UNIVERS!Tf OF i-iAWPjl .LlBRAR'( e Cl s By Ferdie de la Torre days after the May 31,1995 dead­ Variety News Staff For alleged violations of Gov't" Ethics Code line. THE OFFICE of Public Auditor Last Sept. 11, Lane said OPA has filed a civil lawsuit against Slapped with civil suits accord­ refusing to pay penalties for filing Rehabilitation Advisory Council, informed the six of their late fil­ former Congressman Alvaro ing to court documents were their financial interest reports late. Lucia Quitugua of the Library ing and the penalty in the sum of Santos and five public officials Santos; Constitutional Conven­ Facing criminal charges were Council and Diane Quitugua, a $10 for each delinquent day. for allegedly violating provisions tion delegates Donald B. Lqrenzo Ayuyu, a member of the member of the Developmental OPA and its agent, AG, de­ of government ethics code. Mendiola and Mariano Taitano; Disabilities Planning Council. manded on Dec. 15 payments of This developed as the Attorney Parole Board member Pedro T. The AG sued the trio for failure penalty from the defendants, Lane General's Office also filed crimi­ Nakatsukasa; Finance resident to file reports of their financial said. nal charges against three other director Antonio Chong and Fish interests. Despite the demands made, government officials for non­ and Wildlife director Arnold L Assistant Atty. Gen. Alan L. Lane claimed that the defendants compliance of provisions in the Palacios. Lane said all nine defendants are have failed and refused to pay the same statute. OPA sued the six for allegedly holding positions which require penalty and have not even con­ an annual filing of a report of tacted OPA regarding the amount financial interests with OPA, pur­ due. Fi;rst mother dies suant to provisions in the ethics The government asked $70 pay­ ·Lady'~, . code. ment from Santos for filing seven By Rafael H. Arroyo . Santos was cited at a time when days late, $510 from Mendiola Variety News Staff / he was still a congressman . for 51 days late, and $260 from \ GOVERNOR Froilan C. Teriorio returned to the Commonwealth According to the complaint, Taitano for 26 days. I the other day but is flying back.to the. US after learning that his Santos, Mendiola, Taitano, OPA also demanded $490 (49 mother-in-law had died in Milwaukee. N akatsukasa, Chong and Palacios days late) from Nakatsukasa, $20 According to Public Information Officer Bruce Lloyd, Mary Alvaro Santos submitted their financial interests Continued on page 8 Kwiatkowski, mother of CNMI First Lady Grae~ Lyn Tenorio passed away Wednesday after a lingenng illness. Tenorio has been out of the Commonwealth for quite some Federal mission coming time mostly on official government business and investment­ related trips to the US, Korea and Hongkong. A number of times, the governor had been shuttling back and to probe wage hike delay forth Milwaukee with Grace to look after Mrs. Kwiatkowski. By Mar-Vic C. Munar the memorandum reached news Details were sketchy about the circumstances of Mrs. Variety News Staff agencies. Kwiatkowski's death but Lloyd said she has been ill for quite . A FEDERAL fact-finding mis­ Schorr said the fact-finding sometime. sion will come to Saipan on Feb. mission will be headed by He, however, could not disclose for sure the cause of death as 19 to look into the CNMI Stayman himself. it has yet to be determined. government's recent decision to The interior official, however, "The governor is leaving again tonight, I guess for Honolulu defer a scheduled increase in the could not name other members of where he earlier dropped off the first lady on the way here," said minimum wage. Stayman's entourage. Lloyd.. This was gleaned from a memo­ The memorandum says the mis­ "I guess from there they will be headed to Milwaukee for Mrs. randum sent by Office of Insular sion will have representatives Kwiatkowski's funeral." Affairs Director Allen P. Stayman from US Congress. The team is to Interior Department Secretary still being organized. Excerpts from the memoran­ dum read: "OIA is concerned about the recent actions by the CNMI government to roll back its requirement for an increase in the minimum wage and the removal ·- Allen P. Stayman of the cap on the number of for­ Bruce Babbitt last week. eign workers in the garment in­ DOI Field Representative Jeff dustry." Schorr said he has not seen a copy The CNMI was supposed to of the memorandum but he con­ implement a 30-cent per hour firmed the scheduled arrival of Continued on page 8 the fact-finding mission. The memorandum, dated Jan. 26, was "leaked" to local news agencies. Weather The faxed copy of the memo­ randum did not have any fax or telephone number that would in­ Outlook dicate where it was sent from. "Somebody leaked the memo to the media," Schorr said. "For what reasons? Who knows. This is not the first time it happened." The memorandum, which bears the official seal of the US Depart­ ment of Interior, contains brief update reports on the status of US insular territories including Partly sunny skies with CNMI, Guam, American Samoa diminishing winds and Bikini. Only the first page of _...:·· •·-·.J 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY-FEBRUARY 2, 1996 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 I Singapore womanjailed for Japan Supreme Court burning RP n1aid with .ii-011 .. · OKs disbanding of cult GOP bet known by August i TOKYO (AP) - The Supreme status because of alleged criminal l SINGAPORE (AP) • A 66- Thyagarajan said Mrs. Phee'~ passyf6t~dswhofaiepr9b/i Court has upheld lower court rul­ activities. By Rafael H. Arroyo effects on the party as it may create ill­ year-old woman has been·sen­ children, Dr. Lim Tian Chiar and lems·witb tli,eir employees. ings that effectively disband the The Supreme Court decision Variety News Staff feelings among supporters of candi­ i ' ' tenced to six months jail for Mrs. Lim Siew Wah, also lied The plighfof overseas FilF . doomsday cult whose members supported a similar decision by TIIEREPUBLICANPartywillhave dates who fail to win the GOP nomi­ deliberately burning her Filipino during the trial to back uptheir pinos was publicized both in are accused in the deadly nerve the Tokyo District Court last Oc­ its official candidate for the 1997 nation. 1 maid with a hot iron, in a case mother's story. But they were not Singapore and .in the PbHip~ gas attack on Tokyo's subways. tober. The Tokyo High Court, gubernatorial race no later than Au­ Thus, Filial said it may be in the \ that highlighted the ill-treatment charged with perju:zy. pines after a Filipiriomaid,J:lor .··. The widely anticipated rejec­ Japan's appeals court, supported gust of this year, party chainnan party'sinteresttoasmuchas possible ; / that foreign domestic workers Ms·. Collado had alleged that Contemplacion,was hanged u1 . tion by Japan's highest court of the lower court two months later. Benigno R Fitial said avoid a primmy and choose a candi­ ! often face here. she was burned on the hand on March I995forthedoublemur- , the appeal from Aum Shinri Kyo Cult guru Shoko Asahara and In an intetview yesterday, Filial date by oonsensus. : ! will end the cult's tax-exempt sta­ nearly 160 of his 10,000 follow­ The defendant, PheeAi Ching, Jan. 21, 1994 becauseMrs. Phee der of another F!lipin~ ~d said it will be the party's goal to select During yesterday' sinteiview, Fitial tus. Tens of thousands of reli­ ers in Japan have been arrested. a standard bearer months before the said the GOP's candidates commit­ also was ordered to pay 3.000 was unhappy with the way she and.het4-y~~ol<1Si*g~r~~· gious organizations in Japan en­ Asahara, 40, and about two dozen year ends to give time for "party tee is currently finalizing a set of dollars(U.S.$2,I40)tothemaid, had ironed a long-sleeved shirt. ward. ..· . .· .....•..••...... ·.. joy such tax privileges. Under top cult leaders have been charged wounds to heal" in the event a pri­ criteria for selecting candidates and Vivian Collado. She alleged she was also made ManyFiHpinost:ieUe~eclfua1:. Tuesday's decision by the four­ with murder. mary is to be held willbemakingsuchguidelinesknown Handing down the sentence to iron clothes well past mid­ Mrs. Coritemplacioll was fir judge panel, disclosed Wednes­ On Wednesday, officials said 'The party's candidates commit­ to the general membership. on Wednesday, District Judge night. Ms. Collado started work­ nocent although indepen.dert day, the government will also be that the start of Asahara' s trial, tee will set a de.ldline for submission As of yesterday, only one candi­ S. Thyagarajan said Mrs. Phee ing for Mrs. Phee's family on inquiries later show-ed that she able to seize the cult's assets, in­ now scheduled for April 18, may of letters of intent from prospective date has officialy declared his candi­ had "shamelessly lied" during Jan. 14, 1994. was justly convkted, cluding expensive property near be delayed because it coincides aspirants. After that, a decision will Benigno R. Fitial dacy-Washington Representative Juan N. Babauta Pedro P. Tenorio the trial to support her testF "I know that not· all The outburst against .Mrs, Mount Fuji and other parts of with a visit to Tokyo by President have to be made on whether to hold a According to Fitial, there should be Juan N. Babauta. nouncement registration drive among all current mony that Ms. Collado, 20, had Singaporeans ar-e like this, but I Coatemplacion' s execution Japan.