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1 arianas%riet~~ Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ~ evvs Zelda blowsby By Rafael H. Arroyo and pounding rains, leaving por the islands little time to board up island power promptly. tary Allen Stayman, a Contrac tions ofSaipan flooded and possi with its 15mph approach. At the height of Zelda's fury, tors Association Meeting and the ISLAND activity grounded to a bly a good number of families Some employees in private trees were observed to havefallen Tum Off the Violence Parade halt yesterday as Saipan and the homeless. companies, notably stores and by the roadside, like near the were all canceled, neighboring islands suffered a "This is comparable in strength restaurants, showed up in their MIHA offices in Middle Road Early in the morning, motorists severe beating from Typhoon to Wilda, only that Zelda brushed places ofworks only to be turned and beside the Horiguchi Build queued up at gas stations filling Zelda, one week and a day after by much closertoSaipan, as close back. ing in Gualo Rai. Business signs up their tanks while peopleflocked Typhoon Wilda battered the as 20 statute miles," said Mark Schools were undoubtedly have been seen flying and being Continued on page 17 Marianas. Pangelinan, spokesman for the closed and classes in all levels shattered like that ofMicroICorp. ~ '. Apparently bent on finishing Emergency Management Office. suspended early in the morning Toyota's. ,Th'i~fp,uIIs off where the previous typhoon But unlike Wilda, which moved yesterday. Scheduled events in the day, failed to do in terms of damage at 8 miles per hour (slow enough Commonwealth Utilities Corp. including Governor Froilan last month, Zelda devastated the to enable residents to fully pre wary of the dangers of the strong Tenorio's press conference with .offeapen '. islands with its whistling winds pare for its onslaught), Zelda gave winds and flooding, turned off Deputy Assistant Interior Secre- ~-------------------------_ .. _----------_._- _.. _--------------- llear'DPS·'·. .'",:<-" .,:", ". .. "';'..;., -.. " A THIEF ransacked items inside a vehicle which was parked a stone's throw from the headquar ters of the Department of Public Safety in Susupe Wednesday af ternoon. DPS said at 2:58 p.m., a woman from Sadog Tasi told police that a thief opened her pick-up which she parked near the Micronesian Legal Services Corp. office. The womanclaimed the respon sible carted away still undeter mined worth of a car stereo with two speakers, two walkie talkies and 12CDs and disc player. Meanwhile, a fire of unknown cause reportedly gutted the Ben Ki Water Sports in Garapan Wednesday afternoon. The interior portion ofthe store .~ was burned, police said. ~ No other details were given. ~ I ~.. ,,,<~:,;,, :-\!;;' :... Last week, a: fire of unknown I I '---'--:-_.'_~__ cause burned two bedrooms of a I A pickup truck is stopped by a fallen tree that blocked its path near the Horiguchi Building in Garapan. Similar scenes occurred in other places ,I aroood~e~~ndu~~oo~/~~~rod~eCNWy~~~y~~m_o_r_e~p_h_o_~_s_o_n~p_a~g~e~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_Continued on page 7 ,I 1 1 CUC will disconnect SGMA notes 'unfairness' gov't for delinquency in social security system THE COMMONWEALTH disconnect any fustomer who' By Rafael H, Arroyo workforce in the CNMI, except Utilities Corp. Board of Direc hasapastdue balance, theboard for Koreans, 'Filipinos and gov that' the .Common tors adopted Wednesday six resolved- SAIPAN Garment Manufactur ernment employees, are. paying wealth government shall re resolutions including one that" ers Association Executive Direc 15.3% of earned wages into the ceive notice ofdelinquency as announces its intention to treat tor Richard A. Pierce has asked US Social Security trust fund for specified in the regulations for the Commonwealth govern Governor Froilan C. Tenorio to future retirement, survivor dis any account' with a past due ment like any other customer; explore ways at how the economy ability and medicare benefits. The The CUC Board resolution balance. can benefit from the money paid amount is paid in equal contribu The resolution added that if. indicates CUC would have no. into the US Social Security Sys tions between worker and his qualms disconnecting the gov.. the government fails to make tem by private sector employers employer, about 7.6% each of the payment within the time pe ernment from service if and and employees in the CNMI. worker's earned wages. riodprovided for in the regula when it continues to be in ar In a letter to Tenorio Wednes But according to Pierce, a lot of tions, any such account shall rears with its payments. day, Pierce noted that garment those workers who contribute to be disconnected. "Whereas the government industry employers have paid the system do not actually avail of has no budget line item for The CNMI government, ac some $30 million in social secu the benefits, specifically garment payment for utility services in knowledged to be the largest rity taxes to the US Social Secu Richard A. Pierce workers. single consumer of utility ser the current budget. It is pres rity System since 1984, an amount what our employees and employ To be eligible for retirement vices from CUC, started to in ently in arrears in its' utility which he said will never be re ers receive for these tax contribu benefits from the US Social Secu cur arrears when advances from payments and has given no firm turned to the workers in the form tions," Pierce said, apparently rity Program, an applicant must government were.exhausted by indication as to when payment of benefits. asking the governor to do what he have paid into the system for over June of this year, according to on past due balance may be "Ourassociation believes in the can to address the apparent ineq ten years and be 62 years of age. estimates from the previous made," read the resolution. principle that for every tax dollar uity. On the other hand, a survivors Since it is CUC policy to Continued on page 14' spent, something should be re According to the SGMA ex wife andJorchildren can only col ceived in return. We do not know ecutjve director, non-resident C"ontirlUed on page 14 , '.'.", 2-MARIANASVARIETY NEWS ANDVIEWS-FRIDAY-NOVEMBBR'4, 1'994 ---------------------------------FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1994 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND'VIEWS-3 • hoon Zelda stirs Saipan 200 killed in fire, floods r------------------- . ByJAMES MARTONE mud," said Mohammed Abdcl-Aal Saleh, a representative of President said passengers andcrewscouldnotreach as he searched for his missing wife Hosni Mubarak's National Dem0 Many who fled spent a sleepless the airport 011 flooded highways. DURUNKA, Egypt (AP) - Hun andtheir 2-year-old SOIl craticParty,saidinnearbyAssiut. nightinAssiut, theprovincial capital. Manyschoolswereclosed dreds ofpeople searched formissing Heheldtightly to thetwochildren The nine oil tanks at the edge of Hundreds ofhomeless protested out In theSinai,a Britishwoman was relatives and any belongings they he fled withafterhearing"anexplo Durunka heldabout IOO,!m barrels sidetheprovincial governor'soffice killedwhenflashfloods swepta bus could fmd Thursday after a flood sionfromtheheavens." offueloilas strategicrescrves for(he to demand shelterand provisions, canying 38 Britishtourists into the berne spill of blazingfuel oildevas Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Mursi, armed forces. The Assiut area is a hotbed of Red Sea, the InteriorMinistry said tated this southern town. an official in the emergency opera AhmedMohamed, a butcher who Muslim radicals, but they were not TwootherBritons00thebus,arnother The death tollfromWednesday's tions room for Assiutprovince, said lost II members of his family, said believed involved in any way in the anddaughter, weretakentoanIsraeli infernorose toatleast258asrescuers 258bodies wererecovered by mid thatabout40 army conscripts man Durunka blaze. hospital across the borderfor treat .recovered more bodies. dayThursday (OXXl GMT).Earlier, ningthedepothaddied intheconfla Flooding caused disruption ment, embassyofficials said A train canying fuel oil derailed government officials saidmorethan gration. He saidthatpanicmay also throughout Egypt. The bus was en route from the '-; .. po ....... amidtorrential rainsas itheadedtoa .. ,>:"".' 200 people wereinjured. havetakenlives. In Cairo, the rain triggered fires, Egyptianrcsort townofTabasouthto government oil depot in Durunka, More than 35 other people died "There werechildren runover by brought traffic to a standstill and de Nuweiba whentheincidentoccurred, 320 kilometers (200 miles) southo; Wednesday as what newspapers people andkilled intheIlightout,"he layed international flights because thereports said Cairo,early Wednesday. Ignited by calledtheheaviest rains in 60 years . ; electric Wires, theburningcargowas lashednormally arid Egypt Rood ~.. carried onfloodwaters intothe town ing swept hundreds of kilometers of 22,!m people. (miles) across the country, from the American woman sentenced Many people died as they slept. Sinai Peninsula in me east to the Thousands of survivors were left ancient temples ofLuxorinthesouth. homeless. Security officials said the deaths to 18 years in Hanoi prison "It was like winds of fire coming came in flooding that collapsed downthemountain," saidMohamed houses, a mosque and schools else HANOI, Vietnam(AP)-A Viel inU.S.-Vietnamese relationsbecause The newspaper. ThoiTre (Youth) Workers Rogel Roman (left) and Eduardo Batterson install shutters at Abdel-Rahman, who escaped with where in Assiut province.