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.!--, I arianas %riety;;~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ~ ~ passes He said a three-year limit stay Controversial measure headed to governor for action could "convince" private compa remain outside the CNMI for at ness sector, the bill has strong the next three or four years. nies to resort to hiring locals. least six months before reenter support in the community, which He added that though the CNMI . Last year, a similar stay-limit ing the commonwealth. considers it a measure that would sti II needs alien workers, it should bill was introduced in the House Senate Bill 11-71, which was favor local applicants for private also try to lessen its dependence of Representatives, but it "died" in introduced by Sen. Juan P. sector jobs at a time when there on them, noting the continued in the conference committee after the Tenorio (R-Saipan), was passed are few employment opportuni crease in the number of nonresi House and Senate failed to agree by a unanimous vote without de ties in the government. dents. on an exit period. bate nor discussion. Members of the Senate leader.: It now goes to Gov. Pedro P. ship have told the Variety that Despite legal questions Tenorio for his signature. local residents have been calling The bill's original 30-day exit up their offices to lobby for the period was amended by the House bill's passage. Plans on for inaugural of Representatives to six months, But the governor, in an earlier Juan P. Tenorio which the Senate accepted yes inte1view, said he needs to study of Gutierrez-Bordallo ten.lay. S.B. 11-71 before commenting By Zaldy Dandan Similar bills were introduced on it. Variety News Staff during the past four years, but not Sen. Tenorio has said that his THE SENATE yesterday passed a single one reached the Office of bill could help provide employ a three-year stay limit bill that the Governor. ment to the 4,000 young locals would require alien workers to Though opposed by the busi- expected to join the workforce in Senate votes to get Kara out of AGO, but she will not step down By Zaldy Dandan land trip. Carl T.C. Gutierrez Madeleine Z. Borda/lo Variety News Staff A teary-eyed Kara, in an in THE SENATE, by a unanimous te1view shortly after the Senate By Eric F. Say morrow. vote, yesterday adopted a spe action, said she will not resign Variety News Staff According to Gutierrez's le cial joint committee report that as acting attorney general un HAGATNA-With some le gal counsel Randall Cunliffe, declared former House legal less Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio asks gal que~tions yet to be an "we plan to be on the safe side, counsel Maya B. Kara "unfit" her to do so. swered, the '98 Committee is because it's appropriate to hold to hold the office of attorney "I never asked for this job, pushing plans for the inaugura the inauguration. This is due to general, and described her as a and I have no particular ambi tion of Gov. Carl T.C. Gutierrez the fact that the governor's term "usurper" whose nomination "is tion for it. I'm here to se1ve the and Lt. Gov. Madeleine Z. ends at the end of the year." deemed rejected" and should be governor and I will continue to Bordallo on Jan. 4, 1999. But the final decision to hold rejected again if resubmitted. do so in whatever capacity he The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court an inauguration lies in the hands The strongly worded report wants me to serve," Kara said. of Appeals in San Frnncisco ofGutieITez, who was expected urges Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio to Maya Kara At the same time, 'she ex granted Wednesday the appeal to arrive from Honolulu last nominate another person, add pressed surprise that the Senate ofGutieITez'slawyersforastay night. ity. The Senate vote was 8 to 0. ing that a rejected appointee may rejected a nomination that has of the District Court's order for Inauguration planners have · Sen. Herman M. Manglona not again serve in the same po already been withdrawn last a runoff election scheduled to- sition even in an acting capac- (Unity-Tinian) was on an off-is- Contmuecf on page 62 Continued on page 57 ·;=G'· ·.. ~.......,.....,.:::::::.::::;;z-:=i:2==::===--...:::::::=..7-~'.:""'"''.",""~-\~w l-1r Marshalls court: Chinese ~l !I no _'second class citizens' J fi By Giff Johnson 1rt,1 [ ; For the Variety .1 i , MAJURO-Any children born to naturalized citizens, including '·:~ ('.1 those who bought Marshall Islands passports under a now-sus- f'.·; f pended passport sale scheme, arc Marshallese citizens, the High \J : ; Court declared in a ruling issued during a hearing Wednesday. , : . :.~! . Majuro Immigration officials had refused to issue a passport to :i 1 i , the baby of two naturalized citizens of Chinese ancestry who had ,:,J purchased passports and then moved to the Marshall Islands, on l _'. i the basis that the parents were not born in the Marshall Islands. f · But Immigration was ·ordered by High Court Chief Justice ' /.' Daniel Cadra to issue a Marshallesc passport to the baby. "There 1 . is no such thing as a second class citizen," he said in the ruling. / ) During the mid- I 990s, hundreds of passports were sold, prima- >l I I i> rily to citizens of the People's Republic of China, generating _J, .-; millions of dollars in revenues for the government. ,; 1 1 11 The government said it halted the program in late 1996 because :; I, ) of problems with management of the program and concerns raised :i by the U.S. State Department about naturalized citizens attempt- 1' Reiko Imamura, a TV reporter from Fukuoka City, Japan smiles for the Variety'. cameras yesterday at Continued on page 6'"2 Francisco Palacios Baseball Field. Imamura is covering the visit of two professional Japanese baseball •,..,,, ' .,,.,, .,,!',\'. players who are conducting a baseball clinic for local youngsters. Photo by Tony Celis 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-F~IDA Y-DECEMBER 18. 1998 ---·--·--- ____ FRIDAY,_DECEMBER_IS, 1998-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS ANDVIEWS-3 More missiles hit Iraq 'No to additional workers' By Haidee V. Eugenio respects the wish of the people of alien workers in here," the gover island to determine whether its By WAIEL FALEH 30 were wounded, a doctor said. headed to school in scenes that Variety News Staff Tinian if they would really want nor said duringyesterday's swear residents arc ready to garment BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -The Russia and China called for gave little indication of the THE ADMINISTRATION said to admit garment firms on their ing in of Saipan Mayor Jose factories or not. United States fired hundreds of an immediate halt to the attacks, nightlong blitz. Morning traffic · any proposal allowing additional island. Sablan who was elected vice presi Ile argues that Insular Affairs missiles on Iraq Thursday in but U.S. officials suggested the jams clogged some of the streets non-resident workers to come to He added that under existing dent of the Association of Mariana Director Allen Stayman is actu attacks that lasted through the strikes may continue. in downtown Baghdad. the Commonwealth may be unac statutes, the two islands are au Island Mayors. ally seeing only Saipan when cri ti night, and Baghdad shook with In the Iraqi capital, govern But the strikes were met with ceptable at this time. thorized to have their own gar Tenorio explained that he is cizing CNMI for allowing gar explosions and anti-aircraft"gun ment employees went to their defiance in Iraqi newspapers. Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio was spe ment firms. keen on improving the CNMI's ment firms to mushroom and cre fire. Two people were killed and offices and young children "Iraqis are pulling together to cifically referring to the Tinian "Not that I don't like to see the economic condition, but transfer ate problems. go forward to bury the strikes of Chamber of Commerce's plan to people of Tinian have (a) gar ring or adding new garment com Stayman earlier remarked that aggression and continue their invite garment firms to <lo busi ment industry. But I hope we panies may not be a viable move the CNMI is apparently backslid new crusade to teach the enemy ness on Tinian. could reconsider that because tltat to do so. ing on its promise of reforms. lessons, which they will never I-le, however. clarified that he means we have to bring more "I respect the wishes of the refe1Ting to the passage of a bill forget," al-Qadissiya, a govern people of Tinian to spur the eco that would allow 500 to 2,000 Pedro P. Tenorio ment newspaper. said in an edi nomic activities there but at the additional alien garment workers torial. same time, we have to realize specifically on maintaining or de to come on island. Air raid sirens broke the whether doing that will benefit creasing the numberof alien work Long said having one or two Aircraft launch from the deck of the USS Enterprise to conduct strikes night's silence minutes before a ~~l~$t~,~~%~~~•!B the community as a whole, or that ers. gam1ent fim1son Tinian wil I mean barrage of anti-aircraft fire lit on Iraq in the first phases of Operation Desert Fox Thursday in the Persian Gulf. After cruise missiles were launched, some of the 246 ·_·.··~.01ter, ..... pa~~Plr11•--• ..·fe~s· will instead be more disastrous to He added that he will closely additional revenues for the local up the Baghdad sky at 12:49 combat planes now in the Gulf or soon to arrive will launch follow-up _stH~id.J~v, Ellgenio ·······6g:ihc,h Jhis~d8ry Wedn~sday our community," he said.