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'Dems Should Give up Now' CHIEF Public Defender Daniel J JJNIVERSITX Of. HAW.All UBAAJtY arianas %riety~~l~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 b~ -.;.,;, Or:Ja.raps• By Zaldy Dandan day, said he is "happy to serve," Variety News Staff but added that he sees his job as LIEUTENANT Governor Jesus one in transition. C. Borja yesterday said the ongo­ "Of course I'll do the best job I ing "firing spree" in the Office of can according to law, and will the Governor has "no logic be­ certainly cooperate with the (in­ hind it. except perhaps that it is coming administration's transi­ being done out of spite;" tion team) and provide them with Borja said the firings show that what's appropriate," he said. the one doing it has "immature Tenorio has also appointed personality." former senator Hilario F. Diaz as "It just doesn't make sense," he the new special assistant for pro­ said. "They'll be leaving anyway grams and legislative review when the new administration (SAPLR) to replace Gloria comes in." Hunter.-------- Borja, at the same time, said Robert Dunlap Froi/an C. Tenorio Loren Sutton Continued on page 20 Robert Dunlap's resignation as acting attorney general is "unfor­ Describing Dunlap as "very Tenorio, meanwhile, has named tunate." professional, a very good and ethi­ AGO senior counsel Loren Sutton Dunlap resigned on Monday cal lawyer," Borja said, "I think as the new acting attorney. gen­ DeRienzo quits, over policy differences with Gov. (the Attorney General's Office eral. Froilan C. Tenorio. [AGO]) is losing a good man." Sutton, in an interview yester- but on his own By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff 'Dems should give up now' CHIEF Public Defender Daniel J. DeRienzo has also lawyer could have done a better plaintiff's counsel, Sebastian turned in his resignation to job in presenting the case against Aloot, to prove Tenorio ineli­ Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio to governor-electPedroP. Tenorio's gible, Borja said Aloot also end his six years at the helm eligibility to serve a third term. failed to point out the differ­ of the Public Defender's Of­ With the Superior Court already ences in Camacho v. Northern fice. ruling in Tenorio's favor, how­ Marianas Retirement Fund In an interview yesterday, . ever, Borja, a 'former Supreme (.1990) and the constitµtional DeRienzo said his resigna­ Court associate justice, said any . amendment limiting the gover­ tion takes effect Jan. 9, 1998, Daniel J. DeRienzo appeal will likely be dismissed by nor to two terms as it applies to citing personal, rather than the Supreme Court. Tenorio. political reasons for quitting. will miss many of my dear "They should give up now," The case ruling, penned by DeRienzo said he accepted friends and colleagues here Borja said, referring to Demo­ Borja himself, was cited by a very challenging job in his on Saipan... ," said the chief Jesus C. Borja cratic Party leaders behind the Tenorio's lawyers in arguing native Arizona--that of being public defender. lawsuit. that constitutional amendments DeRienzo started to work By Zaldy Dandan the first public defender of "They should have (taken the can not be applied retroactively. in the CNMI as prosecutor of Variety News Staff Yavapai County beginning issue to court) a long time ago." Borja said Aloot did not point the Attorney General's Of­ LIEUTENANT Governor Jesus February next year. Citing the ruling itself which out that Camacho v. Northern "I am saddened to leave. I Continued on page 20 C. Borja yesterday said another mentioned the failure of the Continued on page 20 - ' - ~ r' • :~-) ' •• C • By Rick Alberto craft that crash-landed offshore Variety News Staff near Ladder Beach last Nov. 26 CONCERNED agencies yester­ was polluting the waters because day were wonied that the Pacific of fuel discharge. Island Aviation single-engine air- Coastal Resources Manage­ ment Manuel C. Sablan informed a board meeting that the plane is still under water and that it was discharging fuel from its tank. Max Kretzers, PIA executive vice president, meanwhile, said it was difficult to salvage the plane since, according to the informa­ tion he got, the water where the aircraft lies was "too deep." The aircraft was reportedly 70 feet under the water. ),)r ('IJ 1 I '-,'I' - .. ,.-·,r·-· ~'1'.f•-'l'/1;1;4~ )~'l, .,-,·... ,••.•: ·.11_1•1' c I\ 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TI-IURSDA Y- DECEMBER 4, 1997 TI-IURSD°A 'i< o·ECEMBER "4', 'i 9<J°7 -MARIANAS VARIETY-NEWS AND ViEws-'3 Cuba, US discuss pact Tourist ·vals dip 17% By JOHN RICE state, after talks in Havana with immigrants a year to expand a old embargo against trade with to broadcast government-run ANICIA Q. Tomokane, managing warnings." "We warned MVB members in Despite such progress, Tomokane HAVANA (AP) - In a rare mo­ Cuban officials Tuesday. ' legal alternative to the perilous the communist island. Television Marti to Cuba from a director of the Marianas Visitors SheblamedAsia'seconomicwoes April that dark clouds were gathering noted that October's visitor activity 'ment of harmony in U .S.-Cuba The meeting was the eighth in a sea journey. Compliance with the agree­ blimp floating over the Florida Bureau, said yesterday that there was as being responsible for the whiplash on the Asian economic horizon," should "serve as an overdue wake up relations, officials of each side series between the two sides to Each side lodged some com­ ments "in general is good," said Keys violates terms of an earlier a 17 percent decline in the number of tothelocaltourisminduslly,asJapan 's Tomokane said. call for any sleepy-heads taking tour­ praised an accord that has helped monitor the accord signed after plaints Tuesday, bu teach also said Cu ban Parliament President pact in 1987. visitors last October. visitors declined by 6 percent, while She was referring to a presentation ism for granted." prevent waves of illegal immi­ thousands of Cubans set out for the pact a rare point of agreement Ricardo Alarcon, who headed the He also urged the United States Tomokane pointed to the decrease Korea's sagged by 44 percent com­ made last April 9 at an MVB mem­ She stressed that"we '11 promote as gration to the United States. the United States in flimsy rafts in between the two countries was Cuban side in the talks. to accept more Cubans on family . as "an unwelcome validation of our pared with the October 1996 activity. bership meeting at which consulting effectively as possible with the lim­ "We 're generally satisfied that 1994. working. Hamilton said the agreements visits. r,, economist Edward Stephens Jr. ited amount of resources we've got ;: the Cuban government is meeting That crisis led the United States The accord has survived sev­ and the periodic talks have helped Hamilton termed the Television i warned that exchange rate turmoil Certainly, promoting tourism is ex­ to to end a policy of accepting al­ eral recent crises in relations, in­ put the immigration "in safe, or­ Marti issue "somewhat extrane­ ! and slowing economic growth in Ja: i:;ensive. But the CNMI will find that its commitments avoid repris­ I _Autopsy confirms als" against Cubans picked up at most any Cuban refugee rescued cluding the Cuban downing of derly and legal channels." ous" and said the U.S. side urged pan and Korea would have an impact not promoting it will be economic sea while trying to reach the at sea. Instead, they are returned two 0civilian U.S. planes in Febru­ He said that U.S. officials are Cuba to reduce the roughly $500 locally. suicide." United States, said John Hamilton, to Cuba. The United States also ary 1996 and U.S. enactment of a still investigating "a handful" of in fees it charges people trying to Obak was murdered ''Hesurecalleditright,"Tomokane October saw 49,202 visitors arrive Anicia Q. Tomokane U.S. deputy assistant secretary of agreed to accept 20,000 Cuban toughened version of the 36-year- complaints of reprisals against leave the country an amount tough noted. on local shores, with 31,347, or 64 some of the 700 Cubans so far to raise in a country where wages By Ferdie de la Torre served running and shouting, police ··Forewarned is forearmed," she percent, from Japan. I Vatiety News Staff said. said, "and the MVB has emphasized "Airlines and travel agents are im­ Korea accounted for 9,546 visi­ returned to the island under the are often the equivalent of less f AN AUTOPSY performed by a Meanwhile, a source said Obak theimportanceofmaintainingacost­ portant allies. We've blazed a solid tors, or 19 percent of the total, which new policy. Most involve loss of than $10 a month. Guam-based forensic pathologist is the son of retired Pal au Judge cornpetitive induslly and an ener­ trail all the way from consumers' although lower than October 1996, or changes in jobs, he said. "We raised that not so much as has confirmed that 36-year-old Ngirkelau Amador. getic promotional tempo so we can television sets in Tokyo, to the people was up 44 percent from the previous complaint but as an issue ... that "We're asking the Cubans to in­ a Alan Obak was indeed murdered, Obak 's real name is Alan B aiei safeguard our market share." who sell them tickets, to the airlines month (September 1Wl). vestigate, and they do," he said. is working at cross purposes with the Variety learned yesterday. Amador, the same source added. Tomokane's promotional ap­ that fly them here and to the hotels Tomokane concluded, "The battle Alarcon alleged that a U.S. plan the accord," Hamilton said.
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