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Rota GOP elects its new- leaders !nos camp says election done in.a 'sneaky manner~

By laldy Dandan Variety News Staff

THE REPUBLICAN Party on Rota elected Sunday a new set of leaders, but an associate of Mayor Joseph S. Inos said yesterday they will protest the "sneaky way" the election was conducted.

Elected were Fidel Manglona, president; P.aul Taisacan, vice president; Laura I. Manglona, secretary; and Efren M. Atalig.

Most, if not all of them, are considered supporters of former lieutenant governor and outgoing party president Benjamin T.

Manglona. Manglona and Inos, who is off

island, will square off in the yet to be scheduled Republican Party mayoral primary.

(However, whether a primary would be held or not now depends on the new party leadership.

Variety sources said that some Rota Republicans "feel" that Inos, a Republican turned Democrat, should not even be accepted again into the party.)

Rota's acting mayor and outgoing party vice president Crispin M. Ayuyu yesterday described

SJinday's election as "low politics."

He said he, as party vice president, was not even informed of the election schedule.

"This is totally unfair," he said. Inos's chief administrative of

ficer declined to make further comments, but said he will write a letter to CNMI Republican Party Chairman Ben Fitial to protest the the way the election was conducted.

Fidel Manglona, in a letter to Fitial dated Nov. 25, said the

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Tenorio w-on't challenge legality~ of possible third terin for 'Teno'

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

GOVERNOR Froilan C. Tenorio said yesterday he will not go to court to challenge the legality of his uncle- Pedro

1: (Teno) P. Tenorio's bid to seek · the Commonwealth's top post

for the third time. "In the interest of the general

public, it should be somebody from the general public who should pursue this matter," he told reporters who interviewed him after he had signed a proclamation designating December as Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month.

. . "I don't want to challenge it plans to run in that election.

(legality)," he added. The supporters also recall the Teno has served as CNMI gov- case of former Rota Mayor

ernor for two terms, and a 1985 · Prudencio Manglona who, as constitutional amendment bars two-tenner, sought re-election anyone from being a governor for and won. Opponents ques-a third term. tioned his sitting as a three-time

Teno' s supporters, however, mayor, butthe court backed him claim the former governor is not up. covered by the amendment since The issue has been reopened it was ra0.fied during his incum- by Democratic Party chair bency. Benigno M. Sablan when he

They cite an April 13, 1988, was quoted as saying that the opinion by then Atty. Gen. Alex question of whether Teno can Castro, stating that Teno could be al lowed to sit as governor for seek his third term in the 1989 a third time should be resolved elections. Teno eventually de- by the cour~t.~-- ___ _ cided not to push through with his Continued on page 32

The Rota Republican Party leaders join gubernatorial candidates Pete P. Tenorio and Jesus R. Sablan (with their spouses, Sofia and Annie, respectively) for a photo during GOP's recent election of party officers.

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Man charged for 'leaving kids' while playing poker

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THEA TTORNEY General's Office charged yesterday a man on Rota who allegedly left four kids under his custody unattended while he played poker.

DexterT. Apatang was charged with four counts of child abuse or neglect before the Superior Court.

According to the complaint filed by AssistantAtty.Gen. Alan Lane, last Oct. 25, Apatang left a one year-old child unattended inside a vehicle.

while he played poker. It was not clear yet whether the

kids are Apatang's children. Apatang was summoned to ap

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2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- NOVEMBER 27, 1996

Iraqis da11ce in streets Dinar strengthens on oil-for-food news By WAIEL FALEH

BAGHDAD, Ir.aq (AP) - Iraqis cheered and danced in the alleyways ofBaghdad's poorneighbomoods as word spread that the government had agreed to go ahead with a U.N.-monitored oil-for-food deal.

The dinar strengthened against the dollar, and money changers disappeared Tuesday from the market to wait and see where the exchange rate would settle.

"I do not believe it!" said Sanlir Mohammed Shaker, 44, a fonner govenunentworker. '"Ibis is the happiest day of my life." .

On Monday .Iraq accepted the remaining U.N. conditions blocking implementation of the oil-for-food

deal,andU.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said she expected the sale to go forward.

Iraq had given its approval last May to the U.N. deal, which will allow Baghdad to sell $ 2 billion worth of oil over six months to buy much-needed food and medicine.

But implementation had been blocked because Iraq insisted on restricting the number of observers to monitor the program. And the United States announced in September that the plan was on hold because of an Iraqi military incursion into protected Kurdish areas in the north.

Iraq's economy has been deterio-

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By MIKE MILLER JERUSALEM (AP) - Rejecting charges that he is leading Israel into an economic slump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the economy remains healthy and foreign investors are pouring in money at a record rate.

The government plans to sell off 4 billion shekels($ 1.25 billion) worth of state-<iwned companies and banks in 1997, which will fuel a return to strong economic growth by the following year, Netanyahu said.

"Israel has the intrinsic properties to achieve spectacular growth," Netanyahu told Israeli and foreign economists and business leaders. "It will happen at a veiy, very rapid rate," making-Israel one of the world's richest countries, he predicted.

Netan yahu aimed to counterdeepening gloom caused by a spate of negative economic statistics and the feeling among the country's elite that the new government's tough policies toward the Arabs are killing Israel's economic boom.

By ASHOK SHARMA NEWDELHI,India(AP)-Thetrialof former PrimcM.inisterP.V. Narasimha Rao opened Tuesday with an Indian businessmanaccusing Raoandhisspiritual adviser of taking a $ l 00,000, but failing to provide a promised favor.

Confined to a wheel chair because of paralysis of his legs, Lakhubhai Pathak, a London-based businessman, pointed his finger at Rao and Nemi chand Jain, l<nown as Chandraswamy, when Judge Ajit Bharihoke asked him to identify the accused.

Rao listened to Pathak· s testimony withhiseyes half closed. Rao has pleaded innocenttoconspiracytocheatthebusinessman by promising a government

Economic growth, which topped 40 percent in 1990-1995 and was over 7 percent last year, has tumbled to half that level. Exports are stagnant, tourism is plummeting and unemployment rising.

Netanyahu said that despite media reports tl1at the situation is scaring away foreif.'n investors, investment in tl1e first 1o montl1s of 1996 bas aheady equaled last yc:ir · s record figure of S 2 billion.

·The smart money ishe1e because it recognizes that most Israeli financial and business assets are .. grossly undervalued," he said, adding sarcastically: "We have been told the economic climate is in great gloom because the political climate is in great gloom ... The investors don't know this."

Netanyahu insisted that despite tensions, "We will pursue the agreements with the Palestinians, and I think that we will also achieve in the next four years a breakthrough with Syria and by extension, Lebanon."

He added that despite Israel's current tourism slump, there will be unprecedented tourism by Christian pilgrims in 2000.

Netanyahu also pledged to carry out a planned ?billion shekel($ 2.2 billion) cut in the 170 billion s!Jekel ($ 53 billion) 1997budgetnextmonth-akey to reducing the state deficit, bringing down interest rates and restimuJating exports.

But the real key to the future growth, Nctanyahusaid, wasL'irael' sJargepopulation of scientists and engineers and tl1eir talent at improvisation -an advantage in the hi-tech field~ where Israel seeks its economic future.

The conference was sponsored by the Koret Foundation, a San Francisco nonprofit organiz.ation, in conjunction with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

contract Heis on bail after posting al 00,000-

rupee($ 2,777) bond. Rao, thefirstfonnerorservingprirne

minister to face criminal charges in India, is expected to make his statement in the court next month.

TheSupremeCowthas ordered that the trial be completed within three months. If convicted, Rao faces up to seven years in prison.

Pathak, 71, who manufactures spicypickles,said: "I was persuaded to pay the money to Chandraswamy in 1983 after Rao, who was then India's foreign minister, said during a meeting in a New York hotel that Chandraswamy has told him everything and that his wmk would be

rating since the United Nations inlposed sanctions after Iraqi leader • Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait in August 1990.

The U.N. ban on oil sales - Iraq's main commodity - deprived the economy of more than$ 20 billion a year in revenue. Depreciation of the dinar and rising prices have put even necessities such as food and medicine out of reach for poor Iraqis.

.AfterwordofthedeaJspreadMonday night, people celebrated in the streets of the dense! ypopulated working class district~ of Al-Rahmaniya

and Al-Thawra. The dinar had slipped to a record

low of3,000 to the dollar in December and January. Before Monday's annoW1cement,itwas trading at about 1,400 to the dollar. Tuesday's opening rate was 1, 100, but no one on Kifah Street was willing to sell.

Retail prices were expected to fall, but some skeptical shopkeepers kept to their old prices.

"IdonotthinkthatAmerica will let . the oil flow," said Ahmed Nouri Mahmoud,a52-year-oldstoreowner. "History tells us that they never let

good things happen to President Saddam, so I expect them to bring something up to stop the deal."

Iraqinewspapersreceivedthenews late and published it without comment

One government worker, Mohammed Fatnan, an employee at the Minisll)' of Information and Culture, termed the deal a victory for Iraq over the United States.

"President Saddam pulled the carpet from under Albright' s feet," he said ''We always knew that President Saddam is the only one who cares for Iraqis while the rest only talk."

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I Satwrlay's crash off the Comoros Islands, east of Mozambique, the

i head of the Ethiopian investigation team told the Ethiopian News Agency. . ItJ a briefreport carried by state

radio. Tuesday morning, the. news

agency said the two suspects we~ nationals of Djibouti and Ken ya The three hijackers weie Ethiopian nationals, the report said

CommissionerGuetachewAssefa told the agency said the.team wOt;!ld .. give a detailed repOit on the identity of the hijackers and what happened ontheflightwith 175peopleonboard a~ soon !lS the investigation is com-

. pieced. Leul Abate. captain of the i1ight,

told the agency Monday that the two stl$pects had escaped with him from thecockpi{afterthec~giButtheco-

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Japanese survivors of Ethiopian airline crash tells of his 'escape'

By PAUL AMES NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)- There were screams as the plane hit the water, a deafening explosion as the cabin broke up, then a few awful seconds of silence before Takahiko Sugiyama began his short, desperate struggle for survival.

The Japanese aid worker grimaced in pain Monday as he recounted his stoiy from the Nairobi hospital bed whereheisrecovering from Saturday's Indian Ocean crash landing of a hijacked plane.

"When I heard the captain say he haddecidedonacrash landing,! thought I had finished my life," Sugiyama, 56, told reporters.

"I think I must have lost consciousness, then I felt the water coming in. I reafu.ed I was alive."

Sugiyama was among 52 people who survived when the Ethiopian Airways jetliner ditched off the Comoros Islands. The other 123 people aboard

done." The businessman said he had doubts

about the foreign minister arranging a commercial deal to supply of newsprint and paper pulp.

"But Chandraswamy told me that Indian foreign ministry is handling the contract since the World Bank was to finance the contract," he testified.

But the promised government contract never came through and Chandraswamy pocketed his money, Pathak told the judge.

Rao, who resigned as prime minister last May after his Congress party was defeated in general elections, is also facing charges ofbribery and forgery in two other cases. Trial is these cases will begin next month.

the aircraft were feared dead. The passengers' ordeal started min

utes aftertheBocing 767 took off from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa headed for Nairobi.

'Two or three men rushed into the cockpit It was veiy quick," Sugiyama recalled. "Then one of them said we had been hijacked."

Passengers then faced an agonizing wait of more than two hours with no news from the hijackers or the crew. Finally there was terror, as the captain announced he was out of fuel and he was forced to land in the ocean.

"It was the kind of panic you see in the movies," says Sugiyama. "Some were ciying, some were praying."

He blacked out when the plane slammed into the sea and broke into three pieces. "I can't remember, I did not feel pain, nothing," he said.

Seawater rushing in revived him. "J

started moving, trying to get out. I was afraid of sharks," he said with a laugh that made him wince from his chest wounds.

"I could see the beach, and I was sure then I would be rescued," he said.

Within five minutes, Sugiyama wa, picked up by a group of European touristsinasportsfishing boat. "I was lucky, I could hear people screaming 'Help! Help! Help!"' he recalled.

Based in Tokyo, Sugiyama is a development specialist with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency. He was flying back to meet his wife and three daughters in Nairobi after finishing a mission in Ethiopia.

He was injured in the right leg, chest and left shoulder, but doctors said his wounds were not life-threatening. SugiyamacreditedEthiopianpilotLeul Abate with saving his life.

Saudis to help undo crash damage in India i NEWDELIIl,India(AP)-Saudi wreckage of the two aircraft was I Arabian Airlines promised Mondaytocompensate farmers fordarnageto their landcaused bytherecent collision of its Boeing 747 and a Kazak cargo plane.

"It is very unfortunate but inevitablethattheoil spillage would cause some damage to the fields in the area We will do the best we can.to make good the loss," said a statement from the airline.

The Nov. 12 crash of the Saudi plane, which had just taken off from New Delhi' sairpo1t, and an arriving Kazakstan Airlines IL-76 killed all 349 people on both planes. The

scattered over an area of l O kilometers (six miles) southwest of New Delhi.

The airline promised to clean oil and other chemicals, as well as clear the fields of debris. "We were indeedoverwhelmedbythecnommus help that was so readily provided by \ the local people," said spokesman , Saad Al-Shehri.

Meanwhile, Abdulaziz R. AIHaZini, a vice-president of the airline, has arrived in India to facilitate processing of claims by the relatives of passengers killed in the deadliest midair collision. A

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Senate tackles budget today By Zaldy Dandan Va,tety News Staff

THEJOINTSenate-HouseofRepresentatives conference on the fiscal year 1997 budget bill will try to come up today with a draft that can be passed by both houses before the weekends.

TheSenatewillholdasessionlater this afternoon, with the House expected to follow suit today or on Friday.

After three days of discussion, the legis]atorshavealreadyagreedonthe funding levels for most of the agencies, senatorial districts and programs, but they have yet to work on the budget's administrative provisions.

However, Variety sou= said the

legislators are' 'pretty much in agree-ment now." ·

"They'rejustfinalizingthedetails. Time now is the factor, not disagreements."

It was agreed that Rota and Tinian would get $,15.2 million each out of the more than $204 million budget

Aside from the funding levels, the legislators yesterday also agreed that the monies for the additional II 8 government full-time employees would not be taken out of the · government's utility payment to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. (CUC).

Instead, the House Joint Resolution on theFIE.s, whichwasrecently deferred to the House Ways and

Gov't employees told:. 'Save on electricity'

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

GOVERNOR Froilan C. Tenorio tells government employees to be scrupulous in their use of electricity to help mitigate the present power crisis being experienced on Saipan.

"Until further notice, I ask you to advise your employees to take utmost care in minimizing the use of electricity between the hours of IO a.rn. and nopn, and between 6-10 p.m. both in the office and in their private lives," Tenorio said in a memorandum issued Nov. 22.

"It would also assist tremendously to turn off all office airconditioning units during nonworking hours except those needed to be on for the protection of sensitive equipment,"the governor added.

The power outage schedule, ac-

cording to the Commonwealth ' UtilitiesCorp. willextenduptoDec.

14, and CUC officials warned that unscrupulous use of electricity could prolong the crisis.

Power shortage has been bugging' · Saipan due to the breakdown of a CUC' s power equipment.

CUC public information officer Pamela Mathis earlier said the CUC's Unit 3 engine has damaged piston and bearings that needed to be replaced.

CUC expected that it could put the line back yesterday, depending on the availability of the needed parts.

There was no update on the engine's condition as press of press time.

"Your cooperation in conserving energy is absolutely essential to enable CUC to provide necessary maintenance at the power plants," Tenorio said.

Me.ans Committee, would be pas.sect by the House and the Senate.

Passing the joint resolution would give Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio the authority to identify or reprogram the $2.9mjllionfundingforthe l 18FIE.s.

Meanwhile,SenatePresidentJesus R. Sablan' s proposal to increase the salary of government employees will beincludedinthebudget, the Variety learned yesterday.

Ahnost all of the legislators have signed a petition for granting government employees a pay hike.

AV ariety source said funding for at least a partial salary increase is alreadyassurerl,butthemonies would not be taken from the Retirement Fund nor from CUC.

'They will shift funds fium pro.grams, but there would be no raids on Retirement nor CUC."

Yesterday's conference finished late in the afternoon, and was followed up by separate meetings of the

Rota, Tinian and Saipan legislative delegations.

The House on Nov. 18 passed the $204.981 million fiscal year 1997 budget bill, which included appropriations for the FfEs.

The bill did not include the Public School System's budget of close to $42.5 million, which was appropriated out of a "piecemeal" budget passed last month.

Ways and Means Chair Ana S. Teregeyo said the$2.9 million funding for the I 18 FrEs were "borrowed" from the government's utility payment allotted to the cue.

Teregeyo said the $2.9 million was "borrowed" with the intention that once lapsed funds are available CUC will be the first to be paid back.

Most of the governor's proposed expenditures for a portion of the additional $IO million in revenues were included in the bill, Teregeyo

said However,fundingfora Cornmon

wealthHlm Officeandthenewemergency medical technician division (EMT) were left out of the bill.

Teregeyosaidthefilmofficeshould be the responsibility of the Marianas Visitors Bureau, which would get an additional $1.9 million.

The new EMT division, c;m the other hand, will raise a lot of organizational "concerns" that, Teregeyo said, should be discussed further by officials of the Departments of Public Safety, and Public Health Services and by the members of the Legislature.

The new projects added to the bill include funding for a multipurpose gym of the Northern Marianas College and for renal transplants at the Commonwealth Health Center.

The original budget bill, which the governor branded as "not balanced," was vetoed early last month.

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Tenorio stresses on drunk, drugged driving prevention By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff GOV. Froilan Tenorio signed

a proclamation yesterday declaring December as Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention

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Gov. Froilan Tenorio signs a proclamation declari!7g_ De.cember as Drunk f'!fld Qrugged Driving Prevention Month yesterday in front of the Multi-purpose Bwldmg m Garapan. Also m the photo are, from left, Tony Kiyoshi, Jose M. Castro, and Paterno Hocof

pose Building in Garapan, Tenorio also brought up the idea of coming up with a "free ride" program wherein police officers would pick up drunk persons and drive them home during Christmas holidays.

Tenorio asked the people and organizations to observe "3D month" by taking responsibility for preventing impaired driving in the community and teaching young people safe driving behavior. · The proclamation stated that in 1995, 43,825 Americans were killed in motor vehicle crashes. Of these deaths, almost 17,274 or less than 39% of these fatalities involved alcohol.

Studies have shown that young drivers aged 21 to 34 are the most at risk group for driving impaired.

"Obtaining a license to drive is a major milestone for youth and necessity for the majority of our citizens. We must teach young people the responsibilities that accompany having a driver's license," said Tenorio.

"At the same time, we must teach them about the risks of driving under the influence of

drugs and alcohol," said the governor in the proclamation.

Tenorio said a11 citizens and institutions need to acknowledge that a license to drive is not a license to kilJ, injure, or destroy.

"We all need to take a stand against impaired driving, individually and collectively. Intervening to prevent others from drinking and driving should be common practice among hosts and friends," he said.

The governor underscored the need to use designated drivers and alternative transportation when knowing that "we will be drinking."

The governor asked everyone to drive on Dec. 20 with their headlights on to support National Lights on for Life Day in memory of those who have been killed or injured by impaired drivers and as a reminder of the dangers of impaired driving.

Among those who witnessed the proclamation signing were Public Saf~ty Commissioner Jose M. Castro, Tinian Police Assistant Chief Tony Kiyoshi, and Rota DPS Resident Head Paterno Hocog.

'J,R'4 rrltllliana~ by: John DelRosario

Thoughts for Thanksgiving Day TOMORROW is Thanksgiving day, a day when Christians throughout the free world give thanks to our Savior for all his blessings and generosity. It is also the day that kicks-off the beginning of the Holiday Season. It exudes that festive mood in our hearts as we brace to celebrate the birth of Baby Jesus. It is subsequently followed by a farewell to the closing year and a grand welcome for the New Year.

As these festive events occur in orderly succession, I'm bothered by the flip-side of the proverbial coin of famine, hunger, intra-racial genocide, violence and murder among clans in Central Africa and other societal discordancy that doesn't measure-up to the festive mood of the season; It certainly awakens our sense of appreciation that these unfortunate events aren't part of daily reality among islanders in these, pearly isles.

Do you have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving Day tomorrow? I do. There's my son who made it through a whole year following a second open-heart surgery. It was a mind-numbing experience, certainly a trying moment when we brought him that morning for surgery. We tried to brave the occasion, but we buckled in our own human frailties, sobbing quietly as we sun-endered our faith to divine providence.

We kissed our son good by as he struggled to open his eyes. He was crying, fighting hard to hold our hands against the groggy effects of oral anesthesia. We wondered if this was his way of saying "thanks mom and dad". Yes, tears of fear and helplessness flowed like a river from our naked eyes too. Our consofation and last hope was divine providence as we whispered in his ear "You're in good hands with Him". I felt a numbness in my whole being when they wheeled him away.

This kid is special not that he's a fighter or that he survived two openheart surgeries, but because all events since birth led to the founding of a true Catholic family. I remember his first holy communion. I felt a lump in my throat as he and his classmates walked-up the altar in angellike spirit to Father Gary to receive the holy ghost. I felt guilty that I couldn't receive Christ with him. He led us into unconquerable valleys in our Jives, including a holy and blessed matrimony. Yes, we're ever thankful for his quiet role in our re-establishing a true Catholic family. We now walk up the aisle with him on Sundays to receive holy commuriion. Indeed, it was something to celebrate and be thankful about for he brought us to His side.

Even as my family and I prepare for this joyful day of thanks, I'd like for everyone to remember in our thoughts and prayers the following: The children of prisoners who couldn't be with daddy, the children of those serving lifetime sentences; our brothers and sisters who can't possibly enjoy the true spirit of Thanksgiving Day because of empty pocketbooks; the hungry children of the world especially those in Central Africa; children of drug users who long for 5uber and warm moments with their parents; and others who won't be able to celebrate Christmas as we know it right here in paradise. My heart bleeds forthose too who are struggling for mere survival under the thumbs of whimsical dictators. Finally, may you all have a Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Introduction to Thanksgiving-IOI It was in grammar school where I learned a little about Thanksgiving

, Day. It revolved around drawing and coloring huge ugly turkeys and pumpkins around a fence or barn area. I'd chuckle at how we drew this creature beyond recognition. It's an ugly bird in the first place and we were only doing what kids do-facial rearrangements so the creature looks more like some diabolical animal from Lake Susupe. Imagine what would he say if the bird could talk.

Those were the days when I'd improvise little white lies like telling my teacher that I had turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, potato salad, ham and strawberry ice cream for Thanksgiving dinner. And my teacher would believe my white lies. I swear to God, l don't even know what a roast turkey looks like nor have I ever tasted pumpkin pie and all the other trappings of a Thanksgiving dinner. I usually have sardine or mackerel, taro, rice and banana cooked in coconut milk with tons of unboiled water for the final wash down. But! was a proud kid and wasn't about to surrender to quirks of fate.

If we're lucky with beef, chicken or fish, those were special days and we'd relish it for as Jong as it lasts. We had our share of abject poverty and everything we wanted we had to work for until our bodies hurt right down to the marrow of our bones. On weekends, we work and toil the soil from dawn to dusk and feed farm animals before heading back to the village. We even worked at the Saipan Stevedore hauling 90-pound cement bags all night until our faces are plastered with it.

We followed neighborhood fishermen net fishing well into the wee hours of the morning. We worked as janitors, dusting offices, scrubbing restrooms and emptying trash cans for three dollars every after school Many of my friends have done the same and do understand the value of a dollar for they worked for it. Anyway, those were Thanksgiving Days without turkey. Have a good one and God bJess you and your families!

JACK ANDERSON and JAN MOLLER

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

Agency head travels the globe WASHINGTON-A little known official in the Commerce Department is racking up some big frequent-flier miles at the taxpayers' expense.

Joan Parrott-Fonseca, who heads the Minority Business Development Agency, has been on the road 212 days over an 18 month span beginning in 1995.

Some disgruntled staffers at the agency, which recently laid off more than half its headquarters' staff, have taken to calling their boss "Hazel Jr.," in reference to embattled Energy Secretary Hazel 0 'Leary, whose frequent and expensive overseas trips have sparked calls for her resignation.

A Commerce Department spokeswoman says Parrott Fonseca 's travels are part of a "massive reorientation" of the agency. But others can see no justification for spending more than $100,000 on the care and feeding of Parrott-Fonseca and two aides at a time when her agency's budget is under assault by the Republican-controlled Congress.

Last year, the agency's budget .was chopped from $44 million to $32 million. This year, another $4 million w;1s trimmed, forcing the layoff of 54 employees from a headquarters staff of 91.

Though most of her trips were to major American cities like Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York, they also include two visits each to South Africa, Puerto Rico; and Kingston, Jamaica; plus visits to China and Mexico City. Other destinations include Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Orlando, Fla., West Palm Beach Fla., and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Anne Luzzatto of the Commerce Department argues that because one-fourth of ParrottFonseca 's travels took place on weekends, she is actually doing the taxpayers a favor. "We are expected, as government employees, to put in at least a 40-hour workweek," Luzzatto said. "If we work on weekends, we are not being reimbursed for our time. If Joan's travel takes place on weekends, that's over and above. She's giving that (her time) to the taxpayer."

Parrott-Fonseca maintains that her travels involve more gruel than glamour. "I don't want to travel (this much)," she told us, noting that many of her trips involve 18-hour work days. ParrottFonseca and her lieutenants claim they often get ill from overpacking their schedules.

Documents obtained by our reporter Kathryn Wallace, however, detail a travel schedule that often finds Pan-ott-Fonseca in luxury locations. On one I 995 visit to Puerto Rico, for example,

. farrott-Fonseca stayed at the El San Juan Hotel and Casino, a 390-room beachfront resort that boasts two swimming pools, a health club, and

four restaurants. Fonseca 's hotel charges for that visit include a

$29.25 tab from the "wine - cheese" bar and $20 at the "la veranda" pool bar.

On an October 1995 trade mission to South Africa, for which the plane ticket alone was nearly $7,000, Pan-Ott-Fonseca billed the government $241 for a driver to get her around. While staying at the Casa de Campo hotel in Santo Domingo, which bills itself as the "Caribbean 's most complete resort," Pan-ott-Fonseca found the time to order a massage-though the government did not pick up the tab for that one.

Though some of PaJTott-Fonseca' s travel claims have been disallowed for exceeding government per-diem allowances, there is no evidence that she has broken any rules or regulations. A senior Commerce Department official told us that all travel by senior managers must now be approved by Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor. During the period when most of Parrott-Fonseca's trips took place, she required no permission from higherups.

"Kantor has made clear to the entire agency that at a time of budget constraints, travel should be constrained to necessary trips," a senior agency official said. "I will tell you that in the five-and ahalf months (since Kantor took over), her travel has been reduced significantly."

Elio Muller, the acting deputy director of the Minority Business Development Agency, has also spent considerable time on the road. Muller left his family in Florida to take the MBDA post. According to documents, his travels have cost more than $30,000 since 1995, including visits to Ecuador and Chile. Of 135 travel days, however, 73 were spent in Florida.

Commerce Department officials explain that the increase in travel is no accident. The MBDA was originally founded in an effort to help small minority-run companies -et off the ground. But the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown thought the agency should also be used to help mid-size firms look for export opportunities -even though a host of other government agencies, like the International Trade Administration, already do virtually the same thing.

"When MBDA was begun ... the minority community in this country had far different needs (than today)," Luzzattoexplains. "Now it is ready to join the rest of small- and medium-sized businesses in this country and begin to pump up exports."

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Dump closure starts early '97 By Jojo Dass Variety New s Staff

KEEP your fingers crossed. Secretary Edward DL

Guerrero of the public works department yesterday said the Puerto Rico Dump will finally be closed for good early next year.

But, the cleaning will still

have to wait, he said. "The Puerto Rico will be

closed next year after the completion of the new landfill and the construction of the incinerators," said Guerrero.

The announcement was made following the DPW's receipt of some $IO million appropriated for the dump's closure through

the recently approved bill on capital improvement projects.

"We were ready to go with the project except that the funding hasn't been approved. Now · we have the funding. So we are now finalizing the package for the contract and start writing .it for the necessary signatures," Guerrero told the Variety.

Tenorio opts for legislation to amend garment law

These "signatures," he said, will be coming from the offices of the Attorney General, the Governor, and Procurement among others.

"We are moving full speed ahead on this project," he declared

Froilan C. Tenorio

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Writer

INSTEAD of coming up with new regulations, Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio on Monday said that he will instead propose amendments to the Garment Industry Moratorium Act, which Lt. Gov. JesusC. B01ja once described as "confusing."

The proposed amendments wi II be submitted to the Legislature in the form of a bill, he said, and would allow licensed companies complying with requirements to bring in workers.

Tenorio said of the new garment company applicants, only four or five have fully complied with CNMI requirements.

Asked if the proposed changes would double the number of garment workers in the Commonwealth, Tenorio said "'No."

Bo1ja, as acting governor last Oct. 18; repealed the emergency garment regulations which, according to House Speaker Diego T. Benavente, would have allowed the hiring of over 7,800 new garment workers.

The new regulations violated the Gmment Industry Moratorium Act, Benavente said.

Shortly after signing the repeal, Borja told the Variety that the affected garment companies "should take the matter to court."

"There's still confusion (on the exact number of garment workers a company may hire)," he said.

The Garment Industry Moratorium Act, he said, is confusing.

Despite the confusion, however, Borja said he would be "rnmpounding the situation with whut I feel as a defective law with another defective regulation."

He said he has to "uphold the law" though there may be something wrong with it.

Borja repealed the regulations, citing a "number of ques-

tions" on their legality and consistency with the Garm.ent Industry Moratorium Act.

In his directive, Borja said the repealed regulations should be replaced with something "within the confines of the law."

He also ordered the Department of Labor and Immigration to refund any application fees fornonresident garment workers paid pursuant to the repealed regulations but have not been issued permits.

Guerrero however said a bigger separate funding will be needed to clean the dump, the conduct of which will depend on the outcome of a $700,000 assessment on how it is going to be done.

The assessment is one of three of the project's components, the other two being the fencing of the dumpsite and the relocation of a new one.

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"Doing this project is not going to clean the dump. Cleaning it is a much more expensive process than the money we have," he said.

"We will determine how we are going to clean it up after the assessment is done ... and then we will address the clean up at a particular time ... that is a different funding," he added.

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may include merely capping the top portion and turn the place into a park, or a thorough cleaning meant to purify ground soil to avoid contamination.

An area in Marpi has been tapped as the new dump site.

Authorities have, in the past, repeatedly vowed to close and clean up the Puerto Rico Dump, a former facility of the US Navy, but failed supposedly due red tape and the lack of appropriate fund.

Its immediate closure was tackled during the recently held Environmental Working Group meeting of CNMI and other ranking US officials including Insular Affairs Director Allen Stayman where the immediate passage of theCIPbill was seen as a measure that will address the problem.

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Bids sought for Rota Park project THE NORTHERN Marianas

· Housing Corporation has now begun. &oliciting sealed bids for the rehabilitation of the Pinatang in Park at Songsong Village on Rota.

In her letter, Marylou Ada Sirol, NMHC Dircctress, said bids in duplicatemust be marked "CDBGConstruction, PinatangProject" and submitted· to the NMHC central office in Garapan on or before 2:00 pm, Dec.20where it will be opened and read aloud.

A bond of 15 per cent of the total bid price, which may be in the form Certified Check, Cashier's Check or Bid Bond, must accompany the bid, she said.

Other requirements, a bidder must submit include· a copy of CNMI issued current business license, updated financial statement listing of existing and past projects which include completion dates,

.listing of manpower with copies ofCNMI-issued work permits and a listing of equipment.

Specifications and plans of the project are available, Sirak said, at the NMHC Saipan office. She added that a non-refundable payment of $25.0 is required for each set.

A pre-bid conference for the project will be held at the NMHC Conference room on Friday at I 0:30 am.

All bids will be the soie property of the NMHC except bid bonds, ·and checks.

The NMHC will ensure that minority and women's business enterprises will be accorded full opportunity to submit bids.

The bidding is expected to complete the project which was undertaken five years ago using local funds but was never finished due to insufficient funding.

Allison assails 'diversion' of Mobile Health fundillg ~- · -- , legislature's move redirecting the service, and allow the DPHS secre- plies for these vehicles and the new have 61 FfE's. That will leave 20

Jerry Allison

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Slaff

EMERGENCY Medical Services Administrator Jerry Allison has expressed disappointment over the

fundingforthecreationofDivisionof tary to make the decisions over the paramedics are also needed." peopleforonefireeverytwodays(on Mobil~ Health _to other projects. entire health care system. Currently Rota has thenewestmost the average)," he said.

Alhson said they '.e_q~ested "E.O. 96-3 is the law. It goes into sophisticated and advanced ambu- "Whether DPS can fightthenum-. $800,000 _for the ne~ d1v1s1on but effect Jan. I. ~nless the .s~nate ~- lance in the region, he said. beroffires with those resources is up

Gov. Fro1lan Tenono earmarked stores the funding, and 1t 1s marn- Allison underscored the need of to them. The DPHS still intends to $424,000 and suggested the legisla- rained, we will be required to provide thefundinotoaccommodatethetrans- work with them and offer any ofour ~re deteITI_1ine the source of addi- ~s service with insufficient fund- fertoand;stablishmentofnewoffice staffcertifiedtofightfiresshouldthey tlonal fundmg. mg," Allison said. space. need them in an emergency," he

"I am extremely disappointed and The $800,000 funding they have "We spent over$ I 00,00J last year Allison said. surprised. The legislature has always requested, the EMS administrator to educate paramedics. We do not "I hope the decision makers can been very supportive of EMS and pointed out, will be used to reclassify have the resources to implement this h thi h ·11 · th improving the health care system," firefighters to Emergency Medical see ow sc ange wi unprove e said the EMS administrator. Technicians and Paramedics. level of service," he said. healthservicestothecomrnunity,"he

Executive Order96-3, Allison explained, combines the cwrent resources providing EMS at the Department of Public Safety with the Department of Public Health Services in order to improve efficiency, provide a more economically sound

Allison claimed he left messages said 'Tois will require several thousand ·

dollars for each of the 40 FIE's. fortheHouseWaysandMeanschair- A)lisoncommendedDPSCom-Othercosts would be the purchase of person several times but was never missioner Jose M. Castro for his new ambulances for Tinian -and called to testify to the committee. foresight by encouraging his staff Saipan and paramedic response ve- He disagreed that the creation of to work closely and cooperatively hides for Saipan, Tinian and Rota," the division will have a negative im- with DPHS to ensure no disrup-Allison said. "EquiP.ment and sup- pact on DPS ability to fight fires. tion in services.

In 1995 the EMS responded to The Association ofEMT's has 3,300 calls for assistance, while the urged the legislature to assist fire division responded to 160, he Tenorio's order for the immedi-said. Of the 160, 197 (67%) were ate transferofEMS through fund-grass fires. ing the Division of Mobile Health

"After the transfer, they will still within the DPHS.

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A BILL prefiled yesterday in the House of Representatives would allow CNMI citizens residing abroad to apply for homestead lots.

Current regulations that give, priority to persons of Northern Marianas-descent residing in the CNMI are "unfair," according to the bill's author, House Minority Leader Dino M. Jones (DSaipan).

He said affected by the regul ations are three groups of people:

• Students studying abroad , • Government employees sta

tioned abroad • Persons serving in the U.S.

armed forces Jones said that the law pro

vides for the.issuance of homesteads to persons of Northern Marianas-descent, and does not make any distinction between persons residing in the CNMI and those outside the Common-

wealth. Those abroad may be able to

apply for homesteads upon returning to the CNMI but, Jones said, the number of homestead sites is limited "so priority is extremely important.''

He said his bill would ensure that all persons of NMI-descent are given equal priority in getting homesteads.

House Bill 10-320 states, "It is in the interest of the Commonwealth that these people should be encouraged to return home, not penalized for living abroad."

If signed into law, the bill would" require the Division of Public Lands to come up with new regulations on homestead applications.

The new regulations would state that ''No person, otherwise eligible to have a homestead, shall suffer or lose priority of access to a ho,mestead applica• tion or homestead permit merely because they (are abroad)." ---------------'

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Concon delegates to hold reiin.iOn

Ramon G. Villagomez

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

ALL DELEGATES to the three constitutional conventions will gather for the first time on Dec. 9 as the CNMI commemorates the 20th anniversary of the First Constitutional Convention which produced the Commonwealth's maiden charter.

Supreme Court Associate Justice and former ConCon delegate Ramon G. Villagomez issued a memorandum last week inviting all delegates to take part in the

CPA holds inter-agency air disaster workshop THE COMMONWEALTH Ports Authority recently concluded a three-day disaster training workshop held amidst a rash of airline mishaps worldwide.

The workshop, said CPAchairman Victor Hocog, was held to increase disaster control awareness among concerned agencies considering that the Saipan International Airport "has been seeing an increasing number of flights to and from the island by major international carriers."

For his part, fire chief Stanley C. Torres Jr., said the CPA and other concerned government agencies should be ready to deal with such disasters and not be complacent about not having such accidents on the CNMI.

In a news release Torres said the workshop "was so successful similar ones will be planned by the CPA for next year."

Torres said the workshop aimed to have different agencies and private organizations learn their respective roles in case of an airplane disaster.

"We're dealing with an aircraft that carries 400 people serving our airport. The CPA can't hand le an incident of this

magnitude alone," said Torres. The workshop, dubbed

Aviation Disaster Management and conducted by Leslie Omans, Fire Captain of the San Jose California International Airport, was participated in by 63 persons from various agencies.

Broken down, these include at least three Yap police officers, the Pohnpei security chief, seven volunteers from the American Red Cross, three personnel from the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, 11 from the Deaprtemt of Public Safety, eight from the Emergency Management Office, one from Continental Micronesia and the rest were from the three CPA airports.

There has recently been a number of airline mishaps worldwide and this has cost hundreds of lives and millions of dollars in economic cost.

Among these were the collision, at a rnnway intersection, of a commuter plane and a small private one at the Baldwin Municipal Airport in Illinois last Nov. 19 where 31 people died.

Another was the air collision of a Saudi jetliner and a Kazak Cargo plane in India which killed lumdrcds of passengers last month.

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ceremony which will be held at Dai-Ichi Hotel.

"This will be the first gathering, like a reunion, for the First and Second Convention delegates in the last 20 and IO years, respectively. We hope that all delegates from the first, second and third conventions will be able to join and enjoy our reunion," Villagomez

stated in the memorandum addressed to all delegates.

Set to deliver speeches arc Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio as well as Fonner

, Con Con presidents Larry I. Guerrero and Herman T. Guerrero.

The First Convention was held in 1976 when the first Commonwealth Constitution was drafted and ratified.

The Second ConCon of 1985 entered 44 amendments which formed part of the constitution presently being used.

The Third ConCon. which convened in June last year, came up with 19 proposed amendments but none of them got the voters' nod during the rntification excrci,c held in March this year.

Hotel project 'trimmed dowri' By Rick Alberto the permit application which that a new permit application Variety News Staff significantly affects the per- must be filed should the Uto-

THE Utopia Hotel project mit decision." pia president wish to continue will be downsized after the A resurvey of the proposed the project. · discovery· that part of the Utopia lot showed that a por- In an interview last week, 1,801-square-meter area it is tion of the hotel structure Sablan told the Variety that, to build a proposed seven- would be encroaching on a lot the project proponents "have · story structure was found to currently leased by Tasi Tours, to cut down the project to be encroaching on another according to Sablan. conform to our program . ., property. "Tasi Tours was not aware This means, he said, that

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.Fiji PM weeps, seeks forgiveness SUV A (PNS)-Fiji 's prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has again broken down in tears and asked the nation to forgive him for any wrongs he had committed at a special church service Sunday.

In an emotional, tearful plea, Rabuka told more than 4000 people at the National Gymnasium in Suva that he did not known how many people he had wronged,

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a1rport1n · ·w. Samoa .. · APIA (PNS)-Concerns about safety has led to the closure of WestemSamoa' s Fagalii International Airport near the capital, Apia.

The two week closure beginning today will disrupt flights between Western Samoa and nearby American Samoa.

Airport Authority general manager Samau Sefo Ioane says operating

conditions and restrictions on the apron and movement area are not safe for aircraft operation because of a sealing work on the airpon park apron.

The state-owned Polynesian airlines says the temporary closure will also disrupt flight to Savaii island from Faga\ii.

Being close to Apia than the bigger Faleolo International Airport, Fagalii is the preferred exit and arrival point for many businessmen from Savaii and American Samoa.

Western Samoa has received aid from the European Union to upgrade facilities at all airports in the country including the restoration of anairstrip at Asau, east of Savaii Islands.

The old airstrip was washed away by Cyclone Ofa in 1990.

the Fiji Times reported. The service broadcast live on

the new Christian radio station, Voice of Hope, celebrated the station's launch Saturday. Rabuka was chief guest at both events.

Refering to a verse in the Bible Rabuka said he had been inspired by it to seek forgiveness.

Asked why he became emotional at the service, the Prime Minister said he always made an effon to ask for forgiveness from the bottom of his heart to show how much he loved the people of Fiji.

However, he said it was for the people to forgive him.

Church dispute in Solomons HONIARA (PNS)-An escalating feud between the Seventhday Adventist Church in Solomon Islands and a breakaway faction of the church has taken a new twist.

The mainstream SDA Church and the plinter group called the Seventh-day Adventist Lay Ministry Association who have been criticizing each other in their preachings have now taken to openly attacking each other in the local media.

The recent spate of counter attacks stemmed from the visit of an African preacher whom the mainstream SDA Church has publicly discreditted and distanced

itself from. A spokesman for the SDA

Church, Pastor Lawrence Tanabose, said the breakaway faction has no legal authority to use the universal name of the church in Solomon Islands.

·But the splinter group which claimed to uphold the original beliefs of the Seventg-day Adventists said the so cal led mainstream SDA Church is not registered under the laws of Solomon Islands.

The SDA Church is one of the five main churches in Solomon Islands which has a membership

·. of about IO percent of the country's population.

2 Samoans to stage t:rade< fair PAGOPAGO (PNS)-More than 30 manufacturers from Western Samoa are staging a Trade Fair in neighbouring American Samoa early next month.

President of the Western Samoa Manufacturers Association Eddie Wilson says the fair- to be held at the Rainmaker Hotel on December 5 and 6 - is aimed at promoting trade between the two Samoas.

Wilson says he's confident the exhibition will generate sales to the territory. Goods and services to be displayed include handi

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He says immediately after the trade fair there will be follow lip action to help local companies meet the needs of customers in American Samoa. .

Western Samoa's minister of trade and commerce, Tuilaepa Sailele, will lead the trade delegation. TheactingNewZealand high commissioner,. Penelope Ridings, whose office is a major sponsor of the exhibition will also accompany the group.

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FSM national and state leaders discuss issues PALIKIR, Pohnpei - State and National Government leaders met in Palikir to discuss the voluntary early retirement (VER) scheme, the proposed water and sewerage development loan, and the revenue sharing between the national government and the states, a news release from FSM said.

The VER is a component of the restructuring of existing government structures to cope with the funding constraints resulting the shortfall from the Compact funding step-down.

All four states are supporting· the VER scheme which will involve a total loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) of$25 million of which $IO million is for the FSM National Government employees and $14 million for the States to be divided as follows: Chuuk $5 million, Pohnpei $4 million, Yap $3 million and Kosrae $2 million.

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Tonga soon to join WTO NUKU'ALOFA (PNS)Tonga' s ministry oflabour, commerce and industries is finalising amendments on the Memorandum on the Foreign Trade Regime, a requirement for the Kingdom's accession to full membership of the World Trade Organisation.

A draft copy of the regime was submitted to WTO headquarters in Switzerland for amendments and recommendations to be incorporated in the final text, Radio Tonga reported.

Tonga now en joys observer status as an interim measure towards

full membership. Meanwhile, ministerfor labour,

commerce and industries, Dr Massaso Paunga and secretary for labour Bill Harris, will attend the WTO ministerial conference in Singapore to begin December 9-13.

Harris will first attend the meeting of permanent secretaries of the member countries of the International Cooperative Alliance ICA, in, Mayanmar, beginning December 3. ICA is an important funding source for Tonga's Cooperative projects.

Wife-beating said to be on the rise in PNG PORTMORESBY(PNSHapua New Guinea's Law Reform Commission has revealed that 70 percent of PNG 's women have been beaten by their husbands.

And in some places the rate of wife-beating has gone as high as I 00 percent, Post-Courier reports.

This was highlighted Monday in the "Against Violence Against Women"seminaratthe University of PNG.

Josie Sataro, a panelist from the Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum (ICRAF), cited the

commission's repo11, saying wife beating had a high economic cost in terms of work hours lost and of medical, legal and other services provided to victims.

Sataro says it helped create a high level of violence in society, led to family instability and kept women in their place as second-class citizens.

She says there is an urgent need for the government and development agencies to recognise violence against women as a serious problem and provide the resources necessrny to deal with iL

Fiji ~inister· attacks media SUV A (PNS}-Fi ji 's minister with special duties in the prime minister's office, Jonetani Kaukimoce, has launched a scathing attack on foreign media outlets whom he accused of painting a negative picture of the country overseas.

He says on many occasions, information had been deliberately manipulated, distorted and exaggerated by the foreign media as part of a campaign to discredit Fiji abroad, the Daily Post reported .

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Kaukimoce says an example of this was the recent television programme in Australia which was reported in the Fiji Times recently, with a supponing editorial in that newspaper.

He says discrediting Fiji abroad benefits no one. "If the aim is todiscourage investment or hurt our trJde, then those involved are the ones to blame if we are unable to create more jobs or generate more income for our people," he says.

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By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff A TEAM of experts will be

arriving on Saipan early next month to take blood samples from CNMI livestock and establish whetherthe meat products here are free of Brucellosis.

Lands and Natural Resources Secretary Benigno Sablan said the test will be used as a basis for the· issuance by the US Department of Agriculture, of a certification, that the CNMI' s meat products are safe.

Guam, which recently imposed a ban on the importation of CNMI meat products on grounds of Brucellosis contamination, has maintained the ban will be lifted only if these products have been certified as Brucellosis-free.

Brucellosis is a disease causing abortion among early victims.

Sablan said the veterinarians will be coming from Oregon, Hawaii and Guam itself.

"We now have veterinarians coming from the US to conduct tests and analyze blood samples for BruceHosis so that our meat products can be certified free of the disease," Sablan said.

He said results arc expected early next year.

Sablan earlier assailed the ban saying it was imposed to cut the CNMI off the Guam meat supply market, a move meant to favor US mainland and other suppliers.

He warned of possible legal action if the ban is not immediately lifted but was cut short by Gov. Froilan Tenorio who said a legal battle with Guam over the ban '"is not necessary."

Sablan said Tenorio's move did not hamper the DLNR 's efforts to have the ban lifted saying he is "working around that lawsuit to lift the ban."

"The Governor hired me to do what he wants and l want to do what he wants. So if the Governor says there will be no lawsuit to Guam, I will not have a lawsuit against Guam .. I will work around that lawsuit and make sure that we have the ban lifted," he said.

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J0-Mf,.RlA_t_JAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- N-'-O"-V'-'E=M=Bc..cE=R"--'2c.c.7.,_, l'--"9-"-96'-------------------------------··· ~----·----··-- ·--- - D ai-i chi goes for unique

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THE DAI-ICHI HOTEL has sought services of a firm specializing on the construction of precast buildings to erect living quarters for its employes.

And what made the whole thing even more extraordinary is that the three storey building will be built in six days.

The barracks was inaugurated over the weekend. The inauguration was held in simple ceremonies down Garapan and was attended by Masafumi Yamamura, Dai-ichi Hotel Saipan President; and Seiji Nakamura, President of the Nizeki International Saipan Co., the firm contracted for the job.

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NIS president Seiji Nakamura (left) and Dai-ichi Hotel GM Masafumi Yamamura view the construction from afar.

Workers put on the last of the individual parts put together to form what is now the barracks for Dai-ichi Hotel's 144 employees.

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Taniguchi said the building was made by fitting together individual sections, including walls, floors and roofs.

He said Waffle Crete is "perfect" for Pacific Islands because "it creates buildings resistant to hurricanes, insects and corosion." The building reportedly can withstand 155 MPH winds.

Once the exterior is completed, it takes about four weeks to make the building ready for occupancy and another month to complete all interior work, said Taniguchi.

The newly-built building has 72 rooms big enough for 144 people.

The project is believed' to be the first of its kind on Saipan.

Yasuhisa Iwabuchi, Daichi Hotel Administrative Manager, said resorting to the "Waffle Crete" method has enabled them to adjust with their time limitations.

"Our plan to have a new building replacing the old barracks for our 120 employes required us to seek the fastest time possible in completing the building," said Iwabuchi.

"The method, the latest in construction technologyseems to be helping us with our time constraints," he added.

Matson Co.' . . .. ' . . . . ' announces, .rates hike

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The fuel-related rate increase, a result of substantial fuel oil prices throughout 1996, was filed with the Surface Transportation Board yesterday a news release from the company said.

"Fuel prices have risen dramatically in 1996." C. Bradley Mulholland, president and chief executive officer, said. "Transportation companies have been especially hard hit. The DOE diesel price index for the U.S. shows a 16 percent rise in the retail price of diesel fuel since the beginning of 1996. Matson 's price per barrel of fuel has risen 32 percent over the last 12 months."

Airlines, trucking companies and ocean caiTicrs throughout the U.S. have implemented surcharges in 1996 to cover rising fuel costs, the release noted. Ocean carriers serving Alaska implemented a I percent fuel-related surcharge in May and recently increased it to 2 percent.

Matson implemented a 1.1 per· cent fuel-related hike in its Hawaii Service in June and will increase the surcharge to 1.75 percent effective December ri.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1996- MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11

Borja foresees no mudslinging between him and Gov. Tenorio

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LIEUTENANT Governor Jesus C. Borja last week expressed hopes his gubernatorial bid doesn't result to mudslinging between him and Governor Froilan Tenorio as the campaign eventually heats up.

Admitting that his political plan has strained their relationship, Borja, in an interview, said he and Tenorio have thus far remained "civil" with one another.

strain, I'm not going to deny that. • But I think we 're being civil to

one another and we're doing our work," Borja told the Variety.

"I want to be optimistic. I hope this doesn't result to unnecessary comments and criticisms. I hope that we will go out and campaign on the merits of the issues and let the people decide," he added.

He reiterated he is confident he will win the primary. "Anybody who decides to run for the primary has to be confident. So I'm confident I'm going to win," he said.

The "strain" on the relationship between Tenorio and Borja, ob

. servers said, has become "very visible."

The two maintained a safe distance from each other during last Friday's inauguration of the Tronkon Daok Children's Playground which was sponsored by IT&E, a big telecommunications firm.

They sat a seat apart when the formal ceremonies commenced, a situation not usually noticed in the past, observers said.

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He said Tenorio has "hurt too many people aiready through his actions. ""The people who talked to me are in agreement that he [Tenorio] is not liked," he has also declared.

Borja vowed to comply with the "ground rules" he said he expects to be laid down- by the

La Fiesta slates annual 'Festival of Lights' . LA FIEST A San Roque mall in

vites families from all overSaipan on Thanksgiving Day, November 28 as the shopping and entertainment center hosts its fourth annual Festival of Lights ceremony.

"As anyone who has been to the festival in the past years knows, this is going to be a spectacular event," said Kazunori Sadasue, general managerofTropical Plaza Ltd, the mall's owner, in a news release. "We' re very happy that this event has become, in effect, the unofficial kick-off of the end-

of-the-year holiday season on Saipan."

The festivities are set to begin at 5:00 pm when Santa and Mrs Claus arrive to personally meet with the island's children. Parents are strongly encouraged to bring their cameras as this will be an excellent opportunity to take pictures of their children with Santa and Mrs Claus, who will be at Jamboree Plaza in the mall until 8:00 pm.

The Festival of Lights will officially start at 6:00 pm when spe-

cial invited guests will stand togettier to all-at-once push the big red button that will tum on more than 800,000 traffic lights that have been decked all across the mall.

The festival's entertainment will continue at 6:30 pm with the KenRushMagicShow. Both children and adults alike will be amazed. by what they see during the one hour performance.

· More fun awaits then when "The Ferdinands," a local favorite band performs between 7:30

and 8:30 pm. To add to the festivities, Fun

Zone, La Fiesta's amusement center, will hand out up to 400 coupons, each worth five free game tokens, starting at 5:00 pm.

Sadasue said the shopping center management hopes everyone will wanttoseemoreofSantaand Mrs Claus as they make return appearances at La Fiesta San Roque on Saturday November 30, and every Saturday up to December 21."

The happy couple from the

North Pole will be visiting La Fiesta San Roque on those Saturdays between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm on each of those days," said the release.

Santa and Mrs Claus will make their final appearance for the year at the mall on Monday December 23 between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm. At the time Scot Thompson will be at the mall's Fun Zone once again handing out up to 400 coupons to youngsters who can tum each coupon in for five free game token.

• AN UNIDENTIFIED person/ s reportedly stole an airconditioner at the Department of Finance office in Capitol Hill Monday morning.

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Officer Sgt. Franklin Babauta said an employee discovered the airconditioner missing when the office was opened at 8 a.m.

Babauta said no signs ofbreakin were noted.

In other police report, an telephone operator at Nikko Hotel in Marpi received a bomb threat from a male caller Monday afternoon.

Police officers, hotel security guards and personnel from the Emergency Management Office secured the premises but found no bomb.

In Garapan, a man was arrested for allegedly hitting and injuring his wife on the head with a sewing machine during their argument before dawn

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Sablan says he'll convene panel on 'cave protection'


THE DEPARTMENT of Lands and Natural Resources is set to convene an inter-agency body that will formulate policies and guidelines on the protection ofSaipan 's caves.

This, after it was gathered that not one particular government office has been looking after these caves, considered as "sacred communications of our land's ancestors."

These underground natural quarters have reportedly become fair game to inexperienced cave explorers who, a\:cording to a local group of 12 spelunkers.

"We will formul;ite some kind of an understanding on who's going to be in-charge. Let's put some policies together so that nobody just get in there and ruin everything," said DLNR Secretary Benigno Sablan.

"One agency has to be in charge," he stressed.

He also lamented government's apparent failure to come up with a clear cut policy on the preservation of the caves and its protection from vandals despite the island being dependent primarily on tourism.

Protecting the caves, Sablan said, should be a task delegated to the Historical Preservation Office of the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, the Marianas Visitors' Bureau, the DLNR and even the De-

partment of Public Safety which should be on the look out for vandals.

The DCCA, Sablan said, is concerned on the artifacts found in these caves among which include Japanese war mementos.

The MVB, for its part, should also be concerned, he said, because persons who visit the caves are mostly tourists. The DLNR 's concern, he said, should be that of maintaining the caves' ecological system.

Sablan said he will invite representatives from these offices to the inter-agency meeting.

"All these [ cave explorations] are new tous," said Sablan. "We have always been told by our elders that our ancestors are inside these caves.

That was why we never try to get in. In fact, I say the sign of the cross whenever I pass by the caves within my land,"he added.

Sablan said he expects to convene the inter-agency body soon.

It will be recalled that a group of cave explorers ha~ recently raised a howl over what was feared as a gradual degradadon of Saipan's caves due to improper caving techniques practiced by novice spelunkers and the trash - empty soda cans among others - left by these persons. ,

Sablan said he intends to invite this group, headed by Tom Gipson, a businessman, in the inter-agency meeting.

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Tour agency, employee file $.5M countersuit over hotel incident

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

A TOUR agency and its employee filed yesterday acountersuit against a woman who sued them over an alleged beating incident at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

CounterclaimantsKoreana Tours Bureau (KTB) and its agent Beom Young Lim, through counsel Robert J. O'Connor, sought $550,000 in damages against Cho Mi Sook Jang.

KIB and Lim filed the counterclaim against Jang before the Superior Court for assault and bat-

tery, trespass, .and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The countersuit stated that last Oct. 27, Jang entered the KTB office at Hyatt without the permission of the agency or its staff.

Jang went inside the office of Lim's supervisor. In a loud voice, Jang accused Lim of massaging the wife of the supervisor in the Hyatt Hotel Club Elan steam room.

Lim and the supervisor asked Jang to leave the office but she refused and continued to shout accusations.

Jang then grabbed a telephone

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The countersuit said Jang's shouting and physical attack on Lim disrupted KTB's business, causing damage and embarrassment on the counterclaimants.

Last Nov. 13, Jang sued KTB and Lim claiming Lim assaulted him when she went to the agency's office last Oct. 27.

Jang demanded for $250,000 in damages.

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FCC closer to rate reduction By JEANNINE AVERSA

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators are prepared to take the first in a series of ste.ps int~hded to eventually lower international phone

, rates and possibly save American callers billions of dollars.

The Federal Communications Commission was expected Tuesday to adopt an order designed to move international phone rates closer to actual costs of making such calls.

The order would free U.S. companies to negotiate fees with foreign carriers to terminate calls in each other's markets rather than rely on the

present syste111 of government tariff agreements, which U.S. regulators say cause U.S. callers to pay more than they should for international calls.

But this and other freedoms would come only if the FCC determines that the foreign carrier's country was open to · competition. ·

Fornow, Canada, the United Kingdom and Sweden are considered the only countries close to meeting such a determination, telecommunications executives and regulators say.

Given this, AT-and-T, MCI and other U.S. telephone companies, while welcoming the action, don't think the order

New treaty opens doors for US,· Thai business BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - In an effort to stimulate trade and investment, Thailand and the United States agreed Tuesday to stop double taxation for citizens of one side doing business in the other.

The treaty concludes three decades of dispute over a situation that President Clinton says put U.S. companies at a disadvantage in Thailand, one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Clinton, the first U.S. leader to make a state visit to Thailand since 1969, p~aised the agreement as opening 'a new era of trade and investment between Thailand and the United States."

A Thai bank said the treaty should stimulate faltering U.S. investment. U.S. investors in Thailand now must pay taxes both in Thailand and the United States.

"Many other companies already have treaties with Thailand that prevent double taxation in a home country and in Thailand," Clinton said before the treaty was signed.

The agreement is to take effect in late 1997 upon ratification by the U.S. Senate.

Thailand is a preferred regional manufacturing base for ·scores of U.S. companies. General Motors executives laid the foundation Tuesday for a$ 750 million auto plant

· in the city of Rayong. But the Thai Farmers Re

search Center, the think-tank .of a major bank, reported Monday that U.S. investment in Thailand was slowing, dropping from second behind Japan until 1995 to third place after Taiwan.

Last year, the United States lost its six-year position as Thailand's largest export market to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the regional grouping that in-' eludes Thailand, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam, the center said.

The center said Thailand this year could record its first trade deficit with the United States in 12 years. But U.S.

officials said the Thais calcu-1 ate economic statistics differently and predicted Thailand would post a$ 3.2 billion surplus.

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But paired with international trade negotiations and another FCC proposal in the W(?rks, telephone executives say there is potential for policy changes that could save U.S. callers billions of dollars.

"We view this as one important part of the process of opening foreign monopoly markets to competition and ensuring that international calls are competitively priced," said MCI's chief policy counsel, Jonathan Sallet. The FCC says the reason U.S. consumers pay more than they should for international calls is because foreign telephone companies,

on average, charge U.S. phone companies fees 50 percent above cost to complete such calls.

The high charges, the FCC says, reflect the monopoly market conditions in most foreign countries.

FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, in an interview Monday, called the order "the first step in a two-step dance we 're doing that we hope will celebrate the end of the international telephone pricing carte I."

The FCC estimates that U.S. consumers on average pay 99 cents a minute for international calls. In theory,

. U.S. consumers should be paying 49.5 cen·ts a minutes if the fees to complete international calls were lowered to costs, the FCC says.

However, there's no guarantee that any reduction in these fees would automatically be passed onto V.S. consumers.

Still., the FCC is optimistic that over time U.S. callers will see savings if the fees are cut.

"American consumers are sending$ 5 billion bucks a year to foreign tetephone companies and we 're not going to put up with that anymore," Hundt said.

· Next month, the FCC is expected to propose rules that regulators and telephone executives predict will be a sigc nificant step toward lowering international calling rates.

The FCC is supposed to set benchmarks - not rates - above which U.S. companies would not pay foreign carriers to complete calls. Countries that don't meet the benchmarks would face an as-yet undetermined penalty.

Taken together, the order and the upcoming proposal represent a carrot and stick approach to try to get forejgn governments to either open up their markets or open them more.

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Rwanda rejects int'l force By HRVOJE HRANJSKI

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - The Rwandan government said Monday an international force to help refugees was irrelevant at this point and that Rwanda was not ready to assist the force in any way.

"We object to their presence in Rwanda," said Ephraim Kabayija, an adviser to President Pasteur Bizimungu.

A proposal to send security forces to protect humanitarian aid deliveries is among several options drafted in Stuttgart, Germany, wheredele.gatesfrom more than 25 countries met over the weekend.

Rwanda, which is accused of aiding a rebellion in eastern Zaire, had claimed that virtually all the Rwandan refugees who fled to eastern Zaire in 1994 returned home last week.

The return was triggered by a Zairian rebel attack that drove away Rwandan Hutu militiamen who controlled the camp. The refugees had fled Rwanda to escape retaliation for a Hutu-led massacre of half a million minority Tutsis.

But "About 150,000 refugees still remain in eastern Zaire, apparently moving west, and the only way for the force to play a role is to intercept them, engage Interahamwe (Hutu militias) holding the refugees hostage and facilitate their return home,"

Kabayija said in an interview Monday.

To achieve that, Kabayija said the force should come from Kinshasa, the Zairian capita! near Africa's west coast, then eastwru:d on the Zaire River - commonly known by its former name, the Congo River.

"We don't want to have anything to do with them," he said. "Our roads are narrow, the Kigali airport is crowded with humanitarian aid .... We have no time or facilities to engage ourselves with such a force."

The people in northern Kivu "have returned to their homes. The purpose of the force was to

. save people, and people are here," Kabayija said.

"Even those trapped are arriving via Gema now," he said, referring to groups of refugees from Uvira and Bukavu at the south end of Lake Kivu, who crossed into Rwanda.at Gisenyi on Sunday.

Kabayija said reports of a million Rwandan refugees in Zaire were exaggerated. "There were no more than 800,000 refugees in Zaire," he said.

He said that 600,000 have returned, and about 150,000 remained.

"I would expect that I 00,000 will return," he said.

Rebel leaders have refused to let aid workers and journalists enter the areas in eastern Zaire

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where returning refugees say their hungry and exhausted compatriots are also dying.

Aid agency figures indicate that for every two women who emerge from hiding in the forests of eastern Zaire, only one man comes out.

"From what the refugees are telling us, there is a huge disaster going on up there," one aid worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Sunday. "The rebels are killing hundreds of men in the forest."

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The Stuttgart delegates agreed that about 250,000 refugees are in eastern Zaire and as many as 300,000 more may be, said Canadian Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril, who is to lead the proposed force.

The first exhausted refugees from camps in warring southeast Zaire limped into the border town of Gisenyi, Rwanda on Sunday.

By CHANDRA BANERJEE CALCUUA,lndia (AP) ~Doctors treating Mother 'fe~esa said Tuesday that wiU perform an angio~ gram for 86-year-old nun to dee tennine why she is suffering chest pain.

Doctors had said Mother .. Ten:sa was reluctant to undergo . the delicate, invasive procedure,

but that if was a necessary pati of her tr~tment. A date for the an

. giogram had n.ot been set. Doctors ~aid she may have to be moved to a more sophisticated hospital in Calcutta for the procedure •..

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"So many young men are being taken away, I don't know why," said A)oys Sengimana, at 35 one of the comparatively few young men to make it out.

"Only the grandfathers are allowed to come, and a few others like me."

Sengimana said the rebels suspect that any refugee remaining in Zaire at this point is a member of the Rwandan Hutu militias. Sengimana said thousands of unarmed refugees like him in the forest simply have not yet been able to return home.

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The IO safest cities, in descending order, were:Amberst;ThousandOaks, California; mine, California; Simi Valley, California; Swmyvale, Cali-

fomia; VirginiaBeach, Virginia;Livonia, Michigan; Plano, Texas; Madison, Wisconsin; and Mesquite, Texas, according to the survey appearing in the magazine's 1997 Forecast issue, available on newsstands Dec. 2.

The IO most dangerous cities were: Newark; Atlanta; St Louis; New Orleans; Detroit; Baltimore; Miami; Washington;Flint,Michigan;andBirmingham, Alabama.

A nationwide telephone poll of 501 people, conducted in October for Money magazine by Roper Starch, foundtheissuethatrespondentsfeared most was that someone will break into their home.

Two-thirds of those surveyed said bW'glary was a serious or somewhat serious threat to themselves and their families. Other~nses included car theft, 61 percent; robbery, 605 per-

cent; aggravated assault, 50 percent; living conditions and high levels of rape, 48.5 percent; and murder, 40 poverty," Askey told the magazine. percent . "Amherst is more like a big quiet

~e magazme then asked Morgan suburb than a city, so we don't have Quitno, a research firm based in those problems." ~wrence! ~ •. that ~pecializ.es in Newark, bycontrast,islarge, densely cnrne statistics, to identify the safest populatedandpoor.Ithadthenation's andmostdan~~uscitiesinthe United highest violent-crime rate, with one in States by adJustmg the FBI's 1995 25residentsavictimofaviolentcrime. c~ statis~cs to give greaterempha- Eight miles (!3 kilometers) west of

Washington ·talk: Draft Dole in 2000; Elizabeth, that is

SIS~ the crones that lhe~pondents NewYorl<:CityacrosslheNewJersey considered most threaterung. line, Newark had a median household

Amherst,~ suburb ofBuffalo_wi~ annualincomeof$21,650,40percent 107,000 residents, had ~e natJ<:>n s below the national average, and more lowest rates for overall vmlent crane than 26 percent of its residents live andbw-glary. Ithad79violentcrimes below the poverty line. A city of and 201 burglaries per 100,000 resi- 260,000 residents, it is squeezed into dents.~8percentand80percentbelow less than one-third as much living

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By SANDRA SOBIERAJ WASIHNGTON (AP)- When Bob and Elizabeth Dole swept into a small cocktail party of co~rvatives last week, the room buzzed with whispers of another Dole race in 2000.

But this one would be HER turn. 'There was a lot of talk about that

-Doleagain, Elizabeth Dole, at the top of the ticket," said Bill Bennett, cofounder of the Empower America think tank that hosted the Doles atone of their first post-election outings.

AddedCalifomiaRepublicanstrategist Ken Khachigian: "I don't think there'sanyquestionifshedoesn'trun for president in 2000, she'll be Number 1 in line for vice president"

For the record, Mrs. Dole is having none of it "I have no plans to run. None at all," shesaidonelectionnight. Already, she's begun shipping file boxes to the American Red Cross, where, after a year off to help with her husband's run for the White House, she will resume the helm by year's end

But from her come~ office there, only a tree line obscures her view of lhe White House and a "draft Liddy" undercurrent - whether post-election musing or serious prognosticating -has begun to tug.

Dole himself has said this would have been Mrs. Dole's year as a running mate ifhe hadn't been the nomi

. nee. As it was, his campaign halfseriously floated her name in private polling on vice presidential possibilities. She proved popular even as voters flinched at a husband-and-wife team

Aorida Rep. Tillie Fowler, a friend for 30 years, says Mrs. Dole never expressed any private interest in running. But, Fowler added, "Who knows?2000isalongtimefromnow andshewouldbefabulous.Shemight be convinced" 'The party would beluckytohaveher,' 'said Khachigian, atopconsultanttoDole. "She' sproven herself." Indeed, Mrs. Dole, commanding a staff of 30, ran a relentless campaign against Clinton that, in its discipline, consistency and polish, oulperfonned her husband's efforts. An W1COnventional address to the Republican National Convention made

her a star and by campaign's end, she went solo in Dole's television ads and weekly radio broadcast ·

Loyal to her party and home state, the former two-time Cabinet secretaiy also stumped for North Carolina Sen.Jesse Helms in thelastdaysofhis close re-election race. State officials there tried twice before to recruit Mrs. Dole for her own Senate or gubernatorial race.

Hardly fad.ing in the shadow of her husband's defeat, the Harvardtrained lawyer is being featured next month with actor Tom Cruise in Barbara Walters' ABC television special,

"The Ten Most Fascinating . People in America." And given her previous tenure at the Red Cross, Mrs. Dole is certain to maintain the high profile.

In 3 1/2 years as president of the relief organization, she made more than 200 trips around the country, often to publicity hot spots like Southern California after the Northridge earthquake and coastal Florida to help with the ravages of Hurricane Andrew.

On the campaign trail, Republican audiences - particularly Christian conservatives - gushed over the spiritual ring she gave to the Dole-Kemp agenda for family tax cuts, smaller government, a balanced budgetandastrict abortion ban.

"She has a leader's view of the big picture that's inspiring and motivating," said Mary Ann Herny, a 54-year-old business manager, after Mrs .. Dole spoke at a Kentucky Christian college.

Well-known and well-liked, at least superficially, among the Republican activists who dominate pri.mmy voting, Mrs. Dole has already "moved pretty high up the list of potential candidatesfor2000,'' saidRepublican pollster Linda DiV all. "And anybody who dismisses her would be seriously underestimating her appeal, particularly among women and older voters."

Not that the Republican nomination would be Mrs. Dole's for the asking.

A Washington Post-ABC News survey before the Nov. 5 balloting found that only 33 percent of respondentsweremorelikelytosupportMrs. Dole for president someday based on herperfonnance this year; 45 percent were less likely to support her.

Having never run for political office(thelastelective postsheheld was as Duke University student government president in 1957), Mrs. Dole remains substantively unknown with views that have not stood the scrutiny ofa campaign.Yet heronly choice in aiming for the White House would be to jump directly into the 2000 mix.

'Though everybody would perceive her to be qualified. there are serious obstacles," DiVall said

Among them, a field likely to be

crowdedbyalready-popularRepublicans who would dull Mrs. Dole's · luster: retired Gen. Colin Powell, who swpasses her in star power; former Vice President Dan Quayle, also a darlingamongconservatives;andNew JerseyGov.ChristineToddWhitman, a formidable drain on Mrs. Dole's appeal among women.

the natJ.onal av~e. . space as Amherst, which is. spread Amherst Police Chief John Askey over 54 square miles (140 square kilo-

attributed the city's safety more to its meters). suburban setting_ and affluent, well- Nonetheless, Newark has 446 po-~uca~ pop~on than to any s~ lice officers per 100,000 residents. c1al cnme-fightmg prowess by his That's nearly twice the national aver-force. age of 230 police per 100,000 resi-

''Most cities with. populations of dents and more than three times the more than 100,000 are urban settings ratio in Amherst of 140 police per where there is slreet crime, crowded 100,000 residents.

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Malaysia is the last leg of a threenation Asian tour that has taken Kim to VietnamandthePhilippines, where he attended the 18-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit

Kirn is scheduled to hold talks with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad andattendalunchgivenbyMahathir Kim Young-sam at his residence Wednesday, accord-ing to the Foreign Ministry. audience with King Tuanku Ja'afar

On Tuesday, Kim is to have an Abdul Rahman.

Major Japan supermart will now fly US beef in_ TOKYO (AP) - Daiei Inc., a major Japanesesupermarl<etchain,saidTuesday it will start flying in all the beef the store imports from the United States.

Up to now, most of the American beef was shipped by sea, taking as long

as two weeks, said a Daiei spokeswoman. By air, thatwill be shortened to about 11 hours,keepingthemeatfresh, she said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The first batch of 80 tons of beef from a contracted ranch in Wichita, Kansas, arrived in Tokyo Tuesday morning.

The airlifted beef will sell through Daiei' s 530 outlets nationwide starting Thursday, for 428 yen($ 3.82) for 100 grams (3.5 ounces), or 20 yen (18 cents) higher than the shipped beef, the spokeswoman said.

Last year, Daiei imported about 11,000 tons of Kansas beef. American beef, which is much cheaper than Japanese beef, is attracting many buyers.

SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore's telephonecompany announced Tuesday it will reduce rates for foreign calls by up to 46 percent on Jan. I.

That will be the fourth price cut in a year by Singapore Telecom Ltd., which is to lose its monopoly in 2CXXJ

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O.J. can't explain blood, cuts By LINDA DEUTSCH

SANT A MO\'IICA, California (AP) - Confronted with the toughest physical evidence against him, OJ. Simpson couldn 'texplain how blood believed to be the victims' got into his Bronco or how he suffered hand cuts that plaintiffs claim were fingernail gouges from a death struggle.

The former U.S. football star was acquitted last year in the slayings of hisex-wife andherfiiendinatrial that generated unprecedented media attention and highlighted racial tensions in the United States. Simpson is black and the victims were white.

But the families of the victims believe he is the murderer. 'They are suing him for millions of dollars in civil court.

Before his testimony ended for the second day on Monday, Simpson said he never owned Bruno Magli shoes like those he is shown wearing ina 1993picture-andthekind that left bloody, size 12 prints near the bodies

ofhisex-wifeNicoleBrownSimpson and Ronald Goldman. Of the picture, Simpson said: "It's a fraud."

And sources confirmed that on Tuesday.Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki will dismiss a young, white woman juror· for alleged misconduct The jewelry saleswoman, whohadsaidshehadno opinion about the criminal case, was the subject of complaints from fellow panelists. Her replacement will be chosen by lot from the alternate pool of six.

In some of his most aggressive questioning yet, attorney Daniel Petrocelli showed Simpson a closeup photograph, taken three days after the slayings, of a crescent-shaped cut on his finger, and charged: "It was a fingernail mark, wasn't it, sir?"

''I seriously doubt that," Simpson replied.

"I twas somelxxly 's fingernails ripping into your skin, wasn't it?" Petrocelli asked.

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"Unless it was Justin's, I really don't know," Simpson said with a hint of exasperation.

Petrocelli, pacing sometimes within inches of the witness, challenged Simpson to explain virtually every move he made during 86 minuteson the nightoftheJune 12, 1994, slayings when his whereabouts are unknown.·

Simpson maintained he was resting in bed or showering at the time, and also said he was chipping golf balls and takinghisdogoutfora walk during those unaccounted-for minutes.

Later, Petrocelli confronted

Simpsonwiththeallegationhetooka polygraphtestandscoredaminus22, showing "extreme deception."

Simpson, who denied in his deposition ever taking a lie-detector test, acknowledged under questioning that he was hooked up to a polygraph machine at a private office so he could see how the device worked before taking a test from police.PolicenevermadeSimpson submit to a lie-detector test

Petrocelli clearly tried to provoke Simpson, but it didn't work. Once, the attorney paced so close to Simpson they were nearly nose to nose. At another instant, Petrocelli pcinted a pen in Simpson's face and demanded, "Answer the question, sir!"

Petrocelli quizzed the defendantabout blood, noting there was blood in his Bronco, on a driveway at his home and on a kitchen counter.

The defense has said the Bronco blood was planted by ove!7.ealous police ..

Simpsonsaidherememberedseeing some blood on his pinky finger and on the counter before he left for Chicagolatethenightoftheslayings.

"I assumed at the time it was my blood. I don't know. Like I said, I didn't feel the cut," he said.

He said he had no idea why or when he bled.

He recounted how a glass broke in his Chicago hotel room and perhaps injured his hand. But he couldn't remember how the glass broke or when he was cut, suggesting it was perhaps when he was "sweeping" broken pieces into the sink.

Petrocelli asked if he knew how blood traces that experts have linked to Ms. Simpson and Goldman came to be in his Bronco. Simpson said he didn't know.

"You have no explanation for this jury'l''Petrocelliaskedincredulously.

"None," Simpson replied. He also said he didn't know how

blood matching his and Ms. Simpson's got on socks in his bedroom,orhow blood matching his was foundonthepathwayofhisex-wife's house, on the path of his Brentwood estate and on the floor of his bathroom there, "except that's where I shave.' ·

Fightingbackpersistentchallel'lges to his alibi, Simpson maintained he wasonhisbedrestingorintheshower between 10:35 p.m. and 10:40 p.m., when the plaintiffs say the killings took place.

Simpson said he was running late for a limousine ride to the airport, and hurried into the shower during those five minutes.

Plaintiffs say Ms. Simpson and Goldman were sla~hed to death between 10:35 and 10:45 p.m.

Danis.11 bl,lsi~e~~~~1'13.l:>b~din alleged,int~atio1-1.al loanfraud AUGUST A, Georgia (AP) • 'The ofMartinez,Georgia;OsamuShimoi, from.January 1989 through Dec. 31, government wants a 70:year-olcf 48, ofTokyo;Khalid Mahmood, 42, · 1993, about obtaining low-interest Danish businessman held without of Pakist:m; Michae!Rp\Ve, 47, of loans or granlll from a group of bond to face charges of participat0 ·.. Marseilles, nlinois; and NiazA~; . Japanese investors, th~ Shimoi ing in an international-loan scam, age and address@known;wei:e ~o · • Group~ . . . . ·. ·.. . . . . Assistant U.S. Attorney Lamar indicted on charges of conspiracy, . · Georgiaauthoritiesbecameaware w alter said. transporting stolen. seci.uities •. and . . of tlie scheme after receiving com~

Flemming Ra1k. and five others money, and wire fraud. - · · · . plaints from two local businesses. areaccusedofpromisinglow-inter- Thecharges-wirefraud,interstate In 1971, when United Breweries est loans and grants to companies · transportation of stolen property and · chief executive officer V .J. who were asked to put up front conspiracy - cany fines of up to $ Rasmussen was kidnapped, Ra1k money to obtain the loans. 250,000 and l O years in prison. wasviceCEOand was instrumental

The scam's money trail traveled Ralkis the only suspect in custody. in raising a$ 31 O,{XX) ransom. through Augusta, the Midwest, . He was arrested in Gennany in Feb- Afterleaving United Breweries, Morocco and Egypt, according to ruaryandwasex.traditedt.otheUnited which produces Carlsqerg and f~prosecutorn.Anin4ictnlel1t Staleslastweek,ov~rl>.!rrishobjec-- Tubo~¥rs,inl973,Rallcbecame allegesthatthegroupstoleatleast$ tions. . . > ·. < ;< iny<>lvedini.tly~stnlent~.he.id-100,000. .. ·. > ··.. • > · . . A,rrestwan;antshave re(!llissued. inione~pthatfacilitatedinvest-

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BusinessmanRodneyBaker,47, least I6oompanieswereapproached · · tegal advisertothe Shimoi Group.

Amtrak resumes normal schedule· NEW ARK,New Jersey(AP)-Pederal railroad inspectors will check for problems ateverymovingtrain bridge in the United States as a result of the Amtrak derailment that paralyzed a keysegmentofthe Northeast corri-dor, officials said. · The announcement came as service resumed Monday with several hundred trains creeping over the busy marshland drawbridge just west of New York City.

Three passenger cars, one mail car and a double locomotive skidded off the rails Saturday, injuring 36 people. Two people remained hospitalized with back and

neck ~juries Monday. Amtrak and NJ Transit resumed a

full weekday schedule on the line, althoughtrainsweredelayedupto45

. minutes and speeds reduced to 10 mph (16 kmph) over the drawbridge six miles (IO kilometers) west of New York City.

A preliminary investigation blamed the derailment on land rails not being aligned with rails on the bridge, which swings open to allow river traffic to pass. Investigators discovered two damaged steel plates - one broken, one cracked.

The accident has prompted the

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The bridge tender had nied to raise the bridge to let a tugboat through about 4 am. Saturday, but there was a problem and the bridge never opened, a National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday.

Just what Amtrak did in the 2 1/2 hours from then until the derailment wasn't immediately clear, NTSB spokesman Paul Schlamm said Monday. Amtrak referred inquiries to the NTSB.

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British producers earn Emmys Lewis' film tied with two other

documentaries: awards in two· categories. One was a French-Dutch co-production, a film by Producer Jean-Luc Michaux called "La Colline Aux Mille Enfants," about a small village in France struggling to protect Jewish children despite Nazi threats to bum down the village. Another Holocaust film, "People's Century _I 933: Master Race," by British producer Johnathan Lewis, won in the Documentarycategory. Lewis said he interviewed confessed Nazi murderers and that he wanted to explore how "ordinary people" participated in the Holocaust either by deed or complicity.

By ALLYN FISHER NEW YORK (AP) - British producers dominated the International Emmy Awards, taking home prizes Monday night for television shows ranging from animated films to a six-part series on Covem Garden that includes candid shots of President Clinton at a ballet.

The black-tie awards show was held at a New York City hotel whose ballroom was transformed into a Broadw~y stage of sorts, its curtains illuminated in flourescent hues of orange and purple. A large Emmy statue graced the stage.

in that you sort of don't expect it, but you hope for it," said Waldman, who beamed at reporters while clutching his golden Emmy trophy.

Waldman and Bethell said their· candid film, afred by the British Broadcasting Corp., showed a box office manager being fired and a soprano singer stricken with a sore throat while onstage.

The documentary also showed President Clinton attending a Washington performance with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea.

The film also won the Oscar this year in the Animated Short Film . category.

Rose said the award was the first given to a film featuring Wallace and Gromit - a mad inventor and his canine sidekick- in a competition not strictly limited to animated films.

Wallace and Gromit caused a sdr in New York last month, when their creator apparent! y left the original models for the characters in the back of a taxi cab. The models were returned by a watchful cab driver.

"The Pelican of Rarnzan the Red," about the role of pelicans in a Pakistani village, by French producers for Boreales television; and "The Saga of Life," a Swedish program about the microscopic creatures that surround us and even inhabit our bodies.

A Canadian film, "September Songs," about the life and music of Kurt Weill tied with a French program "Smoke" featuring a modern dance rendition of a relationship between a man and woman, for Emmies in the Performing Arts category.

British producers won in four of six categories. Other awards went to French, Dutch, Swedish and Cnnadian television shows.

British producer Andrew Bethell and director Michael Waldman appeared astonished by their victory in the Arts Documentary category, for "The House," a six-part, behinci-thescenes look at the Royal Opera House and ballet in Covent Garden.

The First Family is portrayed "in a way you won't often see them," Waldman said. "We see President Clinton eyeing the lady ballet dancers in a rather undiplomatic way."

Waldman said the series has been purchased by the Public Broadcasting System in the United States for airing this May.

Two British news shows for children shared prizes in the Children and Young People category. "Newsround Extra,"by the BBC, delved into issues such as how children in Bosnia survived the civil war and how the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident caused health problems for children in Ukraine. Another, "Wise Up," showed children around the world speaking out on issues.

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"It's rather like taking a curtain call at the Royal Opera House ...

Producer Michael Rose won the Popular Arts category for "A Close Shave," a clay animation film featuring the popular British characters Wallace and Gromit.

Shows on the slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis took

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -Brunei Investment and Commercial Bank has acquired a 13.4 percent stake in Australian investment bank, Macquarie Bank, for dlrsAustralian 152million($U.S. 123 m111ion).

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Allan Moss, managing director of Macquarie Bank, told reporters he hopes Macquarie and will use their new relationship to seek out joint-venture investment opportunities in Australia and overseas.

"It's early days ... but we would hope to be able to work with them together on a number of investment proposals," he said.

Moss said Brunei Investment and Commercial Bank hasn't indicated if it will increase its stake in Macquarie Bank, but noted it has Australian government approval to hold up to 15 percent.

David Clarke, chairman of Macquarie Bank, said he believes the Brunei bank is a long-term investor in Macquarie.

"I don't think they would take a decision to sell shares lightly," he said. "They have a long-term approach to investing," he said.

Brunei Investment and Commercial Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brunei Investment Agency.

It bought its stake in Macquarie from Hill Samuel & Co., a unit of Lloyds TSB Group PLC of Britain.

Hill Samuel helped set up Macquarie Bank in 1985 as Australia's first substantial locally-owned investment b4nk.

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Alleged US spy's release delayed By JOSEPH COLEMAN

TOKYO (AP) - The release of an alleged U.S. spy from communist North Korea was delayed Tuesday because of "complications," a U.S. military official said.

Evan C. Hunziker, 26, of Tacoma, Washington, had been scheduled to arrive in Tokyo Tuesday evening along with Rep. Bill Richardson.

Richardson went to North Korea to secure the release of Hunziker, who has been held for three months on spying charges.

But Hunziker's arrival at Yokota Air Base on the outskirts of Tokyo was delayed until at least Wednesday afternoon, said Master Sgt. George Bieber, the spokesman for U.S. military forces in Japan.

"There have been some complications," Bieber said. He would not elaborate or say whether the difficu.lties involved Richardson's negotiations with the North Koreans.

Richardson arrived in North Korea Monday night in a bid to win the release of Hunziker, who was arrested and charged with spying when he crossed from China into North Korea on Aug. 24.

The United States had demanded Hunziker's release, and the State Department in October called the espionage charges against him "absolutely ludicrous."

Communist North Korea accused Hunziker of spying for its bitter capitalist rival South Korea. Hunziker's relatives say he probably crossed the border to try to convert North Koreans to Christianity.

Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs Winston Lord refused to confirm that Hunziker's release was imminent, but he said that if it were trnc, it would help improve ties between Washington and North Korea.

"On the other hand, Mr. Hunzikernevershould have been held in the first place," Lord said. "But we would welcome his release."

Lord was in Manila, where he attended the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation fornm with President Clinton.

The release of Hunziker would remove a major irritant between the communist country and the United States, which also is demanding that Pyongyang apologize for sending a submarine into South Korean waters in September.

The impoverished North, suffering from food shortages caused by devastating floods, needs Washington's help to build two modern nuclear reactors under a 1994 agreement.

The pact required the North to abandon its home-grown nuclear program, which was widely suspected of producing plutonium to build nuclear weapons.

The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, issued a brief · statement that Richardson had arrived in the capital, Pyongyang, on Monday night, but offered no further details.

acting as intermediaries between Pyongyang and Washington.

ago, he secured the release of an American soldier whose helicopter had strayed into North Korea.

talks· as well as American soldiers missing from the 1950-53 Korean War. But Washington postponed that trip after the North Korean submarine infiltrated South Korea Sept. 18.

Richardson left the United States Sunday. A spokesman for the New Mexico Democrat said he would arrive in North Korea Monday night, but had no other details of the congressman's itinerary.

Hunziker's father, Edwin Hunziker, said he hadr.' t

heard of his son's imminent release and hadn't been contacted by U.S. officials.

"Until he's out of that place, then that will be good news," Hunziker said in a telephone interview from Tacoma. "When he gets into Tokyo, then that will be good news."

A Swedish diplomat visited Hunziker in jail this month and reported he was in good health but was disconsolate. Swedish diplomats have been

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The congressman had planned to visit North Korea in September to discuss peace

FBI continues to push TWA probe By.PAT MILTON

SMITHTOWN, New York {AP) - The FBI is now pursuing some remote theories in its push to find outwhatdowned TWA Flight 800 including whether a saboteur may have tampered with the plane's electronics or mechanical systems, a law enforcement source said Monday.

Another possible scenario being examined is that .someone may have strategically placed a small explosive device inside the jumbo jet's center fuel tank, the source said.

''All these things are definitely up on the board," the source said on condition of anonymity.

"These are things that we don't necessarily have evidence of but we are interested in and are pursuing as possibilities."

James Kallstrom, New York's FBiheadwhoisleadingthecriminal probe into the crash, declined to comment on the information provided by sources. However, he said that the law enforcement agency continues to pursue every possible criminal scenario in its push to find an answer to what caused the midair explosion that killed all 230 people on board. "We would not being doing our job if we didn't look into all these things even though some may seem farfetched or remote,"

Kallstrom said Monday. Kallstrom said the FBI is op

erating with a "sense ofurgency" to try to determine what happened to the Paris-bound 747, which burst into a fireball minutes after departing New York's Kennedy Airport.

Investigators are continuing to sift through debris being brought to shore by trawlers raking the ocean bottom about IO miles ( 16 kms) off the New Yark coast where the splintered plane plunged into the water. They have not yet determined if the aircraft explosion was caused by a mechanical failure or sabotage.

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No prog-ress in insurance talks TOKYO (AP) - Japanese and V .S. negotiators ended two days of talks Tuesday having made little progress toward resolving a protracted dispute over access to Japan's insurance market.

In a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement before a selfimposed deadline of Dec. 15, the two sides arranged a top-

level meeting Dec. 6 in Tokyo between Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka and Acting U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky.

Ira Shapiro, the senior counsel for the U.S. Trade Representative's. office and lead negotiator for the U.S. side, said the two-day talks

resolved some "minor textual issues" but that "significant differences remain on major issues."

Given the busy schedules of both Mitsuzuka and Barshefsky in early December, Shapiro suggested that the Dec. 6 meeting was the last chance to resolve the dispute. He said the deadline would

not be extended. Shapiro would not specify

what measures Washington might take if no accord was reached by the deadline, saying only that the U.S. side would "respond appropriately."

Insurance is one of several lingering areas of trade tension between Japan and the United States. Washington insists that Japan is not Ii ving up to a 1994 agreement call-

. ing for easier access by foreign companies to the main sectors of the Japanese insurance market, the world's second-largest.

The U.S. side says Japan is delaying deregulation of 95 percent of the market in the major areas of health, life and auto insurance while propos-

ing to allow Japanese companies to compete with foreign companies in the remaining 5 percent of the market.

Foreign- companies have managed to establish a foothold in that small sector for specialty insurance such as coverage for long-term nursing home stays.

Japan maintains that progress has been made in opening its primary insurance markets, and the finance ministry plans to allow subsidiaries of life and non-life insurers to enter the third sector beginning Jan. l, 1997.

Shapiro downplayed concerns that the U.S. requests would be incompatible with a financial deregulation program announced by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.

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The depot, 130 kilometers (80 miles) from Manila, is the Philippines' larges.t oil storage terminal, the company said.

The partner in the Subic Bay Petroleum joint venture is Coastal Aruba Refining Company NV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coastal Corp. of the United States.

The company was set up to manage exports of Thai oil to Asian countries, using the Philippines as a distribution point. PTT officials declined to say how much leasing the depot will cost.

Doctors separate Sia1nese twins ·

BEIJING (AP). Chinese surgeons have successfully separated a pair of Siamese twin boys whose abdominal cavities and livers were joined, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The boys were separated Nov. I I, 28 days after they were born nine weeks premature, and have survived for a record two weeks, Xinhua said in a report late Monday.

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Sihanouk returns from China . By ROBIN McDOWELL

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP)- King N orodom Sihanouk returned home Monday from two weeks of medical treatment in China to worsening tension between the ruling political parties that has flared into armed violence.

The monarch's political shrewdness has saved Cambodia from political crises in the past and could be put to the test again in a confrontation linked to the defection of Khmer Rouge guerrillas that both parties are exploiting for political gain.

Sihanouk, 74, appeared pale as he was greeted at the airport by foreign diplomats and gov~ ernment officials, including parliamentary speaker Chea Sim, who acts as head of state in the monarch's absence.

Well-wishers reported thatthe king was happy to be back in Cambodia but still had some blood problems.

He said he had not received cataract surgery.

The king suffers from cancer, now in remission, and cataracts, diabetes and arteriosclerosis. He has been under the care of Cliinese physicians for years arid maintains a residence in Beijing, where he occasionally retreats in times of difficulty.

Disputes betweer the royalist FUNCINPEC party led by the king's son, First Premier Norodom Ranariddh, and the

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·20%thr11·0ct SHENZHEN, China (AP) -China's nationwide industrial and commercial tax revenues rose 20.3 percent through the first IO months of the year to 510.00 billion yuan ($ 61.45 billion}, compared with the year-earlier period, the State Administration of Taxation reported.

Nationwide tax collection through0ctoberfulfilled84.6percent of the country's annual target for 1996, the official newspaper Securities Times said, citing figures from the central tax authority.

Despite the rise in tax revenues, the report said there were serious tax collection problems in some regions. It said the government has issued a circular urging local tax collectors to make sure that collection will meet the target for this year.

The government's ability to prop up ailing state-owned firms and carry out key construction projects has been compromised by problems in tax evasion.

Certain regions are falling behind in collections, tax authorities said. Seven regions have failed to lift tax revenues by more than IO percent from a year earlier, while 13 other areas are more than one month behind schedule in collecting and submitting tax revenues, the report said. Itdidn' t identify the areas.

formerly communist Cambodian People's Party headed by Second Premier Hun Sen have broken into armed conflict in the king's absence.

In the provincial capital of Battambang, 250 kilometers (155 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, a fire fight erupted Friday between troops loyal to FUNCINPEC and miiitary police allied to the People's Party, leaving a military policemen dead.

The FUNCINPEC-aligned vice governor of Battambang province threatened to secede over the weekend and to deploy 5,000 troops along the roads to seal off the province from the rest of Cambodia.

Negotiators from the interior and defense ministries were sent to defuse the crisis. It was unclear whether they had met with o'fficial success, but Vice Governor Serei Kosal's threats to cut off the roads had not been carried out by late Monday and

the extent of his control was uncertain.

Hun Sen, who controls most of the security apparatus and is Cambodia's most powerful politician, was quoted Sunday by the deputy army chief of staff, Gen. Nhek Bunchhay, a FUNCINPEC member, as having threatened an attack if the _roads were cut.

Hun Sen's brother-in-law, a senior Interior Ministry official, was gunned down in front of a Phnom Penh restaurant last week in an attack Hun Sen labeled as politically motivated. The killers have not been identified.

Hun Sen linked the killing to tensions over the defection of Khmer Rouge guerrillas, which ironically has heid out Cambodia's best chance for peace in decades while sparking new tensions between the coalition partners verging on civil strife.

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Hun Sen accused Ranariddh last week of committing treason by allegedly telling some Khmer Rouge to delay defecting for a better moment. ·

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Clinton pays Thai king a visit By TERENCE HUNT

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) · President Clinton arrived in Thailand hard on the heels of Thai national elections, in the middle of a transition from one prime minister to the next. His solution: he planned to meet with both.

Clinton called on King Bhumibo!Adulyadej- the world's longest reigning monarch - late Monday at a palace famed for its stable of royal white elephants.

In this city of Buddhist temples and traffic jams, the royal precinct sparkled with lights filling the trees and strung along palace walls.

A mounted guard lined the street outside the presidential guest pal-ace.

Paying tribute to a loyal Asian ally, Clinton was the first U.S. president to visit Thailand since Richard Nixon in 1969.

"It's overdue," said Winston

President Clinton, with his arm around first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, walks to Air Force One as they depatted from Honolulu, Monday, Nov. 18, 1996. The Clintons were presented with an assottment of Hawaiian flower leis before leaving for Australia, the Philippines and Thailand AP Photo

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Lord, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Thailand is host for the largest joint military exercise in Asia that includes the United States and provides port access to American warships.

Concluding a 12-day trip, Clinton arrived here after a state visit to Australia and an AsianPacific summit in the Philippines.

In his only public appearance, the president was to receive an honorary degree Tuesday and deliver a speech at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University. He was to emphasize the war against drugs, environmental issues and cooperation in combatting the

spread of AIDS and other deadly diseases.

With U.S. assistance, Thai production of opium has dropped sharply. However, much of the opium produced in the "Golden Triangle" still passes through Thailand on the way to the United States.

A lot was packed into Clinton's 27-hour stay, beginning with his courtesy call on the king, who is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ascension to the throne.

"He's been a very constructive influence in his· country and he loves jazz music," Clinton said of the king, a fellow saxophonist. Clinton brought prints of famed

jazz musicians. In a city infamous for its pollu

tion and some of the worst traffic jams in Asia, the I S6-acre palace compound is a haven of serenity.

Encircled by lotus-dotted canals, Chitrlada Palace has colorful gardens and grassy pastures where royal white elephants can be seen parading from stables to their private bathing pond.

The Grand Palace where the Clintons slept is home to the ancientTemple of the Emerald Buddha, consecrated in I 782.

The president and his wife will tour the temple on Tuesday. Bangkok has about 400 wats, Buddhist temple-monasteries.

Hanoi decides to im.pose ban on tourist trips to Hong Kong HANOI, Vietnam (AP) · The government has suspended package tours to Hong Ko_ng for Vietnamese tourists, saying the trips were being used to flee Vietnam, a newspaper said Tuesday.

The General Department of Tourism said the ban was only temporary, but was needed to curb the flow of illegal immigration from Vietnam to Hong Kong, the Vietnamese-language edition of the Vietnam Investment Review said.

The ban was imposed at the end of October but only made public on Tuesday. It was unclear how long the ban would remain in place.

Dozens of people have used package tours to flee Vietnam and look for jobs, said the newspaper

published by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Hong Kong is still dealing with the legacy of the mass exodus of the boat people who fled Vietnam in the months and years after the fall of Saigon in I 975.

Refugee officials in Hong Kong have vowed to clear out the colony's sprawling refugee detention camps by the middle of next year.

They are wary of more Vietnamese asylum- and job-seekers arriving.

"The Vietnam and Hong Kong authorities have not yet found a specific measure to deal with the violations," said Pham Tu, the director of the tourist section of Vietnam's General Department of Tourism.

Immigration officials in the British colony have complained to Vietnam's consulate, Tu was quoted as saying.

Several state-run tourist agencies in Hanoi and southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City have been catering to the country's emerging consumer class with expensive package tours to Hong

. Kong. About 20 to 40 people travel to

Hong Kong on tourist packages every month, government figures indicate.

With airfare, the average cost of a weeklong trip to Hong Kong is about $ 1,170, said the Saigon Tourist Company.

That's an exorbitant amount in a country where the.average annual income is about$ 220.

Korea's last crown prince .returns home By SANG-HUN-CHOE had ruled for 600 years. love with an American woman,

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) · His father, Crown Prince Yi Julia. He later married the Yi Koo is Korea's last crown ·Keun, was taken to Japan in 1907 woman, but the marriage ended prince but most Koreans don't as a political hostage while his in divorce.

I remember his name. For those brother, Emperor Sunjong, was In 1963, the government of few who do, the Japan-born reigning as the Yi dynasty's last then President Park Chung-hee prince is little more than a sym- . monarch. allowed the Yi couple to live in bol of Korea's twisted modem Threeyearslater,Japanannexed Seoul, but the prince left the history. Korea and ruled it as a colony countrJ in 1979 after his con-

Yi, 65, thelastheirofKorea's until its d~feat in World War 1I in struction business went bank-last kingdom, the Yi dyn~sty, 1945. rupt. returned home Monday afterliv- The Japanese forced Yi 's fa. Ju]ia reportedly is living a se-ing most of his life so far in thertomarryadaughterofaJapa- cludedlifeinSeoulandhasnever Japan, Korea's former colonial nese royal family to helpjustify spoken with journalists. The ruler. · their e-0Jonial rule. Yi was born in couple had no children. .

Royal clansmen gathered in Japan in 1931. On his return Monday, Yi vis-an old palace in central Seoul to · Although he was declared the ited the royal cemetery to pay welcome his homecoming. Yi crown prince, Yi has never been tribute to his ancestors. Clad in said he was "coming home for treated as such. Most Koreans the red, blue and yellow royal good." felt insulted by the fact that their costume, he lighted incense and

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) · In a risky maneuver requiring precision flying, space shuttle Columbia's astronauts retrieved one satellite night while avoiding be-

By BETH GARDINER NEW YORK (AP) . Two children forced off a high-rise apartment building may have survived the 14-story drop by landing on the same person who tried to wipe out the family in a murder-suicide - their mother.

Chicqua Roveal was a caring mother, neighbors said. But she had been depressed and unhappy over her mother's release from jail, and had argued with her boyfriend the night before.

Roveal, 23, dressed her three children in clean, warm clothing Sunday morning, marched them to the roof of theirpublichousingprojectandforced everyone over the ledge, police said.

Roveal and her son Andre, 7, died. A2-year-oldboy,Shando,andAndre's twin, Andrea, were in critical condition wi!h multiple injuries to their heads, chest and stomachs.

"Somehow their fall had to have been slowcdorcushioned,"Dr. Lewis Singer, head of the pediatric intensive care unit at Montefiore Medical Center, said Monday. "To fall 14 stories and to survive is amazing."

Authorities believe the twins were tossed off and that the mother may have jumped with her youngest child, who bounced off her body before landing on a patch of grass.

'The younger one is likely to survive,"Singersaid. "Theolderone-it's to soon to say."

The children' sstruggle to overcome theirinjurieswaslonely. Theirmother was their only guardian. The fatherof the boy called officials, but he lives out of state, they said. The girl's father hadn't been located.

Neighbor Darryl Johnson said Roveal "always used to tell us her mother was never there for her." She hasn't visited the surviving children, either, hospital officials said.

Roveal 'smother moved in with her daughter last month, neighbors said. The change apparently strained Roveal's relationship with her boyfiiend, whoneighborssaidlefttheapartment Saturday after fighting with Roveal.

Although the mother's motive remained unclear, police had no reports of child abuse at the family's home, said Police Commissioner Howard Safir.

ing rear-ended by another in swift pursuit.

The crew reached out with a robot arm on Monday and deftly snagged the saucershaped satellite as all three spacecraft sped along at

17,500 mph (28,162 kph). The rendezvous was moved

up three hours because a telescope trailing the shuttle and saucer had been gaining on them faster than expected.

The two satellites were dropped off by Columbia's astronauts last week.

The two-ton saucer was used to grow semiconductor film in the ultra-clean vacuum of space; the 3.5-ton ultraviolet telescope is looking at stars and galaxies.

After three days leading an orbital procession stretching up to 75 miles, Columbia leapfrogged backward to a point 9 miles ( 14 kilometers) behind the saucer and 7 miles (10 kilometers) ahead of the telescope. Then commander Kenneth Cockrell guided the shuttle in for the capture 220 miles (350 kilometers) above the South Atlantic.

to within IO feet (3 meters) of Columbia's cockpit. But it backed off, and the danger passed.

Semiconductor film just onetenth the thi-ckness of a human hair was ·grown atom by atom on the back of the Wake Shield in the super-pure vacuum created in its wake.

Scientists grew seven wafers of film - the first time they accomplished all their objectives.

The first two flights of the Wake Shield, in 1994 and 1995, were marred by satellite malfunctions.

Researchers won't know the purity of the samples until after Columbia lands on Dec. 5, but they said the film should be superiorto that produced on Earth. It will be tested in transistors and other electronics.

The telescope, meanwhile, will be retrieved by the astronauts on Dec. 3.

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By ROBERT H. REID UNITED NATIONS (AP)· Africans asked for more time to consider endorsing someone other than Boutros Boutros-Ghali for U.N. chief, and the U,N. General Assembly president urged the Security Council to agree on a new secretary-general by Dec. 17.

The 15-member council met Monday for more than three hours to discuss the question of the next secretary-general. They agreed to convene again Friday.

Council diplomats said no vote was taken because the African representatives had no fresh instructions from their governments how to respond to last week's U.S. veto of Boutros-Ghali, the incumbent.

On Nov. 19, the United States cast the lone vote against the 7,t.:. year-old Egyptian diplomat. The other 14 council members based their support on July's endorsement by the Organization of African Unity.

U.S. diplomats say BoutrosGhali has not tried hard enough to cut spending and make changes in the way the organization runs, and say the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress might refuse .to free up the money owed by the United States ifhe remains at the helm.

Anger at the U.S. position is

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

widespread, especially considering that the United States owes more than$ I billion in dues to the organization.

"We have a list which is composed of one person, Dr. BoutrosGhali, at least up to today we have Dr. Boutros-Ghali on the list," said Botswana's U.N. ambassador, Legwaila J. Legwaila.

German Ambassador Antonius Eitel, who voted for BoutrosGhali, said that if the Africans were still behind the incumbent, "I don 'tsee much reason for many countries to change their position."

The council must agree on a candidate and forward the name to the 185-member General As-

sembly for ratification before Boutros-Ghali • s term expires Dec. 31.

In a Jetter to the council, General Assembly President Razali Ismail of Malaysia said he intended to adjourn the 185-member body Dec. 17 for the holidays and would like a decision by then.

Council diplomats, speaking on conditionofanonymity,saidsome delegations were willing to drag out the procedure to pressure the United States into some compromise, such as a limited extension of Boutros-Ghali 's term.

British Ambassador John Weston, who voted for BoutrosGhali,said the U.S. veto created a "new situation" so "clearly we need an alternative basis to go forward."

But without any cl'lange in the African position; it was unlikely that the names of serious new candidatei; would be submitted to the council.

Since the decision to endorse Boutros-Ghali was taken by an OAU summit, African ambassadors lack the authority to change that position.

The United States has urged the · Africans to propose alternatives to Boutros-Ghali, while Egypt has pressured them to remain behind Boutros-Ghali, diplomats said on condition of anonymity.

·South Africa's first-Ebola vict~iµ dies: JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's first victim of the deadly Ebola virus has died, regional health authorities announced.

Marilyn Lahana, 46, a nursi\ who contracted the disease after treating a doctor from Gabon.died late Sunday.

The doctor, ClementMambana, had been admitted to hospital with an unidentified fever in October. When he was discharged on Nov. I 1, he was still undiagnosed as suffering from Ebola.

But blood samples taken from Mambana revealed his fever had been brought on by the Ebola virus.

Lahana became ill early this month and was diagnosed with Ebola, a deadly hemorrhagic virus that killed more than 240 people in an outbreak in Zaire last year.

She suffered a brain hemorrhage Friday night and was admitted to the intensive care unit of Johannesburg Hospital, aided by a dialysis machine and a respira-

tor. About800people, most of them

in Africa, have died of Ebola worldwide since the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine identified the virus in October 1976.

Ebola can be transmitted through bodily fluids and secretions, and causes massive internal bleeding, diarrhea and vomiting. It remains unclear how the virus is initially transmitted to people, and researchers continue to search the African jungles for an animal carrier.

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Truckers block roads in France P.ARIS (AP) - Strikingtruckers bloc,k,ed main highways in northern and eastern France on Monday, choking off traffic toward Britain and Germany ahead of a second day of

talks with a government mediator.

The truckers, in their second week of a nationwide strike, formed a sort of pin,·,,r movement to paralyze traffic

in the north and east after 14· hours of negotiations failed to produce results.

nearby town of Boulogne-surMer, where there is another ferry terminal. Strikers also blocked the truck access to a fuel terminal in Dunkirk.

Truckers blocked access to the English Channel maritime terminal in Calais and to the In eastern France, truckers

blocked a number of roads and bridges in the Bas-Rhin re-

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. gion leading to the German border. The LuxembourgDijon highway also was blocked at one point.

Truckers eased the blockade around the southwest city of Bordeaux but kept up the pressure in some 30 towns around France.

About a dozen fuel depots around the country were blocked.

"I think that if there is no agreement, it's sure we '11 continue to block like this and more and more," said trucker Michel Fouquet, who was one of dozens of trucks holding up Paris-bound traffic Monday near Charles de Gaulle airport.

The government-appointed mediator, Robert Cros, said talks would resume at 5 p.m.

Ana Sablan Concepcion Dela Cruz (Putugan) Parents: Pedro Cepeda & Rufina Villagomez Duenas Dela Cruz Brother: Pedro Duenas Dela Cruz

His spirit and memories will live forever in the hearts of his family

Children: Trinidad & Nicolas Salas (Tanny) Pedro & Delgadina Dela Cruz Margarita & Jesus Leon Guerrero (Abig) Lourdes & Vicente Sanchez Natividad Dela Cruz (Da) Ramon & Sophie Dela Cruz Antonio Dela Cruz

Brothers & Sisters: Rita DLC. Tenorio (Albert - Deceased) Jose D. Dela Cruz (Virginia) Maxima DLC. Pangelinan (Hilaurion) Jesus D. Dela Cruz (Maria) Ana DLC. Arriola/Juan Arriola Dolores Mendiola (Delos Santos)

Brothers & Sister-In-Laws: Maria C. & Mariano Cabrera (Deceased) Natividad C. & Francisco Flores (Deceased) Maria A. & Francisco Flores (Deceased) ., ?:: Lorenza T. Duenas '!·

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(1500 GMT) Monday. Some 14 hours of talks that went into the night failed to break the impasse.

Among other things, the truckers were demanding retirement at 55, improved salaries and reduced fuel prices.

Foreign truckers stuck in France were beginning to feel the pinch. British authorities have asked French Transport Minister Bernard Pons to furnish information for eventual compensation for British strikers, according to the left-leaning newspaper Liberation.

The Spanish Federation of Producers and Exporters of fruits and vegetables estimated that losses would amount to about one billion francs($ 2 mi Ilion) if. the strike continues another week, the paper said.

·Fraudtrial · with 15,,000 ·plaintiffs is: · movedtoa ·· concert hall

GRASSE, France (AP) - Justice officials rented this southern city's biggest concert hall to try a mail order company accused of defrauding 15,000 people, but only 66 showed up as the trial opened Monday.

The class-action suit accuses Bernard Graeff and his company, France Direct Service, of using false advertising and fraud by promising customers they would win "fabulous prizes."

Catalog clients ordering anything from clothing to computers were entered in a contest for Mercedes cars and other prizes. The plaintiffs say they were tricked into making purchases because they never won.

But Graeff's lawyers said the company, one of the biggest in France, paid out 15 million francs ($ 3 million) in prizes and checks last year alone. They dismissed the 15,000 complaints, saying France Direct Service registered more than 15 million sales between 1989 and 1995.

The trial is expected to run through Friday.

Grasse prosecutor Bernard Durand told journalists he was surprised at the low turn out.

The Justice Ministry had spent 230,000 francs($ 46,000) to rent the grand Palais de Congres theaterforthe trial, misjudging plaintiffs' interest in the case, he said.

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Many Thais go to monk for luck ByJIRAPORNWONGPAITHOON

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) - Few politicians would expect their career to be advanced by someone who calls them "fatso" or smacks them over the head with a rolled-up newspaper .

In Thailand, however, any attention from the country's most famous monk is a huge political advantage. It's useful, too, if you're trying to succeed in business or win the lottery.

So strong is the reputation of Luang Phor Khoon Parisuttho as a good-luck -charm that candidates in recent general elections paraded to the northeastern town of Nakhon Ratchasima to seek his blessing- including the lucky newspaper swat.

The 74-year-old Buddhist monk gave candidate Chavalit Yongchaiyudh a ringing endorsement: "Fatso is qualified for the post because he has a lot of expe

. rience. He used to be a soldier and has fought through a lot of hardship."

With that, the pudgy former army chief was elected prime minister - and many credit the monk with giving him a crucial boost.

The monk and those seeking

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) · Japanese restaurant group Daisho has agreed to buy U.S. $ 8.1 million (Australian $ 10 million) worth of Victorian produce each year, Victorian state Premier Jeff Kennett announced on Tuesday.

Kennett is on a nine-day trade mission to South Korea and Japan.

In a statement released here, Kennett said Daisho, which owns 470 restaurants in Japan, has established a company in Victoria to run its Australian operations.

It also plans to establish a restaurant in Melbourne, Victoria's capital and Australia's second most populous city, for U.S.$ 4.05 million (Australian $ 5 million).

"The decision has enormous potential for Victoria's primary producers by providing greater exposure of our goods to the Japanese market," Kennett said.

"The relationship between Daisho and Victoria gives us a strong foothold in a very important and lucrative global market and builds on the ex.isling investment and trade relations between Victoria and Japan."

Kennett and Victorian Treasurer Alan Stockdale are currently in Tokyo for an annual meeting with Japanese financial institutions.

his favorrepresentThailand's two sides: a traditionally rural country steeped in centuries of superstition, and an industrial, Southeast Asian powerhouse rushing toward modernity.

Thais have one foot in each culture. Stockbrokers consult astrologers before investing; taxi drivers paint their cabs with magic symbols to ward off evil.

Monks used to receive small donations of rice or coins from peasants seeking spiritual advancement.

Now, they get serious money from those looking for more worldly gains.

Little is known about Luang Phor Khoon's life before he became famous three years ago, when people who survived tragedies said they were protected by the monk's blessing. ·

A woman who jumped from a fourth-story window to escape a fire at Bangkok's Kader doll factory said ·she had been wearing an amulet with the monk's picture. The May 1993 fire killed 187 people and injured 600.

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ing 102 people to death. Among the 227 survivors were many wearing Luang Phor Khoon' s amulets.

Since then, each weekend finds tens of thousands of people - from peasants to Cabinet ministers -traveling to his temple. Even Crown Princess Sirindhorn paid a royal visit.

They line up as early as 3 a.m. Luang Phor Khoon sits crosslegged on a dais as the multitudes file past to receive the lucky rap on the head with a newspaper.

Some ask for his saliva or urine to drink to cure illness. Others want him to step on small sacks of sand that they then spread around their homes or businesses.

· "It helps us to prosper," SorasakMuthawan, a 25-year-old merchant, said on a recent weekend.

Some wealthier Thais don't bother trekking to N akhon Ratchasima to see the monk. They send helicopters to fetch him.

One thing people don't seem to ask for is advice on the Buddhist path to enlightenment.

"They· do not want it," Luang Phor Khoon said recently. "It's like, if they' re not hungry, ho_w do I feed them?

"If I could, I would teach them to be more merciful. But they don't care. They only have greed on their minds. That's why this world becomes a mess."

What the monk doesn't say is how he justifies granting blessings that tap into that greed, furthering people's hopes of wealth.

Critics question the vast sums Luang Phor Khoon receives from amulet sales and donations, say-

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ing the money could taint Thailand's 290,000-strong monastic order. The monk says nearly all of it goes to charity - $ 4 million alone to development projects to help the poor.

Watchdog groups monitoring political corruption in Thailand complain that Luang Phor Khoon's pronouncements - always reported in the press - should stick to religion. Still, they went along with newspapers ads featuring the monk denouncing the buying and selling of votes in recent elections.

As that election showed, not everyone gets the blessing they want.

Two weeks before the vote, outgoing Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa went to the Nakhon Ratchasima temple.

Devastated by corruption allegations and betrayed by his colleagues, Banharn bowed at Luang Phor Khoon's feet and asked his future .

"Only those with good fortune can become prime minister," the monk said. "Anyway, just take it easy."

FIRST ANNIVERSARY ROSARY

FRANCISCO R. p ANGELINAN ~~!tJ_~~ -·,~=-

We, the family of the late Francisco Reyes Pangelinan (Talu). would like to invite our relatives and friends to join us in prayers as we commemorate the First Anniversary Rosary of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother.

Nightly rosary will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, November 29, 1996, at the family residence in San Antonio. On Saturday, December 7, 1996, the final day of the rosary will be said at.12 noon at the family residence. Mass of Intention will be said at 5:00 p.m. at the San Antonio Church.

Dinner reception will follow at the family residence. Please join us, as we remember him in prayers.

Si Yuus Maase,

Carmen Palacios Pangelinan -wife Cory P. Pangelinan. son Stacy P. and Thomas Medler - daughler and son-in-law Shane P. Pangelinan • son Victoria P. Concepcion - sister Laurion R. Pangelinan· brother Emilia P. Sablan • sister

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Rota ... Continued from page 1

meeting place and time for the election were announced through a mobile public address system and a general public letter of invitation.

"All previous officers were personally informed of this meeting," the letter said.

The meeting, held at Rota's PinatangBeachPark was attended by 500 people "despite the heavy rains," a press release said.

The official Republican candidates

Mitchell. •• Continued from page 1

intellectual competence," Mitchell added. "Generally, based on all of my-relations with Mr. Wiseman over the past years, I have no doubt that Wiseman would do anything in his power to try t6 embarass me in any way he could in this litigation."

Aside from Wiseman 's alleged personal bias and connection with Hotel Nikko, Mitchell also mentioned Wiseman's involvement in another land case that could put his objectivity and impartiality at stake.

Mitchell, who represents Teresita Camacho dela Cruz and Estefania Camacho Chong, has appealed the Superior Court's Sept. 6, 1995 decision which upheld the eligibility of Hotel Nikko and its co-defendants to own a property under the provisions of Article XII of the Constitution.

Mitchell said that since 1982, Wiseman has been a legal coun\d for the Hotel Association of the Northern Marianas lsland, of which Hotel Nikko is a member.

Incidentally, in 1993 HANMI lobbied for the enactment of Public Law 8-32 which allows investors to lease a property in the

Man ... Continued from page 1 pear in court on Dec. 6.

In other court story, the AGO charged a Gu am-based person with unlawful possession of ammunition.

Tenorio .. Continued from page 1

Teno emerged winner in the Republican primary held last Nov. 9 and will face Tenorio, should he win the Democratic primary.

Governor Tenorio agreed with Sablan that taking the issue to court is a good idea, pointing out that the AG's opinion "is not the law of the land."

Tenorio also said resolving the issue now would save the govemmen, more expenses should the court later invalidate a Teno win and a special election is held.

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for governor and lieutenant governor, Pedro P. Tenorio and Jesus R. Sablan, were also in attendance; togetherwith the former lieutenant governor, Senate Vice President Paul A. Manglona (R-Rota), Sen. Ricardo S. Atalig (D-Rota), Rep. Vicente M. Atalig (R-Rota); former senator Edward U. Maratita,fonnerRotamayor Prudencio T. Manglona and former Senate president Julian S. Calvo.

Because of its broad decision and policy-making authority, the composition of Rota's Republican Party leadership is considered crucial.

CNMI beyond 55 years. "David Wiseman, as an advisor

to members ofHANMI including the appelee Hotel Nikko, has a financial interest ... in the subject matter in controversy, i.e. PL 8-32 and in the Hotel Nikko, that could be substantially affected by the outcome of this appeal," Mitchell said.

He added: "(I)n light of David Wiseman activities in supporting the passage of PL 8-32, his impartiality might be reasonably questioned and he must be disqualified."

Mitchell also mentioned Wiseman's involvement in the Pacific Maff case, where he (Wiseman) represents Alex Tudela and Nicolas Sablan who moved to intervene and take over the case from the original plaintiffs Stanley Torres and Jeanne Rayphand.

Mitchell represents Torres and Rayphand in the case against L&T group of Companies.

"Every effort was made in that case to discredit and embarrass Mitchel\ and Rayphand to brand them as unprofessional and irresponsible, and to brand them as attorneys driven by blind greed," Mitchell stated in the motion filed in the high court last Friday.

The complaint stated that last Oct. 11, Marceline U Maratita unlawfully import and or possess explosives or ammunition, to wit: two boxes of .12 gauge shotgun shells.

Maratita was asked to appear in court on Jan. 3, l 997.

In the same interview, Tenorio also expressed his preference for holding the Democratic primary a month before the November 1997 elections because "I'd like to finish one (primary) and then get on to the next one (election)."

"lfl should win in the primary, I don't like to have one (primary) and then sit around, take it easy and then start (campaigning) all over," he explained. "In the primary I'm not gonna be just campaigning against my opponent in the Democratic Party, I'm gonna be campaigning againt the candidate from the Republican Party."

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does not stop. In1991,JasonsuedLizarna,David

Camacho, Felipe Camacho and Rosalina Tenorio seeking damages for personal injury.

Before a bench trial was held last July, thecourtenteredadefaultjudg-' rrient against David and summary judgment was granted in favor of Felipe and Tenorio.

On the day of trial, Lizama and Jason entered a stipulation wherein · Lizama conceded liability for negligence. In return, Jason dismissed his punitive damages claim.

Toe only issue remaining to be resolved at trial was the amount of compensatory damages.

In his order, Castro said it is very difficult, if not impossible, to gauge what the Joss of sight is really worth.

Castro, however; said it is part of the judicial system that a monetary

value be placed upon this loss. .lncomingupwiththeruling,Castro

said the court had examined what · other courts in other US jurisdictions haveconsideredinanalyzinglhevalue of vision and seeing how they compensate for the loss of a person's sight

"A person with one eye doesn't need a cane or a seeing-eye dog. He can read notes and doesn't need to know Braille. He doesn't need note takers or readers. He can see his family and friends, the water and the sky," Castro said in his decision.

ThejudgepointedoutthatJason has none of this and never will.

"Heis 27 years ofageand will, in the ordinary course of events, probably live another 40 to 50 years. He must re-learn the simplest things and willneedassistancefortherestofhis life for many other things. He must live his life in total darkness," Castro said

CNMI PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CNMI GOVERNMENT

REQUEST FOR PRO~OSAL RFP NO.: RFP97-0020 FOR: APPLICATION CONSULTANCY SERVICES

OPENING DATE: DECEMBER 04, 1996 TIME: 2:30 P.M.

GOVERNOR FROILAN C. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS C. BORJA, THROUGH THE DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, IS SOLICITING COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS FOR APPLICATION CONSULTANCY SERVICES. INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS MAY PICK UP PROPOSAL FORMS AND SPECIFICATIQNS AT ntE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, LOWER BASE, SAIPAN, DURING WORKING HOURS (7:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.).

!S/EDWARD B. PALACIOS DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY


REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 1TB NO.: 1TB97-Clll22 FOR: LE.ASE OF A VEHICLE OPENING DATE: DECEMBER 04, 1996 TIME: 2:00 P.M. GOVERNOR FROILAN C. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS C. BORJA, THROUGH THE DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, JS SOLICITING COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS FOR THE LEASE OF A VEHICLE. INTER· ESTED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS MAY PICK UP BID FORMS AND SPECIFICATIONS AT THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, LOWER BASE, SAIPAN, DUR· ING WORKING HOURS (7:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.).

/S/EDWAflD B. PALACIOS DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY


REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP NO.: RFP97-0019 FOR: PROCUREMENT OF COMPUTERS

OPENING DATE: DECEMBER 04, 1996 TIME: 2:00 P.M.

GOVERNOR FROILAN C. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS C. BORJA, ntROUGH THE DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, IS SOLICITING COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF COMPUTERS. INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS MAY PICK UP PROPOSAL FORMS AND SPECIFICATIONS i\T THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR,.PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, LOWER BASE. SAIPAN, DURING WORKING HOURS (7:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.).

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN lHE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE

COMMONWEA!JH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

In the matter of Petition for the Adoption of VINCENT JESSEN MAGOFNA TAITANO by Rosalina Maratita Magofna and Vicente Diaz Magofna Petitioners.

ADOPTION NO. 96-116

NOTICE OF HEARING

NOTICE is hereby given that Rosalina Maratita Magofna and Vicente Diaz Magofna have filed a petition to adopt Vincent

·Jessen Magofna Taitano. The hearing on the petition, reference to which is made for further particulars will be held on December 19, 1996 at 1 :30 p.m., at the Superior Court in Susupe, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.

Dated this 19th day of November, 1996.

/s/Dep. Clerk of Court Commonwealth Superior Court

PUBLIC NOTICE IN lHE SUPERIOR COURTOF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF lHE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

In the Matter of the Adoption of JULES CHESTER QUINN, A minor child. ADOPTION CASE NO. 96-115 Date: December 19. 1996 Time: 1 :30 P.M. Judge: Hon. Edward Manibusan

NOTICE OF HEARING: PETITION FDR ADOPTION

To: THI; OFFICE OF THE AnoRNEY GENERAL AND ALL OTHERS WHOM IT

MAY CONCERN:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the petition 'of John T. Quinn and Julieta J. Quinn, for the adoption of the minor child identified in the petition and requesting termination of the parental rights of the minor child's biological father, will come before the Court for hearing on December 19, 1996 at 1 :30 p.m. at Courtroom B, Superior Court, Susupe, Saipan.

DATED this 19th day of November, 1996.

Clerk of the Superior Court

By: ls/Deputy Clerk of Court

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH

OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

CIVIL ACTION NO. 96·1231 In the Matter of the Application for

Change of Name amt Correction of Birth Certificate ol KIM JONG WOO,

BY YOUNG AE YOU, ' Petitioner,

NOTICE OF HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the

petition for change of name of Kim

Jong Woo and for correction of birth

certificate has been sel for hearing

on the 19th day of December, 1996

at 1 :30 p.m. at the Superior Court in Susupe, Saipan, Northern

Mariana Islands. Any person interested in this matter may appear at the hearing.

Dated this 6th day of November,

1996.

ls/Clerk of Court

Commonwealth Superior Court

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01 A/C SUPERVISOR-Salary:$4.05 per hour. Plus Cola $150.00 Contact: CARRIER GUAM, INC. SAIPAN BRANCH Tel. 233-2665 W63295

01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact:APEX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Tel. 235-2200(12/ 4)W226780

02 GOLF COURSE STARTER-Salary:$3.05' per hour · 01 HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISORSalary:$3.05-4.1 O per hour 02 CLEANER HOUSEKEEPING-Salary:$3.05 per hour 03 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour 01 COMPUTER PROGRAMMER-Salary:$3.05-3.30 per hour 03 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: KAN PACIFIC SAIPAN, LTD Tel. 322-4692(1214)W63355

02 COSMETICIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: AMERICAN HUILING CORP. dba Yellow House Tel. 235-9188(12/ 4)W226775

01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Salary:$3.05-4.50 per hour 03 WAITRESS, RESTAURANT-Salary:$3.05 per hour · Contact: JUAN T. GUERRERO & ASSOCIATES, INC. Tel. 234-8804(12/ 4)W226779

05 CARPENTER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 ELECTRIClAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour 08 MASON-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: EMILIO P. QUIATCHON SR. dba EQ Construction Tel. 234-8827{12/ 4)W226778

02 TOUR COORDINATOR-Salary:$3.50 per hour Contact: HANLYNN CORPORATION dba Hanlynn Tour Tel. 288-6233{12/ 4)W226777

01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORSalary:$4.00 per hour Contact: BRIGHT MORNING STAR CORP. Tel. 234-7700{12/4)W226766

02 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORSalary:$3.05 per hour 01 AUTO BODY PAINTER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 MECHANIC-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: TM CORPORATION Tel. 234-2700{12/4)W226764

04 WAITRESS-Salary:$3.05-4.50 per hour 03 COOK HELPER-Salary:$3.05 per hour .Contact: KOSA RESORT CLUB CO., LTD. Tel. 235-0405(1214)W226763

02 COOK-Salary:$3.05-5.00 per hour 01 CHIEF COOK-Salary:$3.05-6.00 per hour 01 SUPERVISOR {Restaurant)-Salary:$3.05-5.00 per hour Contact: CN LEE INTERNATIONAL Tel. 235-0405{12/4)W226762

01 COOK HELPER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 COOK-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour Contact: YOUNG KWANG CORPORATION Tel. 235-0405{12/4)W226761

06 STORE ATIENDANT-Salary:$3.05 per hour 04 SALESPERSON-Salary:$3.05 per

. hour Contact: PACIFIC TRADING CORP. Tel. 233-1266{12/4)W226773

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01 DRESSMAKER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.50-5.20 per hour Contact: SERVJLLANA B. MENDOZA dba Celebrity Enterprises Tel. 234-2056(12/11 )W226868

01 SALESPERSON:Salary:$600.00-1,600.00 per month Contact: TASI TOURS & TRANSPORTATION INC. Tel. 234-7141 (12/ 11)W63458

01 OFFSET PRESS OPERATOR-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: R&M ENTERPRISES, INC. dba Printers Tel. 322-3043(12/ 11)W226867 .

01 SECURITY GUARD-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: MARGARET SN. GUEVARRA dba R&M Manpower Services Tel. 256-3596(12/11 )W226866

02 AUDIT ASSISTANT-Salary:$12.98 per hour Contact: DELOITTE & TOUCHE Tel. 322-7337{12/11)W63455

01 FRONT DESK CLERK-Salary:$3.05-6.00 per hour Contact: MICRO PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT, INC. dba Saipan Grand Hotel Tel. 234-6601 (12111 )W63445

06 MASSEUSE-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour 01 OPERATION MANAGER-Salary:$900.00-4,000.0D per month Contact: SUWASO CORPORATION dba Coral Ocean Point Resort Club Tel. 234-7000{12/11)W63444

01 COMPUTER PROGRAMMER-Salary:$4.00 per hour 02 SUPERVISOR, CONSTRUCTJONSalary:$4.00-4.50 per hour 04 MASON-Salary:$2.90-3.30 per hour Contact: YCO CORPORATION dba YCO Servistar Hardware/Liberty Plaza/ Liberty Sportshoppe Tel. 235-6604(12/ 11)W63443

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Salary:$600.00 per month 02 BEAUTJCIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: DIAMOND ENTERPRISES, INC. dba Extreme Boutique & Beautee Channel Tel. 235-7 430(12/1 ! )W226862

04 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORSalary:$3.05 per hour 45 LANDSCAPE GARDENER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 MECHANIC {H.E.)-Salary:$3.10 per hour 01 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary:$4.00 per hour Contact: LANDSCAPERS MICRONESIA CORP. Tel. 234-1194{12/ 1t)W226863

01 OFFICE MANAGER-Salary:$700.00 per month Contact: HOSOYA ENTERPRISES Tel. 235-6224(12111 )W226864

03 IRONER-Salary:$2.90 per hour 05 SEWING MACHINE OPERATORSalary:$2.90 per hour 01 PRODUCTION MANAGER-Salary:$5.85 per hour 01 QUALITY CONTROL MANAGERSalary:$5.95 per hour Contact: MICHIGAN, INC. Tel. 234-9555(12111 )W226865

02 HOUSEKEEPING-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 CASHIER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: ARNALDO G. GUBAN dba Argie Maintenance Courier Tel. 256-8888(12/11JW63440

01 MANAGER-Salary:$2,500.00 per month 01 HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER-Salary:$2,000.00 per month 01 ACCOUNTING MANAGER-Salary:$4,000.00 per month 01 TOUR GUIDE-Salary:$1,000.00 per mon1h Contact: SAIPAN KOREANA HOTEL, INC. (12/11)W226861 '

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.01 MECHANIC, AUTOMOBILE-Salary:$5.00-8.00 per hour Allowance: Housing allowance $100.00 plus gasoline allowance $50.00/month. 01 AUTO ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour Allowance: Housing allowance $100.00 plus gasoline allowance $50.00/month. Contact: STS ENTERPRISES, INC. Tel. 235-3760 226421

07 WAITRESS-Salary:$3.05 per hour 07 SJNGER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: AMERIANA CORPORATION dba Club Happiness Tel. 234-1545(11/ 27)W~6631

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$900.00 per month Contact: JUAN T. GUERRERO & ASSOCIATES, INC. Tel. 234-8804(11/ 27)W226633 ,

20 NURSE-Salary:$7.236 per hour Contact: PARAS ENTERPRISES ' SAIPAN, INC. Tel. 234-8804{11/ 27)W226630

05 BEAUTICIANS-Salary:$3.05-5.00 per hour Contact: JJHAN CORPORATION dba Jihan Beauty Shop & Supply Tel., 322-0418{11/27)W226629

03 BEAUTICIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: HUGO W. MICH LING dba lsland Style Beauty Salon Tel. 234-5424(11/27)W226637

01 GENERAL MAINTENANCE-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: HUGO W. MICHLING dba Familia Enterprises Tel. 234-5424(11/ 27)W226636

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$900.00 per month Contact: GREAT PACIFIC ENTERPRISES, INC. Tel. 234-7499(11/ 27JW226635

01 COOK-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: KIM'S GENERAL CORPORATl ON dba Tofu Fcty., Retail (11/ 27)W226638

01 TOURIST INFO. ASST.-Salary:$3.05-6.00 per hour· 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.05-6.00 per hour 01 AUTO MECHANIC-Salary:$3.05-6.00 per hour Contact: PACIFIC DEVELOPMl!:NT INC. Tel. 322-8876(11/27)W226639

01 PAINTER-Salary:$3.05 per'hour 01 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 PLUMBER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 ENGINEER/ARCHJTECT-Salary:$800.00-1,000.00 per month Contact: GTS ENTERPRISES, INC. dba GTS Construction Tel. 234-0779(11/ 27)W226632

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$700.00 per month Contact: SUN PACIFIC ENT., INC. Tel. 233-4997 ( 11 /27) W226640

01 BARBER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: LUIS C. BENAVENTE dba Benavente Beauty & Barber Shop Tel. 233-5847{11/27)W226641

15 STEELMAN (RE-INFORCING METAL WORKER)-Salary:$2.90-3.50 per hour 02 VIDEO CLERK-Salary:$2.90-3.50 per hour 20 CARPENTER-Salary:$2.90-3.75 per hour 02 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary:$5.50-6.00 per hour 15 PAINTER-Salary:$2.90-3.75 per hour 20 MASON-Salary:$2.90-3.50 per hour 05 WELDER-Salary:$2.90-3.00 per hour Contact: REMEDIO S./DANIEL S. BUNJAG dba Marfran Enterprises Tel. 322-0414( 11/27)W226628

01 WAREHOUSE WORKER-Salary:$4.62 per hour 01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Salary:$1,000.00 per month Contact: MICRONESIAN BROKERS (CNMI), INC. Tel. 322-0318{11 I 27)W63228

01 WAREHOUSE WORKER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Q1 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary:$5.70 per hour 01 STEEL WORKER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: GUANGDONG DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. Tel. 288-2288{11/ 27)W226645

02 ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: FELICIDAD DLC. LIFOIFOI dba FOL Enterprises Tel. 288-0465{11/ 27)W226647

01 CARPENTER-Salary:$2.90 per hour 02 MASON-Salary:$2.90 per hour Contact: BRIAN P. REYES dba BPR Pro1essional Seivices Tel. 234-9127(11/ 27)W226642 · ..

03 COIL-REWIND-MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: KANG CORPORATION dba Kang Auto Supply, Kang Comm'I. Bldg. Rental, Kang Repair Shop, Kang Generator Repair & Rental Tel. 288-9368(11/ 27)W226634

01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: ASIAN SOURCES JNCORP. Tel. 288-6732(11/27)W226648

01 BOAT CARPENTER (BULKHEAD CARPENTER)-Salary:$900.00 per month Contact: COMMONWEALTH MARITIME GROl,IP CORP. dba Commonwealth Maritime Agency Tel. 233-0508{12/4)W226787

03 HEAVY EQUIPMENT Ol"ERATORSalary:$3.05-3.50 per hour 01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANICSalary:$3.85-4.00 per hour Contact: COMMONWEALTH MARITIME GROUP CORP. dba Commonwealth Maritime Co. Tel. 233-0508{12/ 4)W226776

01 CARPENTER-Salary:$3.50-4.00 per hour . 02 MASON, CEMENT-Salary:$3.05-3.50 per hour Contact: COMMONWEALTH MARITIME GROUP CORP. dba MGM Company Tel. 233-0508{1214)W226786

10 HOUSE CLEANER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 BARTENDER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 05 WAITRESS RESTAURANT-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 AUTO RENTAL CLERK-Salary:$3.05-3.25 per hour 05 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$4.00 per hour 05 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Salary:$3.25 per hour 02 COMPUTER OPERATOR-Salary:$3.50 per hour Contact: DANTE R. FLOJO/SAIPAN MANPOWER SERVICES Tel. 288-4172{12/4)W226767

2 WAITER-Salary:$265.00 Bi-Weekly 8 WAITRESS-Salary:$265.00 BiWeekly 01 ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK-Salary:$325.00 Bi-Weekly 02 COOK-Salary:$325.00 Bi-Weekly Contact: SANLO ENTERPRISES INC. Tel. 235-6077(12/11)W226860

01 UPHOLSTERER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 SEWER-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: CHUNG NAM CORPORATION Tel. 234-3929(11/27)W226649

01 COOK-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 WAITRESS-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 SINGER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$600.00 per month Contact: AMERICAN LIDA DEV'T. LTD. CORP. Tel. 288-2008{11/27)W226651

01 COOK/KITCHEN HELPER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: MARIA ELENA B. PROVINCE dba E2JP2'S lnt'I Manpower Agency Tel. 235-4237( 11 /27)W226652

01 COMPUTER SERVICE TECHNICIAN-Salary:$4.00-5.00 per hour Contact: MARIANAS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY dba Computerland of Saipan Tel. 235-5711{11/27)W63231

04 EMBROIDERY MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary:$2.90-3.05 per hour Contact: SE JIN CORPORATION Tel. 235-0505{ 1214 )W226756

03 COOK-Salary:$3.05-5.00 per hour Contact: UNICONS CORPORATION (12/4)W226755

01 INSTRUCTOR, SCUBA DIVINGSalary:$1,950.00 per month Contact: MARINE TECH SAIPAN, INC. dba S2 Club Tel. 322-5069(12/ 4)W226774

03 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$2.90-4.00 per hour 02 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANICSalary:$3.00-4.00 per hour 05 MASON, CEMENT-Salary:S2.90-3.05 per hour 01 INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICIAN-Salary:S3.00-4.00 per hour 01 WELDER-Salary:$2.90-3.50 per hour 01 AUTO BODY REPAIRER-Salary:$2.90-3.50 per hour 02 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORSalary:$3.00-4.00 per hour 05 CARPENTER-Salary:$2.90-3.05 per hour 01 TIRE REPAIRER-Salary:$2.90-3.50 per hour Contact: CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIAL SUPPLY, INC. dba CMS Tel. 234-6136(12/4)W63319

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National Football League

. Steelers drown Dolphins, 24-17 .MIAMI. (AP) Mike Tomczak oµtpassed Dan Marino, and the Pittsburgh SteeleIS ovenook the Miami Dolphins. Tomczakthrewfor252 yards, including a 20-yard touchdown toFmieMillswith 2: I Oremaining,and Pittsburghralliedfroman 11-pointsecond-quarter deficit to win 24-17 Monday night .

Marino moved Miami 73 yards in the final two minutes tothe7-yardline, but his pass to Scott Miller on fOUJ1hand- l with 25 seconds left fell incomplete.

The Steelers (9-3) increased their

lead to three games over second-place Houston in the AFC Central. The Dolphins (6-6) suffered a blow in their bid for a wild-card berth.

With theoutcome,AFCWestleader Denver(l 1-1) became the first team to clinch a postseason berth.

Miami scored only one touchdown against the Steelers' defense, which has allowed the fewest yards and p::,ints in the AFC.

Marino's 38-yard pass to Troy Drayton set up a 41-yard field goal by Joe Nedney to tie the game 17-17 late in the third quarter. ButNedney missed

a4S-yarderwith 8 1-2 minutes left. Pittsburgh's second sack of Marino

backed up the Dolphins, and a punt gave the Steelers the ball at the Miami 45 with six minutes to go.

Tomczak's touchdown pass came eight plays later on third-and-8. Mills broke free in the end wne when comerback Terrell Buckley collided

· with a teammate. Tomczak, who also hit completions

of 34, 36 and 38 yards, was l 6-for-29 and overcame two early turnovers. He lost a fumble to end a scoring threat, then threw an interception that Calvin

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Cowboys, await Emmitt of old· IRVING, Texm (AP) - Emmitt

· Smi1h isn't producing O and lhe four- -timeU.S. NatiqnalFOOlball League rushing champion is searching for answers. · _

He gained just 18 yards on 11 caniesina20-6losstotheNewYOJk · Giants on Sunday and wasbenched in lhe fourth . quarter in favor of Shennan Williams;

"He (Smith) doesn't have the quickness he had lias in lhe past.," Dallas coach Barry Swi1zer said · Monday. ''He's obviously bothered by someihing .. His ankle has been hurting."

Medical examinations on Smith's . right ankle Monday revealed no injury. Still, Switz.et said he'd seen Smith play better. .

"I've seen him hit holes and rico-

chet up in there," the c.oach said. Switzer said he doesn't have any

problem with Smith's running style, which includes going out of bounds to avoid hits.

'There'snoneedforhimtotrytobe Tarzan," Switzer said. "I've seen a lot of smart backs do that"

" The Cowboys have not scored a touchdown on 24 consecutive possessions. One of'the reasons is that the rnnning game has been stopped

"Emmitt got stung during the game · . but didn't want to say anything to me

· about it," Switzer said. Smith has averaged a career low 3.6

yards percarry and has only three 100-yardgames.'iheCowboyswereranked 21st in lhe NFL in rushing.

UJStyearSmithrushedforaleaguehigh 1,773 yards. He had 11 games of

l OOyardsormorerushingand scored an NFL-record 25 touchdowns.

''It's disapp::,inting," Smith said. "But I'll tiy to put 1his behind me. There's always the first time for ev-_,,1,:n " "'J"w,g.

Switzer said Smith would start against the w ashlngton Redskins baning injury.

''If he's full speed he will play and start," Switzer said. "We just wanted Sherman in there to change things up and give us a spark."

The Cowboys face a must win over the Washington Redskins on Thursday. Dallas trails the Redskins by a game with four to play, including the season-closer at Washington on Sunday, Dec. 22.

Bulls' Longley injured in swimming accident WSANGELF.S(AP)-ChicagoBulls ;i;tarting center Luc Longley suffered a

· separated left shoulder in a swimming accident and will be lost to the team for a minimum of eight weeks.

Longley, a five-year NBA player and experienced swimmer ru:id body surfer who grew up in Australia, was swimming in the Pacific Ocean at Hennosa Beach, California, on Sundaywhenawavesenthimcrashinginto the sand.

"I always try and get wet when I'm on the WestCoastandiliketo getinthe salt water; I don't get many chances in Chicago," Longley, a native of Melbourne, said Monday night before the Bulls' game against the Los Angeles ClippeIS.

"I decided to jump on a wave to come in and it was kind of a mongrel wave. I thought I'd just come in real easy. I think I went over a sandbar and it just sort of spat me into the sand."

Longley said he has been in much larger waves thousands of times before and he had never been hurt

''I still don't consider it to be an· irresponsibleact,butmoreofanincredibly Wllucky accident I turned a little and took iton my shoulderandfeltitgo crunch. To be quite frank, I'm lucky I didn'tbreakmyneck.Iflhadn'ttum~d, I would have landed on my head."

Longley dreaded telling Bulls officials, and he said coach Phil Jackson's first five or six words were "pretty ugly," adding, "None

NBA TeamL Standings Atlantic Division Denver 4 9 .308 8

w L Pct GB Dallas 3 9 .250 81-2 Miami 9 4 .692 - San Antonio 2 10 .167 91-2 Orlando 6 3 .667 1 Vancouver · 2 11 .154 10 New York 8 5 .615 1 Pacific Division Washington 7 6 .538 2 Seattle 12 2 .857 .. Philadelphia 5 7 .417 31-2 L.A. Lakers 9 5 .643 3 Boston 3 8 .273 5 Portland 8 5 .615 31-2 New Jersey 2 7 .222 5 L.A. Clippers 6 7 .462 51-2 Central Division Sacramento 4 9 .307 71-2 Chicago 13 1 .929 . Golden State 3 9 .250 8 Delrott 10 2 .833 2 Phoenix o. 12 .000 11 Cleveland 9 3 .750 3 Sunday's Games Charrlotte 6 5 .545 51-2 Cleveland 103, Sacremento 74 Atlanla 7 6 .538 51-2 Boston 105, Dallas 91 Milwaukee 7 6 .538 51-2 Seattle 102, Nevi York 92 Indiana 3 8 .273 81-2 Miami 87, Phoenix 84 Toronto ~· ,, 8 .273 81-2 Vancouver 96, San Antonio 91 Weslem Conference Houston 90, L.A. Lakers as Midwest Division Monday's Games

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of you can ever print them .... ''The hardest part is that I feel I'm

lettingtheteamdown,"l..ongley added, Teammate Steve Kerr said, "I don't

think you should fault Luc for putting himself at risk or anything. It's not like he was snow skiing or scuba diving. He was just out for a swim."

Longley has averaged 7 .3 points and five rebounds a game 1his season.

He will rc:tum to Chicago on Tuesday with the Bulls and see his team's orthopedic doctor.

The Bulls said no roster move was planned at this time to make up for l..ongley's loss.

Backup center Robert Parish was placed on lhe injured list Friday wilh a back slrain, leaving Bill Wennington the team's only true center.

Sablan ... Continued from page 36

with 74. Low gross award went to

Judge Ed Manibusan who tallied 36-39 or a 75 in touring the greens.. Brian Reyes was second with 83 while Mel Sablan' s 86 was good for third.

SGA's Ace of Aces Tournament will be held on Dec. 14 together with the association's Club Championship Tournament on a two day schedule. The first. day action will be held at Lao Lao Golf Resort while the venue for the second day will be announced later.

All Ace winners and club members are invited to participate in the the two tournaments.

For more information, please., contact Ben Aldan at 234-1618 or Ray Diaz at 322-6581.

Jackson returned 61 yards for a touchdown.

Marino completed 22 of 37 passes for 254 yards. He had two passes dropped,sp::,ilingapparentfirstdowns. The Dolphins took the opening kickoff and drove 76 yards in 15 plays for a 7-0 lead. Marino completed all six of his attempts, including a 2-yarder to OJ. McDuffie on third down for lhe score.

Midway through the second quarter, Tomczak tried tohitAndre Hastings on short sideline route, but Jackson stepped between them to make the interception. He juggled 1he ball, 1hen

took off and scored untouched for a 14-3 Miami lead.

The Steelers· comeback began on their next possession with an 80-yard drive .. Tomczak hit Mark Bruener for 37 yards, and at the 5-yard line reserve quarterback Kordell Stewart fooled lhe defense wilh an option and pitched to Tim Lester, who scored untouched.

Tomczak threw long again early in the third quarter, hitting Andre Hastings for 38 yards on third-and-8. That set up a I-yard touchdown run by Stewart to give the Steelers their first lead, 17-14 ..

Cincinnati is still no. 1 NEW YORK (AP) - The top four teams held.their spots in 111c AssociatedPresscollege basketball poll Monday, while Tulsa joined a Top 25 in which almost every school changed its ranking.

Cincinnati, Kllnsas, Wake Forest and Utah, which all won their:;eason-opening games last week by an average of 25 points, stayed first through fourth.

The Bearcats, who beat Western Carolina 99-72 in their first game as a top-ranked team in 34 years, again were the dominant choice of national media panel, receiving 49 first-place votes and 1,673 points.

Kansas, which beat Sanla Clara 76-64, received 15No. I votesand 1,608 p::,ints, 24 more than the Demon Deacons, who had three first-place votes after beating VMI 92~3.

Utah, which opened with an 83-50 thrashing of Azusa Pacific, had the only other first-place vote.

Villanovamovedup one spot to fifth and was followed by Duke, Michigan, Kentucky, Iowa State and Clemson.

Arizona moved up eight spots after its victory over then-No. 7 North Carolina in the Hall of Fame Tip::,ff Classic

Bulls ... Continued from page 36 p::,ints and 15 rebounds as the Bullets moved over .500 for the first time since openingnighL Washington(7-6)never trailed in beating the Timberwolves for the fourth consecutive time since December 1994.

TomGugliottahad25pointsand 12 reboundsforMinnesota, which has lost four of five overall and six straight on the road. Rookie Stephon Marbury, playingwithasprainedrightankle,had 13 points in 21 minutes.

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Chong's ... Continued from page 36

1,002; 996 and 970forlhe week's high handicap series of2,968 pins. Jaridon also scored the week high in the high scratch team category witl1 2,650 pins.

In the other results, Holiday S~op beat Mean Machine, 3-1; Kautz Glass Company routed Trash King, 4-0; and F.T. Construction won a 3-1 decision

Dreamers . . . Continued from page 36

turn to shine for the Flyers. Tagabuel racked up six points before Heather Strickhart closed the game for their 5eam.

In the Lady Dreamers-GCA

to take over No. l l. TI,en came Syracuse, UCLA, North Carolina, Fresno Slatc,Arkansas, Massachusetts, Texas;. New Mexico and Indiana

Stanford was 2 J st with newcomer TubanexL Boston College, Minnesotu and George Washington rounded out the Top 25 ..

Besides the top four. t11e only oilier schools to hold tl1e same ranking from last week were No. 8 Kentucky and No. 16 Arkansas.

Tulsct (2-{l). which upset then-No ... ' UCL!, in the first round of the Prcs-:a,on NIT. bumped lowa from tl,,· rankings. The Hawkeyes, who beat Western lllinois in their opener, was 25th la,t week.

The Golden Hunicane made a oneweek appearance in the rnnkings last season. Their first Top 25 berth in 11 years was gone after a loss that week to intracity rival Oral Roberts.

Arizona, which had four players making 1heir first college start, made the week's biggest jump wilh move from 19th to 11th. Duke's impressive wins over St Joseph's and Vanderbilt moved the Blue Devils from No. 10 to No.6.

scored 15 of his 24 p::,ints in the fourth quarter and Milwaukee shot77 percent in the period.

The Bucks only took 13 shots from the field in the last quarter, and made J 0 of them.Gilliam scored! I ofn!steam's first J 7 points, then made five tree throws in the final 2:34 to help put !lie g;uneaway.

The loss was the Magic's lhird in six games at Orlando Arena this month. The defending Atlantic Division champions only lost four times at home all of last season.

Nick Anderson led Orlando, which shot 36 percent in the fourth quarter, with 25 points.

overUIC. In tonights pairings, Mean Machine

(24.5-43.5) will face KGC (32-36); Trnsh King (29-39) go up against UIC (27-41); Jaridon (39-29) takes on L VS (24-44); WST(34-34) squaresoff witl1 Holiday Shop (30.5-37.5); J's tries to break out from a two way tie by tan

gling wilh F.T. Construction; and Chong 's Corporation is aiming for the same thing by facing resurgent Centul)' Travel.

tussle, the game was practically close in the first set before the Lady Dreamers coasted to an easy second set win and the match.

In today's matchup, the Mt. Carmel Knights go for their second win against GCA at 5 p.m. at the Gilbert C. Ada

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1996 All Pacific Schools Games

CNMi to send 11 tankers to Australia By Erel A. Cabatbat Variety News Staff

ELEVEN swimmers, including David Palacios, Jessica Jordan and Jacoby Winkfield, banner the Commonwealth on Northern Mariana Island (CNMI) swimming team's bid in the 1996 All. Pacific Schools Games to be held on Dec. 7-12 in Perth, Austra- · lia.

Palacios, Jordan and

Winkfield were members of the last CNMI team that competed in the international swimming event held last in Darwin, Australia in 1992.

Aside from the three, the team includes Robert Jordan, Audra Winkfield, Josh Taitano, Justin and Jennifer Pierce, Tracy Feger, Xenavee Pangelinan and Keoni Ichihara.

According to Saipan Swim

Club president and team coach Bill Sakovitch said that team is better prepared than the last time they competed in the quadrenn_ial event.

"The tournament, which is a top level age group competitions, is expected to draw the participation of at least 20 countries from all over the world. Despite the tough opposition, we are hoping that we will do well in the games,"

' Sakovitch said. David and Jessica will

spearhead the team's hopes in the senior division. Jacoby, Robert and Josh will be competing in the 15-16 age bracket while the rest of the team will be entering the 13-14 years old category. Each swimmer will compete in at least ten events.

The tournament will open with a simple ceremony on

Dec. 6 and will officially end on Dec. 13. The five-day swimming events will have the qualifying heats during the day with the finals being held either late i-n the afternoon or early in the evening of the same day.

The events will be held in the same venue wherein the 1991 World Swimming Championships was conducted.

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NORBERT Sablan became the latest addition in the Saipan Golfers Association's (SGA) year-ending Ace of Aces Tournament when he shot a low net 75 to win the SGA 's November Ace Tournament last Saturday at the West Course of Laolao Bay Golf Resort.

Ben Aldan actually shot the day's best score but he already clinched a slot in the SGA 's most awaited golf event. Aldan shot a total gross score of 88 but his -17 handicap gave him a net 71. Aldan's effort won him the low net honors of the day.

~XHIBITION GAMES-:- The 19~6.~aipan Yo~th f:e:otba/1 League's Midget Oivis(on champions, the Eastern Eagles, (on the offensive) will play against ihe Northern Cyclones rn an e_xh1f?1t1on ga_me rn Trn1an on Saturday, Nov. 30. Aside from the midget squads, the Eastern and Northern pee wee teams are a/so expected to see action m the fnendly games. {Photo by Erel A. Cabatbat)

Roman Deniapan came in second when he turned in a 72 while Ed Manglona was third

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Youth Volleyball

Dreamers, Flyers soar By Erel A. Cabatbat Variety News Staff

THE LADY Dreamers and the Flyers notched opened their campaigns on the right track when they beat separate rivals in the last two playing days of the 1996 Youth Volleyball League at the Gilbert C. Ada Gym.

The Lady Dreamers won in

straight sets against Grace Christian Academy, 16-14 and 15-2 last Friday while the Flyers needed three sets to subdue the gallant stand of Aschoscho, 15-6, 9-15, 15-11 in Monday's lone encounter.

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back in the second set, 15-9, to force a deciding third set.

With Domella, Malia and Rooster carrying the fight for their team, Aschoscho was in the middle of the fight in the third set.

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National Basketball Association

Bulls edge Clippers AT LOS Angeles, making sure Chicago didn't lose two in row, Michae I Jordan and Scottie Pippen took over early in tl1e fourth quarter.

Jordan, who finished with 40 point\ scored eight and'Pippen had seven during a 17-4 run in the first six minutes of the fourth quarter to put the Bulls on top 81-70.

Chicago, behind 66-64 to start the period, tied it on a Jordan jumper 20 :: seconds into the quarter, then went ahead for the first time on a fast-break basket i• by Dennis Rodman. ( Stanley Roberts came off the bench to lead the Clippers with 15 points, and j Loy Vaught had 14 points and 13 rebounds. - i

Rodman had I 4 rebounds for the Bulls and Pippen had 11 rebounds to oo i, with 15 points. .

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basket-add JaxdOS, Nels 92 I At Salt Lake City, Karl Malone had 27 points and 16 rebounds as Utah won Ii

· its seventh straight i I i JeffHomacek added 19 points for the Jazz, who handed the Nets their largest il j loss margin this season. ,: Utah used an 18-7 run at the start of the second half to take an 83-53 lead. j Malone scored IO ~ints in the run, which he completed by making one of two ; free throws followmg a flagrant foul by Jayson Williams. f . Minnesota 105-Bullets 98 i :be Wash1~gton B~llets held Minnesota to 12 points in the first quarter and I built an I 8-po111t halftime lead en route to a I 05-98 victory, their third straight ! Juwan Howard scored 24 points Monday night and Chris Webber had 16 ~ Continued on page 35 c....•.,.-·-• ·. - ·.-,1. __ ,--.· · •.• .,, :..·~·::-:·.--.,.,.··~·'"'-·-"·-·,· •'-: a·,.-,.t.: •• • - •• •.-, ;., .• '> ~ ,·· .. <.t, •..: ·,._,- • :-;:·• ,·; •, ,o·

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