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2wor erssue By Rick Alberto accidentally touched a high-volt yer Eric S. Smith in behalf of disability to her leg. power line. Variety News Staff age power line while decorating, Duan and Yang, who have re The electrical wire that electro Duan and Yang likewise .ac THE Commonwealth Utilities together with other employees, turned to China after their work cuted Duan was strung low and cused Yin Star Corp. of negli Corp. was sued the-other day by the rooftop of a building on the permits and contracts expired. was not insulated or inadequately gence for allegedly allowing an two Chinese contract workers af eve of the Prince Theater's open According to the complaint, insulated, the complaint said. unsafe working condition and for ter one of them was electrocuted ing. Duan suffered severe bums to his It blamed the CUC for careless failing to inspect the theater pre by a live wire way back in 1994. Yan, in trying to avoid the acci head and feet "causing perma ness in installing the line "too mises and to warn them about the Also named as defendants filed dent that befell her co-employee, nent and severe neurological and close" to the building. unsafe condition. by Duan Tieling and Yan jumped _from the rooftop, in the physical damage." It said the cue breached its They said their employer failed Dongmei before the District Court process getting injured. It also alleged that Yan's inju duty to insure that the complain to procure worker's compensa- were Yin Star Corp., which used Aranda was named as defen ries would result in permanent ants would not be injured by the Continued on page 6 to operate the Prince Theater, and dant, being the lessor of the the Roma Diaz Aranda. ater building. Duan suffered injuries when he The complaint was filed by law- Torres to speaker: Garment sector Floating casino yet not ready for a 30-cent wage hike By Rafael H. Arroyo with members of the Board where Variety News Staff he was told about plans to pro to apply for license THE GARMENT industry on pose a three-tiered increase to be By Rafael ·H. Arroyo draft memorandum of under Saipan better be prepared for a selectively implemented. Variety News Staff standing supposedly.signed be 30-cent minimum wage increase The board asked for a week's THE MANILA-based devel tween CNMI officials and · by April as it would not be given time to come up with such a rec oper seeking to bring in and Yoshiya. any form ofleniency on the wage ommendation. operate a floating casino off Lt. Gov. Jesus C. Borja even issue. The proposal being entertained the island of Tinian has yet to traveled to the Philippines This was from House Speaker by the House is a general increase formally tum in a license ap months ago to meet with Diego T. Benavente who believes of 30 cents by April 1st. Current plication with the Tinian Ca Yoshiya officials. The casino that the state of the industry is not law sets the wage hike by July 1st. sino Gaming Commission. boat is said to be due in the that bad so as to get adversely Although he has yet to see the This was learned from Paul Commonwealth by April and impacted by such an increase. final board recommendation, the Palmer, executive director of may start gaming operations "I don't think that the garment speaker said the board is likely to the Commission who said an by June. industry will be receiving an in propose lower increases for the application is fundamental to But according to Palmer, his crease lower than 30-cents this garment and construction indus the licensing process and is thus office has yet to receive an of April 1st. This is something I will tries in the proposed tiered sys Joaquin S. Torres necessary if the casino ship ficial application from the said be pushing for and something that tem. plans to start operations this firm and so the licensing pro the leadership feels very strong "I was told by Board chairman Saipan. year. cess could not be started. about," said Benavente in an in Joaquin S. Torres that the gar The Variety yesterday tried to Media reports started circu Palmer pointed out that all terview yesterday. ment industry is among those that reach Torres for comment but the lating since late last year that the Commission received from The speaker made the statement may not be able to withstand the latter was not available. Yoshiya Phils., Inc. is plan Yoshiya was an informal letter after learning about an apparent said increase," said Benavente. "From my discussions with the ning to bring in a $5 million requesting an application and move by the Wage and Salary Apart from chairing the com chairman, the possible recommen gaming boat to Tinian to en generic information about the Review Board to provide for a mittee tasked by law to set wage dation from them will be a more gage in casino operations. casino industry on Tinian. "less hurting" wage increase for levels, Torres is currently person lenient increase for garment, con Such reports also told of a Continued on page 6 the Saipan apparel industry. nel director of L&T Corp., the struction and the small retail store The speaker on Monday met largest garment conglomerate on Continued on page 6 Legislative leaders move to Lottery revenues for quarter hit $117,607 mend Guam-CNMI relations THE GOVERNMENT earned a earned by the government such as By Mar-Vic C. Munar CNMI and Guam governments wrote separate letters to Guam total of$ I I? ,607 in revenues from the $9,750 accrued commission Variety News Staff broughf'about by the optic cable Gov. Carl Gutierrez and Speaker lottery operations from Septem from instant tickets for the first SENATE. and House leaders issue. Don Parkinson "to extend the ber to December 1995, says the Continued on page 6 have moved to mend the im . Senate President Jesus Sablan hand of friendship from the report from the Office of Public paired relations between the and Speaker Diego Benavente . CNMI people to Guam govern- Auditor. ment." · Public Auditor Leo LaMotte )t"~'Australia and its . versy between the CNM! and accredited authorized representa Guam, we trust that the words of tive agent, the Mail Service, Shap one individual, spoken however ing Ltd. 'inadvertently; will not tarnish The audit showed that the the relationship between Olli" is• CNMI earned commission rev ·. lands.'' Sablan and ·Benavente enues of $114,895 and an interest 'saidinaMarch8lettertoGuam's of $2,712. Mostly sunny top leaders. . .· . .· · · . However, the public auditor with Isolated showers . ·: The·.dispute betwee11. the tw~ said the finance department has · ~nuidonP119'6 not yet recorded other revenues 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-MARCH 13, 1996 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 Taiwan military on high alert Reyes wants MTC in cable project By PATRICIA KUO "We have heightened alert, espe Chinese mainland, soldiers trimmed stopped shelling the island. province and has never renounced By Mar-Vic C. Munar Under the contract, GST will deliver the same service. force to reunify it with the main voice, data and video commu TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan cially on the front-line islands which hundreds of trees to give their artillery Beaches that opened to swimmers · Variety News Staff be the sole provider of long MTC joined but lost the bid nication . land. Taiwan also espouses reuni went on heightened alert Tuesday, liefacetofacewiththeexercisearea," units a clearer view, the China Times in recent years were closed again, the HOUSE Floor Leader Rep. distance service in the CNMI ding for the installation of fi The installation of the fication, but China is convinced Pete Reyes proposed yester waiting for China to begin live-fire a military official, requesting ano reported. report said. for three y"ears. ber optic cable reportedly be project is expected to reduce its president, Lee Teng-hui, co war games, and police said they had nymity, said Tuesday. The trees were planted after China ChinaclaimsTaiwanisarenegade day that local telecommuni "That provision gives GST cause it lacked some docu the cost of of overseas phone vertly wants to make the island completed an islandwide cleanup of The military says it expects the cations companies be invited the exclusive right to provide ments required. calls to Guam to 50 cents. independent. to take part in the ·CNMI' s bomb shelters. exercise to include anti-submarine long distance service," Reyes "MTC is an established com At present, CNMI callers pay There are no indications either The Independence Evening Post measures, anti-ship and anti-aircraft fiber optic cable project "to said in an interview. "What I pany and is open to competi $1.85 forthefirstminuteand$1.75 side is anxious for war, however, quoted military solll'CeS as saying missiles, artillery and bombing runs. ensure a healthy competition." would recommend is to take tion," Reyes said. for each additional minute for calls· China began navy vessel and fighier . It also says China might follow up including U.S. dlrs 24 billion in Reyes said the House is not away the exclusivity dause in On the other hand, Reyes to mainland. A call to Guam costs fonnation drills, but there was no with a separate amphibious landing Taiwanese investments in China: inclined to approve the sub the contract." said GST may not be stable word that the live-fire exercise, set to exercise. The United States is moving callers 85 cents for the first minute merged land lease agreement The CNMI-GST contract re enough to continue delivering and 75 cents for the succeeding begin Tuesday, was under way. - Police said public bomb shelters, warships closer to Taiwan in a signed by Gov. Froilan C. quires the approval of the Leg a long-distance service to minutes. Following up its test-firing of three many of them untended for years, tacit effort to cool tempers, insist Tenorio with the GST islature. CNMl callers. missiles nearTaiwanFriday, China is have been cleared all over the island. Reyes said GST had misled ing they are coniing only to ob Telecom, Inc. because the con "We should be inclined to "GST is a fly-by-night com the CNMI into believing that starting eight days of air and sea Taipei police have been inspecting serve and "be helpful if they need tract has practically shut down patronize local companies," pany. It has no permanency," Pete Reyes it could guarantee lower costs maneuvers in a 6,600-square-mile basements, underground parking lots to be," as U.S. Secretary of State competition. Reyes said Reyes said. of long-distance calls. (l 7 ,000-square-kilometer) rectangle and other structures that can serve as Warren Christopher put it. The congressman singled The underground cable net "GSt is only a provider and that stretches to the mid-point of the shelters, and posting yellow stickers The U.S. move was welcomed out the Micronesian Telecom work will provide link among not a carrier. Only carriers are Taiwan Straits - a line both sides to point them out to the public. by the Taiwan government, but munication Corp. which he Saipan, Rota, Tinian, and authorized to reduce costs of refrain from crossing. The Taipei municipality has asked drew a mixed reaction in Taiwan said, has the competence to Guam via state-of-the-art overseas calls," Reyes said.' The rectangle lies off the southeast the capital's 2.6 million people to ese newspapers. Chinese coast and is 30 to 70 miles clear their basements, many of which "It is pleasing news to those of (50 to 115 kilometers) from the Tai have become storage rooms. us who have always stressed that Son ofDPS official adIDits to wanese islands of Quemoy and In Quemoy, a Taiwanese island Washington would never sit idly Wuchiu. about a mile (2 kilometers) from the by as Communist China bullied Taiwan," political analyst Wei cleaning gun used i·n nturder Yung wrote in the United Daily News, one of Taiwan's largest By Ferdie de la Torre ness said, he and Camacho went Camacho'scounselG.Anthony RP's military chief Variety News Staff newspapers. to the residence of Raymond Long asked if any expert made an "But Taiwan's security is built A SON of a police official testi- Salas. interpretation of the results, but slams door on gays on the triangular relationship of . fied yesterday that he and Alvin In the house, Adriano said Ogumoro responded he. has no Washington, Beijing and us. ff A. Camacho went to Oby an Beach Camacho and Salas had an argu knowledge because at the time he MANILA,Philippines(AP)-Gays resign "due to peer pressure.·' Chinese-American relations de a day after the San Roque ment. He did not elaborate. was leaving DPS. may be welcome in the national po Gay rights have become a hot topic teriorate" over Taiwan, "we will gunshooting to clean up the rifle The 22-year-old Salas, who During his opening arguments, lice but not in the armed forces, the lately following Manila Mayor be the one to suffer eventually." used in the June 10 incident. claimed to be Camacho's best Long said evidence would show Philippines' military chief said Mon Alfredo Lim's suggestion that a gay The Independence Evening At a jury trial in the Superior friend, earlier pinned down the that Camacho did not fire a gun. day. "Gays have no place in the police desk be created to,take care of Post editorialized: "We should Court, Alvin Adriano, a govern murder suspect as the one who Thelawyerstressedthatthetest armed forces" as long as he is in matters involving homosexuality. hold on to our sovereign status ment witness, admitted it was his shot at the victims. conducted showed inconsistencies A Chinese soldier cycles past the business end of a missile of Beijing charge, Gen. Arturo Emile told re Lim, a no-nonsense former po and not rely on Washington or·any idea to wash the ·weapon at the Yesterday, Salas' father Anto thathisclientpulledagun'strigger. miiitary museum Wednesday. Two days later China started to test beach. porters. lice general, said he found noth missiles in two locations near Taiwan in an attempt to influence the other foreign governments to help nio, also testified for the govern Camachowaschar,gedwirhmur Despite the policy banning homo ing wrong with gay police offic upcoming election in Taiwan. (AP Photo) resolve the Taiwan Straits crisis.". Adriano, son of Antonio G. ment corroborating Adriano's derintheseconddegree.lhreeCOWU5 sexuals from military service, some ers "coming out of the closet" Adriano, director for the Depart statements that Camacho and his ofassaultwithadangerousweapon, have managed to join, he said, but provided the~ wear proper uni ment of Public Safety Bureau of son had an argument in his house. and illegal possessionofafirearm,for most of those have been forced to fom1s while on duty. Report: Rugby captain confessed Motor Vehicle, confessed it was Antonio,aformercongressman, killing Jeffrey A Omar and wound National Police Director-Gen his father who taught him how to said Camacho got angry upon ing three other persons. eral Recaredo Sarmiento subse clean the gun. learning that his son reported the ~~? quently said that gays are not to having an affair with Diana The younger Adriano admitted matter to the police. barred from joining the force. LONDON (AP) - Retiring En had an extra-marital affair with that prior to the shooting, Antonio said he interrupted Support for gay rights also has gland rugby captain Will Carling her ex-riding instructor James Camacho went to his house in them and told Camacho he was been increasing, with people in in a showdown confession to his Hewitt, said in a statement re Navy Hill and borrowed his .22- the one who gave authority to his many sectors saying that being wife Julia said he had a love affair leased through a spokeswoman cal. automatic rifle. son to tell the truth to police. RSM gay is not a hindrance to effi with Princess Diana last year, ac Monday night after the Daily The purpose of cleaning was to "I then told Alvin (Camacho) PRINTERS ciency. cording to a news report Tuesday. Mirror began printing: "The prin make it appear that the gun was to go and never come back to our not used. house again," he said. 7-~t A number of people consid The London tabloid the Daily cess feels that this is between Will ,_ ered gay are among notables in Adriano claimed that after dip Another government witness, Tel: .322-3043 Mirror said Mrs. Carling, a TV and Julia Carling." r Congress and in the government 'l ping the gun into the ocean he Paul T. Ogumoro, a former police Fax: 322-5.305 show hostess and public relations Mrs. Carling said in a statement bureaucracy. consultant, told a friend of hers issued through her attorney Mon then destroyed and threw the 30- officer, said Adriano surrendered about his confession and the friend day night: "It is understood that round clip. Afterwards, the rifle the gun to him on June 13. told the Daily Mirror. revelations are based on informa was washed with a chemical. Ogumoro explained that a gun It did not identify the friend. tion provided by an unknown third That night (June 1 I), the wit- shot residue test was conducted Carling, 30, has said in the past party. on Camacho and Salas to deter only that he and Diana became "She is very distressed that al ...... mine if any of them fired gun. friends after meeting at the Lon leged intimate details of her and Ogumoro said the results of the don gym where they work out. He Mr. Carling's private life should Princess Diana test from a crime laboratory in Texas came last August. Alvin A. Camacho was photographed last year visit appear in print in this way." have been, though." \,, .. ing Diana's Kensington Palace The British national news Mrs. Carling in an interview home. Diana has said nothing agency Press Association quoted Tuesday in the social and fashion about their relationship. an unidentified friend of Carling magazine The Tatler said her Tenorio, Gutierrez guest The Daily Mirror said Mrs. as saying Monday night that marriage started collapsing when Carling, 31, told her friend: "I Carling didn't want to comment news broke of Carling and Diana. on 'Jon Anderson Live' couldn't stand what he had done on the Daily Mirror report. "It is the worstnightmareforone's TONIGHTonJonAndersonLive, like you'd really missed some to me and, in particular, I couldn't Earlier Monday, Carling was marriage to crumble so publicly," an answer to the question "What thing. stomach the deception and lies." quoted as saying in an interview it quoted her as saying. happened???" These words came However it appears both sides are Still quoting the friend, it said in the TV and radio listings maga Earlier this year, the watchdog i ... out of more than a few mouths ready to patch things up. Gutierrez that of Diana, Mrs. Carling added:. ·~ zine Radio Times that stubborn Press Complaints Commission after newspaper headlines spoke plans to meet with Tenorio today and "It would be easy to say she's ness made him continue what he rejected a complaint by Mrs. of possible "feud between the both will talk about it on tonight' sJon ruined my marriage. But it takes referred to as his friendship with Carling that newspapers invaded governors of Saipan and Guam. Anderson Live. two to tango." Diana. her privacy. An objection by Guam over the Join Jon as he invites both Four-door and • Power Siering Carling and his wife separated "If I'm really honest about the Jt said she had encouraged cov CNMI undersea fiber optic link Tenorio and Gutierrez to talk a whole lot more ... • AM/FM Cassette Player about their disagreement over the • Dual Air Bags in September after 1 l /4 years of whole thing, and without making erage by some papers to publicize project prompted Governor • Beaut~ul Colors marriage. The Daily Mirror said a big deal out of it, it was my herself. Tenorio to call for a halt to any NMJ fiber optic project. They also SI0,.888 • Air Conditioning Tuesday they are to divorce. stubbornness," the magazine Carling, England captain for and all cooperative efforts be will be talking .about what steps ...... Diana, 34, agreed on Feb. 28 to quoted him as saying. "It wasn't eight years, will quit after tween the two governments. have been taken to normalize re adivorcefrom 47-year-old Prince very clever. Part of me thought; Saturday's match against Ireland The response by Guam Speaker lations between the two islands, c;:.,~lii¢: Charles. They formally separated 'Why can't I just be her friend?' I in the Five Nations tournament. Don Parkinson was equally as as wen as each other.your phone in December 1992. thought: 'Why in hell should I be He said his decision to relinquish harsh. Reading about his willing calls and questions are encour Ellf/~ TRIPLE J MOTORS Diana, who admitted in a BBC told how to live my life?" the captaincy has nothing to do ness to wage a "war" against aged for this edition of Jon Ander ~~ A DIVISION Of TRIPI.£ J SA!PAN, INC Gocr.oi. !looct, ~'ll£.1133 • OQCr"ll(Q'IQQ. lloaa:l'IR'ooc 234-33» TV interview last year that she He added ruefully, "I suppose I with his personal life. 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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5 Hocog slams Parkinson SENATOR Eusebio A. ifocog, about war and continue to (D-Rota) criticized Speaker work together with our broth Don Parkinson in a speech ers and sisters in the Marianas " during Monday's Senate Ses he said. ' IF '(ou \.iC~lNG- i\.\A1 VIOLENCE sion, accusing the Guam Leg The Rota senator stood firm in 'Jl'a m.law YouR 1-!EAO 15 ~0\NG; TO EX~l.OOE, islature fro trying to escalate his support of Governor Tenorio by: John DelRosario s~LAiTERING; Yo\JR MIJS\-\Y SAA\NS an already volatiie situation. saying "it is important to have the ALL oVER MY NICE, CU:,C..N CARPE1 · The Rota Senator was espe fiber optic project move foward More on Wage Debate cially offended by Parkinson's without any outside intervention". IN considering public policy as complex as the rninirnwn wage issue, it is important declaration of "war" on the He also applauded the concilia for policy makers to secure and review factual and thorough analysis of social and CNMI. tory stance of Guam Governor economic data so vital in reaching an informed and responsible decision. He said, "The bombs of Guiterrez. The very essence of formulating policy issues based on pertinent thorough analysis World War II are now rusting Hocog said, ''I think the Governor of factual information is to eliminate, as much as possible, any adverse impact upon memories. Even the icy of Guam comprehends the impor idealogies of the cold war have the intended constituency. tance of this project and I am confi melted into a new world or The legislature has established the Wage and Salary Review Board to study and dent that he will do his best to resolve der. Yet here we have an indi the sitllali.on without any further con submit its findings and recommendations on the wage issue. It follows that it must vidual who wants to start a flict". Eusebio A. Hocog await the submission of the WSRB which should contain appropriate information it war between two islands who needs to review so it arrives at a well reasoned and responsible decision. After all, the share a common goals." "It's NMI is simply following a method used by the US Government in formulating its a notion that truly boggles the own wage policy and the policies for the US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, US mind. Just think about it. The Virgin Islands and American Samoa 'ljellow .1landkerchie Chamorro people have lived Again, logic dictates that as difficult and complex an issue as the current debate on together for centuries in rela Family Restaurant wages, we cannot forego the impending worlc of the WSRB in that we would have tive peace, yet here we are in perpetuated the dangerous though usual ad hoc basis that policy questions have been the year 1996 declaring war Special Lunch Chinese Style decide.cl upon our side of the pacific. We seem to be dealing with this issue on a on each other," said Hocog in reactionary basis when reasoned analysis offers a more lasting decision. rrin JACK ANDERSON and MICHAEL BINSTEIN a press statement yesterday. s Bento for $4.50 Interesting that most people agree that there should be an increase in the minimum g: Includes: Rice,Soup & Iced Tea wage, but no one knows with reasonable certainty how much is a good and Hocog went on to empha .::al size that both the CNMI and responsible hourly wage or what the local economy can sustain. It goes to illustrate WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Chinese Guam stand to lose a great the dire need to secure and analyze the latest social and economic data before an deal by refusing to cooperate Filipino educated and responsible decision is reached and translated into public policy. Public with each other. Food policy must be done this way. We must decide our own JXJlicy lest this fantasy Republican-s looking to finish off Democrats He said, "The current prob becomes our worst nightmare. lem is simply an economic We also serve I've researched the basis of the thirty cent annual increase as spelled out under WASHINGTON- Few can forget how coldly potent issues cutting in their favor, such as the and concisely former Joint Chiefs Chairman recession and Social Security. reality that must be dealt with Special Lunch for $3.50 pertinent public law. It is obvious that it was never founded on thoroughly analyzed r through communicat.ion and empirical social and economic information. It is more a magical figure pulled out of Colin Powell promised to crush the Iraqi army: The reason, says Cook, is that the Democrats I We're also serving dinner at reasonable price "First we're going to cut it off- and then we're "didn't have a full team on the field." mediation. Our islands are a hat, labeled and defined by advocates of comparable federal wage as a "CNMI l bound to have competing eco Open: Monday to Saturday Commitment". I get "don't know shrugs" whenever I quiz who made the going to kill it." This time around the Democrats not only lack Castro allows executor I nomic interests; that is the ·;:. 11 :OOam to 2:00 m • 5:00 m to 10:00 m commitment anyway and was it in fact a commitment. Now Republicans are refining a corollary for a full team but they have cause to fret over the a different battlefield: political control of the fate of their leaders. Republican officials, who to act on Mafnas case nature of the beast," he said. Indeed, I can appreciate the mounting pressure local policy makers must endure According to Hocog both is House of Representatives. One of the Republi have money to burn, have decided to target By Ferdie de la Torre Anatahan last May 21, killing the on an issue no one seem to know the basis of (magical thirty cent increa<;e annually) land neighbors should never can lieutenants recently summed up the battle high-profile Democrats, even those whom they Variety News Staff late vice speaker. between here and \V ashington. I hope that the baselessness of this magical figure isn't let these conflicts overshadow plan this way: have only a slim chance of defeating. Accord THE SUPERIOR Court allowed Hillblom and pilot Robert long the reason that we seem to be riding kamekaze style towards the edge of a cliff. That common interests. "First we beat them (House Democrats), and ing to one GOP source, the Republican National yesterday Larry Lee Hillbiom' s also died in the crash. someone says we should increase wages certainly sounds good, but the you should "If we are truly committed then we take away their staffs, their money and Campaign Committee goal is to "nail them estate executor Bank of Saipan to Prior to the suspension, the ex ask yourself whether it is a responsible decision. to raising the standard of liv the lobbyist . " (Democratic leaders) down and keep them at respond to a pending case filed by ecutor authorized Carlsmith to file For instance, any increase in wages would trigger what's known as the "bump ing on our islands, we will effect". In other words, an increase is a must for those now earning the proposed Republicans are looking beyond the mere home.... Maybe you don't beat them, but you the heirs of the late House Vice a motion for partial summary stop all this nonsensical talk minimum wage when their subordinates instantly begin making the same amount preservation of their majority status to a longer make them crazy. Then we're free to cherry Speaker Jesus P. Mafnas. judgment in the Mafnas case. You would have to increase their salaryies over and above the new minimum wage term effort to uproot the vestiges of the Demo pick other For example, Republicans believe Presiding Judge Alexandro C. The suspension issued last Feb. to ensure equity in the years they have worked to reach that level. It is also important cratic power base. That means winning elec they were the ultimate victor in last year's bitter Castro lifted the suspension of the 29 prevents the firm from talcing to find out how many employees now are on the border line---eaming proposed tions, but also entails a more subterranean set Massachusetts Senate race between incumbent executor but only for the purpose any action on behalf of the estate. wage-will be affected and what will its impact be upon the small business of changes. Democrat Edward Kenn~dy and political nov of permitting. executor to allow Since the lower court has not ice Mitt Romney. Kennedy won the election, community here. The 'favor-doing staffs," as this Republican Carlsmith law firm to appear on appointed a special administra dubbed them, are not only the intellectual but only after a difficult and expensive fight that behalf of Hillblom's estate at a ut The Industry Wage being envisioned is perh!!Ps the most equitable alternative in tor of the estate, Castro said theresol ution ofthis rathercomplicated ii gsaw puzzle. It would encompass the desire nucleus of the House but they are also situated diverted valuable Democratic resources. One hearing set for March 15 i11 the the court may appoint counsel to increase wages on a tiered basis ba<;ed on fully analyzed factual social and economic to dispense favors and collect hefty campaign Republican says the Kennedy race became a CNMI District Court. to appear and to argue on be information for management, supervisory and rank and file employees in both contributions. But this year, Republicans have "sponge" for Democratic money, which helped Castro said the court finds it half of the estate. sectors. It would also save marginal industries from permanent closure. built a 3-to-I fundraising ad vantage over the the Republicans gain ground in races that were most efficient to authorize Last week, the judge also Certainly, some may hold the view that an across the board increase in wages is Democrats. Term-limits may have been part of less high-profile. Carlsmith in the interest of conti lifted the suspension of the goodfortheeconomy. Asfragi]easislandeconomiesareknownfor,theCNMiisn't the "Contract With America," but the talk of Republicans make no secret of who their tar nuity an!I the preservation of re executor but only to allow it exempted from this Jong held view, therefore, it cannot afford toying around with the the Republican cloakroom centers on long gets are this year: House Minority Leader Rich sources and e'state assets. to respond opposition of case closure of any ofits light industries. For instance, the closure ofthe garment industry term Job-sernrity. ard Gephardt D-Mo., Minority Whip Davi Denying the executor's motion pending before the Supreme brings into focus an important issue: Would the other industries here, i.e .• tourism be If Republicans can focus on the size as op Boni or, D-Mich., Democratic Caucus Chair Vic for reconsideration of the court's Court. able to absorb those who would be displaced by such closure? Would the surviving posed to the survival of their 236-197 majority, Fazio, D-Calif., and Rep. Martin Frost, D-Texas, suspension order, Castro, how Castro also appointed a Cali industries make-up for the revenue loss? Remember. someone would have to pa,y for it's largely because they are winning the all who heads the Democrats' Congressional Cam ever, emphasized that the execu fornia-based law firm to rep significant losses in revenue and I seriously doubted that more taxes is the ultimate important ground war: Fundraising, recruit paign Committee. Fazio and Frost hail from tor remains suspended. resent the executor in a law ment and retirements. very competitive districts and would have tough answer either. Mafnas' heirs sued the estate suit in California and investi If it seems like all you do is pay bill after bill, and wonder how you'\\ Furthermore, we would have seen the domino effect such a closure would inflict "Democrats have a lot more retirements (23) races even without the GOP pressure. seekiong damages caused by the gate a third paternity claim in on other businesses which were established to service the garment industry, i.e., than Republicans (12) have," explains political The Republican attack on Bonior is as much seaplane crash in the vicinity of the Philippines. ~ver be able to cover all your expenses, it's time to get your shipping both air and sea, airlines who came into the CNMI to deal with the lucrative sage Charles Cook. "The Democratic open seats personal as it is political. One month after the finances together and pay one bill instead of six! cargo business; insurance companies; local grocery stores both large and small, are a lot more vulnerable to Republican pick I 994 Republican rout, Bonier began a carpet among others. It doesn't make any good business sense staying in business when ups than the Republican open seats are, and bc,mbing attack against House Speaker Newt Hopwood 8th graders losses rather than profits become the daily norm. It means bankruptcy and closing Republicans have one of the best recruiting Gingrich, calling for an outside investigation DEBT CONSOLIDATION your doors permanently. classes they've had in a 10I)_$ time versus the into ethical allegations. Bonier recently got his You can consoliJAPAN'S Golf Digest magazine Tomokane said that more would Digest' s pro golf instructor. "LEAVE us alone!" Elwood Mott Jr. persona non grata message to union organizers that union and anti-labor policies and responsible for processing work brought over its golf tournament to have participated had there been air Tomokane described the golfers, Thus said House floor leader Rep. intheCNMI. they cannot promise workers in practices of the CNMI govern permits of contract employees," Saipan,makingtheNorthernMarianas line seats available. who left Sunday, as the kind oftour Pete Reyes, addressing the Cali- . "I wish they'd stop interfering in definite stay in the Common ment." MacDonald told "you are the first among all Micronesian desti 'They hope to bring 200 (golfers) ists--high-spending-thattheCNMI Padilla, fomia union that declared mem ourownaffairs," Reyes said. "They wealth." "As an international representa aware ofcomplaints about the pre nations, including Guam. to host the next year," Tomokane said. wants. "This kind of visitors I would bers of the CNMI Legislature per can't tell us what to do:• As this developed, Hawaii's tive of the AFL-CIO, I am as prestigiouseventheldinLaoLaoBay She credited MVB's official ad call them the high rollers as well vailing anti-worker climate particu sonae non gratae in Alameda To stress his sentiment against Hotel Employees and Restaurant GolfResort last Friday. agency in Japan, I & S Corp., particu (since) this kind of visitors tend to tounded by the clear-cut violations larly since the plurality ofall CNMI County. unions, Reyes said he would rec Employees Local 5 continues to ''We're very honored in thatSaipan larly under the leadership of Ms. spend a lot of money-they pay the ../( of basic workers rights which are workers are from the Philippines/' "We don't have any business in ommend that the proposal to im was chosen although they have other Naoko Asai, account supervisor, for golfer's fee (more than $100), they get support from international la condoned by elected CNMI lead The CNMI government, that place, anyway. Why would we pose a four-year limit to a nonresi destinations on the list because they bringing over the tourney here. like to stay in good hotels, eat good bor unions. ership," the labor group's program MacDonald added, "ignoresorcir go there," an irked Reyes said "And dent worker's stay in the Com have great admiration for our many Professional golfer Shimon meals. It's good forour economy." The Asian-American Free La coordinator Lyn MacDonald said cumvents US labor law it has a they are not even a legislative body monwealth be further reduced to beautiful courses; they like our Takamatsu conducted a golf clinic in Past Golf Digest tournament sites bor ;Institute called the attention of in a Jetter to CNMI' s liaison officer responsibility to !1Phold." to be taken seriously" two years. weather,notbeingveryhot,''Marianas the afternoon. include England and Australia. It The Central Labor Council of The House floor leader said he Visitors Bureau Managing Director It was Takamatsu's first travel to was the first time it was held in Alameda County in California would seek the recall of the four AniciaQ. Tomokanetoldthe Variety. Saipan. Micronesia, according to Asai. passed a resolution on Jan. 29 con year limit bill filed by Rep. Ana GRAND HANDSHAKE. Grand prize winner Kakuji Hirasawa is con '"The event would give us great "Mr. Takamatsu has expressed to During the awards night, every demning what it called the CNMI Teregeyo and introduce his own me that he's fallen in love with our toummane participant got a prize. !1'atulated by Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio while First Lady Grace approv exposure value in that the 35th anni ingly looks on. Legislature's anti-union activities. proposal. versary (i= of Golf Digest) will place. He loves the course and he's The grand prize winner was Mr. The council's move was in reac- "I think we must do something to feab.lremany arliclesaboutlhisevent,'' encouraged to come at least twice a Kakuji Hirasawa, who got a total Hirasawa, 60, said in an interview the '96MarianasGolfTournament, 111i\111il!ii1illi1,alt'F;;;fdia J;t/;+~ii1i ..·...... •.... •.· ...... •. Ngirilcllitiff Pie~ guilty fo• iitfoll bffi~fsgf<#riffikBiWiifli tion to the House of curtail our problems with overstay- Tomokane added. year," Tomokane said score of7 l. He received a trophy and thathehadbeenplayinggolfformore he felt the same as when he won the most a 29-inch television set the ~.·.·.·····A·.•.·.. 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C1~r1n er . t Orf.tune - "' yyµ environmental awareness ...... , yUl.U .s~rye. ?.· ..·.in·.···· J. ail.·.···>.::.·•·····.•...... ) ...·.· .•..•...•.. /.\.·• .. \ ..· ... ·. ·> y~~tigaJip* S~09/CO i tl#t The scores were counted according Saipan. own real-estate company in To By Rick Alberto he had gathered lots of them._ to the New Peria style. ·••n·.).·.··.•·eA.·•.·m·.·.···.§a•.s.•PP .•an·.c. i;ls···.···e·t ... ne..••ten..... • ..·.·.J.)c·.··.l··."'.d ... " g.·.·.u· .. ·.e.··.···c>hMe;{f .. ·e·u.le1··g·l i •••••..·J?t!flfl-F?.~Fr~t\Cfjhr••a~· •... ~~Y.~.~$.cf;.llis~Ifde.ndfo. Hirasawa said that in winning kyo. Variety News Staff He decided to acquire a surplus = lill ment ·.·. > > .· .... ·.· ... move outfroni the house in BAGS and bags of empty soda can crusher and started buying p,!gimsl#}~lJ§Q.O~y~\jmpris~i ; (;ourtj~fo~tionshQ\\'e.dt~t. r Susµpi;, L i>·· i/· .. ii··<.• ...· ..•••. \ ·•··· Na.waz :Khalid in ihe head with a .. ·shev.,ouldgothefoUowinglllOm; Continued from page 1 and several! y S I00,000 to each of pay for their past and future medical Sanitation Service, orCSS, in San CSS the fourth company doing \ }-i~irttsjµt;l}"iJ;S S~')l'~~d v.iif;ll·...... !QC).(fpi.119.;tpmµ:enf reasons. ing;··· At this··~ncture, Saavedra Vicente. the same business on Saipiln. lion insurance for them despite its them as d;unages for their "pain and expenses. ijsaliltr,:!th~~ge.r()Jl1,V,1~~;· >. M~!UJ,',YhiJe,iin .j:)01~ i:eP9rts··· .··.·.• ..· ..· .• bstrucan······. ··ak .. ·····.her •. h.ea1 with his right pcrforn1ing in_ line with These cans have been collected Cruz says that his c·ompany is ·······Ngitii.cbit~J; ®"OU@ q)l.ln:,yl two men were•.•·arrested Jorias- ·. promise to obtain it. They asked an suffering": another SI 00.000 in puni The defendants have been given from homes serviced by CSS, a not only after profit. undetennined amount for this failure. tive damages (against Yin Star Corp. 20 days to answer the complaint .. ~~# <;11iis~phed •~nter,99 ~ J.>l§t •••··••····•• ~#),µ~ii;~~ wi£.i~itirf ~~ptl11lt.! · ·.'Jddi{ h~ •th~ ClthJr hanctwaii trash-collection service firm, as ''I'm so concerned also protect Y.our fii1ancial objectives?. . · well as turned over by other people ing the environment. I, would like ·•t:i~:1art1•~$ffSt~i. •••·•·•·•••·~!Kt!dtyr:1i1f1·•SJtaj~ ·•••·•·•::;:~.•·•·i~i••••t~~I~!;~·. Hong Kong Entertainment Oversea, purchase of two high speed v~ and schools who are paid 20 cents to help get the community to know Qe#JGgl:lv¥J-4\g2st112> t· •·········•·•··· + {}{#pifu9gs $arety litfQPl}a~ ·.•.• ••·vl9y# ~tT~:Y?T?W~ttt··· .. . Come to a free seminar and learn how the Floating ... Investment Ltd. and CNMI Touring which it plans to use to transport cus for every pound. the importance of recycling, why and Entertainment. Inc. were given li tomers between Saipan and Tmian. Merrill Lynch Consults fl Service can help you. Continued from page 1 CSS operations manager Eric they must recycle," he told the censes after paying $500,000 each in The vessels, which are being ac Cruz said the company started Variety. Although theCommis.sionrcsponded license fees yesterday. quired fromaNOIWegiancompanyata At Merrill Lynch, we understand that you feel an enormous buying empty cans late in 1995 He said schools should encour to Yoshiya's request late last year, itha, Both companies. duly-registered to cost of $6 million, are expected to be ..-1:-~~~ SAIPAN responsibility for the attention your investment portfolio receives. yet to receive any formal submission do business in the CNMI,are proposing delivered soon. when it branched out into the re age their students to recycle. .. Attention you can't often give. That's why we created the Merrill from the company. to build 300-room hotels worth $80 to 'The thing about the two new cycling business. While recycling "is one of the 'We are still awaiting word from the $100 million each. licensees, they have both proposed These cans are crushed by a toughest and dirtiest businesses," Lynch Consults• service for businesses and individuals who want a 'The two licensees are both very not to open and start operating their company," said Palmer. machine that form them into rect he said, "it's a good thing recy Choose from a variety of trustworthy way to choose an investment manager who will seek to sophisticated business organizations," casinos until their hotels have been Seafood Buffet Meanwhile, the Commission yester angular slabs which shippeq to cling has been thought of." local and international seafoods provide maximum returns ~thin acceptable risk and investment day issued two casino licenses for de said Palmer. 'They have the capacity built," said Palmer. Hong Kong and Japan for recy Without recycling, "we all de The Tinian gaming initiative pro including fresh sashimi, pra\'.11 tempura. velopers planning to build casino hotels and the intention to pwsue their respec cling. stroy this planet," he added. constraints.• tive projecL,." vides that casino operations could oysters. giant crabs .... and more! on Tinian. Cruz said he got the idea of CSS has so far shipped about Seven Nights At this seminar, we'll discuss the other benefits of this new According to Palmer, one of the de only be conducted within the pre- Garden fresh salads and According to Palmer, contr.uy to branching out into the recycling seven 13-toncontainersofcrushed service and the quarterly measurement reports that help you earlier reports, the licen-;e., were given velopers, CNMI Touring and Enter mises of a hotel having at least 300- mouthwatering desserts also await you to two distinct casino developers. tainment, has already contracted the rooms. business while helping out as trash cans abroad. monitor your portfolio's perfonnance in relation to your specific collector in the family firm, which Business-wise, Cruz says that a Week at Kili Cafe and Terrace. financial goals and objectives. was founded by his grandfather in the shipping rates are rather high added. say it is in? Or are they enjoying it so Only $24.00 for adults. The: seminar is free, bur seating is limited. For more inform the '50s and inherited by his fa and could kill the business. He Torres ... Benavente pointed out that the well that they want to buildmorefacto Children aged twelve and Legislature's earlier move to defer the ries here on the island? ther, Jacinto. said they only ship out the cans at ation or to reserve your scat, call us at the: number below. Because Continued from page 1 / under are half price. January 1996 wage hike wa, borne out "We definite! ywill be doing our part He said he collected the cans during the peak-price season in Merrill Lynch has more ways to make your financial plan work than business. of concern that the gannent industry to stop that increase in the number of sorted out from the trash that they order to make profits. Otherwise, Those are the three sectors that are any other finn. might benegati vely impacted with such factories and to bring back the quota on collected from client homes and when the price is low, they just On Fridays. For just two being said to be the ones to be impacted an increase. the number of workers in the industry," dumped in the Puerto Rico area. stockpile the blocks of crushed dollars extra. you can enjoy negatively, he said. The difference is Merrill Lynch. However, he said he now doubl, the he said. Daily, he said, he put aside a cans awaiting good price quota the Seafood Buffet with all the "A=rding to Mr. Torres, the profit •eertain minimum asset levels are required. validity of such an observation owing As for the three-tiered proposal, margin for gannent factories is actually pack of c'ans and sold them when tions. Budweiser Family of Beers you to the emergence of more investors Benavente said he hasn't discussed it very low and that they would not be can drink at Buds Brew's 'n' BBQ's. wanting to engage in the garment busi with the leadership butthatheis almost able to sustain the planned increase. I ness. sure to oppose an increase for the gar find that hard to believe when we have Search for Liberation "My position on the garment indus ment industry that is lower than 30 Seafood Buffet anadditional 12newfactories that want DATE: Monday, March 18th try is strong. Is really in a stage they cents. at Kili Cafe and Terrace todobusinessintheisland,''thespeaker it TIME: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 o.m.. Day Queen ''96 launched is open nightly from PLA.CE: Hyatt Regency Saipan while serious problems were likely "It's a good gesture on the part of THE 1996 Queen's committee is girls who is willing or would like 6:00 p.m. - l0:00 p.m. OR Legislative .. • to rise from interdependence, "it is Gov. Gutierrez," Reyes said. "'That soliciting candidates from 16-24 to be part of this event, please call or contact Miss Mina Ada at 234- DATE: Tuesday, March 19th Continued from page 1 always wise for us as leaders to do gesture demonstrates maturity." years of age, for the 1996 Libera TIME: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. our utmost to always solve these Reyes last week filed a resolu tion Day Queen Competition. With 6208 or 234-6280, Saipan PLACE: Onward Agana Hotel islands stemmed from Guam Tele issues on the basis of mutual coop tion extending apology to Guam the help of the community in each Mayor's Office. or Maggie phone Authority's objection to the eration." governmentforTenorio'sremarks village, We would like to asked Duenas at the Municipal Council GUEST CNMI' s fiber optic cable project. Mutual cooperation had always against the CNMI' s sister island. from each and everyone who are Telephone #235-7303. SPEAKER: Michac:IJ. Dougherty, Resident Vice President The GST's move had prorapte:1 broughtsuccessindealingwithprob "It was Gov. Tenorio who cw active in each village to help us in If you are also, one in the com Nicholas Appkgatc: Tenorio to cut off the lems, Sablan and Benavente said. ated this problem when he opened the competition for this year's munity who is willing to assist the Commonwealth's cooperation with "From Compact Impact aid, his mouth without engaging his event. candidates from each village make SPEAKERS: 1Mry Fracr.ak, Resident Manager and Guam seeking exemptions from federal mind," Reyes said. This year's goal is to see that this a successful one, please con Joseph Stoll, Senior Financial Consultant The government of Guam has at customs and quarantine fees, to each village are involve in making tact the above. Both of Merrill Lynch Private Client Group least found a sure ally in the CNMI' s building a strong regional telecom this liberation festivities a suc Your participation in this event RSVP: Mclanieat477-9518 legislative leaders who said they rec munications network, we can move Lottery... cessful one. will be a very meaningful one in ognized the interdependence of the mountains when we work to Continued from page 1 If you are one of this beautiful this year's event. two islands. gether," the legislative leaders said, "This important fact that we are all adding that they look forward "to quarteroffiscal year 1996; the$4,737 dependent on one another demon strengthening our valued relation commissionfromfromon-liregames; Merrill Lynch strates our COITUllOn Marianas Com ship in the future." and the interest income of $1,527. Peleliu Assn meeting ~ "As a result, DOFrevenuerecords A tradition of trust. mwtity of mutual iuterests," Sablan Meanwhile, Rep. Pete Reyes THE Peleliu Association ofCNMI March 16th at 3:00 p.m.-Carolin lauded Gutierrez decision to come were understated by $16,014," the and Benavente wrote. will be holding it~ Monthly Mem ian Utt in Garapan. All members 0 tm Mtrrill Lrn,di. Pktc.c., Ftnnc:r !'i Smid. lncorporuo:d M.-.1:,a 5IPC. report said They told Guam leaders that and meet with Tenorio. (MCM) are urged to attend. ..••. ,•."/'.. J 't., f bership Meeting this Saturday, 8-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- MARCH 13 • 1996 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-9 2 expatriate lawyers 'undesirable' House lack for judges a problem THE Vanuatu government has de fromAustraliabytheformercoali country's Chief Justice, Charles havedirectinvolvementin actions .. parliament staff. LACK of housing for Papua New claredtwoexpatriatelawyers inPort tiongoverrum1tleaders,Serge Vohor VaudinD'Imecowt She says Mr. De Robillard led a Ms.Samsaysthegovemmentsees Provincial Magistrate Luther Wenge. understanding, saying most of their there is no housing available in the city Guinea District Court magistrates is The Post Courier says he made the should be providing houses. Vila undesirable immigrants, Radio and Father Walter Lini, to represent Ms.Samsaysitistheviewofthe delegation of the former govern such action as a direct interference by cases had had to be deferred because for them. He says most accused people He says Chief Magistrate Ranu causing serious problems and in ring comment while addressing members LaeDistrictCourthasonlyfourmagis Vanuatu.reports. The first secretary them in theircaseagainsttheelectioil govemmentthatlawyerscandefend ment to the premises of the parlia thelawyersinthepoliticsandintemal ing on the constitutional rights of ac awaiting court hearings are either out Kidu and Chief Justice Sir Arnold of the public gathered outside the Lae trates, when it is supposed to have IO. on bail or roting away inBuimoJailor in the ministry of foreign affairs, ofMaxirneCarlotKorman as Prime theirclientsincourt-buttheycannot ment to give orders and harass affairsofVanuatu .... Pacnews cused persons, according to LaeSenior Arnet have been infonned of the courts. He appealed for patience and Mr. Wege says the reason is that the police cells. situation. Mr Wenge told the people Yvette Sam, saysthecouncil ofmin Minister. 'Ihatcasewaslost The magistrate says this is denying he was making them aware of the isters has endorsed a government Mr. Bibi had been brought to them,their constitutional right to have situation so that they won't get irri decisiontodeclareRogerDeRobillani VanuatubythepreviousVohorgov their cases heard within a reasonable tated or annoyed and start assault andJeanOaudeBibi undesirable. emmentto serve as a judge. It had Top Malaysian businesses Head of union faction says time. Mr Wengesays he really doesn't ing magistrates, court staff or po Mr. De Robillard was brought in beenintendedthathewouldassistthe know which department is responsible lice because of delays in their for providing housing for magistrates, cases., .. Pacnews · · but in any event, it is the State which . Financial woes for hostel invited to invest in hotels group's expulsion not valid 10PMalaysianbusinesseshavebeen his delegation visited business asso expanding middle classes in Japan THE head of the breakaway fac are null and void. He says they pel Mr. Andeng and his group of invited by PapuaNew Guinea prime ciates, contacts and potential clienls andlndia.Hesaysthepeopleofthose tion of Vanuatu' s Union of Mod have no effect on the solidarity of six MPs and seven island execu Transport lack in. PNG time. erate Parties, transport minister THE.Kiribatisearnen'shostel,apopu minister, Sir Julius Chan to invest in lo strengthen and explore coopera countrieswillhavetotravelabroadto his group, nor the status of regional tives. UMP secretary-general Petre larspol for local and international sea Mr.Karouaalsosaysthehostelcon Amos Andeng, says the decisions executives or general support for Malsungai, says an application has tinues to benefitfmancially from the a proposedsel offive-star hotels. Sir tive efforts between them. easeholidaycongestionintheircoun- affects medical supply farers,isfacingafinancial and manage made at the extra-ordinary con the UMP in the islands. been filed with the court for an Seamen's Union, butitis not fulfilling Julius gave the verbal invitation to a Sir Juliusaskedlhem tolookatthe tries. . IN Papua New Guinea's Southern themalaria-hitareas, becausethereis ment problem, and one of the three gress of the UMP in Luganville to Mr. Andeng says the calling of injunction banning Mr. Andeng' s nustees, the Kiribati Seamen's Union is itsobligations,oneofwhichistopro ,group of the republic's 10 top bigpictureanduseforestiy andagri Sir iulius says the proposed hotels Highlands province, health authori no transport. expel his group, and dissolve seven the meeting was made outside the group from using the name UMP. threateningtopullout Theothertrust videmora! support for the seamen. business leaders duringaninfonnal cultureasa baseloexpandintoother would tie in with the air services tiesare facingproblems gettingmedi He says blood samples taken TheKiribatiProtestantchurchmod regional committees are not valid, party constitution. He says the He says this will mean the group ees are the Protestant and Catholic courtesycallonhimathisparliamen investment opportunities. He agreement wilh Malaysia, for both cal supplies to malaria affected areas from the Kagua area show people churches, Radio Kiribati reports. erator, Reverend Teetaloran, who also Radio Vanuatu reports. Luganville congress was just an will have to stop using the em taryoffice, thePost-Courierreports. menlioned a proposed air services countriestoexploit,especiallyintour duetolackoftransport,NBCreports. are affected by malaria, but there ThesecretaryoftheSeamen' sUnion, chairs the KiribatiN ational Council of Mr. Andeng says the resolutions other blow to the solidarity and blem of the party, the siogan, flag churches,saysanewboardofdirectors The businessmen were among a agreement to befinalizedattheendof ism. ThePrimeMinisterhasmadeit Malariaoutbreakshavebeenreported are no reports of deaths. Mr Anda Bureneita Karoua, says the hostel has of the Luganville congress meet unity of the UMP. and any other UMP has been established, and one of its group of23 accompanying Malay themonthasoneofthekeyareaslo plaininrecentmonlhslhathe~ts in several districts. stresses that the disease has an overdraft with theBankofKiribati ing are unfounded, and therefore The meeting has decided to ex- property .... Pacnews andowesaprivatecompanythousands immediate tasks is to look into the sian Primary Industry minister Dr explore. another major airline operating m A medical patrol team has only occured in those parts of South of dollars for bar stocks. He says the present management of the .Lian Keng Y aikona three-day visit Hesaysthisisahugeareafor_both PNG to provide competition to Air been able to visit a few areas to give ern Highlands which were not hostel...Pacnews hostelhasnotbeenaud;tedforalong toPNG. WhileinPNG,Dr. Yaikand countries to explore in view of the Niugini .... Pacnews · medicine and take blood sarriples part of the spraying control Cancellation of women's from affected people. Provincial dis programme, which had to be ease control officer, Thomas Anda, phased out in 1987 due to lack of IRC officials says the team cannot visit the rest of funds .... Pacnews intercede for march harshly criticized THE mayor ofLabasa, in Fiji, has International Women'sDayonFri rum has members of all races, and Meteorological in"(o lack 12hostages bitterly criticised the cancellation day. Charan Jeath Singh, whei is it has organised multi-cultural . ,Q ' INTERNATIONAL Red Cross of a march through the city to mark also an MP, says the ciincellation programmes and exhibitions. He SHIPPING owners, yacht clubs and TheNationalDisasterOfficewamed raises the question of whether Fiji officials have returned to the In guestions the role of the the general public in Vanuatu have people living near rivers to move to is still under a military government, government's Ministry of Women, donesian province of Irian Jaya, expressed concern about a lack of higher ground to avoid being .P' ·Ji··-~ the Daily Post reports. and asks if this is a move to divide precisemeteorologic:al infonnation on flooded. But private weather ob carrying a letter calling for the f Police alert TheLabasa Women' s,Forum had the two races and create tension in the strength of a depression which servers claim that what hit Efate \ release of 12 hostages being held ' applied to the District Officer for a society. ~ ~-r--. .. moved through the southern and cen and the southern islands were winds by Melanesian separatist letters. on at Goroka permit for the march, which it has Mr Singh says if any tension has :~- tral regions of the country over the reaching 60 knots. The letter is from Moses IN Papua New Guinea, Police are on held for the past six years. But the been created in Labasa among the fullalertatGorokainresponseto threats weekend. While there were no reports of Werror, thechairmanoftheRevo day before the march, the District women, it is all because of the Min I to destroy property belonging to the Officer advised them it had been istry of Women. He says a clear The warning from the local weather casual ties and no Joss of ships, the lutionary Council of the Free West Coffee Industry Corporation, the Post cancelled, to avoid what he called explanation is owed to the people office said the depression would have roofs of some houses in Efate were Papua Movement, or OPM, Ra Courierreports. Eastern Highlands pro "confrontation and possible of Fiji as to the real motive for the gusts blowing at 25 to 35 knots with blown off and Radio Vanuatu re dio Australia reports. vincial police commander Steven dispruption of peace." cancellation Or the rough seas in open waters, RNZI re ported extensive losses to garden Mr. Werror gave the letter to Toully says rumours are reaching his Mr Singh says the Women's Fo- march .... Pacnews ports. crops in the islands. the officials from the International office that coffee growers are very angry about the CIC dcision to grant committee of the Red Cross after one grower a $US 18.7 million out.of two days of negotiations in the court settlement Papua New Guinea capital, Port He says the rumours indicate there Bank of Hawaii's and Deloitte & Touche's Moresby. are plans to sabotage some of the Yes, The letter tells the OPM mem corporation's operations, or destroy upcoming seminar for small businesses is a two-day I'll attend "Financial Management for the bers holding 12 hostages that they some of its property. The CIC board, working session where you can learn and practice the Small Business." have achieved their aim of bring which was facing a SUS $3 million Location: Saipan: 0 Aqua Resort Club ing international attention to the claim from Panga Coffee, decided to principles March 21-22, 1996 settle out of court, in spite of a legal OPM's separatist struggle. opinion that the matter was best carried behind 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.rn. It says the hostages, who in out through the courts. Guam: 0 Guam Hilton Hotel clude six European scientists, But the PNG govenunent says the every March 18·-19, 1996 has no authority to pay out such a ' should be set free. The hostages ac successful ,.I 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. have been held in a jungle area of large amount under the public finances I I (March 1- early registration deadline) act The govenunent says it will not I central Lrian Jaya for more than company. I approve the huge settlement, and has I [ J Enclosed is my check for $375 payable to two months. The ICRC oficials askedfordetailedinfonnationsunuund I were expected to fly into the jungle I Bank of Hawaii ($55 early registration ing the decfsion. Minister of Fmance, Learn about: discount). ($300 w reviCll'lpasc participams.) by helicopter to personally hand ChrisHaiveta,saystheCICisagazetted over the letter calling for their public company, with powers to spend II Why companies fail [ J Please charge my: [ ]Visa" [ ]MasterCard'' release ...... Pacnews only up to $US 37 thousand after his approval ... .Pacnews II Proper cash budgeting & planning strategies Acco11JJtNr1mbcr ------ Flossehits • Accurate financial forecasting Expirnrion Dme ------• Building a quality service culture Signmure ------Greenpeace j a How to finance your own business N1m1c ______TIIEFrenchPolynesianpresident, I ~ l4Jij~ij~ij\ ~,~i~~J jij Gaston Flosse, has lashed out at I 11 Tit/,.------I ·-*~~1~~,r9~0l);~~YWY~u~ This bank-endorsed course is taught by F. David the environmental group, Greenpeace, whichhascalledon Hale of Business and Banking Institute. For further Cumpa,ry ------him to stop the construction of a information call Herb Flores at (670) 322-4200 for Ad1lre_u ------controversial hotel on the outskirts ofPapeete.InalettertoGreenpex:e Saipan or Rayanne Rabe at (671) 477-9781 for Guam. Cin··------in London, Mr. Flosse says After all, your businesses' success is at stake. l.Jji ____ Plum,·( Polynesians condemn such bla_ tant interference in the territory's I•·•••·u111e···•l'r~i#~•·e?~~···~w~pa~er. FAX this coupon. bring it to any Bank of Hawaii Pairere #1 privateaffairs,RNZireports, · f~p~ l.eW1~ MI~>'./pg.·-~~:ll~ branch or mail it to: ®TOYOTA He says he fails to understand Saipan: Guam: ~~~p~gplt:grlnkgavaxr(Vanuatu how Greenpeace can call on him ···an.~it'.spn¢oflher~?nswhythe Bank of Hawaii Bank of Hawaii to stop the private Meridian Hotel ¢§~has n<:lh~vydrugprob• Deloitte& Garapan Branch Community Relations Microl Corporation from being built, which will create lem, He says kav,a ti~s tobe ge>od ToucheLLP P.O. Box 566 P.O. Box BH 1,000 temporary jobs, and once ~.~lll,t: unlike drug abusers \VhO ---0 Ba nit of Hawaii Saipan. CNMI 96950 Agana. Guam 96910 San Jose completed offer 400 t#come t9111 }','.llt:n .tl)ey·.take too MEMBER FDIC THE BANK OF THE PACJFIC"' Fax: (670) 322-4210 Fax: (671) 477-9496 positions, .... Pacnews ••much; kava10-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-MARCH 13, 1996 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11 US-owned copper mine attacked in New Guinea Satellite capsule returns to Earth JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) the mine. COLORADO SPRJNGS, Colo Command here. worse, smash into an inhabited The capsule is the last of the capsule appeared on radar to be - A U .S.-owned copper mine "They attacked the workers' rado (AP) - A 2-ton ( 1.8 metric As expected, the Space Com area. satellite's eight components to 1.5 square meters, a size large in New Guinea closed tempo ton) capsule from a Chinese spy mess, broke some windows,'' mand lost track of the capsule The Space Command has been remain in orbit. enough that it had a chance to rarily Monday after a week satellite most likely splashed into said the officer, who spoke on after it was about SO miles (85 tracking the FSW-1 imaging sat The main satellite, a rocket body survive re-entry. Smaller objects the Atlantic Ocean if it survived end attack by 200 members of condition of anonymity. kilometers) above Earth and sci ellite since its launch Oct. 8, 1993. and five pieces of debris returned usually bum up when entering the re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, a tribe who smashed windows Nearby buildings and manage entists weren't sure whether it The Space Command's track to Earth within the established atmosphere. the Air Force said. burned up. and damaged a cafeteria. ment offices also were dam ing equipment is pointed at space timeline of less than a month of Aviation Week had predicted The capsule had been tumbling The Jakarta newspaper aged. "If it survived re-entry, it to look for incoming missiles, so the launch. that the satellite would smash to out of control at 17,000 mph Kompas said the attack Sun The officer said some ar should have impacted in the it had no way of knowing for sure The capsule, which weighs Earth virtually intact because it day was prompted by a car (27,357 kilometers) when it re rests were made, but declined mid-southern Atlantic," Knox where the capsule landed after 4,000 pounds ( 1.8 metric tons), has a heat shield designed to pro entered the atmosphere just after accident near the mine that to elaborate. said. penetrating the atmosphere. was carrying a diamond-encrusted tect its cameras and film. was incorrectly reported to 11 p.m. EST late Monday above The mine shut down early Officials had said all along "Unless somebody finds a piece button commemorating Mao Tse On the other hand, Maj. Steve the ocean, said Dave Knox, a have killed a pedestrian. The Monday "as a precautionary there was not much chance that ofit, there'snowaytoknowwhere tung 's 100th birthday and a 24- Boylan said, it is difficult to pre spokesman for the U.S. Space mine would not say whether measure" and was to reopen the satellite would hit land, or it hit," Knox: said. karatgold mold for printing U.S. dict what condition the capsule the driver was a mine em Tuesday, said Paul Murphy, a banknotes, according to a report might be in after spending 30times ployee. vice president of Freeport in last year by China's Xinmin longer in space than it was sup The mine, owned by Jakarta. Okinawa governor says US Evening News. posed to. Freeport McMoran Copper Freeport Indonesia is a subsid The report said the items were "There are too many variables," and Gold Inc., also is the tar iary of Freeport-McMoran Cop among souvenirs put aboard the he said. get of complaints by environ per and Gold Co. Inc., which re satellite in hopes the space trip In 1994, 96 objects a square mentalists and its neighbors, cently signed a contract with the bases increasing crime risk would increase their value. meter or larger re-entered the at who say it has dumped tox:ic Indonesian government to expand Barbara Cannon, center, mother of Marine Pfc. Kendrick Ledet, of Waycross, Ga., talks to reporters after her TOKYO (AP) - Okinawa's guing Monday that avoiding dis quoted him as telling the court. The satellite had been designed mosphere, withmostofthemland waste in rivers and damaged its operations in New Guinea. son received a sentence of six years and six months imprisonment at Naha district Court in Naha on Okinawa, governor told a court Monday criminatory policies should have Before the three-hour session, to re-enter Earth's atmosphere ing in oceans, the space center Japan, Thursday. Leget is one of three U.S. servicemen convicted in the rape of an Okinawan girl. Man at the surrounding forest. The U.S. government's Over that his people face an in priority. more than 500 people lined up over China with the activation of said. So far this year, 11 objects The attack was carried out by seas Private Investment Corp. left in U.S. lawyer Michael Griffith. (AP Photo) ,, creased risk of crime from "Of course the U.S.-Japan Se outside the court for the 38 seats a solid propellant motor located have reentered, all of them over members of the Menok tribe, canceled Freeport's $100 million U.S. bases on the island, and curity Treaty is important, but to allotted to the general public. Af below the capsule. But while ocean areas. an army officer told The As political risk insurance policy that forcing them to accept the tell Okinawans that therefore they terward, several dozen demon seven pieces of the satellite fell to The space conunand said 11 sociated Press by telephone last month because of envi Coinpetition, sluITip make for \ bases is discrimination. are the only ones who must en strators outside the court raised Earth, the capsule went into a ground-based radars worldwide from the town of Timika near ronmental concerns. r Gov. Masahide Ota was in dure this situation strikes me as banners and shouted slogans sup higher orbit. had tracked the capsule, which had court because Japan's central being discriminatory," NHK porting Ota. The Space Command said the orbited Earth every 88 minutes. leaner corporate life in Japan government has sued him, de i manding that he carry out his By KOZO MIZOGUCHI changed Toyota's approach said newspaper company,. is intro assigned duty to force REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ducing an annual salary system TOKYO (AP)-Ex:perience may Koki Konishi, assistant manager Okinawan landowners to re be the best teacher, but for Japa of the company's International for its 100 senior staff writers The Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) is so new leases for the American nese company workers squeezed Public Relations Division. starting next month. Under the liciting proposals for the procurement of one (l) bases, some of which ex:pire by tougher competition and a "We feel we need to act be new system, the reporters will I at the end of this month. JUJT TOJJ OUT new tractor (models built from 1995 and up) for slumping economy, it may not fore it's too late," he said. have three-year contracts and f Ota is refusing, and wants all agricultural use with 2300/2500 RPM, 70-80 Gross Konishi said the difference negotiate their salary yearly. necessary mean better pay. the bases removed. HP 6070 HP on PTO, two-wheel drive with the In an attempt to deal with the between the lowest and highest The contracts can be extended "Seventy-five percent of the tire size 16. 9 x 24 x 8 reply rear; 7.50 x 16 x 6 front, tougher times, an increasing salaries among the company's based on performance. \ (land used for) U.S. military bases number of Japanese companies department heads will widen by The moves have government power steering, dual stage clutch, hydraulic in Japan is concentrated in are replacing their traditional up to 7 million yen ($67,000) a backing. On Friday (March 8), THE REMOTE!!! system, diesel fueL 12 volt system with a\\ addi Okinawa," he noted. Kyodo seniority system with ones em year under the new system, an advisory group to the Minis tional standard equipment and transmission of News quoted him as saying the phasizing job performance, es which was implemented in Janu try of International Trade and eight forvvard and four speed reserve with slid burden of the bases "should be pecially for their higher-level ary. Industry urged companies to TWO RWOAJg TD KffPIT DAI XMC:.11.., shared equally by all of the Japa ing collars and helical gears industrial yellow managers. The new evaluation system review their wage systems in nese people." color, four cylinders, 450 RPM PTO. Please in "It is the natural direction at applies to 4,819 workers in the race to stay competitive. His testimony at the Fukuoka All Tl-II~ WffK 'I clude in your proposal the cost, insurance, and big companies to set an managerial positions. That is Most Japanese companies pay High Court's branch in Naha, the freight (CIF) to West Tinian Airport. employee's wages based on per about 7 percent of Toyota's to their workers according to a Okinawan capital, came four days formance," said Toshio tal workforce of?0,000, Konishi scale on which wages rise auto TONICiHT! THURSDAY! after a three-judge panel there Kimura, an industrial economist said. matically with age. The entire Proposals must be submitted to the Common found three U.S. servicemen at Osaka City University. Mitsubishi Electric Corp., a scale is generally raised each wealth Ports Authority, Office of the Executive guilty of raping a 12-year-old One of the companies leading major electronics maker, is also year after labor-management Director, P.O. Box l 055, Saipan International Air schoolgirl on Okinawa last Sep WHO RULES the way into the more competi considering broadening a per negotiations. tember. They were sentenced to GOVERNOR port, on or before March 29, at l OAM at which tive workplace is Toyota Motor formance-based wage system But faced with a slumping THE prison terms ranging from 6 1/2 time the proposal(s) will be publicly opened and Corp., Japan's largest now applied only to manage economy, now in fifth year in TENORIO to 7 years. read. The CPA reserves the right to reject any automaker, which until recently ment-level personnel to include Japan and the deepest recession COURT IN __, Since the rape, record num AND had a reputation for conserva all 48,000 employees, said since Wt>rld War II, companies and all proposals pursuant to Section 3.2 (7) of bers of Okinawans have ral SAIPAN tive management. spokesman Wakasaburo Kondo. have been forced to unload ex GOVERNOR CPA's Procurement Rules and Regulations, lied against the heavy U.S. International competition has Asahi Shimbun, a leading pensive employees who may not military prese.nce in Okinawa, GUTIERREZ AMATEUR ___ be contributing to the bottom line. 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) Matsushita Electric Industrial MEET ON BASKETBALL? southwest of Tokyo. Co., Japan's largest electronics Ota argued that the bases do TONIGHT'S TOYOTA WHEELS maker, will ease out some of its not enforce adequate discipline. vs highly paid managers in their He told the court that thousands FT/SNE IRE BLOW UT 50s with incentives starting in of crimes have been committed April, the company said recently. by Americans on the island since CASH & CARRY PRICES Career progress in most Japa it was occupied at the end ofWorld Lite LIVE! , SIZE PRICE . nese companies has been based War II, according to public broad traditionally on the time of ser 155R12 ...... $27.95 caster NHK, but did not supply vice. Few employees change to a 185/70R14 ...... $55.95 Japanese crime figures for com 13asketball rival company in mid-career. The parison. II 185/60R14 ...... $57.95 so-called "lifetime employment'' The governor has said the bases, ()layoffs! 195/60R 15 ...... $64.95 system is credited with contribut ee 235/75R 15 ...... $77.95 which take up about one-fifth of Coverage brought to you in part by: Coverage brought to you in part by: ing to Japan's rapid economic the island, impair Okinawa's eco Mariana Resort, GMHP, and Saipan Ice & Water Miller & Miller Lite, and IT&E TRUCK SPECIALS growth since the end of World nomic development and are one Limited Quantity War II. 235/85R16 ...... $89.95 of the main reasons it remains But the system is now threat Japan's poorest region. The is 900X20...... $199.95 ened by slow growth and the rise land group accounts for less than THE GEST IN N 15 ~IGHT HE~E ON of the yen, which hurts ex:port I percent ofJ apan' s total area. MARIANAS 1 • ..., ...... ,. oriented industries such as elec In a previous session, lawyers :... .- n•w tronics and automakers. for the central government ar ~ \~~~~,~ Despite the lingering recession, CABLEVISION ..... gued that there is a public in iirii~-!§l!J! • • a...urlia V.,, • wages are still rising. They rose terest in maintaining the Ja an average 2. 7 percent, or last "MC.117 pan-U.S. security alliance and localed al Triple J Motors, Bea1h Rd., Garapan year, after rising 3.0 percent in the U.S. military presence on \.l~I 1994, 3. 7 percent in 1993 and 5.1 YOUR CHANNEL Call Tel. 234·7133 Okinawa. Open Mon•Sat: 7:30am•5:30pm percent in 1992, according to the Labor Ministry. But NHK quoted Ota as ar- 12-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- MARCH 13 , 1996 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996 -MARIAN AS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-13 Business/Trade ~5- Strike idles more GM plants Big letdown for gold inve tors By JAMES HANNAH There were indications that talks David Healy, a financial analyst that point," Healy said. plants. Anotherllofroughly200 DAYTON, Ohio(AP)-A week-old with the United Auto Workers had with the New York-based Bwnham GM spokesman Tom Klipstine in GM parts plants in Nonh America By CHET CURRIER claimed that a "breakout" had oc of disappointments it has dealt the vicissitudes of inflation, cur gold bu!Jion in 1871 would actually strike at two General Motors Corp. stalled. No progress was reported Securities, said GM could lose dlrs subwban Detroit, would not com have been affected, with some work NEW YORK (AP) - On the curred. out to its devoted band of follow rency fluctuations, and political have fallen in value by today, after brake factories is strangling the over the weekend and no new talks 250 million a week if all of its 29 car ment on a report in the local newspa ers being sent home but production charts that track the ups and But a few weeks later, gold has ers over the past 15 years. and economic uncertainty. adjusting for infiation and storage world's largest automaker, closing werescheduled,GMspokesmanJirn and truck assembly plants in Nonh per, The Oakland Press, that virtually continuing.Ina11,about55,000work- · downs of the financial markets, fallen back to the low-to-mid Even at its recent high of around But gold has performed poorly costs. In real tenns. that 187 l dollar nearly half the company's North Hagedon said. Local 6% President America are idled. The automaker all of GM' s North American assem ers have been idled by the strike. the jump in gold prices that caused $390s, and now hovers once again $4 I 6 an ouncc:, gold was still down - both in absolute terms and by would now be worth just 80 cents.'' America assembly plants and idling Joe Hasenjagersaid the strike "could earned dlrs 6.9 billion in 1995. bly plants may have to close by The Delphi Chassis workers struck such a stir in the early weeks of within the narrow range where it more than 50 percent from the comparison to the paper invest By contrast, according to Market thousands of workers. be a long one." ''It just gradually cascades up to Wednesday if the strike continues. over safety and job security ismies. 1996 is starting to look more like has fluctuated for most of this peak of about $875 it reached in ments traded in the bond and stock Logic, Sl invested in stcx:k..s in 1871 Investors appeared to shrug offthe The plants supply brake systems and a molehill than a mountain. decade. early 1980 at the height of an markets. would have grown to $22,270,com effects of the strike Monday, boost parts to nearly all of GM' s assembly When the price of gold climbed Perhaps the gold market will inflationary frenzy on Wall Street. If you look at all of modern fi pounding at an average rnte of 8.3 ingGM'sstockbydlrs l.75ashareto plants. above $400 a troy ounce to its spring back to life again soon. But Many times since, analysts have nancial history. says investment percent a year. A dollar invested in dlrs56.621-2ontheNewYorkStock The major issue in the dispute is highest level in more than a year for the present, it has simply added argued eloquently for gold as a adviser Norman Fosback, the same Treasury bills grew to $9.38. NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) • Iflraq doesresume sales, it will and a half, many analysts pro- letter wrotf of}l0,000 barrels a rels atday; the newsletter Dayton on March 5, GM has been Tinian Job Vacancies day in New York. day inlran' s output, the news- noted, .. . i forcedtoshutdown 14NorthAmeri Stocks end I The West Tinian Airport o1 the Commonwealth Ports can assembly plants and six parts l Authority is looking for applicants for the 1o\\owing po higher, as· sitions: One (1) General Maintenance PUBLIC NOTICE i dollar mixed One (1) Weather Observer COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT • DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND NATURAL RESOURCES in Tokyo \ One (1) Security Officer 2ND FLOOR, MORGEN BUILDING, SAIPAN The minimum qualifications of a Security Officer is COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 96950 TOKYO (AP)- Tokyo stock prices TEL. 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Peres notesArafat progress NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India for the federally controlled state gov rebels had proposed talks without ference for failing to unify the many India's governing Congress By KARIN LAUB Izzedine al-Qassam,had still not been for 12 hours Monday morning to has accepted an offer by four well ernment in Kashmir, agreed: 'Ths demanding that Pakistani officials guerrilla groups, who sometimes Party also faces a general elec JERUSALEM (AP)- Palestinian caught allow Palestinians to stock up on known Kasluniri separatists for Wl would be the first formal talks with take part in them, a condition that battle one another, or achieve any tion in the next few months, leader Yasser Arafat has made "We demand that all of them be supplies. Peres has said he would conditional talks aimed at ending the high-ranking government officials India would not accept. thing. and Cha van may see proposed progress in his campaign against the arrested, not because we want to in not remove the banicades arolUld the The four rebels, who are no Chavan has often been known peace talks in Jammu-Kash insurgency in Kashmir, officials said and Kashmir:i militants since the in Muslim group Hamas, but several tervene in what he is doing, but be communities unless Arafat's forces Tue._<;day. surrection began," he said longer involved in the fighting or to propose breakthroughs in mir as a way of winning Mus militant leaders are still at large, Is causewewanttobecertainthatthose catch I 3 Hamas leaders on Israel's No date or venue has been set for Dozens ofmilitant groups are fight hold senior posts in their guerrilla Jammu-Kashmir, such as local lim votes. raeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres dangerous people will not have a free most-wanted list Arafat said nine out the talks, but they could begin next ingforindependenceinJammu-Kash said Monday. Arafat complained week, after the cwrent session of mir, the only state in mostly Hindu hand,'' Peres told reporters. ofthe 13arealreadyindetention. that a blanket 16-day closure that bars Parliament, and involve top adminis India with a Muslim majority. AmongthefugitivesisMohammed Col. Hussein Sheik, a senior Pales Palestinians from entering Israel has trators from New Delhi. Some are supported by Islamic Iran opposition claints cops Deif, commander of Izzedine al tinian police commander, said Mon pushed the Gaza Strip to the brink of The two officials acknowledged Pakistan. India and Pakistan have Qassam. Hamas is responsible for day that his forces arrested dozens Ji starvation. "The bitterness begets that such talks may not amount to fought two wars over Kashmir, and it i.•., .. fourrecentsuicide bombings in Israel more suspected militants overnight, moresuicidebombers," Arafattold muchatfirst, because the fourguenil is divided between them by a cease killed 27 protesters in I~an that killed 62 people including the with the total of detainees now at lI Israeli peace activists. las proposed them after being driven fire line that both sides fire across. forces fired again, killing or bombers. morethan600. NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - The people gathered outside City Hall ~ Israeli and Palestinian security TheUnitedStateswantsArafatto out of 1heir militant groups. On Tuesday, K.R. Rao and wounding several demonstrators, r: He denied a report in Time Maga main Iranian opposition group and began shouting anti-govern forcesdetaineddozens moreHamas arrestalllzzedineal-Qassamleaders The offer also was quickly con Ramamohan Rao confinned that the Mujahedeen said without giv zine that five Hamassuicidebomber. said anti-riot police opened fire ment slogans. before Wednesday's international hadbeenhandedexplosivesbytheir demned by the Huniyat Conference, HomeMinisterS.B. Oiavanhadtold ing specifics. on a group of protesters in north When security forces inter Shimon Peres anti-terrorism summit in Egypt, the Yasser Arafat handlers and were ready to strike. a coolition of political and religious reporters in Nagpur, India, on SlUl Public discontent has been on the western Iran, killing 27 people vened, the demonstrators smashed Syria scoffs Israeli daily HaaretzsaidMonday. "I think that this is not true,'' said leaders in Kashmir. day, that the government was ready rise in Iran, where more than 50 and injuring 80. the windows of banks and gov activists in fresh raids overnight, and Arafat complained that the more Palestinian laborers age35 and older Nevertheless, theofficialssaidsuch for the talks proposed by the mili percent of the country's 60 million Sheik, whosemenarrestedthemas There was no independent con ernment buildings, the statement at Israelis' Israel briefly lifted a weeklong siege than 900,000 residents of the Gaza to return to their jobs in Israel. termindofthree ofthe last four blasts. talks could one day lead to a break tants, and that they and other rebels firmation of the report and Iran's people live in poverty, said. ofWestBanktownsandvillagesthat Strip were running out of meat, fish The government decided to let an Israeli troops raided the WestBank through in ending the six-year insur were informed state-controlled media made no In recent years, deteriorating social Mujahedeensaidsecurityforces call to shut confines Palestinians to their com andotherstaples. 'Tuscurfewhas additional 16,500foreignerscometo villageofHussanatdawnMonday. gency, which has killed 20,000 sol On Feb. 8, the talks were proposed mention of any protests. then opened fire on the crowd, and economic conditions have led to munities. brought the Gaza population to the Israel to replace Palestinians. Soldiers working off lists ofnames diers, militants or civilians since late in a joint statement by the four rebels: But the Iraq-based Mu jahedeen killing 27 and wounding 80. The street riots in many Iranian cities. Palestinian PeressaidMondaythatArafathas brink of starvation,'' Israeli peace Before the latest closure, imposed knocked on doors ofseveral homes, 1989. Bab bar Badr of the Muslim Janbaaz Khalq, or People' sHoly Warriors, angry mob killed two policemen, TheMujahedeenhasoftenreported mettwooutofthreeisraelidemand~ activist Uri Avneri quoted Arafat as Feb. 25, some 60,000 Palestinians and suspects were led away blind "Hopefully talks with these mili Force; Bilal Lodi of the Al Barq rebel said protests erupted Friday in the the statement said. accurate! y on these protests, though radical group -outlawing Muslim militant groups tellinghiminameetingSunday. worked in Israel, mainly in agricul foldedandhandcuffed. tants will eventually pave the way for group; Ghulam Mohiudin Lone, city ofBonab, in East Azerbaijan On Saturday, victims' relatives, its details have been exaggerated at and confiscating their weapons. As The Haaretz daily said Peres was ture and construction. In all, Israel arrested 29 Palestin resolving the deadlock in Kashmir," former deputy chief of the province. wearing shrouds to symbolize times. DAMASCUS,Syrla(AP)-Astate I. forthe third demand, he said, three of consideringeasingtheclosurewithin In the West Bank, Israel lifted its ians overnight in the WestBank, the K.R. Rao, the spokesman for India's Mujahideen; and Imran Rahi of the In a statement issued Monday their readiness to die, staged an runnewspaper Monday scoffed at sixleac:!~rsofHamas' rnilitarywing, two weeks by permitting married weeklongsiegeoftownsand villages armysaid. Home Ministty, said in an interview. Hizbul Mujahideen. in Paris, the group said 10,000 other protest march. Security Israeli Foreign Minister EhudBarak N. Ireland at for urging the Syrian government to close down the offices ofradical Pal crossroads, estinian groups in Damascus. This amounted to a request for says Clinton Syria to victimize Palestinians "whom Israelhasdisplacedfromtheirhome By RON FOURNIER land by force and intimidation," the ·Cong.ratulations NEW YORK (AP)- In a bitter dailyTishrin wrote. '· , . . , ' sweet talk about Northern Ire It said Palestinians sought sanctu land, President Clinton said Mon ary in Syria to await a Middle East day night the joyful memory of settlement that would include their his 1995 trip there is dampened right to return to their homeland. by"akeenawareness" ofrenewed A number of militant groups, in violence. cluding Hamas and Islamic Jihad, "The cease-fire has got to be have offices in Damascus. Hamas restored,'' implored Clinton, who has claimed responsibility fora series claims some Irish heritage. ·of suicide bombings since Feb. 25 Clinton made the remarks after thatkilled62 people including the accepting Irish America bombers. After the incidents, magazine's "Irish American of Isr'.ielsuspended peace negotiations the Year" award. .i withSyria "The people of Northern Ire In an interview broadcast Sunday TBank of France pilots to fly more Australia to cut federal spending By PIERRE-YVES GLASS Pilots have agreed to fly on aver- Air France pilots earn about spokeswoman Fabienne de fiscal year, it racked up $700 mil CANBERRA,Australia(AP)-The dollars) for 19%-97. over the next two years. governments, is likely to become will take to cutting spending on the Brebisson said. lion in losses. PARIS (AP)-To save theirbelea- age 623 hours this year, compared $1 I0,000 a year, making them new conservative government an- ''It should be cle.arly understood This committee, like others before popularly knownasthegovernment' s nation's roads, schools, hospitals and The accord. the first major one Although the pilots' agreement guered airline, Air France pilots to 542 hours in 1993, with no cor- among the world's highest paid. nounced plans for sharp cuts in fed- thatallfiguresareaproductofLabor's it under both conservative and Labor razorgangfortheruthlessapproachit other services. concluded with pilots since 1971, was reached smoothly, the com have agreed to work more for the responding raise. The agreement amounts to about eralspendingTuesday after it said the decisions,mismanagement and de- could be a lifesaver for Air France. pany has had less success with same pay. Both management and unions $800 less a month than if the pilots budget is heading for a big deficit in ceit,'' Costello said. Faced with the gradual deregula flight attendants, who have struck A new accord between pilot representing Air France's 2,295 were compensated at the existing the next fiscal year. But Treasury papers released tion of European airspace as man repeatedly in recent months, and unions and the state-owned com- pilots praised the accord, a rare rate for the additional hours, the Treasurer Peter Costello blamed with Costello's statement said the pany will allow France's flagship compromise in a country where National Union of Airline Pilots dated by European Union guidelines, ground personnel. the previous Labor government sharp reversal in Australia's fis- air carrier to cut its losses and in- long strikes are a frequent response said. the company is struggling to become On Monday, Air France ground both for a rapid deterioration in cal fortune has been produced creaseproductivity,AirFrancesaid when state companies try to cut- "The objective is to cut losses more competitive. workers called a 24-hour strike ·iip~ 1 Monday. back. and take off again," Air France Air France expects its deficit for Friday to protest company federal finances and for hiding mainly by a sudden slow down in .we. obv1ousl)' ie~iihaet for the 1995-1996 fiscal year to plans that the union fears will cut that problem during the recent the nation's economy. ····I)oy;nersaid> .\< ) .•• be $240 million. In the 1994-95 wages and prolong work hours. election campaign. Economic growth was close to •<·•··· t)91'(11e{ ~~id AtJ~tr~i1l b.ad He said treasury calculations 6 percent when the previous ·.. · ~alleil for~~~t(r<>w q~i11a French police officer hangs! made before the campaign forthe government's budget predictions .·. ~cl wo,~ld.l:I~ Illaking sinlil.ar. Ex-minister becomes 1st March 2 elections show that the US were made early last year. •J>Oi~ts to.Tai.\Van .•..· ... \i .....·.i····> .\/·• ... ·.······.·· ..· \self; 11th suicide this year I $26 billion (3.4 billion Australian It has now sunk to a little more 3 •.•.··.•.• .. •.•BeijingJa~9lled uµ~i~i~llt$/ i·• dollars)swplusthatthepreviousgov- percent, so the government's tax MONTBELIARD; France was the second officer to kill bard for those who face all I ombudsman for the EU emmentforecasthasevaporatedand collections will be much lower (AP) - A policeman, treated himself in the same precinct the evils of society because · By JEFFREY ULBRICH resort in the battle against the AustraliainsteadfacesadeficitofUS than expected and welfare pay- Eurocracy ,and will be handing down for depression hanged him- in 10 days. . he permanently · faces j STRASBOURG, France (AP) - $3.7 billion (4.9 billion Australian ments will be higher. Those frustrated with the European his first decisions sometime this self in his horn. e in eas•t.. e·r·n· .The·p. ol.ic·. eman. 'sun.. ion• F..•. a.sp death," .p. ois. n. ea.u told Fr. a.n·· c. e I Prime Minister John Howard France in the 11th police sui- urged more psychological Info radio. Union· s hiring practices or its exces spring. announced his government would cide to hit France since .. the counseHng>for officei-s, "so . "He con~tantly lives w.ith sive secrecy, or maybe even its occa "The niost important thing in this set up a special Cabinet commit work is to help people," said Maori head: first of the year, officials said. they santalk .aboutwhatthey p;in, with misery· fromunc sional slowness in paying bills, have tee to find ways of cutting federal Jean-Luc Cornette, a .42- see, what they encounter.'' ~lllployment,an.difw~/lOn't a new champion. Sodennan,amultilinguallawyerwho spending by almost US $3.1 billion IO Spitting on year-olddivorcedfather, was .·said·.represe.ntative Pascal .·giyehilllJ~e. Ill~!l,n.~)o e;.. His name is Jacob Soderman. served years in Finland's Parlia (4 billion Australian dollars) a year found bya friend on Sunday Poisneau. · ·•·· .... ····· . .··.·•···.. press l:iilll,Sfjf'iJfJl~t1fwtu- The 57-year-old former Fmnish ment afternoon, authqrities said on ... "Thepolisepi;ofession is iµ- ..... n!ltelycoineJQWh~tw.e saw justice minister took up his duties last For the moment, however, there queen's rep are limits to how much Soderman customary anonymity. He creasingly difficult and it's ··in Month~H~ci,L' ~t\.~!l,}Q/ ·· fall as the European Union's first i Ji ombudsman, a sort of court of last and his staff of 10 can do. 4 just alright Under his current mandate, he can j only consider complaints about the WHANGAREI, New Zealand activities of EU institutions. He has (AP)- Spitting on official dignitaries noauthoritytodeal withcasesinvolv such as Queen Eliz.abeth II' s repre ing national administrations. At least sentative is an acceptable form of not yet. Such complaints are referred Maori protest, a Maori leader said to national bodies for redress_ Tuesday. "A big problem, from amoral point The corrunent by Kingi Taurua, ofview,isthattheombudsmanshould chainnanoftheNgapuhi Maori coun supervise citizens' rights, but most of cil of elders, was in response to an these rights are on a national level," officialapologyfromnorthemMaoris Soderman said in an interview at his toGovemor-GeneralDameCatherine office in the European Parliament Tizard. complex here. At last year's Feb. 6 National Day Eventually ,he would like to widen celebration, Maoris insulted and spat the ombudsman's mandate but he upon Tizard in the presence of Prime thinks its too early talk expansion Minister Jim Bolger, climaxing a day now. of heated protest over govenunent "I think this has to be discussed. It's plans to settle Maori land grievances. a little disturbing that if you look at Embarrassed by the incident, a group citizens' rights, which is a great idea of elders led by Maori Council chair CoNGRATULATIONs & man Sir Graham Latimer, former ... obstacles are usually found on a national level, such as the right to race relations conciliator Hiwi Tauroa move and live where you want and Ngapuhi elder Graham Rankin, BEST WISHES TO "But being ombudsman only half a last month hand-delivered a formal year, it's not the time to stand up and written apology to Tuard expressing shout" ''their profound sadness.'' As of Dec. 31,298 complaints had The woman who spat on Tiz.ard been registered, of which 131 had was later convicted of assault and been analyzed_ Of those, 102 were served a three-month jail sentence for considered non-admissible. Fre spitting on the representative of the quently, thosepeoplewereadvisedto head of state. N~w Z.ealand, along see authorities elsewhere. In many with some other former British colo cases, the complainants had not ex nies, retains the British monarch as hausted all other avenues for solving head of state. their problem. However, the apology was criti In some admis.sible cases, a simple cized at a Maori council meeting at Motatau, in the Far North, over the . ,t: c, - )· letter was enough to gain satisfaction. ; ~~ -::::::---h rJiank of ~uam In one instance, the EU planned a weekend, with some elders claiming . t~,J~. it was signed by ''Maori govenunent ON THEIR conference, then called it off. A com ' . lackeys" who wanted to keep on pany working on logistics for the . ·'"-· conference complained it had not good terms with Bolger. been paid. Soderman wrote a letter. Taurua said he would now circu T/11· pn·mium I 00mm n11·1irlwl f'i,!!WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-21 20-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-MARCH 13, 1996 Ex-Defense chief faces murder raps Iran: US supporting terrorism ing in a bid to destabilize the anti the retired general entered the of the squad carried out the By GREG MYRE claims that Iran has links to in are,'' Rafsanjani told a news at odds since the 1979 revolu Meanwhile, the president said By DONNA BRYSON He said the attack on the home apartheid opposition. Thousands courtroom just before IO a.m. KwaMakutha attack. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Re ternational terrorism, including conference at his offices. "Ter tion that toppled the pro-West it was still too early to judge the DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - of anti-apartheid activist Victor of blacks died in a decade oflow (0800 GMT), flanked by body McNally declined to charge sponding to American criticism, the recent series of suicide rorism does not solve any prob ern shah and established a fun results of Friday's parliamen Former Defense Minister Magnus Ntuli in the KwaMakutha black level civil war between the ANC guards and lawyers. Inkatha leader Mangosuthu President Hashemi Rafsanjani bombings in Israel. lem." damentalist Shiite Muslim lead tary elections. Malan and 19 other defendants township killed women and chil and Inkatha for control of the tra He waved to the crowd. After Buthelezi when he indicted Malan on Monday accused the United Rafsanjani again denied any Ira However, the president did not ership Jed by clerics such as Election officials have an pleaded innocent Monday to dren. Photos from the scene to be ditional Zulu homeland. the mid-morning break, Malan and the others with murder, at States of supporting terrorism nian involvement in terrorism, answer directly when asked if Rafsanjani. nounced the winners in about charges they planned and carried presented as evidence would show McNally said Monday the court the brutality involved, McNally asked journalists unable to get tempted murder and conspiracy by funding groups trying to un and called on the United States he denounced the militant Pal He accused America of sup half of the 270 seats in the out a political massacre nine years papers showed Buthelezi's in said. into the cramped courtroom what to commit murder in December. porting terrorism, pointing to a Majlis, or parliament. ago. volvement, probably eliminating dermine his fundamentalist Is to produce proof supporting its estinian group Hamas, which "The sorry sight of crippled the score was in the South Africa The lnkatha leader is the main The election was largely a The case is the first "super trial·' the need to call the Inkatha lamic government. allegations. carried out the attacks in Israel. $20 million anti-Iran fund ap of the post-apartheid era, with bodies and evidence of the recov West Indies cricket World Cup black rival of President Nelson leader as a witness. But he said The long-running lran-U.S. "In principle, we condemn He reiterated previous gov proved by the U.S. Congress. battle between moderates who Malan and other former top mili ery of some 153 AK-47 cartridge quarterfinal in Pakistan. Mandela' s African National Con that could change as the trial feud has escalated recently with any form of terrorist action no ernment statements saying Iran U.S. officials have said pri support Rafsanjani's efforts to tary officials the most senior lead cases at the scene projects a sce Originally planned to start a gress and serves as Home Affairs revitalize the economy by cut progressed. the United States reasserting matter who the perpetrators has a political relationship with vately that the money won't be ers to appear in court so far. nario of indiscriminate firing at week earlier, the trial was post minister in Mandela's power Two of the defendants, Malan Hamas, but does not provide used for military action, but ting subsidies and state owner One by one, they stood and all of the occupants of the pre poned to give the seven defense sharing government. money or military support. Rafsanjani said he was sure the ship, and a more conservative and former army chief Kat identified themselves, acknowl mises, irrespective of the age or teams more time to study an addi In the court papers, McNally "We support them as far as their Americans "will give that grouping that opposes the short Liebenberg, have life-threaten Hezbollah chief admits edged they had seen the indict gender, by a group of people tional conspiracy charge filed by said the military training given national struggle is concerned. money to the groups fighting term hardship that likely will ing ailments, the Sunday Times ment and proclaimed themselves psyched up for the attack," he McNa\ly. the Inkatha members broke South This is it. No more," he said. against Iran. They are funding result. newspaper reported. It said Iran financing his group said. According to the indictment and African law. The United States regards Iran terrorism.'' Rafsanjani is All the candidates who com innocent. Six black defendants Malan contracted leukemia five of carrying out the 1987 McNally also rejected the likely supporting court papers, Malan Secret military documents ob BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-For which will be attended by U.S. as a dangerous, rogue state that seen as a moderate who has in peted were Islamic fundamen accused years ago, but the disease was attack that killed 13 people spoke defense of Malan and other former and other military leaders worked tained by prosecutors, possibly the first time, the leader of President Clinton and more assists numerous militant Is troduced limited economic re talists, and genuine government in remission. Liebenberg, who in their native Zulu while Malan military leaders - that they cannot with the Zulu nationalist Inkatha from former police and military Hezbollah acknowledged pub than 30 other world leaders, lamic groups. The Americans forms and has been gradually opponents were barred. appeared in court last week look answered in Afrikaans, the lan be held responsible for subsequent Freedom Party to set up a hit officials who will testify for the licly that Iran is financing his was called to bolster Israel are sure to raise their concerns opening up to the West. Rafsanjani described all the ing frail and wearing a neck guage of the Dutch-descended actions ofpeople they helped train. squad that operated in the tradi state, describe plans to help group, according to an inter following a wave of suicide Wednesday at an anti-terrorism Last year, his government different factions in the elec brace, has prostate cancer. white settlers of South Africa. "The owner of a vicious bull tional Zulu homeland. Buthelezi arm and train Inkatha view published Monday. bombings which killed 62 summit in Egypt, which will be signed a $ I billion agreement tions as "my friends,'' but ac Prosecutor Tim McNally, the dog who unleashes it on a crowd The South African military, members to spark fighting be "We don't hide Iranian sup people including the bombers. attended by U.S. President for the U.S. firm Conoco to de knowledged that he would need attorney general in KwaZulu-Na cannot be heard to lament the fact under the direction of Malan and tween Inkatha and supporters of port. There is no need to deny Hezbollah has hailed the Clinton. velop Iranian oil fields. the support of the legislature to tal province, called the case "a that it savages a young child," other de the African National Congress. Bouchard that we receive financial and bombings, which have been But the Iranian president dis However, the deal was move ahead with reforms. process of truth and justice" to McNally said. fondants, secretly trained 200 The ANC has long claimed that political support from Iran," claimed by the Palestinian missed the gathering as part of a blocked by Clinton, who subse "Naturally, if the Majlis eliminate" a comer of our history About 15 protesters outside the Inkatha fighters at a remote camp former apartheid governments appeals to said Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, militant Hamas group, as an "propaganda ploy'' by the quently imposed even tougher changes its orientation it can which has hitherto been dark and Durban Supreme Court shouted in neighboring Botswana, the in worked with Inkatha to promote secretary-general of the Shiite "act of heroic Jihad (holy war) United States. U.S. sanctions, which now bar have a very deep impact on our secret." "DownwithMalan,down" when dictment alleged. It said members black-on-black violence and fight- Muslim militant group. against occupation." The two countries have been all trade ties. economic policies," he said. minority "We are not shy and they (Iranians) are not afraid about MONTREAL (AP) - Quebec it,'' he said in an interview Premier Lucien Bouchard, trying with the London-based Ara to salve the wounds from last bic language weekly Al Wasat. year's independence campaign, Th. Management &. $+off ,of It was the first public ad 7 invited the province's minority mission of Iranian financial English-speakers Monday to work support by a senior leader of with his government on deter Hezbollah, or Party of God. mining the future of Quebec. Kingfisher Golf .1..il11tS" The group has vociferously "We have to create a new atmo denounced the planned sphere," Bouchardtoldabout400 counter-terrorism summit at invited members of Quebec's En Egypt's Red Sea resort of glish community. "Nothing en Sharm el-Sheik Wednesday. during can be built on misunder "Why doesn't one wonder standing.'' why the United States is pay Bouchard's address in the Cen ing 3 billion dollars to the Zi taur Theater, carried live on TV, onist entity, which is attack was his opportunity to outline his ing the entire region while government's position following condemnation is voiced over the narrow defeat of the sover Iran's financial support for eignty referendum last Oct. 30. Bouchard is the most prominent Hezbollah or any Islamic re sistance faction fighting to lib leader of the campaign for the erate its land?" Nasrallah mostly French-speaking province said. to secede from Canada. 1 ···· Hez boll ah guerrillas are But, Bo(Jchard said, 'Tm not fighting to oust the 1,200 Is here tonight to make promises.'' raeli soldiers and 2,500 Is Bouchard said the anglophones TJjank of
WEDNESDAY, MARCH -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-23 22-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-MARCH 13, 1996 13, 1996 - · · : China revises laws Honduran gov't to fire strikers TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras tiate with strikers." American Airlines and Conti Union officials said the gov three years for being irrespon (AP) -The Honduran govern Fifty-eight members of the nental Airlines temporarily ernment had sent about I 0 sible ... and that is one irre to protect citizens ment on Monday night threat suspended their flights to Hon military, retired, or fired con sponsibility more of the gov Association of Air Control ernment," charged union By ELAINE KURTENBACH innocent people should not be gation of embezzleme~t, b~ib- ened to fire air traffic control lers stopped working Monday duras from the United States, trollers to replace the strikers. BEIJING (AP) -China's leg prosecuted under the criminal ery, neglect of duty, v10lat1on lers whose strike has all but morning to demand a doubling Mexico and Central America. They said police and soldiers president Victor McLelan. islature on Tuesday debated law" and the "personal, demo- of human rights, such as "ex- paralyzed the nation's four of their dlrs 500 a month sal The Honduran lines Sosa, Car were guarding the control tow McLeJan said the control reforms that could, if en cratic and other rights of citi- torting confessions by torture, airports. ary. ibbean and La Costena were ers. lers presented their demands forced, better protect its citi zens should be protected," Gu retaliation, frame-ups, illegal "The government will not The controllers abandoned flying some schedules as were "The government has tried to the government last Oc zens from mistreatment by po Angran, director of the searches and other infringe- negotiate under pressure," the towers in the capital of the Salvadoran line T ACA and to replace us with a few con tober but received no re lice, prosecutors and courts. congress's Legislative Affairs ment of democratic rights" and said Communications Minis Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, the Costa Rican line LACS A. trollers they fired over the past sponse. Key changes would restrict Work Committee, told legis- other abuses of power by gov- ter Jeronimo Sandoval. "The La Ceiba and on the Atlantic police detentions to a maxi lators. ernment officials. government will never nego- resort island of Roatan. mum of 30 days, give defen Although current laws limit The draft law will help dants better access to their detentions and give citizens "build a clear and honest gov- lawyers, require that all con the right of redress, police, ernment," the official Xinhua CZohe Management & Staff of Moylan's Insurance victions be made through court prosecutors and courts com- News Agency said. trials and protect the rights of manly disregard them. But it also formalizes the congratulates citizens to complain and seek China's constitution, for ex- role of the state security agen- compensation for ill-treatment ample, provides for freedom cies in handling cases involv- by the police and other offi of speech, assembly and reli- ing espionage and other mat- cials. gion. But in practice, Chinese ters that endanger national On paper, the revisions of who exercise those rights can security. the Criminal Procedure Law face years of imprisonment. Such cases recently have presented to the National The congress, which largely been broadly defined to in- rubber-stamps decisions made elude peaceful dissent, such A campaign poster for the March 23 presidential election depicts People's Congress could be President Lee Ten!J-hui as a superman battling missiles from China, used to cut back on arbitrary by the Communist Party and° as that of dissident Wei hangs from a buildmg in Taipei. China started a week missile tests in detentions, unfair trials and State Council, is expected to Jingsheng, now serving a 14- water off Taiwan as part of a campaign to intimidate the island and warn other common human rights approve the proposals. year sentence for seeking to against moves for independence. The no. 2 in the post refers to the abuses. The revisions are The revisions proposed overthrow the government. group number under which Lee and his running mate Lien Chan is intended to "guarantee that Tuesday also call for investi- Other changes would: Taank of@uam contesting presidential elections. (AP Photo) -Prohibit prosecutors from granting exceptions from pros ecution. on their -Give an equal role to the prosecution and defense in court trials. I Dialogue on 24th Anniversary! human rights Fuel shortages lead to okay, but no MOYLAN'S INSURANCE power cuts in Far East UNDERWRITERS INC. confrontation, ears+ VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) ity for only about 12 hours per day. 'THE HOME OF THE GOOD GUYS AND GALS' Qian pleads - Authorities in Russia's Far East Angry people wentoutintothestreets I97I - I996 ------ have have cut off power to nearly several times, stopping traffic to pro Twenty-Five Years of Trusted Services BEIJING (AP) -Chinese For all factories in the region because te& the blackouts. Tel.: 234-2490 eign Minister Qian Qichen said of fuel shortages, an official said But power plants have run out of Monday that China is willing to Monday. money to pay for fuel, and the re discuss its human rights record Only vital facilities and com gional authorities decided to switch with Western nations but won't panies such as utilities, bread and off power to industries in order to put up with confrontation. dairy factories and public trans supply homes. The United States and Euro ~ankof®uam port will be exempt from the mea The situation was caused by two pean governments are likely to sure, which will last at least an financial factors, Belchuk said back a resolution condemning other week, said Vladimir The federal government owes the China before the U.N. Human Belchuk, the head of the regional region about one trillion rubles ($200 Rights Commission in Geneva Emergency Situations Commis million) in coal and fuel subsidies, at its annual session next week. sion. which go to cover the difference in Qian predicted that the reso "It is a forced measure intended the high cost of coal. lution would fail as it has every to soften the impact of power Many local companiesarenotpay year for the past five years. Last shortages on the people,'' Belchuk ing their electricity and fuel bills, year's attempt fell short by one told a news conference in sending power companies into even vote. Vladivostok, located about 6,400 ki deeper financial hole. In the past year, China has lometers (4,000 miles) east of Mos Belchuksaidcompanies which will rearrested the few dissidents not Congratulations & Best Wishes to cow. fail to demonstrate they can pay off in custody and sentenced de Forseveralweeks,apartmentbuild their electricity debts will be perma mocracy campaigner Wei ings in the city have received electric- nently cut off. Jlwnniversary Jingsheng to 14 years in prison. It also has been accused of con J}jank of Lithuania celebrates 6 The Local Bank. The Peoples' Bank. state-run institutions. The U.S. State Department, years of independence - in its annual report on human January 1991, Soviet troops rights, last week called China's VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Lithuanians celebrated the entered Vilnius in an effort record nightmarish. sixth anniversary of their to crush independence. More on their 21th fear Jnnirersary! The foreign minister said declaration of independence than a dozen people were China welcomed President from the Soviet Union, with killed and hundreds wounded Clinton's suggestion of a hu joyous church services and in the Kremlin's attack. From the Management & Staff of------ man rights dialogue last fall and festivities throughout the Lithuania, which was forc already has held several rounds M.S. Villagomez Incorporated dba country Monday. ibly incorporated into the So of discussions with members of The Lithuanian parlia viet Union along with Esto the European Union. PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY ment, on March 11, 1990, nia and Latvia in 1940, fi "It is meaningless to try to CONSTRUCTION COMPANY voted in favor of indepen nally won independence fol adopt a resolution on an issue ALUMINUM RECYCLING CENTER dence and declared the So lowing the failed coup like human rights at an interna MINI-MART viet constitution invalid on against former Soviet leader tional meeting," Qian said at a P.O. Box 7, Chalan Kanoa, Saipan, MP 96950 • Tel. (670) 234·7723 • Fax (670) 234-9773 news conference. Lithuanian territory. Mikhail Gorbachev in Au Less than, a year. Jatet .. in .. gust 1991. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-25 24-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- MARCH 13, 1996 DEADLINE: 12:00 noon the day prior to publication ROTTWIELERS , ', -- ·,: . . ', ~cfft{arianas GVarietr~ NOTE: If some reasonyouradverttsementlslncorrect. catl~lmmedlate~ FOR SALE Motorcyclist dies to make 1ne necessary correctioris. The Mananas Varle1y News and WANTED BARTENDER AKC REGISTERED Views Is responsible only for one Incorrect lnser11on. We reserve 1ne right 11 WEEKS OLD Classified Ads Section· to edt refuse. reject or cancel any ad at any time. Male or Female CALL: 234-9807 in movie stunt By ROBERT MACY kph) when he reached the start of lhe Employment Wanted 01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Sal 01 MERCHANDISE DISTRIBUTOR 02 DRESSMAKER-Satary:$2.75 per 01 DISC JOCKEY-Salary:$2.75 per Please call 2 3 5-8424. LAS VEGAS (AP) - Butch Laswell ramp, and that he soared to a height of ary:$600-$800 per month Salary:$2.75 per hour hour hour 02 LINE CABLE SUPERVISOR-Sal Contact: WALLTRADE INT'L. CORP. 10 DANCER-Salary:$3.50 per hour 50 Units decided to risk his life rather than upset 58feet Contact: PAM Pacific Enterprises Corp. Ask for Jack or Mitch. ary:$1,500 per month Tel. 234·1603(3/20)W223131 DBA Pana House Fashion Design Shop Contact: CHANPAC, INC. dba Club his fans. MacValley said lhe speed and lhe 01 ACCOUNTANT-salary:$600-$800 per Tel. 235-7270(3/27)W223223 Jama Tel. 235-9182(3/27)W223228 Pachinko Slot Gearing up for a record high motor windcombinedtocanyhimoffcourse. month 01 TECHNICIAN, REFRIGERATION & cycle jump Sunday, his first movie ''We tried to persuade him not to go 02 MAINTENANCE MECHANIC TELE AIRCON-Salary:$2.75 per hour 01 COOK-Salary:$2.75 par hour 01 A/C REF. TECHNICIAN-Sa/ 2 BEDROOM U.NITS. Machine PHONE-Salary:$600-$800 per month Contact: MIN ENTERPRISES, INC. Tel. ary:$2, 75-$3.25 per hour appearance, Laswell knew that grow through with the jump," said Contact: FAIRTEX MANAGEMENT 2 BEDROOM UNITS, RARELY AVAi/ABLE. NOW READY FOR IMMEDI job Vacancy 04 CABLE SPUCER-Salary:$2.75-$3.50 234-6422(3/20)W223132 CO., LTD. Tel. 234-9522(3/27)W223235 05 MASON-Salary:$2.75-$3.25 per For Sale ing crosswinds made his stunt much MacValley,whohadbeenwilhl.aswell ATE OCCUPANCY! LARGE ROOMS, FULLY FURNISHED. FULL CAR Announcemen~ per hour hour · PET, TYPHOON SHUTTERS AND TRASH SERVICE. 24 HOUR WATER Pis. Call 235-8662 moredangerous.Buthedidn'twantto 10 years. "But he had the last call. We 03 H.E. MECHANIC-Salary:$2.75 -$3.25 01 AUTO MECHANtC-Salary:$2.75 per 05 DANCER-Salary:$2.75 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$750 per AND GAS STOVE. EAST FACING OCEAN VIEW. VERY QUIET AND disappoint the crowd by backing out encowaged him not to go." per hour hour Contact: JAPAN ENTERPRISES CO., month 02 ELECTRICIAN-Salary: $$2.75-$5.00 03 H.E. OPERATOR-Salary:$2.75-$3.30 Contact: MARINE TOUR CORPORA 02 PAINTER,Salary:$2.75-$3.25 per SAFE AREA ON BACK SIDE OF CAPITOL HILL. CALL 234-7193 OR Laswell raced his Honda CR500 up "It doesn't matter how good you are LTD. dba Micronesia Night Club Tel. per hour per hour TION Tel. 234-5598(3/20)W223133 234-6913(3/27)W223237 hour FAX 234-6093 TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENTTO VIEW THESE RARE a steep ramp and zoomed over a 38- or what kind of bike you've got," Contact: Saipan Ice, Inc. Tel. 233-9298 04 CABLE SPLICER HELPER-Sat Contact: PHILIPPINE GOODS CONST., VACANCIES. foot-high pedestrian bridge spanning a Wtlliams told the s'un. ''When you're (3113) T ary:$2.75-$325 per hour 01 COOK HELPER-Salary:$2.75 per 05 StNGER-Salary:$2.75 per hour INC. dba Construction, Manpower Ser vices etc. Tel. 234-6485(3/27)W5921 mm OftLY $700.00 PER MONTH mm Spectacular View street between the Oasis Hotel-Casino up that high, the wind has total con 02YARDWORKER-Sa1ary:$500-$600 per hour Contact: AMERtANA CORPORATION 01 MUSICIAN-Salary:$600-$650 per month Contact: ORIENTAL ENTER· Contact: E M CORPORATION dba Mi dba Happiness Karaoke Club Tel. 234· House Lots in Mesquite and the hotel's garage. trol." month PRISES, INC. dba Marianas Communica Do Won Restaurant and Bar Tel. 233- 6913(3/27)W223240 02 COOK-Satary:$2.75 -$3.25 per hour But crosswinds pushed him to the · Laswell,37,hadbeentryingtoruw: Contact: PELLEY ENTERPRISES, INC. tion Services Fax. 234-9099(3/13)W5841 2776(3/20)W223138 01 DANCER-Salary:$2.75-$3.25 per On Top of Mt. Tapuchao, hour left ofthe second ramp. His motorcycle his personal best of41 feet high and to Tel. 233-9298(3/12)T 02 BEAUT/CIAN-Salary:$2.75 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$5.20 per 01 BARTENDRESS-Salary:$550-$600 View Managaha Island, crumpled on the pavement, and he set aworldrecord.Representalivesfrom 02 REFRIGERATION MECHANIC-Sal 01 MAINTENANCE MAN(WORKER)· Contact: MIRAGE CORPORATION Tel. Quiet Two (2) Bedrooms • Swimming Pool Salary:$~.75 per hour hour 233-4137(3/27)W223238 per month crashed to his death in front of movie lhe Guinness Book of World Records ary:$3.05-$8.66 per hour Contact: IT&E OVERSEAS, INC. dba 01 STORE MANAGER (RETAIL)-Sal Road Access, Electricity, 02 DELIVERYMAN-Salary:$2.75-$3.05 Contact: PETE PJLUCY M. REYES Tel. Tennis Court cameras and thousands of spectators. were in attendance. 322-9350/664-7569(3/13 )W223043 IT&E (apply in person)(3/20)W6147 04 DIVING INSTRUCTORS-Sal ary:$1,050 per month per hour Contact: PHILIPPINE GOODS, INC. Financing Available Promoter Douglas Mac Valley said The Las Vegas resident bad done 01 MARKETING MANAGER-Sal ary:$700-$1,000 per month 02 WAITRESS-Salary:$2.75 per hour 01 MERCHANDISE SUPERVISOR Contact: PAN PACIFIC TOURS, INC. dba Folk Pub Disco, Rest., etc. Tel. 234- Laswell purposely steered his motor promotional stunts on motorcycles but ary:$1,000 per month Satary:$2.75-$3.00 per hour 6485(3/27)W5922 KANNAT GARDENS Please call Tel.# 235·5686 01 ACCOUNTANT-Satary:$2,300 per 02 COOK-Salary:$2.75 per hour dba Saipan International Diving School cycle to avoid hitting the crowd. was not well known in the area. The Contact:NEW SEOUL CORPORATION 01 MAINTENANCE MECHANIC Tel. 322-6188(3/27)W223252 (Near Northern Marianas College) -- month SERVICER-Satary:$2.75 per hour 04 WAITRESS, RESTAURANT-Sal "lt was a noble act," he said. . hotel said he bad completed more than 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$650-$1,000 dba Banzai Restaurant Tel. 233-2345(3/ WANTED 13)W223037 Contact: COMMONWEALTH GAR· 01 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER-· ary:$2.75-$3.08 per hour Laswell had wanted to back out 5,000 jumps in 20yearsof stunt jump per month MENT INC. Tel. 234-7550/233/3481 (3/ 02 WAITER, RESTAURANT-Sal· 235-5686 (8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Weekdays) Contact:JOHN T. & GLORIA G. Salary:$3.05 par hour PRIVATE LAND FOR LONG because of the wind, ''but there was so ing, and bad a "l00 perc.ent safety 02 TRASH COLLECTOR-Salary:$2.75 20)W223123 Contact: ISLAND APPAREL, INC. dba ary:$2.75-$3.10 par hour 235-5611 (8:30 AM to 9:00 PM, Everyday)' SABLAN dba JG Sablan Ice & Water TERM (55 YEARS) much pressure,'' Eddie Williams, a record." per hour Island Apparel 02 GARDENER-Salary:$2.75-$3.95 per Co. Tel. 234-8808/233-3955(3/ 01 SERVICE MANAGER-Satary:$3.00 hour APPROXIMATE SIZE: 120 HECTARES close friend and training partner, told Motorcycle stuntmen Evel Knievel 12)T5810 Contact: VIDAL S. & GLORIA REYES dba V & G Enterprises Tel. 322-2751 (3/ per hour 02 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Sal 04 CLEANER, HOUSEKEEPtNG GENERAL LOCATION: NORTHERN OR the Las Vegas Sun. in 1967 and Gary Wells in 1980 20)W223125 02 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$2.75 per ary:$1.470 per month $2.75-$3.10 per hour 02 DRILLER-Salary:$4,25 per hour EAST CENTRAL SAIPAN 'The people putting on the show, the failed at a similar stunt, trying to hour Contact: NIPPON TRAVEL AGENCY 01 ASSISTANT FRONT MANAGER· 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$800 per F•-R SALW REQUIREMENT: TOTAL LAND AREA MUST BE 01 BUILDING MAINTENANCE-Sal- 02 ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN-Sal MtCRONESIAdba Mach Tour Tel. 234- Salary:$1,300 per month agents, all the people watching. He clear the 35-foot fountain in front month 1993 Toyota T100 4X4 Red with 36,000 miles, ONE CONTINUOUS PARCEL OR ar1:$2. 75 per hour ,. -' ary:$2.75 per hour 9309(3/27)W223247 01 ASSISTANT CHEF -Salary:$1,400 thought ifhe backed out, no one would of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Contact: GEOTESTING, INC. Tel. 234- AC-CD Player-Cruse Control - Topper painted to match - RELATIVELY ADJACENT IF MORE Contact: MARIANAS PAf'IAMOUNT Contact: ANGEL P. CRUZ, JR. dba per month understand. He thought they would Both recovered from their injuries. 7210(3/13}W5840 Contact: MICRO PACIFIC DEVELOP New Tires - asking $14,900.00 080 THAN ONE PARCEL CORP. Tel. 233-4030(3/20)W223124 World Electric & Const. Co., Inc. Tel. 01 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Salary:$620 WHEN NEEDED: AS SOON AS POSSIBLE hate him.'' Knievel's son, Robbie, success 234·3569(3/20)W223126 per month MENT, INC. dba Saipan Grand Hotel 01 NC SUPERYISOR-Salary:$4.05 per Tel. 234-6601/3 ext. 112 1991 Subaru Legacy Station Wagon with 55,000 miles, CONTACT PERSON: Laswell had planned to accelerate to fully completed the jump in front of 01 CHIEF ENGINEER-Salary:$4.70 per Contact: NIPPON TRAVEL AGENCY hour 01 RESERVATION CLERK-Sat MICRONESIA dba Mach Tour Tel. 234- AC - Casse~e Player, Power Package - Cruse Control - MS. LORRAINE PANGELINAN -23S-6888 70 mph (113 kph) and clear the bridge Caesars on April 1, 1989. It was the Contact: CARRIER GUAM, INC. hour , Contact: DOLPHIN PACIFIC (SAIPAN), ary:$800-$1,000 per month 9309(3/27)W223248 15 CARPENTER-Salary:$2.75-$4.00 Mica Ruby Color. Asking $6,000.00 · SAtPAN BR. Tel. 234-8330(3/13)W5839 by at least 1OfeetHowever,Mac Valley lasttimesomeonejumpedthefoun INC. Tel. 234-6331(3/20)W223127 01 SUPERVISOR TRAVEL per hour LAND FOR LEASE AGENT(TOUR DESK)-Salary:$1,000- 02 WAITER-Salary:$2.75 per hour 08 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$2. 75-$4.00 said he traveling about 85 mph (137 tains there. 01 PURCHASING MANAGER-Sal 55 YEARS 01 MASON -Salary:$3.00 per hour $3,200 per month 01 CHOREOGRAPHER - Salary:$3. 75 per hour ary:$1,700 per month Contact: H.S. LEE CONST. CO., INC, Contact: R & C TOURS SAIPAN, INC. 15 MASON -Salary:$2. 75-$4.00 per 3,000 SQ. METERS IN FRONT OF Contact: TRANSAMERICA CORPORA per hour Tel. 234-6856(3/20)W6132 Tel. 234-7430(3/20)W223117 Contact: A.S.C., INC. dba Nagoya Star hour MAIN HIGHWAY ASKING $1, 500 PER TION Tel. 234-1629(3/13)W5826 re +11 ,21 I•) ,-g~1 11 et' Night Club & Karaoke Lounge Tel. 235- 10 SHEETMETAL WORKER- Sat MONTH PLUS $18,000.00 DOWN 01 MAINTENANCE WORKER-Sat- 01 SUPERVISOR, RESTAURANT-Sal 8193/94(3/27)W223230 ary:$2.75-$4.00 per hour 01 WAREHOUSE WORKER·Sal Nissan Sentra 1992, 2 door sedan with aircon. PAYMENT CALL: 234-6025/234-5570 ary:$700 per month · ary:$800-$1,500 per month 05 PLUMBER-Salary:$2.75-$4.00 per ary:$3.00 per hour Contact: JACINTO C. CRUZ dba Cruz 01 CHIEF COOK-Salary:$1 ,000-$2,000 02 DANCER-Salary:$2. 75 per hour hour Contact: TRANSAMERICA DEV'T. Excellent working condition. Sanitation Services Tel. 234-0456(3/ per month 01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal 02 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC· CORPORATION Tel. 234-7833(3/ LAND FOR LEASE ,lf!?tt:111111;\ 20)W223128 Contact: K & S ENTERPRISES INC. Tel. ary:$2.75 per hour Salary:$2.75-$4.00 per hour Pis. call 322-1203. Ask for Mae Pablo. a.re-···· that w~r~hpus~; i 13)W5824 Serious Inquiries only! 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I CROSSWORD PUZZLER I Continued from page 28 Foschi claims she's never taken any li-00 COOLDN'T E€T Mb (IJ 1l-m banned !1.!bslance.s. Since testing posi 'BULl.15 EYE wm-\ A iw-rcor ro.AIR. The legal wrangling involving tive last summer, she has been put on ACROSS 46 "I cannol tell Foschi's suspension may linger, but probarion,thensuspendedfortwoyears. OFFICIAL j' Meet orq. 48 "Blossom" the scandal is likely to fade since she and then put back on probation by U.S. CfiOCOLA TE: A Baseball's character failed to qualify for the team in three Swimming officials. Banks 50 Dock attemplS. Even ifshe had qualified for Atlanta, CENTER 9 - const·iclor 51 Civil rights 12 Evil leader (inits.) Foschi came into the 800free final as her entry in the Olympics would still ~&, 13 Toolhed 53 Find the sixth seed.. She lowered her morn have had to beapprovedbythesport's SER,Jt(£ wheels lncorrecl 14 Ending with detects ing preliminruy time by more than international governing body. FINA's fail 55 - library threese.conds, but was still slower than rules call fora two-year suspension for 15 Chocolate 58 Church chip- official her lifetime best of 8:40.00. a positive drug test 17 Leg joints 61 Chicago's st. Foschi,ofOldBrookville,New Yode, Butlastmonth,HNAgaveSamantha 19'"- 62 Chopped Business· fine also missed the team in her first two Riley ofAustralia only a "strong warn 21 Moray 64 Couple races. She was ninth in the200 free and ing" after she tested positive for a drug 22 Ship bottom 65 Golf mound fifth in the 400 free. contained in a headache medicine. Garfield® by Jim Davis 24 Coin of 66 Between France then and In the 800 free, Bennett beat Evans Byron Davis ofOeveland, trying to 26 -McEntire now 3-13 © 1996 United Feature Syndlcale by 1 1/2 tiody lengths, finishing in become the first black to make a U.S. 29 Confuse 67 Deposit Three letter 8:31.41.Evans,theworldrecordholder, team, 31 NY arena 6 Sodium 18 Olympic swimming announced 33-Aviv DOWN symbol word before swam 8:33.00. She already qualified his retirement Monday after failing to ----~-.l.- 34 Stallone ID 7 A Gershwin plunk and forherthirdconsecutive Olympic team qualify for the 50 free5tyle final. He 35 Nickname of 1 Start of the 8 Anglo-Saxon flooey 34Across alphabet slave 20 -Kippur by beating Bennett in the 400 free finished 14th in the preliminaries. 37-soda 2 -Tse-tung 9 Bite the- 22 Buckwheat Friday. Davis was the quickest qualifier in 39 Football pos. 3 Worshipped 10 Minefs find 23 Unsuccessful 40 Chicken 4 Protection 11 DOE car Foschi's besteventis the 800, which Sunday's I 00 butterfly. In the final, he opponent 25 Ship prefix 42 Nourished 5 Smells she won in the U.S. Open last Decem reached the halfway point in a blister Malone also engaged in a ve.rbal spar 44 -Haggard strongly 16 Slays 27 TV's Uncle onds left. Vernon Maxwell's despera for the eighth and final playoff both in Miltie berafteraperfonnance-enhancigdrug ing 24.05 seconds, but tightened up in tion 30-footerwentthrough thenetjust ring match with Isaiah Rider that re the NBA's Eastern Conference. 28 Change was detected in testing at the summer the final strokes and finished fourth. after the final buzzer sounded. sulted in Rider's ejection as the Jazz 30 Fairy tale '. Rocket!i 95, Grizdies 89 creature '· Celtics 110, Bucks 103 rolled to their seventh straight victory. In Vancouver, British Columbia, 32 School of InPhiladelphia, Terry Deheresrored In Milwaukee, Todd Day, traded to JeffHomacekscored28pointson8- Hakeem Olajuwon had 42 points and whales Magic ... 21 points and Loy Vaught added 16as Boston by Milwauke.e e.arlier in the for-9 shooting and Antoine Carr apded 18 rebounds as Houston Rockets had 36 Alflnnative Los Angeles won for the fifth time in 38 Hare Continued from page 28 season, scored 28 points to lead the 15 points off the bench for the Jazz. . Vancouver its 11th consecutive loss. conslellation seven games. Celtics over the Bucks. Spud Webb led the Wolves with a Vancouver, which lost 19 straight HOW CAN I PRACTICE HOW A60l/T A 131RD Jerry Stackhouse had 32 points; and 41 Agile Toe Cavaliers have lost five of their It was the fowth straight loss for season-high 21 points. earlier this season, trailed 50-37 athalf WITH A BIRD SITTING AND A DOG? 43 Fulfilled Clarence Weatherspoon 26 and 13 re Milwaukee, which was led by Glenn The Wolveswereshortthreeplayers time but used a 14-3 run to close within 45 Bill of- past six games. Ot-1 M'< PIANO?! ") ; bounds for the Sixers, whose 12-48 Robinsonwith30pointsandVinBaker before the game started and lost Rider four points with 20 seconds left. 47 Cloth Ttm Han:laway led Miami with 21 measure record is theNBA's worst with 25. The Bucks' streak began last when he was ejected with 1:43 left in Olajuwon, who reached 40 points 49 Salling ship points and eight assists. Chapman Ajwnpshotby MalikSealy gavethe Sunday with a I 05-98defeatatBoston. the first half. forthe28th time in his career, scored 13 52 Youngsters scored 15 points, and Walt Wtlliarns Clippers a 103-99 edge with 1:45 re The Bucks traded Day and Alton Bullets 99, Hawks 91 points in the first quarter, making 6 54 - one's time and reserve Ollis Gatling added 14 (wall maining. Stackhouse made twe'free Lister to the Celtics on Nov. 26 for In Landover, Maryland, Georghe of 11 shots as the Rockets took a patiently) each. throws with l:03left,andhadachance ShennanDouglas, whoscored20points Muresan sparlced a third-quarter rally 28-20 lead. He added 14 points in 55 Hole AlonzoMOlUlling,Miami'sleading to tie the srore with 28 seconds left, but Sunday. . with 11 of his 27 points, and Washing the second quarter and 11 in the 56 Rubber tree scorer this season, had only 11 points. made only one of his two foul shots. Jazz 104, Thnberwolves 96 ton kept its playoff hopes alive. third. 57 Roman 102 Bob Sura had ·18 points and Danny 59 Be In debt After a free throw by the Clippers' In Minneapolis, Karl Malone took It was the fowth victory in the past Kenny Smith added 17 points for 60 - roast Feny 15 for Oeveland Rodney Rogers, PI!iladelphia advantage ofa shorthanded Minnesota five games for Washington, which re Houston, which had lost its previ 63 "Walker, Clippers 104, 76ers 102 inbounded at half court.,with I.I sec- front court, sroring 27 points for Utah. mained two games behind Charlotte ous two games. Taxas Ranger" star STELLA WILDER (lnits.); Brotherhood It was the charity shots that but only five were converted. spearlieaded 01' Aces' failed bid to SNE/FT ... spelled defeat for OJ' Aces. The SNf/FTscoredevenly;-RicAJegre escape past the Developers with 24 Continued from page 28 Continued from page 28 YOUR BIRTHDAY Developers converted nearly I 00 finished with 25 points, followed by and 21 points, respectively. Jerry 17 kees and two goals scored. _three-point and two-point depart-: percent of their charity tries, miss Tom Alegre. with 23 points. Lloyd Ayuyu contributed 17 points, while AlfonsoDosesofBrotherhood was ments. OJ' Aces had four triples ing only three of 28 shot, or a Hartman came up with 22 points, Wmsor Peter had 13. the game's heavy hitter with two and 41 field goals for a total of 94 conversion of25 points, courtesy whileF.dC.0SinoandNoe1Dominguez Abong Camacho connected 10, aces, one xunk, four kees and one points, while the Developers con of OJ' Aces. connected and points, respec Elias Rangamar and J. Taitano had By Stella Wilder your daily guide. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - 20 13 THURSDAY, MARCH 14 You may not believe your eyes or l?eAD 71-IE CLUES. 77-IEN FILL IN 71-1!: goal. • verted one triple and 39 twiners SNPJFI' sent three 01' Aces tively. six each, whileMartinMettaopumped Born today, you will find your PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ears today, but since trut~ is 8lANK5, O'VL Y ONE ll=TTER Cl-44N6ES Roy Kaipat was the top scorer for for a total of 81 points. players to the stripe for nine tries JuniorRenguulandPeterCamacho in two points. niche in a most unusual and un - You may have a long day in sometimes stranger than fiction, IN eACI-I WORO AS YOU GO AROUNO Homeboys with one ace and five you can believe what you see or 71-IE WI-IE'EL , orthodox manner. Once you do, front of you, and/ou should try to kees. After a scoreless fifth inning, your path will be straight and nar pace yourself an bring your most hear. each,11-5. But the Piaos' effort was neutral row and free from the kinds of pit obvious talents to bear as often as LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) - Bmthemood will faceHardkore in MTC cut the Seabees lead by one MTC scored two more runs on ized with the four-run rally by the You can gain a great deal of infor Seabees. • • falls and obstacles that stand in possible. 71-/IS PUZZLE WILL abest-of-fiveseriesforthe 1996over run at the top of the sixth on Dan Iginoef s RBI ground-out . Islanders in their half of the in the way of so many oth1:r indivi~u ARIES (March 21-April 19) - mation and insight today from con Continued from page 28 versations with a few acquain /-/AVE YOU ROWING all rocball crown. The schedule of Iskawa' s second.RBI of the game, and one Seabees error for the ning for a 7-7 stand-off. als born under your s!'gn. While You may fmd yourself in a situa AROUND IN C/RCL£5. others are proud, you are realistic, tion that is familiar and unusual at tances. Try to pay attention to games will be announced later. with a triple and scored on Jack 8-5. final margin. Islanders' Poland Yamada took but not exactly humble. While oth the same time. You will find nuances. Meanwhile, the Loners and the Guerrero's. sacrifice, while an Seabees answered with three advantage of the tie and drove in strength in the things that you SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - ~f\ Seabees Four maintained sec ers may worry about the future, Sistf:r&/CousinsAssociationswill start big runs at the bottom with Joe you always welcome even the know. Real excitement is in the air, and other run was scored at the bot ond place with the win. three runners on a double for the most uncertain developments. You TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - you should try to make sure that the women's championship series tom of the fourth on an MTC Guerrero, Nick Saimon and Den Jess Wabol pitched for two winning hit. have a positive outlook and c;an Using your imaginative and cre those around you will be satisfied with game one to be played today. error. nis Camacho scoring one RBI and-a-half innings before Tony Piaos farled to score a run at the ative talents today will help you to in the end. You can put on a real work side-by-side with others with Satur took the post. top of the sixth. as time ran out. little or no tension. accomplish much more than you show! had expected. The sky is the limit. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. displaying masterful Little League third on the catcher's throwing error, Mark Toves highlighted the Angel Falig went 3-for-3 and Persistent and patient, you G. e have what it takes to find great GEMINI , TODAY'S WEATHER: On this day in training by Saipan's top pitcher, Total 4 41 519 23 99 · he's never heard a rock star who could The Garapan Pirates and and led off witll a single. He advanced to Manny Cabrera's two-run single. editor-journalist; Janet Flanner (1892· 1888, New York City was buried under carry a tune if it had handles on it. KagmanLionsplayed'~secondgame second o11 · a pass ball and moved _to Tony Benavente. Halltlllll lCOre: SNE/FT 52, or kes 47 28-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- MARCH 13 , 1996 SPORTsm:m .Falcons fly high over Angels TANAPAG Falcons flew over Wendy's Angels while the Garapan Pirates shackle Lions in Little League :~i~~a1=~e:= Pirates shackled and tamed the the bottom of the fifth, and led off Kagman Lions in the continuation of Jirruny Aliksa' soOO-OUtsingle.Aliksa ball that found a gap on left ofcenter and advanced to third plate on a wild with a single. the Little League action Saturday at also scored later in the inning. foraone-out in-the-parlcfour-bagger pitch and scored the Falcons' fourth He advanced to second and third the San Vicente ballfield Omaronceagainsingledonthetop in the bottom of fourth. run. on wild pitches and scored on a Game three between the Falcons of the third with one out, and crossed On top of the next inning, Jimmy Aliksa game the Falcons their fifth throwingerrorbytheFalconscatchec. and the Angels showed the Falcons homeplatefromfirstbaseonathrow AliksaavengedSablan'shomerby A and last run of the game. Neal McMiller qiade his first ap emerge as a more experienced team. ing error by the Angels catcher, giv power line-drive at right of center for Thei\ngelstookadvantageofthree Contlnued on page 27 Tanapag took a 2-0 lead on top of ing Falcons a 3-0 lead. a solo inside homer. theopeninginningwhenXavierOmar Angels scored their first run of the Earlierintheinning,Falconspitcher led off with a single and scored on seasononRudySablan'ssologround J.R Suel clubbed a lead-off double Seabees complete MTC's round one no-win record Brotherhood bags boys' rocball title,. SEABEES Four prevented Team Nick Saimon's sacrifice RBI. MTC from rising above its losing MTC tried to take the lead at the faces Hardkore in world crown series streak and closed the Communi top of the second half with three BRO'IHERHOOD, after a two The boys' division title series went 15-3. cators' first round to a perfect 0-8 runs scored, 4-2, on Peter gametitleseriesselhack. yesterday full length when Homeboys won the In the second set, Homeboys record during Monday's opener. Camacho's two-run single and derailed Hqmeboys' bid to win the third and fourth game. Brotherhood camebackandwonthematch, 16- Seabees outscored MTC, ·11- Benito Iskawa's sacrifice RBI. division title and face college/vil won the first two games of the best 11,andcuttheleaddowntoseven, 7, at the Susupe ballfield. But Seabees easily regained lage division champion Hardkore of-five contest 26-19,goingtothethirdset • Micronesian Telecom Corpo their lead with a four-run explo in the overall crown champion Befotetheirthirddefeat,Homeboys Brotherhood, playing on the ration started the game with sion on five hits and one MTC ship. tiedtheseriesanddroveBrotherhood north court, took the lead in the Climaco Laniyo scoring a run af error, 6-4. Brotherhood, one of rocball's at close to losing the division title. thirdandfinalsetandheldon to the ter he doubled on John Sablan's Seabees slowly inched away longest participating' teams, took But in the opening set of the fifth finish with a 9-4 set score, for the single. from MTC by scoring one run gamefi.vefora3-2win-lossperfor and decisive game yesterday, Bi.nth final 12-point margin, 35-23. I . Seabees countered with two each in the third and fourth in mance and won the high school . erhood showed its determirtation to There were five aces, one xunk. runs in their half of the inning on nings, 8-4. Emory Fitial led off boys division championship. win the title by taking a sizeable lead, Continued on page 27 Joe Guerrero's RBI groundoutand Continued on page 27 SNE/FT beats 01' Aces, meets Magic sets record with 39th straight home win ORLANOO, Florida (AP) - The openaclosegame.TheMagicmade24 Heat 88, Cavaliers 81 Wheels in pre-finals game Orlando Magic set an National Basket of26 free throws in the second half, and In Miami, Rex Chapman scored SNFJFT Developers edged 01' The Sharks team has to win ball Association record forconsecutive outscored the Suns 36-22 in the final seven points in the final two minutes, home victories Sunday, beating the Aces by a seven-point margin over its challenger only once to period. including a crucial 3-pointer, and Mi Phoenix Suns 122-106 for their 39th Monday that will allow them to get the crown, while its challenger Danny Manning led Phoenix, which ami held off Cleveland. straight win at Orlando Arena. face Toyota Wheels in a crucial has to beat the Sharks twice for lost its third straight game, with a sea The Cavs scored 11 consecutive TheMagicimprovedto32-0athome son-high 32 points. Kevin Johnson had pre-finals sudden- death match. the title. points to reduce Miami's lead to 76-75 this season despite having to play most 21 points, and Charles Barkley with 21 The winner of the Developers If the Sharks' challenger wins with 2:21 to go. Then, with the Heat of the second and third quarters without points and 15 rebounds. unable to hear coach Pat Riley shouting Wheels match will challenge the game on Monday, the ulti ShaquilleO'Neal, whostruggledearly Nick Anderson scored 24 points, fora timeout, Chapmansanka3-pointer ' Shaiks in the second Miller Lite mate game will be played on because of foul trouble. HoraceGranthad20with 11 rebounds. with 1:53 left. Men's Basketball League cham Thursday next week. The All-Star center returned at the Anfemee Hardaway narrowly missed Chapman added four straight free pionship. The Developers closed the top start of the fourth quarter and scored 15 a triple-double with 20 points, eight throws in the final minute. The Wheelers and the Devel half of their game with 01' Aces of his 25 points to help Orlando break rebounds and 14 assists for Orlando. Continued on page 27 opers will play this week. with a four-point margin, 51-4 7. The winner will play against E 01' Aces edged SNE/Ff in the Tours Sharks on Monday. Continued on page 27 Foschi fails to make it to· the Olympics INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Jessica EvansorTrinaJackson-thetopthree finished fourth with a time of 8 min Y 20th A11n.11alMarianasinvitational• Foschi believed she had only a slim finishers - as her controversial bid to utes, 41.61 seconds. Only Bennett of < .. ·.· .. ·.·.. ·.······ .. ·.... / Ba:sketb~lTournament. chance of catching Brooke Bennett and make the Olympic swimming team Tampa, Aori9<1, andEvansofP!acentia, Janet Evans in the 800-meter freestyle. ended in defeat Monday night California, earned trips to the Atlanta t:\cf'. Actually, she had none. The IS-year-old, whose failed drug Olympics. EA~P0:~1b!;m'' .· TAGA DIVISION Foschi never threatened Bennett, test created a stir throughout the trials, "'C,-o_n..,,ti,.....n_u_e~d-o_n_p_a_g_e_2~7 y 1. saipanYouth···.·•·· · 1.. Umatac ·76ers · · ·· 2; Rola · 2. Tinlan I 3.Malojloj 3. Palau 4; Tmian II 4. SHS $election Sinner nearly ousted in Copenhagen Open COPENHAGEN,Denmark(AP) on the ATP. career, wasot1~byOmarCamporese, Gem1lli1MartinSinner,lastyear'swin Dane Morten Christensen, attempt 138th on the ATP. Camporese won 6- ner of the Copenhagen Open men's ing a comeback in the twilight of his 2, 6-4. tennis tournament, was nearly ousted Monday on the first day of this year's Youth Slowpitch Softball League Games Schedule tournament. BOYS DIVISION Sinner.ranking 105thontheATP, GIRL DIVISION braved two match points before ral 1. Chinatown 1. Tanapag "Talabowf 2. Tanapag "Roadrunners" 2. Cleal "Team Pepel lying to defeat Frenchman Lionel 3. Koblarville "Hustlers" 3. Mt. Carmel "Knights" 4. Rookies Roux, who ranks 12lst,4-6, 7-6(7- GAMES SCHEDULE 5), 6-1. Aside from that, no Boys' Division Girls' Division surprises were in store on the first.pay Hustlers vs Chinatown 3:00 pm Sun. 17 Talabowg vs Knights 4:00pm of the tournament that has dlrs 203,00) Roadrunners vs Hustlers 4:00 pm Sun.24 Team Pepel vs Talabowg 3:00 pm Chinatown vs. Rookies 3:00 pm Sun. 31 Team Papal vs Knights 4:00pm in prize money. Roadrunners vs Hustlers 4:00 pm Sun. 07 Talabowg vs Team Papal 3:00 pm Tim Henman of F.ngland needed Roadrunners vs Rookies 3:00 pm Sun. 14 Team Papal vs Talabowg 4:00pm three sets todefeatSwede Henrik Holm Chinatown vs Hustlers 4:00 pm Sun.21 Team Pepel vs Knights 3:00pm Chinatown vs Roadrunners 3:00 pm Sun.28 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), while the A1Ps Hustlers vs Rookies 4:00 pm Sun.28 32nd, Cedric Pioline ofFrance, won in Chinatown vs Rookies 3:00 pm Sun.OS Team Pepel VS Talabowg 4:00pm two sets, 7-5 and 6-4, over American Chinatown vs Roadrunners 4:00 pm Sun. 12 Roadrunners vs Rookies 3:00 pm Jeff Tarango, who currently ranks 83 Sun. 12 t)llarianas %riety;~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 '&1 P.O. Box 231 Salpan, MP 96950 • Tel. (670) 234-6341 • 7578 • 9797 I'\.,,• Fax: (670) 234-9271