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Governor Is Still Liable-- Mitchell ~ \~ . " . ' %riet~~ arianas ~ ,I r Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ews j " On alleged illegal spending ofpublic funds Governor is still " -~ liable-- Mitchell ~;J"?~~i.' ...• By Rafael I. Santos Cabrera remain liable for their Variety News Staff actions despite the approval of Juan S. Demapan Diego T. Benavente GOVERNOR Froilan C. House Bill No. 9-356. Tenorioand his financesecretary The bill provided for a waiver were not exonerated of liability of civil liability with respect to Speaker, president over alleged overspending. and actions taken in connection with reprogramming of public funds the Mitsubishi payments, PSS whenthe legislaturepassedaspe­ lawsuitandtheallegedoverspend­ divided on casinos cial appropriations law. ing. By Rafael H. Arroyo an entertainment type of gaming This is accordingto Saipan at­ Mitchellreiteratedthatthegov­ Variety News Staff for tourists'and· other persons. torneyTheodoreR.Mitchelleven ernor has no authority to appro­ THE PRESIDING officers of Many' of our people who have as he accusedthe chiefexecutive priate and reprogram public both houses of Legislature have come to Las Vegas haveenjoyed of influencinglawmakers in rati­ money and any expenditure of conflictingviewson the proposal themselves. It's just a different fying his appropriations and re­ public funds without authoriza­ to legalize casino gaming in the kind of experience worth bring­ programming of funds. tionfromthelegislature isabreach Theodore R. Mitchell Commonwealth as if to signal ingover here," said the president. In hisoppositionto a motion to of trust. whatcould bea "divided" Legis- Both Demapan and Benavente guilty of sucha breachof trustare dismiss, Mitchell stressed Tenorio "And in this and otherjurisdic­ personally liabletothepublictrea­ 'lature when the measure gets on Continued on page 10 and Finance Secretary Maria D. tions, the publicofficials who are the floor of both chambers. sury for their misappropriation of In separate interviews, Senate public funds," he said. President Juan S, Demapan and Mitchell is opposing the House Speaker Diego T, government's motion to dismiss Benavente indicated differing Tax hike freezes $6M a taxpayer's lawsuit filed in Sep­ opinions on CNMI-wide gam­ tember byJeanne Rayphand. The bling as a means for the govern­ lawsuit questioned alleged over­ menttoraiseadditionalrevenues. Garapan mall project spendingbythe governor,andthe "Because of the people of increase in salaries of judges and By Rafael H. Arroyo enactment of Public Law 9-22 taxes, we may have no other Saipanspeaking not too long ago justices. VarietyNews Staff have a crippling effect on their choice but to withdraw from opposing gambling here, I con­ Rayphand, who is Mitchell's THE DEVELOPER.of a $6 business, enough to make them the CNMI,~' Browne said. tinue to support that position. So partner, also.questioned the pay­ million luxury shopping mall have second thoughts about the The subject of. Browne's basicallynowI wouldnot besup­ mentof$6.2 rnillionto Mitsubishi in the heart of downtown viabilityof their project. concernisthesteepincreasein porting a bill proposing to open and the $2.25 million settlement Garapan has' indicated it will casinos," saidBenavente. "Due to the imposition of the ad valorem taxes on items that" with the U.S. Departmentof Jus­ On the other hand, Demapan .freeze its project for the time crippling excise tax on luxury areusuallygearedfor purchase tice on a lawsuit againstthe Pub­ indicated support for a gaming being as a result of the recent merchandise, wehavereluctantly by the tourist market in the lic School System, among other industry in the CNMI as long as increase in excise tax rates on decided to freeze for the present CNMI. or particular concern things. the kind allowed was the upscale luxury designer items. timeconstructionofour project," is the 25% advalorem three­ According to Rayphand all , According to Mark N. Las Vegas type of casinos, one saidBrowneinaFebruary I letter year tax imposed on leather these spending and allegedover­ thatis very strongly-regulatedby 'Browne, director for projects to Representative Ana S. products,upfromthe previous spending were illegal.She is ask­ local government. for Louis Vuitton Malletier .Teregeyo. 5%. Other excise taxes raised ing the Superior Court to order paris, the new excise tax rates "I am in favor of legalizing ca­ "If we cannot trade profitably on luxury items were ()n per- Tenorio to return public funds sinogaming inthe cNMI as long that came into effect with the 'as a result of these new excise Continued·on p~ge 8 which were "illegally" spent, to asitwillbeadequately monitored Continued on page-11 and regulated, like casino estab­ lishments in the US mainland," said Dernapan. "Wecan do it in such a waythe local community is not harshly impacted. We can come up with Weather Outlook ., ,.1---, ~ ~, Partly cloudy with " .:., ~ :.<. : Isolated light showers This proposedluxury ~hoppingmall complex in Garapan mayremain in a half-finishedstete afterdeveloper Louis Vuitton Mal/etier Paris indicated it may freeze the project due to the recently implemented excise tax increase on luxury merchandise. PAC t\E\VSPAPE~, S~/\CKS -------------------~=========,,--------, ~MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-FEBRUARY IS, 1995 WEDNESDA Y, FEBRUARY 15, 1995 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWSAND VIEws-3 More bodies found in Pakistan KARACffi,Pakistan (AP) - Po­ The MQM hassplitintotwofac­ licefoundeight bullet-riddenbod­ Death toll in latest wave of• violence reaches 19 tions that often battle one another ies Tuesday morning, raising the a car parked in the OrangiDistrict fighting with opposition groups Muchofthefighting hasinvolved when not fighting the security overnight death toll to 19 in the in western Karachi, and all the over issues such as land rights in the M9M, which represents forces. Militant Sunni and Shiite .latest wave of violence to strike victims were believed to be sup­ the area, police said. mohajirs,orMuslimswhomigrated Muslim groups are also battling Karachi. porters of the Pakistan People's Police found another body at a to Pakistan from Indian when the one anotherin Karachi. Most of the killings appeared Party, which is headed by Prime separate site in western Karachi Asian subcontinent wasdividedinto Ms.Bhuttohasvowedtostopthe linkedtotheongoingpoliticalvio­ Minister Benazir Bhutto. andtwo corpsesincentralKarachi, two nations in 1947. violence, but police rarely catch lence which has already claimed The victims were probablykid­ the area worsthit by the violence. The MQM is opposed to Ms. anyofthekillersandthepublichas some 150 lives this year. More napped, shotand killed, and then Elevendeathswerereported late Bhutto'sgovernment.They accuse littleconfidence in the force. than 1,000peopled died last year their bodies were dumped in the Monday night, including fivepeople her and previous leaders of dis­ Ms. Bhutto withdrew the anny in fighting throughout the south­ car, according to policeman who were gunned down at the of­ criminating against mohajirs, who from the streets of Karachi at the ern port city. Mohammed I1yas. fice of the Mohajir Qaumi Move­ account for the majority of end of Novemberand the violence Fivedead bodies were found in LocalPPPsupportershavebeen ment, a political opposition group. Karachi's 10 millionpopulation. has surged since then. FabledYamashita treasure is cast iron By ROMY TANGBAWAN Filipino treasure hunter. num, chlorine, titanium, copper, dome would be worth only dlrs amount to retrieve the metal in MANILA, Philippines (AP) • A Velasco declared that the find arsenic, niobium,tin,calcium,and 100 based on the current world 70 feet (21 meters) of water, ac­ hunk of platinum said to be a was part of the fabled World War zinc also were found, he said. marketpriceand wouldcost much cording to a police agent who World War II treasure valued at II loot of Japanese General Before Padolina's revelations, more to extract, he said. was part of the team that seized . :;JA $480 million has turned out to be. Tomoyuki Yamashita.:the Japa­ metalstraders have said thateven He said the iron content would the metal. .' just a fusty lump of cast iron, the nese commander in the Philip­ if all of the metal was platinum, it be worth only about 14,500pesos Asresultsof thetestsweremade governmentannounced Tuesday. pines at the. close of the war. would only be worth about $28 ($ 584). known, officials responsible for Saipan International School teacher Gregory Van leeds students in yesterday's "Walk For Life" along beachside as a unique way of celebrating Valentine's Day. Value less than $600. Yamashita was executed for war million. Japanese and Filipino treasure publicizingthe"find"triedtoevade Science Secretary William crimes in 1946. The amount of platinum in the huntersspent nearly 10times that responsibility for the hoax. Padolina said tests conducted on President FidelRamos ordered .thedome-shaped metal found off Padolina to investigate because Two poorAsian nations to become rice PO\\-T} Kids celebrate Valentine's with walk the coast of northern Cagayan the claims were incredible. By Ferdie de la Torre faciIities. The second stop over was at finally at 12 noon they reached provinceshoweditcontainedonly The reported platinumfindsub­ By CLARO CORTES. additional I 0 millions tons of rice of Manila. Variety News Staff The students started the Saipan Lady followed at their final destination-Kilili 0.0005 percent platinum and 92 sequently caused a slight decline LOS BANOS, Philippines (AP) annually by 2005 and half
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