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i manufacturer has been given i; f; the green light by the Foreign l: :; Investment Board (FIB) here ::: ; toputupa$2-milliongarment ;: i: factory that will manufacture :: ; cotton knitted apparel for ex- 0

Rota, Tinian see tough prospects for ec9nom.y

:, port to the United States. ' " I · Pacific Garments would be •

;; the second garment factory to (i be put up in Palau. The first to '.· ;; set up shop and take advan- : ii tage ofexport quota-free treat- . [; ment by the U.S. is Orientex !·:

[j Palau, Inc. [: t The FIB approved the ap- i'. ~ plication for a foreign invest- r, t: ment approval certificate 1

[' (FIAC) of Pacific Garment, ;! owned by Victor Yuen Tak r Fong who maintains garment f; factories in Hongkong, the :; People's Republic of China :: ;, (PROC) and on Saipan. ;; i; Fong, a British citizen, has !1 ' '1 :i garmentmanufacturingplants /i \! Continued on page 30 Ii L-.-.!!.::.~:;;.,~::==:.:.r- ~~:..-.... '~~:::J

By Haldee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

LOCAL officials of Rota and Tinian yesterday expressed disappointment and grave concern over the defeat of their local initiatives seeking to establish and improve, respectively, casino gaming in their jurisdictions.

Rota Mayor Benjamin T. Manglona said economic opportunities - including more jobs and more investors - will become more remote without the establishment of a casino industry.

"It appears ... that we failed to gamer two thirds of the qualified votes. Rota's economic future will be difficult ... The issue with my administration has never been casino. The issue has been the economy ... Now my job (of improving the economy) will be more difficult," said Manglona.

Benjamin T. Manglona

The Rota Casino Initiative failed to get the required twothirds "yes" votes among 1,097 ballots cast as there were only 5 65 such votes; according to the Board of Elections (BOE) partial election results.

This means the proposal to establish, regulate and control a casino gambling industry in Rota

CUC may issue new power plant RFP By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

IF THE new independent financial analysis of the Commonwealth Utilities Corpora-

~ tion (CUC) does not find the controversial $120 million

ij power plant project economiA cally feasible, CUC may have B to go back to the first step of ~ issuing a new request for pro[1 posals (RFP) for a scaled down ,l project.

This was learned during yesterday's CUC special Board of Directors meeting where members officially approved an expanded study by its independent consultants - Burns & McDonnel-to evaluate the current and future power supply needs on Saipan, and the economic feasibility of smaller 80 megawatt power plant project in light of bleak economic conditions.

During the meeting, Board

member Benjamin A. Sablan raised the issue of whether or not another RFP is warranted if the long-awaited power plant's capacity needs to be decreased.

CUC Legal Counsel William J. Ohle, also during the meet- . ing, said the decision to lower down the power plant's capacity will mean the issuance of i·

another RFP as called for by . existing laws. .

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Saipan Senator-elect Ramon S. Guerrero (right) is interviewed by the Variety in his As Perdido residence right after his stunning election victory over incumbent Sen. Juan P. Tenorio early Sunday. To Guerrero's right is a supporter. Photo by Ratty Arroyo

Francisco M. Borja

was not ratified. Tinian's initiative to amend the

existing casino law got 485 "yes" votes out of 900 ballots cast.

Under existing laws, local initiatives need to get two-thirds of the total votes for them to be passed.

The Tinian Mayor's Office, represented by attorney Loren Sutton,

also feared the island is heading for a more difficult economic future.

"We are very disappointed with the results . . . The proposed amendments were the result of a number of months' hard work not only by the task force but also by all the people who want it," Sutton said in a telephone interview.

Sutton also said it will be harder for Tinian to correct loopholes in the current gaming act and improve its casino industry with the defeat of the initiative.

"We expected positive results for the business climate to improve but it did not happen," said Sutton, but added that Tinian will continue to look for other means to improve its economy.

The -Tinian Popular Initiative seeks to amend the local law entitled "Revised Tinian Casino

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'Nobody's fault but mine,' says Morgell

Juan P. Tenorio

By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff SENATORJuanP. Tenorio(RSaipan) said "nobody is to blame" for his surprising defeat in last Saturday's midterm elections. .

"TI1e people have spoken. No one is to blame. If there is anyone to blame, it should be me. I wasn't equal to the people's expectations," said Tenorio, in an interview yesterday.

"I am more hurt for my supporters than myself," he said.

Tenorio, who lost to Reform Party stalwart Ramon S. Guerrero by some 475 votes, may make another bid for the Senate in the 2001 elections though.

"I have lost before," he said,

"I am not discounting that possibility (running again). Anything can happen (from now until 2001)."

Tenorio said he lost because Guerrero "went that extra mile."

Tenorio said he will continue with his advocacy work and will focus, among · others, on the government's vocational apprenticeship program when he returns to private life.

Guerrero, on Sunday, said the outcome of the elections for the Saipan senatorial district reflects the "people's disappointment" with Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio, the losing senator's brother.

"I think the ... reason that (Tenorio) lost is mostly because of his brother's performance. I think that has done the most impact on his losing this election," said Guerrero in a Variety interview at his residence.

Guerrero said the governor merely "talks" about issues affecting the populace "all the time."

"The people are probably just too tired of listening to the same comments over and over again," he said.

Sen. Tenorio has been known for his "pro-local" stance, hav-


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Bush says he's smart enough to be president WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, who has been prone to stumble on foreign policy, said on Sunday he is "plenty smart" despite flunking a pop quiz on the leaders of four world hot spots.

"America understands that a guy doesn't know the name of every single foreign leader. That's not what Americans are making their choices on about who's going to be the president," the Texas governor said in an ABC television interview.

Bush, asked to name the leaders of India, Pakistan, Taiwan and Chechnya - could come up with only a fragment of one,

George W. Bush

"Lee," for Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui.

The surprise quiz by a Boston television reporter last week set off a debate over whether knowing these names had anything to

No to "porno." Protesters raise their hands in prayer towards the Senate building during an anti-pornography rally yesterday in suburban Pasay City, the Philippines. Thousands joined the rally in a move to ban the rising proliferation of sexually explicit films and publications in the country. AP

Budget talks continue WASHING TON (AP) - The White House and congressional Republicans narrowed their differences over Interior Department programs but still face disputes over schools, the United Nations and other issues as budget negotiators race the calendar.

In a Capitol nearly empty except for tourists, the two sides met for 51/2 hours Sunday. While some progress was reported, the bargainers must resolve tough outstanding issues quickly for GOP leaders to meet their goal of sending Congress home for the year by Wednesday.

"I was hoping we would make. more progress today than we did," said White House budget chief Jack Lew.

Administration representatives

proposed a four-year program in which ever-growing amounts of money wou Id be used to purchase park lands.

Preside ht Clinton had proposed a "lands legacy" program that would spend $500 million for federal and local park land acquisition this year. But Sunday, his negotiators called for boosting that gradually to $900 million by 2003. They would pay for it by setting aside money the government collects annually from offshore oil leases.

"Obviously, we feel land acquisition is a terribly important conservation priority," said George Frampton, acting chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

do with presidential leadership potential, whether it constituted "gotcha" journalism and whether Bush's front-running campaign had been damaged or merely embarrassed.

"I don't think you should judge him by that," said former Republican candidate Pat Buchanan, ·who quit last month to seek the Reform Party's presidential nomination.

"But I do think this. The governor has a problem with perception and the perception is that not only does he not know a great deal, he's defiant about it. He likes the idea," Buchanan said on the CNN programme "Late Edition."

RP to deploy main batch of peacekeepers in East Timor MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippines will deploy its main batch of soldiers to East Timor this week to join an international peacekeeping force helping to rebuild the ravaged territory, officials said Monday.

The 55 officers and 298 enlisted men will be flown to East Timor from Manila Tuesday aboard a United States Air Force B747 plane after a brief send-off ceremony, armed forces chief of staff Gen. Angelo Reyes said.

AU .S. Air Force C-17 plane will airlift the Philippine troops' cargo and provisions to East Timor Wednesday, Reyes said.

The contingent, consisting of military doctors, engineers, nurses, dentists and security personnel, will join 240 Filipino soldiers that were flown to East Timor in two batches earlier to form part of the Philippine Humanitarian Support Mission. to East Timar, officials said.

Maj. Max Caro, an army spokesman, said the Filipino soldiers will stay for at least six months in East Timor. The Manila government said it could send up to about 1,000 soldiers. ·

A wave of killing and looting broke out after U.N. officials announced on Sept. 4 that East Timorese voters had overwhelmingly approved independence, after a quartercentury of Indonesian rule.

Aside from the military peacekeepers, the Philippine government and Catholic church have also donated more than$ I million worth in funds and relief supplies to East Timar.

· · News Briefs Labastida wins Mexican

presidential primary MEXICO CITY (AP) - Former Interior Secretary Francisco Labastida won a landslide victory in Mexico's governing party's first presidential primary.

The vote will likely determine Mexico's next president but also threatens 10 tear _apart the party that has mled for 70 years.

With 37 percent of the vote counted, Labastida, widely seen as the choice of President Ernesto Zedillo, was leading in 270 of the 300 electoral districts, according to· the party's first official report late Sunday. A plurality of the districts is needed to win.

His nearest challenger, fonner Tabasco Gov. Roberto Madrazo, was leading in 21 districts.

Mitchell to reconvene N. Irish peace talks

BELFAST (Reuters)- U.S. mediator George Mitchell returns to Northern Ireland on Monday to reconvene talks between the British province's feuding political parties and to unveil his review of the tortuous peace process.

Mitchell - who spent much of last week briefing the leaders of the Irish republic, Britain and the United States on the nine weeks of negotiations he has chaired - was expected at the Stormont (;astle buildings near Belfast by 0930 GMT.

The talks with politicians from Northern Ireland's Protestant majority and Roman Catholic minority have been on the brink of collapse several times over guenilla disarmament and formation of a power-sharing provincial executive.

Water receding in Vietnam, but some areas still isolated

HUE, Vietnam (AP)- Waters were receding Monday, but many outlying areas remained isolated by Vietnam's worst flooding in a century, with more than I million people hungry and thirst rapidly becoming a problem.

The confirmed death toll climbed to 488, with 283 of the fatalities in worst-hit Thua Thien Hue province, which also had 60 of the 66 missing person reports. The Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper reported 522 people had died.

The best news came when road access to the ancient capital of Hue, home to nearly half ofThua Thien Hue's 1.05 million people, was restored.

Floodwaters from a leftover shower north of Hue disappeared from National Highway I, the country's two-lane lifeline. And after working around the clock since last Wednesday, road crews reopened the Hai Van mountain pass on the highway south to Danang for trucks carrying less than IO tons.

BBC says Russian official demanded bribe from UK firm LONDON, (Reuters) - A British company seeking to invest in Russia faced demands from a senior Russian minister for a bribe of millions of dollars, BBC television reported on Sunday.

A consultant to the company told the BBC's Money Programme that the minister asked for the bribe in exchange for his approval of the investment. Neither the company nor the minister were identified.

"It was made fairly clear through intermediaries to our client that the signature, of the official would be applied to the agreement on payment of a seven figure sum into a foreign bank account and if that money was not paid the signature would not be applied," said Toby Latta, of consultants Control Risks Group. ·

The company declined to pay the bribe and the project did not go ahead, Latta said.

Chechnya appeals to US; .Russia slams rebels

GEKHI, Russia, (Reuters) - Russian guns and warplanes blasted towns and villages near Grozny on Sunday as Chechnya's leader appealed to U.S. President Bill Clinton to help end what he called Russia's criminal onslaught against his region.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said no one would take the appeal seriously while Chechnya "supported terrorists".

Two planes bombed this village, 15 km (10 miles) south of the regional capital, Grozny, killing four people and injuring 11 and destroying at least IO houses. A helicopter was also heard attacking Urus Martan, several kilometres (miles) to the east.

Russian guns also shelled the outskirts of Grozny and warplanes bombed areas to the south, west and east of the city as Moscow's forces pursued a campaign to cmsh Moslem rebels.

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Speaker hints he may give up top House post

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

SPEAKER Diego T. Benavente (R-Saipan) may finally be giving up the top House of Representatives post which he has occupied since 1994.

"I am a party man all the way. Any decisions I will make will be in the best interest of the (Republican) party," said Benavente in an interview yesterday.

"I have several options right now that I am looking at. I will leave (them) open," he added, indicating that vacating the speaker's post is "one of the things" he is "considering at this point."

The longest-serving speaker in the history of the CNMI Legislature said he is waiting for a party caucus expected to be held soon where leadership matters will be tackled.

The Variety gathered there may be at least two candidates for the post: re-elected Rep. Heinz S. Hofschneider, and former speaker

Diego T. Benavente

Benigno R. Fitial. The Republicans suffered a

huge setback during last Saturday's midtermn elections in Saipan' s Precinct I where Democrats took four of the six seats open.

Precinct one - which covers the Kagman homestead village,. Koblerville, San Antonio, Dandan and San Vicente - has the biggest number of registered voters at nearly 10,000.

Key Republicans who lost were House Floor Leader Ana S. Teregeyo (Precinct I); Ways and Means Committee Chair Karl T. Reyes (Precinct l ); Judicial and Governmental Operations Chair Frank G. Cepeda (Precicnt 4); Labor and Immigration Committee Chair Hermari T. Palacios (Precinct l ); Natural Resources Committee Chair Manuel A. Tenorio (Precinct 1 ); and Foreign and Federal Relations Committee Chair Melvin 0. Faisao (Precinct 3).

Still, Benavente said no "major changes" in the administration's general policies are seen.

"I don't see any reason that we may have major changes because of the (election) results. Itis still a Republican (Legislature, after all)," said Benavente.

Benavente said he was disap. pointed at the way his colleagues

lost in Precinct I. He noted though that the area

has always been a bailiwick for the Democrats.

Teno urges elected legislators to look after interest of constituents By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

FACED with a new lawmaking body composed of more Democrats, Republican Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio yesterday said he hopes the 12th Legislature will continue implementing his administration's program.

At the same time, the governor said he would be "happy" if Senator-electRamonS. Guerrero does "better to serve the people."

Guerrero on Sunday said Sen. Juan P. Tenorio's defeat manifests the discontent of the electorate with the governor's performance.

Guerrero ran and won against Sen. Tenorio who is the governor's brother.

"I don't know what he is trying to say," said the governor, refening to Guerrero's remarks. "Maybe he could do better."

Pedro P. Tenorio

The governor appeared unhappy about the election results for Saipan.

"What can I do?" he said, when asked if his brother's defeat disappointed him. "Mid-term elections are always different. The' people have decided. I have nothing against it."

The governor said he is "not

worried" about the 12th Legislature's new composition, adding that having been elected by the people, its members should "work on how best to serve the people."

He added, "The election is over. The people went out and voted fortheirchoice. I am happy that it is over. I... congratulate the winners.

"My administration would like to see that we ... do what the public expect us to do so I am not worried about the composition of the members of the Legislature. I expect them to work on how they can best serve people they represent," the governor said.

Saturday's election also saw the defeat of at least six top House leaders, including the floor leader, Rep. Ana S. Teregeyo.

Criminal charges filed. vs Demapan By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff THE ATTORNEY General's

Office finally. filed yesterday criminal charges against former Senate president Juan S. Demapan and seven other persons over alleged illegal gambling operation in Garapan.

Demapan and co-defendants Ping Yin Cheung, Qiling Dong, Pierre Lam, Yiu Ting Chung, Shuguang Tang, De Fu Chen, and Xian Zhong Wu were charged with illegal gambling activity and accessory to commit illegal gambling.

According to the information filed in Superior Court by Chief Prosecutor Kevin Lynch, Demapan and other defendants committed such offenses last Sept.

2 on Saipan. Lynch in the information stated

that the defendants "as principals in the first or second degree, did deal, play, or carry on, open, or cause to be opened, or conduct, either as owner or employee, any gambling device, or any banking or" percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks, credit,or other thing of value, or did play or bet a tor against any of the prohibited games."

Lynch also stated that the defendants "did, with intent, to promote or facilitate the commission of illegal gambling in violation of the statute, agree with two or more of each other that they will engage in or solicit the conduct or will cause or solicit the result

specified by the definition of the offense; and that person or another person with whom the person conspired committed an overt act in pursuance of the conspiracy."

The Superior Court summoned the defendants to appear and answer the charges in court on Nov. 22 at 9 a.m.

Operatives from the AGO's investigation unit and Department of Public Safety reportedly arrested several persons, including Demapan, for allegedly conducting illegal gambling at the East Ocean Restaurant last Sept. 2.

The operatives were reportedly working on a different but related case when they raided the establishment.


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Nov. 6, 19Q9 Election ~e~...c~~"t (BOE unofficial refilrns · as of Monday) · · . . ,

1ST SENATORIAL DISTRICT Rota Manglona, Paul A. (R) Manglona, Glenn Hocog (I)

2ND SENATORIAL DISTRICT Tinian Cing, David M. (D) Hocog, Jose Ada (R)

3RD SENATORIAL DISTRICT Saipan Deleon Guerrero, Ramon S. (RP) Tenorio, Juan P. (R)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE District #1 Apatang, David M. (R) lchihara, Brigida DLG. (D) Camacho, Rosiky F. (D) Ada, Martin B. (R) Deleon Guerrero, Florencio T. (D) Camacho, Antonio M. (D) Teregeyo, Ana S. (R) Tenorio, Manuel A. (R) Demapan, Francisco DLG. (D) Palacios, Herman T. (R) Reyes, Karl T. (R) Castro, Pedro P. (RP) Tudela, Juan C. (D) Cepeda, Benjamin M. (I) Palacios, Joseph M. (RP) Nakatsukasa, Pedro T. (RP) District #2 Benavente, Diego T. (R) B;!bauta, Oscar M. (R) Tomokane, Anicia Q. (RP) Sablan, Vicente Hosono (RP) District #3 Hofscbneider, Heinz S. (R) Fitial, Benigno R. (R) Peter, Maria T. (1) Attao, Jesus T. (R) Torres, Estanislao T. (R) Torres, William S. (R) Olopai, MaximoL. (D) Faisao, Melvin Lawrence 9,- (R) Camacho, Luis S. (D) Sablan, Isidro A. (D) Quitugua, Joaquin T. (RP) District#4 Jones, Egredino M. (D) Pangelinan, Thomas B. (R) Quitugua, Justo Songao (I) Cepeda, Frank G. Sablan, Benigno M. (I) Mesta, Josephine DLG. (RP) District #5 Palacios, Norman S. (D) San Nicolas, Henry H. (R) District #6 Mendiola, Alejo M. (R) Sablan, Luis Masga (D) MUNICIPAL COUNCILS Saipan Lizama, Jesus SN. fadalecio, David A. DLGuerrero, Gregorio V. Taitano, Canice K. Tinian Mendiola, Juanita M. Borja, Antonio H. Kiyoshi, Antonio 0. Manglona, Evelyn B. Barcinas, Juan 0. King, Esteven M. Rota Rosario, Jose M. Atalig, Kevin T. Ogo, Abraham M. Apatang, Alexander A. Ladore, Alice A. Mesngon, Steve K. BOARD OF EDUCATION ~ Fleming Esther S. Benavente, Roman C. Manglona, Edward H. .8.Q1i!. Taisacan, Juanita M. Taitano, Marja Lee C. (Rota)

LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE SL 11-1 (YES) Ballots cast

SL 11-4 (YES) Ballots cast

Judge Retention (YES) Ballots cast

Popular Initiative Tinian (YES) Ballots cast

Popular Initiative Rota (YES) Ballots cast

699 289

478 390

4,339 3,864

2,129 2,018 1,744 1,738 1,308 1,299 1,228 1,209 1,207 1,193 1,152 1,039 1,026

868 796 382

495 494 298 245

1,583 1,370 1,311 1,274 1,215 1,117 1,063 1,017

874 613 295

703 642 520 508 465 313

449 419

590 457

4,754 4,638 4,609 4,142

473 462 434 425 409 400

609 594 560 412 381 286

5,956 4,267 2,552

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4,094 10,917

4,895 10,932

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CPA eyes Aloha Airlines By Marian A. Maraya Variety News Staff

TIIB COMMONWEALTH Ports Authority (CPA) is tapping Aloha Airlines, a Hawaii-based air transportation services company, to · serve direct flights to Saipan, CPA Executive Director Carlos H. Salas yesterday revealed.

The CPA has already met with Aloha Airline officials on the possibility of serving a new market to Saipan.

But according to Salas, discussions are still on its early stages.

"We know that they are expanding into the Pacific. They just started flights to Majuro. So we 're also looking further into the airline serving our area.

"The last information we received from them is that they're looking at the possibility to expand to our area here, on Saipan and Guam," said Salas.

CPA has already touched base

with Aloha Air and has updated the company on the ports authority's Airline Incentive Program (AIP), according to Salas.

"We have informed them that if they serve a new market to Saipan, they would be entitled to 50 percent off on all the passengers," said Salas.

CPA is still, however, awaiting . the airline's response, Salas said.

Meanwhile, Salas and CPA Board Chai1TI1anRoman S.Palacios

Michael Armstrong, associate director of FEMA Mitigation Directorate, and William Carwile, director of FEMA Pacific regional office in Hawaii, speak to the media at the old Guam Memorial Hospital site in Tamuning, Guam yesterday. Photo by Eduardo c. Siguenza

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FEMA officials stop on Guam enroute to Japan By Eric F. Say Variety News Staff

A TOP Federal Emergency Management Agency official made a brief stop on Guam yesterday to see for himself how typhoon mitigation projects sanctioned by his agency are progressing.

Mike Armstrong, FEMA's associate director for the hazard mitigation, made a one day stop here while on a trip from Washington to Japan.

His first stop on his tourof Guam was the site of the old Guam Memorial Hospital building overlooking Tumon Bay.

Armstrong, who was joined by an entourage of local and regional FEMA officials, wimessed the final clean-up phase taking place at the site.

According to recovery coordination office director Connie Jo Brennan, the old GMH project is almost 90 percent complete and is expected to be finished ahead of schedule in December.

"I'm here to see first hand how

the federal and local government partnership is coming along and what lessons I can learn about better being prepared for natural disasters that may occur in this part of the world," Armstrong said.

He said Guam is especially susceptible to wind, flooding and seismic calamities at any time of the year.

Armstrong said FEMA assistance has four stages: response, recovery, preparedness and mitigation.

During his tour, Government of Guam representatives planned to fell)' Armstrong to Talofofo to see a FEMA project that is ongoing since Typhoon Omar hit Guam in Aug. 1992.

Armstrong was·also expected to visit the Guam Memorial Hospital where a FEMA grant has been extended to include the enclosure of the rear courtyard and solariums on the third and fourth floors.

Armstrong was expected to leave late last night for an earthquake conference in Tokyo, Japan.

Marine sanctuary survey done By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

THE FISHERY section of the Division offish and Wildlife has completed the preparatory works on the proposed marine sanctuary in Managaha island and is now awaiting sponsorship from the Ifgislature.

The survey on the proposed sanctuary which is seen to boost Saipan stock of fish and other marine species was completed at the end of September, according to Fishery Section Acting Supervisor Mike Trianni.

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is setto fly to Hongkong this month to take a look at HongKong Airport's concessions and operations.

"The purpose of the trip is to give us ideas on some of the concessions that they have in place over there. We would like to see how these things work," said Salas.

Salas and Palacios are also set !o join the Marianas Visitors Authority (MV A) and Governor Pedro P.

Tenorio in Japan next month for the biggest travel association meeting to be held in Tokyo.

"It's a convention involving travel agents and wholesalers and the airlines are going to be there too," said Salas.

'TH be bringing some things to discuss or distribute regarding the airline incentive program, our facilities and invite them over the Saipan to do direct flights," he added.

PSS officials told to deviate from multiple choice exams By Marian A. Maraya Variety _News Staff

PUBLIC School System (PSS) instructional leaders were urged by an off-island expert yesterday to reinforce teaching strategies that would enable students to practice critical thinking while reading - by writing about what they read.

Dr. Roger Farr, Chancel !or's Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Innovation and Assessment at Indiana University, said that one way to encourage such practice would be to deviate from the usual multiple choice type of tests usually employed by schools.

"I think we ought to be doing more writing for our students in schools ... that would be very helpful.

"One thing that happens here is that they sometimes get too concerned and too uptight about multiple choice questions and not enough about open ended gliding questions," said Farr at the school principals and program managers I uncheon meeting yesterday. ·

Farr said that based on international studies, students used to "writing" tests fare better in standardized assessments compared to students used to taking "multiple choice'" questions exams.

The expert further reasoned that if kids are expected to survive in the "real world," they should be trained to construct answers and not merely choose them, because according to Farr, the outside world is not going to be as easy.

"If you're going to go to the world and get a job and organize ideas and pull them together, you don't do your job like multiple choice," said Farr.

Farr stressed that students need to "learn how to learn" to succeed in life.

"We have to ask kids to decode what they encode. Comprehending drives word comprehension and not the other way around," Farr said.

Education Commissioner Rita H. Inos commented that school principals and managers are not new to concepts which Farr introduced during yesterday's meeting.

"Everybody really knows what we 're dealing with. It's just a matter of reinforcement," said Inos.

"This is really to give them the edge as "instructional leaders" in their respective schoo!s ... perhaps to keep track on things in their leadership that they ought to be doing so that teaching and learning continues to be the forefront of our activities, daily in schools," she added.

Farr's short visit to Saipan was to support CNMI's instructional leadership, Inos revealed.

Furthermore, lnos noted that Farr's visit was quite convenient in a time where the decline in reading skills among upper grade level students (based on the Stanford Achievement Test - 9th Edition or SAT9 results) in public schools have become one of the PSS's main concerns of late.

"We can take advantage of the knowledge he has and the abilities for him to give us more motivation in terms of reading and stay focused on the things that we need to be mindful of as we 're looking at improving the ways that we help our students to learn ... so today is a very fortunate day for PSS," the Commissioner said yesterday.

"We were lucky to be able to tap an ex pert and a renowned author and also a reading specialist. So it's just an advantage whenever we have an opportunity to have experts and they're just passing through ... and it's just one more thing for them to support our efforts in making sure that we maximize the materials that we have for students," said Inos.

Farr also visited several public schools yesterday and met with reading resource and language arts teachers to discuss on reading and literacy.

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CUC feels rate rollback's impact By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

THE COMMONWEALTH Utilities Corporation (CUC) yesterday admitted feeling the impact of rolling back the power rate for the government early this year, with close to $10 million that the government currently owes CUC.

CUC Executive Director Timothy Villagomez said the agency has not stopped pressuring the government from settling its financial obligations as CUC also needs to pay its vendors. CUC is set to schedule a meeting with the Department of Finance to discuss a payment plan.

"They are not paying right now; that's the situation ... We

Timothy Villagomez

did that thing (rolling back rates) because it's only fair that we go back to what were supposed to be but ... as far as the impact is concerned, the impact is there because they haven't paid. They're in arrears,"Villagomez

CPA seaport expansion is for more port-related activities

Carlos H. Salas

By Marian A. Maraya Variety News Staff

THE COMMONWEAL TH Ports Authority (CPA) is intent on pushing for the expansion of the Saipan Harbor, in the hopes of enticing more companies to use the added space for portrelated activities, CPA Executive Director Carlos H. Salas yesterday disclosed.

setting up a meeting with BPL to formally discuss on the matter.

"Just so we could be clear on what direction we 're going to take," Salas said.

Earlier on, the United States released some 39 acres of the originally 44-acre Covenant leaseback land at Tanapag Harbor to the Commonwealth some years ago.

The U.S. Army Reserve Center was saved some five acres of that land.

The 44-leaseback area, under the Covenant's Technical Agreement Regarding Use of Land to be Leased by the U.S., was meant for harbor-related functions.

said. The CUC Board decided on

lowering the power rate to I 1 cents per kilowatt hour for the government early this year. Rates for commercial establishments, however, is pegged at 16 cents per kwh.

Villagomez, however, expressed hopes the government - through the Department of Finance - will map out a payment plan to settle its financial obligation to CUC.

"I do understand the predicament that the government

is in but cue has to pay its vendors so regardless of what ... they will have to come up with payment . . . We are pressuring them ... we do send people downstairs on a daily basis and write letters requesting them if they could come up with something," said Villagomez.

The government, which has $IO million annual utility bills, has always been in arrears with its payment for CUC.

"If you ask me how their payment rating is right now, they

are not good ... That has been known to everybody . . . but they will eventually have to pay," said Villagomez.

cue earlier said although the government pays every month, the amount is not enough. It added the government manages to pay only between $200,000 and $500,000.

CUC, meanwhile, also has some $105 million obligation to the Commonwealth Development Authority and payments are expected to start next year.

Known supporters of Saipan reelectionist Rep. Heinz S. Hofschneider man the lawmaker's logistics tent across the Garapan Elementary School voting center last Saturday. From left, Dr. Jose Villagomez Joseph Kevin Villagomez, Juan S. Tenorio and Timothy P. Villagomez. Photo by Ra;,y Arroyo

In the meantime, the ports authority is under the Bureau of Public Lands' (BPL) mercy since the 39 acres of land CPA is eyeing is still within BPL's control.

And Will continue to be involved ....

CPA has been pushing for the acquisition of the 39-acre land at the Tanapag Harbor for quite some time now.

''We're trying to expand the port but we are still waiting for BPL to reply to our request," said Salas.

The piece of land would mean more area for cargo storage or housing for freight forwarders, Salas cited.

The land CPA is counting on is currently being used as a storage area for shipment containers, according to Salas.

"But we want to encourage port,related activities for that area," he said.

"We're asking the government to consider and turn the land over to CPA. But so far, we have not received their official position yet," Salas added.

Durmg a recent CPA board meeting, officials mulled over

Congressman and Mrs. Frank G. Cepeda wish to thank all our supporters for your vote of confidence and we would like

to invite everyone to an appreciation picnic on

November 13, 1999 (Saturday) Time: 11 :30am - 5:30pm

Place: Paupau Beach Park

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Maturity THE DEFEAT of seven key CNMI Republican legislators in Saturday's midterm elections brought to fore a disturbing question on what went wrong.

The Republicans -had the machinery, enjoyed visibility and incumbency.

Yet, several of them ended up at the camote patch. House Floor Leader Ana S. Teregeyo, for instance, wanted

Tinian to deal wi,h its sewer problems so that harmful waste does not end up on Saipan 's beaches.

House Ways and Means Chair Karl T. Reyes was credited as among those behind the enactment of the law allowing government to float $60 million in bonds that would infuse fresh money into the ailing economy and create ripple effects that will boost revenues.

House Natural Resource Chair Manuel A. Tenorio, for his part, was working on allowing displaced farmers to use lands reserved for •...-ildlife conservation, among other proposed measures meant to .. help our constituents."

House Foreign and Federal Relations Chalf Melvin 0. Faisao wanted prices of imported basic commodities down and was looking at going to Congress over this.

The I ist can go on. The governor's brother, Sen. Juan P. Tenorio, has introduced

several measures benefiting local workers, among them, the required medical insurance coverage for all resident workers and the three-year limit on the stay of nonresident ones.

Perhaps, it all boils down to the "tangibles." There has been an economic report stating that the standard of

living in the CNMI has not been improving. There is, still according to the report, a 14 percent unemployment rate among resident workers. There has been a rise in the number of food stamp recipie~ts indicating there. are more people now who are not earning much or are not earning money at all. There are still some 3,000 homestead applicants despite the Tenorio administration's campaign promise of making the homestead program one of its flagship projects: "Home to the homeless." Everybody is still bothered with the fumes and health hazards posed by the Puerto Rico dump. The scholarship program is in dire need of money. There is still no government budget for the current fiscal year.

All these have an adverse impact on the community which is nowhere more felt than at the grassroots.

And that's where the Democrats figured in. They stoked the flames of discontent, so to speak. Grassro~ts

organizing. And it paid back. But perhaps, what could be a more telling blow to the administra

tion is the governor's brother's defeat. We live in a small community where people know everyone, and

respect is given where it is due. Havino been local chief executive for three terms, Gov. Pedro P.

"' Tenorio certainly enjoys the respect. The old thinking was such that, if people respect the governor,

they will vote his brother to manifest that respect. Besides, the sen.ator was not exactly doing poor in his performance

But that's just it: old thinking. What happened over the weekend sent a signal to the governor:

The people may not be wont to thinking the old way anymore. Something was amiss. And the electorate turned the other way to look for it.

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The biggest monopoly WASHINGTON-Complaining about the Postal Service? It's like complaining about the weather. It is something over which we have no control. And so the complaints, the weather and the Postal Service just keep rolling along.

The difference, of course, is that the U.S. Postal Service is manmade, or at least congressionally made. Actually, it was created by our Founding Fathers: Article I, Section 8, paragraph 7 of the Constitution reads, "The Congress shall have power. .. to establish post offices ... "

Congress waited nearly 200 years to delegate that constitutional authority by passing the Postal Reorganization Act, which President Richard Nixon signed into law on August 12, 1970. This act created a new quasi-government business under the executive branch, run by an ] I-member Board of Governors, nine of whom are appointed by the president (the other two being selected by the Board and the postmaster general, who is elected by the Board).

What is the reality of all this? The Postal Service used to be highly responsive to Congress, usually because many high-ranking postal employees owed their jobs to patronage appointments. Now, only the responsive tradition remains, which is to say that complaints to members of Congress still occasionally spur some postal employees to action. Tradition, however, is a poor and toothless motivator.

The reality is that Congress has created a bureaucratic monster. The Board members are appointed for nine-year terms, which is tantamount to making the service they run independent of governmental control. True, they must go to Congress for money, but unlike other budget items, Congress has virtually no say on how the money will be spent.

The result is a bureaucratkally run, monopolistic, giant-sized business that affects every American - throw in international mail and who can say how far the postal tentacles reach. In fact, as we pointed out to a high-ranking postal employee, "lt is an organization centrally controlled, accountable to no one, devoid of competition and free of liability for its actions." You could say it

resembles a well-known, justifiably maligned system that East Europeans just kicked a few years ago.

Let's be specific: You mail a letter; they lose the letter. You complain; they refer you to customer service. Customer service commences a "trace"; they do not find your letter - they almost never find your letter. You ask how they will compensate you; the manner of reply may vary with the maturity and temper of the postal employee, but the substance never does: the U.S. Postal Service is only liable if you insured your mail.

Imagine UPS or Federal Express or any other package carrier saying such a thing. Imagine what the courts would say if they did:

Now, suppose you run a business - say a newspaper, say the newspaper you are readingthat is dependent upon the Postal Service to deliver your product. They call that time-dated material, meaning the product's value diminishes with time. Now suppose you mail several thousand newspapers to your subscribers, but the Postal Service somehow manages to deliver them two weeks later or not at all. Your customers -subscribers and advertisers - scream. They demand re'funds or free ads or, if it happens once too often, they cancel. You are answerable, and had you used any delivery company other than the U.S. Postal Service you too could seek compensation.

But, alas, the Postal Service has a monopoly on the mail because competition, they say, would take the profitable urban routes and leave them the sparse rural routes. So, why not simply pass a law that requires all companies seeking to enter the mail business to service all areas? Or, why not require the Postal Service to accept responsibility for its actions like all other companies, and pay for its mistakes? Or, why not go back to the good old patronage system? At least under that system, high-ranking postal employees were answerable to someone - and that someone was answerable ;J you.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -The most recognizable change in the U.S. military in the decade since the Berlin Wall fell is its size- fewer troops, fewer weapons, fewer bases. Less well known is that the military '.lOW

is more far-flung - showing the flag in such unlikely lands as Albania, South Africa and even Russia.

As a result, an American military in transition is doing more, in more places, with less.

As Defense Secretary William Cohen is fond of saying, this is not the bipolar world of the Cold War in which the United States and the former Soviet Union were locked in a superpower struggle.

Today, American forces operate in obscure places such as East Timar, Haiti and Kosovo. Defense dollars now go toward stopping black market Russian nuclear materials and preparing against North Korean long-range missiles.

In just the past year, U.S. forces have participated in a 78-day NATO air war over Kosovo while keeping a shaky peace on the ground in Bosnia -even as U.S. warplanes skirmished almost daily in the sky over Iraq.

"Within a very short period of time we had more people involved in more deployments, of longer duration, of a greater variety ... than ever before," Cohen said in a speech last week.

This is partly because the nature of security threats has changed since 1989 and partly because the Clinton administration, recognizing that change, is using the military as a tool to prevent future conflicts.

"Preventive defense," is what William Perry, Cohen's immediate predecessor, calls it.

In many ways the American military is busier now than in the final days of the generation-long Cold War. The Berlin Wall then symbolized not just the East-West division of Germany but also the split between Moscow and its communist allies on the one hand and Washington and its capitalist allies on the other.

When the wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989, the Soviet Union still was the focal point of the U.S. military 's structure, planning and thinking. While the Pentagon was moving into nontraditional duties such as fighting the drug war, it was geared toward stopping the Red Army in central Europe. Now the United States is helping Russia improve the security of its nuclear weapons.

Retired Army Gen. George Joulwan was a 2nd lieutenant when he was first sent to Germany in 1962, just months after the wall went up. He commanded the Army's 5th Corps in Europe when it came down.

Looking back, Joulwan said the military did not realize how difficult the post-Cold War changes would be.

"We 're very slow to adapt to the new challenges we face," said Joulwan, who rose to become Supreme Allied Commander Europe, head of all American and NATO forces, before he retired in 1997.

Leighton Smith, a retired Navy admiral, agreed that the adjustment has been slow but believes the U.S. military is stronger today in some ways.

"We have gone down in numbers, but we have gone up in technology," said Smith, who was director of operations at U.S. European Command in Germany when the Wall came down and later commanded Allied Forces Southern Europe.

There were 2.1 million American men and women on active duty when the wall came down, including about325,000 in a dozen European countries - all of them allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Today there are 1.4 million men and women on active duty. While there are only about 100,000 in Europe, they are spread across 36 countries, from Finland to Bulgaria - neither of which is in NATO.

The defense budget has gone from about $300 billion in 1989 to about $270 billion this year. About $1 billion of today's budget is for something few could have imagined in 1989: aid to states of the former Soviet Union.

Ten years ago, keeping the peace meant preventing the outbreak of World War III, avoiding a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union.

Today, peacekeeping of a different sort is a staple of the U.S. military's mission, especially in the Balkans where about5,200 soldiers are in Bosnia and 6,300 are in Kosovo. That is nearly as many as were in strategically important Panama or the Philippines a decade ago.

In Pentagon parlance, the U.S. military has become more expeditionary -ready on short notice to jump into the fray far from home. An example of this was the role of Air Force B-2 stealth bombers in the Kosovo air war, which flew round-trip missions from their home base in Missouri, refueling in flight.

Today's military looks different in other ways: -The share of federal spending devoted to defense has shrunk to about

15 percent of the government's total budget from 23 percent. But the Pentagon still is spending billions of dollars yearly to maintain a nuclear arsenal of bombs and missiles that remains at the core of the nation's defense strategy.

-The Army no longer has a single nuclear weapon, yet the backbone of the U.S. nuclear arsenal remains intact: intercontinental ballistic missiles in underground silos in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska; long-range missiles carried about Trident submarines based in Georgia and Washington state; and bombs for aircraft. The only U.S. nuclear weapons stationed outside the United States now arc aircraft bombs based in Europe, and there is talk of removing those, too.


Clandestine music catalog not Kosher THERE'S and old saying when talking about paranoid folks: "Maybe you are being followed." Last week many ofus learned that Real Networks' Real Jukebox software was clandestinely making a note of what music we had on our hard drives and then tattling that information back to their databases.

Personally, I don't have that much music on my hard drives because I really don't have that much time to listen to tunes while I work. However, I do know several people who have turned their machines into the equivalent of a Top-10 FM radio station.

Many of the tunes they acquired came in the form of MP3 songs downloaded from the Internet. Some of their cuts weren't exactly paid for sort of "traded" if you will (grin).

What I found so odious about Real Network's snooping was the software also reported any music that the computer owner had converted from CDs to Ml-1 3 or WA V files on their computers. Real 's new Jukebox Deluxe software allowecl. users who purchased the software to "rip" or strip the stereo soundtracks from their CDs and convert them to more space efficient MP3 software on hard drives.

Thus, Real could get a very good idea what each user's taster in music was each time the program was started because each program copy had a unique number assigned to it that could be traced back to a real Ii ve person.

I am not necessarily against gathering that kind of information IF a user is fully aware it's being done and the data is gathered with their permission. Real now has the reputation of being the Linda Tripps of the Internet (grin). .

Once the news was put out on the Internet last week Real at first said they would put up a patch so users could "fi" their software if they wished. Later, they said a new version of the program would be

posted with the patch installed. Perhaps one way they can make amends is to

refund the money of those who bought the program and maybe make it public domain. But make it very clear that in exchange for the program, Real would gather data related to music choices and stored tunes. If someone wanted to pay for the program they would be guaranteed privacy.

The Jukebox is an excellent program and does a great job for what it's intended. But, now it's tainted like the soiled bride and that's a shame. In Arkansas we'd say that "Real has fallen back in it." There's more to that quote, but I can't use it in a family paper (grin).

What did Real learn about their foray into realtime information gathering?

The same thing that Intel found earlier in the year: If our hardware/software is going to identify us or reveal '"nything about us, then-by gum-you better tell us about it up front.

Finally, maybe the time has come forour lawmakers to get involved (shudder) and pass some sort of legislation requiring notification to consumers if software "reports" what's on a hard drive anywhere. What's the difference between listening in on a private phone conversation and seeing what's on someone's hard drive?

Laws have been passed making wiretaps illegal, as well as listening in on cell phone jabbering. (Note that if you have a common cordless phone in your home-non spread-spectrum-that anyone with a scanner can hear your every word on these phones and it's legal.)

Real is trying to save as much face as possible and I'll be very interested to see how all of this shakes down through the Internet industry.

What do you think? Send me your comments to dhughes@ncc 170 ! .net.

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Pastors try to reach casino workers

BILOXI, Miss. (AP)-Just blocks from the Gulf of Mexico beaches where casino lights beckon gamblers 24 hours a day, the Rev. Arthur Lewis finds himself in a quandary.

Lewis' St. Paul United Methodist Church has a doctrine against gambling. But it also has members who work at the casinos, including Lewis' daughterin-law.

"One (congregation member) was working at McDonald's making $5 an hour, then went to the casino making $28,000 at the Beau Rivage," he said. "I said, 'Well, just try your best to do what you can for your family and put something back to finish your education.'

"I don't know what to say. I pray about it a lot. Everybody's fighting with this."

Of his 366 church members, Lewis believes fewer than IO work at the casinos. But others may frequent the establishments for the bargain-priced buffets or entertainment that is scarce elsewhere on the coast, practices Lewis believes can lead to the temptation of dropping a token in a slot machine.

Down the street, First Baptist Church also preaches against gambling, but it sold its property to the Be_au Rivage casino for $7.5 million in August. First Baptist's pastor, the Rev. Frank Gunn, refuses to discuss the deal but church leaders have said the money will be used to build a bigger church.

First Baptist tries to offer some sensitivity to members of its 1,200-member congregation who work in the casinos, said spokesman R.B. Bryant.

"People have to earn a living," he said. The dilemma these churches face is not peculiar to

Mississippi, said Barrett Duke, a specialist on gambling issues with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, which denounces gambling.

In Las Vegas, where gaming provides most of the jobs, the Rev. Tony Forehand of Desert Hills Baptist Church said he tries to focus less on the sin of

gambling and more on its effect on people. "We deal with the frustration," Forehand said. "I

see more frustration from the people who have to work there. They don't want to be in that environment. You just gotta keep pointing them back to Jesus."

Mississippi's casino industry, which began in 1992, directly created 38,000 jobs, said Ernie Stebbins, executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Association in Jackson. And an additional 22,000 jobs have been created by companies that supply goods and services to the casinos, he said.

Gambling's economic impact in Mississippi is probably most evident in Tunica County. Once a land of poverty with double-digit joblessness, it now is a vacation destination with casinos offering gambling, bo:j:ing, golf and musical entertainment.

Tunica County now has an unemployment rate of just 4.2 percent, but the Rev. Paul Husband of Tunica Presbyterian Church still stands firm against casinos.

Husband, who leads a congregation of 121, said the increase in jobs is not worth the problems that accompany gambling, like crime and a breakdown of the family.

"There are a lot of minimum wage workers saying 'I can't wait to get my paycheck. I'm going to hit it big tonight,"' Husband said.

Still, he tells members who are employed at the casino they must follow their conscience.

"If your conscience doesn't condemn you and you've got to feed your family, I'm not going to tell somebody to quit their job," Husband said.

Unlike the Baptists and Methodists, the Catholic Church has never condemned gambling, said Bishop Joseph Howze of the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi.

"Taking chances is not sinful," said Howze. "The Catholic Church all across the country has been playing bingo for generations."

Gambling is no different from purchasing stocks, bonds and insurance, Howze said.

8-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- NOVEMBER 9 1999 COMMUNITY

RP reminds non-citizen travelers to get waivers

JSTA cleans up LAST0CT0BER30, 1999,the Japan Saipan Travel Association (JSTA) conducted a beach clean up drive from the American Memorial Park to the Carolinian Utt in Garapan.

for their efforts. Matsumura said it was

easier for JST A to clean up the beaches now than in the pas.t, particularly in January when JSTA conducted a beach clean up in the same area.

By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

PHILIPPINE nationals planning to travel home with minors who are not Philippine passport holders have been told to a get Waiver of Exclusion Ground from their government before pushing through with their travel.

This advisory has been issued by the Philippine Consulate on Saipan in order for these travels not to be derailed by the existing RP immigration laws which bans entry of children into the country who are not with their parents.

'The rule here is a child should always be accompanied by his biological parents whenever traveling to the Philippines," said consulate Acting Officer In Charge Vice Cons~! Ronell 8. Santos.

As explained, Santos said that the only exception to the rule is when the minor child- aged 1 up to 15- is accompanied by their real parents.

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The vice. consul said the consulate reiterated this advisory because many prospective travelers to the Philippines who are with their relative-children were still unaware of the regulation.

Just last week alone, Santos said the consulate denied the request for a visa of a sexagenarian couple for their grandchild who was supposed to go with them to the Philippines because the child does not have the waiver.

Santos said that under the Phil-

ippine immigration laws, children who are accompanied by their relatives even up to their next nearest kin, with the exclusion of their parents are not allowed to enter the country.

The waiver can be obtained by filing several requested documents to the Philippine Consulate which will in tum send it to the Bureau of Immigration in Manila for processing, or the documents can be directly send to Manila.

The least period to wait for the waiver is 3 weeks.

Santos called on the travel agencies on Saipan to adhere with the RP immigration rule, since anyone issued with a ticket will surely be refused of boarding by the Continental Micronesia.

This advisory has strongly been observed and well known in other countries.

In Guam, according to Santos, travel agencies will refused ticket to a minor, unless he is carrying ·with him a waiver.

Over 160 members of the JSTA including members of some private and government organization took part to make this event a big success.

JST A Vice President Yoichi Matsumura said he was very pleased with the outcome on the number of participants which included members of the Marianas Visitors Authority (MVA), Northern Marianas College (NMC), Hotel Association of the Northern Marianas Islands, Rotary Club of Saipan, Saipan Chamber of Commerce, Hafadai Beach Hotel, Hyatt Regency Saipan and GTE Pacifica.

Matsumura was also pleased with the clear evidence of continued maintenance of the beaches by MV A and the Division of Parks and Recreation and would like to recognize and commend them

JST A Chairman Iwao Sakai would also like to extend special thanks to Hafadai Beach Hotel which provided uniformed shirt for the occasion, Hyatt Regency Saipan for providing lunch, NMC which made possible the plantation of coconut trees along the beaches, and staff ofMVA for assisting in the plantation and for preparation of the lunch.

Sakai was very pleased with the overwhelming sup·port received from many private and government agencies.

He said JSTA is looking forward to holding another beach clean up drive in the very near future and perhaps extend to other beach areas on island.

Ford Motors sponsors auto skills challenge By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

US AUTOMOBILE giant Ford Motor Company recently sponsored an Auto Skills Challenge for the Micronesian region participated in by mechanic teams from Guam and Saipan.

The competition, both in written and actual tests, was staged on Saipan and hosted by Joeten Motors.

The skills challenge was attended by Ahn Seung Chu], the Parts and Service Manager for Ford Asia Pacific Region based in Seoul, South Korea who came over to Saipan with mechanic experts.

Chui said during the competition, two Ford cars with identical machine problem was presented for the mechanics to separately work on.

The Ford executive said both problems only required 50 minutes each to fix, if the mechanics do it properly, but two days if not done correctly.

Each team from Saipan and Guam had two members each.

Chui said the project was carried out to further shaipen the skills of Ford-servicing mechanics.

Ford set a $2,000 cash prize and a plaque for the winner while $1,000 and a plaque too for the non-winner.

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Participants to the Ford auto skills challenge pose for a picture with Joeten Motors officials. The event was participated in by Ford teams from Guam and Saipan. The latter won the competition. Photos by Rene Acosta

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SAIPAN lawyer Joe Hill has asked the Superior Court to disqualify the Attorney General's Office from representing the defendants in the lawsuit filed against a woman who claimed she was allegedly beaten up and illegally detained during a warrantless arrest conducted by Immigration officers.

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"These interests are necessarily in conflict now, and potentially in greater conflict in the future," Hill said in court papers.

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By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

FOURTEEN people, including two Japanese nationals, were arrested by the police over the weekend for various charges ranging from theft, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and attempted arson.

The number which also included two juveniles represented the police's three-day haul beginning last Friday and up to Sunday, a report from the police indicated.

Those who have been arrested were identified as Simon Edgar, 46; Wei Chen, 32; Lawrence Mendiola, 49; Joseph Luis Santos, 26; Joseph Epina Seman; Luis Peter Demapan, 26; Kris Hiroshi Walter, 32; Jennis Santiago Buan, 30; Teksiter Tasia Sachuo, 31, Heng Fu Jin, 39; and the two Japanese Yoichi Takashi, 57, and Masandbu Hamada, 47; and the two juveniles both aged 14 and 15.

A media release from the Department of Public Safety said Hamada and Takashi were in Garapan Friday night for the charges of disturbing the peace and assault and battery.

The 15-year old male juvenile was arrested for burglary and theft on Saturday in. Chalan Kanoa.

The other minor, who is a female, was arrested for theft which occurred Saturday night at the Duty Free Shop.

Edgar, who was from Dandan, was arrested by the police Friday for allegedly taking a box of shirts worth $385 from the Hansae Garment located at Middle Road.

The DPS report said that police also nabbed Walter for charges of attempted arson, disturbing the peace, and criminal trespassing.

Ada also said that there were three cases of burglaries and thefts that were registered from Friday up to Sunday and these took place in Kagman II, Kannat Tabla, and in Sadog Tasi.

One of the establishments that was robbed was the United Church of Christ located in Kannat Tabla which reportedly lost an airconditioner, a skill saw, a drill, and several tools on Sunday.

On the other hand, the Rudolfo's Pizza, in Sadog Tasi also lost two IBM computers, two CPUs, a printer, key boards, three window type airconditioners and several stainless steel pots.

On Friday, suspects broke into the residence of Ms. Tonie Jane Manglona in Kagman II also and carted several pieces of her jewelry.

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The plaintiff also included as defendants then DOLi Secretary Thomas 0. Sablan, then Immigration Director David Ayuyu, former Immigration Enforcement Supervisor Ralph S. Demapan, and Immigration officers Masaaki Nakamura, John Taitano, Julie Omar, and four John Does.

Hill in the motion to disqualify said the presence of

these conflicts threatens both the integrity of the judicial process and each defendants' right to a fair trial.

"Plaintiff has both an obligation and the right to seek disqualification of defense counsel through this motion because counsel is conflicted arid plaintiff's interest in her judgment is prejudiced," Hill said.

The court, Hill pointed out, should immediately disqualify AGO from further representation of the individual defendants because of the presumption that confidential communications have been shared.

The lawyer said the court should immediately determine

whether each defendant was acting within the scope of their employment, with actual fraud, with actual malice and or with criminal intent at the times relevant to the comp] a int.

Hill added that the court should order each eligible defendant to obtain independent counsel at government expense.

The AGO in opposition to the motion to disqualify said plaintiff's move is a transparent effort to harass and intimidate defendants and their counsel and to threaten the CNMI people with massive litigation costs.

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Merep to go vvith 'flow' By Eileen 0. Tabaranza For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -With just one year to serve, newly-installed Senator for the Second District of Koror Alexander Merep will just "go with the flow" or directions that his colleagues will be taking for the rest of his term.

"Since I'm a rookie and freshman in the politics, I have to follow the directions that all my colleagues would take. I will definitely give my support to the current issues that they are working on right now," Merep told Palau Horizon.

·The real thing for me is to

be a good representative of the people. I want to live up to my words. I will work and represent the people in the OEK (Olbiil Era Kelulau) and the people 6f Koror as well," he pointed out.

He admitted that being a senator is not an easy job since it requires him to maintain a good communications with his constituents so they can be well informed.

Further, Merep has expressed reservations on the immigration bill which he considei;ed as one of the vital bills that need to be looked at. The bill seeks to extend the same privilege that the United States

Guam port reminds dive firms about insurance

Variety News Staff .. THE PORT Authority of Guam (PAG) is notifying all dive shops on Guam using Diver's Beach that they must renew their certificates of insurance with PAG. by Monday next week._

On Nov. 15, all dive instructors ·and dive shops that utilize Diver's Beach (also knows as Outhouse Beach) must secure a permit letter from the port police authorizing them to conduct diving activities on PAG property.

The granting of the permits is conditional on the submission of a$ I million ··certificate of insurance'" to include PAG as an additional insured party on the commercial company's insurance policy.

The port first implemented this program earlier this year. Dive instructors and dive shops that complied with the insurance requirement were allowed to use the facility.

But the original certific:ites expired last June 30, and since that time only about 20 percent have renewed their permits, PAG said.

Letters to approximately 59 dive instructors and dive shops were sent out last Oct. 26 requesting that dive companies using the area submit their updated insurance certificates.

According to PAG, the response to this request has been slow_

P AG warned that any dive company that does not comply with the insurance policy by Nov. J 5 will not be allowed to operate on port authority property.

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has provided to Palauans under the Compact of Free Association (COFA) like the privilege of not going through the tedious process of coming in on the island.

He explained that as stipulated in the COFA the Republic of Palau should give the same treatment as the U.S. has extended to Palauans like the lenient entry of Palauans to the U.S.

There is a big question still lingering whether the same treatment given to Palauans should be given to the foreigners, especially U.S citizens. This means they do not need to have a work permit and return trip ticket, Merep

said. "I don't feel atthis time that we

need to give the same treatment to the U.S. citizens who can come to Palau easily, but only for a very specific reason that we can allow them to come. Palau i~ a small place. It should be protected and if you allow U.S. citizens to come and work, there should be really good reason," he said.

The same treatment should be provided to Palau's associated countries like the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, among others.

Aside from this bill, Merep said youth development, sports and the environment are his top list. "All

the senators feel the same way as Ido. If they're really no;addressing the issue right now. I'm going to press them to take actions," the newly-elected senator pointed out.

Asked what makes him ahead of the other senatorial candidates, Merep stressed that his 15-year public service had made him win in the special election held last Oct. 29.

"As we are getting into the millennium, I'm very positive that Palauans will come much closer to each other and work together to make this place self-sufficient. We can only progress only if we.'re united," Merep cited, as he narrated his vision for Palau.

Palau's ambassador to US bats for Diplomatic Missions Act's passage

By Malou L. Sayson For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -Palau's ambassador to the United States, Hersey Kyota. has proposed and sought for the immediate passage of a legislation which seeks to grant other tax exemptions to members of foreign missions on Palau on the basis of "reciprocity'" before the government purchases a real estate property for Palau's chancery use in Washington. D.C.

In Oct. 26, 1999 letter to President Nakamura, Kyota stressed the need to pass the proposed bill called ··Diplomatic Relations Act of Palau" which he drafted to amend Chapter 8 of Title· 28 of the Palau National Code.

The proposed legislation, according to Kyota, will grant additiona! tax exemptions to members of foreign missions with basic diplomatic immunities and privileges set forth in the Vienna Convention.

"The passage of this bill will satisfy the reciprocity requirement called for in the United States law and the Compact provision on diplomatic missions, and would entitle members of Palau mission for tax exemptions," Kyota told the president in his letter earlier this year.

Palau's existing law, according to the ambassador, grants only two rax exemptions- the tax on income of foreign state received from investments on Palau, and the

tax on compensation, wages or salaries of employees of a foreign mission. As a result, members of Palau mission in the U.S. are reciprocated with tax exemptions equal only to those enumerated in Chapter 8 of Title 28 of PNCA.

The government of Palau will stahd to gain should the proposed law be put in place prior to the purchase of a real property in D.C. .. The prope1ty" we are vying for was assessed just under $25,000 in property tax last year:· Kyota said.

Palau can also make purchases of goods and services by the republic from businesses in the U.S. which can be made through tht embassy, thus saving a lot of money for the government.

Palau enforces employee clearance By Eileen 0. Tabaranza For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -/\ contract worker who wants ro leave the island is now strictly required to obtain an employment clearance from the 1 abor office and the employer as mandated by law.

Though this regulation has been imposed in 1997. the Labor Division of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade is strictly enforcing this regulation following some incidents that non-resident workers who are not cleared yet or have court cases were able to leave Palau.

Said regulation has been revived last July l this year. However, there are a lot of contract workers who are not aware of this regulation that has resulted in the delayed departure of those going off island.

According to Labor Acting Chief Russell Masayos, the re-

quirement was then called "departure clearance·· in 1997 to 1998. The title. itself. docs not connote its real purpD,c so they changed it to "employment clearance.··

The "departure clearance·· requirement was stopped in 1998. However,itwasalsoin 1998 when the labor division started announcing about the employment clearance :ind begun implementing it in July this year, Masayos said.

Pursuant to PNC Sections 164 and 165, each and every worker leaving Palau must obt~in an employment clearance from the Division of Labor. The said government agency reserves the right to withhold such employment clearance until it is satisfied that both employer and nonresident worker have met all obligations/conditions of their contract, and all other obliga-tions to the republic. -

The labor division, he said

is concerned that there are some employees who robbed their companies and arc able to !caw without the knowledge of the employers. Some have unpaid loans and violations at the pol ice department which are not cleared yet. but were able to leave the island. \1asayos pointed out.

He cited, for instance. a case where a non-resident worker was involved in the robbery of SNS store at Topside in Koror. The worker allegedly took some video items, television. cassette player, among others, but was then caught right at the airport. -

This incident has prompted the labor office to strictly enforce the regulation, he said.

These kind of reported cases, according to him. had gone up to 20 a month in 1998.

.. This clearance is for the protection of both employees and employers.·· Masayos told Palau Horizon.

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Waterline job yields bones

Human bones were found in Hagatna early yesterday while Guam Water Works crews tried to repair a leak on a main water line. Pholo by Eduardo c. Siguenza

By Jay Pascua Variety News Staff

· HAGATNA-Most of Hagatiia was without water yesterday morning as Guam Waterworks Authority crews tried to repair a major pipeline but an even bigger discovery led to the involvement of Criminal Investigation Section officers, the Medical' Examiner, and the Department of Parks and Recreation Historic Resources Division.

According to government officials, Waterworksemployeesdiscovered bone fragments and pottery shards as the water gushed out onto the roadway yesterday morning.

The pieces were laid out on a makeshift table on top of a "wooden horse."

Guam Waterworks Authority spokesperson Patrick Lujan said police reported the break to the authority at about 2 a.m. yesterday.

He said the water broke through the pavement and shot several feet into the air.

Lujan said the water was flowing out of the same pipe that broke just a few months ago.

He said this new break is only

about I 5 feet away from the earlier repair.

"We 're going back to the early 50's. It's an eight-inch concrete pipe that after so many years become very, very brittle and any type of movement be it an earthquake, be it a heavy equipment on top of the road could do some damage," Lujan said.

Lujan said the University of Guam was contacted to alert archeologists of the authority's discovery and to possibly determine the age of the bones.

As Waterworks crews waited on the arrival of archeologists historic preservation specialist Victor Torres arrived on the scene after hearing of the situation over the radio.

His initial assessment indicated there were pieces of pottery from several different eras possibly from the age of the pre-contact era [the Latte period], the Spanish era, and American Naval government.

After surveying the fragments Guam Police Department Criminal Investigation Section officers arrived on the scene.

The police appeared to treat the discovery as a criminal investiga-

tion. The officers contacted the

island's medical· examiner, Eurelio Espinola, to determine whether the bones were recent or old.

The police also instructed people at the site not to touch the bones.

Espinola, after just looking at the bones, concluded it was human and old, possibly dating back to World War II.

Espinola then inspected the teeth and said it looked as though it belonged to an ancient Chamorro person because it appeared to be shnrpened.

Criminal Investigation Section officer Joe Carbullido said after verifying the bones were old turned over the jurisdiction to the Department of Parks and Recreation's Historic Resources Division.

Torres' colleague, Al Lizama, was also at the scene and was interested in the find as well.

Lizama said in his opinion the teeth were not human and that marks on the bones indicated a knife or machete was used to cut it into pieces suggesting it belonged to an animal.

GuailJl lists critical job needs l!AGATNA--The . Untverstt~ !ional Jnfo~mation poordi~at- awarding financial assistance QF Gua11; Board ?f Regents rng Committee or its equiv a- under the Government of .schol.arship com1;uttee ~ester- lent, to determine those areas in Guan1. Student Financial As-day hflcl .a ppbhs. PP~~1fl!$ }0 • · wtiich J1d?ition~l professional sistarice Programs. esta~l~sh a_.carei"lf. pnonty hst and techmcal skills are. needed, Pangelinan said based on the of CfllJC~'. J0p 1eeds <?119?am. From. thost! he_arings: the national averngeof] Opercent,

tilt! ~e~r1nc, held at the board shal.l establish a hst of Guam-w.ith an approximate umver~aty s Cc;,\leg~ of. Arts occupaqonal · priori ti~s for population of 150,000-has ape an~ Science~ Lec.,ure HaH, was Guam pnor to cons1dermg approximately .15,000 individu-attended by UOG P!Ofessws plkations for the awards. als with disabilities. and staff.representative~ from The. student financial· assis- Referring to the Rehabilita-t~e p9ve~!11entofCiuamage~~ tance program career priority tion Act, as amended in I 998, cits, mdJVJdualsfrom the pn- listing approved in December Pangelinan said that its pur-va~c se~tor and a handful of of last year, included 16 cat- pose is to empower individu-umver~1ty students. . cgories with about 90 subcat- als with disabilities to maxi-

Pu bh~ Law. I 9-3 7 est~bltshes . e gories. mi ze employment, economic professional and techrncal an- Frank Pangelinan, program self-sufficiency, indepen-l nual awards for graduate stud- coordinator with the Depart- Jenee, and inclusion and inLe-

1es. mcnt oflntegrntei.l Services for gration into society. i It further staks that the board Jndividuals with Disabilities In addition, the J 998 amend-: shall conduct :1 public hearing (DISID), challenged the scho!- mcnt mandates all vocational : tn receive the opinion and rec- · arship committee .to include the rehabilitation counselors na-ommendation of various pro- vocational rehabilitation mas- tion-wide obtain a masters dc-fessional groups pr asso?ia- ters prngram and c;ertification gree in vocational rehabilita-ti911ra11d Jlie Ciuarn ()ccupac on the.career priority listing for tion.

When asked whether this could have been a person killed during World War II be said it was unlikely.

Torres said the jumbled mess of bones and pottery is indicative of the mixing together of various eras of history due to the post World War II reconstrnction of Hagatfia.

According to T01Tes along with the Japanese bombing American forces bulldozed Hagatfia and disturbed the layers of history preserved in the di11.

Lizama also later discovered shards of porcelain which coincided with Torres' assertion.

Lizama also stayed on as Wate1works crews pumped water out of the hole where the leak was located.

According to Lizama he wanted to examine the various levels in the dirt to ascertain the date of the bones.

However, Torres said the dig was not deep enough to make that determination.

Lizama and To1Tes said they would take the bones back to the Department of Parks and Recreation to compare it with other bones to determine it's age and whether it is human.

Guam Historic Preservation Officer Richard Davis said Osteoiogist [bone specialist] and University of Guam Associate Professor of Anthropology Dr. Gary M. Heathcote was asked to confirm whether the bones are human.

Davis said Heathcote is expected to look over the bone fragments today.

Meanwhile, Wate1works Authority Director Bert Johnston said the eight inch concrete pipe break was repaired and water service to the surrounding areas was restored at about 2 p.m.

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Palau Senate OKs anti-price gouging

By Malou L. Sayson For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -Late Senate President Isidoro Rudimch has yet to offer a gift, so-called ··Rudirnch Anti-Price Gouging Act of 1999"tohiscounuym~n ~vo months after he passed awav which seeks lo prevent excc,siYe price increases for commoJitics essential to public health and \\'cl fare during national emergencv. " Tl;e senate has unanimously passed Senate Bill No. 5-224, S02 introduced by the late senate president on Feb. 24 lasl year. Tile bill is now awaiting action by the House of Dekgates.

In the Standi~g Committee Report No. 5-239-dated Sept. I J, I 999, it was noted by the Senate Committee on Health under Senator Sandra Pierantozzi (2nd Di strict. Koror) that the proposed legislation is designed ro prevent "price gouging'' in times of national emergency. Price increases above the ceiling during the pendency of a state of emergency declared by the president pursuant to Article VIII, Section l 4 of the Palau Constitution, and for 15 days after the end of the emergency period will be prohibited under the proposed Act.

The commodities covered by . '

the proposed measure include drinking water, food (whether canned, processed or fresh), generators, batteries, radios, ;on-prescription drugs, medical supplies, fuel (kerosene, gasoline. diesel fuel), rent for ;esidential housing and rental of construction equipment.

Also noted in the report was the strong public support to the proposed legislation as manifested by the majority, at 368, of the 400 questionnaires distributed for public opinion, who have thrown support to the bill.

The ceiling price is pegged at IO percent over the ordinary prevailing retail or wholesale price for a p~articular commodity five days before the declaration of state of emergency.

The proposed measure, however, provides the seller a chance to increase the price if he incurs additional cost as a direct result of the state of emergency only by the amount necessary to cover the increased cost.

The proposed measure also provides for the right of any person to bring a suit in the Supreme Court for the recovery of the difference of ceiling price and price in excess of such ceiling, plus $500, and shall be enti tied to reasonable attorney fees.

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Chinese caught in drug bust could get death sentence MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Officials on Sunday said four Chinese suspects in the Philippines' biggest ever drug bust would quickly be brought to justice and could be sentenced to death.

Authorities seized 13 plastic barrels containing 420 kilograms (926 pounds) of methamphetamines - worth 840 million pesos ($ 21 million) - in Infanta town, Pangasinan province on Friday.

Police Director Jewel Canson, chief of the National Drug Law Enforcement and Prevention Coordinating Center, said police arrested the four suspected traffickers aboard a speedboat as they docked in nearby Daso! town, also in Pangasinan province, about 200 kilometers (131

miles) northwest of Manila. Canson said two of the four

were from Hong Kong and the other two were from Guandong. He did not disclose· other details about them or say if they made any statement.

Canson said drug trafficking charges would be filed against the four on Monday. The four men were identified by police as Si Lan San, 25; Yum Wai Hung, 35; Fung Ku San, 27; Ng Sin Ming, 37.

"It'll be our priority, an immediate court resolution, so those we caught would be punished," said Canson, adding their crime carries the death penalty in the Philippines.

Canson said Philippine air force, navy and coast guard personnel are looking for a fifth suspect, who manned the

ship that brought the drugs to Pangasinan. He did not disclose the man's identity or nationality.

Aside from samples to be used as court evidence, President Joseph Estrada wants the seized drugs to be destroyed as soon as possible, he said.

Canson said police had· received reports about the men and the drug barrels from local residents.

Methamphetamine, locally known as shabu, is the most abused drug in the Philippines, used by about I. 7 million people in the country.

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US Congress ratifies resettlement agreement for people of Rongelap MAJURO (Pacnews) - The United States Congress has ratified certain provisions of the resettlement agreement for the people of Rongelap Atoll, in the Marshall Islands

The agreement covers the United States assistance in the re-settlement of the Rongelapese, which was concluded between the U.S. Department of Interior and RongelapAtoll Local Government. It was accepted by the Secretary of Interior on behalf of President Clinton on September 19, 1996 and will continue to be in effect fol-

lowing the adoption of the Rongelap Re-settlement Act by the Congress.

The agreement would be extended by IO years.

The agreement provides and oversees the use of federal assistance in resettling the people of Rongelap who were displaced from their island as a result of the U.S. nuclear testing programmes in the Marshall Islands in 1950's.

It also allows the local government to continue using a portion of the earnings from the Rongelap Resettlement Trust Fund to provide food

and shelter to Rongelapese during their period of dislocation and also cover certain administration expenses.

Rongelap is one of the four atolls in the Marshall Islands, which were contaminated by high level radiation due to nuclear testing during the time the islands were administered as a trust territory by the United States.

The total estimated cost for radiological rehabilitation of Rongelap Atoll and resettlement of the Rongelap community was estimated in 1995 at approximately US$90 million.

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Palau braces for millennium By Malou L. Sayson For the Variety

KOROR(Palau Horizon)-As the two-term president who has opened the floodgates of development for Palau in the last decade of the 20th centmy, Kuniwo Nakamura gathers his people for "a time ofreflection" as this small island nation in the Pacific braces itself to face far bigger challenges as the third millennium unfolds.

In an interview, Nakamura said: "I think this new millennium is very significant. It is a point of reference for humanity, for a na- Kuniwo Nakamura

tion." The president is consulting with

the leaders of the land and the traditional chiefs on how can the Republic of Palau close the old millennium and open the new one.

"In a few months time, the new millellJlium will dawn upon us. Very few are privileged to see the new millennium," he noted.

Preparations are underway as to how Palau could best participate in this monumental milestone transition. And the president is urging his constituents to take part in this big event as a

people. There will be national prayer

and awareness drive to enable Palauan citizens could grapple with and understand the most significant problems and issues their nation confronts and the measures to solve them.

Nakamura stressed the need for "renewal of commitment." "As Palauan people, we shou Id be very grateful for our homeland, for all the opportunities that we have as a people, for all the natural resources we have. Based on these, I think we should continue to be

optimistic as we enter the new millennium," he said.

The president wants to assert in his constituents the sense of confidence and pride as a people. "As a people, we must constantly maintain some degree of pride," he said, and this should be emphasized all the time since Palau is blessed with natural treasures and enriched with undying customs and traditions.

"We as a people have a very good reason to be proud as we enter the new millennium. We are blessed children," he said.

Air Nauru's Saipan-Palau-Manila service draws near By Malou L. Sayson For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -Negotiations for the Air Nauru to fly the still unserviced SaipanPalau-Manila route have significantly advanced, achieving at the most 75 percent of the work.

This was learned from Senator Santos Olikong, who chairs the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Governmental Affairs and also one of the strong forces behind the negotiation efforts.

Asked as to what level ofnego- · tiations they have reached, Olikong said: "We're already at 75 percent, with only remaining 25 percent for Nauru to acquire a new plane to serve this route and

for the Philippine government to give a go-signal for Air Nauru to flyinandoutofManilafromPalau.

The Palauan delegation, according to Olikong, will be leaving on Nov. 20 for a meeting involving Palau, Nauru and Saipan. The delegation will be composed of some members of the senate and the house, and Trade and Commerce Minister Okada Techitong.

OnNov.23-25,AirNaurupeople are scheduled to meet with representatives of the Philippine government-run aviation agency. "We will go with the Nauru people," said Olikong.

Olikong pointed out that Air Nauru is the best position to tap the Saipan-Palau-Manila route since it

has the financial resources. "The procurement of anew plane

is no problem for Air Nauru," the senator said, adding that the airline is now contacting manufacturing companits for a possible buy.

He further said the Nauru Parliament is willing and ready anytime to appropriate money for securing anew plane.

Asked if Air Nauru needs some help to convince the Parliament to release some money for the new aircraft, Olikong said: "[They] don't need an outside help. But if such a need arises, Palau and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are ready to dispatch delegation to join Air Nauru in informing Nauru Parlia-

ment that there is indeed a market. 'There are no air services between Palau and Saipan. There is also a lot of room between Palau and Manila," Olikong said.

Palau and Saipan, according to the senator, is in dire need of this new route. ''Palau is a developing country and that with little money from the compact, we need to put in place all the neoessruy measures such as revenue generation to run this government At this stage, it is crucial for Palau to put every single penny it has into good use," Olikong noted.

Asked to assess the present situation which is being monopolized by Continental Micronesia, the senator said: 'The air fares between Palau and Manila, for in-

stance, are too exorbitant." It is a big expense to both the employees and the employers who shoul- · der all the transportation costs of their workers, he said.

'The only available air service has a tariff that is too high. We have figures to show that others (airlines) can come in and charge cheaper rates," the senator further said.

Air Nauru,accordingtoO!ikong, is of the rightsize to service SaipanPalau-Manilaroute. Olikong,however, stressed that tJ.iey still have other options such as Macau Air, Anset, an Australian domestic airline which is being prepared by the Australian government to go international.

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Faleomavaega seeks reelection PAGO PAGO (Pacnews) -Congressman Faleomavaega Eni will seek re-election in the year 2000.

The Congressman revealed his intenti;n while in American Samoa for a much anticipated court case over a ranking paramount chiefly title challenged by seven people. including Faleomavaega.

Faleomavaega said after consulting his families. friends. supporters and tradi-

tional leaders, they have once again endorsed his nomination f;r a sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He said there are a lot of issues pending in Congress that needed to be addressed that benefits American Samoan citizens. No other candidate has made a public announcement for the congressional race.

Responding to critics who believe that it's time for

Smoking ban in Fiji SUVA (Pacnews) - In Fiji, the Tobacco Act comes into effect today.

This means that smoking in public places like buses, cinemas and offices will be banned.

The I aw prohibits the sale of cigarettes to people under the age of 18.

Advertising and promotion of cigarettes will be restricted by this legislation as well.

The Tobacco Act 1998 subjects offenders to fines of FJS500 (US$255) and FJ$1,000 (US$510).

Also.warnings on all tobacco packaging have become compulsory. The warnings, which could cover 20 pen:ent of the packet, are required to indicate the maximum nicotine and tar content in each cigarette.

The level of tar and nicotine in any cigarette should be below 15 milligrams and 1.5 milligrams respectively:

Restaurant owners also must ensure thatatleasr half of.the building is designated .a smoke-free area This must be separate from where smoking is permitted, ·

Faleomavaega to step down . from the post, the Congress

man told the Samoa Observer that ''I can just walk away from the job but the people of American Samoa continue to vote me back into office. I'm committed to the public."

Faleomavaega and other congressional members make US$ 136,000 a year and just recently the U.S. Congress passed a ·cost of living allowance' adjustment of more than U$40,000.

Faleomavaega said the pay should not be the focus but the needs of the public.

"I can just walk away from this job and take a recent offer from a private company that offered an annual salary of US$300,000 plus all other benefits. But I will remain a public servant," he said.

The Governor of American Samoa makes US$50,000 a year while the Lt.Governor receives annual pay of

US$45 ,000 not in.eluding free housing and other benefits.

Members of the Territorial Assembly earn US$25,000 a year while. the Senate President and the House Speaker earn US$30,000 a year not including office expenses.

Faleomavaega is a ranking democrat in several House committees. American Samoa's de legate to the U.S. Congress has a none voting status on the U.S House floor, but only in committees.

Sacked PNG commander faces charges PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) - A referral on charges of misconduct has been- formally made against suspended Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) commander, Jerry Singirok.

The office of the Chief Justice has confirmed the ~eferral was received on Friday (Nov 5) and the case would be dealt with as soon as practicable.

Post Courier says a leadership tribunal comprising a National Court judge and two senior magistrates will hear the charges against General Singirok.

An official said Chief Justice Sir Arnold Arnet would announce the composition of the tribunal as soon as a judge and magistrates were selected. This would depend on the availability of the judge and magistrates.

Public Prosecutor, Panuel Mogish had called on Sir Arnold to appoint a tribunal to hear several allegations of misconduct in office against General Singirok.

The allegations refer to events that reportedly took place between April 1996 to March 1997 while General Singirok was in his first terms

as commander of PNGDF. It's alleged that during that

period, Singirok received money and benefits totalling K67, 950 (US$25,295) from J&S Franklin, a British supplier of military goods, who supplied a substantial amount of equipment for the PNGDF.

Also that in April 1997, he gave false evidence during the Andrews Commission of Inquiry that he did not receive any benefits from J&S Franklin Limited.

General Singirok also faces a sedition case arisin'g from the 199 Sandline crisis.

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Aceh up for big protest BANDA ACER, Indonesia (AP) - Buoyed by East Timor·s newfound independence, thousands of villagers converged Sunday ahead of a protest in another separatist-minded territory.

Arriving on foot and on motorcycles and trucks, pro-independence supporters sheltered in at least 30 mosques in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province.

Organizers said the rally planned for Monday was likely to be the biggest show yet of anti-Indonesian sentiment in the province at the northern tip of Sumatra island. On Thursday, at least 50,000 protesters marched in the province.

Over the past decade, an oftenbrutal :Indonesian military struggled in vain to wipe out a separatist guerrilla movement that enjoyed wide public support.

The independent streak of Aceh' s people dates to their fierce resistance to Dutch colonial rule a century ago.

Its separatists have grown bolder since the 1998 ouster of authoritarian President Suharto and a U.N.supervised vote in East Timor on Aug. 30 to break away from Indonesia. Indonesia withdrew its troops, but only after some soldiers and theirmilitiaallies killed, burned and looted across the former Portuguese colony.

On Sunday, banners hanging from street lamps in Banda Aceh echoed East Timor's old call for a referendum on independence. Drivers and pedestrians donated money to protest organizers who held out

cardboard boxes at traffic lights and on street comers.

Last week, newly elected President Abdurrahman Wahid expressed understanding for the calls for a referendum, but then suggested a vote was impractical. Some in the government fear that other regions in the archipelago nation will also shun Jakarta's authority.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the chief spokesman for the Indonesian military ruled out a referendum in Aceh because, unlike East Timor, it had been always been part of independent Indonesia.

"'A referendum for Aceh is not realistic," Maj. Gen. Sudrajatsaid.

In Banda Aceh, protest organizer Muhamad Nazar said the rally Monday would start at the city's main mosque, Baiturrahman.

At a police barracks, hundreds of riot officers with rattan sticks and shields conducted drills in preparation for the demonstration.

On Tuesday, pro-independence demonstrators set afire five government buildings in the western part of Aceh. Troops opened fire, killing three civilians, the local Red Cross said.

Fearing violence, many shopowners in Banda Aceh planned to close theirs tores ahead of Monday's rally. Ma sir Simatupang, who sells rice, spices and fish in a marketplace, said: ''It looks like people have referendum fever.''

Acehnese youths raise their hands while standing on the top of a car during a rally in Sigli, notth province of Aceh. Tens of thousands of Acehneses took to the street in a peaceful rally demanding a referen-

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Okinawa to host GS m.eet

Keizo Obuchi

NAGO, Japan, (Reuters) -The residents of Nago on Japan's southern island of Okinawa are getting ready for one of the biggest beach parties in the history of surf and saml.

fecture, with an unemployment rate that is almost double the national average of nearly five percent.

Okinawa came under U.S. control in 1945 after a bloody World War Two battle. leaving it with a heavy American military presence and strained ties with Tokyo for most of the latter half of this century, even after its 1972 reversion to Japan.

Japan's Foreign Ministry, a veteran of three summits in Tokyo, has teamed up with local officials to groom Okinawa for its international diplomatic debut.

But before the sleepy fishing city is ready to host the Group of Eight (G8) world leaders summit from July 21-23 it must change from a tropical paradise into a fibre-optically wired and politically savvy spot.

Construction crews at the summit site - a scenic point offering a breathtaking view of the East China Sea - are working around the clock to complete the facility where the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and United States will gather for the annual G8 summit.

This is an Oct. 8, 1999 photo taken from the Henoko district of Okinawa's northern city_ of Nago where the U.S. Marine Camp Schwab is situated. The Okinawa prefectural go\ler~ment has decided to (!ropos_e th_e district as the site to take over the heliport functions of the U.S. Manne Corps Futemma A,r Station m

Cultural exhibits, scuba div-Ginowan, which is to be returned to Japan within five to seven years. AP

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi last July stunned observers when he took what some experts said was the politically risky move of selecting Okinawa - home to the bulk of America's military bases in Japan - to host the summit.

Obuchi is thought to be aiming to score a diplomatic coup by implementing· part of a 1996 U.S.-Japan pact to reduce U.S. bases in Okinawa, political analysts said.

Closer geographically to Taipei than to Tokyo, Okinawa has always been Japan's poor but beautiful step-daughter since it was taken into the Japanese fold in 1879.

The island is blessed with some of the most scenic spots in the country, but is possessed by economic demons that make it Japan's poorest pre-

ing tours and other events to has led to bitter resentment by highlight Okinawa are on tap, many Okinaw~ns of b~th T?-but foreign, visitors rµax,fipd · kyo ap.d .wa~hmgton, 111-w~l!; it tough io 'make their wi.-j. · that was stoked by the 1'995 through Nago, where most of -r~pe of an Okinawan:.schoolthe street signs and menus are· ... , ,:g,rlb:r::three U.S. servicemen. written only in Japanese. · · CA.bout f8,000 military per-

Many logistical hurdles re- sonnel, mostly U.S. Marines, main to be conquered - such are stationed on Okinawa and as finding a way to shuttle more thim 75 percent of all officials and reporters be-. U.S. military facilities in Ja-tween the summit venue and pan are located on the island .. the media centre which are "We want to use the summit 15 minutes apart 'by car with to show Okinawa's unique only one road linking them. · culture and natural beauty, as

Okinawa has numerous top- well as raising issues of con-rate hotels because of its tour- · cenHo the prefecture such as ist industry, but Nago is home the problem of U.S. military to only a few of those, mean- · .bases," said Yoshiro Shimoji ing fierce competition for the· ··:of the prefecture's summit few choice rooms near the :<office. summit venue. · ·:.. The 1996 U.S.-Japan agree-

Okinawa hopes to use the 'ment calls for the closure or summit to highlight its role as reduction in size of 11 U.S. home to one of the highest military facilities in Okinawa concentrations of U.S. mili- including the closure of a tary facilities in Asia. That sprawling Marine base by

2003. Washington, Tokyo and the

Okinawa government are keen to solve one of the biggest headaches: finding a site to relocate helicopter functions from the massive U.S. Marines Futenma Air Station well in advance of the G8 summit.

A U.S. Marine base in Nago tops the list of alternatives,

· despite a December 1997 nonhinding referendum in which Nago residents voted against building a U.S. military helicopter landing facility in their backyard, government sources said.

For Nago's residents, the key task is getting their town up to snuff for the visit of the G8 leaders.

"Nago is going to look wonderful," said a local rental car agent. "But this is a small city, and we still have a long way to go to get ready for the sum-

mit." For about 450 years before

it was absorbed into Japan,. Okinawa was its own island state called the Ryukyu kingdom, which used trade and diplomacy to survive and thrive in the turbulent region without ever establishing a standing army.

A Chinese emperor dubbed the Ryukyu kingdom the "Country of Courtesy" for its role as a reliable trading partner and kind-hearted hosts.

Summit organisers and residents are betting the tradition of hospitality will impress the GS leaders just as it impressed the Chinese emperor.

So if all goes well, the only topics for .discussion other than the pressing issues of the summit will be the appropriate swimwear and sunscreen needed for summer in the tropics.

Ventura takes in basketball game, says can't work weekends

Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, center, watches an NBA basketball game on television with Minnesota Timberwolves basketball players Anthony Peeler, left, and Tom Hammonds, right at the Four Seasons Hotel in Tokyo, Japan Friday. Govornor Ventura is on a 10-day tour of Japan to premote business relations between his home state and Japan including attending this weekend's NBA regular season Minnesota Timberwolves and Sacramento Kings games at the Tokyo Dome. AP

TOKYO (AP) - Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura ,,;,,atched his hometown Timberwolves beat the Sacramento Kings in Tokyo on Sunday and said his trip to Japan was worth the expense by generating publicity for his state.

Ventura is leading a delegation of Minnesota tourism, agriculture and economic development officials on a I 0-day trade mission to Tokyo and Osaka, but a taxpayer's group back home has called the trip a waste of money.

Ventura said his visit - and the appearance of the Timberwolves - was valuable because it has raised the profile of his state in a key market.

"That gives a double dose of Minnesota," the governor said during the game.

On Friday, the conservative Taxpayers League of Minnesota sent out a statement calling the governor's trip to Japan "an expensive vacation for Jesse and his buddies." Ventura on Saturday called the statement "a bunch of bull."

The group said Ventura is not meeting with many Japanese, but he said Sunday he had a visit planned for the next day at a Japanese school to see how the education system differs from the one back home.

"If we can pick up any tips or whatever, I'll certainly do that," he said.

The governor also defended his appearance at the NBA game at the Tokyo Dome.

"You can't do business on weekends," he said. Ventura's trip ends on Wednesday.

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Report: Sect members sentenced to labor camps BEIJING (AP) - Authorities have sentenced more than 500 members of the banned Falun Gong sect to labor camps after

. detaining them in a northern Chinese province, a rights group reported Sunday.

Thousands of members of the meditation group detained in a nationwide crackdown face labor camp sentences, the Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China reported.

It cited unidentified sources in reporting the latest detentions and labor camp sentences in Hebei, the northern province bordering Beijing.

Only a small minority are likely to stand trial because the Chinese government fears high-profile tribunals would trigger international condemnation, the rights group said. Chinese police have the authority to send citizens to labor camps without trial forup to three years.

Among those already sentenced to "reform through labor" were WangBaocangand 15 other Falun Gong members _who were detained in the Hebei city of Tangshan for "using a cult to undermine the implementation of laws," the Information Center said. After the government banned the group in July, they had gone to Beijing to appeal for a reversal of the order and had also continued to practice Falun Gong meditation and exercises publicly in

2 nabbed in huge heroin haul SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -Police and customs officers seized 219 kilograms ( 482 pounds) of heroin, the second biggest haul in Australian history, in a false-bottomed shipping container in Sydney's Port Botany, the government said Monday.

Two Singaporean men aged 47 and 51 charged in connection with importing heroin were due in court later Monday. It was not immediately clear what sentence the men would face if convicted. Their names were not released.

The Oct. 20 raid was the result of a joint operation between Australian customs officers, federal police and the Joint Asian Crime Group, Justice and Customs Minister Amanda Vanstone said. The haul was believed to have a street value of tens of millions of dollars (U.S. $).

"The heroin was concealed in a false floor of a shipping container that arrived at Port Botany, Sydney, from Indonesia on Oct. 20," Vanstone's statement said.

Vans tone said the shipment, had it reached the streets, would have put "thousands of lives at risk".

Australia's largest heroin seizure,390kilograms(858pounds), was late last year at a port north of Sydney.

Tangshan, it said. Authorities nationwide have

decided to use labor camp sentences to punish members of the sect who continue to meet secretly or protest the crackdown by going to the capital, the rights group said, citing an official it did not identify.

Many of the group's principal members have been arrested, and show trials are expected soon. Some have been accused of violating China's vague state secrets law, a measure sometimes used against political dissidents. Others are expected to be tried under the recently tightened Jaw against cults.

Falun Gong combines traditional meditation exercises with Buddhism, Taoism and the often unorthodox ideas of its founder,

· ex-government clerk Li Hongzhi. In seven years, Li, who now lives in New York, claims to have built a worldwide following of I 00 million, most of them in China.

,lapanese representatives of Falun Gong, a meditation group that was outlawed by Chinese Communist Party, speak before reporters in Tokyo Thursday. They urged Chinese authorities to stop a crackdown on the spiritual group. AP

Message of Appreciation

MY FAMILY JOINS ME IN EXTENDING A SINCERE AND HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO THE HUNDREDS OF RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS FOR THEIR UNWEA VERING CONFIDENCE IN ME AND THE STRONG SHOW OF SUPPORT TO MY CANDIDACY FOR A SENATE SEAT: SPECIAL "THANK YOU" TO THE MANY GOOD PEOPLE OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES WHO BRAVELY VOTED FOR ME, RESULTING IN MY SUCCESSFUL EL~CTION LAST SATURDAY.

I WANT TO APPLAUD SENATOR JUAN P. TENORIO (MORGEN) FOR CONDUCTING A .VIGOROUS, CLEAN AND RESPECTABLE CAMPAIGN. TO THE OTHER UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES, I COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR EXPRESSED INTEREST TO BE OF PUBLIC SERVICE. I EXTEND A WARM CONGRATULATION TO THOSE WHO WON THE VOTERS' CONFIDENCE.

TO THE PEOPLE OF ·THE COMMONWEAL TH, AND IN PARTICULAR, THE RESIDENTS OF SA/PAN, I PLEDGE TO REPRESENT YOUR BEST INTERESTS AND WORK HARD ON LEGISLATION AND PROGRAMS THAT WOULD ADVANCE OUR WELL-BEING.

AS I ASSUME NEXT JANUARY MY SOLE.MN SENATORIAL DUTIES, I WELCOME YOUR COMMENTS AND ADVICE AND HOPE THAT YOU WOULD FREELY COMMUNICATE WITH ME OF YOUR CONCERNS AND INTERESTS. GOF DANGKULO NA SI YUUS MAASE, OLOMW AA Y, MARAMING SALAMAT PO AND THANK YOU!

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Japan to budget ¥1.15T for aged care TOKYO, (Reuters)-TheJapanese government has proposed including 1.15 trillion yen in a supplementary budget forth is fiscal year to cover costs of a planned nursing care insurance scheme for the elderly, senior ruling coalition policymaker Shizuka Kamei said on Friday.

It was not immediately clear why the amount far exceeded original projections that a delay in collecting separate levies for the scheme would cost 450 billion yen. A por1ion of that amount had been expected to be allocated under the supplementary budget.

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istry later broke down the figures as follows: 785 billion yen for delaying levies from those aged 65 and older, 126 billion yen for measures to ease the levy burden on those aged 40 to 64 and 240 billion yen for other associated costs. .

The government proposal, issued by Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, calls for delaying levies from those aged 65 and older for six months from the April

launch of the programme and then halving them for a further year.

The proposal would have the government collect levies from those aged 40 to 64 but then seek to reduce this burden through assistance from the government.

The fate of the nursing care plan, however, remained in doubt as the smallest of the ruling coalition parties, the Liberal Party, boycotted discussions of the plan.

The Liberals have insisted on funding the plan and other social welfare programmes through consumption tax revenues, rather than the levy system pushed by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's Liberal Democratic Party.

"The ideal scenario is that all three parties show up and agree on the plan," Aoki said.

But he denied the differences would cause any major rifts in the coalition.

Wahid fails to meet Suu Kyi YANGON, (Reuters) - Indo

nesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Sunday met with Myanmar's military leaders during a brief visit, but he was not expected to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he had hoped, sources said.

Wahid met leaders of the ruling State Peace and Development Council led by its chairman, Senior General Than Shwe, and powerful secretarygeneral one, Lieutenant General Khin Nyunt.

They were to discuss bilateral cooperation and regional issues during the working lunch, an official source said.

Wahid said last Thursday he also hoped to meet Suu K yi during the visit, breaking an Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) tradition of shunning dissidents in member countries.

But an Indonesian embassy spokesman said no meeting with the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner was on the cards. "Meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi is not in the programme and the embassy did not receive instructions to arrange such a meeting," the spokesman told Reuters by when contacted telephone from Bangkok.

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health is not so good, he needs to rest, so after lunch he has no plans to meet with other people," he said of the frail, nearly blind Wahid.

Some Yangon-based diplomats said Wahid might not try to see Suu Kyi after all because he did not want to offend his hosts and because of his tight schedule.

Wahid was to leave Yangon in the afternoon for Bangkok, the fourth stop on his whirlwind tour of Indonesia's ASEAN neighbours. He earlier visited Singapore and Malaysia.

ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The grouping adheres to the principle of non-interference in

Suu Kyi

the affairs of member states, and no ASEAN head of state has ever met with Suu Kyi.

Despite this, Suu Kyi was able to meet Philippines Foreign Secretary, Domingo Siazon when former president Fidel Ramos visited Myanmar in October 1997.

She also met with Malaysia's then foreign minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi during a visit by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in March last ye;ar.

Suu Kyi was released from six years' house arrest in 1995 but the government has greatly restricted her movements since then. Her National League for Democracy won Myanmar's last election in 1990 by a landslide, but the military ignored the result.

An armed Maritime Self Defense Force personnel stands guard while others simulating a rescue operation rn a foreign country at Yokosuka _base Sunday. The exercise is the first-ever since the new defense guideline allows Japanese forces to be dispatched when Japanese citizens are in an emergency. AP

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Taiwan bet calls for stronger China ties

Presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chen Shui-bian gives the keynote speech at the closing day of the International Conference on China in the 21st Century, Sunday, ii} Taipei.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -Taiwan's pro-independence presidential candidate on Sunday urged closer economic ties with China, including an end to a half-century ban on direct transporation links.

Former Taipei mayor Chen Shui-bian said the mainland was too important to Taiwan's economy to be ignored, and urged more flexible policies towards Beijing in an apparent bid to clarify his China policy and assuage voter nervousness.

But economic necessity must to be balanced with measures to keep Taiwan's economy free of Chinese control, and China must soften its hardline towards the island for the relationship to improve, said Chen, who represents the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party.

In a speech to a conference on China relations, Chen sought to position himself b.;tween current official discouragement of increased business with China and alternative calls for a complete embrace of the China market.

That appeared aimed at grasping the initiative on relations with China, an issue of key importance in next March's presidential polls.

Chen, in third in most polls among presidential candidates, has to work extra hard to convince voters that his election won't prompt a violent response from China.

Though China has ruled Taiwan in- just four of the last I 00 years, Beijing continues to consider the island a breakaway province to be reunified with by force if necessary.

The sides last split amid a civil war in 1949, and military tensions between them flared again this summer over an assertion of

Taiwanese statehood by Nationalist President Lee Teng-hui.

Both sides say they want to reunify eventually, but the DPP calls for making Taiwan's defacto independence formal and permanent.

However, the party ha:; softpedaled the independence call in recent years as it attempts to break the 54-year Nationalist hold on power here.

"Taiwan needs China and China needs Taiwan. How to pursue reconciliation amid contradictions, and establish order amid conflict is not only important to the two sides, but is also a somber issue for all of Asia and the outside world," said Chen.

Though layered with fuzzy policy outlines for a ·'cof'lplete normalization of relations with China:· Chen's speech laid out firm proposals for reopening direct links between the sides.

Taiwan banned direct trade, transportation and communication to isolate the communist regime on the mainland in 1949. Though indirect links are thriving, Taiwanese merchants chafe at the need to transit through a third country and many large business groups also object to limits on investment in China.

Chen said that Taiwan might first open up its two major international ports of Kaohsiung and Keelung to trade with China. In return, China could open up its top five ports - Dalian, Shanghai, Qingdao, Tianjin, and Guangzhou-to cross-strait shipping, he said.

Direct air links between the sides should be started by Taiwanese carriers, who would split profits with the Chinese side, he said.

AP

But Chen said the success of any opening would depend on China's response.

If Beijing ignores Taiwan's desire for improved relations and continues to threaten the island with military attack then "all pro-active policies will be unable to move ahead, all friendlines will be difficult to keep up," Chen said.

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Asia revitalization panel eyed TOKYO, (Reuters) - Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Friday it formed a new panel to study ways to help revitalise Asian economies.

The group will discuss struc--tural reform and currency regimes in Asia and will consider ways for Japan to provide financial aid to the region, said Ryutaro Kamiya, head of the ministry's Committee on Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions.

A Finance Ministry (MOF) official told a news conference the 22-memberpanel will convene its first meeting on Monday and hold monthly meetings thereafter. It will aim to issue a report on its findings around June of next year.

Keio University professor Yoshie Naoyuki was appointed to head the study group, which is a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions.


Wild elephants destroy Bangladesh rice fields

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A farmer collapsed and died after a herd of wild elephants destroyed the rice paddy crop in his field in southeastern Bangladesh. a newspaper said Sunday.

The 40-year-old farmer was among dozens of villagers who were beating drums and holding kerosene-lit torches to scare away 24 elephants in Chittagong district, the lttefaq newspaper reported.

The unidentified man died

on Friday. the third straight day the elephants altacked Dabura, a village 215 kilometers ( 135 miles) southeast of Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital.

The elephants destroyed five mud-and-thatch huts and paddy rice crop on more than I 00 acres ( 40 hectares) of land at Damuria and some neighboring villages, the newspaper said.

Chittagong, a region of hills and forests, is home to hundreds of elephants.

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NEW DELHI, India (AP) -WhenPaulJohnPaulllcelebrated Sunday Mass in New Delhi, young girls in local costumes danced to tunes set to Indian classical music and greeted him in Sanskrit, the language of ancient India.

The Indian touch reflected the gradual shift among churches keen to increase acceptance of Christianity in this overwhelmingly Hindu nation.

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better known as

"Yochang" / "Marian Vkenten Tamat" (April 29, 1934 - November 08, 1999)

was called to her eternal rest on Monday, November 08, 1999.

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She is additionally survived by numerous grand children, brothers and sisters, in-laws, and other relatives.

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Since the early 1970s, Indian priests have encouraged their congregation to light oil lamps instead of wax candles in churches, or play instruments like the flute and the harmonium instead of the guitar or the piano.

Worshippers walk into many churches barefoot in accordance with the Indian custom of not wearing footwear in places of worship, and sit on the floor to listen to sermons in local languages instead of in Latin or English.

"These are practices that are relevant to the people. They can relate to these things," Cornelio said.

In the early 197 Os, the Church of South India aggressively pursued a practice of assimilation. Instead of exchanging wedding rings, members of the congregation tied mangalsutras or wedding chains around the necks of brides, like Hindus do.

They sent out Christmas cards that read "Shanti, Shanti, Shanti," or "Peace," the Sanskri I language prayer part of all Hindu worship. But change has been slow in many churches.

'The older priests don't like thls because it is identified with Hindu culture," said Cornelio. He said it is wrong to consider Indian culture as a purely Hindu one. "Hinduism is part of Indian culture."

In recent years, Cornelio said, Indian churches are teaching their followers yoga and meditation.

"There is more freedom to do things now," he said. Priests, for instance, are encouraging more people to give their children Indian names rather than those of Christian saints.

"Instead of giving names such as John or Paul or Jerome, we now have names such as Gee ta or Anita for girls and Anil and Ashok for boys," he said.

Some of the changes, church leaders say, have helped deflect attention from fringe Hindu groups, who accuse Christian missionaries of converting poor, usually illiterate people to their faith, sometimes with illegal inducements.

"This Indianization is good," said Simon Peter, a teacher from New Delhi, who was :imong the people who filled the 70,000-capacity stadium to sec the pope. "It helps us win more souls."

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Microsoft settlement mulled

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks at a press conference Friday in Redmond, Wash. A federal judge ruled that aggressive actions by Bill Gates' software empire to protect its technology dominance are "stifling innovation" and hurting consumers. The decision could lead to serious sanctions against Microsoft and a reshaping of the multibil/ion-dollar high-technology industry. AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's top antitrust official says the government is "looking at a full range of remedies" to punish Microsoft following a judge's ruling that the software giant misused its monopoly powers.

Despite U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's pre-1 i mi nary findings against Microsoft, however, both the government and the company expressed a willingness to consider an out-of-court settlement.

In an open letter, Microsoft

Chairman Bill Gates said the company is committed to "a fair and responsible" resolution. The company's chief operating officer, Bob Herbold, said on the Sunday talk shows that "there's nothing we'd like more than to settle this case."

Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein, who also appeared on three television programs, said, "Obviously settlement is always an option."

Neither Klein nor Herbold would suggest what an agreement

might entail. "We would need a settlement

that deals with the very findings that the court made in this case, a settlement that produces consumer choice, innovation and competition in the market," Klein said on "Fox News Sunday."

He cited "serious issues here about law enforcement and the antitrust laws. And of course if Microsoft were prepared to engage on those issues, we would be prepared as well."

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Gates seeks fair resolution WASHINGTON (AP) -Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in a letter published Sunday that the software maker is committed to "a fair and responsible" resolution of its antitrust trial.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department's top antitrust enforcer said on ABC's "This Week" that the government is "looking at a full range ofremedies" to find the appropriate punishmer.t, following a judge's ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly.

Still, Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein, on "Fox News Sunday," also said that "obviously settlement is always an option." He refused to discuss specifics.

"We would need a settlement that deals with the very findings that the court

made in this case, a settlement that produces consumer choice, innovation, and competition in the market," Klein said.

Gates, in a full-page advertisement published in The Washington Post and addressed to the company's customers, partners and shareholders, commented on Friday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.

Jackson, in the first phase of the case, found that Microsoft used its overwhelming dominance of the computer software marketplace. The judge did not identify which U.S. antitrust laws Microsoft might have violated or suggest how the company should be punished.

A separate punishment hear-

ing would be held next year, if necessary after Jackson issues his final ruling.

"As this case moves toward resolution, Microsoft's 30,000 employees are focused on creating the next generation of products that will deliver the benefits of the Infor-mation Age - anytime, anywhere and on any device," Gates wrote.

"Microsoft is committed to resolving this matter in a fair and responsible manner," he wrote, "while ensuring that the fundamental principles of consumer benefit and innovation are protected."

The letter was similar to Gates' statement he issued Friday after Jackson's decision was released. The letter was sent Friday, according to the company's Web site.

Fatal shootip.g<at Conn. casino MONTVILLE, Conn. (AP)One man was shot to death and

: another critically injured follow: ing an argument outside the

I! Mohegan Sunca.~ino, police said.

Steven Baron was arguingwlth AJdoreMalooeufinsideaparked

: car when he was shot Saturday, said state police spokesman 1.,t R.tlJJh C:~ptfr. Baronwas pr9, •'

nounced dead on arrival at William W. Backus. Hospital in Norwich.

Malboeuf suffered stab wounds to the body. He was listed in critical condition Sunday at Backus Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.

Prior to the shooting, the two men appeared tg hav~ fought_ in-

side a car, authorities said. There was no information on the relationship between the victims.

The dealh was the first apparent murder at an American !ndian casino in Connecticut. The casino, owned by the Mohegan Indians, opened three year.; ago and is one of two Indian-owned casinos in the state.

as a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post, he wrote that "Microsoft is committed to resolving this'\'natter in a fair and responsible manner, while ensuring that the fundamental principles of consumer benefit and innovation are protected."

''At the heart of this case,": he said, "is whether a successful American company can continue to improve its products for the benefit of consumers."

The letter, addressed "To Our Customers, Partners and Share~ holders," also appeared on Microsoft's World Wide Website, dated Friday, the day Jackson released his ruling. It was similar to a statement Gates read on the same day.

Jackson, who presided over 77 days of testimony, declared in a remarkably blunt decision that Microsoft's aggressive use of its monopoly status stifled innovation and hurt consumers by limiting choices.

On ABC, Klein said Jackson's findings meant that "Microsoft was able to control personal computers and control investment in that area."

"You know, in America you have a choice," Klein said. "And if IBM or Gateway or Compaq or Dell ... had choice, they could go to Microsoft and negotiate (or) they could go to somebody else and negotiate. Here, everybody's got to go to one place - that's what's hurting us."

He said both sides will submit to Jackson legal analyses of his findings, after which the judge

will decide penalties, if any. Government lawyers, Klein

said, are "doing an analysis that will look at the full range of remedies." Asked if breaking up Microsoft is among them, Klein said: "That is in the, rm;ige, but ... it is premature for us now to get ahead of the story."

One penalty that he appeared to rule out is a fine. "Let me make clear we are not looking for any financial penalties," Klein said on CNN's "Late Edition." "We 're· concerned with competition. This is not a penal action, and we 're not go-' ing to seek monies."

Appearing on the same program, Sen. Orrin Hatch, chairmanoftheSenateJudiciary Committee, praised Klein for his prosecution and counseled Microsoft to negotiate.

"If I was Microsoft; I would really sit down with Justice and see if we can resolve this matter in a settlement that would really keep Microsoft going, keep this industry going, and of course keep innovation moving,"

Hatch, R-Utah, a candidate for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, said the protracted trial and Judiciary Committee hearings on the case already have paid off for the industry.

Microsoft has become, he said, "a much better corporate citizen" in the last few months.

"People have said that to me all over the industry," Hatch said. "They've been pleased that there isn't the heavy hand any more."

F'!rmer Illinois Sen. Car?I Moseley-Braun makes the rounds on Capitol Hill last Tuesday seekmg support as President Clinton's choice to become Ambassador to New Zealand. AP


Clinton's house deal hits snag WASHINGTON (AP)-Questions linger about the Clintons' $1. 7 million purchase of their residence in a New York City suburb. The first couple must cope with $3,500 monthly payments even as they wrap up their eight years in the White House.

President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped their original plan to rely on a wealthy friend and political fund-raiser for help in securing the mortgage for the Chappaqua, N.Y., home. But critics and some mortgage experts believe the financing the Clintons settled on still raises questions of special treatment.

The Clintons got favorable terms to buy the five-bedroom, three-story wood frame house,

with swimming -pool and exercise room, where they say they will live after leaving the White House in January 200 I. They officially bought the house last week.

Mrs. Clinton must establish residency in New York if, as expected, she seeks the Democratic nomination for Senate from New York next year.

"The basic, factual issue involved here is fairly cut and dried: Did they get an extraordinarily good deal? No question." said Kenneth Harney, who studies the mortgage business and writes a syndicated column on real estate.

In short, Harney said, the Clintons are putting down less than most people who take out

mortgages that size, and they did not have to make the usual choice between paying "points," or addon fees, upfront, ·and getting a lower interest rate overall.

That does not necessarily mean the loan is improper or even bee yond the bounds that any bank might consider.

Banks have a great deal of leeway when making this kind of "super-jumbo" loan, and may evaluate a variety of factors, including future earning power, that do not fit neatly into the calculations used for more modest mortgages, bankers said.

"There is absolutely no suggestion that there is anything improper in this mortgage," said Jim Kennedy, spokesman for the

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton seeaks to the media in tront of th~ (Jhappaqua, N. Y., house that she and President Clinton plan to make their future home. The Chntons ofhc1ally bought the house Nov. 1. AP

White House counsel's office. Kennedy said the Clintons will

pay about $8,500 a month in interest, plus periodic lump sum payments toward insurance and taxes. Tax records indicate the Clintohs wilt pay about $26,000 annually in real estate taxes.

The Clintons are borrowing the money from PNC Mortgage Corp., the nation's 12th largest home lender last year. PNC has not commented on the details of the Clinton loan and did not respond to a query Friday.

The couple turned to PNC after they dropped a much-criticized plan to accept a loan guarantee from Terry McAuliffe, a friend and major Democratic fundraiser.

PNC was named along with Mrs. Clinton and her exploratory Senate committee in a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission a day after the Clintons settled on the house Nov. I.

The Conservative Campaign Fund alleges the bank is giving a political candidate a sweetheart deal in violation of FEC rules.

"The terms and conditions of the loan insofar as they have been publicly revealed, are starkly different from the terms and conditions available to other individuals," with similar income and assets, the complaint alleged.

The Clintons have a rep011ed net worth of roughly $1.5 million -much ofit in trust. Clinton makes $200,000 a year as president, and the family earns about the same amount annually in income from the trust.

They have about $5.5 million in legal debts from years of Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandal investigations, but those bills are supposed to be paid out of a separate, private fund.

Their income makes the Clintons reasonable candidates for the loan amount and the agreed monthly payment, said Paul Reid, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

The terms of their deal are unusual in some respects - such as a 20 percent down payment in a market that typically demands at least 30 percent for this kind of loan- but not alarming, Reid said.

"Thatdoesn'tsoundlikethere's been a real giveaway here," Reid said.

The Clintons' 20 percent down payment amounts to $340,000. The money will come from the family's blind trust.

The Clintons secured a "3-1" adjustable-rate mortgage for $1.36 million -the balance of the purchase price.

The loan carries a fixed rate of 7.5 percent for three years, and then conve11s to an adjustablerate mortgage. They will pay no points; a point equals I percent of the loan amount, or$ l 3,600in the Clintons' case.

By Hamey's reckoning, the Clintons got both a favorable interest rate and the benefit of zero points. Usually it is one or the other, he said.

Clinton stands to earn a bundle from books, speaking tours or COJ1lorate fees in retirement. Their mortgage is presumably structured with the assumption he will be the family breadwinner, but Mrs. Clinton could also earn a large salary as a lawyer if she does not end up a senator.

For those reasons and others, the Clintons are in a class by themselves, the Mortgage Bankers' Reid said.

"You 're not looking at the average Joe," Reid said. ''He's also the president of the United States."

Memorial held for EgyptAir crash victims NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)-Relatives of the victims of EgyptAir Flight 990 gathered Sunday to bid a wrenching farewell to their loved ones, as the Navy received reinforcements in its search for the airplane's "black boxes."

Leaders from the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths were called upon to offer prayers at an afternoon memorial service in Brenton Point State Park, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The service was closed to the public.

At sea, a civilian ship equipped with a newer, remote control submersible robot headed out to the area off the island of Nantucket where the Boeing 767 plummeted into the sea Oct. 31 from 33,000 feet, killing 217 people.

At the same time, the Navy's USS Grapple, the floating base for the robot Deep Drone that already has been at work amid the sunken wreckage, headed back into port for refueling.

Deep Drone worked on the ocean bottom for IO hours Saturday but had to be brought back

to the surface after the sea became too rough. No details were released about what progress was made to reach the airliner's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which are bet ieved to be under wreckage and silt.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman James Hall said Sunday that he did not want to send in divers.

"The situation down there is too dangerous to send divers. That's the reason we wanted the other ROV (remote-controlled robot)," said Hall.

The new robot, called the Magnum ROY, is more maneuverable than Deep Drone and can be used in rougher seas. It was being carried aboard the civilian ship Carolyn Chouest.

After the Grapple returns to sea after refueling, both robots will be put to work.

However, the weather is not expected to improve enough to lower Magnum and Deep Drone into the water until Monday afternoon at the earliest, officials

said. The robots are part of an NTSB

led recovery operation and investigation that involves 1,000 people, nine ships and four helicopters.

The memorial service came a day after family members were allowed to see pieces of the wreckage recovered so far. The material was displayed at Quonset Point, a former Navy base across Narragansett Bay from the search command center in Newport.

Relatives of the victims had come from Egypt and across the United States in hopes that somehow their loved ones might have survived, or at least that their bodies would be recovered.

But with only discouraging news, Sherif Dawoud decided to leave before Sunday's memorial and go back home to Woodbridge, Va. He lost a cousin, 11 colonel in the Egyptian army, in the crash.

"Everybody here looked for bodies, but everybody here has no more patience," said Dawoud.

A distraught woman holds a rose as she is comforted during a memorial service held for the victims of EgyptAir Flight 990 Sunday at Brenton Point State Park in Newport, R.I. AP

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Militant struggle in Puerto Rico foreseen HAVANA (AP) - Guillermo Morales has few regrets about his armed struggle for an independent Puerto Rico, his bold flight from U.S. justice and his life in exile in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

But that exile carries its price: a diminished role that Morales, a key figure in the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, has come to accept grudgingly.

"I can give my opinion, but I can't give orders," Morales, 49, said in his New York-accented English during an interview in Havana's Old City. "Things cannot be done from a distance. And it's somewhat frustrating. A lot of people say I should be there."

and Michael Finney and Charles Hill, wanted in the 1971 slaying of a New Mexico state policeman and a jet hijacking to Cuba.

Morales was convicted of weapons charges and sentenced to 89 years in prison after a bomb- he was making in Queens blew up and destroyed his hands in 1978. He escaped from New York's Bellevue Hospital in 1979.

U.S. officials implicated the FALN in more than 50 bombings. that killed six people and wounded dozens in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

Guillermo Morales, Puerto Rican separatist, is photographed in the Old Havana neighborhood of Havana, Cuba on Oct. 24, 1999. Morales has few regrets about his armed struggle for an independent Puerto Rico, his bold flight from U.S. justice and his life in exile in Fidel Castro's Cuba since 1988. AP

Morales is among several dozen U.S. fugitives living in Cuba, which has no diplomatic relations or extradition treaty with the United States.

Others include Joanne Chesimard, a Black Panther Movement member convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper,

Morales watched from afar as several FALN colleagues who served an average 20 years in U.S. prisons were recently freed under a clemency offered by President Clinton. One was Dylcia Pagan, with whom Morales has a son.

"You get involved in something, you have to accept the consequences. Not everything turns out the way you want," he said.

EATHAND FUNERALANNOUNCEMEN

She is predeceased by: Parents: Jose Cruz Delos Reyes and Rufina Camacho

Reyes Son: William Reyes Babauta Sisters: Mariana Reyes Guzman and Bernie C. Reyes Parents-in-Law: Juan Cruz Babauta and Maria Miyasaki

Babauta

She is survived by: Husband: Jesus Miyasaki Babauta

In-Laws/Spouses

Brothers & Sisters/Spouses: Benusto & Alfonsina Reyes, Dolores & Manuel Sablan, Terry & Fritz Prosser, Margaret & Jack Tenorio, Prudenciana & Willy McGeathy, Vicky R. Maratita, Juan & Petra Reyes, Remy & David Sablan, Dora C. Reyes

PETRA REYES BABAUTA Born June 23, 1936, was called by our Lord Jesus Christ to her eternal rest on Thursday, November 04, 1999.

Children & Spouse: Juan R. Babauta/Diane P. Crisostimo (Maggie, Lani) Joseph R. & Lydia A. Babauta (Irviri/Claudine Chong-Shanah, Aprilynn, & Joseph, Jr.) Oscar R. Babauta/Lorraine SN. Warnick (Rupert, Dinah) Donald r. Babauta (Eric, Dilon) Diego R. & Dolorina J. Babauta (Carmine, Shiela, Tracy, Justin,

Kristine) Patricia 13. & John A. Camacho (Robben, Ryan, Randy) Terry B. & Frank B. Castro (Emily, Pearl, Daisy, Nathan) Franklin R. & Celina R. Babauta (William, Francine, Colina) Anthony R. Babauta/Melisa A. DLGuerrero (Joleen, Jesse, Ana,

Akioni) Jesse R. Babauta

She is also survived by her aunties, Rosa P. Togawa, Magdalena B. Palacios and numerous uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces & nephews.

Rosary is being said nightly at 8:00 p.m. at her residence in Capitol Hill (I Deni).

On Thursday, Novemer 11, 1999, at 4: 00 p.m. Her body wili be taken from CHC to her residence for the wake. Responso will be at 8:00 p.m. Funeral of Christian Mass will be on Friday, November 12, 1999, at 3:00 p.m. at San

Roque Church. Burial will follow immediately at San Roque Cemetery.

Your Thoughts and Prayers are greatly appreciated. Un Dangkulo Na Agradesimento ginen I Familia.

His son, Guillermo, has visited him several times. But he hasn't seen his mother Lucy, who lives in New York, since 1983. They exchange letters but phone calls are too expensive on the small stipend he receives from Cuba.

Inquisitive, low-key and eager fornews, Morales is trim, graying slightly. A scar runs down his chin - powder bums from the explosion.

He got involved with the independence movement as a New York City College student in the 1960s. His clandestine work ended when the bomb exploded.

"I was losing all this blood. I just tried to get rid of all the communiques that were there, you know? Destroy evidence," he said.

Morales said he was willing to serve a I 0-year federal sentence but began plotting his escape when he was tried a second time on state charges.

"I said, This is too much. It became abusive," he said.

Morales fled to Mexico, where he said he did translations and other jobs for a revolutionary movement in Puebla state. He was imprisoned in 1983 following a shootout that killed a policeman.

Morales insisted he was wrongly accused - "I can't use a gun," he said, indicating his ruined hands - and said he was beaten and tortured in Mexican custody.

His fortunes turned in 1988, when Mexico's foreign ministry ruled that he was a victim of political persecution in the United States and refused to extradite him. He was put on a plane to Cuba -angering the U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration, which temporarily recalled its ambassador to Mexico.

Communist Cuba "was the only government that had the courage to accept me," Morales said. "Cubans always had a long history of supporting Puerto Rican independence, and vice versa."

Cuba and Puerto Rico were wrested from Spain by the United States in 1898. The Cubans, who already were fighting for independence, gained it in 1902 -though Washington insisted on the right to intervene for decades.

Since Fidel Castro's 1959revolution, Cuba has supported Puerto Rico's independence movement, including calls in the U.N. Decolonization Committee to recognize Puerto Rico as a colony.

In Havana, Morales received medical treatment, studied economics, has met visiting Puerto Rican groups and married a Cuban, Rosa. They have a 2-yearold boy, Rodrigo.

"They have treated me with a lot of respect and a lot of dignity," he said of his Cuban hosts.

This year, he joined efforts to persuade leftist Colombian rebels to release Rosa de la Cruz, a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico, who was kidnapped for 110 days.

"She called me last week to say thank you," 'he said. "That was really nice."

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Bonib blasts rock Israel NETANY A, Israel (AP) - On the eve of final status talks with the Palestinians, three pipe bombs silenced this noisy Israeli beach town on Sunday and raised questions about whether the Palestinians are able to contain terror.

Police suspect Palestinians responsible; talks to proceed pen," Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian security chief in the West Bank, told The Associated Press.

The bombs detonated simultaneously at 10: 30 a.m. (0830 GMT) at an intersection busy with ice cream vendors and automatic cash machines. Sunday is a work day in Israel, and many people run errands and take coffee break at that hour.

Police, who blamed militant Islamic groups for the attack, said 33 people were injured, four moderately and 29 lightly. A fourth bomb was defused by a bomb unit at the beach.

Dozens of Palestinians were arrested, but all were released before midnight. Police beefed up patrols on the border with the West Bank, which runs less than 20 kilometers (IO miles) from the putskirts of Netanya.

In fact, Barak's ministers went out of their way to point out that the pipe bombs were low-tech and not characteristic of the sophisticated-and devastating -car bombs that killed scores in the past.

"Cooperation, cooperation," is how Hairn Ramon, one Barak minister, described the relationship between the two peoples' security forces.

The sides have joined forces in tracking down and, in some cases, assassinating the militants' most talented bomb makers, and most recent car bomb attempts have been botched because of a lack of technical know-how.

In other cases, Palestinian security forces have arrested the radicals in the early stages of planning their attacks.

At the moment of the blasts, remnants of a municipal garbage can rained onto a street, a bicycle parked by a lamppost twisted into a blackened wreck and David Ratzon flew into the road.

Netanya residents attend to an injured man lying in the street, after three pipe bombs exploded Sunday at a busy street corner the north Israeli resort town of Netanya. AP

In Washington, David Leavy, a White House spokesman, called on the parties "to be vigilant and to fight terrorism and to move forward to a final peace agreement."

A few dozen hard-liners waved placards calling for Barak's ouster, but for most residents of this town swept with the scent of sea breezes, fried foods and cotton candy, it was business as usual by evening.

"After the explosion.there was this silence all around, I didn't know where I was," Ratzon later told reporters from his hospital bed, his torso and right arm wrapped in bandages. "Ifeltnothing, then I saw people gathering around me."

The Likud opposition called on Prime Minister Ehud Barak to cancel final status talks with the Palestinians, scheduled to begin Monday.

Hard-liners say Barak, who revived the talks with the Palestinians after ousting a hawkish gov-

emment in May elections, is keeping promises to concede land and release prisoners while the Palestinians do nothing to stop terror.

"Instead of crushing terror, the Palestinians are crushing mutuality," said a statement from the Settlers Council, which represents Jewish settlements in disputed territory that face dismantling in a final agreement.

The talks beginning Monday aim to produce a permanent settlement by September 2000. Militant Islamic groups see a formal peace with the Jewish state as a sellout and have sworn to sabo-

tage the talks - most recently in a leaflet published Sunday that promised an escalation of terror within Israel.

"We have decided to continue our armed confrontation against them until this occupation ends and the settlements are uprooted from our homeland," Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, said after the attack.

Yassin did not acknowledge responsibility for the attack, however.

In the past, mounting terrorist fatalities have crippled peace talks, and a resumption of such

Iraq: Yugoslavia start trade talks BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - Iraq and Yugoslavia started trade talks to cement economic cooperation between the two countries, the official Iraqi News Agency reported on Sunday.

INA said the talks were chaired by Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh and Yugoslav counterpart Horislav Vukovic.

It quoted Saleh as "emphasising Iraq's firm stance in expanding trade and economic dealings with Yugoslavia and working to increase them in future".

"Iraq is a country open for Yugoslav companies to set up joint projects that serve the interest of both friendly countries," Saleh added.

INA quoted Vukovic as saying "his country is serious about

looking into new horizons of cooperation with Iraq."

Earlier, Iraqi newspapers reported that Vukovic had arrived in Baghdad to discuss trade deals under the oil-for-food accord with the United Nations.

Yugoslavia and Iraq enjoy good relations, feeling solidarity in part· because they are both internationally isolated and under sanctions for their involvement in wars over the past decade.

Both countries played major roles in the Non-Aligned Movement and many Yugoslav firms were involved in industrial and construction projects in Iraq before its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Earlier this year the Belgrade press said Yugoslavia had signed contracts with Iraq worth $18 million to supply food in

exchange for oil. Iraq strongly condemned the

NATO air strike campaign against Yugoslavia over its violent repression of ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo earlier this year.

INA said there had also been a meeting between Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan and Yugoslav deputy Prime Minister Maja Gojkovic, who was in Baghdad for a women's conference.

"Iraq's support for Yugoslavia is a principled attitude based on Iraq's rejection of interference in the internal affairs of countries," INA quoted Ramadan as saying.

"Yugoslavia will continue defending its sovereignty and destiny despite all sacrifices," INA quoted Gojkovic as saying.

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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attacks is the government's greatest nightmare.

"It will be very hard to move forward in the right way in this difficult process if we find ourselves in this kind of situation again," Public Security Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said in a

statement. "I call on the Palestinian Authority to deepen its struggle against terrorism."

The Palestinians countered that they were doing their best to prevent such attacks.

"The Palestinian authority is doing more than I 00 percent to make sure such acts do not hap-

"Don't panic, there's no need for panic," ice cream vendor Pazi Rosenfeld cautioned clients as they huddled before his television set, transfixed by the evening news.

Dror Klieger insisted on taking his evening stroll with Maga!, his wife. "Nothing's changed," he said. "This government has a direction, let's see where it goes."

Netanya residents and medics attend to the injured, after three pipe bombs exploded Sunday. Fourteen Israelis were injured after three pipe bombs, presumably planted by Islamic extremists opposed to the peace process, exploded in this coastal town. AP

Maskhadov:BoIIlbs won't break region MOSCOW, (Reuters) - The leaderof the breakaway region of Chechnya, the target of an offensive by Russian troops, said talks on a peaceful solution could only start once the shelling and bombing of the territory ended.

Chechen President Asian Maskhadov said no leader, including Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, had ever managed to cow the Chechens and that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would also fail.

"It is useless to talk to them until they understand that Chechens are not impressed by a blockade, a cordon sanitaire, cutting off gas and light, shelling villages and towns ... ," he said in television pictures provided by Russia's NTV television.

The film was made earlier this week in the Chechen capital Grozny, which is virtually surrounded by Russian troops.

Russia has bombed and shelled -Chechen towns and villages and its troops have gradually been occupying the north and west of the region as it pursues an offensive against Moslem rebels.

"When this small man (Putin) understands it is impossible to resolve the conflict in· a military way ... then they will come themselves to us," Maskhadov said.

"Noone has managed to do this

(beat the Chechens) and never will. There have been even tougher ones - Beria, Stalin, Yermolov - and they could not do anything," said Maskhadov. ·

He was referring to the former Soviet leader, his security police chief Lavrenty Beria and Tsarist general Alexei Yermolov, who led several campaigns in the North Caucasus last century.

Putin has said he would only hold talks when Maskhadov has handed over the rebels, who Moscow calls te1rnrists, although the Chechen leader seems to have little control over them.

Moscow says the rebels, who twice invaded the region of Dagestan, also bombed Russian towns and killed 300 people.

The rebels and Maskhadov's administration deny being behind the bombs. Maskhadov said he had made some concrete initiatives to end the conflict and said Russia's actions in Chechnya should be examined by international crimes courts.

"Let Putin be judged also. He is more keen to kill civilians," Maskhadov said.

Russia denies targeting the civilian population in its campaign, but journalists have documented several incidents when civilians have been killed.

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East German border guards look through a hole in the Berlin Wall after demonstrators pulled down the segment at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, in this Nov. 11, 1989 file photo. Ten years after the fall of the Wall, Germany continues to struggle with the culture shock of reunification. AP

5 soldiers shot dead in Algeria

Both attacks occurred late Friday, and there was no claim of responsibility.

In the first attack, armed gunmen burst into a shop in the coastal town of Le Figuier, 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the capital, opening fire on a crowd, including several soldiers. Eight other people, all civilians, were wounded, the newspaper Liberte reported.

The newspaper quoted witnesses as saying the assailants had been surveying the shop for a while before the attack.

The same night, armed men laid siege to an army barracks in Ain Tarek,400 kilometers (250miles) west of Algiers, the newspaper El Watan reported.

The mortar attack lasted sev-

era! hours, and ended when the assailants fled into nearby mountains after the arrival of troop reinforcements.

An Islamic insurgency, which began in 1992, has claimed I 00,000 Jives in Algeria. The violence broke out after the army canceled legislative elections the now-banned Islamic Salvation Front was poised to win.

In September, Algerians overwhelmingly voted in favor of a peace plan that aims to reintegrate Islamic militants into society.

Insurgents who turn themselves in to authorities are to be granted partial amnesty and reduced jail terms if they are not found guilty of rape, murder or bombings.

Chechen women shout and gesture as they try to cross the Chechenlngush border, in the Kavkaz checkpoint in Sleptsovskaya west of Grozny in lngushetia. Russia has consistently rejected calls for negotiations, saying that Islamic militants in Chechnya must be eliminated first. AP

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Murdoch opens Fox studios in Sydney SYDNEY, (Reuters) - Media magnate Rupert Murdoch unveiled his strategy to cut film production costs Sunday night during the star-studded opening of Fox Studios Australia.

Film stars including Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer and Charlie Sheen were ushered on red carpet into the A$450 million (US$288 million), 60-acre site.

Joining the throng of celebrities, paparazzi and television cameras was News Corp chairman Murdoch, his wife Wendi Deng, elder son Lachlan - who heads

Australian newspaper publisher News Ltd - and Lachlan's model wife Sarah O'Hare.

When the fonner Sydney Royal Easter Show ground area was first proposed for a film and entertainment complex, sections of the Sydney community opposed it, calling for the government-owned but leased plot to be set aside for public space.

Films already made at the production studios, which were officially opened in May 1998 and cover more than half of the total area, include "The Matrix," "Mis-

sion: Impossible II" and "Babe: Pig in the City."

But Sunday's launch centred on advertising the site's opening to the public - five-hour studio tours cost A$37.95 (US$24.30) for adults and A$22 (US$14) for children.

Fox Studios, located at Moore Park about 3.6 miles east of Sydney's landmark Harbour Bridge and Opera House, also houses 16 cinemas. Rival cinema companies in Sydney have been promoting cheap movie tickets ahead of the new competition.

World famous movie star actor Sam Neil with his partner at the Opening of the Fox Studios Australian Sunday in Sydney, Australia. · AP

Marine ... Continued from page 4

disecting works by technicians from the Fishery Section and other underwater works from the Coastal Resources Management and the Division of Environmental Quality took more than two months to finished after the project was proposed early this year.

The sanctuary is the most important project for the marine resources for this year as it seek to increase fish and other marine

Criminal. . . Continued from page 3

The former Senator in an interview days after his arrest admitted that he was the operator of the "hi-low," but stressed he has a license to operate such gambling under the Demapan Gaming Man-

reserve on the island by prohibiting fishing in the allotted

enclosed water area in Managaha. _...

Right now the enclosure is only awaiting for the bill of re-elected Representative Heinz Hofschneider, who is the sponsor of the project.

By being covered with a legislation, the sanctuary will be infused with funding which will start rolling the project.

Hofschneider, when asked over the sponsorship bill several months ago, said his office has to conduct public hearing since the sanctuary will not only

agement. Demapan and Cheung, his busi

ness partner, filed last Sept. 23 a $3-million lawsuit against acting Attorney General Maya Kara, Public Safety Commissioner Charles W. Ingram Jr. and other persons over alleged illegal arrest during the raid at their legitimate gambling establishment.

Demapan and Cheung in the

affect tourist activities in some part of Managaha, which is a favorite destination for cavorting Japanese but also Saipan residents.

Once the enclosure has taken place, Hofschneider said all activities will ·be restricted in the project area.

Tinianhas already come up with its own sanctuary, this being located from the Gurguan to Carolinas Points.

However, Resident Representative to Washington Juan N. Babauta said Carolinas may have been affected by contamination also.

lawsuit asked the court to issue an order declaring that Kara held the Office of Attorney General unlawfully.

The AGO in defendants' motion for summary judgment argued, among other things, that the lawsuit is an attempt to interfere with a criminal proceeding by raising politics in Kara's appointment as acting AG.

Movie actor Charlie Sheen signs a bottle of champagne at the opening of the Fox Studios Australia Sunday in Sydney Australia. Sheen was among 4,000 VIP guests to attend the historic opening which now opens the way to a large increase in the amount of movies which will now be made in Australia. AP

Disney makes homework deal with kids SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) - Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner's latest deal is with an I I-year-old boy.

Eisner personally delivered a contract Saturday to Victoriano Lopez Jr., a sixth-grader at San Fernando Middle School. Victoriano's part of the deal: a promise to work hard in school.

Eisner's charitable foundation has donated$ I million to Project GRAD, a national program to inspire students to graduate from high school and go to college_

The program requires participants, like Victoriano, to sign schoolwork contracts and offers scholarships ofup to $6,000 for older students.

"It offers a chance for all students to turn their dreams into reality," Eisner told about 900 Project GRAD volunteers. "All of us - educators, parents and the whole community -have the responsibility to provide them with the proper environment and support to become learners."

Last week, Demapan and Cheung have deplored the AGO's accusation that they are criminals.

The plaintiffs, through their counsels Pedro M. Atalig and Joseph A. Arriola, said that it is amazing for the AGO, the highest legal office in the CNMI, to charge that they are criminals when no cases have been filed and they never been convicted of any crime.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN

MARIANA ISLANDS

In the Matter ol the Estate of FELIPE A. SALAS, Deceased.

CIVIL ACTION NO. 99-671D

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mrs. Margaret H. Salas has liled a Petition Jar Letters al Administration upon the Estate of Felipe A. Salas, deceased; and that the Petition witt be heard by the Court at the Guma Hustisia in Susupe, Saipan on November 30, 1999 at 1:30p.m.

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN to all heirs ol and persons having claims against the late Felipe A. Salas or his Estate, and to all persons claiming an interest in the Estate, that they shall file such claims with the Clerk al Court wtthin 60 days from the first publication of this Notice. Copies of such claims should also be provided to the Petitioner's att~rney: Thomas E. Clillord, Attorney at Law, 2nd Floor, Rita's Building, Garapan, P.O. Box 5188 CHRB, Saipan, MP 96950. All claims against the late Mr. Felipe A. Salas or his Estale !hat are not so filed shall be lorcver barred.

Dated this 5th day of November, 1999.

/s/ JOVITA C. FLORES Clerk of Court Commonwealth Superior Court

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03 MACHINE OPERATOR (CONTINOUOS FORM)-Salary:3.20 per hour Contact: ASG CORP. dba Elite Printing Tel. 233-6564(11/19)F33358

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $1,250.00 per month Contact: MARIANAS TUG AND BARGE, INC. Tel. 322-7788(11/ 22)M81519

01 CHIEF ENGINEER (SEAMANJ-Sa\ary: Sl ,200.00 per month 01 TUGBOAT MASTER CAPTAIN-Salary: $1,500.00 per month 01 COOK (SEAMAN)-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: TUGS AND PILOTS, INC. Tel. 322-7788(11/22)M81518

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: LAWRENCE M. FLEMING Tel. 234-9263( 11/23)133404

01 WAITRESS-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: XU LAN CORPORATION dba Penguin Bar Tel. 233-4445( 11 / 22)133407

01 DRAFTSMAN-Salary: $5.20 per hour 03 CARPENTER-Salary: S3.10 per hour 02 MASON-Salary: $3.10 per hour Contact: JESSIE A. ARIZALA dba Systems Services Company Tel. 234-5334( 11 /23)133406

01 STEEL WORKER-Salary: $3.95 per hour Contact: GUANGDONG DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. dba Guangdong Hardware Tel. 288-2288(11/23)133395

17 IRONER-Salary: $3.05 per hour 04 PACKER-Salary: S3.05 per hour 17 CUTIER-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: JOO ANG APPAREL, INC. Tel. 235-2731 (11/23)133397

01 CONSTRUCTION WORKER-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact L.M.S. CORPORATION dba Root's Appear\ Tel. 288-1886(11/ 23)133398

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Salary: $3.05 pe r hour must have extensive experience in the field of marketing & selling hardware grocery & gen. mdse.; know how to drive; m ulli-lingual; with computer background (Realworld, Synchornics) 01 WAREHOUSE WORKER-Salary: S3.05-3.30 per hour 01 AUTO MECHANIC-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: TRANSAMERICA (SAIPAN) CORPORATION Tel. 234-1629(11/ 23)181527

03 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Salary: $800-2,400.00 per hour Contact: PACIFIC MICRONESIA TOURS, INC. Tel. 234-3913(11/ 23)181521

05 CARPENTER-Salary: $3.05-3.50 per hour Contact: BIRD ISLAND DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED Tel. 3.05-3.50 pe rhour Contact: BIRO ISLAND DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED Tel. 235-6888( 11 /23)133385

10 SEWING MACHINE REPAIRERSalary: $3.05 per hour 35 SEWING MACHINE OPERATORSalary: S3.05 pe rhour Contact: HSIA-LING H. LIN dba Net Apparel Company Tel. 235-6888(11/ 23)133386

01 CARPENTER-Salary: $3.05 per tiour Contact: BOBBIE'S AMUSEMENT CO., INC. Tel. 235-2624(11/23)133387

01 COOK(RESTAURANT)-Salary: S3.05 per hour Contact: THE SAMURAI CORPORATION dba Hyaku-Ban ResUSouthern Cross Trop. Rest. Tel. 234-3374(11/ 23)133388

07 CUTTER-Salary: $3.05 per hour 02 BUTIONHOLE MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary: $3.05 per hour 02 MARKER-Salary: $3.05 pe rhour 07 PRESSER (MACHINE)-Sa\ary: $3.05 per hour 04 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKERSalary: $3.05 per hour 03 (ASST.) PRODUCTION MANAGERSalary: $3.05-10.00 per hour 51 SEWING MACHINE OPERATORSalary: 3.05 per hour 02 TRIMMER-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: EXPRESS MANUFACTURING, INC. Tel. 322-6743(11/23)133389

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: 850.00 per month Contact: BLANCO VENDE, LTD. dba Kiosk & Coral Reef Logo Shop Tel. 322-3313(11/23)133392

01 ELECTRICIAN (SUPERVISOR)Salary: $800-1,200.00 per month 01 PROJECT MANAGER-Salary: S800-1 ,800.00 per month Contact: HBR INTERNATIONAL, INC. Tel. 322-2406(11/23)133394

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Employment references require and will be checked - pol~e clearance required.

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It is likely you will have one great love in your life, and that you will pursue this destiny from an early age, clear in your thinking and firm in your resolve. As a result, you are more likely than anyone else born under your sign to enjoy a lifelong partnership or marriage.

Also born on this date are: Luke Perry, actor; Joan Cusack, actress; Daryl Hall, singer-songwriter; Elmore Leonard, author; Jerome Robbins, director and choreographer; Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. first lady; Steve Young, football player.

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PARIS(Reuters)-AndreAgassi aims to crown his outstandingly successful 1999 with victory in the A 'IP Tour world championships in Hanover later this month, then get even better next year.

Sure to end the year as world number one for the first time, the American won the Paris Open on Sunday for the second time, earning his 44th career title, his fifth this year and 10th in a Super 9 tournament.

French Open champion Agassi, who has become the first player to hold both Parisian men's tennis crowns in the same season, beat unseeded Russian teenager Marat

CUC ... Continued from page 1

The draft results of the new financial evaluation is expected to be outinmid-Decemberto give the Board ample time to review it before finally deciding on awarding the contract to any of the firms.

Bums & McDonnel released last month the result of its evaluation of bidders' proposals where Enron International' s proposal was ranked first, closely followed by Tomen Power, then HEI Power Corp.

The Board has 90 days to release its· final decision on the project since its meeting in October 13.

Enron, the top bidder, branded CUC's latest move as a "delay tactic," and warned against its possible repercussion to the entire CNMI economy.

Frederick E. LaCroix, general manager of Enron Guam Piti Corporation, a subsidiary of Enron International, down played CUC's financial concerns saying it will not cost CUC even a dollar to build the project in three years' time.

LaCroix also pointed out that despite different economic con-

Saipan . .. Continued from page 1

on Saipan called US-CNMI De- · velopment Corp., and in Hong Kong--Yee Tung Garment Co. Ltd., a company engaged in the manufacture for export of cotton knitted apparel.

Fang's garment manufacturing factory in Ningbo, PROC has a paid-up capital of $800,000.

The Pacific Garment manufacturing plant will be built in Koror on a 4,000-square meter of land owned by Polycarp Basilius, the Pacific Garment's local agent.

"The republic offers a favorableenvironment, which includes quota-free entry to the U.S.," Fong said, the very reason for expanding his garment operations on Palau.

In its application for FIAC, it is noted the factory will serve as an assembly plant, as all materials will be I 00 percent imported.

The finished garment, through

Safin 7-6 6-2 4-6 6-4 in the Berey final.

"I'm definite! y going to recharge and try to get ready for it (Hanover),"saidAgassi, whoplans to return home for a rest before resuming practice for the November 23-28 Tour world championships.

"You know, I don't want to lose sight of the fact that we have a 52-week schedule. I mean, you've got to be the best in the world every week," he said.

"That's my approach towards it. I want to get better. I want to ask myself to concentrate harder and longer."

ditions between now and years ago when the idea of putting up a new power plant was proposed, the demand for power has annually increased.

He added that CUC- through R.W. Beck - already done the same financial evaluation some two years ago.

"We view this as an unnecessary delay which is ultimately going to harm the consumers in Saipan because this power is needed now ... We don't understand the reason for the delay. They have done this study previously," the Enron official said in an interview right after the CUC Board meeting.

At the same time, Enron said the CNMI economy has already reached its bottom as tourists are beginningtocomeback,andcommercial and residential developments including new homesteads and the planned free trade zone pave the way for more power needed.

"The CUC has no financial obligation to pay $1 until this plant is completed, and the power is being produced. So in three years, they will pay no money.

"So there's no issue on power demand, there's no issue on abil-

subcontracting, will be shipped directly to the customers of Pacific Garment's affiliate in the U.S.

Pacific Garment will also import all of its machinery and equipment and some of its workers from the PROC.

Projected production for its first year of operations is estimated at 70,200 dozens of apparels a year. Pacific Garment hopes to double this production to 140,000 dozens of clothes in its second year and 163,800 dozens the succeeding year.

Of the total $2-million investment, $ I million will be used for the construction of the plant and dormitory; $0.5 million for the machinery and equipment; and $0.5 million as working capital.

In a projected financial statements submitted to FIB, Pacific Garment expects to post a net loss of $151,913, as income derived from subcontracting fees was projected only at $1.544 million, as expenses to hover at $1.696 million.

Rota. • • Continued from page 1

Gaming Act of 1989." Among the proposed amend

ments is to bring down to$50,000 - from $500,000- the annual casino license fee for the first five years, and on the sixth year, on $ I 00,000 per year. It also lowers down the number of required rooms for a hotel casino to be built in the island from 300 to only I 00 rooms.

Tinian Mayor Frank Borja earlier said these amendments to the gaming initiative will create a more investor-friendly economy.

He said high business application fees have discouraged prospective investors to put up their businesses on the island,

ity to pay. These are delaying tactics which we feel are going to harm both cue employees and the public," said LaCroix.

In a statement, CUC said the study will specifically address the concerns raised by the Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA) pertaining to the size and cost of the proposed project.

cue also made pitch on its over $100,000,000 obligation to CDA for prior capital improvements. Furthermore, CDA's approval is a requirement for any project the magnitude of the proposed new plant, said CUC.

The $120 million power plant is so far the largest projec~ to be undertaken by the CNMI.

The CUC Board also approved the $45,000 budget for the new financial analysis.

CUC Board chairperson Rosario Elameto said earlier that CUC is not ruling out the possibility of doing the project by phases.

"That's why we want the study. We want an expert to tell us whether we really need 80 MW or we just need 20 MW ... that's whai we really taking step by step to see to it that what we are doing is right," said Elameto.

It will only be in its second year and the following year will the company realize a net profit of $110,350 and $530,692, respectively, based on the projected financial statements.

The company estimated that the plantwillcmployabout 150workcrs in its first year of operation and gradually increase to 300 workers in two to three years time.

The ratio between overseas and local workers would be about 8: I depending on the labor supply condition of Palau, the company said.

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and added that despite the legalization of gaming on Tinian some IO years ago, there remains only one casino in the island which is the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino.

Manglona, for his part, also said Rota will continue to explore other alternatives to boost its economy as the "casino" option failed to get the needed number of votes to be passed.

"We will work extra hard with our leaders to follow other economic strategies ... Rota moves on. The economy remains a top priority. Thisismypersonalcommitment: Together we can make it happen," said Manglona.

Under the proposed Rota Casino Act, a Rota Casino Administration (RCA) will be established within the Office of the Mayor of Rota. The RCA will be having the general responsibility for the implementation of the Act, among others.

Of the three CNMI-wide initiatives that were voted upon, it's only Senate Legislative Initiative 11-1 that got a majority of votes saying "yes."

BOE partial election results showed 5,937 "yes" votes out of I 0,842 ballots cast.

Under current laws, a CNMIwide initiative needs to garner majority of the votes to be passed.

As a result of Saturday's mid-

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term election, only persons of Northern Marianas descent can vote on constitutional amendments affecting the protections against alienation ofland in Article XII of the Commonwealth Constitution. It amends Article XVIII, Section 5 of the Commonwealth Constitution.

Voters also thumbed down Senate Legislative Initiative 11-4 with only 4,094 "yes" votes out of 10,917 ballots cast.

This means there will not be an establishment of an office of finance within the Legislative Bureau and within the Judicial Branch to control and regulate the expenditure of public funds by the Legislative Branch and Judicial Branch.

Majority of registered voters also thumbed down the retention on the bench of Superior Court Associate Judge Timothy H. Bellas with only 4,895 "yes" vo'tes out of 10,932 ballots cast.

Under a Constitutional amendment ratified in the November 1997 elections, the question of whether CNMI justices or judges will be retained shall be put to a vote at a general election immediately before the end of that justice or judge's initial term of office.

Bellas, whose term as judge expires on year 2001, is seeking to serve another six-year term on the bench as a trial judge.

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ing authored bills benefiting resident workers, among them, the three year limit on the stay of guest workers; equal compensation to local workers; and medical coverage to locals like what nonresident workers are getting.

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day, Nov. 10 at 5:30 p.m. at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium Conference Room.

This will be the final meeting in preparation for the upcoming Veteran's Day Tournament to be held on Friday, Nov. 12 through Sunday Nov. 14. All interested coaches/managers should attend.

For more information, you may contact Robert Guerrero at 235-1580 or Liz Palacios at 235-9890/234-6946/236-3740.

Budweiser's . .. Continued from page 32

StephanSamoyloffwas awarded with MVP, Chris Guerrero received an honor of most goals scored, and Brian Collier was named Most Valuable Defender.

Coach Stephan Bossler congratulated his team on their enthusiasm and excellent playing skills.

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CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland fans were ready for revenge. They didn't get it.

Still furious at owner Art Modell for moving their beloved Browns . to Baltimore in 1995, the Cleve- • land faithful • hoped for some '"'-~~~ payback Sunday when Modell' s new team came to town to play the city's expansion version of the Browns.

They were severely disappointed, though, after watching the Ravens rout the Browns 41-9.

"When I signed here, the first thinglheardfromeverybodywas, 'BeatBaltimore,"' Browns tackle Orlando Brown said. ''That was on my mind the whole time. This is very disappointing."

Modell watched the game on TV in Baltimore.

Baltimore's defense rattled rookie quarterback Tim Couch, whose TD pass on the final play at New Orleans last week gave the Browns their first win. Couch finished 9-of-21 for 57 yards and was sacked four times before being replaced by Ty Detmer at the start of the fourth quarter.

The Ravens (3-5) snapped a three-game losing streak. The Browns '(1-8) scored their only touchdown on Delmer's 5-yard pass to Terry Kirby with 5: 13 left.

In other NFL games; it was New York Jets 12, Arizona 7; Buffalo 34, Washington 17; Chicago 14, Green Bay 13; Jacksonville 30, Atlanta 7; Indianapolis 25, Kansas City 17; Carolina 33, Philadelphia 7; and Detroit31,St. Louis 27.

In late games, it was Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Cincinnati at Seattle, Denver at San Diego,

Pittsburgh at San Francisco, and Tennessee at Miami.

The Monday night matchup is Dallas at Minnesota.

Lions 31, Rams 27 At Pontiac, Michigan, backup

quarterback Gus Frerotte threw a 12-yard TD pass to Johnnie Morton with 28 seconds left as Detroit beat St. Louis inamatchup of two of the NFL's surprise teams.

The Lions ( 6-2) won their fourth straight game to tie the Rams for the best record in the NFC. Frerotte, who completed 12 of 16 passes for 209 passes and two touchdowns, played the entire second half after starter Charlie Batch sprained a finger on his throwing hand.

Jets 12, Cardinals 7 At East Rutherford, New Jer

sey, Keyshawn Johnson caught a 43-yard scoring pass from Rick Mirer with 5:29 left to give the New York Jets their first home win this season.

Curtis Martin rushed for more than 100 yards for the third straight game, gaining 131 on 38 carries. The Jets (2-6), who had lost their previous four home games, sacked Dave Brown six times.

Arizona fell to 2-6. Bills 34, Redskins 17

At Landover, Maryland, Buffalo (6-3) scored on five of its first six possessions and Doug Flutie scrambled for a first down on four of them.

Flutie rushed for 40 yards, and completed 16 of22 passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns. Antowain Smith ran for two IDs as the Bills had their highest point total of the season. The Redskins fell to 5-3.

Jaguars 30, Falcons 7 Ai Atlanta, Mark Brunell passed


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for three touchdowns, Fred Taylor ran for 124 yards and the toprated Jacksonville defense stifled the Falcons.

Jacksonville (7-1) set a team record by sacking Atlanta quarterbacks nine times. The Falcons (2-7) managed only four first downs and 58 yards in the second half.

Colts 25, Chiefs 17 At Indianapolis, Peyton Man

ning passed for 290 yards, extended his streak of touchdown passes to 21 games and scored on a 7-yard scramble early in the fourth quarter as the Colts (6-2) won their fourth straight.

Manning's 7-yard TD run gave Colts a 22-17 lead over the Chiefs (5-3). Mike Vanderjagt added his fourth field goal of the game, a 37-yarder with I: IO left.

Panthers 33, Eagles 7 At Charlotte, North Carolina,

Carolina (3-5) forced five turnovers and converted them into 20 points to beat Philadelphia (2-7).

Carolina's Sean Gilbert had a sack and forced a fumble, and Kevin Greene had a sack and a fumble recovery to lead a defense that held the Eagles to 249 yards. Steve Beuerlein threw three TD passes, including two to Muhsin Muhammad, and John Kasay

kicked four field goals for the Panthers.

Bears 14, Packers 13 At Green Bay, Wisconsin, Brett

Favre drove the Packers 73 yards in the last 3: 19, but Ryan Longwell 's 27-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Bryan Robinson as time expired.

The Bears ( 4-5) snapped a threegame losing streak despite losing starting quarterback Cade McNown with a sprained right knee after the second series of the game. The Packers (4-4) lost for the third time in four games, including consecutive home defeats for the first time since 1991.

McCord wins Senior Tour title MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (AP) - Gary McCord, irreverent television sports analyst, again played the role he loves the most Sunday - golf champion.

McCord joked and hacked his way around The Dunes Golf and Beach Club the first two rounds, but capped a wonderful weekend comeback at the course where he earned his PGA Tour card in 1974 with a one-stroke victory at the SeniorTourChampionship.

As he held the trophy up at the 18th green, it was easy to see where the victory ranks with all his fame as an analyst, author and golf's wacky creative conscience,

''This is at the top of the pyramid," said McCord, who shot a 67 and was al 2-under276. "Everything else is below it."

McCord had the tournament's low round with a 64 on Saturday and tracked money champion Bruce Fleisher for most of the final 18. But Fleisherlost a one-

Gary McCord kisses the trophy afterwinningthe 1999SeniorTour Championship on Sunday. AP

stroke lead by missing two short par putts-the kind he had easily canned all season - on the 16th and 17th holes.

McCord, who never won on the regular tour, played the first 36 holes in I-over par and the last 36 in 13-under. He earned $347,000 and finished the year with $993,291, about $300,000 more

than he made in 25 seasons on the PGA Tour.

'This whole week has been such a Dow Jones ride," he said. "On Thursday and Friday, I didn't know what to expect. Then that last 36, I don't know if I could have played much better."

Fleisher and Larry Nelson, who fired a 65 after starting six shots behind the leaders, were tied for second at I I-under.

Summerhays was next at Sunder after a 74, while 60-yearold George Archer and Dana Quigley tied for fifth at 7-under.

McCord thought Saturday he would never get to 13-under, the number he thought it woul'd take to catch Fleisher, so he calmly worked through his round.

His second birdie on No. 6, a 12-footer (3.6-meter) that went straight on line into the cup, got his juices flowing. "I started feeling pretty good then," he said.

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Su11s beat Spurs, 77-74 PHOENIX (AP) - Jason Kidd gave Phoenix its first lead with a 17-footjumperfrom the top of the

,. ~ key with 57 seconds

· remaining,hitanother ,, 14 seconds later, and , ~ the Suns held on to

, defeat previously uni beaten San Antonio ,ffi 77-74 Sunday night.

.,. Kidd got the second basket when team

mate Penny Hardaway tipped an inbounds pass from Tim Duncan of the Spurs directly to him. He passed the ball back to Hardaway, got it back and drove to the edge of the Jane for the shot that made it 71-67.

On the Spurs' next possession, A very Johnson missed a layup, Duncan failed to tap it in, and Luc Longley of the Suns rebounded with 33 seconds left. That led to a layup by Tom Gugliotta and a 73-67 lead with 27 seconds to play.

But the defending champions fought back, with David Robinson making a layup and Terry Porter hitting a layup an~ a 3-pointer

over the next 22 seconds. Porter's 3-pointer cut the lead

to 75-74 with 5.1 seconds to go, but Kidd added two free throws for the final margin.

Kidd finished with 23 points, and Rodney Rogers had 12 of his 18 in the fourth quarter as Phoes nix battled back from a 15-point, third-quarter deficit.

Hardaway had 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Duncan had 15 points and 17 rebounds, and Robinson, who was in foul trouble, had 12 points and 10 rebounds in 22 minutes.

The win denied the Spurs what would have been a franchiserecord 4-0 start. The Spurs also won their first three in 1984-85.

The Spurs Jed 58-51 going into the fourth quarter, but Rogers scored nine consecutive points over a 41/2-minute stretch, cutting the deficit to 65-62 with a 17-footer with 3:55 to play.

Rogers' 3-pointerfrom the corner tied the game at 67 with 2: 17 to go.

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minutes in the first half, picked up his fourth foul and went back to the bench when he backed into Gugliotta 3:37 into the third quarter.

It didn't seem to matter immediately - Malik Rose made two free throws 26 seconds later, and the Spurs took their biggest lead of the game, 48-33.

But Gugliotta made two baskets during a 9-0 spurt and, after a dunk by Rose, Oliver Miller hit two free throws and Kidd made a 3-pointer to complete a 14-2 run. With 4: 13 left in the third quarter, the Suns were back in it at 50-47.

Notes: Suns guard Rex Chapman re-sprained his left ankle with 24 seconds left in the first quarter, but returned in the third quarter. . .. The Spurs had won eight straight counting their last five of 1998-99 .... The victory was No. 200 for the Suns (200-73) in the America West Arena, winning seven years to the night since the building opened, Nov. 7, 1992 .... Although the Suns have won just one game in each of their last two playoff series with the Spurs, they are 10-4 in the last 14 regular season meetings.

San Antonio Spurs center Tim Duncan (21) battles with Phoenix Suns' forward Rodney Rogers (54) for a rebound during their game Sunday night in Phoenix. AP

SCS cross,.coUlltl'.Y run Bud Light Dart League JENNA BREE Tollstrup was

the first . person to cross the finish line at the Saipan Community School invitational cross-country meet held at Kilili Beach Park on Friday, November 5th.

Jennebree fmished with a time of 6:05 followed by Myung Chin Kim with a time of 6:08.

Participating schools in the one mile race were Eucon International, Grace. Christian, and Saipan Community School.

This race was a tune up for the CNMI Cross-Country Championship that will take place November 20, 1999, around the field near the airport.


Name League A Marpac Bud Boys Q's Shooters Figueroa's Playboys Don's Dart Starz Len's Bull Snipers Lite House Bulls Eye League B, Div. 1 (B1l

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Q's Killer Bees 189 116 Enviro-Safe D'Gobins 157 128

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Lite House Diamond Stars 152 133

BUDWEISER INTER Saipan FC defeated Chong Song 5-1 in the finals on November 6, 1999.

Chris Guerrero helped the game with his spectacular 4 goals, and Wachara Lizama picked it up with 1 goal at the end.

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Restaurant Chris Guerrero scored 1 goal, with Arirang getting back with 1 goal also.

In the last few minutes of the game, Brian Collier scored to win the game.


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SSA games rescheduled RCA Dunners Figueroa's Ruzkies Don's FT Untamed Bud's Most Wanted

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THE SAIPAN Softball Association informs all coaches/managers ofthe l 999Men's Island Wide Slow-Pitch League that the games (originally scheduled for Nov. 6, 1999) but were postponed due to the weather have been rescheduled to Thursday, November 11.

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For more information, you may Q's Virgin Widow contact Robert Guerrero at 235- D.A.P. Pin Throwers 1580. Angus Beef Eaters

This is also to remind all inter- League D ested teams, coaches and/or man- Lite House Bull Hitlers 179 106 agers, that there will be a coaches/ Figueroa's Yahoos 136 149 managers meeting on Wednes- Bud's ... ~nflie§r~ 129 156

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