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arianas %riety;~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ~ By Ferdie de la Torre otherwise known as hemorrhagic demic occurred in American Sa The signs and symptoms, Variety News Staff conjunctivitis. moa where half of the entire is Khorram said, include redness of THE DEPARTMENT of Public He said they started seeing per land population got infected. one eye then the other, burning, Health Services has warned the sons infected with pinkeye com The medical director said pink itching, irritation, and gritty feel public. of a pinkeye outbreak ing to CHC last week in what eye spreads easily and rapidly ing. which has reportedly been affect could be the first pinkeye out throughout the community The doctor pointed out that no ing many people in the CNMI. break in the Commonwealth in through "hand to eye to hand con specific treatment is available. Dr. K. David Khorram, medi years. tact." Pinkeye like a cold lasts about cal director for the Center for Eye The spread could be attributed He explained it is an inflammas one week then goes away._ Disease at the Commonwealth due to many travelers here, tion or redness on the white part of "There is no need to see a doc Health Center, told the Variety Khorram said. the eyes that have some blood tor unless the vision is getting bad yesterday that they have seen daily He said he learned that there are under the conjunctiva caused by or if symptoms last longerthan I 0 several types of virus like days," he said. three to four persons, mostly also pinkeye cases in Guam now. ~c-o-nt=in_u_e_d,..._o_n_p_a_g_e 6 adults, infected with pinkeye. In 1986, he said a similar epi- picomaviris. Khorram said they are expect ing more people out in the com Dr. K. David Khorram munity suffering from the ailment . Candidates' motion fails to delay Palau primary By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff THE SUPREME Court of Palau has paved the way for the holding of the presidential primary election today, after denying a request of two presidential candidates for its postponement. The high court issued the order yesterday acting on a joint complaint filed by candidates Yutaka M. Gibbons and Johnson Toribiong. The two candidates, in seeking the postponement of the sched uled primary, raised several issues against administration candi dates President Kuniwo Nakamura and his running mate Vice President Tommy Remengasau including nepotism and improper ballot specimen .. Named respondents in the case were the Palau government, Election Commission and Hisae Obichang Brei, an· election commission member who is a second cousin of Nakamura. Gibbons and Toribiong had sought the ouster of Brei from the · election body, expressing fear that she might get impartial (or the·. administration. · . ... The Supreme Court, on the other hand, said the plaintiffs faile<:I .. to present any evidence or legal authority "which ·sho~s that' B.rel's relationship to the President a.lone shoulddisquaHfy her Tenorio asks if 'deficit' could pass as . continued on pag~ 6 one of·Guerrero's accomplishments Tenorio, during an interview with According to Tenorio, it may the Variety yesterday aftemoon. not be appropriate for one gover Male teenager complains Tenorio was responding to nor to take the credit for develop statements made by Guerrero dur ments that have occuITed over the he was raped by woman ing a recent media forum imply years, especially since infrastrnc By Ferdie de la Torre ing "he has accomplished more in ture improvements actually , Variety News Staff his four years as governor than Continued on page 6 i A 22-year-old woman allegedly sexually abused a 15-year-old boy, Tenorio did in eight." ( according to a complaint filed on Saturday at the Department of Public Guerrero made such insinu~ t Safety. tion when asked during his recent /: PublicSafetyinformationOfficerP02AmoldK.Semansaidthesuspect guesting at a Society of Profes Weather. t is from Oialan Kiya sional Journalists meeting why l Seman said no arrest was made yet as police are still investigating the voters should choose him over incident Tenorio. Outlook No other details were given in the report Apparently, such a statement Seman said he believes it is the first such complaint filed before the DPS Pete P. Tenorio did not sit well with the two-term where the suspect in a sexual abuse case is a woman. governor who faces Guerrero in a In other police report, an abandoned building in Susupe was reportedly By Rafael H. Arroyo primary come Nov. 9th for the burned down Friday night · GOP nomination. ·Seman said investigators are looking into a possible arson into the case Variety News Staff IS A $40 million deficit part of "I think it should be up to the as signs of break-in were noted people to judge my accomplish The building was fortnerly used as barracks for Diamond Hotel employ the so-called "accomplishments" of former Gov. Larry I. Guerrero? ments. They know what I did dur ees. ing my eight years in office and I In Susupe, the police rearrested a prisoner who allegedly escaped from This was the question raised by think the people are satisfied with Me>stly cloudy with the Detention Facility at the DPS Saturday before noon. Guerrero's opponent in the up · isolated' showe,s Jeffrey Sablan Basa was charged with escape. · coming Republican gubernatorial what I have done," said the former primary, former Gov. Pete P. governor. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1996-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- SEPTEMBER 24, 1996 --~----------------------~~~~=~=~=:.:...:.:::_~~_c___=_-=----- Tenorio exhorts feds on illegal drugs: 'j Tension at Golan Heights? , 'Go after Mexican mob sources' JERUSALEM (AP) - The govern Haaretz quoted the United Na ment has decided to increase Israeli Report says Israel deploying more troops tions commander on the Golan, Maj. By Zaldy Dandan in a. report submitted to the rive on commercial air passen local residents," comes mainly forces in tl1e Golan Heights in re Gen.JohannesKosters,assayingthat Variety News Staff Governor's Drug Task Force last gers and air cargo. from the Philippines, according sponse to Syrian rroop movements in The prime minister's office did countries. Syria in the 1967 Mideast War. Thir reports of troop movements on both THE FEDERAL government March, said marijuana and crys Smaller quantities are brought to Ogumoro. Lebanon, an Israeli newspaper re not immediately respond to the re "We have no interest in exacerbat teen years ago, on Yorn Kippur in sides were exaggerated, and that both should be responsible for prevent tal methamphetamine ("ice") are into the CNMI by ocean-going He said statistics showed that the most widely-abused drugs, ported Sunday. port. ing the situation, and I =e that is 1973, Syria launched a surprise at Israel and Syria were continuing to ing Mexican drug gangs fromget sea vessels and through the postal from 1990 to 1995 the Depart Prime Minister Benjamin Haaretz said the fo= would be the situation on the other side as tack, ovenunning part of the Golan comply with the separation-of-forces tinga foothold in theCNMI, Gov. after alcohol, in the CNMI. system. ment of Public Safety seized over Neranyahu and Defense Minister beefed up because offears that Syria well," Mordechai said before being repulsed. agreement in the Golan. Fr;ilan C. Tenorio said yester Ogumoro said cocaine and "ice" Ogumoro said the drugs are 5,395 grams of"ice," with a street Yitzhak Mordechai will decide soon might try to attack. But in an inter Mordechai said that Israel was still The recent eastward and south Tensions between the two coun day. are smuggled into the CNMI, usually sourced from Japan, Thai value of about $9 million. how to redeploy aoops in Lebanon view on the eve of the Jewish Yorn monitoring the Syrian troop move wardmovementofSyriantroopsfrom tries have risen sinceNetanyahu took "I mea:n in order for the drugs while marijuana, a large of sup land, South Korea, Belau·, Feder Drug addiction in the CNMI is and the Golan in light of the Syrian Kippur holiday, Mordechai told the ments and maintaining the "neces Lebanon had raised concerns in office in June. from Mexico to get here it has to ply of which is also smuggled into ated States of Micronesia, the believed to be the major cause of movements, the Haaretz newspaper Maarivnewspaperthattherehadbeen sary alertness." Jerusalem and in Washington. Netanyahu has said he does not go through California, Hawaii and the Commonwealth, continues to Philippines, Hawaii and even as such criminal activities as bur said a "drop in tension" between the two Israel captured the Golan from Syria's Hafez Assad sent a mes want to return the Golan in exchange Guam before they get to Saipan." be available locally in smaller far as the U.S. mainland. glary, theft, prostitution and cor sage to Israel through the United Stat.es for peace with Syria, as the previous he said. quantities. "Ice," the "drug of choice for ruption in the government. last week that the movements did not Israeli government had indicated it "So if it's true that we're get The illegal narcotics often ar- target the Jewish state. would do. ting drugs from Mexico it's im portant that the federal govern . Chi.ef Aghurubw's · ment go after these people." Froilan C. tenorio Perry: Conflict· with The governor's Public Infor Meanwhile, a media release virtues extolled by_ mation Officer Mark Broadhurst from the Office of the Governor chief executive said Thursday that most of the said $3 million of federal funds Iraqis- is easing up ·. illegal drugs smuggled into the have been appropriated for anti By Mar-Vic C.

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