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Anatahan Evacuated F\ Jli ÜNIVÊKSIIY Of HAWAII LIBRARI 4 k IIS ■i! .1 ¿M a ria n a s GV a rie ty ,jr * Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 W A 5 Vol. 19 No. 7 Soipan, M? 96950 ©1990 Mananas Variety April 6 ,1 9 9 0 Serving CNMI for 19 Yoors b H T Anatahan evacuated Direct order from governor, help from Navy choppers empties island BY DAVE HUGHES another Pagan-type incident.” He leave animals behind and were Residents of Anatahan, all 22 was referring to the eruption of only allowed 30 pounds each of of them, were told to leave their Mt. Pagan on an island located personal belongings. homes this week by the govern­ almost200 m i les north of Saipan. An HC-5 crew member said ment, and while they did so, some That 1981 eruption resulted in the jet-powered helicopters could said they didn’t particularly like' many island’s residents being hold 23 persons, but they took it. trapped until a boat rescue mis­ two to allow for baggage. Increasing volcanic activity on sion could be hastily put together Residents used their weight the island about 80 miles North for rescue. allowance to bring clothing, ste­ of Saipan was noted over the Two helicopters from the HC- reos, VCRs, some food and betel weekend and Gov. Larry I. 5 air rescue squadron based at nut. Guerrero decided that an evacu­ Naval Air Station, Guam, flew Some residents like school ation was called for, ordering the to Saipan and then left Wednes­ teacher Jess Wabol said he felt Jerry Facey (left), Jess Wabol and his five-year-old son Jonathon, along with Happy residents to leave for their own day morning about 8:30 for the the whole evacuation and vol­ Gideon discuss what to do next. Photo by Dave Hughes 40-minute flight. cano scare had “been blown all safety. Asked who was over-reacting, a few “small tremors «from time He told reporters this week Once they arrived on Anatahan out of proportion . ” and was Wabol said “ask Civil Defense.” to time», we were never in dan- that the government “didn ’ t want residents were told they had to unnecessary. He said that while there were See: EVACUATION, Page t2 M anglapus pushes Mafnas snubbed for uniformity in as MIHA head By Dan Phillips Boija and Sens. Paul A. Man- Sen. Jose P. Mafnas attended glona and Edward U. Maratita, skilled labor w ages R a ul S. Manglapus his first session of the 7th Senate said that many of MIH A’s man­ By Dan Phillips Wednesday, a session that saw agement problems were “not Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Raul S Man- the Senate vote not to approve corrected and instead got worse” giapus left Saipan early Thursday after a brief, but busy the nomination of his brother, while Mafnas was the chairman visit m which he visited the top government and busi­ Jesus P. Mafnas, to continue as a of the board. ness leaders of the Commonwealth. member of the Mariana Islands “The chairman calls the shots, Manglapus, 74, said during a press conference mW herever Filipinos Housing Authority’s Board of and Mafnas failed in his job,” Wednesday mom mg that one of his. primary concerns Directors. go, they are hard-w ork­ said Sen. Pres. Joseph S. Inos, here is the applicability of the minimum wage in the Four of the seven senators who also said that he did not feel ing and help w ith the Commonwealth. He said he would like to see the mini­ present at the session voted to the rejection of Mafnas’ nomi­ mum wage apply to construction workers, who are development of the approve the recommendation of nation was political. currently exempted and paid less than the CNMI mini­ country they a re inm" the Senate Committee on Ex­ The committee met to discuss mum of S2.15 an hour. ecutive Appointments and Gov­ Mafnas’ nomination Monday, Gov. Larry I. Guerrero said at the press conference ernmental Investigations, which Inos said. The report was signed that he would look seriously into the cone erns.and Sen. a rally at the Ml Carmel auditorium, where advised that the nomination of by Borja, Manglona and Ma­ Pres. Joseph S. Inos said lie ‘ would like to champion he and Gov. Guerrero spoke befoi e a siand- Mafnas not be confirmed. ratita. It was not signed by Sens. this is-oic” Inos said the minimum wage should apply ing-room only crowd of at least 500 people, The report, signed by comm it- Jesus R. Sablan and Henry San to till skilled foreign workers. mostly Filipinos. tee chairman Sen. Francisco M. See: MAFNAS DUMPED, Page 10 Manglapus said both his government and die CNMI “Wherever Filipinos go, they aie hard­ government have agreed to look into how to improve working and help with the development of recruitment practices. He said he will look into the thccountry they are m,” Manglapus told the process of certifying skills and health conditions of crowd. He also said that whatever prob­ Castro issues 'gag' workers by rccruiung agencies in the Philippines. lems Filipinos have here can “be solved by Manglapus’ visit culminated Wednesday night with See flP DIPLOMAT, Pago 34 order in drug case By Dan Phillips General’s Office were unavail­ What started as an arraignment able due to the order and be- in a drug trafficking case Mon­ See: JUDGE ORDERS, Page 16 day endedwith Superior Court Judge Alex C. Castro approving a request by the prosecution to issue an order sealing the court INSIDE file and prohibiting the parties from talking about the case, Power outage except among themselves. Thomas Ramangmou, 20, of cancelled page27 Susupe, and Francisco R. San­ tos, 32, of As Mahetog, were Students take arrested in the Diamond Hotel lobby forallegedly trafficking in over CNMI P*g*3 marijuana on March 23. They pleaded not guilty at Monday’s arraignment Peacemakers, PtsHptmPrmgnAttaaaSecretary RaidS.Mangaipw(nghtjmeeetsriapro«Wednesday, 0timth№hmk>mliiftt>nght,ai9 House Sixers Win Page AB S p eaker Peito ft Guettera, Jorge Mom, charge efa te of Chile lo Manila, and £ Aortite Rames, ambassador of Spain » Manila The charges filed against the two suspects by the Attorney 2 - MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS - FRIDAY - April 6.1990 FRIDAY - April 6,1990 - MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS - 3 T ^/\T^¥ TH I f A Meeting Place For Our Marpi dump plan JP |VI OpinionsOpinions And And Yours Yours JR ’s Agenda options debated Ectitorrat By: John Del Rosario L t . G o v . s a y s " . lets do it N O W !" The opinion expressed in this column are the personal opinion of the By Dan Phillips there would likely stay contained, Manglona said. He author and may or may not express the opinions of the newspaper. The usually mild-mannered Lt. Gov. Ben­ said that coral could be used for compacting the trash. Takeover Day showed jamin T. Manglona got so excited at a public “The quarry is like a man-made trash can,” Manglona I talked to the Director of ists—the second they reach together a plan in this regard to hearing Tuesday night about the need to close said. He said using the quarry would eliminate the Public Works Nick Sablan who Hopwood going north—almost dispose of all solid waste materi­ the dump that he screamed and shouted and problems with appearance, smell and threats to health NMI s tu d e n ts h av e said that the road between the automatically make it a point als. It can work and it will work shook his fist during his response to critics of that are now occurring in the Puerto Rico dump. the government’s proposal to move the dump to old Philippine Goods all the not to drive their cars but to inch given some planning. Environmental activist Ken Govendo said at the hear­ Marpi. way to the Saipan International or crawl it all the way down to *** ing that the government wasn’t ready to close the dump, eye on the future “Everyone agrees that the Puerto Rico dump and wasn’t even ready for the hearing. Airport should be paved begin­ the American Monument. Isn’t This week is “Youth TakeOver The Commonwealth’s leaders of tomorrow received a small ning July of this year. there supposed to be a law on Day” and we salute our young should be relocated. The question is when will He said that developers usually come into public this be. Shall we wait five years? 10 years? 20 taste of the so-called “real world” Tuesday when they were There are also definite plans impeding traffic and can’t this students who participated in this hearings prepared to answer questions, but the govern­ years? Let’s do it now,” he said. ment answered with “a lot of I don’t knows.” The symbolically handed the keys and told to go to it. to pave and link the road at the law be implemented to the hilt? event. Indeed, it was an oppor­ northern end of Koblerville all *** tunity to see what it is like run­ Manglona suggested another option for the government should “have all its facts and figures ready We were impressed with what we saw, especially among the the way to the Joeten Housing The Governor and Lt Gover­ ning a government. I wouldn’t new dump site at the hearing. He said that using in order to get good feedback,” Govendo said.
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