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arianas %riet.r;~ · Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ~ ews Murder in Hannon Supreme Court lently. The 42 year old Korean was employed at the Dallas Lounge, in Tamuning. Kennedy was found dead in sanctions AGO her apartment by police officers on Labor Day. For ignoring court orders Officers on the scene re By Zaldy Dandan General Maya Kara for a com dered AGO to show cause ported that Kennedy had bmises Variety News Staff ment, but was told that she within seven days why )ts ap on her body, head and face. THE SUPREME Court has was in a meeting. peal should not be dismissed Taitano said because the case sanctioned the Attorney This reporter's phone call for failure to prosecute. is still under investigation, he General's Office for its·fail to AGO's Criminal Division But AGO did not respond, could not disclose whether the ure to follow-up on the appeal Chief Ross Buchholz wasn't according to the court. woman was married, or the iden° Heun Sun Kennedy it filed regarding two traffic returned either. Last Aug. 13, the court is tity of friends or relatives.· cases. AGO appealed the Superior sued a second order, to which By Jacob Leon Guerrero What is known at this time is The CNMI's highest court Court's decision on CNMI vs AGO, again, did not respond. Variety News Staff that she was not an H-2 worker. dismissed AGO's appeal, and Juan D. Aguon in November "Given the fact that the gov HAGATNA, Guam - The The police department is still ordered it to pay a fine of $320. of last year, and on CNMI vs ernment has failed to respond police department announced trying to determine her citizen Legal experts yesterday David R. Quitugua last Feb. to two separate orders to show yesterday that the woman who ship status. noted that it is "highly un 20. cause, has failed to file any was found on Monday was mur The police are asking the usual" for an AGO to be sanc According to the Supreme requests for extensions of dered, based on autopsy results. public's assistance in their on- tioned by the court. Court's order dismissing the time, and has not taken any Police spokesperson Ron going investigation. "It means there's a manage appeal, AGO neither filed action to (effect) this appeal, Taitano said the victim, Heun you have any information If ment problem in that office," their opening brief, nor did it the court finds it necessary Sun Kennedy, died sometime cal I the police department at 472- they said. request for an extension of and proper. .. to not only dis last weekend. 8911 or Crimestoppers at 477- The Variety tried to reach, time to file a brief. miss this appeal, but also to He said the woman died via- HELP. I' by phone, acting Attorney Last July I 0, the court or- Corffinued-cm page 57 No bail for Ishibashi By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff THE US District Court yesterday ordered no bail "at this time" for the temporary release of businessman Kojo Ishibashi in connection with last month's drng bust after evidence showed he was lying about his financial statement. · Chief Judge Ale'x R. Munson during a hearing denied Ishibashi 's motion for bail and withdrew the previously set $25,000 bail for the defendant. Munson asked Ishibashi to provide a complete financial statement to be filed in court. Ishibashi and anotherJ apanese, Michihide Izumi, were arrested in a drug operation last month in which over I 00 grams of '·ice" were confiscated by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration/ CNMI Task Force. The federal government charged Ishibashi with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine while Izumi with importation of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute "ice." At yesterday's bail hearing, defense counsel Yoon Chang pre sented in court a preliminary survey report regarding Ishibashi 's two fishing boats. · Chang requested that the boats be posted as bail so that Ishibashi may be temporarily freed. A Guam fire department inspector look at the debris following a structural fire in Dededo. No injury was Assistant US Attorney Kevin Seely, on behalf of the US govem- reported, but nothing much remains of the building, which was once used as storage for construction Contfnued on page 58 materials. Photo by Eduardo c. Siguenza 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS ~D \/IEW_?-FRIDA Y- SEPTEMBER! I . 1998 _____ _ FRIDAY.SEPTEMBER 11, 1998-MARJANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 Starr triggers impeachme:t;1.t review Teen suicide attempt By DAVID ESPO gress' subsequent review. conference that Starr's' office WASHINGTON (AP) - Inde With the delivery of StaIT·s had informed congressional rate up by 5-percent pendent Counsel Kenneth StaIT long-awaited report to Congress. leaders the material included a sent Congress 36 sealed boxes that will be for the House to de 445-page report. buttressed by By Haidee V. Eugenio filled with .. substantial and cnc!d cide. whether before or after foll 2.000 pages of backup material Variety News Staff ible'· evidence of wrongdoing by elections. and voluminous additional ma A SIGNIFICANT number of CNMI students-some as young as six President Cl in ton on Wednesday. The repo11 was expected to lay terial that includes grand jury graders--have "tried to kill themselves," according to statistics. triggering the first formal im out evidence of possible obstrnc transcripts. The current statistics on "considering" and "attempting" suicide has peachment review in the United tion of justice. perjury. witness At least the 445-page report actual Iy increased by five percent. States since Watergate a quarter tampering and abuse of power by will likely be made public on Approximately 987 students of the 2,057 suiveyed students grades six to cenwry ago. Clinton in his effort to conceal an Friday. Solomon said. He said 12 revealed that they tried to commit suicide. House Speaker Newt Gingrich affair with Ms. Lewinsky and Starr's office had told congres This figure comprises 19 percent of the surveyed population, according and Democrntic leader Dick thwart the Paula Jones sexual ha sional officials in an evening to the recently-released I 997 Youth Risk Behavior Suivey Results which Gephardt pledged before StaIT rassment lawsuit. phone conversation the report :vas conduc~ by ~e Public School System's HIV prevention program acted that they would make a bi In his letter-to Congress. StaIT includes a 25-page introduction: m cooperation With the US Center for Disease Control. panisan effon to review the po also hinted the report might con a 280-page narrative and a 140- Jackie Quitugua, coordinator of the PSS program, said the suicide litically explosive report. deliv tain graphic details. "Many of the page description of grounds for attempts rate actually increased from the 1995 survey considering ered in the shadow of the mid supporting materials contain in impeachment. that this is the first time that grade six students were included in the formation of a personal nature Solomon also said he expects survey. te1m elections. ll1e two men then Rep. Herman Palacios hands over a House resolution lauding the appointment of Mark Zachares as that I respectfully urge the House In 1995, the suicide attempt rate was pegged at43 percent, but this is met into the e\'<:ning to thrash out the Judiciary Committee and the Department of Labor and Immigration secretary. With Palacios are (from left) Senate President Paul to treat as confidential." he wrote. full House to decide by year's only among grades seven ID 12 students. plans to make several hundred Problems on love and relationship (whether fmnily or fiiend), Quitugua Manglona, Hous1: Speaker Diego Benavente, Representatives Alejo Mendiola, David Apatang, Mafua Rep. Je!T)' Solomon. chairman end whether Starr's report war Peter, DOLi official Jeffrey Camacho, Rep. Karl Reyes, House Majority Leader Ana Teregeyo and David pages public within a few days said, were the main reasons why teenagers attempt suicide, or c.onsider of the House Rules Committee. rants a full-scale impeachment Sablan of DOLi. Pholo by Aldwin R. Fajardo including posting it on the suicide. told reporters at an evening news mqu1ry. Internet - and to govern Con- "We knew beforehand why anumberofyouths consider suicide as the answer to their problems which are mainly due to family and For alleged failure to pay loans relationship problems. But now that we have actual figures, we Clinton vows to regain trust really need to do something," Quitugua said. She added that the survey results give clearer picture of what ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - a role model for the nation's chil on making his crisis a cam Feds sue residents, bank teenagers are going through, which will help teachers and parents in President Clinton, his voice fall dren - and didn't want his per paign issue in November. helping these youths get over their problems. By Ferdie de la Torre they had obtained a judgment loans. ing to a murmur in a banquet hall sonal behavior to darken his pub "Don't be fooled-not for a Twenty nine percent or 270 of the surveyed high school students Variety News Staff against Pangelinan in a 1985 civil Pearson said in Fcb.1987 de of friends, appealed to Demo lic record. minute, not for a day -elec reported that they attempted suicide one or more times during the THE US government has filed action and may claim an interest fendants Dela Cruz and Ciolden crats on Wednesday: '·I ask you ·Tm determined to redeem the tions are about you and your past 12 months before the survey has been conducted, while 4 I three separate lawsuits against in the property being foreclosed Talent executed two written prom for your understanding.