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Wednesday ■ September 16, 1992 Saipan, MP 96950 Serving CNMI for 20 Years 2 5

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REPRESENTATIVES Pete P. Reyes (right) and Heinz S. Hofschneider in a serious discussion during a recess at the House.

By Gaynor L. Dumat-ol

TH E ID EA of imposing death penalty to persons convicted of heinous crimes will not stand a chance in the legislature because Northern Marianas citizens are predominantly Catholic, Rep. Pete Reyes said last week.

“ We all know it’s not gonna happen,” said Reyes when asked to comment on SuperiorCourt Judge Alex Castro’s suggestion that the public start debating on the possibility of adopting capital punishment to scare persons with criminal tendencies.

Castro said if the public would start discussing the issue, a senator or congressman might pick the idea up and introduce a bill to that effect.

But Reyes said the idea “ will not gonna make it through the legislature.”Instead of imposing capital punishment, Reyes said it would be better for

the judicial branch of government to give the maximum penalty which is life imprisonment, for very serious crimes.

The judge earlier brought up the idea following his observation that crimes committed in Saipan were getting more shocking.

“ Crimes unheard of when our forefathers were still here are happening in Saipan,” the judge has said.

Castro cited the way Filipino worker Crisanto Robles, Japanese worker Kuniyoshi Ishii and lady Japanese tourist Kazuko Inoue were separately killed.

The congressman said that while it was true that crimes committed on the island were getting more violent, one of the reasons why these happened was that the judiciary handed down “relaxed” punishments.

G u e r r e r o d e f e n d s

$ 2 M d e b t p a y m e n tBy Rafael H. Arroyo

G O VERNO R Lorenzo I. D L. Guerrero has defended the government’s release of $ 2 mil­lion to Mitsubishi Corp. for pay­ment of a debt incurred by Com­monwealth Utilities Corp. (CUC), saying such action was done in the interest of the people.

“ We have acted in favor of re­liable and dependable electric power for our business community and our private citizens,” said Guerrero in a letter to Rep. Heinz S. Hofschneider.

Early this month, Hofschneider criticized the government’ s move to disburse money topayfqrCUC’s obligation, saying “ it sidestepped the Legislature’s power to appro­priate.”

He also reminded the governor that although the government has served as guarantor for CUC in the purchase of engines on credit, the resolution that established that contingent liability was adopted with the understanding that CU C would be made to pay for the ob­ligation from its own revenue col­lection.

The governor pointed out that Senate Joint Resolution 7-9, in ef­fect, directed procedures necessary to ensure that funds were available to meet those obligations.

“ We moved to assist CUC inaccordance with ourreadingofprior legislative directions. Following that directive as best as we were able to see it, we have seen that funds were made available,”

Guerrero explained.He apologized for any confu­

sion in the procedures adopted, saying that no intentional violation of legislative direction was in­tended.

Four Democratic congressmen and one independent backed the governor’s move in paying for CU C debt.

“We understand that the ur­gency and the severity of the situ­ation prompted you to take imme­diate action to'pay the obligation of the Commonwealth. As a result, perhaps certain procedures were not followed that others raised concerns,” the lawmakers told the governor.

Democratic Reps. Mametto U. Maratita, Herman T. Guerrero, Herman T. Palacios and JoaquinH. Braja and independent Rep. Jesus P. Mafnas gave Guerrero credit for promptly honoring a commitment of the Common­wealth.

Responding to the five con­gressmen, Guerrero said his ad­ministration not only meant to pro­vide relieftoCUCbutalsotoprotect the credit standing of the entire Commonwealth.

“ Certainly, no one in the legisla­tive or executive branch wants power to falter in the Common­wealth. We either pay our debts or we have a problem. W e acted to avoid a problem,” he said.

He lauded the support of the congressmen who reminded him of the Republican party ’ s pledge to improve power and water services.

Exemption prevents influx of foreigners?

By Nick Legaspi

ALTH O U G H the number of foreigners, mostly non-resident workers, exceeds the number of residents in the Northern M arianas, the government maintains that the purpose of the exemption from federal immi­gration laws — to prevent an influx of aliens — has been ful­filled.

“The exemption was designed to prevent an influx of refugees, in particular, people seeking political asylum and immigrants allowed to enter the U S under preferential quotas,” the gov­ernment said in response to the first of 61 questions sent by the Rep. Ron de Lugo, chairman of the Subcommittee cm Insular and International Affairs.

It said the influx to be avoided was the influx o f permanent residents, not non-resident workers whose stay is tempo­rary.

“ When their jobs end, and when local people take over their jobs, they are repatriated, leav­ing the islands under control of our indigenous residents,” the government said. “ The ‘ ex­emption’ from federal immi­gration laws has achieved its purpose for the NM I.”

T ie government also said it did not allow the unrestricted entry of aliens, citing the Com-

Guerreromonwealth Entry and Deporta­tion Act of 1983 which is de­signed to regulate the entry of non-immigrating aliens.

The governor’s office called a press conference yesterday to discuss the answers and to re­lease copies to the media. The o ffice o f John Joyner, the governor’ s public information officer, did not notify the Variety about the press conference.

A source close to the group that prepared the answers provided the Variety with a copy of the answers. The Variety had been trying to get a copy of the answers

since these were sent to Wash­ington on Sept. 5.

Governor Lorenzo I. Guerrero, in remarks accom­panying the set of answers which were sent to de Lugo on Sept. 5, cited two “ fortuitous” events that gave the Northern Marianas the opportunity to avoid a continuing economic stagnation and permanent de­pendence on “federal dole” as follows:

* The CNM I abandoned the restrictive laws of the former Congress of Micronesia gov-

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eminent foreign investment and opened the economy to all in­vestors; and

* The United States govern­ment, at the Plaza Accords in New York, devalued'the dollar (1986) vis-a-vis the yen, as a result of which Japanese investment began to flow into the CNMI.

He said the CNM I was now cm the way toward economic self- sufficiency but must overcome the limitations placed on the area by a small local population by importing alien workers, “ without which no measurable develop­ment could occur.”

He said Headnote 3(a), which provides duty free entry to the US market for goods made in the Northern Marianas was the only real economic link the local pri­vate sector has with the US.

“Considering the high cost of ocean shipping, it is possible that Japan could eventually replace the US as a primary source of many supplies, with the result that Commonwealth’s private sector commercial links with the States could become even thinner,” Guerrero said. “ With the excep­tion of a small number of American tourists briefly visiting the islands, the only connection would be that of a rather sterile government to government bu­reaucratic relationship.”

Following are the answers provided by the government to the subcommittee’s questions:

Immigration Control 1. The Northern Marianas

was exempted From Federal immigration laws in the mid- ’ 70s through, at least, termina­tion of the Trusteeship to pre­vent a feared influx of aliens under Federal immigration laws. N.M.I. laws have allowed as many temporary aliens as there are permanent residents into the Commonwealth.

Has the purpose for the ex­emption of protecting the N.M.I. from an influx of aliens been fulfilled?

Yes. The “ exemption” was designed to prevent an influx of refugees, in particular, people seeking political asylum and im­migrants allowed to enter theU.S. under preferential quotas. The CNM I did not want thousands of aliens a year entering the Com­monwealth of a “ citizen track” . It did not, and does not, desire “ immigrants” under federal im­migration law. Marianas Politi­cal Status Commission internal documents reveal a number of

valid concerns over the applica­tion of United States immigration laws. When M PSC first examine the immigration issue in Novem­ber, 1973, it was noted that the U.S. immigration laws allowed approximately 380,000 immi­grants per year into the United States. See 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1101(a) et. seq. (1970. The NMI had, at that time, a total population of 14 ,333. The sheer numerical magnitude difference between the U.S. immigration quotas and the NM I’s population posed poten­tially serious problems.

The CNM I faced a potential influx of Asian immigrants under the U.S. Immigration system’s “ alien immigrant” classification. The alien immigrant class con­sisted of immigrants allowed to permanently reside in the United States. 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1 10 1 (a) (15) (1970). The alien immigrant category of most concern was the category that included non-west- em European countries. Thenon- Westem European category al­lowed up to 170,000 per year. 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1 1 5 1 (a) (2) (1970). The most realistic threat came from the U.S. Immigration statu­tory ceiling o f20,000 alien immi­grants from any one country. Id. Asian countries could, in other words, each provide up to 20,000 new permanent U S residents per year. If two or three thousand new permanent alien immigrants entered the CNM I each year from Asia, the C N M I’s permanent population would grow to an un­acceptable level. The US Immi­gration system simply was and is not designed for the CNMI.

The CNMI has a comprehen­sive local law designed to limit the entry of alien workers and the duration of their sojourn with per­mission granted only when a jus­tified need has been demonstrated and documented.

The “ influx” to be avoided was the influx of permanent residents who change the character of the community, strain services and infrastructure, and rapidly deplete all other resources. Non-resident workers are temporary, but some are needed for relatively long pe­riods of time. However, both temporary workers and longer term workers are clearly under local immigration control. When their jobs end, and when local people take over their jobs, they are repatriated, leaving the islands under control of our indigenous residents. The “ exemption” from Federal Immigration laws has

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achieved its purpose for the NMI.Has the N.M .I. enacted any

laws to limit the number of alien workers entering the N .M X ?

Yes, the Commonwealth has had since 1983, a comprehensive statute regulating the entry and stay of alien workers. The Com­monwealth Entry and Deporta­tion Act of 1983, 3 CM C Sec. 4302 (1986) e t seq. (“ Act” ) is designed to “regulate the entry o f non-immigrating aliens into the Commonwealth...” 3 CM C Sec. 4302(a). The Act also sets-up deportation procedures. Id. (b). The Commonwealth does not in other words, allow the unre­stricted entry of aliens.

From a policy viewpoint, how­ever, placing an arbitrary cap on nonresident workers would be an artificial restriction cm economic development Though a number are “ underemployed”, we are at full employment for local resi­dents now. There is no pool of involuntarily unemployed local people.

2. The United States Immi­gration and Nationality A ct (INA) recognizes two classes of aliens: immigrants, who are lawfully admitted into the U S for permanent jobs and non­immigrants who are granted strictly temporary admission for purely tem porary jobs. Under the IN A , an employer is not permitted to fill an ongoing labor need with temporary non­immigrant workers. This cat­egory of workers can only be employed for peak load labor needs under Federal law. In the N .M .I., almost all alien workers are classified by the Commonwealth as temporary (although many stay in the Com m onwealth for years). However, the jobs that they hold are ongoing.

Do you think that most of the jobs in the N.M.I. can be fairly termed temporary?

Most jobs are properly classi­fied as temporary because they are renewed each year. This is necessary due to the external eco­nomic influences which the CNMI is subject to, particularly with our dependence on pacific Rim nations.

Jobs in the construction sector could certainly be considered temporary. While all sectors of the economy are influenced by economic forces in Japan, this sector in particular is most vul­nerable. The current retrench­ment of Japanese investment in the CNMI will and has resulted in less investment in construction and thus a concomí tant reduction in this category of nonresident workers.

The CNMI, in this particular phase of its development, does in fact need many temporary work­ers. In addition, the extensive use of temporary labor also shows that the CNMI is making exten­sive infrastructure improvements. Once basic infrastructure is com* pleted, something that happened in Guam years ago, the need for nonresident workers will decline steeply.

It is not the intention of the

JoynerCNM I to change the status of families. Far instance, the publicsuch “temporary workers” to per manent status regardless of the number of years they have worked in the CNMI. Basically, the CNMI, for the next five to ten years, will rely on skilled alien construction workers as it con­tinues to install the basic infra­structures needed for its future economic development.

3. Under Federal law an alien entering the United States to work either as a temporary non­immigrant or as a permanent resident immigrant can be ac­companied or joined by his/her spouse or children. N.M .I. laws prohibit the spouse or children of all but upper income alien workers to join these workers in the N.M.I.

What is the reason for not allowing most aliens’ families entry?

The United States with its broad expanses is not an appropriate analogy.

Most workers don’t stay in the CNM I for more than two years. Some workers who make higher wages bring their dependents, but most don’ t. Some heads of household bring their dependents, and both work in the Common­wealth. the CNMI does not have adequate facilities for complete

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schools are at capacity and the private schools may be too ex­pensive for some workers.

4. The IN A stipulates that the Secretary of Labor must determine whether the wages o f UU workers in the relevant industry will be held down by the admission of alien workers before an employer is given the go ahead to bring in alien workers. U S labor laws and regulations also require that a need for alien workers be es­tablished before workers are brought in from outside.

Does the N.M .I. provide simi­lar protections for local wage levels and resident workers?

Yes. Commonwealth labor law provides substantially identical protections for resident workers. (See 3 CM C 4 4 13).

5. Assistant Interior Secre­tary Montoya in the mid - 1980s estimated that half the aliens who enter the N.M.I. stay ille­gally. Local officials have ad­mitted that a problem exists in this area, according to the April 20th Pacific Daily News. TTiat paper as well as Others have reported on crackdowns of il­legal aliens.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1992 -MARIANAS. VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3

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KARACH I, Pakistan (AP) - The government cm Monday ordered the evacuation of about half a million people, as flash flood wa­ters that killed 650 people last week spilled into the Indus River and swept southward.

Heavy rains and flash floods hit northern and eastern Pakistan last week, killing at least 650 people, as well as destroying homes, crops and livestock, the government said. English-and Urdu-language newspapers put the death toll as high as 1,800.

On Monday, those waters be­gan entering the Indus River that cuts through southern Sindh Province. The river was expected to crest on Wednesday or Thurs­day, officials said.

The provincial government placed an estimated50,000troops on high alert and declared a state of emergency in Sukkur, Larkana and Dadu, three of Sindh’s most flood-prone districts. It also or­dered the army to evacuate an estimated 300 villages _ home to about 500,000 people, along the river banks and to set up relief shelters.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, speaking to Parliament on Sun­day, estimated preliminary dam­age at about 3 billion rupees ($ 105 million) and called it “ a national tragedy.”

He said thousands of hectares (acres) of fertile farmland were flood and cotton crops were washed away. Electricity and telephone communications were

knocked out and highways and railroad tracks were damaged, he said. But officials in the prov­inces of Punjab, Northwest Fron­tier and Azad Kashmir said the federal government’s damage es­timate was low.

In eastern Punjab, where most of Pakistan’s 12 0 million people live, officials said the flood had caused about least 15 billion ru­pees ($600 million) in damage to property, crops and livestock.

In the semi-autonomous mountain state of Azad Kashmir, allmajor bridges havebeen washed away and the army has been or­dered to take over relief and recon­struction weak.

Sharif armouncedagrantof 1.250 billionrupees ($50million)for food and medicine for victims, many of whom are spending nights on the roofs of their flooded homes ex are living in government relief camps.

On Monday, the British govern­ment gave $200,000 to help flood victims, according to an an­nouncement in London by the Overseas Development adminis­tration. The money will be used for bankets, shelter and other emer­gency relief supplies, the statement said.

BenazirBhutto,theformer prime minister who now leads the oppo­sition in Parliament, blamed the devastation and loss of life on the “ criminal negligence of ShariTs government” She also criticized ShariTs government for failing to appeal for international assistance to help the victims.

By Gaynor L. Dumat-ol

Q UICK action on another report of a missing fishing boat saved the life of two more deep-sea fishing buffs.

Police Assistant C hief R ay Camacho said the 17-footer boat “ Sanrana,” reported overdue since Monday night, was towed to Sugar Dock at 5:45 a.m. yesterday.

The two men on board the boat, Felix Telei and a certain Agulto, were in good condition.

The boat’ s owner Cresencia Villagomez reported to the De-

partment of Public Safety at 10 :30 p.m. Monday that her vessel had not come back as expected, prompting the DPS to conduct a search.

The boat was spotted about 10 miles south off Saipan. A patrol boat then rushed to rescue the boat whose engine malfunctioned.

Last Sunday afternoon, au­thorities rescued two Quarantine Office employees on board a 15 - foot boat who had been missing nearly three days.

The boat carrying fishing en­thusiasts Joseph Lizama and his

best friend Leo Reyes, was spot­ted by a Macaw helicopter rented by the government some 30 miles northeast of Saipan.

Last Aug. 2 2 ,1 0 men who went to a fishing and camping trip were rescued also by the DPS and the Civil Defense, five days after they were stranded in Sarigan island located about 100 miles away from Saipan.

The group’s McKee craft was a total wreck after it was swept by gigantic waves and smashed into a rock.

THE ROTARY Club of Guam, represented by R. Franzuez (left) received a $1,500 donation from the Rotary Club of Saipan, represented by Gabriel Boyer (center), chairman of tee Community Services Committee, and Mike Sabían, vice president. Tbedonatíon supports Guam Rotarians' efforts to help the community following typhoon Omar.

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P o l i c e p r o b e o v e r - w i t h d r a w a l f r o m b a n k a c c o u n t d u r i n g o u t a g ePO LICE authorities are investi­gating whether or not a busi­nessman should be held crimi­nally liable for having with­drawn $6,000 more than his actual deposit in a bank in San Jose, Saipan.

Last Sept 10, thebusinessman whose name was witheld pend­ing investigation, wrote in the deposit slip that he was with­drawing $16,000 from his ac­count at Union Bank.

The bank at that time had power outage, so the teller was unable to v e rify the businessman’s account in the computer, said the complaint filed byapersonconnected with

Union Bank before the police last Monday, four days after the in­cident.

Nevertheless,the tell« allowed the client to withdraw the$16,000.

The bank management later found out that the businessman only had $10,000 in his account.

Itolice Assistant Chief R ay Camacho said the Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Inves­tigation Division would “ work "work on the case to determine whether a crime was committed” b y the businessman.

The bank, according to Camacho, was also negotiating for the man to return the extra $6,000.

Meanwhile, a man suffered a fractured hip after thecar he was fixing fell on the left portion of his body.

The leftportion of the victim’ s body was under the car when the accident happened in front of his house in the lake area in Susupe.

In another police report, an unidentified man was accused of harassing a security guard at Onwel Garment factory in Susupe.

The unnamed man was re­ported to be very drunk and de­manded to the guard that he be allowed to see the factory’s manager.

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The alien overstay “ problem” is relatively minor and is the sub­ject of vigorous enforcement measures.

Every 24 hours, some 1,800 to 2,100 passengers arrive in the Commonwealth, the CNM I re­quires all arriving non-US citizens to complete immigration from #958. Immigration from #958 specifies the number of days of the anticipated stay, the location of the stay, purpose of entry, etc. The CNMI immigration service then collects and feeds the com­pleted 958 forms into the CNMI Alien Tracking System (“ A TS”). The CNMI A T S is staffed by four (4) full-time CNM I immigration officers. Each morning the A T S immigration officers consult the A TS to identify possible overstay non-citizens. The A T S officers then check the alien’s indicated temporary residence. The Immi­gration officers will, if unable to locate the aliens, make follow-up inquires. B y this method the of­ficers locate an average of 7-10 overstays per week. As of August 2 4 ,19 9 2, the CN M I immigration service identified approximately 500 overstay aliens.

The 500 figure is fairly accu­rate, as passengers leaving the CNM I are required to tum-in their completed form 9 5 8 ’s. Passen­gers sometimes neglect to tum-in their completed forms, though, so the 500 figure is slightly higher than the actual figure. Immigra­tion checks the overstay list against airline passenger mani­fests. Since there is a sight delay in receiving and checking the manifests, the tracking system will usually repeat a sightly higher figure. The 500 overstay alien figure.is substantially less than the 50% suggested by the ques­tion.

The new Chief of Immigration has done an outstanding job in “flushing out” illegal aliens from the CNMU. Illegal aliens is a problem but not a serious one:

How much does the N.M.I. government spend in enforcing immigration law?

F Y ’90 - $56 7,9 31; F Y ’91 - $795,900; F Y ’92 - $1,359,400.

The Immigration and Natural­ization Service’s budget has in­creased every year over the last three (3) fiscal years. The budget increased almost 138 percent from 1990 to 1991. From 1991 to 1992, the budget increased 18 2 percent. The total 1990 to 1992 budget increase is nearly 2 5 2 percent. Immigration and Naturalization’s 1992 budget of $ 1 ,4 5 1 ,10 0 rep­resents approximately 1 percent of the total 1992 CNM I govern­ment budget.

6. A substantial number of the births in the N.M .I. a ma­jority at times, are to alien mothers.

W hat happens when the mother’s employment contract is terminated?

Any time a person’s employ­ment contract is terminated, through resignation, termination, or expiration, the person (with any dependents) is repatriated.

7. Aliens make up at least h alf the population o f the Northern Marianas today; but, of course, have no political power there, they are relatively poor in most cases and they also make up the vast majority of the work force in industries such as garm ent m anufacturing, construction, and nightclub entertainment, where abuses of labor have occurred or been claimed.

Given that the people affected lack power, isn’ t it likely that

protection of their rights will be a lesser priority than protection of the right’s of citizens?

No. Aliens have “ political power” in the form of numerous constitutional, statutory and regulatory rights, rights that often exceed the rights of NMI citizens.

The United States and Com­monwealth constitutions contain numerous protections for aliens. The U.S. Fourteen Amendment Due Process clause, for example, and the extensive caselaw inter­preting that clause,protects CNM I aliens. C N M Iv. Atalig, 7 2 3 F 2d 682 (9th Cir. 1984). the Four­teenth Amendments’ Equal Pro­tection clause also applies to CN M I aliens. Wabol v. Muna, 2 CR 963 (1987); Sirilan v. Castro, 1 C R 1082 (1984). The CNMI Constitution contains similar protections. Article 1 Section 6, for example, states that “ No per­son shall be denied the equal protection of the laws.” Article 1, Section 6 applies to alien workers. Kin v. Government of the NMI, 3 CR 608 (1989).

The Commonwealth Code contains a variety of statutory protections not available to CNMI citizens. The Chief of Labor has, for example, the authority to in­vestigate and cite CNM I employ­ers causing “ any injury to a non­resident worker.” 3 CM C Sec 4441 (1988). The Chief of Labor has extensive authority to protect alien workers, even to the extent of cancelling extensive authority employment contracts and per­manently disqualifying an em­ployer from using alien workers. 3 C M C Sec 4444(e) (1988). Labor’s statutory authority is en­forceable through criminal sanc­tions. 3 CM C Sec4447(e) (1988). Labor’s statutory protections are provided, moreover, free to all

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alien workers. CNM I citizens, on the other hand, have no option but to bring a private lawsuit if ag­grieved by an employer.

The C N M I Department of Commerce and Labor actively enforces statutory protections for alien workers. A Department of Commerce and labor chart show­ing the identity and number of companies barred from hiring alien workers due to labor viola­tions is attached. (See Exhibit A) In 1991 and 1992, many compa­nies have been permanently barred from hiring alien workers. In short, the CNM I not only has statutory alien workerprotections, but also actively enforces those statutory protections.

The CNM I provides protection of civil liberties and worker’s rights through these steps:

(a) Orientation for all nonresi­dent workers of their rights under the U.S. and CNM I constitutions and US and CNM I law. The CNMI Dept, of Labor and Com­merce has such a program under­way.

(b) Visible enforcement of la­bor laws.

(c) Public education to the general adult population of the CNM I regarding the civil liber­ties and rights of all people in the Commonwealth.

Filipino, Chinese, Korean and Japanese workers are protected by their embassies or consulates. TheConsul General of the Peoples Republic of China visited the CNMI. The Consul visited the factories and other sites where the Chinese are employed. As for Japanese and Filipinos, both countries have their own consu­late office in the CNMI. Korea has a consulate in Guam.

8. The Governor’s Trade Counsel reported in 1986 thatyour

garment companies had “ a poor record for hiring resident work­ers” . Indeed, over 93 percent of the employees are not local. Since then the industry has created some 4,000 new jobs... almost all are held by aliens and there are still only 300 some resident Chamorro/Carolinians jobs in the industry, as there were then.

Why has the Commonwealth allowed an industry to develop that it knew would not hire lo­cal people?

We would like to reserve the right to supplement answers to questions on the “Trade Coun­sel” or the “ Kosack” report. Only until very recently has the former trade counsel been available to clarify certain issues raised in the report.

There are questions regarding the accuracy of the figure for Chamorro/Carolinians jobs in the industry. The industry has cre­ated more jobs, direct and indi­rect, for locals than have been presumed-in this question.

Second, the NMI and the US discussed at length the need for alien workers during the Cov­enant negotiations for the N M I’s economic self-sufficiency. The US strongly supported the goal of economic self-sufficiency and agreed to the use of alien work­ers.

The NMI people, during the 1973 Covenant negotiations ex­pressly stated their need for alien workers. M PSC response, re­printed in Negotiating History of the Northern Mariana Islands, Covenant, Vol. I, 438 (May 25, 1973). The NM I’s small popula­tion base simply could not pro­vide the labor needed for eco­nomic development. The esti­mated 1973 total Mariana Islands

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labor force was 4,476, Negotiat­ing History, Vol. 1 4 41. The total Mariana Islands labor force was expected to rise to only 9 ,3 14 by 1981. Id. The Marianalslands, in short, simply could not support tourism and other local industry. The U S was “ in complete agree­ment with the long-range goals of self-sufficiency for the Marianas...” Neg. History, V . 1, 449. The U.S. further promised to “ assist the Marianas in the at­tainment of this objectivé.” Id.

The CNMI industry began on February 2 2 ,19 8 3 . (Kosack Re­port, 1). The April 1980 census listed a NMI population of 16,783 (Kosack report, 74). On June 1, 1986, the NMI had 8,145 aliens. The larger than projected popu­lation increase and high numbers of aliens. Thelargerthanprojected populations increase and high numbers of aliens reveal that the CNM I simply camed-out its goal of economic development with alien woikers. The CN M I did not, in other words, covertly build an economic plan. TheU S agreed to the economic plan during the 1973Covenantnegotiations. The U SA and the CNMI jointly saw the need for recruitment of an alien work force.

After many years of economic stagnation under Trust Territory policies designed to prohibit for­eign investment, the CN M I was eager for any kind of economic development to provide jobs, tax revenues,increase land values and increase the standard of living of our people. We were encouraged to welcome this industry by the United States.

At the time we licensed the garment factories, we were fol­lowing US policy as set forth in Headnote 3(a). W e knew we did not have sufficient population to staff the entire industry, but in good faith we believed that the 20 percent of the positions mandated for residents would be filled by U S citizens of local descent.

While there was a moratorium placed on the number of workers and garment licenses issued for Saipan. There was no corre­sponding requirement to “ cap” production capacity for the indi­vidual manufacturing plants ex­cept for the US Trade Offices threshold guidelines on imports. It allowed the industry to expand thereby increasing users’ fees for the CNMI Treasury. In addition in the early eighties ocean ship­pers were reluctant to call at Saipan with cargo because they had to return empty. The export of the garment industry helped convince the carries that they could obtain a return cargo. This had the effect of reducing inbound freight rates on impaled com­modities. Additionally, it aided in the diversification of the economy and provided a market

v for the lease of locally owned land.

The industry does hire local people, but in a smaller percent­age than nonresidents. All of the local people who have an interest in this industry are or can be ac­tively involved in the industry. See Alien Labor Rules and Regu­lations. Labor supplied by non-

resident workers is not inherently evil or troublesome; the CN M I benefits from direct and indirect payments form the garment in­dustry and the workers, local and nonresident, benefit from in­creased wages and skill develop­ment.

When we invited the garment industry, we had local people who needed jobs. When our economy developed into a more diversified one, local employees then moved to the support industries such as shipping companies, freight for­warders, wholesalers, retailers, etc.

Other than jobs, the garment industry helps our consumers to maintain the shipping cost of all our import as the shipping com­

panies are getting business for export At the same time, airlines are flying directly to Saipan transporting cargoes of garment industries. Many local people are being benefitted from it through land lease, fanning, fishing and other local supporting industries, not just through actual employ­ment in the factories.

The most important factor in the “ local people employment issue” is whether unemployment exits. Are the alien workers tak­ing over job opportunities of the local work force? In the CNM I, there is no unemployment prob­lem. In fact, every industry, in­cluding the garment industry, is agressively seeking to hire more local workers, and the main prob-

REPRESENTATIVE Ron de Lugo with Sen Joseph Inos.lem that we face is the fact that we don’thave enough available local workers to supply the needs of various industries. In fact, most of the factories are seeking the

assistance of our CN M I Person­nel Office, the Department of Commerce and Labor, elected officials, and the Chamber of

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o f w o r k e r b o n d r e q u i r e m e n tV I C E Speaker D iego T . Benavente has proposed the scrapping of the law that requires employers to put up a surety bond before hiring alien workers.

Benavente’s House Bill 8-146 intends to repeal 3 C M C sections 4433 (h) and 4435 (a) which re­quire employers to secure em­ployee bonds from a recognized insurance company for every immigrant worker being hired.

The requirement is meant to

ensure employer compliance to his responsibilities to the em­ployee.

“This requirement may not be effective in ensuring that em­ployers (would) hold the terms and conditions of employment contracts particularly with respect to the compensation of alien workers,” said Benavente said in an interview.

He pointed out that the bond requirement may have given lu-

crative business to insurance companies at the expense of em­ployers.

An appropriate legislative committe, he said, “could look into the possibility that such a requirement is not bringing any benefit to the government.”

The vice speaker has requested the Department of Commerce and Labor to provide information on how the C N M I government would benefit from such a re-

quirement.“I have not received informa­

tion yet from the department so I felt introducing the b ill,” Benavente added.

The bill, introduced during the third day of the lower House’s third regular session, is expected to be studied by the Committee on Commerce and Tourism or the Committee on Judiciary and Governmental Operation. Benavente

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o f t o u r i s t s i n N M IM A R IA N A S Visitors Bureau will start surveying tourists to assess how much a tourist is spends in the CN M I, acting Managing Director Prescilla Dela Cruz said.

In an interview yesterday, Dela Cruz disclosed that the bureau’ s newly-formed Re­search Division was finalizing preparations for the random survey which is expected to start one week from now.

“ We will establish a correla­tion between the number of tourists coming in, their aver­age length of stay and their av­erage expenditure," said Dela Cruz.

_ She said the survey is tenta­tively scheduled on every last week· of the month for one year

The survey is meant to assist

government planners and deter­mine the spending habits of visitors and the kind of tourist market the CN M I is catering to.

“It is also expected to give an idea of how much revenue we are generating in our tour­ism industry,” Dela Cruz said.

The survey questionnaires will be written on a small diary­like booklet which will be ran­domly handed out to incoming tourists at immigration counters.

Each respondent would be requested to log all his or her expenditures from day one to the last day of stay, detailing description and price.

Expenditures are to be classi­fied into several categories as food and beverages, lodging, entertainment and recreation, clothing, gifts and souvenir.

G o v ' t a g e n c i e s o r d e r e d

t o m i n i m i z e e n e r g y u s eG O VERN O R Lorenzo I. DL. Guerrero has ordered all execu­tive branch agencies to imple­ment energy conservation mea­sures in their offices.

In a memorandum to all depart­ment and agency heads, Guerrero said employees should be more conscious about energy con­sumption in the workplace and practice restraint on the use of power or fuel-consuming equip­ment.

For more cost-conscious usage of electricity and fuel in the work­place, the governor told the de­partment and agencies to do the following:

o Plan trips, share rides, con­duct regular checks on tire pres­sure and engine tune-ups and use gas with lower octane content;

o Switch off all airconditioners after office hours and on week­ends and set a moderate tempera­

ture that will not require staff to wear jackets and sweaters;

o Repair leaks of airconditioned rooms where cold air escapes or warm air enters;

o When buying airconditioners, select those made on the basis of their energy efficiency rating (EER);

o Switch off copying machines (which also generates heat) when no one is in the office like during lunch hours;

o Turn off office lights during off-hours particularly on week­ends and lunch hours (if the office is vacant);

o Upgrade, replace or install new lighting fixtures using en­ergy-efficient compact fluores­cent-type lights;

o Turn off miscellaneous office equipment like typewriters, com­puters and coffeemakers when not in use; and

o Repair leaks o f faucets, shower heads and toilet fixtures.

The governor exempted the use of equipment for the protection of lives as well as sensitive equip­ment from his call for govern­ment to conserve energy..

According to the governor, en­ergy consumption relates directly to the amount of fuel oil that the CN M I has to import and pay to keep its power plants working.

“The expense of this fuel oil constitutes a major component of the budget. In order to keep the budget expenditures in line, it is in everyone’s best interest to keep fuel costs as low as possible,” Guerrero’s memorandum says.

The governor has, for a number of times, called on government employees to be more cost-con­scious due to the dwindling re­sources available.

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BabautaR ESID EN T Representative Juan N, Babauta has joined efforts to persuade Congress to pass sev­eral measures that would increase the set-aside appropriation for financial assistance to the Native Am erican Pacific Islanders (NAPI) from $500,000 to $ 2 million a year.

Rep. Eni F.H. Faleomavaega of American Samoa has intro­duced HR 4592 to amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 which provides for an annual set aside annual appro­priation of $500,000 from 1988 to 1991.

Two bills — HR 2967 and S 243 — supports continuation of the set aside appropriation but at

the current funding level. Faleomavaega’s proposal seeks to increase the amount to cope with the rise in population among the NAPI group.

N API consists of Americans who are indigenous natives from U S Pacific territories and posses­sions such as American Samoa, Guam, Palau and the Northern Mariana Islands, including those individuals currently residing in the mainland.

Faleomavaega said the popula­tion of the NAPI group had grown to353,100basedonthe 1990 cen­sus and the reauthorization pro­posals failed to take into account the increase in population.

“This reauthorization does not provide adequate fundingrequired to address the critical need to pro­mote the economic and social self- sufficiency of this segment of our population,” he said in remarks before the House.

In separate letters, both dated Sept. 14, to Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and Rep. Matthew G. Martinez, who is also chairman of the Sub­committee on Human Resources, Babauta expressed support for the proposed increase in set-aside appropriation for the NAPI group.

Althoughin the past the amount

was utilized primarily by Ameri- em Marianas and because of the Inouye has agreed to include can Samoans and Guamanians, significant overall increase in the Faleomagaeva’s proposal in aBabauta said that “with more grant population of eligible Pacific is- similar bill pending at the Senate,applications coming in because landers, pressures on the limited Martinez’s subcommittee is de-of the participation of the North- set-aside funds are sure to grow.” liberating on Faleomavaega’sbill.

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f o r p l u t o n i u m u r g e dR ESID EN T Representative Juan N. Babautahas expressed support to a bill pending in the U S Con­gress to impose stringent safety standards cm plutonium shipments entering U S ports or waters.

Babauta sent his letter of sup­port to Sen. J. Bennett Johnston for HR 776 introduced by Rep. Neil Abercrombie to amend the Comprehensive National Energy Policy Act. He asked Johnston to support the bill when it goes to the conference table at the Sen­ate.

The Abercrombie amendment provides that plutonium aboard any vessel entering US ports and waters must be stored in casks that meet a stringent standard to be set by the US Nuclear Regula­tory Commission.

“ The Japanese begin regular shipments of highly toxic pluto­nium reactor fuel from Europe

this year,” Babauta said in his letter dated Sept. 14. “ The North­ern Marianas lie along one of the possible routes these shipments can take. In the event of an acci­dent at sea requiring a plutonium- laded freighter to seek port, the Northern Marianas could become that refuge.”

Babauta noted that concerns both within Japan and in the inter­national community about pluto­nium shipment and use had to do with the spread of nuclear weap­ons and energy production facili­ties.

“ M y concern, however, and the reason for my support of the Abercrombie amendment is sim­ply that I have an overriding re­sponsibility to ensure the fullest possible protection of the people and the environment of the North­ern Marianas,” he said.

Truckload o f bom bs foundM A N ILA , Philippines (AP) - Construction workers and po­lice excavated a truckload o f Japanese World War n bombs and artillery shells Monday in a Manila suburb, a police official said.

Senior Inspector Tiburcio Empaynado said police also dis­covered skeletal remains, pos­sibly of Japanese soldiers, at the site of a building being con­structed on a highway in subur­ban Quezon City.

Empaynado said the area may have been used as an ammuni­tion dump or a garrison by the Japanese, who occupied the

Philippines during the war. Empaynado said four of the bombs were first discovered Sunday by a worker, Edwin Ignacio, who reported to au­thorities.

Diggings ending Monday morning unearthered more bombs, which filled up a mili­tary truck. Empaynado said he did not know the exact number of bombs unearthed

A police bomb disposal team determined the bombs could still explode and defused them be­fore they were loaded on the truck and brought to the national police headquarters.

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closely by the U S capital, with 53 percent, the Greater Washington Research Center’s study showed.

It said 2 2 percent of America’s 67.2 million families with chil­dren are headed by a single parent.

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Single parenting is often more anecessity than achoice in Wash­ington. The violence of the nar­cotics trade, along with addiction and poverty,make raising children in a traditional two-parent household an improbability for many.

“The high homicide rate among black males, the high incarcera­tion rate, the high unemployment rate, make it difficult for women to look to marriage,” said Pamela Robinson, assistant director of social services at Washington’s Greater Southeast Community Hospital. Her department coun­sels young mothers.

The hospital serves a section of Washington where drug traffic is rampant and drug-related killings are frequent. The research center’s analysis says more than half of the city’s single mothers live in this area; only 4 percent live in affluent communities.

Lolita Sutton, a mother who bore her daughter when she was 17, said, “There are a lot of young guys making babies, but they’re not taking on responsibilities. They’re so caught up in selling drugs.

“ A lot of males that are dying, these are babies’ fathers. Even if a guy is taking care of the baby, and he’s selling drugs, he’s going to get locked up. It’s all going to be on the female.”

Some young mothers choose to raise their children alone because they don’t wantforcedmarriages, Robinson said. Others fear they would be ineligible for aid if mar­ried, orfeel thatsomefathers can’t offer much support.

“They don’t necessarily look at the need to be married to parent that child,” she said. “ Marriage may be a future goal, but not re­ally necessary for them to parent the current child, or even subse­quent children.”

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“ A lot of people say ... that I don’t need a baby because all it’s going to do is make me stop my career,” Sutton said. “ She hasn’t stopped me yet.... M y main goal is to do something with my life so my daughter canhave something.”

Coast guard offers course on safe boatingTH E UNITED States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Saipan, is offering a safe recreational boating course to the public.

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46th Assembly closses quietly after year of turbulenceBy Peter Jam es Spielmann .

U N ITED N ATIO N S (AP) - After a convulsive year that saw war erupt in a disintegrat­ing Yugoslavia, famine strike in Somalia, and disorder on the rise worldwide, the 46th Gen­eral Assembly came to a quiet close on Monday.

The outgoing president of the General Assem bly, Samir Shihabi of Saudi Arabia, es­chewing his usual Western business suit to wear an Arab headdress and robes, tapped the ceremonial gavel on the lectem to usher out the tumultuous year.

“The last 12 months wit­nessed the decisive changes that ended the era of the Cold War, which was based on the balance of terror, and the beginning of the post-Cold War era,” Shihabi told the delegates from 179 nations, including 20 new members who joined in the 1 ast year.

T h e turmoil and power vacuum following the end of the US-Soviet conflict poses the greatest danger now due to the “ attempt to gain positions and victories quickly now,’! he said.

Despite the opportunities for the General Assembly to take a new high profile by redefining international relations in the last year, it was vastly overshad­owed by an activist Security Council.

The debate in the outgoing General Assembly paled in comparison to the demands put on the UN system by the council and by troubled nations and peoples around the world.

From Somalia, where the first UN peacekeepers arrived Monday to guard food ship­ments from armed gangs of looters, to the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, where other peacekeepers try to ensure de­liveries of relief supplies, people called out to the Secu­rity Council for help.

The extensive new peace­keeping operations in the former Yugoslavia and Cam­bodia more than doubled the separate annual budget for peacekeeping to about $ 3 bil­lion.

B y comparison, the General Assembly - the chamber in which nations express their viewpoints and debate the is­sues - remained deadlocked on the most thorny issues, unable to prod stubborn antagonists into compromise.

Shihabi referred to the US, British and French domination of the Security Council and the extent to which they have in­fluenced the whole UN sys­tem, contending that the Gen­eral Assembly is more repre­sentative and ought to be the lead UN body.

U N u r g e d t o t a k e o v e r S o m a l i aBy David Briscoe

W ASH INGTO N (AP) - Private relief experts proposed Monday that the United Nations find a way to take over Somalia on grounds the country is gripped by anarchy and can no longer govern itself.

Somalia is tom by clan fighting, banditry and looting, with relief groups using guards to protect the goods from a variety of armed groups roaming the country.

The international community, backed by UN troops, should run the country because “ it has no government at all,” said C AR E President Philip Johnston, who recently returned from Somalia and is returning in a few days.

He said this would be justified under UN responsibilities towards Somalis as citizens of the world, with rights that should be pro­tected. About 2,000 to 5,000 So­malis are dying each day, he said.

“The United States has dragged its feet on supporting increased UN involvement,” said David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. “ Foreign intervention may not be the best thing, but it may come to that,” he said in an interview after anews conference.

Johnston, Beckmann and repre-

sentatives of other groups spoke at the news conference to gener­ate voluntary donations to Afri­can relief at a time when much US charity is being diverted to aid for hurricane victims in America.

The experts said donations to Somalia are only a small fraction of those received for previous African crises and they warned that drought-plagued and vio­lence-torn Mozambique, further south along Africa’s east coast, threatens to become “ another So­malia.”

All agreed the United Nations and the United States were not doing enough to help Somalia even though US aid continues to pour in.

Donations for Somalia are only 3 percent of the $2 billion gath­ered to help Ethiopia and the Su­dan recover from the drought in 19 8 4 -8 5 , said Tom Getman, chairman of the InterAction Di­saster Response Committee.

He blamed the recession and the “ compassion competition” that brings so many other demands for humanitarian aid, including the pleas from former communist countries.

The State Department said 26 military relief flights were made

over the weekend to deliver 268 metric tons of goods to Somalia and neighboring Kenya, with nine more carrying 105 metric tons on Monday.

U S planes also carried in an advance group of UN-sponsored Pakistani troops _ reports from Mogadishu said there were 63. The troops are to protect relief distribution and should total 500 by the end of the week, said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.

The groups at the news confer­ence included several relief ex­perts recently returned from So­malia. They did not take formal stands on UN takeover of the starving nation, which has had no effective central govemmentsince the ouster of Mohamed Siad Barre in January 1991.

But in response to reporters’

questions, Johnston, who heads C A R E , the Committee for American Relief Everywhere, embraced the idea. Others also supported it.

Nancy Aossey, executive di­rector of the International Medi­cal Corps, told of w atching people die of starvation, including a woman whose body was then carried away in a wheelbarrow.

“ It is basically unethical for the world to stand by and allow this to happen," Aossey said.

John Hammock, executive di­rector of Oxfam America, said, “ Mozambique is on the brink of becoming another Somalia.” He said drought and war in Africa are “ a horror show playing to an international stage that is empty.” He urged the United States to stop all arms shipments to Afri­can countries.

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W ASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration announcedMonday that it will give Russia $900million in credit guarantees tobuy U S farm products and $2 5 0 million in direct food aid.

The credit guarantees will be offered in three installments: $100 million is available immediately; $500 million will be made avail­able beginning Oct. 1., and the remaining $300 million will be­come available Jan. 1.

The $250 million in food assis­tance will be available beginning O c t l.

“These measures will assure that U S agricultural exports to one of our largest markets continue at a

normal pace, even as Russia con­tinues its dramatic economic re­structuring,” said Agriculture Sec­retary Edward Madigan.

Madigan said the package would support more than 30,000 export- relatedjobs intheUnitedStates and nearly $3 billion in total economic activity.

Of the first $10 0 million in ex­port credit guarantees, $66 million will be used to buy feed grains, primarily com; $2 4 million for soybean-based protein meal; and $ 10 million for wheat.

U SD A said Russia also has available approximately $ 18 mil­lion for additional wheat purchases in fiscal 1992, which ends Sept. 30., from previous credit guarantee allocations. Details of the com-

modity mix for the next $500 million will be announced around Oct. 1, U SD A said.

Commodities to be provided under the $250 million in food assistance will be announced as programs are developed.

Last month, President Bush said the government would subsidize sales of 30,000 metric tons of US pork to Russia under the Export Enhancement Program.

But the Russians have yet to purchase US pork under EEP, which allows exporters to lower the US price of pork to the world rate andreceive the difference from •USDA.

A U SD A source said he expects the Russians to request pork under either the O ct 1 or Jaa 1.

G e r m a n r a t e c u t b o o s t s d o l l a rN EW YO R K (AP) - The U S dol­lar climbed Monday against most major currencies after Germany lowered its high interest rates that had sent the dollar to historic lows in recent weeks.

Gold prices also rose sharply. On the New York Commodity Exchange, gold bullion for cur­rent delivery settled at $346.80 a troy ounce, up $5.90 from Friday. Later, Republic National Bank of New York quoted a late bid of $346.45 a troy ounce, up $5.55.

Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, cut its key Lombard rate to 9.5 percent from 9.75 percent. The move came as Italy announced it would devalue the lira by 7 percent.

The unexpected German action gave rise to optimism that global investors would stop their move into German marks and mark- denominated securities, invest­ments that have been made at­tractive by the large difference between German and U S interest

rates.The move into mark-denomi­

nated investments had battered the dollar in recent weeks.

Though the dollar gained strength on the German move, it retreated a bit by the end of the trading day in New York. Some currency traders said the dollar's initial response may have been an overreaction.

“It was a small rate cut,” said John McCarthy, chief currency dealer at Algem ene Bank Nederland in New York. He said German the move “ was much more oriented toward easing ten­sions within the EM S (European Monetary System) and didn’t signal a Bundesbank policy change.”

“ W e’ ll have another day of sorting out” the move, McCarthy added. “ I ’m not convinced the dollar is going to go higher.”

He said a further advance by the dollar would be difficult if up­coming government economic

reports show continued problems.In Asian trading, the dollar rose

as high as 1.5050 marks, up from 1.4500 marks late Friday in Eu­rope. But the Asian rally ran out of steam, and after a round of see­sawing in Europe, the dollar fin­ished in London at 1.4860 marks. In New York, the dollar was quoted at 1.4845 marks, up from 1.4485 Friday.

In Tokyo, the dollar closed at 124.88 yen, up 0.80 yen from Friday’s close. Later in London, the dollar was quoted at 124 .35 yen. In New York, the dollar was quoted at 124.30 yen, up from 124 .25 late Friday.

In London, the British pound wasquotedat$1.8918,downfrom $1.9 2 4 1 late Friday. In New York, one pound cost$1.8935, cheaper than $ 1 .9 2 2 5 late Friday.

Other dollar rates in New York compared with late rates Friday included: 1 .3 14 5 Swiss francs, up from 1.2875; 5.0310 French francs, up from 4.9270.

S e o u l t o l i m i t y o u t h t r a v e lSEOUL, South Korea (AP) - In another move to curb conspicu­ous consumption, the government and ruling party plan to limit overseas travels by youngsters.

Officials at the ruling Demo­cratic Liberal Party said Monday they will seek to enact a new law during the current National As­sembly session to regulate un­necessary overseas trips by stu­dents under 18 starting next year.

“The new law calls for tougher controls cm passport issuance for youngsters to create a healthy overseas travel atmosphere and improve the nation’s current ac­count,” said a party official, peaking on condition of ano-

lymity.

Current account measures a nation’s total trade in goods and services and certain capital flows, including tourism revenues and spending.

He added that unnecessary over­seas studies and extravagant trips by children of affluent families are causing a serious social controversy and heavy losses of foreign ex­change funds.

In line with a policy towarddemocraricreforms and the nation’s huge currenl-account surpluses, the government lifted regulations on overseas travel in the late 1980s for the first time. ■

As a result, the number of South Koreans traveling overseas rose sharply to 1.85 million last year

from 1.56 million in 1990 and 1.21 million in 1989.

But the government began to discourage extravagant spending and overseas travel recently as the nation’ s current-account swung into a deficit in 1990 and other economic problems grew.

Frequent overseas travelers buying large amounts of goods overseas were blacklisted by cus­toms authorities. Those who ex­ceeded ceilings on overseas spending by credit cards were also reprimanded.

South Korea’s tourism account turned into a deficit of $300 mil­lion last year for the first time in decades, said the state-owned Korea National Tourism Corp.

NEW YORK (AP) - Foreign Exchange, New York prices, lates for trades of $1 million minimum.Fgn. currency Dollar In in dollars fgn. currency Latest Prev. day

Argent Peso 1.0100 1.0100 .9900 .9900

Australia Doll .7335 .7235 1.3633 1.3822

Austria Schill .0956 .0987 10.460 10.133

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60dayfwd 1.8686 1.9095 .5352 .5138

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60dayfwd .8219 .8195 12167 12203

90dayfwd .8207 .8181 12185 12224

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China Yuan .1854 .1854 5.3929 5.3929

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Denmark Krone .1737 .1792 5.7560 5.5810

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France Franc .1985 .2044 5.0380 4.8930

G ermany Mark .6727 .6947 1.4865 1.4395

30dayfwd .6692 .6908 1.4943 1.4475

60dayfwd .6658 .6869 1.5020 1.4558

90day fwd .6625 .6833 1.5094 1.4634Greece Drachma .005400 .005583 185.20 179.10

Hong Kong Doll .1293 .1294 7.7310 7.7290Hungary Forint .0134 .0135 74.67 74.20y India Rupee .0352 .0352 28.409 28.409Indnsia Rupiah .000492 .000492 2033.02 2033.02Ireland Punt 1.7950 1.8255 .5571 .5478Israel Shekel .4220 .4250 2.3694 2.3532Italy Lira .000849 .000910 1178.50 1098.50Japan Yen .008042 .008071 124.35 123.9030dayfwd .008035 .008064 124.46 124.0160dayfwd .008030 .008060 124.53 124.0790dayfwd .008026 .008057 124.59 124.12Jordan Dinar 1.5344 1.5344 .65172 .65172Lebanon Pound .000367 .000367 2725.00 2725.00Malaysia Rlngg .3991 .4006 2.5055 2.4960zMexico Peso .000327 .000327 3062.00 3062.00Nethrlnds Guild .5935 .6165 1.6850 1.6220N. Zealand Dol .5495 .5440 1.8198 1.8382Norway Krone .1693 .1754 5.9070 5.7005Pakistan Rupee .0401 .0401 24.95 24.95yPeru New Sol .7931 .7931 1.261 1.261zPhllplns Peso .0397 .0397 25.17 25.20Poland Zloty .000077 .000077 13001 12907Portugal Escud .007692 .007896 130.00 126.65Saudi Arab Rly 2667 2667 3.7502 3.7495Singapore Doll .6262 .6268 1.5970 1.5955So. Korea Won .001273 .001275 785.80 784.20So. Africa Ran .3566 .3596 2.8040 2.7805Spain Peseta .010325 .010701 96.85 93.45Sweden Krona .1828 .1897 5.4715 5.2715Swltzerlnd Fra .7596 .7802 1.3165 1.281830dayfwd .7568 .7772 1.3213 1.286660dayfwd .7544 .7742 1.3255 1291790day fwd .7518 .7714 1.3301 12963Taiwan NT .0396 .0396 25.24 2524Thailand Baht .03981 .03981 25.12 25.12Turkey Lira .000141 .000142 7070.00 7045.03U.A.E. Dirham .2723 .2723 3.6727 3.6727fUruguay Peso .000306 .000306 3265.01 3265.01zVenzuel Boliv .0147 .0145 68.8000 68.7500Y ugoslav Dinar 00500 .00500 200.00 200.00ECU: European Currency Unit, a basket of European currencies. The Federal Reserve Board’s index of the value of the dollar against 10 other currencies weighted on the basis of trade was 82.92 Monday, up 2.05 points or 2.54 percent from Friday's 80.87, A year ago the index was 90.83.Prices as of 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1900 GMT) from Telerate Systems and other sources.c-commercial rate, d-free market rate, f-financial rate, y-official rate, z- floating rate.___________________

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1992 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11

W o r l d e c o n o m y s u f f e r s

f r o m ’d e b t d e f l a t i o n 'By Alexander G. Higgins

G E N E V A (A P ) - The world economy is suffering under the specter of “debt deflation” for the first time since the Great Depres­sion, a UN agency said Tuesday.

The 1992 Trade and Develop­ment Report prepared by the UN Conference on Trade and Devel­opment said debt deflation is a downward spiral that occurs when banks get cold feet about lending.

“The unexpected severity of the global recession reflects the pres­ence of debt deflation in a number of industrialized economies, a process not experienced since the Great Depression,” the UN CTAD report said;

The United States, Japan and Britain are particularly hard hit, it said.

The result has been that indi­viduals and businesses spend less, borrowers find it harder to take out loans and people lose confi­dence in the economy, it said.

The traditional way out of re­

cessions is for businesses to bor­row so that they can expand, it said, but added, “The global economy ... appears to be at an impasse, with the private sector in most major economies unable to take the lead in reigniting growth.”

The report recommended that governments in developed coun­tries temporarily increase invest­ment in public projects like highways _ “ areas that have been badly neglected, particularly in the three largest economies suf­fering from debt deflation.”

“ Without a swift policy re­sponse, cumulative forces may be unleashed, damaging all coun­tries,” it said.

U N CTAD also endorsed further cuts in German interest rates. Germany’s short-term interest rates, which exceed 9 percent, should move down nearer the 3 percent to 4 percent levels in the United States and Japan, it said.

Germany cut a half percentage point off a key short-term rate on

Share prices surge in buying spreeNEW YO R K (AP) - Stock prices surged ahead Monday in a buying spree inspired by reductions in German interest rates.

Monetary officials in Germany announced reductions in key in­terest rates Monday, apparently signaling a reversal of a tight- money policy.

Analysts said the news was seen as a victory for international co­operation, since other leading in­dustrial countries had been push-

ing for such a move.In the United States, brokers

said, it relieved concern that the Federal Reserve might have to adopt a tighter policy to defend the dollar.

And the dollar, which had slumped in recent weeks to post- World War II lows against the German mark, rallied sharply in foreign-exchange markets.The Dow Jones average'of 30 indus­trials jumped 70 .52 points to

3,376.22 for its biggest single­day gain since it climbed 88.10 points last Dec. 23.

Advancing issues outnumbered declines by more than 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, with 1,295 up, 57 3 down and 484 unchanged.

N Y S E volume came to an esti­mated 250.90 million shares as of 4 p.m. ED T (2000G M T), up from 180.64 million Friday.

The N Y S E ’s composite index rose 2.93 to 233.73.

N EW YO RK (AP) - New York Stock Exchange closing prices Monday:

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КMonday. The country has been usinghigh interestrates to control inflation resulting from increased spending that followed 1990 German reunification.

The high rates have pulled in­vestments from the United States and Japan, strengthening the Ger­man mark to record high levels against the US dollar. The cur­rent round of debt defl ation began in the 1980s because of heavy lending for investments in com­mercial property, it said. This led in some countries to a “massive oversupply” of office space, fol­lowed by a sharp fall in prices, it said.

In the United States the savings and loan crisis was part of the problem, it said.

Savings and loans are institu­tions that were set up to help Americans buy homes at low in­terest rates. They have suffered losses for a decade because of economic turmoil, uneven de­regulation, sloppy government supervision and sometimes poor or fraudulent management.

KARAOKE LOUNGEW id e s e le c tio n o f E n g lis h , F ilip in o : V a n d J a p a n e s e S o n g s!

INVITATION TO BID D P W -I T B -0 0 2 4 5

The Department of Public Works is soliciting sealed bids for the Construction of Proposed Rota and Tinian Guest House Extension, Navy Hill, Saipan 96950, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Bids in duplicate will be accepted in the Office of the Chief Procurement & Supply at Lower Base, Saipan until 10:00 a.m., local time, Friday September 25,1992, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Any bids received after the above timewill not be accepted under any circumstances.

• A-bfand of 15% of the bid price must accompany the bid. This security may be a Certified Check, Cashier's Check, Bid Bond or other form acceptable to the Government made payable to the Treasurer, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands with a notation on the face of the check: "Credit Account No. 1453".

The bidder is required to submit with his proposals, a copy of his business permit as a compliance with the Contractor's Registration and Licensing L aw s o f the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Specifications and plans of the project are available on or after September 16, 19 9 2 , at Technical Services Division, Department of Public Works in Saipan. A non-re fundable payment of $10 0 .0 0 is required for each set. Pre-bid confer­ence for this project will be held at 2:0 0 p.m., local time, Wednesday, September 2 3 , 1 9 9 2 , at the Technical Services Division, Department o f Public Works on Saipan.

Attention is called to the Labor Standards Provisions for W age Rate Determination o f the C N M I Classification and Salary Structure Plans, and payment o f not less than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the Specifica­tions must be paid on this project.

A ll bid documents received shall be the sole property of the Government o f the Northern Mariana Islands with the ex­ception of bid bonds, certified checks or cashier's check which will be returned to the bidders in accordance with the specifications section, "Instruction to Bidders" Page 1-2, Paragraph N . 05, Bid Guarantee.

The Government reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any imperfections in the bid proposal in the interest of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Reviewed B y:/s/ Elizabeth H. Salas-Balaiadia

Director o f Public W orks 9 -1 5 -9 2

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Japanese business confidence plungesTO K YO (AP) - Japanese busi­ness confidence has fallen to its lowest level since the “ oil shock” of the mid-1970s, helping cause a 4-percent plunge in stock prices.

The central bank’s quarterly survey, released last Friday, “ confirms that the economy is in worse shape than expected,” said Jesper Koll, chief economist at

S.G. Warburg Securities.The survey, known as the

tankan, was taken in mid-August, before the government announced a fiscal stimulus package. But economists said the package was not likely to cause a major turn­around.

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Saipan, is distributed to stores and other outlets. It is also delivered early in the

morning to home, office, businesses and other subscribers on the island. Advertisers

are encouraged to use this opportunity to reach their prospective markets daily.

mist at Merrill Lynch. “ It won’t do much for private consumer spending or capital outlays, which account for 80 percent of gross national product.”

The confidence index for major manufacturers dropped to minus 37 from minus 24 in May - the lowest level since the mid-1970s. The index measures the number o f companies saying that busi­ness conditions are good minus those that say they are bad.

The widely-watched survey of over 7,000 major firms found those companies trimming ex­pectations for sales, earnings and capital investment for the fiscal year that ends in March 1993. The companies also said they were suffering from bulging invento­ries.

Loan rate cut firs t step out of recessionG E N E V A (AP) - The reduction o f German interest rates an­nounced on Monday is a first step in policy changes urgently needed to get the world out of deep reces­sion, according to a new UN re­port.

“The world economy has been suffering its most severe reces­sion since the Second World War,” said the 1992 Trade and Development Report prepared by the U N Conference on Trade and Development for release Tues­day.

The U N C T A D report urged Germany to lower its short-term interest rates, currently running over 9 percent, “down nearer” the levels in the United States and Japan - between 3 and 4 percent.

Germany, which announced a cut of a half percentage point on Monday, has been using high in­terest rates to combat inflation brought on b y the 19 9 0 reunification of the country.

A side effect, however, has been to attract investments to Germany and away from the United States and Japan. Other European coun­tries also have had to put up their interest rates to keep their own currencies from weakening.

The report, written earlier this summer, predicted developments that have occurred in the mean­time - the U S dollar has dropped to record low levels and the Japa­nese stock markethas been further depressed.

“ Germany should lead the way in bringing down European rates,” U N C T A D said.

This would help stimulate the economies of Europe and enable them to aid other countries come out of recession, it said.

It urged all developed countries - especially the United States, Ja ­pan and Britain, which have been hardhitby the recession - to spend more on projects like highways and other areas of public invest­ment that “have been badly ne­glected.”

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1 ELECTRICIAN1 CARPENTER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: RONALD D. SABLAN dba JR’S CONST. CO., P.O. Box 2164, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6796 (9/16)W/08954.1 ELECTRICIAN - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: EUGENIO C. VARGAS dba VARGAS ENTERPRISES, P.O. Box 623, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 235- 0297 (9/23)W/09021.

1 MASON - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: GERTUDES FELIPE dba UNITED BUILDERS CO. , P.O. Box 2060, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234- 7967 (9/23) W/2767.

2 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 per hour.Contact: H.S. LEE CONST. CO., INC. dba GENERAL CONTRACTOR, P.O. Box 440, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-5201 (9/23)W/2769.

1 MASON5 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $2.50 per hour.1 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 - $3.25 per hour.Contact: AUGUSTIN T. CAMACHO dba CAMACHO EQUIPMENT CO., P.O. Box 53, SAIPAN, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-9715 (9/23)W/09018.

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2 SPORTS INSTRUCTOR (DIVING) - High' school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.00 per hour.Contact: PRO-DIVE SAIPAN, INC. P.O. Box 664, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No.235-5313 (9/16)W/08958.

1 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $800 per month.4 WAITRESS - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $2.50 per hour.2 SINGER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 per hour. Contact: JOAQUIN Q. & MARGARITA A. C ASTRO dba DEANNA'S RETAURANT/POKER PALACE/CLUB S C O R P I O / K A R A O K E - C L U B ATLANTIS, P.O. Box 2817, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-2176 (9/16)W / 08956.

1 AUTO BODY FENDER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: KIM HANG KWON dba ASIA ENTERPRISES INC., P.O. Box 2812, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6778 (9/16)W/2740._____________________

1 BUSINESS CONSULTANT-College grad., 2yrs. experience. Salary $65,000 per year.Contact: UNITED MICRONESIA DE­VELOPMENTASSOCIATION, P.O. Box 5235, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. 234- 9253(9/14-16) M/2886.

2 LAUNDRY WORKERS - High school equlv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.26 -$ 2 .27 per hour.Contact: TROPICAL LAUNDRY & U NEN SUPPLY COMPANY, LTD., P.O. Box 540 CHRB, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-3077 (9/16)W/2741.

1 MACHINIST - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salaty $2.15 per hour. Contact: CAMILO A. ORALLO dba UNIVERSAL IRON WORKS, P.O. Box 1751, Guaio fiai Saipan, MP 96950 (9/ 23)W/09023.

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1 PLANT MANAGER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2,600 -$2,800 per month.1 CHEF - 1 High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2,600-$2,800 per month.1 GENERALMANAGER-Collegegrad., 2yrs. experience. Salary $2,800-$3,000 per month.1 RESTAURANT MANAGER-College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2,400 - $2,600 per month.1 CHEF ASSISTANT - High school grad.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $2,200-$2,400 per month.Contact: SAIPAN SPRING VALLEY BREWERY CO., INC., P.O. Box 5236 CHRB,Saipan, MP96950,Tel. No.322- 5000 (9/30)W/09093.

1 MANAGER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $4.50 per hour. Contact: BALI EMPORIUM dba AS SIDE, Caller Box PPP 426, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1334 (9/230)W/ 09091.

1 GENERALMANAGER-Collegegrad.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,500 per month.1 MANAGER, OPERATION - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,000 per month.1 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $800 per month.5 MASON - High school equlv., 2 yrs. experience. Salaiy $2.15 per hour.1 FIBERGLASS LAMINATOR - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: D & H CORPORATION, P.O. Box 2341, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-3555/6 (9/30)W/2897.

1 MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,000 - $2,500 per month.Contact: TIGET (USA) CO., LTD. dba TIGER CO., (SAIPAN) LTD., Caller Box AAA 243, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 233-6096 (9/30)W/09087.

1 DRAFTER, ARCHITECTS R A lT Col­lege grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,000 -$1 ,650 per month.Contact: SHIMIZU CORPORATION, P.O. Box 529, Saipan, MP 96950, Tei. No. 234-5438/9 (9/30)W/09086.2 STEEL WORKER, STRUCTURAL3 MASON3 AIR-CON MECHANIC - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.1 CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 - $5.00 per hour.2 CIVIL ENGINEER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,000 per month.Contact: ANTONIO A. ARRIOLA dba A’S CONSTRUCTION, P.O. Box 77, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1651 (9/30)W/2893.

2 CLEANER, HOUSEKEEPING - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: SAIPAN KORESCOCORPO­RATION, P.O. Box 3013, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 288-6001/3 (9/30)W/ 09088.1 WAITRESS1 COOK - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: FRANCISCO D. DIAZ dba REIKO’S RESTAURANT, P.O. Box 476, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6179 (9/30)W/09096.

2 (R EFLEXO LO G IST) PHYSICAL THERAPIST- High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 - $6.00 per hour.Contact: MOSE T. FEJERAN dba THE J'SGENERALSERVICE, P.O. Box 116, Dandan, Saipan, MP 96950 (9/30)W/ 09090.1 MUSICIAN (INSTRUMENTAL) - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $550 per month.Contact: RAYMOND SA. TUPAS dba TOPAZ PROMOTION, P.O. Box 394, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-2852 (9/30)W/09092.

1 W AREHOUSE W ORKER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $450 per month.Contact: MARIANAS NAPA INC. dba NAPA AUTO PARTS. P.O. Box 562, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1179 (9/30)W/2896.

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Born today, you are sometimes a selfish.and egocentric individual who thinks of nothing that does not have a direct personal impact. Yet at other times, you are quite selfless and will­ing to sacrifice much as you come to the aid of others — whether or not your assistance has been solicited. This duality in your nature is likely to be rather confusing to some; to others, it is nothing out of the ordinary. Though your thoughts may not always be of your fellow human beings, you are not the kind to be rude or inconsiderate.

You are likely to be involved in more than one romance before you settle down with the “love of your life.” Once you do settle, however, there is virtually nothing that can tear you away from that one individual to whom you have pledged your life-long devotion. You are the kind to fall in love “at first sight.”

Also born on this date are: John Knowles, author; Lauren Bacall, actress; Peter Falk, actor.

To see what is in store for you to­morrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 17 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - You’re

trying to alter too much of your life­style at one time. You can, however, pull back from “the brink.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - Ques­tions of emotional security and physi­cal safety are likely to arise on at least two occasions today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - You may not be able to achieve your goals today without making something of a fuss over yourself. Be a little more bold!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You have much under control at this time. Still, surprises may pop up at any moment. Remain calm, businesslike.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Warning signs are likely to point to a hazard you had not anticipated. Ad­justments will be required.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Follow all instructions today, and do your best to set aside resentment to­ward those in positions of authority.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - A spiritual duality is sure to complicate matters today, particularly if you are on the verge of “committing yourself.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Why

have “good” when you can have “bet­ter”? Why settle for anything less than the best? Increase efforts accordingly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - You may have to wade through lies and de­ception today before you have an ac­curate picture of what’s really “going on.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - You are not likely to be held to a decision made recently when your back was against a wall.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - You may have to abandon a course of ac­tion today which is actually leading you further from the attainment of goals.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - What oth­ers say about you is less important to you today than what you think about yourself. Confidence is everything.

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music teacher-conductor; Lauren Ba­call (1924-), actress, is 68; B.B. King (1925-), singer-guitarist, is 67; Peter Falk (1927-), actor, is 65; John Knowles (1926-), novelist, is 66; Elgin Baylor (1934-), basketball star-coach-execu- tive, is 58; Orel Hershiser (1958-), base­ball player, is 34; Tim Raines (1959-), baseball player, is 33.

TODAY’S SPORTS: On this day in 1978, in the first-ever meeting between two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew de­feated Affirmed by three lengths in the Marlboro Cup.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy.” — Lauren Bacall

TODAY’S WEATHER: On this day in 1928, the “San Felipe” hurricane made landfall at Palm Beach, Fla. Wind-driv­en waters of Lake Okeechobee over­flowed into populated areas, causing most of the 1,836 U.S. deaths.SOURCE: THE WEATHER CHANNEL'S1992 Weather Guide Calendar, Accord Publishing, Ltd.

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s u m m i t p r o p o s e dM OSCOW (AP) - A top R u s -. sian government official has suggested that President Boris Yeltsin meet with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in November on the island o f Okinawa, an aide to the official said Monday.

The suggestion by Deputy : Prim e M inister M ikhail Poltoranin camelessthanaweek : after Yeltsin abruptly postponed i a trip to Japan amid a domestic :j uproarovertheretumofthefour disputed Kuril Islands.

The islands between northern i Japan and Russia were seized by the Soviet Union during World War n and Japan has asked for them back.

A new meeting could reduce the diplomatic damage caused when Yeltsin called o ff his meeting with Miyazawa.

Yeltsin plans to visit South KoreaonNov. 12 -13 . Poltoranin suggested Yeltsin make a side : trip Nov. 1 1 to Okinawa, south ; o f mainland Japan, Poltoraniri's aide Andrei Rylsky told The A s­sociated Press.

This “ interim” meeting in Okinawa would enable the two leaders to agree on a date and agenda for a later trip by Yeltsin to Japan, Rylsky said.

In Tokyo, the Japanese For­eign Ministry said It could not comment on Poltoranin’s pro­posal.

The dispute over the four Kuril Islands - known in Japan as the Northern Territories - has been the major stumbling block in Russfan-Japanese relations. Ja- pan has withheld large-scale aid and investment while insisting that Russia return the islands. The dispute also has prevented

the two nations from signing a peace treaty formally ending W W n hostilities. Yeltsin has been under intense pressure to keep the Kurils, with polls show­ing that most Russians oppose ceding any territory,

Russian lawmakers argue that the islands are a valuable mili­tary radar post and provide 10 percent of Russia’s annual fish catch. Returning the islands also would wound national pride and could encourage claims on Rus­sian territory by China and the Baltic states.

Some hard-line lawmakers threatened to try to impeach Yeltsin for treason if he tried to give the islands to Japan.

Yeltsin’s cancellation o f the Tokyo trip prompted Russian nationalists toclaimvictoiy, with Russian newspapers saying the president showed his political weakness..

In August, Poltoranin went on a fact-finding m ission to Okinawa, whichhe said could be used as a modelfor returning the Kurils. U S soldiers occupied Okinawa during World War II but later returned the island to Japan.

Poltoranin drew criticism dur­ing the August visit after sug­gesting that Russia should return the two o f the disputed Kuril Islands- Habomai and Shikotan - in agreement with a 19 56 inter­national treaty. He later backed away from his remarks, saying he made them only to test public opinion in Japan.

On Monday, Poltoranin said that he actually had recom­mended to Yeltsin that Russia not return the islands to Japan, ITAR-Tass reported.

New radio broadcastto Asian nations ruled by dictators proposed

By Nick Ludington

W ASHINGTON (AP) - A con­gressional commission chi Monday proposed a new radio service to broadcast uncensored local news to Asian countries ruled by dicta­torships.

In a repost presented to the White House and Congress, the commis­sion said the new service should be operated along the lines of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and be aimed at China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma.

The report says the service “can bavesignificantimpactupon trends in Asia, as it did upon democratic evolution in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.”

At a news conference, the com­mission chairman, John Hughes, a former director of the Voice of America, urged Congress to vote the money needed for the project,

saying it was “morally right” for Asians fighting for democracy to get the same support as Europeans did.

The report estimated that the cost of setting up the service would be $30 million and the annual oper­ating cost $ 3 5 milli(n-39 million. It could be in full operation 18 months after funding.

The service wouldbe called Asia Information Radio but the report added “ if a harder edge is desired, AsiaDemocracy Radio woulddo.”

The 1 1 -member commission is scheduled to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Com­mittee on Tuesday in a hearing chaired by S e a Joseph Bidea

Biden, a Democrat, issued a statement Monday praising the commission report. “I intend to move forward promptly with leg­islation in the Foreign Relations Committee to establish a new broadcasting service,” he said

By Paul Shin

SEO U L, South Korea (AP) - High-level political talks this week between rivals South and North Korea are not likely to re­solve nuclear and other pending issues, South Korean officials say.

The prime ministers’ talks, the eighth since 1990, are the first since capitalist South Korea es­tablished diplomatic relations Aug. 24 with Communist North Korea’s closest ally, China.

While North Korea has not publicly commented on the move, there is little doubt that it further strained relations. Inter-Korean talks on implementing historic peace accords also remain dead­locked.

“ We expect they will be very difficult talks,” a high-ranking South Korean government official said on the eve of his departure for the meetings in Pyongyang, the North’s capital.

Western diplomats in Beijing said last week that the border between North Korea and China was closed to visitors, indicating

Solomons raid not authorized, Papua PM saysPORT M O R ESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) - Prime Minister Paias Wingti said Monday that Papua New Guinea troops were not authorized to make a week­end raid into the Solomon Islands, which killed two people and wounded a 3-year-old.

The troops might have been pursuing two members of the rebel B ou gainville Revolutionary Army when they attacked the fuel depot, Wingti said, promising an investigation.

In the Solomon Islands’ capital Honiara, Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni called on Papua New Guinea troops and Bougainville rebels to keep their dispute out of his country.

He described the attacks as “ brutal” and “disgraceful” and raised the possibility of expelling Papua New Guinea diplomats as well as rebel representatives from Honiara.

M am aloni said a state of emergency may soon be imposed along the border and a report on the killings will be sent to the UN Security Council.

Papua New Guinean troops raided the Komaliae village depot on Saturday, killing a man and a wom an, and wounding the woman’s 3-year-old daughter, the Solomons Island government said.

The village is in the Shortland Islands group of the north of Solomon Islands. It is near the sea border with the Papua N ew Guinean island of Bougainville, which is largely controlled by the secessionists who have been fighting Papua New Guinea forces since 1989.

that the North was at least tempo­rarily cutting itself off from the outside.

“W e are not hopeful. W e find ourselves shrouded by a lot of uncertainties,” the official told reporters, speaking on condition that he not be identified. South Korean Prime Minister Chung Won-shik, accompanied by 89 delegates, aides andreporters, will cross the heavily aimed border Tuesday for a four-day visit

Chung will hold two rounds of talks with his North Korean counterpart, Yon Hyong Muk, to try to resolve concerns over nuclear weapons development, visits between separated family members, reestablishment o f communication links and other issues.

The most contentious issue is North Korea’s refusal to accept inter-Korea mutual nuclear in­spections as part of a nuclear arms ban accord the Koreas adopted in February.

The inter-Korea inspections are separate from inspections by the U N International Atomic Energy

U N ITED N ATIO N S (AP) - Disagreements among Britain, France and the United States have stalled a proposal to bar Serbian warplanes from Bosnian air space, diplomats said Monday.

The ban on flights is discussed, but not demanded, in a Security Council resolution to be passed this week that authorizes more peacekeepers for B osnia- Herzegovina and allows them to take more active defense measures to protect relief convoys and prisoners released from detention camps.

“ This was just an idea that somebody floated,” U S Ambas­sador Edward Perkins said. “ It has no currency at the moment.”

France, which had two French peacekeepers killed in combat last week, supports an aggressive policy under which allied planes could fly missions to defend convoys on the ground in Bosnia, and attack hostile artillery.

But Britainfavors a looser aerial surveillance plan, under which allied planes would escort Serb warplanes outofBosnian air space and use only defensive tactics.

The United States is divided, with the State Department favor­ing the air cover idea, but the Defense Department reluctant to become involved, according to diplomats, who spoke on condi­tion o f anonymity. They said Washingtonhad decided to let the Europeans resolve the issue.

“ I don’t think anyone is press­ing today for any decisions on aerial surveillance or anything else that relates to aerial operations,” said the British ambassador, Sir

Inspections which began in May. South Koreans say IA E A inspec­tions are insufficient because they cover only facilities reported by North Korea.

South Korea is demanding challenge inspections that would allow one side to inspect the other side’s facilities on short notice. North Korea has rejected it

South Korea’s national Yonhap news agency said Monday Seoul is willing to offer limited eco­nomic help to rival North Korea if the two sides make progress at the talks on other matters.

The policy would be a switch from South Korea’s position that the two nations must agree on inter-Korean nuclear inspections before economic cooperation can start The official denied the idea was under consideration.

Also at issue are Seoul’s de­mand for reunion of millions of separated Korean family mem bers and North K o rea ’s de­mand for the release of several jailed southern dissidents for m aking illegal trips to the North.

David Hannay.U N envoy Cyrus Vance, the

former U S secretary of state, and former British Foreign Secretary D avid Owen, the European Community envoy for Yugosla­via, have been involved in the discussions.

The “no-fly” zone “ is not cov­ered by this resolution,” said Hannay. “ We have a great deal more work to do with Mr. Vance and Lord Owen and the Security Council and the secretary-general before we see how best we can carry forward.”

The ban on flights would apply only to military aircraft, so it would be less restrictive than the two exclusion zones enforced over Iraq to protect the Kurds and Shiites from attacks by Saddam Hussein’s forces.

The NATO allies have agreed to offer A W A C S surveillance planes to monitor the UN embargo on Yugoslavia.

The flight ban proposal was motivated by two incidents this month.

Anairliftusing Western airforce planes to ferry humanitarian aid was suspended Sept. 3 after an Italian cargo plane was shot down while approaching Sarajevo.

Also, Croatia and the United States accused Serbia of using UN relief flights as cover for its fighters to fly into Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The U S State Department on Friday warned that the Serbian planes following relief flights pose a serious threat to the safety of international efforts to aid be­sieged residents o f Bosnia- Herzegovina.

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I n d i a n s b e a t B l u e J a y s 2 - 1Jose Mesa pitched four-hit ball for 8 2-3 innings Monday night in Toronto as the Cleveland Indians beat Toronto 2 -1, cutting the Blue Jays’ lead in the A L East to four games over second-place Balti­more.

Glenallen Hill homered for the Indians, who beat David Cone (2-2) and matched their season high with their fifth consecutive con­secutive victory.

Mesa (7-10) struck outfour and walked one before Derek Lilliquist came in following a single by Johbn Olerud. After Candy Maldonado’s R BI single leftrunners onfirst and third, Steve Olin walked pinch-hitter Roberto Alomar, loading the bases. Olin then got pinch-hitter Ranсe Mulliniks on a groundout for his 26th save.

Orioles 2, R o y a ls 1In Baltimore, Cal Ripken ended

his 73-game homerless streak, a span of 292 at-bats since June 23, andRick Sutcliffe (16 -12) allowed two hits in 7 1/3 innings.

Brady Anderson also homered offRicicReed (2-7) as the Orioles won for only the second time in eight games. Baltimore has scored just three runs in 28 innings.

Sutcliffe (16 -12) retired his first 1 4 batters before K evin Koslofski’ s single to right. Olson pitched the ninth inning of the

four-hitter for his 33rd save.Brewers 6, Red Sox 0Chris Bosio ( 14 -5 ) tied a

Brewers’ record by winning his eighth consecutive decision, pitching four-hit ball for eight innings in Boston.

Milwaukee’s first four batters all singled off Danny Darwin (8- 8), giving the Brewers a 2-0 lead. Greg Vaughn added a sacrifice fly in the first and a two-run homer in the sixth.

Bosio is unbeaten in 12 starts since July 9. He struck out three, walked none, didn’ t give up an extra-base hit and didn’t allow a runner past first.Astros 5, Giants 0

HOUSTON (AP) - Willie Blair held San Francisco to an infield single over six innings to lead the Houston Astros to a 5-0 victory over the Giants on Monday night.

Blair(5-6)wasliftedforapinch- hitter in the sixth after striking out seven and walking two. It was Blair’s first win as a starter this season in five starts. Xavier Hernandez allowed three hits over the last three innings for his sev­enth save.

San Francisco rookie Kevin Rogers (0-1) gave up four runs on six hits in five-plus innings. He struck out five and walked one.

The Giants’ only hit off Blair came when Darren Lewis beat

Gonzalez retains titleIN GLEW O O D , Calif. (AP) - World Boxing Council light fly­weight champion Humberto GonzalezretainedhistitleMonday night with a second-round knock­out of Napa Kiatwanehi of Thai­land.

Gonzalez, from Mexico City, floored Kiatwanehi four times in the bout scheduled for 12 rounds at the Forum.

The end came at 2:48 after a left uppercut put Kiatwanehi down for the third time in the second round Referee Vince Delgado stopped the fight immediately.

Gonzalez scored the first knock­down with seconds remaining in

the first round landing a combi- nation.Kiatwanchi,fromBangkok, was still shaky when the bell rang for the start of the second round

Moving in quickly, Gonzalez continued his attack and Kiatwanehi went down twice from combinations.

Gonzalez, who had won, lost and then won back the W BC title, is 10-1 inlightflyweighttitlefights. He has made eight successful de­fenses, including three since he took the crown back.

The 26-year-old Gonzalez is now 3 4 -1 , with 26 knockouts. Kiatwanehi, 25, the former W BC 105-pound champion.

T r i a t h l o n s e t S e p t . 1 9THE NORTHERN Mariana Is­lands Triathlon Federation (N M IT F) w ill hold another triathlon on Sept. 19 starting at the Marpi pool at 6:30 a.m.

Registration begins at 6:30 and the race starts at 6:30 a.m. sharp.

The race consists of a400-meter swim, a nine-mile bicycle course and a three-mile run.

Teams are allowed to participate. For members of the federation, the

fee is $3, non-members $5. Teams pay $ 10 each.

The NMITF will schedule at least nine more events until April 1993 leading to the Sixth Annual Saipan Tagaman Triathlon scheduled on May 15,1993.

Each event will be organized to help triathletes train and prepare for the prestigious event. It will also help prepare volunteers for the important role they will play in the Tagaman.

out a slow roller to lead off the fourth. Lewis’ roller was fielded by third baseman Ken Caminiti, whose throwbarelymissed getting Lewis.

Houston took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Jeff Bagwell hit his 14th home run of the season.

The Astros increased their lead to 4-0 in the sixth after a single by Steve Finley, a walk to Caminiti, and a single by Bagwell loaded thè bases. Pete Incaviglia singled to score Finley and bring in re­liever Mike Jackson.

Jackson walked pinch-hitter Luis Gonzalez to score Caminiti, and Bagwell scored on a sacrifice fly by Casey Candaele.

The Astros added a run in the seventh when Craig B iggio doubled and scored on a single by Caminiti.

White Sox 8, Yankees 6In New York, Lance Johnson

tripled twice and drove in two runs as the Chicago won in a game interrupted by a bench- clearing incident in the eighth.

White Sox designated hittter GeorgeBell thoughtrelieverGreg Cadaret was throwing at him and took afew steps toward the mound as the benches and bullpens came onto the field. Order was restored without trouble.

Wilson Alvarez (5-3) gave up five hits and four runs in six in­

nings and Roberto Hernandez got four outs for his ninth save.

Bob Wickman (3-1), an emer­gency starter after Scott Sanderson pulled a back muscle warming up, failed to become the first Yankees pitcher to win his first four major league decisions since Whitey Ford in 1950.Pirates 5, Cardinals 4

The Pittsburgh Pirates victim­ized Lee Smith again, beating the Cardinals and their relief ace 5-4 on Cecil Espy’s R B I single in the 10th inning in St. Louis Monday night to take a four-game lead in the N L East.

The Pirates have beaten the Cardinals 1 1 straight times and 13 of 15 this season. Smith (3-7) leads the league with 38 saves but is 0-3 in three games with two blown saves against Pittsburgh.

Alex Cole reached on a fielding error by second baseman Geronimo Pena with one out in the 10th and went to third on pinch-hitter Dave Clark’s single. Espy followed with a single to right to give Doug Drabek ( 13 - 10) his third straight victory. Stan Belinda got the last out in the 10th for his 16th save.

Phillies 6, Expos 2 Rookie Braulio Castillo’s first

major league homer, a three-run shot, led the Phillies past the Expos in Philadelphia.

Eyeshade gives Fischer edge in rematchSVETT ST E FA N . Yugoslavia (AP) - Basking in the lead after two straight victories over Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer said Monday an eyeshade he’s taken to wearing may have given him an edge.

“It’s a help,” Fischer told re­porters. ‘‘You keep a little more privacy for your eyes so your opponentcan’t see what you’re looking at.”

Fischer beat Spassky, a Rus­sian who is a naturalized French citizen, in an exciting 40-move match Sunday to take a 3 -2 lead. The American also had won Saturday wearing his “ riverboat gambler” visor, andnow appears to have the momentum in the duel that will give dlrs 3 .35 million to the first player to win 10 games.

Fischer, who hadn’t played in a chess competition since 19 72 when he beat Spassky for the world championship, said he disagreed with the expert con­sensus that too many mistakes are being made in this rematch of former chess champs.

Buthedidn’trespond indetail, arid answered only written questions. He spent half of the 20-minute news conference flicking through the written questions and deciding which to answer.

L o s A n g e l e s R a m s

e n d l o s i n g s t r e a kANAHEIM,Calif. (AP)-Ittook 1 1 months and 11 losses, but the Los Angeles Rams finally have a victory.

The Rams used a pair of second- half touchdowns to beat the New England Patriots 14-0 on Sunday and, according to coach Chuck Knox, got amonkey off their backs.

A loss would have tied the fran­chise record for most consecutive defeats and left them at 0-2 this season. Instead, the Rams can put the losing streak aside and look ahead with a sense of hope.

“It was a big win in the sense that if we had lost, the players would have to read a lot of talk about, ‘Here we go again,” ’ Knox said. “The guys would be saying that and sometimes it becomes a self-ful­filling prophecy.”

“ I was very pleased for those guys. That’s a tough thing, losing that many games in a row.”

The Rams last win before Sun­day came last Oct. 13 in the sixth game of the season, a 30-24victory

over San Diego.The Rams earned their first shut­

out in 60 games against the Patri­ots, butKnoxthinks it’s too soon to bestow kudos on the defense.

“It’s a young defense,” he said. “We started two rookies on the line and there’s youth in the secondary.

“ And I think it has a chance to develop and will get better. (But) I don’t think you can put a tremen­dous amount of pressure (on them) to win the game by themselves.

While the defense bounced back from a 40-7 season-opening loss at Buffalo, the offense and quarter­back Jim Everett continued to struggle.

Through two games, Everett has completed only 49.1 percent of his passes for an average of just 145 passing yards. He has also thrown four interceptions, all in Buffalo, and just one touchdown pass.

“Our passing game is out of sync in all areas," Knox said. “ W e’re making mistakes, we’re dropping

passes, we’re doing a little bit of everything wrong.

“ We can’t get into a rhythm.” Nevertheless, the conservative

game plan that helped produce no turnovers against the Patriots won’t continue, Knox said.

“ We were in that for this game to try to shore up the running game,” Knox said. “I thought we did run the ball better, but we also had some pass patterns we thought would work.”

The victory over the Patriots added a little levity to Knox’s Monday press briefing.

“ If you win, it makes living the next week somewhat enjoyable,” he said “Otherwise, it’s just mur­der. I ’ve said all along there are two great things about professional football. One is winning and two is getting paid.”

The Rams travel to Miami on Sunday to face the Dolphins, who played last night against Cleve­land.

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