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• : I ,,',/,kl( arianas %riety;;~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 (;&) ews .1 ,•l By Ferdie de la Torre annual grant for the program. A number of the former clients The 1995 participation reached Variety News Staff De Beer said they had requested became economically and finan an all-time high of 13,315, out THE U.S: Department of Agri for a bigger grant because of the cially self-sufficient, which ren numbering the 11,558 recorded culture-Food and Nutrition Ser continued increase of participants . dered them ineligible to partici in 1986. The second highest fig vice has provided the CNMI $5 .1 among households as well as the pate in the program. ure was in 1994, where 11,871 million or a 37.8 percent increase high administrative costs. The household participation household participation was re in annual block grants for food The administrator said client graph for fiscal years 1982-1985, corded. stamps program and its adminis participation reached its peak in however, showed that from 1991 De Beer explained that the trative costs for fiscal year 1996. 1986 and started to decline in client participation started to go 100% federally funded Nutrition Patricia Palacios-De Beer, Nu 1987. up again. Continued on page 16 trition Assistance Program admin The major factor attributed for istrator, told the Variety yester the decline is due to the economic day that from 1982 to 1995, CNMI boom that the islands had experi had received only $3.7 million Patricia Palacios-De Beer enced. '.'. ~Ji~!~WJf /'C'.J'i> I~TERIOR J,)~partt11e11t's.In- ..•.. sul~r A.ffair~ pfrect9r ;\Jl~p . St~ymary wrote •.. Qqv~ F'roil!Ul .. C. Tenorio. J\1esclay e}Cpress~ . irighisl'egi:~tse>verth~~port:ed Community workers Peter Lizama (left) and Eddif!i Sa_blan help each o~her if'} cutt_in!J _bam_boo n?eded to decorate a float for the Governor's Office. For the ftrst time, the Governors Office wt/I JOtn thts years annual July 4th Liberation Day Parade. -Photo by Ferdie de la Torre IG;.am officials try ;.~ys I Aloot argues in US Congress for :t?.M~~o~::~t fi~:~,!~o~~£i continued local control of wages For the Variety cals when combined make it ;, before an oversight hearing called and immigration. n GUAM - With the months of hard for anyone to breathe," he i; by the US Senate Committee on "The Congress clearly has the I March to July being the hottest said. Energy and Natural Resources, authority to say yes to the legisla in the Pacific region, another Aquininoc also said there is acting Attorney General Sebastian tive proposals before it," said Ordot Dump landfill fire on no solid evidence that these Aloot said such a proposal is un Aloot. "In the name of the good Guam has gotten temperatures chemicals are responsible for warranted as it would be an af-· Continued on page 16 rising and environmental con- fires at the dump as they are front to the spirit of self-reliance cems developing. either started by the magnifying l and the concept of local govern- Aside from the regular load concept, which is the reflection ment. of solid waste material such as of the sun on glass, or by a The hearing called by Commit paper, aluminium and glass, the carelessly thrown cigarette. tee chairman Frank Murkowski Ordot Dump also contains He said that for prevention (R-Alaska) was supposed to fo chemicals that are combustible measures, landfill employees. cus on a pending piece of legisla and flame prone. are instructed to prevent fires tion in the Senate, S. 1804, but the But according ~David L.G. by the use of natural cover ma- chairman decided to include the a Sebastian Aloof Arthur Aquininoc, superinten- ierials such as earth, excess soil, report recently submitted by the dent of the Solid Waste Divi- sand, or gravel. By Rafael H. Arroyo Interior Department on the CNMI sion of the Department of Pub- This process also helps in con- Variety News Staff labor and immigration reform ini- lie Works although the landfill trolling rodent population in the THE TENORIO Administration tiative. does not allow toxic materials area. this morning officially registered Aloot asked the committee to suchasusedoil,itdoesnothave "As required by the standard before US Congress its opposi give Tenorio Administration a any regulation. for everyday that we follow, we need at least tion to a proposal that aims to chance to resolve local problems chemicals that are being brought six inches of cover to prevent strip the CNMI of control over with local solutions, not only per to the dump. and help stop the flames," he local minimum wage. taining to the minimum wage is "Ourmajorproblemrightnow Continued on page 16 Testifying in Washington, D.C. sue but also in the areas of labor ...............a.·D.-·&· •• ;a.·.~.,~r,r-,m-•..-,'C'l-:r.·•~~~~~~·".'"'ms•www ·p_(c t,:~:·,,.<.?f..r:·~:. ST1\C!~s 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-THURSDAY-JUNE 27, 1996 THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 .i I CDA sues ex-Rev & Tax chief . I By Ferdie de la Torre .: I Board, extended a $165,000 pal amount of $254,125.27 . principal due under this loan Bomb rips US facility .';·; Variety News Staff loan to Evangelista. Because Evangelista still ne is $277,347. The accumulated I ' THE COMMONWEALTH J', The defendant signed a glected to make any payments, interest will be $119,832.68 By ADNAN MALIK 241 American servicemen. Development Authority has \. killed t< promissory note secured by a a second revision agreement and late charges will be r-, sued former Revenue and DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) Blast kills 23 Americans, hurts over 300 in Saudi Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister Vo.. loan agreement, a fee simple was entered in March 1988, $1,085.28. ,, Taxation Chi"ef Juan L. - A powerful truck bomb ripped were the blast took place. territory as a base for the 1991 Gulf extremiststoattackWestemtargetsif PrinceNayefwamedinAprilthatthe mortgage on several pieces of bringing a new principle The complaint said in Sep Evangelista for alleged non through a U.S. Air Force housing Glass from shop windows and War which threw Iraqi forces out the men were punished, they were November 19CJ5blastinRiyadhmight property, a security agree amount of $275,618. tember I 986, CDA granted complex in this eastern Saudi Ara beheaded on May 31. not be the last in the kingdom, saying payment of$.5 million in Joans car windscreens covered the streets of Kuwait ment, and a receivables and Pursuant to the 1988 revi another Joan to Evangelista in bian city, killing at least23 Ameri Security was tightened following the cowitry was part of a region often and interest. for several blocks in all directions. U.S. forces remain in the king inventory agreement. sion agreement, Evangelista the amount of $92,000. A cans and injuring more than 300, the threats, U.S. officials said tom by acts of terrorism. "Wethoughtitwastheendofthe dom, which angers Muslim mili In a ci vii complaint filed In 1985, Evangelista made commenced making payments promissory note was signed U.S. officials said. world," said Walid, a 22-year-old tants who oppose any Western pres 1berearenoknownmilitantgroups Last November's bombing was yesterday before the Superior the second loan in the amount of $1,000 a month. secured by agreements and In Washington, President Saudiwhowaswalkingonanearby ence in Saudi Arabia, home to operating in the kingdom, though the the first such attack against Ameri Court, CDA asked the court to of $48,000. He executed an These payments, however, mortgages on real property. Clinton said the explosion "ap street at the time of the explosion. Islam's holiest shrines. men responsible for last November's cans in the kingdom, shattering its order Evangelista to pay other promissory note secured the complaint stated, were In March 1988, CDA agreed pears to be the work of terrorists" "A minute after the blast, there Tuesday's blast came seven attack said their actions were influ image as a safe haven for Westerners $561,317.30 within three separately in a manner similar never enough to amortize the to enter a revision agreement and vowed to bring those respon were hundreds of people in the months after a car bomb exploded encecl by Muslim radicals operating in the volatile Middle East. months or suffer the sale of to the first note. loan because they could not because the defendant failed sible to justice. in Egypt, Algeria and elsewhere. In April, Saudi authorities an street," said Walid, who declined outside a U.S. -run military building the mortgaged property. The two loans were then even meet the amount of in to make payments. "The cowards who committed Tuesday night's explosion was nounced the arrest of a Saudi man to give his last name. "Some were in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, killing The CDA action consoli consolidated so that the new terest due each month. Under the agreement, the this murderous act must not go the worst blast involving Americans who tried to smuggle explosives crying. Some just sat on the ground five Americans and two Indians. dates two pending civil cases principle amount was Accordingly, the balance principal balance due and the Juan L. Evangelista unpunished," he said in a brief and held their ears." In April, four Saudis confessed. in the Middle East since the 1983 into the kingdom from Jordan in arising from the defendant's $218,575.38, the complaint due on the principal never de accrued interest were com statement, At daybreak Wednesday, the Despite promises from widergroWJd bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that side a car.