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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LIBRA! Micronesia’s Leading Newspaper Since 1972 Vol. 21 Wo. 26 ....... Saipan MP 96950 •&1992 Marianas Variety ' T uesday " A pril 21, 1992 Serving CNMI for 20 Years Inos rebuts on Dem apan suit, seeks dism issal by Rafael H. Arroyo cusations made by Demapan in to state a claim upon which relief and committee membership in the his lawsuit against the Senate can be granted; to state a claim Senate as effected by Inos. leadership. which is justiciable by the court; The suit, the first of its kind in President Josephs. Inos recently Senate Legal Counsel Pam and to allege a judicially cogni in the history of the lawmaking came up with a response on the Brown asked the court to dismiss zable injury which resulted from body, sought relief on two causes suit filed by Senator Juan S. the suit, saying the plaintiff failed the putatively illegal conduct of of action meant to correct the al Damapan asking the Superior to come up with a strong case the defendant. leged inequity as claimed by the Court to dismiss the complaint for against the defendant. Demapan sued Inos and his plaintiff. lack of merit. According to the defendant’s brother, Eloy, in the latter’s ca The first cause of action alleges The attorney for Senate Presi- response the complaint should be pacity as Finance director, over that Saipan senators are inad dentlnos last weekfiled an answer dismissed for failure to include the alleged inequity over the equately represented on certain in the trial court rebutting the ac all necessary and proper parties; distribution of operational funds Senate committees, thus, violat ing the “equal representation” IHVU cniLU KtiV , clause of Section 203 (c) of the Covenant. Senator Joseph S. Inos S FOR A PROSPERO K c Demapan was also charging that $159,365.40; Senator Edward U. the Senate President, in allocating Maratita, $159,365.40; Senator the operational funds for the last David M. Cing, $156,989.40; three quarters of fiscal year 1992 Senator Henry DLG. San Nicolas, for each individual senators, has $49,800.00; and Senator Jesus R. denied him of a fair share of the Sablan, with the second lowest Senate budget and is therefore at$30,000. being denied “equal representa Plaintiff Demapan also alleged tion” pursuant to the Covenant in his second cause of action that and the NMI Constitution. the committee composition in the Records show that on or about Senate deprives Saipan of being January 28, Inos executed the equally represented in the Senate. Senate operations budget alloca It was observed that in the Com tion for operations of the Senate’s mittee on Rules and Procedures, nine members, with Demapan and in the Committee on Execu being given only a total of $22,500 tive Appointments and for the last three quarters of FY Governmental Investigation, there 1992, the least of all the senators. is only one member from Saipan, The schedule showed that while Tinian and Rota have three President Inos was appropriated a and two, respectively. total of $ 159,365.40; Senate Vice The response came out denying President Francisco M. Borja, most of the allegations made by $156,989.40; Senate Floor Leader the plaintiff in both the first and Juan S. Torres, $136,125.00; the second causes of action. Senator. Paul A. Manglona, _______ continued on page 8 Friday accident leaves 1 dead, 4 others injured by Efren T. Dayauon their companion and driver of the she found the girl pulling her own To herparents, Bob and Martha, school and was the President of pick-up, were thrown off after hair and wailing “I’m sorry. I as well as to her friends and former the Student Council at the her A seventeen year old student at the wayward Nissan wagon hit should have sloweddowa I wanna teachers at the Baptist Academy, school, a former teacher said. the Marianas Baptist Academy the ditched Honda station wagon, die”. Kristan was a very helpful kid and Police said there were no died on the night of Good Friday Carla said. She added that she Assistant Police Chief, Capt. an outstanding student. In fact, charges filed so far against the after another young girl driving a herself got bruises on her lefttigh Ray B. Camacho also confirmed she had just won honors in a re girl who caused the accident but station wagon came speeding and trips while one of the two that the girl was a minor and al cent oratorical contest in her they are still investigating the case. down the road on Navy Hill and Filipinas also had bruises on her though he did not give the exact triggered a four-vehicle smash- left elbow. age, he said he was almost sur up that also left three other Camacho, on the other hand, from the age of the girl that she pedestrians injured. suffered a broken left leg and al so must be driving without a license Kristan Coldeen of Capitol Hill complained of back pains as he as she is not yet qualified to have expired at the Commonwealth was reported to have thrown up one. Health Center from massive head wards and landed on the hood of Actually, Capt. Camacho said, injuries after the speeding station the Nissan wagon due to the ve there were four vehicles that fig wagon rammed another vehicle hicular collision. ured in this tragic accident. The lying on the roadside which in Preliminary police investiga Nissan station wagon which turn hit her and her companions tions indicated that the driver of rammed the Honda station wagon standing with her on the side of the wayward vehicle was a minor which in turn collided with the the street just between two other who was alone in the car when pick-up and a Toyota 2-door se parked vehicles. the accident happened. dan which was parked in the According to Kristan’s younger Carla, however, narrated that opposite direction of the road. sister, Carla, who was with her she saw about two or three girls But aside from Kristan who when the accident happened, there running out of the Nissan station became the fourth traffic fatality were five of them standing on the wagon after the smash-up. She this year, only three other indi roadside in between their parked said she chased the 14-year old viduals were injured: Vidal “Bill” pick-up truck and another parked driver of the car on foot into a Camacho, Carla Coldeen and the vehicle when the speeding Nissan nearby apartment. Filipina identified as Marilyn station wagon came and rammed Apparently, Carla said, the girl Deza. the other parked vehicle. who drove the car became hys Bill also attested that the way Because of the impact, both terical and crying after realizing ward car was just running “too Kristan and Vidal Camacho, also what she had just done. She said fast”. I-M A R C A S VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY-APRIL 21,1992 TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1992 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 A Meeting Place For Our CRM readies 5 permits; 34 projects up for Board discussion by Rafael H. Arroyo April 10 list of 39 major siting in Susupe($ 184,800); the Pacific minium in Chalan Galaide. lage Homestead project in projects, five of which are cur Islands Club Phase III project in Other noteworthy projects in Tinian. Opinions., .And Yours. The Coastal Resources Man cluded for the next Board discus M i m rently in the final permit circula Afetnas ($10 million); the Otas "We've been swarmed by per I agement Agency Board may have tion stage after they were dis Condominium project in As sion are: the proposed $62million mit applications, so what we need the bike to make the turn, let the its hands full come April 30 as it cussed in the last Board meeting. Matuis ($40 million); and the Royal Marianas Beach Club in cerns. Reading is not the answer. is time in order to thoroughly bike pass, then turn. The few tries to review the details of some The others would have to be dis Joeten Susupe Expansion project Achugao (421 rooms); the $200 Sincerely, come up with the right decisions Simeon! Kapileo seconds difference in time won’t 34 permit applications for projects cussed on the next Board meeting in Susupe ($1 million). million Coral Bay Resort in on the right projects that would Letters to the Editor make you that late, but hitting a currently under consideration by at the end of the month. To be taken up for discussion Tanapag (1,039 rooms); the $19 benefit the Commonwealth," Dear Editor: ridercouldputtheminawheelchair the CRM Office. The permit applications, most are five new applications namely: million Emerald Villa (220 said Villagomez, when asked to The increasing number of bike for life. Bikers, runners and pe This was learned from CRM of which involve hotel and real the Marianas Agupa’s $121.2 rooms); the $62 million Saipan destrians need also to act comment. • Dear Editor: Representatives. What happened continuously appropriating more and pedestrian accidents both on Administrator Joaquin P. estate development, seeks to con million, 870-unit Rota Interna Resort Villa (363 rooms); and the defensively,not aggressively when According to the CRM Ad This refers to the article in the during all those years? Where or less their budget request. Ap Guam and Saipan have prompted Villagomez struct a total of 5,110 hotel, tional Resort complex in As controversial Hafa Adai Hotel ministrator, the cumulative wa Marianas Variety dated April 14, were you? propriations are made based on the me to write.