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Saipan-Palau-Manila _flights eyed Teno adviser chides Senate for 'inaction' on admin bills NMI officials head By Jojo Dass Nielsen also lamented that Variety News Staff another administration bill, ONE OF Gov. Pedro P. which will allow students to fi Tenorio's special advisers yes nance studies through a special to Manila meeting terday expressed disappoint loan program, may likewise ment that several administra gather dust at the Legislature. By Haidee V. Eugenio Air Nauru's move has come at when officials from the CNMI tion bills, The bill, which is still being Variety News Staff an opportune time, with the ur led by Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio, Air crucial to re drafted, is seen to address REACTIVATION of the Saipan gent need for an airline to trans Nauru and Palau agreed to push vitalize the /:1 mounting problems besetting the Palati-Manila route abandoned port a growing number of passen for the reactivation of the said air economy, ···-..··.:···;;: .. i ... , .. /--.-·. . education sector as it allows stu two years ago may begin as early gers from Saipan and Palau to route. have re gi, ' . dents to avail ofloans at govern as December, as CNMI legisla Manila and vice-versa. "They may start (their service) m a in e d ment expense, which will then tors and Aviation Task Force The CNMI contingent for the at least twice a week. I was told pending at .:. 'i·" '·'.·, be repaid upon graduation on members are set to meet with Air meeting in they might the Senate. easy terms. Nauru and Palau officials in the cludes Sablan, start as early as D a n Dan Nielsen "The governor hopes the Leg Philippines next week to map out ATF Chair December, but Nielsen, the islature will pass a Guaranteed the much-awaited move, it was man JM I'll find out governor's special assistant for Student Loan Program bill, and disclosed yesterday. Guerrero, (more) when I education, cited the Free Trade enact immediately the Board of Hopes are high Air Nauru will Rep. David M. come back Zone bill; the proposed mea Accountancy, Tax Certification fly at least twice a week using Apatang, Rep. from the Phil sure requiring that only certi and Free Trade Zone legislation Boeing 737 aircraft when it starts Manny A. ippines ... fied public accountants perform to generate more revenues. to operate in the said route for Tenorio, and We will be auditing services; · and the tax "This can be used to pay off C m m n _ David Sablan merly serviced by Continental O O JM Guerrero meeting with certification bill, which provides the ($80 million) deficit and then Micronesia, according to wealth Ports Authority Board top executives of Air Nauru and certain incentives to investors, we will have ... more money to Marianas Visitors Authority Treasurer Roman T. Tudela who officials from Palau who are dead as among legislation that will spend on social and other pro (MV A) Board Chairman David will represent CPA Board Chair set in supporting this," Sablan help boost revenue collections, grams," said Nielsen.- Sablan who is also a member of man Roman S. Palacios, also an said during yesterday's MVA if enacted. Senate Floor leader Pete P. the CNMI Aviation Task Force ATFmember. Board meeting. "They are still sitting at the Reyes (R-Saipan), in a separate · i (ATF). The Manila meeting is a fol CNMI officials may also seize Legislature," Nielsen said in an interview also yesterday, said The meeting in Manila, Philip low-up on the exploratory discus the opportunity to meet with ex- interview with reporters. Continued on page 50 pines will be on Nov. 22. sion held here in Saipan in July, Continued on page 50 Democrats assured of fair treatment in House By Jojo Dass chairmanships. Variety News Staff "I don't think they expect HOUSE Speaker Diego T. chairmanships. Certainly they Benavente (R-Saipan) has as- won't do that," said Benavente. sured that the Republican-domi- He said the Democrats-four nated 12th Legislature will give newcomers and two incumbents the Demo- -will have the "opportunity to cratic new- speak on the floorand introduce comers fair legislation." treatment. House Minority Floorleader "I think Dino M. Jones (D-Saipan) said those times A:· the Democrats will attempt to when mi- reintroduce bills that had been nor i ties shelved by the 11th Legislature. were being " "I've got bills of my own that treated not were not acted upon, as Speaker equa II y... Diego T. Benavente o f th e House. Th e v·ice spea ker have been gone years ago. has got plenty of bills that were That's history," said Benavente. not acted upon on the floor, even He added though that by the the House floorleader (Rep. Ana Republicans• sheer numbers, s. Teregeyo [R-Saipan]), every- Former Guam governor Joseph F. Ada (left) hands over souvenirs to German Ambassador to the Philippines Wolfgang Gottelmann at the opening ceremony of the Tiempon Aleman exhibit at the CNMI Museum of the Democrats can not expect Continued on page 50 History and Culture in Garapan Wednesday evening. Photo by Marian A. Maraya
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The 20 percent in- strong demand for the destina- 1 ber, traditionally a slow travel Charter flights and bigger air- of last year during the same peri- crease (in October) is a good way tion. · month, and this has been the craft used by Japan Airlines, ods. to start the new fiscal year," said MV A said load factor from ~ highest monthly growth since Northwest Airlines and Asiana MVA Board Chairman David Sablan during yesterday's BQard Tokyo went up by 36 percent, the CNMI tourism industry got Airlines, as well as the surge in Sablan, however, said the tour- meeting. while the load factor from Osaka hardly hit by the Asian eco- the strength of Japanese yen ism agency should not rest on its Japan - CNMI's largest mar- climbed by 49 percent. More- nomic crisis. against the U.S. dollar fuelled the laurels. ket- posted a 25 percent arrival over, 84 percent of the total J a- The Marianas Visitors Au- arrival growth for the first month ·'All in all the arrivals look very increase from 24,753 in October pan arrivals came directly from thority (MV A) yesterday re- of fiscal year 2000. good. It goes to show we are 1998 to 31,045 last month. While Continued on page 50 I ,· •• I' ·, FRIDAY.'NOVEMBER 19, 1999-.MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS ANDVIEWS-3 ,! ------'----- Japan OKs curbs In illegal gambling case to doomsday cult ·ola TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's for up \o six months. Bellas disqualifies powerful lower house of parlia The second bill, which aims to By Ferdie de la Torre Board of Parole. stop here, there would a serious ment Thursday passed a set of help compensate victims of crimes Variety News Staff Bellas ruled that it appears that impact on the ability of govern bills·aimed at curbing activities of com.milted by Aum, allowscourt THE SUPERIOR Court yester the controlling issue is not whether ment to function under such a the doomsday cult accused of a appointed trustees to' collect as day issued a decision disqualify Arriola is conflicted under the na1Tow reading of the statute ... he 1995 nerve gas attack on the To sets of bankrupt groups. Aum was ing lawyer Joseph A. An'iola from Government Ethics Act, but kyo subway system. stripped of most of its assets in said. participating in the alleged illegal whether a conflict exists based on Essentially. Bel las said, the The bills, expected to be en 1996 when it was liquidated by gambling case for conflict of in acted next month, were submitted court order, but has managed to the fiduciary duties a lawycrowes court would be adopting the view terests. in response to public outcries de amass large funds through busi in situations where the attorney that a mere apparent conflict is Associate Judge Timothy H. manding the government take nesses and purchases of property represents an interest adverse to sufficient to disqualify an attor action against the Aum Shinri Kyo in many parts of the country. Bellas said ArTiola is represent an existing client. ney from the type of representa ing private clients, not the CNMI (Supreme Truth Sect) amid fears The bills also include a clause ''It is undisputed that defen tion involved in this case. Senate and he has raised an issue it was staging a comeback. which calls for a revision every dants' counsel is currently repre "'Where there is legal support on behalf of his private clients senting the CNMI Senate. It is The bills do not directly name five years to address concerns that for this proposition, th.:: court wi II which is clearly adverse to the immaterial to the ethical issues not adopt such a narrow reading the cult, but target activities of the legislation could be applied to Timothy H. Bellas Joseph A. Arriola any group that has engaged in groups other than Aum. interests of his other client, the under what contractual tenns that of the statute," he said. "indiscriminate mass-murder" in The government hopes to see CNMI government. representation is occurring," With regard to the BOP issue, era! other persons were arrested Therefore, the judge noted, the last IO years. the bills enacted in time to pre "Therefore, under the facts of Bellas said. Bellas said it appears to the court and subsequently charged with Key Aum members, including vent a senior Aum member from this case, the conflict is .real and "It is clear that a relationship of Arriola' s client cannot be the that to disqualify Arriola on the illegal gambling activity. SHOOTOUT. Police investigators look at the bodies of three of the eight s.uspected ro_bbers.and kid'!appers cult guru Shoko Asahara, are on returning to the cult after he leaves not merely apparent," said Bellas, attomey-cHent exists. Therefore, CNMI Senate only, but the entire basis of his participation as a Chief Prosecutor Kevin Lynch kiiled during a shootout near a shopping mall in Quezon City yesterday. Nme peop~e, 1~cludmg a policeman, trial and have been co·nvicted in prison around late December, adding that the court must find the next relevant inquiry is:who is CNMI government. member of the Board is a very were killed in two shootouts in metropolitan Manila in a bloody start to an ant1-cr1me campaign by the asked the court to disqualify connection with various murders Kyodo news agency quoted gov that such real conflict disqualifies Mr. Arriola 's client? Is it only the Bellas stressed that such analy broad and inappropriate reading Philippines' newly appointed national police chief Panfilo Lacson. AP Arriola from representing Yin and including the Tokyo gas attack, ernment sources as saying. Arriola from continuing his par CNMI Senate or the entire CNMI sis does not preclude the attorney of the Act.. co-defendants for violation of the from representing the CNMISen which killed 12 and made more The cuit's former charismatic ticipation in the case. Government?" the judge said. "Of course, this would not be Government Ethics Act since the than 5,000 ill. spokesman, Fumihiro Joyu, is Court records showed that the In keeping with the general ate against any other part of the the case if defendants ''tounsel, as lawyer is currently employed as Under the first bill, a group currently serving a three-year Attorney General's Office (AGO) purpose of the Act to define when CNMI government because there a BOP member, were. obviously CNMI Senate counsel on a half implicated in serious crimes could prison term for perjury. Investigation Unit operatives and a conflict of interest exists, Bellas is a specific statutory exemption representing a client who had any time basis. be placed under the surveillance Aum said in late September it police officers raided the former explained, it specifies that the for him to do this. business before the BQP ," Bellas Lynch also contended that the No .hype, of the Public Security Investiga would close its branches, stop Abracadabra Dive Shop in "Commonwealth government" The judge said that in this case, said. lawyer should be removed from tion Agency for up to three years recruiting and no longer use its i Garapan last July 3. includes, among others, the Ex however, Arriola represents pri In dealing with the CNMI gov the case on the basis of his partici .,·· ~-zz and could be forced to report on current name, in a move seen f During the operation, business ecutive and Legislative branches va,e clients against the CNMI. ernment, the judge continued, 1 pation as a member of the CNMI "If the court's analysis were to _NiO N:, ,6 its hctivities every three months. aimed at deflecting further op man Cheung Ping Yin and sev- of the CNMI. Continued or, page 46 1 The bill will also allow police position. P ~ and public security officials to Investigation sources believe t inspect such a group's facilities at there are still about 2,000 follow Federal budget negotiators . .·-- ~D ~6Urp118eS~~~ any time thought necessary. If ers of the cult, which refuses to I' found to have committed illegal accept responsibility for subway i give CHIP funds to CNMI activities, the group can be banned attack or abandon its anti-so
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Say ment of Guam is also trying to PSS building Before 6 P.M. • MON.· FRI. Variety News Staff get the remains released after a BEFORE 3:30 P.M. SAT., SUN. & HOL HAGA TNA-A Local founda local businessman donated a gets facelift ..,._,AU.DIGITAi.SOUND IJ)l....,.I tion dedicated to bringing back burial plot overlooking Pena Val h,..., ...... ,, "' lo. LETTERS to the editor must carry the full name of the writer and signature, with a telephone number (in case of faxed or mailed letters) for verification. Letters addressed to other publications or to third parties and those endorsing particular political candidates are discouraged. Al/ letters are subject to editing. The ~ Letters to the editor Variety reseNes the right to reject any letters. Name withheld and unsigned letters will not see print. l . 'Goodbye' Satisfied unsuccessful TOMORROW will be a sad Micronesian cultures I en families, but I know that is candidate day for me. It will be my last countered in my work. not possible. I would also like ... AND day at the Commonwealth However, on·e of the things to take this opportunity to ALTHOUGH Canice Kaipat Mr. Taitano was given the op IN ORDERTO Health Center. that has kept me going has heap praise on individual staff Taitano was unsuccessful in tion to move up on the ballot. We were planning to stay been the pleasure of working members at CHC who should. winning a seat in the Sixth Saipan However, he decided to remain Let land payments start SLOW TH£ NATION'S much longer than the five short with so many people from so be recognized for their hard and Northern Islands Municipal at No. 5. years we have been here, but many parts of the Pacific and work and dedication: Joe Council, as the chairman of his Nevertheless, I respect the ECONOMY WE'RE an ailing grandmother has re the world. Also, the thank yous Santos, Marcie Cepeda, campaign committee and speak man's decision. All we can say FINALLY, the lines are drawn on the issue of compensation for quired that we cut short our from children and their appre Thelma Tarkong, Denise ing on his behalf, I can safely right now is that we are truly the many landowners whose properties were affected by right BOOSTING POKED stay in the Northern Marianas ciative parents have made it Calderwood, Carol Paez, state that we are satisfied with grateful for the vote of confi of-way and yet have remained uncompensated over the years. ·RATES ~%, . It has not been all that easy all worthwhile. Chris Hemphill, Chailang the results. dence given to Mr. Taitano by The ruling this week by Judge Edward Manibusan on the Leon to work at CHC. I remember Now, it is my turn to say Palacios and all of the hospi From the beginning, Mr. our people and that we are in Taisacan case is really good news for those who have suffered the sleepless nights, struggles thank you for being you and tal operators. Taitano and myself knew that he deed satisfied with the results. _ long and hard in their struggle to get what is rightfully theirs with very sick children, and for all I have learned from I would hold them up as would have to go against the In fact, considering the odds, under the eminent domain provision of the Constitution. the tears I shared with dis living and working in this most models for all CNMI govern odds to win a seat. Mr. Taitano we were overwhelmed and did not affiliate himself with any The rule is clear: once the government acquires a portion of a tressed families when I had to interesting part of our tiny ment emp)oyees to emulate. shocked by the results. of the three parties. He chose to person's property and builds a public road or part of a road over deliver bad news. I also re world. I would like to be able Mr. Taitano would like to con member the challenge of try to say good-bye individually DR. DANIELE LONCHAMP remain No. 5 on the ballot. He it, then government should provide that person just compensa gratulate all the winners of this ing to understand the different to all of my patients and their Capitol Hill, Saipan refused to actively campaign. past election, especially to the tiqn, either through land exchange or monetary payment. ImustadmitthatMr. Taitano's three council members-elect. Mr. How such a simple rule gets set aside is puzzling and unac decision not to take sides this Taitano would also like to ex ceptable for the many landowners who have painstakingly gave F" past election, and his refusal to tend a special si yu 'us ma' ase to their properties up for the sake of the community. RP labor official defends $65 fee be present at any of the three Vic Pangelinan, MaryAnn One must remember, it is bad enough for any person to be parties' pocket meetings and Calvo, Joe Sanchez, Maria losing part of his cherished property to public purpose. That THE VARIETY seems to be a tributions of employers who There are other services and campaign, not to mention his Rosario, Jennifer Rosario, Jack can't be helped as that is what the law says. reliable and trustworthy would like to hire OFWs and programs that have been long decision not to actively cam Augon Sr., Juan Rasiang, Jess paign, really irked me. Government upon determination can take hold of land if it source of information until I workers already at thejobsites implemented and are still Agulto and to all his family, Moreover, as many may re friends and supporters for their deems necessary for the overall benefit of the entire islands. read in your Nov. 5 issue about who voluntarily elect to be given to OFWs. The so-called call, there were five original can time, support and vote of confi But what makes that totally unbearable is when landowners Zaldy Dandan the "mandatory $65 (P2,600!) come members in good stand insurance coverage is just one didates vying for the three coun dence. are not paid enough for the acquisition, or worse, get promised life insurance fee imposed on ing. of the many benefits that cil seats. One of the five decided KIMO M. ROSARIO but end up not being paid at all. contract workers." Aside from medical, schol OFWs and/or dependents are to withdraw from the race and Koblerville, Saipan It's a pity how claims for compensation have not been acted • Variations You even urged "Pinoy con arship or fmancial assistance, entitled to as members/ben on by government over the years and through several changes in tract workers in the CNMI who OWW A provides to its clients eficiaries of OWW A. administration. The obligation has long been neglected due to consider this fee as nothing and members expanded live Unfortunately, critics seem On the government's various reasons like declining government resources, land ex less than government robbery lihood program, Kabuhayan to harp on the insurance as change problems, encumbrances and/or other issues, like the shou Id complain directly, 2000, family assistance loan, pect of OWWA despite the fact promotion system issue of prior compensation by the Micronesian Claims Com Post-mortem (2) through letters, to our legisla repatriation of worker, airport that thousands upon thousands THIS is regarding the recent news tors should familiarize them mission. tors and other national lead assistance, pre-departure of OFWs and or their heirs article on the Senate's quest to selves with the report on the sta That some landowners have already received compensation pursue a desk audit of govern ONE OF the CNMI's better lawmakers, House long noted what this, well, "Santa Clausism" ers, as well as to national seminars, skills-for-employ have benefited from it. tus of efforts to upgrade the se from the Micronesian Claims Commission covering the indefi ment employees, and on the pro lection, training and promotion Ways and Means Committee Chair Karl T. eventually leads to-an enervating dependency newspapers." men t program, refresher nite use of their land appears to have become an "overused" motion system of law enforce standards for the Department of Reyes, is right. on government for security. Thus they caution There's nothing wrong with course program, community FEDERICO F. BIOLENA ment agencies. Public Safety (DPS), which was excuse by government to get around its obligations to landown Most CNMI voters expect their elected offi the g·overnment to be careful in coming up criticisms provided these are reach-out program and rein Welfare Officer It is c'ommendable that the Sen submitted to the Office of the ers. with generous, yet costly, programs lest these Philippine Overseas cials to be Santa Claus all year long. Which is intended to correct or put tegration preparedness. ate wants the placement of em Governor in Oct. 1997. Among The Manibusan ruling merely validates and underscores the Labor Office why, Mr. Reyes told the Variety, he failed to become "entitlements" and "rights." Over time, things in proper perspective. The Medicare program for ployees in the correct classifica other things, the so-called, "pro":. need for government to live up to its obligations, but such a win a third term. He said he wasn't as generous those who are supposed to benefit from these Such could have been done if OFWs and their dependents is tion standards. However, if the gressive promotion" standard was determination could go a long way in compelling proactive with giving out tents and tables as the other programs are turned into timid and fearful facts were checked before an innovative approach to ad Senate's desire is to compare job approved by the then governor legislators were. As chair of the committee people who are addicted to Santa Claus politi action from concerned agencies. coming up with such strong dress serious concerns of The Variety replies: to job, not job to standard and to and subsequently implemented. that handles taxes and government appropria cians. More and more mainland Americans are While money is tight and government is facing an $80 million words or accusation. For the OFWs or their dependents reward performance on seniority However, the current adminis tions, Mr. Reyes is also considered "respon realizing that this "soft, kindly meant" style of with an upward reallocation, such tration sacked this standard when deficit, it should at least more seriously consider options, like benefit of Overseas Filipino who become sick or is injured. Anyone among the estimated the proposal recently aired by Rep. Karl T. Reyes for a bond sible" for the scrapping of certain government governance ultimately corrupts the people. 20,000 Filipino workers in the an action is not proper personnel it appointed heads of division dole-out programs, specifically the Earned In CNMI politicians, like their counterparts on Workers (OFWs) in the CNMI It is created by the Philippine management. Seniority is already issue which can be secured with money held in trust by the CNMJ who was informed by within DPS in 1998. come Credit (EIC). Because the administration the mainland U.S., know this: The local people, who might not possess a li president's Executive Order rewarded by annual within-grade This standard should be en Marianas Public Land Trust. and the Legislature are unwilling to impose descendants of men and women who defied the brary of knowledge or the time No. 195 dated Aug. I 3, 1994. OWWA!DOLE regarding the increase. Those reaching the acted through legislation to do The important thing is that the.groundwork should be laid for new taxes-let alone layoff 300 government Pacific Ocean by sailing across its unpacific to research, allow me to set The program provides medi existence of these programs, maximum step in their grade away with nepotism and politics the eventual disbursement of money to pay the aggrieved prop employees-there is, of course, no money for vastness aboard frail, wooden boats, instinc- · the records right. cal assistance and hospitaliza please raise your hand. Any should aim toward qualifying for in law enforcement agencies. erty owners. the EIC. In addition, several former govern tively know this. But during elections, all they The Philippine Overseas tion benefits to OFWs and one ll'il!ing to pay $65 a position at a higher grade with Politics does not belong in law 1 increased job requirements and enforcement agencies! As Gov. Pete P. Tenorio himself admits, payment for the ment employees are still waiting for the ben hear arc politicians outshouting each other in Labor Office (POLO) collects their dependents. It would be (P2.600!! J j11sr to retr1rn to efits promised to them by a law enacted years proposing freebies and doleouts. one's cu11111ry 1\'herc the responsibilities. affected landowners is long overdue. S4 for the overseas employ a great disservice to OFWs home back. As with the EiC, there is no money for it, No wonder local voters arc: "clannish." If all Now bd'ore the Senate devel LUIS S. CAMACHO It is incumbent that such an admission be coupled with the m..:nt certificate while the wel and their dependents who are eight-hour 111i11i11111111 1\'age is but voters believe that they elect lawmakers the candidates are saying the same things why ops strategies for an audit. sena- Precinct 3, Sa/pan political will and determination to see to it that the money is fare officer issues receipts for not as lucky compared with a ol'er $4, please ra~e your identified and prioritized for the purpose. precisely to find funding for such programs. shouldn't voters choose someone they,.really hand. Anyone who H'ants to So voters are to blame for this "give-me trust-i.e., their relatives? (This is true else the annual Overseas Workers few Filipinos in the CNMI if These people have waited enough. It's a pity that some of know the names and e-mail A word of advice give-me philosophy" that Mr. Reyes says he where in the world. I'm surprised that some Welfare Administration this program would be dis them did not even live long enough. addres,ses of key Philippine does not believe in? Perhaps. commentators consider this "trait" as a local (OWW A) membership fee of continued. Many OFWs, even I WOULD like to congratulate all their broken promises. They lost Let's start paying them what is rightfully theirs. But most of the blame should go to the elected invention.) $25 and Medicare premium of in the CNMI, still prefer that senators and congressmen the winning candidates. I hope big time. that once you have been sworn in. Meanwhile. our Marianas High officials who compensated for their lack of The CNMI needs real leaders. Happily, they $36. they have Medicare even if who should be informed about you will put aside pm1y affiliation ideas by acting like Santa Claus. It is, indeed, are out there, somewhere. Some are even in the this b11rdc11 of a fee. please School (MHS) students want to OWW A, an agency attached only their dependents in the and work together for the better know when their gymnasium is far easier to pay a constituent's .utilities bill government already. Most of them are unheard contact the Variety. to the Phi Ii ppi ne Department Philippines might benefit ment of our people and our is going to be finished. than to draft legislation that would create more and unnoticed, but they exist. They know that Incidenrally, 1rhy should of Labor and Employment from it. Of course, no gargan lands. That gym is over five years attractive private sector employment opportu leadership is an educative fovce, as the late (DOLE), is mandated to look tuan program such as Medi OFWs and their im111ediate A word of advice to the Repub overdue. Many of out young vot nities for local residents. It is less taxing for Philippine Professor Renato Constantino once after the welfare and promote care would ever succeed if relatives who already have lican majority. Do not underesti ers who graduated from MHS one's intellect to hand out tents and tables than said to a nation that is also in need of this type insurance co1•erage pay for a mate your constituents. Don't never got to see the inside of that to pinpoint why those who used to be self the interest of OFWs all over there were no money to back of leaders. Genuine leadership, he said, means Medicare progra111 adminis think that they will vote for you gym. sufficient and industrious farmers, fishermen "discoverirrg the wishes of the people, work the world. This agency does up its implementation. Thus, rered by a government \\'hose again, two years from now. if you Please see to it that our cunent and artisans are now content with twiddling ing with the people to reshape their desires if not get any appropriation from for only $36, an ordinary OFW 1/Jievery and incompetence do not listen to their outcry. Take MHS students can use it before theirthumbs in a government office. these are not truly their long-interest, blazing the Philippine Congress to could sleep well, secure in the a look at your soon-to-be former they graduate. They could be your P.O. Box 231, Saipan MP 96950-0231 o\'er the past three decades And while we 're at it, who was it that enacted new paths ... expos[ing] false assumptions [and implement the projects and thought that his dependents in colleagues in Precinct 1. They adversaries for reelection. Those Tel. (670) 234-6341/75781979719272 have only impoverished the Fax: (670) 234-9271 and implemented these dole-out programs and revealing,] new lines of thought." programs benefiting thou the Philippines are assured of made too many promises and they are quite a lot of voters. created sinecure government jobs? Who, in Men and women of all races can take only so sands of OFWs all over the medical assistance and hospi nation and forced millions of did not keep them. J was one of So make them happy or else. other words, campaigned like Santa Claus? their die-hard supporters, among much, well, crap from their political leaders. world. The funds of OWW A talization benefits if and when Filipinos 10 seek employment In the U.S., perceptive political analysts have the many who were disgruntled, PETE DLG. PANGELINAN Therein lies the CNMl's and this planet's hope. primarily come from the con- those exigencies arise. abroad ?-eds. disappointed and dissatisfied with As Lito, Saipan '. i I FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS~9 Park mulled to replace PR dump DPL chief welcomes bill on BPL By Rene P. Acosta ;: · s ::. :-.:-:~ ~2.:k:· H~dc: said. :D·nve~t..td 2.nd no''"' are pa:t of it appear a little hit mr1rr: than j11~t Variety News Staff :·__ ;-:-_·;: ~:~-~ ::-. :t::e~ r_·s -~:2~,~ K;;<~~-!- ·-:: :--r:,·. he --:: .... :."I was fc.~ g,'.)!f course,. he adcicd. a mountain r,f g;,rh;,gc hdmc l;,nd ··-- . . . PUBLIC Lands Director Ber rj :- ;- 1r_-~_..!.._ L.S ;::: :-:,: ·,., ;:,:-::·;-~=--I ~ :.·.~,.-..:-; ::_.-:: .• :• .:_f' -;,·:..-:( : _ ~ ::'(;,;'(-'"". :-:-:•:re 1:::-:-:-:~..:.~~ ~.: .:.e·,e;...-Jp co:T~- De·,e'.oping Puert0 Rico dump :,capi ng 1t. tha DLG. Guerrero welcomed ::: .. :-::. :.·. :.:f:.·', :::-:. :.:...c :.:>~.c:,:-:-.2:: ;:~e:: :.~ t::e :.s:.::::ci's d!l~? s:re into a park wa, pan of the clo<,ure ff;Jrder ~;;1id it i, ;, lr,t mr,rc rlif a bill filed by Senate Vice _?- .c::·:-:.: ? . :t. :.-:-:.;: ::': :.: ~ ;:1_ ·:.: . .:. ___.__ ••-_-'l""_..:'.-:.: ·-- :.;:.-...:c:-. _.._c ~-:.--;,( ;i ~~-:-,J ff: c 1.'.lJ..s are cons iden n g on cc fic:ult tr, u,mpletcly o.lmt rlr,vm President Thomas P. ::-. !:~(::.2.~c:. : -:..::;..:.::,: ::-. ::e ~-;:, ~::7:. ~. ·::c:::2...~ ~i:c ?-i..c:·~:: R~-:o ,::.::::; ls :,'.)c:5:rc.r:tion of the landfill in the ir,,sh ,,itc 1h;,n h11ilrl the p;,rk, Villagomez (R-Saipan) which ).:.:~: ~i:i....::-.t:.c:.:i t·:'" ..:. L1;·:1:·r:. ~,!.'.l;.-p: i.~ finis:lcd. , ,ini::e the clr,,,11re 111vr,lvc.~ ;, very draws the line between her and .-:-.-.--;,:~.-:-.c·:-.·:.-::: :,::-1:..-~ !..~C-!.~- U:·, : S,:r::c: ::r..:~cr ~:,rr:.c:- .::..:.:::.; 5:::s H~dcr ;.:;id workers will bull u,mpl ic;,tcd prr,u:<:~. The tr,1,h -- ...... the Board of Public Lands. ·-.:1.,":'; '.,: S'".,.i:: ~i•,·;:_;::.: !,f:::...."':2l:::-::c:--..: .-:2 ·.;, 1~ :..:.:.-. : ~~:: :..!. •. ~ .:c::: :c:: :.: ::: E-f.1·;.·1.:,i ·;.-::!ci': Jre :,:c:lre:: ::: J,;za:: :.':r.: si::,:e and sides of the would he c;,ppcd with <;;ind. pl;,r. Guerrero said the bill "is Prr" J::r_~ \12: .... ~ ?-;·:- J"'.,-."'.:: . ..~.2::C:-~ ~.;:: :::~::::1.-:,-::uii, dump ,ite to make tic, rr,cb:, and ,,r,i I. something we definitely the:,· rj~·.-c r"".,.:_;.~;"", ,;_:;·;::>".::::::-.s :: "'~'·,:::-:"' I need." tht pd·.~ ffJ'jrJ~:---1.~- .fht P1Jf.:rt.r; I~; ....,-., r-'~~::: ;:-;:;~: I Hillblom Foundation donates Guam Chamber "If the intent is to clarify the .. . line between the board and the will r.10 '1 hill:, ,,;: ~./,<: .. ·.::.:::,· :-::~·;, ::..: ~-- ;··-~=-=-~- elects board of ];;r;rJ·-/.:.:fF.:-'; f,:::~I. :~.;:~ ·;, ... ,:.:,; :.:~ ... - I $31vI to UCSF medical program division or the Department of Lands and Natural Resources, Bertha DLG. Guerrero Thomas P. Villagomez ~·J:'l ~."/,·,::,, ·..r,.~ ..'. ,,: {~:--:::;s:: ',·.:::-- THE U·.RRY Hiilblom Foun ment to world-class facilities directors 2000 then it is something that we d:,.::,;,,.ln:. has donated S3 mil like UCSF's Center," said Vmi,,ly Nr,wr. :;/:JI/ :t.·.:::-:;.:; :~ ·;,;:;; c :.2.:--.d.~.::c.pr:. ar iir)n endowment to the i;niver Terry Hillhlom, hoard men1 IIAC;ATNA Tile (,u,m1 definitely need," said dations to the board, but which board has the final decision, Guerrero. were not concurred or agreed then just as along as I submit :--.--.··~:-:::j ::.~ ~:.::.= ·,;,i::'"1 hig rr;<:k.s and ,ir:; of California San bcr of the Foundation. Chamber of ( :rimmLsrcc elected Francisco's Center for Cranio In addition to contributing board directors for the 2000 Guerrero said she would be upon by the board. my position and they acted facial Anomalies. to research efforts and j m relieved if the bill would ex Guerrero was specifically against what the division rec Chamber year during its An HITACHI The Center will establish a proved patient care, the en nual General Membership meet cuse her against any liability concerned regarding future ommended, then that's their The ,vise reader buys only di,tingui;hed professorship dowment will allow practitio just in case one will arise in lawsuits which may be brought decision. I just want to make AUTO VOLT ing yesterday. MULTI SYS. with S2.5 million of the en ners in Micronesia to receive The eight voting directors the future as a result of the against her and the board aris sure that if litigation happens, CT 2159 one newspaper dowment. allowing the inter training at UCSF·in the treat elected to serve a two-year term board's decision or action for ing from the latter's action. I don't get personally liable," nationally-renown program to ment of craniofacial deformi are: Herman Ehrlich, general which the division is not in She cited a recent case she said. enhance its research on such ties. manager, Hilton Guam; Jerrold volved. wherein she was among those "I always remind the board and saves deiects as cleft lip and palate Hillblom Foundation chair C. Johnson, president, Hawai The director admitted that that were included in the suit. of the fiduciary involved· and I always make it clear that if and other craniofacial syn man Peter Donnici said the ian Rock.Products; Mark Tsuda, Public Law l 0-57, the statute The DPL director said it is they want to be liable with dromes. the UCSF press re program is delighted to help a executive assistant manager, which created the DPL has a not hard on her part if her ~P,oneer lot of ambiguities, and it is name appeared on a suit as their decision, that's fine with lease said. project that will provide for Ladera Tower Co., Ltd.; Frank Authorized dealar 01 Pioneer Audio Video Equipment In Salpan The remaining money will improved patient care forthose S.N .. Shimizu, president, now time to make changes. long as the division was a me as long as my liability is By PILOT TRADING CORPORATION - The law has specifically privy to the action which cre protected," Guerrero said. Tel. 234-9145 be used to support the develop residents of the CNMI need Ambros, Inc.; Plillip J. Flores, because; stated that the land agency will ated it, but she said this is not DPL, she said always think ". II, : II, ment of professional training ini craniofacial surgery. chairman and CEO, • carry out its primary task usually the case, since the de of disposing lands to the in exchanges and direct patient Hillblom founded DHL Barikpacific; Lou Sanchez, which is the efficient distri cision belongs to the board. terest of the people and the care for residents of the Cr--.'MI Worldwide Express in 1969 sales and marketing manager, bution of lands upon the ap Guerrero said this is the rea government. and throughout :vlicronesia. while attending UC Continental Airlines; Joseph A. proval of members of the son why she sometimes stood '11iis endowment will el Berkeley's Boalt Hall School Stoll Jr., vice president and se ~==,~- .. board. · out when she feels there is a "= ~ • evate the standard of knowl of Law. He later relocated to nior financial consultant. However, there had been need to. edge in the field of craniofa Saipan. Merrill Lynch; and Jerold W. some instances wherein the "The law says the board has ·~r,anas cial malformations world After being injured in a place Fi lush, partner, Deloitte & Tcm division has made recommen- the final decision and if the wide.'- said Karin Vargervik. crash in 1993. Hillblom was che LLP. director of the liCSF Center treated by UCSF's Ousterhout Frank J. Campillo, adminis for Craniofacial Anomalies. at the Ralph K. Davies Medi trator. Multicover Health Plan, Consulate seeks father ~riety ·-rm pleased that we are cal Center in San Francisco Moylan 's Insurance Underwrit fulfilling my brother's desire where he received reconstruc ers. Inc .. was elected to serve a • 2 HUGE Waterslides ! to leave a legacv of funding tive surgery for multiple fa one-year voting seat. whose son died in RP medical rese-arc·h and trear= cial injuries. 0 Point Break Wave Machine has it all! The two alternate .directors By Rene P. Acosta The Philippine Department elected were James L. Adkins. Variety News Staff of Foreign Affairs informed • Lazy River president. East West Rental THE PHILIPPINE Consulate the Consulate about the older • White Water Rapids Center and Joseph L. Cruz, is searching for a Filipino na_ Fajutag's case after his wife, president. Cabras Marine Corp. tional, reportedly missing in Evelyn, sought help to locate • And Much More! Herman J. Ehrlich was the the Northern Marianas for a him. highest vote-getter and will au year, to inform him that his The Consulate, however, tomatically serve on the son back home has died. does not have records on the ':' Chamber'? executive commit Hamilcar Fajutag Sr.'s 40- older Fajutag who last visited If you'd like to celebrate the holidays and the year 2000 In style, Norwest tee. year old son in Sucat, the foreign office in Feb. Financial can help. We have affordable loans available now In whatever Joseph A. Stoll Jr. will be the Paranaque, has already been 1998. amount you need to make this holiday season one to remember. small business representative on interned back in Sucat, Fajutag, according to the 2000 Chamber board. Paranaque. Santos, went to work on The 11 directors elected yes Hamilcar Jr, according to con Saipan, but filed a labor com So whether Its for holiday travel, shopping, entertainment or celebrating, terday will join eight holdovers sulate Acting Officer in Charge plaint Feb. last year. Norwest Financial Is the one to call. Apply today! and comprise the 2000 Cham Vice Consul Renell B. Santos, Santos added that members ber Board. has died more than three weeks of the Fajutag family has re $20.00 children (under 12) SPECIAL BONUS!! now and the family is seeking ported losing communication Close a loan for $300 or more between now and December 31, 1999, and the possibility of sending his with their father since last year. 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The Superior Court found ·tncome from alimony, child support, and separate maintenance need not be shown if you do not wish it considered as a basis for repayment. Granting of Jennarong Phummee argued that Phumee remained in the toan is subject to our credit requirements. If you have an existing account with us your new loan may be made by refinancing you existing account instead Be Faithful that the Attorney General's CommonwPalth beyond Sept. of as a 5eparate loan. Office and the Division of Im 20, 1988 expiration of his OFFER VALID MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY migration Services failed to employment entry permit. SAIPAN and use ...... show a basis for his deporta The court last Oct. 14 is Special valid for CNMI residents with ID only. NORWEST FINANCIAL Joeten Commercial Center tion. sued an order finding that the Persons under 18 years old must be accompanied by ••••• Dandan, Sa/pan Thai worker remained in the Condom. Phummee denied allegations at least one paying adult for waterpark passes. (670) 235-6030 • (670) 235-6040 (fax) that he worked illegally in vio Commonwealth without law •••••..., ful authority and is subject to Offer valid with other special promotions .. .. lation of the conditions of his entry permit. deportation. For more information call 234-7976 ext. 5104 Fltll)AY, NOVEMBER f9, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11 MVAx'mas takes part in Omeet candlelight Customs: Seized medicines up By Haldee V. Eugenio By Haldee V. Eugenio ficer, said the bulk of the confis the prohibited medicine are portation, Storage, Sales and Variety News Staff Variety News Staff cated medicine came from citi given the option of destroy Distribution of Drugs and Phar THE CNMI Food and Nutrition parade set WITH STRICTER Customs zens of mainland China, while ing the items here using in maceutical Products." Council's (FNC) subcommittee confiscation procedures, the the rest originated from Korea cinerator or send them back Under the said regulations, structure which has made its goals THE Marianas Visitors Author volume of banned over-the and the Philippines. to the place of origin at their any medicine with non-English implemented and succeed.became ity has annou need it will be spon counter and prescription drugs The Customs official said own expense. labels will be confiscated at the focus of the CNMI's presen- · soring the l 999Children 's Christ seized from passengers disem there might not be an actual in Customs said Chinese na any CNMI point of entry. Im ration of its own I 0-year national mas Candlelight Parade on De barking from the Saipan Inter crease in the volume of medi tionals tend to choose having ported prescription drugs are plari of action for nutrition cember 18, Saturday from 6:00 national Airport went up by cine coming in, but the stricter the i terns destroyed here rather also banned from the CNMI, (NPAN) at the recently-held p.m. to I 0:00 p.m. 114 pounds in just a one-month confiscation procedures at the than send them back to China unless they are accompanied World Health Organization The parade will start at the Bank period. airport resulted in the greater due to the cost it will entail, by registered doctor's prescrip (WHO) conference in Kuala of Guam parking lot and will head Customs Services yesterday volume of seized items from and some of these medicine tion, are consumable within 90 Lumpur, Malaysia. north towards the American Me disclosed that from a total of passengers. are also banned in their coun days and are intended only for Pamela Mathis, CNMI FNC. morial Park. All public and pri 395 pounds seized in Septem "Even if we are stricter than try. personal use. chairperson, was chosen to present vate elementary schools from ber, the figure climbed up to ever, they still bring in these Customs has been confiscat The law also prohibits the a paper based on the Council's grades K - 6 (5 - 11 years old) are 509 pounds last month. medicine," said Tenorio in an ing foreign medicine in line with entry of over-the-counter drugs organizational structure and its welcome to participate. Lt. Patrick Tenorio, Cus interview. the provisions of the "Rules and from foreign countries other plan of action for nutrition during Prize winning categories for this toms-Airport Enforcement of- Owners or consignees of Regulations Governing the Im- than the U.S. mainland. the workshop sponsored by WHO year's event will include; 1) Best last month. Costume, 2) Best Singing, and 3) "It is my belief that through the Best Christmas Spirit. Also in g JOETEN SHOPPING CENTER, SUSUPE • HAFA ADAI SHOPPING CENTER• DANDAN SHOPPING CENTER• CHALAN PIAO PLAZA• SAN VICENTE FOOD MART• PRICE COSTCO [5 fusion or experience of the com l! f2 cluded in this year's event will be w w mittee and community represen a Float competition. !z: !z: w w tatives, we not only learn how to Prizes for this year's event will u u > > implement our goals; we also suc include $1,000 for first place in z z ceed based on committee assign the float competition, $800 for "'"". "'"" ments," said Mathis. 2nd place and $700 for 3rd place. •Z•ITOEN The CNMI is one of the 29 Other prizes will include $500 CNMI Food and Nutrition Council Chairperson Pamela Mathis (third from left, second row, standing) joins participants to the World Health states, ccruntries, unions and is for best costume, $500 for best Organization's workshop on National Plans of Action for Nutrition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last month. contributed Photo lands worldwide which has cre christmas spirit and $500.00 for ated NPANs out of the original best song. A prize of $600 will be 159 which pledged to prepare or given for best overall, which is revise NPANs in 1992. the group who accumulates the Aside from the presentations of highest points in all three catego various countries or states during ries. the conference, group sessions The overall winner will be re also paved the way for exchange quired to participate in Christmas of information and experience of Caroling at hotels or at the NP ANS among the participants. Garapan Street Market upon the Some of the ideas also tossed request by the Marianas .Visitors JVC VIDEO CD SYSTEM w/ Digital Echo for Karaoke TOSHIBA M-455 4-HEAD out during the five-day confer Authority. ence were weight loss competi All registered participants are MX-V508T $469.00 VIDEO CASSETTE tion among politicians/popular required to submit the parental RECORDER consent form and must be submit MX-V608T people, more work with Customs $499.00 Year 2000 Compliance • on the importation and labelling ted to MV A office along with the MX-J585V Super VCD Universal Remote Control $159. 00 of food, nutrition presentations at school's registration form. $599. Association of Pacific Island Leg The deadline to register for the islatures and other regional fo float competition is December I, JVC BOOMBLASTER POWERED WOOPER CD SYSTEM TOSHIBA RICE COOKERS rum, and work with enyironmen 1999 and the deadline for the RC-126 6 cups· $55.95 tal groups. children's parade is on Friday,. 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Susupe • Tel. 235-1492 • Fax·235-1493 • OPEN 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM Daily faced a no confidence vote in Parliament...... f~NGUS ------~HILLED. BEE~.-I~ Yesterday morning Williams was still reluctant to resi.gn TARA WA (Pacnews) - The sparsely populated part of Christ environmental damage to the area opting instead to face the no confidence vote. Kiribati Government and Japan's mas Island. as well as allocate $AUS20,000 • NAP FOOD STAMPS =:, ' 20 Yo OFF .; . However, a meeting between the Prime Minister, his Deputy . , A P.M. DAILY , National Space Development NASDA will lease the area for ($US 12,882) towards an environ- • CNMI SENIOR CITIZEN CARDS SALE PERIOD: Nov. 19 •Dec. 3 ··- . ~ Tupou Faireka, Terepai Moate, the Leader of the Coalition Agency (NASDA) have finally 20 years. . . ment impact· assessment study Democratic Alliance Party (DAP) and New Alliance Party before the project begins. ----- agreed on the proposed multi During this period there will be <:::____ (NAP), and Norman George, the NAP leader, in Rarotonga later CALL __Jr a million dollar spaceport for J apa three separate reviews on the lease The space project, which is of yesterday afternoon resolved that· Williams would tender his nese rockets on Kirimati (Christ agreement. ficially called HOPE-X 235-1492 MEAT CUTTING resignation to avoid the no confidence vote against his Govern PROJECT, will be the biggest mas) Island, located about 3218 The space agency is also re ROOM ment. kilometres (2,000 miles) east of quired to build a new jetty for high-tech project of its kind in Williams handed his resignation to the Queens Representa FOR the capital, Tarawa. Kirimati Island and improve and Kiribati. OPEN 8 AM to 5 PM tive, Sir Apenera Short, at the Prime Minister's Office. A report in the Kiribati Gov maintain roads and the two air The spaceport on Kirimati Is SPECIAL CUTS Taste the difference DAILY Parliament resumed in the afternoon when Opposition Leader, ernment Bulletin said the two par ports on the island. land will be used as a return and Dr Terepai Moate was expected to be announced as the· new ties agreed to proceed with the Under the agreement Kiribati landing base for Japanese rockets Prime Minister of the Cook Islands. His Deputy will be Norman CERTIFIED ANGUS BEEF multi-million dollar project dur will receive $AUS 1.3 million launched into space from Japan George who severed ties with the ruling Cook Islands Party ing their recent final round of $US0.84 million) as an annual or other parts of the world. New YoRK STEAK (CIP) last month after he and another OAP Minister were sacked negotiations in Honolulu, Hawaii. service fee from NASDA, but this The rockets will be in the form by Williams. The Kiribati Government and will be paid at the eighth year of of self-piloted shuttles and will be CHILLED /LB There was no doubt that Williams Government would have $7.99 NASDA agreed that the space the project. used to transport comll!unications lost the no confidence vote if it had gone ahead. port will cover 80 acres of the NASDA will also pay for any satellites into space. · The Opposition coalition has the support of 14 Parliamentar ians in the 25-seat House. PEARS CERTIFIED ANGUS BEEF SAIPAN Moate and George will be sworn in by the Queens Represen Solomons Bose SHORTRIBS CHILLED FRESH PORK tative later today. . MEATY BONES CHILLED Moate will announce his Cabinet team later this afternoon. s1.09 Parliament $4.99 /LB· s2.39 sitting today us CERTIFIED ANGUS BEEF FROZEN HONIARA (Pacnews) - The WHOLE TOMATO CHERRY LONDON BROIL CHILLED Solomon Islands national Parlia AsoHos ment resumed its session today af /LB /LB ter a break. $1.29 $5.99 PACK The House session according to $2.59 CARS ._,- PLATENO. COLOR RETAILPRICE HERTZ WHOLESALE PRICE the national broadcaster, SIBC, will only last a few days. JEEP By yesterday afternoon, the Par APPLE liament office had received 01:iJy 954 DR STD CHEROKEE ABJ-668 Silver $15,250 $10,995 four Govemnient bills. Among the .99¢ /Ls Bills is the Supplementary Appro priation Bill of l 999. 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(AP)-Seeking Gore, Bill Bradley stood by lantic City casinos during I 8 buy insurance with the capped fraction of the poor and pa Institute poll had Giuliani ahead of requirement for a Senate run. to quiet speculation that Hillary his plan to eliminate Medic years in the Senate, declined amount of subsidy in tients often don't have primary Mrs. Clinton, 48 percent to 36 per The move-in date, according to Rodham Clinton may be having aid and accused the vice presi to condemn all gambling. "I Bradley's plan. care physicians, but are forced cent. A September poll by Siena her aides, hinges on when the Se dent Wednesday of playing buy a lottery ticket every now "What you' re seeing is con to rely on hospital emergency second thoughts about running for College had the mayor ahead, 43 cret Service completes security politics with a broken system and then," he chuckled. His stituency politics on the other rooms, he noted. Bradley sug the U.S. Senate, her spokesman percent to 40 percent, a statistical work on the property. that stigmatizes the poor and reading glasses propped low side,'' Bradley said. "I mean gested that his rival's critique said Wednesday that "this cam dead heat. Wolfson said Wednesday he did minorities. on his nose, Bradley re you know, just go down this hurt most because it deni paign is moving fu II-steam ahead." The telephone poll of 563 New not know when the work would be "He's wrong,'' Bradley said. sponded to Gore's escalating group, that group, that group, grated Bradley's "deep and "HillaryClintonhasmadeacom Yorkers over age 18 was conducted finished. The hiring of a campaign In sober tones, the former bas charges that Latinos, blacks that group - try to get that long-standing commitment" to mitment to the people of New York Nov. 8-11 and has a margin of error manager, however, may come ketball star described his and AIDS patients would be group against this group and helping minorities and the and when she makes a commit ofplusorminus4percentagepoints. sooner. presidential race as "the ulti devastated by the Joss of Med this group against that - not poor. ment, she keeps it," said Howard Meanwhile, advisers to Mrs. Although Wolfson declined to mate game" and issued his icaid. looking at the whole. "It's sad that (Gore) would Wolfson, spokesman for Mrs. Clinton have said they don't think comment, veteran New Yark po sharpest and most detailed de "He's wrong. He's defend And the whole is that people not respect that," Bradley said. Clinton's political committee. she can announce her candidacy litical operative Bill DiBlasio, fense of his $65 billion health ing something that needs to be would be better off if those In reply, Gore spokesman Asked whether that meant the first until she has moved into the house who ran President Clinton's New care plan. improved,'' said Bradley, who who were uninsured had a Chris Lehane ticked down a lady was definitely in next year's she and the president recently pur Yark re-election effort in 1996, Senate race, Wolfson replied, U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton (center) sits among Turkish women in a Bradley. in an interview would give low-income chance to be a part of the fed list: minorities, the poor, the chased in Chappaqua, which would classroom during a visit to a women's literacy center in the suburbs of has been mentioned as possible with The Associated Press, American-s subsidies to buy eral system." Bradley spoke disabled, senior citizens and "That's what I've got for you." satisfy the New York residency the Turkish capital Ankara Monday. AP hire. also eyed corporate tax loop health insurance in the private to AP reporters and editors those who are HIV-positive. Wolfson's statement came after holes as ripe for closing - market or from the Federal from his aides' typed page of "Each one of those groups a top supporter of Mrs. Clinton's "There are quite a lot there," Employees Health Benefits "talking points," on which he would be disproportionately expected Senate bid said she must Democratic Presidential hopeful quickly announce her candidacy, he noted - and said politicians Program. Bill Bradley ponders a question had jammed the margins with impacted and left out in the must start evaluating them This week alone, Gore gave during an interview with The As his own tight scrawl. cold if Senator Bradley's establish residency in New York each year "like any other - an interview on Spanish-lan sociated Press in Washington He reeled off policy minu health care plan was ever en andhireafull-timecampaignman spending program." guage radio, conducted an Wednesday. Up against a daily tiae with mastery. "Medicaid acted," Lehane said. ager to end speculation that she assault by Al Gore, Bradley stands may not run. He also said he opposes Internet chat with women and by his $65 billion plan to eliminate stigmatizes and says, if you 're Before racing to Atlanta's sports betting ··because I don't placrd ads on black radio sta Medicaid, saying "he's wrong, poor, you just got that. You predominantly black "All three of those things ought think athletes should be rou tions to spread the word that he's defending something that can't join this other system. Morehouse Medical School to happen simultaneously and as lette chips ... minorities and other groups needs to be improved." AP You've got to have this sepa- for a discussion of his health quickly as possible, like tomor and poverty initiatives, Brad row," state Comptroller H. Carl ley also made these points: - McCall said Wednesday in an in His use of corporate jets is terview. "completely legal, acceptable 'There's a very strong consen and fully reported" and not sus among her supporters that that incompatible with his call to needs to be done," McCall added. · ltmokes good sense to shop for the highest quality at the price, and ifs especially true SALE: November 19, 20, 21, 22, 1999 WH1~1;. 90PPL.li;.9 ~A9T · eliminate the political influ Wolfson said, lowest Super Savings!!! 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The Siena College Research - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-25 24-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 19 1999 s policy issues Bush gets donations AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - When with a verve unseen during his high Bush is by distilling material into University in 1968. George W. Bush prepped at school and college years. Kathleen single-volume binders, one labeled In 1975, he received a master's from 'air polluters' Andover, he setup a stickball league Hall Jamieson, an observeron po "Airplane Reading" that the gover in business administration from and dubbed himself "high com litical issues and rhetoric, said the nor carries while traveling. Harvard University. Critics say . CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - thor of the report, "Political for New Hampshire Public missioner.'· At Yale, he was a fra schooling shows that Bush is run Having taught law at Stanford, Bush has benefited notfrorn·smarts Texas Gov. George W. Bush Pollution." Interest Research Group, said ternity president and member of ning a smart campaign. "You'd been general tounsel for U.S. Trade but family connections. Admirers has received 79 percent of the Newbury calculated the to the industries are giving the secret Skull and Bones Society. like the campaign to help prepare Representative Carla Hills and say he is a sharp businessman adept money donated to presidential tals by examining individual heavily to Bush in hopes that, At Harvard Business School, one people to govern, and this is a thing served as trade counsel for the Sen at public relations. Bush says he is candidates by employees of oi I, campaign contributions, which if elected, he will resist image stands out in the yearbook: that helps people to govern - and it ate Finance Committee, Bolten has a leader who knows how to set a electric power and automobile require donors to list their em tougher pollution standards the two-term Texas governor and helps them survive the debates," seen his share of deep thinkers. To tone and, as governor since 1995, interests during the first nine ployers. being proposed by the U,S. would-be Republican presidential said Jamieson, dean of the his eyes, Bush measures up. "I to accumulate and spend political months of the year, said a re Bush's campaign did not im Environmental Protection nominee, sitting in the back of class, Annenberg School for Communi think he's got the heft. What he capital on a limited agenda. port Wednesday by two citi mediately return a telephone call Agency. zens' groups. blowing a bubble. On the cam cation at the University of Pennsyl does not have is the veneer of an ~ubbard said Bush is different from Wednesday for comment. Cam "If he is elected, these spe Bush received $521,714 of paign trail, Bush's carefree de vania. intellectual," said Bolten. when they attended business school paign spokeswoman Mindy cial interests will have special the $658,389 donated by work meanor and natural affability win The first classes for Bush con George W. Bush ''That's what gives people the together. "He was not a very Seri Tucker previously has re access to the next president," ers of companies belonging to him rave reviews and rock star-like vened last spring at the governor's impression he lacks the heft." ous student. sponded to criticism of Bush's Blackledge said. three trade organizations: the environmental record by saying adulation. mansion, a white Greek Revival National Security Council. She is Bush's tutors have some common He's changed a lot since then. Since Bush became gover American Petroleum Institute; that Texas has seen a IO percent nor in 1995, Houston has sur Bu this record as a school social home with porch columns that lend now the governor's chief foreign impressions: He asks as well as he Not his personality, buthis serious the Edison Electric Institute, ite, his recent fumbling over the a university air. The instructors in policy adviser. listens, he can delve into the minu ness about what he's doing voca-· reduction in industrial pollution passed Los Angeles as the which represents electric utili names of world leaders and slip cluded a variety of experts in for The cram sessions continue, an tiae as well as frame the big picture, tionally," Hubbard said. As Bush and leads the nation in reducing country's smoggiest city, ac ties and power plant owners; the release and-disposal of toxic ups such as calling Greeks '·Gre eign affairs, economics and social chored by outsiders such as and he isn't embarrassed to admit attempts to ma,ke th~ move from cording to the J 999 U.S. En and the Alliance of Auto Manu cians" have raised a question: Does and domestic issues. Lawrence Lindsey, a former Fed what he doesn't know. Austin to Washington, he has.been waste since he became gover- · vi ronmen ta l Protection facturers, said the report by the Bush have the intellectual heft to At the core are fellows at eral Reseive System governor who "He's not afraid to say, 'Explain aggressive about bolstering his nor. Agency Toxic Release Inven New Hampshire Citizens Alli be leader of the free world? Left Stanford's conservative Hoover advises Bush on economic mat that again,' or, 'Lindsey, give me policy background. All major candidates except tory Report. ance and the Iowa Citizen Ac unanswered, it can be politically Institution, notably George Shultz, ters, and Al Hubbard, an India that in English,'" Lindsey said. The sessions at the governor's Republican Steve Forbes took Four other Texas cities are· tion Network Foundation, damaging, as former Vice Presi who was former President Reagan's napolis businessman with a bent Bush, 53, did not want for a top mansion e~lier this year were al money from these employees. on the verge of violating fed which supports changing cam dent Dan Quayle found. secretary of state, and Condoleeza for domestic policy. Bush also has education. He attended prep school most military in their bearing: Six Vice President Al Gore, who is eral air quality standards. En paign finance laws. To quiet the speculation, Bush Rice, who worked for Bush's fa built an in-house policy team, led at Phillips Academy in Andover, minutes for opening remarks, 25 seeking the Democratic presi vironmental groups also have The groups attributed sup dentia-1 nomination, received the has been attending policy school ther, former President Bush, at the by Josh Bolten. One way he helps Mass., and graduated from Yale minutes for one subject, 30 min criticized Bush's plan to regu utes for another, a 20-minute clos port for the two-term Texas second-highest total, $56,025, late Texas industrial plants that ing to review the material presented. governor to his lead in public about one-tenth of Bush's total. are too old to be covered by the Topics included health care, social opinion polls and what they Republican Arizona Sen. John state's 1971 Clean Air Act. policy, tax reform. "When we have described as his sub-par envi McCain received $26,550; Re State regulators had been ronmental record. these meetings, it's not just him publican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, considering mandatory re "He has a record in Texas sitting there," Lindsey said. $21,000; Democrat Bill Brad strictions, but Bush intervened that most· environmental ley, $20,950; and Republican Republican presidential candidate Gov. Geroge W. Bush, of Texas, "He gets proactive and has an and asked industry lea:ders to groups would say is not very Gary Bauer, $12,150. Steve draft their own, voluntary greets supporters outside the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. last week. inquiring mind." Domestic issues Bush addressed the crowd after filing his papers andpaying the $1,000 good,'' said Tris Newbury, au- appear to havecomeeasiesttoBush. Blackledge, program director standards. fee to be on the ballot in the nation's earliest presidential primary Feb. He runs the second largest state in 1, 2000. 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We give you the best price or Email to: [email protected] visit us at "They are attacking women and - Adult: $22.00 / Kids: $10.00 http://[email protected] children, aren't they?" Answer in n !E~~!-:-!D~R~~!~~ hand, he resumed the interview whether you have a trade-in or not! On Beach Road in Garapan 234-7133 and said, "Condi Rice is shaking her head in agreement." NATION , 26-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 19 1999 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-27 US budget deal reached US budgets $100B on Y2K repairs lion on Y2K repairs. WASHINGTON (AP) - Cap "Jack Lew (President Clinton's get bill, complicating efforts to gain $ I 00 billion was "absolutely" a ·'The greatest cost to our ping marathon, year-end budget budget director) and I just made the passage. lot of money, but added that talks. congressional Republicans deal," the New Mexico Republi The emerging budget deal repre economy is behind us," said "the potential cost of not doing and the White House cleared the can said in the Capitol shortly be- sented a classic political compro Daley. He acknowledged that anything was far greater." last l-a1own obstacle Wednesday fore midnight. · mise·, crafted to allow both sides to night to agreement on a $390 bil "... The budget bill has been claim victory. lion budget bill with a small across agreed to." An adminislration offi The White House could boast of the-board cut in federal programs. cial, Linda Ricci, confirmed that increased spending for teachers and ~ARONEL Sen. Pete Domenici, chairman agreement had been reached on the police, the elimination of several of the Senate Budget Committee, .so-called flexibility issue. She environmental riders sought . by WATCH & SUNGLASS OUTLET said the deal was sealed after Re added that White House officials Republicans, and the release of publicans agreed to White House were continuing to read the re long-overdue money for the United BLOW -OUT SALE demands for additional flexibility mainder of the massive bill "with a Nations. Even with the cuts, spend November 19 to 30, 1999 in the application of the across-the close eye" to make sure earlier Jack Lew Pete Domenici ing would rise roughly $32 billion board cuts. agreements funding Clinton's pri- more in fiscal 2000 than last year. . W A T C H E S orities were included accurately. individual account - more than Republicans claimed they crafted Fossil, ShoopyOpex Republicans said they would push the 5 percent envisioned earlier. a budget that did not dip into the Dyrar;nouse the measure to a roll call on Thurs While steps have been taken to Social Security trust fund, that · 2for$50 2for$20 C@si)> day in the House-one ofa trio of grant Clinton greater flexibility, he achieved across-the-board cuts and bills to be voted on in a rush to said the agreement also incl.udes that won restrictions on funding for Saipan Supply, Inc. adjourn for the year. provisions to make sure that con overseas abortions. Esprit. Swatch The budget bill will be expanded TEL. NO. (670) 235-7796 / 97 FAX NO. (670) 235-7798 gressional priorities did-not bear a 2for$80 2for$25 to include ·unrelated legislation disproportionate burden of the cuts. restoring billions in Medicare cuts, "I would assume the administra Senate nixes Fi~h Akteo, Joe Boxer, authorizing State Department pro tion statement will be supporting Qlocks, Kitch~ri Tamaguchr Boy·London grams and approving conlrover it," Domenici said. Disputes over food merger John Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council of Year 2000 Conversion, meets with reporters during llrn~~. UNIQUE MOLAVE WOODEN BENCH, SWING, sial dairy. provisions, GOP offi federal support programs for dairy a media tour of the White House's Y2K crisis center in Washington Monday. President Clinton's top expert · .·····>2,fot,$15 2tor$30 GARDEN WHEEL BENCH, COFFEE TABLE, cials said. farmers pitted Northeasterners moratorium cautions against panic if people discover minf!r problems during the New Year's weekend. AP WHEEL TABLE, ALL IDEAL FOR COMMERCIAL A second bill would keep gov against midwestern lawmakers in S U N G .. L .A S S ·. AND RESIDENTIAL DECORATION •.. WASHINGTON (AP) - The ernment agencies in money forup both houses. hedge against possible supply $5 billion in 1995 and peaked Senate today soundly rejected a :Ct-1Rfst1AN ALSO WE HAVE IDEAL DECOR FOR GARDEN, 7 to five or six days, enough time for Senate Democratic Leader Tom problems - could affect the "pat last year and this year at about ..· :tlJ~N~ ... ·.. 'Mx~§AN DWARF ON TREES & MUSHROOMS, proposed 18-month moratorium DIOR. congressional leaders to grapple Daschle, D-S.D., had told report tern and timing" of economic $30 billion each. DECORATIVE PLANT POTS, ORCHID WALL HANG on mergers of food and agricul .·2tot$25 .•···•··Jfor$70 & HALF MOON POTS, POTTERY, BEAUTIFUL with a threatened filibuster on the ers earlierhe thoughtthe bill "prob growth. It was predicted to drop next 2for$99 ture companies that Midwest MADE HOME BIRDS FOR GARDEN, SWAN VASE. budget bill in the Senate. ably wouldn't pass the Senate" Those rising expenditures, year to about $5 billion. The Democrats argued are squeezing . Store Hours: 1O:OOAM - 9:00PM The third piece of legislation unless some provision was made to for example, could add to federal government has sai°d pre ALSO AVAILABLE: farm income. ' 2nd Floor La Fiesta San Roque Shopping Center would extend a series of expiring help satellite television viewers in growth during the last three viously it will spend $8.4 bi!- ANIMAL FEED, VITAMINS, TEE PEE ASSORTED "If you want to help farmers, COLORS •.. tax breaks, including one that rural states. months of 1999 but likely would grants credits for research and de And Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a fierce this is not the way to do it," said slow it during the first months K. D. PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY LUMBER velopment. In an interview in the defender of West Virginia's eco Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon of 2000 to compensate. PLYWOOD EXTERIOR I INTERIOR Republican who made millioni.in WATER LINE, SEWER LINE, STEAM LINE PIPE & Capitol, Domenici said total cuts nomic interests, sought inclusion Shapiro also said consumers WELDED FITIINGS will amount to 0.38 percent of of a provision to help mining com the frozen foods business. The who decide to stockpile food, BLACK STEEL PLATE, GREASE TRAP, overall spending throughout hun panies in his state - an amend Senate voted 71-27 against at water or other supplies could dreds of government programs, ment that other lawmakers said taching the moratorium to a bank drive up prices in the final six ... BATH TUB AND OTHER SELECTED PLUMBING ruptcy reform bill. FIXTURES: although accounts covering mili was detrimental to the environment. William Daley weeks of this year. FRENCH WINDOW BRONZE, WHITE FINISH. tary personnel will be shielded While Byrd's amendment was Many producers are blaming· Another government report, from any reductions. apparently being omitted from the the shrinking number of food pro being released Thursday, pre WE ACCEPT SPECIAL ORDERS cessors and farm suppliers for a AMEX I VISA ACCEPTED The administration will be able final bill, the other issues seemed WASHINGTON (AP) - The dicted only a slight risk of "se to cut up to 15 percent from any certain to be grafted onto the bud- severe downturn in the· agricul government pinned a stagger rious or widespread disruptions" tural economy. ing $100 billion price tag in the nation's food supply. "We've got to do something Wednesday on the nation's repair Consumer hoarding and Shell about getting some competition bills for the Year 2000 technol weather-related problems could back into the food industry," said ogy problem, or $365 for each cause spot shortages, but food . 'i, ~~'.t .-A\ i/J ~~E·· :.. CARMEN'S Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn. man, woman and child. For all companies have made "remark !PU CH Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said that, the Commerce Department able progress" in getting their companies "are choking the eco predicted the impact ofY2K com computerized systems ready, the nomic life out of the little guy, the puter failures on the economy report said. President Clinton's little producer. would be merely "something like top Y2K expert, John Koskinen, ·• .. Saturday, Sunday (Nov. 20, 21 f Why? Because they can." a tangled shoelace for a world also cautioned Wednesday that 10:00 ~m - 5:00pm Economists, however, say that class marathon runner." "several hundred thousand" worldwide overproduction of In a new report, the govern smaller companies nationwide All merchandise on our grain, not agribusiness consoli ment said America's booming have not performed any repairs dation, has driven down commod economy was sufficiently '"stable, and apparently intend to fix park.inglot/sidewalk ity prices. The moratorium would large and resilient'" that failures - problems after they occur. Friday Only !H November 19 have applied to all mergers where even those overseas - will not Koskinen warn~d that busi one company had net revenue of seriously affect the nation's $9 ness owners will find long waits 50% Off more than $100 million and the trillion gross domestic product. for technical support and new 20% OFF Regular Price'... other had more than $10 million. "Any glitches that pop up next equipment in the earliest weeks :~;Saturday/Sunday November 20. 21, 19Q,9,:,···-. Midwest Democrats say the Jus year should not hurt our economic of the new year, and "some of ·Entire Stock of: Car Seats, Strollers> .. Additional 1Oo/o off ..... ,._._, tice Department hasn't done growth," Commerce Secretary them may lose their customers enough to curb a recent wave of William Daley said. and go out of business." ·· Eribs, Playards, Hi~h Chairs, Dress~<- o(l aJ;I R~p T~ Sal~ agribusiness mergers and acqui "I am not going to lose any "We are getting close to it sitions, including the purchase by sleep." The $100 billion figure being too late to start," said "'-:in~ Tables, Cradles, Bassinets, and::., -'/ 1pfner.cllandise giant grain trader Cargill Inc. of for total repairs from 1995 through Koskinen, chairman of the TROPICAL MILK COFFEE one of its major competitors. 2001 was generally in line with President's Council on Year 11 l/ \' Carr·1er sw-1n ~ ':1/':,,.·,,,.•,,u.~._'-- Justice is currently reviewing other estimates but still is an 2000 Conversion. another deal in which the nation's enormous amount. Daley's generally optimistic largest pork processor, Smithfield Private analysts last month put remarks mirror statements made Foods Inc., would take over its the figure at $114 billion. It during past month, by top U.S. Carmen's Baby News nearest competitor. roughly is the same as the total financial leaders. The Monsanto Co., a major sup spent last year by seven of the Federal Reserve Chairman Chalan Kanoa, Beach Road plier of seed and farm chemicals, largest federal agencies and just Alan Greenspan, for example, Tel: 235-7314 is reportedly in merger talks with more than the personal fortune has warned that stockpiling and (Puerto Rlco,'Dan Dan, Koblerville San Roque, Susupe, Gualo Rai) STORE HOURS: some of its competitors. of Microsoft's chairman, Bill inventory hedging against pos Mon-Fri. - 10:00-7:00 • Saturday - 9:00-7:00 Justice Department officials Gates. sible failures could cause more Sunday - 10:00-6:00 have told Congress that existing Commerce Undersecretary trouble than the Y2K glitch it antitrust laws are adequate to pro Robert J. Shapiro said some self. tect the interests of farmers and Y2K precautions - such as com The new report said spending consumers. Sunn;'Wh::tesale panies adjusting inventories to on Y2K repairs climbed from e WUUIU !J!UVJUC: LIIC: :Si::Ulle Ut:ll umll recenuy' me tnergy ue efitS to affected workers and partment had refused to ac contract employees who worked knowledge that some workers' 1 1 for the Defense Department. health problems were linked to 1...1.lt.• ..:.l.·.····M·'.r ...i. .··.o··.:.·.~.•.:.•.. .•.•.w .•.•.'.• .. .•.m.".' .•... •.t... l.~.•.·.•.r.:~.·.l.•. ·.r···.·.~ .. ~.•.~.•.·.·...i.•:.;: 11 l.--....: ...•. •.:.· .•. .•.•. k.~.·.ij.~...•.i.l ...... l..•... "This is an incredibly good work at the weapons plants. l~~)~;=4;r5 1 ~.~ •... ·.·.·... ..· ..· ....·.·.·.····""' ..· .· •.•.··e· ..••.tu· ..•.······.·o•·.· .•·.·.•lhs ....•..•·.anroer .....• .. ·.· .. • .... •s·.·· .. ·e·.··.·.. v·.··.··.N ...•...e•.·.·.· ..·n.. e·.····w .•. •.•.".·.· ..··.·.•.·.-·.· ..•·.Heb .••...·~.·•.·.e·.·.··.·.·.·.·.·s·.·.n.".·.· ...··.~.·1· ..." ...... •.:, ••. ·~···.·.·.·.:., .•••.•• .• • .••.•.· •.•.t ... • · ~•,u ...... "wt:• ., ".~1e..iji\ / / \ii : Hi· start, but it is just that- a start. It "Hopefully, this action will i~ ~'i~~( •. wi~~\~mg~··•iji ··•••.•.•.···••••••••·'•'•µi·.·.a·f$~p~r~t¢•••.·st~t;m¢P1•• is not the end of the story," said help redeem defense workers' Kaptur. faith in American government," Royal Canadian Mounted Police riot squad members douse protesters Richardson said the Justice said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D with pepper spray as they try to break through police lines on Parlia ment Hill Wednesday. About 300 people demanding federal money for Department is still looking at I4;iliirl,~illli Ohio. low-income housing confronted about 100 RCMPs. AP ·· •. IJxli;.¢:aiir,: 13Q~i@l @*at~\V; ~fr E§r¢~ gat,fSii!M¥§2i!If••• Bill Richardson •.•Riepl·····§f••I1~mdgii;••••·Kafu;•.·petty·····••·. ••ta~•. of.~p#lid} .• ()i;#;;liii . . China's membership in the glo "This cannot be called a con under the accord will still need up to WTO terms will grow if Chinese learned a hard lesson: If A N N O U N _C E M E N T Banned China sect bal trading club could be tarred by . cession. Following the rules is the government-issued licenses. recalcitrant state factories go un you don't comply with interna broken or hedged promises. duty of every responsible nation." Capital controls and the incon der in dizzying numbers and un tional practices and international -- Take the international treaty The, same .protections that WTO vertibility of the yuan will dampen employment soars, Chang said. laws, you will get punished," said To all MIFICPA Members & Filipino Accountants banning trade in endangered ani membership affords other coun- foreign bankers' interests. But China, as negotiator Long China International Capital's Xu. mals, which is spottily enforced, tries will also protect Chinese "In the end of the day, they noted, is in need of foreign capital "There 'II be no more lending from members protest or the 1995 intellectual property exports, ventures and markets have a million ways to write rules and has to play by the rules to foreign banks." Even if China ends •WHAT General Membership Assembly US-CPA Review/Examination Symposium protections with the United States, abroad, Long argued. to frustrate an agreement," said attract it. up with a mixed record in WTO, terofHuman Rights and Demo BEUING (AP)-Gathering fur liefs or face arrest. which had to be renegotiated in Although U.S. trade negotia Gordon Chang, a Beijing-based Investors' fervor for China the People's Republic would But followers have converged cratic Movement in China said. •WHEN November 20, 1999, Saturday tively before police could catch 1996. But there are encouraging tors called the agreement "com lawyer with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, cooled further after the trading hardly be alone. 1:00PM - 5:00PM on the capital to appeal, arguing In the northeastern city of them, severa: members of the signs. prehensive," China still can slow Wharton and Garrison. arm of a wealthy provincial gov Japan joined the world trade banned Falun Gong spiritual that Falun Gong is not a threat and Shenyang, Miao Qisheng was •WHERE Multi-Purpose Center, Susupe, Saipan China's communist leaders inroads by foreign companies. "China will find itself in per ernment collapsed. Foreign lend system 45 years ago and still has movement staged a brief protest improves health and morality. facing trial for allegedly orga have expended much political Financial and telecommunica petual litigation in WTO dispute ers to GffiC are still trying to disputes with the United States •AGENDA Election of MIFICPA Officers for year 2000 today in Beijing's Tiananmen The written appeal by the Falun nizing a "second line of resis capital to overcome domestic op- tions firms given greater leeway panels." Pressures to delay living recover $3 billion in debt. "The and other trading partners. Orientation & Overview of US-CPA Review/Examination Square. Gong member, who did not give tance" by Falun Gong against , RESOURCE SPEAKER MR. RICHARD WALDO, CPA, MBA In the latest act of defiance his name, said fellow adherents the government's campaign, the • U.S. Cenified Public Accountant against the government's four were leaving their homes and jobs, group said. • Master of Business Administration, UCLA-USA month campaign to vanquish the sometimes walking or bicycling In Hebei province, adjacent • Experienced College/University Instructor • Experienced U.S. & Guam CPA Reviewer group, four women, a man and a from distant cities, in their quest to Beijing, five Falun Gong • Owned & Operated Lambers CPA Review young child performed slow medi to defend the movement. members were charged with dis • Founder- Richard Waldo Video CPA Review tation exercises on the vast It said members were Jiving in closing state secrets. The center square's pavement. an "environment of absolute ter identified them as Zhang He, • REGISTRATION FEE $ l 0.00 for MIFICPA members 7Tlt ANNUAL LA FiESTA $15.00 for non-members Plainclothes and uniformed po ror." Five suspected Falun Gong Song Yunsuo, Fan Huaqin, Liu lice quickly hustled them into a members in the northeastern city Zesheng and Hua Yinkuang. • DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION November 19, 1999 van and drove them away. "We of Changchun were arrested in Other arrests were reported in • FOR REGISTRATION/INFORMATION, please contact any of the appeal to international society and the past two weeks, the state-run Yinchuan city, in remote north following: to kind people who uphold justice newspaper Science and Technol western Ningxia province, and FEsTivAl of LiGltTs Maro dela Torre 234-5262 Nestor Alegre 234-9797 to support Falun Gong believers ogy Daily reported today. in Qiqiha 'er, in the northeast Adie Tabamo 234-5273 Val Cruz 234-0692 who have been persecuted ruth Those arrested included X.u ern province of Heilongjiang, it Saturday, 6:00PM Lydia Gargar 235-7878 Noemi Catigan 323-0010 lessly," a member of the move Yanquan, who it said headed the said. Participants are advised lo bring pens & calculators ment who watched but did not movement in Changchun, the Falun Gong, an offshoot of take part in the demonstration said hometown ofFalun Gong founder traditional schools of slow-mo Light Refreshments will be served in a written appeal handed to a Li Hongzhi and a stronghold for tion exercise, was practiced Join. us as we turn on over .. a:miU10 igb~" to Ritk off the holiday season! foreign reporter. the group. openly in public parks and park, SECUREWEST INTERNATIONAL Chinese media and a human Three others -Zhang Guo Jiang, ing lots before the ban. 6:30 - 6:45 §-tC Eleni~~t~ty ChditPerformance The Pacific's professional security company rights group reported that 16 Falun Deng Jin and Lu Yuzhong - were It blends ideas from Buddhism Gong adherents in cities across accused of selling Falun Gong and Taoism with those of its 6:45 - 7:30 Performance by the GLI3 Dancers Is proud to annouce openings for the position of: the country had been formally publications, the newspaper said. founder, who now lives in the 7:30 - 8:30 The Ferdinand's Band Performances arrested on various charges, in A Hong Kong-based human United States. · cluding disclosing state secrets, rights group reported that 11 other Stung by its inability to wipe MARITIME SECURITY OFFICERS incitement to create disorder, or Falun Gong members were fac out Falun Gong, Chinese lead 5 openings at $4.50 per hour ganizing illegal gatherings and ing trial in cities across the coun ers intensified their crackdown All other positions are at $3.50 per hour sales of illegal publications. try. last month - ordering new ar Sincebanningthepopulargroup Authorities in Suining county rests, branding the group '"an in July as a threat to society and in the eastern province of Jiangsu evil cult" and having the Com We are looking for dedicated, loyal and hardworking the regime, the communist gov charged Ding Deze and Ma Jie munist Party-dominated legis people who are willing to be team players. Trans ernment has ordered millions of with "using an evil cult to violate lature revise a law on sects to portation and communications a must. A Police believers to renounce their be- . the law," the Information Cen- provide harsher penalties. is on all over La Fiesta including Clearance less than 30 days old must be submitted with your application. We have openings for both FENDI Sale Nov. 21-22 Full and Part Time. Report: 4 held in killing of lensman (50%-90% Off) on died later at a hospital, accord Residents only need apply. SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Xinhua said. Four people have been arrested ing to Hong Kong press reports. Arrested were Yang Zuohui. in the killing of a freelance Hong Three men and a woman con Liu Qingchao,ZhangAidongand Mail resume to: PMB 384 PPP Box 10000 Saipan Kong photographer in southern fessed to the killing aftei: being Chen Lijun, the report said. It MP 969590 China, the state Xinhua News detained in the eastern city of didn't give any details about them or fax to: (670) 235-3239 Agency said Wednesday. Hangzhou near Shanghai when or say what charges they would Wong Chak-bong, in his 40s, one was found to have a false face. Or pick up an application from our office. We are was stabbed during a robbery identification document during Wong, a freelancer, had worked located on As Lita Road in As Lita just south of Nov. 11 in the border city of .1 routine police inspection of for the Sing Tao Daily News and Lucky Market and Valley Inn. Shenzhen near Hong Kong and taxis and their passengers, Hong Kong magazines. -·-·--- . . . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, J 999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-39 38-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 19, 1999 Thai province tries to Malaysian poll body sued KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia cess and upholds the constitution, tion, the National Front, has held banded together to challenge The Election Commission de (AP)-An outspoken economist I believe I will be successful," power since the Southeast Asian Mahathir. Anwar is serving a six nies that its position has anything shake off dog meat tag allied with Malaysia's opposition Joma told reporters. nation became independent in year sentence for corruption and to do wi'th politics. Wan Ahmad sued the country's Election Com About 680,000 citizens, mostly 1957. is currently on trial for sodomy, a Wan Omar, the commission's sec BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) trade, though it is legal. Sakhon Nakhon for its dog meat mission today, seeking to halt young people who turned 21 re Since the prime minister fired crime in this predominantly Mus retary, said today that he \s confi A Thai province notorious for Health officials would explain market,'.' said Vuttichai. '"This is very elections later this month because cently, signed up during Anwar in September 1998, how lim nation., dent no Jaws had been broken. He canine cuisine is stepping up a to people that since the meat bad for the province's reputation, and nearly 700,000 new voters were Malaysia's voterregistration drive ever, Malaysians have protested Anwar denies the charges, say said the commission's legal ad campaign to shake off its reputa mostly comes from strays, it is we are ttying to change it" · not being allowed to participate. in April. openly against the government ing they are part of a plot to quash viser would respond to the law tion as the place in Thailand to eat riddied with parasitic worms, Unlike in some other Asian The Election Commission has But the Election Commis and opposition parties have his political challenge to Mahathir. suit. man's best friend. Vuttichai said. cultures, such as Korea where dog claimed it cannot complete a new sion has maintained that only The local government in Traders, who also sell the skins is regarded as a delicacy, it is less voter registration roll until Janu the 9.7 million people already COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLJ\NDS Sakhon Nakhon province in for leather, will face more strin- · prized in Thailand for its taste ary - too late for the Nov. 29 poll on the list for the 1995 polls OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF PUBLIC WORKS Thailand's poor northeast is try gentrnonitoringofhow they trans than its cheapness. called recently by Prime Minister could vote. ing to clamp down on the many port dogs and slaughter them for Dog meat sells for 50 baht ($ Mahathir Mohamad. The opposition alleges that the vendors in its famous dog meat sale in the sprawling market, 1.30) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), The civil lawsuit was filed on delaywasaploytokeepoutyoung INVITATION FOR BIDS market and persuade people that which local people say originated compared with 80 baht ($ 2.05) behalf of economist Jomo voters, many of whom are be DPWOO·IFB-006 eating dog noodle soup and other with Vietnamese settlers. for a kilogram of pork. Sundaram, one of the potential lieved to have turned against dishes is bad for your health. The provincial governor, anx Devious butchers looking to voters who will not be able to Mahathir over the ouster and ar Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Department of Public Works and the Department of Lands & Vutthichai Sithi-art, an official ious to dispel Sakhon Nakhon's save money travel 540 kilometers participate in the election. No date rest last year of his popular deputy, Natural Resources, are solictting sealed bids for the construction of Kagman Watershed Waterway Dand Sediment Basin No. 2, on the island at the provincial administration reputation as Thailand's dog meat (335 miles) to the province from was set for a hearing. The petition Anwar Ibrahim. of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. office, said Wednesday that po capital, is urging the Iriterior Min Bangkok to buy dog meat in bulk was filed by Karpal Singh, a law "The Election Commission, in The project package is available on or after Tuesday, November 23, 1999 at the Technical Services Division, Department of Public Works, lice, veterinarians, public health istry to issue a regulation prohib and mix it with other kinds of yer and opposition member of having to comply with the wishes Lower Base, Saipan. A non-refundable payment of two hundred fifty dollars (US$250.00J is required for each set; payment must made to the and factory standards staff were iting sale of the meat. meat they sell in the Thai capital, Parliament with the Democratic of the prime ministernot to allow CNMI Treasurer and a receipt of payment must be presented when obtaining the project package. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 10:00 joining forces to help end the "Everyone in Thailand knows Vuttichai sai~. Action Party. the 680,000 new voters to vote in a.m., Tuesqay, November 30, 1999 at the DPW Conference Room, Gualo i;!ai Office. Attendance at the Pre-bid Conference is strongly In the petition, Jomo argues that the 10th general election, has encouraged for all prospective bidders. All questions regarding this project must be submitted in wrtting to the Director of DPW Technical barring him from voting was a brought shame and infamy to Services Division, Lower Base, Saipan or faxt (670) 322-3547 no later than 4:30 a.m., on the date of the Pre-Bid Conference. violation of his constitutional Malaysia," said the Democratic An original and two copies of sealed bids must be submitted to the Office of the Director, Division of Procurement & Supply, Lower Base, rights. "If the judiciary is con Action Party's leader, Lim Kit Saipan no later than 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 14, 1999 al which time and place the bids will be publicly opened. cerned about the democratic pro- Siang. Mahathir's ruling coali- A bid security of fifteen percent (15%) of the bid amount must accompany the bid. This securfty may be Certified Check, Cashier's Check or Bid Bond. Checks must be made payable to the CNMI Treasurer with the name of the bidder on the face of the 'Check and a notation: "Credit Account No. 4466." Bid Bond must be executed by a U.S. Tresury approved surely. Ba nit of Hawaii .::.:.:.:-.:_;;-:_:.-;-;::::.-:-::·::.:.··· The responsible bidder, as determined by the government, submitting the lowest responsive bid will be awarded a contract with the CNMI THE BANK OF THE PACIFIC® Government. Such bidder will be required to deliver Performance and Payment bonds, each equal to 100% of the conlract price. Payment and Performance Bonds must be executed by a U.S. Treasury approved surety. Performance time for completion of this project is one hundred eighty (180) calendar days. Liquidated damages will be assessed one hundred fifty dollars (US$150.00) per calendar day for ea~h FOR BID VEHICLE day that the project is delayed beyond the established completiondate. 0 1 To be SOLD AS IS and where is conditioned This project is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service (USDA·NRCSJ with •..• •..•.•· .....•.: ffrm·u·... ..•••·.•• .•••••• a.E' .• n·,·· ..•• ••·.c.· •..· ...•. ·.,.',IJIN.· •••t.·te.·· ..•· ..·s······ ..• ....• •..···,.·.··a®a.·· ..·.·.·.· ... · •..· ,n·•..•.. ··.,.· ... ·.·s ..··.. • ..·e··,t,.G•.·.fo·w·······w······ ·"'•..• •..·• ..• •..•.·.····t ..e.·· ..w···e• ...... • e.·· ...••. ·s·..····er'·'·.···· ..·.·., .•:· .. ...· •.·.···po·•.~ "~ ..· ... o.,·· •. •••• .•• ,.·.·.·•.··.h···· ..·•· .. 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The Government reserves the right to reject any or all li1l!il'Pt!BY~tr far ..• 1¢At9f$;'{iW~~~~;t~~d/·/·· bids and lo waive any imperfection in bid proposal that does not effect the elements of price, quantity, and delivery of the bid, in the best Minimum Bid Reguired, Please call Bank of interest of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Hawaii at Tel. 322-4220 extension 262 '61<1*illiey!,(<,t" ,.l.1t.:.11a.r.••..a.t. Isl JOSEPH P. ROSARIO Isl DR. JOAQUIN TENORIO isl HERMANS. SABLAN Myanmar migrants carry their belongings as they make their way on the bank of the Moei River, bordering Acting Secretary of Public Works Secretary of Lands & Nat. Resources Director, Procurement & Supply The Bank reserve the rights Thailand and Myanmar, after being deported for entering and working illegally in Thailand's Mae Sot town. 0 ···,bw•I.·.. .. ·.u·········ne··.··1···~·.·····tr·s···· .•.· .. ; ..·.t··.t.··.~···:·b·.····'·r··p.· ••. r.·n············ .•.. · .. •.· ... s.gt······1·,..·,:·.'...·J:·.·.rr·en····g·············.s·e·.j····t.:.·.i.••.·.c.•.t.m··u·······i····· ..,,· ...• ... a.,.•... ··,,··.···· ...•. er.·.·.·.· •...•. x ...... · ············.·cs····.·.· .. au·.·.··· .•.··.1 ..·t··d·'•·1····.·.v..·.·······.·······ea···.·.·.· ..•.. •.•.•.·.•.• ..• +4@§W~t $#.IT!¢~ prqyid~rriri. AP t.•. r.....·.· ...... 9 to refuse any and all Bids V V ~V V ~~ili ,1:1 1 ~,-~wr~~ Closing date will be on 11/19/99 at 5:00PM P9. B:~ il~r&~rwig~ ?ioi~. l.ice99fi ff9ffi T~~trt¢tii:,nS/llS PNne.~~ COMMONWEALffl PORTS AUTHORITY ,/ ·J 0 ~~iwtJf~:...... 't.JtJli~!{•W~~§!rgtofh ······················ ...... /jfl iCd.0 .•.·••.·.•·.·.mcum•.•.·.••..•·.•.·.m·.·.•·.· ..••.·.•.•.•.1.·e· ... ..t·.•.nrn .. •.·.·.·t..··• .. Y.•·.. ·s·.•.n.• ..-m·•.·.·· ..•~.•.•.··a.·· ..••.•.·• .. ·.·•... •...... p·•.· .. • .. •.. •...h.•·.·.• ....•. •.. a .••.. ·..•... •.. s.. •.. •..•.·· •.e.•. ·.· ....•· ..• •.. •.··.. •.•.•.·.l.· ....•..... n... ·..·• .. ·.• ... •.. •... ·..: ....•.,·.•.• ... ·.•·•·•.••.·.·•.·· .. t....•. •.h.. ·····.·.·.·•.. e... •.· .. ••.• .. PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY CNMI GOVERNMENT . ' e REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS .\ •.•",,.,...... •"·.·.· .. ,· •. r.·.·.. ·.1.... ·.··.·.. ·.· .. ·.·.. ·.·.· .. ·•· .• 'd.. :.1.· ...f ...... f1.·.•. c·.··.. ·.u.· ....·... r ... · ...r· ....··.•.•.• ...·• .... •.",.....·o.·· .... ·.. r·.·.. ·.•.... •...... •.... •...... u... ·.... n· .. ·.·.1· .. ·.c··.·... o· .... ·..·.·m ... ·•.·.· .. ·....· .. •.....• •·.•.·.· •.1· ... o·.•·.·.•. '.• .. ·.· •.. ·· <:•.·E'''''' .•.. µro~+rYLYRr? ,,,,.,,,·,, .•,11. ·.·. ··b···b·1········' •.•~ ...... Js~./~ . k' ' For a High-Speed Runway Vacuum Sweeper for the Saipan International Airport l INVITATION TO BID . \ ••·•••·•·•·§iin.i.!~t¢I~.~?9Jr·1ifl>'~T9r~ct .. ITB00-0012 The Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) is soliciting sealed proposals for the procurement of one (1) 9 The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) is soliciting proposals from qualified finns with power •·•.•.••••tv1! ~~lli~lf~~~~t~~\i+.··· plant operation and maintenance experience with MAN/Mitsubishi Diesel Engines I 8V40/54A and I 8V52/ high-speed runway vacuum sweeper for the Saipan International Airport, Saipan, Commonwealth of the 1 Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, Northern Mariana Islands. 55B and Auxiliaries, capable of providing on-site engineering consultation services to:. through the Director of Procurement and Supply, are solicit •·•·•••••t~·················laf(itli !~fl•.;· ing competitive sealed bids from qualified individuals or finns The proposed sweeper must be equivalent or more advanced than the following: ·•.m~ih~~t ~ .~take Wt1itjrJ~tt • Plan, implement and monitor a rigorous preventative mainteance program for MAN Mitsubishi Diesel to provide water testing: .vipfar~~ .witli Qmso1¥· <•<•····· Engines I SY 40/54A and I 8V52/55B and auxilliaries; I. MAIN ENGINE yrthin¥th.~~~i~ingwm I) of a stonnwatcr drainage; • Plan and supervise repair of engines and auxiliaries; a. Diesel 6-cylinder engine . Si~ce ft\e fo:i.d'-l990s/ the for- upset the momentum of the cur- 2) and of effluent in a constructed wetland eign firms had used Chinese rent negotiations," the Western b. 80 or more horsepower • Survey CUC Power Generation parts inventory and prepare and implement plans for rdurbishing, main C. 12-Volt DC System rrJidc!Jernen to skirt a ban on over- companyexecu tive said. The scope of work for the project may be obtained at the .$~aB participation inf19 sector "We're going to re~look our taining, procuring and disposing of parts. tools and equipment; Division of Procurement and Supply in Lower Base, Saipan d. Automatic transmission e. Power Steering : ; :wt1.poµrat.0J~l offI.4billion strategy.. from the bottom· .. up." during working hours (7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) I ' • Conduct on-the-job training and skills upgrade in conjunction with CUC Apprenticeship Program for Power 2. AUXILIARY ENGINE (Vacuum Sweeper Section) ·A ip!q ,{Jpigpi:t!'.:i networjg.pash; BllT WILL UNICO.lvl. •A.C- Plant Mechanics. Bids must be submitted (one (]) original and six (6) copies a. Diesel 6-cylinder engine ~tafy~ WI1J.c9r1 )pi\i.?H,y.w~.1-,) :• CEPT THEAR(}UMENT? Iris·. for each bid) to the Division of Procurement and Supply in a b. 80 or more horsepower '' \ '' ' ASIA/AFRICA • ,· 1· ..... ' • ' '. ~ •• 40-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 19 1999 ~ID;Y, ~~VEM~ER {9, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-41 Pakistan enacts anti.;.graft law Quake relief boosts key ISLAMABAD, Pakistan(AP) The new law also imposes a equivalent of nearly $6 million. most of whom are among It also bars anyone found - Pakistan's military govern jail term of up to 14 years. Pre One of the first major promises Pakistan's wealthy elite, gov guilty of corruption from taking cue group. quake, and many of the rescue that at least Turkey has become ment enacted a stiffer anti-cor viously, those found guilty of of Army Chief Gen. Pervaiz ernment officials said. out another loan for 10 years, "The magnitude was on a much teams had the experience of hav aware of the need to prepare for ruption law today that disquali corruption in Pakistan faced a Musharraf, after throwing out Banks, which were taken according to the state-run news smaller scale." Turkey also had ing worked together in Turkey in disasters and it knows better how fies politicians found guilty of maximum five-year jail term and Sharif's increasingly unpopular over by the government in the agency, The Associated Press rescue equipment on hand that August. to respond to them," Makovsky corruption or defaulting on loans were kept out of politics for government in a bloodless coup 1970s, were coerced into giv of Pakistan, which published the was donated after the earlier "It gives people confidence said. from holding office for 21 years. seven years. on Oct. 12, was to clean up the ing loans to the powerful, who new law. The law took effect shortly According to newspaper re country's deeply corrupt politi rarely provided sufficient col Musharraf, who took power after a midnight deadline ex ports, the equivalent of $100 cal system and revive the lateral. in the coup last month, already . REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. · . . _ pired for those with outstand million was recovered when the economy. The new law gives the gov has established a National Ac . DP\1'00-RfP-004 . . ing bank loans to repay their deadline expired. It's estimated that the equiva ernment the power to confiscate countability Bureau, headed by debts or face criminal Deposed Premier Nawaz lent of as much as $4 billion is property owned by loan default- an army general, to investigate Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Ll Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Department of Public Works and the Public charges. Sharif's family repaid the owed to banks by defaulters, the corrupt. School System, are soliciting seated proposals from Architectural/Engineering firms for the Construction Management of the Marianas High Stihool Gymnasium Completion on the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Is lands. The Scope of Work will be available on or after Monday, November 8, 1999 al the DPW Technical Services Division, Lower Base, Sal pan. The period alloted for the construction Contractor to complete the projecl is 320 calendar days. As such, the services of the construction manager shall be for 320 calendar days. A Pre-proposal Conference meeting is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Monday, November 22, 1999 al the DPW Main Office Conference Room, Gualo Rai, Saipan. Any questions regarding this RFP must be submitted in writing no later than 4:30 p.m. to the Director, Technical Services Division, Lower Base, Saipan on the dale of the Pre-proposal Conference. For more information, call The evaluation factors for proposals, with their relativeJmportance, will be as follows: Saipan Veterinary Hospital 1. Current workload of firm - 10% 2. Ability to commit staff to the project-10% at 233~7387 3. Qualifications of key personneUstaff -30% 4. Past experience on similar construction management work - 30% 5. Price - 20% One original and three copies of proposals must be submitted in a sealed package no later than 2:00 p.m., Monday, 15th ANNUAL GOVERNOR'S ARTS AWARDS RECIPIENTS November 29, 1999 to the Office of the Director, Division of Procurement & Supply, Lower Base, Saipan. ADULT DIVISION '1999 Supporter of the Arts This project is funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs (DOI/OIA) with Chelsea Clinton approaches a group Turkish children who lost their tocat matching funds provided by the CNMI Government Award of a contract is contingent upon funding approval from Former lawmaker Nawaz Khokar (left at the rear end of a back of the truck) sits with Pakistani army soldiers homes during an earthquake in last August, during a visit to a tent city REP ANA S. TEREGEYO after his arrest, Wednesday in Islamabad. Pakistan army started crackdown operations as the deadline DOI/OIA. MR. UNO OLOPAI for quake survivors near lzmit, Turkey with her parents, President ended for loan defaulters. Khokar was lawmaker and minister in prime minister Benazir Bhutto's regime. AP Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. AP MARIANAS VISITORS AUTHORITY The government reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and lo waive any imperfection is a proposals in the AMERICAN MEMORIAL PARK SPECTRUM ELECTRIC ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - that they are not calcified and that interest of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. All proposals shall become the property of the CNMI Report: What is a few thousand Moments after an earthquake they were flexible enough to learn Government ·1999 Outstanding Performing Artist shook western Turkey, military the lessons from the first quake," KEVIN T. ATAUG helicopters rushed to the region, Alan Makovsky of the Washing deaths in India? ~sks Prince Philip ferrying injured survivors to hos ton Institute for Near East Policy Isl JOSEPH P. ROSARIO Is/ RITA H. !NOS, Ed. D. I sf HERMANS. SABLAN '1999 Outstanding Traditional Craftsperson said in a telephone interview Acting Secretary of Public Works Commissioner of Education Director, Procurement & Supply FRANCISCA CELIS pitals while rescue teams began NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Philip, the paper said, inter Britain expressed anger and, in assembling for deployment. Tuesday from the U.S. capital. ·1999 Outstanding V',sual Artist Prince Philip reportedly told vened during a conversation an unusual move, Philip apolo The prompt relief efforts after This time, when the strong KUNIYOSHI UKITA India's prime minister that a few when the queen expressed sym gized. the deadly quake on Friday have quake struck on Friday, the gov thousand deaths in a super cy pathy to Vajpayee over the In 1997, while on a visit to the strengthened the Turkish govern ernment moved quickly and took Employment Opportunity '1999 Outstanding Literary Artist clone last month should not mat death and devastation in Orissa, northern Indian city of Amritsar, ment just months after outraged pains to show its citizens that it SCOTT RUSSELL ter in a country of nearly I bil where nearly 10,000 people he surprised his hosts by disput citizens were questioning not on! y" was coping with the disaster. lion people, a respected Indian have been killed, according to ing historical accounts of a mas the future of Prime Minister Soldiers rushed to Duzce, Bolu The Hongkopg and Shanghai Banking Cotporation Limited, Saipan is looking for highly motivated and • Governor's Choice Award newspaper said. preliminary counts. 1999 Program Design Contest sacre by British soldiers. Bu lent Ecevit, but also the central and other hard-hit towns while a experienced individuals to work in the following positions: FRANKLIN S. PALACIOS & SOO SUN JUNG The Duke of Edinburgh's The Hindu, a respected news The reports of the 1919 massa role of a military that is revered in crisis center quickly dispatched comment embarrassed Queen paper, said the queen was cre said 300 Indians were killed society. foreign and Turkish teams to the Officer in-Charge(OIC), Customer Service/New Accounts HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION Elizabeth at her meeting with stunned by her husband's re and more than l,OOOwere injured Turkey's government is re area. *FIRST PLACE Prime Minister Atal Bihari mark and did not respond. when British Gen. Reginald Dyer couping some of the prestige it Ecevit immediately addressed Credit. Administration Assistant Vajpayee during the Common Vajpayee just smiled, the paper ordered his soldiers to fire on un lost after the previous quake on the press and later headed out to Ramona S. Concepcion, 11th Grade, Marianas Baptist Academy-Performing Arts/Tel wealth Heads of Government said. armed civilians listening to In Execu,tive Assistant Com Yun Juan "Lucy" Lu, 12th Grade, Marianas High School-Performing Arts/ Aug. 17, when rescue efforts were the scene of the disaster. "We Thealre-Drama Carmen Marie lndalecio, 12th Grade, Marianas High School meeting in Durban, South Af In August, Philip, 78, said dian leaders campaigning for in so poorly organized that one re reached the point that had taken ·customer Service Representative Performing Arts/Dance-Vocals Maximo S. Cabrera, 12th Grade, Marianas High rica, The Hindu newspaper re during a tour of an electronics dependence in a courtyard that lief team had to stop and ask a us one week to reach (during the School-Visual Arts ported Tuesday. factory run by Racal-MESL in had only one gate. reporter if she knew where the first quake) in just one day," La The individuals we seek are likely to have a _combination of the following qualifications: Estelle Hofschneider, 12th Grade, Marianas Baptist Academy-Literary Arts The newspaper quoted uni Edinburgh, Scotland that an un Philip told an official show team was needed. bor Minister Yasar Okuyan said Watter Manglona, 12th Grade, Rota High School-Traditional Arts dentified officials of the Indian sophisticated fuse box with ing him around the memorial "This time, no mistakes," the two days into the latest quake • Experience managing and driving a successful sales team (OIC) Shelwyn DLC. Taisacan, 12th Grade, Rota High School-Traditional Arts foreign ministry as saying they cables reaching up to the ceil that Dyer's son had told him Milliyet newspaper boasted in a disaster. Excellent verbal and written communication skills Jamie Ogo, 12th Grade, Rota High School-Literary Arts were debating whether to raise ing looked "as if it was put in that the figure was much lower 0 NMI History Class, Tinian High School-Traditional Arts headline. Hurriyet newspaper "We were suffering from a lack Able to use a PC to create memos and spreadsheets the issue with British Prime by an Indian." and he had no reason to disbe commented: "The state made it of experience, but now there is a (very comfortable using Word & Excel) Minister Tony Blair. Racial equality groups in lieve him. 'SECOND PLACE this time." rescue team working on every Able to work under pressure Luis John Castro, 11th Grade, Marianas High School-Performing ArtsfTel-Com single collapsed building." After the August quake tore A team player Amanda P. Borja, 11th Grade, Mount Carmel School-Performing Arts/Theatre-Drama through northwestern Turkey, the Rescue workers caution that • Jessielyn Jurado, 12th Grade, Marianas High School-Performing Arts/Dance-Vocals University degree and/or 5 years banking experience (OIC) 'New Tunisia prime minist~r na.med military appeared to be in shock while the government -is basking .. Philip Q. Vilaga, 12th Grade, Marianas High School-Visual Arts in public praise, the latest quake Tanya L. Dickson, 9th Grade, Marianas High School-Literary arts TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - Tuni postafterameetingwith the presi Ben Ali was a former interior at the scope of a quake that de HSBC offers a competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience as well as an extensive benefits sian President Zine el Abidine dent. Among other government minister in 1987 when he toppled molished tens of thousands of caused only a fraction of the de package. If you are one of the highly motivated individuals we are seeking, please complete an application and submit 3RD ANNUAL GOVERNOR'S HUMANITIES AWARDS Ben Ali on Wednesday named his changes, the number of women in President Habib Bourguiba, the buildings and sent parts of a key struction of the first temblor and your resuine to HSBC Branch, Garapan, Saipan. RECIPIENTS former international cooperation ministerial posts will double to nation's founder. naval base sliding into the sea, some members of rescue teams will minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, four and, for the first time, there After being sworn in for his killing scores of top officers. that rushed here found themselves Resumes/Applications be accepted 9:30 a.m. -4:00 p.m.1 Monday, 22 November - Wednesdav, scon RUSSELL as the North African nation's new will be a minister in charge of third term on Nov. 15, he re The military's slow response with little to do. 24 November 1999 only. No phone calls please. For Outstanding Contributions prime minister. . human rights - Dali Jazi. sponded to critics who attacked stunned citizens who have always While the August quake killed To the Preservation of the Ancient History of the As a condition of employment HSBC requires proof of identity and eligibility to work in the CNMI {RESIDENT Ghannouchi, 58, whose previ A new defense minister, regarded the army as the most at least 17,000 people and devas Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands the government's human rights WORKERS ONLY},.drug t1;5ting, police and court clearance, a credit check and ability testing. HSBC is an Equal ous post included the task of seek Mohamed Jegham, and new for efficient organization in the coun tated tens of th0usands of build record, accusing them of "smear Opportunity Employer. DR. PIUS MAU PIAILUG ing foreign investment, replaces eign minister, Habib Ben Ahia, campaigns." try. ings, the temblor on Friday killed 600 people and destroyed hun For Outstanding Contributions Hamed Karoui, who had served were also named. During the election campaign, The government also appeared The HSBC Group is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations with major ~nal, c?mmercial, corpoi:ate To the Preservation of Traditional Carolinian Navigation as premier for ten years. Ben Ali's Democratic Consti several French newspapers and disorganized, and international dreds of buildings. "111is time and investment banking and:insurance businesses operating in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Amencas, the Mtddte f;ast and Afnca. Ben Ali, who came to power in tutional Rally party has ruled Tu rescue teams that arrived com most of the buildings that col We employ some 140,000 people in' 79 countries, and territories and at 30 June 1999. reconled assets of US0497 biliion. DON A. FARRELL human rights groups criticized the 1987 in a bloodless coup, won nisia under different names since Tunisian government for its tight plained that they had little idea lapsed were already damaged in Far Outstanding Contributions the last quake and so many were To the Preservation of the History of the Oct. 24 presidential elections with the small Muslim nation on the control of the media, and for other where they were needed even days Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands more than 99 percent of the vote. Mediterranean gained indepen abuses from harassment to tor after the quake had struck. empty anyway," said Nasuh Ghannouchi announced his new dence from France in 1956. ture of political prisoners. "Tragic though it was, it gave Mahruki, head of AKUT, Turkey's civilian search and res- HSBC~ them a second chance to show ~; I ' ' 'i ~·, ,"•,••." •-• ', ~ ,' •,, 1-i•'tl' I 1•1• ., •••~ •''"•',, ..,-,,••rr••,..-·•' ~ • •·• EUROPE 42-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 19, 1999 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-43 Clinton, Barak meet in Istanbul Pope to visit EPHESUS, Turkey (AP) - On standoff between Israel and the the Holy Land a sightseeing break from official Palestinians over whether Israel duties, President Clinton strolled has the sole right to determine VA TI CAN CITY (AP) - Pope welcomed the Vatican's an nouncement. "We all hope that today through the marble ruins of from which West Bank areas it John Paul II will visit the Holy Land in March, a Vatican official this visit is going to reinvigorate this ancicntcitv,one of antiquity's will withdraw it troops. Berger said today in the first confirma and support the spirit of peace and best-preserved settlements in the gave few details of the discussion tion of the long-awaited trip. reconciliation between religions Eastern Mediterranean. but said Barak "expressed some The trip will take place during and the peoples of the Middle Traversing white stone path hope that that would be resolved soon.,, the last 10 days of March, and East," said Effie Ben-Matityahu, wavs with his wife, Hillary, and a ministry spokesman. Clinton met with Barak earlier probably include stops in Jerusa da~ghter, Chelsea. the president lem and Nazareth, Archbishop Pope Paul VI visited the Holy paused to admire the grassy Up this month in Oslo, where they Crcscenzio Sepe said at a news Land in 1964, before Israel took per Agora. once a marketplace and Palestinian leader Yasser conference on Vatican plans for over the entire city of Jerusalem and public square; and the Trajan Arafat discussed trying to estab the millennium celebrations. in the 1967 war with the Arabs. Fountain, which dates to 102 and lish by February the framework John Paul was invited by both The pope also was considering was dedicated to Emperor Trajan. for reaching a Middle East peace Israeli and Palestinian authorities, a stop in Iraq during his planned A colossal statue of the emperor settlement. and will be expected to visit millennium tour of Biblical sites. stands in the center of the struc Ephesus, known as the third Jerusalem and Bethlehem. But the Vatican has not yet con ture. city of the Roman Empire, was But the proposed stop in firmed that visit. An advance With arn1ed security officers in originally settled by Ionian Greeks Nazareth was put in doubt re Vatican team was to leave Satur the rocky hills overlooking in the I 0th century B.C. In 550 cently by Vatican complaints over day for Iraq to plan for a visit in late Ephesus, the first family walked B.C., the Temple of Artemis, one Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh make their way in procession through the Royal plans there to build a mosque near January, the Vatican missionary and gawked with guide Cengiz of the Seven Wonders of the Gallery to the Chamber at the Palace of Westminster, London Wednesday. The Queen delivered an address a Christian shrine. news agency Fi des said today ,quot to both Houses of Parliament to mark the State Opening of Parliament. AP Icten, an archaeologist who es World, was erected here. The Israeli Foreign Ministry ing church officials in Baghdad. corted Mrs. Clinton when she vis By the 6th century B.C. the city ited ~he classical city in 1996. · had developed into one of the President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton laugh with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his UN's refugee chief Clinton flew here this morning AegeanSea'smajortradingports. wife, Nava, as they pose for pictures before a meeting at the Conrad Hotel in Istanbul Wednesday. AP froirt Istanbul, where he is to at At its peak, it had a population of ten4 a meeting of the leaders of 200,000 to 250,000. Today, the "Interesting," the president was toured sections of a first century stone that stands on what is be meets with Russians 11:__·.···n:··in····· ..•.·.. •.·.• ·.·v·•.·.. ..·.·.· .. .• p ••• ·e...... ·.·.: ...·.o·······s·.·.•·- ····~.•.·.. ..·.·.: ·..... ·.. ·..· · .....•. · .. ·.. ··.·.· .. ·.. ·.· .... ·.... n •.ce.· ..•.· .. ..t· .•• ..• • ••• .•• •.1·.l__•.n• .• ...• q···_· .••... • ••. ·.•.. J•_•.•.•.·.•.•.·.·.-..•.·.·· .• p.•.·.•....· •:_ .••'" {'j··.·.. ..•·.· ..••.·.·.an·.·.· ..v·.····.·.·.· •.· ·.b·.. ..a··.• ...... ·.. ·.·.F······.·.d·_·.·.·.·.re.•·.•.••. ·.·••.. •.·li.· .•·.·.·... ..· n ·.·.·.".. .. •.·•.· ..·.c ..•.P•.·.:_·_ ·.h.····.·.. .. c..:• ••••• •••.• ..• the'f)rganization for Security and se"a is about three miles away, and heard to remark, "that the third villa, complete with clay water lieved to be the site of the last '.¢#6¢~1 $}1 aji{f i¢ii W§fth ~fr .::·.·..• ..·.: ....•.•.•.••.••. •r.. te.•.•...···:·- ········.····".• ..··•·.· .. •... ····~·· .. 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On Library ofCelsus, built in 117, top U.N. refugee advocate met Russian officials contend are Thursday Clinton expects to meet the Clintons' guide pointed out today with Russian leaders to dis Western misconceptions of the ~i,tiJ~~Wli¥~i~f~~~~,t~f; : i~~~~li~e~e1r,r:ei1~I with Russian President Boris "graffiti" carved into the stone cuss the hurnani tarian crisis grow situation in and around Chechnya, tµ,e:t,( ~o JP~r0\npfr9~ ~9 Bftt > agenda di.iring his visit/and he Yeltsin to discuss several issues pathway that was meant to sig ing out of the war. which present "terrorists, who are including U.S. objections to the nal directions to the House of As the diplomats conferred in up to their elbows in blood, as ••gipt; al'~l>ll dept $Sm!/,)Nfing· >....•.•.. •· ....•...·• ... •.:• ...•.. ~t···_·oh······.· •. ·.e.a ..· •..• ...•• th.• _n ...·.··.se_._.Red ..•e•.•-.· .•..••.. a.. •·:_ •.•. _·r•_T_ ••_._.e._._c_• __ !ran1'·.··.··.~.·.t_ ..··_on:_ ••_ ..· •. :•_•s•·.·.a.·•..··.. ·.• ..··.fco'_._1_•.o .. a_••._rrifl.s .•..•..• _•.b_ .._•. ~.· ..··.·····1·.···c.··.~.· ..·.:·.·tsu .. :.so·pp·•.· •••.••' .•.·.·Inl .•... ;_•._r ..•.·.1.:_•._on~.···i···· .•n~.•.•• ..•• ... victims." r....•·.. 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We're prepared to completely tB§PW; ~119 m#~ f,.lJ~Jvl)all.~arlier •• .• serfoiiofleadersfrorri tr.eMiddie Clinton's national security ad with a crown on her head, indi Military spokesman Igor inform the U.N. secretary gen ,:·:·,········•oriTtiesday······said•·fue•aebt··accord··· •.·.•.· E~.it)i~fl~~jrig.•1;171eli)i¢ll.c.Wr• viser, Sandy Berger, told report cating that the brothel was lo Kaverin said early today that eral and world community of 8 1 ers that Clinton raised the current cated to the left. planes had unleashed airstrikes how things really stand," Ivanov ::;··········t····· ~~l~i1tf~@!!.f · ·· · ······t ·· ...... ~!~!P~i ,,...... ··•.::eresidfh.titdsnFMul::ioo:·our:.:fJi~i&wr!: 1~iwtt;itl! on 17 rebel targets over the past said. ··a:a 24hours. Russian leaders from President ) maWi18fu!qrd1h~Kdli,~:~~ i •.••.•• ing A®~llaji'~Yisj}, frimc~•alsp· Sadako Ogata, the U.N. high Boris Yeltsin on: down have an .•. Tltf Riilflt1?fh$? ~.ith .. bt1$ir iis expeBt#dJp Wsi'il§fd1llj~\~ SAIPAN AIKIDO ASSOCIATION commissioner for refugees, met grily rejected international criti i~%Je*g$~Tq~$q~y;pi£i11g-"!te> ·· ·.· custo01¥tfP!~iroii~ planer · · Russian Foreign Minister Igor cism of the Chechen campaign, 5TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY Ivanov and said afterward she had and have warned that Chechnya 2NDINTERNATIONALSEMINAR come to Russia "to coµvey the should not be a major topic of Date: December 3 to 5, 1999 s~cretary-general's concern and discussion at the summit of the IN LOVING MEMORY Place : 5th Floor Nauru Building, Susupe understanding, his appreciation of Organization for Security and the difficulty in cont;rolling and Cooperation in Europe, which EQUALHOUSINO OPPORTUNITY tackling terrorism, the importance opens 11mrsday in Istanbul, Tur PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION PUBLIC NOTICE of caring for the civilian popula key. (Free of Charge) NoveDJ.her I7, I999 tion." The Russian government, December 4, (Saturday) Ogata also met Emergency Situ meanwhile, has ordered more Pursuant to Public Law 8-41, Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lieutenant Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through work on organizing temporary 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ations Minister Sergei Shoigu, the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC) Board of Directors, are hereby giving notice that the who tried to assure her that "there housing, food, schools and medi regular meeting of the Board will be held on Tuesday, November 23, 1999 at 11 :00 a.m. at the CDA Confer ence Room in Gualo Rai, Saipan. The agenda follows, and the public is welcome to attend. Individuals is no humanitarian catastrophe cal care for Chechen refugees in interested in attending the meeting and needing special assistance or accommodations are requested to con here." lngushetia, the !TAR-Tass news tact NMHC in advance. "We are in a position to cope agency reported today. with the situation ourselves," he Ogata said the United Nations AGJENDA said. Chechen authorities claim was preparing a plan to aid refu I. PRELIMINARY MATTERS more than 4,100 civilians have gees from Chechnya overthe next A. Call to Order been killed in Russian air and three months, the depths of the Mary MarQ.~I~t Hanley B. Adoption of Agenda artillery strikes on the separatist Russian winter. She said the Rus C. Adoption of Minutes: October 20, 1999 sian government had provided 6, 1926 17, 1999 republic, and human rights groups January ..':H:f:Jqyember .. ·.;-;r:-(3' II. COMMUNICATIONS & CONSULTANTS' REPORTS have accused the Russian mili securityguaranteesforU.N. work III. MANAGER'S & DIVISION REPORTS tary of indiscriminate attacks that ers in the Caucasus region. Joins Husband: JoiphR. Delafied IV. UNFINISHED BUSINESS have killed far more civilians than The United Nations had previ i•••'>i "9on:._.Johri'T.:belafield.·· ..•.. -····· A. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Projects Chechen fighters. ously pulled most of its interna !·/qqycinfer: .M9!Y,¢P(~g~k:ifl~@:···. B. Resident Advisory Board More than 211,600 refugees tional staff from the area because C. Mortgage Insurance Proposals* have streamed out of Chechnya of the threat of kidnappings and Survived By Children: DavidL~p&Ja~§iq,~qthryq),Qelbfi~lctdnd Garry Lee Evilsizer into neighboring Russian repub violerit attacks, and it withdrew D. Tinian Section 8 Building Maintenance Bids* Former Husband and Spouse: Davlcl PJD$1offeld; and M·arianna C. Delafield lics, the Interfax news agency re all its workers from Chechnya on SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT E. Full Resource Bulk Loan Agreement ported today, citing the Federal Nov. 13, after two local U.N. Grandchildren: Joshua and Becky Delafield, JesseDelafteld, David Lee Delafield, John S. Delafield, V. NEW BUSINESS Migration Service. While many workers were killed when· Rus Leigh Del9fi~lct on? ;R$bec9a Delafield ftl.a(lie 1>inni.1' Slu,w A. Garapan Street Market have found shelter with local fami sian airplanes bombed a convoy Adopted Family: Merced V. andRRfa~}iEEl\fesgnqf9rr\ilyAr"\f1;iol6'V,Reyes (Jeannae and Joseph) VI. EXECUTIVE SESSION* By: Hank Rice lies, thpusands are living in make of refugees. Roman V, dric:j Frdric~ M,J~eyes'tlpshci tdrnpr9{R9cco) VII. OTHER MATTERS shift refugee camps and face short Russian troops continued press Angel V. and Morgpr~tf R¢yEl~ (~n~l; 1§$.9Qhla;_@g~ni#9nd Katelynn) VIII. ADJOURNMENT ing toward the Chechen capital, Nightly Performer at Guam Hotel Nikko ages of water, heating fuel and Cynthia Rand Rick DLp:~qfug¢hp)(c>lohp~iRijlYP~mrci§~1\R~Y~ and Tricia D. Diaz, Note: PL 8-41 allows Executive Sessions to discuss item(s) noted in the above Agenda food, refugees and human rights Grozny,thoughcommandershave Diamond Hotel • December 4, 1999 \ ii. Patrick v Reyes; t:evonnev Reyes ;;; , >j > advocates have said. stressed that they will rely on air ·:,. -~r_.,...... ·. ;_>,\:: .~.' ,=.,-.:., .. ·: ~ .- -:- .' ; ...... ;.- .,·.: ~.=' ..;_,_: .. · ~ ,·..: ·.·; .--- .... ,·.\ ~ ·:-·:, ·: ;.. . 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. • $15.00 Isl JUAN S. TENORIO Ogata is scheduled to travel and artillery strikes rather than Nightly rosary is said at 8:00 pm at· tne residence of Roman V. Reyesio Chalan Kiyo. MUTSUKO MINEGISHI, President/Chief Instructor Chairman of the Board Thursday to Ingushetia, the re storming to conquer Chechnya's .>Mass tobeanriounced•at a'later:date ..::.,.:.\ ; Contact: TEL/FAX: (670) 322-0567 TEL: 235-6660 "NMHC is an equal employment and fair housing public agency" gion that has taken in the most towns. LIFESTYLE/ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-45 44-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 19 1999 Astronomers scan skies for meteors Hollywood movie review the Mediterranean Sea. Roy said at Deerfield Academy in Ford back in (AP) - Around the world, as much of the Northeast, but mostly in Huntsville, Ala. domHearts' tronomers and amateur stargaz clear skies southward. However, The number of shooting stars the reports could well have been Deerfield, Mass., said that even By Lucette Bentley Dutch, a policeman to the core, ers headed for fields, beaches, astronomical calculations put the and fireballs was expected to the vanguard of the Leonid most professionals, like ama For the Variety investigates. deserts and mountaintops best spectacle in the Middle East swell during the night. On Tues shower. teur stargazers, were mainly WHEN AN airplane carrying Kay, left with a teenage daugh Wednesday to watch what could and Europe. day night, fireballs streaked NASA is studying the com chasing "the thrill of it." Dutch's wife Peyton and Kay's ter to protect and a campaign to be the most spectacular meteor Up to 20,000 shooting stars across the sky and stirred pan position of the Leonids with The shooting stars and fire husband Cullen crashes into the run, doesn't want to know any shower since J966 and for de per hour were predicted during icky calls to police across the special equipment aboard two balls can dart anywhere over Chesapeake Bay, leaving no sur more than she absolutely has to. cades to come. the meteor shower, which oc Midwest. Some feared plane airplanes, hoping for clues to head, but all appear to come vivors, its marks just the begin As clues lead from the gritty The annual Leonid meteor curs when dust and ice shed by crashes or UFOs. how organic chemicals were from the direction of the con ning of a mystery that will not streets of D.C to the romance of shower was expected to reach the comet Tempel-Tuttle streak Blazing meteors also first brought to Earth. But as stellation Leo, which gives the only lead Dutch and Kay to dis Miami's beaches, both the copand its peak overnight Wednesday. into the Earth's atmosphere at streaked across the sky above tronomy teacher David Howell shower its name. turbing and shocking information the congresswoman are caught in However, predicting timing and 40 miles a second and bum up. about their spouses, but bring an upheaval of misplaced lust and intensity is an inexact science, Since the orbiting comet these strangers together in an un rage, laying bare not only the de and the quarter moon, the lights dumps extra debris every 33 likely romance. tails of their spouses' clandestine of civilization and cloud cover years when it races past the sun, Dutch Van Den Broeck, a affair, but their own awkward and could obscure the view. the chances for a meteor storm sergent in the internal Affairs Di painful feelings. "It could be spectacular, or it rise very 33 years. vision of the Washington, D.C. Out of the ruins of their shat could be a dud," said Williams The last great storm was 1966, police department, and Kay Chan tered marriages, this pair of ran dler, a New Hemisphire congress dom hearts forms a violate new College astronomer Jay with a peak of 144,000 shoot _, ~ ·. Pasachoff, who picked a beach ing stars per hour. A typical woman runriing for re-election, union. outside Valencia, Spain, for his year might yield just 20 per know about trust. "Random Hearts," is directed viewing spot. hour. Their careers depend on it. by Sydney Pollack, loosely based The best American viewing of A NASA network of observ Their marriages are found on it. on Warren Adler's 1984 novel. the shooting-star show was ex ing stations tallied the Leonid Or so they thought. Over the years, several screen pected on the East Coast in the meteor count at 20 to 40 per In the aftermath of the plays were written, but none made wee hours Thursday morning .. hour early Wednesday, accord crash,pieces of startling informa it into production. tion come to light-Cullen and Pollack had seen an early screen The National Weather Service ing to staffer Steve Roy, at the Harrison Ford plays Dutch Van Den Broeck (left photo), a sergeant in the Internal Affairs Division of the forecast thickening clouds across Marshall Space Flight Center Peyton were sitting side by side play of the film in the 80's ahd Washington, D.C. police department. Kristin Scott Thomas (right) plays Kay Chandler, a New Hampshire on the plane, traveling on "Mr. had discussed the project with congresswoman running for re-election in the Columbia Pictures presentation Random Hearts. ',.,:;~:.,?f,.,;/;'.!',~,--.·-~·~,~ ~ =c.;;;;_====-'-""~; and Mrs." Harrison Ford in 1995, but the Photo by David James . :(/ .. ,---·------~---...,__ Tickets and carrying identical two men at that time began film "Whatllike to do is see people As he begins to develop a de of paranoia resulting from the dis }JG';"MESSAGE OF APPRECIATION\!), keys in their pockets. .ing pollack's 1995 romantic com overcome dauting circum gree of paranoia resulting from covery of his wife's infidelity, he Grief-stricken spouses Dutch edy "Sabrina." stances, and whether they come the discovery of his wife's infi begins to, lose track of the very We, the Husband, Children and and Kay a pair of opposites form After six months of refining the out whole or diminished by the delity, he begins to lose track of thing that made him a good po Grandchildren of the late, Montgomery, Ala., photographer and avid stargazer Jay Sailors aims his camera toward the consteffation Leo widely dissimilar backgrounds screenplay, it was sent to Harrison experience," he added, "I like the very thing that he made him a liceman." in the eastern sky in an effort to capture images of the Leonid meteor shower early Thursday. Clear skies and with very contradictory tem Ford. stories that are not necessarily good policeman." Ford Dutch, a person whose were abundant across the South making it much easier for those interested in astronomy and star gazing to peraments-are now thrown to Ford says, "I was not only won about heroes. not necessarily about heroes. very career revolves around INOCENCIA view the annual event. AP · gether, bonded by this mutual over by the project, but I was We can hardly call Dutch a We can hardly call Dutch a hero, catching people telling lies, the TUDELA-KHAN betrayal, to unlock the truth be particularly attracted to the char hero, except he's certainly a sur except he's certainly a survivor. fact that he is unable to detect better known as hind the secret that threatens to acter of Dutch because he had vivor. "He's not a perfect policeman. his own wife's deception is dev ·-.< destroy them. depth- and imperfections." "He's not a perfect_policeman. As he begins to dev~lop a degree astating. l~ "Encha" @ /j would like to extend our sincere and }I heartfelt appreciation and thank-you to all tJ our friends and relatives who had join us ··'& IN CELEBRATION OF HIS NEW LIFE M in prayers for our ~eloved Wife, Mother :f and Grandmother's funeral. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT IN THE SUPERIOR COURT IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS The wise reader buys THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AU- MARIA QUICHOCHO CRUZ THORITY, Cosmic Patriot MARIA QUICHOCrlO CRUZ Plaintiff, Plaintiff, Plainliff, vs. vs. THE FIFTH essay in the late great mism. The Pessimist thinks that and its sadness is a reason for only one newspaper vs. Joaquin Q. Castro and Margilrita A. Cristro, SI HYOUNJO, SI HYOUNJO, Defendants. G. H. Chesterton's, 'Orthodoxy' everything is wrong in the worst loving it more." analysis to local concerns. Com one, can you find digits to match Dendant. Dendanl. Civil Action No. CJ8.338B the letters such that is called "The Flag of the World." of all possible worlds, whereas Our original orientation to the passion begins where you are, and saves AMENDED SECOND (SA VE)(UUU) SESESE? CIVIL ACTION NO. gg.()656A FROM: The Superior Court of the In this essav Chesterton takes on the Optimist thinks that every world is one of allegiance and in your own backyard. Over the = Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana NOTICE OF SALE 2. If you found the last prob SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION the bipolar;oncepts of Pessimism thing is right in the best of all "primary loyalty." We must love deepest part of the ocean there Islands WHEREAS,onjune25, 1999, the Common, lem too difficult, try this one. wealth Superior Court issued a Writ of Execu· and Optimism. In the process of possible worlds. Gottfried it "for betterorworse," or like the is a small land mass which per FROM: The Superior Court of the Find two digits to match the TO: The above-named Defendants illl!l, ordenng the Director of Police, Department unpacking. unraveling, refonning Leibniz is the philosopher of Op parent who loves her (or his) child square mile has probably suf Commonweallh of Iha Northern Mariana Islands of Public Safety of the Nortltem Maruna Islands, and thoroughly transforming these timism, and Voltaire's Candide regardless of the circumstances. fered more horror, injustice, and letters, such that lo sell, in the manner provided by law, all of the because; TO: The above-named Defendants You are hereby summoned to appear within rights, titles, and inleres~ of Defendants lo !hat concepts, Chesterton comes up his eternal critic. And if we feel that something is a change than any place else on (AA)(BB) = B(ABA). twenty (20) days after final publicalion of this certain real properties, described as follows: with a wonderful point of view Chesterton maintains that both mess, that is all wrong and not as the planet. At the same time 3. When I asked the boy how You are hereby summoned lo appear within twenty Summons and completion of posting, and (20) days after final publication ol this Summons defend in the above-captioned action in the Lot Na.042E08,situated at l·Denni,Saipan which is signified by the notion of notions, Pessimism and Optimism it should be, then that is all the there is a collision of many cul old he was, he replied as fol and completion of posling, and defend in the Municipality, Commonwealth of the North· above enlitled Court, and answer the Com Cosmic Patriotism. are ''raving nonsense.'' He notes more reason to love it more, be tures, interests and points of lows: My sister is twice my age, abov~tiooed actioo inlheaboveentltled Court, em Mariana Islands,and containing an are.a and answer the Complaint of plaintiff, Maria plaint of plaintitt, Maria Quichocho Cruz. You of 10,00J square meters, more or less, as Lets first take a look at Pessi that the best definition of the terms cause it needs our love. For view. and my older brother is one and SSA slowpitch RG.Ns Annual Turkey Shoot tourney Sunday Six Pack, CoDlets TIIE Refaluwasch Golf Asso away and lots of prizes for the ciatio)'l will hold its Annual Tur taking. key Shoot Tournament this com There will also be a get-to ing Sunday, Nov. 21 at LaoLao gether after the game at Joe rem.ain unbeaten Bay's West Course. Wabol's residence in Kagman. Show time is IO a.m. and res The Turkey Shoot will also TEAM SIX Pack and the Ngeaur Rayland Towai and Nestor Jess Pua, Ned Norita, Mario ervations are available for 24 count for the December Ace of Comets kept their unbeatened Snyder each hit a homerun and Augon, Jess Taitano, Fuji Sue! players. the Month. The two-man scramble and streak alive with come-from Wise Augon went 3 for 3 as the each hammered one out for Sedi Members who show up for the Ace of Aces will be held in behind victories over their re Warriors stopped winless Toles Kau. the tournament will receive spective opponents in last Gone in the fifth, 25-6. Darwin Masaharu, Carney membership hats and shirts. December as the final events for Wednesday's action at the After each scoring three runs Mobel, and Mabel Ngirngelas There will be turkeys to give the year. S ai pan Softball men's in the first inning, and then com each hit one in a losing effort. Slowpitch League~ · ing up empty in the second, the In the final game of the night, Team Six Pack picked up five Warriors then took over, the Ngeaur Comets rallied for BANl\fI referees'. . clinic. : . . runs in their last trip to the plate outscoring Toles Gone 22-3 for thirteen runs in their last two in the top of the sixth on Joe the shut-out. trips to the plate for a c9me THE Basketball Association of Allpers6ns who wanrto. offi~ Tudela 's two-run double arid With the win, the Warriors from-behind, 14-13 victory over the.• Nort~m '.Mariana• Islands da,te ip; the· forth~mfog 1~7. two Rangers' errors to take a · i~proved to 3-1, and handed the C.K. Defenders. (BANMI) Ylillconduct a refer~ . 2000 Jsl?fid Wiqe ·f3¥l81cetl>all 20-18 lead, after trailing 18-15. Toles .Gqne their fourth loss in a The Defenders started strong . ~s? cliiiicJornorrow, Saturday, League must attend this clinic. · They then held off a possible row. taking an 11-1 lead after 4 I /2 . at th~ hour of 1 p;fu.; at the G.C. Anyone who is ihterested in rally by holding the winless fn the third game of the night, innings, but the Comets then A.dll.. GyJ'lU)asilltU Conferenc:e officiating basketball, and who Rangers to just one run after Sedi Kau improved to 5-1 stop rallied, scoring five runs in the RoonL . > ···•·· . ·. wants to obtain Oceaniacertifi- that, for Six Pack's third win ping short their game against bottom of the sixth on Guerrero '11us ~lime wnrbe conducted ... . cation, or just improve their ref- and the Rangers' fourth setback Peleliu in the fifth 22-10. and Chris "Extreme Supreme" ~r~authorir,yof t.beQceania ·.. ereeing skills, is welcorriefo at in as many games. Sedi Kau jumped on top, 18- Palacios three-run blast. BasketbrulConfederation,andaII '• tend this clinic/ There is no Nick Castro went 3 for 3 with 5, after three innings of play The victory improved the persc,ns who successfully com~ charge for the clinic. two homeruns and scored four and never looked back the rest Comets to 4-0 and .dropped the plete the course of instruction Forfurtherinfonnationplease times to lead Six Pack's charge. of the way. Defenders to 3-1. will be certified byOBC. contactMike Whiteat234-6547. Tiger. Woods, O'Meara are·· Malone, Stockton lift Jazz past Knicks SALT LAKE CITY (AP) 3:08 to play, their biggest lead of the second quarter. TheJazzhit7- 86 on a jumper by Houston with favored in Karl Malone scored a season the game. of-21 in the second quarter but 2:30 to play but couldn't get high 33 points and John Stock Utah, which hasn't scored more scored the last six points of the any closer. Notes: Chris Childs World Cup ton, fighting a respiratory ill than I 00 points all season, went quarter for a 60-42 halftime lead. needed four stitches to close a KUALA LUMPUR, Malay ness, scored 17 as the Utah Jazz into a 4-for-15 slump in the sec:. Malone had seven of his 20 cut he opened during a third sia (AP) - This week, Tiger beat the New York Knicks 98- ond period but still managed to first-half points in the last 3: 12. quartercollision with Stockton. Woods has company. 90 Wednesday night. lead 60-42 at halftime. Malone The Knicks made it 77-71 after ... The Jazz have won IO of their Woods, who has won eight The Jazz made their first I 0 had 20 points and Stockton had three periods but rookie Scott last 12 against the Knicks, who of his last 12 tournaments and shots and 15 of their first 16, 11 atthe break. · Padgett and Russell opened the are winless in Salt Lake City nearly $7 million this season, building a 34-14 lead after al New York pulled within 36-25 fourth quarter with 3-pointers for since a 97-80 victory on Jan. 27, teams with Mark O'Meara in most nine minutes. Utah cooled on a basket by Houston to open the Jazz. The Knicks closed to 93- 1992. an attempt to return the World offin the second and third quar Cup to the United States. ters but it was enough of a cush The United States has won ion to outlast the Knicks. 21 of the 44 World Cups, but Stockton, who had 11 assists, none since Fred Couples and was listed as questionable until Davis Love III swept four in a tipoff but he showed no signs of row from 1992-95. the infection, playing 30minutes. Nick Faldo and David Carter Latrell Sprewell had 24 points won last year for England, for New York one night after which is represented in the 32- scoring 26 in a 102-95 victory team field this year by Mark at Denver. Marcus Camby James and Peter Baker. scored 18, Larry Johnson had Ireland goes with the pair 14 and Allan Houston added 13 that won the World Cup in for the Knicks. 1997, Paul McGinley and Jeff Hornacek and Bryon Padraig Harrington. Scotland Russell each had IO points for features Colin Montgomerie the Jazz,. who held a 46-33 re and Dean Robertson. ;, bounding advantage. Malone .The winning team will col i: had 11 rebounds, IO on the de- 1·; lect $400,000. Another 1, fensive end, and Greg Ostertag h $ I 00,000 is at stake for the top .- had eight. individual score in the $1.5 ri) It was New York's fourth million tournament. · i loss in five games after the At Wednesday's pro-am j Khnicks started t~e season with tournament, Wood signed so t ree straight wms. many autographs between Utah shot 78 percent ( 15-of holes his shirt was marked with l 19) in the first quarter, includ ink stains. He still managedto ing three misses to end the pe- shoot three birdies on the front·· riod. The Jazz led 34-14 on a basket by Howard Eisley with Utah Jazz fo~ard ~arl Malone_ (32) a'!d guard John Stockton double team New York Knicks forward Larry nine. 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