'under­cut Schwarzkopf, who was hailed as a hero for leading the coalition.

In retrospect, Bush and Scowcroft write, the United States should have stopped Saddam's immediate re­turn to aggression.

"It might have been salutary to have rapped the Iraq is on the knuck­les at their first transgression," Bush and Scowcroft write.

As a former World War II fighter pilot, Bush said the thing that weighed on him most during the Gulf War was "sending kids into battle."

Watching television after mak­ing the final decisio11 to go to war, Bush said he saw a father kiss his soldier son as he shipped out.

On Aug. 6, 1942, "my dad ac­companied me to New York's Penn Station," Bush recalled, saying he was only 18. "He too had given me a hug on the platform. I cried on the train.H

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HR group hits US on prison policies By MICHELLE MITIELSTADT

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. immigration service is so short of detention space it is hous­ing thousands of foreigners, in­cluding people seeking asylum, in local jails with the general criminal population, a human­rights group said Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch claimed that some Immigra­tion and Naturalization Ser­vice detainees are subject to physical mistreatment at the hands of their jailers. Some have staged hunger strikes at jails in California, Louisiana and New Hampshire to pro­test conditions.

"The INS is shipping immi­grants off to local jails where they don't belong," said Ken­neth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. "This practice violates international standards, and it must stop."

In an 84-page report, the group said INS abdicated con­trol of its detainees to local jail officials wi-thout ensuring that basic national and inter­national standards of humane treatment are met.

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Responding to the findings, INS Commissioner Doris Meissner said her agency is ''not shirking" its responsibil­ity to ensure proper treatment of illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and others placed in detention. . "INS is deeply committed to providing a safe, secure and humane environment for all detainees, regardless of where they are being held,'~she said,

adding that the agency is re­vising its jail selection and inspection standards.

The INS has some 16,000 detainees, nearly two-thirds of whom are housed in local jails rather than agency-run facili­ties. The detention population has swelled by nearly 70 per­cent since 1996, in large mea­sure because of tough;r sanc­tions imposed by Congress. The average detention stay is 34 days.

"Ideally, we would like to house all detainees in INS-run facilities because they are the ones over which we have the greatest control of condi­tions," Meissner said. "This is not a viable option, however, given the growth in demand for bed space and budgetary constraints we face."

Human Rights Watch, which monitors human rights issues around the world, said it com­piled a list of abuses during interviews with more than 200 detainees over the past 18 months. In one instance this summer, INS detainees in a Florida jail alleged they were jolted with electric shocks

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Deadlock derails Parliament vote

By Giff Johnson For the Variety

Majuro - Marshall Islands President Imata Kabua continued his party's boycott of the Nitijela (parliament) yesterday, further de­laying a vote of no confidence that was first scheduled to be held on Monday.

The boycott has split President Kabua·s cabinet. with three gov­ernment ministers showing up to the Niti jela session on yesterday.

But even with the three cabinet ministers present, the opposition was still twosenatorsshortofthe 17 mem­bers needed for both a quorom and to pass a vote of no confidence in the President who has been in office for 18 months.

Speaker Kessai Note recessed the Ni ti jela and called for another session today. But it is doubtful that the President's party will return to the session before next week, according to sources in the government party.

The constitution requires that the vote of no confidence be held within JO days of its filing. Government party members are saying that once the IO day deadline passes today. the motion is dead.

Opposition senators charge that the

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They claim that if the Niti jela is prevented from holding session this week, it will bring on an unprec­edented constitutional crisis for the countl)'.

The government party holds a slim majority. but in a secret ballot vote the opposition has a good chance to win­ning support for its motion of no confidence, said Senator Litokwa Tomeing who is spearheading the opposition since being dropped from cabinet by Kabuainacabinetshakeup two weeks ago that precipitated the no confidence move.

In this nation that is still heavily dominated by traditional practices, a secret ballot would be the only way that some senators would vote against Kabua who is also a powerful tradi­tional chief.

The entire dispute between Presi­dent Kabua and Spealcer Note hinges on the interpretation of the Niti jela rule about secret and open roll call votes.

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Speaker shall conduct a secret ballot vote on the request of three or more members, unless an open vote by call of the roll is required by the Cons ti tu­tion or has been requested by three members.

The dispute centers on who made the request first, since the Constitu­tion doesn 'trequire a roll call vote for no confidence motions.

The government party claims that it made the request for a roll call vote before the senators bringing the mo­tion of no confidence asked for a secret ballot

During a speech byTomeing at the session Monday, new Fmance Min­ister Tony deBrum interrupted with a pointofordertoasktheSpeakertocut off Tomeing's speech to move di­rectly to a vote and then requested a vote by roll call that was immediately seconded by supporters.

But the Speaker allowed Tomeing to continue and Tomeing then issued a request for a vote by secret ballot After Tomeing concluded, the Speaker said that while he had recog­nized deBrum 's pointof order he had not recognized his motion for a roll call vote; therefore, the secret ballot request was made properly and a secret ballot vote would be held.

PM appeals for calm HONIARA (Pacnews)--Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Bartholomew Ulufa' alu appeals to members of parliament iri the opposition and government to solve their differences through consultation.

In an address to the nation on Tuesday, Mr Ulufa'alu says members of parliament should come together and iron out their differences through the Melanesian way of consulta­tion. . . He says if that cannot be achieved, then lefthe law take its

course. The prime minister says it would be hypocritical of Solomon

Islands to be a mediator between Bougainville and Papua New Guinea over the Bougainville issue when it cannot solve its own differences at home .

Ulufa'alu called for calm among Honiara residents adding that what had happened has resulted in a sad situation.

He says shops have closed earlier than normal, schools have suspended classes and there is general tension within Honiara.

Ulufa'alu said the situation should never have come this far if members of parliament were willing to sit down and discuss the problem among themselves.

Earthmovers ordered to pay HONIARA (Pacnews)-The Solomon Islands Court of Ap­peal has ordered the Earthmovers Group of Com­panies to either pay into court SI$600-thousand

(US$ J 27-thousand) or pro­duce an irrevocable bank guar­antee for the sum by today.

This is money owed to work­ers sacked by the company.

In a ruling Tuesday, Regis­trar of the Court of Appeal, Justice David Chetwynd, says

he is g1vmg two days for Earthmovers to comply with the order.

Justice Chetwynd also urged lawyers representing Earthmovers and the Solomon Islands National Union of Workers to agree on a sum to be paid to the sacked workers.

The National Union of Workers is taking the case against Earthmovers on behalf the company's more than 300 sacked workers.

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Maki·ng sure your water is safe BY ALDWIN R. FAJARDO hepatitis.

With a high population of children and elderly, CNMI is at a higher risk against ou !breaks of waterborne dis­eases. This is where Saipan

the water then passes through ultra violet or radiation treatment before it goes through a machine with carbon filters which gatekeeps impurities,

treat up to I 5,(XX) gallons of water everyday .

WATER is essential to sustain life. This is what drives Saipan Ice Incor­porated to continue with its commit­menttoprovide theNorthemMariana Islands with pure and clean drinking water.

Nowenteringits 13t11yearofdeliv­ering safe water to local consumers, Saipan Ice plans to take aggressive steps to also provide Tinian and Rota residents with safe and pure drinking water.

Feasibility studies and planning are already undeiway to expand the market to other islands in the North­ern Marianas, according to Anthony Pellegrino, president of the

Pelley Group which owns and op­erates Saipan Ice.

At present, the company enjoys between 60percent and 70percentof the total market share on Saipan.

AI though a slight drop in sales. was recorded due to the closure of some restaurants which Saipan Ice pro­videsdrinkingwater,Pellegrinomain­tains an optimistic view of the Saipan market Not even the bad omen asso­ciated with the number 13 can stop Saipan Ice.

"Everybody drinks water and ev. erybody needs safe and pure drinking water. As long as this is the case, we will continue to serve the community which helped us reach this far," he says.

Pellegiinohasareadyanswerwhen a,ked what keeps Saipan Ice going. "We provide outstanding service coupled with an excellent quality of dtinking water."

Trueenough, theDivisionofEnvi­ronmentaI Quality regularly collects water samples from the company's purified water to check the presence of any impurities.

'This is how we assure our cus­tomers that they get the best quality drinking water. It is safe primarily because it is pure and clean," the company president adds.

Aside from the DEQ monitoring team, Saipan Ioe has adopted its own quality <::ontrol system in further moves to provide only the purest water to thousands of households in the island.

Saipan Ice vice president Actor Songcuan says the company checks the water quality through sampling once every. week while off-sight wa­ter tanks, nonmally located in super­markets around the island, are cleansed once every three months.

Saipan Ice will not just take any risks, as far as thesafetyofitsdrinking water is concerned. And why would the company risk the health of its customers when the World Health Organization reports that an estimated

80 percent of all diseases and over one-third of deaths in developing countries are water-related.

For such cases, Songcuansays dis­infection is the key word. The WHO says waterborne diseases drop very shaIJJly to a low value when adequate levels of disinfection are maintained.

Indeed, disinfection is unquestion­ably the most important step in the treatment of water for public supply. It is by far the safest way to prevent outbreaks of cholera, typhoid feveror

Ice comes in with its technol­ogy of maintaining a clean drinking water. ·

During a tour around the company's water purifica­tionplantdownLowerBase, Songcuan says Saipan Ice has its own deep-well and rainwater catchment fa­cilities, although it also sources a portion of its water from the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation.

The company's two water catchment tanks can store up to 80,000 gallons

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Zero economic growth for Australia CANBERRA, Australia (AP) _ Australia's economy will suffer zero growth and double digit un­employment by 2000 as the Asian economic crisis and a global eco­nomic slowdown take effect, a leading economist forecasted

Wednesday. Peter Brain, the executive direc­

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Organic bill OK' d PORT MORESBY (Pacnews}­The Papua New Guinea government has passed changes to the Organic Law on provincial and local level government

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'This will mean the impact on us v,ill be a grinding down of the Australian growth rate to zero lev­els by about 2000," he said adding that the number of jobless Austra­lians will grow by at least 300,000.

Inan article in this week's Bulle­tin magazine, Brain predicted growth rates would continue to be negligible in Australia until at least

2002 to keep the present account deficit at less than 7 percent of gross domestic product.

He said on radio he was 60 to 70 percent confident his predictions would come to pass.

Brain said · his predictions for Australia were based on contrac­tions in the economies of Indone- · sia, Thailand, Korea and Malaysia of between. five and 15 percent forecast for the next 12 months.

He predicted growth in Japan would contract by about 2 percent and China by 2 percent to zero over the next two years.

The events in Russia over the last

two weeks meant that country's economy would contract between IO percent and 15 percent over the next 18 months and Britain was entering a period of very low growth.

Growth in the United States in the past six years had been driven by a tremendous build up in debt which had to come to an end, he said.

Australian Finance Minister John Fahey dismissed the predictions as doom and gloom which flew in the face of expert, optimistic treasury analysis and indicators pointing to continuing economic growth.

Govt assured·compensation for Vanuatu's former civil servants

PORT VILA (Pacnews)­Formermembersofthe Vanuatu Public Servants Association who were sacked afterastrikein 1993 have been assured by the government that their compensa­tion package will soon be ready.

The assurance was made this week when the members turned

up at the Public Service Commis­sion office in Port Vila demanding to know when they were to be compensated.

Parliament approved a Bill in 1996 for the government to com­pensate over 200 members who were sacked by the former Union of Moderate Parties government

in 1993 after demanding a wage rise.

Meanwhile, former VPSA president, Barton Bisiwei has called on the Prime Minister to reconsider the current Compen­sation Board which was estab­lished to oversee the compensa­tion process,

Coast guard urges public to report oil spill PAGO PAGO (Pacnews)-The United States Coast Guard in American Samoa is asking mem­bers of the public to beon the look out for oil spills and report them immediately so that the culprit or culprits can be identified and pros­ecuted.

This follows two oil spills in the maindockareaofPagoPagoHaroour in as many weeks.

The first spill two weeks ago in­volved about 500 gallons of oil and the second one on Tuesday involved about 100 gallons.

Local Coast Guard Liaison Officer Lt Michael Sakaio said oil samples taken fiom boats and ships that were in the haroour and suspected to have the same type of fuel as the spills are being sent to Hawaii for"fingerprint­ing" or matching.

But he said the analysis work doesn't always result in a match up because by the time they learn about a spill, the culprit has left the territory.

Lt Sakaiosaid this happened in the last major oil spill at Utulei Beach a couple of months ago.

He pointed out that public aware­ness needs to be raised so that mem­bers of the community can easily spot an oil spill and report it right away.

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APIA (Pacnews}-Samoans are now eligible to participate in the an­nual immigration visa lottery to gain permanent residence in the United States of America under its Year 2000 Diversity Immigrant Visa Programme-DY 2000.

Underthisprogrammethe US gov­ernment will be issuing 50,000 per­manent resident visas.

According to America's Charge d'Affair in Apia, Bill Warren, the competition for the visa, is expected to be very high, with several millions of people applying.

The visas are made available to citizens of counuies that have low rates of immigration to the United States.

Awareness

PORT MORESBY (Pacnews}-­Leaders of the Bougainville Tnuisi­tional Government, the Bougainville Revolutionary Army and the Bougainville Interim Government will asfiom today conductjointaware­ness meetings in several major towns in Bougainville to inform people of the progress of the peace process.

The meetings being coordinated by the Peace Monitoring Group on the island, will include speeches from

BougainvillePremier,GerardSinato; his deputy, Thomas Anis; BIGvice­president,JosephKabuiandhisarmy commander, Sam Kauona.

The meetings are in preparation for the start of negotiations between the Bougainville leaders and the PNG government later this month on the political future of Bougainville.

No more licence

PORT VILA (Pacnews)-The V anuaw government has decided to stop issuing licences for public trans­ports wanting to opernte in Port Vila due to the large amount of buses and taxis now operating.

The order wa, signed recently by the Deputy Prime Minister and Min­isteroflntemal Affairs.Father Walter Lini.

Around 240 buses and taxis are now opemting in the capital and the number has become a concern to the operatorswhoarenotmakingenough money to meet the costof theiropera­tions.

This concern has been raised with the Land Transport Association.

Award SUV A(Pacnews)-Preparationsare in place for the annual Fiji Trnde and Investment Board's Exporter of the

Year A wards which is to be held later this year.

The FTIB has been able to secure major sponsors for all the categories tliat it's offeting for the competition.

ll1e courier service, OHL World Express issponsoting the major award for this year, which is the prime minister'sExporterofthe Y earaward

The two new categories which is the Exporter to USA and Exporter to Australiaawardshave both been spon­sored by the Bank of Hawaii' for the USA award and the Fiji Australia Business Council.

The other categories include the Unique Exporter, New Exporters, Exporter to New Zealand, Small Ex­porter, Medium Exporter, Large Ex­porter and the Services Award for the Yem·.

Rice price PORT MORESBY (Pacnews}­The Papua New Guinea government isnegotiatingwiththeAustralianRice Industries to lowerthe price of rice by another five percent

Rice prices were fi.rst reduced by five percent after initially skyrocket -ing last month.

Prime Minister, Bill Skate says the government is also negotiating with the Australian government to allow PNG to buy rice in Australian dollars instead of the United States dollars because of the high mru'ket mtes.

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The Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC) Board of Directors, through its Chairman, Mr. Juan S. Tenorio, is pleased to inform the public that it will commence accepting application for the single-family residential houses at the Koblerville Expansion Project on Friday, October 2, 1998 between 8:00 a.m. through 10:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays, and closing at 10:00 a.m., on October 30, 1998. Applications are available at the NMHC Office in Garapan, Saipan between regular business hours. A period of two weeks in which NMHC will evaluate and pre-screen applicants after which time, the eligible will be assigned a number to enter the lottery. Drawing for 2-3 and 4-bedroom units will respectively take place each morning at 8:30 a.m., on November 17th, November 18th, November 19th.

ONLY COMPLETED APPLICATIONS, TOGETHER WITH SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS NOTED ON THE APPLICATION CHECKLIST, WILL BE ACCEPTED. ·

Only first-time homeowners of CNMI descent, with dependents, who arc in dire need of a residential housing unit, will be the target groups considered for eligibility to purchase lots at the Koblcrville Expansion Project. Existing pre-approved applicants for one of NMHC's Loan Programs are not eligible to apply for units at the Koblervile Expansion Project. Homesteaders who have yet to build on their land arc eligible to apply, provided that he/she must relinquish a homestead lot back to the Division of Public Lands upon successfully obtaining a lot at Koblerville Expansion Project.

The hous~s range in size between two-, three-and four~ bedrooms. A family with a maximum of two (2) dependents may purchase a 2-bedroom house; a family with a maximum of four (4) dependents may purchase a 3-bedroom house; and, a family with a maximum of six (6) dependents may purchase a 4-bedroom house. Conveniently located across the St. Jude Chapel, and a few minutes away from the beach and Coral Ocean Point Golf Course.

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Rights lawyer welcomes Imelda's compensation offer Bandits abduct Italian

priest, 12 others in RP By OLIVER TEVES MANILA, Philippines (AP) -­The American lawyer for victims of human rights abuses under the late dictato; Ferdinand Marcos said Wednesday their indemnifi­cation has been speeded.up by the willingness of Marcos' widow to pay $ 150 million.

Imelda Marcos repeated Tues­day that she is willing to give the money "out of compassion, not guilt" to9,539Filipinos who won a class action suit against the Marcos estate for torture, sum­mary executions and disappear­ances during her husband's rule.

The Hawaii court which tried the case awarded about$ 2 billion in damages to the plaintiffs.

Robert Swift, the victims' American lawyer, said he wel­comes Mrs. Marcos' consent and will now. seek a meeting with her lawyers. Swift said the amount is close to the 30 percent being sought of the $ 540 million from Marcos' Swiss bank accounts that has been transferred into an es­crow account in a Philippine bank.

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has ruled that the money can only be released to the Philip­pine government if it obtains a conviction of Mrs. Marcos in a case connected to the deposits and if the victims of human rights abuses are compensated.

Swift spoke with reporters after meeting presidential Executive Secretary Ron al do Zamora to e.x­plore a "fast-track solution" to compensating the Marcos victims.

He said any compensation would have to be coursed through the Hawaii court ··co assure integ­rity, credibility and transparency." Zamora also met last week with Filipino human rights lawyer Romeo

Capulong and leaders of Sclda, a group of former political detain­ees under Marcos.

The group submitted a proposal for compensation that sought pay­ment of at least 30 percent from

Taleban limits access to prisons -- Red Cross GENEVA, (Reuters)-The In­ternational Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday Afghan Taleban authorities were limiting its access to prisoners and minor­ity Hazaras in and around the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

The purist lslamicTaleban. who now control most of Afghanistan. captured the city a month ago from fi;!hters of an alliance that support; the wi<lcly-rccognised government of deposed president Bumahuddin Rabbani.

Since that time. a statement from the Swiss-based humanitar­ian oruanis:1tio11 said ... the IC'RC has ra(cd majordil'ficulties in dis­char;zin!! ii., mandate of protec­tion 1·or-thc victims of the situa­tion.""

Although !CRC officials had been in the city since mid-Au­gust, they had not been allowed regular access to places of deten­tion. the statement declared.

Imelda Marcos

the Marcos Swiss accounts be­fore the government and Mrs. Marcos negotiate adivisionofthe remaining 70 percent.

No agreement has been reached on this proposal, which was made as part of the implementation of a human rights accord between the government and Communist rebels.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Phil­ippines (AP)-Suspected Mus­lim bandits abducted an Italian priest and 12 Filipinos, includ­ing children, in the southern Philippines, police said Wednes­day.

Police said Fr. Luciano Venedettie and the other victims were taken at gunpoint Tuesday night from a church and a nearby church-run cooperative store and forced into several boats in the remote coastal town of Sibuco in Zamboanga de! Norte prov­ince.

The Italian Embassy in Ma­nila said provincial Gover­nor lsagani Amalong con­firmed the kidnappings. Venedettie, 56, is from Treviso City, Italy.

Regional police com­mander Dominador Domingo

said more than 20 men armed with rifles and grenade launch­ers barged into the church and store and took Venedettie and the others after ransacking the store.

The abducted Filipinos in­cluded the store manager. his staff and their children.

Domingo said two men ap­proached a town resident and asked for directions to the church. After finding it, the two men signaled the armed men to enter.

Domingo said no one has yet claimed responsibility for the abductions or demanded ransom. Police and military teams have been ordered to search hinterland mountain areas and islands near Sibuco, he said.

Venedettie belongs to a mis-

sionary group called the Pontifical Institute for For­eign Missions and is one of about 70 Italian priests as­signed to the southern re­gion of Mindanao.

Two Italian priests have died in past years in vio­lence related to a separatist rebellion being waged by Muslim rebel groups in the region, a member of the ;n­stitute said.

Priests from Belgium and Ireland were abducted late last year by former Muslim rebels who wanted to pres­sure the government to pro­vide benefits promised un­der an amnesty program. Muslim rebels and bandits abound in Sibuco, about 810 kilometers (500 miles) south of Manila.

Swift, who is now estranged from Selda, the group that helped fight the court battle in Hawaii, said its proposal was "meaning­less"' because it will not result in a "satisfaction of judgment" of the Hawaii couI1.

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. . REQiJEST FOR PROPOSAL . . : . · CUC-RFP98-0037 . .

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l\ic Cumrnon11dt h l"ti\itics Curpor.nion : (:L'C I is solicitin:,. pruposa\s from Ljll.iliticd lirms to perform a fin.,nc1.,I and cornpli­.rncc .•.tcdn ofthc ClC fur foe.\\ 1·c.\l' cnG1ns September 30, \998

The ,lut'it llllhl be performed :n cu:npii.rnce with !.\lest re1·isions ci the ilillowin~ guidelines: I tJ.\ 1B C:ircul.tr .\ -118

S1.rnd.1rd, for .\t:di1s <li'Gon:rnmcm.1! Ors.mirnion. l':'nsr,um, .\ctisitics .rnd Function;, issued b~· titc Comptroller (;cncr,\l c if the· L'1:i1cd St.Hes. .\1:,1it1 or St.Hes J11d Loc.11 C,,rn nmcm L'nits. Jndu1tr1· .\udi, ~llllk issued 'w 1he :\rncric.rn ln11it•.11c cit' Pub:ic .\(((lllll[,lll,1 i .\!C:P.\ I. . - .

The lcilloll'ing infrmn.mon must be 11•duded in the .n,dit propos,1ls: 1. Title l\t~e

,\ \ 1u'p ~u bjc-:t bi \,1meorrnur tirm c, J.oc.11 .\diirc11 d I Tdephrnic \umber e I \,111\e of Cont.Kt Person f) Submission D.ue

2. Transmittal Letter a) A Brief Statemrnt of your undcr1tJ11ding or the work to be performed and an affirrnatise srnerncm to perform the

work within the time period stipcilated. b) State all-inclusi1c lee for which the audit ll'ill be performed.

3. Firm Profile a) Provide a brief description or rnur lirm 's prnonncl educational background and experience, number of stat1; staff

level (partner, ma1ugn, superl'isor, etc.) and clicm listing. b) The firm shall make .rn ,li"tirmatil'e st.ucment that at lc.ist the partners' m certified public accoumams.

Date of contract award will be no later th.rn September 30, 1998. :\udit ll'ork shall rnrnmcnce thcrealier, and must be completed by January 31, 1999.

Proposals will be evaluated and selections made based on cost ( 30 maximum points), time to complete the project (25 rnaximum points) qualifications of the principal and proposed staff ( 15 maximum points), approach to project ( 15 maximum points), experience on similar projects ( 15 maximum points).

All inquiries regarding the proposal should be directed to Mr. Yenny Tom, Comptroller, P.O. Box 1220, S.1ip.m, Ml'.

Proposals shall be marked CUC-RF!' 98-0037 and five ( 5) copies submitted to Leo L. LaMotte, Of/ice of the Public Auditor, 2nd Floor, J.E. Tenorio Building, Gualo Rai, Saipan, MP 96950, no later than 3:00 p.m., local time, on September 23, 1998. Lite proposals will not be considered.

Disrnssions may be conducted with responsible offerors, who submit proposals dc:termined_to be reasona~ly susceptible ~if being selected for award, for the purpose of clarification and to ensure full.understand111g ot, and rc~pons1m1rn to, ;ohc1~,1t1on requirements. Oftcrors shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with respect to any opporturnty tor d1scuss1rn1 and rc11s1on ol proposals, and such revisions may be permitted after submission and ~norm ~ward _for the_purpose or obta111111g the best and linal offers. In conduction discussions, there shall be no disclosure ot any 111formauon derived trom proposals submitted bl' competing ofti:rors.

CUC resmcs the right to reject any and all proposals liir anv reason and to waive any ddi:ct in said propos:1ls., <_lf;ll:Y of them if ;nits su\c opinion to do so would be in the be;t interest of CUC. All proposals shall become the property of Cut.

TIMOTHY P VILLAGOMEZ Executive Director

RP to borrow $2601\1 from Il\1F MANILA, Philippines (AP) -With risks of another shock to Asian markets increasing, the Philippines said Wednesday it plans to boost its foreign reserves by tapping part of an International Monetary Fund standby loan granted several months ago.

Blaming ··uncertainties" in world markets, Philippine Cen­tral Bank Govern.or Gabriel Singson said the country will draw some$ 260 million shortly from the $ 1.37 billion loan airnnged with the IMF in April.

Closing over two weeks of talks, the Philippines and the [MF also finalized n.ew economic targets for 1998 and 1999 that better reflect the tough times ahead for the coun­try.

The targets are part of the condi­tions the IMF set for the Philip­pines to tap the standby credit.

All told, the country plans to borrow a further dlrs 1 billion this year from multilateral and bilateral sources to fund various govern­ment programs and reform plans.

When the standby IMF loan was granted, the Central Bank said the funds would be used to boost its foreign reserves in the event of an "extreme" attack on the peso.

The country's foreign currency reserves at last count totaled$ I 0.4 billion, well below the $ 12.8 bil­lion shortly before the regional cur­rency crisis erupted in July 1997.

Recent months have seen spo­radic volatility in the peso trig­gered mainly by falls in the Japa­nese yen and fears of a devaluation of the Chinese yuan.

After losing a costly battle to defend the peso following the de­valuation of the Thai baht, which sparked the regional currency cri­sis. the central bank has been highly

relu~tant to intervene on the spot market.

But recent foreign debt payments have further redtJced its foreign reserves to a level that does not provide the desired three months' worth of import funding.

The standby loan has less strin­gent conditions attached to it than those for full borrowing programs, such as the IMF's bailouts for In­donesia and Thailand.

Singson did not elaborate on the renewed threats to the Philippine economy at a joint news confer­ence with the IMF's Manila repre­sentative, Henri Lorie.

So far, Russia's economic crisis has had a relatively muted impact on Asian markets, but Malaysia's impositionofstrictcontrolsoncapi­tal movements, ongoing worries over the recession in Japan and other regional concerns all threaten a second round of currency conta­_gion.

With the future uncertain, differ­ences over several key economic and fiscal targets were not resolved until late in the IMF-Philippine talks.

ThelMF'smorepessimisticview was eventually discarded, with it agreeing to accept the government's expectation that its budget deficit will reach 40 billion pesos ($ 930 million) this year and 18 billion pesos ($ 420 million) in 1999. In 1997, a small surplus was posted.

Tax revenues have fallen as the region's financial crisis hascutinto corporate earnings.

The two sides also set a target of 1.5 percent for gross national prod­uct growth this year and 4.1 per­cent next year. If the targets are achieved, the Philippines would be one of the few countries in East Asia to avoid a contraction due to the financial crisis.

Central Bank chief nixes currency control MANILA, Philippines (AP) -Amid calls from a powerful busi­ness group for limited currency controls, Philippine Central Bank Governor Gabriel Singson reiter­ated Wednesday his opposition to any exchange rate curbs.

"I'm against any form of capi­tal controls" in th() currency mar­kets, Singson told reporters.

Singson has tirelessly voiced his opposition to exchange-rate controls since Malaysia on Sept. I imposed strict curbs on capital movemerrts.

However, the Federation of Philippine Industries, which groups local manufacturers, has called on the Central Bank to ban all speculative trading in the peso mar­ket and effectively limit the selling ,md buying of dollar..; to exporters, importers and those with maturing dollar debL,.

Federation president Rau\ Concepcion said he believes the Cen­tral Bank's traditional method of de­fending the peso by raising it, bor­rowing rate h:L, become less effective in dampir.g volatility in the peso.

Among several proposals be­ing presented by the federation to shield the peso is one requiring foreign investors to hold for at least one year Philippine stocks purchased at bargain prices to dis­courage speculative investments.

The federation's calls for lim­ited capital controls were cited by stock traders as one factor caus­ing the main index o~ the Philip­pine Stock Exchange to fall 2.9 percent Wednesday.

Moreover, currency traders be­lieve the central bank's overnight borrowing rate, its main tool to con­trol domestic liquidity, remains ef­fective in damping speculative vola­tility in the peso.

Currency watchers believe the cen­tral bank managed to brake a steep decline in the peso when it raised iL, overnight borrowing rate to 18 per­cent on Aug. IO af1er the peso hit a seven-month low of 44.79 pesos to the dollar.

The overnight borrowing rate is presently 16 percent, while the dollar averaged 43.438 pesos in trnding Wednesday.

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China floods spark diseases BEUI~G (AP)-Massive floods along the Yangtze River have caused snail fever and other dis­eases to spread. increasing the risk of epidemics. the official newspa­per China Daily reported Thurs­day.

The floods have caused a severe setback in efforts to eradicate snail

fever. also knovm as schistosomia­sis. from wide areas of soutl1em and central China. with 513 cases reported in Jingzhou, a county in Hubei province. the report said.

Exposure to flood waters has aided the spread of the debilitating disease. is caused by water-borne parasites endemic to central China.

Victims suffer from liver, urinary, lung and nervous systen'l disor­ders.

TI1e report said many snail fever control stations had been destroyed by the floods, and that Jingzhou urgently required medicine and re­lief funds.

In other areas along the Yangtze, many flood victims are suffering from colds and from skin infec-

tions due to exposure to contami­nated water, the report said.

It said that although outbreaks of cholera and other infectious dis­eases had been controlled, careful hygiene was necessary to prevent epidemics.

Deadly typhoid fever already has broken out in the flooded north­east.

The heavy flooding in the north-

east and in the Yangtze basin this summer has killed more than 3,000 people nationwide and left mil­lions homeless, according to gov­ernment statistics.

Along the Yangtze, China's long­est river, the floods are the worst since 1954, when 30.000 people died, about90 percent of them from contagious diseases after floodwa­ters receded. '~o· §l\1KLE

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The move will affect about 340 employees at Matsushita Semicon­ductor Corp. 's factory in Puyallup, Washington, Matsushita Electric said in a statement.

Matsushita Semiconductor is an

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The deci.sion to shutter the Ameri­can semiconductor factory followed similarmovestowithdrawfrom U.S.­based chip production by rivals Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

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ers have been hit hard by a global glut

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -Taiwan's main pro-independence party offered moral support Thurs­day to Chinese democracy cam­paigners seeking to challenge the communists' monopoly on political power.

mocracy carnpai gners and urges it to stop suppressing calls for political liberalization.

"If China wants to play the role of a great nation, if it wants to make a contribution to world peace and sta­bility, and if it wants to win the sym­pathy of the Taiwanese people, then it must allow democracy to flourish," the statement said.

The party regards appeals from Chinese democracy activists for its support with "great concern and im­portance," it said.

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rotests N. Korea missile launch UNITED NA TIO NS (AP)-Ja­pan filed a formal protest Wednes­day with the Security Council over North Korea· s recent launch of an apparent medium-range ballistic missile.

'The government of Japan con­siders that this act of the Demo­cratic People's Republic of Ko­rea directly affects the security of Japan and the peace and stability of the entire northeast Asian re­gion," according to a letter from Ambassador Hisashi Owada.

The letter to the Security Coun­cil president did not ask· for any specific action against North Ko­rea, which is widely believed to

have fired a two-stage ballistic missile Aug. 31 from its eastern coast.

North Korea has said it simply sent a scientific satellite into orbit and accused Japan of overreact­ing.

The Japanese government also filed a "strong protest" with

North Korea. but has yet to re­ceive a response, according to the letter.

The U.S. State Department said Tuesday it has not been able to observe any orbiting object which correlates with data on a satellite provided by North Koreans in public statements.

Japan's letter said the missile was launched without prior warn­ing "in the vicinity of frequently used air space" and "landed in the vicinity of frequently used sea lanes."

Meantime, Japan has stopped food aid, frozen ilS pledge to con­uibute $ 1 billion to an international nuclear power plant project in North Korea and halted charter flights be­tween the two nations.

Japan said North Korea ·s action ''raises a serious concern about the proliferation of weapons of mass de­struction and their delivery systems ...

South Korean De(ense A:finister Chun .Yong.-t~ek, _left, talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura during th elf meeting at the Foreign Mm,stry m Tokyo, one day after North Korea fired a missile over Japan. Expressing Tokyo's strong protest against North Korea, Komura said earlier in the day "Our relations with North Korea are going to be more severe than they have ever been." Chun's three-day visit to Japan

In Tokyo, Akitaka Saiki, deputy press secretary to the Japanese prime minister, said the letter was filed in hopes of calling a formal meeting to condemn North Korea's action.

Also, it has been widely reported that North Korea may secretly be building a huge underground nuclear reactor complex.

had been set ahead of the missile firing. AP

Kim vows to modify spy law SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -President Kim Dae-jung said Wednesday his government will 1e­

vise South Korea's anti-espionage law, often used by past authoritarian regimes to suppress political dissent

Amending the draconian National Security L1w W,L, a campaign pledge of Kim. a longtime opposition leader who once was sentenced to death under the law.

On Wednesday. Pierre Sane, sec­retary general of the London-based human righlS group Amnesty Inter­national, reminded Kim of that unful­filled promise.

Kim said he will keep his cam­paign pledge to revise the law but did not say exactly when.

'"The day will come when the gov­ernment will push for a revision, and it will happen before long," Kim's spokesman, Park J ie won. quoted the president as telling Sane.

Kim said increasing military tlrrea15 from North Korea have intensified anti-communist sentiment in South Korea, making it politically risky for his government to try to revise the law.

The National Security Law makes it illegal to "praise or encourage'' communist ·North Korea. Human rights groups say that provision has been widely used to repress political opponents.

The law is so broadly interpreted that even the possession of Marxist literarure is a crime.

Kim took office in Februarv, be­coming South Korea's first opposi­tion leader to take power.

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After Washington and international human rights groups intervened, the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and then to 20 years. He was released two years later for medical treatment in the United States.

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APEC calls for.strong commitment to reforms

Convicted HK Legislator expelled HONG KONG (AP) - The legislature voted nearly unanimously to expel a convicted lawmaker who has been imprisoned for attei:npting forgery in a land deal, newspapers reported Thursday.

SINGAPORE (AP) - More than I 00 economic experts from Asia Pa­cific nations said in a swtement re­bL,;e<l Wednesday that leaders need to make a strong commitment to liberalizationand;formattheAPEC summit in Malaysia.

Council, said there will be no recov­ery in Asia until investor confidence is bolstered and capital flows are restored.

support for fiscal stimuli, including subsidies. to restore demand in the countries hit by crisis.

The International Monetary Fund. which has organized bail-out aid to help South K~rea, Thailand and In­donesia, frowns on subsidies.

Chim Pui-chung, an eight-year veteran of Hong Kong's legislature and representative of the financial services sector, was ousted late . Wednesday by 45 of his fonner fellow legislators. He became the first lawmaker to be ousted by his own colleagues.

They proposed that the APEC!ead­ers issue a statement in November "1eaffirming their commitment to market-driv';:n economic integration through free and open trade and in­vestment in the region."

The PECC is an independentorga­nization of high-level business, re­search and government representa­tives from 23 Asia-Pacific countries. Its aim is to foster economic develop­ment by providing a forum for dis­cussion.111e experts met in Taipei to discuss recommendations to APEC and called for a coordinated regional response to the crisis.

Chim was sentenced last month to three years in jail on the charge · stemming from a 350 million Hong Kong dollar (U.S.$ 44.8 million) land deal in 1992. An appeal has been submitted.

Finishing a three-day meeting in Taiwan. more than 120business,gov­emrnent and research experts from 23 countries called on leaders of the Asia­Pacific Economic Cooperation group to make statements in November that will restore investor oonfidence.

The suggestion is controversial because Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who will host the APEC meeting, has just imposed stringent curbs on currency and stock trading.

Chim, famous for his outspoken and high-spending ways, was absent fromthemeetingWednesdaytoprotestprisonofficials'decisiontokeep his handcuffs on until he was in the legislative chambers.

"It would be a public scandal if this council were to allow Mr. Chim to continue in his public office," independent lawmaker Margaret Ng

The experts, from the Pacific Eco­nomic Cooperation Council (PECC). WorldBankandAsianDevelopment The economic experts expressed

said during the debate. The only dissenter, Raymond Ho, said he abstained because legal

opinion was dividedoverwhelherChim 's conviction was final until his appeal was heard, the South China Morning Post reported. Chim, who rides around Hong Kong in a gold Rolls Royce, was re-elected in May in balloting by only about300people _membersofthefinancialservioes industry.

Singapore opens complex for Thais SINGAPORE(AP)-Residents who did not like Thai workers hanging around their apartment complexes used a government grant to renovate a sports club that opens Sunday just for the use oflaborers from Thailand, a news­paper reported Thursday.

'Tuey sit and drink and some­times, after a little too much to drink, they fight,"The Straits Times quoted the parliament member in the Beach Roadareaassayingofthe Thai work­ers. "It causes concern among the residents.

common areas, and the womenfolk feel very unsafe walking through the crowd," the paper quoted parliament member Loh Meng See as saying of the Thais.

AnewelectionmustbeheldtofillhispostChirntriedunsuccessfully Tuesday to seek a court order to block the debate the oust him until his court~ is heard.

Chirn'scasecouldtamishtllereputationofthemajorityoflegislators,

Hewasbehindtheprojecttocreate a place for the Thai workers to con­gregate during their free time.

whowerenotchosenbypopularvote,atatimewhenthereareincreasing calls for broadening democracy in Hong Kong.

'Tuey also litter and urinate in the

NORTHERN MARIANAS HOUSING CORPORATION REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

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Governor P~dro P. Tenorio and_L~ .. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC) Board of Directors, and th~ D1V1s1on of Procurement and Supply, are hereby giving notice that NMHC is soliciting sealed proposals for the construcuon of the "REHABILITATION OF PINATANG PARK SWIMMING POOL - PHASE II" at ~,ongsong Village, ~ota, _MP, Comn:ionwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Proposals in duplicate must be marked

CDBG-~onstrucuon, P1;1atang _Proiect Phase II", and must be submitted to Procurement and Supply, Lower Base, Saipan, no later 2.00 P.M., local nme, Fnday, September 18, 1998. Any proposals received after the above time will not be accepted under any circumstances. ·

A bond of I?% of the total pr~posal price exceeding $25,000 must accompany the sealed proposal documents. This security may be _Cerofied Check, Cashier's Check, or Bond made payable to the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation P.O. Box 514, Sa1pan, MP 96950. '

The p~rticipant is ~equi_re~ to sub1:1i~ with his/her p_ropos_al, 1) ~ copy of current CNMI-issued business license; 2) updated financial statement, 3) hsung of ex1song '.111d past proiects, including completion dates; 4) certification of tax compliance from the ~epartment _of Revenue and Taxation; 5) written confirmation from a reputable bonding firm as to the company's capab1hty to ob~am ~o?d insurance and pe_rform~ce and paym~nt bond; 6) copy of Builder's Risk and Workmen's Compen­saoon coverage, 7) hstmg of manpower With copies of CNMI-1ssued work permits; and 8) listing of equipments.

Plans ~nd Specifications for the project arP. available on or after August 3 1998 at the Office of Henry K. Pangelinan and t:5;odc1atcs, lnc., Chalan Laulau, Saipan during ~e hours of 8:00 a.m. t~ 5:00 p.m., Monday thru Friday, except CNMI

o I ays. A non-refundable payment of $150.00 1s required for each set.

Attention is called to Section 3 of the Housin d C · D J · t . . d I

d th g an ommumty eve opment Act of 1968 which requires the provision of rai~mg an emp oyment, an e ~warding of contract for work on the project, to low income pro·ect area residents and

bu:_ess lonc~ms. NM~C also noufies proposers that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contrac{ entered into pursuant to 1s a verosement, mmonty and women's business enterprises will be accorded full opportunity to submit propos 1 · response to the request. a s m

Attention is also called to the Labor Standard Provisions for Wage Rate Determination of the Common e Ith Cl 'fi · and S I St Pl d f . . . w a . ass1 canon

. a ary_ ruc~ure ans, an payment o not less than the mm1mum salanes and wages as set forth in the Co tr t b paid on this proJeCt. n ac must e

All documents received shall be the sole property of the NMHC with the exception of the bond ceru'fi ·d h k h' ch k h' h ·11 b d th . . . , e c cc or cas 1er's ec , w 1c W1 e returnc to e proposers m accordance with secnon "Instruction to Proposers" 2 3 ·

No. 03, Proposal Guarantee. page - , paragraph

Th_e _Government reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive any defects in the said 1 T th op1mon to do so would be in its best interest. All proposals will become the property of the Govern!:~~~sa s,

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Herman S. Sablan Acting Director, Procurement & Supply Date: 08/27 /98

Japan eases bank policy

By JOSEPH COLEMAN TOKYO (AP) - Hoping to pump some life into Japan's faltering economy, the central bank eased the country's already loose monetary policy by cutting a key lending rate.

The move, announced Wednes­day, was aimed at boosting the flow of funds to capital-starVed Japanese companiesandstoppingtheeconomy from nosediving into a destructive deflationary spiral.

The Bank of Japan lowered the target for the overnight call money rate - the rate banks charge each other for overnight lending without collateral - to around 0.25 percent from around 0.5 percent

The target is the lowest in Japan ever, though in the fluctuations of actual trading the rate has gone lower than that

The bank does not set the rate, but only sets a target

Wednesday's move, announced after the markets closed, essentially makes it cheaper for banks to obtain funds and could reduce corporate borrowing costs at a time Japan is battling its worst recession since World War II.

"We expect it to generate good re.sults,''PrimeMinisterKeizoObuchi ~Id reIX?rters Thursday morning at his official residence.

1he announcement immediately drove down the yeIL In late New Y 01k trading, the dollar was worth 137.00 yen, up from 132.!0yenlate Tuesday. After the interest rate announcement, the dollar rose above 138 yen.

· The rate cut, however, also illus-~ the limited options Japan faces m usmg monetary policy to buoy the economy. Three yean; of record-low interest rates have done little to help Japanese finances.

"It's an act of desperation ... BOJ easing without slructural refonn will have very little effect," Cameron Umetsu, senior strategist in charge of money an~ foreign exchange at Warburg Dillon Read in Tokyo, told Dow Jones Newswires.

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The Lewinsky affair • From soap opera to senous t~eat

Congress. no one can know the out- · By TERENCE HUNT

WASHINGTO"'.'I (AP) - The de­liver\' of Kermeth Swrr's report to Congn:ss uw1sfom1s the Monica L.ewinskv sa;!a from an emb:.urnss­ing soap oper~ to a grave :Uld w,ench­im, rh1eat to the Clinton p1esidency. Wirh little public clamor. President Bill Clinton· s second tenn in office is

suddenly in de.epening doubt. America· s political landscape has

be.en rocked by an ominous earth­quake.

Few thought the president's rela­tionship with Ms. Lewinsky could 11:sult in impeachment but now the only certainty is uncertainty - as an impeachment process looms in

come. A Republican-led Congress whose

leaders have denounced Clinton as immoral and unfit for office will be called upon to lay aside politics and lead deliberations that will decide the president's fate. It is a solemn duty with almost no precedents.

Pres/dent BiJI Clinton

Clinton partisans say the best out­come for Clinton would probably be a rebuke or reprimand from Con­gress. Some have hinted he may have ;o resign. With the ground quaking beneath hi°m, Clinton abandoned any reluctance to apologize and declared he had let everyone down ''but I'm uying to make it right" He said he was determined to "redeem the trust'" of the public.

Now it is up to the House of Rep­resentatives to determine whetherthe Starr investigation has produced evi­dence warranting Clinton's impeach­ment. IfClintonsurvivesthe immedi­ate reaction to StarT's report, it likely will be a long,drawnoutproccss with televised hearings next year by the House Judiciary Committee and a parade of witnesses. In this forum, Clinton supporters would have a voice, a sharp contrast to the grand jury which operated only with pros­ecutors and no defense attorneys.

Monica Lewinsky

For most Americans, the eight­month Lewinsky investigation has seemed more like a library of sordid tabloid tales rather than an epic con- · stitutional struggle. A seemingly end­less series oflegal battles betwe.en the White House and the Office of the Independent Counsel has obscured the grave stakes.

"I don't think the public thought it would come to this," said Nonn Ornstein, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute. Clinton's job approval ratings re­mained high even after he acknowl­edged a sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky and acknowledged he lied about it

··Rarelyhavewehadaclearersignal from a large majority of Americans, consistently over an extended period of time, that. ·we believe he's done it, we don 'tcare he 'sdone it,getoff ofit," Ornstein said. '"There was not an ex­pectation we might come to this."

Bizarre scene as Starr report sent to Congress

By Vicki Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thirty-six sealed cardboard cartons

that could determine President Clinton's political fate arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday under armed guard and in full public view.

Tourists, journalists, camera crews and a few member,; of Congress lined the Capitol grounds as two heavily wml.led vans containing the volumi­~ous 11:port of indcpc;lent counsel Kenneth StarT's investigation of the president arrived promptly at 4 p.m. EDT (2CXXl G Ml).

Thewhe.elsof government virtually ground to a halt in anticipation of the report, and cable television networks broadcast live tl1e movement of the cartons of documentscontainingStan·' s conclusions that Clinton rnay have commiued impeachable offences.

The boxes were delivered from Starr's office to the steps of tlie House of Representatives, where they were transfened to U.S. Capitol police ve­hicles and were taken, unopened, to a nearby House office building.

The report will be kept in a suite of threeroomsintheFord building, where the Capitol Sergeant-at-Arms, Wilson Livingood, changed the locks this morning as an extn1 precaution, one congressional source said.

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Free-Willy leaps toward freedom. By JEFF BARNARD

NEWPORT, Oregon (AP) -Keiko the killer whale, who leaped over a harbor breakwall to the sea in the "Free Willy" movie, took a real-life step toward freedom Wednesday when he wa~ airlifted to an ocean pen in Iceland.

On a signal from a handler, the 9 ,050-pound ( 4, I 05-ki lo), droopy finned orca swam into a nearby holding tank and was slowly lifted with a nylon sling into a special transport tank on the back of a truck for the trip to the airport.

He made chirping noises dur­ing the move.

halfway house until is able to be released into the wild.

There was less enthusiasm in his soon-to-be home, where killer whales abound. ''It's ridiculous to have a 21-year-old ore a come back here to Iceland," said artist Eva Benjaminsdottir. Others ques­tioned whether he can adjust to the wild.

The 1993 box-office hit "Free Willy," about an orca threatened by a villainous amusement park owner, took on a whole new mean­ing when it was learned that the real-life whale was actually in a cramped Mexico City tank.

Hundreds of children and adults waved goodbye, some carrying ··we Love You Keiko" banners outside the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

"A part of me feels sad," said 9-year-old Kasey Lindsay, who wore a Keiko T-shirt and sipped Keiko root beer outside the aquarium. "But then I'm glad he is leaving so he can be with his family."

School kids collected pennies to help save the ailing Keiko (KAY-koh). Warner Bros. and cell-phone bi II ionaire Craig McCaw kicked in millions more to bring him to the spacious Or­egon tank to recuperate from lung infections and lesions.

Keiko, a Killer whale, and the star of the Free Willy Movies, takes a look at spectators on his last full day at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Ore. On Wednesday, he will be lifted by a crane, driven by a United Parcel Service truck and flown by a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo plane before arriving Thursday in the Vestmann Islands off Iceland, where a floating sea pen as big as a football field awaits him_ Keiko is moving to Iceland's Vestman Islands to further his rehabilitation and possibly be release back into the wild

At 6:25 p.m. (0025 GMT), 2 1-2 years after Keiko arrived here from a cramped Mexico City amusement park, the huge Air Force C-17 transport plane roared do:wn the runway for the eight­hour flight to return the whale to the same Icelandic waters where he was captured nearly two de­cades before. There, he will be placed in a football-field-sized bay pen that will serve as a sort of

Two and a half years and S 12 million later, Keiko has regained his strength, put on at least a ton of muscle and blubber and has taken lessons to catch his daily diet of· 145 pounds of fish, instead of being hand-fed.

"He is the most fit whale I have ever seen in captivity," veterinar­ian Lanny Cornell said before the whale was loaded into his water­fil led, fiberglass box for his long flight to Iceland.

In his pen, Keiko will be rein­troduced to the sights and sounds of the same waters off Iceland

in the years to come. AP

southern coast where he was cap­tured more than 19 years ago at age 2.

Still, trying to transform a long­captive, pampered whale back into a ruthless predator has never been tried before, and whale handlers at aquariums across the nation say Keiko's move is only a feel-good exercise that puts the whale at risk.

CriticssaythatKeikoisn'tskilled enough at catching fish, has no experience interacting with other orcas and could be shocked by the f1igid, harsh conditions of the North

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The varied dangers to Keiko left mixed feelings with the children of Oregon's coast who have adopted the whale as their own.

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Defense plan stalled in Senate By TOM RAUM

WASHING TON (AP) - A re­newed Republican push to speed

work on a national missile defense system faltered by a single vote in the U.S. Senate Wednesday.

The 59-4 l vote fell one short of the 60needed to overcomeJ)emo­cratic opposition and move ahead

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· . DPW98-IFB-024 August 28, 1998 . . .

Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through rl;c. J?epartmcnt_ of Public Works (DPW) and the Department of Public Health (DPf:), arc sohc1tmg sealed bids for Various Repairs to the Commonwealth Health Center on the island ofSaipan, Common­wealth of the Northern Mariana islands.

Scaled bids, in triplicate, must be submitted to the Office of the Dir~ctor, ?ivision of Pro­curement & Supply, Lower Base, Saipan.no la~cr than 2:_00 p.m. local nme, Fnday, September 18, 1998 at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

A bid bond of fifteen percent ( 15%) of the t~tal bid amount must accompany the bid. This security may be Certified Check, Cashier's Check, or Bid Bond. Checks must be made pay­able to the CN Ml Treasurer, with a notation of the face of the check: "Check Account no. 44660".

The Scope of Work and bid documents are available on or after Tuesday, September 8, 1998 at the DPW Technical Services Division, Lower Base, Saipan.

A Pre-bid Conference for this project will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time, Friday, September 11 1998 at DPW Conference Room, Office of the Secretary, Gualo Rai, Saipan. All ques­tio;1s/ concerns must be submitted in writing to the DPW Technical Services Division no later than 4:30 p.m. local time, on the Pre- bid Conference date.

The responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid will be awarded a contract with the CNMl Government and will be required to deliver Performance and Payment bonds equal to l 00% of the contract price. Performance time for completion of the project is ninety (90) calendar days. Liquidated damages to be assessed at one hundred fifty dollars ( $150.00) per calendar days.

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with debate on the legislation. Even though Senate Majority

Leader Trent Lott had made the bill a top pait of liis l 998 agenda, the vote was identical to one last May.

It was an election-year effort by Republicans to vent their frustrations withClintonadrninistrationnational­security policies. Wednesday's vote was a critical, if narrow, victo,:y for the administration ..

Republican sponsors of the mea­sure had cited the political instability in Russia and North Korea's missile tests as lending new urgency to move ahead with. a program that would protect the nation from incoming in­tercontinental ballistic missiles.

"We are putting that security at risk W1der the current policy," said Sen. Thad Cochran.

The legish:tion would order imple­mentation of a national missile de­fense system as soon as it is techno- · logically feasible. A similarversionis expected to be debated in the House later this month, where it is expected to win approval.

The existing program provides for three years oflead time once a poten­tial threat has been identified. The Pentagon has been outspoken in its opposition to the speedier approach.

Gen. Herny H. Shelton,{:hainnan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, renewed his opposition in a meeting with Lott Tuesday and has sent letters to sena­tors urging a ··no" vote.

Sen. Carl Levin, a Democrat who managed the opposition to the legis­lation on the Senate floor, cited

Shelton's strong opposition and cau­tioned the Senate against going against the best judgment of the nation's military.

"It will not contribute to our na­tional security. It will weaken and jeopardize our national security," Levin said.

Levin said he did not sense any erosion of the administration's effec­tiveness in lobbying against the mea­sure thatmight be aresult of a deterio­ration in support for the president over the Monica Lewinsky matter.

Administration allies contend the legislation is premature and could violate arms-reduction agreements withRussiaSenateDemocraticleader Tom Daschle of South Dakota has belittled it as "the son of Star Wars," · areferencetodisparagementofPresi­dent Reagan's 15-year-old proposal for a space-based missile-defense shield.

But Republicans had asserted that recent events should have altered the dynamics.

''There's no doubt that the devel­opment and testing of missiles by Iran

· and North Korea ought to convince senators that we neerl to have a na­tional policy to develop and deploy a missile system to protect our country as soon as possible," said Cochran. Republicans are making much of North Korea's Aug. 31 test of a me­dium-range ballistic missile and sub­sequent reports that it put a satellite in orbit; and also reports that it may secretly be building a huge under­ground nuclear reactor complex.

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Disannament tops UN agenda By NICOLE WINFIELD

UNITED NA TIO NS (AP) -The U.N. General Assembly elected Uruguay's foreign minis­ter as president of its 53rd ses­sion, which opened Wednesday with calls for consensus on such issues as disannament, terrorism, human rights and refonn.

Didier Opertti, who replaces Hennadiy Udovenko of Ukraine, urged the 185 U.N. member states adopt a "spirit of toler­ance," as it sets about its pro­gram of work for the next year.

The main theme~ of the assembly's agenda represent the biggest cha11enges facing the United Nations today, he said, citing the Asian finan­cial crisis, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, human rights abuses, drug trafficking and U.N. reform.

"I respectfully appeal to all states represented here to en­deavour to reach a consensus that will enable us to identify common, universal interests," Opertti said.

In his farewell speech, Udovenko lamented that the assembly's 52nd session failed to overcome regional interests and reach consensus on mod­ernizing the world body to make it more efficient and rep­resentative of the globe itself.

Among other things, the as­sembly postponed action on enlarging the 15-member Se-

curity Council, effectively the U .N. board of directors, and setting time limits for new U.N. programs so they don't outlive their effectiveness.

Although the U.N. chief's proposals for reform were·em­braced, "all we can offer was the decision to send a consid­erable bulk of them for addi­tional consideration during the 53rd session," Udovenko said.

The assembly did take ac­tion on one major issue this year, granting the Palestinian observer mission special sta­tus_ enabling it to participate in more assembly matters than was available to the mission as a regular observer, and al­lowing the Palestinians to take part in general de bate for the first ti me.

PLO leader Yasser Arafat plans to use his speech to try to gain support for plans to declare a Palestinian state in May 1999, Palestinian offi­cials have said.

Following the marathon of speeches, the assembly will get down to work in its agenda, which this year has two new items: granting observer sta­tus for two inter-governmen­tal organizations _ the Asso­ciation of Caribbean States and the Organization of Eco­nomic Cooperation and De­velopment.

Also upcoming is a special

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First suit against Swissair filed By PAT MILTON

NEW YORK (AP) - Swissair and the Boeing Co. were served with a $ SO million lawsuit Wednesday morning by former boxing champion Jake LaMotta whose son was killed when-Flight 11 l crashedoffNovaScotialastweek.

TI1e lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in the borough of Brooklyn, claims that both Swissair and Boeing should have knownaboutwiringprob­lems on the MD-11 aircraft, and did little or nothing to correct them.

· Toere were tl1ree air worthiness directives issued bytl1e Federal A via-

tion Authority pointing out problems with wiring, chafing, short-circuit­ing, and causing smoke and fires in the aircraft, most importantly from behind the control panel in the cock­pit," said Mitch Baumeister, an avia­tion attorney representing LaMotta.

All 229 people on board Flight 111. including l.al\.1otta 's 49-year­old son Joseph, were killed when the plane plunged into the Atlantic on Sept 2, about one hour after taking offfromNewYorkforGenevaMin~ utes before the crash, tl1e pilot re- . ported smoke in the cockpit from an apparent mechanical or electrical fail­ure andrequestedanemergency land-

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A U.S. Navy salvage ship carrying deep-sea divers and equipment ca­pable of lifting up to 300 tons arrived Thursday morning to help the Cana­dian government search for tpe flight wreckage.

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Divers are trying to retrieve the tives issued by the FAA between plane'scockpitvoicerecorder,whic;h 1996 and 1997. The ~~ves_ad-is still on the sea bottom. A signal visedandwamedofposs1blem-fhght from that recorder has been detected, fires and smoke in an MD-11 due to but ·bad weather Tuesday forced a wiring problems. one-day halt in diving o~rations. The FAA mandates required that

The plane 'sother"black box"_ the any damaged wiring be replaced and flight data recorder has been recov- that anti-chafing sleeving on the wire ered and sent to a laboratory in Ot- bundles be installed. While FAA tawa for examination mandates do not apply to foreign

LaMotta's lawsuit charges that carriers, Swissair officials have said Swissair and Boeing, which owns that they voluntarily complied with McDonnell Douglas, the manufac- the directives.

Yugoslav airlines halts Germany flights BELGRADE, Yugoslavia(AP)­Yugoslavia's national airlines on Wednesday suspended service to Germany,respondingtothatcountry's implementation of a t1i ght ban agreed to by the European Union.

Germany announced Tuesday it would enforce the ban on the J ATcompany. Other countries have yet to do so, and Yugoslav airlines planes flew to Austria and Greece Wednesday.

Britain on Tuesday announced that undera 1959airservicesagreementit is required to give 12 months' notice before canceling flight5.

There was no immediate reaction in Yugoslavia over the German ban.

The EU said Sunday it would pro­hibit flights by JATtoit515 member

countries in response to the crack­down by Yugoslav and Serb forces on ethnic Albanians fighting forinde­pendencein Serbia' ssouthemKosovo province.

JAT, banned worldwide during a 1992-95 U.N. embargo against Yu­goslavia for· its involvement in the Bosnian war, has reportedly starting negotiations with some foreign earn­ers on taking over its EU destinations during the embargo.

Independent Belgrade media re­ported Swissair has entered such ne­gotiations.

The Serbian governn1ent on Mon­day condenmed t11e EU ban but sug­gested no reciprocal measures would be adopted against foreign earners flying to Belgrade.

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Russia still on political deadlock By MITCHELL LANDSBERG

MOSCOW(AP)-Russiaspent another day without a fully func­tioning government Wednesday, its economy unraveling while President Boris Yeltsin pondered the next move in his politieal chess game with parliament.

Yeltsin was apparently consid­ering alternatives to acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, including a Communist whose nomination would undoubtedly sail through the leftist-dominated parliament. But there were signs that Yeltsin might insist on Chemomyrdin after all.

The political stalemate is exac­erbating Russia's economic col­l apse, which was reflected Wednesday by rising prices and a spread of emergency measures, such as price controls, in some re­gions of the country.

Surprisingly, however, the countty'statteredcurrency, the ruble, bounced back a bit Rubles, which were selling at about 20 to the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, rose in street sales to as strong as 10 to the dollar, al-

7 dru.g smugglers killed TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police killed seven armed drug smugglers and seized more than I. 7 tonnes of drugs in two sepa­rate raids near the Afghan border, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.

It said the seven traffickers were killed in a shootout on Tuesday in an area about 180 km ( 110 miles) from Afghanistan, a major drug producer.

Some96kg(211.2lbs)ofopium and four machine guns were con­fiscated, it said.

Police also hauled in 1.5 tonnes of opium and 120 kg of heroin in a mountainous area in Iran's north­eastern Khorasan province which borders Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, IRNA added.

Iran is a major transit route for opium and heroin headed to Eu­rope from Afghanistan and Paki­stan - the so-called "Golden Cres­cent."

Iran has waged a high-profile campaign in recent months against drug trafficking.

The country of 60 million has an estimated 1.2 million drug ad­dicts, according to official fig­ures.

Iran often accuses Afghanistan's ruling Tale ban mi­litia of aiding drug smugglers. Iran currently is locked in a heated dispute with the Taleban over 11 Iranian diplomats and a journalist that Tehran says the Taleban is holding hostage.

It remains unclear whether the diplomats and the journalist, who dissappcared from Iran's consu­late in northern Afghanistan dur­ing a Taleban offensive, are still alive.

Pres. Boris Yeltsin

though rates varied widely. The offi­cial rate was 15. 77 rubles to the dollar.

Foreign currency dealers said the improved rate suggested that people had exhausted their ruble supply in panic buying and had begun to ex­change more of their dollar savings for rubles. Many Russians keep their savings in U.S. dollars.

The Jack of rubles sent the currency's value up_ and added a new dimension to people's wonies.

"I've been trying in the last few

days to buy more," said 25-year­old Dmitry, a police officer who wouldn't give his last name. "But I can't change my money at a bank because there aren't any rubles."

Meanwhile, stores inMoscowwere restocking shelves and people seemed less wonied about food shortages.

"I'm buying but I haven't been in panic. We see people hoarding, but we don't do it There's no reason for it, you can't buy for your entire life," said Tatyana Shishkova, 57, a retired teacher.

Yeltsin spent the day at his country house outside Moscow ,meetingwith top aides and deciding if he would agree to a compromise candidate for prime minister.

TherewasspeculationintheDuma, t11e lower chamber of parliament, that Yeltsin was considering Yuri Maslyukov, a Soviet-era economic officialandamemberoftheCommu­nist Party. Maslyukov has worked with Yeltsin before, resigning' last week as trade and industry minister.

Communist and centrist leaders praised Maslyukov, saying tl1ey would back him for prime minister.

P.M. Viktor Chernomyrdin

Maslyukov met Wednesday with Yeltsin's chief of staff, Valentin Yumashev, but there were no details on what they discussed, the ITAR­Tass news agency reported.

Maslyukov'S spokesman said he hadn't been offered any government post yet, according to Interfax.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, whose name has been prominently mentioned as a potential prime min­ister, met with Yeltsin and predicted afterward that Chemomyrdin would

be nominated a tl1ird time, ITAR­Tass reported.

The Duma has twice rejected Chemomyrdin' snominationasprime minister. If it reject, Yeltsin's nomi­nee a third time, Yelt,in would be forced by Jaw to dissolve parliament and call new elections.

Chernomyrdin spent five years as p1ime minister before Yeltsin fired him last March, and many Russians blame him for the country's eco­nomicproblems. Yeltsinbroughthim back as acting prime minister last montl1 after firing Sergei Kiriyenko.

A compromise candidate could resolve a deadlock between the presi­dent and parliament that has para­lyzed the political system even as the country's economy flounders.

Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov warned that the Duma would begin immediate impeachment proceedings against Yeltsin if he nominatedChemomyrdinathirdtime. A vote to start impeachment

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UN halts Iraq sanctions review lift sanctions.

By Nicole Winfield t:NITED NATIONS (AP) - In a move to punish Iraq for halting U .N. weapons inspections. the Se­curity Council suspended peri­odic sanctions reviews Wednes­day. leaving Baghdad wjth no avenue to have the crippling mea­sun~s lifted.

A resolution. adopted 15-0. marked the toughest action yet by the council in response to Iraq's Aug. 5 decision to stop aiding inspectors. Without the reviews every 60 days. Baghdad now has no mechanism to press for the easing of economic sanctions imposed in 1990 after it invaded Kuwait.

Trying to give Iraq a way out of the impasse, the council agreed to conduct a comprehensive review of sanctions if Iraq reverses its decision. Such a move could force the council to acknowledge Iraq's

progress over seven years of in­trusive inspections and generate pressure for a lifting of sanctions.

The council invited Secretary­General Kofi Annan to give his views about how such a compre­hensive review should be carried out - a concession to France which had sought the U.N. chief's involvement in reporting Iraq's progress.

The U.N. chief has pressed for an end to the sanctions. France, along with Russia and China, gen­erally takes a more sympathetic view towards Baghdad.

The United States had previ­ously objected to France's de­mands. Nevertheless, Deputy Ambassador Peter Burleigh said the United States was pleased with the outcome of the final resolu­tion, which left the U.N. chief's role more vague than in the original French proposal.

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"It was a very clear and direct message to the Iraqi leadership that the council expects them to come backintocooperation,"with inspectors, Burleigh said.

He called the comprehensive sanctions review "the light at the (end of the) tunnel that the Iraqi side is always talking about."

Britain's ambassador, Jeremy Greenstock, also claimed success.

"What this means is that the council is expressing to Iraq the fact that the road is open to Iraq to move forward and to get rid of sanctions if it responds to Security Council's require­ments," Greenstock said. "The mechanisms for that are being adapted to make it slightly easier for Iraq to respond to those re­quirements."

Though highly symbolic, the move to suspend sanctions re­views scuttles a major six-month evaluation scheduled for Octo­ber. Russia, France and China were to have made a push for easing the measures.

U.N. arms experts must cer­tify that Iraq has destroyed its long-range missiles and chemi­cal, biological and nuclear weapons before the council will

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Iraq's ambassador Nizar Hamdoon said any resolution that condemned Iraq was unfair because Baghdad had good rea­sons for ending cooperatioµ.

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Such a review, he said, would focus on the real issue of disar­mament "which would end up with the lifting of sanctions on Iraq.

200,000 houses destroyed in Sudan floods

By Mohamed Osman KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -Floods and heavy rains have de­stroyed 119,000 houses and left more than 200,000 people home­less in nine Sudanese states, the government said.

The government's Humanitar­ian Aid Commission, in a state­ment published in newspapers Wednesday, said 65 schools and 60 health institutions have also been destroyed and vast tracts of farm­land have been inundated.

The government has mobilized troops to fight the worst flooding along the Nile River in a half cen­tury and is considering evacuating thousands of people in districts near Khartoum.

The worst hit regions in Sudan, Africa's largest country, are the Shamalia and el-Nil states north of Khartoum.

On Tuti Island, located in the Blue Nile, a few hundred yards from where the 1iver meets the White Nile, more than I 0,000 in­habitants have been battling the surging river for three days. A 2.5-mile-long wall of sandbags has been erected to save thousands ofhomes.

Sudan often has a flooding prob­lem in September, when the rivers peak and seasonal rains begin.

Meanwhile, air drops and feed­ing centers operated by interna­tional agencies hoping to alleviate a famine in southern Sudan are relieving some suffering, but people are still dying at an alarming rate, the United Nations said Wednes­day.

"The famine is not yet over," said Michael Sackett, regional man­ager of the U.N. World Food Pro­gram. But "it is clear that the trend is improving for the first time."

Hunger is a persistent problem in southern Sudan, home to a IS-year civil war. About 1.5 million people have died in the fighting and famines.

The international efforthasslowed the death rate, but Sudanese will face continued food shortages for at least another 14 months until next season's crops are planted and harvested, Sackett said.

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Albright disputes claims of ex-UN inspector By TOM ~AUM

WASHINGTON (AP)-Sec­retary of State Madeleine Albright disputed con.tentions by a resigned American arms inspector and Republican crit­ics that she had backed away from a hard-line stance on Iraq, branding them "sincerely wrong.

As Albright struck back at critics in a speech Wednesday to the American Legion in New Orleans, a top State De­partment official insisted to Congress that the United Stat;s ''has not taken force off the table" in dealing with Iraqi

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In her American Legion speech, Albright said the United States has been the strongest international backer of the U.N. Special Commis­sion, set up to conduct inspec­tions of suspected Iraqi weap­ons sites.

"We have pushed and pushed and pushed some more to help UNSCOM break through the smokescreen cif lies and deception put out by the Iraqi regime," Albright said.

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Ritter told two Senate pan­els last week that he quit his job in frustration because the United States and Britain had undermined efforts by U.N. inspectors to get to the bottom of Iraq's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

"I have to tell you, I think he's an American hero," Sen. Sam Brownback, chairman of the subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian af­fairs, told Indyk. Responded Indyk: ''We have nothing but respect for the work of Scott Ritter."

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"Our only motivation was to ensure that Saddam Hussein would not be the beneficiary of inspections that did not pro­duce any results," Indyk testi­fied.

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Tourists dive to see Titanic OFF \'HE COAST OF NEW­FOUNDLAND (AP) - Four tourists were ushered to the At­lantic floor on Wednesday to see the rusting hulk of the Ti­tanic - suddenly a sightseeing attraction, 86 Y!!ars after its ill-

•fated voyage. Two Americans and two GeF­

mans boarded submersibles that took them 2 1/2 miles under the North Atlantic's surface, 368 miles off Newfoundland. The price: $32,500 per person.

The dives were made in defi­ance of a federal judge's order barring anyone from visiting the site, because of another com­pany that owns salvage and other rights to the wreck of the leg­endary ocean liner.

"What right has an American court to stop me from visiting a piece of history on international seas?" asked Anne White of En­gland, one of a dozen tourists who joined 85 crew members and scientists on the expedition.

"After all," she said, "the Brit­ish built the ship." . The first to go down were two Californians. Their fellow tour­ists cheered them on as they climbed into a 23-foot submers­ible along with a Russian pilot, and then were lowered by crane into the ocean.

An hour later, a German stu­dent and a photographer fol­lowed in another mini-subma­rine. The trip to the wreckage takes about 2 1 /2 hours.

Each of the egg-like submersibles, Mir 1 and Mir 2, has tiny portholes with thick windows and floodlights to al­low a view of the Titanic's car­cass.

The trip was planned about a year ago by Mike McDowell, an Australian living in Germany who organizes adventurous ex­peditions around the world.

McDowell and his company, Deep Sea Expeditions Ltd., had planned to bring 60 tourists on the trip, but that was before an injunction was sought by RMS Titanic Inc., an American com­pany that holds salvage and pho­tographic rights to the ship­wreck.

This summer, that company brought up a number of pieces from the wreck, including a 26-by-20-foot segment of rusted hull.

Judge J. Calvi tt Clarke Jr. ruled RMS Titanic had exclu­sive rights to excavate, view and photograph the ship because it was "preserving the artifacts salvaged from the wreck for the benefit of all mankind."

He barred anyone from going ·within IO nautical miles of the wreck. The ship, .billed as un­sinkable, hit an iceberg and went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, with a loss of more than 1,500 lives.

McDowell is appealing the ruling. He argues that an Ameri­can court has no right to prevent anyone from viewing the wreck in international waters.

His ship "has every right to be here on international waters do­ing scientific research and pro­grams, especially in this area where no attempt at salvaging is being undertaken," he said as he paced the deck.

The ship - the Akademik Keldysh, owned by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology - has made numerous trips to the site, and even took James Cameron, director of the film 'Titanic, .. to see the wreck.

McDowell says the money from tourists is funding scien­tific exploration, though he con­cedes that he envisions long­term profits from other such expeditions.

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By MARTHA IRVINE CHICAGO (AP) - Attorneys for two high-ranking Archer Daniels Midland Co. executives went on the attack during closing arguments in a federal price-fix­ing trial. going after the third de­fendant, Mark Whitacre.

"In reality, this case is the Mark Whitacre show ... He looms over this case like a shroud," said Reed Weingarten, a lawyer for Terrance Wilson, the retired head of AD M's com-processing unit.

"I'm in awe of him in a weird way ... He was remarkably effec­tive," he said Wednesday.

Whitacre. a former ADM bio­chemist, helped collect audio and videotapes for the FBI between 1993 and 1995. Prosecutors say the tapes show Wilson and Michael Andreas, on leave as ADM's executive vice president, conspiring with Asian and Euro­pean competitors to fix the price and worldwide sales volumes of the feed additive lysine.

But attorneys for Wilson and Andreas, son of ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas, say the tapes are hardly an. accurate depiction of conversations between them­selves and with competitors.

'"The tapes are not and never will be the whole story," Weingarten told the jury, which has been hearing the case in U.S.

District Court in Chicago since mid-July.

Weingarten said Wilson met with competitors to get informa­tion from a tight-knit "Asian car­tel'' that had ;ontrolled the lysine market for years. He said Wilson . may have offered information about prices and production and sales volumes, but much of that information was purposely incor­rect.

''TI1is is ~ot Business Ethics l 0\. This is how you deal in the real world," Weingarten told the jury. "That's how Dwayne Andreas told Terry Wilson to do business."·

Attorneys for Wilson and Andreas accused FBI agents of coaxing a jittery Whitacre to record tapes that would incrimi­nate their clients, knowing that Whitacre was eager to hide his own wrongdoing, including em­bezzlement and an alleged $6 million extortion plot.

Whitacre, who is not attending the trial, is currently serving time for embezzling $9 million from ADM.

John Bray, Andreas' attorney, contends that Whitacre also agreed to help the FBI because he wanted Andreas out of the way.

"There was one young man -the heir apparent, if you will -who was standing in (Whitacre 's)

way;'' Bray said, calling Whitacre "a master manipulator and fabri­cator."

The descriptions of Whitacre at one point drew a laugh. from Dwayne Andreas, who attended partofWednesday'sproceedings.

Whitacre's lawyer, Bill Walker, said he was not interested in fend­ing off labels such as "liar" and ··embezzler." Instead, he told the jury that prosecutors offered no proof that there was any sort of price-fixing deal between ADM and its competitors before Nov. 5, 1992. That's the day that Whitacre became an informant after the FBI was called in to investigate the . alleged extortion.

U.S. Attorney ScottLassarsays the evidence shows that all three men agreed to sell 27 percent of the world's $600 million lysine market in 1994- a target that he says the company hit within tenths cif a percentage point Weingarten was scheduled to wrap up his clos­ing arguments Thursday, followed by a rebuttal from prosecutors before the case is handed to the jury.

If convicted, the three defendants each face a maximum three-y.ear prisonsentenceandatleasta$350,CXX) fine.

ADM has already paid a $100 million fine after pleading guilty to price fixing involving lysine and cit­ric acid.

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600,000 Bangladeshis threatened as floods rise By HASAN SAEED

DHAKA , Bangladesh (AP) - With floodwaters threaten­ing: to engulf their homes Thursday. nearly 600.000 Bangladeshis living near the capital were fearfully looking for havens.

Mom taz Ahmed hesitated to take his family to one of the crowded. potentially danger­ous refugee camps that have sprouted up across the coun­try since the worst flooding in a decade began in July.

"l am trying to leave the area with my family any ti me todav for a safer place which I have-not been able to find yet.'" Ahmed said.

The United Nations. appeal­ing to the world to help Ba~ngladesh cope with the floods. noted this week that the emergency shelters were severely overcrowded.

''This overcrowding com­bined with shortages of food, safe drinking water and ad­equate safe sanitation facili­ties are the almost perfect breeding ground for major dis­ease outbreak and public health crisis," the U .N. said in a statement.

The nearly 600,000 people living near the weakening earthen embankment that pro­tects the capital Dhaka and the nearby towns of

Narayanganj and Demra were warned Wednesday night to prepare for evacuation. Sol­diers. government workers and area residents had plugged more than I 00 leaks and cracks with sandbags Wednesday.

Dhaka Deputy Commis­sioner Mobarak Ahmed said that IO new buildin£?s have been identified by the offi­cials for use as emergency shelters for women, children and the elderly in Dhaka and the two adjoining towns.

A senior engineer at the Wa­ter Development Board, speaking on customary condi­tion of anonymity. said that if the embankment collapsed, up to eight feet of water would cove; the area. But he said it would take at least eight hours to reach that height, giving people time to evacuate.

Dhaka's flood Forecasting and Warning Center said Thursday a 2.5-kilometer (I.S­mile) stretch of the 35-kilometer (22-mile) embankment had been further weakened by the over­flowing of the Buriganga and Sitalakhiya rivers. .

The center said that both the rivers were likely to swell fur­ther under the impact of gush­ing waters from their upper reaches.

Flood waters have sub­merged much of this over-

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crowded delta nation. The del­uge has claimed more than 850 I ives and displaced more than a quarter of the country's 124 million people.

The flooding also has in­creased the spread of water­borne diseases and destroyed an estimated 2.3 million tons of rice.

The government has asked for dlrs 889 million in foreign aid and has so far received

pledges totaling $172 million. Government officials have stressed that thanks to the re­sponse of the international community, they do not fear a repeat of the famine that killed 30,000 people following 1974 flooding.

Five ships with 100,000 tons of grain reached the southern port city of Chittagong Wednesday. Port sources said the food was purchased by the

government and private sources before the flooding struck when shortages were already predicted in this di­saster-prone country.

U.S. embassy officials said Thursday said that planes car­rying American aid - auto­matic water purifying units, plastic sheets to set up emer­gency shelters and medicines - were scheduled to reach Dhaka within a few days.

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Sick smokers cost US $73-B a year By Andrew Quinn

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)­It costs almost $73 billion per year to treat U.S. smokers for medical problems caused by ciga­rettes - a figure which dwarfs pro­posed settlements wit_h the tobacco industry, according to a study re­leased on Wednesday.

Health economists at the Uni­versity of California wentthrough published figures for all public and private health care spending and determined that cigarette smoking accounted for about 11.8 percent of total U.S. medical ex­penditures in 1993, totalling $72.7 billion.

'This is higher than was esti­mated in the past, and we think that we have used better data, and better modelling to come up with these higher costs," said report co-author Dorothy Rice of the Institute fo"r Health and Ageing at the University of California-San Francisco.

The new research, published in the September issue of Public Health Reports, indicates that smoking-related illnesses cost the United States far more than just the estimated $12.9 billion spent in 1993 by Medicaid, the state­federal health care programme for the poor.

It also estimates a far higher total cost than the $50 billion pro­jected by an earlier research study, a difference Rice and her col­leagues attributed to more precise statistical analysis.

According to official figures, roughly 23 percent of Americans

NEW DELHI, India (AP)- India is paying an enormous price in terms of ecological deva~talion and health problems for its march into the next century, the United Nations Devel­opment Program said Wednesday.

In a report tracking human devel­opment released Wednesday, UNDP said that according to conservative estimates, India spent $ 5.7 billion treating health problems linked to dirty water and$ 1.3 billion on those linked to urban air pollution. India loses up to 6.3 peroent of its total agricultunll ou1;put every year be­cause of land degradation and defor­estation costs another$ 214 million a year, the report said.

India also is facing a major decline in fish catches. a major source of livelihood for poor people. Fisheries are being damaged by sewage.

High levels of arsenic, linked to heavy use of certain fe1tilizers, have appeared in groundwater in six dis­uicL~ in West Bengal state, killing some of those who drank the wa­ter.

The adult literacy rate also was growing slowly in the nation of nearly 1 billion people.

The percentage change between 1970-95 was 55 percent as against 380 percent in the Central Afri­can Republic.

smoke, ranging from a high of more than 30 percent of Ken­tucky adults to a low of 16 percent of adults in Utah.

The report analysed health care data for each of the 50 U.S. states and found that California spent the most money treating its smok­ers with health care costs rea~h­ing about $9 billion, including about $1.7 billion in Medicaid payments.

New York followed with $6.6 billion in medical costs, while Wyoming spent the least at jusl $80 million per year.

Taken as a whole, however, the costs of treating sick U.S. ciga-

rette smokers over a number of years are far larger than the pro­posed - and aborted - $368 .5 bi I­lion settlement the states' attor­neys general negotiated last year in a deal with the tobacco indus­try.

That agreement, originally in­tended to compensate states for their smoking-related Medicaid costs, was widely criticised by heal th groups and politicians who felt it was too lenient on the to­bacco companies, and eventually fell apart after Congress ref used to back it.

Now, new dealings are under­way between a number of states

and representatives of the tobacco companies. So far, Mississippi, Florida, Texas and Minnesota have reached such deals worth a total of $36 billion.

But Rice said the new research indicated the states might not be asking for enough.

"'Most of the states have just been suing the tobacco industry to recoup the Medicaid costs," Rice said.

"Having the total picture really indicates that there are additional cosls Lo Medicaid that have not been accounted for."

Minnesota, for example, this month took the first payment of a

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''My feeling is that we really must strive to be a smoke-free society in order to hold down our costs," Rice said. "We must con­vince our children not to take up smoking. not to become addicted ... and thereby not be sub­ject to the heal th hazards associ­ated with smokinl!."

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AI Report: Israel, Palestine violate rights By JACK KATZENELL 1,;racl has arrested more than pected Islamic militants and viser to Palestinian leader viser, accused Amnesty ofus-

.lERtSALE'.\l (.\Pl-- Israel ~.0(1() Palestinians aml rou- collaborators. and 19 people Yasser Arafat. could not 1111- ing ··an obnoxious double and the Palestinian Authorit\ tinel\ subjected them to tor- have died in detention. most mediately be reached for com- standard." ha\'e consistent\, ,iolated hu- ture.-the London-based group as a result of torture. the group ment. He said the report did not man rights in the name of se- said in a -10-page report. said. However, Hanan Ashrawi, a give sufficient weight to the curity in the fi\ e \'ear, ,ince l,;rael ·s Supreme Court has David Bar-Illan. an adviser human rights campaigner and Barnas suicide bombings and rhey ,igned their fir-st re ace le!!itimized the use of torture to Israeli Prime Minister Ben- until recently a minister in bristled at the claim that Is-:igrecmcnr. the human right, an-d detention without trial. the jam in Netanyahu, said the de- Arafat's Cabinet, said the rael was pressuring the Pales-group Amnesty International report said. tcntions were a necessary tool deaths in detention were "a tinian Authority to violate said Wednesday. The Palestinian Authority to protect Israel and save lives. source of serious concern." human rights.

During the five-ye:ir rcriod. has detained hundreds of sus- Nabil Abourdeneh, an ad- Amnesty said both sides en- Most of those targeted by

INVITATION FOR BIDS DPW98-IFB-026

September 11, 1998

Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Depa11ment of Public Works (DPW) and the Department of Lands and Natural Resources (DLNR) are soliciting sealed bids for the Renovation of the Lands and Survey Ottrce on the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Magnitude of this project is between $50.000.00 and Sl00.000.00.

Sealed brds. rn duplicate. must be submitted to the office of the Director, Division of Procurement & Supply, Lower Base, Saipan no later than 2:00 p.m. local time. Tuesday, October 13, 1998, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

A brd bond of fifteen percent (15%) of the total bid amount must accompany the bid. Thissecurity may be Certified Check, Cashier's Check, or Brd Bond made payable to the CNMI Treasurer, with a notation on the face of the check: "Credit Account No. 4466."

The specrfrcatrons. drawings, and bid documents are available on or after Wednesday, September 23, 1998 at the Technical Services Division. Department of Public Works. Lower Base. Saipan. A cost of one hundred fifty dollars (USS150.00) is required for each set; payment to be made to the CNMI Treasurer. A receipt of payment must be presented when picking up tile project package.

A Pre-bid Conference for this project will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time, Wednesday, September 30, 1998 at the DPW Conlerence Room. Otfice of the Secretary, Gualo Rai, Saipan. All questions/concerns regarding this project must be submit­ted in writing to Mr. Andrew W. Smit\1, P.E., Director of Technical Services Division, no later than 4:30 p.m. on the Pre-Bid Conference date.

The responsrble oidder submitling the lowers! responsive bid will be awarded a contract with the CNMI Government and will be requrred 10 deliver Performance and Payment bonds equal to 100% of the price specified in the contract. Performance and Payment bonds equal Jo 100% of the price specified in the contract. Performance time for completion of the project is one hundred twenty 9120) calendar days. Liquidated damages will be assessed at two hundred dollars ($200.00) per calendar day.

All bid documents received shall become the sole property ol the Government ot the Northern Mariana Islands. The Govern­meni. Teservea the right to reject an'f or all bids and to waive any impertection in a bid proposal in the interest of the Common­wealth ol the Northern Mariana Islands.

rs! JUAN B. CEPEDA Actrng Secretary of Public Works

Dr. JOAQUIN A. TENORIO Secretary of Lands & Natural Resources

HERMANS. SABLAN Director, Procurement & Supply

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL DPW98-RFP-023

September 11, 1998

Governor Pedro P. Tenorro and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan. through the Department of Public Works and the Public School System are sol1cit1ng sealed proposals for the Design-Build of the Dandan Elementary School General Purpose Building, Sarpan. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Interested proposers must submit one (1) orrginal and four (4) copies of sealed proposals to the Office of lhe Director, Drvrsron of Procurement & Supply, Lower Base. Saipan. MP 96950 no later than 4:00 p.m_ local time, Friday, September 25, 1998.

Proposals will be evaluated and a selection made based on the lollowing criteria: , . Time 1rame ~or design and construction - 20% 2. Pnce - 20% 3. Innovative design concepts - 20% 4. Warranty - 20% 5. Financial capability - 10% 6. Manpower1Equrpment - 10%

A copy of the Scope ol Work may be obtained from the Technical Services Division, Department of Public Works, Lower Base, Saipan on or after Tuesday, September 15, 1998.

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at lhe Department of Public Works Conference Room, Gualo Rai Office, at 10:00 a.m. local trme. Frrday, September 18, 1998. All questions must be submitted in writing to Mr. Andrew W. Smrth, P.E., Director of Technical Services Division, no later than 4:30 p.m. on the Pre-Proposal Conference date.

The Government reserves the rrght to reject any or all proposals and to waive any imperfection rn a proposal in the interest of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marrana Islands.

All responses to this RFP should take into account any and all taxes that will be charged to the successful proposer in 1ulfilling the contract, including excise taxes.

Thrs pro1ec1 is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Service.

/s/ JUAN B. CEPEDA Acting Secretary ol Public Works

Date: September 8, 1998

Isl HERMAN S. SABLAN Director, Procurement & Suply

Dale: September 10, 1998

gaged in human rights viola- the Palestinian Authority were tions in the name of security, people suspected of coopera-but the Palestinian population tion with Israel, he saitl. has become the main victim "To blame the dictatorial. of the violations. corrupt and arbitrary regime

It said some of the Palestin- of the Palestinian Authority ian Authority's violations ... on Israeli and American were carried out under pres- pressure is to insult history sure from the United States and plain common sense," he and Israel, which have called said. for a crackdown on Islamic In its report, Amnesty also militants responsible for more said that an Israeli commis-than a dozen suicide bomb- sion of inquiry has endorsed ings in Israel since 1994. the principle of allowing Is-

"In a spiral of violence, kill- raeli security forces to kill ings of Palestinians by Israeli suspected terrorists anywhere security services or settlers in the world. have led to suicide bombings The commission had criti-(by Islamic militants) and the cized the Israeli security ser-deaths ofisraeli civilians," the vices for botching the assassi-report said. "These have led nation of Khalid Mashaal, an to waves of arbitrary arrests, Islamic militant leader in Jor-incommunicado dan, last year, but it did not

detention, torture and unfair question the government's de-trials.'' cision to carry out such opera-

Bar-Illan, the Netanyahu ad- tions, the report said.

Germany urged to build Holocaust memorial

By KAREN CARSTENS BERLIN (AP)-A U.S. Jew­ish group urged the German government on Wednesday to build its national Holocaust memorial, suggesting that can­ce \ i ng the controversial project could send a negative message about Germany's willingness to confront its Nazi past.

Bruce Raber, president of the Washington. D.C.-based American .Jewish Committee. said Germany should nol un­derestimate the symbolic im­portance of the memorial project.

"We would be surprised and more than disappointed if a decision was made not to build the monument," said Raber, whose group has an office in Berlin.

The project, first proposed in 1988, has been repeatedly delayed by debate over what it should look like, who should be remembered and where it should be built. Some also question whether the killing of 6 million Jews can ever be expressed through art, and have proposed instead that more be done to preserve Germany's decaying co.ncen­tration camps or to support research.

German politicians agreed three weeks ago to postpone a decision on the project until

after national elections on Sept. 27, fearful that the sen­sitive issue would become central to the political cam­paign.

While Chancellor Helmut Kohl has pushed for the project, his rival, Gerhard Schroeder, has questioned the wisdom of building the me­morial.

Raber called for the new government to decide on the memorial immediately after the election. He applauded the postponement, calling the memorial "too important" and the "historical consequences far too great" for it to be cast as a subject of partisan poli­tics.

The private group that launched the memorial project, led by TV journalist Lea Rosh, made a similar ap­peal in a Berlin press

conference Wednesday. Rosh also reiterated demands that the memorial be built on a site designated by Kohl, near the Brandenburg Gate in cen­tral Berlin.

Kohl favors a design for the memorial by U.S. architect Peter

Eisenman _ a labyrinth of 2,700 pillars resembling a cemetery. The design was one of four finalists from a com­petition organized by Rosh 's group.

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Democrats: Clinton deeply sorry for affair· By LARRY MARGASAK

WASHINGTON (AP) -Bracing for a potentially dam­aging Starr report. President Bill Clinton sought support Wednesday from House Democrats in an emotional meeting and congressional leaders from boch parties promised to explore impeach­ment proceedings with no .. partisan tirades" or rancor.

With prosecutor Kenneth Starr expected to deliver de­tails of his Monica Lewinsky inquiry to Congress this week or next, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and their lieutenants met to dis­cuss how to handle the explo­sive report.

.. Next to declaring war, this may be the most important thing we do so we have to do it right," Gephardt a Missouri Democrat. said in a joint news conference. "We have to do it objectively. fairly and in a nonpartisan way. I think we have a good start today."

Gingrich said the process is "a constitutional crisis that requires judgment that is based in fact," not politics.

Gingrich said Starr's report should be made available to the public at some point. .. The public has a right to know," the speaker said.

But Gingrich added that some materials could be harm­ful to innocent people and should be reviewed by the Ju­diciary Committee beforehand to determine whether it shou Id remain private.

"Any impeachment cannot succeed unless it is done in bipartisan or nonpartisan way," said Sen. Henry Hyde, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Commit­tee.

Rep. John Conyers, ranking Democrat on the committee, cautioned that impeachment proceedings are not a gi vcn. "We are not pianning for im­peachment," he said, showing signs of disagreement between Republicans and Democrats.

Gingrich bristled when re­porters talked about injecting politics into the process. "We should not move a day sooner because of the election, we should not move a day later," he said.

House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, one of Clinton's fiercest critics, de­clared, "I will have an attitude that there will not be partisan tirades ... on either side of the aisle."

The meeting and news con­ference occurred shortly after an embattled Clinton met with fellow Democrats at the White House to express deep sorrow for causing pain in his family and throughout the country by his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

"He wants to carry on with the business of the country but he clearly understands, I think, the deep pain he has caused

his family. his colleagues, the people he works with, mem­bers of Congress and the coun­try," said Rep. David Bonior of Michigan. second-ranking Democrat in the House.

Boni or said there was no dis­cussion of impeachment or resignation. "I think the presi­dent will certainly be able to continue in office," he told reporters after the 90-minute meeting in the White House residence ..

Bonior said Clinton's meet­ing with Democrats was very emotional and it was clear .. that he felt the pain, and he felt it very strongly .... What we saw was a father, a hus­band. the leader of our coun­try who was contrite, who was very sorry for his actions."

Bonior said the handful of Democrats lawmakers present forgave Clinton for his ac­tions. He said he advised Clinton he needs to make clear to the American people his contrition and sorrow and "he needs to address it on a con­tinua\ basis. But he also needs

President Clinton gestures at a Democratic rally in Orlando, Fla., making an apology for the negative impact he has had on the party saying, "I let this country down but I'm determined to make it right:" Clinton was appearing on behalf of Lt. Gov. Buddy MacKay who ,s seeking the governor's office in Florida. AP

to get to the issues he was elected to address in this coun­try."

"The American people do

not want to see this president fail. They want to see him suc­ceed."

Bonior acknowledged that

Clinton's investigation could hurt Democrats in November's midterm elections. "Obvi­ously this behavior has not been helpful in terms of our prospects in the fall.'"

He said the president should be entitled to see Starr's re­port in advance but that may not happen. "We ask the American people to reserve judgment;· Bonior said.

In the Senate, Republican presidential aspirant John Ashcroft of Missouri sched­uled a hearing on whether a president could be indicted as well as impeached.

In contrast to the House leaders' efforts at harmony, there was only bitterness Tues­day between Starr and Clinton lawyer David Kendall.

Kendal\ had asked for an ad­vance copy of the report so he could rebut its findings, but Starr rejected the request.

"You are mistaken in your views as to ... your right to review a report before it is transmitted to Congress," Starr wrote Kendall.

,pUBLIC T ANNOUNCENIEN

The Carolinian Affairs Office wishes to announce the deadline for entries on the upcoming 1998 Carolinian Cultural Heritage Week

events.

1. Speech Contest Entries - Deadline is September 15, 1998 . . Open to all Carolinian writing & speaking children: _For more mformat_zon,

Grade School & Junior High Students, please see your bzlzngual teachers. High School & Private School students, please see your counselors, or have your parents contact the Carolinian Affairs Office.

2. Battle of the Bands Registration - Deadline is September 10, 1998

3. Fishing Contest Registration -Deadline is September 25, 1998.

4. Demonstration of Local Food Preparation - Deadline is September 18, 1998.

5. Carolinian Cultural Demonstrations (Weavings & Carvings) -Deadline is September 15, 1998

6. Booth/Concession Registration -Deadline is September 14, 1998.

All interested individuals are urged to visit the Carolinian Affairs Of~ce _in Garapan to fill out the registration forms and pi~k~up a COJ?Y of the cntena.

For more information, please call the Carohman Affatrs Office at 233-1127/1129 or 234-6385.

ls/Francisco M. Rabauliman Executive Assistant for Carolinian Affairs

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UN tells China to respect hl1man rights By RENEE SCHOOF

BEIJING (AP) - Challenging China's policy that economic growth comes before civil liber­ties. U_N. rights chief Mary Robinson said Wednesday that development and n:spect for hu­man rights go together.

Moments before Robinson spoke at a Beijing hotel, plain­clothes police and hotel security dragged away the wife of a jailed. ailing dissident who was seeking the U.N. high commissioner's help.

.. I want to see Miss Mary:· Chu Hail an screamed as she was pulled through the Hilton Hotel lobby and out a rear door. Her where­abouts were not immediately known.

China by a U.N. high commis­sioner for human rights, and both sides want it to end the confronta­tion between China and U.N. groups on human rights.

The U.N. Human Rights Com­mission. which sets policies for Robinson's office, has annually aired criticisms of China's treat­ment of dissidents and pro-inde­pendence Tibetans.

Robinson later said she spoke on to Vice Foreign Mini.ster Wang Guangya about Chu and was as­sured she was released. ··r know her concerns are very serious con­cerns," she said.

.. China can be commended for efforts to eliminate poverty and to meet the basic needs of all," Robinson said in her speech, acknowledging China's position that economic development takes precedence over political rights. But, she added, the ·'right to development" is based on "respect for all human rights _ whether civil, cultural, eco­nomic, political or social _ to­gether, as an integrated whole_ and none of these can be fully realized without democratic governance and the rule oflaw."

U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson, third from left, delivers a speech during the launching ceremony of the 1998 U. N. Human Human Development Report in Beijing, China. Robinson told China today that respect for rights a.nd economic growth go. hand in hand moments after plainclothes police ~nd ho_tel security grabbed Chu Hai/an, a dissident's wife who was seeking Robinson to ask for assistance m freeing her ailing husband. The U. N. Human Rights Commission has annually aired criticisms of China's treatment

The police action threatened to muddy the careful path both Robinson and Chinese leaders hoped her J 0-dayvisit would take. It is the first official mission lo

Robinson later told reporters she brought .. a number of con­cerns" raised by U.N. human rights teams that have visited China to the attention of Chi-

of dissidents and pro-independence Tibetans. AP

nese officials. She did not elaborate. But a

diplomat, who spoke on condi­tion of anonymity, said U.N. groups on torture, arbitrary de-

tention and religion have rec­ommended changes to Chinese officials.

"The visit I think is going well. It's not an easy one, and I

NORTHERN MARIANAS HOUSING CORPORATION :'c(~}(NMHC 0J@< REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

RFP98-0074 Amendment No. I - Closing Date

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC) Board of Directors, and the Division of Procurement and Supply, hereby give notice that NMHC is soliciting SEALED PROPOSALS for the construction of the KAGMAN COMMUNITY CENTER, SAIPAN, COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

Proposals, in duplicate, will be received at the office of Marylou S. Ada. Corporate Director, at the NMHC Central Office in Garapan, Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950, until 2:00 P.M., local time, Thursday, October 1, 1998. Any proposals received after the above date and time will not be accepted under any circumstances.

A Bid Bond, valued at 15% of the total proposal price, must accompany the sealed proposals. This security may be in the form of a Certified Check, Cashier's Check, or Bid Bond made payable to the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation, P.O. 514, Saipan, MP 96950.

Proposals shall be on a lorm furnished with the contract documents. The participants are required to also submit with their proposal the following documents; 1) Copy ol the current CNMl-issued Business License 2) Current audited linancial statement 3) Listing of current and past projects, including completion dates 4) Certification of tax compliance from the Department of Revenue and Taxation 5) Written confirmation from a reputable bonding company as Jo the Participanl's ability to oblain insurance, Performance, and Payment Bonding for this project. 6) Copy of Builder's Risk and Workmen's Compensation Coverage 7) Lisling of manpower with copies of CNMl-issued worker permits 8) Listing of equipment available for this project

Plans and Specitica\ions !or \his proiecl are available on or alter Thursday, August 20, 1998, al \he oflice of Efrain F. Camacho Engineers Architects, Suite 301, Bank of Hawaii Building, Puerto Rico, Saipan. CNMI, during \he hours at 9:00 AM and4:00 PM. Monday through Friday, except tor Federal Holidays.A non-refundable payment of two hundred and lilly dollars ($250.00) is required for each sel. Payment shall be by cash. certified check, or cashier's check.

Attention is called to Section 3 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1968 which requires the provision of training and employment, and the awarding of contract !or work. to low income project area residents and business concerns. NMHC also notiiies proposers \hat ii will allirmalively ensure that, in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement. minority and women's business enterprises will be accorded lull opportunity to submit proposals in response to this request.

Attention is also called to the Labor Standard Provisions for Wage Rate determination of the Commonwealth. Classification and Salary Structure Plans, and Payment of not less than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the Contract Documents must be paid on this project.

All documents received shall be the sole property of !he NMHC with the exception of the Bid Bond, Certilied Check, or Cashier's Check, which will be returned Jo the proposers after the acceptance and award of contract to the successful contractor.

The Government reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any defects in the said proposals, if in the sole opinion of NMHC, to do so would be in its bes! interest. All proposals will become the property al the Government.

The contract award, if it is to be made, will be made within sixty days (60) from the receipt of proposals. Depending upon availability ol funds NMHC reserves the right lo hold such proposals in effect for ninety days (90) from the date of opening of the proposals.

Each prospective proposer shall file with the NMHC, at the above Saipan address, a notice ol his intention to submit proposals in a form substantially similar to that supplied with the contract documents not less than six (6) calendar days prior to the date hereinabove designated.

ls/Marylou S. Ada Corporate Director Date: August 18, 1998

Herman S. Sablan Acting Director, Procurement & Supply Dale: August 18, 1998

hope there are not unreal expec­tations about what can be done on a visit of this kind," Robinson said.

Robinson has pressed Chinese officials on when they will meet a six-month-old pledge to sign the U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a key human rights treaty.

Robinson spent two hours with Minister of Justice Gao Changli on Tuesday. She also met with Chinese academics who candidly discussed the ex­tensive use of the death penalty and police powers that allow for detention without trial, said the diplomatic source.

Robinson left Beijing Wednesday afternoon to spend three days in

Tibet. There she plans to follow up

on a report that Tibetan prison­ers were interrogated and beaten after a visit last year by a U.N. team on arbitrary detention, the source said.

Robinson's visit has drawn pleas from dissidents to pro­mote tolerance and curb police powers. But Chinese officials indicated they did not want her to meet with government crit­ics.

After Chu Hailan was pre­vented from meeting Robinson, Wang, the assistant foreign min­ister, said she had no permit to stage a demonstration, as re­quired by law.

"In order to maintain the se­curity of the hotel and surround­ing areas, I think it is right for the public security departments to take some measures," Wang told reporters.

Police and hotel executives refused to comment.

Chu Hailan sent Robinson a letter Sunday requesting a meet­ing to discuss the plight of her husband, labor rights cam­paigner Liu Nianchun.

One of China's most promi­nent jailed dissidents, Liu has been in detention for more than three years without trial. Chu has been seeking a medical pa~ role to treat high blood pres­sure, stomach problems and other ailments.

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NATO completes Kosovo plan BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -NATO has finished contingency planning for allied military op­erations in and around the south­ern Yugoslav province of Kosovo, a NATO official said Wednes­day.

"We have completed contin­gency planning for the full range of options that may have to be used to support international diplo­macy," said the official, speaking on condition he not be identified.

The aim of the plan, he said, is "to give political leaders maximum flexibility" in dealing with the Yugoslav government in Belgrade and the ethnic Albanian rebels in the province, The official spoke after a meeting of ambassadors from the 16 NATO nations,

The planning involves three ba­sic options:

• A preventive deployment of NATO troops in Albania along the border with Kosovo, where Serb security forces have been attempt­ing to put down a rebellion by

ethnic Albanians, who make up 90 percent of the population.

• Air operations inside Yugosla­via, both limited and full scale.

• Deployment of ground troops backed by air power to support a cease-fire or a peace agreement for Kosovo, That could involve as many as 60,000 troops.

Such operations, should they be­comenecessary,could involve both NATO and non-member countries, but it was too eatly for that kind of decision yet, the official said.

The NATO ambassadors wel­comed recent indications that a peaceful settlement may be tal<ing shape in Kosovo, while repeating that NATO believes the Yugoslav government in Belgrade is largely responsible for creating the prob­lems.

The official said that in the event of a cease-fire or a peace plan, NA TO would expect to receive a mandate from the U.N. Security Council before implementing mili­tary action.

Police secure Macau HONG KONG (AP) - Macau police have stepped up security in the violence-rocked Portuguese enclave of Macau a day after bombings wounded 14 journalists and five po­lice officers, reports said Wednes­day.

Police also rounded up six men related to the bomb attacks early Wednesday, but they declined to say whether any arrests had been made, government-owned Radio Hong Kong said.

E.arlyTuesday,ahome-made bcmb planted in a motorcycle exploded, injuring a group of journalists and policemen who were at the scene to investigate an earlier, smaller blast oh the same street.

Police blamed triad gangs for the attack, calling it a ''two­pronged act of organized crime intimidation against police and journalists,'' covering criminal activities in the enclave.

Seven journalists and five po­lice officers remained hospital­ized in stable condition Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the New York­based Committee to ProtectJour-

nalists issued a letter to Macau' s Portuguese governor, Vasco Rocha Vieira, condemning the attack and urging police to inves­tigate the incident.

The explosions were the latest in a recent spate of gangland­style shooting deaths, arson and other attacks _ many targeting government officials _ which have shaken the enclave.

Officials from mainland China, which will reassume the enclave's sovereignty in December Im, had pledged support and urged Macau to take tougher acts against crimes fol­lowing Tuesday's blasts.

Police have said they believe the recent spate of violence is linked to gang wars over gambling profits that have been shrinking because of Asia's economic slump.

Three govemmentofficials, includ ing a gmnbling inspector, have been killed since Mmi::h.

Macau, 40 miles (70 kilometers) west of Hong Kong, is a popular tourist and gambling enclave at the tip of south China. It has a population of abcut 450,000.

India floods kills 162 animals NEW DELHI, India (AP) _ Floods in a nature reserve in north­eastern India have killed 162 ani­mals, including 17 endangered rhinos, a domestic news agency reported Wednesday.

Torrential rains in northeastern India and adjoining Bangladesh have submerged large areas in the region, killing hundreds of people and rendering millions of people homeless.

Almost the entire Kazhiranga National Park in the state of Assam has been submerged by the un­usual floods, Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Carcasses of animals were float­ing in the park and officials said they would have a clear idea of the devastation only when the

water recedes, PTI said. 1t quoted unconfirmed reports

as saying as many as 1,000 deer may have perished in the park.

Seventeen rhinos were among the animals killed, it said. Three of them were gunned down by poachers this w;ek when the :mi­mals strayed outside the park to escape the floods, it said.

Rhinos are hunted for their horns, which many people wrongly believe is an aphrodi­siac. Indian law bans killing the rhinos.

Many animals, such as deer, elephants and water buffaloes were run over by speeding trucks in neighboring areas, it said. De­tails were not immediately avail­able.

\ COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

J COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

· REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (}r,r

0

Pursuant to Public Law 8-41, Section 11, Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan through the Office of the Public Auditor is soliciting proposals for a financial and compliance audit of the Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA) and its subsidiary, the Northern Marianas Housing Corpo­ration (NMHC) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1998 in accordance with 0MB Circular A-133 and applicable auditing standards. Proposals shall be submitted to the Public Auditor, P.O. Box 1399, Saipan, MP 96950, no later than 4:00 p.m., Sep­tember 21, 1998. Copies of the RFP package may be obtained from CDA at Wakin's Building in Gualo Rai. Inquiries may be directed to Ms. Lydia M. Sablan, Acting Executive Director, at telephone. no. 234-6245. The Office of the Public Auditor and the Commonwealth Development Authority reserve the right to reject any proposal in the interest of the CNMI Government.

/s/Lydia M. Sablan Acting Executive Director

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands tlBepartment of J[abor anh lf mmigration

Division of Labor

PUBLIC NOTICE The following pcrson(s) (employees of Min Seen Ent., Inc.) with pending Labor or Agency Case are hereby notified to report to the Division of Labor, Compliance and Monitoring Section (JDC) located on the 2nd Floor of Afetna Building, San Antonio, Saipan within THIRTY (30) days from the date of the publication of this notice.

NAME LABOR/ AGENCY CASE NO. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. I O, 11. 12.

Liu Zhen Zi ...................................................................... _. ................. CAC98-076-03 Chi Chun Zi ........................................................................................ C:AC98-076 03 Li Rcnshu ........................................................................................... CAC:98-076-03

t:;1 l:~R~i :::::::: ·: ::::::: ::::: :::::: :::::::::: :::: :::::: :::::::::::: ::: ::: :::: ::::: ·:::: :::::: :: ::::: ~::~~:~J :g;tg~ Lin Sh,1n Nu ................ .. ....... -......... . ..... C:.-\C:98-07h-O., Lian Yu B,1i .......................................................................................... c:.-\C:')8 076 03 Cui Hai Yu .......................................................... _.... .. ....... C\C'J.S-07(1-03 Chm Ju Jin ......................................................................................... C::\C:lJ8-07(1 03 Minghua Yin ........................................................................................ (:AC:98-07(,-03 Jin ·fai Sh,rn ........................................................................................ C:.-\CLJ.',-07(i-03 Jin Ai Hu,1 ............................................................................................ C:\C:98-076-03

13. Li Ji Yu ................................................................................................ CAC:98-076-03. 14. Zhcnzi Liu........................................................................ .. .. C\C98-076-03 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 2(). 21.

Xu Xin Ri ............................................................................................. <.:.-\C:98 07(1-03 Liu Ming Jin ....................................................................................... C\(:98-076-03 Zhao Gt~i Hua ..................................................................................... c::\ClJS-07/J-03 Jiyu Li ............................................................................................ C:\C:98-07/1-03 J iii Mei \'LI ............................................................................................ C:\C:98 07 (1 (),,

Jingshu )in ........................................................................................... c:.\c:98-076-03 Mei Hua Jiang ....................................................................................... c:.\(:98 07(1 03

•. C '\('98 (i-( ()" 22. ,vkd.111 Hu.mg ..................................................................................... ( ... , - 1 1- .,

23. Yuhua Han ... ~ ....................................................................................... c:.-\C98-07()-0~ 24. Li Ming Yu .......................................................................................... C.-\C:98 07(1 03 25. Mcizi (i .. ........... .............................. .............................. .. ..... C\C:98-07(dl3 26. Yujin Jin................................................................... . ............ C.-\C:')8-07(1-03 27. Jin JinFu ................................. -............... .......... . .. ................. C.-\C:98 07(, 03 28. Li Shun Jin ......................................................................................... C.-\(:98-07(1-03 29. Li Fushun ............................................................................................ c:.-\C:98-()7(1-03 30. Zhcnhu Cui ......................................................................................... c:.-\c:98-07/1-03 31. Jingshu Zhao ...................................................................................... c:.-\C:98-076-03 failure to appear at the Division on or before the date and time specified aboYc sl~all be ground for dismissal of thL: above Gl.Sl'.S and appropriate action and/or sanction slull be taken against the above individuals, including the referrals of their matters to the I mmigra­tion Office for their actions. Dated this 26th day of August, 1998.

/s/GIL M. SAN NICOLAS Director of Labor

56-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS 6@ V1EWS-FRJl)A Y- SEPTEMBER 11 .1998 _ ~- -~ .. ____ _

POiice-breaks down Indonesia demo By ALI KOT ARUMALOS

St;RABA YA, Indonesia ( AP) -Riot police scuffled with protesters and fired warning shots Wednes­day when about 4.000 students staged one of the biggest protests so far against Indonesia's prcsi­dentoverskyrocketing food prices.

Students from several universi­ties, along with supporters of a prominent opposition figure, gath­ered outside a government office where President B.J. Habibie was staying during his visit to the nation· s second-largest city. Surabaya.

Hundreds of security forces in riot gear split the protesters into

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hostile environment. According to Gutierrez, hostile

environment covers regular and repeated actions. or things dis­played around the workplace that "unreasonably interfere'' with job perforcnace or create an "intimi­dating. hostile. or offensive"

two groups, while armored vehicles waited nearby. There were no con­firmed reports of in ju1ies. although some witnesses said members of the crowd had thrown rocks at pass­ing vehicles.

Wednesday's protest came a day after police and troops used sticks. shields and tear gas to evict hun­dreds of students from the grounds ofthenationalParliamentinJakarta. Two sntdents underwent surgery after they were allegedly stabbed by bayonets.

The protests flared after Habibie officiated at a ceremony in a sports stadium in Surabaya to mark na­tional sports day. He warned that

working environment. Guti;rrez said a hostile envi­

ronment may include sexual pic­tures. calendars, graffit orobjects. Offensive language, jokes, ges­tures or comments are also in­cluded in hostile environment.

Gutierrez added that men could be victims too, of sexual harass­ment.

"There are many aggressive women around. They sometimes

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Seakd pro!'us.:b for the \\'est Tinian .-\irport Terminal. bp.rnsion, Tini,rn, c:-;~11. CPA Pro1w " cr+T.-\·Oll I -98. 1rill be re,rn-cd at the ufti,e of the 0.\ECL'Tl\'E DI REC­TOR. CO.\l.\10\\VHI.TH PORTS .-\L"THOR.ITY. S.,q,,rn l11tcm11io11,1l .-\irport, P.O. Bm IOae. S.1ip.rn .. \II' 96950, until 2 p.nt.. Thursd.w, Odobn S, 1998, .n 1rhi,h cime and rh:t· the 5L'.1kd proposals \rill be publidy openl'li ,llld rc~td.

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I 0:110 :1111., Fnd.n. September 18, 1998, to npL1111 .rnd darili· .,m· qu,1tions rcgmling thi, rrojw. QuC1tion11hould be submitted to the C:onsult.1111, in writing, :11 least lire ('i) d,m i11.1d,;an(c ofrhe prc-biJ ,onkrcn(<:. 11·ith a ,opr of the some mailed 1imulunrnu1ly to the: hwuire Director. C:I':\.

beh pro1pwirc: bidder 1hall lik with the Cornlllom1·,alth Ports :\uthority, at the abm·, S:\11':\:-: .tddrrn, ,1 notice of his intrntion to hid in :1 lcirm substa11tialil' silllilar to that supplied. not Im th.rn 1i1 (6) d,nd.tr J.1y1 prior to the dote: dcsignatni for opc:ning of propmab.

Each propos:tl sh,tll b, 011 a l<>rtn li,rnishc:d by rhc: C:omllloll\1-calth Port.1 .-\uthorit1·.

Tht.: C:rnn11HJ11m:alth Port" :\mhority rc.,eno thl' rig.ht to rrjn·t any or all propm,11\ li1r ;1m· rc.1,on .111d to \1·,lin: .rny dcfo.:1., in \:tid propo~ab ifin it\ rnk opinion to Jo .,o !il10uld he i11 it., imi:1·..:,.,\\.

;,/ C.\RIJJS H. S.11.:\S EXl'lllti1i.: l)iri..:i.:tor

Sq1tcmhcr ~, l 998 ll.11,

the economic crisis is threatening national unity and appealed for calm.

"In dealing with these heavy chal­lenges. I would like to call on all pe;ple to remain patient and to keep clear minds,"' he said in a speech.

Social unrest has wracked Indo­nesia since lase year when it en­tered its worst economic crisis in three decades. In recent weeks, pro­tests, looting and riots have hit sev­eral cities and towns as criticism of Habibie's presidency mounts.

Habibie came to power in May after riots and protests forced au­thoritarian President Suharto to re-

prey on men to get what they want. Men could file complaints against women on the case of sexual harassment," Gutierrez said.

"However, sexual· harassment is not just a matter of a woman complaining against a man, or a man filing a suit against a woman. A woman could be sexually ha­rassed by another woman and the same thing goes to a man,"

CPJA ... Continued from page 10

mond Hotel. The conference was designed to

train caregivers, law enforcement officers and other support agencie_s

Selective ... Continued from page _10

tional avernge. Currently, the national registration compliance rate for men 18 through 25 years of age is 95 percent

"But it is lower here in the Com­monwealtli," Ford explains. 'Tois is something we are trying to tum

sign after 32 years in power. Al­though Habibie has said he has done- much to attack corruption and nepotism, there has been grow­ing discontent as prices for basic food and other commodities soar and unemployment climbs.

On Wednesday, the demonstra­tors chanted antigovernment slo­gans and waved red and white In­donesian flags outside the EastJava governor's office, where Habibie was staying.

"We don't want Habibie. we· want lower food prices" read one

banner. Witnesses said riot police fired

two or three shots into the air to

Gutierrez c9ntinued. Gutierrez raised the topic of a

woman wearing a "sexy outfit" inside the office.

"Human Resource Manage­ment should implement a policy to have some dress code inside the office. However, it is not because a person dresses like that, she is already entitled to be sexually harassed," Gutierrez said.

to effectively and appropriately deal with victims of child abuse and sexual abuse when it does happen.

The objectives of the conference are to understand the professional role in child abuse and neglect as well as adult sexual abuse in rela-

around." The Selective Service System is

the federal agency charged with being 1eady to draft men for military service in a national emergency.

Virtually all young men living in the US and its territories are re­quired to register with Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birthday.

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disperse a protesting crowd in one city street.

Habibie left the office after sev­eral hours, and his heavily

guarded motorcade werit imme­diately to Surabaya airport, where he

boarded ajettoJakarta, 400miles (650 kilometers) to the west.

After Habibie 's departure, thou­sands of protesters pushed through a line of troops and demonstrated on the steps of the white-pillared governor's office.

Earlier witnesses said security personnel had beaten and arrested several protesters. Police, however, reported no arrests.

Gutierrez was also disap­pointed that the CNMI court has

. no data on the cases of sexual harassment on the island.

"'Sexual harassment has been receiving raves from press all over the world. It is a sensitive issue that local people must be aware of. I think the people must be educated properly on the sexual harassment issue," Gutierrez added.

tionship to other disciplines; to understand the multi-disciplinary investigation team model; to un­derstand the sexual abuse response team model; and to apply these multi-disciplinary models to their community.

In the event of a national crisis and a return to the draft, they may be called to serve.

Currently, there are 14 million man between the ages of 18 and 26 registered. In the CNMI more than I, I 00 men are registered.

For interview scheduling on Sept. 16, 17 and 18 contact Joe Reyes at 234-5860!786 l.

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school studcnst ;m: tau!!,ht b:L,ketball, volleyball and flat r;otball.

Kani, however, said PE teach­ers should be certified first before they are able to teach these new programs. Among the 14 public school campuses in Saipan, Rota and Tinian, there are OQIY 20 PE teachers who are ceiti fied, or those who have bachelor's degrees.

Jobless ... Continued from page 6

wete pteviously denied because of a problem with his accountability to other employees who had left his employment.

Sik was given a reasonable pc1icxl to satisfy tl1e processing office1s' 1e­qui1emenl,.

Legislature Continu·ed from page 5

CNMl government officers or em­ployees 1esponsible for the events leading to I&S demanding for pay­ment despite the absence of a valid contract.

The bill stated that the Legislature 1eCOb'Tlizes the actual benefits pro­v ided by the promotional effotts of I&S to the CNMI.

Reyes, who also chairs the Senate Committee on Fiscal Affai1s, earlier suggested that a public hearing be conducted to shed light on the settle­ment agreement 1-e~tched between AGO ;md I&S.

8-hr. Continued from page 5

totheofficeofGov. PcdroP. Tenrnio which was done in May 1998.

Also completed in May this year is the line from Tenrnio'soffice to Eeso 's aiea.

The Santa Lourdes-Denni line, the fourth pait, was done in August this ycru· while the fifth- that from San Lourdes to the Maiianas Public Land Crnp. (MPLC) - was done in June also this year.

·n1c sixth connecL, the Lower B:L".C CUC power plai1t to Capito! Hill ;md is exp::cted to be completed tomor­row.

Feds . . . ~ontj'!~~d from p~~e 5

Tini;m and Rota were consequently used as staging ground for ft.:rthcr militaJy actions against Jap;m.

T,mapag, a busy hrn·bor site befote the Second World Wm·, was tr,ms­frnmed by the US forces into a naval air station following the inv,L,ion.

SGMA ... Continued from page 5

have Ll1eir acL, 1ogcLl1er in tcnns or making sure tlml they meet the t-e­quircments or the ChamocrofCom­mcrce on ethics. on how they conduct their business," said Ayuyu in ,Ul

intetvicw dut·ing a Chamber 1q;ul,u· general membership meeting held at the Hyatt Regency I lotcl.

Ayuyu said the Chamber will he 1eviewing applications forwrn-dcd by SGMA members "on a c,L,e to cw;e

basis."

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-57

Supreme. . . Continued from page 1

impose ... sanctions ... ," the court said.

In a footnote, the court said, "If the government wanted to voluntarily dismiss this appeal by ignoring two separate show

Most ... Continued from page 7

budgets we1e recently reduced to FY 1992 levels through legislative bud­get cul,. Another 508 students ( 41 percent) rue majoring in liberal aits while93 (7.5 percent)ruenon-degrcc srudcnL,.

All NMC enrollment figures rue from an Office of Admissions and Records 1epo11 as of Sept. 4, 1998.

NMI is a US Land Grant institution continuously accredited by the Cali-

cause orders, it should have done so by filing a motion, as provided by the rules .... "

It added. "It is not up to this court to second guess the govemment 's intention.··

The order was signed by Chief Justice Marty W.K. Taylor, As­sociate Justices Alexandro C. Castro and Miguel S. Demapan.

fomia-based Western Association of Schools ,md Colleges since I 985. It was last accredited by W ASC in l 996 for the maximum possible six yew· pe1icxl.

NMC was initially established by executive order under then governor Caifos S. Camacho in I 981, then by starute under Gov. Pedro P. Tenrnio in 1983. 111e Second Constirutional Convention and the voters of the CNMI made NMC a constitutional entity with the passage of Amend­ment No. 38 in 1985 .

Qtommonb.lealtb WtHttie.s Qtorporation ~oarb of 119irector.s

NOTICE Govanor Pt<lro P. Tenorio ~md Lt. ·Governor Jesus R. Sablan hl'rcby give Notice that pursuant to Public Law 8-41 1 Section 11, a Regular Mt:cting of tile Common­wealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) Board of Directors will be held on Tuc;sday, St:ptcmbcr 15, 1998, ar 10:00m AM in the CUC Conforcncc Room in Lowl'r Base, Saipan. The Agi;nda is as fo\1ows:

I. PRELIMINARY MATIERS A. Call to Order ll. RollCall C. Adoption of Agenda D. Adoption of Minutes· July 17, 1998

II. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT Ill. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT

A. financial Report ll. Rora C. Tini.In

IV. COMMITTEE REPORTS V. OLD BUSINESS

A. S;iipan 80 Megawatt Powl.'.r Plant Project-Powl'r Purchase Agreement VI. NEW BUSINESS

A. Commonwealth Ports Authority Sewer Prc>jcn VII. PUBLIC COMMENTS VIII. CORRESPONDENCE IX. EXECUTIVE SESSION

Purmmzr rv PL 8-41, S"rio1i 13, Irtm (6)1 r/Je Roard mny vute tu niret i,J F.xrcutivt .fosi1111.

A. On-going Litigation X. ADJOURNMENT

/s/JUAN S. DELA CRUZ Chairman

PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CNMI GOVERNMENT

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP NO.: RFP98-0079

FOR: REPAINTING THE EXTERIOR AND SELECTED

INTERIOR AREA AT COMMONWEALTH

HEALTH CENTER

OPENING DATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 1998

TIME: 3:00 P.M.

GOVERNOR PEDRO P. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS R. SABLAN, THROUGH THE DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY,ARE SOLICITING COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS FOR REPAINTING THE EXTERIOR AND SELECTED INTERIOR AREA AT COMMONWEALTH HEALTH CENTER. INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS MAY Pl CK UP PROPOSAL FORMS AND SPECIFICATIONS AT THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY, LOWER BASE, SA I PAN, DURING WORKING HOURS (7:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.).

IS/HERMAN S. SABLAN DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY

~ Northern Mariana Islands Museum OF Ht STORY &CULTURE

PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuanl 10 Public Law 8-41, Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Govemor Jesus R. Sablan, through lhe Board ol Governors al the Commonweam, Museum al History and Cu\lure, are hereby giving nolice of a Boa~d Meeting to be oeld on Monday, 14 September 1998 at 9:00AM at the CNMI Museum ol H1sloty and Culture tn Garapan. Interested persons are welcome to attend. For more information, please call Tel. No. 664-2160 or send a lax lo no. 664-2170.

AGENDA I. II. Ill. IV.

V.

VI.

VII. VIII. IX.

Call Io Order Ascertain Quorum Approval of 25 June 1998 Metting Minutes Reports A. Standing Commitlees

1. Fiscal Commitlee • Financial Stalemenl 2. Colleclions Committee - Collections Policy

B. Chairman 1. Executive Committee 2. "Spanish Legalcy" TravellingExhibil • Museum Exhibilion (Vote) 3. Public Auditor Request 4. Request for Thtee Addilional FTE's

C. Executive Director a. Rober1 D. York, Curator b. Museum Stall • Status Report c. Pacilic Security - Alarm Installation d. Guam Visit - 26th and 27th August

Old Business A. Concepcion Colleclion B, Japanese House [Chalan Kanoa)· Slatus Report C. Museum Physical Plant· Status Report D. Msgr. Calvo Collection 1n,,entoty New Business A. Administralive Ma:te<S B. Museum Opening C. Museum Admission Fees D. Land Needs· Land Exchange Issues E. Other matters Miscellaneous llems for Discussion Announcements Adjournment

isl HERMAN T. GUERRERO Chairman

02 September 1998

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL HOSPITAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT SUPPLIES

RFP: 98-0081 G.overnor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Director of Procurement and Supply, are soliciting proposals for acquisition of hospital operational support supplies for the Commonwealth Health Center. These supplies include but not limited tc the followings:

A. HOUSEKEEPING SUPPLIES B. DIETARY NON-FOOD SUPPLIES C. GENERAL OFFICE EXPENDABLE SUPPLIES

Specifications may be picked up at the Office of the Director of Procurement and Supply, Lower Base, Saipan, CNMI. All inquiries regarding this RFP shall be directed to Mr. Jose lchihara. Medical Supply Officer, (670) 322-8980-84, Facsimile number (670) 322-8987.

Proposals will be evaluated, rated. and a selection made according to the following criteria and according to applicable Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Procurement Regulations and United States of America Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

1. Prices (CIF Saipan) and discounts. 2. Availability of Supplies 3. Delivery or Performance Schedule 4. Product Acceptability

Pre-Proposal Conference may be conducted with responsible offerers who submit proposals determined to be reasonable/susceptible of being selected for award for the purpose of clarification and lo ensure full understanding of, and responsiveness to, solicitation requirements. Olferors shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with respect to any opportunity for discussion and revision of proposals and such revision may be permitted after submission and before award for the purpose of obtaining the best and final offers. In conducting discussions, there shall be no disclosure of any information de­rived from proposals submitted by competing offerers.

Interested parties must submit five (5) copies of their proposals in a sealed envelope marked "RFP 98-0081" no later than 3:00 p.m .. September 28. 1998, to the Office of the Director. Division of Procurement and Supply, Department of Finance. Lower Base, Saipan. MP 96950.

T~e CNMI Government reserves the right to make single/multiple awards to reiecl any or all proposals for any reason and waive any defect in said propos­als. to negotiate with a[I qualified olferors. or lo cancel in whole or in part this RFP, 1f 1t 1s in the best interest of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Government.

isl JOSEPH K. P. VILLAGOMEZ Secretary of Health

HERMAN S. SABLAN Director, Procurement & Supply

Keep Saipan Clean & Beautiful

58-MARIANAS VARIETY NE\VS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- SEPTEMBER IL 1998

Cambodia protests escalate By ROBIN McDOWELL

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Al') -Police tin:d gunshob point-bl:mk into a crow<l of protesters llrn1,day dem:u1ding the ouster of sunngm:m Hun Sen. c1i1ic:tlly \l'Ounding a stu­dentinthcfourthdayoJ\•iole,1tci:L,hes.

Se\'et~il hundred 1::eople had gath­ered on sueets outside the U.S. Em­ln,sy :md the 1esidence ofopposition leader P1ince Norodom R:u1:uiuuh. a new foc:tl point of umest since a protest cm11p w:1, desu·oyed Tues­day.

Squads of about 40 club-wielding ciot police soon :mived. r1rst smash­ing ap:U1 a makeshift shcine erected wheietwo Buddhisr monks wen: shot by police Wednesday. Protestc1, re­built it as soon as they left. :md the police 1etumed to desuuy it again. A few rocks were thmwn.

Reports that a monk died in vio­lence Wednesday crnmot be con­fiirned. but Cambodians believe sev­eral were killed. escalating :mger against Hun Sen following disputed national dections July 26.

·me Association ofS0utl1ea.~tA,i1m Narions ur~cd botl1 sides to "exercise n:sa·,tint. ,(void violence, inclutling exuemisLs acLs, :md 1esolve theirprob-­lems through dialO.l,'llC :md consulta­tions in order to prevent fu1ther dete­rioration of the situation."

ASEAN urged all sides to accept the results of the elections, in which Hun Sen won a slight p:ufo1mentary majrnity but lacks the two-thirds needed to form a new govemmenL ·111eoppositionalleges massive fraud 1md is withholding suppo1t.

About live police opened fire with Kalashnikov ri Iles. two of them firing stniight into the crowd. A protester wassauckin theneckm1dmshed. still breathing, a block away mid loaded into an embassy car.

ASEAN. which postponed Cm1bodia's membership after Hun Sen deposed Ranruiddh in a bloody coup last year, noted that the interna­tional community had endorsed the vote as sufficiently free mid fair.

A shot-wounded Buddhist monk is carried away during a police crackdown against protesters near the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh Wednesday. Riot police, using clubs, guns and water cannon, scattered rock-­throwing demonstrators, demanding strongman Hun Sen's ouster. AP

The verdict was disputed on the st:Iects.

His mother, interviewed by The Associated Press at Kossamak Hos­pi ta\, said the student. Tour Khunnaruth. 18. was critically wounded but still alive two hours later.

''They're trying to crush deinoc-­rncy by arms," saidSengta Dmi,y, 26, a law student ··we're very migry at the soldiers. We want mi end to dicta­torship mid com1ption.''

Secu1ity forces pl:iyed cat--mid--

mouse with the protesters after the shooting, pushing them out of the neighbothood mid patrolling the ru-ea with auckloadsoftroops, then allow­ing them to return.

The numbers of protesters swelled to more th,m500and they appeaied to be looking for a fight. Shops were

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JOINT ANNIVERSARY ROSARY

I\IICDLAS AGUON SANCHEZ July 22, 1996

JOSEPHA CEPEDA SANCHEZ September 15, 1997

ENRIQUE AGUON SANCHEZ July 22, 1983

We the family of the late NICOLAS AGUON SANCHEZ,

JOSEPHA CEPEDA SANCHEZ and ENRIQUE AGUON SANCHEZ would like to invite all our relatives, friends, and neigh­bors to join us for the anniversary rosary of our parents and uncle.

Rosary will be said nightly at the residence of Ms. PEDING C. SANCHEZ in Chalan Kanoa Dist. #3, commenc­ing Monday, September 7, 1998 at 8:00 P.M. daily eucharistic mass

celebration is being offered for the deceased from Monday, September 7, 1998 to 6:00 A.M. at Mount Carmel Cathedral.

On the final day Tuesday, September 15, 1998 the rosary will be said at 12:00 Noon at Ms. Sanchez residence. Final mass will be

offered at Mount Carmel Cathedral at 5:30 P.M.

Immediately after the mass, dinner will be served at the family resi­dence.

Your presence and prayers are very much appreciated Dangkulo na si Yu'us Ma'ase

FROM THE FAMILY

; ._.,;. • I •

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closed. "Who is the dicatator?" chmiting

leaders shouted. "Hun Sen!" the crowd replied. "Who is the murderer?" "Hun Sen!" Cmi,bodimis believe the United

States will somehow rescue them fmm Hun Sen, who has dominated the country for 13 yeru,.

A copy of a letter WJitten to Presi­dent Clinton by th1ee U.S. congress-­men saying "there will never be st.a--

Teno ... Continued from page 1

been transmitted to Tenorio after the Senate passed without amend­ments the $249.268 million ap­propriations, which was approved by the House of Representatives late last month.

Under the proposed budget, some$186.201 million will goto personnel salary and benefits while atleast$63.066million have been appropriated for government operations. Close to $129 million will go to the executive branch.

This figure includes the $8.5 mi Ilion appropriations for the Department of Labor and Immi­gration; $14.36 million for the Department of Public Safety; $38.342 for the Department of Public Health; $15.135 million for independent programs; and $836,000as workers· deportation fund.

The judiciary will receive some $5.89 million. Of this figure, $1.889 million will go to the Su­preme Court; $3.623 million to the Superior Court and $378,500 to the Law Revision Commis­sion.

No . . . Continued from page 1

ment, opposed the motion citino that the value of the boats did no~ satisfy the amount ($25,000) of bail.

Seely further moved for an in­creased amount of bail due to new evidence that has surfaced about Ishibashi 's financial accounts.

DEA officer Ismael Aguon tes--

bility or force in Cambodia as long as he remains in power" was circulating mi10ng the crowd.

Weeks of relatively peaceful pro­test turned violent when Hun Sen cracked down Monday after grenades were thrown at his house.

Hun Sen blamed Ranariddh 'sop-­position ally, Sam Rainsy, and ordered his arrest. Sam Rainsy has denied involvement and sought refuge in the local U.N. offices.

The Legislature is getting a to-­ta! of $7 .991 million; with some $2.163 million going to the Sen-­ate, $3.925 to the Lower House, $ I .330 to the Legislative Bureau, and $572,890 to the Retirement Benefit Contributions.

Both Tinian and Rota will re­ceive $15.613 millioncach, while the office of the Northern Islands, .Saipan and Municipal Council have been allocated with some $3.214 million.

The Public School System, de-­spite its lobbying for $50 million, will get $41.925 million, although it will receive a supplemental $584,000 from the Apprentice Program of the Northern Marianas College.

Tenorio is banking on an in-­crease of $5 million over and above the administration's first estimate on revenue collection from wages and salary for the next fiscal year is expected.

He also mentioned antici­pated net positive gains amounting to $6.1 million from the increase in user's fee rate from 3 .5 percent to 3. 7 percent under Public Law I 1--23, and the value of garments exported.

tified to the witness stand about the defendant's bank accounts.

Munson expressed concern af­terhearing Aguon 's testimony and after reviewing sworn statements by DEA officers that Ishibashi presently has two bank accounts that contain more than$ I 0,000.

The DEA presented evidence that the defendant has pe1jured himself by signing a mi'sleading financial statement.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Mariano M. Camacho and Rosa A. Camacho P.O. Box t 759 Saipan, MP 96950

Re: Nocice of Default on Bank of Guam P /N No. 1803-000607

Dear Mariano and Rosa:

This is to inform you that the amount of ONE HUNDRED NINE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY ONE 99 / 100 DOLU'\RS ($109,83 t.99)1 is due to the Bank of Guam pursuant to the execu· tion of Prnmissorv Note 1803-00067 on March t 3, t 995. ·The said amount repre­sents the unpaid principal ($I 03,357. l l) plus accrued interest of($5,959.30) a.s of August 31, 1998, attorney fees and costs. See Statement of Accmmt.

The Nott: is secured bv a real t:statc mort­gage. Tht! propt:rty 'given as s.:curity is more particularly de.scribed as follows:

Lot 001 J 05 (formerly Block I, Lot 5), as more particularly described on Dm,ing/ Cad astral Plat No. 011 I 00, the original of which w.as registered 30 Jun 70 as Docu­ment No. 99 at Land Registry, Saipan.

IF THE AMOUNT DUE PLUS THE INTEREST ACCRUING FROM THE DATE OF THIS LETIER UNTIL THE DATE YOU MAKE ACTUAL PAY­MENT, IS NOT PAID TO O'CONNOR BERMAN DOTIS & BANES WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU SHALL BE IN DEFAULT, AND PROCEEDINGS SHALL BE COMMENCED TO FORE­CLOSE THE MORTGAGE.

For your immediate attention.

Very truly yours,

/s/ GREGORY J. KOEBEL

I Please add interest accruing from June 17 1998 until date of actual payment at th~ rate ofS24,4234/day.

Re: Notisian Diknkuente

Jso/o"3~6~

7Guam Promissory Note No.

Kon resperu Mariano and Rosa:

Escc na notisia para bai cmforma na. cste na mantida i ONE HUNDRED NINE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY ONE 99/100 DOLLARS ($109,83!.99) un didibi i ofisinan, Bank of Guam segun i Nottan Prinemcti Numcro 1803-000706 ni un fitma gi dia Matso 17, 1995. I mamensiona na kanrida ha rcprcsesrnta i balansia ni ti un apapasi ($103,357.11) i intms sigun ($5,959.30) i nota ni uma'annok dia (i otimu na apas gi dia).

Estc na Nota rnasigurada 1 ni ma esplika na propicdat:

Lot 00 l J 05, (formerly Block I, Lot 5), as morr particular!~, dcscribcd on Dra,\ing/ Cadastral Plat No. 011 ) 00, the origmal of which was rcgistc:rcd 30 Jun 70 ad Do("LJ· mcnt No. 99 :ir L111d Rcg1srry, Saipan.

Y:\NGGEN I KANTIDA 1'1 llAIANSIA Tl Mt\'Al'ASI GUt\TU GI OF1SlNAN O'CONNOR llER/1,!AN DOTTS & ll:\NES GI HAI.OM 30 DIAS NI UN R!SIBI ESTE NA 1'0T1SI.-\ S!EMPRE M:\DEL-\RA HAO DIUNKUE1'TE YA MARHEIU ESTE NA NOA GUATC GI KOTJ'E.

para i ;m:nsionmu i11scgidas.

Sin ma.s 1

/s/ GREGORY J. KOEBEL

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT Mariana M. Camacho and Rosa A. Camacho P/]\ No. 1903-000607 As of Augusr 31, I998

PRINCIPAL $103,357.11

ACCRUED INTEREST frorn la.~t payrrn:nt d:nc: Januitry I, 1998 Dailr inrcrcsr at 8.625% (SI 03,357. I l '0.08625/365) $24.4234/dav , 244 davs 5,959.30 . '.

A1TORNEYS FEES 500.00

COSTS Postage 5.58 Photocopy l 0.00

TOTAL AMOUNT DUE Sl09,83t.99'

•Please add interest accruing from August 31, 1998 until dare of actual payment at · the rate of$24,4234/day.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOSE MASGA TAIMANAO, Deceased.

Civil Action No. 9S-704(R)

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

To: Creditors and Interested Claimants

Notice is hereby given that Ricardo S. Taimanao, al Rota, Commonwea!Ih of the Northern Mariana Islands, has filed a peti­Iion in Ihe Superior Court of the Common­wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to be appointed as Administrator of the Es­tale of Jose M. Taimanao, deceased, and to determine the heirs of the decedent. The attorney of record is Perry B. lnos, Esq .. P._O. Box 2017, GK, Saipan. MP 96950. The hearing on the petition is set for the 18th day of September. 1998, at the Su­perior Court in Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana !stands. at 10:30 a.m. All interested persons should appear at this hearing. All persons having any claims against the eslate, or against the deceased should file their claims wilh the Clerk of Court of the Superior Court within sixty (60) days afler the first publication of this nolice.

Dated this 9th day of September. 1998.

Jovita C. Flores Clerk of Gouirt

Is/ Deputy Clerk or Court

1993 Hyundai Excel Great Condition

New tires/Brakes/Bat. $3000 OBO 322-1798

· JOB VACANCY -· 5 Pilots

Salary: $2,000--2,300/mo.

Contact Elena at 234-3600

VIDEO STORE FOR SALE WE HAVE OVER 8,000 UPTO

DATE MOVIES AND GAMES. ALL INVENTORY AND EQUIPMENT

!NCLUDED. PGR. (671) 721-04/4

FOR SALE

FOR SALE 20' Cargo Container, Sci Up as Storage/Shop, Overhead Fluorescent Lights, Whole House Fan for Ventilation, $800 OBO, Call: 323-0796

Drive Safely

i_s currently in need of qualified candidates to fill the following po.sitions:

Delivery Drivers Sales Representatives For applications and inquiries drop by our offices at:

960 South Marine Drive, Suite 152 Tamuning Plaza, Guam 9691 l (Behind Blockbuster Video in Tamuning)

PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CNMI GOVERNMENT

INVITATION TO Bffl AMENDED

!TB No. ITB98-0089 For: Procurement of Two (02) Dump Trucks.

One (01) Tractor and One (01) Cutter or Mower Opening: 09/18/98 · Time: 2 30 P.M.

Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan. soliciling the Division of Procurement ond Supply. are soliciiing competitive sealed bids to qualified 1nd1v1duols or firms for the Procurement of Two (02) Dump Trucks. One (01) Tractor ond One (01) Cutter or Mower. Interested individuals or firms may pick up bid forms ond spec1f1cotions at the office of the Director. Procurement and Supply. Lower Bose. Saipan. during working hours (7:30 AM. TO 4:30 P.M).

/s/ HERMAN S. SABLAN Director. Division of Procurement and Supply

0 Local hire only. 0 Sales ability necessary. 0 Some mechanical experience helpful. 0 With good command of the English language. 0 Must have police clearance and valid driver's license. 0 Salary commensurate with experience.

Package benefits include Basic Salary, Medical Insurance, 401--K Retirement Plan, Paid Vacalion and Sick Leave.

L:isl day lo apply is September JS, 1998 or when filled in. Please apply pcrso11ally and co11tac1:

MR. NOEL TAISACAN Hurmm Rcsmncc~ Manager

g !~.1~~~E~<S~,1v~~~ .. s!~~;

2nd Floor, Triple J Auto Care Center Middle Road, Gualo Rai • Tel. Nos. 234-1795 / 235-7180

WAREHOUSE FOR RENT 1,600 sq. ft.

Centrally Located in the Chalan Kiya, Industrial Center e Fully Insulated "' Loading Dock e Electronic Security System e Has it own Restroom

. · - . -. Call: 234~7388· · . : - ·. -_ Ask lor. Don . · · .· ·

' .. . " . . ·.,

UNITED MI(;RONESIA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (UMDA)

UMDA is seeking :1 highly qualified and motivated individual to fill the position of:

SECRETARY /RECEPTIONIST LOCAL HIRE ONLY

Applicants must be computer literate and have their own form of transportation.

WE OFFER EXCELLENT BENEFITS AND COMPETIT!VE WAGES

Interested applicants may submit their resu~e to

UfflDA • located on the second floor of the Bank of Hawaii building in

P,uerto R,co between 9:00 AM & 2:00 P.M. or mail their resume to P.O. Box 5235 CHRB. No phone calls please. Deadline for accepting resumes is 'fuesday, September 15, 1998.

60-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- SEPTEMBER 11 , 1998

02 CARPET LAYER-Salary: $3.05 per hour 01 BEAUTICIAN-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: MECHILLE CORPORATION dba Tongyang Carpet, BIF Furniture & Esquire Beauty Shop Tel. 234-1361 (9/ 11JF74169

01 BARTENDER-Salary: S3.05-4.15 per hour 01 WAITER, RESTAURANT-Salary: S3.05-3.70 per hour 01 COOK (SUPERVISOR)-Salary: $3.05-6.60 per hour Contact: MICRO PACIFIC .DEVELOP­MENT, INC. dbaSaipan Grand Hotel/ Mr. Dela Cruz Tel. 234-6601 ext 112(9/ 11)F74161

06 STEVEDORE 2-Salary: S3.45-3.75 per hour 01 COMPUTER PROGRAMMER-Sal­ary: $6.25-7.00 per hour 01 A/C REFRIGERATION TECHNI­CIAN-Salary: S4.75-5.00 per hour Contact: SAIPAN STEVEDOR COM­PANY, INC. Tel. 322-6469(9/11)F74170

01 MASON-Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 CARPENTER-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact BLOOMING "J" CORPORA­TION Tel. 235-0793(9111)F27895

01 CLEANER, BUS-Salary: SJ.05-3.25 per hour contact: SAi PAN SANKO TRANSPOR­TATION, INC. Tel. 235-3927(9/ 11)F27894

01 SECURITY GUARD-Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: MS. NENITA V. MARQUEZ dba N.V.M. Ent. Tel. 235-7564(9/11)F27887

02 JANITOR-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: DINO M. JONES dba OIL Re­cruiting Agency Tel. 322-5389(9/ 11 )F27877

01 AOM:NISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal­ary: S3.05-3.35 per hour 01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (Japanese Speaking Preferred)-Salary: S9.60-11 52 Contact: KAN PACIFIC SAfPAN, LTD. Tel. 322-4692(9111 )F74153

01 BAKER HELPER-Salary: $3.50 per hour Conlac!: YONG SANG PACIFIC COR­PORATION dba Tokyo Bakery Tel. 235-2303 (9/11) F27880

01 LAUNDRY WORKER-Salary: $3.05 per hour o·, SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: FABRICLEAN OF CNMI, INC. dba Marianas Cleaners TeL 234-6239(9/ 24)Th74371

01 COMPUTER OPERATOR-Salary: $800.00 per month Contact: PACIFIC BASIN INSURANCE, INC. Tel. 234-5860(9/24)Th74370

03 SCUBA DIVING INSTRUCTOR-Sal­ary: $800.00-900.00 per month 01 TOUR GUIDE-Salary: $634.40 per month Contact:ACE TOMATO, INC, Tel. 233· 3483(9/25JF74392

15 CLEANER, COMMERCIAL -Salary: $3.05 per hour Cuntact: MARIANAS HOTEL SER­VICES CO., LTD. Tel. 233-6621 (91 25)F74391

02 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary: S 1,000 per month Contact: KA~JGIN SAIPAN CORPORA­TION Tel. 235-3772(9125)F28075

01 ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER­Salary: $5,500.00 per month Conlact: HST SAIPAN INC. Tel. 234-6051 (9111 )F27892

03 (TAHITIAN) DANCER-Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 (TAHITIAN DANCE) INSTRUCTOR­Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 ASST. GENERAL MANAGER-Salary: S3.25 per hour 01 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary: $3.50 per hour Contact: STAR OF TAHITI, INC. dba Te Feti' A O Tahiti Tel. 234-6547(91 18)F74288

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: S4.30 per hour 01 CYLINDER FILLER-Salary: S4.30 per hour Contact: C-GAS CORPORATION Tel. 235-6077(9/18)F27953

01 SALES ASSOCIATE-Salary: $550.00-650.00 per month Contact: ISLAND APPAREL, INC. dba Island apparel Tel. 288-3443(9/18)

01 SPORTS INSTRUCTOR ~CUBA DIVING)-Salary: $1 ,500-2,500 per month Musi be able to read/write/speak Japanese. Two years experience re­quired. Contact: BLUE SEA SPORTS, INC. Tel. 234-7903(9/18)F27957

01 FRONT OFFICE MANAGER-Salary: $1,300.00 per month Contact: J & JEV ENTERPRISES, INC. dba Victoria Hotel Tel. 256-9483(9/ 18)F27960

02 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Sal­ary: S3.20-4.50 per hour Contact: J & JEV ENTERPRISES INC. Tel. 256-9483(9/18)F27961

01 MECHANIC, MARINE ENGINE-Sal­ary: S 1,300.00 per month Contact CHARM, tNC. dba Matsuda Marine Tel. 233-9391 (9/18)F27962

01 REPAIRER MAINTENANCE BUILD­ING-Salary: $3.05 per hour 04 TRIMMER-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: LI HENG LTD. Tel. 288-8838(9/ 18)F27968

02 COMMERCIAL CLEANERS-Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR (HOUSEKEEPING)­Salary: S1 ,500.00 per month Contact: SUMIKI MITAdba Environmen­tal Protection & Cleaning Services Tel. 234-9171 (9/18JF27970 --------- . ---·- -

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: EDWIN & BIG BOY MARINE SPORTS INC. dba Big Boy 11 Marine Spor1s Tel. 233-1041 (9/18)F27971

01 BEAUTICIAN-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: BRIGIDA 8. SOLOMON dba Jeanine Beauty Salon Tel. 235-1323(9/ 18)F27972

01 ASST. MANAGER-Salary: $3.05-4.00 per hour Contact: WINFIELD CORPORATION dba Long City Trading Co. Tel. 234-2882(9118)F27973

01 CARPENTER-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: DR. IGNACIO T. DELA CRUZ dba Ike's House/Const. & Land Rental Tel. 234-7248(9118)F27975

01 WAITRESS-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: SHIN AND RICHARD CORP dba Shau-Mimi Tel. 288-7926(91 18)F27976

01 ASSISTANT MANAGER-Salary: $1,000.00 per month 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: 65.00 per hour Contact: JIN JOO CORPORATION dba Boo Boo Ollice Tel. 235-3404(9/ 25)F28074

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: S800-1, 100.00 per month Contact: NORTHERN MARIANAS PROTECTIONAND ADVOCACY SYS­TEMS, INC. (NM PAS I) Tel. 235-7274(9/ 25)F28071

01 PRODUCTION MANAGER-Salary: $7.00-12.00 per hour 01 ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MAN­AGER-Salary: $6.00-12.00 per hour 01 OPERATIONS MANAGER-Salary: S5.00-10.00 per hour 01 QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER­Salary: S6.00-12.00 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: S9.00-15.00 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR, FINISHING DE­PARTMENT-Salary: S5.00-10.00 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR, CUTTING-Salary: $6.00-12.00 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR, MAINTENANCE MECHANIC-Salary: S6.00-12.00 per hour 01 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary: S10.00-16.00 per hour 02 ADMINISTRATIVE ASST.-Salary: S4.00-8.00 per hour Contact: MICHIGAN, INC. Tel. 234-9555/6(9/18)F27977 ·--------------

08 CUTTER (MACHINE)-Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 ELECTRICIAN-Salary: S3,05 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR (SEWING DEPT.)­Salary: S3.05 per hour 01 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER­Salary: $3.05 per hour 01 INTERPRETER-Salary: $3.05 per hour 01 CLEANER, COMMERCIAL-Salary: S3.05 per hour 09 PRESSER, MACHINE-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: JIN APPAREL, INC. Tel. 234-324213(9/18) F27978

01 SALES PERSON (PARTS)-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: PACIFIC AUTO GLASS CO., INC. Tel. 235-4527(9/18)F

01 COOK-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: SUNBELY CORPORATION dba Summer Restaurant Tel. 233-1997(9/25)F28061

02 SALES CLERK-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: JCC Corporation dba Changchun Market Tel. 235-3818(9/ 25)F28063 ----- ---------- ----

01 MECHANIC, AUTO-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: TOP DEVELOPMENT, INC. dba Regent-Tour Express-SPN. Tel. 235-60 7 5(9125) F 28057

20 IRONING (PRESSER MACHINEJ­Salary: $3.05 per hour 189 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary: S3.05 per hour 03 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER­Salary: $3.30 per hour 01 FIRST-AID ATTENDANT-Salary: $3.05 per hour 01 ARCHITECT-Salary: S1,600.00 per month 25 PATTERN GRADER CUTTER-Sal­ary: S3.05 per hour 05 COOK-Salary: S3.05 per hour 15 TAILOR (ORESSMAKER)-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: UNITED INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION Tel. 235-6888(91 25)F28058

05 SINGLE NEEDLE MACHINE OP­ERATOR-Salary: S3.05 per hour 19 OVERLOCK SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary: $3.05 per hour 01 ASSISTANT MANAGER-Salary: S 1,666.00 per month Con!acl: HSIA-LING H. LIN dba Net Apparel Tel. 235-6888(9/25)F28059

01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC­Salary: S4.50-5.75 per hour 01 (INDUSTRIAL) ENGINEER-Salary: S4.50 per hour 01 AUTO BODY REPAIRER-Salary: $4.50 per hour Contact: HAWAIIAN ROCK PROD· UCTS CORPORATION Tel. 322-0407(9125)F28060

01 CAPT WAITRESS-Salary: S3.50-4.50 per hour 01 (F & 8) SUPERVISOR, FOOD CHECKER & CASHIEER-Salary: S3.30-4.30 01 CHIEF ENGINEER-Salary: SB.00-13.80 per hour 01 ADMIN. ASSISTANT-Salary: $3.30-3.90 per hour 02 MAINTENANCE REPAIR-Salary: S3.25-4.15 per hour 01 GARDENER-Salary: $3.25-4.00 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR, BAR-Salary: $3.50° 4 .60 per hour 01 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER-Salary: $3.25-4.00 per hour 07 WAITER/WAITRESS-Salary: $3.05-4.00 per hour 01 STEWARD-Salary: $3.25-4.15 per hour 01 ENTERTAINER-Salary: $800-1,000 per month Contact: AQUA RESORT CLUB SAIPAN CO., LTD. dba Aqua Resor1 Club Tel. 322-1234(9/25)F74394

$600.00/month •Fully Furnished •24 hrs. water •Swimming Pool •Restaurant •Quiet Place Located in China Town Contact: 233-4378 anytime

HOUSE FOR RENT CHALAN KANOA 2 Bedroom, Fully Concrete,

Fully Furnished, 24 hrs. water Contact: 2.35-3153

APARTMENT FOR RENT 1-BEl)ljOOM .

Fully Furnished • 2nd Roor • 24 hours water • San Vicente

Contact: Priscilla Santos 234-9548

APARTMENT FOR RENT -$(,S0.(}0f.\.1onth -2 Bedroom Fully FurnishL'(l w/frcc :\1CV Cable -24 Hour~ Re.crn>d Water Suppl)· -Launflr)' Facility -Lar~c Yard with Fence -Localed in,\.<; Liro :icro~s JTV Uld~.

For flll)fl' mll)r111ari1111. r,ill 2.'i.J DS70 or 2~~-7285 and J\I,,, tilr ·nn·lm;1 or r.~rt1~r ::nvri111,· .1!frr 'i:00 mi

HOUSE FOR RENT 3 Bedrooms and

I Bedroom House Fully furnished, with

washer/dryer, Aircondition

24 Hours Water Dandan Area

Call 288-2078 Frank

$700.00/month 3 Bedrooms, I Bath, with Utility

Room and 1 Car Garage, Trash Collection and

Lawn Maintenance Included

Located in San Vicente Call: 234-7490-VICKI

lPlllTlffENT FOil RENT • 2BR, Fully Furnished, split type A/C

all rooms including Living & Dining • Breezy abllosphere, Ocean View • Spacious parking • 24 hours power & water w/

standby generator • w/ laundry facilities

Please call: 235-7171 /7272 8:00AM to 5:00PM

LAND FOR 55 YEAR LEASE 9,000 + M2, S25/M2

Located a Few Hundred Feet lrom Main Road Tanapag Village, Saipan Land can be subdivided

Serious inquiry only: (670) 287-8679 (Cell), 235-8708 • Fax: 235-8709

Land Ill Buy Commercial anal ResldenUal Papago, San VlcenlB, Capitol HID, Kagman Area preferred. Will consider other mieas as wet. Ocean Yew a pm. Must have water ;n1 PoWel' redy avalable. 1000-3000 sq.m. 55 y,. lease. Shorter lease coosldel'ed based oo ~. D~y reaso~e )l'IC8d ollel'S wil be consilll'ed. Prelel' to deal llrectlY With lalll owners.

Contact : JIM HM: 288-6525 WK: 234-7625

2 aBICIAI. SPAl:E fOR IIIM across from Hyatt

(I) 1,000 sq, ft for$3,000 (I) 9,000 sq. ft for S2,700

3 Bedroom House, Chalan Kiya

Please call George @ 234-6025 preferably between

7:30 am and 10:00 am

FOR RENT Two (2) Apartment Units

located in Garapan 2BR. I Bath, Fully furnished with aircon 24 hrs. water, laundry facilities available For more info, call 322.9240 11sk for Evelyn

HOUSE FOR RENT Located In Chinatown

Sultablo lor Employees Hou11n1

Please inquire at Tel, 233-9298/9299

Ask for Cora

APARTMENT FOR RENT $475.00/month, semi furnished, 2BR

Inside Chalan Kanoa Please Contact 234-3225

between 1 Oam to 5pm

• Rooms for Rent • SALE {Used)

Refrigerators Washers Bike Televisions Chest Type Freezers

Call 235-1178/235-7562

APARTME!NT FOR RENT Quiet Two (2) Bedrooms • Swimming Pool Tennis Court

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YOUR BIRTHDAY FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1998

Born today, you have a colorful personality that is noticed in any situation. Especially when work­ing to achieve some professional status, nothing you seek is likely to be denied. You are forthright, open, and dedicated that even your critics are likely to grant you your every wish. You are sure to have a major impact on all those you come in contact with in your life, especially those who choose to interact directly with you person­ally or professionally.

You can be rather excessive at times. You have a tendency to go beyond the call of duty, often suf­fering the consequences of these actions. You 're not the kind to shirk responsibility, for you insist on paying for your success re­gardless of how you achieve it.

To see what is in store for y:iu , tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

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CAPR!CORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - You may find yourself longing for things that are famil­iar at this time. For now, novelty is not for you.

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National League:

Tired McGwire goes hitless Cl'SClNNA Tl (AP) - One da1 after hining his recorJ 62nd ho Iller. a tired Mark McGwin: went D-for-2 WeJnesday nighr in St. Louis' 6-3 loss lO Cincinnati.

McGwiri:. who got Iii.tie sleep the pre, ious nighr ,1fter breaking Ro>!er ,\faris· record in St. Louis. grn:mdcJ out :mJ llew out before Iea,·ing rhc g:1me.

He tosseJ a ball and both batting l!lm cs to fans bd1ind the Cardinals dugout before heading fort he club­house.

\Vhen he c:une 10 the plate in the fo,t inning. he backed away three times :md wal"ed as the crowd of 51.969 gal"e him a st:u1ding ovation that lasteJ for mon: t11,m a minute.

Cincinnati's Bret Boone emled :.m O-for-24 slump by hitting a solo homer and a three-iun shot off emergency stai1er Bobby Witt (2-5), while the Cardinals' J.D. Drew homered in the eighth for his first major-league hit.

Mets 6, Phillies 2 In Philadelphia.Armando Reynoso

tookashutoutintothe nintl1 inning as the New York Mets beat Cun Schilling and remained tieJ witl1 tl1e Chicago Cubs for the NL wild-cm·J leaJ.

Reynoso (7-1) left after Scott Rolen 's two-l1.ln homer, his 28th of the season. He gave up six hits in eight-plus innings. sauck out seven ;md walked one.

Schi lJ ing ( I 4- I 3) allowed tJuee nms ,mJ IOhiL, in six innings. lie walked two ,md strnck out four, incrcusing his NL-leading total to 272.

Cubs 4, Pirates 2 In Chicago, Summy Sosa failed

to homer for the fou11h straight game, but Mark Grace hit u three­nm shot as Chicago beat Pittsburgh.

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s~a"~nt~fo~3~dmn~~d stuck with 58 homers, four behind Mark McGwire.

fa;onSchmidt(I I-I l)walkedSosa in his fo,t at-bat, b1inging boos from the c1uwd. anJ Grace followed with his 15th homer. Sosa grounded sh,uply 10 third base in tJ~c se~ond inning, bounced to second b,L,c in the fitih. tl1en strnck our in tlie eightl1 against fa,011 Chiistianscn.

Expos 3, Braves 2 In Montn:al. Chris Widger hit a

le ado ff homer in the ninth inning as Montreal handed Atlanta its eighth loss in IO games.

Widger connected off John Rocker~( 1-3) for his 15th homer of the season.

Ugueth Urbina (5-3) struck out three straight batters in the as the Expos won for the fom1h time in five games.

Vladimir Guerrero went 2-for-4 with a double, as did Atlanta's Chip­per Jones. Tom Glavine failed iq his bid to become the NL's first 19-game winner, allowing two nms anJ four hits in six innings.

Astros 6, Brewers 2 In Houston, Jeff Bagwell

homered for the second straight game as the Houston Astros won their fifth in a row.

The victory moved the Astros one game ahead of the Atlanta Brnves for the best record in the the National League, which gives a team home-field aJvantage for the first two rounds of the playoffs.

Bagwell, who went 3-for-3 with a grand sbm and six RBIs against Cincinnati on Tuesday, had an RBI double in Houston's four-nm first and led off the third inning with his 32nJ homerofthe season~off Steve Woo<larJ (9-11 ).

Jose Lima ( 15-7) won for the seventh time in eight decisions. He allowed two 11Jns, seven hits and stmck out seven in eight-plus in­nings. Billy Wagner got the final three outs for his 28th save.

Rockies 9, Marlins 8 In Denver, Kun Abbott tied the

score with a two-nm homer in the eighth off Justin Speier (0-3) and D,m-yl Hamilton singled home the winning nm in the ninth as Colo­rado overcame an 8-3 deficit.

Cliff Floyd hit a pair of two-J1Jn homers for the Marlins, who have lost 12 of 13. At 48-98, the World Seiies champions have the worst record in the major leagues.

Chuck McElroy (6-3) got three outs for the victory.

Dodgers.6, Diamondbacks 2

In Phoenix, Eric Young and Bobby Bonilla homered as Los Angeles won for the sixth time in eight games.

Carlos Perez (9-13) scattered nine hits in his second straight complete game, his fifth overall. Perez, who strnck out six and walked none, had gone 0-6 in his first eight stans after the Dodgers acquired him from Montreal on July 31.

Bonilla hit his 11th homer for a 3-1 lead in the fifth.

Padres 8, Giants 3 In San Diego, Greg Vaughn hit his

4Sth homer and Steve Finley had a solo shot as San Diego tied a fran­chise record with its 92nd victory.

·111c P adn:s snapped a three-game losing streak and reduced their magic number to four for winning their second NL West title in three seasons.

They also avoided being swept for the first time this season.

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By John Kekis COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -Mark McGwire kept his word, and it lit up the face of9-ycar-old Danny Rys.

"I'm excited!" Danny said Wednesday as he stood at the en­trance to the Hall of Fame awaiting the mTival of the baseball that McGwire hit for his 62nd home run of the season.

The more than 200 people who gathered near the entrance to the Hall broke into a chorus of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" just before the ball arrived.

Around 3:35 p.m., a state police sport utility vehicle rolled down Main Street with the precious cargo.

"All iight! 62! 62! 62!" they shouted in unison as -a big red St. Louis Cardinals duffel bag full of baseball goodies was carried in­side.

American League:

The ball, which was autographed by McGwire and dated "9-8-98," was significant.

"It's probably one of the most important artifacts in the history of the game," Hall of Fame presi­dent Don MmT said.

And it was only part of the hau I. Accompanying it were

McGwire's brown, flamed­treated Rawlings bat, with his sig­nature just above the label; his hat, uniform, size 13 cleats and batting gloves; the uniform his batboy son Matt was wearing; and the official scorecard of the game kept by Jack Buck, who noted the home run with a jubilant "62!"

"This is like Christmas," said Marr, who put on a pair of-white gloves to hold the bat aloft for cameras to record the historic mo­ment.

Yanks clinch AL East BOSTON (AP)-The New

York Yankees clinched their second AL East title in three season, beating the Boston·Red Sox 7-5 Wednesday night as Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill both hit a pair of solo homers.

The Yankees, who have led by 10 games or more since June 24, improved to 102-41 and moved 20 1/2 games ahead of second-place. The Red Sox lost for the sixth time in seven games. Ramiro Mendoza (9-2) was the winner and Mariano Rivera got tlu·ee outs for his 35th save. Tim Wakefield (15-8) allowed five runs and five hits in four innings.

Rangers 8, Royals 0 In Arlington, Texas, Aaron

Sele (18-10) won· his fifth straight start and Lee Stevens hit a three-run homer as Texas won its third straight. The Rang­ers, 8-3 against Kansas City this year, had 14 hits, including a season-high seven doubles.

Sele allowed five hits in seven innings, walked one and stiuck out seven, five of them looking.

Orioles 6, Athletics 2 In Oakland, California,

Roberto Alomar hit a three-run homer and Brady Anderson hit a solo shot as Baltimore won its second su·aight following a 3-7 su·etch.

Juan Guzman(] 0-14) allowed both runs and six hits in five innings, and Jimmy Key, Alan Mills and Jesse Orosco followed and combined on one-hit relief.

A's staner Jimmy Haynes (I 0-8) gave up all six runs -- four earned -- and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings.

Mariners 5, Devil Rays 2 In Seattle, Paul Abbott (1-0)

won his first start in five years and Ryan Radmanovich hit his first major league.home run. Ken Griffey Jr. went l-for-4 and re­mained at 50 home runs, Alex Rodriguez was 2-for-4 and stole his 41 st base but remained one homer shy of becoming the third 40-40 player in major league

history. Abbott (1-0), who had a liga­

ment in his elbow replaced last season, allowed two runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings. Mike Timlin got three outs for bis 14th save.

Rolando Arrojo (13-12) gave up five runs and IO hits in six innings.

Tigers 8, White Sox 6 In Chicago, Luis Gonzalez

hit a two-run triple in a five-run second inning, stopping Chicago's four-game winning streak.Joe Siddall drove in three runs with a pair of RBI singles and a run-scoring sacrifice as the Tigers won foronly the sec­

. ond time in their last eight games. ·

Seth Greisinger (5-8) won for the fourth time in five starts, giv­ing up four runs and nine hits over six innings. Mike Sirotka ( 12-14) allowed seven runs and nine hits in three innings.

Indians 6, Blue Jays 3 In Toronto, Travis Fryman

hitathree-runhomeroffCarlos Almanzar (1-2) in the 13th in­ning, stopping Toronto's 11-game winning streak. The Blue Jays remained remained 4 1/2 games behind the Red Sox in the AL wild-card race.

Toronto's Alex Gonzalez struck out six times, tying the majorleaguerecordforstrikeouts in an extra-inning game.

Angels 10, Twins 8 In Anaheim, California, Jim

Edmonds singled and doubled to drive in three runs during a nine-run third inning that put Anaheim ahead 10-2.

Garret Anderson singled twice and drove in two iuns in the inning and Tim Salmon hit a two-iun homer as Anaheim remained two games ahead of second-place Texas in the AL West.

OmarOlivm·es (8-8) allowed one run and four hits in. 4 2-3 innings, and Troy Percival got three outs for his 39th save.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I l, l 998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VJEWS-63

Sampras, Williams keep winning By Bob Greene No. IOCarlos Moya faced Magnus Vicario win five of the last six

NEW YORK (AP) - P<:te Larsson in a day match, while two games, losing only her serve in the Sampras is ~oindora record-rvin° unseeded players. Sweden's Tho- fourth ~ame. 12th CiraniSla1~1 tounrnmclll titk~ 111·1s Jl1l1·111 ·sc11 l I I · SI '-: , . , s. 1 am 1arc -serving . 1e found the range al"tcr that. VenusWilliamsisseckinl!hcrfirst. M k ]'I ·1· · 1· /\ • • ar · '.1 1ppouss1s o ustralia. powering her groundstrokcs deep

130th arc right on target in the meet tornght. into the corners and takin~ the net U.S. Open. • , Sampras g:1ined a measure of at just the right times. Wh~never it

Sampras aml Willi:ims solved revenge against Kucaa. who beat appeared Sanchez-Vicario had the the swirling winds in A11hur Ashe the world's top player ~1 the upper hand, Williams would raise Stadium and stayed on COL!l'Se with c1uarlerfinals ,·n tl1·1s· v",·11·'s· /\ti.'t1·,·1- I d · I · J" ., 1er game an wm t 1e 1mpo11ant surprisingly easy victories Wcdnes- li:111 Open. · d

points. ay. Twomorevictorics,an<lSampras "In the tirst set I was missing a "With the conditions. it wasn't 1"·illt"1•'l'oyE,111e1·s·o111v·11l112G1·,·111J I I • · • , ~ " ot, wasn t patient. I stayed away

funtoplay,"Samprassaid:·Wasn't Slam tournament singles crowns from my game plan," Williams the best of tennis. l got through it. I k would also rn,·1tch~tl1•' r·1ve u.s· .· "d "I · i <l · · _ - sa1 . Just ia to stop m1ssmg. I That's the main thing." OpentitlcswonbyJimmyConnors. · J d

The top-seeded Sa~1pras set upa ·Tm not going to s.",IY I'm ,,01·,1." JU st 1'.1 to_ make up my mind that l _ ~ ~ ~ wasn t gomg to miss anyn1orc. 11

semifinal match against dcfcndin<> to win every major l play, but I And she didn't. champion Patrick ~Rafter withal certainly come '1i1 l1ei·e 1v·11l1 ,·1 v.oi,1 D J d J ~ J avenporl a so use 1er power 3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over No. 9 Karol pumped-up attitude," Sampras said. to down Coetzer. Consistent, if not Kucera. ··ccnainly this is what the year spectacular, Davenport never Jost

Rafter advanced earlier in the boils down to ro1· 111e, tl1e n1,·iJ·o1·s." J d · · 1· 1er serve, csp1te strugglmg with day with a 6-2. 6-3. 7-5 win over Rafter, who had 44 winners and the wind. No. 12 Jonas Bjorkman. only 14 unforced eiTors, was too

Willi'ams needed three sets to l!el much for Bjorknrnn, who played in pastAnmtxaSanchcz-Vicario. wl10 long sleeves on a chilly afternoon added a hyphen to her last name made even colder by a 24 111ph :md a third F,·cnch Open title this wind. year. But after dropping the first Rafterused his exceptional speed set, Williams had no problems win- to control the malch, rnnnino down ning 2-6. 6-l, 6-1 to complete the Bjorkman'spassingshotsa~dait-women's semifinal pairings. ing to the net for winning volleys.

A finalist last year, Williams will Rafter said he was used to play-meet No. 2 Lindsay Davenport in ing in the wind, which he said was Friday's semis. Davenpon gained like those in Mount Isa, the Austra-abenh by pounding No. 13Am,mda lian town where he grew up. Coetzer 6-0. 6-4. "I've been brought upin the wind,

Theotherwomen'ssemifinal will whether it's winter or summer it's pair 1997 winner and top seed very windy conditions.'' he said. M,111ina Hingis against reigning "I've played in that since I'm JO Wimbledon champion Jana yem·s old." Novotna. Williams committed more than

The men's semifinals were half of her unr·orccd e1rnrs in the scheduled to be completed today. opening set, which saw Sanchez-

"It's tough. When you 're with the wind, you can't hit the ball loo far or it flies long. On the other side. you have to hit the ball hard, .. Dav­enport said. ··you never know what's going to happen out there in the wind."

There were two short rain delays during the Davenport-Coetzer match,

·"Thew ind ,md the delays probab I y helped mea little bit. I was definitely snuggling with the way she w:L, hit­ting the ball," Coetzer said.

"Often the wind is a little bit of an equalizer. And the rain delays gave me a little bit of an opportunity to slow things down, have a chance to speak to 111y coach."

She needed more than a pep talk against Davenport.

New Browns owner to talk with Seifert By KEN BERGER

CLEVELAND (Al')-Carmen Policy showed up for work Wednesday, and there was plenty of it to go around.

plans." away, and the Browns don't have a coach, general 111ana!.!e1· or a single player. •

But they have Policy, who is getting right to work.

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Venus Williams returns the ball to fourth seed Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario dunng their quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Williams won the match 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. AP

Smiley exits bidding for Marlins By JEFF SHAIN

MIAMI (AP)-:- Floiida Marlins president Don Smiley said Wednesday he has ,ended his _que,st to b~y the World Seiies chainpions, saying he couldn tmatchanval spromise to keep the tc:.m1 inSouthF101ida throuuh at least 2010. "'

"!'ve never wanted to rr"iove the team out of South Floiida," Smiley saiJ dunng a news conference. "But I could not make tlmt assurance. It wa~n 't feasible to make on my gmup's behalf."

The move clears_tl1e wa~fo~ Boca_Raton commodities traderJolm 1-Ieruy to negouare exclusively with found mg owner H. Wayne Huizenga for the 6--year-old franchise. ~

Huizenga, who put tlie tem11 up for sale in June J 997, announced frL,t November he ha? ieached a?1"ee!11ent to sell to a group headed by Smiley.

Ho"'.'e~er, SrI:1ley couldn t nuse enough money to meet Huizenga's $ 169 m1lhon asking piice. . Hemy, a 48-year-old futures mmager, last month offered$ 150 million ~cash for the club and has been negotiating with Huizenga representatives tor tl1e past two weeks.

Accor~ing to Huizenga, Smiley was the one who suggested the Marlins purge therrpayroll ofnearly all its high-priced w.lent in an attempt to entice mvestors.

What is Policy's most impor­tant job on Day I as pan-owner and president of the North Ameri­can Football League's Cleveland Browns?

After visiting the Browns' train­ing complex in suburban Berea with majority owner Al Lerner, Policy discussed his immediate plans fo1· building the Browns in an interview with The Associated Press.

Le me rand Policy were awarded Clcveland'sexpan;ion teamTues­day night when NFL owners ac­cepted Lerner's$ 5]0 mi Ilion bid. It includes $ 54 million for sta­dium costs and is the most expen­sive sports team in U.S. history.

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It's hard to say, but talking to George Seif en is near the top of the list.

"I am going to sit down with George Seifert," Policy said Wednesday of his former coach with the San Francisco49crs, "I 'II sit down with George as a friend and a colleague and just bounce some ideas off him. I Jon 't know if we 'II talk about his personal

There is plenty of work and 1{01 much time to do it. The Browns can begin signing free agents in a few months. and they have the l'irst pick in the next NFL draft. The first game is less th:111 a year

Saipan Electronic Dart· Association ·1998 Team and Player Standings SEDA SF98

Through Thursday, 9/10 '"C" League

"A" League MDX Group "C1" 11 4 73% Figueroa's Uncorked 19 11 63%

Hare \\1.'6 Angus Beel Eaters 16 14 53%

lw.!s %WilS MDX Group "C2" B 7 53% Len's St1ike1s 2000 10 5 67% D' Jokers 14 16 ,17%

Oleai Dart Maniacs 18 12 60% Pacam Boyz 12 !8 40°iD

Oleai Beach Burns 14 16 47% R,tzy's Rilz 10 20 33%

Remington Club 12 18 40% Oieai M,slils 0 0 0%

Quezadas Cans!. 'A' 6 9 40% SEDA SF98 "Masters" League

SEDA SF98 Oleai Beach S110ole1s 21 9 70% "B" League Len's Maste,minalor 5 10 33% Quezada Equip ··st" 25 5 83°,o Pac Amusemenl Playboys 4 11 Rudys While Trash 19 11 83% The Jokers 18 12 60% SEDA SF98 Oleai Deadstroke Hillers \5 15 60% "Mixed Doubles" League Ouezadas Equip "82" 15 \5 60% Bing & Mara 10 5 67% Island Magic 12 tB 40% Derence & Dina 19 11 63%

Buds Bar Most Wanled 9 21 30% Bong & Kio 13 17 43%

Mom's Bad Company 7 23 23% Rudy & Miles 3 12 20% Jerry & Leah 0 15 0%

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Saipan Youth ,Football:

SYFL• ready to open biggest season ever

By Michael Wright Variety News Staff

OVER 350 Peewee, Midget and Bantam level football players will be strapping on pads and putting on helmets this week­end for the start of the Saipan Youth Football League's (SYFL) 199& season.

The biggest change this year is the addition of the Bantam level to the league: "We're reaching out to more kids this year," said SYFL PresidentJ ack Ogumoro. "There is more inter­est than ever before."

An opening-season ceremony is set for 10 am at the field near the airport, while the first game gets underway at 11 am.

12 teams will compete in the three levels. As in years past, team names reflect the village from which the player lives. The four squads within each level will represent the North, Cen­tral, Western, and Eastern parts of the island.

Peewee players must be be­tween the ages· of 9 and. I l. Midget players are 12-14 years

()Id, while the Bantam level in~ dudes players 15-17 years ii:i age.

Ogumoro is.excited about the increased poptifarity of the SYFL; "The kids .watch football on TV and they play football at school. They W-[!nt _to do tackle football."

With the league having little trouble finding players, Ogumoro says the problem now is getting enough volunteers to assist with the league. The ad­dition of the Bantam level has strained the amount of avail­able help. "These are our kids," he says. "We all should h·elp out."

Ogumoroexplainedwhyfoot­ball is a valuable activity. "It instills a sense of responsibil­ity, a sense of discipline, a sense of pride." He likes how kids from different villages must work together and play as a team. "Ki_ds front San Roque, for example, will play with kids from Tanapag and Capitol Hill. It makes them realize they belong to a bigger community."

His short temi goal is to find additional volunteers for the cur-

rent SYFL season, but Ogumoro also has·a vision for the future. "We want to con­vince the educational systems to have their own football teams. Varsity and Junior Var­sity squads at the public and p1ivate schools." He says PSS, for one, has been receptive to the idea of an interscholastic league 1n the CNMI.

Ogumoro also stresses the need for a multi-purpose sta­diumon the island, if the CNMI wants to get serious about com­peting on an international level: "Our kids can't compete in the big events with these facilities. We need to look at it as an investment, not an expendi-ture," he said. ·

Season schedules will be sold to help rais_e money for the league.· If anyone is inter­ested in volunteering their time (equipment managers, team Moms, team Dads, coaches) and help with the 1998 SYFL season, call Jack Ogumoro at 664-7882 during the week.

Midget players from the Central team get in a little hitting practice in Thursday evening in preparation for the upcoming SYFL season.

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Could Jordan return to Bulls?

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By Chris Sheridan NEW YORK (AP)- In the opin­ion of fellow No1th Cmulina alum Jeny Stackhouse, Michael Jordan won't be coming back to the NBA unless the lockout lasts into the win­ter.

"I think he's gone. J bw;e iton what people have been saying and what he's been feeling," Stackhouse said Wednesday night prior to a ch,u·ity b,L~ketball game at Madison Squ,u-e Garden featuring 19 locked-outNBA players.

"He'skindoffedupwithChicago's mm,agement telling him that man­agement builds temns," Stackhouse said.

"That plays a factor, and all that stuff builds up. He's keeping it in the back of his mind until one day he says there's going to be some get-back. And this may be the p1ime time for him to give a little get-back.

Stackhouse spoke with Jordan last month in No1th Cm·oliila p1ior to the Jimmy V Cla~sic golf toumament. Jordan has not spoken publicly about future since stating in July that he would not play for Tim Floyd, who has since been hired by the Chicago Bulls as their coach-in-waiting.

"We were just shooting the breeze. We were in a pickup game mid he wm1ted to get back out on the golf course," Stackhouse said.

Jordm, 's agent, David Falk, told the Chicago Sun-Times in a sto1y published Wednesday that Jordan "definitely wanl~ to come back" to the Bulls. '

"Personally, without being too much of a wide-eyed dreamer, I still be! ieve there are somescemuios where Phil Jackson cm, come back despite the fact he has said he won't come back," Falk told the newspaper.

One such scenmio,S tackhousesaid, could be if the lockout extends into the season m,d forces the cm,cellation of games for the first time in NBA histo1y.

If the season was sho1tened to 40 games, for ex,m1ple, it might make Jord,m come back for one rno1c sea­son.

"Probably so. TI1atcould happen," Stackhouse said.

'The long season could deter him. He'd play IO more yem~ "if he could go stnlight to the playoffs. But if it doesn't happen in Chicago, it won't happen m1ywhere else."

Jordan was not in attendance at the game for Wheelch,lir Chmities Inc. as a team of players from m·ound the leai,>ue, led by Ray Allen's 26 points, beat a temn of New York-m-ea stm-s 153-142. John Wallace of Toronto led all scorers with 28 points.

Falk told the Sun-Times that if Jord,m would let him getinvolved,he

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believes he could work out an ar­nmgement withBullschai1manJell}' Reinsdorf in which Jord:m and Jack­son could return.

"But tight now, Michael w,mts me to stay out of it," Falk said.

"He wants things to unfold natu­rally. He wants to see what the Bulls doontheirownand what his 14yem-s of se1vice really mem1s to them.:·

Jackson left the six-time NBA champions in June, and Jordm1 In~ long said he will play only for Jack­son. . . .

Budweiser Labor Day Softball Tournament

- . . . Results from the first round of games in the Marpac Budweiser Labor Day Tour­nament. Games will con­tinue throughout this week­end.

Wave 5 Marpac 26 Team Bud 15 Kinados 16 CK Defenders 16 Mafaina's 13 Team Palau 11 Ngeaur Com€ts 21 Pirates 3