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By Zaldy .Dandan But proponents plan new _floating hotel proposal up the Puerto Rico dump-which Variety News Staff would have cost the CNMI $25 THE $313 million Queen Eliza deal, we were not kidding," he famous ship" into a hotel. million-and will give the Com beth 2 hotel-resort project is dead, added. The bond offering was expected monwealth a 15 percent stake in a Gov. PedroP. Tenorio announced "Cunard would have honored to be underwritten by any of the new local corporation, Saipan yesterday. our commitment, but we failed to following major investment Convention Center, Inc. 'They 're no longer interested get it from Legislature." banks: Donaldson, Lufkin & In return, the CNMI will be and the project is not going to be Jordan added, however, that Jenrette, Credit Swisse or First asked to guarantee the $5.5 mil possible," the governor told re project proponents are already Boston. lion interest payments for the porters. preparing a revised propqsal, in In addition, Cunard will clean Continued on page 50 In a separate interview, busi volving another ship. nessman Chuck Jordan said the "It will still include the clean up entire Cunard fleet, which in of the Puerto Rico dump, but the PIA plane lands ·safely· cludes the Queen Elizabeth 2 structure of the deal will be differ (QE2), has been sold to Carnival ent," he said. Cruise Line for $500 million. "We hope to have something after 'engine trouble' "Carnival made the offer and next week." By Aldwin A. Fajardo Cunard accepted it last Friday," Under the original project pro Pedro P. Tenorio Variety News Staff said Jordan, the local representa posal, Cunard Hotel Company A PACIFIC Island Aviation Florida-based SeaTel-will float tive for the project. the new company to be formed by plane on Tuesday developed a bonds to finance the project, which "When we told the Legislature Kvaemer, parent company of the serious engine failure while on involves turning the "world's most (last February) to expedite the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), and the flight from Rota to Saipan In terna·tional Airport, it was learned yesterday. This is the second PIA air Guam could lose $17M in US plane to have made an emer gency landing in six months_ A road funds, warns Underwood PIA single-engine aircraft HONOLULU (Pacne}Vs) 'These are federally-man "crash-landed" off Ladder Carlos Salas Proposed United States govern dated requirements," the Con Beach in November, injuring sengers and crew members was ment funding for a nationwide gressman notes, and if Guam the pilot seriously. injured; Salas only said the air- . highway improvement project does not adhere to them, it stands The Commonwealth Ports craft landed safely off the Saipan could result in up to $17 million "to lose the funding." Authority [CPA] confirmed for the U.S. Micronesian ten-i !Jnderwood is encouraging Tuesday's incident but execu airport. He said the PIA aircraft was tory of Guam in the next fiscal local Guam lawmakers to make tive. director Carlos Salas said approaching Saipan Interna year. the necessary legal changes. the aircraft's pilot declared an tional Airport at around 6 p.m. However, Guam Del. Robert The cost of the multi-billion emergenci landing when the Tuesday when it experienced Underwood says since Guam's dollar, seven-yearnational high plane's left engine los.t power. massive engine failure. legal drinking age limit is 18- way project will be covered by The aircraft, PIA flight 808, Sketchy reports had it that as opposed to the federal re an 18 US cents per gallon fed had seven passengers· and three eral excise tax on gasoline sales crew members when the inci flames shot out of the aircraft's quirement of 21-and the ten-i engine, prompting the unnamed tory lacks a motorcycle helmet in all 50 United States. dent happened. pilot to declare an emergency law, the funding may be in jeop The tax does not apply to It.was riot clear·if anybody from among the airplane's pas- ardy. Robert Underwood Guam. Continued on page 50 ·~1 I
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By Giff Johnson pected to go to court this week to MAJURO - Gambling propo challenge a decision of the nents, led by Marshall Islands Speaker of the Nitijela (parlia President lmata Kabua, are ex- ment). The President, and several other elected leaders with gambling in terests, lost in a bitter vote late last month when the Nitijela reversed a two-year old law and voted to ban gambling in the Marshalls. Kabua, Foreign Minister Phillip Muller and Majuro Senator Tony deBrum (a former cabinet minis ter) arc expected to file a lawsuit : I in the High Court this week chal ' . lenging Speaker Kessai Note's refusal to allow them to vote in the previously-passed gambling legislation. The three were disqualified I; Mostly cloudy skies from voting on legislation to al with rainshowers low "soft" gambling, such as Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio shares a laugh with members of the Manamko and other officials who gathered to Contmuea on page50 witness the proclamation signing for the Flame Tree Arts Festival Wednesday. \ \ Photo by zardy bandan PAC NEVv'SpJ\Pl::R . ', .. 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- APRIL 10 1998 --··· ·-~----~------· FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND V!EWS-3 Hong Kong cantpaign on 'No massive deportations' HONG KONG (AP) - Candi in constituencies chosen by popu that took over last July 1, the day English-language South China The poll, carried out for the By Zaldy Dandan llowcver, Miller said he is con Moreover, Miller said, the But in their separate testimo dates for Hong Kong's first elected lar vote. China regained sovereignty over Morning Post predicted the paper by Asian Commercial Re Variety News Staff cerned over the "massive Jcpor newly enacted cap on the hiring nies, the governor, together with legislature under Chinese rule Candidates have 15 days to sub this fonner British colony. The Democratic Party, Hong Kong's search, questioned 1,304 people GOVERNOR Pedro P. Tenorio tations of foreign workers with a of alien workers excluded several the Legislature's presiding offic began registering Thursday, and mit their names to the govern provisional legislature ceased biggest, would get the bulk of the on six days at the end of March. on Wednesday denied a US reported goal of 1,000 deporta industries. ers, vowed their commitment to a poll predicted the Democratic ment for the May 24 election, work Wednesday. popular vote in directly elected No margin of error was given. congressman's al legation that the tions this year, or involuntary re ''These actions appear more address federal concerns over the Party would win major victories which will replace a legislature A poll commissioned by the seats. All were registered voters who administration h.is implemented patriation of Bangladeshis and cosmetic than addressing the CNMI's labor and immigration China dislikes the Democratic can choose one-third of the seats a policy of massive deportations on the legislature. Under cumber other victims of recruitment fraud deep, underlying causes of cur problems. Party, which wants all of Hong or alien workers. Kong's legislature to be directly some, new election rules, 20 seats without restoring their lost rent abuses in the CNMI," he There will be "zero tolerance" Natural gas-powered Honda "We're not deporting anyone," money." elected in two years, and calls for will be chosen by a direct vote said. of abuses, Tenorio said. the governor said in a media con the end of the Chinese Commu based on uni veral suffrage. EAST LIBERTY, Ohio (AP) ferc;cc when asked to comment nist Party's monopoly on power . Thirty other seats will be cho - A new Honda of America on US Rep. George Miller's (D On renewed US criticism sen by up to 140,000 people who sedan in production runs on in China. California) testimony before lhe belong mostly to professional natural gas and produces 20 China has labeled several se March 31 US Senate Energy and nior Democrats subversives: elites, and the remaining 10 seats Speaker blames Fro~lan for percent less tailpipe carbon di Natural Resources Committee Pedro P. Tenorio oxide emissions than a gasoline Democratic Party chairman will be picked by a 800-member hearing. electoral college chosen earlier powered car, the company said. Martin Lee says new election The Qovernor said even over "This is a government of laws, lifting garment moratorium by about 30,000 voters. Honda began production of rules, which he claims are skewed staying :i1iens who voluntarily exit and enforcing our laws is the only against them, mean it will win The poll predicted the Demo The republican house speaker the Civic GX on Wednesday. could still return to the CNMI and responsible way of running the just 11 seats on the 60-seat legis crats would get between 53-76 said the estimated 6,000 garment The company is taking orders have their status "leg:ilizcd." govcmmcnt.'' Sablan said. for delivery of the model to lature. But the Post's poll said the percent in the directly elected con [-le added that if the CNMI fails workers "was a stable number, party would win at least 13 seats. stituencies. "If they Jon 't voluntarily cxil imposed by a moratorium." fleet customers such as gov then (of course) they're subject to to enforce the law, "We would be ernment agencies and public The Democrats' closest rivals, The Democrats have tradition chewed up again." "The former governor repealed deportation," Tenorio saiJ. the moratorium," said Benavente. utilities, spokesman Roger a grassroots party backed by a ally gotten most support through A "federal takeover·· advocate, Lt. Gov. ksus R. Sablan. for "The Legislature." he added, Lambert said. powerful pro-China elite, would popular vote, and have lost in the· Miller told lhe Senate committee win four of five seats in the popu elite-oriented functional constitu his part.said only the courts cou Id "r·c-imposed it by enacting (a law J The model will not be made order deportations pursuant to the hearing that he has "greater confi available to dealerships because lar vote, the poll predicted. The encies. dence·· in the promises of Tenorio. over the governor's veto in Juni: Ohio Gov. George Voinovich, right, gets ready to step into a new remainder would go to a pro-busi law. 1996.'' ~'y/J natural-gas-powered Honda Civic GX in East Liberty, Ohio Wednes of the limited number of natural ;· day. AP gas fueling stations. ness party. Report:. Clinton Benavente, citing his campaign sorties for last year's elections, plans ar:rest, Task force targets 1999 Diego Benavente said the CNMI local populace Froilan C. Tenorio trial of Pol Pot · want "stringent control of immi --...... _...,,,, __ _... __ -.._ By Jojo Dass gration ... labor laws enforced ... to wealth. authorities arc han _.._..._ opening of Marpi landfill - ...... NEW YORK (AP)-Pol Pot, the Variety News Staff maintain the character of their dling the garment industry, • .n.-- ••• WI former leader of the Khmer Rouge and "we will address it." THERE would not have been traditional community." moved to have US labor and rebel group responsible for the Bul the opening of the Marpi much controversy over the state These have however become immigration laws imple deaths ofperhaps millions of Cam sanitary landfill and the closure of the Commonwealth's labor remote because of the Tenorio 's mented on the islands. TIRE&f.UB: bodians, could be arrested and tried ~I of the Puerto Rico Jump will not and immigration affairs had the adminii;tration 's alleged misman The US Senate energy and under a plan devised by U.S. and l be simultaneous, according to previous administration been agement. natural resources committee, Thai officials. Russel Mechem. willing to enforce rcfo1111s, ac "It seems that no matter how which conduct~d the /\·larch · President Bill Clinton had or r He saiJ any closure of the cordin~g to House Speaker Di hard we tried to implement re 31 h~aring on the matter, has dered the Departments of Defense, dumpsite, funding for which is ego Benavente. forms, we were defeated by the yet lo complete its report. State and Justice to prepare plans to currently not available, will rc Benavente, in his speech dur former administration's unw i11- Nevertheless. Gov. Pedro P. take Pol Pot into custody and try qu ire the construction of the I and ing the just-concluded US Sen i ng n es s to enforce them," Tenorio has expressed relief him for those deaths, The New fil I. ate committee hearing on CNMI Benavente lamented. that the hearing is over. say York Times reported Thursday. Closing the dumpsite is a "com takeover legislations, said the The Commonwealth has been ing he is pleased with its re "Ifwedon'tgetPo!Pot this time, Timothy P. Villagomez plex undertaking" that may re administration of former gover under fire over alleged human sults. WE SERVICE ALL MAJOR BRANDS he may die before we ever have the quire $15 million to $25 million, nor Froilan C. Tenorio, "by fla rights abuses committed against Tenorio said Committee LIGHT TRUCK TIRES Mitsubishi , Hyundai • Isuzu • Toyota • Nissan • Honda • Ford PASSENGER TIRES chance to bring him to justice," one By Zaldy Dandan Mechem said. grantly disregarding the law," nonresident workers, particu Chair Frank Murkowski (R Chevy • Chrysler , Jeep • BMW • Mercedes • Mazda & morel 95' LT155R12 $54.95 '155R12 $29. -TIRES unidentified U.S. official told the Variety News Staff The construction of the land allowed the number of garment larly, Chinese employees of the Alaska) has said that he would 175170R13 49.95 LT165R13 54." Times. GOVERNOR Pedro P. Tenorio 's fil I, in contrast, may cost $5 mil workers to grow from approxi estimated 40 garment factories like to see more· cooperation BRAKE SERVICE ·. OIL & RIJER CHANGE 95 185/70R13 53.95 LT185R14 89. Pol Pot, now in his 70s and ail solid waste task force yesterday lion to $7 million, he said. mately 6,000 in 1994 to 17,000. that have mushroomed across and coordination between the • Drain old oil & add up to 5 175/70Rt4 59.95 HIGH PERFORMANCE TIRES 4X 4 TRUCK TIRES LT195R14 99. 95 ing, was toppled from power in announced its goal of making the Mechem is the former Divi "This is unacceptable to the Saipan through the years. federal and commonwealth quarts of Castrol or 185175Rt4 62.95 185/50R13 $59,95 LT2718.50R14 $89.95 LT205175R14 99. 95 f?lf:£5[3 Shell Oil 1979 by a Vietnamese invasion. Marpi sanitary landfill operational sion of Environmental Quality people and to the current leader Federal government officials, governments to resolve the 95 95 95 95 • Install new 185/70Rt4 64. 195/60R14 73. LT30/9.50R15 119. LT215/75R15 104. But during his four-year reign, he by next ye,rr. (DEQ) chief. ship of the Commonwealth," CNMJ's labor and immigra ~1 apparently disappointed over BRAKE name-brand ~ 195/75R14 69.95 195/65R15 84.95 LT31/10.50R15 149." LT215/85R16 129.95 and his Khmer Rouge soldiers "That's our time table and He now works with the Envi said Benavente. the manner by which Common- tion problems. oil filter INSPECTION 74.95 95 LT31/11.50R15 154.95 • Disposal fee $3.00 extra 195/70A14 215/65R15 94. LT225/75R 16 134." turned Cambodia into a vast labor meanwhile we will work on up ronmental Protection Agency with every 205/70R14 79.95 195/SOR15 99.95 LT33/12.50R15 159.95 LT235/85R16 149.95 camp and declared many members dating our design plans. includ (EPA)) and is currently providing PURCHASE 205/75R15 79.95 225/60R15 104.95 LT35/12.50R15 169.95 LT245/75R16 159.95 of the middle class enemies of the inl! the closure or the Puerto Rico technical assistance to the task OF4 TIRES! s29,s P215/75R15 84." 205/50R15 109.•• LT265/75R t 6 169.95 revolution. UL~np," Lt. Go\'. ksus R. Sablan force. ~ 95 119.95 P225/75R15 89. 205/55R16 From 1975to 1979,anestimated2 said in a media conference. Tenorio. in :1 memorandum last ------· ·------million Cambodians were killed by T:1sk forcc, ice chair and Com- 1:ehruary. sci up the solid waste the Khmer Rouge or starved to death. 1mi1meallh Utilities Corp. l:\crn ta,k force to "fast 11·1:ck" the con '185/60R13 215/40R16 For almost two decades Pol Pot t i ,. e I l i rec t D 1· Ti 111 u I Ii: I'. "nrc1ion 01· a ,:1ni1:1ry l;1ndfill in • Inspect !cont & rear suspension , Evacuate old and his guerrilla c01mades have been \'ill:1go111<.:1. ,1ml 1hc: l'ucrlo Rim fl.1:rrpi :rnd the closure ufthe Pucrtu • Ad1ust caster. coolant toe & camber 11~ , hiding in the jungles of Cambodia. dump renwi ns ;1 serious concern Coritiriuea·-011 pa-ge5 • Check tor (when applicable) _ • possible leaks The Khmer Rouge is on the brink · Most cars • Relrll with new of collapse from defections and coolant internal squabbles. -Waiver of CIP matcl;iing Last year, Pol Pot's former com requirement requested . s59,s s50,s rades sentenced him to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. By Mar-Vic C. Munar some by the citizens and the 1 U.S. officials, whospokeoncon Variety News Staff CNMI officials and caused ------· ·------J 0 : ·CAR WASH .. . . - <•Jt I~ 131I',',:I33 { JI 1 i-fitr1;2'.iL~.::__, dition of anonymity, said Clinton Till: CNMl's !louse or Rcp delays in many important pub IMi1111=~W@li;;W(il issued a written order Monday to res~ntativcs is t-equcsling the lic projects," said the resolu : · Oil & filler change ~: organize logistics for Pol Pot' scap • • Lu.br1cate chassis • Brushless eaEnHEI federal government to either tion. ! • Top oil all fluids : iUOW 111 STOCI[ ture and trial. waivcoreliminate the: requiri: I louse R~solution 11-23 was , • Rola le & balance tires 1 Under one proposal, Thailand ment for the CNMI to gencr- :1Joptcd during a special ses : • Service battery lerminals Car Wash would apprehend Pol Pot on the 11te matchi11g l\rmls for kderal sion held by the llouse bcl·ore 1 • Inspect brakes Starting al I\S \,.Q'IJ I\S : • Most cars & light trucks condition that the U.S. military re C!I' granls. top CNMI offici:tls trooped to I move him from that country within W:rshinglon D.C. for the li.S. I In :1 resolution. [louse mem I $599~ $'\2CJ95 hours of his capture. bers said w:1i, ing the n1alch Scnalc co1111niltce hearing on I I EUM-3 G-ZERO WAVE3 U.S. intelligence officials said ing fund rcqui1·e111cnl would federal takeover hills. I ~ ('NOTEXACTLYASS/iOl\11/ 14 XI UNIVERSAL 4 LX t IX 1.5 UNIVERSAL 4 LOO 16 X 8 UNWERSAl 5 LOO Thailand had captured Pol Pot last ·------en ah le the ('NM l I() i Is C X pc "The interest or gooJ and Prices valid from April week but then freed him because it di te infrastructure develop progressive government and 2 - 16, 1998 only while feared antagonizing China, a long FINANcrNG I~-=-1ec11 visAJI~~ e I Shell Gas S1a1;o., ori Middle Road, Gualo R.3i 234-TIRE (8473) supplies las1. Nor wilh ment projects. honi:st lo goodness attitude AVAILABLE! - -· H:,u·s MOil ·Sut 7:30A.M.-7:00P.M; any alher offer. Tread time Khmer Rouge ally. 0-.,~'fl Sun B OOf... IA .5 OOP.M "The matching fund rcquirc- lO\v:ird the citizens or the Candidates Christin Oliver, Maria Marquez and Taryn Lizama vying for the title of Miss Guam Universe walk Apply for a Triple J Express Tire & Lube Card. Available Scon! 235-4455/6550 design varies by fire size and brand. 1m;nt is considcr~d burden- Continued on page 5 the ramp Sunday night at the Guam Hilton Hotel. Pholoby Eduardo c. Siguenza
• ' .I '; ,.,! , • ------····------...... -.--. I ,t. -. ------.. - - - -· ------. -- - ··--·-'c:;::-1I:.•' .. - .. L i, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5 f,. JACK ANDERSON and JAN MOLLER A f;. ,.. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND ~ 1.1:Til:l?S TC il·II: l:l)ITCI~ AARPm.ore Tinian's breaking news Dear Editor: guests and visitors to tour the I HAVE A history books that Tinian Dynasty secretive than CIA entire complex of the casino and is the first one ever who planted HARDTIME On April 25, 1998, the island of hotel. MONITOR/Ne the golden seeds of economic de WE REPORT with great regret that the most secretive agency Tinian will become the interna It is very certain that the Tinim1/ velopmcm on Tinian for all oth WHAT MY in Washington may not be the Central Intelligence Agency. tional breaking news because on Saipan Express as well as other ers 10 follow the lead from here NMI needs to exercise KIDS Last month, for the first time in history, the CIA voluntarily this day Tinian Dynasty Hotel small commuter airplanes.will be on. and Casino will conduct its land WATCH released the total amount spent each year through the intelli busy trafficking the air and sea Finally. the so-called "sleeping true self-government gence budget - $28.7 billion. niark grand opening ... when the. between Tinian and giant" has awakt:ned to forge casino doors will be wide open to Saipan ... transporting all kinds of The number was no great secret; for years, reporters have ahead. the eyes and delights of everyone people from almost all walks of IT JUST is too good to be true. And knowing. how the Federal government been told that the intelligence budget was somewhere in the The ripe time has come for all who will be there to witness the life. the people of the CNMI, local operate,. no goo<.l thing comes without something in return. neighborhood of $30 billion. Nevertheless, the disclosure event. The feat und accomplishment leaders, state. leaders and busi. The recent pronouncements ma<.lc by OlA Director Allen Stayman that represents a big victory for those of us who believe the There's no doubt that, if you of Tinian Dynasty is the undeni ncss communities to join hands he wants to work with the CNMI Government on reforms is a complete government's classification system is ridiculously overbear will be there,yourfive senses will able fact that it's the first casino in support ofTinian Dynasty Ho turnabout from his "non-negotiable" stance late last year. ing. be vibrated whether it be smell company ever that touched base tel and Casino. Tiicre has to be something-behind this sudden change ofheai·t and CNMI Unfortunately, there's another piker that's become adept at ing, seeing, hearing, touching or the soils of Tinian to make the There's an old saying: "To officials should beware. tasting Local Initiative of 1989 become a gether in all of us ... we can all For one. CNMI leaders should be wary that the Federal Government may papering over embarrassing information. The American As It is a very certain that the de reality. make the difference." actually just be biding its time so the CNMI will lower its guard and allow sociation of Retired Persons, the country's largest lobbying lights ofeveryone will be a memo The people of Tinian and their . Congratulations and best of the imposition of gr;ater federal control over its affairs with least resis group, prides itself as a grassroots organization that's acces rable one. leaders deserve the greatest rec good luck to Tinian Dynasty Ho tance. sible to its members. And that's often true. It is expected that although ognition and sacrifice in making tel and Casino! Since the so-called federal takeover proposals have been opposed by key But when it comes to revealing the nitty-gritty details of its the grand opening will be a soft it there to see the first ever casino Republican leaders in US Congress. CNMI critics may just simply instead own financial situation, the organization is as secretive as one ... it is expected at the same hotel to exist on the island. RAY M. SAKI SAT push for more Federal pn:sencc here. they come. time that there will be crowds of This historical economic land First Tinian Taxi Cab Could it be that the Feds have gotten to realize that they may actually be Take, for example, the lease on its magnificent, I I-floor customers, dignitaries, officials, mark is going to go down in the Enterprises abk to impose their control overCNMI"s affairs even without the"contro headquarters in downtown Washington. Dubbed the "Taj 1 ,ersv .. of a takco,·cr move' Mahal" by its critics, the headquarters costs the AARP $16.75 Aithough the previous Administration has encouraged US bw enforce YariatitJns million a year in rent. Bedecked in marble and guarded by 20 ment a~rncies to semi more of its officials to Saipan. allowmg federal On contract workers and other issues ~- •• •• -~'!,,-> "' • • - cnforc:rs to run thins:s hrn, would be a big blow to the ultimate goal of security officers, the edifice is a sight to behold, with 12 Dear Editor: I hope Congress will act to end hotel. sccin!.' a CN\11 govc;11ment running its own state of affairs. elevators and state-of-the-art furnishings. the monopoly to help the players The people are being cheated Will "·c soon be seeing more FeJc~·al agents taking on the task of closing But don't try to learn more about the building by reading its After reading in the newspaper stretch their dollars by means of and denied their fair share when down lx11Tacks and g;.irmc111 factories: checking on worker IDs and going lease. That's kept confidential -even from the association's the stories and complaints of those competition and to generate funds they gave Shimizu the 200 hect ;1f1cr illcs:al aliens') A matter of passion members, whose dues are paying for the grandeur. contract workers, I knelt down for the government coffers and. ares of our property. Will CNMI employers be subjecteJ to stricter and more frequent checks Secrecy has been good for the AARP. In the 1980s, the and prayed to our Lord to make the retirees. We should not allow any out anJ sanctions from OSHA and other federnf agencies? METRO Manila, home to IO million people and pino historian Reynaldo C. Ileto, one effective association was being pursued by the Internal Revenue Ser the lives of those greedy, insensi On another matter, the Division of siders to make us look and feel countless roads choking with traffic, will be eerily Or are we going to sec more FBI and DEA agents taking on criminality method recommended by the elders is to exhume vice for back taxes that the government claimed it owed (even tive, heartless and stupid people Public Lmdsshould renegotiate their stupid and use and abuse us. Also. quiet and nearly deserted today. The annual exodus the body of an unchristened child, or an aborted miserable and hopefully they'll and going after J;ug pushers. even when these problems are better left to though the AARP is a non-profit corporation). After almost le,L~c agn,cment with Shimizu Cor they should be investigated for 1 to Baguio, Tagaytay, Batangas, Boracay or to one's fetus, and place it inside a bamboo tube, which will rot in hell. local authoritics' a decade of dickering, the AARP settled with Uncle Sam by poration for not living up ro their their hiring practices. I \a, ins: t.:S enforcers here will not only be a duplication of roles. it also hometown province started Wednesday, and the be pierced at the bottom. The liquid that will ooze Actually, this is no different proposal an<.l commitments such as paying S 135 million '"in lieu of taxes." Just try to get a copy The Japanese and white Ameri diminist{es concept of self-govemmcnt intended under the Covenant. few who will remain in the metropolis have holed should be collected in a bottle and sipped on Good from the poker machines that rake building tbe 200-room hotel. of that settlement. can employees are being given t\forc importantly. this w~uld be tantamount. on the part of the local up in their houses and have hoarded enough video Friday. Or, says Mr. Ileto, one tan go to the in over$72,000,000 generated out I feel that the lease ·agreement more benefits and are paid more The AARP is a private group and has ever~· right to keep ,:ovcrnment. to admitting it is not capable of standing on its own two feet. tapes or books or cheap gin to tide over the Holy cemetery on midnight of Holy Wednesday or of the weaklings and poorest indi was based on their proposal for a than the indigenous. - The CNMI has already put in place reforms in the system. like the Week during which God will die for three days and MaundyThursday and place bowls offood,aglass whatever secrets it wants. But with 32 million members, the viduals of this community that First Class Resort to include 36- return to life, as scheduled, on Easter Sunday, or so of wine and two lighted candles on a tomb. "Before imposition of a moratorium in the hiring of any more new foreign workers second-largest circulation magazine in the world and it~ goes into a pocket or two. hole golf course and 200-rooms EDWARD K. PETER. JR. and the ongoing crackdown on violators of labor and immigration laws. the children are told. the candles burned out, the food and drink would fingers in numerous outside business ventures, the AARP is All but a few stores, malls, bars and night clubs have been consumed by spirits who would leave LETTERS to rhe editor must carry the fuJI name of the wnter and signature. 1virn a relephone number (m case of faxed or mailed letters) for More m;asu1~es are in the can. like the plan to cap the number of alien bigger than some governments. We think it owes its members verification. Letters addressed lo other publications or to third parties ancf those endorsing particular political candidates are discouraged:· workers anJ instituw a time: limit on their stay in the Commonwealth. were open on Maundy Thursday, and the half-a white stone in one of the empty vessels. A struggle not just the services they already get - but the kind of Afl lerters are subjecr to editing. The Variety reserves the right ro re1ect any letters. Name wiihheld and unsigned fellers will not see print. ,. Local lawmakers arc coming up with ways on how to address perceived dozen orso movie houses admitting patrons screened for possession of this anting-anting would then 1,; openness we're now seeing from the CIA. "colonial. Catholic instrument for loopholes 111 local labor laws in an effort to shake off the CNMl's slave "The Ten Commandments"' or ··sen-Hur.., Similar ensue between the aspirant and earth spirit." The ·, l A matter... its m,my social events [among HOLLYWOOD SOUTH? - Louisianans like their food - thought control in that era them, the pasyon] for renewing bhor ta!.'. fare was seen on the one or two TV stations that implicit assumption behind this belief is that with Continued from page 4 were on air yesterday, while the Carpenters, Air God dead or about to die, evil spirits abound, but and their public figures - to be a bit spicy and outrageous. that. .. gave the 'gramm;u- of dis and restoring ties between mem In sh1;n_ there is a golld 1·aith effort to correct the mistakes of the past so pasyon penned in 1814 that be Supply, Bread, Ban-y Mani low and their local clones those with extraordinary courage and faith could But some residents are getting more than they bargained for. sent' for the revolutionaries." An bers of the community." thn 11·011 't recur. came the standard text throughout sang their lament over lost love-it's always lost Our associate Kathryn Wallace was touring the state capital tedating Liberation Tiieology, the The key words are "renewal'· Jlavin!! kdcr;i\ rulers come over and impose their will would only wrestle with these spirits and obtain their special the 19th century. lov;-on the radio. Today all the FM stations will powers, with the added proviso, of course, that of Baton Rouge recently when she came across the Country paoyon depicts Christ as a "subver and "re bi 1th," pa11icul;u·ly. as nar unf:tirh ~·endc1· this lucal reform effort useless because the intrusion will In his controversial 1979 mono sive" whose followers came mostly sign off, together with th; TV stations and most of such powers would henceforth be used for advanc Club neighborhood - an exclusive, gated community of the rated in the pasyon, after tremen disallo~, a dctennination on local government's capability to run things graph on Lhepasyon and the Philip from the common people, and AM radio. ing the "common good." type that normally offers sanctuary to corporate tycoons and dous hardship and even death. Jn correct Iv. pine popular movements, Mr. Ilcto whose brotherhood will proclaim a By 3 p.m. today those who have remained in the At any rate, it is a terrible thing for a child to be wealthy doctors. But this neighborhood might be better suited shon. there is not only sense to this If the ·l iS is sincere ,,bout making things work for the CNMI, it should argued that the 1896 revolution new era of mankind. Indeed, Holy metropolis are either in church hearing Christ's told that God will be dead for a while, but that is to an Aaron Spelling television pilot. sometimes unbelievably pointless ,tllow. cn:n for one !:1st time. loL·:tl government to handle its affairs against Spain was not triggered by Weck is traditionally ··an annual Seven Last Words or arc asleep in their rooms. The how Catholics back home arc brought up. And The newest residents of Country Cluh are gangs ta rappers world, but even God had himself compktcl_Y hy itself :md sec \\'hether CNMI contrnl is justified or not. the liberal ideals imported by OU[ occasion for ... rcncwal. a time for dry season, or "Summer.. as we prefer lo call it, is while others flog or even crucify themselves as nailed on the cross to rmve the On the "thcr h:111d. !Ilea\ lc:1dcrs should stay focus,·d on be111g able to Snoop Doggy Dogg, Master P, C-Murder and their assorted European-educated patriots in the ridding [oneself) with impurities upon this city where only the ril'h and the middle part of their annual vow or penitence (pa1uua), point. The alternative to this. 11c ,k"·r,c ih ,,1,·crci<>nt\. th:1t is. being able to uphold the rule of l:t,,· on its entourage. Percy Miller, a record executive better 1-.nown as I 9th century, as claimed by some (shed like the blooJ and sweat of class can afford to buy an air conditioner: but some make do with lhe day-long recitation of the arc told bv the faithful. is a sta~~cr ""II. withuut ,0111:hu~ly else breathing down on its shou\1.krs. "Master P," plunked down $2.6 million for five homes in tht! history textbooks. Rather, it was despitf.! the heat no Roman Catholic will be caught pasyon. or "An Account of the Sacred Passion of the flagcllants). rordyingofthc old ing emptiness, somewhat lik~,the l·cndin" off the ki.lcral takeover move shou\J not be about continuing neighborhood a few weeks ago. Calvin "Snoop" Broadus, the ritual reading of the pasyo11, a taking a bath or a shower by the artcmoon. It wil 1be, our Lord Jesus Christ," which is written in verse self and being rcborn .. and, through streets of Metro Manila today. ,, ith wh;1tc, ,. r com·cnicncc and perks local control can hri ng the CN MI and signed to Miller's label, lives in one of the homes, while C its people. lt should \Jc about being able to stand on its own, being the elders say. like bathing in Christ's blood. Like and is the length of an epic. The pasyon is to be Murder, Mystikal and other rappers will inhabit the others. earliest possi blc date .. a request 1\:sp1J1isiblc for its own ;1ctions. wise. to cat meat is akin to that of devouring the read by two or more persons who sit around an altar for proposals (RFP) to complete 01hcrwisc.1hcrc would have been no lruc self-government al all, nor will dead body of Christ. For their part, children arc and sing alternate stanzas. If there is a considerable If the gangsta rappers were trying to get away from the Task ... the projeL·t. Waiver... there c,cr he. remindcu°not to play lest they injure themselves, for numbe; of individuals for the pahasa (the read mean streets, they may have chosen the wrong neighborhood. Continued fro~~ge 3 _<::ontinued from page 3 such injuries will never heal,. fitting punishment for ing), the singers are divided into two groups and Longtime residents of Country Club include former Loui:;;i The gt" enwr has vowed to be Rico dump. those who dared to be merry on a Good Friday, like there will be two altars, and the singing will alter ana Gov. Edwin Edwards, twice indicted but never con gin wor~ 011 the closure or the CNMI, the waiving 01· matl'11- The governor named as task the Roman soldiers shooting craps while Christ nate between the groups which can also vary the Puerto Rico Jump in the first I 00 i11g fund requircmc;ll will defi victed, who is affectionately referred to as "the Crook" by rorce members himsdf. Sablan, died on the cross. Manual labor is also taboo on this style of singing. One such style is called wr.:rilaylay, days of his administration. nitely hclpcnhanccandcxpcdite many Louisianans. Edwards is currently a target of an ongo acting Public Works Secretary 1 er seven his reputation. adviser on finance and budget I\ r'(J ~:~, 1~· ,_,~::,:~·. 1.,.1, ,__.l/!;)J"f~.c:2.t t.1ember ol expletive reserved ror the konrrnhida (villains), ksuits, wrote his "Maha/ na Pasion ni J e.rncris1011g longer seek the: $125,000 fine ir years which started in 1996. Mike S. Sablan and Assistant At T~i ,~·r01L::..-:.,::.:~.~·1 l:_,·.:~~'~i'0/.~27'r!. The Associated Press (AP) which included Roman centurions, who conspired Pw1gi11oon Nati 11, .. which is now considered one Gated communities like Country Club are usually designed imposed on the CNMI govern Each year, the CNMI gets $1 l Fa, 1Gi:JJ ~3~-~27: .. , Nl,t I< :,L"'-l \ ~~~ torney General Sally Pfund. :r,Tl')t:;.,L auainst the Nazarene. of the masterpieces or Filipino literature. How to keep bad elements out. In this case, we hope the gates arc ment. million from the federal gov t 1998. r.t:ir12~·1as ,,1 c1w:1 J' 1a ::·~ 1,:,,,t :, The task force will review all : ~ ·, ;.ssr_J(l,'. l','J!l But EPA vowed to pursue ernment, which the CNMl will All Rights Reseried .A_, II'~ - For the brave, however, Holy Week is the time to ever, it is the "bastardized" version of De Helen's keeping the bad clements in. related contracts cu1-rcntly under "more 1·igorous enforcement op <>htain r1J1liJ1g-a111i11g. or amulet. According lo Fili- CoJJyrig/11 1998, Unitni Feu110-L' S_w1tlin,re. Inc. have to match with an equiva Continued on page 5 way, and will complete "at the tions.'' lent amount. -·-·-·· ·11.-.•.·· ,. f ' FRIDAY, APRIL IO, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-7 6-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- APRIL 10, 1998 "I Japa11ese traveling less OPAstops By Aldwin Fajardo R. More Japanese tourists, the news can only reduce "a little." Variety News Staff paper said, are more likely to visit Guerrero said he felt that the board ago. Guerrero and MVB Managing Hotel Association spokesperson By Rick Alberto AS IF the recent slwnp in the North domestic tour destinations or other has the authority to approve the The amount had in fact lapsed, Director Anicia Q. Tomokane Lynn Knight said the downfall on Variety News Staff ern Mariana Islands' tourism indus areas where prices are lower and grant. and according to government rules signed it yesterday. room rates in Saipan is a market THE presentaiion of u $250,000 try is not yet bad enough, here is ··Jn the beginning we submitted and regulations, any lapsed fund The MOU has only to be signed where they can make the most out of driven situation, when industry play grant to the Northern Marianas another bad news. a budget and in that budget we reverts back to the government by NMC President Agnes their financial capabilities. ers nonnally reduce unit costs to com College's tourism complex Overseas travels made by Japa project by the Marianas Visitors had ·operations, promotions, do coffers. McPhetres and Gov. Pedro P. In fact. Nikkei said domestic trav pete and eventually get a bigger nese tourists have steadily dropped Bureau has been aborted after its nations,' etc.," Guerrero ex According to Guerrero, the Tenorio, Guerrero said. els have increased by 1.9 percent, portion of the market. and economists are predicting slower legality had been questioned by plained. MVB 's legal counsel said the grant Guerrero said the money avail though the average number of travel lheCommonwealthDevelopment people traffic ahead, as a result of the the Office of the Public Auditor. He said the app'ropriation of a is not totally imperilled as the gov able now is $233,000. days among the Japanese have de Authority wanted Saipan room rates coW1try' s slumping economy. Earlier MVB Managing Direc $25'.),000 grant to the NMC Busi ernor has only to approve it. "We 're going to find the cliued to 2. 75 days from the previous to be competitive with those of A Japanese newspaper, Nikkei, tor AniciaQ. Tomok:mc had asked ness and Tourism Learning Cen A memorandum ofunderstand $17,000remainderwithin this fis 3-4days. Guam's, whichhavereportedlybeen reported that overseas travels have Public Auditor Leo L. LaMotte ·s ter had been approved two years ing has been prepared, and cal year," he said. The newspaper also said tourists lower. dwindled by 2.4 percent, the highest are demanding for lower tour pack CDA chair Juan S. Tenorio has opinion regarding the giving of . ' Leo L. LaMotte .since 1996. ages since travel budget of Japanese said that the average room in a four financial grants to other govern Nikkeialsopredicted lowertourist tourists have been significantly de star hotel here costs $160 per day, ment agencies by the MVB. government agencies that are di MVB officials cliffer on bill to traffic in the next few months, citing creasing. whereas in Guam it is$ 135. He said LaMotte pointed out that any rectly related to tourism," LaMotte the depreciating value of the Japa Japan is faced with sluggish eco Guam hotels are still enjoying 75-80 financial grants to be made by the said. nese yen against the US dollar. nomic growth and growing worries percent occupancy, compared with MVB should be included in the He explained, "It should be reorganize ·touristn ·agency EveiythingisnotbadfortheCNMI, about the impact ofthe financial crisis budget submitted to the legisla noted that MVB funds may only Saipan's 60 percent. however. Nikkei said Saipan, as well in Asia Reports claimed there were The World Tourism Organization ture for approval. be used to carry out MVB activi By Rick Alberto asGuam,hasremainedapopulartour no indications that corporate confi has projected a bleak future in the Financial grants approved by ties as authorized by law." Variety News Staff destination among Japanese travel dence would recover anytime soon. Asia-Pacific region in the next two the legislature can only be spent Commenting on the OPA opin WHICH version, House or Sen ers, citing the island's proximity to The CNMI government earlier for ··projects c:uTied out by other ion. MVB board chair Antonio S. , ate? years where 80 percent of its tourist, Officials of the Marianas Visi Japan. urged Saipan hotels to lower room come from within the region. tors Bureau differon their views Japanese to wists are also expec'.ed rates to attract more tourists to the Asia-Pacific nations lost 12 mil on which MVB reorganization to travel during the country's golden Northern Mariana Islands, but the liontouristsin 1997whentheregion's weeks - April 25 to May 5. Hotel Association said the industry ' bill they favor and can work on currency plunged in July last year. ~ We want.you(business!. in making their recommenda tions. n,:.i ,_Ao MiddleRoad,GualoRai Tourist hurt ~- next to Subway 2~4· '1368' An MVB board committee g • . - . which includes Deputy Manag ' in robbery ing Director Alvaro Santos that looked into the two ver- By Ferdie de la Torre , sions favors the House draft pointed by the governor subject MVB into a public corporation Variety News Staff HAPPY HOU~ which it describes as compre to Senate confirmation, while the as this ensures autonomy," A WOMANtouristwasinjuredwhen EVER..YDAY, JEDENT)>...(;, KA.DA DIA. two car-riding snatchers reportedly hensive. fourothermembers would be cho Santos said, adding that under DODOS LOS DIA. AR..A.W-)>...f'-..A.W robbed her in Garapan Wednesday On the other hand, Managing sen from the MVB membership this setup, it will manage its 4:00 P-M. TO 7:00 P.M. night. roster. personnel and have control over Director Anicia Q. Tomokane Public Safety Information Officer The bill gives the MVB semi its own finances. Fresh Sashimi ...... $4.50 favors the Senate bill, which "is Maj. J. J. Castro said the victim, Chicken Wings ...... $2.75 ''It will give the board greater more workable." autonomy as it is taken out from described as 44-year-old Japanese Mini Quesadillas ...... $3.25 the administrative and coordina powers to manage the affairs of Mini Chimichangas ...... $3.25 Tomokane told a board meet woman, suffered laceration to the left Tacos ...... $3.25 ing yesterday the House version tive supervision of the Depart the· MVB," he said. eye, and bruises to right ankle and Beef Kelaguen ...... ~...... -...... $4.50 was "cumbersome" and that it ment of Commerce. The board, he continued, will elbows. Pitchers of Margarita's _...... -...... _...... $12.00 might create more confusion. The House bill, which is still in also have the authority to ap Castro said taken from the victim Pitchers of Beer ...... -...... ·-···· $10.00 prove expenditures from MVB House Wine .. _.. _...... $2.50 glass "I recommend the Senate ver a draft form, generally agrees with was her purse containing $88 cash, Margaritas ...... $2.50 glass sion. It's more in line with what the Senate version as it provides generated revenues. $50 in travellers check, and keys. Select Imported Beers ...... $2.50 MVB should be-revert where it greater autonomy to the MVB Santos said the MVB has only Investigation showed that prior to (San Miguel & Holsten) was before Executive Order 94- and repeals EO 94-3, Santos said to report to the legislature to the incident the victim and her 19- Bud Family ...... $2.25 seek its approval of the MVB Jack Daniels/Tangueray/Red Label/ 3 went into effect,'· Tomokane in an earlier interview. year-old daughter had just stepped Stolichnaya & Bacardi cocktails ...... $2.50 drink said later in an interview. However, the House version not budget. out from the East Ocean Restaurant The Senate bill trims the num only takes out the MVB from the He also said that in the past. and were walking toward Dai-lchi Order from the menu during happy hour and receive a ber of board members, 14, to DOC wings but-converts it into a under the present setup, the gov Hotel. 10% discount 7 days a week' MVB's original number, nine. public corporation. ernor has dipped into MVB funds When the two tourists passed by Call: 234-Brew (2739) for information. Five members would be ap- "I agree with converting the and used these forotherpurposes. Remington Club, a tinted old type car driven by a man coming from Beach Road slowed down near their side. The car's male passenger then Tinian airport project on hold grabbed the woman's bag from the vehicle's window. The tourist. who was still holding until completion of studies the bag's strap, was dragged some 15 feet by the car. She landed on a By Aldwin R. Fajardo crated from the casino industry Tinian airport, even as he agreed muddy area of the road. Variety News Staff and from ports operations lo pay with the Continental Micronesia's The car sped off to Beach Road. THE COMMONWEALTH Ports for the proposed flotation of the concern that the facility's present Police said emergency medical Authority is engaging a private bond that would fund the Tinian condition will not be able to sup technicians administered first aid be company to conduct the feasibil project. port nonstop flights. fore transporting the injured tourist to ity studies for the Tinian air and He said the Ports ··we arc still looking at how the Commonwealth Health Center. sea ports this month. it was dis Authority's declining rev much we can borrow and if it The descriptions of the suspects closed. enues have been preventing re4uires udditional security when and the car were similar with the car .. We would be conducting fea the agency to float another the funding comes," he added. riding snatchers who had victimiz.ed two women in separate incidents a sibility studies on the financial bond for the West Tinian air At the same time, Salas said few weeks ago in Garapan,according port. but stressed that his of CPA is still waiting for the Fed aspect of the air and sea ports as to the police. eral Aviation Administration's well as the viability of tax rev fice is still working out im In another police's report, a 36- enues that can be generated from portant details with regards to [FAA 's] approval on the environ year-old woman was injured during a the casino industry," Ports Au the repayment of the proposed mental assessment report submit fight with her boyfiiend at her resi Jack Hardy and his staff of profossional thority executive director Carlos bond. ted by the Ports Authority last dence in Chalan Kanoa District 3 photogr.iphors aro lo:iming up with Flor B.i.cani Reach Out and her staff of beauticians to cf'!'or Glamour Salas said. Tinian business leader Phillip month. yesten:lay before dawn. Imagos ,;at tho newly oponod Salon de Rosa !I. Salas said the Tinian improve Mendiola Long earlier said fur I-le earlier said three companies The victim received laceration to Portr.rt Packagos (stJrtinij as low as $69.95) will ther delay in the flotation of bond have already expressed interest in bo .ivailablo for purchase from tho Proors of this ment and expansion project would the face and cut on her finger. oxeitlng sossion. be put on hold until the comple for the island's airport may jeop financing the $52.2 million ex Police said the victim and her boy HERE tion of the studies, which will ardize marketing efforts to make pansion of the Tinian airport. I le friend went to a nightclub and had an Tinian the casino gambling hub said the CPA will ask the three argument when they reached home. t,,0.:/f §.ii:E CHC kick off before the end of the ; MIOO\.E R.OAD companies to submit theirrespec The man slapped the victim sev month. of the Pacific. Tel: 234-8521 • Fax: 234-8525
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' ___APRIL ~:__!_?98 -l\1ARIANASVARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11 l0-MARIAN;.,:s VARIETY N1hvs AN6'vii::ws-FR.il)AY- APRIL 10. 19~_ --~-- HANMI to Gov't: Lower Chun: OSHA abused cost of doing business CDA sues to collect $1.2M By Aldwin R. Fajardo By Ferdie de la Torre 1994, ,md $2(XJ,(Xl0 in Aug. 1994. w,L, paid in full on Sept. 26, 2004. '"Defend,mL, failed to make timely bined witl1 the total accrued interest In return, tl1e Ca.stroscxecuted prom due. or $24,034.5 I to make a new Variety News Staff small island nations Variety News Staff 'n1c mortl!al!e authorized CDA to payments under the consolidation issory notes wherein tl1cy agreed to foreclose on "parcels of l,md situated al agreement. Therefore, two addi principal m110unt of $1,0 I ~.520.27. INSTEAD of asking the private sector to reduce room rates, the ment of Interior," the 11:po11 said, ll!ECOMMONWEALTH Develop By Mar-Vic C. Munar ranee of the cultural differences ment Authority yesterday sued two repay tJ1e direct lo.ms. plus interest at I-Denni, Saip,ITT, two fishing vessels, tional documents were entered by ··By failing to pay the monthly CNMI government should look for ways to make doing business in "OSHA slatted to incre:L~c the in Variely News Staff which allows federal agencies or JX!rsons to collect $1.2 million in lo,ms tive percent machinery, and otl1er prop::rties. CDA and defendants in Feb. 1995," installments due and owing, the the Northern Marianas cheaper, a business sector spokesperson sp.:ctions:u1J continued to send waves A FORMER director of the Oc the Unit<.!d States govc111111cnt to allegedly tl11:y had borrowed from tJ1e Eycrly in tl1e complaint sajd tl1c notes Eycrly pointed out tl1at tl1e defcn he said. defendants have defaulted o;;- their of i nspeclors to inspect employ s;iid. cupational Sakty and Health Ad- enter the homelarl(f of the Pacific ngcncy in 1993 to 1995. were secw-ed by a Joan agreement, a fee danl,a~rccd that a !ale clmr~e would be Under lhl.' revision agreement. Joan. and have breached the condi "f1l1e govemment J shou kl ask what it can do to lower ~1e cost of doing ers at a rate IO to I 00 times that of simple mortgage, a security agreement. impose~d if any installment ;as not paid the CDA counsel explained. tl1cprin tions of the notes, mortgages, and 111inis11·ation has rclcas<:d a n:port lslamkr and treat them unfairly." CDA :Lskcd tl1e Superior Court to business on Saip:u1." Hotel Association spokesperson Lynn Knight said. their counterpart sin the states." order defend,ITTts Joaquin Q. Castro ,tnd a receivables and inventory security. wit!1in 15 days after tJ1c due dale for cipal amount of$994,485. 76w;L,com- agreements."' he added. which enumerated the agency's OSHA. for example, imple Knight said comp:uing room rates between Guam and Saipan does not ··The targeting of the employer," and Margarita A. Castro to pay Under tl1e first promissory note. such installment. alleged abuses and discrimina ments an "unfair and disi::rirnina make ,my sense because of the difference in tl1e expenses incum:d by the1cpo1tadJed. ··should not be based $1,018,520.27 in principal sum. Eycrly stated that tl1edefend,ITTL,agreed He said in Aug. l 994. CDA ,ITTd tion~ ag:tinsl small islands in the tory inspection scheduling sys investors in conducting businesses. on funding provided by DOI or $156.940.40 in accrued interest, :u1d to repay tJ1e direct lo,ITT in set 111ontl1 ly defcnd,ITTlscxccu tcd a con sol id at ion of Pacific, particularly Guam and the tem, according to the report. installments, b.:ginning Aug.1993 ,ITTd lolms, mortgages. and security agrc~ Bedroom Sets She explained that Saipan is a lot mote expensive to conduct business $ I l .34 7.18 in late charges. CNMI. . Chun said economic condition by the direction of the depart CDA. tl1rough counsel Tred R. continuing until the lo.ITT w.L~ paid in mcnts. tl1an in Guam. ment." The 29-pagc report prepared by was originally the reason used "to Eycrly. requested the court that the full in July 2003. 'n1c consolidation. according to The cost of doing business on Saipan is already 25 to 30 percent OSHA 's actions. Chun added, Eyerly said the dcfend,UJL, agreed in Eyerly .combined tl1etliree direct lo,ITTs OSHA 's former area director target employers in Guam and the mortgaged real property be ordered higher than on mainland. which makes operation of even the "require a ncutr:11 ;1dministrative· sold at a public auction by the public tl1e second promissory note to repay the :u1d tl1e accmctl interest for a new prin Walter Chun also scored the De CNMl to increase the number of sn;allest business in the CNMl cost prohibitive. plan and crit"cria to be developed safety commissionerlosecure tl1c lo.ms. direct loan in set montl1ly installmenl~. cipal amount of $994.485.76. The partment of Interior for allegedly inspections, citations. and penal beginning July 28, Il)')4 and continu mortgages ,Ulll liens for tl1e tl1m: lrnu1s Knight said the room rates charged by Saipan hotels are in to ensure fairness." (MCM) 'll1e plaintiff also sought court order misusing taxpayers' money by ties." to seize and sell tl1e mortgaged chattels ing until the lo.ITT wa, pajd in full on were alsocon;;ol idatcd ,ITTd coordinated. alignment with the cost of operating businesses on the islands. funding OSHA 's inspections of ··osHA continues to use the ,md otl1er collaternl. June 28, 2004. CDA said tl1e defcndanL, a~rced to She said most medium to large hotels on Saipan must provide for businesses in Gu:tm and the same reason or excuse for target According to tl1e complaint, CDA Undertl1e third note, tl1c lawyer said. repay tJ1e new principal anlOUnt in SCI their own infrastructure, adding that the cost of water desalinization Teno·-vetoes montl1ly installments, beginning Oct. CNMI. ing employers on Guam and the extended a direct loan to defendants in tl1e C.Lstros shall repay the Imm in set and power plant ranges as high as $3 million per resort hotel, with monthly installments, beginning Oct. 26, I 994 and continuing until tl1e lo.u1 "OSHA ·s ,1buseofauthorityex CNMl despite the foct that these the principal amount of $400.000 in more than $800,000 in annual maintenance. PSS special April I 993,,motl1er$400,(XXlin March 26, 1994 and continuing t1ntil tl1c lo,m is paid in full on Sept. 26, 2(X)4. ists in the discriminatory treat nations arc in an economic de She added that a significant factor in recovering the cost of ment of employers in the CNMI cline. investments on Saipan that most businesses cannotown the land account:bill...... is and Guam," the report said. Chun said the Department of they arc built on. unlike Guam where anyone can own land. "As a Pacific Islander, I am Interior provides funds for OSHA By Zaldy Dandan Good Friday traffic ,alert Constrnction costs are high due to the necessity of building appalled by the discriminatory to target and inspect employers in • MADE in the U.S.A. typhoon-proof facilities. fmported construction materials cost 30 Variety News Staff By Ferdie de la Torre hicle. On the other hand. the Tanapag impact of unfair treatment," Chun the CNMI ··at a higher rate than GOVERNOR Pedro P. Tenotio has procession will start al 6 p.m. at • Double Coasted Polyurethane percent more than the mainland, or I 0-15 percent higher that Guam, Variety News Staff Sablan said Mt. Tapochao lookout is Scratch Resistant Finish stated in the repott. "The discrimi anywhere else in the region of the ··regrettably" vetoed a bill that would \.;, reserved for persons with disabili the Santa Remedio Church. head due to the economies of scale, added shipping expenses and excise THEDEPARTMENTofPublicSafety • Easy Gliding Drawers w/Steel nation is aggravated by the re US." creatcaspccial accountforthePublic yesterday ,L,ked motorists and pe ties, vehicles with passes and VIPs. south and make a left toward 2W taxes. i/ Ball Bearing Glides & Stops fusal to recognize or the igno- "Once funded by the Depart- School Systcm 's financing needs, I.· destrians to follow traffic control For today's procession. Sablan Highway. r ··1t will then take 2W Highway which include constrnction, repair designed for the observance of said. Beach Road from Sugar Dock TIRED OF CREDIT HASSLES? and Island Fiesta intersection south north and make left turn by the Good Friday. l'f No Repair Bills mid mainternmce of cla~srooms. to the Post Office will be tempo Mobile gas station, follow the pave Capt. Delbert Sablan, of DPS l'f No Security Deposit Tenrnio, in a letter to the Legisla rarily closed at 4 p.m. ment west and terminate at the Traffic Section. said the cross will l'i No Credit Check ture Wednesday, said a thorough re be escorted to Capitol Hill after the Hesaidtl1eprocession, which will church." Sablan said. l'i No Long-Term Obligations view of House Bill 11-77 revealed blessing at the Mt. Carmel Cat11e start at 4:30 p.m .. will head south He said 2W Highway will be "questionable constitutional con dral at 7:30 a.m. today. on the secondary road by the Karidat temporarily closed during the pro cerns" the proposed law raises. Sabl:m in his report to Police M,\jor Office. make a right turn on the cession. lllAI. ·We want your· business! · Sablan said there will be a sun However, he added, his veto will S,ITTtiago F. Tudela said the cross will former Mayor's Office, then pro ceed north on Beach Road Chalan rise prayer at 5:30 a.111. at Mt. . ILi le A, Middle Road, G-uolo Roi ·23.. 4 - 7368. Rejoice notjeop:utlize PSS's autho1ity to in tl1en be carried up to tl1e Mt. Tapod1ao · KUU-m-vlllll · next to Subway · • to be escorted by a.marked police vc- Kanoa. and back to the Cathedral. Tapochao on Easter Sunday . .. ~ .. · AQUA RESORT CLUB cur$15,685,000inpublicdebt, which with the ha:; been extended by House Joint Resolution 10-36. ··1 believe t.hat the prim:uy pu1posc entire family of this bill is to establish a procedu1e CARMEN'S fom~suring that tJ1e (CNMI's)rcpay ment obligations are fulfilled," And start your day Tenrnio said. ··1 recommend that other ap with our proaches be looked into. Forexample, legislation could require that tl1e piiy mcnt b.: identified in budget submis sions for the Lcgislatrne to approp1i atc. "Or legislation specifying a p,u- ticular source of revenue to be e,urnmjed to satisfy payment obliga tions," the governor said. Apti I 8 w,Ls the l:Lst day for tJ,e governor to act on the bi II, :ITTdTenotio said he would ha1·c n:qucstcd th:11 it b.: rccalkd if not for t!1c deadline. Arnong the ··several problems· in the 11.B. I l-7Ts cun-ent draft: • It makes apprnpriatio11s for the Ba~i~~ ~~;;;et"'\,.. //~~£2,~:J't~• Century Smart 11c.\t IO vcars. whid1 the !_>l)l'Ctllllr 1 / Fit Car Seat said viDl,;testheCNMl Constitution's (Winnie the Pooh Pattern) ) / GRACO PACK AND PLAY \ April 12, 1998 from ( Carrierup to 20# ) A11iclc 3. Section 9. as intcq)l'ctcd #'s 0392012004/20071112 · 1 #0302011324 ) '\ Regular S96.00 , 11 :OOam-2:00pm by the Superior Court's i 995 nil \'- Regular S210.00 1 Regular S109.00 / ing 011 Rayphand v. Tenorio. 1 • It al':1e,1rs to exclude the use of · '°',SALE $159.00// \,,,~, SALE $89.00 __.,,,/ / ~~L~ 83.~0_/ For a memorable ,1ny funding reserved for PSS by ...... ______------,,, ------Easter celebration, bring the the Conslitution 's Atticle 15. Sec tion l(c) from being tramli:ncd to Graco Literider Stroller Gerry Convenience Stroller Children on the Go Girls Swim Wear Set Boys Swimwear Sassy Cradle whole family and join the l'SS financing a,Tount. #0302010003 (full size) Soft Seat (size 2T & 3T) pants Bouncer The gm·ernor said "if this is the Regular S139.00 #0307011013 #0334023104 #0399000501 #326012104 intc111 of the l.c·gisl:11urc. then such #0399000501 our EGG-HUNTING and Regular $179.00 Regular $19.00 Regular S21.00 Regular $35.00 a prnvision is unduly restrictive ... SALE $110.00 Regular $21.00 other special games.Fun starts at • Morc:ovcr. the bill's Section I Sale $145.00 SALE $16.00 SALE $15.00 SALE $29.75 ( ,·) purprn1s to prohibit amrndmc:~t SALE $15.00 exactly 12:00 noon at the poolside. of the law until the obligations or Selected Developmental Toys 20°/o OFF .. _. thc di.:ht have been satisfied. "El'cn if this provision is rn .store Hours: Adult: $22.00 forccahlc. ll'hich is doubtful. I Jo Carmen's Baby News Mon-Fri 10:00AM-7:00PM Open Good Friday-April 10 9:00AM - 4:00PM not bdcvc it is good practice: to 1O:OOAM-4:00PM ,1ttc111pt to prevent a future legisla Chalan Kanoa, Beach Road Sat: 9:00AM-7:00PM Easter Sunday April 12 (Compliment below 3 yrs old) Kids: $11.00 ture from excrc i.si 11g its authority to Tel: 235-7314 Sun: 10:00-6:00PM legislate:· Tenorio said. , ,; f 12-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- APRIL I 0. 1998 ::i·:.' l I',' FRIDAY, APRIL IO, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-13' 22 Bangladeshis sue employer New law bats for a ByFerdiedefaTOITB. The plaintiffs, through counsel dants, they each worked more than Variety News Staff Pamela Brown, asked the court to 40 hours per week. At all times better Parole Board \ TWENTY-two Bangladeshi secu order Benavente to pay each of duringthecourseofplaintiffs'wrnk, \ rity guards yesterday sued their them $4,656 in liquidated dam defendants failed to pay them By Rick Alberto \ employerbeforetheSuperiorCourt ages. the proper wage for the over Variety News Staff for alleged non-payment of their Brown said the plaintiffs were time hours," she said. GOVERNOR Pedro P. Tenorio /; wages. employed by defendWlts pursu The lawyer pointed out that the other day signed into law The security guards led by one ant to a contract which had been on Dec. 11, 1997 DOLI found House Bill l 1-3 which is meant to J j Abdul Quyum Miah named as de approved by the Department of that the defendants violated the make the Parole Board more ef fendants in the suit Benavente Se Labor and fmmigtation. law by failing to compensate fective and efficient. ', l curity Agency and its owner Anto "During each and every week of the Bangladeshis for overtime The new law is now known as coMMON\VEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA nio A Benavente. plaintiffs' employment with defen- and non-overtime hours. Public Law 11-8. ,, 1sLANDs. \' In ena.:ting the law, Tenorio \ . . I requested the legislature to ad \ t . I dress some concerns contained in •E the bill like requiring Parole of Pedro P. Tenorio \ ficers to receive same training in SAIPAN arrests and arrest procedures as •The offender must have served Public Safety officers. at least one third of his or her Easter Sunday Brunch The law amends certain provi sentence; sions of the Commonwealth Code •Parole must be a conditional April 12, 1998 and repeals Executive Order 94- release based on the good behav (iOVANNi'~ 3. ior of the offender while in prison; Under the law, Parole officers •The parolee must receive help Easter Gourmet Champagne Brunch Easter Sumlu}' Specials shall have the power to arrest per in adjusting to community prob I Why 1101 slart off your Easler This Easter. our e:-..1x:rienccJ Chcls sons under the jurisdiction of the lems; and al Gio,·aJmi ·s ,mJ enjoy Ilic have prepared traditional spcci,J1ics Parole Board. •Society must be protected from i" 1radi1ional gourmc I brunch ' f. jusl for you and ymu family. Stmt your Parole officers are covered by potential recidivism through sur ~/'·} EnJoy the sp<:cialt1cs like Turkey. "J ~ bnmch "ith a glass of champagne while the laws and regulations appli veillance of the parolee. Roast l~g. Sushi. S,Lshimi. cnjo~ing the delicious dishes for only cable to police officers insofar as The law provides for a "more '. Tcppanyaki (irill Specials. l.ohster. $27.00 for adults and $13. 511 for duldren /, training, carrying and use of fire careful delineation of needed fohulous Jessen aJ1J a 101 more. under 12 years old. For dinner, you "ill /t:.,... ~: arms are concerned. ii . ">. Brunch 1s open from JinJ a hosl of International Cuisine at our parole personnel, the right of J i l ~ J l i IU::111 arn-::>rn1 pm llllC) Jinncr bullet station. Priced al $28.011 The law says that an effective parole officers to bear fire 1 \,if I \ ~ \ $2-1.1111 for cidults anJ for adults aJ1d $14.00 for children w1Jcr parole system is imperative at a arms while on duty, and the I ·... ·\: 1,. ! f:~ ./ i \ $13.50 l<>r cl11klren 12 year.; old. Kili Cafe & Tcrmcc is 01x:n time of increasing criminal activ inclusion of parole officers in • ' • f. ~.. .l l \•. under 12 years old for lunch from I 0:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. ,md ity in the CNMI. the list of law enforcement //' \ . . . \ : i . .• dmner from 6:110 p.m.-10:00.p.m. The law lays out the criteria for officers eligible for death ben ,.' ~ \\ parole: efits." DOLi rulings press for "\ ,/Easter\MisSftge !. \ Whilr you dine at any of our n,staurant,. settlements compliance \ 1l1c lids can come to CaJnp Jlyall and enjoy ', ., the Faster Sunday Childrc"Jl Activity. The it is also a Holy day. Most ' By Jojo Dass Asper has also referred the l j pro.,ram includes Ea.,tcr hmch. Arts ,md Crafls. Variety News Staff case to the Attorney General's Swimming. I !ula Dancing aJtd of course the .\ ) A KOREAN businessman was Office (AGO) for "enforcement Easter Egg J lw1t \\1th the Faster Bunnies. ordered to pay $19,000 while a assistance." all al lltc price of $15 ..iO aJld $5 (JI) if your people tli'~k of the Easter bunn,r. deyating eggs, dressing up in their nonresident worker was awarded In a related development, child waJ1ts JUsl Ilic Egg I !uni Special ,4 $37,500 in separate rulings re Asper has dismissed a case filed \ l ....~It to m~. ·.···ki. · (APRIL10,11,12&13,1'998). . ·?.lfi$sitp~·l()·•. ~J6~l)Y{~ ~y ·•·· tli~ ~ntof Lands./~,· ;1'Tatu1'81.!~!)S(D~)/( •; ~( . i• ...... \.... P~\ Betty Cracker's Brand: !'Tb.~y(POLlstaff)hav~t:jeeµ ••... •... ~:fotl?!.-~t'.~ ~t••·W:y) (Assorted/Mixed) · Best Food Mayonnaise 1 gal Musicians Open ; given. an extension but>they ,won't hav~ an• excuse for not< Mike Nite 10.39 each c,tr«?,~.-· ..~ice Thai firm protesting deadline !r Best Food Mayonnaise 64oz .·>·:4b#i .. Every Saturday night at Figueroa's. {/i6: 10 each Bring your instrument and sit in extension of Hillblom payment with Hank and the gang! J{Niagara Spray Starch By Ferdie de la Torre Construction Co., Ltd. (BGCC), development of 18-hole golf i/ 4-22oz/pack "' There's no cover, just lot of fun. Variety News Staff told the Variety that their com course in Phan Thiet Town. · A THAILAND-based construc pany has expressed concern with P.T.C. unilaterally suspended We'll even extend our Happy Hour until tion firm has protested the deci the postponement. the contract and passed the project Jl4.79 pack 9 PM on Saturdays to help get you sion of the People's Supreme Ng said BGCC Board Chair handling to another firm. BGCC Court of Vietnam postponing the man Prachuap Jattanont wrote a sued P.T.C. demanding for com warmed up. deadline for Larry Hillblom's letter to the president of the pensation. company to pay losses. People's Supreme Court of Viet Vietnam courts issued a deci The Music starts at lOPM! . Tony C.P. Ng, managing direc nam and ambassador of Vietnam sion in favor of BGCC. The rul . j' Call 234-BREW (2739) tor far Bangplee Golf Course in Thailand about the continued ing was appealed several times. Crisco delay of implementing the court Ng, president of the Royal .t decision. Crown Insurance Corp., said Last month, Ng disclosed that BGCC received a letter from Vegetable Oil pursuant to a court order BGCC People's Supreme Court of Viet 1 gal. would seize the Phan Thiel Golf nam, informing them about the Course if Hillblom' s firm, Phan three-month postponement of Thiet Golf Links and Club Co., implementation of court decision · Ltd. (PTC) fails to pay $966,080 for consideration. ·.99 until March 13, 1998. "The solving process of the case Court documents showed that has been lasting too long. We are 6each P.T.C. signedwithBGCCin 1994 very surprised to get the decision a package contract amounting of temporary postponement," Ng $5.6 million for construction and said. Powder Soap Powder Soap Zest Bar Soap 85 Loads 85 Loads 12-5oz/pack DOLI fines employer 13.79 16089 7o49 who has left island each each pack By Jojo Dass erly authorized employment Variety News Staff for other employers and THE DEPARTMENT of La charged money for this autho bor and Immigration (DOLi) rization." Noxzema Shaves Secret/Sure has ordered an employer to Bautista, the records further pay $500 in fines for alleged showed, also "aided in a fraud labor violations and aside from by renewing (Cunanan 's) the Deodorant being barred from hiring non employment contract from 3-2. 7oz/pack resident workers again. Feb. 1995 to Feb 1996." The employer, a certain Cunanan, for his part, was Angelina Bautista who runs found to have "breached the 6.49 pack the A&E Enterprises, accord approved employment con ing to DOLi documents, has tract and refused to work for however departed the Com (Bautista) in a legal job clas """ ~ monwealth even before the sification." and more i ruling could be served. In issuing his ruling, Linn 11 Records showed that Asper, DOLi Administrative ··· -store sale\ Bautista abandoned her em Hearing Office (AHO) Super · • A · .' · · · P.O. Box 166 Saipan MP 96950 ployee, a certain Regino DLP visor, "warned" Cunanan that A~cepts. Food Sta~p. cce~ts Fiesta Card • ~eserve .the Right to Corr~ct . ITel No. _ Cunanan, and had "improp- 235 699416995 Continued on page 17 Printed Errors of this Ad • Prices are good while supplies last . Across Hopwood High School · Chalan Piao . . . . , [f. [_ 14-MARJANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- APRIL 10, 1998 f FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-15 ..A OPM readies for PSRW ·, By Jojo Dass Aside from recognition, the boost productivity at the work ployee of the Year," an employee Certain criterion have been set Variety News Staff each awarded employee will like place with all employees vying may expect bright employment to qualify an employee for the THE OFFICE of Personnel Man wise be given $500 cash. for the coveted award. prospects in the future, with gov award among which reportedly in agement (OPM) is now in the 'Thecommittee(formedforthe Having been awarded "Em- ernment or the private sector. cludes a complete work attendance. thick ofpreparations for the sched purpose) is meeting, organizing, uled Public Service Recognition planning for this one week event, Week (PSRW), slated to kick off " said Rosario. early next month, it was gathered Rosario said the event will com yesterday. mence on May 4 at the office of 1 Mathilda A. Rosario, OPM act Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio. ing Director, in an interview, how The event is being observed in .tal8t~1ir11111~1~1 ever said her office has yet to about 13 cities across the US ·••· h~v~~;f~~~~··• ~d~~~~d;re-f{ finalize the list of public sector mainland. ·•· frnini)9t11e ·~~i~qp..q~c:s~()!k workers that will be awarded this It is being held to provide the ·... naD}l;f tll~ tlle '~~~artinenfs ~ril~ • year as their respective needed motivation for public sec >plo · .. ¢~p.<>rderedJofill department's or agency's "Em tor workers. >l:IP ,fJht: !lµclif .. i ' < ·. ·, .••. ·.,. ployee of the Year." It is believed that the event can · lliiii thet~dit:will > ... ril· · · (APRIL10,11,12&13,1-998) · . · · Betty Cracker's Brand: Musicians Open (Assorted/Mixed) < Best Food Mayonnaise 1 gal FRC Mike Nite 10.39 each Calrc,seRice Thai firm protesting deadline 1 .. , -----'j~·.·.·. .,i.l.. :: /, 16-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- APRIL 10, 1998 FRIDAY, APRIL IO, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-17 m ·~~-• · Elsewhere in the·Pacific · 2 men ·still missing iil:;·.··' Welcome delay in flight Tuvalu Cabinet named after fishing trip ft~: cutbacks by Continental NUKU' ALOFA(Pacnews)--Two sized. third man FUNAFUTI (Pacnews) nity affairs, and for education to the ministry of works, energy men from Lavengatonga village on The swam ashore, but By Giff Johnson The move buys time for who will be part of the lobby SUV A {Pacnews )-Ministers ister and chairman of the Pa the other two were clinging to parts of Tuvalu' s new cabinet remains vir and culture, Radio Tuvalu re and communications. Tonga's Tongatapu island are still For the Variety Marshall Islands officials to ing group to Houston. from eight Pacific states have cific ACP group, Tuilaepa Tausi's old seat is now occu tually unchanged. ports. missing after a fishing trip Monday. the broken canoe which were swept MAJURO - Continental step up lobbying efforts with Continental Micronesia pro agreed on a wide ranging negos Sailele Malielegaoi says they The third portfolio he held - pied by the only new appoint The men, Fatai Kite 72 and Timote back to sea Three ministers in the last Micronesia's plan to reduce United States officials to in vides the only air service con tiating strategy ... for upcoming will also take into account the tourism, trade and commerce ment of Nanumea MP Kokea Kauvaka 30, went fishing with an Search party ofpolice and defence government caucus led by re air service to the Marshall ls crease the availability of refu necting the islands of Majuro, talks with theEuropean Union, proposal by the EU for a Post elected prime minister Bikenibeu has been transferred to Nui MP Malua as minister for natural olher man on waters off Fua' amotu, officials wasorganisedbuttonoavail. lands and Federated States of eling stops for Continental on Kwajalein, Kosrae, Pohnpei aimed at revising the Lome Con Lome agreement. Paeniu, have retained their seats Alesana Kleis Seluka who re resources and the environment, Radio Tonga reports. The same spot was the scene of a Micronesia has been delayed Johnston Island, a major prob and Chuuk with Guam and vention aid and trade agreement The ministers agreed amongst in cabinet. tained his former portfolio of as well as home affairs and rural Rough conditions developed re fatal accident at the beginning of this at least until September, ac lem for the airline, Muller Honolulu. which expires in 2000. ·other things for the continua Funafuti MP lonatana finance and economic planning. development. tarding their efforts to paddle ashore. year when a 16-yearold Tonga Col cording to Marshalls Foreign said. Muller said in an interview This follows ministerial-level tion of highlighting the politi Ionatana remains minister for MP for Nanumaga Otinielu Malua was also appointed Strong winds and swells broke off lege student went missing during a Minister Phillip Muller. Currently, only four of the yesterday that Continental of . talks at the Forum Secretariat cal and economic relevance to health, women and commu- Tauteleimalae Tausi has moved deputy prime minister. the canoe's outrigger before it cap- picnic. six flights each week can re ficials had just informed him headquarters in Suva, Fiji today. EuropeofthePacificareassuch American Samoa . fuel at the U.S. military in that the cutback, originally They involve the Pacific mem as tourism, private. sector de gov't workers stallation at Johnston, severely announced for April I, then bers states of the African, Carib velopment, aviation, fisheries, Solomons PM's offer to to get full pay · . restricting passenger and delayed until May, has now bean and Pacific group who re political links and environmen cargo loads on the remaining been further delayed until at ceive special concessions from tal issues including climate cut his pay welcomed PAGO PAGO (Pacnews)-Pub two flights - which Conti least September. EU.Samoa'sdeputyprimemin- change. lic servants in American Samoa nental intends to drop. The Foreign Minister be HONIARA (Pacnews)-The and former opposition leader, CANBERRA (Pacnews).;_ uled forApril l5 to 17. .., . returned to a full eight hour work Senior Micronesian govern lieves that Continental will not move which Solomon Islands Danny Philip said they would Bougainville secessionist leader, day this week (Samoa time) after ment aviation staff will meet actually cut the number of have no difficulty accepting a 0 Strike looms in Fiji Prime Minister Bartholomew Francis Ona, who.has remain¢ B!=v~f:11te;g~;:e!: · m;~kandB~~. the Legislature approved a $US 13 in Guam at the end of this flights, but instead will revise Ulufa'alu has voluntarily salary cut, SIBC reports. outside the peace· process,. has million loan from the month to develop possible the service. "The decision that Bougainvilfo .Revo-lur1.tion~cy Saml{mjona,hadrequestedQnato \ SUV A {Pacnews)-A nation from their meeting with Finance taken to cut his salary by 20 Opposition leader, Job been criticised by colleagues for Aimy delegation· ar the peace .· meet With them first before bis government's Retirement Fund, flight options to recommend has to be made is whether to percent has received wide sup Tausinga, speaking on the .de sought by GovemorTaucse Sunia, to Continental when continue flying through (from wide strike has been planned for Minister Jim Ah Koy and Labour calling a meeting · of talks; ·described.· boa's',. plarmed. .• . g~m~g\Vjth otliers .•• / • April 23 by the Fiji Trades Union Minister Vincent Lobendahn. port from both sides of the bate Wednesday said he also Bougainville leaders next week to restore full pay. Micronesian leaders fly to Honolulu) to Guam, or toter house with many pledging to supports a salary cut as a way meeting as premature.. ·····.•·. < <> t!t's Irio~r: important for A financial crisis resulted in Houston to meet top airline minate the flight in Majuro Congress, against government's FTUC general secretary to discuss the future ofthe is ''Since. July last .year,. ih.e• def- ~U.!riirivme .J~dirs Jq h~ve implementation of a wage order. Pratap Chand said after the follow suit. of demonstrating how much land.· · egation.has embarked on a huge·.·· ). s1.1cli11].~~g~ regilarl~ ~. \i;>e, Tauese reducing work hours-and executives in May, Muller and return to Honolulu," Speaking during debate on national leaders mu st prepare pay of government employees on said. Muller said. The wage offer restricts no more meeting that it is apparent the Senior public servants and pri program of promoting the peace '. apprtiach the sedous political. than3 percent wage increases this members are under assault from the motion, senior opposition to undergo personal sacrifices vate sector executives have been · process on Bougainville and is · · issues that will determine the March 8. The leaders' initiative came The inability to gain land members. former minister, MP in the wake of the country's The loan is for IO years at 8.5% out of the Micronesian Chief ing rights at Johnston to refuel year, Island Networks Corpora all JHections. invited to the meeting sched- still to meet with and briefFrands · fu~ status of Bougainvil1e." tion reports. He said they have decided to for East Makira, David Sitai Continued on page 17 interest and to pay for it, the Leg Executives meeting held in for all of its flights is a serious islature approved a government Christmas Island, Kiribati ear impediment to Continental ser The FTUC decided to go on mount a national strike because request for tax hikes on sodas, lier this month and is an effort vice in the islands. strike at its meeting Tuesday night their efforts to reach a settlement . Tongan wins laridmark compensation claim from court . alcohol and cigarettes. to get Continental to maintain The Marshall Islands has be after nothing positive prevailed has been unsuccessful. · · The measures are expected to its "Island Hopper" service gun lobbying U.S. officials to get NUKU'ALOFA (Pacnews)--A ing forthe Nonferrel Propriety Lim August 1993, for illegally staying gally and was also deported, he's weekly wages be paid continu raise $US 1.9 million a year. through this north Pacific area. support fo1 increased Johnston Rheumatic fever survey unden.vay Tongan man has won a landmark ited in Sydney in May 1993. and working in Australia, Radio still eligible for compensation pay ously until the court decided oth Importers of alcohol especially "Continental' s cutback is refueling for Continental, Muller compensation claim awarded by The appeal court on March 27 Tonga reports. ment under the New South Wales' erwise. are concerned that this govern threatening the very lifeline said. Micronesian government NUKU'ALOFA (Pacnews) the survey are also being taught the New South Wales Appeal Court ruled in favourofSilivenusi Taufia, The three judges ruled that even workers compensation Jaws. The compensation amount to be of tourism in the Marshall Is leaders will be lobbying U.S. De Tonga 's rninisuy ofhealth, is con on how to detect and treat rheu for injuries he sustained while work- who was deported to Tonga in though Taufia was working ille- They also ruled that Taufia' s paid to Taufia was not disclosed. ment projection will fall short because increased prices will lands and Federated Stales of partments of Defense and Trans ducting a survey to determine matic fever in children, Radio cause customers to cut down on Micronesia," said Guam Gov portation officials when they visit how rheumatic fever affects the Tonga reports. health of primary and secondary According to previous surveys .l!oc:~ilr.m .Mop: consumption . ernor Carl T. C. Gutierrez, the U.S. next month, Muller said. school students in the kingdom. in the 1970's and 1980's. rheu ____.\ \lcoP PICI granted transfer employment wise been ordered to "assume The survey is being headed by matic fever showed to have af Doctor Seini Kupu with assis fected a number of children under DOLI. • • relief and is now supposed to all duties and obligations un ii~:~ be working for Herman's der the prior contract pending tance from the World Health the age of eight. Continued from page 14 And the present survey (Formerly ORIENTAL MARKET, KOBLERVILLE) • Tel. 234-5266 MOBIL Modern Bakery as a helper. processing and approval of a Organisation (WHO). is to a repitition of this type of La His new employer has like- new employment contract." Health officers who carry out update those results. WHOLE CHICKEN LEG J:----PORK bor violation will result in his BEEF TOP ROUND deportation. CHICKEN QUARTER 11 SPARERIB STEW AUSTRALIAN STEAK "(Cunanan) is warned that 30 LBS. 30 lbs. /1 I 20 lbs. $15.95 bag $17.95 bag if he works for any unautho CALROSE RICE ,----$23.95 cs --- . . $22.95 cs I $19.95 cs rized employer in the future, MAZOLA I he will be subject to deporta RIB EYE FLANK 1: BEEF CORN OIL 11 BEEF SHANK OXTAIL tion," Asper said. 40 lbs. $9.95 1 STEAK STEAK ' SHORTRIB 'I BONE-IN $18.95 bag Cunanan was nevertheless $21.95 bag~ ; $22.95 bag , $22.95 bag lgal. $6.99 1 $11.95 bag HORMEL - -·--·· GROUND · {HORMEL} OX & PALM ARMOUR Solomons ... SPAM BEEF BEEF 1 CORNED VIENNA Continued from page 16 FEET CHILI NO ULTRA GAIN , 101bs. BEEF SAUSAGE economic difficulties. 12 oz. $1.89 $8.99 bag BEAN '_ $15.95 roll j i 12 oz. 9.25 oz. Labour party member and 85 load 15 oz $1.59 $1.79 i government backbender, MP $13.99 COCO TUNA TANG $1.29 for West New Georgia and VIENNA ' us 7 oz. 20qt. Vona Vona, Nelson Boso said PORK CHOP $8.99 SAUSAGE CHICKEN BEACH although he fully supports a FOGERS 89¢ I 5 oz w/ rice CLIFF salary cut for MPs, he hoped $17.95 bag GROUND COFFEE 59(1: 10.5 oz. SARDINE that none would resort to un F/A 89¢ 69$ der-table dealings in order to HOME& make up for reduced remu 39oz. $9.95 SPAGHETTI BEEF STEW GARDEN 24oz. f nerations. HAM WITH NIAGARA FLOUR I $1.99 STEAK MEATBALL I I IVORY LUVS 5 lbs. 11i-----l SPRAY 14.75 oz. $1.99 ii ALWAY'S STARCH DISHWASH $14.95 bag 40/34/28/24 $1.29 22 oz. 11 reg. maxi 22 oz. $1.49 $1.59 $6.99 __Z_E_E _ __,1'' 1·~P-4A'sM_P$E3_R.6S9 ------FROZEN NAPKIN BOUNTY CHARMIN MACKEREL , soo·s , MED. 112'5 $1.39 roll. 12 roll 99¢ lb. J $4.45 I 2a.95 $15.95 12's $4.99 SORRY,.NO FOOD STAMPS EVERYDAY LOW PRICES'!! APRIL 10 THRU APRIL 16, 1998 FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-19 18-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- APRIL 10, 1998 ow- rooDl for growth' By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff THE CNMI government could be barking at the wrong tree when it passed a legislation seeking to stop the hiring of new guest workers. Business sector leader Joe. C. Ayuyu yesterday urged the CNMI government to allow the local economy to grow, describing the freeze hiring law as a desperate attempt to appease the federal govern Farmer John ment. Cooked "If it is a temporary mea sure, it may be good but it's not a good idea because it is Joe. C. Ayuyu HAM .not correcting the problems •Bone-In that have been discussed dur practicality." ing the US Senate hearing," He said the legislation, pro Ayuyu said. hibiting the importation of He said the freeze hiring law new guest workers except on was more of an appeasement some instances, may have move by the CNMI govern made the federal government Our baskets are overflow-in' ... ment to halt federal takeover happy "but not the local busi Our eggs are hatchin' ... plans of the local immigration ness community." and minimum wage policies. "Capping the number of em Our bunnies are hoppin' ... "We have an economy to ployees has very little to do Featuring this Easter, only at take care of and the economy with the non-payment of work Candy Carousel: must be allowed to grow espe ers' salary or with the living cially now that we are in for a condition of the workers in • chocolate truffle baskets, in Easter pastels! really bad time," he told re the barracks," he said. Jimmy Dean • f"inc chocolate bunnies. porters. He pointed out that the two • decorative Easter eggs. Ayuyu said putting a limit subjects are not related, add • chocolate Easter tulips, and more! to the number of nonresident ing that capping the number PORK SPARERI workers in the Northern of nonresident workers in the 20 Lb. "La Fiesta", San Roque Mariana Islands is a "very at Commonwealth is not the right (670) 322-3838 open daily tractive idea but it makes very answer to the concerns raised little sense with regards to by the Department of Interior, with regards to labor abuses and immigration flaws. Ayuyu stressed that there is not enough local labor force to staff businesses in the Com monwealth, thus the depen _SF>I ~I I i,; dence on nonresident work 1 ers. "I will be very straightforward ... We just don't have the local resources t er Sale,, to staff our businesses," he 11 said. save up to · The business sector leader said the moratorium is dis couraging new investments to the Commonwealth since in vestors who may not be able 50o/ooff to meet the minimum stake will not be allowed to hire from other countries. at both locations Ayuyu said conservative "' studies have indicated that the ?:::ir;'" i11'1 i's'(:',1 rm "i"1' \ Additional 10% discount at the Ladies Shop local indigenous ropulation I· ~1 lt}'Jlr ill tW lt) \ will not be of sufficient size •' Springfield Ground Floor Frozen \ to staff the economy until well FOAM PLATES--.\ \ La Fiesta Shopping Mall beyond the mid twenty first MILKFISH 50 Ct. /. . : . ' Tel. Nos. 322-5636 / 322-5637 century. ~~-. Store Hours 10:00 - 9:30 P.M. . Experience has shown that 1s:.a,s-:_>~:.,.rJ· mainland US citizens do not ' c.. \•· ·:·;'.:·.y/ represent a viable labor pool S Special Valu~~_:,;./ for the economy. 1~~ a....------iALUMINUM FOIL "Let's attack the roots of the 200 Sq. Ft. problems rather than trying to ,II:I Salted appease or make other people . RED EARTH happy that we can pass a law '?,' SALMON SI DES S449t, BUY ONE GET ONE ______1·- ~.··.'ti\. that limits the number of em ~'...... PROMO EXTENDED!!! ployees in the CNMI, with our GUIHAN ENGLISH Kao Wonderful ·~~'"'"' ··~ own local economy at stake," DETERGENT 1.5 Kg. • Lay Away Plan and Esprit Gift Certificates Available in Both Stores . he stressed. Ayuyu said he will discuss the moratorium law with the s3se Chamber board to identify other options that may be sug l •WEAtCEPTFOODSTAMP&MANUFACTURERSCOUPONS ( RicYCLE) gested to the CNMI govern EJ~'UU~ •WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO.LIMIT QUANTITIES ·Read with your child everyday. •SALE PRICES ARE GOOD WHILE SUPPLIES LAST ment. WE ACCEPT THESE 5 MAJOR CREDIT CARDS •WE RESERVE THE RIGHTTO CORRECT THE PRINTED ERROR IN THIS WEEK'S AD '.j ,., V 20-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY-APRIL 10 1 1998 f FRIDAY, APRIL JO, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-21 ,·e' f ~·- SPAM Ramos draws praise in D.C. (Leg or By HARRY DUNPHY In a statement, the World Bru1k Less) WASHINGTON(AP)-Onafare said Wolfensohn praised Ramos for well visitto the United States, Philip helping restore peace in the southern pine President Fidel Ramos was Philippine islru1d of Mindru1ao, parts $1.79 praised for the strongeconomy he has of which suffered tl1rough more thrui built in his counny, a rare success a quarter-centu1y oflow-intensity in story in finuncially troubled Asia. surgency by Muslim rebels. Ramos ru1ived in Washin!,rton on The region ranks among the counny's worst economic areas. ti . · ~ilti~i,c<'\~-~~- -1 FROZEN MEATS A woman wearing a black veil cries as she wipes the feet of Mario Galvez who was nailed to the cross during Residents of urban poor communities wear Jesus Christ masks as they his reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ at Mendiola near the presidential palace in Manila stage a street play comparing their plight to the sufferings of Jesus Wednesday. AP Christ during a rally Wednesday. AP P.O. BOX 1640, AS LITO, oio SAIPAN MP 96950 0 .. , .... ,,,, ...... , .. . ui , , I,, a.'. I . 1. ',' We are 1101 iesponsible for any Jypograph~al e11ors1 ---·--·· ---· FRIDAY, APRIL IO, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-25 24-t\l..\Rl:\N ..\S VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY-APRIL 10. 1998 ·-·-----~- --··------RP budget cuts delay projects collection system may also be '.\l:\'.'\IL.-\, Philippines (:\I') - unabk to prm idc ,·ounterpart President Fidel Ramos has or such as tax and duties for equip ,,' delayed because of budgetary Budgetary cuis adopted by the funds and finance other costs re den:d all government agencies to ment and goods used in the g,1wmme11t tn cope \\'ith Asia's quired by the projects. reduce expenses by at least 25 projects, said Francisco del problems. She said about 100 million pe fin,mcial storm arc dcl:tying th,· Foreign donor agencies. led by percent this year lo avoid a budget Rosario, executive director of a sos($ 2.5 million) worth of com c·,1mpk1ior1 nf a 1111111hcr pf major Japan's Chcrseas Enmomic Co deficit prompted by recent de govemment council overseeing puters are toanive in June but the Certified Angus Chilled Certified Angus Chilled forcign-f11nd,·d projects. offici;J/s opcr;11ion Fund. are 10 provide S clines in Asian cuJTencit!s. incluJ forcign development assistance~ said \\.cdnesday. 1.3-l billion to fund I 55 projects ing the Philippine peso. Del Rosario cited delays in an Bureau of Internal Revenue does PRIME RIB not have money to pay for tuxes BONELESS CHUCK Offi,·iah s;1id budget cuts and in th,· Philippines this yc,11·. up 1.4 This has limited some agen Austrian government-funded .~ project by the Department of and duties. -~-'R--~OAS______T_ .,._ ,11hcr g,1\·ernme111 cos1-cu1ting percent from last year's S 1.32 cies· ability to raise counte1~parl ~-,, ~-~ "Delay in the withdrawal of ~BOASt::i --'----....--~-----.,,----./--r-~ steps he!\ e Id! Sc'\ cr,J! agencies billion. officials said. funds and shoulderotherexpcnses Health involving the supply of -----...... ~-__,,--;-- waste disposal facilities and medi these goods will be costly to the ~ 2-·, cal equipment to government hos government" because of addi ~ ' ;, .1·,;,,• ...&J·,, .. lbI , f,,,, rn ,· ,.@ pitals. tional storage costs, del Rosario He said much of the hospital said. J'aMe the c/ifference equipment mTived in January but Dfthe $ 1.34 billion in develop ; ment loans the country is to re \ Ask.for-Special Cuts: 235~1492 \ the health department has been Certified Angus Chilled Certified Angus Chilled '; unable to pay taxes and duties to ceive this year,$ 467 million is to I have the equipment released from be provided by the OECF, $ 432 FLANK STEAK GROUND BEEF the customs bureau. million by the World Bank and$ I Theresa Espileta, information 350 million by the Manila-based Good for Barbecue director of the council, said a Asian Development Bank. I i, World Bank-funded program to The rest is to be provided by computerize the country's tax Germany and other donors. RP car sales fall 47% I MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Sales of passenger cars in the Philippines plunged 47 percent from a year earlier to I I, I 33 in the first quarter of 1997, an industry association said Wednesday. The Chamber of Automobile Manufacturers of the Philippines ,;j:;:·~:~ Inc. said the peso's sharp depreciation since the onset of Asia's ,- ,, , financial crisis in July continues to be the main reason for lower ,'.~~]?\) (_. car sales. - Former First Lady and current presidential candidate Imelda Marcos assists a boy in pouring drinking water The peso has fallen 31 percent since last July. '..-;, ..---1,,..- \ (~-. ·.; \ I A.,.. as she donates containers to some residents of a land-fifl community known as "Freedom Island" during her The weaker peso forced prime lending rates to surge to as much ; campaign sortie Wednesday in a Manila suburb. AP ~--~// l as 35 percent during the 10-month-old currency crisis. . ) ~ ,,,/"//,~//·· - ! hey cunently range between 17.5 and 22.5 percent, compared to '-"U l an average of 13 percent before the crisis. Tyson QUALITY In March alone, passenger car sales dropped 56 percent to 3,126 sweet• seedless• juicy Frozen Danish from 7,064 a year earlier, the association said. U_S_ Navel PORK SPARE RIBS CHICKEN THIGHS ORANGES 10 lb. box (limit 6) 2 1/2 lb. bag Cargo ship sinks in south ¢ lb. $Al~ g.-'~ ea. RP; all on board rescued .89 v· I,~ \ ••) GENERAL SANTOS, Philip lloated aimlessly near Balut ls pines (AP) - A Philippine-reg land and later sank, Purog suid. U.S. APPLES U.S. SMOKED HAM istered cargo ship sank off the A passing ship, the Chongkct, southc:rn Philippines after rough pickcJ up 24 people, including Red Delicious or Fuji BONE-IN seas damaged its hull and stalled th.: bout's 15 crew members, and sweet & juicy its engines, the coast guard said took them ashore, said Com Wednesday. mander Arsenio Obi! le, the coast Qi) lb. All 24 people on board were guard assistant chief of staff for ¢ 0~ lb. $1 P'J .-::Ju H , ..._J 0 vC.L rescued by a passing foreign ship. operations. Chief Petty Officer Luciano The Coast Guard did not know j Purog said the 275-ton Virgin the Chongket's nationality. All Purpose COCA COLA Pearl was en route Saturday to the Obilk said all the survivors Delicious Red Globe port city or Davao carrying goods were under the care or the coast GRAPES VEGETABLE OIL 24/12 oz. cans from Manado, Indonesia, when it guar Hottest dancers on Saipan! ' --- - :l • .•• · ' sweet•seedless •juicy Purina Western Family ,;', .: ... · • Budweiser familv of beer $2.50 hi.a.< .. DOG CHOW J U S 7 PAPER NAPKINS • Karaoke & VIP Roon1 wAi-ERMELoN £r · 22 lb. bag 250 count i 1 • Largest selection of music lb. ~ ! FUN & GAMES We accept: Two inmates of Manila City Jail display a placard demanding an end to VISA• Mastercard • American Express the death penalty dunng a v,srt by a group of priest, nuns and members of Amnesty lntemat1onal Tuesday. AP 26:fl1ARI ANAS VARll:_TY_ l'JI:\.VS AND ~IE\\IS-F_BIDA'r'_:_M,_~_1-__l_O_, 12\)_L - ~------=F...:cR.::..ID__:_.:A_Y_._,A_P ...... RIL JO, 1998 -MARIANAS VAR!ETY NEWS AND VIEWS-27 Weak Japan economy Korea train project to go on risks Asian recovery SEOU,, South Kon•a (.\Pl tuPu,anonthesouthco,1sl by I9%i By MARTIN FACKLER since its over-inflated prope1ty mar they don't go away. They get South Knn::1 said \\'edn..:sd:ry it at a ,-m,t or SCi.4 billion. TOKYO (AP) - An official of ket collapsed in 1992. worse," he said. ,1 i11 L'lllll inu,· bu i !ding a higl1-sp,·cd Cii :C-J\ lstho11101·1 :r,111ce is build the International Monetmy Fund Fischer said larger and more Reviving its financial system railro,rd "ith Frend1 tcclmolog\ ing the trains !'or South Korea. Its said Wednesday the worst is over stable economies like the United will also require Japan to make hut \\'ill sc,rlc hack 011 th,· rirst trains ,11"<: due to a1Ti1·e here in the Asian financial c1isis, but States probably won't see much some bold structural reforms, mu It i Iii 11 i1 in-do! Iar project. !:tier this vear·. warned of u·oubles ahead if Japan damage from Japan's economic Fischer said. The r,1iln1:1d -- ckscrih,·d as llut frequent mule and design fails to revive its economy. malaise. He called for Japan to increase South Kore:1 's hisgcst puhl ic works changes and sloppy engineering ··11,ere .ire still possible shocks"' "It's significant for its nearneigh "transparency" by disclosing to project c,·er - has be,·11 in doubt ll'ork haw l(11n:d dL·l:1ys am! pushed threatening the fragile Asian econo bors," he said. '"But it's not a factor investors more information about since a tinanci:il crisis forced the up the cost. List year. the gove111- mies, said Stanley Fischer, first that will cause a world economic the health of companies. l\lUlltry Ill rnt its hudgi:t and sus 111e11t said the r·ailmad won't be deputy managing director of the crisis." apancse companies are now of pend 01· cane..: I hi g-ticket e11gi11ee1· rn111pletcd until 2005. well after IMF. "One of those shocks is the Fischer said the best thing Ja ten criticized for hiding problems i11g ,\·oils. the 2002 World Cup soccer finals, decline of the Japanese economy." pan can do is clean up once and from their own shareholders. In ii larch. the gm·ern111e11t audit for which South Korea is a co-host Fischer spoke while visiting To for all the mess left by the real Japan must give its financial ,1gcncy 1\·com111c11dcd Ihat cash with Lipan. kyo, which has been criticized re estate market's collapse: bad watchdog agencies more power strappi:d South Kore:r rcconsickr Du1·ing the J\sia-farropc summit cently for not doing more to bail Joans that still remain on the books to enforce disclosure requirements bu iId ing th,· rai In 1,1d. say in~ it '\·,rn in London last week. French P1·esi out the rest of Asia by rejuvenating of Japanese banks. and protect small investors, he not afford thi: unprut'it,rhli:. rcck denl J:1n1ues ( 'hirac met Pn:siuent its stagnant economy and increas These loans total 76 trillion yen said. lc·,s project. .. Ki 111 Dae-ju rig and raised conccm ing impo1is. ($ 57 l billion), according to offi ischer also praised Japan's pro "Th,·r\: should lie no more dc 01 er reported moves by the South 'Japan's economy, which alone cial estimates. posed 16 trillion yen ($ 120 bil h:1t,· :1h, iut it." l'rimL" '.\ 1inistcr Kim Korean !:'m·crnmcnt tn cancel or Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto bows after the fiscal 1998 budget was approved at a plenary seesion of the upper house in Tokyo accounts for some 80 percen! of the '"One oft he lessons of the crisis lion) fiscal stimulus package, .l,111!:,'-pil s.1id \\'..:dncsday. 'The tkl:ty the IJLII let train 's construc Wednesday. The 77. 67 trillion yen budget passed through Parliament goods and services produced in the (in Asia) is that if you don't deal which he called a step in the right ll'mk \\' i 11 go 011 ... t ion. (Diet). AP entire region, has languished ever with financial sector problems, direction for rckimlling growth. Hut the• !:,'Ol l'l'lllllc'lll 0.s No.~ 111:lll South Korea planrn:d the-bullet s:1id South Kor,·:1 must on·rhaul train to case dmlllic tralliccon!:,'CS the projo.:ct 10 1t·duc·L· its nist. 11u11· t ion , dung the -130- ki lome1er ( 270- estima1cd at 22 trillion won (S 15.7 m i le) S..:oul-l'usan coffidor. where Models at Toyota Motors Thailand's booth pose w!th a Toy_ota MR-S, the fastest concept car at the 19th Broker at Hong Kong finance firm surrenders billion). travel time rises to 20 hours during International Motor Show in Bangkok Tuesday. Smee Thailand has faced its worst economic cns1s, car dealers have complained over a sharp drop in sales. AP HONG KONG (AP) -A bro curities had been charged with Hong Kong Stock Exchange to identify what happened," Law statement,dated March3 l ,showed The Construction and Tr:mspor major holidays. ker at a mid-sized finance finn any crime, and would not identify spokesman Henry Law said the said. a securities and contracts balance tation Ministry was ordered to Je has surrendered to authorities him. exchange had asked the company Mansion House, a unit of Hong of Hong Kong dollars 68 million, vclop new plans by July. who are investigating whether The finn is the latest in Hong for details of its operations and Kong-based Mansion House Group but Mansion House's records South Korea called in the lnt.:r he stole Hong Kong dollars 68 Kong to be scrutinized by custom would check to see whether any Ltd., said the executive failed to showed an empty account. nalional Moneta1y Fund in Decem million ($ 8. 72 million) from a ers, or the authorities, for mishan rules have been breached in the show for work on Friday and that The executive handled 72 ac ber to rescue its economy. It has client's account, police said dling of funds as money dried up case. the brokerage received a call from counts, a third of which are empty. since slashed its government bud Wednesday. in Asia following the collapse of ''We are trying to understand the anattomeyforaclient, whoclaimed The brokerage said it was un get as part of an austerity program Police declined to say if the the region's share markets and case, .... We have been in contact his account had been emptied. clearwhetherthedealermisman imposed by the IMF in .exchange executive at Mansion House Se- currepcics. with the brokerage house ... tryin,& The client said his latest account aged any other accounts. 1·or a record S58 billion bailout. The bullet train. Asia\ scrnnd :1rter Japan's Shinkansen. is by t'ar • 5 SPEED the largest among hundrcdsot'liali' rinisheJ projects South Korea • AIR CONDITIONING launchcJ during its !mom years in the 1980s anJ early LJlk • AM/FM CASSETTE South Korea·~ bullet train dream bc!.!an in 19X9. 1,·h,·11 th,· !.!Ol'Cl'll •DUALAIRBAGS m:nt a111mu11Ccd it m11i!d-huild a IFROM APRIL 10 TO APRIL 18, 1998 j high-speed r,1ilroad li11ki11g S,·oul • CLOTH INTERIOR • FULLY CARPETED Singap.ore buys • STYLISH WHEEL COVERS stake in Thai . Not exac/ly as shmrn $10,995 less $2748.75 DOWN at 11.75% APR for 48 months. media gro11p ;• ' .. SI:\GAPORE (APJ - The Singapore go\'er11111cnt ·~ invc~l ment arm has bought ,r stake in a stru~~lin~ Thai mcdi:r l·ompanv. Thc~!)usinc,s Tirncs rcp risks Asian recovery SEOl'L, South Korea (AP) - 011 10 Pusan thc south coast by 1998 By MARTIN FACKLER since its over-inflated property mar they don't go away. They get South Korea said Wed11esd:1y it at a eost of S6.4 bi II ion. TOKYO (AP) - An official of ket collapsed in 1992. worse," he said. wi II continue· bu i ldi11g a high-s1;eed (,I T-/\lsthom of Franct: is build the International Monetary Fund Fischer said larger and more Reviving its financial system railroad with French 1cd111ology ing the trains for South Korea. Its s:iid Wednesday the worst is over stable economies like the United will also require Japan to make bul will scak back on the first trains are due to arrive here in the Asian financial crisis, but States probably won't see much some bold structural reforms, rnultibillion-dollar p1·oject. later this year. warned of troubles ahead if Japan damage from Japan's economic Fischer said. The railro:1d - desnibcd as Bul frequent route and design fails to revive its economy. malaise. He called for Japan to increase South Korea "s biggest public works changes and sloppy engineering "There are still possible shocks" "It's significant for its nearneigh "transparency" by disclosing to pl"Ojcct ever - has been in doubt work have forced delays and pushed threatening the fragile Asian econo bors," he said. "But it's not a factor investors more information about since a linancial crisis forced the up the cost. Last yca1·, the govern mies, said Stanley Fischer, first that will cause a world economic the health of companies. countr1· 10 CUI its bud!!Cl and sus ment said the railroad won't be deputy managing director of the crisis." apanese companies are now of pend o;. cancel big-tick"etengincer completed until 2005, well after IMF. "One of those shocks is the Fischer said the best thing Ja ten criticized for hiding problems i11g works. the 2002 World Cup soccer finals, decline of the Japanese economy." pan can do is clean up once and from their own shareholders. 111 \farch. the govenunent audit for which South Korea is a co-host Fischer spoke while visiting To for all the mess left by the real · Japan must give its financial agency recommemlcd that cash with Japan. kyo, which has been criticized re estate market's collapse: bad watchdog agencies more power strapped South Korea reconsider During the Asia-Europe surnmit cently for not doing more to bail loans that sti II remain on the books to enforced isclosure requirements bu i1Jin!2. the r:1 ii road. savin!2. it ··can in London last week. French Presi out the rest of Asia by rejuvenating . of Japanese banks. and protect small investors, he rnit aff~rd the u11proi'ii:1hie. reck dent Jacques Chirac met President its stagnant economy and increas These loans total 76 trill ion yen said. kss proic1.·· Kim Dae-jung and raised concern ing imports. ($ 571 billion), according to offi ischeralsopraisedJapan 's pro "'Then: should be 110 more de over reported moves by the South 'Japan's economy, which alone cial estimates. posed 16 trillion yen($ 120 bil bate ahout it:· Prirne Jv1 in ister Ki 111 Korc,111 government to cancel or Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto bows after/he fiscal 1998 budget was approved at a plenary seesion of the upper house in Tokyo accounts for some 80 percent of the "One of the lessons of the crisis lion) fiscal stimulus package, fong-pil said Wednesday. ··The delay the bullet Lrain's constn1c Wednesday. The 77.67 trillion yen budget passed through Parliament goods and services produced in the (in Asia) is that if you don't deal which he called a step in the right work will go 011.'" tion. (Diet). AP entire region, has languished ever · with financial sector problems, direction for rekindling growth. l3ut the goq:rnment "s No. 2 m:m South Korea planned the-bullet said South Korea must overhau I train toeasechronic tralTic conges the project to reduce its cost, now tion along the 430-kilomeLer (270- estimatl!U at 22 trillion won (Sl5.7 milc) Seoul-Pusan c01Tidor, where Models at Toyota Motors Thailand's booth pose with a Toyota MR-S, the fastest concept car at the 19th Broker at Hong Kong finance firm surrenders billion). travel Lirne rises lo 20 hours during International Motor Show in Bangkok Tuesday. Since Thailand has faced its worst economic crisis, car HONG KONG(AP)-Abro curities had been. charged with Hong Kong Stock Exchange to identify .what happened," Law statement,dated March3 I ,5howed The Construction and Transpor major holidays. dealers have complained over a sharp drop in sales. AP ker at a mid-sized finance firm any crime, and would not identify spokesman Henry Law said the said. a securities and contracts balance tation Ministry was ordered to de has surrendered to· authorities him. exchange had asked the company Mansion House, a unit of Hong of Hong Kong dollars 68 million, velop new plans by July. who are investigating whether The firm is the latest in Hong for details of its operations and ·. Kong-based Mansion House Group but Mansion House's records South Kore:1 called in the Inter he stole Hong Kong dollars 68 Kong to be scrutinized by custom would check to see whether any Ltd., s·aid the executive failed to showed an empty account national Mo11eta1y Fund in Decem million ($ 8.72 million) from a ers, or the authorities, for mishan rules have been breached in the show for work on Friday and that The executive handled 72 ac ber to rescue its economy. It has client's account, police said dling of funds as money dried up case. the brokerage received a call from counts, a third of which rue empty. since slashed its govemmcnt bud Wednesday. in Asia following the collapse of "We are trying to understand the an attorney for a client, who claimed The brokerage said it was un get as part of an austerity program Police declined to say if the the region's share markets and case, ., .. We have been in contact his account had been emptied. clearwhetherthe dealer misman imposed by the IMF in .exchange executive at Mansion House Se- currepcies. with the brokerage house ... try in& The client said his latest account aged any other accounts. for a record $58 billion bailout. The bullet train. Asia's second after Japan's Shinkansen. is by for • 5 SPEED the lar!!est amon!! hundreds ofhal!' finish;d projc;ts South Korea • AIR CONDITIONING launched during its boom years in the 1980s and early 90s. • AM/FM CASSETTE South Kore:1 's bu Ilet train dream began in 19X9. when the govern • DUAL AIRBAGS ment announced it woulJ build a high-speed railroad linking Seoul • CLOTH INTERIOR • FULLY CARPETED Singapore buys • STYLISH WHEEL COVERS stake·in.Thai media group ·... · SINGAPORE (AP) - The Singapore government's invest ment arm has bought a stake in a struggling Thai media company. The Business Tirm:s reported Wednesuay. Sing:1pore 's (,o\'crnmrnt l11- 1c:st111c11t Corporation bought '2 million shares of the Nation Mul timedia Group, which publishc,s tht: English-language broadshcet • 2-WHEEL DRIVE The Nation and the Thai-language business daily Krungthcp •5SPEED Thurakij. This brought the corporation's • AM/FM CASSETTE slake in the Thai company to jusl under 5 percent. the report said. • POWER WINDOWS Like many Thai publishing in terests, the Nation Group has su f • POWER LOCKS fcred duri11~ the financial crisis • AIR CONDITIONING as advcrtisi'iig revenue uroppcd Nat exacily a~· shown and operating costs rose. $15,995Jess $3,998.75 DOWN at 11.75% APR for 48 months. The company was fo!'ced 10 write off losses of more than U.S. SI O mi 11 ion in the third quarter or 1997, mainly because or heavy AIRPORT LOCATED ON AIRPORT ROAD ACCROSS FROM ISLAND APPAREL foreign borrowing, The Business ISLAND Times said. .KEICOMOTORS + Airporl Rd. 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Hun Sen has raised calls before 1980s, threatened renewed civil rnigneci in couit on corrnption He denied wron~doin~ and Several former minis1crs arc The BJP had campaigncc.J for The demonstrators are sched demanding that the royal family war. international pressure that sees charges, news agencies reported. initially said he W(;uld n~ll n: under indictment. but none have years ag:iinsl the alleged corrup uled to march on the National stay out of day-to-day politics. · Sihanouk, at center stage in the prince's participation as-a lit Surface Transport Minister R. sign. Muthiah 's wife an ! I,_'.,_._/",, ' I 40-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY - APRIL I 0, 1998 FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1998-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND YIEWS-41 British-Irish PMs work for peace UN to probe Rwanda arms sales said an agreement "requires ev By Nicole Winfield tion. sidercd a draft resolution Wednes By Shawn Pogatchnik the draft. ti mony from U. N. Sccrctary-Gcn UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A resolution reactivating the In day. The United Nations imposed BELFAST, Northern Ireland erybody to move a little bit, and 1 cral Kofi Annan, who led U.N. Fearing that violence is continu ternational Commission of In The council recognizes .. the an arms embargo on Rwanda in peacekeeping efforts at the time. (AP) - Facing a Thursday dead think we are all prepared to do that:· ing in Rwanda four years after the quiry was expected to be approved need for a renewed investigation May I 994 following the start of Annan hasn't received the request line to solve a 30-year conflict, genocide there, the Security Thursday, said AmbassaJor the British and Irish· prime minis Ahem and British Prime Min of the illegal flow of arms to the Hutu-sponsored genocide that and couldn't comment, spokes Council wants to reopen a U.N. Hisashi Owada of Japan. the cur rers pursued frantic shuttle diplo ister Tony Blair focused much of Rwanda, which is fueling vio eventually killed at least 500,000 · man Yasuhiro Ueki said Wednes investigation into illegal arms macy Wednesday in ncgotiarions their attention Wednesday on Ul rent council president. lence and could lead to further ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hu tus. day. on Northern Ireland's future. ster Unionist leader DaviJ sales to the Central African na- He spoke after the council con- acts of genocide," according to The U.N. commission was es It seemed unlikely that Annan "We have had 30 years of mur Trimble. The support of his pro tablished in September 1995 to would testify in person. Citing ders and I think tliat what we need British Protestant party is essen look into violations of the em diplomatic immunity, the United lO do in the next 24 hours is show tial to making any agreement bargo that occurred after the end Nations refuseJ to allow the com a determination among all parties work. of the genocide and the ouster of mander of peacekeeping troops to make sure we see no more," On Tuesday, Trimble dramati the Hutu-led government by Tutsi in Rwanda to appearb~forc a simi Mo Mow lam. Britain's Northern cally rejected Mitchell's 65-page rebels in July 1994. lar legislative inquiry in Bel Ireland secretary. said after a day draft settlement just hours after it The commission submitted it~; gium. of agonizing negotiations. was presented (o the eight partici third and final report to the Violence has resumed in The Thursday dead I inc for :1 pating parties in hopes it wou!J council in January, saying it had Rwanda since more than I mil solution lorthe British-nilcd prov form a foundation for an accord. compiled "ample and convincing lion Hutu refugees returned in inn: w:1s set by George Mitchell. "Mere tinkering, minor amend l!viJence" to support allegations November I 996 from 2 l /2 years the former U.S. Senate nrnjority ments will not do it. There will of violations but that it cou!Jn 't in exile in neighboring Congo. l,::1der who h:1s owrscen the peace have to be radical changes," said consider its work complete be Authorities say returning talks in Belfost since June 1996. Trimble, who is using his pivotal cause it wasn 'tgiven enough time. former soldiers and militiamen In the resolution, the council - many of whom were respon Irish Prime Minister Bertie Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, left, and British counterpart Tony Blair meet at Hillsborough Castle, near role to seek maximum conces Ahem, returning to Belfast after Belfast Wednesday for breakfast talks on a proposed Northern Ireland peace agreement. They were sions. noted that violence in October sible for the genocide - have attenJing his mothrr's funeral, expected to go later to Stormont in the city for talks with Unionist leaders on a compromise deal. AP Mitchell's confidential docu 1996 in neighboring Congo, for mingled with civilians and are ment does outline key proposals merly Zaire, caused "the suspen bent on destabilizing the coun sought by the Ulster Unionists, sion of effective follow-up" to the try. such as amendments to the Irish investigation. The U.N. commission, in its Republic's territorial claim to The issue of the arming of last report, said that former • Northern Ireland. Rwandan Hutus intensified re Rwandan forces were continuing But fundamental disagreements cently with a French parliamen to receive arms from a variety of remain over the main points of a tary inquiry into reports that sources. People in Congo "appear settlement - how Catholics and France armed and supported to continue to play a central role Protestants should share power Rwanda's Hutu-led regime dur as a conduit for arms supplies to 1enna A Rwandan boy looks on during a local reburial ceremony for those who were massacred during the 1994 within a new Northern Ireland ing the genocide. and military training of' Rwandan assembly, and how much respon Rwandan genocide in Bitzibo Village, east of the capital Kigali. The first week in April marked the fourth The French have asked fortes- insurgents, it said. anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. AP sibility they should cede to a sepa rate, cross-border counc-il of law Has Arrived!!! makers linking the north with the Holocaust-era bank rest of Ireland. NORTHERN MARIANAS HOUSING CORPORATION Ct) The moderate and militant wings ofCatholic opinion-John payments approved Hume's Social Democratic and 2nd AMENDED REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS 5~~~~,a~~:~~ BASEL, Switzerland (AP)-A committee investigating claims to Labor Party, and Geny Adams' Holocaust-era assets in Swiss banks has approved its first payments, IRA-allied Sinn Fein party - in The Board of Directors of the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC), represented by Mr. Juan S. distributing a total of $1.38 million for 13 claims. sist the cross-border council must Tenorio, Chairman, and the Department of Public Works are soliciling sealed proposals for the Installation 111e committee,headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve chief Paul /"',?'°',, of Lighting of the Baseball Field Tinian, Commonweallh of the Northern Mariana Islands. Proposals 1 be powerful and independent of ,· Jn Volcker, did not release details about the claimants. But it said r ~, . , ...... , ______. AP~IL ~!._:_]998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS_::.~3 42-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- APRIL 10, 1998 '' ~-·-,' Serb war crim.es suspects fall Hamas calls for attacks ·on Jews By IRENA GAJIC operation in the northwestern Serb Garneau, who is Canadian. By Dafna Linzer Awadallah's brother, !mad, shot killed 21 Israelis and for planning Israelis were killed. BANJA LUKA, Bosnia held town of Prijedor, said NATO The susJ_:X!Cts were identified as JERUSALEM (AP)-The mili and killed Sharif and placed his other attacks, ls1~1e Ii radio l'CJXlt1., said. Israel anny radio said el Zaban is Herzegovina (AP) - The spokesman Maj. Louis Garneau in Miroslav KvockaandMladenRadic, tary \\'ing of the Palestinian group body next to a car rigged with ·n1e Israeli mrny SJXlkesman 's of a JXJliceman in the Palestinian-ruled NATO-led peace force on Sarajevo. both indicted in Febiumy 1995 by !-lamas issued a leaflet and a video explosives in order to cover the fice said twoofthemen wouldappem· city of Nablus. Wednesday arrested two Bosnian There were no immediate indi the U.N. Yugoslavwarcrimestribu tape Wednesday cal ling on Arabs killing, the station said. ·n1ursuay in an Israeli milit,uy cou1t The two also were charged with Serbs suspected of prison camp cations of tensions or Serb demon nal in the Hague, Netherlands. and Muslims worldwide to attack The Barnas leaflet was issued in the West Bank. a drive-by shooting near a Jewish atrocities, and said the suspects strations in the region as a result of Both men are charged with kwish targets in revenge for the the same day an Israeli milita1y Alxlel Rahm,me!Zabanand Muaz settlement in the West Bank and would be sent to the U.N. tribunal the aITests, Gameau said. war crimes and crimes against death of its chief bombmaker. cow1 charged four members of the Zayid were charged with being in with planning to cany out funher war crimes uibunal. "It was madeeleai·tothe indictees humanity while holding com Israel has been on high alert for group - including a Palestinian volved in two suicide bombings attacks, including a car bombing, The suspects did not resist and that they were surrounded and that mand positions at the notorious threatened llamas revenge al tacks policeman - for bombings that last year in Jerusalem, in which 21 in the Israeli city of Haifa. nobody was hurt in the militaiy they had no way to go," said Omarska camp outside Prijedor. since Mohiyedinc Sharif's bouy was found at the scene of :111 explo Q!:ommontuealtb Wtilities Q!:orporation sion in Ramallah last month. REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL CUC RFP98-0020 "We call upon all the Palestinian March 27, 1998 people and ... all the lovers of Islam Mohiyedine Sharif CUC-RFP-98-0022 and Palestine and eve1yone work April 1 , 1998 ing for the Palestinian interests His remarks, which matched The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) is soliciting proposals from qualified finns capable of The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) is soliciting competitive proposals fonn responsible firms worldwide to begin painful attacks those in the leaflet, were the first providing the following services: ground maintenance; trash, oil and sludge disposal; and other capable of performing construction management and inspection of civil, electrical and mechanical a!!:1inst Zionist and Jewish inter time Hamas had directly impli maintenance. construction activities for electrical 13.8/34.5 kV generation and 34.5/13.8 kV distribution substations. The e;ts worluwide," said the leaflet, cated the Palestinian Authority in work included under this contract will be on the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Interested parties may pick up the Scope of Work at the CUC Procurement & Supply Offi_ce from 7:30 to faxed to The Associated Press in Sharif' s death. Islands (CNMl), approximately 150 miles north of Guam. 11 :30 a.m. and 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, except for government observed holidays. Jerusalem. Rajoubcould not be reached for up the scope of services at the CUC Procurement & Supply Office in Lower Ha mas blameu Israel for Shari f's comment. Interested parties may pick Base, from 7:30 to I I :30 a.m. and 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for government Offerors shall provide a certification signed by a principle of the company stating that the company has in death. but an investigation by the The London-based Foreign Re observed holidays, or have -the scope of services Faxes or mailed upon request. the past, and is currently, in compliance with all applicable CNMI a~d feder~l labor laws: Should the Palestinian Authority saiu it was port quoted sources as saying company be unable to provide such certification, the company must provide _a wnt~en explanation as to why, the result of a power struggle in the Wednesday that Sharif was killed Offerors shall provide a certification, signed by a principle of the company stating that the company has in including a description of any violations of such labor laws and any remedial action taken. FAILURE OF militant organization. by Palestinian security officials in the past, and is currently, in compliance with all applicable CNMI and federal labor laws. Should the THE COMPANY TO PROVIDE THE CERTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION IS GROUNDS TO REJECT Hamas opposes Israeli-Palestin an effort to prevent an attack against company be unable to provide such certification, the company must provide written explanation as to why, THE ENTIRE PROPOSAL. including a description of any violations to such labor laws and any remedial action taken. FAILURE OF ian peacemaking and has claimed Israel. THE COMPANY TO PROVIDE THE CERTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION IS GROUNDS TO REJECT responsibility fora series of deadly But Palestinian officials earlier Proposals will be evaluated and selection made based on Cost- 50 points, Experience- 30 points, Approach THE ENTIRE PROPOSAL. attacks that have killed scores of this week accused Awadallah, who to Project - 20 points Policemen prevent Serbian students from marching through Belgrade streets on Tuesday. The police did not use force and the students people since peace talks began in now tops Israel's most wanted list, Proposals will be evaluated and selections be made based on Bid Price - 50 points; Construction dispersed quietly. AP Management Experience - 30 points; and Construction Inspection Experience - 20 points. Six (6) sets of the proposals and copies of business licenses must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked 1993. of assassinating Sharif in a power CUC RFP 98-0020, to CUC Procurement & Supply, P.O. Box 1220, Lower Base, Saipan, MP 96950, no In a videotape :,ent to a Western struggle for leadership of Hamas. A copy of the proposal must be submitted by Fax to (670) 322-6582 no later than I :00 p.m., CNMI local later than 3:00 p.m., local time, Monday, April 27, 1998. Late submissions will not be considered. news agency in Jerusalem, a The man in the videotape denied time, Tuesday, April 14, 1997. The original proposal must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked CUC German official held masked man who identified him the charge. RFP 98-0022, to CUC Procurement & Supply Office, P.O. Box 1220, Lower Base, Saipan, MP 96950, no Discussions may be conducted with responsible offerors who s~bmi! proposals detennined to be reas?nably self as J\del Awadallah - a lead Israel's Channel 2 TV said a later than 3:00 p.m., local time, Monday, April 20, 1998. susceptible of being selected for award for the purpose of clanficat10n and to ensure full understanding of, ing Hamas figure and a suspect in repot1 to be released by the Pales Discussions may be conducted with responsible offerers, who submit proposals detennined to be reasonably and responsiveness to solicitation requirements. Offerors shall be accorded fair ~n? equal treatment ~1th for suspected spying Sharif's death - accused Yasser tinian Authority would reveal that susceptible of being selected for award, for the purpose of clarification and to ensure full understanding of, respect to any opportunity for discussion and revision of proposals and such revis10ns may be perrmt~ed Arafat's West Bank security chief the bombmakerwas kidnapped by and responsiveness to, solicitation requirements. Offerors shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with after submission and prior to award for the purpose of obtaining the best and final off~rs. In conduct~ng BERN, Switzerland (AP) - A Early investigations show that Jibril Rajoub of collaborating with rivals in Harn as, who forced him to respect to opportunity for discussion and revision of proposals, and such revisions may be permitted after discussions. there shall be no disclosure of any information derived from proposals submitted by competing German official is being held on the woman had been in contact Israel in the killing. confess to handing over secrets submission and prior to award of the purpose of obtaining the best and final offers. In conducting discussions, offerors. suspicion of spying against the with a government department of He refrained, ho;ever, from call about the militant organization to there shall be no disclosure of any information derived from proposals submitted by competing offerors. Church of Scientology, the Swiss the neighboring German state of ing for acts of revenge against the Israel. CUC reserves the right to reject any or proposals for any reason and to waive any defects in said proposals, CUC reserves the right to reject any or all proposals for any reason and to waive any defect in the proposals all Federal Prosecutor's Office said Baden-Wuerttemberg for several Authority. Channel 2 said Sharif was kid if in its sole opinion to do so would be in the best interest of CUC. All bids shall become the property of if, in its sole opinion to do so, would be in its best interest. All proposals shall become the property of CUC. Wednesday. months, the prosecutor's office said. "Even if we have proof of d(rect napped on March 13 - I 6 days CUC. An investigation is underway into It declined to elaborate. or indirect involvement of mem before his body was found next to TIMOTHY P. VILLAGOMEZ whether the official tried to obtain The German government con bers of the Authority ... the re a bombed car in the West Bank city Executive Director information about the Los Ange tends Scientology is a TIMOTHY P. VILLAGOMEZ sponse will only be against t!1c of Ramallah. les-based church from a Swiss moneymaking organization out to Executive Director Zionist enemy,"' the man said. After a lengthy inten·ogation, woman, the office announced. bilk its members. He is suspected of breaking Swiss The U.S. government, which has HAPPY 13TH BIRTHDAY & REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Q!:ommontuealtb Wtilities Q!:orporation law by carrying out "illegal busi extended Scientology tax-free sta CUC-RFP-98-0023 ness for a foreign state," working tus as a religion since 1993, has HAPPY EASTER REQUEST'F0R--PROPQ$~[- -c;·, /--c--·,---~:? for a political information service criticized Germany's treatment of April 10, 1998 CUC-RFP-98-0021 ::·- .. __ ::. and falsifying identification docu the body. . . . . -· ':, ...: .. Herman "Jun" T. DL. Guerrero The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) is requesting proposals from qualified firms to perform a April 6, 199~ ments, i1 added. The church, which claims 8 mil routine maintenance program on thirty-six (36) of CUC's standby emergency generators. The man wns mrested during a lion members worldwide, was The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide meeting with the Swiss woman in founded in 1954 by the late science We love you & may the dear Lord Bless You. Interested parties may pick up the Scope of Work at the CUC Procurement & Supply Office in Lower Base, archeological monitoring for the Beach Road Sewer System Project on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Basel on Monday, the office said. fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. from 7:30 to 11 :30 a.m. and 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for government observed Northern Mariana Islands. A judge in Bern ordered him lo be It in tum has mounted an adver holidays. held Tuesday. tising campaign denouncing Ger Interested parties may pick up the Scope of Work at the CUC Procurement and Supply Office from 7:30 to CUC will conduct two surveys of the existing equipment, at which time all prospective proposers will be able to The woman was released after Dad, Mom & Family I I :30 a_m. and 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except on Government observed holidays man treatment of its 30.CXXJ adher verify initial conditions of all engine generators. The dates of these tours will be April 28, 1998 and April 29, extensive questioning. Neither she ents, such as banning them from 1998_ The tours will begin at exactly 8:30 a.m. on both dates. There will be no exceptions to these two dates or Offcrors shall provide a certification, signed by a principle of the company stating that the company has in nor the Gcnnan were identified. public jobs. times. the past, and is currently, in compliance with all applicable CNMI and federal labor laws. Should the rnmpany be unabk to provide such certification, the company must provide a written explanation as to Happy Happy 2nd Birthday Offerors shall provide a certilication, signed by a principle of the company stating that the company has in the why. including a description of any violations to such labor laws and any remedial action taken_ FAILURE Yeltsin mulls Ukraine aid past, and is currently, in compliance with all applicable CNMI and Federal labor laws. Should the company be OF 'THE COMPANY TO PROVIDE THE CERTlFICATlON OR EXPLANATION IS GROUNDS TO ELAINE M. DELA PENA unable to provide such certification, the company must provide written explanation as to why, including a REJECT THE ENTIRE PROPOSAL. aid to their families. description of any violations to such labor laws and any remedial action taken. FAILURE OF THE COMPANY In a telephone conversation with May God Bless You & More TO PROVIDE THE CERTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION IS GROUNDS TO REJECT THE ENTIRE Selection of the three highest ranked consultants will be made based on Cost - 50 points; Experience - 30 Ukrainian President Leonid Birthdays To Come... PROPOSAL. points; Capability to perform work - 20 points. Kuchma, the Russian leader also spoke of Russia's political situa Greetings from: Proposals will be evaluated and selections made base on Price· 40 points, Overall Plan -20 points; Experience Six (6) sets of the proposals and copies of business licenses must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked of firm and its personnel - 20 points; and Location of firms - 20 points. tion and efforts to form a new CUC-RFP-98-0021 to CUC Procurement & Supply, P.O. Box 1220, Lower Base, Saipan, MP 96950, no Ric Ric & Kim Kim later than 3:00 p.m., local time, on Monday, April 27, 1998. government, Yeltsin 's press ser Six (6) sets of the proposal and copies of the business license must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked vice said. CUC-RFP-98-0023 to CUC Procurement & Supply Office, P.O. Box 1220, Lower Base, Saipan, MP 96950, no Discussions may be conducted with responsible offerors, who submit proposals determined to be reasonably The death of the miners in a later than 3:00 p.m., local time, on Wednesday, May 13, 1998. susceptible of being selected for award, for the purpose of clarification and to ensure full understanding of, methane gas explosion and fire at and responsiveness to, solicitation requirements. Offerors shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with a Donetsk mine Saturday was A VERY HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY Discussions may be conducted with responsible offerors who submit proposals determined to be reasonably respect to opportunity for discussion and revision of proposals, and such revisions may be permitted after Ukrnine 's worst mining disaster susceptible of being selected for award, for the purpose of clarification and to ensure full understanding of and submission and prior to award of the purpose of obtaining the best and final offers. In conducting discussions, since the Soviet Union's collapse responsiveness to solicitation requirements. Offerors shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with respect there shall be no disclosure of any information derived from proposals submitted by competing offerors. to opportunity for discussions and revision of proposals, and such revisions may be permitted after submission in 1991. Cielo Isabel Ramirez and prior to award of the purpose of obtaining the best and final offers. In conducting discussions, there shall Yeltsin expressed his condo CUC reserves the right to reject any or all proposals for any reason and to waive any defect in the proposals Boris Yeltsin be no disclosure of any information derived from proposals submitted by competing offerors. if, in its sole opinion to do so, would be in its best interest of CUC. All proposals shall become the property lences to the Ukrainian leader On April 12/98 of CUC. MOSCOW (AP) - President ship and the families of the disas CUC reserves the right to reject any or all proposals for any reason and to waive any defect in the proposals Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday ter victims, and said he ordered From: if, in its sole opinion to do so, would be in its best interest. All proposals shall become the property of CUC. TIMOTHY P. VILLAGOMEZ voiced his condolences over the Russian officials to provide un Executive Director specified humanitarian aid to their Mom & Dad · Lola & Lolo TIMOTHY P. VILLAGOMEZ death of63 miners in neighboring Executive Director Ukraine, and promised to send relatives, the report added. Nards/Nena --,-,1 I l .. APRIL 10, 1998-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS'AND VIEWS-45 ------·------~----~------·-· ------·· ------44-MJ\8JA_Ni\:,_ \IARIEI_Y N~~~~p_VIEWS-FRIDAY- APR!!- 10.,__,-'---'19....c_9-=--8 ______------~ ------Richardson to visit Kabul Mecca Hajj nears end WASHINGTON (AP)- U .N. who briefed reporters Wednes ghanistan since former Secre Much of the country is now un By TAREK AL-ISSAWI at each of thepillarso~ the Mina plain About I 0,000 security oflicers Ambassador Bill Richardson day said Richardson will urge tary of State Henry Kissinger der the control of Islamic semi MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - th1eetimesovcrasmanydaysinakey spread through the crowd to guide will become the first American Afghanistan's warring factions traveled there in the mid-1970's, narians known as the Taliban. Guards canying black wooden ba 1itual of the Islamic pilgiimage. pilg1ims to the site. official of Cabinet rank to visit to move toward peace instead before a communist government Rich.ardson's trip also is tons locked rums and formed a hu The numberof pilg1ims at any one Policeusingloudspeakersappealed Afghanistan when he travels to of resuming milirary offensives took power. aimed at laying the groundwork man wall Wednesday to guide the time in front of the pillars, which to pilgrims to remain orderly and wait rhat counrry as pal'! of a Sourh as is customary during the Richardson also will visit for a visit later this year by Presi crnsh of pilgiims to the three pillm'S represent the devil, reached about their tum. Asian tourthat begins this week spring. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and dent Clinton to India, Pakistan outside Mecca that they pelt witJ1 20,000 in the daytime on the second Most signs were in Turkish, En end. Richardson will be the first Sri Lanka. and Bangladesh. stones in a rile of the hajj. day of the stoning, when tempera glish ,md Urdu as well ,L, Arabic to A senior American official U.S. cabinet officer to visit Af- The United States is part of an The senior official, who spoke 'This is like the day of judgment tures reached about 42 C ( I 08 FJ. accommod.atethepilgiimsfmmabout on condition of anonymity, said with all the people, while and black, The number rose to 60,000 after I 00 counDies. Richardson will try to encour COMMONWEALTH PORTS AUTHORITY young and old, Arab and foreit,'Tl, the sun set and the temperature fell to Police anested 16 people Tuesday age longtime rivals India and walking toward God," said Othman about 35 C (95 F). who they said we1e pwt of a gang of Pakistan lo resume a dialogue. Abdo, 36, after c:L,ting his stones, The pilgrims chanted "Allahu pickpockets preying on pilgrims as . He also will reaffirm U.S. con each the size of a chickpea. Akbar," Arabic for God is Great they stoned the pillms, police said Bill Richardson cerns about arms buildups in .The 2.3 million pilgiims gathered Some also hurled curses at the pillars, Wednesday. PUBLIC NOTICE eight-country diplomatic effort the two countries, including a forthisyear'shajj,eachwewingwhite shouting "May God's fury fall on The pickpockel~ apparently stole to bring peace to Afghanistan, recent Pakistani test of a missile seamless gowns, throw seven stones you" as they walked away. valuables from the belts that many The Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) will offer for sale to the highest which has been at war continu capable of striking deep into i' " ously for almost two decades. Indian territory. bidder the vehicles below on April 15, 1998, at I 0:00 a.m., at West Tinian Airport; A pilgrim holds onto her husband's robe as they walk along in Mecca Tuesday during the ann(Jal pilgrimage or Hajj. After spending Monday ·Indonesia~s drought, fires in prayer on the plain of Arafat outside Mecca, the 2.3 million pilgrims One (1) 1990 SUBARU "LEGACY" STATIONWAGON were gathering up pebbles for Tuesday's ritual stoning of the pillar of ·threaten orangutans temptation to show they have overcome Satan's lures. AP One (I) 1987 SUBARU DL STATIONWAGON pilg1ims wc,u· beneath their gowns ha_ij. By GEOFF SPENCER ,md from pi lg rims' tcnL~. Alier t11e stoning ended at mid JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - 'Ilic pickpoc keL~. from Bangladesh, night Wednesday, two bulldozers The above vehicles will be sold "as is" and all sales are final. For more Choked by smoke, theirjunglehabi information, please contact Mr. Sylvester C. Palacios, Tinian Ports Afghm1ist,m ,md Bu1ma. had 58,CXXl moved into the area to scoop up tatin flames and their food lost in the 1iyals (dlrs 15,S(Xl) in 16 diffc1ent hund1eds of light phstic slipf>crs that Manager, at 433-9296 during regular working hours. ashes, orangutans on Borneo island cu1Tencics in their possession. police had tipped or fallen from the feet of faceextinction, wildlifeofficerssaid said. pilg1ims. this week. Two elderly pilg1ims from south Dozcnsofs1mdl trucks withbmshcs Wildfires and a prolonged east Asia died Tuesday from t11e heat in front oft11em swept t11e 1.5 kilome /s/CARLOS H. SALAS drought, blamed 6n the El N'lfio whilestoningthepillrn-s,theal-Medina • ter( I mile) passageway in front of the Executive Director weather phenomenon, have caused newspaper 1epo1ted. l11e pilg1ims three pill,u-s, pushing ,L,idc water and mass starvation among the red were not fu11her identified. ju ice bottles. haired great apes. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims crowd round a pillar which symbolizes the Devil and take turns to throw In Islam, a place in heaven is 1e 1l1e pillars ,ue some I (Xl meters Last year, similar fires, many of stones at a the pillar, during the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia Wednesday. AP se1ved for those who die during the (yards) apm1. them deliberately lit to clear land, produced a massive blanket of Pursuant to the Government Vehicle Regulation No. 1101, I, Herman smokeovermuchofSoutheastAsia, threatening the health of millions of US-Israel panel recomm_ends privatization in Israel S. Sablan, Acting Director of Procurement & Supply, hereby give humans. CPA consent to sell the above vehicles. As the fires grow in intensity, the By Barry Schweid U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Devel main. mendations by the panel that in tablish competition next year'in WASHINGTON(AP)-With opment Group at a news confer Eizenstat, the panel's chairman, cluded: local land line telephone service. a~ and other wildlife are becom An organizer speaks to fired wa ing the first c.a.sualties this year. terfront workers and other union Israel's economy in a slump, a ence Wednesday, Undersecretary said Israel's economy has pro • Sell controlling stakes in El Al • Raise the share of electricity supporters march in front of joint panel proposed spending of State StuartEizenstatsaid plac- ' gressed rapidly since its creation in and Bezeq. production permitted to pri vale /s/HERMAN S. SABLAN "The jungle is black and bare. There is no fruit, no leaves, no bark. Sydney's Darling Harbour docks and deficit cuts and recom ing companies in private hands 1948, but its government should • Sell a controlling stake in al companies from IO percent to Wednesday afterAustralia's larg mended the government sell its would attract more American, increase private holdings in a range least one financial institution, 20 percent by 1999. There's nothing for them to eat, no e st ship-loadinf1. company, water lo drink," said Willie Smits, Patrick, fired all of its 1,400 work ( controlling stakes in El Al air Asian and European investors. of industries and use the money to Bank Discount or Barik Leumi. • Hold increases in govern REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS the head ofWanarisetSamboja pri ers overnight. Patrick locked out lines, the telephone company Israel was founded 50 years reduce its debt • Increase competition in health ment workers' salaries to no CUC-RFP-98-0014 m.ate refuge tljat specializes in sav the workers on 17 docks nation Bezeq and either Bank Discount ago largely by European social "The world has changed," the care. more than half the targeted tn ing orangutans. wide after ongoing disputes with or Bank Leumi. ists, and many remnants of their State Department's senior econom • Establish a third cellular tele flation rate - 4 to 7 percent in April 8, 1998 the union labor. AP . "Babies are too weak to cling to Presenting proposals of the social democratic institutions re- ics official said in releasing recom- phone company this year and es- 1999. The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) is soliciting competitive proposals from responsible their mothers. They are falling out Early on he was given oxygen to Architectural/Engineering firms capable of designing new electrical overhead 7.97/13.8 kV distribution lines of the trees and aie left to die," he counter the effects of smoke inhala and secondary seNices in the Marpo and Carolinas Agricultural Homestead areas. said Wednesday. tion. Villagers and hunters kill apes Others are recovering from The Scope of Work may be picked up at the CUC Procurement & Supply Office in Lower Base, Saipan, thatleavetheirremote jungle homes wounds inflicted by poachers. between 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Government insearchoffood. Mothers are some Most are treated for parasites and obseNed holidays. times hacked to death and their disease. With 95 percent of their infants sold as exotic pets. DNA makeup identical to. that of 011ali1J Offerers shall provide a certification signed by a principle of the company stating that the company has in the cars at Brea, Prices! Environmenlalistsare unsure how humam, some suffer from conta past, and is currently, in compliance with all applicable CNMI and federal labor laws. Should the company be manyorangutansremaininthewild~ gious human illnesses, such a hepa 1991 Subaru Legacy,,.,,.~, $4,995 1992 Subaru Legacy s/w '"""' $8,495 1996 Toyota Corolla ,,.,,, $13,995 unable t_o provide wch _certification, the company must provide a written explanation as to why, including a ofBomeo, but some fear it might be titis B and tuberculosis. descnpt1on of any v1olat1ons of such labor laws and any remedial action taken. FAILURE OR THE COMPANY 1992 Subaru Loyale s/w ,,,,=, only a few thousand. Safe for now, dozens of infant $5,995 1991 Honda Prelude '""" $8,595 1997 Isuzu Hombre Pickup ""' $14,995 TO PROVIDE THE CERTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION IS GROUNDS TO REJECT THE ENTIRE PROPOSAL. 'The orangutan is already under apes play inside large cages. But 1991 Buick Regal''""'~ $5,995 1991 Honda Accord '"'""' $8,995 1997 Hyundai Tiburon''""'' $14,995 heavy threat from forest clearing their problems are far from over. 1989 Mazda B2200 Pickup ,•• ., .., $5,995 1993 Hyundai Elantra ""'"' $8,995 1995 Toyota E-Cab 4x4 Pickup ·'""''$15,995 Pr~posals will _be evaluated and selections made based on Bid price - 50 points, Past Experience - 25 and hunting," said a recent World ''Ithasn 'trained herfor78 straight points, Experience of Personnel Assigned to Project - 20 points, Design Schedule - 5 points. Wide Fund for Nature report. days," said Smirs. "Fanners who 1992 Toyota Tercel ""'"" $6,995 1994 Toyota Tercel ,..,,,., $9,495 1995 Chevrolet Camaro Conv. ''"'°"'$16,995 "These fires may well be the final have been selling us fruit now have 1988 Suzuki Samurai ,•. "" $6,995 1991- Mazda RX7 '""'" $9,995 1994 Ford 15 Passenger Van "" $16,995 Six (6) sets of the proposals must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked CUC RFP 98-0014, to the cue · push towards extinction." nothing growing their garder!s. It is Procurement & Supply Office, P.O. Box 1220, Lower Base, Saipan, MP 96950, no later than Friday, April a, The few apes that are rescued getting hard to find supplies." Of 1989 Suzuki Sidekick ,.,..., $7,995 1988 Mercedes Benz """'"' $10,995 1994 Mitsubishi 3000GT '""" $18,995 1998 at 2:00 p.m., local time. Late submissions will not be considered. often end up at Smits' refuge, near greater concern is the threat of fire. 1994 Hyundai Sonata,,,,,.,.., $10,995 the 'city of Samarinda, 750 miles Two weeks ago, a blaze swept Discussions may _be conducted with responsible offerers, who submit proposals determined to be reasonably (1,200 kilometers) northeast of through forest adjacent to the pri 1993 Mazda 626 """"' $10,995 susceptible of being selected for award, for the purpose of clarification and to ensure full understanding of, Jakarta. mate refuge and was stopped only 1992 Isuzu Trooper,,,.,,,,, $11,995 and responsiveness to, solicitation requirements. Offerers shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with Currently it is home to ISO oran by a high wall. It burned everything 1992 Mitsubishi Diamante, ...... , $11,995 respect to opportunit~ for discussion and revision of proposals, and such revisions may be permitted after gutans, most of them infants or ju on the ground. subm1ss1on and pnorto award for the purpose of obtaining the best and final offers. In conducting discussions, veniles. 1995 Ford Escort ,,.,.,, $12,595 there shall be no disclosure of any information derived from proposals submitted by competing offerers. Many ofthe tall trees left standing Another 30 are expected later in have died and dropped their leaves 1996 Mitsubishi Mirage ''""M' $12,995 the week. They are fed and receive ~~C- reseNes (h~ right to reject any or all proposals for any reason and to waive any defect in the proposais -asecondlayerofchyfuelwaiting medical treatment. Those that recu 1994 Ford Escort s/w ,,.,,,, $12,995 1/, in its sole opinion to do so, would be 111 its best interest. All proposals shall become the property of CUC. to go up in flames again perate are eventually returned to the "All it would take is someone to 1995 Oldsmobile Ciera,~,,,, $12,995 At the Monsignor Guerrero and Middle Road intersection wild. For further information please contact Greg Castro, Deputy Director, Tinian, at (670) 433-9261. drop a cigarette B:arby and the ref 1991 Toyota 4-Runner "''"°'' $13,595 235-5012, 235-5014 One baby ape named Ali wears a ugecouldbeindangeragain," Smits TIMOTHY P. VILLAGOMEZ diaper as he lies in an incubator. said. Executive Director, CUC / ,,.,!'' .....'> APRIL IO, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-47 -----· ------·----·------·-- -·---·"··-- ·------·--. Pop star nabbed for lewd conduct Top union body vows By CYNTHIA L. WEBB which residents say has a 11:putation act" Lt. Edw:ml Kn::inssaid Wednes BE\'ERL \' HILLS. California :L~ a crnising ground for homosexu- day. n:fusing to say if Michael had no national strike (AP) - Pop st:u· Gcor[!e Mir had, a als. - • exposed himself or nm~tu1bated. B1itish-l' APRIL 10, 1998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-49 48-MARlA_NJ\S VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDA Y-6PR1LJO .1998 Business & Trade Business & Trade ~==- Yen gains Levi's to expand in C By KARYN HUNT ucts. are continued concerns about human world's largest population and a fast- we do business in this country in a SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Five The guidelines included a provi rights violations in China, tlle com 6'Towing economy, had become too manner that is consistent with our years after it pulled out of China sion saying the company should not pany believes that it can now find lucrative a market to ignore. company values?" becauseofhuman lights abuses, Levi start or renew contnicts in countries more manufacturers willing to abide "Given tllc business climate in In 1993, tlle company decided it in Tokyo Strauss and Co. said Wednesday it is with peivasive violations of human by Levi's standards for social respon China and given the markeLpotential could not conduct business in China reconsidering its stance and may that we feel China represents in the without human rights restrictions be TOKYO (AP)-111.: doll,u· plum m1d 1-esidcntial tm, cut. rights. sibility, such as prohibitions against manufacture jeans and other clothing It refused to do business in Soutll child labor, unsafe working condi- long term, can we afford not to be ing applied to its employees. meted against the ven in ern-Jv ll1urs F xpectations of some srn1 of t,L, items in 1he communist nation once Africa under tlle old apartheid regime tions and counterfeiting. · making tllese evaluations?" he said. Greby said tlle company has made Jay t1:1Jing amiJ cxpeclatio;1, Japrn1 cut have scnl the main stock index again by late I999. and in 1993, started cutting back pro The reversal comesduringadown · "Our intent in l 993, as tcxlay, wa, significant improvements in its hu will take prompl action to 1-e\·ivc its hi ghcr for the \XL,t three sessions. 111e In 1991, Levi Strauss became one duction in China from 2.65 million tum in sales for the San Francisco not to send a signal to the Chinese man rights monitoring systems, which \aggjng ccononw. Tok\'o stocks 225-issuc Nikkei SllX'k Average has of tlle first multinational companies pairsofjeansandotlleritemsofclotll based company. Worldwide sales government," he said. now prevent, many factory abuses sl ip1x:J. - - gaineu almost 61x:rcent in tl11-e; days. tOimpose strict conditions on manu ing per year-about 2 percent of its dropped 4 percent last year to dlrs 6. 9 'This is a business decision: Can and corrects problems quickly. 'll1c U.S. rnm:ncv \1w; u·.1Jcd at ·1 he Jap,mese govcmmenl is "un facturers to ensure tlle heal tll, welfare total output - to only 800,0CO. billion, the first decline for the pii 131. 76 yen. down 1.:+s vcn from late Jcr· a great deal of prcssu1-e from tl1c and safety of their employees and Levi Strauss spokesman Clarence vately-held company in 13 years. Wednl!~day in Tokyo up from Gmup of Seven (indusui.11 nations) hH those contracted to make their prod- Greby acknowledged that while there Greby said that China, with the Reading is Just the Beginning of a Quality 131.1 S yen ovemidll in New York. w1d Japm1's 1egional neighbors for P1imc Minisl.:r R';,,-u~UD Jfa,himoto tax cuL," lo stimulate its sluggish South African Vice President Thabo Mbeki points at a computer display of a background scene searching Education is expected to tuni his attention to economy,saidOavidGilmore.,;part system as he and his wife Zanele, behind him, tour Electronic Photograph Studio of the Sony Media World putting Iogether ;u1 economic stimu nerat Foreign Exchm1ge Analytics in in Tokyo Thursday. Mbeki is on a four-day official visit to Japan. AP lus package now that tl1e budget for Essex, Connecticut. !he liscal vc,u· endirn.! l'vhud1 I999 Tokyo stocks gave back some of \I ,L, finally JXL,sed la~ Wednesday. tl1eir gains at tl1c open amid prolit •Asian Business Briefs - . . - - 1-fa,himoto could 1-eveal details of the taking. u·aders said. package ,L, soon ,L, this week. ll1c benchm,u-k 225-issue Nikkci $2B Japanese aid ti sties Office. 'l11c Nihon Kcizai business daily Stock Average slipped 73.72 points. The newspaper Nhan Dan on Malaysia joint said WeJncsJav it could include a 2 oi0.45 percent, lo 16J02.90poinL~ in for Indonesia on Weuncsday quoted the office as uillion wn (ult~ l 5 billion) income the first 30 minutes of u~1ding. venture signed TOKYO(AP)-Japm1 will extenu estimating the nationwide crop at at £ 2 bill ion in aid to lndonesiaafterthe between 8.3 million and 8.4 mil KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - HK share prices surge on conclusion Wednesday of tl1c rene lion tons, up 550,000 tons from Malaysia's state oil m1dg:L,compm1y gotiated 1efonn program between 1997. Peu-oliam Nw;ional Bhu,or Pcuuna,, Eucon International School rumors of bank merger the counuy rn1J tl1e International Overall, 2.7 million hectares signed a joint venture ag1eement Monetuy Fund, tl1e Foreign Minis (6.7 million acres) are devoted to Wednesday witl1 Union Cm-bide Co. HONG KONG (AP) - Shares prices in Hong Kong ended higher We are now enrolling for the 1998-99 school year. uy said. rice- 1.08 million hectares (2.61 to build a peuochemical complex in Wednesday.haltingafour-dayslideonmarketrumorsthatabankinggiant million acres) in northern prov Malaysia. · plans a lucrntive merger. The$ 2 billion includes pm1 of the ll1e e)(act value of the de,J, esti Class space is limited due to the tremendous response Investors also rook hemt ,L~Japan 's economic situation appeared to have money already promised and $ I inces and 1.63 million hectares stabilized for tlle time bein e. traders said. billion in untied loans to Indonesia's (4.03 million acres) in the south. mated in tlle industry at m-ound $ 3 already received. Remember, we are only enrolling 20 billion to$4billion, is expected to be The Hang Seng Index, th~ market's key indie IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE AS LITO PROPERTY COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN (Formerly Saipan Paint Ball) MARIANA ISLANDS Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Along As Lita Mainroad In the Matter of the Adop1ion of: DAVIAN RENEE INDALECIO CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING AGENCY 87,400 Sq. Ft. available in As ARRIOLA, LUCIANN MARIE Report: 'Titanic' Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center Lito for long term lease INDALECIO ARRIOLA and DAVID P.O. Box I 133 Chalan Kanoa• Saipan, MP 96950 with existing concrete building, MIGUEL INDALECIO ARRIOLA JR. Tel: (670) 664-4550-7 • Fa)(: (670) 664-4560 • BBS: (670) 664-4559 2,400 sq. ft., minor children, by Power and water available, MARIA MUNA INDALECIO, Great for commercial use. Petitioner. $2,500.00/month FCD-AD scene is false Civil Action No. 98-0069 the first class passengers Public Service Announcement - Availability ol Federal Funds Contact: MR. JAE YEOL LIM NOTICE OF PRO~EEDING FOR LONDON (AP) - Public by the Public Records Office Tel.# 234-3201 ADOPTION records officials say that the from a third class passenger closeness to the few lifeboats The Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) is pleased to announce the availability of funds B. Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Program. The JJDP program is a federal program scene in the blockbuster film on the ship as saying. on the Titanic, and that they from the Edward Byrne Memorial St.ate and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program, the created by the JJDPAct of 1974, as amended. The purpose of the program is to prevent juvenile TO: DAVID CASTRO ARRIOLA Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG) Program, the Juvenile Justice & Delinquency YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE !hat -·Titanic·· where third class The Titanic sank on its spoke Eilglish and could under delinquency and requires participating st.ates and territories to comply with the requirements of()) Prevention (JJDP) Program, the Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth In Sentencing (VIO Deinstitutionalization of status offenders, (2) Sight and Sound Separation between j11veniles and a petition for adoption of the minor children, passengers are locked below maiden voyage from stand crew instructions. ·TIS) Incentive Program, and the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program under Davian Renee lndalccioAniola. Luciann Marie adult inmates, (3) Complete Jail Removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups, and (4) the $GOO.DO/month • Fully Furnished Jeck as the luxury liner sank Southampton, England, to In second class, 84 percent of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The amount available under the Edward Minority Over Representation issue. The program intends to meet these requirements by providing • 24 hrs. water • Swimming Pool Jndalccio Arriola and Dal'id Miguel lndalccio Ariola Jr. has been ftlcd by Maria Muna are false. The Daily Telegraph New York City on April 14, women, but only 8 percent of men, Byrne Memorial program is $398,832 and $ I 88,389 under the the LLEBG program. seed money to states and territories for services targeted at juvenire delinquency prevention through • Restaurant • Quiet Place education, training, recreation and other rehabilitative services. Such services may be provided by lndalccio. The petition claims tha1 your consent reported Thursday. 1912, with the loss of more survived. In third class, 55 per located ln China Town A. Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program is the local educational agencies, Jaw enforcement agencies, community-based organizations, community is not required due to your abandonment of !he The newspaper said that than 1,500 of its 2,200 passen cent of women, and 12 per fonnula program administered at the federal level by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office based action agencies, state recreation agencies, and private non-profit organizations. The following Contact: 233-4378 anytime minor children and failure to communicate or cent of men-survived, "which of Justice Programs (OJP), u_s. Depanmem of Justice. The program provides critical drug law represenLs the CNMl's FYt995 and FYt997 Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) sup[')rt ih:m for more than !he past six months. documents from Britain's gers. The extensive death toll was would not have been possible with enforcement and prosecution resources to st.ate and local government. The FY 1997 strategy proposed program plan and the amount allocated for each program category: You have the right to contest !he allegations. Public Records Office showed due to a lack of lifeboats. to use IO% of the grant for administration and 90% for the implementation of ten action programs Ahearing is set for !he 28th clay of May, 1998 at that more male, third class The newspaper reported the the gates locked," the newspaper which include the following: I. Family Services-$16,348. This category is aimed at families identified as having problems 9:00 a.m. o'clock at the Commonwealth passengers survived the Public Records Office docu said. (by a referring agency or self-referral) and will provide counseling assistance for the families in Superior Court in Saipan, Commonweald1 of I. Criminal Justice lnfonnation System (CJIS)- $43,461. This program proposes to dealing with resource agencies, teaching basic home management skills (budgeting, effective the Northern Mariana Islands. If you fail to Titanic's sinking that second ments, on display in a Titanic Conservative newspapers in Britain have attacked the "Titanic" continue the improvement of the CNMI's Criminal Justice Information System, a project which shopping, etc.), teaching parenting skills, and encouraging service agencies to consider the family appear or plead, !he adoption may~ granted in class male passengers. exhibition in London, showed would automate the criminal records and link via a computer network the CNMI Criminal Justice rather than it~ individual members as the recipient of services. The program will also support your absence. Contact: Tel. 322-3607 after 5:00pm weekdays "I think the passengers in that 97 per cent of women, for being politically biased, a Systems. The project further proposes to implement the Criminal History Record Improvement activities targeted at status offenders where helping to improve the family situation is a significant oranytime on weekends. Or page at 236-1023 is/Jane Mack. MLSC the third class had as much and 34 per cent of men who. theme which has been repeated (CHRI) program for accurate, complete and timely reporting of criminal history records. The aspect of the service provided to the status offender. TI1ese funds were returned by the Karidat Attorney for Petitioner intended recipient for this program is the Criminal Justice Information System (CHS) at the Social Services under the Family Services project. This grant is available under the Fiscal Year chance as the first and second had first class tickets survived. by the same papers in recent Department of Public Safety. 1995 JJDP Formula and Supplement programs. class passengers,'· the news The newspaper said the high months with other films perceived 1990 Toyota Corolla AT, AC $3,500 paper quoted a statement held survival rate was partly due to to have anti-English bias. 2. Interagency Financial Crimes and Drug Enforcement Task Force-$200,000. This 2. Youth Development - $20,500. This category is about providing pre-delinquent or ··at 1991 Toyota Camry AT, AC $4,500 program is designed to provide integrated interdiction, investigation, and prosecution activities to risk" youth (those who show signs of troubles at liome, school, or in the community but are not yet 1996 Mitsubishi Pajero-Std, AC $12,000 focus on drug offenses, drug-related violent crimes, organized crime, government corruption, and adjudicated as delinquents) and status offenders with activities which will help to develop in them a According to Acting Presi related offenses. The Drug Task Force is composed of the Department of Public Safety (Criminal sense of participation in and responsibility to the community as well as develop a sense of self 1995 Toy Camry XLE V-6 $12,000 A top government official, Marshalls dent Tom Kijiner, the three Investigation Section), Department of Finance (Customs Enforcement Branch), and the Office of respect and self-worth. Such programs should include community service, anti-drug abuse projects who asked to remain anony __ Please Contact Rudy at Tel 235-1242 '\ '. the Attorney General (Criminal Division). & activities, outward bound type projects, teen centers (in areas of special need), outreach, survival Continued from page il 1 are enlisting the services of mous, said that the suit would ,, education, counseling. and other activities which foster the above characteristics. Included in this American attorney Davie.I be filed this week and was not 3. Court Diversion Program -$10,000. This program proposes to provide alternative category are programs and projects that promote participation in organized activities, better self raffles and bingo, by churches, Lowe, a long time personal intended to challenge the gam to prevent detention,jail and prison for persons who pose no dangerto the community. The program image and self-esteem, and programs that instill community involvement and a sense of belonging Quiet Two (2) Bedrooms• Swimmin!=l Pool Tennis Court schools and other non-profit or lawyer of President Kabua, to will opernte out of the Probation Office and will be staffed by an administrator who, among other which recreational activities may be a significant part of the overall program. This grant is available bling legislation itself. responsibilities, will provide intensive monitoring and tracking of eligible clients. under the Fiscal Year 1997 JJDP Formula and Supplement programs. ganizations. advance their argument that The issue in the planned suit, KANNAT GARDENS It was passed on the last day of Speaker Note acted wrongly the source said, is the author 4. Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)"- $14,053. DARE is a drug abuse prevention 3. Juvenile Rehabilitative Services - $21,160. 1l1e category is designed to provide activities (Near Northam Marianas College) the session in late March by a in preventing them from vot ity of the Speaker to deny the education program designed to equip elementary school children with skills for resisting the peer to allow access to family services (see program of same title), community service, probation 235-5686 (8:30 AM lo 5:3D PM, Weekdays) 235-5849 (6:00 PM Jo 9:00 PM, Everyday) 12-1 I margin. Prior to the pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. This program uses unifomned Jaw supervision, restitution, counseling, and other rehabilitative programs and services. 1l1e services to ing on this bill. right of an individual senator enforcement officers to teach a fomrnl curriculum to students. DARE gives special attention to be delivered vary from project to project but it is expected that counseling wi II be a common element vote, the President had called Invoking conflict of inter to cast a vote on a· piece of fifth and sixth graders to prepare students for entry in middle/junior and high school where they are of every project. Community service and related projects will need staff time for supervision of for the bill to be deferred until est regulations, the Speaker legislation. most likely to encounter pressures to use drugs. Several of the DARE lessons focus on building clients and coordination, scheduling, and arranging of progi;.1m activities. It is desirable for the studentsi self esteem, stressing that children who feel positively about themselves will be more service providerto provide educational activities that will promote and instill community involvement the August session. also disqualified the trio of The suit will argue that the But when the Speaker dis capable of asserting themselves in the face of negative peer pressure. Other sessions emphasize and a sense of responsibility. It is also hoped that the rehabilitative services lo be provided will legislators from voting the Speaker over-stepped his au the alternative means of coping with stress, gaining peer acceptance, and having fun. Through jnclude structured activities dealing with agricultural projects, handicraft and other cultural projecls, 83.50-4.00/HOUR qualified the three Nitijela previous day on an accompa thority in ruling the three DARE, students learn and practice specific strategies for responding to peers who offerthem these fishing, trade, and any other rehabilitative services that will promote and enhance the participants' Knowledge with Light & Heavy Equipment, Gas & Diesel Mechanic members from voting, the vote nying piece of legislation, one Nitijela members could not substances, rehearsing how to say no effectively. self image and self esteem. Most projects will require equipment and supplies in support of the prelerred. Must be able to work 5 days a week./8 hours a day. Must be on the motion to defer dead project activities. Funds from this program category will also be made available to other programs designed to outlaw machine vote on the question of cake 5. DARE Parenting Program (OPP) - $10,000. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education or service providers for the purpose of providing counseling and social case work, and other able to work weekends & holillays as scheduled. locked at 13-13, with the and casino type gaming, since walks and bingo, since they (DARE) Parenting Program will strengthen the basic elements taught to DARE students in school rehabilitative services to juveniles who have been remanded to secure residential care. lhe funds Speaker casting the decisive Apply in person at the 2nd Aoor the three are either operators don't have an interest in these by involving parents. The DPP will enhance and develop awareness among parents of drug trends may not be used to provide for the security and/or maintenance of juveniles in detention. These vote to proceed with the vote in the community. The DPP will help fainilies acquire the infonnation and skills they need to funds were returned by the Division of Youth Services (DYS) under the In-Home Counseling project. BASIC "'vf .. or part owners of such activi recreational style fundraising CONS1RUCTION-,r ' to allow non-profit reduce the risk of subswnce abuse among their children, and proactive communication and listening This grant is available under the Fiscal Year I 995 JJDP Fom,ula and Supplement programs. SUPPLY . · · ties. activities. skills and identify self-esteem building techniques. The DPP will recognize the scope of the drug fundraising type gambling. problem and the risk factors associated with·drug use among young people and disc11ss community C. Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Program -$104,429. The primary purpose Chalan Laulau, sa· an. and cullural attitudes about tl1e use of alcohol and other drugs in general and identify the consequences of the RSAT program is to assist states and units of local government in developing and implementing in while incoming flights we·re involved in using them. residential substance abuse treatment programs within State and local correctional and detention PIA . . . told to suspend landing, until the facilities in which prisoners arc incarcerated for period of time sufficient to permit substance ab11se 0 GUANGDONG DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. Continued from page 1 runway and the landing area were 6. Family Court Program-$50,000. This is a new program designed to provide operational treatment. Funds underthis program may be used to implement residential substllnce abuse programs O}\O P.O. BOX 1640, SAJPAN, MP 96950 cleared . assistance to the newly established Family Court under the CNMI Superior Court. The Family that provide individual and group treatment activities for offenders in residential facilities operated ....,- TEL. 288-2288/6688 Court is tasked to handle family legal matters including adoption proceedings, child support, divorce, by State and local correctional agencies. 1l1e FY 1997 grant proposes to use 7% for administration landing. Last year's incident had PIA 's The Variety tried but failed to paternity, domestic violence, chi Id abuse cases, delinquency cases, and temporary restraining orders and 93% to fund direct services for the RSAT program. 1l1is program, which involves drug testing, aircraft N 12561-1 making an emer against family members. 1l1e Family Court will also coordinate a Pretrial Alternative Dispute culls for collaborative efforts among the Division of Corrections, Parole, Probation. and the Division reach PIA officials for comment. gency landing on the ~~atcr off Resolution (ADR) that will act as mediators on family disputes. of Mental Health and Social Services. Sahls said the Saipan airport Ladder Beach. WAREHOUS,ES FOR. .·.,' ·-· .. '--- ,...... ·• , ... ' ....., 7. Drug Prevention and Education - $23,274. 1l1is program is designed to provide D. ,IEN'T Violent Offender Incarceration and Tn1th In Sentencing (VOi-TiS) Incentive Program - management has immediately PIA officials at that time said operational assistance to the organized team of local alcohol and substance abuse presenters. The $177,912. The purposes ofth, VOi-TIS program are to provide funds to States: I) To build or activated its emergency and res the aircraft was on a maintenance presenting team is a new strategy to be employed in the war against drugs and substance abuse. expand correctional facilities to increase the bed capacity for the con fincmenl of persons convicted cue teams, preventing more seri test flight when the pi lot reported The team consisl, local volunteers who understand and speak English as well as the languages of of a Part I violent crime (means murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and the native Chamorroaml Carolinian. The use of the two native languages will convey the importance aggravated assault) or adjudicated delin4ucnt for an act which, if committed by an adult, would be WAREHOUSE #1 ous damages both to the aircraft he had experienced a power loss and the passengers. of understanding the negative effects of alcohol and substance abuse among the indigenous a Part I violent crime; 2) To build or expaml temporary or pern1anent correctional facilities, including 50'Xl00' and would be unable to reach the population. TI1csc arc the people who have been forgotten in the campaign against the war on fa~ilities on military bases, prison barges, ,md boot camps, for the confinement of convicted nonviolent He said firetrucks were rushed Saipan airport's runway. drugs. 111c presenters have been certified ,is public speakers that can convey the drug-free message offenders and criminal aliens, for the purpose of freeing suitable e.,is1ing prison space for the in the CNMI society. 'li:arn members represem the area of education. health. social services, law confinement of persons convicted of a l',m I violent crime: anJ. 3) To bui!J or e,p,mJ jails. The enforcement, and the community. ·111c team members will be- Uskc:d with the responsibility of FY!l/96 and FY1997 funds proposes to use _1<,; for administration anu 97'., 10 i"und building it unless ScaTel comes up wi1h all educating the community regarding Urugs and substances and thc-ir nc:galivc consc:qucncc:s. 'Il1cy construction. The recipknt of funds under thi.s program will be the Division of Cnrrcctirn1.s, the necessary information regard will provide drug and substance ubusc presentations at the different schools throughout the Department of Puol ic Safety. TWO WAREHOUSES OF QE2 ... Commonwealth, at meetings for parents and teachers associations, and at other school related ing the project. 5000SQ' & 3500SQ' PARKING WARE C_ontinued from page~- functions. They will also provide presentations at government and non-government sponsored E. Local Law Enforcement Block Gram (LLEBG) i\ I 88,389. This grant is made available LOT HOUSE The project needs the approval workshops and conferences, as well as periodically appear as guest speakers throughout the CNMI under the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to units of general purpose Joc:il government with PARKING LOT & #2 bonds for the next IO years, or a of two-thirds of all the members media. funds to underwrite projects to reduce crime anµ improve public safety. Projects under this program 50' X 70' total of $55 million. ol'both the Senate and the House. must be funded in accodance with the LLEBG seven authorized purpose areas. Funds under this CONTAINER DECK The project is considered the 8. Community Crime Prevention - $2 I ,505. TI1e Community Crime Prevention is a program can be used to support the hiring. training, and employing of additional law enforcement Further, the Legislature has to proc.ess driven by a cooperation effort between citizens and law enforcement officials. The program officers and necessary support personnel on a continuing basis. Furthcnnore, funJs can also be biggest of its kine.I in CNMI his AVAILABLE approve all the lane.I and sub arc created from existing law enforcement programs or community organizntions. Par1icipants used to procure equipment, technology, anJ other material directly related to 1,asic law enforcement tory, but key members or the Leg merged land 11:ases ncedci.l by the take on tbe responsibility of insuring the safety of their homes, work places, and neighborhoods; functions, as well as establishing crime prevention programs involving cooperation between islature said they will not support project. protecting themselves, their families. and their communities against crime; and working community residents and law enforcement personnel to control, detect, or investigate crime or to cooperatively to solve problems. Law enforcement professionals point to citizen crime prevention prosecute criminals. The intended recipients under this program ,ire the Dep:irtment of Pub) ic Safety activities as an important factor in curbing crime rates. Citizen participarion is critical. While and the Commonwealth Judicial Branch. gathering infommtion, the concerns or community members must be examined. Local residents Chk1STI.AN CCAC ... "We have thLCcooper,ttion ofcwry need to be involved in prioritizing problems and developing solutions. Support can be built by The CJPA is also accepting sub-grant applications for the remaining funds available under the CHJRCH government agency. Everyone is increasing pub! ic awareness about crime prevention through door-to-door canvasssing, community following Fiscal Ye,1r 1996 program: [±] Continued from page 9 meetings, the media, or other means. hclpingussetupli.,rtheevc11t. Wc,uc Byrne Program/Court Case Management System cutTcntly 30 different cn1c1tainmrnt $ 9,897.00 also going lo have 1xu1icip:u1ts from 9. Court Case Management System-$50,000. 'll1is project is to supplement existing gmups signed for the Festival. Rota. Tinian :mu Palau:· s:1id Hun1cr. autonwtion efforts by the Commonwealth Judicial Branch. TI1e court has begun its implementation The funds will be awarded by the Northern Marianas Commonwealth Council for the Improvement 'The Festival was always by the of the courtis case management systems to cmible electronic case tracking, case calendaring, data of the Criminal Justice System (CJPA Supervisory Council) and CNMI Youth Advisory Council ··Evciyonc is cncouragcc.l to :1t1cni.l · storage and retrieval, and related activities. TI1e project is anticipated to enable the court to :1ctively (YAC) through a sub-grant process consistent with the project description outlined in the CNMl's NMC GUANGDONG community :me.I for the community. CHALAN D ~ from/\pri I 24tothc 26th at the Anicri participate in the CNMI Criminal Justice lnforn1ation System (CJIS) by providing disposition data. l'Y 1997 applications and accompanying strategies for these programs anJ will be administered by Witl1out the community, the event FINA ~ can Memorial l\uk It isacclcbration n,e ability to computerize the processing and handling of cases that come before the court will tile Criminal Justice Planning Agency. The YAC and the Supervisory Council are e,pccted to meet would not be possible," she said. enable the judicii1ry to retrieve, ,1ggregate, sort, and report its data more efficiently. The resulting i11 May I 3 & 14, 1998, respectively, and will review all applications and proposals submitteJ 10 the SISU ol' local :ut :mc.1 community sup1x)i1 -111c rcgisu·ation fo1· 1hc booths is effect will be better planning opportunity and more efficient a-nd effective administration of justice. CJPA on or before April 21, I 998. TOYO~ would be very much appn:ciated. ·· he SUSUPE C.K. 0 GAS STATION nowclosci.l, according to Mac.u-.u1,L,, said. but once agai 11, IX!rlom1c1;,; cm sign lnlerestcd applicants must contact the CJPA at 664-4550-7 or stop by the CJPA Office on Capilol Hill (House #1314) lo obtain a Sub-Grant Application Forni. For more infomnation, please contact Mr. BEACH ROAD hlrrnore infonnation.call CTAC Harry C. Blanco, CJPA Acting Executive Director, at the above telephone number or e-mail ([email protected]) . SAN JOSE CH/l,lAN PIAO up until /\p1·il 15th. ' Oflicc al 322-9%:2. 52-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY - APRIL 10, 1998 FRIDAY, APRIL IO , I 998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-53 DEADLINE: 12:00 n~on the day prior to publication EEK & MEEK® by Howie Schneider ~t}Jarianas c;yarietJ~~ NOTE: If some reason your advertisement is incorrect. call us CROSSWORD PUZZLER immediately to make the necessary corrections. The Ma~ana~ Variety I CNJ NtVtR UIJ0£'R5TA!JD AT WE:. /JUD News and Views is responsible only for one incorrect insertion. We U.JI-\AT 11-\~5[; R:JLIT[CIAfJS rese1Ve the right to edit, refuse. reject or cancel any ad at any time. [6H-DfRfJITIOIJ ACROSS 41 Poetic PRE- TF>l.Kl 103 AB:".XJT. .. L.E.V(::SIO/.J,,. contraction ·ClaSsified· Ads 42 Irritated Answer to Previous Puzzle Section : 1 Alphabet sequence 43 Shade tree ,-8! 4 Bend 45 Harvest Employment Wanted 03 TRIMMER-Salary:S3.05 per hour 01 AIRBRUSH (ARTIST)-Salary:$3.05- r;:::,., 8 Robt.-- goddess 01 MAINTENANCE-Salary:S3.05 per 6.00 per hour r;fffe. 12 From--Z 46 Unequal hour 01 DIGITIZING SUPERVISOR-Sal 13 Be borne 47 Chemical 01 DRIVER-Salary:S3.05 per hour ary:S1 ,000.00-1,500.00 per month 14 Nobleman suffix 48 Birds-- 01 MARKETING MANAGER-Sa/ 15 Village Contact: LI HENG, LTD. Tel. 288-8388(4/ 17 "'It's cold!" feather 10)F260D7 ary:S1 ,000.00-2,550.00 per month 19 Negative 49 Preoccupy Contact: ISLAND APPAREL, INC. dba prefix 52 Increased by 01 MECHANICAL DRAFTER-Sal Island Apparel Tel. 288-3442(4/ 20 Sleeping 54 Arrived ary:S900.00-1,000.00 per month 17)F26093 place 56 Decay Contact: EMC' MECHANICAL, INC. 21 Above 57 Mathematical (CNMI) Tel. 322-3532(4/10)F26003 01 CARPENTER-Salary:S3.05 per hour (poetic) function 58 Server 02 MASON-Salary:$3.05 per hour Garfield® by Jim Davis 22 Ship prefix 02 JANITOR-Salary:S3.05 per hour 23 Press 59 Vessel's 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$800.00- Contact: PRO CONSTRUCTION COR Contact: DINO M. JONES dba Recruit clothes curved plank 900.00 per month PORATION Tel. 235-8221 (4/17)F71589 25 Circle part ing Tel. 322-53B9(4/10)F26006 2-27 © 1998 United Feature Syndicate 01 CARPET LAYER-Salary:$3.05-3.50 26 Niven ID DOWN 27 Ellin per hour 02 TRACTOR-TRAILER (TRUCK 10 Sister at Ares 23 "-- lirsl 01 AUDIT ASS\STANT-Salary:S15.38 28 Airline name 1 Cheer 01 GEN. MAINTENANCE REPAIRER DR\VER)-Salary:$4.00-5.00 per hour 29 Sun-dried 2 Depot (abbr.) 11 Overhead you don't .. :· per hour 24 .. _ Window" Salary:$3.50-4.00 per hour Contact: AMBYTH TRUCKING, INC. brick 3 Boisterous rails Contact: DELOITTE & TOUCHE dba 16 Mr. Dawson 25 Veneralion 01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Sal Tel. 322-8722(4/24)F26155 32 Battery lype girl Certified Public Accountants Tel. 322- 18 Redford ID 26 Ike ary:$700.00-800.00 per month 33 Skin spot 4 A Savage 7337(4/1 O)F71454 5 Illuminated 21 Persons 28 Three (lt&lian) 01 BEAUTIC/AN-Sa/ary:$634.40 per 02 COOK-Salary:$3.05-6.00 per hour 1995 ASIA BUS (45 Passengers) $25,000 35 King of Bashan 6 Mr. Harris through 29 Everyone month Contact: NJNO'S, INC. Tel. 233-9298(4/ 1994 ASIA BUS (45 Passengers) $19,000 whom a deity 30 Portend 01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal 36 Barter 7 Sailing ship 01 (FURNITURES ASSEMBLER & JN 24)F71686 ·1994 ASIA BUS (35 Passengers) $17,000 38 "'Diamond-" 8 Mounlain is believed to 31 Mild expletive ary:S3.05 per hour STALLER)-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour 39 Harem room ending speak 33 Presidential 01 MAINTENANCE-Salary:$3.05 per Contact: MECHILLE CORPORATION 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.05-4.75 1995 TOYOTA WAGON $6,500 40 Grad.-to-be 9 Armstrong ID . 22 One (Sp.) inits. 34 One's hour dba Tongyang Carpet & BIF Furnitures/ per hour 1996 DODGE RAM 350 (15pas. .)40.000miles $14,000 Contact: M.A. PHILLIPS ENTER relatives Esquire Beauty Shop Tel. 234-1361 (41 Contact: PELLEY ENTERPRISES, .1992 DODGE RAM 350 (15 pas ..) 40.000 miles $4,500 37 Question PRISES dba USP Club Tel. 234-1984(4/ 10)F71438 INC. Tel. 233-9298(4/24)F71692 . (15 passengers) 39 Written 10JF25995 1988 CHEVROLET $2,700 PEANUTS® by Charles M. Schulz instructions 01 SUPERVISOR-Salary:$3,000.00- 01 OFFICE MANAGER)-Sal- '1990 TOYOTA CAMRY (Aircon Good) $3,300 41 Excess of 01 LAUNDRY WORKER-Salary:$3.05 4,000.00 per montfl ary:$625.00 per month solar over Please contact: MR. PARK 234-2340 lunar year per hour Contact: NIIZEKI INTERNATIONAL 01 OFFICE CLERK-Salary:$600.00 per 11 WITH WHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN Contact: ZAMBI CORPORATION dba ALL'S RiGl,lT 42 Dogtag and SAIPAN CO., LTD. Tel. 234-5050(4/ month Tl,JE WORLD'' W~Et--1 THE'{ SA't','1ALL1S RIGHT driver's Niko Laundrymat Tel. 322-6849(41 10)F71439 01 MECHANIC (HEAVY & LIGHT license 10)F26000 EQUIP.)-Salary:$3.25 per hour w1rH THE WORLD'': 43 Fumbler's exclamation 10 GREENSKEEPER-Salary:$3.05 per Contact: GAUDENCIO C. MACALINAO 44 .. __ want 02 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary:S3.05 hour dba Unity Trade Service, Inc. Tel. 322- per hour for Christmas Contact: SUWASO CORPORATION 7461 (4/24)F71691 Af VERY WW PII.IC.m ... Contact: ADPIA COMMUNICATION, dba Coral Ocean Point Resort Club Tel. 45 Derived from INC. dba Pink House Tel. 235-4499(4/ 234-7000(4/1 O)F71441 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$750.00 per • Used Refrigerator 14.3 to 19.1 Cu. Ft. 46 Execute the 10)F26004 month commands of 01 CHIEF ACCOUNTANT-Sal- 01 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary:$1,500.00 48 Simple Whirpool & Westinghouse Brand sugar 25 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER ary:$1,000.00 per month per month 49 Medical sulfix Salary:$3.05-3.50 per hour Contact: D & C CORPORATION Tel. 01 DRAFTER, CONSTRUCTION-Sal • Small Refrigerator National Brand 50 Male child Contact: MICHIGAN, INC. Tel. 234- 288-2592(4/1 O)F?l 446 ary:$800.00 per month 51 Pig's home 9555( 4/17)F26083 01 MASON-Salary:S3.05 per hour • Used Matresses 53 N. Y. landmark 01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal 03 CARPENTER-Salary:$3.05 per hour STELLA WILDER 55 Arabic (abbr.) 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$5.50 per ary:S3.50 per hour Contact: JG SABLAN REALTY & CON For more information please call hour Contact: ROBERT J. BRACKEN dba STRUCTION CO. Tel. 234-3219(41 234-2467 or visit us in San Jose Beach Road at the back . Contact: STEVEN JOSHUA BERGER HGWT Services Tel. 235-6653(41 24)F71690 /\ of Oleai Mobil Station ' ' dba Joshua Berger L:aw Otiice Tel. 235- 10)F71447 \_~ YOUR BIRTHDAY by Dick Rogers 8062(4/17)F71569 01 MARKETING MANAGER-Sal '1 KidSp(!)CTW 01 MAINTENANCE (BUILDING RE ary:SB00.00-1,500.00 per month •1 01 PAINTER·Salary:S3.25-4. 17 per PAIR)-Salary:S5.35 per hour 01 REF. MECHANIC-Salary:S1,200.00- hour • Contact: SR. REMEDIOS EARLY 1,700.00 per month FRIDAY In re1urn, you .. !ways are will could be that you've over ~Ross/ 02 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$3.25-5.00 CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CEN 01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal BORN today, you are a seri ing to lend a hand to see an looked something that others per hour TER Tel. 234-6247(4/1 O)F25989 ary:S3.05 per hour I '96 Dark Blue Mazda purchased in late Nov. 11000 Miles ous-minded yet always highly other succeed at a chosen en-. think is painfully obvious. 06 BARTENDER-Salary:S3.05-4.17 per Contact: JG SABLAN WATER & ICE spirited individual, and you deavor. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - hour 01 WAITRESS-Salary:$3.05 per hour CO. Tel. 234-3219(4/24)F71688 Purchase Price $15,200.00 Selling Price $8,500.00 ~ 01 CHIEF BAKER-Salary:S1 ,700.00- 01 COOK-Salary:$3.05 per hour have a keen interest in the To sec what is in store for Something is troubling you, 1,800.00 per month Contact K.C. POON'S RESTAURANT 01 H.E, OPERATOR-Salary:$3.05 per • '96 Ford Wlnstar Van purchased in late Nov. 13000 Miles progress others make in life. you tomorrow, find your birth but you don't know how to 07 COOK-Salary:S3.25-4.17 per hour Tel. 234-6907(4/10)F25992 hour Purchase Price $26,500.00 Selling Price $15,000.00 You fully understand that the day and read the correspond talk about it with the one per 04 MAINTENANCE [BUILDING RE Contact: JG SABLAN ROCK QUARRY success of one individual al ing paragraph. Let your birth PAIR)-Salary:$3.25-4.17 per hour 01 SALESPERSON-Salary:S3.05 per CO. Tel. 234-3219(4/24)F71689 • '96 Toyota RAV purchased In Jan. 97 10000 mlles plus. son who can help. Do not try 05 RESTAURANT (WAITER)-Sa/ hour Purchase for $22,000.00 Selllng Price $15,000.00 most always has an impact on day star be your daily guide. to be clever; be open and hon ary:S3.05-4.17 per hour Contact: H.A.F. CORPORATION dba 02 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal- the success of another. 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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1998-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-55 54-l\1.\R\.\N.\S \ .\R\l'TY NE\VS_,.\ND Y!E\VS-FRIDA Y- APRIL Ill. 1998 Robinson iniured Tiger hunt begins at Masters u the par-4s and reached three of the By DOUG FERGUSON Jay with thl' s;m1e ;mticipation ,L, The message from the green couts if he felt the entire field was try :\l'Gl:STA,Georgia(AP)-Davis when W txxb 's 4-foot p,u- putt on the simply was that if Woods can go ing to hunt him down. "Buuhis year, par-5s with an 8-iron or less. 72nd hole fell imo the cup fora n::corJ even lower- and no one else can it's up for grabs. We're all here, and But part of the anticipation is l.1.1\c Ill lookcJ like he w;L, st;uing •;· I S-tmlb-p;u· anJ a 12-stroke >!O with him -- then so be it. we've all gottoplay. We 're all at even whether Wocxls can have another z no oseto d,11\ll a 6-fu,11 pun i11 ;1 pl,1yoff as he ,cmtc·rnpl;1lt'd th,· quc:,tin11. l'ic'[()ry. - On a course softened by a late p;u· ,md looking pretty good." perfect week on ~1e penalizinggreens, SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-With round playoff series, the Knick;; fmis. the smallest crowd ofthe sea.ion lfTi,ccr \\'001.b i, on his uamc. i, Au"usta Nation,tl officials burst of rain Wednesday chat A year ago, when an already Wcxxls never three-putted, and never David Robinson out with a concus showed some of tl1e energy ,md hem1 at SkyDome. ,·1 errnr'1c else ,11 1/JL' l\fa,1c1,-playing Jiun·t narrow the L1irll';1ys amJ pusheJ starting times back one firm and fast course seemed to hit missed a putt inside IO feet. sion caused by Karl Malone's inad f,1r "'-'CO!lJ') >!row rou >!h. the kind of conui hour Thursday, Woods set out on warp speed when the first round "All you need to do is miss one of they had been lacking lately while G,uy T1-e11t il'd tl1c Raptors witl124 "l 'm not cwn going to ;u1S\\'L'r tions 1ha1 tamcu the Tiger in other his atcempt to become only the began, Woods toured the first nine those things ... and you start getting a vertent elbow, the Utah Jazz beat the losingfiveoftl1eirp1i:vioussixgan1cs. JX)illh. 111;11." he finally 1i:s1xmdcd. his stcl'ly major championships. third player to successfully de holes in 40. little gun-shy on these greens," said San Antonio Spurs 98-88 Wednes New York su1ycd one game ahead 76cr,; !09, Hornet, I 01 eyes making it perfectly cle;u· that They JiJn't make it longer or fend his title. What he faced Timrsday fig Torn Watson. day night to clinch the Midwest Divi of eighth-place New Jcr,cy in tl1c loss In Philadelphia. Allen [\crson had while Wtxxls may ownagn.:L'njackct at.Id more fairway bunkers or make And there were several hungry ured to be a much more benign If that's the case, any numbcrof sion title for the second su-aight ye;u·. column m1J snappcJ a thn:c-gamc .101xiints. a c;u·ecr-high IO re hounds ;u1J the toumamentscoringti:rnrJ. he a rule that Woods haJ to play with players in pursuit of him. Augusta course, although the fore players could be ready to meet Robinson was gu ,m.l ing Malone in Josingsu·eak that tied its longc.stof\hc ;u1dsixassi,ts\c1 lcauthc Philadelphia tl1e Jane 2 1/2 minutes into the game SCi.l'-;011. 7tx:1, over the ( 'h:u-Jo\le 1l SPORTSKR______,,,._,. Smith, Pangelinan Division "A" Division "B" Toam Win ~ Toam Win~ 1. Pepsi SPEC 6 0 1. Aimeliik Enforcers 5 0 athletes of month 2.G. Force 4 1 2. Ngeaur Comets 5 i 3. JET Turtles 4 1 3. Action Red Torch .4 1 THE NORTHERN Marianas March 1, Stuart won second place and under division in the tennis 4. Tanapag Waves 2 2 4. LA Bombers 4 2 Amateur Sports Association has in the Half Marathon, also on open in Guam. 5. Warriors 3 2 5. Koror Tigers 2 3 '!'lamed triathlete Stuart Smith and Guam, where he finished in Lee is student of Marianas High 6. Peleliu 2 '3 6. Stevedore Tarzans 2 3 swi·mmer Xenavee Pangelinan 1:19.03. School and is trying out for the 7.1 Luv You Man 1 4 7. Airai Aces 1 4 Athletes of the Month. Pangelinan competed in Guam NMI Team for the Micronesian 8. Tearn Chelus 2 4 8. 7-Up Kabekel 1 5 For the student category, tennis in the ABC Invitational, winning Games. 9. Senyevins o· ·.6 9. Huslters 0 5 player Alex Lee and volleybal three events in her personal best Eun Jung is a student of Grace player Eun Jung Lee bagged the times, as winning two relays. She Christian Academy. She competed award. broke a record in Guam and two on her school team and nov,, plays Summary of Sunday"Games at Koblemlle Field Smith got the award for win in the CNMI. with the Hyatt Hornets in the Youth MARP AOPalau League: LA Bombers Set A New Palau League. ning the Guam Seiko Marathon Alex Lee is the current tennis League. Record which he finished in 3:01.39. Last champion in the 14 and underage Eun Jung is also a member of the Chelus 7, Senyevins 0 . . . . ,' group in the North Pacific Re National Volleyball. Team training •NotenoughSenyevins dressed for the game and had to forfeit their game. gion. This month, he won the 16 for the Micronesian Games. Ngeaur Comets 18, 7~Up Kabekel 3; SPGSec. Gen Ngeaur Comets needed only five innings to dispose of7-Up Kabekel. Dave Santos was 4 for 4 with a homer, score 3 times while driving in 3 and visits Guam Ben Mesa was 3 fot 4 runs scored. With the win, Ngeaur is just a game behind the ·division leading Aimeliik Enforcers, Charita Ngircheungel Secretary General Visits Guam doubled and homered for7-Up Kabekel. By Jacob Leon Guerrero Pepsi SPEC 25, G-Force 19 . For the Variety Pepsi SPEC remained in first place after defeating the previously VIDHY A Lakhan, Secretary Gen undefeated G-Force in game that saw a total of 44 runs scored. TiT}lothy eraloftheSouthPacificGamesCoun .Omengkar kept his place in batting leadership after going 4 for 4 with a cil, visited various sports facilities on double and a homer and scoring 4 times and Payton Sakuma was 3 for 4 with Guam Tuesday. The purpose of his visit was to a homer and 3 runs scored and the rest ofthe team members each had at least clarify any questions between the one hit Jess Omar led G-Force going 3 for 4 with a homer and scoring 3 South Pacific Games Council and the times. host country. LA Bombers 33, Airai Aces 6 1This visit is a standard practice of LA Bombers set a new Palau League record with 9 homeruns in one the South Pacific Games Council," inning and 13 in 5 innings as the team humbled Airai. Jeff Diaz was perfect Lakhan said during a press confer 5 for 5 with 3 homeruns, scored 4 times and drove in5 runs, Tony Luzama ence at the SPG Commission office. was 4 for 5 with a.double and a homer and scored 4 times, Tony Camacho According to Lakhan, Guam's was perfect 5 for 5with a double and a homer and scoring 4 times, Melvin commitment to the Games in un Sakisat was 4 for 4 with a walk, 3 homeruns (all going to over 310' questionable. Centerfield Fence) scoring 4 times and driving in 6 runs, Bart Jackson hit Naturally therewereconcemsabout 2h6meruns,EricTudelawas5for4withfoursinglesandatripleandscored the condition of some of the sports 4 time~. Merle lawrence hit 2 homeruns, Wally'-Chong hit a hom~r and facilities after Super Typhoon Paka. scored 4 times and the rest of the team each had at least a hit Lakhan toured the southern part of Chavo Palacios \\las 2 for 2 with a ~alk and sCbre a run, Joe Celis and Guam seeing first hand the progress Larry Tutii each scored 2 runs for Airai Aces. ofrepairsattheSouthemHighSchool Warriors 22, I Luv You Man 17 gym, and pool facilities. Defending Palau Champion Waniors and runner-up champion met for Lakhan states that many of the venues of the Games to the athletes the first time since the championship game last year and the result was the and host countries is immeasurable. same. Scott Santos was perfect 4 for 4 with a walk and 2 homeruns, scored The quality and standards of SJX)rts as 3 times, Landon Martin tripled and scored 3 times, Ismael Agoun hi this first a whole increases in the areas that Palau League homerun and scored 3 times, and Colier Siksei making his host the Games. debut since the championship hit a 3 run homer in his first time at bat to lead For more information about the Warriors to their third victory. Eric Kani hit a homer in his last three times at bat going 3 for 4 with 3 runs 1999 South Pacific Garnes, you may Daniel Tydingco Gatewood blasts out of the ·sand trap during the Guam contact the South Pacific Games Junior Golf League two day qualifying rounds at the Admiral Nimitz scored, Jerome Attao was perfect 3 for 3 with a homer, a triple and scored Commission at (671) 475-9163/4. Course in Barrigada. Photo by Eduardo c. Siguenza Continued on page 54 Little League Team Standings (As of Sunday April 05, 1998) Athletics hand Indians first loss OAKLAND, California (AP) Mcorq:iloo by Frank Palacios Sr. am Jr. Tearn To~·ota 0 .000 was delayed hours by rain on opening the season with six 4 4 Kenny Rogers pitched seven ~ Kagman Rockets 0 . 4 Monday night and then suspended straight wins. Cleveland will play .000 4 strong innings and A.J. Hinch Tua!n Win~ £g ~a because of the American League its home opener Friday against singled home the go-ahead run in curfew. Anaheim. ~- the seventh as the Oakland Ath .UttlePms 4 0 1.000 In the scheduled game, Rogers Hinch's two-out single in th~ san Rtiiue D-9ers 2 0 1.000 letics defeated Cleveland 3-1 on San Raiue D-9efs 4 0 1.000 Tan~Braves 2 0 1.000 allowed one run artd four hits - seventh scored Matt Stairs, who Wednesday, the Indians' first loss only one after the first inning. The M.V. Rey~ AL hes 3 0 1.000 1/2 Dan DanJels 1 1 doubled leading off. .500 1 this season. left-hander struck out five and San V1Ce1te A's 3 1 .750 1 KagnmA's The A's added a run in the eighth 0 2 .000 2 Rogers ( 1-0), obtained in a trade walked four. Kau!z Glass Tgers 3 1 .750 1 on an infield single by Rickey a·~ 0 2 .000 2 from the New York Yankees last Mike Mohler pitched a perfect St Jooe Hustlers 3 1 .750 1 Henderson, a stolen base and an November, got his first win for eighth for Oakland and Bill Tay Dan Dan Blue Jays 2 1 .007 11,2 RBI single by Stairs. Stairs w Oakland just a few hours after the lor pitched the ninth for his first Caronals had a sacrifice fly in the first. 1 3 250 3 Tan~Braves 2 0 1.000 Indians completed,a 6-5 victory save. Kagman Lions The Indians tied it on a sacrifice 3 250 3 San Rcque ExpJs 2 0 1.000 over the A's in a game that started Cleveland starter Dave Burba Tan~ Falcoos 3 250 3'' fly by Manny Ramirez in the sixth. San Vcente S!ai1Z 1 1 .500 1 Monday night. ( 1-1) gave up two runs and five In the completion of the sus Gar~ Pirates 3 250 3 Chiefs 0 2 .000 2 It took the Indians just 20 min hits in seven innings. pended game, Mike Jackson Uttle Knghts 3 250 3 Hustlers 0 2 .000 2 utes to complete their win in the The Indians matched their best wrapped up the victory by getting suspended game, a contest that winning streak of last year by . ~.ontioued on page 54 -- ...