arianas %riet.r;:~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 b& Borja still eyes bid for governor Back from US, Boria say__s he needs to talk with Tenorio "'" er " By Rafael H. Arroyo said he was running. Right now, I Variety News Staff have to check with the governor LIEUTENANT Governor Jesus .and check with my supporters and C. Borja still has his sights fo­ see what's the next step to be cused on running for governor taken," said Borja. next year but has yet to make a Borja met with members of the final decision on whether to run party.' s central executive commit­ alongside with or against Gov. tee a day before he left for D.C. Froilan C. Tenorio, or not to run last May 18th. at all. The committee, which is the · In an interview upon his arrival governing bodyoftheparty, voted Friday evening at the Saipan In­ to endorse his candidacy although ternational Airport after a month­ at that time Gov. Tenorio was Jong vacation in Washington D.C., saying he may still run for a sec­ Borja said he will have to discuss ond term. ~;,:~- ..l-J.!S.4.Jt::.Z:::.::ct:mw:cc:z:::...:mz-:...~"-~~=-~·u:::e:.:::=:·,:s;:l1t;:::;,,...."'""7'"~ Tenorio in December of last Jesus C. Borja year publicly announced he was ! Taitano sworn in as newest -l no longer seeking reelection and matters with Tenorio before mak­ that he would be supporting Borja ing a decision. for governor in the 1997 guberna­ Imember of education board I He, however, acknowledged the torial race. endorsement by the Democratic j IN an unprecedentedcase,alady Taitano had lodged a protest Befo~e and. after she was j Tenorio' s announcement Party on his candidacy and indi­ prompted Borja to declare his can­ r. who had contested the results of against Aniceto Mundo who had sworn m, Ta1tano ap~eared j cated interest about running for didacy months later. '· theelectionslastNovemberwas been declared winner and sat.on happy and pleasantly friendly lj governor in 1997. But after a faction within the r: sworn in into office Friday as the board last Jan. 8. to everyone. . · I "Right now, my feeling is I've party petitioned Tenorio to re­ j member of the Board of Educa- Taitano complained that four She~ the people of Rota i declared my intention and the consider running again with Borja, i tion representing Rota. voters had not been allowed to fo~their patience. ,, . j party has supported me and I ap­ the incumbent governor said he I Marja Lee Taitano took her vote. 'Ihey.workedsohard, shesrud i preciate that. I'd like to think that may have to shelve his planned ; oath of office before CNMI As- The court ordered that the four Shesaidshefeltsh~wasreadyto I still holds," Borja said. exit. sociateJustice Ramon Villagomez be allowed to vote. They all went. start doing her duties as a BOE "I need to talk with the gover­ The problem, however, is that in the latter's office at Nauru build- for Taitano. member, although ''I need to be nor about that as I was told by my · · Thefourpro-Taitanovotesgave indoctrinated and oriented on the · Borja may no longer run as his mg. staff that the governor has also ''I think everyone feels vindi- her an edge over Mundo of as system." . Continued on page 23 1 cated," Taitano told a group of many votes. 'Thebiggestchallengethatfaced . about 20 officials anB educators Taitano would have been sworn ~educational system, she said, is led by Sen. Paul A. Manglona, in two months ago, but Mundo ensuring the availabiljty of funds OSHA penalizes Saipan i who was acting governor, and filed a counterprotest, which was so that the task of educating the I I Education Commissioner Will- eventually dismissed by the Si.t- youth can be done without any firm after fatal accident iam Torres. preme Court. obstacle. · -RickAlberto. :. j THE US Department of Labor's cisco. Occupational Safety and Health "This tragic accident could have Administration (OSHA) has cited been easily prevented by the use a Saipan garbage collection firm of two missing safeguards for for serious violations of federal which the company was cited." health and safety regulations in A 34-year-old garbage truck connection with the death of a helper, Juan M. Sanchez, was garbage truck helper last June I 0. crushed to death by the scoop in Bernie C. Vergith and Kirk J, an accident that happened at a Vergith, owners of B.K. Enter­ Continued on page 20 prises Refuse Services, were is­ sued two OSHA citations for seri­ ous violations and assessed pen­ alties of $3,000, a news release from OSHA's San Francisco of­ fice said. The violations include failure ,J to provide a guard around the : ~ garbage truck's hydraulic scoop and failure to lockout or tagout the hydraulic mechanism to pre­ vent it's accidental operation when employees are working in the danger zone. "Employer's must recognize their responsibility to provide a safe and healthful workplace," said Frank Strasheim, OSHA re­ gional administrator in San Fran~

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LaBELLE Hussein has argued for con­ TWO-hundred eighty-pne A Korean, Jong Ho Kim, is stone as to what you can re­ This was no more true to the CAIRO, Egypt (AP)- Arab lead­ demning terrorism as a way to students graduated Friday this year's salutatorian. ally accomplish." students who were recipients ers winding up their summit Sun­ criticize Syria's backing for Mus­ from the Northern Marianas In his message to the gradu­ "Your personal and educa­ of honors and awards. day are expected to urge peace lim militias fighting Israel, but High School, with Epiphanio ates, Acting Principal James tional developments are en­ The top 10 students were, in a.'1d formation of a Palestinian Assad maintains the groups it sup­ E. Cabrera as the valedicto­ W. Feger reminded them that tering into more interesting sequential order, Cabrera, rian. state and to remain vague on their ports are legitimately fighting Is­ high school "is just a stepping challenges," he said. Kim, Derek T. Sasamoto, Jen­ own disputes over terrorism and ~~.·~ ~; raeli occupation and are not ter­ nifer Ann S. Cavanaugh, Jack ~- _.,, ending Iraq's isolation in the Arab rorists. Tenorio Sablan, Shirley Ann '.. ..' !.~, ~~- world. ·.·~ Assad was enraged when Lizama, Jerry L. Deleon , J Egyptian Foreign ·Minister \·~ Hussein addressed the terrorism Guerrero, Darrah L. Arnr Moussa told reporters that ~'\ .,.,, .... ,,., issue in a closed-door speech, a Benavente, Kaiza Lynn M. Arab foreign ministers finished a copy of which was obtained by Cabrera, and Dorothy f communique late Saturday night The Associated Press. Mendiola. and that it would be reviewed by "The policy of employing ter­ Cabrera also got the Board their leaders at a final meeting rorism in all directions will only of Education Award and Kim ,. Sunday. create enemies on all fronts," the Commissioner's Award. "The communique mentions a U'l Hussein.said. "Our dialogue must The top Governor's Award Hosni Mubarak Yasser Arafat King Hussein Palestinian state and differenti­ be conducted with words, not with went to Shirley Lizama (6th ates between terrorism and the land-for-peace formula and spe­ said, insisting on anonymity. Arab states "to reconsider their bullets and explosives. top student). ~---) right of an occupied people to cifically calls for Israeli with­ Assad and Lebanese Presi­ steps toward Israel." There is no terrorism that is The Women's Affairs Of­ Paul A. Manglona resistance," he said. drawal from the Golan, Leba­ dent Elias Hrawi want to halt Hussein and Assad also acceptable and another that is un­ fice Award went to Frances "On Iraq, there remains a bit­ non and Arab east Jerusalem - moves to normalize relations with clashed over demands that the acceptable." Ada Torres for being the most graduates by emcee Chandra terness, but we at least are trying which its says should be the Israel. That approach is opposed summit communique speak out Mubarak - who has spent much outstanding female graduate. · Sekaran, one of the 87 non­ to open the door." capita! of Palestine. by Jordan, which has signed a against terrorism. Algeria, of the conference trying to heal The School Leadership/ resident teachers whose con­ The summit's main point was There were few differences peace treaty with Israel, and by which is battling a Muslim ex­ Arab rifts - brought together Assad Principal's Award went to tracts were not renewed. to urge Israel's new hard-line gov­ at the summit on urging renewed Gulf states that have built eco­ tremist uprising, joined Jordan with Hussein on Saturday and with Patrina Reyes Bermudes. "Love your islands," he said. ernment to resume negotiations negotiations, but arguments nomic links to the Jewish state. in pushing for a strong condem­ another old enemy, the PLO's Training Program Awards in The graduates were honored based on the land-for-peace for­ erupted over strategy on how to The communique urges nation. Arafat, on Friday night. such fields as agriculture, auto with the presence of Sen. Paul mula that has governed the last get Israel back to serious nego­ mechanics, cabinet making, A. Manglona, acting gover­ five years of talks with the back­ tiations and whether to forgive drafting, and business, as well nor, and Education Commis­ ing of the United States. Iraq for its 1990 invasion of Okinawa governor wants US I as Subject Area Awards in­ sioner William S. Torres, who The Netanyahu government al­ neighboring Kuwait. (• cluding in English, foreign both gave congratulatory re­ ready has issued policy guide­ The summit is the first in six language, mathematics, physi­ marks. lines ruling out a Palestinian state years - mainly because the Arabs troops out of Dlem.orial rites l cal education, social studies, with east Jerusalem as its capital could not agree on dealing with TOKYO (AP) - Okinawa wishes of the Okinawan Japan's southernmost main l and science were also given Board of Education chair or a return of the Golan Heights to Iraq. It has drawn 21 of the Arab out to deserving graduates. Thomas B. Pangelinan ad­ Governor Masahide Ota people, Kyodo News reported. island was among World War MORE INTERESTING CHALLENGES AWAIT. Marianas High graduates wait for their turn to come up the Syria - points the Arabs see as League's 22 members, including vowed Sunday to work to­ Incidents and accidents in­ II' s bloodiest. stage to receive their precious diploma Friday. A touching note was the dressed the graduates.-Rick essential to Middle East peace. 13 heads of state and PLO leader ward making the island "a volving U.S. troops stationed In fighting from April l to parting words of advice to the Alberto Egyptian President Hosni Yasser Arafat. peaceful place without (U.S.) on the island "never seem to June 23, 1945, an estimated Mubarak said in opening the con­ Sources said that in closed bases" at a ceremony mark­ end," Kyodo quoted the gov­ one-fourth of Okinawa's ci­ I B·usinessrnan in kidnap ference Saturday that if the Israe­ meetings the oil-rich Gulf states ing the 51st anniversary of ernor as saying. vilian population was killed. Aloot, other leaders to be in rejected any direct invitation to ' lis rejected already-agreed-upon the end of the Battle for The U.S. military maintains The island's history makes case arrested again principles, the peace process Iraq to attend the next Arab sum­ Okinawa. a heavy concentration. of its people especially sensi­ Washingto~ for Senate hearing would be destroyed. mit - it was excluded from this Ota has been aggressively troops on Okinawa - roughly tive to the U.S. military pres­ By Ferdie de la Torre When he saw Norcross, the 'There isn't among us anyone one - and pressed for continued lobbying both the American 27,000 at a network of bases ence. Variety News Staff defendant turned off his car who wants to take the region back condemnation of Iraqi President and Japanese governments that take up 20 percent of the On Sunday, 1,968 names A BUSINESSMAN who is lights and drove away. to the destruction of war or the Saddam Hussein. for the removal ofU.S."troops island. of people recently confirmed facing criminal charges in Acosta explained that pur­ phase of no-war and no-peace," Jordan's King Hussein and connection with the kidnap­ suant to the bail order, the i L and bases from the prefec­ The ceremony was held at to have died in the battle were he said. Syrian President Hafez Assad also ture since the rape of a a monument listing those who added to the memorial's stone ping and the stabbing of a defendant was required to The wording of the communi­ got into a tangle in the private schoolgirl last year by three died in the battle for Okinawa tablets. fellow Chinese man was ar­ observe a daily curfew from que, obtained by The Associated sessions over how to press Israel American servicemen. and all Okinawans killed in · Included in the number rested again last week for vio­ 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. Press, urges Israel to accept the into renewed talks, the sources Speaking at a gathering Japan's 15-year war in the were 82 British soldiers .. lation of court's order. Huang with Lin Hua and •"'., of some 5,000 people, Ota Pacific - nearly one-quarter The tablets now contain The police arrested Jing Wu Zheng was charged with said that maintaining the million names. · 236,095 names of people of all Sheng Huang, a.k.a. Arlong, kidnapping, assault with a Jailed ex-president sworn bases runs counter to the The three-month battle for nationalities killed in the battle. Thursday at 7:45 p.m. in dangerous weapon, and at­ Garapan. tempted theft by extortion. in as Bangladeshi lawmaker Assistant Atty. Gen. Court information showed By HASAN SAEED third in this month's election, con­ Gabriel Acosta charged that the suspects approached DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) trolling 32 of 300 contested seats Huang with criminal mischief Zhong Jun Lu who was sit­ Escorted by more than 300 and has pledged support to Sheik before the Superior Court. ting outside Liu Fu Restau­ armed policemen, former Presi­ Hasina's Awami League. In an affidavit submitted to rant in Gara pan last May. dent Hussain Muhammad Ershad He was imprisoned immedi­ the court, Acosta said Huang The group asked Lu to help Sebastian Afoot Juan N. Babauta Diego T. Benavente was brought to parliament from ately after his government was failed to comply with a bail them in translating their lan­ jail Sunday and sworn in as a sacked at the height of a pro­ order entered by Associate guage. The suspects, how­ ACTING Attorney General (R-Alaska), is expectetl to fo­ was appnnc·d hy the Legisla­ legislator. democracy movement in l 990. Judge Miguel Demapan last ever, pulled a knife and or­ Sebastian A loot left Friday for cus on a report submitted by ture weeks "!'.''· will provide Ershad. a former army general Ershad and other party law­ May 22 in the defendant's dered the businessman to get Washington, D.C. to testify in Interior Department Insular for just a nnL"-l ime, 30-cent who is serving a 13-year prison makers were sworn in a commit­ previous criminal case. inside a car. the oversight hearing called Affairs Director Allen wage increase effective July term for corruption and abuse of tee room of parliament. Police Acosta said that on June 14 The victim was taken to the by the US Senate Committee Stayman calling for the feder-· I st, except for the garment and power, had contested and won blocked the entry of newsmen. at 8:41 p.m. and at 8:50 p.m., Capitol Hillcemeterywherethe on Energy and Natural Re­ alization of the CNM! mini­ construction sectors which from five districts in June 12 na­ The home ministry officials Assistant Atty. Gen. James suspects forced him to kneel sources on the CNMI labor mum wage among other rec­ will see only a 15-cent hike. tional elections. refused to confirm or deny a news­ Norcross spotted the defen­ down on the ground. and immigration situation. ommendations. But even as the bill already In Bangladesh, a candidate can paper report that he was released dant in the vicinity of Daiwa The suspects demanded Aloot, who was handpicked The proposal to enact fed­ aroused federnl ire, it has been contest for more than one seat. on parole for four hours. Building. money, but when he refused he by Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio to eral law to set CNMI mini­ beset with controversy on the Ershad will represent one district Ershad told reporters that he When he was seen, Acosta was beaten with a baseball bat, testify in behalf of his Admin­ mum wage came.on the obser­ local kvel. and vacate four seats where was a sick man and was being said the defendant was walk­ wooden stick or a bar, court in­ istration, may be joined in the vation that local government Semte Vice President Paul A. byelections will be held. kept in a solitary confinement in ing with can of beer in his formation showed. hearing by CNMI Washing­ has continued to backtrack on Manglona, while acting governor Dressed in a black suit, he the jail. hand towards a car where he One of the. suspects then ton Representative Juan N. its earlier commitment to raise Tuesday in the absence of Gov. looked relaxed and chatted infor­ "My party has extended un­ got into the driver's seat. stabbed and injured Lu with a Babauta, House Speaker Di­ wages to the federal level by Tenorio, vetoed the measure con­ mally with newsmen. conditional support to Sheikh Huang drove the car on knife on the right thigh. ego T. Benavente and by 902 the year 2000. cerned about how the bill might "I am feeling better after breath­ Hasina who takes over as Prime Beach Road west towards The group dropped Lu back at special representative Brenda The Stay man report was par­ elicit adverse reactions during the ing fresh air as a free man, al­ Minister with firm belief in de­ Garapan. The defendant re­ the restaurant and warned him Y. Tenorio. ticularly wary of the CNMl's upcoming Senate oversight hear­ though temporarily," Ershad said. mocracy and democratic val­ turned in the same car at not to report the incident to the Senate President Jesus R. plan to enact a law that wou'id ing. He also said: "I am innocent of ues," he said. Daiwa area at 8:50 p.m. police. Sablan has also said he will repeal Public Law 8-21, which The validity of such a veto.has all the charges the government of After the l 991 elections, submit a written testimony in pres.ets a 30-cent increase in ·been questioned by the Tenorio behalf of the CNMI Senate. former Prime Minister Khaleda Ershad was sworn in as a law­ MAKE SURE YOUR CIGARETTE IS ALL YOU the minimum wage yearly un­ Administration in as much as brought against me and has kept maker but never allowed to par­ The June 25th hearing, to be til the US minimum wage of Tenorio had reportedly signed it me in jail for nearly six years." ticipate in parliamentary pro­ Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota Is surrounded by supporters outside the Pentagon /astMonday after BURN. YOU CAN PREVENT FIRE! conducted by Committee $4.25 is reached. into law before he left for the Ershad 's Jatiya Party finished ceedings. meeting with Defense Depsttment officials to discuss U.S. military bases In Okinawa. .. ·· AP Photo Chairman Frank Murkowski House Bill 10-158, which Philippines last June 16th. MONDAY, Jill:'ffi 24, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5 Torres, Rayphand hit court order By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff their entry of appearance and two deposition notices. HoNoR REP. Stanley T. Torres and law­ 'JR'~ rrl4'liana! ~PLAN To The Article XII lawyer ex­ by: John DelRosario THE COMMITMENTS of yers Theodore Mitchell and Jeanne Rayphand have claimed plained that those actions were. THE foRMER GOVERNMENT? that the Superior Court's order not criminal conduct but an at­ seeking an explanation why they tempt to assert their rights as class Irony of ethics in garment manufacturing should not be criminally pun­ members. US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently came down hard ~n.some ished for contempt has no basis Mitchell said the court did not 22,000 US mainland sweatshops half of whom do not pay the mmmmm and violates their right to due disqualify him from representing wage. These US sweatshops have been hiring illegal migrants who won't process. any memb~rs of the class. speak-up because they are in the country illegally and mu.st therefore br~ve In a motion to dismiss and He said the court also did not what little they're paid. The 21st Century would have arrived before Reich response to show cause filed not disqualify Torres and could have his people canvass the entire country with 800 inspectors. Friday, Torres, Mitchell and Rayphand, or Camacho, from appearing in the case, as mem­ Meanwhile, big ticket stars like Kathie Gifford and others whose brand Rayphand contended that offi­ cial acts which may not take bers of the class, to protect their name clothes are made by underpaid workers in US sweatshops have taken own interests in the proceedings. an advocacy role to instill ethics in the manufacturi?g of.war.drobe b~aring place no matter what procedural I l protections accompany them are Mitchell claimed that to date no their names. It is a strong commitment though there s a f11p-s1de to this half Stanley T. Torres Theodore Mitchell I' a violation of substantive due pro­ Jeanne Rayphand one is protecting the interests of visible equation: . . . the absent class member. • The never ending irony that revolves around this issue that might mean I cess. here," he said. \ In fact, he said, the court and itly, unequivocally, decisively, He said that they had no any a greater loss for the people rnaking pennies an hour. . The respondents, through coun­ Mitchell stressed that it is not its legal staff completely forgot unambiguously, unmistakably intention of embarrassing or de­ • Giving each employee $300 on a one shot deal looks good f~r public sel Mitchell, pointed out that in a crime to disagree with a deci­ to spell out just what it was that forbid the actions taken," fying the court's orders. relation purposes. What happens when the fire fizzles out when tlm matter this case they are charged with sion of a court. they could not do. Mitchell said. Mitchell added they cannot be isn't politically correct anymore? having disobeyed "decisions" The court did not prohibit "One cannot be held in con­ In support of his contempt held in criminal contempt for fail­ • After the $300 hand-out, would the donors be able to return and which did not call for any action JACK ANDERSON and MICHAEL BINSTEIN Rayphand and Torres from do­ tempt for violating a court order charge, Mitchell said cominue issuing compassionate fees to their wards? or inaction on their part. . ing to obey a civil contempt deci­ ing anything specific, he said. which does not clearly, explic- Manibusan cites the filing of sion. • Would donors prm·ide them better paying substitute jobs if and when WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Last April 29 Judge Edward they leave their sweaty working cond(tions? . . Manibusan issued an order ask­ Meanwhile, I jealously guard against malcontents or evil gemuses­ ing Torres and the two lawyers to statesiders and coconuts-who have the gall to purposely misrepresent the explain why the should not be complexities and value of.t~e.garment ~ndust~ in the NMI. You're toying Utah up in arms over Olympic snow job held in criminal contempt for fail­ around with the ultra-sens1t1V1ty of the islands fragile economy to mternal WASHINGTON-The athletes participating in exchange is "consistent with current laws." ing to obey court decisions in and external increases to which we have no control whatsoever. the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City won't Phase one of Holding's development plan, connection with the taxpayer law­ suit. I often wonder what is your definition of "economic growth" and stability be the only ones going for the gold. a condition of Hansen's bill, calls for the The court disqualified Mitchell when in fact the industry provides 750 direct public sector jobs for indig­ A wealthy Utah businessman, with the help of construction of the facilities needed for the enous employees and some 950 direct jobs in the private sector not to Rep.James V. Hansen, R-Utah, is using the occa­ Olympic races. Hansen's handiwork fails to last Jan. 25 from serving as coun­ mention some 1300 indirect jobs. However unwilling you may be to accept sion of the Olympics to close a good deal-at the mention phases two and three of Holding's sel for Torres and Rayphand for the role and value of the industry here, it has contributed to our securing third possible expense of both the environment and master plan: the building of 818 condomini­ conflict of interests. in GDP per capita income in the entire pacific region. As such, Stayman's taxpayers. ums, 199 large houses, 467 town houses, Last March 29, Manibusan a oenda is nothing more than a thirst for self-preservation to rule the brown For years millionaire oil tycoon Eari Holding 1,092 hotel rooms, and an opulent golf and also replaced Torres and b~ys by dictating policies from ten-thousand miles away however irrelevant has been trying to purchase land in northern ski resort. Rayphand as plaintiffs and class and contrary to fundamental provisions of the Covenant Agreement. Utah's Snow Basin, a picturesque valley sur­ "If Earl Holding makes money off the land, representatives with intervenors Stayman has had grand success in creating diversionary issues to justify his rounded by snow-capped mountains, to build a then that's sort of capitalism at its best," Nicolas C. Sablan and Alex C. existence with the US Congress again at our expense. But we know he's also lavish four-season ski and golf resort. Holding's Allen Freemyer, director of Hansen's sub­ Tudela. reneged in his promise to provide impact funds_ and ~leve~ly took $.1.5 previous attempts to buy the land, now owned by committee staff, told our associate Aaron The judge also found the trio million from our own Covenant funds to cover his obvious madequac1es. the federal government, have been thwarted be­ Karp. "I don't know why this is such a big in civil contempt for violating Nice try Allen but we've caught-up with your antiques. S_o what else is.new? cause his private development plans don't com­ deal... We're not going to bat for Earl Hold­ the disqualification order and I' 11 help you justify your job with powerful US Congressional staffers if you ply with the Environmental Protection ing." imposed a$ I ,000 fine on each. promise to accept a job other than OTIA. Act (NEPA). "There's nothing abnormal or unusual about The court suspended the fine Stayman also dredged-up old garment fasues which have already bee?' A small portion of the Snow Basin has been the land exchange," said Clint Ensign, vice provided that the respondents rectified by affected garment factories in an honest effort to ensure compli­ slated as the site for the 2002 Olympic downhill president of Holding's Sinclair Oil. "No ad­ comply with the disqualifica­ ance with federal and local labor and safety policies. How fortunate that last skiing races. A great deal of construction needs to ditional investment (into the Snow Basin area) tion order. April a US Congressional staff delegation was here on an orientation tour of be done to prepare the area for the Olympics. made any sense without the land exchange .... On April 3, Mitchell, on be­ the islands to see for themselves what you and the "we few" anti-NM! self­ Holding, who already owns a ski resort in the The NEPA process would take too long to -et half of Rayphand, Torres, and government have conveyed in aged information v~rsus their own findi?gs. Snow Basin area, happily volunteered to put up (the Snow Basin) ready for the Olympics." former Gov. Carlos S. Camacho There's also Stayman's unique though strange views about the workings the money for the construction --on the condition Some officials are crying foul. filed an entry of appearance in of democracv out here. It is obvious from his bias report that if isn't that ·he be given the land being used for the "The fact that the 1,320 acres and the 4, l 00 he case as class members. Mitchell then served a notice "his way": then democracy has failed on every c.orner here .. It Olympics and hundreds of acres ofland surround­ acres are mentioned in the same bill is ludi­ of depositions ·upon Sablan and reminds this scribe of a politician who doesn't consider an election ing it for his private development venture. crous," said Tom Berggren of the Citizens Com­ Tudela, L&T counsel Robert J. as official if he's not included in his party's slate of candidates. The path to securing one of the country's pre­ mittee to Save Our Canyons, a group in Utah Though our own leaders do not neces·sari.ly see eye to, eye on mier pieces of real estate was not a straight down­ fighting the land exchange. "The land they're O'Connor and businessman substantive issues or that most do not subscnbe to Slayman s brand hill run for Holding. To get around NEPA. Hold­ talking about is much less valuable than the Snow Willie Tan. of democracy, it doesn't change the inevitable fact that democracy ing needed some legislative assistance. Hansen, Basin land. (The Snow Basin) is beautiful, acces­ In their motion, Mitchell said in the NM! is dynamic and fully vibrant. chairman of the National Parks, Forests, and Pub­ sible, developable land. The land the government Manibusan' s order holding them Finally, Mr. Stayman, the effect of mandated minimum wage, like lic Lands Subcommittee of the House Committee is acquiring is totally different and not dcvelop­ in contempt is difficult to un­ derstand. 1·1. that of :my other price floor, is to create a surplus of workers. on Resources, proved to be a willing teammate. able." Studies ha~e shown that "for every 10% increase in the real mini­ The Snow Basin Land Exchange Act, authored For his part, Holding is willing to add additional "A reading of the entire deci­ mum wage, teenage employment falls between I% and 3%. Employ­ by Hansen, will turn over 1,320 acres of federally acreage to the land exchange if appraisers deter­ sion holding the respondents in ers offer better working conditions when they can offer and attract owned Snow Basin land to Holding in exchange mine the current swap to be unfair. contempt fails to disclose any workers at a sufficiently lower money wage. But the minimum wage for 4, JOO acres of less valuable land that Holding Howard Peterson, a member of the Olympic direct, explicit command to act (because it prevents lower wages) discourages firms from ~f~ering owns in northern Utah. The legislation, expected Committee's site inspection team, has taken on the or direct, explicit prohibition Yes! And with a minimum deposit of only $2,500, Bank of Guam gives you better working conditions. Some studies suggest that the minimum to sail through both houses of Congress as part of · land exchange publicly-at one point claiming from acting in any way whatso­ wage causes firms to cut back on working conditions (including on­ the Omnibus Parks Bill in the near future, waives that "the Utah public is being misled" and it 'was ever," said the lawyer. the advantage of earning higher yields on your money. Our TCD Rates the-job training) to such a 'degree that the minimum wage reduces the NEPA regulations that had previously been an made clear to us that no land swap or other similar •Citing court's order ejecting Special not only earn high interest rates, but come with a choice of terms as full wages. obstacle for Holding. venture was necessary to stage the races." Rayphand and Torres from the well. Just visit any Bank of Guam branch office and take advantage of our "Theoretically, a minimum wage could have the same effect of The Department of Agriculture, among others, "We're not about to rape our own land," said case, Mitchell claimed that it is increasing employment as a union could, when employers are monop­ has expressed concern over the Snow Basin Act. Mike Korologos, a spokesman for the Salt Lake impossible to violate or disobey exciting, higher TCD rates. that decision or any other deci­ sonistic. But almost all low-skilled workers can work in a wide In a letter to resources committee chairman Don City Olympic Committee. on whose board Hold­ sion which adjudicates a dis­ This Offer Good thru range of jobs, so their employers are not monopsonists. So while the Young, R-Alaska, Agriculture Secretary Dan ing sits. "We just want to put forth a good image of puted issue of law. June 30, 1996. monopsonist argument is often used to justify the minimum wage, it Grickman explains that the "proposed legisla­ Utah to the world. The downhill is the showpiece has little basis in fact-especially since a minimum wage reduces, tion ... would exempt the exchange from the re­ of the Olympics." . "An order to compel produc­ Each DePositar Insured to not increases, employment. quirements of all environmental and other laws. It 'This thing has just been misconstrued," adds tion of documents, an order to $JOO,OOO by tfte Federal Deposit "Another justification given for minimum wage is that it helps the would prohibit any envirorimental analysis, re­ Ensign. "We have a strong, strong history of envi­ cease and desist from certain Insurance Corporation. poor. But studies show that most workers whose income fails below source surveys, and other procedures." ronmental protection. This is not some Darth Vader­ clearly described conduct, an T!iank of n- FDIC the Snowbasin Act be found so that the land Holding's commitment is to the Olympics." P.O. !lox 678 Saipan, Ml' 96950 • ( ;,,rapan (1,711) 233-51100/50ill • Susupc (670) 234-6~111 iM<,K higher minimum wage can't substantially help the poor". inaction, can be the subject of a S:,n Ro,1uc (6711) .123-\0llllllll l • Rola (/J71l) 5:12-il.1411/41 • Tinian (670) -L1:1-32'iX.'.l21,I contempt proceeding, but not a

J. 'decision' of the kind involved i. ''.I. 6-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JUNE 24, 1996 ==------__:M~ON·DAY, JUNE 24, 1996-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-7 Tourist falls prey to Grotto thief By Ferdie de la Torre to a thief who reportedly stole Police said the victim lost a Safety in coordination with the tified person stole a cassette tape Manglona 'rests his pen' Variety News Staff his belongings at the Grotto bag containing sunglasses, Northern Marianas College and at Music Land Thursday after­ By Rafael H. Arroyo •House Bill 10-179, to transfer the A 31-year-old tourist fell prey Thursday morning. shirts, towels, and other items. other private agencies recently put noon. Variety News Staff administration of the Government The tourist went to Grotto for up a 911 call box at Grotto. In Capitol Hill, someone re­ SENA TE Vice President Paul A. 8 new laws signed in 5 days I I .• • ~:i:I! Health and Life Insurance Program swimming and left the items in­ In other police reports, a·man portedly took video tapes be­ Manglona on his last day as acting Manglona signed the five new Jaws Senate President Jesus R. Sablan, to the Retirement Fund. It becomes side his vehicle. was arrested after he was report­ longing to a 32-year-old man at governor Friday, signed five more 1st and which would have also done Conservationist Corner ))n:~ bringing up to eight the number of earlier signed three bills into law and P.L. 10-18; When the victim returned, he edly caught shoplifting a wrist­ the Finance Office Thursday af­ bills into law, including one that has away with the yearly wage increases bills he enacted during the five-day vetoed one. •HouseBill 10-244, toamendP.L. discovered that his vehicle was watch at the Duty Free Shoppers ternoon. been earlier vetoed by Gov. Froilan under Public Law 8-21. The merits of crop ro~ation pericx:l he served as chief executive. VetoedbyManglonaTuesdaywas 9-28, will make it possible for gov­ burglarized and his belongings at Pacific Islands Club in San No arrest was made yet. C. Tenorio. SignedintoPublicLaw I0-13Tues­ Manglona, who .became acting House Bill I0-158, which would have ernment to use portion of the $2.4 * Improve water use effi- were missing. Antonio Thursday night. DPS received nine burglary and Duringanafternoonceremony held day was House Bill 10-226, which governor due to the absence of put up a two-tiered increase in the million appropriated for the construc­ ciency; A number of tourists have fallen The DPS did not release the theft cases Thursday. Seven ve­ at the Governor' sConference Room, liberalizes the governmental process ; * Manage plant pests victims to thieves in the area. name of the suspect. hicular accidents were also re­ Tenorio, Lt. Gov. Jesus C. Borja and CNMiminimum wageeffectiveJuly involving the installation of fiber op­ tion ofthe Aging Centerforcollatcral (weeds, insects, disease); or The Department of Public In Chalan Kanoa, an - ported on that day. I' tic telecommunications systems in equipment needed to complete the * provide food and cover for the Commonwealth. center and make them ready for use. lt becomes P .L. l 0-19; and wildlife. Manglona on Wednesday also signed House Bill 10-142, an appro­ •HouseBill l0-252,toexemptper­ sons with valid operators licenses This practice applies to all Teregeyo rejects request priationbill,intoP.L. I0-14andHouse from any of the US states and territo­ cropland and other land where Bill l0-185,nowP.L.10-15,tomak:e ries, from taking written examina­ crops are grown. It does not the use of seatbelts mandatory for tions when applying for a Common­ apply to land devoted to or­ drivers and passengers of motor ve­ for separate MVB hearing wealth operators license. It becomes chards or nurseries. hicles on Rota and Tinian mandatory. P.L. 10-20. Crop rotations provide for Last Friday, Manglona signed the According to Manglona, he with­ acceptable substitute crops in following: case of crop failure, weather /If •A legislation outlawing price held action on three bills - House Bills 10-227, 10-63, 10-137,pertain­ related reasons, or economic gouging during times ·of typhoons reasons. Acceptable substi­ and natural disasters. The bill was ing to boating safety, cigarette label warnings and a program to impede By: Pamela M. Sablan tutes are crops having similar vetoed by the governor but was the spread of the HIV virus in the For the Variety properties that meet the crite­ amended by the Legislature to ad­ IN this conservation practice, ria for all the resource con­ dress all the concerns raised by the CNMI. soil depleting crops such as cerns identified for the field chief executive on the bill. It became "I have decided after serious con­ sideration that I betternot act on these most vegetables are rotated or treatment unit. P.L. 10-16; today," said Manglona with soil improving crops such A conservation crop rota­ •House Bill ! 0-135, to amend P.L. Manglona is expected to resume as beans or other leguminous tion, may include crops 8-27 to move the election date for the his duties as acting Senate president green manure crops. In addi­ planted for cover or nutrient CNM Youth Congress from the first today as Lt Gov. Borja has arrived tion, all crop residues are re­ enhancement. Monday of August each year to the Friday to assume the acting gover­ turned to the soil to provide Manuel Villagomez, a cattle 3rd Monday of September. It be­ norship. adequate organic matter, and owner in the Kagrnan Water­ Then acting Gov. Paul A. Manglona (center) flanked by acting Senate President Thomas P. Villagomez (left) comes Public Law l 0-17; to maintain or improve soil shed, is using the electric fence and acting Speaker David M. Apa tang explains a point during a signing ceremony last Wednesday. Manglona Anicia Q. Tomokane Pedro Dela Cruz Ana S. Teregeyo signed two laws that day and five more Friday. tilth. A typical cropping se­ mini grazer strip to train his quence during a year might livestock on a single strand THE House committee on ways the line agencies, bureaus or of­ tee with additional information NMI Red Cross annual include: cucumbers, tomatoes, wire. and means has rejected the re­ fices of an operating department and data beyond that which are wing beans, and Chinese cab­ This will train them to re­ quest of the Marianas Visitors of government." incorporated in the Governor's Move to revitalize Garapan Club 200 event coming bage. spect the permanent electric Bureau for a separate budget hear­ Teregeyo said any information Budget Submission." THE 8th Annual Club 200 event of The NMI Chapter has been con­ fence he will install that he per­ ing. or answers to the committee's Teregeyo said the committee the NMI Chapter of the American ducting this fund raiser for the past This practice may be applied sonally paid for and ordered. In a letter to MVB Managing questions on the governor's bud­ took this to mean that Dela Cruz as pren1ier district on Red Cross will be held on August 31, seven years and hope to have an even as part of a conservation man­ For further information please Director Anicia Q. Tomokane last get proposal "must flow from the "is in full support of, and is THE CNMI government is joining beautification of the island. Tenorio. 1996 (Labor Day Weekend) at the more exciting event this year with the agement system to support one call NRCS/Saipan & Northern June 18, Rep. Ana S. Teregeyo, governor, or his designated Cabi­ satisfied with, the amount allo­ forces with the private sector for a Ten years ago, Duty Free Shoppers At the moment, the Ginza = of pool side of the beautiful Hyatt Re­ largest crowd yet or more of the following: Islands Soil and Water Conser­ committee chair, said a separate net official, to the Chair of the cated to his Commerce Depart­ revita!iz.ation plan for Saipan's pre­ Guam introduced the Tournament of Garapan is experiencing several diffi- gency Saipan Hotel the chapter said in With a festive and colorful them of vation District at 233-3415/ hearing is "inappropriate" based Committee." ment by the Governor for FY mier business district - Garapan. Charnpions there and inaugurated a cul ties, the governor's office said in a news release. "Copa Cabana", this year's event will * Reduce sheet and rill ero­ 0650 on Executive Order 94-3 which The MVB is asking $11.2 mil­ 1997, which allocations include In a news release issued Friday, the beautification program that among the release. The big gala event will consist of a be very fun and exciting for everyone 1 s10n; All NRCS programs and ser­ placed the MVB under the De­ lion for fiscal year 1997, which funds for the Marianas Visitors Governor's Office bared a plan it in­ other things turned Tumon Bay into Certain nighttime activities have sumptuousdinner,greatentertairunent, Last year's Club 200 raised over * Reduce erosion caused by vices are offered on a non- dis­ partment of Commerce. starts next October. This is about Bureau." tends to pursue with Duty Free Shop­ the attractive sits it is today. created problems for merchants and andthemainattractionofthenight-the $130,000 which went to support the irrigation; criminatory basis without regard "Since the hearing will be a $1 million more than what it asked "The Secretary's position is pers Saipan Limited aimed at intensi­ Pierce took the idea to Governor visitors alike. There is traffic conges- raffle with big prizes. programs and services of the NM! * Reduce soil erosion from to race, color, national origin, review of your budget submis­ in 1996. regrettable, to say the least, but it ; J fying beautification efforts for as weU Tenorio, who immediately referred tion. And lack of maintenance gives This year's theme is "Copa Ca­ Chapter. l, as addressing problems within the to wind; religion, political status or be­ sion to the Governor, through your However, the governor slashed is within his right to take that r,: her the Special Assistant for Plan- the area are shabby, uncared for ap- bana" and the prize l11is year will Ix These include disaster assistance * Maintain or improve soil liefs, sex, age.marital or famil­ Secretary, for FY 1997, and not the figure down to $7 .05 million. position, and to answer to his line '. famed tourist district. ning, Evelyn J. Tenorio. pearance. Drainage is another area similar to last year's ewnt which con­ given to victims of fires and flooding L organic matter content; ial status, or handicap. an oversight hearing," Teregeyo Teregeyo infom1ed Tomokane officials ... for whatever shortcom­ The plan would provide,for pedes­ Tenorio' s on-going revitalization requiringirnmediateattention,itadded. sist of a Grand Prize ofS.:5,000 Cash, here in the Commonwealth as well;; wrote Tomokane, "legislative pro­ that Commerce Secretary Pedro ings his position might have upon trian boulevards rich in tree and flower plan for a special district in Garapan The special district plan would foUowed by Vehicles, Travel Pack­ Aimed Forces Emergency Services, plantings outdoor cafes, kiosks, one­ captured Pierce's attention. change all that and help concerned tocol does not permit a direct con­ Dela Cruz "did not want to the Department's Missions for FY ages and many more. The ticket price Health and Safety Classes, and Disas­ and-two-way traffic flow, and desig­ "ltisquiteexcitingaswellasimpor- members of the community become tact between the Committee and discuss ... or provide the Commit- 1997," the congresswoman said. is $200.00 per couple. ter Preparedness Training. nated parking areas. tant to take this opportunity to intc- involved in the improvement, the re- All the chapter bo.u~d members and The American Red c;;ss does not REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS #1 "Pedestrian boulevards are popular grate the historical significance of the lease said. other active volunteers are aggres­ receive any government funding and throughout the world. They are very Garapanareaintherevitali7,1tionplan," Funding for the venture will come sively out selling these ticket,. lnter­ is entirely Jqxndent on funJ raising The CNMI Council for the Humanities an­ attractive to tourists and benefit the the planning special asSistant said. from private funds, special event, and c,stt:d ticket buyers please contact 234- event~ such as the;;e to prnl'idc it~ nounces that funds are now available to sup­ local merchant.,. And they increase a Garapan is tJ1e oldest historic settle- sponsorships such as the Tow11ament 3459. services to the c\ immunity. port a new grant initiative called: The Chang­ community's pride," said Evelyn J. ment on Saipan for the Chamorros of Championships, and Federal fund, Tenorio, the governor's special assis­ and Carolini,ms, and W.15 particularly such a5 Community Revitalization ing Faces of the CNMI: Humanities Perspec­ tant for planning. importantduringtheGemlllilandJapa- Grants. Peredo makes it to the· tives on Cultural Diversity. "With Duty Fru Shoppers Saipan nese periods. The public can start showing sup-- spearheading the private sector, and Currently, it is the focal point of portfortheprogrambysigningupfor dean's list at Pensacola The Council invites individuals, nonprofit with the commitment of the govern­ island development with a rapidly this year's inaugural tournament. CIRELAAntoniaB,Peredo,daugh­ groups and organizations to submit propos­ ment to the implementation of the growing tourist industry. 'The Governor feels that proper ter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Layer als that focus on the cultural and ethnic di­ ,e;··-· special district plan, we have a real The Marianas Visitors Bweau ,md planning is a major ingredient for joint venture going," she ·aid. iL, Tourist Development have ex- the future of the CNMl and for the Troup ofSaipan, Northern Mariana ~ versity of the CNMI. 'This is the turning point. the first pnc:ssedconcemwiththecxistingcon- economic health of the cummu- Islands, was named to the Dean's Proposals should strive to generate com­ time that the public and private sector ditions of the Garapan area. nity," Tenorio said. List by Matthew A. Beemer, Dean w of Academic munity discussion and understanding of have joined hands in the capacity of MVB together with other govern- In addition to the special district Affairs, at Pensacola .....,.,. revitalizing the community. From the mentagencies,CommonwealthUtili- - Garapan, and in line with im- Christian College, for academic \; ' JI cultural and ethnic differences and may ex­ . ., ' private sector, Duty Free Shoppers tiesCorporation, Department of Pub- proving the community's physi- achievementduringthe 1996spring plore a number of topics such as but not lim­ deserves a lot ofcredit for recognizing lic Works, No, '.1em Mariana~ Hous- cal environment, there is a tree- semester. llis was a result ofearn­ ited to: the cultural and economic impact of theneedandactingonit," said Tenorio. ing Corporation, and the Department planting improvement project ing a B average or higher. For the past year, the Office of the ofLanJs and Natur.tl Resources have planned for Middle Road. Pensacola Christian College is a Asia on the CNMI; the significance of recent Governor, has been devising ways to all supported the rcvitali!.1:ir.;i plan Tenorio invited people to drive liberal arts college enrolling stu­ and distant migration patterns in the Pacific, - improve the appearance of the island since it, inception Ja,t year. out to Marpi, Dan Dan.and Chalan dents from every state in the U.S. and the origins of beliefs, myths and stereo­ and articulate iL, natural beauty, while "A recently advertised request for Piao to see the new Monkey Pod tree and over forty foreign countries. accomrnudatingtheeconomic gmwl11. proposal fora comprehensive study in planting there." The College has an enrollment of types associated with racism. A month ago, Marian Pierce, Presi­ arcaspertinentfurrcvitalizationisjust They make a big differem.:e," she approximately 3,500 students in its one example of many to follow tl1at said. "People are beginning tu realize For more information and an application dent of Duty Free Shoppers Saipan, undergraduate and graduate pro­ ded1olv¢with the muchncededrevitalizationplan;'said., ..aJinn1ulllty." .. .~~~~~~~~~-"-,'- 8-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JUNE 24, 1996 MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-9 Chan to Australia .foreign minister: In the Philippines · nd your own business' Goy't, rebels reach major agreement DAV AO, Ph1hppmes (AP) - the main southern island of autonomous ove · f · · PAPUANEWGUINEAPrimeMin­ operations being planned for Sir Julius told the press conference In Australia the spokesman for the lives will be greater on this occa­ The government and Muslim Mindanao and outlying is t bl' h d g rnment is es- 0 the items m our agenda have nal agreement is only "one phase ister, Sir Julius Chan has disregarded Bougainville . the plan to tackle the BRA groups in breakaway Bougainville Interim sion. rebels agreed :Sunday to set lands - a is e · . been overcome by us," he ~aid. of a much larger process." comments from rheBRAJeader,Sam This followed Downer telling the central Bougainville is an operation Government, Moses Havini, says Pacnews Canberra Bureau says up a rebel-Jed council to su- Th~ council is to be headed . The~ also agr~ed that details, "Their fragility and volatility, "I am not so sure what in the Kaona, and Australia's minister, for­ Federal Parliament that a military to flush out criminals. hundreds of people on both sides there is obvious concern and disap­ pervise economic develop- by the MNLF, with three depu- mclu?mg_ the integration of however, should put sorrie cau- end is in store for us should eign affairs, AlexanderDowner,over offensive might worsen the He said these people were !mown will be killed in the latest PNG pointment within Australian gov­ ment in southern reg1·ons con- guernlla~ ~nt~ the ari_ned forces _tion so th_at we w1_·n not be creat- documents that we will be military offensive on ·emment ranks over this latest ties representing Christians, of the Ph1hp II b k the Bougainville "cleaning up offen­ Bougainville problem. to the state and continued to obsnuct sidered as the Mus·lim home- Muslims and the· non-Muslim p~nes_. :¥1 e tac - mg false 1mpress10ns among the signing prove to be a far cry sive." Rebel leader Kaona was reported the people efforts to provide services Bougainville. PNGDF offensiveonBougainviJJe. land, off1'cials sa1'd. led by a special Jornt working people." from the expectation of our to the people. · Lumad minority on Mindanao. grou Sir Julius told reporters in Port to have welcomed a threat for "all out Havini says the PNGDF stages Australian foreign minister, Government and rebel offi- .P·. . He said that signing the fi- people," he said. Moresby that Downer should mind war" as a chance to settle the troubles Meanwhile the defence minister, a similar offensive in 1994 but it Alexander Downer has told par­ . 1 . d h A consultative assembly ·of AJornt commumque from the his own business and that Kaona once and for all. Mathiasljapehasrevealedthecentral failed and many people died. liament that Australia does not ~~~: st~1 t e_ aireedml e?t ohver- 8 I members composed of pro- committee-level talks described "could not be trusted," the Post Cou­ Downer had insnucted the Austra­ Bougainville operations had begun. Havini said in the end, PNG be­ believe there is a military solution ~ mam _ur. e m ft ree vincial governors, city mayors the formation of the council as years o negotiations or a and representatives of private "the most important break- rier reports. lian High Commissioner in Port Hesaidtheareashavebeensealedoff came the loser and he thinks this to the conflict on Bougainville, but 20 die in bus collision settle~en~ of the 24-y~ar-old groups is to serve as its adviser. through in resolving the politi- MANILA, Philippines (AP) Sir Julius was obviously upset by Moresby to express Australia's con­ and that the push was a "bigger ef­ offensive will end in the same way, the only practical solution would be the road was slippery when Mushm m~u_rg~ncy lil the Membersofthecouncilandthe calissues"ofthenegotiations. - At least 20 p~ople were the ]:>uses smashed into each foreign interest in the "cleaning-up" cern to the PNG government fort'' raJher than an "all out war." however, he believes the loss of a negotiates settlement .... Pacnews southern Ph1hppmes. assembly are to serve for three "This is not an understate- killed when two buses col­ other at a downhill curve. The I The agreement came at t~e years, which could be extended ment that a major breakthrough lided during a thunderstorm bus that was going downhiJJ Fifni ~~at bro·tight. i:n equ.jpffl~~~~~­ Solomons PM to Chan: end of three days of commit- by the president. has been reached in the issues southeast of Manila, police appeared to be at fault, he tee-level _tal~s. The final round The council later is to be re- of joining the MNLF with the said Sunday. added. of negotia!10n_s, brokered ~y placed by a new autonomous (armedforcesofthePhilippines) The accident, which took It was the second major _lll¢gaJly given pernl.it to §i>~tEtt_~-: 'Abandon offensive' the Orgamz~t10n of Islamic government for Muslims on and the establishment of a re- place late Saturday in road accident in the Philip­ ATaiwan company that illegally .and its local agent is Ngiwal Del- ments underCl.lStooY, and¥~ SOLOMON Islands has called on Mamalonisaidhisgovemmentand Confer~nce, 1s scheduled n~xt Mindanao and nearby islands. gional security force," said Gumaca town, 145 kilome­ pines on the same day. brought heavy equipmen~ worth egate Elia Tulop. their val~ at i:>ver ~l millie>1~/fax: Papua New Guinea to abandon the country always respect the sover­ mo~th m Jakarta, Indonesia. No agreement was reached Hassan Wirajuda of Indonesia, ters (90 miles) southeast of Earlier, nine people, includ­ river a million dollars, into the On May l, Ever Fortune Devel- officials told TBN the11tllat,}\'.iqi_~ military offensive being launched on eignty of PNG and would like to call The p~ace process has on an MNLF demand to allow who represents the OIC Minis- Manila, injured 41 others, ing a town mayor, were killed country last year in care of Com- opment was issued licenses by the out FIB ·pemtlt and b1~$i'ii~s li~. the rebels in Bougainville and return on the government of Prime Minis­ brought us mto the heartland 20,000 of its guerrillas to act as ter many of them suffering frac­ when the bus they were riding rnercearidTradeMinisterGeorge Tax Office for construction, civil ceases, they would nof~release to the negotiating table to reopen ter, Sir Julius Chan to abandon the of the ~o?flict, and I :,Viii say a regional security force, but ial Committee of the Six. tures, said police investiga­ in swerved to avoid an on­ Ngirarsaol, in connection where engineer, and import businesses. It them. Subsequently Ever Fortune peace dialogue with the Bougainville idea that there could be a military that this 1s t~.e !~st m!lestone the two sides agreed that a spe- Misuari, however, cautioned tor Wilfredo Gorgonio. coming vehicle and rammed the questionable Airai-housing said $5,029.26 in tax.es which is along with another company in- Revolutionary Army. solution to the Bougain ville situation. of our quest, s~1d chief gov- cial regional security force against raising false hopes. Gorgonio said it was rain­ into a parked dump truck in citizenship scheme, has been 03% of the value assessed of the volvedintheAiraihousingscheme In a statement, prime minister The Papua New Guinea govern-· ernment negotiator Manuel would be set up once the regular "To me, possibly 99 percent ing heavily at the time and the central province ofLeyte. granted a pennit and license to do equipments at $167,642. Belau applied for FIB certificate. Solomon Mamaloni said his govem­ ment, meanwhile, is confident of Yan. business in Palau. Transfer refused to give us the The FIB told TBN that a public mentstandsreadytohelp, as itis done an outright flush-out of the (BRA) /! Nur Misuari, chairman of This was learned from sources in charges forwharfage and handling hearing would be held on these in the past, with any peace negotia­ I the rebel Moro National Lib­ rebels with the current security fl theForeignlnvestmeniBoardand which are estimated to amount to applications as required by law. tions between the PNG government forces operation of Bougainville. eration Front, said: "At this Tax and Customs Office. The over $50,000 if they were ever No public hearing was ever held and the secessionist leaders on A similar operation in 1994 point in time it is very diffi­ company is Ever Fortune Devel- paid. The Tax Office had origi- on Ever Fortune application. Bougainville. under the directives of former cult to say how I look at the opment whose equipment under nallyvalued theequipmentatover Senate Foreign Affairs Com- Mamaloni said his government is Prime Minister Paias Wingti future of the peace process, Tax Office custody at Malakai $1 milli.on. mitteeChairSen.JoshuaKoshiba doing all it can with its limited re­ failed after several soldiers were except that I think it is very Pon, moved recently from In November last year, a ship publiclyraisedquestionsaboutthe. sources, to contain the spill-over ef­ killed, NBC reported. safe to say that after three MaJakal to Airai side of KB delivered to Malakai Pon a yacht scheme and requested President fects of Bougainville crisis, which But Chan said Thursday that this years of hard work, we are Bridge. and 22 pieces heavy equipments Nakamura to investigate Minister could only increase the new offen­ time the government has the people it getting closer and ever closer Ever Fortune was granted cer- such as trucks and compactors Ngirarsaol. President Nakamura sive into its territory. could rely on for support and a legal to our common objective· of \. tificate No. 198-96 on April 11, consigned to the two companies referredthemattertoSpecialPros- He said the military offensive authority on Bougain ville to oversee restoring a just, honorable and 1996 by Ermas Ngirachelbaed, under the care of Minister ecutor William Whisenhunt and against the rebels on Bougainville the three "RS" strategy ofreconstruc­ comprehensive peace in Chairman of the Palau Foreign Ngirarsaol. The yacht was con- askedtheMinistertoexplainhirn- will also further affect the Ii ves of tion, rehabilitation and Mindanao." lnvestmentBoard(FIB). The com- signed to one company called self. innocent people. restoration .... Pacnews Under the agreement, a pany has been authorized to "en- CPED &l, a local corporation Ngirarsaolresponded.byaletter Southern Philippines Council. gage in engineering andconstruc- owned by George N girarsaol, disclaiming any connection to the for Peace and Development tion for land leveling, develop- Alfonso Oiterong, Augustine equipment and accused OEK Veterans advised to will be established to oversee ment, waterconservationprojects, Masayos, and Elma Oiterong. members of complicity in the a "special zone of peace and public works projects, roads, and Theotherequipmentswerelisted matter. have thorough checkup development" covering 14 paving" according to the certifi- inthenameofEverFortunewhich EarlierthisyearSPWhisenhunt provinces and nine cities on cate. The FIB and Attorney was then already chartered by the wrote to Minister Ngirarsaol ex- FIJIAN military veterans ofthe I 95 8 Anderson said there was a need to General's Office records show that Taiwanese but had no FIB certifi- onerating him ofillegal wrongdo- Christmas Island British nuclear tests find out whether the first-born of the company was chartered as a cate and business license. The Tax ing involving Taiwan affairs. who are believed to have been ex­ Fijian veterans were deformed or .·ADBokays _.·. Sanctioned and run by the Saipan Soft;ba// Association. local corporation by Taiwanese andCustomOfficialsputtheequip- -TiaBelau posed to radiation, have been advised genetically impaired at birth. DATE: to seek thorough medical investiga­ He added that the survey was also $1B iri loans JULY 5 1 6 1 7 1 '1996 [JULY 13 & 14 lF NECESSARY) tion. important because there was a possi­ WHERE: CIVIC CENTER SOFTBALL FIELC INTRODUCING THE 1996 Naurugov't New York-based international hu­ bility the Fijian veterans could inter­ .for quarter· GAMES BEGIN: TO BE ANNOUNCED manrightslawyer,IanAnderson who vene as a third party an ongoing in DIVISIONS: MEN'S & WOMEN'S ~101/?:;,::::-'('Jl~::~' ,,, '\~~rm.?//Z\tf.·;~!,['.s' introduces is defending the British Nuclear Test case before the EU commission. ....!l~·Liu1 L.~ -· ,-._-::l:,)t'.±:SJ'. MANILA, Philippines (AP) FORMAT: \l!L:::tJtJDL:r.._:.~~ VeteransAssociationBNTV Aintheir DOUBLE ELIMINATION tough budget The BN1VA has been following - The Asian Development fight forcompensation from the Brit­ the Fijians' case with a series of ar­ Bank has approved a $ 1 bil­ THE NAURU government has Registratio.n fee is $200.00 per team and includes a ish government in a case now pend­ ticles in the association's journal and lion in loans and grants in the introduced a tough budget, re­ commemorative T-shirt to all registered players with ing before the European Commis­ are urging the Fijian veterans to take first quarter of I 996, about ducing expenditures and in­ sion in Strasbourg, France, made the action and pursue 185 percent more than the a maximum of 20 persons per team. Ground rules creasing user charges. suggestion this week. compensation ...... Pacnews 358.8 million approved dur­ A number of overseas con­ and registration forms are available at Pacific ing the same period last year, sulates will be closed while the bank said Thursday. Trading Company. Registration fee and roster '"\, some government departments Henry to decide on The Manila-based bank deadline is 5:00 PM. July 1, 1996 at Pacific and instrumentalities will be said that it also authorized either merged or corporatised. Trading Company. Meeting for all coaches at cofinancing of six loan There will be no increase in / baring of fund probe projects and three technical 5:00 PM, July 2, 1996 at Ada Gym. /// wages for the next two years; THECOOKISlANDS solicitor gen­ Australia assistance projects worth $ STANDARD FEATURES: further recruitment to the pub­ eral said Prime Minister, SirGeoffrey Funds for the scholarship worth I. 14 billion for the quarter. lic service will be curtailed; about$20,000 US were planned to Of the J 4 loans approved there will be greater emphasis Henry will decide whethertheresults Trophies and prizes be raised through a levy on every during the period, 13 came on the development and pro­ ofan investigation into a sports fund­ from the bank's Ordinary will be awarded to the motion of Nauruan staff; and ing scheme will be made public. carton of beer sold at the govern­ The investigation centers on the ment-owned liquor store. Capital Resources window and cutbacks in the employment 1st, 2"d1 3rd place overall and MVP. the remaining one came from ,,,.. ""- ... of expatriates. Avaiki Nui Sports and Cultural Foun­ The brewery, Lion Nathan, is The statement said there dation which was set up by the health also awaiting the report which is the Asian Development Fund, SPECIAL THANKS TO : would be a general increase in minister, Dr. Joe Williams, RNZI expected to be completed in the the bank's soft-loan window. 9 charges in areas of health, reported. next few days. Pakistan received the big­ ~ lffl'SU!IISHI lands and survey and educa­ Reports say the investigation is Lion Nathan has been putting gest single loan worth $ 300 YOTORS PACIFIC(~ tion. tryingtoestablishifgovemmentfunds money into the foundation but million to finance the Ghazi were used for the private foundation RNZI correspondent says the Barotha hydropower project. Lipton. ISLANDS ,1 MITSUBISHI Driving, liquor and dog li­ censes will rise .... Pacnews whichenabledanotherminister' sson Australian golf academy has not Indonesia received five loans, CLUB ..._.. to attend a golf training center in been paid yet. .. Pacnews the most for any country, for a

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Clayton Lonetree, the only strators four years ago, Thailand's test against a general who had tary leaders ruled the country with about the United States gence agency - threatened to ex­ Eventually, he gave them docu­ Lonetree said he has no hard military put on a rare recent dis­ usurped power. an iron hand. U.S. Marine ever convicted of government's treatment of Indi­ pose his affair with the Ukrainian ments he thought were relatively feelings for the Ukrainian womari play of might in a three-hour pa­ The army responded by open­ As recently as 1991, a military espionage, said he was tor­ ans?'" woman unless he cooperated with harmless: a fire-escape plan for and has no plans to reconcile with rade Sunday to honor the 50th ing fire on the crowds, killing coup overthrew an elected gov­ mented by his military superi­ Love affairs between Marines them. the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, her. He said he plans to work as a anniversary of the king's reign. dozens and wounding hundreds ernment. Only King Bhumibol, ors for his Navajo Indian heritage and Soviet nationals are illegal, "The Soviets would ask each floor plans for the embassy in carpenter. While Sunday's array of ad­ in the events now known as Black who through his work on behi!lf and was naive when he supplied but high-ranking officers regu­ time I met them if I had docu­ Vienna and a list of names of CIA "l have to get on with my life vanced weaponry was meant as a May. of Thailand's underprivileged has information to the KGB. larly had them, Lonetree said. ments," he said. "If I said no, they agents stationed in Vienna. now," he said. It's a new begin­ show of allegiance to the king, it In a rare action, King restored the monarchy as a moral In his first public appearance He said the KGB - the former would swear at me, make threats "In truth, I really didn't want to ning." also provided a view of the rapid Bhumibol, a constitutional mon­ force in the nation's balance of since his February release from arms buildup defense analysts say arch, intervened to end the power, was able to prevent a so­ military prison, the former ser­ is occurring all over Southeast bloodshed. The general was cial polarization when violence geant said he was "truly sorry" for Asia. forced to step aside. erupted more than a year later. his acts. "I was just naive and foolish Even as peace has settled over Thousands of civilians lined the The military has vowed to to get involved at the time. And, More flexible than a phone the battlefields of Indochina and wide boulevard Sunday for a stay out of politics since Black many of the region's internal in­ chance to glimpse their monarch, May, but analysts say it's too soon perhaps, even immature," surgencies have ended, tensions as 20 jet fighters flew overhead to rule out the possibility of future Lonetree said Friday to 300 mem­ bers of the Native AmericanJour­ between neighboring nations and and 4,175 soldiers marched car­ coups. i and q fear of a Chinese military buildup rying rifles, machine guns and They add that Thailand's de­ nalists Association, which held have spurred Southeast Asian grenade launchers. mocracy is still threatened by elec­ its national convention in Bangor. countries to modernize and ex­ They were followed by rumored tions marred by vote-buying and Lonetree now lives with his pand their arn1ies. troop carriers, amphibious assault violence and politicians tainted mother's family on the Navajo Military parades were once a vehicles and mine sweepers. by allegations of corruption. Nation in Arizona. staple of national holidays in Dressed in a green military The monarchy's relationship The former sergeant was sta­ costs ess, places as diverse as Thailand, jacket and accompanied by Queen wit!J the military dates from its incep­ tionedatthe U.S. embassy in Mos­ Vietnam, the former Soviet Union Sirikit, the 68-year-old King tion in 1782. cow when he met and fell in love and China. In the aftermath of the Bhumibol delivered a briefspeech The first king of the Chakri dy­ with a Ukrainian woman in the too. Cold War, however, they have praising the military' s role in nasty, ofwhich King Bhurnibol is the early 1980s. become a rarity. building and defending the na­ ninth ruler, was a brilliant general The embassy translator intro­ KingBhumibol Adulyadej, the tion. who captured the crown because of duced him to her"Uncle Sasha" - world's longest reigning monarch, He ascended to the throne on his battlefield exploits against Bur­ actually a KGB agent. :t\______J presided over the procession of June 9, 1946,just 14years after a mese invaders. At his 1987 court-martial, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, right, and Queen Sirikit, left, are attended by his nation's military from a royal group of army officers staged a One of King Bhurnibol's heirs, Lonetree confessed to supplying Introducing the Thai Royal Guard as they preside over ceremonies for the Golden pavilion on Rajdamnern Avenue, coup that ended absolute mon­ CrownPrinceMaha Vajiralongkom, blueprints of the embassy build­ Jubilee in the Royal Pavilion at Sanam Luang field in Bangkok. King ing and names of U.S. intelli­ Bhumibol, the world's longest reigning monarch, celebrated 50 years the Champs Elysees ofBangkok' s archy. holds the rank of general and is a old quarter. Those soldiers promised to proficient jet fighter pilot gence agents to the man. He was on the throne. AP Photo sentenced to 30 years in prison. Sprint's World Traveler FONCARD. The sentence was cut to 15 Heavy security greets years after an appeal; with ·~======~· additional time off for good behavior, Lonetree ultimately strike call by opposition served eight years at a mili­ The calling card that offers l long distance rates. · By KATHY GANNON League issued the strike call. tary prison in Fort ower EA elate!J ~onr;;ratulatocy ~essar;;e ---- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) • By latemorningSW1daythestrike Leavenworth, Kansas. Baibed wire and heavily armed riot call had received a warm response. On Friday, Lonetree said poor Sample rates to the U.S. to policesunoW1dedmostpublicinsti­ In Islamic Pakistan, Friday is the morale among the Marines sta­ 1st min add'\ min. tioned in Moscow led to his spy­ tulions in Pakistan on Sunday fol­ sabbath and Sunday is a regular TUESDAY THRU FRIDAY 5AM - 5PM 1.45 0.84 ing activities. lowing a strike call by opposition worldng day. 5PM - 11PM 1.45 0.76 politicians to protest Pakistan's re­ In Karachi, thecountry' s financial He said his commander taunted 11PM - 5AM 1.45 0.59 c:ent budget and commercial center, the stock him regularly for being Indian Parliamentary opposition leader exchange opened on schedule, usu­ and that the KGB tried to turn him 5AM - 11PM 1.45 0.71 and former prime minister Nawaz ally the· first commercial institution against the United States. SATURDAY THRU MONDAY 0.59 Sharif called the budget an "eco­ to shut down during a strike, which "They knew about the history 11PM - 5AM 1.45 and the problems of Native 9n the 1980·s. no one wou/c;f have ever thought of bui!r;ling a nomic calastrophe" and demanded isacommonfonn ofprotest in Paki­ PrimeMinisterBenazirBhuttowith­ stan. Americans over here," hotel in Cha/cm Kcmoa ... of all places .. , but Ron, C]ean ana draw it Several commercial districts in Lone tree said. "They'd ask Seeing is believing. With the Sprint World Traveler FON CARD you can cut rhe cost of long )'v1c-1ricm Sablcm saw the future in it and CDA's faith in the The$ 14 billion budget, handed Karachi's South and Clifton neigh­ distance calling. Ir's as easy as dialing a local access number (235-0333) and al] of a sudden the Sablans ana their vision was well worth investment. Now, downearlierlhismonth, levies heavy borltoods were open. new taxes and withdraws a litany of In central and west Karachi, of­ Mild quake world is yours to call. Chalan Kanoa has grown to beone of the busiest village on !llJc ex.emptioru in an attempt to ten troubled by ethnic related vio­ Saipan and the Pacific yardenia Hotel is greatllj benefiting reduce its deficit in line with de­ lence, the strike call was complete. rattles Arctic The calling card will let you make calls from any phone and still enjoy the same low rates. Yllti'I! be mands from the International Mon­ Stores were shuttered and the usu­ MOSCOW {AP) - An earth­ able ro reach over 300 countries serviced by Sprinr worldwide and carry .1·our long disrance s,1\·i11'.-'.'· I from this growth. etary FW1d ally teeming streets were virtually quake of moderate strength with vou wherever vou travel. And vou'll never be bothered with surcharges for using the card. I Defense spending is up 14 deserted, said eyewitnesses. jarred a remote region of ~ J ~ '- \1 \ 'The Commonwealth Development,£/uthoritlj woulr;/ like to con­ per cent, an expense Ms. Bhutto In Sharif s stronghold of Lahore, Yakutia in the Russian Arctic blamed on Pakistan's the eastern capital of the populous To qualify for rhe World Tit1veler FON CARD, you need to have a Visa, Mastcrc;;rd, or American gratulate the Pacific (Jardenia Hotel on its 10th /1.nniversarlj but there were no reports of longstanding enmity with neigh­ Punjab province, most stores were casualties or damage, the Express card. To find om more about the World 11-rrveler FO NCARD. drop by ,;;;; sAIPAif PACmc Celebration The (Jarclenia, at it is best know, opener;/ its doors boring India. closed and in the northwestern Interfax news agency reported Tariffs, Pakistan's biggest or P-dcifi.Corn today or call 235-5678. i111986 cmd hCl':::> dedicated itself to gooa service. When itfirst city of Peshawar the streets were Sunday. source of income, have been re­ empty and the shops shuttered. openea, the Cjcircfenici operatec;f its aoors in 1986 ana has An official in the Ministry No ordinary long distance service offers so manv options. Bur then again, Sprint isn't ,rn duced five percent to 65 percent, Security throughout the coun­ for Emergency Situations es­ cleclicater;I itself to good service. When itfirst opener;/, the Gar­ also in keeping with IMF demands. try was heavy. timated Saturday's quake at 5 ordinary long distance companv. denia opera tea mciinlij as a hotel ana restaurant. A few 0ears Nearly three years ago the IMF On Saturday Ms. Bhutto to 7 in magnitude. gave Pakistan a $ 2.4 billion loan, warned the opposition against later. thelj expanaea and opened the Sunset (;rill, which has The epicenter was in the butconditionalonlslamabadbring­ fomenting violence. The Laptev Sea near Solbovoi Is­ proven to be one of the islcinds most popular night spots. ing its deficit down to 4 percent of country's security force was put land, more than 7,000 kilome­ groos domestic product. something on alert, she said. ters (4,500 miles) northeast of • Sprint Ms. Bhutto's budget promises to 'Theopposirionwantsbloodshed CD/I. is proucf to hcive the Pacific Cjcirdenia Hotel as a partner, Moscow. do. and dead bodies for political mile-­ In the Russian Pacific re­ Apply for the SprintWorldTraveler FON CARD rnday. • contributing to the economic aevelopment of the CNM9. Howeverthe budget has angered age," Ms. Bhutto was quoted as gion, officials also registered a wide variety of groups, ranging sayinginanationa!English-language two aftershocks Saturday to a 5 6 7 8 2 3 5 It .l l ,· , , II [, I c , I I· 1· (" 1 I' I' r " ,.. i I from businessmen to taxi drivers, daily newspaper. previously reported quake of who will be paying more for gas and Sharif, however, said the strike magnitude 7, sou th of the Saipan FON CARD access nurnber: 235-0J.B · Rota FON CARD access number: 828-03.B · Tinian FON CARD access nurnbn: 828-03.l.l diesel. wasapeacefuldemonstrationbythe Kamchatka Peninsula. Saipan cusrnmcr service number: 2J'i-'i678 · Rota Cltstrnncr service number: 'ic,2-5678 · Tinian cusromcr service numlwr: 433-0382 I COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ''Ifapprovedthebudgetwillforce opposition to show its frustration There were no casualties re­ people to commit suicide," said both wilh the budget and with what ported from any of the off­ Sharif, whose Pakistan Muslim it called runaway corruption. shore temblors, lnterfax said. •L':::======!..i'. ~-----~------~---····-~--l 12-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY-JUNE 24, 1996 MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-13 Netanyahu tries US-style rule By HILARY APPELMAN speeches, glittering state func­ '*'·.:~,~.'*'~•c. _r/]f;,:: ..,...... ­ economics council. ity for anything," said Bar­ JERUSALEM (AP) · His tions and an arms-length dis­ P \\p~·::· .. .,.~,,:~ Netanyahu moved the Is­ Illan. star-spangled campaign tance from the public. ,~ rael Broadcast Authority from But Netanyahu still needs brought victory at the polls. Comparisons with the f'.'/ the Education Ministry to his the support of powerful poli­ Now Benjamin Netanyahu, White House only grew dur­ office, but met with resistance ticians -includingbiggunsinhis Israel's first American-style ing Netanyahu' s first week at 11 when he tried to take over the own Likud Party such as Ariel candidate, is looking to gov­ the helm. budget department as well. Sharon - to pass legislation in the ern American-style, too. In what some saw as an Netanyahu "has played Bill Knesset, Israel's parliament, and In his first days as prime attempt to bypass the Cabinet, Clinton for so long, including even his ministers are unlikely to minister, Netanyahu has taken he set up a national security having Sarah play Hillary, that he accept too much use of their pow­ his cue from the American council, an economic advisory has finally really begun to believe ers. presidency: consolidating council and a privatization coun­ £' that he is no less than the presi­ "He needs approval from the power under his office, ap­ cil. dent of the United States of Knesset for too many things," said pointing national security and Within the Cabinet, Netanyahu America, with all his power and Arieh Noaf, a political science economic councils, and pick­ tried to name non-politicians to greatness," the newspaper Haaretz professor at Hebrew University. ing technocrats over politi­ several top jobs -prompting news­ editorialized. "He doesn't have a majority in cians as advisers. papers and commentators to call Despite his razor-thin vic­ this Knesset. He has a coalition Even his personal style - his preference for expertise over Benjamin Netanyahu tory over Shimon Peres, where his party is the minority." such as his frequent public ap­ political skills a "revolution" in Netanyahu' s direct election Netanyahu "will learn that pearances with his wife, Sa­ Israel's politics. official of the International gives him a stronger hold on there are limits to prime ministe­ rah, and their two young sons He chose Yaakov Neeman, a Monetary Fund, as finance Israel's top job than past prime rial governments," said Amos Foreign Ministers from left, Domingo Siazon of the Philipp{nes, '-! Ohn ~yaw of Bu_rma, Laotian - draws comparison with U.S. widely respected former law minister. The post went in­ ministers, who were elected Shapira, former law dean at Tel Somsavat Lengsavad and Indonesia's Ali Alatas have a d1s~uss1on durm_g a meetmg Of! _the development politicians. Israeli news media professor, as justice minister, stead to Likud Party veteran by fellow lawmakers. Aviv University. "In spite of the of the Mekong Basin, in Kuala Lumpur Monday. Eleven nation? met to discuss an ambitious plan to buzzed this weekend with reports but was blocked from naming Dan Meridor, but Netanyahu "This is the first time develop the region along the Mekong River from China to That/and. AP Photo fact that he was directly elected, that Sarah might even get her own Jacob Frenkel, a former top made Frenkel head of the new people have voted by a major- he is not an American president." first lady-like office in the prime ministry. 11 passengers injured after "There's no secret about it be­ ing an imitation of the American presidency," David Bar-Illan, di­ Only with the fire alarm on HK jetliner rectorof policy planning and com­ mun ica ti on s in the prime company that's HONG KONG (AP}- At least cargo hold, aboard Cathay the end of the runaway when minister's office, said Friday. 11 passengers were injured on Pacific flight 706 from the alarm went off. "Burger King and committed to ... emergency escape slides after Bangkok, a spokeswoman He said there was confusion, McDonald's have gone over very a fire warning aboard a jet­ said. The Boeing 777 plane with passengers landing on top of well, so perhaps this will, too." liner landing in Hong Kong carried 307 passengers and each other as they escaped on the Israel's parliamentary system Sunday, the government said. crew members, she said. emergency slides. won't make governing presiden­ There was no immediate A passenger told the gov­ The injured passengers were tially a simple proposition. sign of what had caused the ernment radio that the plane taken to hospitals, the spokes­ Netanyahu must still accommo­ alarm, warning of a fire in the had just landed and taxied to woman said. date the religious parties that con­ trol a large share of his governing coalition, and satisfy the demands Gunfire echoes in Grozny China bf:tnning of powerful voices within his G ROZ NY, Russia (AP)· The mander in Chechnya, Gen. .Western names own party. streets around the Russian Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, But as the country's first commandant's office in warned Saturday that his ···for businesses· .• directly elected prime minis­ Grozny reportedly echoed troops will use "overwhelm­ ter, Netanyahu wields far more with gunfire early Sunday in ing fire" to rebuff any rebel power than his predecessors. BEUING (AP)- A nightclub called attack. He accused separatist He has made it clear that he - the latest evidence the truce in ''Pirate Ship" is among 2,000 Chi­ breakaway Chechnya is being leaders of using ·the negotia­ not his Cabinet - will set gov­ nese businesses ordered to change widely ignored. tions to play for time and get ernment policy. their names in a campaign against Russian military officials ready for new fighting. "He has decided to pitch his ''hannful cultural content," a news­ accused Chechen separatists At least 30,000 people, message to the public in a way paper reported Sunday. of starting the shooting in the mostly civilians, have died in which he al one is the "Names containing vulgar, feu­ '.eninsky district but acknowl­ since the Kremlin sent troops pitcher," said Daniel Elazar, a dalistic, biz.arre and absurd content edged that Russian troops also into Chechnya in December political science professor and and Westem-soundingcolormust be fired, the Interfax news agency 1994 to quash its indepen­ director of the Jerusalem Cen­ banned," the official English-Ian­ reported. No casualties were dence bid. International · ob­ ter for Public Affairs. "He guageChinaDailyquotedan uniden­ reported. servers have accused both does not want a situation tified government official as saying. The Russians and rebels sides, particularly the Russian where every decision is made ltwasn'tclearwhetheronlynames both have accused each other army, of human rights viola­ on a collective basis." taken from Western languages were of repeatedly violating a tions. Before last month's elec­ targeted. But the newspaper said cease-fire agreement reached In a rare Russian acknowl­ tion, pundits jabbed at nearly 36 percent of trademarks reg­ late last month. edgment of those atrocities, Netanyahu, who spent his high istered byChinesecompanies include Dozens of deaths have been Interfax on Sunday cited an school years in Pennsylvania, Western-sounding names. reported in recent weeks from official in the chief military studied at the Massachusetts It said many were trying to take the clashes, which in the past prosecutor's office as saying Institute of Technology and ad vantage ofthe "prejudice ofstatus­ several days include the Russian troops have murdered, speaks flawless American En­ conscious people" who prefer West­ shootdown of a Russian army robbed, beaten and raped glish, for running a superfi­ Bankoh Time Deposits ern goods. helicopter and the shooting Chechen civilians. cial, U.S.-style campaign - The government has reviewed Mi11im11m deposit $5,000. deaths of several Chechens. More than 1,000 criminal complete with made-for-tele­ about 20,000 names of nightclubs, lvlaxi1111mi deposit, $1,000,000 per rnswmer: Russian and Chechen mili­ cases have been instituted vision sound bites, family ap­ stores, restaurants and other busi­ Bankoh Time Deposits combine higher interest with security. tary negotiators are to resume against Russian· soldiers since pearances and an American nesses this year, the China Daily said. 1l1ey·re insured up to $100,000. They're convenient. Interest can talks Monday in Khankala, a the start of the 18-month-old campaign adviser. It said an entertairunent center in be automatically credited to your Bankoh Checking or Savings suburb of the capital Grozny, war and 300 have gone to mili­ "Netanyahu is the first Is­ Wuhan was forced to drop the name Account. Plus. your Bankoh Time Deposit may be eligible fm after failing to make any tary court, the unidentified raeli politician to be voter­ Fonnosa, the 17th century Spanish all the benefits of a Bankohana Account. Ask your progress on Saturday. official said. friendly, the first to market nameforTaiwan, because it "harmed Customer Service Representative for details. The representatives are Most involve unnecessary himself in the American way," L'ie national interest and dignity." For rates othi.'.r than these. please charged with clearing up ·ob­ use of weapons, dodging mili­ political commentator Zeev Wuhan's Haidaochuan nightclub call our 24-hour Bankoh MoncvLinc: ~ h stacles to carrying out a June tary service or theft of mili­ Chafets wrote in the Jerusa­ -whose name means "pirate ship" in (808) 538-4899. or your nearest IO military agreement. tary property, the official was lem Report magazine. "But, I Chinese - was forced to become the Bank of Hawaii branch. Russia's military com- quoted as saying. of course, Israelis are madly "Island Ship." in love with anything Ameri­ 'Though some names reflect the Bonk of Hawaii . SUBSCRIBE NO"!f~] can." features of Western business, they MEMBER FDIC THE BANK OF THE PACJFIC"' Chafets said Israelis could could have an adverse effect on chil­ expect a U.S-style "imperial b\larianas~~~ dren," the government official was prime ministership," with tele­ APYs good through July 3, 1996 and arc subject to change weekly. Substantial ~~iil~ Ira quoted as saying . Tel: 1}1·fVi11 fax: 1.;...~::;2::; .penalty for c~r!y with~~a_wal: 1ni,_~~~al\Y.ll)•~ r.cduc_c ."'."_nings vised news conferences and MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-15 14-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY - JUNE 24, 1996 Woodward book: New game hits stores By YURI KAGEY AMA of displayed Nintendo 64 ma­ the cartridge because the CD games, but so far, it has the next package of games. Hillary communed with Roosevelt TOKYO (AP) - After stand­ chines for a turn at the new games load faster, shortening not announced such a plan. "If they bring out better Lengthy excerpts of the new of the inner workings of the cam- 1:1illary and_ ~e president, mten- ing in long lines and braving "Super Mario 64" game that the wait to start playing the Yasuaki Fujine, an analyst games, they could easily boost WASHING TON (AP) -U.S. first with Mahatma Gandhi during one crowds in Tokyo's electron­ also went on sale Sunday, at games. The company could at Smith Barney lnternational sales to 5 million," he said. lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had meeting with author Jean Houston, book appear in Sunday editions of paign of th~ man expect~d to be tl?nall~~v01dmg anyof~ose tech- ics district, Nozomu Miyake 9,800 yen ($ 90). bring out an extra-cost attach­ imaginary talks with Eleanor who is co-director of the Founda­ "The Washington Post," where the Repubhcan presidential can- ruques, ~oodward :,vntes. Inc. in Tokyo, said the true "For now, you can't see what's Roosevelt duringmuJtipJe sessions tion for Mind Research and be- Woodward is an assistant manag- didate. He said one session occurr~d couldn't wait to get home and In the new Mario game, one ment for Nintendo 64 to play test for Nintendo 64 will be coming next at all." ing editor. Woodward writes that the first in a sun parlor atop ~e White play with Japan's newest toy - of just three games on sale so conducted by a spiritual advisor 1i eves her own "personal '! who compares the first lady with archetypical predecessor" was Thenewbook,tobepreviewed lady declined Houston's sugges- House where Mrs. Chnton and the Nintendo 64, a 3-dimen­ far for Nintendo 64, the mous­ Joan of Arc, according to a new Athena, the Greek goddess of wis­ in three more installments in the tion that she address Jesus Christ, several members of her staff were sional video-game machine tached, chubby signature char­ --:-11. ,;~, book by journalist Bob Woodward. dom, Woodward writes in 'The Post, also reports on Bob Dole becauseitwouldbe"toope:--onal." present, including one who ta~e that went on sale Sunday. acter doesn't just jump up and The first lady also communed Choice." and his wife Elizabeth and some Among the other details from recorded one of the first lady s "I know this is going to be down across a flat screen any the book: "conversations" with Mrs. fun," said Miyake, a 22-year­ more. President Clinton was present Roosevelt, wife of four-term U.S. ,~ old student, squeezing through He traverses through vivid, '•-.., ... ::1 at the first session between Mrs. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. throngs of computer fans as 3-dimensional green fields, Clinton and Houston and was "Houston asked the first lady to he hurried toward Akihabara plunges through cracks and .,\ _... ~ ..... I asked to describe his best quali- open up herself to Mrs. Roosevelt train station. swims in bubbly ocean depths. .... ' A Great Gift Idea for Grads & Dads! ties. "I have a good heart," he as a way of looking at her own "The game is different, and The effect is as compelling as said. "I really do. I hope I have a capacities and place in history," the screen image is beautiful." a Walt Disney film. I decent mind." he writes. "Houston regarded it as The new machine is Kyoto­ The Mario game will easily Houston said Mrs. Clinton was a classic technique, practiced by based Nintendo's entry into hit at least 3 million in imme­ ::~~ ..- ..... : I carryingtheburdenof5,000years . Machiavelli, who used to talk to the heated 3-D video-game diate sales among loyal J apa­ of history when women were sub- ancient men." war between and . nese fans, said Joe Osha, ... 1 ASmart servient and told her "she was Most people in the White Nintendo is betting Japan's Merrill Lynch analyst in To­ reversing thousands of years of House did not know about the video-game addicts are will­ kyo, who also liked the expectation, and was there sessions with Houston and ing to part with more yen for Nintendo 64. upfront, probably more than vir- Bateson and some who did feared more sophisticated technology "It's a great machine - sig­ Move for New tually any woman in human his- the sessions could "trigger politi- and dazzling images. nificantly more attractive," he tory - apart from Joan of Arc. cally damaging comparisons Nintendo has set sales tar­ said. Hillary was a stand-in for all to Nancy Reagan's use of as- gets of 3.5 million worldwide Nintendo says it will have Cellular Users women, and as such has a historic trology, which had heavily influ- for its Nintendo 64 systems several titles ready for the U.s: opportunity." enced if not determined the sched- by the end of the year, and 3.6 market, including "Super Houston and an associate, Mary ule of here husband, President million in Japan alone by next Mario 64," and about 20 more Catherine Bateson, followed up Ronald Reagan," Woodward March. games in Japan by the end of their initial weekend at Camp writes. How well the machine does the year. David with a series of letters and "Astrology only changed tim- in Japan is likely a good fore­ Despite Mario's impres­ U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, right,. laughs with Recording lndust!}' Association. of subsequent sessions at the White ing and it was a kind of America Chairman Jason Berman after Barshefsky announced an agreement with China on combating MTC cast of how it will do in the sive new moves, the main House. pseudoscience that could be fun or copyright piracy at a press conference in Beijing. For the s.econd time in 15 .months, Chif!a and the United United States. The machine drawback for Nintendo is that Houston believed in putting worthalaugh. YettheReaganshad States went to the brink of a trade war Monday before agreeing to stamp out piracy of American hims, movies sells for 25,000 yen($ 230) in many game-players have al­ and computer software. AP Photo CELLSMART~ people into trances and used hyp- been ridiculed. Hillary's sessions Japan; it will go for $ 250 in ready bought the Playstation nosisand,foraperiodinthe 1960s, with Houston reflected a serious the United States. or Saturn. conductedexperimentswithLSD. inner turmoil that she had not re- For fans like Miyake, the And some 32-bit games, like "But she tried to be careful with solved." Saturn's "Nights," set to go Having a cellular phone wait has been tantalizing. The sale date for the Nintendo 64 on sale next month, also offer \\\\'N OM SAIPAN/, At the movies had been put off twice because spectacular pictures. of delays in developing games "Just looking at it, there isn't handy when you need it The Hunchback of Notre Dame for the system. American that much of a difference," By DAVID GOODMAN When we take up with "Quasi" - game-lovers won't be able to Yutaka Kondou, editor-in­ Maxxis Ti res • From the wicked stepmother in that's what lhey call him- he has buy it until Sept. 30. Nintendo chief of Softbank's Sega Sat­ doesn't have to be expensive. "Snow White," to the heart-rending gotten egged on by his friends, three has some catching up to do. urn Magazine, says of the three Imported Exclusively By deaths ofloving parents in "Bambi" gargoyles. He bungee-jumps out of Sony Computer rivals. and "The Lion King," the folks at his imposing prison and joins the Entertainment's Playstation "In software, what counts is IIF//g"!lnr~~ MTC's lowest-cost service Disneyhaveshownthemselveswell­ "Feast of Fools" celebration on the and Sega Enterprises' Saturn how it's made. If it's made ~'9f'Y'iii.t1 prepared to risk scaring yowiger cobbledstreetsbelow. Atfirst, video-game machines have right, it looks good." members of the audience. he's cheered by the raucous Pari­ combined sold 5. 7 million Shinichi Furukawa of To­ .~!R•IU TIREIHUB:. plan was designed F.ach time,afewwonderifthey've sians who crown him "King of games in Japan and 8 million kyo-based Konami, which gone too far. Then people go see the Fools.''Butthecrowdsuddenlytums worldwide during their head makes software for all three film, and the finished animations are nasty. They tie Quasi down and start of more than one year. game systems, acknowledged o\ TRIPLE .J MOTORS for new and low-volume so full of lush imagery and mema; begin to pelt him with fruit Playstation and Saturn, that the differences among the 0,eo 0 rable characters that they cast a spell He is saved from these humilia­ which both sell for about three systems were subtle. '- c Beach Road, Garapan upon moviegoers. tions by Esmeralda (Demi Moore), 20,000 yen ($ 185) after re­ "Just because 64 is twice cellular users. That's how it goes with 'The a gypsy dancer whose people are cent price cuts, use 32-bit tech­ 32, it's not going to look twice Hunchback of Notre Dame," a hated by the dastardly Frollo. nology. That means they can as good," Furukawa said. "But Welcome to Saipan Sale! charming, colorful version ofVictor Wit her blazing emerald eyes, deliver better sound, three-di­ it's going to be hard for all Hugo's gothic novel set in 15th cen- gold-ringedfingers,nimblebarefeet mensional movement and three to survive for long." • tury Paris. and va-va-va-voom figure, more detailed, textured graph­ Although each machine has Indeed, this ambitious fantasy Esmeralda is a Disney babe to rival ics than the old 16-bit ma­ its share of hit and bomb makesastrongclaim to be the best of Pocahontas. Quasimodo is smitten. chines. games, people may - for now - Disney's animated features. It's a Frollo begins a campaign to C3fr Until Sur.day, Nintendo simply stick with the machines PER MIN. WEEKDAYS PER MIN. WEEKENDS sophisticated tale with dazzling vi­ ture the defiant girl, assisted by one only had 8-bit and 16-bit ma­ that allow them to play their sual effects, a great score from eight­ of the king's guards, a handsome chines on the market. But now favorites. If you like "Virtua Steel Belted Radiais time Academy Award-winner Alan captain named Phoebus (Kevin it hopes to one-up its com­ Fighter," you would buy the Menken, and a selfless hero. Kline). But Phoebus quickly falls petitors with the new Saturn; if you prefer Traction-Safety-Milf!age This Quasimodo (voiced by Tom for Esmeralda, too. machine's 64-bit technology. "Toshinden," the Playstation. Saipan 's Most Affordable Cellular Plan Hulce)isasweet-spiritedyoungman After threatening to reduce Paris The bit numbers show how A Saturn game can't be who spends his days talking to pi­ to ashes in his quest, Hullo finally much information a machine played on a Playstation and All Weather Tread AVAILABLE AT MTC CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTER & AAA CELLULAR geons and friendly gargoyles and nabs Esmeralda and sentences her can handle, so for game fans, vice versa. Only some games making figurines of the people he to burn as a witch. So Quasimodo the bigger the numbers, the are available in both formats. --_.,...------:T seesinthesquarebelow Notre Dame, and Phoebus must join forces to better. Nintendo's decision to stick Prices good until June 29, 1996!! the cathedral where he's consigned pluck her from the fire. The reaction Sunday was to the old cartridge format, to live by the evU Judge Hullo (An­ To balance the slightly som­ lively. rather than switching to com­ thony Jay). ber plot, directors Gary "It's so popular there were pact discs as did Saturn and He's a far cry from the fearsome Trousdale and Kirk Wise people waiting for the store to Playstation, may also prove a figure of earlier movies. Yes, this ("Beauty and the Beast") weave open in the morning," said drawback. Quasimodo has abnonnal features­ in brilliant computer-generated Laox computer story manager Compact discs are much II mtc bulging eye sockets, a bit of a stag­ images of medieval crowds and Kaoru Hakii, busy answering cheaper and quicker to make, gering gait and of course, the hump exquisitely detailed renderings of questions about Nintendo 64 and cartridge games can't Real Value for the CNMI -buthe's basically a regular guy who the famous cathedral. There also are from shoppers. He declined to handle long-playing music or wants to see what it's like outside the helpingsofslap&ickfoolerytokeep give sales figures. dialogue. stone walls. ~kids happy. I Shoppers crowded in front Nintendo has said it chose A Smart roo.ve ... MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-17 16-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JUNE 24, 1996 Pontiff leaves for Berlin rites Former Greek premier dies By VICTOR L. SIMPSON meeting with Chancellor Helmut resistance to thedemonical forces feeble." PADERBORN, Germany (AP) Kohl, a Catholic who has pub­ in a world remote from God," he LateSaturday,JohnPaullooked tired as he leaned on one arm to By PHILIP DOPOULOS ischiarnic episode" (heart attack) at 197 4 and led it to electoral victory in 1993. year-old wife, Dimitra, who was his - Pope John Paul II flew Sunday licly disagreed with the pope's told about 70,000 people gath­ read a speech to 700 people of ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Andreas 2.30am. 1981, heading Greece's first Socialist Papandreou' s second period in chief of staff, was manipulating him toward Berlin to beatify two opposition to contraception. ered under colorful umbrellas at various faiths in Paderbom's ca­ Papandreou, a prominent opponent No funeral arrangements were government until 1989. He rose to power was a far cry from the first He to ignite a political career in her own priests who opposed Hitler, stag­ The two priests chosen for be­ an airstrip near Paderbom. ofGreece' smilitaryregimewhocame immediately announced. power on a combination of anti­ toneddownhisanti-Americanrheto­ right ing the ceremony !n the Olympic atification in a step toward saint­ But the pope dropped from his thedral. The pope specifically back fium exile to lead the opposition Papandreou had not been seen in American rhetoric, generous social ric and tried to bring Greece's ailing Last year, Papandreou had to en­ Stadium the Nazi dictator built to hood are: the Rev. Bernhard prepared remarks phrases addressed Protestants while in the Socialists, then dominated his public since his release from a hospi­ spending and educational reforms. economy in line with the n:st of its dure the publication of nude photo­ glorify his racist dreams. Lichtenberg, who died in jail for complimenting the actions of the land of Martin Luther. countzy' s politics as prime ministerin tal March 21 after a four-month stay. A fiery Socialist when he first be­ European Union partners. graphs of Dirnitra by a newspaper The Polish-born pope,.credited his sennons against persecuting Catholic church as a whole dur­ "We all bear the guilt" for the the 1980s and '90s, died at home Premier Costas Simitis was re­ came premier in 1981, the Harvard­ "Andreas Papandreou did that wanted him to resign and her to for helping to bring an end to Jews; and the Rev. Karl Leisner, ing tpe Nazi era. The Vatican had German priest's break with the early Sunday. He was 77. portedly retumingimmediatelyfrom educated Papandreou roused audi­ much, but he did not leave some­ forswear 3IIY political ambitions. communist dictatorships in east­ who was sent to concentration notexplanationfortheommission Roman Catholic Church in the Athens radio stations interrupted a European Union summit in Flo­ ences by accusing neighboring rival thing concrete behind him. He is In typical fashion, he shrugged off ern Europe, has said a personal camps for expressing regret that but said the paragraphs remained 16th century, he said, urging their broadcasts early Sunday to an­ rence, Italy. Simi tis and Interior Min­ Turkey of expansionist aims and en­ probably the only premier in mod­ the incident, saying he would support highlight of his three-day visit to an assassination attempt on Hitler an official papal announcement Catholics and Lutherans to con­ nounce thatPapandreoudiedathome ister Akis Tsochadzopoulos had been sured loyalty by packing the civil em Greece history whose name Dimitra in whatever she chose to do. Germany is a ride in his hiJd failed. He died a few months even though they were not deliv­ tinue talks to resolve differences. of heart failure. expected to compete at a Socialist service with followers. was heard so loudly but who left But a near fatal bout with pneu­ popemobile through the after liberation. ered publicly. Saturday's visit was the "From 2.30 a.m. (2330 GMr Fri­ Party congress beginning Thursday His first eight years as premier such a slim legacy," journalist monia in November and secondary Brandenburg Gate that once sym­ The pope praised the two men The 76-year-old pope, slowed pope's first since 1.5 million of Gennany's 28 million Catholics day) today, Greece is in mourning," a tosucceedPapandreouasparty leader. ended in June 1989, amid allegations Potis Paraskevopoulos wrote in a infections kept him in hospital for bolized the Cold War division of at a Mass on Saturday in since his hip-replacement surgery Pope John Paul II Socialist Party statement said 'The Party members and supporters of political scandals and a messy recent biography. four months until March, forcing him the capital. Paderbom, an ancient religious two years ago, used an elevator to mounted a petition drive last year founder of our movement, the great beganarrivingatPapandreou' shome divorce from his wife of 38 years. In the last two years, to resign as premier. He handed over About 100,000 people were city in central Germany.Be also reach the altar instead of walking focus on Church history and deal demanding that he relax his oppo­ patriot, the politician, the leaderofour in the northern Athens subum of Despite ill health, having under­ Papandreou' s frail health forced that post to Simitis in January. expected to greet John Paul at the mentioned a nun who had con­ up the 25 steps. with dissent among Catholics in a sition to artificial birth control people, Andreas Papandreou, has left Ekali as news of his death spread gone major heart surgery in 1988, him to keep public appearances to Papand.reou spent the last months Gate, and 130,000 more to attend verted to Judaism and died at Not since Pope Leo III met country where only 20 percent of and his requirement of a celibate, us.'' "Idon'tknowwhattosay,theman Papandreou stayed onas leaderof the a minimum and clearly affected of his life at his villa in the company the Mass and beatification at the Auschwitz, andaJesuitpriestwho with Charlemagne to seal the them regularly attend services. . all-male priesthood. A bulletinfromPapandreou' s doc­ who lifted Greece high is gone," opposition and brought the Socialists his work. of his wife and close friends, under­ stadium built for the 1936Games. survived Nazi persecution - both union between the papacy and the "Remember the long history Now in the 18th year of his tors said that at 1.30 am. he suddenly party deputy Nora Katselli told Skai back to power in elections in Oct Critics also chargedrhathis41- going dialysis. John Paul, who has won praise of whom he had beatified in a Holy Roman Empire in 799 had a ofChristian faith in this country," · papacy, John Paul has made clear started having heart troubles and that radio. from Jews for speaking out against 1987 visit to Germany. pope visited Paderbom. John he said SaturdaY,. "Don't let this he has no intention of changing "despite attempts to revive him" he Papandreou founded the anti-Semitism, also scheduled a All four were a "sign of the Paul's German visit is meant to faith grow weaker and more his policy. died from what appears to bea "strong :J Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Tetris creator gets control l meeting with Gennany' s Central i Council of Jews. He was also ,,1 of world's top computer game ~· Former US By RIC LEYVA game and were hooked instantly. Licensing rights could remain lu­ '.• REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS iI' NEW YORK (AP) - The father of Simple to play but difficult to master, crative for a long time, but not without :] E'ducation ·· The Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA) Tetris, who invented the world's most its rapid spread beyond the Iron Cur­ somecomplications. Tetris is undoubt­ popular computer game in the obscu­ tain was inevitable. edly the most copied computer game secretary·. is requesting for proposals to publish its 1995 An­ rity of then-communist Russia, can Before long, major international in history. Online game forums fea­ nual Report. Proposals shall be submitted to the finally start cashing in on his brain­ gamecompanieswerefightingoverit ture hundreds of shareware clones. child Nintendo's battle with Sega over PajitnovisgladtoletRogersworry dies at.74 Commonwealth Development Authority or mailed Alexey Pajitnov, now living in the publishing rights developed from cut­ about such matters. He's happiest be­ to P.O. Box 2149, Saipan, MP 96950 no later than United States, had to wait a decade to throat negotiating campaigns in Rus­ ingleftalonetocreatenew games.Not By KIMBERLEY MURPHY regain licensing rights to his creation, sia to a courtroom struggle between that he spends all his computer time SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - July 18, 1996. 4:30 p.m. Copies of the RFP pack­ originally held by the Soviet state. the corporate giants for control of the crunching code. Former U.S. Department of ''Basically, the original publishing global computer game market A game player's player, Pajitnov Education Secretary Terrel H. age may be obtained at the CDA office at Watkin's of Tetris was not from my behalf, but Nintendo eventually won the tug­ sees them as instructive metaphors for Bell, who was credited with Building in Gualo Rai. Inquiries may be directed was from behalf of my institute in of-war and made Tetris the flagship life - not just entertaining diversions. starting a national school re­ Russia So basically all the money title for its hand-held Game Boy sys­ "Games teach people about them­ form movement, has died of to Ms. Lydia M. Sablan, CDAActing Executive Di­ went there," Pajitnov says without the tem, further increasing its reach. selves like nothing else - things you pulmonary fibrosis. He was 74. rector, at telephone no. 234-7145. slightest trace of bitterness. Over 40 million copies of Tetris might never be noticing outside the Bell headed the Education De­ "I provide them the rights for just have been sold, counting all the vari­ game, like how you think," he says. partment from 1981 to I985un­ 10 years, and this year this 10 years ousplatforrns to which it's been ported, His favorites include the world­ der President Ronald Reagan. The Commonwealth Development Authority re­ expired, so now the rights kind of but Pajitnov never got a ruble. buildinggames SimCity andCiviliza­ Afterward, he remained active coming back to me," he explains, As his reward, Soviet overlords lion, but he also confesses a fondness in prnmoting education and serves the right to reject any proposal in the inter­ starting to chuckle. "And right now, gave him a new computer. But his for old arcade classics such as Pac­ learning, founding the educa­ so, I am SUPPOSED to collect roy­ intemationalreputationwas made and Man and newer vintage hits like est of the CNMI Government. tional consulting firm T.H. Bell alties." continued to grow. Now it's no ex­ Lode Runner. Will that bring a belated for­ aggeration to say he is revered An oddity within the male­ and Associates. He wrote "How to Shape Up Isl Lydia A. Sablan tune to the gentlest of Russian within cyberspace circles. dominated computer game culture, teddy bears? Following the collapse of the Tetris is equally beloved by both Our Nation's Schools" in 1991. Acting Executive Director "Hopefully, hopefully," he Soviet Union, Pajitnov has done sexes. (TV newswoman Diane Bell's leadership at the edu­ says, still chuckling. well for himself, moving to the Sawyer is a confessed addict.) cation department led to the "A Thanks to his easy laugh and United States and making good Pajitnov thinks he knows why, but Nation At Risk Report," which . I .• ,1·•.·•,,,,?~·;r-.>\. · REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL almost frightening mental quick­ money in the ever-changing com­ he's careful to avoid offending prompted a school refonn move­ ·- . _.) . PSS RFP96-006 ness, Pajitnov'sstill-thickRussian puter game industry. feminists in describing it. ment to make education consis­ accent and constant mangling of He doesn't mind missing out tent with the demands of a mod­ The CNMI Public School System is seeking proposals from professional writers "It's a very delicate kind of ques­ with demonstrated experience (i.e. -published books, essays, articles on Pacific History) English don' !muddy his message. on the Tetris treasure hunt until tion," he says with a laugh. "In this ern-day market. for an updated version of the CNMI History Book first published in 1991. The update He stumbled onto Tetris while now. The product of a society that game you kind of try to put in The 1983 report found seri­ shall include revisions to the existing lex! and the illustraJing, editing and proofing that working in the Soviet Academy of didn't measure personal success order some mess. And that kind of ous flaws in the nation's educa­ ' "' :._\,~~ ..> make for complete "camera ready" copy as required by the PSS. Science computer center, its birth in dollar figures, Pajitnov is proud activity pleases women, it's close tion system and concluded that coming during a break from brain­ just to have created THE land­ In response to this project request, we ask that individuals or firms provide a brief to their nature. Instead of destroy­ schools were drowning in me­ Gccu•,,\ion and hard copies of historical works which they have authored and edited as draining projects such as digital mark game of his generation. ing something, shoot up or blow diocrity. rndence of their experience and expertise. Responders are also requested to provide speech recognition and artificial "When you are not having away, you know, you kind of cre­ "While small in stature, to 11111mm·········'.J,,i?::i·•-/fi~~Jic,b:~~i any othec information they consider pertinent in a brief narrative. Scope of work is available intelligence programs. much money, sometimes you are ate something." those of us who knew him and ##.: ~ ::.~iii'·,·~".-,.... ~:~ ::':.Y( .. al the Procurement & Supply Office, 3rd floor, Nauru Building, Susupe, Saipan, during "Besides many other serious still very happy," he explains. Settled in the Pacific Northwest, rormal working hours, except Holidays. watched him at work he was a jobs, I loved to make small puules "That so many people love to play Pajitnov likes spending most his giant in the pursuit of excellence my game was enough." Proposals must be received no later than 2:00 p.m. July 22, 1996 at the PSS on the computers. I am known for time in the United States, although in education," said Sen. Orrin this," Pajitnov says softly, under­ Paji\nov has helped produce Procurement & Supply Office located on the third lloor of the Nauru Building. A non­ the initial adjustment had its mo­ Hatch, a Utah Republican. relundable lee of $25.00 in the form of a cer1ilied bank check or postal money order \i~;e:rt!···· stating his fame. puzzle games for Spectrum ments. ··,1r,~:~;··1tif;uitJf Bell served as commissioner made payable to "Treasurer PSS" must be included with the submission. All proposals While trying to translate a dif­ Holobyte such as Knight Moves, "The lifestyle is totally differ­ should be addressed to William S. Torres, Commissioner of Education. Proposals must of education under presidents Ri­ ficult board puzzle game to the which he designed, the Tetris-like ent and I did have language prob­ be delivered with an original and a duplicate. chard Nixon, Gerald Ford and crude, low-tech computers used Qwirks and the best-seller lems, for sure," he says. "And lots ~~Qrty-.,-?.~~'1\.~Ririt~g~ ; ~~·~· ~r~~~Al?~rt;l· '?~t~·f· ~~;'.~r~.~trqe.ttJ~p~ ... The PSS reserves the right lo:· then in Russia, Pajitnov got a fresh Clockwerx. of otherveiy small problems which Reagan before he was appointed idea. Most recently, he jumped from you (Americans) don't even notice" as education secretary. 1. Reject any and all proposals and reissue an amendment project request. puzzle games to 3-D action with Thomas C. Anderson, who was 2 Request additional inlormation lrom any individual or firm submitting a proposal "During my programming, 1 like being able to recognize the differ­ in response to this RFP. look how funny the shapes which Ice and Fire, published by Zombie ence between a supennarket and a his chief of staff for two years, Pairere #1 @ TOYOTA 3. Negotiate a contract with any individual or firm selected for providing this service I was working looked, kind of Virtual Reality. hardware store from the out~ide. said Bell was instrumental in in response to this RFP. rotating, and the idea of a real­ For Tetris, Pajitnov continues his Ultimately though, Pajitnov found helping Reagan and the nation 4. Waive any non-material violation ol the rules of this project request. time puzzle gamecametomyhead," alliance with Henk Rogers, a major he fit right in. understand the importance of player in the original race for control Microl Corporation The _PSS will not reimburse or pay for any al \he cost incurred in the preparation he says by telephone from his home­ "Basically, all the problems are=y education. and subm1ss1on ol a response lo this request. For additional inlormation on this project, office in subwban Seattle. "And then ofTetris. They created a joint venture to resolve if you are, kind of, using Bell originally was appointed please contact Tim Thornburg at telephone number 664-3790. I just programmed it veiy quickly." called The Tetris Co., and a second your common sense," he says, his as secretary to phase out the San Jose The rest is history. company, Blue Planet, to handle li­ Isl William S. Torres Isl Louise Concepcion chucklechurningupagainatthesimple Education Department, which Commissioner al Education PSS Procurement & Supply Officer Pajitnov' s colleagues tried the censing issues and develop new ver­ beauty of it "America is a country of was created by President Carter. seemingly simple, tumbling blocks sions of the game. common sense." Tel.: 234-5911 Fax.: 234-6514 18-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY-JUNE 24, 1996 MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1996 ·-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-19 II\tIPC>RTANT NC>TICE OJ mulls anti-violence event The Division of Public Lands requests all homestead applicants whose names are shown below to report Brentwood estate fund will to the Homestead Office by June 26, 1996. The purpose of this request is to update your application. benefit group against spouse abuse Please contact the Homestead Office in Capitol Hill at telephone nos. 322-5962/63.

By ANNIE SHOOMAN Accjo, Esmeralda Leon Guerrero Dela Cruz, Patricia R. Lizama, Thelma Rogolofoi, Monica W. Roligat, Daniel I./ Feel the Touch of Hyatt Regency Saipan LOS ANGELES {AP) a OJ. Acebo, Kimberly/Apa tang. Ann Deleon Guerrero, Margarit.a Llagas, Sherina Prater Simpson said Saturday that he made Acosta, Ana Pinaula Deleon Guerrero, MaryAnne Masga Lorenzo, Lillian Baluyut TagabueJ, Jessica 0. an offer to hold a black-tie fund-raiser Ada, Ignacio T. Demapan, Marian Rdiall Mafnas, Raphael Cing Rollis, Maria Taisacan At Hyatt Regency Saipan, we provide excellent career opportunities. Taking care of employees can be a complicated process, at his Brentwood estate for a group Ada, Theodora C. Diaz, Anthony Jr. Aguon Magofna, Christopher/Sablan, Vivian A Sablan, Alvin A. but that's what we are good at. Opportunities now exist for the following careers: that works to combat spousal abuse Adolfo, Doris Fitipol Diaz, Juan Edwardo Villagomez Magofna, Vicente D./Rosalina M. Sablan, Ana Ilo because 'Tm against violence of any Sablan, Anthony W.A./ HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISORS (8) Aguon, Arnold A. Blas/ Diaz, Patrick Francis V. Manalo, Aguida V. sort" Cruz, Morendie Zejaet Diaz, Rudy Aguon Manglona, Bertha Arriola Sablan, Rosa Cruz The reception and silent auction Responsibilities: Aguon, Elaine Ada Diaz, Vicente Deleon Guerrero Manmog, Marina K.N. Sablan, Donald plannedThursdaywillbeattendedby • Supeivises work activities of cleaning personnel to ensure clean, Aguon, Fabian Ada Dowai, Carlos Norit.a Maratita, Bertha Nakatsukasa Sablan, Herman R./ "a very select group of press and Kapileo, Carmen 0. orderly attractive moms, public area and laundry. Aguon, George Adlan Dowai, Patrick Norita Maratita, Roxanne M. Sablan, Isidro Reyes • Assigns workers their duties, and inspects work !or conformance to Hyatt standard ol cleanliness. celebrities," according to Stop the Aguon, Jose S./Merced Ada Duenas, Joseph Vincent Fujihira Maratita, Maria Violence-Increase the Peace Foun­ Sablan, Juan Castro Qualifications: Aguon, Thelma Simian Duenas, Lucia Sablan Matagolai, Merced B. • High School Graduate. dation, which also seeks to cum other Sablan, Judina Aguon, Swingly N. Duenas, Raymond Indalecio Mateo, Maria Victoria Cabrera , Minimum of one (1) or two (2) years supervisory experience in fonns of violence. Alcazar, Winnider Bermudes Sablan, Julita Aldan the hospitality industry or relaled field. Duenas, Thomas C. Matsunaga, Elirabeth Tudela Simpson said he attended a Stop Aldan, Antonio Ayuyu Sablan Lisa Pangelinan • Must be able to speak, read and write in English. the Violence meeting at a private. Eay, Cynthia Tudela McEntee, Juliana Wabol Sablan, Margarita C. • Must be able to submit daily work reports and work assignments. Aldan, Carmen Repeki Ellis, Susana Tudela McKinney, Porpedigna A. home less than a month ago. He O.J. Simpson Sablan, Soledad Ilo • Must be able to work flexible shifts, including weekends, nights and holidays. Aldan, Donald Castro Enriquez, Rosa Castro Mendiola, Dennis S./ spokewithgangmembersatthegath­ Aldan, Mariano Lizama Sablan, Valerie Camacho ering and wanted to be of help in the this," "I the Evangelista, Daniel B. Arriola, Julie Ann COMMUNICATIONS CENTER OPERATOR (2) he said tried to be model Aldan, Patrick M./' Sahagon, Felicia Oronigo future, he said in a telephone inter­ person and stand up for my actions." Fabian, Maryann N.A. Mendiola, Christina R. Aldan, Barbara Ann Concepcion Salas, Isabel Leon Guerrero view from his home. A one-page letter from the Fitial, Genevieve Selepeo Muleta, Samuel Mareham Responsibilities: Amirez, James George A./ Salas, Jerry Sablan • Operates telephone switchboard to receive and place calls. Simpson said he doesn't know Inglewood-based foundation said Fitial, Maria Flores Muna, Benifacio Cabrera Rosario, Lucinda Rose L. Sanchez, Francisco Muna • Relays request to Maintenance Departments. who will attend the fund-raiser. about 500 people were invited to the Muna, Clarisa Ayuyu Aquino, Apolonia DLC. Fitial, Paula Flores Sanchez, Rose Marie • Takes restaurant reservations. "I'm just supplying the venue," he fund-raiser. Suggested donations Fujihara, Thomas A. Muna, Felipe Atoigue/ • Maintains record on guest requests. Arriola, Vincent Cruz Santos, Alfred C./ said ranged from$ 100 to$ 10,00). (l Grimes, Rebecca Sablan. Muna, Dolores Pinaula Santos, Julita Sasamoto • Monitors and follow up on guest requests. Leaders of the group said they spokes­ Atalig, Javier M./ Attorney Gloria Allred, a '! Gogue, Gloria Debra Arriola Muna, Isidro A./ Santos, Bernard K./ Qualifications: welcomed Simpson's offer of assis­ woman for Ms. Simpson's family, ! Marina Villagomez • High School Graduate 'I Gamba, Fernando DLG./ Muna, Antonina Concepcion Tagabucl, Ann C. tance, even though he pleaded no said Simpson's gesture amounts to "a Atalig, Rudy • Minimum of one year experience as a PBX or telephone operator. Guerrero, Florencio/ Muna, Nicolas, Atoigue Santos, Joseph Flores contest in I 989 to abusing his then­ public relations campaign on a grand Attao, Barbara Natividad • Must be able to work flexible shifts, including weekends, nights Sablan, Lucia R. Muna, Rosemarie Lizama Santos, Milagro R. wifeNicole Brown Simpson. He was scale to spit-shine his image." Attao, Ina Fejeran and holidays. Guerrero, Janet Lynn C. Murakami, Joseph Smith Santos, Nicolas B./Mary P. acxiuittedlastyearinthe l 994slayings "Any organization dedicated to Ayuyu, Ronald Anthony A./ • Must have good speaking and writing skills. Nakamura, Bernadita Tebuteb Santos, Remedio of his ex-wife and her friend Ronald stopping violence ought not use Mr. Cabrera, Norma Manalo Guevarra, Margarita San Nicolas • Japanese or Korean speaker preferred Naog, Antonio Quitugua Goldman. Simpson, who apparently has not Babauta, Kelvin Maratita Hamilton, Myra Sablan Santos, Tricia D. Nauta, Herbert Sn./ Salary will commensurate with experience. 'Wehavedealtwithex-gangmem­ sought long-term counseling to help Babauta, Nieves Fujihira Hemphill, Cristina Cabrera Santos, Vicente Blas Deadline to submit application is July 15, 1996. bers who have murdered three and control his violent behavior," she said Basa, Melvin N./Cruz, Doris P. Hocog, Gabriel H./ Castro, Gloria Villagomez Saralu, Antonia Naputi four people in their Ii ves," foundation Responded Simpson, "I'mnottry­ Baza, Juan T. Cabrera, Margarita P. Nekaifes, Juan N. Saralu, Jose N./ Qualified applicants are welcome to apply at lhe Human Resources Office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 9:00 to President Khalid Shah said Friday. ingto blowmyownhom .. .I don 'tlike Berki, Cypriano Kaipat/Mclva Muna Hocog, Juan Torres Nekaifes, Virginia Ilo Saralu, Anita Rabauliman 3:00 PM. Ott-island applicants may send application to Hyatt Regency Saipan, Human Resources Office, P.O. Box 5087 CHRB, 'We have to understand them I don't having to justify why I'm doing this. Benavente, Guillcrmo M./ Hocog, Nina Ogo Nepaial, Antonio Saralu, Rosita Naputi Saipan, MP 96950. think there is anyone who is beyond Why are they criticizing this?" Andresina I. Hosono, Anthony M./ Ngotel, Norma Mira Saures, Alfredo Litulumar reproach, who doesn't have any skel­ Allred said the Nicole Brown Blas, Basilio C./ Santos, Rosalita Aguon Nicky, Brenda llal Saures, Santiago P./ etons in their closet" Simpson Charitable Foundation is Kapilco, Paulina Tcschcl Hwang, Magdalena Sablan Noble, Remmy Leon Guerrero Tebuteb, Carmen Mettao H~T SimpsonsaidSaturdaythathewas holding its own black-tie event June Blas, Edwin Peter Ichihara, Ramon Indalecio Norita, Lee S. Songsong, Francisco B/ RED ENCY proud of the fact he never made any 29 at the Disneyland Hotel in Ana­ Borja, Aquina Kyomi Iginoef, Anthony V./Theresita C. Norita, Nayoka Sablan Maryann S. SAIPAN excuses for the no-contest plea. heim. Thefoundationwasfoundedby Borja, Edward A. Iginoef, Helen W. Odoshi, Simeon W./Alicia T. Sonoda, Anthony Palacios "I should have been the model for Ms. Simpson'sfamilytofightdomes­ Buekis, Steve Saralu Iginoef, Joaquin V./ Ogarto, Edwin Rabauliman Takai, Joseph Ag11on what a man should do in a situation like tic abuse. Bungcayao, Theresita Babauta Consolacion C. Okaruru, Ramon Igisaiar Takai, Martin T./ Cabrera, Rita Tudela Iginoef, Vicente W./ Olopai, Alejandro T./ Atalig, Jacqueline A. Camacho, Catherine Taisaguc Iginoef, Cynthia Taitano Taitano, Dionicia R. Taimanglo, Bernadita Lairopi NORTIIERN MARIANAS HOUSING CORPORATION 1 Camacho, Joaquin B. Igisaiar, Francisco Q./ Olopai, Edwin R./Maria Lisua Tait.1no, Edwin Felix Villagomez n ~1~~~.~--7,~~~;.~~, ::~:~~.~5- Camacho, Linda Susan A. Igisaiar, Margarita Blas Omar, Pedro P. Taitano, Jesse Cruz! has an immediate opening for an Igisomar, Larina Ann Matagolai Camacho, Martin A./Portia Salas Ordonez, Leonard Urumelog Ada, Marilyn C. lglecias, An uncia Palacios POSITION VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT experienced controller · Camacho, Rodney S./ Osada, Manuel L./Jennifer B. Taitano, Rosie Dela Cruz lglccias, Mariano R,/Pauline R. for its business operations on Saipan, CNMI. Guiao, Ophelia Pua Palacios, Frank Takafuji, Sophia Rebuenog lndalecio, Francisco A. I./ Camacho, Isidro K. Tkel, Michael Joseph C./ Itaman, Elaine N. Palacios, Margaret Bertha T. Duties will include supervising the accounting Hd Camacho, Melvin Magofna Palacios, Francisco Demapan Lorraine Babauta reporting for automobile dealerships, convenience stores, Camacho, Vidal S. Jcn~ins, Magdalena Indalecio Jctlcy, Patricia Mendiola Palacios, Frank Mafnas Taman, Elaine N. grocery wholesale, other business ventures and activities Castro. Deanna Atalig Taman, Francesca Lairopi The Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC) is soliciting employment applications for the position of Sec­ including real estate. Castro, Felix Tudela Johnston, Lily Elizabeth Castro Pa-ling, Elaine Jerlina Wabol retary II for NMHC's Cen1ral Office in Garapan, Saipan. This position involves routine to moderately complex Teregeyo, Mae Taitano Castro, Janice S. Jones, Mercedes Rieack Pangelinan, Agida Santos clerical/secretarial duties which also functions as a receptionist receiving/routing customers and/or clienls, as well as The successful candidate must have: Theriot, Elizabeth Viola Alepuyo Castro. Jesse A./ Juanillo, Carina Dela Cruz Pangelinan, Gregorio Cruz answering and routing incoming telephone calls. Tom, Donicia Kaipat fl,, Afour year accounting degree, CPA preferred. Nakatsukasa, Stacy L. Kani, Alejo Pua Pangelinan, Gregorio C./ Torres, Jose Concepcion Duties and responsibilities include, but arc not limited to the following: types correspondence, memoranda and a ,.. Management and supervisory experience . Castro, Matias Ddcon Guerrero Kepford, Vivian Josc:phinc Palacios Pangelinan, Doris Adams varicly of forms using a personal computer or typewriter; greets visitors in the reception area, ascertain the nature of Tones, Sylvester Sablan Jr. "' Good computer skills ore a must. Castro, Richard Oronigo Kerbn, Conrad A. Castro Pangelinan, Joaquin S. their visit ancl routes them to appropriate staff; receives, stamps and logs all incoming/outgoing mail; maintains mail Pangelinan, Jose Kapileo/ Toves, James S./ logs; files documents in accordance with established filing system; and performs other related duties as required. Castro, Wilihardo Albert/· King, Concepcion John/ "' Prior controllership experience is ako a plus. Perez, Barbara Manglona Cabrera. Rebecca Lynn Blas, Leonora Aldan Agulto, Gloria Aldan Salary commences at PL 22, Step I, $17,700.92 per annum or higher, depending on qualifications and experience. ,.. Relevant experience with automotive dealerships Pangelinan, Jose S./ Tumali, J\nuncia T. Cclis,.David S./Matildt.: I. King, Juan Diego DLG./ Minimum Qualification Requirement: A) college courses in secretarial administration plu~ one year of p~ogressivc and/or retail is high~ desirable. Aguon, Gcnovcha Naputi Soledad B. Tudela, Eli7.:1bcth i\lasga Celis, Herminia Manibusan work experience as a Secretary; B) high school graduate plus three (3) years of progressive work cxpencnce as a ,.. Posttion will report to the chief financial officer and Koch, Doris M.P. Pangelinan, Priscilla M. Tudela, Margarita Aldan Secretary. Must have the ability to type, experience in working with a personal computer. and knowledge of wo~d Celis, Juan Diego T./Rita Sablan Kosaka, Ana Arriola Prater, Margarita T. Tulop, Norma Tuclel;1 processing, and a variety of office machines. Must have a good command of the English language and public will entail extensive exposure to and contact with Celis, Mariano Sablan Prater, Wendi L. Twilligear, Anunciacion Sablan relations skills to work with peers and with lhe public. Lairopi, Margarita Pinaula senior management. Cepeda, Jesus Guerrero Lcly, William C. Matagolai Prosser, Denise Annette Usar, Marcelina Cepeda Note: Education and training claimed must be substantiated by an official school transcript, diploma or certificate. Cepeda, Jesus LG./Margarita F. Leon Guerrero, Linda Diaz Pua, Remcdio Limes Valencia, Anicito T. Failure to provide the required documents will result in automatic disqualification. This posttion requires the ability to meet deadlines Cepeda, Teresa Sablan in a fast paced, high growth environment. Leung, Lucinda Cabrera Quidachay, Vicente J.B. Vaughn, Annabell Camacho No person shall be denied employment because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap/disability, national origin or Chargualaf, Euphracia S. Lifoifoi, Fermin S./ Quintanilla, Ana Benavente Villanueva, Teresita ancestry. Salary is commensurate with experience. Chen, Ann Suda Aguon, Rosita Bakto Quitugua, Patrick R. Villanueva, Wanda Marie Interested applicants may pick up a NMHC Employment Application Form at the NMHC Office in Garapan for Concepcion, Felix Igisaiar Limes, Engracia Tilipao Rahauliman, William Kaipat Wabol, Jose I. submission no later than Friday, July 5, 1996. For further informalion, please contact Edith V.C. Fejeran, Office Triple J offers an excellent employee benefit plans Cortez, Esperanza Pangelinan Lisua, Rebecca Tncgcyn Rasa, Joseph Reyes Wabol, Francisca Igisomar Manager, al telephone numbers 234-7689/9447/6866 between 7:30 am through 4::30 pm, Monday through Friday, including medical insurance, travel and 401K. Cruz, Consolacion Pangelinan Ramirez, Daisy G. except holidays. Lisua, Steven T. Wabol, Froilan Igisomar To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to: Cruz, Henry Sablan/ Rcpeki, George Litulumar, Honorata Romnlor Wabol, Juliana I. "NMHC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT AND FAIR HOUSING PUBLIC AGENCY" Triple J Enterprises, Inc. Camacho, Lucy Ann Marie Reyes, Diana S. Lizama, Althea Aldan Waldron, Rosita Sablan Attn: Personnel Cruz, Juan Diaz Lizama, Joseph Tcnorio Reyes, Jennifer Duenas P.O. Box 6066 Warnkai, Guillermo Jr. R. Debrum, Leslie Salas Lizama, Julie Mac Basa Rios, Angelina Elisa P. ISi MARYLOU ADA SIROK Tamunlng Guam 96931 Wesley, Jason V./Gina Sab]a1r or fax 10 (671) 646-9487 Dela Cruz, Luis R./ Lizama, Florencio T.(Dr.) Riva, Margaret Cabrera Corporate Director Yen, Lillian Villagomez Josephine San Nicolas Lizama, Margarita Matagolai Rivera, Scholastica B.L. l.abetakis, Delgadina Pangelinan ·.· ..... ,, ·-' ... ~ .. ·' ·• ...... ' ' .... ~ ...... ~ .. 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20-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JUNE 24, 1996 Communism still a 'major force' the biggest vote-getter, the Socialists - swept a populist­ ByCHARLESJ.HANLEY international communist tions. They dominate the new Emplo~ent Wanted 03 CUTIER-Salary: $2. 75 per hour 03 BAKER-Salary: $2.75 per hour 02 WAITRESS-Salary:$2.75 per hour 02 MASON-Salary:$2.75-$3.00 per THE calendar says we're five movement is just a pale government of Premier couldn't round up parliamen­ nationalist government out. Later 01 PRODUCTION CHECKER-Salary: Contact: LFP CORPORATION dba Contact: DUK-SOO DEVELOPMENT hour tary support for a government. that year, Bulgaria's new-look $2. 75 per hour MAR G'S KITCHENETTE(6/24 CORPORATION Tel. 234-3300(7/ 01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC­ years into the "post-commu­ shadow of what it used to be," Romano Prodi. 05 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­ communists regained power in an M)224466 08)M224670 Salary:$2.75-$3.00 per hour nist age." But if the "ism" said UCLA political scientist The ex-communists ben­ But the United Front could - Salary: $2.75 per hour 02 CARPENTER-Salary:S2. 75-$3.00 election landslide. looks like history, the "ists '' Andrzej Korbonski, editor of efited from Italians' disgust in a 13-party coalition domi­ 01 IRON WORKER(PRESSER MA­ Of TRAFFIC AGENT-Salary: $1,500.00- 01 AUTO PAINTER-Sa/ary:$900 per per hour definitely do not. the journal Communist and at corruption scandals that nated by the communists and Albania's ex-communists were CH\NE)-Sa\ary: $2.75 per hour 2,300.00 per month month Contact: UNICORN CORPORATION Post-Communist Studies. engulfed other parties. other leftists. expected to do the same last 01 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER­ Contact: ASIANAAIRLINES, INC. (6/24 Contact: JAUNG SIG CORPORATION dba Unicorn Construction Tef. 234- One of those communists, Salary: $2. 75 per hour India's communists are month, but the incumbents kept Job. Vacancy · M)224463 dba Master Auto Repair Shop Tel. 234- 3300(7/08)M224668 Gennady Zyuganov, piled up He sees many of these par­ They also benefit from the fi­ Contact: ONWEL MFG(SAIPAN), 5036(7/0B)M224690 ties evolving in conventional Cold War's end and the col­ nally at the center of power. control in elections that interna­ LTD(S/24 M)224471 more than 20 million Russian Announcement 01 SALES MANAGER-Salary: $3.50 01 AUTO BODY REPAIRER-Sal­ votes a week ago to force a "social democrat" directions. lapse of the Christian Demo­ But they are being careful: tional observers said were rife per hour 01 INSTRUCTOR/SCUBA DIVING-Sal­ ary:$2. 75 per hour crats, the anti-communist Despite their campaign attacks with vote fraud: 01 BUILDING MAINTENANCE-Salary: Contact: MANSHIE ENT. (SAIPAN) INC. ary:$6.50 per hour 02 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Sal­ runoff in his presidential race But others offer a different 01 COMPUTER OPERATOR-Sal­ $3.00-4.00 per hour ary:$2.85 per hour dba ROYAL SUPPLIES(6/24M)224464 Contact: MARINE TECH. INC. dba S.2 ary:$2. 75 per hour with Boris Yeltsin. scenario, especially in places party long aided by the United on the old government's eco­ By not banning the old com­ Contact: SAKO CORPORATION (6/24 - Club Tel. 322-5079(7/0B)M224694 Contact: BASIC CONSTRUCTION 01 HOUSEWORKER-Salary:$2.75 per nomic liberalization, a policy munist parties after the Berlin M)224475 hour E\'en if he loses, Zyuganov· s where overnight privatizations States. SUPPLY CORP. Tel. 234-8779(7/ 01 (ANT!QUE)ROMAN GLASS SPE­ have turned former communist INDIA statement says the new leaders Wall fell, governments in the ex­ CIALIST-Salary: $3.50 per hour 01 COORDINATOR TELEVISION­ Contact: DOMINGO P. FAJ/\RDO dba party wi\\ remain a potent op­ 01)M61150 01 LAUNDRY MACHINE OPERATOR­ SCHEDULE-Sa\ary: $9.50 per hour Fajardo's Enterprises Tel. 234-3952(71 managers into powerful business­ lndia' s two Communist will continue the reforms. Soviet bloc gave them time to Contact: MICHAEL OMER dba position, a role won in last Salary: $2.75 per hour TAKAKUNAl(6/24 M)224462 Contact: SUN STATION SAIPAN INC. 08)M224671 December's parliamentary men. parties also capitalized Of! FORMER SOVIET UNION reorganize, while triumphant anti­ 01 COLOR STRIPPER-Salary:$2.75 Contact: HYUNG Kl MIN dba HK LAUN­ dba S2 • Club Tel. 235-8157(7/ per hour voter anger. They were the Most of the 15 former Soviet communist. movements drifted DRY SERV!CES(S/24 M)224476 08)M224695 01 ELECTRONIC ELECTRICIAN-Sal· elections. Old "apparatchik" networks Contact: ASG CORPORATION dba 09 COOK-Salary: $3.05-3.55 per hour tying ex-communist industrialists only major political group not republics are today dominated by apart. And the communists had ary:$675 per month The tote boards lighting up Blite Enterprises Tel. 233-2677(7/ 01 BLDG. MAINTENANCE 01 HELPER, KITCHEN-Salary: $3.05- 01 MOTOR REWINDING ELECTRIC - Contact: LEE P. GANACIAS dba for the hammer and sickle in to neo-communist politicians trapped in scandals that dev­ communists or their renamed po­ an issue: voter rebellion against 01)M224572 REPAIRER(CHURCH SACR!STAN)­ 3.55 per hour Salary:$3.46 per hour Radiocom Saipan Inc. Tel. 234·2263(7/ Moscow are only the latest could produce alliances capable astated the establishment Con­ litical heirs. the pain- high prices.joblessness Salary: $4.36 per hour 03 WAITER RESTAURANT-Salary: Contact:: JRS ENTERPRISES COR­ 08)M2246B9 50 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­ sign of life for communists and of dominating the political land­ gress Party. In Central Asia, leaders who - of economic reforms. Contact: REV. FR. ROGER P.T. $3. 05-3.55 per hour · PORATION dba Electro Hauz lnl'I. (7/ Sa\ary:$2.75 per hour 04 WAITRESS RESTAURANT-Salary: scape of mixed public-private After elections ended May took office under Soviet commu­ The ex-communists promise TENORIO dba SAN VICENTE 08)M224697 02 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­ th~ir offspring - rechristened Contact: COMMONWEALTH GAR­ CHURCH(6/24 M)224474 $3.05-3.55 per hour Salary:$2.75 per hour as Socialists, Democratic Left­ economies, these analysts say. 7, a Hindu nationalist party, nism still keep an authoritarian · relief, but they can do little more MENT MFG., INC. Tel. 234-3481/ 02 COUNTER ATTENDANT-Sat­ 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$1,000 per Contact: ONWEL MFG. (SAIPAN) LTD. ists, Socialist Workers - in an It may already be happening in hold on most newly independent than slow down liberalization. 75S0(7/01)M224573 01 SCUBA DIVING SPORT INSTRUC· ary:$3.05-3.55 per hour month Tel. 234-9522 (7/0B)M224687 international comeback that Romania, says Carnegie Endow­ states. And why should they? TOR-Salary: $2,170.00-2,500.00 per 01 BARTENDER-Salary: $3.05-3.55 per 01 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Salary:$900 01 CLEANER-Sa\ary:$2.75 per hour month hour per month 02 CARPENTER-Salary:$2.90-$3.05 began three years ago in east­ ment scholar Thomas Carothers. PUBLIC NOTICE Communists are the biggest After all, in the rush to dispos­ Contact: MADAN S. HEMLANI dba 01 BARTENDRESS-Salary: $3.05-3.55 02 AUTO BODY REPAIRER-Salary: Contact: UNIVERSE INSURANCE UN­ per hour IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE COMMONWEALTH ern Europe. He foresees a possible "Mexican­ parliamentary party in Ukraine sess· the Marxist state, many of Levi's Emporium Tel. 234-6846(7/ $5.50-7.00 per hour per hour DERWRITERS (MIC.) INC. Hafa Adai 01 MASON • Salary:$2.90-$3.05 per Of THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS The successes even reach style quasi-democracy" there - and Belarus, republics where free­ the coal mines, weapons plants 01JM224575 02 TOUR(CONDUCTOR)COUNSELOR­ 01 STOCK ROOM CLERK-Salary: International Travel Agent (7/ hour $3.05·3.55 per hour beyond the old Soviet bloc: to a reference to Mexico's Insti­ CIVIL ACTION NO. 96·356 market conversion has sputtered. and truck factories fell into the Salary: $1,600.00·2,000.00 per month 08)M224678 Contact: ROCK CONSTRUCTION CO., 01 PROJECT INSPECTOR-Sal­ 01 MARINE SPORTS SUPERVISOR­ 01 S&E SUPERVISOR-Salary: $3.50- INC. Tel. 234·6163(7/08)M224691 India and Italy, where com­ tutional Revolutionary Party, MARIAN T. SABLAN and JOSE C. In Lithuania, which spearheaded hands of their friends, the enter­ ary:$1 ,500 per month Satary: $1,600.00-2,000.DO per month 4.50 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$800-$1,200 TOMOKANE, munists and renamed commu­ whose loyalists run everything the Soviet Union's breakup, the prises' old communist managers. Contact: GMP ASSOCIATES, INC. dba 02 MARINE SPORTS INSTRUCTOR­ 01 RECREATION FACILITY ATIEN­ per month 25 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR· Plaintifls. GMP Associates, Inc. Tel. 233-4693(7/ DANT-Salary: $3.05-3.55 per hour nists for the first time are shar­ from state industries to the VS. communists, now Democratic With friends like that, political Salary: $1,200.00-2,500.00 per month 01 AUTO ELECTRICIAN-Sa\ary:$3.00- Salary:$2.75-$4.00 per hour 01)M224576 01 CARPENTER-Salary: $3.05-3.55 per HAN YOO KO and ROY ENTER­ Labor, were re-elected to power. parties can prosper_ born-again, Contact: PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT $4.00 per hour 02 PRESSER, MACHINE-Salary:$2.75· ing power at the top, and to government to unions and eas­ PRISES, INC. INC. (6/24 M)224473 hour 01 AUTO DIESEUMECHAN!C-Sal­ $5 .DO per hour such smaller political battle­ ily out muscle the political op­ Defendants. EASTERN EUROPE "post-communist" parries pro­ 01 AIRFREIGHT SUPERVISOR-Sat­ 02 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Salary: ary:$3.00-$4.00 per hour Contact: HANSAE (SPN), INC. dba New grounds as Cyprus and Nepal. position. SUMMONS The communist comeback moting mixed economies. ary:$3.00 per hour 01 BAKER-Salary: $3.25 per hour $3.05-3.55 per hour Contact: KANG CORPORATION dba Star Corp. Tel. 234-5296/7(7/ Contact: CLIPPER AIRFREIGHT INC. 02 STORE SUPERVISOR-Salary: 02 FLOOR SUPERVISOR-Salary: Commercial Bldg. rental, auto repair 08)M224693 What's going on? Country by country, the TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN­ began in Poland in 1993, when British analyst Anne Tel. 234-0892(7/01 )M224568 $3.25·4.50 per hour DANTS: $4. 50 per hour shop, generator repair & rental Tel. 288· Not much, say some ana­ communist comebacks differ YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED the Democratic Left Alliance - Applebaum sees a neat circle: Contact: WINCHELL'S INC. (6/24 Contact: HOTEL NIKKO SAIPAN INC. 9366(7/08)M224581 01 PAINT MIXER - Salary:$2.75 per lysts. Many '90s-style com­ in cause and impact: and notified to file any answer you wish the old communists_ won parlia­ "Their past monopoly on power 03 BEAUTICIAN-Salary:$2.75 per hour M)224469 (6/24 M)60888 hour to make to the Complaint, a copy of Contact: LONG BEACH CORPORA­ 01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Sal­ 01 SECURITY GUARD-Salary:$2.75 munists are casting off ideo­ ITALY which is given you herewith, within mentary elections. . .. has been translated into eco­ TION dba Long Beach Rica Jin Beauty 05 FARMER-Salary: $350.00 per month 01 MAINTENANCE WORKER, BUILD­ ary:$975 per month per hour logical trappings like cargo After years of moving away twenty (2UJ days after service of this They later installed one of their nomic power and now back into Salon Tel. 234-3103/4(7/01)M224S67 Summons upon you, and to deliver or 02 COOK-Salary: $3.05 per hour ING·Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal­ Contact: RENATO G. AZUCENAS dba from a sinking ship, they say. from Soviet orthodoxy, the mail a copy of your answer lo THE LAW own as prime minister and got political power." Contact: FU CHEN dba FU XING Contact; LUZVIMINDA S. INDALECIO ary:$1,225 per month Myra's Trading, Const., & Manpower They are becoming prag­ Italian communists renamed OFFICE OF JOHN A. MANGLONA, another elected president, oust­ It may be only a momentary 02 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ CORP. (6/24 M)224470 dba Jacie's Manpower Agency Tel. 235- Contact: MICRONESIAN SALES CO., Services Tel. 234-1058(7/0B)M224696 P.C., the Plaintiff's attorney, whose ad· ary:$2.75 per hour 3687(7/01)M224577 (SA!PAN) INC. (7/08)M224706 matic, tolerant of market themselves the Democratic dress is Post Office Box 2852, Saipan, ing Lech Walesa. postscript to communism. But Contact: JOSE OR MAR\TES SAN 01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR­ 02 SALES PERSON-Salary:$2.75- economies, barely recogniz­ Party of the Left in 1991. 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AP Photo 22-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JUNE 24, 1996 MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-23 EEK & MEEK® by Howie Schneider big-fight picture and possibly get to the ropes and landed a six­ Wayne Hedgepeth' s count of six. one draw. His 21st KO since his Douglas ... a rematch with Tyson, from whom punch barrage that featured a right La Rosa managed to last the round title loss to Holyfield was he took the undisputed title on a IT HAS Fil\JALLY &EM BCTWEEIJ 11-\E GJRRfNT CROSSWORD PUZZLER Continued from page 24 uppercut and ended with a right but the doctor then suggested greeted by mixed boos and \V In-\ TH£ R:JSSI BIE shocking 10-round knockout on AGREED ™AT ~8<£ FRES I CHJT AfJD FRfS'.JV\ED 1/J(LUSIO',.J CT 11-t £X­ Roberto Duran and Hector and left hook to the head that the fight be stopped. cheers. Feb. 11, 1990. J.JILl E£ A DSDA-rt:. CEMCXRATIC R.RTYS ~PTIVt: 1 - rninist0r loose folds "It's good to be back," the 36- ·:i Hcr11lh r0..sor1 :19 Noso and quick left-rights in the first Pete Schourek (4-5), making his Sheaffer added a two-run double. liAD£R AW FRESUMPrlV[ PRE.51DWnAL CA\..lD!DATe year-old Douglas said. "I kept my . ? (1u1do's h1rt1 1nflammation two rounds. La Rosa just couldn't first start since being placed on the Morgan (2-1 ), who entered 0-6 in Qf;RJB'XNJ FRfSICfMTIAl 11:•tc -12 Bone poise. Tony was tough. He took Braves ... '/' ; CA/-JDIDATE .. get to Douglas, although he threw Continued from page 24 disabled list May 31 due to an injured nine appearances at Olympic Stadium. 1J Unproccssr.d (comb. form1 some good shots. He pressured fllbl)('r .i3 Burners several wild punches. left elbow, lost his fourth consecutive aIJowed four runs on nine hits in ~- .:., Cry al me some and I fell back on my Dan Plesac (3-1) pitched two per­ decision. HeaIJowed two runs and four '. :, V.Jr11rs hacchanc11s In the third round, Douglas' eight-plus innings. He struck out " experience. :I'" ~(/jw 17 Ma"e ~16 Hagar's writ! left eye began to swell when he fect innings, and Francisco Cordova hits in five innings. three and walked two before allow­ c.:111L1hlc JR Declamation "By the end of the year, I should gaveupatwo-out,RBisinglebyTeny Ochoa, promoted from Triple-A ing Tim Spehr' s three-run homer in i r; Un-1blo 10 :.,1 SI. relation was thumbed by an overhand be in top shape. This.was a good spca~ 52 Car features [i right. But Douglas also appar­ Pendleton. NorfolkFridaynight,hadanRBisingle the ninth. Jeff Parrett retired the 'O Part of US,-\ 5.1 U11l1zc test." Mets 5, Reds 2 and a sacrifice fly. Bernard Gilkey ently thumbed La Rosa in the left final three batters. Garfield® by Jim Davis 2 · Dcs19nF:r :)5 Youngs!er Douglas wants to have three InNew York, Mark Clark pitched added three hits for the Mets. McGee drove in two runs with C:c1ss1ni SG - nous 11 eye early in the round and the eye '?3 D1v1ded 1n10 fights this year. he does return eight strong innings to win his third Cardinals 9, Expos 4 a first-inning single off Ugueth OF COURSE., I HAVEN'T BEE.N 57 Depot (abb~ If was almost closed by round' send. .ANYWHERE, 50 I GOES5 !'M branches to form, he could be back in the straight decision and Alex Ochoa In Montreal, Willie McGee drove Urbina(4-l )andaddedanothertwo­ 0 ·1 c NOT' BACK .' Plaque DOWN Then Douglas forced La Rosa in four runs and Mike Morgan run single in a five-run fifth that .-~n Ril\;eltnr,s 1 ·22 © 1996 United Feature Syndicnte drove in two runs in his season ~r, ~'\rt1f1c1;!! debut. pitched eight strong innings before gave St. Louis a 9-0 lead . 1 GoclcJrss the third round. La Rosa got up at l;rnqu;111r 1Lal1n) 7 Mvseli 11 Depuly Butch Huskey drove in three runs tiring as St. Louis won for the sev­ Urbina, who lost for the first -~ 1 Sesr'l.r"!lf: ; Eslomo i\n11 .. 8 Tes1od (abhr) Camacho ... referee WayneHedgepeth'scountof in support of Clark (7-6), who gave enth time in 10 games. time in seven starts this season, J Ho! ccrC:11 1G - and krs:-;r:s six. La Rosa managed to last the allowed eight runs - seven earned - .: Siory line owner 18 Cle%r Continued from page 24 up four hits. John Franco pitched Ray Lankford and John Mabry 5 Sr:arccr 10 -the :-?O ldi- round but the doctor then suggested the ninth for his 16th save. hit solo home runs, and Danny on seven hits in 4 1-3 innings. 6 Pnrt o! TGlr question 21 Zoo crcarur,; doctor. the fight be stopped. 22 '-Psycho" The 6-foot-4 (193 cm.) Douglas, c1ctress Douglas won for the 31st time to defeat Collingwood 17.14 (116) to managing just seven goals in his ·.: ""(!, whose weight ballooned to over 350 against five losses and one draw. His Ablett ... 14.11 (95). first six games this season while 25 Bursi tow- pounds (159 kg) during his retire­ 21stKOsincehistitlelosstoHolyfield Continued from page 24 Hawthorn won its third match in a full-forward Alastair Lynch added 26 One who five goals. receives a gilt ment and who was seriously ill in a wasgreetedbymixedboosandcheers. rowbydefeatingFitzroy 17.12(114)to On Friday, Richmond score a PEANUTS® by Charles M. Schulz 28 Calculate diabetic coma in 1994, weighed 244 La Rosa, from Chicago, is 24-6 with 12.11 (83) at Waverley, with Haw­ approximately North Melbourne overcame driving thorn ruckman Nick Holland kicking 46-point victory over Adelaide at 33 Dines pounds ( 111 kg), 17 (8 kg) more than 16 knockouts. rain and miserable conditions to beat the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The 34 Having six goals. 1 the 5-9 (175 cm) La Rosa Douglas earned $100,000, which to Tigers led the Crows by IO goals at THESE AREN T SOUP effervescence Essendon 16.11 (107) 14.1 I (95). Brisbane defeated Melbourne by Douglas forced La Rosa to the $ halftime, and although they were SPOONS, SIR! 36 Hosiery was 19 .8 million less than he got for In other matches Saturday, 77 points, winning 18. I5 ( 123) to 6.10 casually ropes and landed a six-punch barrage his third-round knockout loss to Collingwood squandered a 29-point (46), the Bears' highest score in 10 outscored in the second half, they 38 - beer that featured a right uppercut and Evander Holyfield on Oct. 25, lead midway through the third quarter years against Melbourne. Rover showed no signs of wilting to win 40 Moved slowly 19.14 (128) to 13.4 (82). 41 More ended with aright and left hook to the 1990. He weighed 246 pounds in against Carlton. The Blues fought back Craig McRae booted six goals after withered head that dropped La Rosa at 2:36 of that fight. 45 Flower holder 46 Mr. Linden "It was nerve-wracking today," Of those who completed their 47 Ms. Gabor 1\vo ... she said "I was trying to keep my second rounds, Barb Whitehead 48 Food bit by laws written in the early part of the made the best progress with a 4- 49. 0-U linkup Underwood ... century," Underwood said Continued from page 24 mind occupied .... I figure it's just a 50 Affirmative Continued from page 1 test and you've got to take everything under-par 68 that moved her to vote Cathy Gault, press secretary to leadwhenlmadetheputt-there'sstill as it comes." even par. Whitehead won the 53 At home can transport goods between U.S. Underwood, said that the congress­ a long ways to go," said Estill, whose Thursday's opening round was Hawaiian Ladies Open last year, STELLA WILDER man is aware that the Act has very ports. victory in the 1991 LPGA Champi­ washed out, and the tournament was her first victory in 13 years on tour. According to Congressman staunch supporters. Underwood in onshipisheronlyvictoryinfiveyears shortened to 54 holes from 72. The A late-morning downpour left pools Robert Underwood, the existence of his June 12 statement said that while on tour. . final round will be played Sunday ofwateronthegreensandsmalllakes YOUR BIRTHDAY Jones Act has failed to serve the theActdoesnotmakesensetoGuam, Fruhwirth, who teed off 20 min­ there is strong support from labor afternoon, following the comple­ on some fairways. Standing water consumers on Guam. utes before sundown, will finish her tion of second-round play. was removed with portable pumps, "ln its present application, theJ ones coalitions and corporate interests. round Sunday morning along with Any further rain delays could butthecourseremainedsosoggythat Act drives up prices and makes the "It is a complicated issue. It's got the rest ofthe first-round leaders. Her extend the tournament into Mon­ many drives plugged on landing. cost of doing bllsiness unnecessarily strongsupportersfromothersectors,'' By Stella Wilder To see what is in store for you may not be any room for experi­ best finish in four years is a tie for day. Defending champion Patty high," he said Gault said. tomorrow, find your birthday and mentation. fourth in the LPGA Classic last year. Shirley Furlong and Alicia Sheehan, aiming for her fifth vic­ Born todav. vuu have a volatile read the corresponding para­ He also said that only does the act Gault added that although hopes CAPRICORN , boxer; Norman Saipan Health Clinic on July 19, 1996. day of 1996 and the • _ , :: :: ground UL Dickinson Park. \Vyci. -Al K Sei:Ju, OUTHOUSE MAGAZIIOE theparty'scentralexecutiveconunit­ Cousins rt!/15·1!190>, editor-writer: Saturday and kept telling them that we' re not fifth day of ,rummer. · \111·Hcr: 1'.1% W1·;,th•·r C111d1· f":1l,·r1d,1r \1·,·,urf tee could be a key factor on his deci­ .John Ciardi ll!llfi 198G>. poet-critic; l'1ili'11;..hm1:. Lid LESLIE NIELSEN just a piece of rock out here. We have TODAY'S IIISTORY: On this day in Billy Casper <1n:11 , golf great, is 13',; 3:00 sion to run again. [fi TOIJA Y'S :IIOON: Firsl pecple with feelings and emotions 1497, ~:nglish explorer John Cabot Mick Fleetwood ! 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.i 24-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JUNE 24, 1996 Camacho decisions Duran By ED SCHUYLER JR. effort. God bless him." did, .. Duran said happen was a draw." Duran, weight champion and WBC welter­ ATI..ANTIC OTY, New Jersey Whenthedecisionwasannounced, "I was out.boxing him, I was mov­ however, was never able to control weight and middleweight and WBA (AP)-RobertoDuranlosta 12-round it was widely booed by many in the ing," said Camacho, who moved less the tempo of the fight until near the junior middleweight champion, got$ unanimous decision to Hector crowd of 5,200 in the Mark Etess in the final three rounds and allowed endandthenitwastoolate. Neither 400,00J in losing for the 12th time Camacho Sunday at Trump's Taj Arena Duran to pin him to the ropes with man came close to going down but against97victories. Hehas67knock­ Majal. Judge Tim Figley scored it 115- punches to the body. Camacho was marked around both outs. The 45-year-old Duran tried to 113,judgeDanaDePaolohadit l 16- Duran, who weighed 157 pounds eyes. Douglas, theonlyman to beat Mike presswethe fasterCamachotlrrough­ 113andPaulVentihadit 117-111,all (71 kilograms), scored with several The fight was billed as being forthe Tyson, dominated from the outset out, and actually came on in the final for Camacho. hard right leads tlrroughout the fight, fringe !BC middleweight title. against the much smaller La Rosa, rounds to make the fight close in the TheAPcardhadit 114-114. butwasneverabletofollowupandhe Camacho,aformerWBCsuperfeath­ then almost closed his eye in the third eyes of some ringsiders. But the three ThefightfollowedJames"Buster" often got countered by Camacho, erweight and lightweight champion, round and knocked him down later in judges gave the match to Camacho Douglas' return from a 5 1/2-year who weighed 160 pounds (73 kilo­ earned $ 600,000 in boosting his the stanza. by from two to six points. absence. The 36-year-oldformerun­ grams). "After the fifth round, record to 59-3-1 with 28 knockouts. It The referee stopped the fight after Duran seemed to land the haroer disputed heavyweight champion I was the only one in the ring," Duran was his 15th consecutive victory. the third round on the advice of a punches throughout the 12-round bout stopped outgunned Tony La Rosa said "'The worst thing that could Duran, a former undisputed light- Continued on page 23 but the left-handed Camacho had after three rounds of a scheduled 10- more hand speed and scored with round bout Douglas said he hopes to counters and right jabs. be back in top shape by the end ofthe "I thought I outboxedhim,just like year as he strives to get back into the /Douglas back as a winner j I wanted to," the 34-year-old heavyweight championship pictwe. Camacho said "He put up a big "He didn't beat me, the judges By ED SCHUYLER JR. thethirdroundandknockedhimdown. Rosa. I ATI...ANTIC CTIY, New Jersey The referee stopped the fight after He earned$ 100 000 which wa~ (AP) - James "Buster" Dougla~ re- the third round on the advice of a dlrs 19.8 million I~~ he got for j turned from a 5 1/2-year layoff and a doctor. his third-round knockout Joss to 1 serious illness with an easv third- The 6-foot-4 (193 cm) Douglas, Evander Holyfield on Oct. 25, 1990. round victory over outgunned Tony whose weight ballooned to over 350 He weighed 246 pounds (1 I2 kg) in La Rosa at Trump's Taj Majal. pounds (159 kg) during his retirement that fight ToeoolymantobeatMikeTyson and w~o was seri~sly ill in a diabetic The scheduled IO-round bout I dominatedSaturdaynight'sfightfrom coma m 1994, weighed 241 pounds was a preliminary to a 12-round the outset against the much smaller (111 kg), 17 pounds (8 'kilograms) middleweight match between I LaRosa,thenalmostclosedhiseyein more than the 5-foot-9 (175 cm) La Continuedon page 23 \

Two-way ,~ .tie at LPGA­ iil Rochester. I By BEN DOBBIN I ROCHESTER, New York (AP)­ I Amy Fruhwirth played just one hole I Saturday,yetfell back into a tie for the lead with Michelle Estill in the rain­ I curtailed second round of the Roch­ ! ester International. i" Just 66 of the 141 golfers com­ pletedthesecondroundafteradown­ pour suspended play for almost seven Ablett kicks 1,000th goal hours at the Locust Hill Country Oub :MELBOURNE, Australja (AP) - He joins an exclusive club which course. Australian r:ules football player Gary includes Gordon Covent!)', Tony Estill, who played just two holes, Ablett wrote another page for hirrn;e]f Lockett, Jason Dunstall and Doug sank a 40-foot (12.2-meter) birdie in the Australian Football League his­ Wade. puttonthepar-4firsttojoinFruhwirth tory books on the weekend by booting On Sunday, the Sydney Swans at 4-under-par. They lie one shot his I ,OOOth career goal against achieved therarefeatofleadingthrough­ ahead of five players. a/ Fremantle. out as they scored a comfortable 46- "I wasn't really thinking of the .i)} Ablett kicked three majors in his point win over Footscray, I 8.15 (123) Continued on page 23 side's 17.!0(112)to 13.15(93)victol)' to 11.11 (77). In the other Sunday . Sanmlay, enough to make him the fifth matches, the West Coast Eagles beat Interhotel ,. player in AFL histol)' to kick 1,000 St. Kilda 22.9 (141) to 17.6 (108) and goals. Continued on page 23 Basketball League Team W L \. C.0.P. 2 0 Dai-!chi Hotel 2 0 Takamura wins Japan 1 Diamond Hotel 2 I P.l.C. 2 I Women's Open title :; Saipan Grand I I Hafa Adai Beach I I RYUGASAKI,Japan(AP)-AkiTakamurashotaone-under-par71 Sunday ~ Hyatt Regency I I and won the Japan Women's Open by one stroke when overnight co-leader i. Nikko Hotel I I Kami Harada bogeyed the final hole. !/ Aqua Resort O 2 , On the 387-yard (350-meter), par-4 18th, Takamura, playing in the same li Pacific Gardenia O 2 -L--·--··- -.... _. i group, hit her third: shot within 3_feet (0.9 meter) of the pin and sank her par putt ~ Plumeria O 2 ; for her second maJo~ Japanese utle. The 24-year-old Takarnura won the Japan ; 1 Grune Results 6/1&'96 ; LPGA Championship last year. \ P.l.C. 72-58 Saipan Grand Hotel . Harada hit her second shot into a bunker, needed two shots to the green and /j Daimond Hotel 63-52Pacific Gardenia \ one-putted for a bogey. :1 Grune Results 612W% ~ack Tragis of Fairbanks, Alaska, stands next to his 459-pound halibut ' Continued on page 20 ! C.0.P. 75-59 Hyatt Regency m Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Tragis' monster fish, which took him two P.I.C. 76-54 Aqua Resort hours, 20 minutes to land, tops the world record of 395 pounds, caught -·~·-··.~.r=,:...:...... ·.,;._..u..;...-_ · .. '• . . _- .. ,.- ~-- .•.._ .. ,_ .• ,.: last year, also in Dutch Harbor. (AP Photo) ~arianas %riety;~ ' M1crones1a·s Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ®) , .... PO Box 231 S01pon. MP 96950 • Tel (670) 234-<>341 • 7578 , 9797 ' Fax (670) 234-9271 ~------·-· ·------·-- ---~--·-- . ------·-·---··--~--_Ji