UftHV'SfrSny O f '«r.WAII UUWART ¿M arianas GV a riety^ cNewg Micronesia’s Leading Newspaper Since 1972 Vol. 18 No. 80 Saipan, MP ©1990 Marianas Variety January 5,1990 Serving CNMI for 18 Years New Government Takes Office Monday by Dan Phillips arrive at American Memorial Secretary of the Interior Manuel give the keynote address. special salute to the new Gover­ Gov.-elect Larry I. Guer­ Park at around 11:15 a.m. Lujan will be played on the four After that, the oath of office nor and Lt. Governor, then Gov. rero, Ll Gov.-electBenjamin T. The motorcade will include screens that will be put up at the will be administered simultane­ Guerrero will give his inaugural Manglona and the rest of the the Gov.-elect, Ll Gov.-elect, pavilion. ously to the new Governor, Lt. address. new administration officially Washington Rep.-elect, all four Stella Guerra, Assistant Governor and Washington Rep. Then, there will bea special take office Monday in what is elected mayors, theother elected Secretary for Territorial and by Supreme Court Chief Justice salute to the outgoing Governor planned tobeaday fullof events. public officials, heads of other International Affairs for the Jose S. Dela Cruz. and Lt. Governor. Thebenedic- Monday is Inauguration states who have been invited for Department of the Interior, will The Navy Band will plav a CoathKs ci Mae 24 the event and other VIPs. f ^ w * Day, a day in which the people № of Saipan are given a holiday Official ceremonies will and invited to come out to beginattheparkpavilionat 11:30 American Memorial Park to a.m. Bishop Tomas Camacho welcome in the new leadership. will say the invocation, the flags Inauguration festivities start will be raised and the U.S. Navy with the Red Mass at the Kris to Band will play the U.S. and Rai Church in Garapan at 9:30 CNMI national anthems. a.m. After Masterof Ceremonies A motorcade will be ar­ Ray S. Guerrero welcomes eve­ ranged that will leave from the ryone, videotaped messages church at about 10:45 a.m. and from PresidentGeorge Bush and Both Houses Pass Partial Budget Bill by Dan Phillips bill smoothed out and passed Aftera lot of amendments by both houses. and failed efforts, the 1990 The partial budget bill budget was at least passed in provides for the operations of part by both houses when the the Legislative and Judicial Senate passed it by a 7-0 vote branches, as well as for transi­ during yesterday’s session. tion and inauguration ex­ The Senate passed the penses, building improve­ appropriation bill during its; ments for the Legislature’s Gov. - elect Larry I. Guerrero and Lt. Gov. - elect Benjamin T. Manglona during a campaign In Rota. second session of the day. Not building and funding for the (Photo by Eduardo C. Slgueza)________________________________________________ enough members attended the zoning board. first session to address the The bill, which now goes partial budget, as the to the Governor for his re­ CUC Wants Ray Guerrero Constitution requires a three- view, appropriates $1.3 mil­ on an interim basis. "Idon’twant fourths vote of the members of lion to the Judicial branch, $1.0 by Dan Phillips that the CUC needs someone each house to pass an appro­ million of which is for person­ to be the permanent executive who is strong is managerial and priation bill duringalame duck nel. director," he said. administrative skills, more so The Commonwealth Utili­ legislature. The Legislature is appro­ CUC Executive Director than engineering skills, to be the ties Corp. (CUC) Board of Di­ Thebill passed the House priated $888,840 for the sala­ Pete Sasamoto has retired, but executive director. rectors agreed in a meeting yes­ durings its session Tuesday, ries of the 24 members of both the CUC Board has asked him to The CUC, which reportedly terday morning that they want to despite objections up to the houes, $1.4 million for each remain for transitional purposes. wants Guerrero "as soon as pos­ hire Ray S. Guerrero to manage last minute by Rep. Juan S. house for operations and Guerrero said he doesn't sible," will soon advertise for $800,000 for the Legislative the troubled agency on an in­ want to work for the government the interim position. Torres. terim basis, according to a CUC Rep. David C. Sablan, Bureau. on a full-time basis, but instead Before starting any new source. Chairman of the House Ways A total of $157,000 is to concentrate on his company, endeavor, Guerrero is working Guerrero said he would be andMeans Committee, worked provided for in transition and CM General Fabricators. on finishing up his work as willing to step in to help manage up until the very end to get the He said that he "is willing to Chairman of the GM Transition Cotthmtf $11X10(24^ and reorganize CUC, but only help if they want me," and agreed Team. Diamond Rèverse Osmosis II House, Senate Meet To Pass Impor­ System Could Be Problem tant Bills ··· by Dan Phillips % CRM*in September for ap­ was already circulating a draft Palacios points out that See page 9 A reverse osmosis sys­ proval to build a desalination copy of the permit for its ap­ the usual permitprocess takes tem proposed by the Diamond system (reverse osmosis) that proval. about 30 days and requires an Hotel has gone through the would be located adjacent to the The DFW is concerned environmental review, and Speaker Vote Coastal Resources Manage­ hotel. about the effect the reverse that this application had no Not Yet Final... ment (CRM) process without Arnold Palacios, Chief of osmosis discharge would have such review and in only 11 See Page 7 all of the membersof theBoard Fish and Wildlife (DFW), said on the lagoon,Palacios said. He days had the signatures of of Directors being notified, in the memo that the DFW, a noted that the lagoon area adja­ three o f the Board members. according toa memo from the member of the CRM Board, has cent to the Diamond contains "a He goes on to say that he C ourt Cfiief of Fish and Wildlife to never received the applications vast, well-developed seagrass doesn't believe that the DFW Calendar··· "wasaccidentaliy overlooked [CRM. ' and, in fact, did not find out meadow, a valuable and protec­ See page 35 Diamond Hotel applied abwtthe applications until CRM tive ecosystem.” Púlo p or 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND V1HWS-FRIDAY, JANUARY 5,1990 FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 ,1989-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 V A Q T T H IT A ^ ee^né Place For Our Superior Court Affirms Ruben’s Election J» UJEi U IVI! Opinions And Yours Ruben, who received 28 the Northern Islands since he Wiseman argued during the years, 24 hours a day, before by Dan Phillips votes, became the first Independ­ left, but has not done so. hearing that Ruben’s residence taking office. ent candidate ever elected to Ruben left Agrigan in the is actually on Saipan, since that He pointed out that such a Superior Court Judge office in the Commonwealth. summer of 1987 and has not is "where he eats and sleeps most proposition is impractical, not­ Robert A. Hefner ruled Friday Ruben, bom in Agrigan, returned since, but he said that of the time.” ing that there are times when a that Ambrosio S. Ruben meets testified during the hearing that he still has his house there and is Ken Govendo, representing person m ust travel off-island for constitutional residency require­ he has only left Agrigan due to still .voting, uncontested, as a Ruben, said Ruben only left the such things as medical emergen­ ments and is the duly-elected the need to become educated, resident of the Northern Islands. Northern Islands with good rea­ cies. Mayor of the Northern Islands. first in junior high and high Hehasbeen teaching atGarapan son, that is that he had to go to The Judgment was made in school, and now at Northern Elementary as well as attending school. Govendo called it "eco­ Hefner noted in a Memo­ Out With The Old, In With The New the election contest complaint Marianas College. courses at the college. nomic necessity," saying that randum Opinion that the consti­ filed by Vicente M. Aldan, the He testified that he has Amendment 25 of the Ruben had to go to school to tutional definition of "residency " The new administration will be whisked in Monday in a incumbent Mayor w ho received always intended to return to CNMI Constitution requires that comply with the PSS require­ does "not require the actual continuous physical presence of gala day of inaugural ceremonies, but the real work will eight write-in votes in the gen­ Agrigan to teach once he com­ a candidate for mayor be a "resi­ ments that if not met could mean eral election. pletes the college courses re­ dent and domiciliary of the is­ the mayor-elect." begin soon thereafter. Congratulations may go to those he could lose his job. Another election contest has quired by the Public School land or islands served by the Govendo said the new leaders who have the challenge of keeping the Govendo argued that the been filed by Joseph T. System (PSS). mayor for at least three years Constitution does not intend that terms "resident" and "domicili­ Commonwealth on an even keel. The new Legislature Ogumoro, the Democratic can­ David Wiseman, represent­ immediately preceding the date the candidate for mayor be liv­ ary" when used together, as they and Governor, in particular, will be under the didate who finished second in ing Aldan, argued that Ruben on which the mayor takes of­ ing on the island or islands he are in the Constitution, should microscope from day 1.