Guam ·Smashup Claims Variety News Staff by Zaldy Dandan Marianas Agupa Enterpises, Inc
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-LJNIVER$/TY OF HAWAII LIBRARY FAA places Saipan 902 suspension airport on 'Alert-3' By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff PASSENGERS originating offends Cohen from countries associated with extremist groups will have a hard to Saipan before the meeting. time entering the Saipan Inter "He [Cohen] stressed that the national Airport, after the Com CNMI is missing out on an oppor mon weal th Ports Authority tunity to exchange views about placed the facility on "alert Ievel- goals and objectives in these 3." [minimum wage, immigration and Carlos H. Salas, Ports Author transshipment] issues," Willens ity executi~e director, said said in a correspondence to people originating from places Sablan. · or whose ethnic background is According to him, the .federal Carlos H. Salas associated with terrorists are representative to the 902 talks re considered "high risk" and will international airport_ on alert jected the analogy to pending liti thus be placed under strict moni Ievel-3 following recent bomb gation, stressing that legislative toring. ings of American embassies in proposals are always subject to He, however, immediately Kenya and Tazmania. Jesus R. Sablan political pressures and compro Howard P. Willens explained that this is not meant The last time CPA placed the mise. to di·scriminate but to adopt pre · airport on alert level-3 was after By Aldwin R. Fajardo yer Howard P. Willens indicated Willens said Cohen, during their ventive measures against any the Oklahoma bombing in I 995 Variety News Staff that Cohen was "stunned and meeting, showed clear indication possible attacks by extremists when airport security was strictly THECOMMONWEALTH'sde dumbfounded" when he received that he was upset and that his who are out tc;> sow terror. tightened. Alert Ievel-3 is raised cision to call off the scheduled the letter from the CNMI negoti formal response will be strongly The Federal Aviation Admin in cases when FAA deems that resumption of Covenant 902 dis ating panel. critical of the CNMI's position. istration, according to Salas, has airports and airlines are under cussions has reportedly offended Willens was asked by Sablan to Continued on page 22 ordered the CPA to place the Continued on page 22 Edward Cohen, the special US deliver the letter, containing representative to the negotiations. CNMI's decision to temporarily STD cases A memorandum transmitted to withhold the talks, to Cohen last High court upholds $1.5M Lt. Gov. Jesus R. Sablan by law- August i9 since he had to fly back upby~15% By Haldee V. Eugenio award for 'verbal ·assault' Guam ·smashup claims Variety News Staff By Zaldy Dandan Marianas Agupa Enterpises, Inc. THE DEPARTMENT of Pub Variety News Staff (MAE), alleging that MAE's law lic Health has recorded a I 15 THE CNMI'S highest court has yer, Mark Pinsker, inflicted "se lives offour teenagers percent increase in the number By Tanya M. C. Mendiola upheld a Superior Court ruling vere emotional distress" on her The driver of the Subaru was of sexually transmitted diseases Variety News Staff that awarded $1.5 million to with his "extreme and outrageous a 14-yearold female ofUmatac. (STDs) for the first seven Hagatna-A head on collision Angelita P. Mendiola, who suf and intentional or reckless con Three passengers, one girl and months of the year compared to claimed four young lives on fer;d severe emotional distress duct." two boys, were also I 4 yearolds the same period last year. Guam Monday night. after being called a liar and a thief PinskeronJuly 1, 1991 threat from the villages ofMerizo and The sharp increase, accord According to Guam Police in front of numerous bystanders. ened to haul Mendiola to jail for lnarajan. The minors were trans ing to health officials, was Depm1ment spokesperson Lany It is a case described by the refusing to return a Lincoln Town ported to Naval Hospital and brought into light by the imple Flores, a silver Nissan pickup Supreme Court as a ··comedy of Car to MJ\E. were later pronounced dead. mentation of the emergency , was traveling west bound on horrors." Mendiola got the car as a gift The operator and the passen health screening program Route 4 in Merizo at 9 last night, Mendiola, who is represented from M/\E, \~hich did not tellits gers of the pickup were also among non-resident workers when the operator of a blue taken to Naval Hospital and re by lawyer Paul. A. Lawlor, filed a lawyers about this "voluntary Continued on page 22 Subaru sedan, going the oppo leased. civil lawsuit in 1993 against Continued ori page22 site direction, lost control and Speed and alcohol are being crossed onto the opposite lane looked into as possible factors striking the pickup head on. in the accident. Burglary victims say court lax on criminals, By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff /\ COUPLE whose house in Chalan Kanoa has been twice burglarized said they are dismayed over the "_lax punishment" handed out by the Superior Court to one of two men caught breaking into their house. Ike Perez and his wife Balbina, in an 111terv1ew, said one of the burglars, Edward F. Ingerekii, 22, "got only a 48-day jail term" afte~· entering into a plea agreement with the Attorney General's Office (AGO). .. "This is sending the wrong message to burglars, Ike Perez said. "It's as if the court is saying, 'It's not too bad to get caught; you'll spend only a few days in jail.'" . .. "This is no deterrence against future cnmes, his wife said. Continued on page-21 J-MARIANAS_Y ARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESD~A-=--Y'--_,Sc_cE::c_P__,_T-"'E'--'-M'-"B:.ccEo:cR'--'2"-'-.lcc:9c:.-98"--------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, I 998 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 J apm1 protests missile 'probes' PIA landing By Aldwin R. Fajardo seoond in May. By Elaine Lies to Sarajevo. Analysts said the firing represents North Korea is believed to be a ety Monday said the pa5sengers were airport off the runway. the safest place to f1y." Christian said and Mar-Vic C. Munar Sources at PIA said loss of oil TOKYO (Reuters)- In the wake U.S. and North Korean officials a new threat by Stalinist Pyongyang, majorexporterof military hardware, not told why the aircraft had to take an Documents from the Federd! Avia in an earlier interview. Variety News Staff pressure had forced the pilot, Randy emergency landing. tion Administration disclosed that at The FAA report said 14 separate of North Korea's shock test-firing of have had a series of meetings in New which has never officially ended the including missiles to some Third THE Federal Aviation Administra Kohler, to take a pre-cautionary en Salas would not give further com least32separate incidents thatoccured enforcement actions were on file a new r:, ~ of missile. Japanese lead York over the last 10 days on a r.JJ1ge Korean war and frequently refers to World countries, with earnings esti tion is looking into an emergency gine shutdown. ments,sayinghisofficeisstill waiting in the last five years have indicated against PIA "pertaining to numerous ers on Tuesday expres,-ea outrc1ge of issues. including a 1994 nuclear Japan and the United States a~ wru·- mated by one analyst at $ I billion a landing incident Sunday involving a I. "It's the standard procedure," for the investigation result PIA's violation of FAA air safety violations of Federal air safety regu :.md pledged to protest the move. agreement between the two coun mongers. year. Rota-bound Pacific Islands Aviation the source said. LastMay,aPIAaiiplane,withfive standards. lations." "Ifthc repor1 is true, North Korea is The test-firing comes as the United Piime Minister KeizoObuchi told aies. The talks resumed on Monday. I aircraft carrying 26 people, a ports No one was reported hurt passengers including the pilot landed However, the specific nature of the A source at the airline company States and North Korea have hit an reroner,earlyon Tuesdaytl1atJapan developing ballistic missiles that will authority official disclosed yesterday. PIA management could not be hard at the Saipan International Air violations on the pending and said PIA aircrafts are aged 12 and 13 will protest the tiring. the first such Separ.itel y. South Korean Defense tlueaten all of Japan," defence ana otherimpasseoveranagreementcall I Commonwealth Ports Author reachedforcornments. The Variety's port. unreleased cases were not immedi years old. ''They 're not old by stan launch since I 993. Minister Ll1eon Yong Taek will ar lyst Kensuke Ebata said. "With a ing on the nortl1 to freeze its nuclear .:_ I ity Director Carlos Salas said FAA calls to PIA officials were not re During the May incident, reports ately available. dards, and we always make sure that · ·Once ,1 e detem1ine tl1e details. rive in ToJ...)'o on Tuesday for previ missilewithar.JJ1geofl ,300km(780 w;apons development, and as investigators are now on Saipan to turned. claimed that the aircraft's front tires PIA chief executive officer Bob our people are properly trained." we will probably make our protest to ously scheduled talks with Defence miles), North Korea could even hit Pyongyang appears to be preparing I check .the mechanical condition of Sources said the pilot noticed broke off upon landing at the Saipan Christian earlier said PIA has been PIAopemtesCessna,Piper,Shorts Nortl1 Korea in one form or other. Minister Fukushiro Nukaga. U.S. military bases in Okinawa." to elevate de facto leader Kim Jong aircraft, and to see if it meets the the warning light shortly after taking airport, causing the plane to ''drop flying the Marianas in an "above and, previously, the Embraer notwitl1standing the lack of diplo Japanese officials said they knew il to the post of president this month.