arianas %riety~~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ~ -= ~,.,, By Brandon N. Ashcraft the Guam public school system Variety News Staff before they start spending money HAGATNA, Guam -The on building these schools. If they island'sdelegatetothe US House use the barracks for schools, they of Representatives, Robert A. should be able to use the schools Underwood, has announced that for something else ... a SX.45 billion military construc­ 111e constrnction bill is the first of tion spending bill. passed by the the federnl government's 13 appro­ US Senate. includes S23.42 mil­ priations me,L,ures. lion for military projects on Guam. In a conference committee, the One of the projects was for a House m1d Senate conlerees added special warfare facility that will "S666 million to the n::quest of the rnst $5.5 million. while S4.8 I President. million will go towards water­ 'Il1e total is still almost $8CX.J mil­ front consolidation activities, and lion below the level form l,L'it year. $13.1 mi Ilion for Department of The bill would appropriate $3.5 Defense schools. billion for housing, $3.3 billion ··we hope these facilities will formilitary construction, and $1.6 A US Air Force 82 bomber sits in one of the hanger at Andersen Base on Guam. (More photos and pictures be multi-purpose," Underwood billion for costs associated with o~ page 8.) . Photo by Eduardo c. Siguenza said. base closures. He added, "We're still await­ Underwood said President Clinton ing passage of the fiscal year 1999 would not be able to line-item veto Department of Defense Authori­ the spending projecL~ like la,t yearas 3-yr limit bill to kill zation Bill, which requires (Pen­ the US Supreme Court ha-, "shot tagon) to report to Congress on down" the president's line-item veto their plans for reintegrating with powers. garment industry By Jojo Dass industry's entire rank-and-file 2 teeners HIV-positive Variety News Staff workforce will eventually be By Haldee V. Eugenio THE SAIPAN Gam1ents Manu­ sent home at a gradual phase Variety News .Staff facturers' Association yesterday once the bill is enacted. 1WO CNMI youths have been diagnosed as catTiers of the dreaded said the proposed bill that would The I-louse of Representa­ HIV, .an AIDS-causing virus, according to the Department of Public limit the stay of alien workers to tives, early this month, passed Health. three years before they are re­ an amended version of the bill, Elsie Ramon, manager of DPH's Communicable Disease Control employed '"will kill the indusfry." which now returns to the Sen­ Program, said one of the victims was I 6 years old when she SGMA presidentJames Lin said ate. contracted the deadly vims. enacting Senate Bill 11-71 into Under the bill's current ver­ The two victims bring to 11 the total number of CNMI res.idents law will not address the concern sion, an alien worker would who are HIV-positive. on overstaying and illegally em­ not be permitted to remain in Since 1983, DPI-1 has recorded seven cases of deaths due to AIDS. ployed alien workers as it was the CNMI for more than three supposedly meant to do. consecutive years. Ile would The last victim died in January of this year. SGMA 's James Lin Meanwhile, a significant numberof teenagers continue to be at risk ··Personally," said Lin, ··1 be required to exit the Com­ of having HIV or any other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) feel it is a law enforcement annual salary of more than monwealth and remain off is­ because ofthei('active" sexual activities with more than one partner. issue. $30,000. land for six months. During the presentation of the "I 997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey '"If that legislation is put into The bill defined professional Sen. Juan P. Tenorio (R­ Results" held at the Pacific Gardenia, it was learned that at least 15 effect," he added, '"it will kill as those who are engaged in Saipan), who introduced the percent of the I , 125 surveyed students from grades 6 to 8 have had the industry within three fields requiring advanced bill, said reports on the num­ intercourse with three or more partners. years." training or creative work ber of alien workers outnum­ High school students; or those from grades 9 to 12, have higher The proposed three-year which is artistic; and those bering the indigenous popula­ rates of risk as 19 percent of the 932 surveyed students admitted to limit would· apply to all alien who are engaged in teaching, tion without benefits and leg­ having sex with more than four partners. workers in the CNMI except dentistry, medicine, nursing islati ve representation Continued on page ~3 those holding professional or and other medical careers. prompted him to submit the executive positions earning an Lin explained that the proposed measure. Teno says CNMI still needs alien workers WEATHER By Aldwin R. Fajardo the avai Iable local manpower pool crs. Sti II, time will tell," he said. Variety News Staff is not enough to sustain the pri­ At present, workers of /\MIDST proposals to limit the vate sector's needs. Chamorro and Carolinian de­ Outlook stay of alien workers in the CNMI '"We still need nonresident scent arc concentrated in puhlic for three years, Gov. Pedro P workers. They have been very administration (34.9 percent and Tenorio yesterday said the North­ helpful to us and we will continue 28.1 percent respectively), pro­ ern Marianas will continue to de­ to need them," Tenorio told re­ fessional and related services pend on foreign labor force espe­ porters. (22 percent and 24.6 percent), cially when the economy flour­ He said the only concern that and retail trade industries ( 11.6 ishes. has to be immediately addressed percent). In an interview, Tenorio said is how to lessen CNMI's depen­ The bulk of the '"blue collar" the existing business activity in dence on foreign labor force.· positions arc filled by alien the Commonwealth still requires '"Mayoe we just have to limit workers. Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio the presence of alien workers since the number of nonresident work- Ccfritini.i"ed on p~ige 23 _2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-THURSDAY- SEPTEMBER IO. 1998 Reno expands probe What Hanmi savs the Legislature should enact 2 teenagers kill 5 of'96 campaign ads Hiring quotas, By SANDY SHORE 30s: Greg Media, believed to be Police went looking for the AURORA, Colorado (AP) - her 18-year-old son; and his 16- 17-year-old after interviews pendent counsel on fund-rais­ not stay limit bill Two teen-agers carrying shot­ ye:ir-old girlfriend. with witnesses. but he wasn't ing matters, a step Reno has sruns and wearing bandanas over Ms. Media's 6-year-old girl caught until he called police long resisted, and it is the third By Jojo Dass justification (on the bill's propo­ ;heir faces alleg;dly killed five and 9-year-old boy were not about 5 a.m. such 90-day probe she has Variety News Staff nents). I'm not too sure whether people in two homes a few hurt. Tuesday to report a suspicious sought on campaign fund rais­ THE LOCAL hotel industry is rec­ how good the justification is, but blocks apart. Then one of the Witnesses told officers that car prowling the neighborhood ing in the last month. ommending that the Legislature we are concerned about setting the boys apparently finished off the Michael Martinez. 18. and an­ _ a police car. The call was ::I have commenced a prelimi­ impose industry-wide hiring quo­ limit. other. police said. other teen-age boy strode down traced and the boy was arrested nary investigation ... involving tas in the CNMI instead ofenacting "We can not afford a position The surviving suspect, a 17- the street. walked into the home at his home. President of the United States a bill that would limit the stay of can afford to be vacant for six year-old whose name was not and opened fire, then walked Police said the five youths William Jefferson Clinton con­ nonresident workers to three years months," said Sablan. released by police. was booked out. were al I acquaintances and that cerning political advertisements they may be allowed back. Sablan said there is "always a Tuesday on six counts of first­ About the same time. police some attended school together. during the 1996 election cycle," "We have to accept the fact that concern whenever there is a limit degree murder. received a call of shots fired at Anival Morales, whose Renowrote to the three-judge we don't have enough local (on the workers' employment pe­ All six victims and the 17- a townhouse complex six block nephew was among the vic­ court that oversees the indepen­ workforce to meet the requirements riod).'' year-o\d boy knew each other. away. There they discovered the tims, said with tears welling General Janet Reno dent counsel law. of the existing industry sectors," Sablan said the hotel group is But police were unsure what bodies of two teen-age boys in up in his eyes: ''He was a good This inquiry will focus on said Ron Sablan, president of the also bothered about the "service triggered the killing spree. one one townhouse. Police didn't boy. His best friend killed him. By JOHN SOLOMON whether the White House or P~GING DEQ. Ab~ut 30 of these oil drums, believed to be owned by the Department of Public Works, are Hotel Association of the Northern level that (it) provides to (its) release their names or ages.