UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LIBRARY arianas %riety:~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 . . ~f\VS 'Proceed cautiously on power plant project' By Haidee V. Eugenio entails and the length of time Directors anytime this week or panded study by its independent Variety News Staff needed to finish it. next week to have a detailed dis­ consultants-Burns & TIIECHAIRofthe House Com­ "We don't want them to start cussion on the current status of McDonnel-to evaluate the cur­ mittee on Public Utilities Trans­ the project and then find out later the planned 80 megawatt power rent and future power supply needs portation yesterday told the Com­ on they cannot pay for all the plant. on Saipan, and the economic fea­ monwealth Utilities Corp. to be expenses. We want CUC to be CUC legal counsel William J. sibility of the 80 megawatt power "careful" with the controversial cautious on this. We want to sit Ohle, in a separate interview, said plant project in light of the current $120 million Saipan power plant down with the board to know the the board is willing to meet with CNMI economic conditions. project. status of the project, to know Apatang anytime to infonn him "We would be happy tositdown Rep. David Apatang (R-Saipan) what's going on," Apatang said of the steps taken by the board with him for that matter," said said CUC needs to ensure it will in an interview. regarding the project. Ohle. be able to sustain the project, con­ The legislator said he would be During its recent meeting, the The draft results of the new sidering the amount of funding it meeting with the CUC Board of board officially approved an ex- Continued on page 26 Rep. David Apatang 'Thairrific' Federal Court denies request to rehire workers ! By Ferdie de la Torre , I Variety News Staff 'i !) THE U.S. District Court has de­ !j nied the National Labor Rela­ ·q!! tions Board's efforts to compel 'I Dai-Ichi Hotel to rehire some of its tenninated nonresident work­ ers. Federal Court Judge Alex R. Munson, however, granted NLRB's request to reinstate ' Loreta Rangamar, a local 'I worker, to her former position. Judge Alex R. Munson 1 Munson said that with respect to the alleged discriminatory along that the Dai-Ichi did not nonrenewal of the 35 nonresi­ target union supporters fof dis­ dent workers and the construc­ criminatory treatment, and that tive discharge of one alien the only reason that nonresi­ worker, the court finds that dents did not have their· con­ NLRB is not likely to prevail on tracts renewed was either be­ its claims. cause of the economy or the I\ Douglas W. Hall, one of Dai­ requirements of CNMI law. It is ichi Hotel 'scounsels, stated that gratifying that both Judge A Thai lady dressed in traditional costume showcases Thai products as well as photos of her country during the Thai Festival. Photo by Marian A. Maraya they are extremely pleased with Munson and the Administrative the court's ruling. Law Judge agree with us," said "We have been saying all Continued on page 26 New FCC rule Car crash kills Navy man r,.,,,:,:;======:1 By Jay Pascua Highway Patrol Officers said In tourism to require Variety News Staff the Navy man was driving a 1997 HAGATNA-An early morning Toyota Tercel west toward Route Governor calls for more telecom firms car crash yesterday claimed the two. The road was wet at the time 1 life of a 20-year-old Navy man. and apparently the man lost con­ Ii private sector participation Police said the crash took place trol of the car and ran off the :i to open lines By Jojo Dass nity)tojoin(MVA)sothatthere at around 6: 30 a. m. along Route 5 roadway. The Tercel hit a con­ i'I Variety News Staff will be more participation from By Haidee V. Eugenio 1 in Apra Heights. crete utility pole. · GOVERNORPedroP. Tenorio theprivatesector;·saidTenorio. · Variety News Staff Traffic investigators said speed The damage to the car was ex­ CNMI consumers will soon yesterday called forstrongerpri- There currently are efforts to was a factor in the fatal crash and tensive enough to have the Guam vate sector participation in ef- organize the Marianas Tourism see local internet access and Fire Department use the jaws-of­ will continue to investigate forts to give the Northern Council (MTC) which will other data services having in­ life to remove the four victims whether other factors played a Marianas a needed facelift to mainly come up with plans to creased availability, lowered 'I role. Continued on page 26 further boost tourist arrivals. maintain the islands as prime cost and higher capabilities as "My understanding is that the destinations for tourists. the Federal Communications . Marianas Visitors Authority According to MV A Board Commission (FCC) adopted (MV A) only have 70 member- Chair David Sablan, MTC will last week rules to. promote ship whereas in the past, there also be tasked to .. clean the en- competition for advanced ser­ were so many organizations tire island so that we can re- I vices. wanting to be members," the ceive our guests properly:· Called the "Advanced Ser­ governor told reporters. It will be recalled that the vices Third Report and Or­ Tenorio said MV A should Chair of the House Committee r der," FCC directs local tele­ likewise exert more efforts to on Commerce and Tourism has t phone companies to share their attract local businesses, adding revealed that efforts are under- telephone lines with providers t that there are still other groups way to give the Northern [ of high-speed internet access that can also be tapped to boost Marianas a badly-needed , and other data services. 1 Bob Webb, the CNMI membership. facelift to attract more tourists.I .. I encourage them (members Rep. Oscar M. Babauta (R- , governor's special assistant for The Toyota Tercel that crashed into a utility pole on Guam. of the local busi~e~s :~"'~==~~tinued 2-6 ; Continued on page 26 Photo by Eduardo C. Siguenza o~.e!~~ 1

PAC NE:V'l~TAPER srr.c1als yesterday said he supports ef­ "I agree that we cannot just - get their acts together and local internet access and other TOKYO (Reuters) - The gover­ U.S. facilities occupying more than Residents ofNago in 1997 voted appeared to exclude Kashmir...... forts by Tanapag residents to continue to wait and continue address the mounting concerns data services having increased 20 percent of Okinawa's land. overwhelming! y against a proposal The decision was taken after a four-day meeting m the Pakistam seek legal representation on a to (see) the health of the com­ nor of Japan's southernmost pre­ brought about by the contami­ availability, lowered cost an"d fecture of Okinawa is likely to un­ The two countries struck the his­ for a floating heliport off its coast, city of Lahore between the commanders of the Pakistani Rangers and planned class action suit munity deteriorate. We have nation. higher capabilities as the Fed­ veil a plan on Monday to relocate toric pact to defuse local resent­ after environmentalists and local the Indian Border Security Force, the state media said. against federal government to do something," the gover­ "We are trying to do our eral Communications Commis­ part of a U.S. military base to the ment toward the heavy concentra­ fishing cooperatives in Nago op­ "The meeting decided to stop firing immediately on the borders to agencies over the contamina­ nor told reporters in an inter­ best," said the governor, "so sion (FCC) adopted last week citythatwill hostnextyear'sGroup tion of America's military pres­ posed the idea out of concern over avoid killings of innocent citizens on both sides," the radio said tion caused by toxic chemical view. do that all these agencies can rules to promote competition of Eight summit, a local govern­ ence in Okinawa. That resentment damage to fishing grounds, coral without elaborating. waste-including the cancer­ Jones on Sunday lamented work together." for advanced services. ment official said. was fanned by the rape of a Japa­ and the habitatfornumerous aquatic causing polychlorinated biphe­ that not much action has been "So that they can immedi­ Called the "Advanced Ser­ Okinawa Governor Keiichi nese school girl in 1995 by three · species. Elizabeth II to make nyl-abandoned by the U.S. done by the U.S. Army Corps of ately try to resolve the prob­ vices Third Report and Order," Inamine is expected to tell a news U.S. servicemen. Groups in Nago opposed to the military. Engineers, the lead agency on Pedro P. Tenorio lem." 1st visit to Ireland FCC directs local telephone The centerpiece of the 1996 deal U.S. bases also staged a rally in Tenorio's inove came fol­ clean-up activities, since he Aside from the Corps, other conference that helicopter facili­ companies to share their tele­ August, demanding that the Japa­ DUBLIN (Reuters)- Britain's Queen Elizabeth is expected to make lowing an announcement made raised the issue to its officials ties at a U.S. Marine base in was the planned closure ofFutenma "If that (lawsuit) will be the offices involved include the phone lines with providers of nese government not use the sum­ her first state visit to Ireland within months, Ireland's Sunday over the weekend by House four years ago. Futenma, on the island ofOkinawa, Air Station, located in a densely decision that have to be met by U.S. Environmental Protection high-speed internet access and mit as a reason to rush into resolv­ Tribune reported. Minority Leader Dino M. Jones He said there were merely Agency (EPA) and the CNMI will be moved to Nago city, the site populated urban area, within five the people," said the governor, other data services. ing the relocation issue. The newspaper said an upcoming five day official visit to Britain (D-Saipan), who said a U.S. "meetings after meetings" and Division of Environmental of the G8 summit, the official said. to seven years. then so be it. Bob Webb, the CNMI President Clinton has said he by Irish President Mary McA!eese, which includes a lunch with the mainland-based law firm with "studies after studies." Quality (DEQ). Earlieron Monday, Inamine dis­ The agreement also stipulated, Tenorio, at the same time, said governor's special assistant for wants outstanding issues concern­ Queen, has strengthened the belief that the British monarch would cussed the plan with top officials of however, that Futenma's helicop­ telecommunications, yesterday ing the bases tidied up before he visit Ireland. the Okinawa prefectural govern­ ter facilities be relocated to a site said the FCC rule will force arrives for the G8 summit in July, "There has been a marked increase in communications between ment, the official said. within Okinawa. existing CNMI telecommuni­ and Japanese officials worry the government officials and Buckingham Palace recently, with both Tipping fee up for public comments The plan follows a 1996 agree­ After Monday's news confer­ cations firm to open up their ence, Inamine was expected to ask longer the problem is unsolved the sides keen to settle a date for a visit to mark the millennium," the ment between] apan and the United lines to other internet access States to close or scale down 11 the Nago mayor to accept the plan. tougher it will become. newspaper quoted a government source as saying. By Rene P. Acosta proposed, despite earlier oppo­ Puerto Rico is currently operat­ As for the initially proposed But the visit is still subject to implementation of the Good Friday Variety News Staff sition from trash haulers. ing on an allocation provided by convenience stations, Harder providers, thereby impacting on Agreement in Northern Ireland, the paper said. IT IS NOW only a matter of The group of business haulers the government on a yearly ba­ said there has been no concrete the cost and efficiency of these Power outage affects time before the tipping fee pro­ which bind themselves under sis. plans yet whether they would services. posed by the government for the Refused Collectors Asso­ Meanwhile, the solid waste be constructed or not, or where "This is something good for SOOK Tokyo households trash haulers becomes a regula­ ciation earlier said the amount chief also said they have already will they be built. consumers of internet access and other data services. The TOKYO (Reuters) - A power outage in Tokyo on Monday left a tion. set by the government was too initially selected the site of the The government has initially Unlimited higher the speed, the higher the wide swathe of the city, including part of the city center, without John Harder, the project man­ excessive, claiming that most transfer station which has been proposed to build not more than ager of the Division of Solid of their members will be forced planned to rise in Lower Base. five convenience stations which capabilities, the better for us," electricity. said Webb. Jiji news agency reported that a military jet had crashed and Waste Management of the De­ to shut down should it push He said the site chosen was on will be strategically put in partment of Public Works through. a lot located south of the Public placed all over Saipan. While 128 K has become the severed a high-voltage transmission line. An official at Tokyo standard speed in the U.S. main­ ·Internet Electric Power Co Ltd (TEPCO) said some 800,000 houses in central (DPW) said the $10 tipping fee The government, however, School System bus marntenance Harder said the smaller sta­ is now publicized in the Com­ said it needed the fee if it hopes shop. tions should be located near a land, the CNMI still makes use and western Tokyo were affected. of 56 K, said Webb. He, how­ Unlimited Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trade in bond futures and options monwealth Register for publis; to maintain the future landfill in The design for the transfer sta­ neighborhood since they are comments. Marpi. The amount will be used tion will be made by the same called "convenience" ones. ever, said while the 128 K is due to the outage. also available here, it's cost is Tokyo Electric A TEPCO spokesman later confirmed that the· It was recorded last Nov. 15 to partially cover the operation consulting company which has However, a public hearing and will expire one month after. and cost of the future waste dis­ been awarded the contract to cre­ needs to be held since the smaller rather too prohibitive. .di·u· • .·c, :a··.... ·t/.,;lo1 ·1'1' outage had been caused by a plane hitting a transmission line. "With this FCC rule, we ex­ .E. .. . ·.. ' ... '. ; ' \ '.c . tit ' ll {I, According to Harder, the gov­ posal site, the government ate the artist sketch of the Marpi stations may be discarded by the Land mine blast kills ernment has decided to stick to added. landfill, the Harding, Lawson community due to their proxim­ pect the cost to lower down," the amount as it has originally The dump site located in and Associate. ity to the neighborhood. added Webb. 2 Serbian cops FCC adopted the rules on PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP)-Yugoslav authorities are blaming Nov. 18. "Albanian terrorists" for planting a land mine that killed two Serb Teno hopeful on results Taitano: 'Good to be back' The Order is intended to en­ The Region's largest Multi-T1 Backbone Network: police officers and injured six others near the boundary between sure that as many companies as Kosovo and the rest of Serbia. By Marian A. Maraya possible will be able to deploy Over three T1 lines fully dedicated to Internet Ac~ess Police said the officers were rushing Sunday morning to help a of Manila aviation meet Variety News Staff new technologies on a faster, more cost-effective basis and police patrol, which was reportedly attacked by ethnic Albanians By Jojo Dass tain the giant airline's opera­ OFFICIAL Board of Elections should accelerate the ability of three hours earlier, when their vehicle detonated the mine six miles Variety News Staff tions. results have confirmed that For one low monthly rate of residential and small business north of the provincial boundary. . GOVERNOR Pedro P. "We don't know what will Board of Education (BOE) customers to access competi­ A statement from the regional police headquarters said the vehicle Tenorio yesterday said he is be the end result. It is always member Marja Lee Taitano tive broadband services from had run over the mine "planted by ethnic Albanian terrorists," a hopeful the Manila meeting necessary that... talks can be will continue to serve in the their choice of providers. phrase referring to the former rebels of the officially disbanded between CNMI, Republic of started to find out whether it Board representing Rota and It also permits competitive Kosovo Liberation Army, Palau and Air Nauru officials is feasible. I like to see more according to Taitano, she is carriers to obtain access to the $25.00 this week yields a flight route airlines making direct flight FBI investigating EgyptAir crash glad of the final turn out. high-frequency portion of the that would boost arrivals in to CNMI," said Tenorio, for students and educators "It feels good to be back," local loop from the incum­ NEW YORK (AP) - Regardless of what cause is finally pin­ the commonwealth, In a related development, the said Taitano, after Friday bent local exchange carriers pointed, EgyptAir Flight 990 already has earned a place in aviation "We cannot just sit here and governor said Continental Air­ night's BOE meeting. (LECs) over which the incum­ history with one of the most bizarre ends to a seemingly routine wait until they (airlines) come. line officials should just tell Marja Lee Taitano ...... · ... , ...... J·mkfj~~va#on Running for a seat in the bent LEC provides voice ser­ flight. Somebody has to go and look him on the face that they don't Virtuatly No Busy Signals/No Waiting board hasn't always been pic­ vices, An apparent prayer uttered just before the plane's fatal plunge for it," said the governor. want to do business with the nic for Taitano, according to Taitano, referring to printed This will enable competitive Fully Digital, Fast V.90/X2 Modem Technology from 33,000 feet is being closely scrutinized by the National Trans­ "I think the meeting will be Northern Marianas anymore. sources. news reports on Taisacan's carriers to provide digital sub­ portation Safety Board, the FBI and the Egyptian government. The productive," he added. "If we The governor was irked by . . .. Reliable, Secure, High Powered Servers When she ran for her first scriber line (DSL)-based ser­ tape from the cockpit voice recorder is receivino nearly the same can bring direct flights from the airline's move pulling out protest plans. < J?,ortnt.fng Service elected term four years ago, vices over the same telephone intensity once given to the videotape of the assassi;ation of President Manila, better." Saipan from the list of desti­ Initial Board of Election re­ lines simultaneously used by ·fY?iir~ups Kennedy. A contingent of the nations it is promoting to tour­ she had to contest results sults showed that Taisacan which claimed another candi­ incumbent LECs to provide i:(.·..,,. •... " ···.·.·z: / The central question: Why would a wide-bodied jet with 217 governor's aviation task force ists. was winning by 12 votes over ~1c~,ia1 .. basic telephone service, a tech­ people ~board suddenly crash into the ocean when nothing appeared will seek to finalize the re­ "I want the Continental (of­ date the winner. Taitano, 345 to 333. .mechamcally wrong and no distress call was made? ficials) to come out and say, This trme around, Taitano But in the final tally, how­ nique referred to as "line shar­ opening of the Saipan-Palau­ ing.,, . Manila route with Air Nauru 'We don't want to provide ser­ was prepared to accept her ever, Taisacan was able to Line sharing will permit con­ PLUS: Canada jet makes representatives during the vice to the CNMI,' if that is fate and even told the Variety muster only 328 votes as I~j, sumers to obtain innovative ser­ meeting. tile way they want it," said she will "respect the people's against Taitano's 349. • No prepayment required• No term commitment • No penalties emergency landing vices from either incumbent or If the plan pushes through, Tenorio. wish," Board of Elections Execu­ competitive carriers, without the new route, which was He nevertheless said he still But the Board of Elections tive Director Gregorio C. • No hidden conditions • No advance notice for cancellation NORTH BAY: Ontario (AP) - A Canadian jet en route from having to forego the traditional abandoned two years back, wants to have a good working has recently certified results Sablan earlier said they had to Calga~ to Hahf~x was forced to make an emergency landing in voice services from their pro­ • No long distance service commitment will reopen a market of con­ relationship with the giant air­ getting Taitano back on track. Ontario after an irate passenger entered the cockpit and had to be void some votes in Taisacan 's vider of choice. tract workers, businessmen line, which has been servicing Rota's write-in candidate, restrained, city police said. favor after review of the bal­ Since line sharing allows and tourists traveling from the the Northern Marianas for de­ Juanita N. Taisacan, report­ The man was arr~sted ~nd ta,k~n to the North Bay General Hospital lots revealed that poll watch­ customers to receive both ser­ Northern Marianas and Palau cades. to be assessed, police said. His identity was not released. edly has plans on protesting ers had counted "different vices on the same line, it elimi­ Tel: 234·8521 to Manila and vice-versa. At least 11 island destina­ . Canadi_an Airlines Flight 550 left Calgary Sunday morning. Dur­ the final election resu Its. names." nates the need for consumers Reach Out Fax: 234·8525 The route will also address tions are listed under the "I don· t know anything ' mg _the flight, the first-class passenger began shouting and creating The electoral committee, ac­ to procure a second line. This [email protected] problems caused by Continen­ airline's newsletter, OnePass a disturbance,. and he then entered the cockpit, police and other about her protesting. A lot of cording to Sablan, re-exam­ allows for more efficient use www.itecnmi.com tal Air Micronesia's flight re­ Update, which are being rec­ passengers said. He had to be restrained by three crew members and things are said in the paper, ined the ballots upon Taitano 's of the existing telephone net­ 1st Jloor Sablan Bldg. ductions in the region, which ommended as vacation sites. IIT/\L/\Y/\ passengers. nothing concrete ... ," said request. work. 2 0 0 0 FE San Jose, Saipan 96950 was done supposedly to main- Saipan is not listed. ------·-····· . ··-·····-···-· --·------____ ,...... -- -·--"" LOCAL LOCAL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, i 999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5 4-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- NOVEMBER 23, 1999 ·------.....0.==..:..c.::2.e:.:__cc~=-==:_:_ Due to lack of direct _flights to CNMI ·Manibusan taps Manibusan US-born Filipino kids can be considered RP citizens MVA eyes HK, Taiwan charter flights to preside over suit·vs Kara By Rene P. Acosta Philippines t_o study. By Haldee V. Eugenio While the decision of Conti­ the Department of Labor and immigration restrictions that tend Hong Kong and Taiwan for mar­ Variety News Staff · "Instead of securing. visas, Variety News Staff nental Micronesia to terminate all Immigration (DOLi) to work out to discourage potential tourists. ket re-assessment where travel By Ferdie de la Torre suit until the matter is dis­ pose of appointing a judge THE PHILIPPINE Consulate they wiil ·just avail of the 'rec­ WITH THE termination of direct direct flights to the CNMI from ways on how legitimate tourists DOLi currently requires cer­ agents aired their concerns on the Variety News Staff posed. pro tern to preside over the yesterday said children who ognition order' [from the Phil­ flights from Hong Kong and Tai­ Hong Kong and Taiwan was the from these two places will not tain foreign nationals to secure an lack of available airline seats go­ THE SUPERIOR Court has Presiding Judge Manibusan case until the matter is dis­ ippine Bureau oflmmigration] are U.S. citizens of Filipino wan to the CNMI starting in Oc­ primary reason for the dec_]ine, have difficulty visiting the CNMI. Authorization to Board (ATB) ing to CNMI as all available flights appointed Associate Judge wrote a letter last week to posed." and. they will be just like any· · descent can still be entitled to tober, visitor arrivals from these MVA said bringing in charter "We may need to sit down with from DOU before they are al- need to transit through Guam. The Joaquin V. E. Manibusan, CNMI Supreme Court Chief Juan Demapan and busi­ the same rights and privileges citizen of the Philippines," the ·two markets dipped anew, flights from these two places and DOLi to have well-defined (im­ lowed to visit the CNMI. · MVA official said CNMI-bound Jr. of the Guam trial court Justice Miguel S. Demapan, nessman Cheung Ping Yin accorded to other Filipino citi­ vice consul said. prompting the Marianas Visitors putting some ease on immigra­ migration) requirements regard­ "If we can work something out tourists still need to compete with to preside over the $3-miI­ requesting the appointment of sued Kara, Public Safety zens. He said the Philippine Con­ Authority (MVA) to map out al­ tion restrictions will help increase ingtheentryof citizens fromHong with DOLi then there is a possi­ Guam-bound passengers from l ion lawsuit filed by .i pro tern judge. Commissioner Charles Vice Consul Ronell B. sulate is intensifying its in­ ternatives to make up for the arrivals from these two markets. Kong and Taiwan because the bility of increase in traffic from Taiwan. former Senate President Ingram and other persons "I respectfully request that Jr. Santos said this was made pos­ formation campaign on the losses. . MV A Board Chairman David markets are lucrative. We will these regions,'' said Tenorio. Continental Micronesia, how­ ever, placed the blame on the con­ Juan S. Demapan against a pro tern judge be assigned to over an alleged illegal arrest sible by a new Philippine im­ existence of the law. Taiwan arrivals went down by Sablan, in an interview over the continue with our promotions,'' MV A also disclosed that Pa­ acting Attorney General during a raid at their "legiti­ 63 percent, while Hong Kong weekend, said Hong Kong and said Sablan. cific Island Aviation (PIA) is tinuous decline in the number of handle this matter to ensure migration law that recognizes Based on the consulate's fig­ experienced a 24 percent decline Taiwan are "lucrative" markets During MVA's board meeting showing interest in operating char­ Saipan-bound passengers from Maya Kara and other per­ its timely disposition," the mate gambling establish­ children born abroad who have ures last year, 215 babies were in October, compared to the fig­ and therefore promotional efforts last week, MV A Managing Direc­ ter flights between Taiwan and Hong Kong and Taipei for its sons. presiding judge told Chief ment" in Garapan. born here to Filipino citizens. either one or both Filipino ures last year during the same should continue. He also said tor Perry Tenorio also brought up the CNMI. decision to terminate direct flights Presiding Judge Edward Justice Demapan. The plaintiffs in their com­ To secure the recognition or­ parents as Filipino citizens. period. MVA will meet with officials of the need to discuss with DOLi the Tenorio also recently visited to the CNMI starting Oct. 1. Manibusan in his order is­ Following the request, the plaint questioned among "It's just a matter of being der, the Filipino parent or par-· sued Thursday tapped Judge Chief Justice designated Pre- · other things, Kara's alleg­ recognized as Filipinos citi­ ents must submit their authen­ Mani bus an as judge pro tern siding Judge Manibusan as edly illegal designation as zens due to the mere fact that ticated birth certificates along to handle Demapan 's law- Justice Pro Tern "for the pur- acting AG. they are born to parents who with their child's. TONY are-or used to be-Filipino They are also required to In illegal gambling case citizens," Santos said. su bruit an affidavit on the ci ti­ There is, however, no such zenship of the applicant par­ thing ~s "dual citizenship," ent or parents, a photocopy of· 'treat yourself to our traditional Demapan pleads innocent which is not allowed by the the parents' Philippine pass­ Philippine Constitution, he port, and a letter from the par­ 'thanksgiving Jeast. said. ent or parents requesting for By Ferdie de la Torre conference for the two defendants Jeaturinq: Variety News Staff on Jan. 11, 2000. But children born abroad to the issuance of the recogni­ FORMER Senate President Juan Demapan and Cheung were Filipino parents are now en­ tion order. • 8 oz Roast Turkey w/ giblet gravy sauce '1 S. Demapan yesterday pleaded among nine persons arrested and titled to the same privileges If the parent is already a U.S. • Stuffing ,, innocent to charges that he en­ charged for allegedly conducting and rights that are being given citizen, he or she is also re­ • Chef Special Potato ' gaged in illegal g-ambling opera­ illegal gambling at the East Ocean to other Filipino citizens, quired to submit a proof of • Fresh green beans '. j tion in Garapan. Restaurant last Sept. 2. Santos said. being a Filipino citizen at the • Cranberry sauce The former senator told the Demapan, through counsel He cited as an example Fili­ time or prior to the child's • Cream of corn soup Chang Yoon, waived readin!! of Variety days after his arrest that pino-Americans who go to the birth. the in-formation and advise~ent he was the operator of the "hi - • Pumpkin Pie .. of his constitutional rights during low," but stressed he has a license :i" the arraignment. to operate such gambling under "Spena it with yoJAr fa mill{ ., the Demapan Gaming Manage­ Labor ruling penalizes Demapan pleaded not guilty to A TASTE OF THAI. Saipan's Thai community displayed Thai crafts and products at the Thai Festival held Thanksgiving Feast: illegal gambling activity and ac- Juan S. Demapan ment. Sunday at Ki/iii Beach. Photo by Marian Maraya. De ma pan and Cheung then filed cessory to commit illegal gam­ a $3-million lawsuit against act­ £inn for violations Adult: $15.95 • Kids:$7 .95 bling charges. ing A ttomey General Maya Kara, By Rene P. Acosta karaoke club hired Yµhua as CUC expands Tinian power distribution (12 & under) Demapan 's business partner, Public Safety Commissioner Variety News Staff waitress for 11 months, be­ Ping Yin Cheung, also pleaded By Haidee V. Eugenio "This is an ongoing project and cultural area is also underway. The For Reservations, please call 322-9191 · $5.00 BARGAIN MATINEES Charles Ingram Jr. over alleged THE DIVISION of Labor has ginning Dec. 31, 1996. La Fiesta Mall 111 Before 6 P.M. ·MON.· FRI. innocent of the same charges. illegal arrest during the raid at Variety News Staff we expect it to be finished by Feb­ project stretches from Carolina imposed penalties on a firm However by the end of Feb. (Above Capricciosa) BEFORE 3:30 P.M. SAT., SUN. & HOL. SuperiorCourtPresidingJudge their '·legitimate" gambling es­ BETTER power supply and distri­ ruary or March next year,'' said Heights to Suicide Cliff...... l'l.LDIGfll.J..SOUND for various labor violations 1997, Mirim Corp. "aban­ [DIDOUIYI Edward Manibusan set a status tablishment. bution await Tinian consumers as Castro. Castro said the expansion of the ~ STfDIUM-SEATING ~u~!~Jo~~ ranging from non-payment of doned" the worker, who did the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. CUC is also cun-ently working new Tinian power plant substation Tuesday, November 23, 1999 wages to breach of contract. not receive her salary and (CUC) disclosed four ongoing on the installation of power distri­ is also ongoing and is expected to SLEEPY HOLLOW .~"tt; AGO charges person Labor hearing officer Jerry o.vertime wages in the amount projects where business and com­ bution system in Carolina be finished by February next year. Cody sanctioned Mirim Corp., of $1,358. mercial establishments will hook Heights' homesteads, with the "Hopefully by nextyearall these ' 5:00 • 7:30 • 10;15 R upto the utilities agency for electri­ recent purchase of needed mate­ projects will be done so that our which operates Blue Karaoke, Cody ruled that Yuhua cal supply. rials to complete the project. residents and businesses here will Johnny Depp Action Thriller for bribe try, fraud and its two officers Yong Hak should get paid for the remain­ Gregorio Castro, CUC deputy "This is an in-house project have betterpowersupply," said the Choi and Kyung Soon Seo. ing period of her contract and 'IFie 'WorU is not 'Enoug!i. ~ By Ferdie de la Torre done ... " director for Tinian, said the Inter­ where cue staff will be the one CUC official. The two were ordered to pay Variety News Staff Assistant Attorney General liquidated damages. national Broadcasting Bureau doing the actual construction of a Aside from improving the power 5:00 • 7:45 • 10:30 R their waitress Yuhua Jin THE ATTORNEY General's Nicole Forelli also stated in the Since Mirim and its two of­ (IBB) awarded a contract to new electrical overhead distribu­ distribution system, CUC is also $12,941. ficers "snubbed" the case, Telesource, Inc. for the construc­ tion lines and secondary services currently working on a better water Pierce Brosnan Action suspense Office yesterday filed crimi­ information that the defendant ·1, Originally, there were four supply in Tinian with the ongoing nal charges against a person on the same date "possessed breached the contract, and ig­ .. i tion of an overhead and under­ to Carolina Heights homesteads. complainants, but two availed ground power distribution hook­ The lines will tie with the ex.isling upgrading of waterpipes in the San The Sixth Sense i":"tM for allegedly trying to bribe a without authorization and used nored the hearing office's de­ of the government's limited ing up IBB to CUC's power sys­ systems at the Marpo well," said Jose ,u-ea, marking the first time 4:45 • 7:15, 9:46 PG-13 government official and pos­ a false, forged, counterfeit, al­ mand to be furnished with immunity program and company papers, they will pay tem. Castro. such rehabilitation is done in ape­ sessing fraud immigration tered or tampered-with official The project, which sta11ed dur­ This project takes 180 days or riod of 30 years. Bruce Willis suspense dropped the case. The other an additional $1,000 fine. document. Commonwealth immigration or ing the second week of November, until early next year to be com­ Since 1994, Tinian remains to be returned to South Korea. They are also barred from Ming Jun He, 23, was labor document permit or iden­ is set to get off the ground within pleted. the only island in the CNMI which ~ Based on Cody's record, the 8/l/8 AKO SA 'YO charged with attempted brib­ tification card ... " hiring alien workers. 120 days or approximately four Another power distribution has a 24-hour water supply from 5:00 • 7:30, 10:15 NR ery and immigration fraud Forelli said possessed such months. project for Carolina Heights agri- cue. Robin Padilia,Joyce Jimenez before the Superior Court. document "knowing or clearly According to the informa­ should have knowing that the You can avoid accident, if you... SGMA takes part in 'social responsibility' conference DRIVE ME CRAZY~ tion, last Jan. 31 He "did un­ document was false, forged, Solvers. Our 4:45 • 7:15, 9:45 PG-13 lawfully and voluntarily at­ counterfeit, altered or tam­ By Rene P. Acosta monitoring of the controversial Pricewaterhouse has conducted Pest Control tempt to give something of pered-with." Variety News Staff local garment industry, he noted, a series of training sessions for Specialists are Melissa Joan Hart Comedy THE SAIP AN Garment Manu­ will begin next week. SGMA members early this year I value, to wit: money, in The defendant was sum­ Drive facturers Association joined the Among the topics discussed under the principles set forth in trained in the art of i wrongful and corrupt payment moned to appear and answer THE 13TH W)JJt.lOP-. .~ : ... recently held Social Business during the conference were the the Code of Conduct of the customer satisfaction. l 4:30, 7:30 • 10:00 R for an official act not to be the charges in court on Dec. 6. Responsibility Conference in promotion of compliance to law­ SGMA. Safely San Francisco, California, ful and ethical working condi­ ··our attendance at the confer­ J Antonia Bandaris Action Drama which drew close to 1,000 par­ tions and the innovative ap­ ence will guarantee that the larg­ ~all 235-3041 Blue Streak~ BETTER DRIVERS ticipants. proaches to monitoring for com­ est international and national re­ · ·· for prompt 4:45 • 1:00 • 9:30 Pci:1·3· SGMA Executive Director Ri­ pliance. tailers will continue to use Saipan :,i,,setvice today! chard Pierce, who represented the Pierce said this is not the first manufacturers as the source for Martin Lawrence Comedy Action BUCKLE UP Saipan apparel makers, said the that the NMI garment industry apparel they've come to recog­ 24 HRS SHOWTIME INFO :234-90 conference discussed corporate has worked with the organizers of nize as some of the world's fin­ l responsibility. The independent the conference. est," he said. ,I TIJESDA Y, NOVEMBER 23, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-7 ,, G . FEATURE:

·::···:::=···:-.c:-=_·:.:: _, . Appalachia: Tooth decay Q~d. g11.me decides New Mexico posts war target RESERVE, N.M. (AP) - Flick-snap. Card to With that, he came down off the bench, ap· Jim Blancq. It was just a friendly game. except proached the couns!!l table· and prepared to SPINDALE, N.C. (AP)-Nine-month-old Blake Hardin's OK, LETS HAVE: that it was held in the only courtroom in the deal. Flick-snap. Card to· Ms. Milligan. Not Indonesia strains on minds FUN WITH THl50NE. face brightened in a big, toothy smile, his teeth freshly Catron County Courthouse, and the dealer was being a card player himself, the judge focu~ed ITS f=ORTHE painted with protective fluoride varnish. District JU1;!ge Neil Mertz, come down o,ff the. hard on the deal, worried he'd fumble the deck. but not lips at ASE.AN NEW $5 ~/LL! The nurses cheered. It was another tiny victory in a new bench in a business suit. He used a pocketknife The spectators, seated in four rows of b.enches war on tooth decay in Appalachia, one of the nation's to tear the cellophane off a deck of cards and behind the table, squirmed and squinted. "Call poorest regions, using a dental technique employed in began shuffling. em out so we can hear em!" someone shouted. MANILA, (Reuters) . When Southeast Asian leaders gather in Europe for more than a quarter century. "All right," he said. "Seven-card stud, all "All right," Mertz said. "So far I've dealt to Manila next weekend for annual talks they are likely to ignore A dozen pediatric nurses watched Blake's four tiny teeth up." With a flick of the wrist, the judge drew Judge Blancq: three of hearts, queen of dia­ the first card and snapped it down hard in front monds. Ms. Milligan: IO of hearts, six of dia­ one of the region's most pressing problems-Indonesia's rebel­ get painted with a small yellow brush during the training of Blancq. monds." The audience settled back and lis­ lious Aceh province, diplomats and analysts say. session at the Rutherford County Health Department, "We Except for a fussy baby, the crowd fell silent. tened for the next card. The Nov. 28· summit of the Association of South East Asian see a Jot of bad mouths," said registered nurse Deborah It was about a big a crowd as you 're likely to Blancq's wife, seated on the right side of the Nations (ASEAN) is expected to focus on measures to sustain Gregg as she watched colleague Charlene Jones work on get in a small town. courtroom with her husband's supporters. economic recoveries after the financial crisis and a 1997-98 Blake. The Fishers had strolled over from Elkhorn bowed her head in prayer. proposed regional code of conduct to avoid accidental wars "I just hate to see these little ones in so much pain." In Realty. Jess Carey of the 3-Trees Gun Shop set Ms. Milligan's kin, on the left side, simply over potentially oil-rich isles in the South China Sea. Appalachia, as many as one in every four young children aside his distaste for court proceedings to at­ watched. Flick-snap. "To Judge Blancq," Mertz The meeting will be followed by a separate summit with tend. intoned, ''three of diamonds: One pair." still suffers from severe tooth decay. There are myriad China. Japan and South Korea to explore the idea of an East The sheriff, the newspaperman, the county Blancq's face revealed nothing. He was. he Asian forum to head off potential conflicts in the region. •.. I reasons: Some rural water systems lack fluoride, many manager · indeed, nearly one-fourth of thought to himself, surprisingly .calm. Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon said there was a children drink unfluoridated private well water, infants Reserve 's 400 souls were there. But his faith in God had gotten him this far. "more than 50 percent" chance the ASEAN summit would adopt sometimes use nursing bottles too long. But then, .the stakes were high. To the win· and somehow he knew things would work out. a code of conduct that would bar claimants from expanding In addition, children have poor diets and inadequate oral ner would go the post of magistrate judge of He glanced at his wife. "Was she praying?" he their presence in the Spratlys Islands area. hygiene. The antidote, officials hope, is "Smart Smiles," a Catron, New Mexico's largest county (6,898 wondered. He supposed so. Flick-snap. "To Aceh, where growing demands for independence threaten the three-year program funded by the Appalachian Regional square miles along the Arizona border) though Ms. Milligan, two of diamonds." stability of Indonesia and ASEAN itself, may not be discussed Commission and just getting under way. one of its smallest in population (about 3,000). Ms. Milligan drew in a breath as she studied at all. given ASEAN's dogged desire to stay clear of internal Jojo Dass If that doesn't sound like much of a pot, the cards. He had a pair, but she could be on her With pediatric dentists in short supply in North Carolina's problems in member countries. consider it in terms any gambler can under­ way to a diamond flush with the six and two of mountains, program organizers decided to turn to pediatri­ "Everybody is looking at Aceh but what is to be gained from stand. With a salary of $53,500 a year, the job diamonds in addition to her 10 of hearts. Her talking about it at this point, unless Indonesia wants to talk cians and their nurses. is one of the highest-paying in a county where friends had persuaded her to run for this office, • Brewed I about it. It's an intern 11 problem," ASEAN Secretary-General After receiving basic training in the simple procedure, the average annual income is $13,000, prima· and she had thought it might be neat. Now she '! Rodolfo Severino said. they will be painting the teeth of hundreds of children rily from government employment and cattle really wanted to win. "It's unlikely Aceh will come up." The resource-rich Indone­ under age 5 in 11 western North Carolina counties. "(They) ranching. The butterflies in her belly stirred as Mertz j sian province's clamor for independence has grown since East see the kids with the bombed-out mouths," said Robert Over a four-year term that's $214,000, not drew the next card. Flick-snap. "To Judge Timar voted in August to split from Jakarta's rule. Many fear an Leddy, regional dental health supervisor with the state including retirement and benefits. As Blancq Blancq, four of clubs." He still had one pair. Memory lapse puts it: "It wasn't just a little poker game." - Flick-snap. "Ms. Milligan, jack of diamonds.'' Aceh breakaway could rip the archipelago apart. Department of Health and Human Services, who attended ''The Balkanization of Indonesia will be the biggest night­ Another flick of the wrist. Card to Lena Another diamond! She needed just two more PHILIPPINE Sen. Rodolfo Biazon, who ar­ The money remitted to their country, on the the training session. mare not only of Indonesia but also its neighbors," said Abdul Milligan. for a flush. Flick-snap. "Judge Blancq, queen rived on island over the weekend had some­ other hand, is spent on appropriations funding "This gives us huge access," said James W. Bawden, the Razak Baginda, executive director of the Malaysian Strategic The players had arrived at this point the way of hearts." Two pair: threes and queens. Blancq thing in mind when he said the Mindanao con­ pork barrels - politicans' pet projects, jun­ former University of North Carolina dental school dean so many candidates in small-town elections had gained the upper hand. Flick-snap. "To·· Research Center. flictand the continuing communist threat back kets, and, as Biazon said, war materiel that do: Their race had been declared a tie. On Nov. Ms. Milligan, ace of hearts." Ba2inda said ASEAN should tackle the Aceh problem head who came up with the idea for the program. He said \ home are proving to be stumbling blocks in could also probably be killing their kin who 3, 1998, the returns initially had Ms. Milligan, She had two hearts, the ace and the 10, and on. "It must be discussed within ASEAN," he told Reuters. "It treatment will be offered to children brought in for medical efforts to attract more investors, boost employ­ may had opted to take to the hills and join the 55, a cook at the senior citizens' center and the three diamonds, the six, two and jack. Com­ is not that we are interfering but it has international and re- checkups. ment, uplift living conditions and bring home, rebels to "overhaul the flawed socio-economic Democratic challenger, defeating Blancq, 62, pared with Blancq's two pair, she still didn't 2ional ramifications ... ASEAN should have discussed the East Organizers know of no other program like it in the United albeit gradually, the estimated six million Fili­ system by the power of the gun." a retired Navy pilot and the Republican incum­ have much. Flick-snap. "To Judge Blancq, four States. The program's goal is to give high-risk children Timor problem beforehand. When it blew up. ASEAN was pino overseas contract workers abroad. Money they managed to keep and bring home bent, 798 votes to· 797. of diamonds. · caught with its pants down." Money that would have been spent on vital with them often ends up in government's loan dental care at an age when it can do the most good. But the tally was reversed on recount, and And Ms. Milligan, ace of clubs." Blancq now Leading Filipino political analyst Alex Magno said ASEAN infrastructure, for instance, are going down the programs - housing, insurance, health and Normally, Bawden said, most of the children wouldn't see Blancq took office. Ms. Milligan filed a law­ had three pair: queens, fours and threes. Ms. could serve as a guarantor of a referendum on Aceh's future. drain for the purchase of ammunitions. the like - or in banks, both of which eat up a a dentist until they were as old as 6 or 7. By then, tooth suit challenging the results, and nine months Milligan had one pair of aces. If she were to get "With ASEAN assurance, Indonesia could preserve itself with Not too long ago, I met the senator, who once sizable bulk of the workers' seed capital in decay often is too firmly entrenched, he said. later Mertz ruled the race a tie. one more ace, she could win with three of a return for restrictive debt service plans. It's a a hi2her de2ree of autonomy. headed the defunct-National Capital Region "By age 2 or 3, most of these children have suffered While even the Federal Election Commis­ kind. One more pair, and she could win with It ;-s easie1'." to sell autonomy to the Acehnese if it is within an Defense Command, at a camp-out fronting the stick-up job made legal, most people agree. considerable pain and often have swelling and fever from sion doesn't know the exact number, at least 15 aces high. A SEAN framework.'' Magno said. •·Jt 's part of a larger question old Senate building in Manila. Talks about finally bringing home the con­ states have laws providing for tied elections to "Just one more," Ms. Milligan thought des­ dental infections," Bawden said. "They have several teeth of what ASEAN can do for the big brother who is in trouble." The senator, who now chairs the powerful tract workers - alive, and not in boxes- have t be settled by lot, says Dick Smolka, publisher perately. "One more." Blancq wasn't worried. "ASEAN has to change," Siazon told reporters. "You will see defense committee, was trying to reason out been around for the past three national admin­ that need to be extracted and require extensive treatment to of the newsletter Election Administration Re­ He fully expected to get a full house: all he more ASEAN countries getting involved in some of the prob­ with leaders of an ongoing general strike orga­ istrations. retain the rest of their teeth." With Blake sprawled across ports. needed was another three. four or queen. Even lems of their neighbors. They know, the neighbors also know, nized to register national protest against an But the millions of dollars they regularly the lap of his mother, Renee Martin, Jones dried the boy's Flick-snap. Card to Blancq. In the case of if she got another ace or another pair. he would it's sometimes useful if your neighbor can help." impending oil price hike. Strikers, by the time send home seem to always give government \ teeth with white gauze and then applied a coat of fluoride Milligan vs. Blancq, Mertz ordered the parties win. I The territorial row over the Spratlys, a cluster of isles and Biazon arrived via helicopter at the camp, had leaders a memory lapse. i varnish. to convene at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 21 in the County Mertz paused and looked up at the two play­ Unless those in the "immaculate corridors of reefs straddling strategic sealanes, involves four A SEAN mem­ burnt nearly a dozen public utility buses across "All done!" Jones said, surprised at the ease of the Courthouse, a two-story brick building that is ers. "Th is' II be the final card, w i 11 it not'" he power" muster enough political will to do things bers. the metropolis, barricaded major thoroughfares, by far the tallest on Rcserve's Main Sti·eet. a asked. "Mmm hmm." Ms. Milligan nodded. right, the poor workers will remain where they procedure. As Mrs. Martin sat Blake up in her lap, the other The arc:a is claimed wholly or in part by China. Taiwan. created enough confusion to ke,:-p people locked badly paved road hugged by one motel, a bar Flick-snap. "Judge Blancq. two of spades." It are, merely receiving token gestures of apprecia­ nurses broke into applause. Moments later, Blake's 3- Vietnam. Malaysia. Philipp·1nes and Brunei. The last four arc inside their homes and woJtd have success­ and a handful of eateries. wasn't a full house, but he could still win with fully ground the economy to a halt had the tion that announce them as "new heroes" when­ year-old brother Cory underwent the same treatment. members of A SEAN. which also includes Indonesia, Singapore. With its shiny benches and bookcases stacked two pair · as long as she didn't get the right protest continued the following day. ever they find time to come home for a visit. After the yellow varnish dries, the teeth have a dull Thailand. Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. neatly with law books, the courtroom itself is card. Negotiating with the strike leaders, Biazon So what's on your mind, senator? Baginda said any code of conduct should have a mechanism appearance, which lasts for about a day. Dentists recom­ modern enough but for the absence of air con­ Flick-snap. "Ms. Milligan. nine of diamonds ... pied that the strikers stop the mayhem and * * * * * mend repeating the process every six months to restore the ditioning. Ceiling fans and three windows pro· - B lancq 's wife raised her head and thrust her for enforcing rules. "If you have a code of conduct and no Maybe it's re-elected Rep. Heinz S. resort instead to non-violent means. outer, fluoride-rich layer of tooth enamel. vide the only circulation. arms in the air. "Praise you. Jesus! Thank you. ability to enforce it. what is the point?" he said. Adamantly. the agitators replied the planned Hofschneider (R-Saipan) after all. ! While the pilot program initially targets just the I I Mertz explained the "somewhat unusual" Lord!" Ms. Milligan's husband and parents three-day strike was being held to stop the A well-placed source told us a Republican counties, funding is being sought to expand the effort to all proceeding and asked each candidate and their le ft the room. price hike, which, they said, would further party caucl!s will be held anytime now to for­ party chairs to choose a method for breaking From first cml lo last. the game took onlv a I 00 counties in the state. Organizers aren't certain whether make life difficult for the grassroots people, malize Hofschneider's assumption of post as the tie. "Cut of a deck of cards · .high card ... minute. 15 seconds. Still. in the words of o'ne who will have to put up with a resulting in­ the Speaker of the 12th Legislature, which the program will be expanded to other Appalachian states Ms. Milligan proposed, with her party chair­ New Mexico judge who presided over an eke· crease in the cost of living. convenes in January. if it proves to be successful in North Carolina. woman concurring. B lancq had something else lion-deciding poker game in the 1970s. the "But don't you think what you 're doing is not If I got it right, incumbent Speaker Diego T. Leddy said that while ·'Smart Smiles" means extra work in mind. episode can best be described as "a slow tor­ already making life miserable for them?" re­ Benavente (R-Saipan) will step down to be for pediatricians, they aren't complaining. ··we 're not "I would prefer to play one hand of seven­ ture." vice speaker, while incumbent Vice Speaker plied Biazon. twisting anyone's arms," he said. card stud poker, all seven cards up. You be the Ms. Milligan would certainly agree. although * * * * * Jess T. Attao takes the Floor. ''They want to do something." Doctors have seen enough dealer," he suggested to Mertz. "The best five­ time has made her a little less bitter and more Rafael H. Arroyo Still on contract workers, Philippine nation­ Question: What chairmanship post will be card hand speaks for itself. We won't draw any philosophical. _Zaldy Dandan_ ___ . _ advanced tooth decay in Appalachian children that they are als go abroad for work, in the process, becom­ given to former Speaker Benigno R. Fitial (R· cards." "I just wasn't very lucky that day." Blancq P.O. Box 231, Saipan MP 96950-0231 ino -victims of double taxation, hate crimes, Saipan), who also won in the just-concluded happy to be armed with a countermeasure, said Leddy. "If 1 Mertz pulled two decks of cards from his still has the deck of cards, with his and Ms. Tel (670) 234-6341/757819797 9272 un~crupulous employers and recruiters, rap­ midterm elections Jnd has for some time also treated early, we can actually reverse the decay process," Fax (670) 234-9271 pockets. He also removed a package of dice Milligan's hands intact. He plans to display ists, drug traffickers and suffer psychological been party chair. © 1999, Marianas Variety he said. "If we can get them in on a regular basis, we can and two half-dollars, confessing to the laugh­ them in a shadow box, and one day tell his All Rights Reseried disorders to name a few consequences, because Commerce and Tourism ? do a Jot." ing crowd, ''I made no provision for straws or grandkids how grandpa won an election in a life is too harsh for them back home. Probably Ways and Means. other similar devices." hand of poker. LOCAL 8-MAR!ANASV ARIETY ~ws ~ND VIEWS-TUESDAY- NOVEMBER 23, 1999_ ·~~ ·COMMUNITY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-9 Lawmakers urged to take part in site selection By Marian A. Maraya Accountants' group elects new officers Still undecided on the site for Committee on Health, Educa­ thy," towards the issue, two current sites being eyed Variety News Staff the planned second high school, tion, and Welfare (HEW) has Pangelinan expressed disappoint­ (Capitol Hill and Koblerville). THE MARIANAS Institute of Araceli Maraya of the Phil­ "WHERE were our leaders BOE members are urging law­ expressed preference for ment that lawmakers are not as Board members Pangelinan ippine Overseas Labor Office when PSS [Public School Sys­ makers to take part in the site Kagmanas a site for the planned enthusiastic for this concern as and Pellegrino at the BOE meet­ Filipino CPAs elected on Sat­ tem] needed them to identify a selection process. high school. they are with other issues. ing last Friday both presented urday its new set officers for delivered an inspirational mes­ large piece of land to build a "Earlier we issued letters to "I am sure we could find a "Most of Saipan 's prime pub­ their sides on the feasibility of the new millennium at the sage during the program. second high school for our chil­ every representative and sena­ property there somewhere," said lic lands have been utilized for the mentioned sites. Multi-Purpose Center in In her speech, she encour­ dren?." tor, but out of the 27, only one the legislator, in an earlier in­ golf courses, hotels, land ex­ But in the end, board members Susupe, a media release said. aged and challenged all par­ Board of Education (BOE) came. Where were they when terview. change, and wildlife conserva­ agreed the "actual" site did not MIFICPA 's newly elected ticipants to take the U.S. CPA member Tom Pangelinan raised we needed to hear from them?" But Pellegrino said that more tion areas ... what about for our matter as much as the general officers are Nestor A. Alegre examination. this question infront of other Board member Tony Pellegrino legislators need to come in and kids' schools?," he said. public's opinion on the issue. of Younis Art Studio/ She said her office and the BOE members. parents. and also said. air their concerns since this is­ Meanwhile, he further The board is set to make a Marianas Variety, president; Philippine Consulate are ready concerned individuals during a Rep. Heinz Hofschneider (R­ sue greatly affects everyone. stressed that the site choices final decision on the site at the Irene Tantiado of CTSI, vice to support and assist the orga­ recent BOE meeting. Saipan). chairman of the House Bothered by the leaders' "apa- should not only be limited to the next board meeting on Dec. 9. president; Raquel Fajilan of nization on its undertakings Grace Christian Academy, and projects. secretary; Josephine Agpalo Waldo and Maraya were Guam school of Deloitte & Touche, trea­ given plaques of appreciation surer; Ariel Lingad of for their support and assistance Micronesian Telecom mun ica­ to the organization. hosts fundraiser tion Corp., PRO; and Socnilo Maraya inducted the new of­ By Therese Hocog began educating students on Villanueva of the Common­ ficers after the election. Variety News Staff Guam back in 1994. wealth Utilities Corp .. audi- The newly elected officers HAGATNA - The Chief CGA aims to provide qual­ o r vowed to do their best in rep­ Gadao Academy (CGA) ity education "in an atmo­ The election coincided with resenting the organization in hosted its second annual Night sphere conducive to the de­ the orientation seminar on worthwhile undertakings. with the Chiefs last night at velopment of the spiritual, in­ The Marianas Institute of Filipino CPAs' newly elected officers were sworn in last Saturday. U.S. CPA review and exami­ They also appealed to the the GATE Theater in Tiyan. tellectual. physical and social nation conducted by Richard members for their support and The concert was a fund raiser 1ives of students.·· Waldo. participation in upcoming to benefit the academy. CGA operates "in the belief NMI joins HIV prevention confere nee Waldo also made a presenta­ projects and activities. includ­ Performers at the benefit con­ that this purpose can be ful­ tion on the statement of cash flow. ing the CPA review. cert include Jesse Bias. Ruby filled through the knowledge By Therese Hocog "In our efforts to find solutions, Santos. Patrick Palomo. Carlos and understanding of the an­ Variety News Staff we are looking at our data, revis­ Laguana and Friends. Hale and cient Chamorro culture and the HAGATNA-Jackie Quitugua, iting our conversations, reflect­ the CGA student choir. similarities between program coordinator with the ing on what we have done and CNMI Public School System, said what we need to do to make things CGA is a non-profit educa­ Chamorro culture and Chris­ FIELD DAY. Eucon International School students spent Saturday with their family playing "sponge toss" and the participation of the Northern even better for everyone-students, tional institution which first tian principles." other games during the Eucon field day. Photo by Marian A. Maraya Marianas at a recent regional con­ parents, the community,'' ference to integrate HIV preven­ Quitugua said. Bus wash for PSS buses tion education spoke of personal Reina Camacho, a health edu­ I I commitment. cator with the CNMI's Division By Marian A. Maraya themselves and change back :, The conference held from Nov. of Public Health, said the confer­ Variety News Staff to regular work clothes, to pre­ 18 to Nov. 20 at the Pacific Star ence can benefit the Northern THE PUBLIC School System pare themselves for the after­ Hotel saw some 30 participants Marianas by having those partici­ (PSS) is embarking on a noon operations," he said. from the CNMI. pating actively take the informa­ •• project which would provide "I sympathize with the bus Quitugua said they had orga­ tion to their work sites and con­ PSS school buses with its very drivers who are the first to be nized themselves so thatthere was duct presentations on what was ISLAND STYLE!! own automated bus cleaning called to duty and being the a school team consisting of ad­ learned. service called the "bus wash." last people to shut the door of ministrators, counselors, teachers, Oleai Elementary School prin­ PSS Administrative Ser­ PSS ... and they have endured and parents. cipal Evelyn Manglona said when vices Officer Jess Sanchez much simpler facilities in the Church representatives and · teaching younger children, edu­ said that the bus wash is simi­ past... I thank them and I be­ public health officials were also cators must be very careful and 0 " JslaVld Style'. Roasted Pi9 lar to the "car wash" concept lieve that the services are well part of the group. sensitive. where buses have to enter a received, not just by the stu­ • GTE Savings w/ ''The collaboration is to The children's comprehension . Country startec+PCI Pacifica startec+PC room with sprinkling water dents but the parents of the strengthen our comprehensive is not as sophisticated as if they 0 :Assol"ted Seafood; Pastas & So1.

. ' . ! I I I 10-MARIANAS v·ARIETY NEWS AND.VIEWS-TUESDAY~ NOVEMBER 2:(1999 P.AOIF•C ISLANDS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 199,9-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS A@_YIEWS-11 In Papua New Guinea Protest launched Direct election of premier proposed vs toxic waste PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) was asked to comment on the pro­ people wou Id still create too much share common ideologies and can provisions for the Prime Minister - Former Papua New Guinea posed Integrity of Political Parties opening for political manoeuvring better serve their people from their to become caretaker in the event of By Eric F. Say fish samples caught in the river (PNG) Prime Minister, Sir Julius and Candidates law. and instability." allegiances," Sir Julius said. death, ill health or resignation of Variety News Staff show high concentrations of Chan has called for the people to Sir Julius, whose election peti­ "The People's Progress Party "I believe the only way to go the PM," Sir Julius said. HAGATNA-The "Concerned toxic chemicals as those found be given the right to directly elect tion against Namatanai MP, under my leadership has suffered now is to have the Prime Minister He added there should be "built­ Citizens for a Clean Environ­ around homes near the Agaila rhe Prime Minister. Ephraim Apelis will go on trial from parliamentary membership elected by the people. This would in" provisions for no-confidence ment and Safe Community"' power plant in Mongmong. Sir Julius, wholosthisNamatanai next month in Kavieng said: "Any drain, yet we cannot legislate entail creating a new electorate for motions or impeachment criteria wiih began a series of peaceful pro­ "The federal government Open seat in 1997 general elec­ system other than having a Prime against our leaders conscience to PNG. The Prime Minister would adequate checks and balances by a tests yesterday at the bridge should at least post warning tions made the suggestion when he Minister directly elected by the move camps where they feel they normally serve his full term with parliamentruy committee system. crossing the Agana River. signs in at least two locations which is believed to be con­ along the river were many ., taminated with toxic waste people fish," Santos said. Rabi· islander researches her past from the old Navy power plant The locations are at the two SUV A (Pacnews) - Rabi is­ maker Gary Kildea. I have collected show how luxuri­ lander and Ph.D. student, Katerina Over20milliontonnesofphos­ ous the facilities were during the in Mongmong. bridges that cross the river, Teiawa, has produced a 20 minute phate were taken from Ocean Is­ height of colonial period. Today, All through the week the first near the GMTA bus com­ documentary film, what she calls land and fed to the agricultural Ocean Island is like a ghost town, group will be holding protests pound and near the Bank of Members of the Chamorro Nation and Organization for People of Indigenous Rights stage a protest on East a "poetic visual presentation" on industries of Australia and New with really rundown at noon in various locations in Guam Building. O'Brien Drive in Hagatiia yesterday. . Pholo by Eduardo c. Siguenza the history and effects of phos­ Zealand from 1900 to 1979. infrastructure.In a way, mining Mongmong and Hagatfia cul­ The group, composed phate mining in her ancestral is­ "Ocean Islanders were resettled creates a reverse development minating with protest at the mostly of concerned land of Banaba or Ocean Island. from their homeland to Rabi Is­ process, it brings rapid develop­ Navy's office at Tiyan. Mongmong citizens, wants the Titled "Out of Phosphate: The land by the British in order to ment for a while and leaves you The protest is against the fed­ federal government to conduct DiasporaofOceanislanders", the facilitate the mining process. with nothing in the end." Teiawa. eral government's alleged fail­ a complete clean-up of all pri­ Fuel tax under·fire film brings together rare footages Phosphate from Ocean Island, said. ure to take necessary precau­ vate properties that are con­ Variety News Staff Sinajana) proposes to take out the in business activity in their re­ and photographic stills from the however, was used to produce an Ocean Islanders were resettled tions protecting the local com­ taminated with PCB 's. HAGATNA-AProposal to im­ tax exemptions for fuel purchases spective sectors if the liquid fuel archives of the British Phosphate agricultural boom in Australia, to Rabi in Fiji in 1945 and 1947. Commissioners. Ms Teiawa was New Zealand and other colonial They and their descendants account munity from exposure to poly­ Most of the residential lots pose a 10-cent tax per gallon of by tankers that refuel at sea while tax exemption is removed by Bill assisted in her film project by territories between the two world for 4,000 of Fiji's population. chlorinated biphenyls (PCB), diesel fuel sold to fishing tankers providing tax breaks for fuel.pur­ 248," Baza testified. that are situated across from the local photographer Willie Chung wars," Ms Teiawa said. They vote in the Fiji elections said the group's spokesperson, former Navy p5>wer plant have has come under fire from the chases by fishermen and farmers. If the fuel tax exemption is taken According to Leon Guerrero, and Australian ethnographic film- "The footage and photographs as General Voters. former Sen. Angel Santos. been found to be contaminated island's business community. out as proposed in Bill 248's cur­ Bill 248, introduced by Sen. there has been a 48 percent drop rent form, Baza said the Chamber Santos said recent tests on with the toxic chemical. Carlotta Leon Guerrero (R- in revenue derived from the liq­ will oppose the bill in its entirety uid fuel tax and taking out the fuel and recommend instead that the Australian elected to UNESCO board tax exemption for tankers could tax exemptions for local fisher­ SUV A (Pacnews) - An Austra­ This was done to rectify an imbal­ It prepares the agenda. for the lian, Professor Kenneth Wiltshire ance in the number of seats allocated General Conference, examines the help boost GovGuam earnings men and farmers be addressed in has been elected into the among the regions of the world. programme of work and corre­ from this revenue stream a separate bill. UNESCO Executive Board at its Professor Wiltshire is currently sponding budget estimates, and is Moreover, Leon Guerrero said Cecilia Terlaje, the public in­ general conference last week. Chairman of the Australian Na­ responsible for the effective ex­ boosting liquid tax revenue is formation officer of Mobil Oil ,. Since l946Australiahasserved tional Commission for UNESCO. ecution of Conference decisions. important because this is the fund­ i Guam, also testified against the on the Executive Board on five Professor Wiltshire will be re­ Membership of the Executive ing source for the Guam Mass bill, saying that the proposed tax Board will enable Australia and the .,,,,.., .... ,, previous occasions, the last being quired to attend meetings of the Transit Authority (GMTA), the could adversely affect the eco7 from 1991 to 1995. Executive Board in Paris. Pacific region to provide direct input island's highway bonds, and other nomics of the fishing/tanker busi­ 1-·· As a result of a one-off decision These usually take place two or into the reform and revitalisation of essential GovGuam expenditures. ness and force large fishing op­ by the last session, there was a three times a year, normally in UNESCO, including in areas of AHOY THERE. A replica of Captain James Cook's "Endeavour" But the Guam ChamberofCom­ erators to look outside Guam for requirement to choose two of the May and October. pmgramme and financial manage­ leaves Honolulu Harbor, bound for Kauai as part of its four-year merce, represented during the their fuel supplies. eight members elected from the The 58-member Executive ment, and in reforming relations be­ around-the-world cruise. Cook sailed the "Endeavour" around the hearing by Chamber president "Mobil Oil Guam believes that Asia-Pacific region to serve a two­ Board acts as an administrative tween the Director-General and the world in a famous 1768-71 exploration. The replica ship, built in Eloise Baza, believes that busi­ a new tax could result in reloca­ year term. council for UNESCO. Executive Board. Australia, carries 18 professional seamen and 34 volunteers. AP ness activity in the maritime sec­ tion of vessels to other areas in tor may be affected if the tax our region where taxes are lower exemption enjoyed by tankers is and incentives are available. In Addt'l removed. addition, this proposed new tax 1 "The Chamber's position on will be detrimental to businesses budget for Bill 248 reflects the concerns and ~ iiJRitii"~~S,itl furnishing provisions and supplies e~~tJfitfllf~ recommendations of the members to fishing tankers as well as the Kiribati gov't of the Chamber's Maritime Af­ Port Authority of Guam and other fairs Committee and our member government agencies," Terlaje wholesalers who project a decline said. approved ::.:.:·, .. other senators. But Pangelinan returned to the people of Guam is million (US$ I .9 million) and the A Dai-lctli Hotel; ~Orth .Wl!'.'!9\~J'()l.lnd Floor Garapan, Saipan said no progress has been made so not expended to benefit a few spe­ MinistryofHealth with more than · · ;F'eil; 25J,4-"71~tf9372; Fax 233-0480 far in the U.S. Congress. cial interests," Pangelinm1 said. $1 million (US$640,000). WI"" '"

; f2:M,(RiANAS \rARIETY·NEwS AND'VIEWS-T01:SDA Y--NOVEM:BER 23'. l 99_9~~---~·· -· ~---· ·-~· --~. PACIFIC IShANEJS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999 ~MARIANAS VARIETY· NEWS AND vrnws~l3 Fiji OK's deployment of soldiers in Timor Biggest ever protest against army school SUV A (Pacnews) - The Fiji ation in East Timar. for the Fiji soldiers. He agreed that the mission in· of this trans1t1on period after Government has approved the Commander Major General "Initially we didn't have the East Timor is not without danger, which a UN peacekeeping force COLUMBUS, Ga., (Reuters) - Jesuit priests, their housekeeper deployment of 190 Fiji soldiers to Peter Cosgrove of Australia leads equipment nor the funds to pay but said the Fiji soldiers will re­ will take over."· Thousands of protesters filed into and her. l 5-year-old daughter. East Timor as part of the Interna­ the unified command tasked to, for the allowances of the Fiji sol­ main part ofINTERNET until the Nineteen countries are. riow the military base housing the U.S. Of 26 officers charged in the tional Force in East Timor among other things, restore peace diers to go to East Timer. end of the mission. committed to INTERFET and Army"s academy for Latin Ameri­ slayings, 19 were School of th'e (INTERFET). and security in East Timar, pro­ However, the Australian Gov­ "The agreement for the deploy­ personnel now number over ,· can soldiers on Sunday in the larg­ Americas graduates or former ~ est demonstration to date against The Government made the de­ tect and support the United Na­ ernment is.willing.to pay for the ment says the Fiji soldiers will . 9,400,.includingabout4,500per­ 'i: students. cision after securing funding for tions Assistance Mission in East logistics, including vehicles and work until the expiry of the sonnel from coalition partners. ' a school critics call a training Critics say the School of the the deployment from Australia, Timer (UNAMED in carrying tents, and the United States has INTERFET mission, which will The countries involved are ground for dictators and assas­ Americas, which moved in 1984 which is overseeing operations of out its tasks, and facilitate hu­ agreed to take them to East scale down its operations around Australia, Brazil, Canada, Den­ sins. from Panama to Fort Benning. INTERFET. The Fiji deployment manitarian assistance operations. Timer," he said. January and February 2000. mark, France, Germany, Ire­ "We do not want this school of about 85 miles ( 136 km) south­ will cost about $USS million . Fiji's Home Affairs Minister, The Minister said the Fiji sol­ At that time some troops of land, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, war," the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, west of Atlanta, has turned out ($US2.57 million). Jaji Uluinakauvadrasaid the onus diers will continue to be paid sala­ INTERFET will pull out." New Zealand, Norway, Philip­ founder of the 9-year-old move­ soldiers who violate human rights INTEFET is a United Nations­ is now with the Fiji Military Forces ries by the Government which . "It will be a gradual change and . pines, Portugal,. Republic of ment to close the School of the and are trained to battle their own mandated multinational force to make arrangements with the will total about $FJ1.1 million the transition will take about three Korea, Singapore·, Thailand, Americas at sprawling Fort people. formed to address the deteriorat­ Australian High Commission in ($US0.57 million) during the du­ months. We have suggested that United Kingdom and the United Benning. "It can only be closed. It The Pentagon has said 1980s ing humanitarian and security siru- Suva on the date of deployment ration of the deployment Fiji stay there right until the end States. cannot be changed," Bourgeois school training manuals included said during a protest to mark the torture. Former students of the tenth anniversary of the murder in school include former Panama­ El Salvador of six Jesuit priests in nian dictator Manuel Noriega, PNG prime minister which several graduates of the who is now serving a U.S. prison school have been charged. sentence for drug running, and cites achievements "We will keep coming back and former Argentine military dicta­ back every year until this school tor Leopoldo Galtieri. Military PORT MORESBY justment programme. is shut down," he said. Protest officials say the school has helped (Pacnews) - Prime Minister They, together with our organisers estimated that about advance democracy in Latin of Papua New Guinea (PNG). other development partners, Thousands of protesters cross the entrance into Fort Benning, risking arrest in calling for the closure of the !0,000 people gathered at Fort School of the Americas, because of human rights abuses committed by its graduates. AP America and that it has reformed Sir Mekere Morauta says his particularly the new Friends Benning's main gate to demand its curriculum to stress respect for Government has been able to of PNG grouping, have also the closure of the School of the sang, listened to speakers and held who plays the U.S. president in a hereby decree that the School of human rights. achieve its economic agreed to an additional Americas and that 4,800 people a memorial funeral procession for popular television show, drew the the Americas at Fort Benning, "The school is unique, it's an stabilisation programme in $US200 dollars in extraordi­ had made it inside the fort. people they say had died or been loudest cheers when he. made a Georgia, cease and desist opera­ absolutely precious commodity just over one hundred days nary assistance. They were herded onto school tortured by fonner students of the mock proclamation closing the tions and disband forever, effec­ to the U.S. Southern Command," since coming into office - These pledges, he said, dem­ buses by base security. Police had school. school. tive immediately," he said. U.S. Marine General Charles "something that no other Gov­ onstrate restoration of inter­ not issued an official estimate. Some carried cardboard coffins "As the acting president of the The demonstration marked the Wilhelm, commander in chief of ernment has been abk to do national confidence in PNG Abeu t 5,000 had attended a rally or white crosses. One splattered United States, hence the com­ tenth anniversary of the 1989 the U.S.SouthernComrnand,said previously". and endorsement of our eco­ Saturday. Demonstrators chanted, red paint. Actor Martin Sheen, mander in chief as well, I do murders in El Salvador of six in a recent Reuters interview. He was speaking at the nomic stabilisation Kumul Association (PNG programme "It has taken us students studying in Aus­ just over 100 days to achieve Expulsion flap divides tralia) in Brisbane enroute something that no government from the Commonwealth has been able to do previously, GONE FISHING. An East Timorese fisherman works in the shadow of the USS Peleliu in the bi!i harbor. Heads of Government Meet­ over years." Fishermen have resumed fishing after an initial reluctance because of bodies that had washed ashore Illinois town ing (CHOGM) in South Af­ "The government's reform nearby and rumours that there were other bodies buried in the harbor. AP·· DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - Every­ pulsion during which the students rica. programme is focused on the one at the bus stop in downtown can attend alternative schools. Sir Mekere said: "In our first five key challenges I outlined In Cook Islands Decarur was getting along fine Since then, the board has dug in hundred days we have suc­ to Parliament on the day we until talk turned to the school ex­ its heals and refused to budge, ceeded in rebuilding our rela­ took office. pulsion controversy. Minutes while Jackson and his Rainbow/ tionships with th; interna­ These are to build a lasting Report: Outgoing gov't offered car, pay rai.ses later, a verbal dispute ended with PUSH Coalition have refused to tional community and with our peace in Bougainville: to re­ the participants on opposite sides · back off a demand that the stu­ RAROTONGA(Pacnews)-The couple of months. development partners. We can move, systematically, ob­ an overseas trip by Dr Williams of the street, a physical symbol of dents be given a chance to return outgoing Government in the Cook Dr Williams had been Prime and Sir Geoffrey. now proceed with comprehen­ stacles to growth and devel­ the disagreement that has con­ to regular schools in January. Islands awarded Ministers cars Minister since July 28 after he sive economic reforms''. opment; to stabilise the cur­ They also allegedly approved sumed this nonnally quiet blue­ The standoff played out before and increased the amount of unseated long-serving Prime Min­ "The World Bank and the rency and the national the transfer of a Government car collar town. the nation as a small army of money payable to the official ister Sir Geoffrey Henry. The International Monetary Fund economy; to restore order to to the Opposition office which Residents disagree over camera crews, reporters and pho­ Opposition a day before they were change of rule ended a 10-year (IMF) have supported our re­ the national budget; and to previously never had the use of a whetberthe school board was right tographers descended on the town. voted out of office, the Cook Is­ reign by the Cook Island Party. form programme with a strengthen PNG's institutions Government vehicle. to issue two-year expulsions for There are few local fence-sit­ lands newspaper reported yes ter­ Papers leaked in Rarotonga af­ $US300 million structural ad- of state.". Incoming Finance Secretary, six students who were involved in ters. Wright, 38, said anything day. ter no confidence vote allegedly Kevin Carr said he had advised the a fist fight. more than a few days' suspension On Wednesday, Opposition show that on Tuesday when Dr new Government on the previous But most appearunited in wish­ is too harsh. At the other end of Leader Dr Terepai Moate took Williams and his six ministers Government's moves. ing the debate had stayed within the bus stop a man spoke up to say over as Prime Minister after a met as a Cabinet for the last time, In addition CruT has issued in­ the city limits rather than expand­ he believes the board has been vote of no confidence against Dr they sold undervalued vehicles to structions that no Governmentassts ing into a national issue. "It 'smadc right all along. Joe Williams' Government, which themselves, gave a pay rise to the are to be sold over the next few a big, heated thing that's unnec­ He then stood and walked across had only been in office since for a official Opposition, and paid for days without his prior approval. essary," Sheryl Wright said as the street. Leaders on both sides U.S. Marshall sealed hid auction of the following vehicles she waited for the bus. say this isn't a racial issue al­ Go Digital and Roam Too! UN population That "big, heated thing'' has though all six expelled students 1991 Toyota P/U Police say ex-militants been boiling for two weeks. The and a seventh who resigned are (White, Extra Cab, 4 x4, After market tires and wheels) behind rape of researcher fund gets expulsions drew the attention of black. But some of Jackson's sup­ GTE Pacifica is first in the CNMI to offer Digital Cellular service. Sign up today 1991 Mazda B2600 P/U the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who be­ porters point out that the school for lower digital cellular airtime rates. Purchase a Nokia 6120 Digital Cell phone HONIARA (Pacnews) - Locals $2.4M gan leading protests against the board has only one black mem­ (Black, 4x4) the group was led by former lead­ and enjoy Longer Battery Life. Better, clearer reception. Visit our offices or call living in the western part of the ers of the militant group (Isatambu school .district. Under pressure, ber. Meanwhile. some school dis­ 1991 Nissan Scntra XL SUVA (Pacnews)-The United Solomon Islands capital, Honiara Freedom Fighters) - Harold Keke and on the advice of state offi­ trict supporters say Jackson today 682-2745. (Gray, four door) Nations Population Fund are helping police hunt for a group and Joseph Sangu. cials, the school board reduced wouldn't have come to town had Switch an active Saipan Cellular account to GTE Pacifica 1990 Bayliner Capri Boat (UNFPA) has successfully se­ of former militants who raped an The two were the original lcad­ the punishment to a one-year ex- the expelled students been white. cured $US2.4 million from the and receive a $50 airtime credit!' (White on Gray, open bow, 19', I 50HP outboard, Trailer) elderly Japanese woman at the ·ers of the militant group but Com­ Turner Foundation for a reaional International Centre for Living missioner Rangihika confirmed adolescent Reproductive Health Minimum bids of $500 on each vehicle, sealed bids to be open at Aquatic Research and Manage~ they had been sacked by the group (RH) project in the South Pacific. I OAM, Friday November 26, 1999 at the U.S. Maarshal!'s office ment (ICLARM) at Aruligo. because of their criminal activi­ This was announced at the end ·co11diri<111s Af'p/_,. Police Commissioner Rererangi ties. first floor Horiguchi Building Garapan. of the UNFPA sponsored Cairo Rangihika confirmed the woman ll1ey were reportedly involved conference Mid Term Review was raped and robbed at gunpoint in intimidating their own people To see the vehicles and to get a bid fonn, contact the contracted seminar in Nadi, Fiji last week. by a group of about six to eighr on Guadalcanal by making un­ vendor: The regional project aims to men on Friday evening. necessary threats and demands. assist Pacific Island Countries The ICLARM Centre is in­ The Commissioner said the FAST CASH PAWNSHOP (PlC 's) develop initiatives. which volved in research into Clam farm­ police now needs the co-opera­ will provide a comprehensive SAN JOSE ing and has several overseas sci­ tion of the_ community and the range of reproductive and sexual 235-5116 / 234-5117 entists based there. It is located a Guadalcanal ProvinGial Govern­ health information and services few kilometres west of Honiara. ment to bring Sangu .. and Keke t(\ ~d.olescent and youth of the The Commissioner confirmed The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, with expelled students Roosevelt into custody. Pac1f1c. .. Fuller, center; and Shawn Honorable. AP jO I' NATION. I . NATION I TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, l 999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-15 l 14-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- NOVEM8ER 23, l 999 __ US investigators in Egypt to probe crash Clinton calls for sharing .wealth has taken a hit on both sides, but ports about conversations taped CAIRO,Egypt(AP)-Six U.S. "run through information. check crashed deliberately by one of the FLORENCE,Italy(AP)-Presi­ to highlight the problems and the there has been no change at any by the cockpit's voice recorder. investigators are in Egypt look­ facts, hist~ry ... records of the Egyptian co-pilots have angered dent Clinton, worrying about progress of the Balkans. level in intergovernmental rela­ Sevi:ral news organizations ing into the backgrounds of pas­ plane, individuals on board, who many Egyptians and inspired the "people and places that are com­ 'The tight security measures in tions." he said. quoted anonymous officials as sengers. crew members and any­ had access to the plane and some wrath of Egyptian media. pletely left behind," called on pros­ Sofia upset many Bulgarians, who "Egyptian officials are quite saying the man in the co-pilot's on; who had access to the info1mation that can only be ac­ Some pro-government newspa­ perous nations Sunday to spread said the restrictions were worse satisfied. with t~e cooperation in seat, said to be Gameel El­ EgyptAirplane before Flight 990 cessed here." the diplomat saip pers have published conspiracy global wealth by helping poor coun­ than when top Soviet leaders came the investigation and we have not Batouty; was heard saying on the crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, a on condition of anonymity. · theories implying U.S. authori­ tries with Internet hookups, cell to to.wn more than a decade ago. discerned the same sense of out; tape: ··:r made my decision now. I senior Western diplomat said Sun­ All 217 people aboard the ties are blaming the crew to cover phones, debt relief and small loans. Bulgaria has won recognition in rage by the officials that has been put my faith in God's hands."The day. Boeing 767 jet died when it went up sabotage or whatever really "How can we continue to grow the the West for its ethnic tolerance evident in the media and on the first sentence - since disavowed - The six investigators from the down Oct. 3 l less than an hour may have gone wrong. economy?" Clinton asked. and peaceful transition from com­ But the Western diplomat said street," the diplomat said. about making a "decision" had Federal Aviation Administration after leaving New York for Cairo. "You can bring investment to munist rule. On Friday, NTSB head Jim Hall spurred theories of a suicidal per­ and the National Transportation U.S. media reports last week that U.S.-Egyptian relations are the places that are left behind." In Clinton spent less than 24-hours denounced speculative media re- son at the airplane's controls. Safety Board aJTived Friday to speculating that the plane was unaffected. "Popular perception a spectacular 14th century Re­ in Florence - much to the dismay naissance palace with frescoed of his entourage. The city is one ceilings, Clinton spoke a ta "Third of the great art capitals of the ValueJet trial enters Way" gabfest with five like­ world, the place that nurtured minded world leaders. Michelangelo. Dante and They ta! ked for hours about how Leonardo Da Vinci. second week to spread the benefits of the 21st It also is known for its fashion­ MIAMI (AP) - Carole Rietz The National Transportation century's global economy and able shops. AITiving here late tries to get an aisle seat in the Safety Board determined the oxy­ technological marvels. Saturday. the pr~sident drew par­ courtroo~1. Feeling trapped te!Ti­ gen generators - which ValuJet The Third Way is billed as a allels between the advances of the fies her. but she doesn't want to wasn't authorized to carry as cargo middle ground between the poli­ Renaisssance and the changes. miss the criminal u·ial of a jet - fueled the fire that brought the tics of the left and the right - a wrought by the technological age. President Clinton talks to Bulgarians after arriving.at the airport in Sofia, Sunday. Clinton is the first American jet down. The report spread blame system of governance that pro­ Expanding on that theme Sun­ maintenance company blamed for president to visit Bulgaria in 98 years of bilateral relations. AP the ValuJet crash that killed her among the Federal Aviation Ad­ motes entrepreneurs and trade and day, Clinton. cited the "digital di­ son. ministration, ValuJet and the protects the less fortunate. Join­ Cardoso, French Prime Minister walk along the Arno River toward Later, Clinton headed for B•·'. vide" of haves and have-nots. The tJial of SabreTech and three maintenance contractor, but it fo­ ing Clinton were Italian Premier Lionel Jospin and German Chan­ the Ponte Vecchio, a 14th-century garia, the fourth stop on a I 0-day. "The people who have access to fom1eremployees heads into its sec­ cused on the now-defunct con­ MassimoD'Alema,BritishPrime cellor Gerhard Schroeder. structure that is the city's oldest six-country trip. It was the first the Internet and technology have ond week of testimony Monday. tractor, SabreTech. Minister Tony Blair, Brazilian Before the session, Clinton ig­ bridge and the only one to escape presidential visit to the former enormous advantages and it has The defendants are charged with The company. a former subsidiary President Fernando Henrique nored pouringrainand tookaquick destruction in World War II. Soviet bloc state · nd was intended to be closed," he said. a conspiracy to I ie on repair of St. Louis-based Sabre liner, argues records in events leading up to the that lax federal oversight and limited May 11. l 996. crash in the Florida hazardous materials training are to In New Hampshire Everglades. All 110 people on blame and that it shouldn't be singled Bush says he'll not FUR PROTEST. Danielle Tessier of Boston holds a flaming replica of a Macy's credit card during a board were killed. including out as a scapegoat demonstration protesting the fur trade Sunday in Boston. Tessier and approximately 36 members of ~he Gore leaving no stone unturned Howard Rietz. 21. an architecture If convicted, the men face up to Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade staged the protest outside the downtown Macy's as the holiday shopping meet with gay group student. 55 years in prison and $2. 7 mil­ season gets underway. AP KEENE, N.H. (AP) - Memo environmental impact of traffic leader in his own right-out of Presi­ In four days of testimony last lion in fines. SabreTech, also from Al Gore to New Hampshire's roundabouts vs. something called dent Clinton's shadow. WASHINGTON (AP) latest commerical in New Hamp­ week. prosecutors laid out a charged with illegal tr;msporta­ undecided voters: Come with a traffic trumpet, then lingered At a Saturday forum in the caf­ George W. Bush, appearing re­ shire. A top rival. Arizona Sen. timeline of events starting with tion of hazardous materials and NASA predicts space outposts questions, wear comfortable another 30 minutes for individual eteria of Concord's Dame School, laxed and composed in his first John McCain. who has met witll Sabre Tech 's removal of explo­ causing placement of destructive shoes. "Use this evening to purge conversations. A once-peppy Gore responded to a question live Sunday talk show interview, the Log Cabin Republicans. said sive-triggered oxygen generators devices on an aircraft. could be PASADENA, Calif. (AP)-In a tually pave the way for manned drive around for miles and con­ yourself of any doubt," the vice campaign volunteer rolled her about his "one weakness" by say­ said he probably would not meet the GOP is a party of inclusion in from a ValuJet airplane. its stor­ ordered to pay up to $6 million lecmre that sometimes sounded probes to the planets. struct the robotic outposts. president said, inviting queries eyes and loud! y exhaled in exas­ ing that fortoo Jong on the stump, with a gay Republican group. the tradition of Abraham Lincoln. age of those canisters without plus restitution to the victims' more like science fiction than sci­ Edward Stone, director of "It's a logical next step," he Friday night from Keene residents peration. Gore is the last to leave he worried about contradicting "I don't believe in group thought, Publisher Steve Forbes said he safety caps that cost pennies families. ence, a NASA official said the NASA's Jet Propulsion Labora­ said Nov. 16. "But it will depend standing elbow to elbow in attor­ his own parties these days. Clinton administration policy. pitting one group of people against was "open'' to a meeting with the apiece. and its loading of the boxes Relatives of the victims have next era of space exploration will tory, said he foresaw a network of on the development of teohnol­ ney Kip Weeks' living room. Call it his leave-no-stone-unturned "I think it's a weakness as a another," the GOP presidential group, the Log Cabin Republi­ labeled "empty" onto Flight 592 joined together in grief and lob­ involve missions that last for years orbiting communications satel­ ogy so that we can bring 'up there' More than an hour later, as some strategy for beating the equally oere­ presidential candidate and cer­ front-runner said from the Texas cans. bound for Atlanta. bying for safer flights. rather than weeks and will even- lites on Mars as well as rovers that back here through the power of slipped out through the dining bral Bill Bradley for the Democratic tainly would be as president, if I governor's mansion. He offered no Bush touched on affirmative room, and others maneuvered for presidential nomination. didn't shed myself of that, which new policy initiatives as he sought action, Social Security. HMO re­ New probe to 'listen' to Mars a scrap of wall to lean against, After campaigning most of the year I have," Gore said. ·'What you to reinforce his readiness for the form and other topics during his Gore allowed, 'Tm getting some from behind a vice presidential lec­ want to know is, what is my own White House. hourlong interview on NBC's PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -A nation of a quarter century of body language that maybe people tern, and seeing his onoe-presumed spontaneous reaction to what "I will bring honor and dignity to "Meet the Press." Eagerto project NASA spacecraft set to land on dreams, rejections, dismissal by are ready to shift to the one-on­ nomination degrade to a wide-open comes up? What is my judgment?" the White House, just like I've his. fitness for the Oval Office. Mars next month will attempt for some scientists and clever plan­ one questions." question, Gore also is using these But Gore can get carried away in done as the govemorofTexas," he Bush seemed confident and pre­ the first time to capture the sounds ning. He took a final puzzler on the open forums to establish himself as a these freewheeling exchanges. said, emphasizing the theme of his pared for the questions. To our valued customers, of the Red Planet - using a $15 Carl Sagan, the late planetary microphone connected to u chip scientist who successfully fought commonly found in talking toys for cameras on spacecraft in the readers and advertisers and telephones. 1960s, first proposed wiring a Unlike other instruments aboard lander for sound during the Viking the $165 million Mars Polar missions to Mars in the 1970s. 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WW....,,,... - ,:Jualo Ral Ma!a '. ltlikift,g, Middle Road Marianas Variety News & Views The microphone is the culmi- · Lander. il1¥fittPPINES/AS1A .. : · .. · · .. ·NAT-tON ~---TUE~=S=DAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999-MARIANAS_yARIETY NEWS ANI>_:YJ~WS~17 16-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- NOVEMBE~R_±c,23,'.,_,~19~9z_9 ______Texas university victims mourned ·· New~ Digest US qrges return of E. Timor refugees 4 university buses COLLEGE STATION, Texas JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)­ from doing so by intimidation, Ti morese voted for independence Monday, he is scheduled to chair Kosovo within three days after (AP)-Classmates. families and crash, 2 die A senior U.S. envoy opposed by misinformation, by gangs of Aug. 30in a U.N.-supervised bal- a meeting at a frontier crossing the end of NATO bombing of friends gathered in churches Sun­ calls for martial law in troubled people who call themselves mi­ lot. · WHITE HA VEN, Pa. (AP) - Four charter buses loaded with Penn between Indonesian officials Serbia. day. quietly sobbing and praying Aceh province Sunday and litias but are thugs." Holbrooke, State University students crashed on a foggy interstate early Sunday, Following the arrival of inter­ and top U.N. administrators in In contrast, Holbrooke noted, for the 12 people killed when a urged Indonesia to expedite re­ the U.S. ambassador to the national peacekeepers on Sept. killing a student and a bus driver and injuring at least 106 people, East Timor. only70,000refugees have crossed four-story pyramid of logs col­ patriation of East Timorese refu­ United Nations, said he had 20, many militiamen also fled to "We hope to establish on the into East Timor since Sept. 20. lapsed at Texas A&M University. authorities said. gees. The four buses were among six carrying 280 students home frorri a asked President Abdurrahman WestTimor, where U.N. officials border a joint border commission, Fears of a "show of force" by At A&M United Methodist "We would be delighted if Wahid to speed up the return have accused them of terrorizing which will enable more rapid pas­ shopping trip to New York, officials said. . militia gangs when Holbrooke Church. a youth minister recited 150,000 refugees in West Timor process. University President Graham B. Spanier said the buses hit a "very refugees in the camps and hinder­ sage of the border and less intimi­ visits the border town of Atambua the names of the dead. A man and thick wall of fog" while traveling on Interstate 80 just after midnight. just got up and went home," said The refugees fled East Timar ing their repatriation. dation as they cross," said on Monday have prompted the a woman lit 12 small white visiting U.S. envoy Richard The ensuing chain-reaction wreck involved three of the buses after Indonesian troops and mili­ Later Sunday, Holbrooke and Holbrooke. He pointed out that Indonesian army to place a battal­ candles. Tim Kerlee Jr .. who of­ Holbrooke. ·1. smashing into one another with a fourth hitting a guard rail. A pickup tiamen went on a burning and his delegation left for West some 800,000 ethnic Albanian ion on standby, a military spokes­ ten attended the church. was one truck and two cars also became tangled in the wreckage, officials said. "But they are being prev~nted looting rampage after the East Timor to visit the camps. On refugees had managed to return to man said. of the collapse victims. The bus driver who died, Robert Clifford Burge, 50, of Altoona, The Aggie spirit is strong. se­ niorpastor Charles Anderson told was in the second of the four buses. A pallbearer, right, is comforted after funeral services for one of the 12 the congregation. But ''the spirit Japan's Obuchi to people killed at Texas A&M University. AP 4 die in Indiana shooting of Ag:gieland is not enough.'' Lo­ cal. ~state and federal ~fficials sit by your bedside on a sleepless mental design major and artist ANGOLA, Ind. (AP)-A man who was thrown out of an apartment planned to meet Monday to map night." Three of the victims were who sang at her church, was in a domestic dispute returned with a gun early Sunday, killing three hold off election buried Sunday. In Katy, near buried ';iear her home in out an investigation strategy. people and injuring two others before shooting himself to death, TOKYO, (Reuters)-Prime Min­ Houston, a funeral was held for Henderson. But Anderson said the answers officials said. ister Keizo Obuchi will try to ride Christopher Lee Heard, 19, a pre­ And in Austin, services were would do little to comfort those A Steuben County sheriff's deputy who engaged in a shootoutwi!h out a dip in support for his cabinet engineering major who planned held for Christopher Breen, 25, left behind. ··Answers won't hold the suspect was among the wounded, Sheriff Joel Working told radio by holding off a general election your hand," he said. to become a Navy SEAL like his an A&M graduate who had re­ station WLKI. until the fiscal 2000 budget is "Answers won't hold you in father. turned to help pass on the bonfire Working said the suspect took his own life as other law enforcement passed next year, a senior politi­ Jamie Hand, 19, an environ- traditions. their arms, and answers will not officers closed in. Inside the apartment, police found two men dead cian said on Sunday. and two women seriously injured. One of the women later died at a NORTHERN MARIANAS COLLEGE Yoshiro Mori, secretary-gen­ Starr's star hospital in Fort Wayne, where the other was listed in serious condi­ eral of Obuchi's Liberal Demo­ tion. cratic Party (LDP), said on a na­ REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL power as Authorities did not immediately release their identities. Deputy tional Fuji TV programme that John Araque was in fair condition at Cameron Hospital in Angola, the party "did not want to muddy The Northern Marianas College is soliciting competitive sealed lawyer waning which is about 40 miles north of Fort Wayne. Working said the man the political waters" by calling an proposals from qualified individuals or firms for the following: apparent! y had been thrown out of the apartment in a domestic dispute election before the budget is Prime Minister and had threatened to come back with a gun and shoot everyone. passed, which is expected next Keizo Obuchi RFP No. 00-025 Satellite Antenna and Radio Equipment School rifle teams in spotlight spring. Opposition parties have called Maintenance SUMMIT SITE. Carpenters carry boards with the ASEAN logo as they rush to finish a signboard in Pasay Obuchi, who must call an elec­ for an early poll so the public can City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. Manila will be the site of the third ASEAN (Association of Southeast tion by next October, has seen his LYNBROOK, N.Y. (AP)-There's a what in the school basement? Asian Nations) informal summit later this week. AP voice its views on the new coafi­ lntere~ted individuals or firms may pick up the specifications/ That was the reaction many people had earlier this month when test popularity ratings plummet since tion, and the media has quoted an scope of work at NMC Procurement Office, Building L, As results revealed high levels of lead in the Marion Street Elementary a third party was added to his LDP leader, Taku Yamasaki, as Terlaje Campus, Saipan, during working hours (7:30 a.m. to School, emanating from a basement rifle range. coalition last month. saying a snap poll should be called A poll by the national daily 4:30p.m.) It seems that for decades, the Lynbrook High School rifle teams if the Liberal Party decides to bolt used it for target practice and competition - a notion that alarmed WTO entry mixed Mainichi Shimbun earlier this the alliance. Proposals must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked: parents who had fresh memories of school shootings in places like month found support for the Political observers generally Obuchi cabinet dropped by· 16 RFP 00-025 Satellite Antenna and Radio Equipment Littleton, Colo., and Springfield, Ore. believe Obuchi will hold the elec­ percentage points to 32 percent Maintenance to Procurement Office, Building "L" no later than School officials in Lynbrook headed off a petition drive by parents blessings for China tion some time after next July's and closed the rifle range following a three-day cleanup; the team now after he brought the Buddhist­ Group ofEight (08) leading pow­ 4:00 P.M., Monday, November 29, 1999. Kenneth Starr practices at a range off campus. It follows the lead of schools in places backed New Komeito Party into ers summit, which Japan will host, BEIJING (AP) - Beside the Excitement in China about the like Chicago, Arlington, Va., and elsewhere, where school-based rifle his coalition. and before the October deadline. The Northern Marianas College reserves the right to reject any cheery, ruddy-cheeked farmers deal, which marked a major NEW YORK, (Reuters) teams and rifle ranges have been shut down. or all proposals for any reason and to waive any defects in the Former Independent Counsel Charles Tacke, a rifle coach on Long Island fornearly 25 years, says selling baskets of bright orange milestone in China's campaign proposals if determined by the College to be in its best inter­ persimmons, carpenter Chan to join the World Trade Organi­ Kenneth Starr would take a 60 there's no cause for alarm, contending that instructing students in the est. All proposals shall become the property of NMC. For percent pay cut if he decides to Yinmiao cut a forlorn figure sit­ zation, extends beyond those IN LOVING MEMORY proper use of firearms is the surest prevention for tragedy. additional information, please call NMC Procurement at 234- return to his old law.firm, an indi­ ting by the side of the road on a who hope to measure its ben­ 6128 extension 2300, 2301, 2302. cation that his former partners Cops use satellite to track suspect Beijing overpass, waiting in the efits in dollars, cents and im­ doubt his ability to recruit new wind for work. proved trade figures. /s/ JGNACIA B. VILLALUZ clients, The New Yorker maga­ SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)- When Brad Jackson said his 9-year-old Butwhentalktumedtothebreak­ Some hope entry into the group Procurement Officer zine reports in its Nov. 29 issue. daughter disappeared without a sound from his front yard early one through trade deal his government that makes the rules for world When Starr left the law firm of school morning, police were skeptical. Blood stains on Jackson's struck with the United States this trade will also spur improvements Kirkland & Ellis in 1998, he was size-I 1 athletic shoes and Valiree 's sheets added to their suspicions. week, he brightened up. in human rights, legal reforms VEMBER23, 1999 WORt.:fJ' WORLD.· TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, )999-MARIANAS'VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-19 S. Africa called beacon for gay rights Chechens brace for Russian attack NELSPRUIT, South Africa people were often harassed. African bishops at the Angli­ different in South Africa, where of the National Coalition for Gay SLEPTSOVSKA YA, Russia oil refineries and fuel stations sell­ (AP) - Bernalee Rabeira, a 26- Even more so, it illustrated how can Church's once-a-decade con­ former president Nelson Mandela and Lesbian Equality. (AP) - More than 5,000 rebels ing oil stolen from pipelines from year-old makeup artist with a daz­ South Africa has become a bea­ ference in England last year helped and other freedom fighters culti­ 'Three other landmark cases are have barricaded themselves in the the Caspian Sea, the military com­ zling smile, was crowned the sec­ con for gay rights in a region push through a denunciation of vated an atmosphere of tolerance pending. A Pakistani coup!~ and Chechen capital. bracing for a mand said. ond Miss Gay South Africa in a where governments are showing homosexuality as "incompatible after the end of white minority Ugandan doctor have applied for Russian offensive as federal They al so targeted suspected drag queen contest that would themselves increasingly. ho­ with scripture." Zimbabwean rule. asylum in South Africa, claiming· troops close in after weeks of re­ guerrilla positions in the towns of have been unthinkable only a few mophobic. President Robert Mugabe, famous The new constitution forbids they. face persecution at home lentless shelling, military officials Bamut, to the westofGrozny,and years ago. In southern Africa, leaders of for saying that homosexuals are discrimination on the basis of because they are gay. said Sunday. Argun and Urus-Martan, east and The pageant, held Saturday Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe "lower than pigs and dogs," was sexual orientation. Courts have "There's nothing subtle about On Chechnya's borders, refu­ south of the capital. Despite night in a conservative farming have denounced homosexuality accosted by gay activists in Lon­ struck down apartheid-era laws it. They a·re arresting people (in gees pushed through wet snow mounting criticism from the West, hub near Kruger National Park, in recent years. don in October. that banned even casual contact Uganda)," the doctor said in an and a damp wind to flee the Russia has not scaled back its caused hardly a ripple other than · Condemnation came from the He said government-backed that could be construed as homo­ interview, speaking on condition breakaway republic. offensive in Chechnya, and Prime a few irate statements from a local presidents of Kenya and Uganda "gangster gays" were behind the sexual. that his name not bt, disclosed. Most were on foot, though Minister Vladimir Putin ruled out minister - testament to how far in September. Homosex"uality re­ attack, and demanded an apology And recent legal decisions rec­ He says South Africans accept some crossed in cars sagging any easing of the intensity of the South Africa has come since the mains deeply taboo in central and - in vain - at the Commonwealth ognize same-sex partnerships for him, but he still fears harassment. with sweaters, pots and blan­ "anti-terrorist operation." rigid morality of apartheid, when west Africa, where incidents of summit this month. health insurance and pension 'Tm not going back. That's all. kets. Russian ·forces have the '·There will be no pauses,'' he homosexuality was illegal and gay harassment occur periodically. The climate could not be more rights, said Evert Knoesen, head They can put me in jail here. capital, Grozny, 80 percent sur­ said in an interview on national rounded and were trying to com­ television Saturday night. plete the circle by advancing on Chechnya has effectively been the towns of Urus-Martan and beyond Moscow's control since 18 feared drowned Achkhoi-Martan to the south Russian forces withdrew at the and southwest, a Defense Min­ end of a 1994-96 war. istry spokesman in Moscow said Moscow says its latest cam­ in Nile River Sunday. Refugees from Chechnya cook on a campfire in a refugee camp near Sleptsovskaya, 31 miles west of paign is aimed at rooting out Is­ In some places, the Russians Grozny. These refugees, who are among nearly 200,000 who have fled the fighting in Chechnya, are Jiving KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) recovered by Sunday evening, in the railway cars. AP lamic militants blamed for terror­ 3 (AP) - Rescuers searched but rescue teams made up of were as close as miles from the ist acts around Russia, and insists Sunday for 18 people feared local residents and nearby city, said the press center of the Grozny to prepare for the Russian Russian aircraft have been shell­ Chechnya over the past 24 hours it is targeting rebel fighters, de­ drowned when their boat hit a army units were still search­ Russian command in the northern offensive. ing the city and suspected rebel despite poor weather, the Defense spite claims from human rights rock in the Nile River and cap­ ing, Khalil said. Caucasus. Grozny has been a key focus of bases throughout the Caucasus Ministry said. groups and Chechens that the ci­ The Defense Ministry spokes­ sized. ..Four men and a woman Russia's military campaign in Mountains republic for weeks. The shells destroyed apartment vilian toll has been high. Ground man said 5,000-6,000 militants Many of the victims, who were able to make it to a small Chechnya since it began in Sep­ Warplanes and helicopter gun­ buildings in southeast Grozny, an combat has rocked eastern included two children, six isle," he said. were taking up positions in tember. ships flew 82 missions over arms depot in a Grozny suburb, Chechnya in recent days. women and l O men, were re- "As the area is rarely fre­ 1ated, said Fathi Khalil, a law­ quented by boats in the evening, yer and family member of two they spent the night in that cold of the victims. Vote could change Kosovo airport shut to civilians area until Saturday morning, The accident took place Fri­ when they saw a fishing boat PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP)­ ferry humanitarian workers to the of the airport in the capital, day near the Egyptian border, that brought them to shore and Russian politics NATO shut down Kosovo's air­ province slammed into a hillside Pristina, was a precaution. The about 450 miles north of the brought the sad news with it." port to civilian traffic after a team in foggy weather, killing 24 closure was intended to give in­ Sudanese capital, Khartoum. No other details about the acci­ PRAYING FOR RAIN. Jordanians participate in special Muslim prayers in Amman for rainfall in the MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's investigating an aid agency plane people. vestigators time to examine the None of the bodies had been dent were available. parched Arab country. The prayers are taking place in many different cities in Jordan following calls from sometimes chaotic parliament is erash questioned whether mis­ The Nov. 12 flight missed rules followed by civilian and clergymen to save the country from a severe drought. AP one of the country's loudest and communication between the air­ clearing a remote mountain in military aircraft to see what dif­ cockiest political players. It's also liner and controllers may have northern Kosovo by only a few ferences exist between them and Iranian pilgrims visit toothless, backing off from fight played a role in the accident, a yards. The French team in charge if those differences may have been Jordan King pardons Hamas officials after fight with President Boris NATO spokesman said Sunday. of the crash requested the shut­ a factor in the plane crash. Yeltsin. Investigators are trying to find down of the airport Saturday. No conclusions had been holy sites in Iraq AMMAN, Jordan (AP)-King pardon all of the group's activ­ of deadly attacks on Israeli tar­ Now lawmakers have a chance Abdullah out why the regular charter flight NATO spokesman Roland reached, he said. ·'This is not an II on Sunday pardoned ists," Prime Minister Abdur-Ra'uf gets in the last 10 years. to change their weakling image. 25 officials of the militant Pales­ by the World Food Program to Lavoie stressed that the shutdown interim report," Lavoie said. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran nian pilgrims to visit the holy S. Rawabdeh said. Rawabdeh said fourofthe lead­ Voters elect a new State Duma, tinian group Hamas who were reopened its border with Iraq Shiite cities of Najaf and Jordan has come under pres­ ers were sent to Qatar after con­ the lawmaking chamber of par­ accused of illegal political activi­ on Sunday, allowing 800 pil­ Karbala each month. sure from the United States, Is­ sultations between King Abdullah liament, on Dec. 19 in an election ties in Jordan. Four of those re­ grims to cross into Iraq for the Those visits were the first rael and the Palestinians to re­ and Qatar's emir, Sheik Hamad that could transform the face of leased were sent to Qatar, appar­ first time in almost a year, the by Iranian pilgrims since a strain Hamas. The group of activ­ bin Al Khalifa Al Thani. Russian politics. President ently to live in exile. Islamic Republic News U.N.-brokered cease-fire ists were eventually rounded up T.he prime minister declined Analysts expect centrists to gain Boris Yeltsin l)eatb & jfunera Under a deal struck with the and charged with illegal political Agency reported. ended the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq to name the four, but officials a stronger hand in the Duma, put­ '"After this election, the Duma government, the group must keep activities and affiliating with a Iran closed its border with War. speaking on condition of ano­ ting pressure on the Communist will become much more power­ ~nnouncement its Jordanian offices closed and Iraq last December during the Another 3,000 Iranians are banned group. nymity said they were Hamas Party to leave aside ideological ful in relation to the president.'' prohibit its members from par­ U.S. and British airstrikes expected to travel in the next Hamas is opposed to peace with political strategist Khalid squabbling and compromise on Yeltsin ensured the Duma would taking in Hamas activities inside Israel and advocates its annihila­ GENAIDA MARIA against Iraq because it feared few weeks to the holy shrines, Mashaal, party spokesman issues. At the same time, Yeltsin be weak by drawing up a constitu­ the kingdom. "The case ofHamas for the pilgrims' safety. sacred sites for Shiite Mus­ tion. It is also critical of Jordan's Ibrahim Ghosheh and politi­ will be in a weaker position as the tion that gives the presidentanover­ is now considered closed after In July 1998, Baghdad lims and second only to holy 1994 peace treaty with the Jewish cal bureau members Izzat last few months of his final term whelming advantage- the power to MANGLONA QUITUGUA agreed to allow 12.000 Ira- His Majesty the king decided to state. Hamas has claimed scores Rushoq and Sarni Khater. shrines in Saudi Arabia. wind down. dissolve parliament at will. But the Born December 07, 1981, was called by our ··These elections will lead to a charteralsobars Yeltsin, who leaves Lord Jesus Chnst to her eternal rest political breakthrough," predicts office next summer. from dissolv­ on Thursday. November 18, 1999. at the age ol 17. Palestinian police block workers Nikolai Petrov. a political analyst ing the Duma during his term's last KHAN YUN IS, Gaza Strip (AP) "Wc aim to prevent all workers at the Carnegie Moscow Center. six months. In celebration of her new life - Palestinian police joined ac­ from going to the settlements so She now joins her Grandparents: Vicente Jl.lalig Manglona & Maria Ogo Quitugua tivists in stopping thousands of long as they are on the map," said In Poland She will be extremely missed and fQf~ver remembered in the hearts of her Palestinians from going to work Hassan Shaaban, an activist ·{ Parents: Antonio ()J Oi~ha M Quitigua in Jewish settlements Sunday, .. Grandparents: Anotonio R. CJuitug1.1a/Florencia H. Manglona leader. i prompting a counter-closure by In June, Palestinian police con­ Cold weather kills 25 Great Grandmother; Christina $. Taimanao Israel that confined hundreds of Brother: Garren M. Quitugua ··· ducted asimilaroperation. block­ WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The em Poland on Sunday. A 48-year­ Sister: GwendolynM.Qultugua!fit:JbertL Maratita (Austin.l3ryan 0. Maratita) Palestinians to their home villages. ing workers from reaching their quick onset of cold winter weather old woman was found frozen to God Parents: Lupe Manibusan, Madano Taitano, M/M Norma & Juanita Palma Meanwhile, Palestinian and Is­ jobs for several days. ~ has killed 25 people across Po­ death in the yard of her Lublin Aunts & Uncles/Spouses: Edward H. Manglona;Evelyn I Brian Mendiola; Glenn/Aloyse Manglona; Daniel I Nicolasa Quitugua Ann Sauer; Terisita!Scot/Lynn; Rosalia/Randall Cunliffe; Victoria/Gerald Calvo; raeli negotiators failed to resolve By early morning, about 700 land so far - with authorities find­ home after a night of drinking, Ana/Rodney Klin; Rosita/N()rman Davis; Bennette/Micheal Mosely. a dispute over the location of a workers were waiting at the en­ ing fournewly frozen bodies Sun­ and the body of a 53-year-old West Bank troop withdrawal that trance of the Gush Katif settle­ day. man was found at a meeting room Cousins: Agnes I Albert Taitano; Patrick/Adrianne Quitugua; Jun, Jeff, Rodney & Roland Quitugua; was to have taken place last week. ment. where about 5,000 Pales­ Searchers had to use a police of the city's fire stations. Lisa/Anthony, Benevente; Donna, TJ& JenhiferM11nglona; John & Bonnie Ann Sauer; Claudia, Angry at settlement expansion tinians work. Police lifted the doe to find two of the victims, On Saturday, authorities dis­ Michelle, Jeremy, Anthony & Aguida Sablan,:Joetta/ Jerome Fejeran; Joshua & Mathew Quitigua; Gerald II, Tana, Carlos & Sabia Calvo; Stacy,.Heather, &Jason Cunliffe; Krystal, Amber, Glenn Jr. & Tiara Sabana in territory where the Palestinians hloc ka.youth erodes Jaime Orlando Lara to the U.S. Prosecutors say he headed a SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - even," said one former inmate. LONDON, (Reuters) - As mil­ ing bids to trigger Armageddon ning violent acts to hasten Christ's Drug Enforcement Administra­ smuggling ring that shipped as · From the outside, the sprawling Like other such centers run by the lions across Britain party the night are already circulating. "We have second coming. tion comes 10 days after a deadly many as 30 pounds of heroin to complex with manicured lawns, away this Millennium New Year, to be prepared that there might be But British police stopped short terrorist bomb exploded in Bogota the United States on commercial Sao Paulo State Foundation for for some it may well prove that some people planning serious acts of predicting mayhem, simply in what many suspected was a flights and distributed it through swimming pool, basketball court the Welfare of Minors, the stated and soccer field could easily have purpose of Imigrantes was to re­ theendoftheworldisrathermore to coincide with the millennium," saying they were keeping a close warning against extraditions. New York, Houston and Miami. piissed for a summer camp. habilitate youngsters, who should than nigh. While colourful druids said Audrey Chaytor of cult study eye on all groups deemed a poten­ President Andres Pastrana defi­ Colombia exports 80 percent · Only the riot troopers on patrol and pagans swarm to sacred sites group FAIR (Family Action In­ tial threat to the public. antly signed Lara's extradition pa­ of the world's cocaine and is a "be treated with respect and dig­ hinted at the world inside. For years, to celebrate the new millennium, formation Resource). "And we ''As a matter of routine police pers just hours after the Nov. 11 rising heroin supplier to the U.S. nity" and "receive schooling and the Imigrantes detention center for others could well be preparing for have heard rumours about pos­ monitor any groups or individuals explosion, which killed eight by­ market. Acting on a U.S. request, vocational training." the occasion with apocalyptic sible dangerous acts," she added, who could cause public disorder standers in an upscale shopping police captured Lara in Bogota juvenile offenders concealed from "If that were the case, this place gloom, doom and possible ritual declining to elaborate. problems or terrorist related activ­ district. "'ln compliance with that last December. outsiders a vicious world of sys­ would be like Disneyland. But Argent!na:s President Carlos Saul Menem adjusts the mantilla of his daughter Zulema during the mass suicides, cult experts warn. Britain is not the only country ity," a Scotland Yard Police special executive decision, this citizen was He was among 42 drug suspects tematic beatings and dirty, over­ this is hell," 16-year-old "P.S." canonization ceremony of 10 saints at the Vatican, among them Hector Valdivie/so Saez the firsr crowded living quarters. said a few weeks before the com­ "It is possible some cult leaders scrambling to make provisions operations spokeswoman said. transferred today to the United awaiting possible extradition to the Argentinean saint. ' AP But the facade crumbled from a will do something drastic to mark for any possible Doomsday ritu­ "In the run-up to the· millen­ Stares, .. judicial police directorGen. United States. At least 30 of those plex was closed. Like other in­ wave· of deadly riots and mass mates, he cannot be identified the millennium and it could hap­ als. nium, officers will continue to Ismael Trujillo told reporters at a are Colombians captured Oct. 13 escapes this year that has forced because he is a minor. pen here," said Ian Haworth, a 1n the United States the FBI has monitor the activities and Bogota air base from which Lara in a sweep authorities dubbed Op­ sect expert at the Cult Informa­ warned fringe groups and cults behaviour of any groups or indi­ left Sunday morning on a DEA eration Millennium. Pope honors church's the Sao.Paulo state government to Brazilians got a glimpse of that shut the complex. Hundreds of hell when riots exploded at tion Centre. "You certainly can't pose a very real threat, while viduals who could pose such a young inmates were bused away Imigrantes and other juvenile cen­ rule it out." Canada, threat," she added. In Kosovo in early November, but the memo­ ters, known as Febems. "There has been a bit of a lull, Greece and Australia have all Some however say the hype 12 newest saints ries of brutality aren't so easily An estimated 1,500 inmates so m:_iybe this is the proverbial voiced fears of ritual multiple sui­ surrounding millennium festivi­ Workers prepare for winter erased. Charred and silent, escaped - only about 500 were calm before the storm," said cides. Israel has stepped up its ties could, if anything, decrease VAT I CAN CITY (AP) - He gripped his staff tightly The l OS paniards canonized Imigrantes remains a symbol of recaptured. The worst was on Oct. Haworth, estimating Britain is own campaign against suspected the chances of a repeat of the kind BOGE, Yugoslavia (AP)-The Ghedini, a spokeswoman for the Leaning on his staff, Pope when standing, sometimes for their martyrdom are Hec­ how Brazil treats its wayward 24, when more than 1,000 youths currently home to some 500 cults cults, deporting a group ofBri tish of mass suicides carried out by tourofthe burned-out hotel where U.N. High Commissioner for John Paul II looked weak and grabbing on to the arm of his tor Valdivielso Saez, Jose children. "When we are released, seized control of Imigrantes and and thousands of followers. and American Christians from the Heaven's Gate and Solar the Rexhbogaj family plans to Refugees. weary Sunday as he gave his chair for extra support. Sanz Tejedor, Filomeno Lopez or run away, all we want is to get went on a 19-hour rampage. Some say rumours of impend- Jerusalem they believe were plan- Temple sects. spend the winterdoesn 'ttake long. Just before the first snow, the church the century's last saints His speech was slurred at y Lopez, Claudio Bernabe Four rooms house I 2 people in UNHCR had estimated that 80 - IO priests who gave their times during the ceremony as Cano, Vilfrido Fernandez the shell of a chalet of charred percent of its 16,000 emergency lives for their faith in Spain well as during his appearance Zapico, Vicente Alonso walls and white plastic sheeting repair kits had gone out. The U.S. and two Italians. later from the window of his Andres, Romano Martinez Including the 12 men he pro­ private studio to a crowd of Fernandez, Manuel Seco Thousands remember Spanish dictator stamped "USAID.'' Agency for International Devel­ Threadbare blankets spread on opment, however, estimated that claimed saints Sunday, John pilgrims and tourists in the Gutierrez, Manuel Barba! MADRID. Spain (AP) - the exlrcmist National Unity the floor do little to block the by mid-November only half its Paul has named 296 saints chilly, rain-soaked St. Peter's Cosan and Manuel Canoura N-:arly 2,000 p-:oplc. many Alliance, addressed the crowd cement's chill. ··Jt's really cold," kits to keep rooms warm and dry since becoming pope in 1978. Square. Arnau. said 36-year-old Zarife had been distributed. That's one-half of the 592 Usually pleased by color­ The two Italians are sporting fascist and Nazi me­ while police stood by in case saints formally added to the ful displays of local culture Tommaso da Cori, a mentos, attended two separate violence broke out. Rexhbogaj. her breath forming a The massive effort was slowed .: Roman Catholic Church's roll by the faithful during public cloud around her cheeks. "And it by dozens of glitches. The sheer Franciscan who died in 1729 ·, rallies in Madrid on Sunday to Franco came to power at the of the holy in the last 500 appearances, this time the ., is getting colder." scale of devastation and poor roads and was famed for his disci­ l commemorate the 24th anni­ end of the Spanish Civil War -,·1 With the first dusting of snow to many regions slowed relief ef­ years. pope seemed tired and eager pline and meditations, and versary of the death of former in 1939 and died on Nov. 20, The IO martyrs - nine born l Thursday in Kosovo's higher al­ forts. Some aid agencies didn't to head back to the warmth of Benedetto Menni, who lived i Spanish uictator Gen. 1975, at age 82. His followers in Spain, the I 0th born in his studio. ; titudes, aid agencies are racing to procure the necessary supplies in in 19th century Milan, where Francisco Franco. In the big­ hold their main annual gather­ deliver plastic sheeting, wood Buenos Aires to Spanish par­ He rapped his lectern to try he established an order of nuns time. gest rally, more than l,500mostly ing in Madrid on the Sunday stoves, lumber, blankets, food and ents - perished in the 1930s, to make a group of flag-wav­ who work in hospitals. Bottlenecks at the main border eluerly people gathered in closest to the anniversary. clothes to thousands of people crossing from Macedonia into just before or during the Span­ ing, singing Italian pilgrims Argentine President Carlos Madrid's central Plaza de Oriente In the late 1970s, the gath­ bracing for winter. Kosovo prevented supplies from ish Civil War. quit performing and raised his Menem attended Sunday's to hear speeches by right-wing erings would attract t.ens of So great is the need and so getting in. Throughout his 22-year­ voice sharply in order to fin­ ceremony to honor extensive the destruction - at Macedonian authorities stalled long papacy, John Paul has ish speaking above the din of Valdivielso Saez as his activists praising Franco and Ro­ thousands of people, but at­ least I 00,000 homes are dam­ virtually all aid coming into been passionate about sin­ their song. country's first saint. man Catholic values. tendance has dwindled sharply aged or destroyed - that aid Pristina, Kosovo's capital, this gling out men and women of Slurred speech, as well as As a child, Valdivielso Saez Elsewhere, about 300 in recent years. modern times who can serve the hand-trembling which the ·.,· groups have set an ambitious month when they levied a tax of moved from Argentina to ,,;, people, including many Although democracy \Vas re­ goal of creating one warm dry $105 per truck at the Bl ace cross­ as role models for Catho- pope exhibits, a,e symptoms Spain when his immigrant par­ j skinheads with fascist and stored to Spain three years room per house. ing. Worse, the Macedonians tem­ 1 ics. of Parkinson's disease, a pro­ ents returned to their home­ .," Nazi badges emblazoned on after Franco's death, extreme And even that takes into ac­ The more than two-hour­ gressive neurological disor­ ·' porarily stopped giving aid agency land. In order to be declared a their hats and scarfs, rallied at right-wing political groups count that in some houses up to long canonization ceremony der. The Vatican no longer saint, a person must perform convoys first priority for passage, the foot of Madrid's only re­ have minimal support today three families will be living under sending them to the end of a miles­ in St. Peter's Basilica seemed denies the pope suffers from at least two miracles, unless maining statue to Franco. in Spain, and none are repre-· one roof. "It's definitely going to long line behind commercial ve­ to tax the 79-year-old pope's it, but has never given a full the person was a martyr and Various youths give the fascist salutes at a rally to commemorate the 24th death anniversry offormer Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in Madrid, Sunday. AP Ricardo Ynestril!as, head of be a very long winter," said Paula hicles. strength. diagnosis. died for their faith. sented in Parliament. '"', . . ; ' .. .. " ~ .. ~ ...... _. 22-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- NOVEMBER 23, 1999 BUSINESS & TRADE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-23 In Fiji b Deadly toxin may control sweating Garment exports expected to surpass sugar BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) -A to control· excessive sweating. believer, and Odderson is con­ vasive and can increase sweat else­ on their foreheads. SUVA (Pacnews) - Fiji's gar­ Expon receipts are expected to garment is profound because the sugar in the European market by 000 metric tonnes of sugar from deadly toxin changed Tim Smith's Smith was the· first person in ducting a placebo-controlled where in the body. But they all share the social ment export earnings. projected reach a record F$861 million increase in exports has been driven two to three percent. 3.57 million tonnes of cane. life - for the better. Smith sweats Washington state to get the treat­ study on the treatment. "It's amaz­ Smith, like most sufferers, made stigma and a fervent hope for a massive amounts, caused by a to reach a record F$271.8 (USS439. I million) while export largely by the initiative of the pri­ "The world market still faces The revelations were made at the ment, but he wasn't deterred by ing," Smith says of the treatment. sacrifices. A hairdresser, he cure. Botufinum toxin, the most (USS 138.6 million) million this of services would also reach a vate sector," Kumar said. an oversupply of sugar, with annual Fiji Exporter of the Year little-known condition called hy­ the experimental nature of the in­ "You join the rest of the world, passed up lucrative work at hair deadly poison in the world·, is an year. would eclipse the income record F$ l .2 billion. Earnings from sugar proceeds 136.54 million metric tonnes of Award ceremony in Nadi. Natural perhidrosis. While everyone else jections. Like most sweaty suf­ basically." For a long time, there shows because he knew his sweat­ unlikely savior. But in the late for sugar. Kumar said the achievements to the European markets have been raw value projected for this year," Waters of Fiji scooped the premier is cool and dry, he soaks through ferers, he was desperate for a cure. was no hope forpeople like Smith. ing would embarrass him in front 1960s, researchers starting· har­ This is according to Fiji's Com­ would propel economic growth adversely affected due to the he said. award for the second time. three shirts a day. "It's just so "The alternative is living with it, Dr. Odderson estimates about 5 of a crowd. He tried almost every­ nessing its paralyzing power to. merce Minister. Anup Kumar. He by 7.8 percent this year. weakening of the Euro dollar by "Major producers to Brazil con­ The company, which exports its disgusting," Smith says. feelinggrossallthetime,''saysSmith. percent of the population has hy­ thing: antiperspirants, an electri­ heal neurological disorders. said. "this is the first time any "The development underlined a more than 10 percent. Fiji Sugar tinues each year to expand pro­ products from its base in Yaqara, But Smith's life changed about Dr. Ib Odderson injected a small perhidrosis. But that estimate may cal device that was supposed to They found that, in small quan­ product is expected to displace more important trend- the growing Corporation chairman, Hafiz duction am! delivering high qual­ on the western part of the main a year ago, after a doctor friend amount of Botox into both Smith's be low, he says - because many shock his sweat glands into sub­ tities, botulinum could be used to sugar as the most important item share of manufactured products in Khan said in addition, there would ity product." island Viti Levu, exports more than suggested he try an injection of underarms. ;The next afternoon, he excessive sweaters are too mission, even sanitary napkins control muscle spasms by para­ of export." our exports. This development in be a steady erosion of the price of Fiji is expected to produce 406, 90 percent of its total output Botox. That's botulism toxin, the qtl]ed me and said, 'I think it's work­ ashamed to seek treatment. Op­ stuffed under his armpits. lyzing the nerves that caused the same paralyzing stuff that causes ing,"' says Odderson, who practices tions for sufferers are limited. Doctors don't know what muscle to contract. food poisoning and is part of the atOverlake Hospital Medical Center Strong topical creams work for causes hyperhidrosis, though . By a quirk of biological fate, Computer maker to sell biological warfare arsenal. in Bellevue. some but irritate or do nothing for some think it is likely genetic. the chemical that causes some 1 Doctors have used it in small "Four days later he called and others. There's a surgical proce­ j The disorder affects people dif­ muscle spasms - acetycholine - is ·• doses to stop muscle seizures, said, 'I haven't changed my shirt dure to cut the nerves that control ferently; some sweat under their the same neurotransmitter in­ technological gem "i -,~ smooth forehead wrinkles and now today."' Now Smith is a Botox underarm sweating, butthat's in- arms, others on the hands, others volved in sweating. SAN FRA'.\i"CISCO (Reuters) - who works in business develop­ ,.·; Computer maker SGI is in talks to ment at Gores Technology, also f, sell Cray Research - once one of said he cannot comment. Internet gives elderly link to life the technological gems of the SGI, based in Mountain View, United States - to a little-known Calif., announced in August that SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Is they receive from relatives. students learning witp them." technology acquisition group it had formed a separate business the fountain of youth available at Lansdale told of a woman in McConatha advocated ex­ called Gores Technology Group, unit for Cray, amid yet another kthe click of a mouse? Experts say her 90s who mastered the les­ panded online education pro­ industry sources said. restructuring at SGI and job cuts nursing home residents, even the sons and got a message from a grams aimed at attracting retir­ One industry source said that of 1,500. frail ones, take to computers granddaughter that said: "Dear ees both as students and as in­ the companies have been talking At the time, SGI said it was in quickly and can revitalize their Grandma, I can't believe you structors. for at least two months and that active discussions with othercom­ lives through e-mail and the just sent me e-mail. He described one such pro­ Gores, with operations in both panies to assume the operation of Internet. You 're the coolest grandma gram, called Circle of Leam­ Los Angles and Boulder, Colo., Cray through a partnership or an­ "The Internet is a window to in California." Group dynamics ing, that encourages elderly originally offered $ l 00 million other transaction. life," said David Lansdale, a geri­ of a nursing home can improve people to offer courses based for the struggling supercomputer Another source said that Cray atrics expert from Stanford Uni­ the program's success. on their lifetime experience, on versity. maker. and Gores were hoping to make One resident might exclaim, topics ranging from personal "It's an elixir for these people." "Hey, I can do this," and other But since doing due diligence an announcement at last week's BEFORE THE DELUGE. A worker rests in front of a billboard which promotes Chinese brands, on a Beijing finance to hobbies. on Cray. it has lo;,ered its °offer, Supercomputing '99 conference street. Chinese companies are expected to face stiff competition from an influx of impotted products once Lansdale, who believes every residents will be emboldened to One man is teaching a course the source said. Steve Conway, a in Portland, Ore., which was a China gains entry into the World Trade Organization. China overcame its biggest hurdle in its 13-year nursing home should be equipped make the effort themselves - he about his Italian grandmother, spokesman for Cray, a business launching pad for a newly inde­ quest to join the WTO when it recently signed a deal with the U.S. AP with communal e-mail and said in a presentation Saturday. McConatha said. "We can now Internet access, is one of several unit of SGI. in Eagan, Minn .• de­ pendent Cray, but the talks were :~ People who master the tech­ capture the knowledge of our clined to commenton who Cray is still ongoing at the time of the academics raising the issue here nology gain confidence that elders and transfer that wisdom talking to, but he did say that the show. Samoa's chocolate manufacturer wins award at a weekend meeting of the spreads into other aspects of to future generations," current merger talks are acceler­ Three and a half years ago, SGI Gerontological Society of their lives, and many take pride McConatha said. APIA (Pacnews) - Samoa's this year the award will go to a "It's our employees and our America. in helping teach the skills to Only 25 percent of Ameri­ ating. paid over $700 million for Cray, chocolate manufacturer, the new outfit". She hinted fisher­ management team who we be­ "Beyond just saying the talks which was once the largest maker Lansdale said mastery of e­ their fellow residents, he said. cans over age 60 own a com­ Wilex Cocoa and Coconut Com­ ies businesses might have had lieve are the assets and back­ mail and Internet techniques can "You have opened up the heav­ puter, compared with 50 per­ are far along, I can't really com­ of supercomputers, the world's pany, has won the 1999 Exporter the upper hand because of their bone of Wilex, and to them we ment," Conway said. Dan Gray. fastest computers. help overcome what he termed ens to me," Lansdale said he cent for the rest of the popula­ of the Year Award - the third achievement in the export mar­ dedicate these awards. These are the four plagues of institution­ was told by one resident who tion, according to research by the fruits of their hard labour," successive year it has won the ket lately. alized elders: loneliness, bore­ must use a wheelchair. Microsoft and the American Gas pipeline project award. Along with the trophy, Wilex she said. dom, helplessness and decline Douglas McConatha, a soci­ Society on Aging. The Company's Board Direc­ also received the main prize of Apart from exporting choco­ of mental skills. ologist from West Chester Uni­ secures potential buyers tor and Director of Personnel 3,500 Tala ($US I, 167), Excel­ lates and other copra products, "The end result is we want to versity in Pennsylvania, said he and Administration, Carol Wil­ lence in Marketing Award, Wilex also exports Kava prod­ promote relationships," he said. observed improved morale and 'Peanuts' PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ing between Government officials son struggled for words when Tl ,500 ($US500), Manufactur­ ucts. It recently started manu­ "Getting connected is bringing a noticeable drop in depression - The multinational Papua New and foreign donors in Port Wilex was crowned the last win­ ing Award for Outstanding Ex­ facturing soap products. Carol people back to life." among nursing home residents ner of the millennium at the port Achievement, T2,000 said Wilex soaps has already OOHL~LA. French model Laetitia Casta sports a leopard-print top Guinea (PNG)-Queensland Gas Moresby. He directs a program called who received Internet training creator has and skirt with added feather detail at Greek fashion designer Celia Pipeline Project has so far se­ Powell told the international Exporter of the Year Awards ($US667) and free airline tick­ attracted buyers from Tonga, LinkingAges that teaches nurs­ as part of a study he conducted. Kritharioti's Winter 2000 Haute Couture fashion show in Athens. AP cured about 180 potential buyers donors the project is "world (EYA) held at the University of ets. Fiji and American Samoa. ing home residents how to com­ "It took maybe two training ses­ colon cancer of PNG gas. class". Samoa campus, Le Acknowledging the support However, the company still municate with faraway family, sions," he said. Project Director, John Powell, He said the buyers who have Papaigalagala. of friends and families, Wilson insists on maintaining ex­ old friends and health care pro­ "You turn them loose in this SANTA ROSA, Calif., Writer Quentin Crisp dies made the announcement during a been secured are from Brisbane, Addressing local business credited the win to the porting lines such as cocoa. viders by using e-mail. The 12- environment, and a large por­ (Reuters) - Charles M. Schulz, LONDON (AP)-Quentin Crisp, presentation to participants of the Townsville and Gladstone in Aus­ people Carol said: "I never ex­ company's hardworking man­ Kava and its chocolate prod­ week course ends with a gradu­ tion of them flourish. creator of Charlie Brown, his dog the eccentric writer, performer and recent Consultative Group meet- tralia. pected it. We had thought maybe agement and staff. ucts. ation ceremony, and encourages They learned so fast they out­ Snoopy and the rest of the popular raconteur best-known for his auto­ participants to share the e-mail paced the 20-year-ol

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26-MARIAN!,.S VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- NOVEMBER 23, 1999 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VJEWS-27 ville. lost four of its last five. strength-of-schedule to deter­ NBA rounduv The Monday night matchup Jets 17, Bills 7 ... Florida... mine which teams will play in Colts. . . is Oakland at Denver. At East Rutherford, New Jer­ Continued from page 28 its national title game - the Continued from page 28 Bucs 19, Falcons 10 sey, defensive lineman Eric ranked No. 1 in the preseason and Sugar Bowl on Jan. 4. The latest In other NFL games, it was At Tampa, Florida, rookie Ogbogu recovered Doug went on to win the national title: BCS standings will be released Tampa Bay 19,Atlanta IO; New Martin Gramatica kicked four Flutie's fumble in the end zone Minnesota snaps road losing streak Tennessee ( J 951 ): Michigan Monday. York Jets 17, Buffalo 7; Caro­ field goals and Donnie Abraham for a second-quarter touchdown State ( 1952): Oklahoma ( 1956. Florida State received 66 first­ lina 31, Cleveland 17; Green scored on a 47-yard intercep­ as the revived New York Jets (' VANCOUVER, British Co­ waukee 43-28, including 36-18 assists as Sacramento Kings place votes and 1,746 points Bay 26, Detroit 17; Miami 27, 1974. 1975. 1985 ): Alabama tion return in the final minute as ( 4-6) won their third in a row. lumbia (AP) - Kevin Garnett in the final three quarters. won its sixth straight. from the 70 sports writers and New England 17; Tennessee 16, (1978): and Florida State the Buccaneers won their third The Bills (7-4) held Curtis had 15 points and 14 rebounds Lindsey Hunter scored 21 and The Kings improved to 7-1, broadcasters on the AP panel. Pittsburgh IO; and Seattle 31, (1993). straight. Martin to 64 yards, stopping his as Minnesota snapped an l l - Jerry Stackhouse had 19 for De­ tying the franchise mark for the Nebraska ·s move to No. 3 - Last week the Seminoles had 63 Kansas City 19. Tampa Bay (6-4) pulled into streak of 100-yard games at four.. game road losing streak, beat­ troit. best start, ·held by the 1952-53 it is third in the latest coaches' first-place votes. In late games, it was Balti­ a three-way tie for the NFC But Buffalo also had trouble ing Vancouver 105-81 on Sun­ Ray Allen led the Bucks with Rochester Royals. poll. too - means the Virginia Tech, which plays more at Cincinnati, Chicago at Central lead with Detroit and generating offense, gaining only day. 33 on 13-of-15 shooting and Rookie Steve Francis had 21 Boston College on Friday, had Cornhuskers might have a San Diego, Dallas at Ari{ona, Minnesota. Atlanta (2-8) has Rookie Wally Szczerbiak Glenn Robinson added 20. points and nine assists for Hous­ four first-place votes and 1,681 265 yards. chance to overtake the Hokies New York Giants at Washing­ added 19 points on 8-for-11 Suns 99, Supersonics 86 ton, which lost its fifth con­ in the BCS standings, which points; Nebraska, at Colorado ton, St. Louis at San Francisco, shooting, and Terrell Brandon In Phoenix, Jason Kidd scored secutive game and fell to 2-10 uses polls, computers and on Friday, had 1,607 points. and New Orleans at Jackson- had 18 and eight assists as the l'8 of his 25 points in the second this season. Timberwolves won their fifth half, and Phoenix handed Se­ lier case involving Taylor. last week and on Saturday ··s(,n~~ente.·T~ula•Peter·(5) [)erlhi~ Ng;si· <·····•···.// .... / >••••·• to 5-2. Minnesota also beat against Western Conference Charles Barkley scored 19. the evening police responded to a Officers do have the cause of Mo~ Triplet.:. (4)Thom~spiaz;WallyE'mul .rn)G(,pr!JeLi~ua, . Continued from page 1 Vancouver for the 12th time in opponents. Raptors 111, Lakers 102 disturbance call at the Hamilton death of the victim and are wait­ Esang Olkeril; Glen.Garnactio, Nic11:DL .. <3ui:!rrero; JacKOd)iaz, 13 meetings. Kidd also had 14 assists and In Los Angeles, Vince Carter • from inside the car. Guest House in Hagatiia. ing the results of an autopsy to Mike fv1un1L ... ·· ·..•. '\···· .• ·•... · ..· i .i ii•·•·<.• .. ·. ·•·•·· )•· ··/i < ./•·••<;... T< Police said all occupants of the When officers arrived on the decide whether Taylor's death hOrnE!rul'l~:.·{11) ~ott. santos{9).·.·B.ifl>Benavente. (§l.Aeiryy.· Minnesota's last road victory seven rebounds, helping the Suns had a career-high 34 points and car were U.S. Navy personnel. scene they found Taylor with fa. is related to her being a victim Ay~y~ (7) Mel §<1kisa.1,1"hornaspiaz (~l ~rien Ni?hpl.i~ .(5) -!9i9\ - not counting its victory over keep up their recent mastery of 13 rebounds despite bruising his There were two men and two cial wounds. of an assault. ·Att.io;f;torerieiofaJig>············>>•·i .... \ •.•... \>••·•> <• /.<·••···>•····••• >...... • · Sacramento in Tokyo this month the SuperSonics by beating them right hip as Toronto defeated women in the vehicle. The driver Taylor sustained cuts to her lip In other police news, a Yigo Runs Batt~.in .. (RBI):•. (3iJ .sm ••. Ben'?-yente .(2~)Tupm~!lf?i~z -was March 24, when it beat the for the sixth consecutive time. the Lakers for the first time in of the Tercel sustained facial in­ and the right side of her face. woman reported at around 4 in (231 ~erry Ayµyu (?1). •.Denni~. ~Q(,!l~epe!;(22)J!';rryAyqyu(?1)l"tl()!1J~PI;:ii;SillBepayE)rte,·. Grizzlies. the bench for Seattle - going diagnosed with a bruised hip. a result of the serious injuries he Memorial Hospital. The woman also reported the ·.···(20)/:.aftid.fey .. •.·•Ngew~!W(1·.W(P@nnis~.~s!(e~if(1!3}.···F19rel'l9.iO•.••· Pistons 113, Bucks 94 4-for-7 on 3-pointers, and After a few minutes lying on the had sustained. After an investigation offic­ man stole some jewelry from ··pang(:17) Fr*1k i?a.l]geljnap;f¥1~1 §al

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Brotherhood i3 0 the Smackers in three sets 39 to Gymless had the best defensive xunks in Rocball 's pre-season points. Hot on Tyce Misters per­ DX • ) : . 2 1 formance for heavy hitter were Chuukanos .2 1 25, the Shooting Stars tied 37 to record for the pre-season games games. Gymless.· 2 1 37 against a group of players that by only allowing their opponents In the category of Kees and Goals, Tarness Kapwich of the Jammers Shooting .Star• 2 1 represented various other teams, to score an average of 18 points Steve Santos of the Brotherhood with 4 aces, 2 xunks, 5 kees, and 3 Bwilsbwils 1 2 Gymless crushed No-fear 48 to 1, per game against them. and Tyce Mister of Gymless tied goals for 31 points and Marino Smackers 1 2 and the Brotherhood outlasted a In personal accomplishments, for the most kees at 9 kees each and Plunglulug of Shooting Star with 6 lgi-Ogo 1 2 group ofRocball players in a pick­ Freddy Pelisamen of the Brother­ Phillip Rudolph of the Jammers aces, 2 xunks, 6 kees and 1 goal for No-Limit 1 2 up game, 46 to 30. hood, Vince Tagabuel of DX, and won in the goal scoring category 31 points. NOYB 0 3 Gov't softball team standings Team Wins Loss DPS 7 0 DCCA 7 2 REV. & TAX 7 2 CUC 5 2 CHC/DPH 5 2 CPA 5 3 LEGISLATURE 4 3 CUSTOMS 4 3 COURTHOUSE GAVELS 5 4 DEQ 2 4 CHC EMERGENCY 1 4 5 DLNRTOROS . 3 5 GARAPAN ELEM. SCH. 2 5 DIV. OF FISH & WILDLIFE 4 6 GOVERNOR'S OFFICE 3 6 DEPT. OF LAB. & IMMIG. 3 6 DIV. OF PUBLIC LAND & SURVEY 3 6 FIRE DEPT. 2 6 DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS 2 6 MAYOR'S OFFICE 0 5 i Top Batters (as of 11 /16/99) Based on 22 or more at bats Reigning CNMI chess champion Manny Domingo (extreme right) and Sablan Construction's Manny l Chargualaf (extreme left) watch the game between Jun Baja (second from left) and Fred Mamitag in the ! Name Team AB Hits Avg. ongoing Coca Cola chess team tournament. Photo courtesy of CNMI Chess Association i Jerry Ayuyu DPS 22 20 .909 j Bill Benavente Rev. & Tax 28 23 .821 I Brien Nicholas Gavels 25 19 .760 In Coca Cola chess team tourney 1 Dennis Ngeskebei CUC 25 19 .760 I Frank Pangelinan DPS 22 16 .727 Bradley Ngewalk E-1 29 21 .724 Scott Santos DCCA 24 17 .708 R&F still ahead of the pack Mike Muna DPH Outlaws 24 17 .708 Melvin Sakisat DCCA 22 15 .681 LED BY reigning CNMI cham­ the board 2 game rescheduled. erage Co. Micronesia, Inc., the Florencio Falig Gavels 31 21 .677 pion Manny Domingo, R&F En­ Cartown, which has 13. 5 points, double round-robin tournament terprises on Sunday blanked Dol­ shares third-fourth places with is held every Sunday at Afetna Most Doubles: (1 O) Ismael Aguon, (8) Poland Masaharu (7) lar Days Wholesale 3-0 to retain Sablan Construction. Square Building in San Antonio. Bradley Ngewalk, Donald Pangelinan (6) Jeff Cabrera, Bill its commanding lead in the 1999 Dollar Days and Fortune Inter­ Games begin at 1 p.m. Time con­ Continued on page 26 Coca Cola chess team tournament. national are tied for fifth-sixth trol is two hours per player per With three rounds left, R&F places with 13 points, while Com­ game. now has 18 points, 3.5. points puter World is on eighth and last For more information, call ahead ofY ana Law Office, which place with 12. Manny Domingo at 235-3030, or Colts rout Eagles scored 1- I against Cartown with Sponsored by Coca Cola Bev- Almer Santos at 235-7320. - . -- . . . - -- -~-----· ------·--~··· for sixth straight win 1 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - it's not because of an injury or 'Florida State is No. 1 in AP poll Peyton Manning finally got because we were getting blown NEW YORK (AP)- Florida and Nebraska moved to No. 3, team to go wire-to-wire in the benched - for being too good. out." State is perfectly comfortable replacing the Gators (9-2), who AP poll. After leading Indianapolis to a Manning threw for 235 yards at No. 1. fell to No. 5. Nebraska in 1983 and Florida 41-point lead Sunday, Manning andthreetouchdownsbeforeleav- The Seminoles ( 11-0) easily Wisconsin (9-2), headed for the State in 1993 came closest. The sat out the fourth quarter of the ing with a 44-3 lead at Veterans retained the top spot in The Rose Bow I to play Pac- IO cham­ '83 Comhuskers went 12-0 be­ Colts' 44-17 victory over the Stadium. Rookie Edgerrin James Associated Press' Top 25 col­ pion Stanford, also improved one fore losing to Miami 31-30 in Philadelphia Eagles. ran for 117 yards and two touch- lege football poll Sunday after spot to No. 4, followed by Florida, the Orange Bowl. The '93 Semi­ It was the first time in his two- downs in the first quarter and fin- completing their third perfect No. 6 Tennessee, No. 7 Texas, noles were No. 1 for most of the year NFL career that Manning ished with a career-high 152yards, regular season with a 30-23 win No. 8 Alabama, No. 9 Kansas season, lost to Notre Dame but watched a play from the sideline. pushing him over 1,000 for the over Florida. State and No. 10 Michigan. beat Nebraska in the Orange He had taken 1,590 consecutive season. Virginia Tech ( I 0-0) held Florida State, set to play for a Bowl to claim the title. snaps since getting drafted No. 1 The Colts (8-2) are tied with firm at No. 2 with a 62-7 vic­ national title in the Sugar Bowl on Since 1950, eight teams were in 1998. Miami for first place in the AFC tory over Temple on Saturday, Jan. 4, is trying to become the first Continued on page 26 . ''I'm ~!ad it's_beca~se,:,v,e had a East~;fue''Ey!p~es fell to 3-8. b1glead, Mannmgsa1d. 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