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SIX HUNDRED grade and high school students from Japan arrived on board the cruise ship Fuji Maru fora one- day visit to World War II memorials and other tourist attractions in Saipan yesterday.Bluesea and Greenland, a non-profit organization in Japan, had been sponsoring such trip each year the past 15 years for the children to see remnants of the war 43 years ago and, according to tour coordinator Toshiro Hayashi, to teach them to aspire for peace forever. The Japanese youth held a memorial service in honor of their fallen elders at the Banzai Cliff.

APIL calls for review of Air Mike fare rates

By Rafael H. Arroyo

LEGISLATORS from the Pacific region have asked the US Department of Transportation to review passenger and cargo rates of Continental Air Micronesia to determine whether the people of the region are being “overcharged.”

This was the recommendation made in a resolution adopted during the Eleventh General Assembly of the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures (APIL) held July 29-31 in Palau.

At the same time, APIL members expressed appreciation for the efforts being exerted by the firm to provide ample travel services for the island people of the APIL nations.

APIL’s Committee on Economics passed Resolution No.12 asking the Department of Transportation to review Continental Air Micronesia’s rates and to request the airline company to submit all future changes in rates to the various member entities of the APIL.

The committee said air transportation in the region is monopolized by Continental Air Micronesia and that air fares in the region substantially exceed rates charged to passengers on similar types of aircraft used in other parts of the world.

“We realize the excessive economic burden the rates charged

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by Continental Air Mike impose upon the limited incomes of most of the people of the Micronesian region represented by the APIL,” the committee said.

“There is currently no mechanism other than market pressure available to regulate the passenger and cargo rates charged by the airline company,” the committee said.

The resolution was spon

sored by the CNMI delegation composed of Vice Speaker Diego T, Benavpnte and Representatives Pedro R. DL. Guerrero and Crispin I. DL. Guerrero.

The APIL, which is composed of members of the various legislatures in the Pacific region, holds its annual general assembly at the home nation of its current president.

Guerrero, Legislature to resolve imrmgration, labor problems in CNMI

By Qaynor L. Dumat-ol

GOVERNORLorenzoI. Guerrero will meet with legislative leaders upon his return this week to resolve the labor and immigration problems in the Commonwealth, acting Governor Benjamin T. Manglona said yesterday.

Guerrero and other delegates to the July 30 hearing in Washington are coming home with the news that the US is not taking over immigration and labor controls.

“One good news that will be brought by thedelegates is thatas far as the federal government is concerned, they would like us to con-

tinue our immigration and minimum wage,” Manglona told members of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce.

The US Congress too, t. :ording to Manglona, has indicated it was allowing the CNMI to continue exercising immigration and labor controls “provided we (CNMI government) take action to correct the labor problems.”

Manglona said the planned meeting between executive and legislative leaders would be the first step to fulfilling the vow the CNMI government delegates made in Washington on July 30 to correct the

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UMD A net income may exceed $5MTHE UNITED Micronesia Developm ent Association (UMD A) is in the best financial health as assets and income continue to expand, the company’s top officials said yesterday.

Joseph W. Waechter, UMD A chairman and chief executive officer, said the company realized about $2.8 million during the first six months of 1992 and was projected to earn more than $5 million for the whole year.

To date, assets total about $21 million while stockholders ’ equity is about $10 million.

“UMDA is stronger financially than it has ever been in its 26-year history,” chief financial o fficer M ichael T. Grandinetti said in a statement released yesterday.

UMDA issued the statement to refute reports that the company was in financial trouble, that its officers misappropriated company funds and that UMDA only had “paper ownership” of Continental-Air Micronesia.

Grandinetti pointed out that the company’s total assets, net income and stockholders’ equity in UMDA had increased dramatically in the past four years under the leadership of its present directors and management. The company is audited annually by Deloitte and Touche.

Grandinetti also denied that

UMDA had not given dividends to stockholders and that a recent stock offering was made only to a select few. He said UMDA paid dividends to its 1,200 stockholders twice in recent years.. In 1990, the company declared a dividend of $2.50 per share.

“All of tbs shareholders were offered the right to participate in our recent offering,notjust a select few....,” he said.

Clarifying its interest in Continental-Air Micronesia, the UMDA said Air Micronesia, which was formed in 1968,had combinedits route authority with the operating capability of Continental Airlines Inc. to service routes throughout the Western Pacific and Asia.

Waechter said accusations that he ' or other officers m isappropriated company funds were “absolute fabrications.”

“We have acted at all times in good faith and in the best interests of the company," he said. “Our total focus now, as it always has been, is to increase our stockholders equity and provide a significant return on invested capital.”

UMDA’s stated policy is to seek investment opportunities throughout Micronesia which, will bring increased value to its shareholders, and to invest profits back into the community.

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2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY-AU6UST 4.1992

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Workers in South Africa begin nationw ide strike

By BARRY RENFREW

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Tens of thousands of black workers began a nationwide strike Monday to demand an end to white rule and police killed three black men in a clash with strikers.

Many workers in black townships ringing South Africa’s cities Stayed home, as tho opposition African National Congress began the two-day strike to call for President F.W. de Klerk’s removal.

Streets in Johannesburg and other cities were much quieter than usual, with just a handful of vehicles and pedestrians in many areas. Trains and buses were almost empty.

But other blacks ignored the

strike call, heading for work on a cold winter morning. Some said they opposed the strike or could not afford to lose wages.

Three black men were shot to death Monday by police and four police officers were wounded in a gun battle in the black township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, police said. One officer was in serious condition, police said.

Shooting erupted after some 50 blacks, apparently enforcing the strike, stonedvehicles, police said. Police said they found an assault rifle after the crowd dispersed.

State-run television said Monday militants were erecting barricades and using threats to enforce the strike. Roads and trains were blocked with burning car tires in parts of Cape Town and Durban and a man was burned

to death outside Durban, it said.Atleast 17 people died in politi

cal violence Sunday and Saturday, police said. Some black groups, including the ANC’s main black rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party, oppose the strike.

The ANC and the government appealed to people to avoid violence, which has often erupted during past strikes. A small team of United Nations monitors arrived Sunday to try to help prevent violence.

The strike is expected to have limited impact with essential services unlikely to be interrupted and many businesses working.

The ANC, the main black political group, realizing the lack of supportfor the strike, scaled down the action, originally intended to force de Klerk from power with weeks of protests.

Many blacks are disillusioned or apathetic over the political process to end white minority rule. Talks rai a new constitution have had little impact on die bleak life and chronic violence in the black townships.

With the economy in a third straight year of recession, many blacks were unwilling to lose two day’s pay and cause hardship for their families. Most companies have said strikers who don’t report for work would not be paid. The ANC and its labor allies called the two-day strike as part of protests against chronic township violence and a stalemate in political talks.

The ANC broke off negotiations with the government in June after the massacre of more than 40 blacks in the Boipatong township south of Johannesburg.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea on Monday urged Iraq to fully comply with UnitedNations resolutions and eliminate tensions in the region.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the situation in the Gulf can be normalized only when Iraq fully honors the cease-fire agreements of the Gulf War, in which the allied forces drove Iraq out of Kuwait.

Iraq, however, continues to say that Kuwait is part of Iraq, defying a cease-fire ag-m ient to renounce its claim, to the emirate. Iraq has also'tried to block U.N. investigations for weapons of mass destruction in that country.

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r e f o r m s p u t t o t e s tBy SUSANA HAYWARD

DURANGO, Mexico (AP) - Mexico once again put its democratic reforms to the test while negotiators in Washingtonneared an agreement that would establish a common market linking the United States, Mexico and Canada. The conservative opposition National Action Party - fresh from victory in the border state of Chihuahua on July 12 - held high hopes of adding another governorship in Durango, just to the south.

Elections for governor also were being held Sunday in four other states, while Baja California voters chose mayors and a state legislators. The early voter turnout was high for what appears to be a hotly contested race - in contrast with previous elections when the governing party candidates were shoo-ins and voter apathy was high.

Several trucks carrying police armed with automatic· weapons patrolled the streets. Polls closed at 6 p.m. without any reports of violence or confrontations.

National Action, however, criticized the governing party for continuing its policy of offering mass breakfasts in poor neighborhoods and then busing voters to the polls.

Jose Luis Camargo of National Action’s state executive committee, denounced multiple voting in several polling stations in the capital and about five other communities nearby.

In at least two communities, about 30percent more ballots were cast than the number of registered voters, Camargo said. “There are some municipalities where they were not free elections because of unscrupulous people,” he added.

Mexican opposition parties have long charged the government with using public funds to assist the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has held a w ar monopoly on political power for more than 60 years. Chihuahua wasonly the second gubernatorial victory by an opposition party in any of Mexico’s 31 states since the governing party was formed in 1929. The Chihuahua result was a blow to the governing party.

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s u c c e s s f u lMANILA, Philippines (AP) - Imelda Marcos returned home Monday from Hong Kong and said talks with associates of her late husband about countering government: charges of corruption were a success.

Mrs. Marcos, who arrived in Manilaafter midnight,also said she hopes to bring the remains of the late President Ferdinand Marcos into the Philippines: Sept. I for burial after a 10-day wake.

The former first lady called her four-day visit to the British colony "fruitful” and said she was “gratified to see that the associates of the late president had stood strong through the years and loyal.”

Mrs. Marcos refused to identify the people whom she met with.

The government alleges that Marcos, his family and about 300“cronies’’ looted up to$10 billion from the national treasury during Marcos* 20-year rule.

“We have formulated strategies as tb how to face all of these attacks and all -of these misconceptions for the truth to prevail,” Mrs. Marcos said. She did not give details.

Mrs, Marcos faces more than 80 criminal and civil suits filed by the former government’ of Corazon Aquino, who was installed as president in the 1986 “People Power” uprising that toppled Marcos.

Fidel Ramos, who succeeded Aquino as president in June, has maintained her policy of banning the Marcos remains from the capital but allowing their burial in his home province of Ilocos Norte.

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By MARK FRITZ

BERLIN (AP) - People are lining up for a crack at Erich Honecker, whose criminal case in Berlinmay not be the only time he must testify about the sins of his East German Communist regime.

German lawmakers said during the weekend that the former party chief also will be called before a parliamentary commission investigating secret deals cut by one of his top trade officials.

Another lawmaker, Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats, wants Honecker also summoned before parliament’s special commission of inquiry, a sort of soul-searching body set up to take an extrajudicial look at the wrongs of the East German government.

That commission, formed by the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is addressing broader moral issues that cannot be dealt with by a court of law.

Mrs. Merkel, in an interview during the weekend with the Berlin newspaper BZ, gave a hint of the sort of things that Honecker, if he is brought before the commission, would have to address.

“The name Honecker stands for chicanery and spying, for the abuse of an entire generation, for the ecological and economic ruin of an entire land,” she said.

Honecker also could conceivably be called as a witness by either prosecutors or defense lawyers involved in the criminal cases of five prominent members of his inner circle, who are facing similiar charges. He could also be called as a witness in the dozens of pending cases against the border guards who allegedly car

ried out his reputed shoot-to-kill orders that resulted in the deaths of more than 200 people who tried to flee former East Germany.

In previous prosecutions of border guards, some have claimed they had no choice but to follow orders from the Communist government.

Honecker, 79, doubtless possesses intimate knowledge of a variety of allegations: secret business and political dealings with former West Germany, leftist terrorists trained and hai- bored by Eaj>t German authori ties, and illegal arms and dope deals, among others.

Berlin prosecutors are considering whether to investigate allegations that his wife, Margot, who was the education minister, approved the forced adoptions of children belonging to political dissidents.

Honecker was brought back from Moscow on Wednesday and charged with manslaughter in the deaths of 49 people who tried to flee former East Germany. He also has been charged with corruption-related crimes.

He had been in exile for 17 months with his wife, who has not been charged with a crime and who flew to Chile a day alter Honecker was confined to Berlin’s Moabit prison.

Berlin prosecutors insist they will keep the trial from becoming a political circus, a forum in which a largely unrepentant Honecker, who has denied the charges against him, could defend his i e- gime.

But Honecker’s attorney, Friedrich Wolff, has said the trial would indeed be political.

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State agrees to look into visa issueVisa waiver for aliens in CNMI

THEDEPARTMENTofStatehas agreed to look into the possibility of adopting a new policy to allow the issuance of a US visa waiver to aliens in the Northern Marianas under emergency circumstances.

In a statement released yesterday,ResidentRepresentativeJuan N. Babauta said he had met with William Barkell, acting director for the Office of Freely Associated States, and Frances Lide, visa officer with Consular Affairs.

The meeting centered oh the

following alternatives to allow the entry of aliens to the US from the CNMI in times of emergency:

* Authorizing the Guam Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) office to process the application and issue a visa waiver or humanitarian parole; and

* Designate a federal officer physically present in the CNMI such as the US District Court judge, TIA (Office of Territorial and International Affairs) repre

sentative or US Attorney, as the examining officer solely to conduct the interview, a procedure that must be met prior to issuance of a non-immigrant visa.

Babauta, during the meeting, cited an incident in which a Filipino resident in the CNMI, married to a US citizen, was .unable to travel from Saipan to the mainland where a member of his family was hospitalized and had undergone major surgery.

The person was eventually able

to obtain a visa waiver through the INS office in Guam.

In addition to emergency circumstances, Babauta brought up the possibility of an alien obtaining anon-immigrant visa in other instances such as a family trip to the mainland.

Barkell said it was improbable that Dept, of State regulations governing issuance t>f visa would be altered and, as the US and CNMI laws related to immigration were so separate and distinct,

qualifying under one did not presume qualification under the other.

Talks regarding this issue are ongoing between Babauta’s office and the Dept, of State.

Lide offered to contact the INS offices in Washington D.C. and in Guam to determine if policy could indeed be instituted allowing for the issuance of a visa waiver for aliens from the CNMI to pnter the mainland under emergency circumstances.

P o s t - W a s h i n g t o ncontinued from page 1reported labor abuses.

Reports earned even by national newspapers in the mainland stated “slave labor” practices in the CNMI were rampant, particularly on gar- menlfactory workers in Saipan. The reports prompted the powerful US Congressional Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to consider taking over immigration and labor.

“We have to do something positive and start (addressing the labor problems) right away,” Manglona said.

“We (executive and legislative officials) are sitting together to identify the problem”. “If we are able to do something positive then the federal government would leave us alone,” he added.

Manglona said the US has not given a deadline for the CNMI government to improve working conditions of alien workers but said the federal government need not issue an ultimatum for the Guerrero administration to take action.

Guerrero promised at the oversight hearing that he would persuade the legislature to raise the CNMI minimum wage and expand the wage law coverage to include construction workers, domestic helpers, fanners and other workers.

Manglona said Guerrero would recommend to the legislature a “gradual increase” of the minimum wage, up to a level that would not “overburden” employers.

The business community in Saipan had earlier taken a position against the US plan to takeover labor control in the CNMIbecause the US minimum wage is $4.35 per hour, more than half or $220 higher than the curremminimum hourly pay in the Northern Marianas.

Taking over immigration, the business sector said earlier, would also hurt most industries in CNMI particularly Saipan which are mostly dependenton a foreign labor force.

Aside from promising to include blue collar workers in die minimum wage, the governor vowed in Washington to “iequestf(xlegislation giving equal treatment to alien and US citizen workers,” as well as ask the legislature to mandate the enforcement of basic legal rights of alien workers.

Guenerolikewiseptomisedhewoukl push for the passage of the proposed developer tax so investors can help improvepublic infrastructure,and allocate a portion of the income tax rebate for infrastructure development.

Manglona did not elaborate on the US government’s feedback on the tax rebate issue in the CNMI but said Northern Marianas leaders are discussing the possibility of allocating a portion of the tax rebate given back to taxpayers for education, public health and infrastructure.

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a p p r o p r i a t i o n p o w e r h i tBy Rafael H. Arroyo

SENATOR David M. Cing has expressed disappointment and anger over what he claimed as the surrender of the Legislature’s power of appropriation.

In separate letters to Senate President Joseph S. Inos and acting Speaker Diego T. Benavente, Cing said the two presiding officers, in surrendering the budget decision to the governor, “indicate that they do not belong to the offices that they hold.”

“I am shocked and appalled that you seem to have no objection to the manner in which the governor has decided to heed your request to end the budget impasse. As presiding officers, your high priority should be to protect the power of the Legislature, not attempt to give it away,” Cing said.

Benavente brushed aside Cing’s allegations, saying his and Inos’ action was called for under the circumstances.

“We foresaw no need for a compromise because there is no money to compromise .for. I believe by hanging on to the budget we would have created chaos in the government, especially in the agencies whose employees needed to get paid last July 24 but are running out of money Wejust acted expeditiously, seeing that no immediate solution is in sight,” Benavente said in an interview yesterday.

Governor Lorenzo I. DL. Guerrero on July 24 declared a

Cingstate of emergency following the failure of the Legislature to pass an appropriations act during the special session, which was called by Guerrero.

Inos and Benavente, in a joint letter following the deadlock at the Senate on the vote for House Bin 8-135, the budget bill, asked the governor-to utilize his executive powers to resolve the budget issue.

According to Cing, the lack of an appropriations act created a serious situation in the CNMI but not so serious that the Legislature should forfeit the power that distinguishes it from other branches of government.

“The declaration of the governor is unconstitutional and has attempted to secure sole power of appropriations To passively allow the governor to do so would be a very dangerous precedent to

set. What he is purporting to accomplish is of grave danger to the balance of power which is so vital to the democratic process,” Cing said.

Benavente said the House could no longer enter into a compromise so he took the initiative to let the governor decide because at that time he felt the situation was an emergency.

“I felt that at the time, the governor was leaving for Washington and people at the Northern Marianas College and the public schools needed to get paid, so I and the president became straightforward in having the governor use his emergency prerogatives. I feel more people would support what we did more than they would further inaction,” he said.

Inos could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Cing, in another letter to acting Governor BenjaminT. Manglona, said he would file a motion for a temporary restraining order to impede the effects of the emergency declaration if it was not recalled in five days.

Manglona, on the other hand, said the Guerrero administration would not recall the declaration since it was done with the interest of the people of the Commonwealth in mind.

“We justhope that SenatorCing would not do that. In my mind we knew what we did was right and according to law,” Manglona said in an earlier interview.

Puerto Rico not bilingualSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - If you thought Puerto Rico was truly bilingual consider the findings of a new study: 44 percent of the island’s people do not speak English and 18 percent speak it with great difficulty. According to the study by the Puerto Rico Planning Board, ju st 541,160 Puerto Ricans, about 15 percent of the commonwealth’s 3.6 million people, speak Engl ish

fluently.Planning Board President

Patricia Custodio says 50 per-, cent of Puerto Rigans 25 or older, the majority of the work force, are not competent in English.

The question of language on the island - where Spanish was reinstated as the sole official language in 1991 - is a hotly debated political issue.

Disputes preceded the passage

of the “Spanish First” law signed by Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon last year, when the government was accused of mounting a campaign of cultural resistance against US influences on the-island.

English is taught as a second language through the 12th grade. Until 1940, English was the only language of instruction.

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SENATOR David N1. Cing yesterday lashed back at Senate President Joseph Inos, saying the latter’s actions reflected the petty behavior and bickering in the Senate that led lo the budget deadlock.

Cing was responding to a report last week that he was being stripped by Inos of the chairmanship of die Committee on Federal Relations and Independent Agencies.

“I have no recourse but to+severely discipline Senator Cing for insubordination. I am firing him from llie Senate leadership effective immediately,” Inos was quoted as saying.

Cing earlier threatened lo sue Inos for depriving him of the services of the Senate legal counsel.

“The president is recklessly sending out the message that to oppose him is to lose your committee appointments...” Cing said. “This kind of political intimidation within the Senate must stop now.”

Cing aiso questioned Inos’ authority to remove the chairman oF a committee. He cited Rule 6, Section7A of the Senate rules which states that “the removal of a chairman of vice chairman of a standing committee shall require a vote of the majority leadership. ”

“By what imaginary orcon- uived power docs the president of the Senate claim to ‘fire’ me from?” Cing asked. “This attack on a professional level is unfounded and without substantial, legal basis.”

“I may be a rookie, but I am not a baby, I am not crying, and I am certainly nor in the minority, until such a time that the leadership of this Senate dcclarcs-so by vote,” he said. “Theremaycomca time when I may lose my committee chairmanship, but at least let it happen through due process.”

4-m a r ia n a s v a r ie t y NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY-AUGUST 4,1992

Bush undaunted by calls to quitBy MERRILL HARTSON

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is writing off his shaky re-election bid to “the dog days of summer” while accusing Democratic challenger Bill Clintonof tellhig voters whatthey “want to hear.”

“This election is not about change alone because change al-

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urging abandonment of his bid fora second term, Bush predicted Sunday in Illinois that he’ll prevail when Americans have time to contrast his positions on the issues with Clinton’s.

Bush was traveling Monday to Georgia and Florida, two southern states where he enjoyed

healthy victory margins over Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988. The president was to meet with workers at a textile plant in Dalton, Ga., before going to a rally in Jacksonville, Fla.

Bush’s campaign has seemed in disarray - amid persistent reports it will soon be taken over by Secretary of State James A.

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Baker III - as his poll standings have tumbled. Three newspapers urged Bush not to seek re-election in the last four days alone, and conservative fund-raiser Richard Viguerie said he should settle for one· term.

Several administration figures hit the television talk shows to boast that Bush had only begun to fight. “If I know anything about George Bush, it is that he is not a quitter,” said Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas.

For his part, Bush has stuck mostly with the issues while others, including Vice PresidentDan Quayle, have carried the heaviest rhetorical artillery.

Responding to C lin ton’s charges of mudslinging, the Bush campaign on Sunday unleashed a vitriolic compendium of nasty things Clinton and other Democrats have said about Bush.

The campaign styled its broadside in the form of a who-said- what quiz for Clinton and other “sniveling hypocritical Democrats.”

Bush’s trip came on the eve of the launching of a television advertising campaign.

“The ads will be airing across the country,” said spokeswoman Tone Clarke. “They will be positive. They will be about accomplishments and the president’s agenda and in a very simple and straightforw ard fashion.” Bushignored questions about the editorials Sunday.

“He’s been on my case for six months - six months of distorting the Republican record,” he said of Clinton.

He got on top of a picnic table to thank the crowd and predicted his support would surge.

“In the dog days of summer, it’s very easy to be attracted to the new candidate - the one who says the things that polls say people want to hear,” Bush said.

“But by the fall, the American people look more closely, and they ask this question: who do we trust to change America?”

Campaigning inRosemont,111., Bush charged that Clinton favors health-care changes that “would slap at least a 7 percent payroll tax on middle-income

Americans” and cost 700,000 people their jobs. Bush has proposed tax credits to help poor and middle-income people afford private health insurance.

“Understand what’s at stake here. If the governor of Arkansas is elected with a Democratic Congress and a new Democratic senator from Illinois, within a year the government will run health care in this country and our health care system will combine the efficiency of the House post office with the compassion of the KGB,” said Bush.

Within fpiniues of Bush’s speech, Clinton stood outside the governor’s mansion in Little Rock, Ark., to say, “Once again, the administration is trying to raise fears instead of solve problems.”

“They don’t have any credibility on the health care offense,” said Clinton, who added that the Republicans “have presided over the biggest explosion in health care costs in history.”

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S ch o o l h e lp s b r ig h t s tu d e n ts to e n te r c o lle g e a t less co st

By Gaynor L. Dumat-ol

DILIGENT and bright high school students in the Northern Marianas planning to go to college now have a way to minimize their college tuition fee.

A college entrance testing scheme called Advanced Placement or AP enables qualified students to take college courses while still in high school so that they could skip taking them in college, a saving scheme for those who want to enroll in universities or colleges with costly tuition fees.

Under the scheme, ahigh school student in a school offering the AP program can take college subjects either in the same school she is enrolled inorcross-enroll in another school offering the subject she is interested in taking in advance.

Before graduating from high

Interior to finance anti-drug programTHE DEPARTMENT of the Interior will fund Pacific Insular Regional Anti-substance Abuse Program training for law enforcement officials from the Federated states of Micronesia, (FSM) Republic of the Marshall Islands (RJVH) and the Republic of Palau, Assistant Secretary Stella Guerra announced over the weekend.

“This important project is part of our overall effort to fight the scourge of substance abuse in the insular areas,” she said.' The grants include $25,200.for

FSM and $6,300 each for RMI and Palau. The funds will enable two officers and an attorney general or assistant attorney general from each local government to attend the Driving Under the Influence and Breathalizer training to be held on Sept. 14-23, in Agana, Guam.

school, she can take the week-long AP test administered by her school and, if she passes, she is exempt from taking the college subject— granted that she enrolls in a college or a university which recognizes the AP.

In the CNMI the AP was introduced about three years backbut so far only the Marianas Baptist Academy has been known to be offering AP.

Two of the academy’s graduates this year, Jose Anthony Villagomez, 18 and Su Ji Song, also 18, qualified for the AP.

Villagomez would be exempt from taking World History while Su Ji qualified for exemption from a college english composition course.

“AP is a way of saving money

when you go to college,” said Robert Lem Berkey, head of the academy.

Su Jin, for example, saved about $1,200 in tuition fee for having been exempted from taking the english course in college, Berkey said. A student who wants to take AP test pays only $60, according to the school head.

Villagomez andSu Jin are among the estimated 360,000’ students worldwide who qualified for the program.

Various subjects are available for the AP applicants, including subjects in art, biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, literature,languages,govemmentand politics, mathematics, music theory, physics, psychology and history.

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Fire burns huge area near Yosemite Park

By STEVE GEISSINGER

MOCCASIN, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters battled in steep terrain against flames that burned across more than 3,500 acres (1,417 hectares) of land near Yosemite National Park.

Smoke was so thick airplane crews could not make an accurate acreage reading, said David Ortegel of the California Department of Forestry, adding that as many as 4,000 acres (1,620 hectares) were affected. The forest arid brush is dry from six years of drought.

No injures were reported, but a bam was destroyed and hundreds

of homes were threatened. About 2,000 people were, evacuated, said Kathy Campbell, a state forestry spokeswoman.

Rugged terrain hindered firefighters who also fa'ced the unusual problem of hard-to-see abandoned mine shafts.

The fire burned in Sierra foothills country four miles (six kms) from Stanislaus National Forest and 20 miles (32 kms) outside of Yosemite National Park.

The fire was believed to have been started by a campfire. Officials did not know when it would be contained.

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It was believed to have been caused by lightning. The area is so steep and remote that firefighters had to hike in or were dropped in by helicopter. One suffered a broken pelvis jumping from a helicopter on Saturday. Another wildfire near the central California city of Salinas had burned across 1,600 acres (648 hectares) by Sunday, said California Department of Forestry spokesman Don Stacy.

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15,000 expelled from villages due to religious disputeBy JOHN RICE

SAN JUAN CHAMULA, Mexico (AP) - A snuggle of faith, tradition and politics has driven 15,000 people from their villages in the trcpcalmountains of southern Mexico,

A few are Roman Catholics, Mexico’sdommamreligion,but most are converts to Protestantism. All challenged the status quo in their traditional Indian towns and patd a heavy price.

Theirptiglu iliustratcshow the tight bond between religion, culture and politics in rural Mexico can lead to violence.

Because of the expulsions, the jewel-like city of San Cristobal* de las Casas now is fringed with slums that echo nightly with the sound of Protestant hymns played or Mexican guitars.

Many of the refugees live in makeshift shacks along muddy tracks ,* w ith no water, power or drainage.

Residents of at least eight rural districts have taken part in expulsionsover the past 18 years, often beating or jailing religious converts. Some women have been raped during raids.

Gov. Fatrocinjo Gonzalez of Chiapas state, whose 3-year-old admin istmnon has tried to stop the expulsions, described than as “a human tragedy.**

Gon/alez has set himself a difficult task.

Leaders of the Mayan Indian villages claim they are under attack by outsiders trying to destroy their culture. But most of tlie leaders also are allied with Mexico’s dominion political power, the institutional Revolutionary Party.

Critics often accuse village leaders of using tradition as an esc use tostay in power and keep control over die sale of alcohol and such ritual goods as candles.4 Many refugees, however, say their neighbor?, not die village leaders, turned against them because of dieir religion.

The expulsions po>e a legal dilemma, Gonzalez said. Mexico’s constitution guarantees fteedom of religion, but also the rights of Indians to protect their embatdcd cultures. “We can’L create a political system that destroys die cultures that have defended diemselvcs with such fervor,” the governor said, "but neither can we permit violations o f human rights."

Chamula, a mountainous district of 86 scattered communities afewmiles (several kilometers) north of San Cristobal, is where the expulsions began and reached their height.

Thousands of people have been driven from their homes in Chamula, a well-known center ofTzotzil-Maya tradition, one of the most-sntdied cultures in Mexico.

Tourists flock to San Juan Chamula each year to watch exuberant festivals that combine Mayan celebrations and the Roman Catholic faith imposed by die conquistadors.

Enrique Gomez Patishtaft, a reprcsentadvc of Chamula at a recent state conference on the expulsions, accused Protestant evangelists of dividing the people and trying “to conquer our souls."

Protestants often refuse to participate in religious celebrations, which include the ritual use of aicob >1 and are central to Chamulan culture.

“When diere is no drink, there is no fiesta," said Sebastian Gomez Coyaso, a senior Chamula official, and Protestants "don’t want tocoopcrate.” In recent years, many Chamulans have taken to drinking cola in religious ceremonies in addition to liquor.

Chamula leaders also have rejected attempts by Roman Catholic officials in San Cristobal to become more active in the districL

On April 2, an attempted expulsion led refugees to abduct several Chamulan officials who were visiting San Cristobal. A melee began that involved thousands of people and put aL least 25 in the hospital.

Many refugee leaders accuse state officials of complicity in the expulsions.

They note that expulsion-related criminal charges against several Chamula leaders were dropped days before a state election in the 1980s, when the leaders threatened not to set up poUjng places. The Institutional Revolutionary .Party, or PRf, won in a landslide.■ Village leaders admit their vi

sion of community unity expends to politics;,, »“In this community, there is only one party, only the PRI, nothing else," Gomez Coyaso said.

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KATMANDU Nepal (AP) - Flying through low-lying monsoon clouds, two army helicopters on Monday began retrieving the bodies of H3 people killed when a Thai Airways jetliner crashed in the Himalayas.

Hie plane developed technical problems oa a flight ftidayfrom ttjuTgfcpk m Katmandu an<fstruck a mountain peak and exploded, All 99 passengers - including 11 Americans - and 14 crewmen were killed.

inatemattheendofthe tarmac, where the victims’ relatives will try to identify them later in theday, authorities said.

Relatives, investigators and onlookers gathered yards (meters) from where the helicopters landed just after dawn in the Katmandu airport,

Tlie wreckage, of the Thai Airways jetliner was sighted early Sunday in a deep gorge, where the plane fell after slamming into a rocky mountain slope 11,5QQfeet{3,500meters} high. There were no survivors.

Hie two helicopters landed“It’s like powder scatferedon Sunday in a small clearing on

the mountain. The biggest piece the pine-studded peak near theof the aircraft is 8 feet by 4 feet," wreckage site, about 22 miiessaid Capt K.B, Shashi, one of (35 kms) north of Katmandu,the helicopter pilots* Bad-weather prevented them

Tbeptoe,loadedwiih2dtons from returning and they spentof gasoline, explodedon impact tbenightinGhy angphedi, a tinywifotHg mrinnf »in( burning into village about a three-hour walkflames, he said The explosion away,left a 100-to 200-meter (yards) A villager in Ghyangphedi black patch on the mountain, sawibecrashftiday and walked

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to retrieve all the remains by Tuesday, Shashi said.

Army medics wearing pink gloves unloaded 25 body hags onto stretchers, some weighing barely two kilograms (4.4 pounds). The bap were placed

On Sunday, 23 relatives and friendsof the 14crewmembers and two passengers aboard the plane arrived in Katmandu aboard a Special Thai Airways flight from Thailand. They were accompanied by a Buddhist.

Hit-and-run victim in serious condition

By Gaynor L. Dumat-ol

A worker from the Philippines who ran away from his alleged abusive Saipan employer became the victim of a hit-and-run early last Sunday, the second Filipino worker who met such accident here in less than three weeks.

Efren N. Reyes, 35, underwent two surgeries and was in a serious condition due to fractures in the pelvic bone and right thigh. His face and ankles were badly braised.

A police officer, Eugene Babauta, found Reyes sprawled on the side of the North-bound lane across the intersection of the Philippine Consulate while conducting routine patrol on Beach Road at about 2:20 a.m. last Sunday.

Reyes was returning to the consulate where he sought shelter after running away from his employer, when sideswiped by a car believed driven by a person under the influence of liquor.

The responsible for the hit-and- run incident was being hunted down by police authorities.

The hit-and-run victim, the Philippine Consualte said, was a farmer lured by the prospect of earning dollars in Saipan and ended up a stowaway when he could not stand liis abusive employer.

Reyes left his employer seven months back and had long wanted to go hoYne but he had to do earn money doing odd jobs to pay for his plane fare and the P18.000 he borrowed from a loan shark for his job placement.

The hit-and-run victim’s employer was still being traced.

Last July, 16, Filipino Melchor S. Pilande, 37, was sideswiped on Beach Road near the Post Office while walking for home, and died a day later due to head injuries at the CHC.

Police authorities tracked down and arrested suspect Crispin A. Borja, 46, a few days after the incident.

Pilande’s body however, remained at the CHC morgue because no one was footing his hospital bills, the embalming fee and the cost of transporting his body back to the Philippines.

The Philippine Consulate, which does not have a budget for such case, was still soliciting donations from the Filipino community so the body of i lande could be shipped to his family.

Man found dead in garageA MAN was found dead by his wife in their house’s garage last Saturday morning but no signs of external injuries were found by the police.

The police theorized that Safomino Kaipep, 33, might have suffered a heart attack or a stroke.

Investigation showed that

Kaipep took a nap in the living room of his house in Koblerville at about 11 a.m. He woke up minutes later complaining that he felt hot and went to the garage.

When his wife checked him later, she noticed her husband was no longer breathing. The unidentified wife rushed Kaipep to the Commonwealth Health Center but he was declared dqad on arrival.

Meanwhile, a man from Palau was stabbed in the back when an argument ensued during a drinking spree inChalan Kanoa District 1 early last Sunday.

Danniel Tengadik, 25, suffered a knife wound in the back and was treated at the hospital.

The suspect fled after the stabbing incident that occurred at 2:45 a.m.

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By THOMAS GINSBERG

TYUMEN, Russia (AP) - Leonid Zakharov, the brash, rotund chief of a small state oil company, has a half-joking threatfor anybody who challenges his claim to cme of Russia’s richest oil fields.

“I have a pistol!” he said to a visitor, patting his hip where a gun might have been.

With militant fervor, Zakharov has become one of many company and government officials competing for parts of the industry that controls Russia’s most important natural resource and hard-currency earner.

The bickering, caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent promises of privatization, has left both the oil and the industry without a clear owner. It has worsened a host of troubles that are lowering production and slowing foreign investment.

“Each company ought to be able to decide its own path,” Zakharov said of his North Varyegan Oil Company, which pumped almost 1 percentof allRussiancrudein 1991. “This is an entirely new age, an entirely new epoch.”

The epoch, however, may see the industry lose its position as the world’s No. 1 oil producer. Outdated technology combined with a lack of new wells and equipment

are expected to drive production to less than 450 million metric tons this year, from 510 million last year.

That would drop it to nearly the same level as second-ranked Saudi Arabia, which produced about 425 million metric tons in 1991. A ton of oil equals seven42-gallon (159- liter) barrels.

“There’s a paradox in our oil industry,” said Vladimir Repin, deputy director of the Nizhnevartovsk Oil and Gas Production Association. “Everywhere, the oil industry is profitable, but here, it’s unprofitable.”

Repin’s conglomerate controls the Samotlor basin, the richest oil field in western Siberia.

Crude oil now costs more to extract than the state allows producers to charge, but President Boris Yeltsin has refused to risk social unrest by raising domestic energy prices quickly.

As a result, the industry cannot afford to modernize or to tap known reserves, only half of which have been developed in Russia. Privatization might alleviate some problems, but it has been slowed by political resistance.

Outside investment is one answer, and many foreigners have visited the oil regions to explore opportuni ties. But the obstacles are great, including infighting among men like Zakharov and a hard-

currency tariff of about 30 percent exporters must pay on each ton of oil sent abroad.

In an attempt to increase production, Yeltsin’s government has granted tariff exemptions to some foreign exporters and promises to givedomesticproducers credits and more of its own profits. Still, officials do not expect a turnaround for three to four years.

“We’reverymuchinamonetary, not oil, crisis,” said Don Joiner of White Nights, a US-Russian joint venture struggling to keep its 2- year-old drilling operation going in the Varyegan basin.

Russiaproduces 90 percentof all the crude oil in the former Soviet Union. Half of that comes from western Siberia, a vast, forbidding land of forests, swamps and bleak tundra nearly one-third the size of the United States.

After World War n , workers attracted by high pay moved to Tyumen province, 1,500 miles (2,413 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. They survived dark, severe winters andmosquito-infested summers to drill wells, lay pipelines, and build roads and towns.

After struggling with limited reforms introduced by the Soviet Union, managers and directors began challenging government control after the August coup.

“We pump the oil, therefore the wells are ours,” said Vladimir Shten,

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a technical director at Repin’s conglomerate. “The wells are sitting on land owned by the state. It’s our state land, but the process of privatization is going on.”

Privatization supposedly would let Zakharov, Repin, Shten or anybody with enough moneyorinfluenceown the land. But the government has not fully implemented the complex plan, which requires Kremlin approval of any privatization because oil is a “strategic asset”

Delays and confusion have led to something like a free-for-all in Siberia. When Zakharov and others assert theirright tomake independent decisions, higher-level officials such as Repin try to block them.

“They try to make declarations about our work, but they have no authority with the workers,” Zakharov said.explaininghis own authority with a Soviet management slogan: “The voice of the chief is the voice of the workers!”

Zakharov, whose formal titles are chief geologist and head of his company’s labor collective, said he must be free to make deals and money without the consent of the parent Varyegan Oil and Gas Production Association:

Already, Zakharov said, he has unilaterally considered and rejected a proposal from the Swiss company Marc Rich.

Directors of the parent associations persuaded Yeltsin to sign a decree June 1 reaffirming their control over the industry.

Critics claim the decree contradicts the privatization law, and Zakharov called it “a step back to the old regime.”

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HONOLULU (AP) - State figures for income and general excise taxes paid in some 17 categories yield a rough estimate of how some economic sectors did last year, when inflation was about 7.2 percent.

The figures show “producing” gained about 15 percent, services 7.5 percent, sugar processing 6 percent and hotel rentals 4.6 percent. Manufacturing was down about 2 percent, commissions down 12.5 percent and interest down 18.5 percent.

The numbers don’t readily reveal how construction did because contractors, carpenters and builders report their income in several areas, said state tax director Rick Kahle.

There also seemed to be confusion involving the “insurance solicitor” and “retailing” categories, as insurance solicitor initially showed a whopping 119 percent increase and retailing a slim gain of less than 4 percent.

“Were not sure what the figures should be, but we know that’s wrong,” Kahle said. It appeared retailers wrote their information on the wrong line on the tax form, as theirs was next to the insurance line, he said.

Gov. John Waihee recently announced $115 million in spending cuts for the current fiscal year after tax collections were lower than projected.

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Census shows rise in au pair market

By NANCY RABINOWrrZ

BOSTON (AP) - The unification of Germany and an increase in working mothers in the United States has dovetailed in an unexpected way: Hundreds of women

. from the former East Germany have become au pairs. And US Census figures indicate a growing market for live-in child care help.

Nearly 18 million two-career families in the United States have one or more children. Nearly 25 percent of such households have at least one child under age six.

Of thatnumber, 2.4percenthave what the Census Bureau calls a non-relative providing child care.

“The interest on both sides of the Atlantic is increasing immensely,” said Paul Wehrlin, a spokesman for EF Au Pair, based in Cambridge.

When the Berlin Wall came down, Nicole Froehlich, 19, was living in Liederlehme, East Germany. Now, nearly three years later, she works in Duxbury, a Boston suburb, caring for Ken and Kathy Fortini’s three children, ages 3 ,6 and 9.

“It’s not easy. Sometimes they drive me crazy,” Froehlich said. “But I like it . ... I don’t feel like a foreigner anymore. I like best that the country is so big, that you have so many choices and possibilities.”

The Fortinis decided to hire an au pair after Kathy Fortini went back to school to earn a master’s degree in nursing. Now that she is a pediatric nurse, she really needs an au pair.

“I t’s been fantastic,” Mrs. Fortini said. “We couldn’t have done what we’re doing without her, that’s for sure.”

Wehrlin said the number of au pairs the agency places each year has increased steadily since 1989 and totals about 2,500 around, the nation. The agency has received more than 1,000applications from the former East Germany since the fall of the wall.

The au pair concept took off six years ago, when the State Department authorized eight agencies to bring in up to2,840au pairs each for one-year visits. The host family must petition the State Department for a visa fbr the au pair.

State Department regulations dictate that au pairs complete a lengthy application and screening process.

The screening process was questioned in December when Olivia Riner, a Swiss au pair living with a Thomwood, N.Y., family, was charged with setting a fire that killed the family’s 3- month-old baby. Riner was acquitted last month of murder and arson charges.

E.F. Au Pair, which had placed Riner, defended its screening - process. In addition to the benefit to busy families, the au pair program also gives young people a taste of life in America.

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that on their days off au pairs spend at least four hours a week taking classes in anything from English to marketing. The host family .must pay for tuitioa

Agencies generally place several au pairs in one area for companionship. The au pairs meet periodically with a. counselor provided by the agency.

Froehlich began her one-year stay with the Fortinis last September. She has overcome her fear of driving in America and, when she isn’t taking the kids to day camp or piano lessons, she visits Boston museums and department stores.

The pay isn’t much - $100 a week. But had Froehlich not become an au pair, she might never have left her hometown, where herparents both woric in a factory.

“It’s hard for young people to go away,” she said. “I will miss it when I go back home.”

Slow dow n in Japan forces industries to cut on researchTOKYO (AP) - Key industries are sharply cutting back on spending for research and development in belt-tightening forced by Japan’s faltering economy, a survey published Monday said.

The survey of 318 companies by the leading economic daily Nihon Keizai showed investment in research and development this year will remain around 199l ’s level after years of expansion.

However, 54 firms in the high- technology areas of electronics and precision instruments said they would spend 16.7 percent less this year on such investment.

Investment in R and D by steel and chemical companies will also be down over 15 percent, said the survey, which was conducted last month. The newspaper said companies in these sectors are holding back on buying equipment for research that will, not help earnings in the short term. It said they are also reducing investm ent in manufacturing facilities and in basic research, an area where Japan has historically been weak.

The figures are the latest sign of weakness in an economy that has been hit by slow consumer de

mand and the high cost of raising capital.

Last Monday, Japan’s central bank cut its official discount rate by 0.5 percentage points to 3.25 percent to encourage lending and give a boost to the economy.

On the brighter side, 18 power and gas companies surveyed showed an increase of 19.2 percent in their R and D investment.

The Nihon Keizai attributed the increase to pressure on the companies to invest in more environmentally friendly plants and equipment.

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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) - Ex-prime minister Rabbie Namaliu, who lost power following elections in June, has been replaced as opposition leader by another former premier Sir Michael Somare, officials of their Pangu Party said Monday..

Namaliu, 45, surrendered the prime ministership to rival Paias Wingti, 41, when he failed by cme vote to secure a majority in Papua New Guinea’s parliament on July 17.

Namaliu had acted as opposition leader since then but resigned on

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Yeltsin, Kravchuk discuss fleet’s fate

By THOMAS GINSBERG

YALTA, Russia (AP) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin left for this Crimean resort Monday for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart over the future of the disputed B lack Sea Fleet, a news agency reported.

Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk were to continue discussion on the fleet based on an agreement reached in June in the nearby seaside town of Dagomys.

Russia and Ukraine have been feuding over ownership of the 300-ship fleet and other economic, political and military issues since the Soviet Union’s collapse last year. The fleet was once the Soviet strategic counterbalance to the US 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.

In June, the two presidents signed a friendship treaty agree

ing temporarily to keep the fleet under unified command. They agreed the fleet would be divided up afterfurther talks on the issue.

The agreement skirted the issue over control of the Crimea, which historically has been Russian but was transferred to Ukrainian jurisdiction in 1954.

Yeltsin told reporters in Moscow before leaving for the Crimea that implementing the Dagomys agreement would be the focal point of discussion between the leaders of the two most populous former Soviet republics, the Interfax and Itar-TASS news agencieSreported.

“We succeed in some matters and do not succeed in others,” he said, according to the TASS repent

“One of the all-important issues is that of the Black Sea Fleet,” TASS quoted Yeltsin as saying. “The commissions set up to solve this problem failed to reach agree

ment. The defense ministers also could not attain accord. The ball is now in the president’s court.”

Yeltsin told reporters in Dagomys that the fleet would be jointly financed by the two countries and would serve as a basis for building separate Russian and Ukrainian navies.

The Dagomys treaty, which Kravchuk called “a major turning point” in relations between the twocountries, also allows Ukraine to introduce its own currency and meets a Russian demand that the nations’ border remain open to free travel with only customs checkpoints.

The talks between the two presidents likely will be held in former Soviet President’s \ f ikhail Gorbachev’s summer house near Yalta in the coastal town of Foros, where he was held prisoner last August during the failed coup, ITAR-Tass said.

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SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - A $213 million European satellite released by the space shuttle Atlantis ’ astronauts got stuck in a dangerously low orbit, and ground controllers in Germany struggled to solve the problem Monday.

The Eureca research satellite, loaded with crystals, seeds and

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shrimp eggs, was set free from the shuttle on Sunday after a one- day delay caused by communications problems.

When controllers in Darmstadt, Germany, fired the satellite’s thrusters to boost it to its 320- m ile- (514-kilometer-) high working orbit, it appeared to be turned the wrong way. They stopped firing the thrusters, leaving Eureca only 276 miles (444 kilometers) up.

Unless controllers can raise Eureca, its orbit will decay to the point that the craft cannot be retrieved by shuttle astronauts as planned during a mission next spring. The satellite would plunge th-ough the atmosphere and bum up.

The solution may be as simple as sending a computer program correction, said Eckart Graf, a program manager for the European Space Agency, which owns the satellite.

“We ire optimistic,” Graf said.Eureca.managers said they

hoped to fire the thrusters again Monday afternoon.

Fifteen experiments are to be conducted aboard the 66-foot (20- meter), 9,900-pound (4,485-kilogram) reusable satellite, involving brine shrimp eggs, bacteria andfungal spores, seeds, crystals, a telescope, solar monitors

and a cosmic dust catcher.Graf said the biological samples

would not be damaged at the current altitude. But the scientific studies cannot begin until the satellite is in a stable orbit.

Eureca is supposed to spend nine months in orbit. Another Atlantis crew is to swing by next April or May and bring it back to Earth to examine the effects of space on the samples.

The European Space Agency paid dlrs 29 million to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for delivery and pickup; the entire Eureca project cost $428 million.

There were no plans for this Atlantis crew to rescue Eureca.

Late Suntuy, the shu ttle’s seven astronauts tested equipment for the m ission’s main event: Tuesday’s release of an Italian satellite that will be connected to Atlantis by J 2 miles (20 kilometers) of electricity-generating cord.

The 30-hour tethered-satellite experiment was supposed to have begun Monday but was pushed back a day because of the delay in releasing Eureca. NASA may extend Atlantis’ mission by one day because of thedelay. Atlantis is supposed to land at Kennedy Space Center on Friday, one week after lifioff.

Aquino sets tripMANILA, Philippines (AP) - Former President Corazon Aquino said Monday she will visit Spain and New York for g speaking tour and Portugal for a pilgrimage starting next month.

Mrs. Aquino, whose 6-year term ended last June, said she has been invited by Spain’s social welfare department to address a women’s group in Sevilla from

Sept. 8 to 11.She also said she will travel to

New York to spe.ak before the Carnegie Council of Ethics. She gave no specific dates for her US trip.

In an interview aired by private radio station DZXL, Mrs. Aquino said she will also visit Fatima, Portugal in October with her youngest daughter Kris.

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A ministry spokesman said the government recently selected CN235M cargo planes made by CASA of Spain over G222 planes made by Alenia of Italy.

The 12 mid-sized planes, worth $ 164million, will be deliveredfrom 1993 through 1995, he said. About $32 million worth of parts and sup- -porting equipment will also be delivered.____________________

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i n T o k y oTOKYO (AP) - The US dollar inched lower against the Japanese yen on Monday, while share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell back in thin trading.

The dollar closed at 127.25 yen, down 0.05 yen from Friday’s close. After opening at 127.17 yen, it ranged from 127.05 yen to 127.28 yen.

Traders said the dollar’s lower opening followed its downswing Friday on mixed US economic data.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that orders for US factories jumped 2.3 percent in June, the best gain in months, while another Commerce report said Americans ’ personal income failed to grow in June.

Yoko Shimizu, a dealer at the Fuji Bank, said the dollar was sold slightly in early trading but remained in a narrow range, as traders waited for the release later in the week of US employment figures for July.

Trading was expected to be light this week as employees at some overseas banks began their summer vacations, she added.

On the stock exchange, the 225- issue Nikkei Stock Average shed 200.83 points, or 1.26 percent, to close at 15,709.45 points. On Friday, the average gained 354.68 points, or 2.28 percent.

The Tokyo Stock Price Index of all issues listed cm the first section fell 11.81 points, or 0.97 percent, to 1,207.44 points. The TOPIX rose 25.77 points, or 2.16 percent, on Friday.

A Nikko Securities dealer said stock trading remained slow with many investors retreating to the sidelines in the absence of fresh incentives.

As of 3 p.m. , the benchmark No. 129 10-year Japanese government bonds edged lower to 107.76 points from Friday’s 108.02-point finish. Their yield rose to 4.990 percent from 4.945 percent.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4,1992 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VEE^S-ll

K o re a n re p o rtin g p ro g ra m fin d s 60 ,000 ille g a l a lie n sSEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Over 60,000 illegal aliens turned themselves in under a reporting program that underlined the labor shortage in South Korea, the Justice Ministry said Monday.

The 'government issued an order June lOtelling illegal aliens to report themselves by the end of July. A total 61,126 aliens from

32 countries did so, said ministry officials who asked not to be named.

The number of aliens has increased in recent years as Koreans abandon the so-called “3-D jobs” - dirty, dangerous and difficult. The officials said 42,480 illegal aliens were found to be working in such jobs.

Reflecting the manpower shortage in labor-intensive industries, the ministry said only 6,705 of the aliens who turned themselves in were sent home. The rest, especially in manufacturing jobs, will be allowed to stay for a limited period.

Ethnic Koreans from China led the list of illegal aliens with

22,035, followed by 18,998from the Philippines, 8,950 from Bangladesh, and 5,036 from Nepal, the officials said.

They said they believe between 20,000 and 30,000 illegal aliens did not surrender during the reporting period.

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SEOUL, South Korea {AP> - South Korea’s trade deficit during the first seven months of thi s year fell 26 percent from a year earlier to $5,87 billion, officials j said Monday.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry said the sharp decline,

from $7.87 billion in the same period Iasi year, was due to brisk exports and government efforts to curb consumption that has reduced growth in imports.

An 8 percent decline in value of the Korean won in the past year alsohas made South Korea’s

exports cheaper and more competitive in overseas markets, officials said.

Between January and July, exports rose 9.3 percent to S43.1 billion, Vhiie imports rose 3.5 percent to 548.97 billion.

The trade deficit in July was

$920 million, down 42 percent from $1,587 million from July 1991, the ministry said.

Officials predict the trade deficit for the entire year will fall to S7-8 billion from S9.6 billion last year.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - Resist the temptation to turn from your friends today. You will need increased companionship come nightfall.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Your instincts are leading you in just the right direction at this time. Don’t let your mind intervene just yet.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may not be in touch w .h your heart’s desire today, with the expected · result that emotions go astray.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Your loyalty is likely to be put to a test today. Be sure you have enough money in your pocket. Heed silent warnings.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Someone has an important message for you today, and you must be sure to keep lines of communication open.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - All eyes are on you today. It’s your turn to

be the hero — or the goat. Your destiny is in your hands right now.

AREES (March 21-April 19) - Are you going after that which you really deserve, or are you letting others persuade vou to settle for less?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Material gains are less important today than emotional and spiritual health. Focus on the internal today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - You may have to alter the pace from time to time today in order to take full advantage of your waxing and waning energy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Take your time today. You can wait out any serious challenges and come out squarely on top. Reach for what you want!

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Joyner-Kersee retains top titleByTONYCZUCZKA

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - AmericanJackieJoyner-Kersee claimed the title of top all- around woman athlete for the second straight Olympics on

.Sunday, becoming the first woman to repeat as heptathlon gold medalist. Meanwhile, the Unified Team’s Vitaly Scherbo finished with a record six Olympic gymnastic gold medals after winning four on Sunday. He had golds earlier from the all-around and team events.

The team of former Soviet athletes also won two track and field golds, sweeping all three medals in the hammer throw and placing 1-2 in the women’s 3,000-meter run. Men’s judo and weightlifting provided two more golds.

Javier Sotomayor, afirst-time Olympian because Cuba stayed away in 1984 and 1988, won the men’s high jump gold to add to his 3-year-old world

record.After eight days of competition,

the Unified Team had a big lead in the medals standings - 32 gold and 74 medals in all to 19 and 56 for the United States. Germany stood third with 14 and 45.

Joyner-Kersee, who won silver at the 1984 Games and gold in 1988, finished with7,044points - her bestmarksince a world-record performance of 7,291 points at the 1988 Olympics.

Irina Belova of the Unified Team won silver with 6,845points and Sabine Braun of Germany was third with 6,649.

Joyner-Kersee won the 100- meter hurdles, 200-meterdash and the long jump in the two-day competition, which also included a high jump, shot put, javelin throw and 800-meter ran.

“Because it was so historic, I really wanted to get the gold. It was a challenge mentally and physically,” said Joyner-Kersee, who also will be seeking a second straight gold, medal in the long jump this week.

<88>Sotomayor, whose world mark

stands at 2.44 meters, was among five jumpers clearing 2.34. He won because of fewer misses. It was the lowest winning height since the 1976 Olympics.

PatrikSjoeberg of Sweden won his third Olympic medal, a silver. Artur Partyka of Poland, Tim Forsyth of Australia and US jumper Hollis Conway, the 1988 silvermedalist,tiedforthebronze.

The Unified Team hammer throw medalists were led by Andrey Abduvaliyev - from the former Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan - with a heave of 82.45 meters. Igor Astapkovich

had 81.96 and Igor Nikulin 81.38.In the women’s 3,000, Elena

Romanova broke away from teammate Tatyana Dorovskikh in the final 50 meters and won in 8 minutes, 46.04 seconds. Angela Chalmers of Canada won the bronze.

Scherbo won gold Sunday on the rings, parallel bars and vault and shared victory on the pommel horse with Pae Gil Su of North Korea, another nation that boycotted the 1984 and 1988 Games.

China’s Li Xiaosahuang completed the competition’s only triple back somersault and easily won gold in the floor exercise.

American Trent Dimas won on the high bar.

On th^hot red clay of the tennis courts, third-seeded Pete Sampras wilted against Russian Andrei Cherkasov, leaving Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia as the only one of the world’s top 24 players in the quarterfinals.

Cherkasov, seeded 13th, rallied when Sampras was within two games of a straight-set win

and ousted him, 6-7 (7-9), 1-6, 7-5,6-0, 6-3.

British hurdler Colin Jackson andhis US rivals traded bravado while qualifying for Monday’s semifinals in the 110-meter hurdles.

Jackson ran the fastest opening-round 110-meter hurdles in Olympic history, 13.10 seconds. “I made a statement to the guys who were watching,” the 1988 Olympic silver medalist said.

The Americans said they weren’t really listening, and Jackson’s quarterfinal was less impressive. Stumbling over a hurdle, he came in second to Jack Pierceof the United States. Pierce ran a 13.17. Jackson was a sizable .40 behind.

Host Spain, Ne wZealand and France split the gold medals in yachting events at Barcei. .ia’s port.

Spaniards Luis Doreste and Domingo Manrique won the gold medal in the Flying Dutchman class.

S a n F r a n c i s c o G i a n t s f o r s a l e Fallen tennis stars blame everythingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San

Francisco Giants owner Bob Lurie plans to take the “first good offer” for the team, regardless of whether it comes from local investors or not, according to a report published Sunday.

“It’s not a bidding war,” Giants vice president Duffy Jennings told the San Francisco Examiner. “The first acceptable offer at fair value is going to be submitted to other baseball owners for their approval.”

The remarks by Jennings, who said he was speaking for Lurie, appeared calculated to hearten potential buyers outside the San Francisco Bay area after the emergence last week of a new groupof local investors. Cable television millionaire H. Irving Grousbeck, who heads the local group, saidhe needs several weeks

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ing,” Stasa Bailey of Slovenia’s Olympic delegation said Sunday afterhercountry’srowers secured a second - and unexpected - bronze for the nation.

As soon as the medal was presented, the phone in the delegation’s office began ringing. And ringing. First, the president called from Ljubljana. Then the prime minister, and then in quick succession the entire Cabinet, the athletes’ families, their employers and teachers, journalists and just plain well-wishers.

Croatia, Slovenia’s neighbor which also proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia last year, has not been as successful although it could still medal in basketball, tennis or canoe- kayaking.

Lithuania, for 52 years an unwilling part of the Soviet Union, is alsd making its mark in basketball and could get a medal.

to decide whether the deal is worth pursuing.

Jennings said Lurie wants considerably more than $100 million for the team, which he said is expected to lose $7.5 million this year and finished last year $6 million in the red. Its payroll is $32 million.

Lurie is basing his asking price on the Seattle Mariners’ recent sale to a group of Japanese investors, which he said was $99 million plus an additional commitment to make $25 million in capital improvements to Seattle’s Kingdome stadium.

Lurie believes the Giants are worth more because they can be moved elsewhere and because of the franchise’s rich tradition.

City officials have maintained that the Giants have an obligation to give local groups preference

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Latvia, its neighbor to the north, won a silver medal in men’s rapid fire pistol.

And the northernmost of the three Baltic republics, Estonia, won itself a gold when Erika Salumae clinched the women’s cycling sprint Olympicofficials were so unfamiliar with Estonia’s flag, that they flew it upside down during the medal ceremony. Salumae was unfazed.

“It is the first time in these Olympic Games we see the Estonian flag raised,” Salumae said. “It was not only for me, it was for my people.” She’s no strangerto Olympic glory, having won a gold in the 1988 Games. But then, she was cycling for the Soviets.

In fact, quite a number of the medalists from the new states made their mark under the Soviet flag and benefited greatly from the awesome communist sports machine.

over others, but Lurie bel ieves his fellow major league club owners would approve a move, Jennings said.

A decade has passed since Lurie first said the team would move out of chilly, windswept Candlestick Park once its lease runs out in 1994. He failed in separate attempts to get voters in San Francisco and San Jose to pay for a new ballpark.

Now Lurie has decided he wants to leave baseball altogether, Jennings said.

“He feels he’s had his time in baseball... and now it’s time for him to turn it over to someone else,” Jennings said.

Lurie bought the team for $8 million in 1976 when the Giants were threatening to move to Toronto. The club moved from New York in 1957.

The former Soviet republics are still competing here under the umbrella of a Unified Team - but for the last time. In 'he 1994Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, each will have to fend for itself.

The Summer Games have given them a taste of what that’s like because individual medal winners from the Unified Team stand under their own flags to the sounds of their own anthems.

“It is a great honor to see the Armenian flag raised and I feel very proud,” Israel Militossian said after winning a gold in weightlifting.

Fedor Kassapu became the first Moldovan to see his country’s flag raised at the Olympics. “I felt the whole of Moldova was following me and that their eyes were on me,” he said after nailing the gold in m iddleweight weightlifting competition.

By STEVEN WINE

BARCELONA,. Spain (AP) - Fallen stars in Olympic tennis blame the courts, the weather, the format and the time of year.

Motivation may also be a problem. With a couple of exceptions, the top professionals say they wouldrather win Wimbledon or the US Open than a gold medal.

“I don’t think you can put the Olympics in the category of the Grand Slams, not quite yet,” said third-ranked Pete Sampras, an upset victim Sunday. “TTiere are guys that are here that shouldn’t be, and guys that should be here that aren’t. ... It seems like just another tournament.”

Butforsecond-tierplayers such as Russian Andrei Cherkasov, the Olympics are a chance to become a national hero. That’s why he threw his racket into the stands with glee after beating Sampras, 6-7 (7-9), 1-6,7-5,6-0, 6-3.

Among the 24 top-ranked players in men’s singles, only one - No. 4 Croatia’s Goran Ivanisevic - survived to the m en’s quarterfinals, which begin Monday. Eleven others lost in the first three rounds.

All three Americans are gone. Like Jim Courier and Michael Chang before him, Sampras faded on the hot red clay. Then he and Courier were eliminated in doubles by Spaniards Emilio Sanchez and Sergio Casal, 5-7,4- 6,6-3,6-2,6-2.

“Conditions are very·tough here,” Sampras said.

He and other top players say the slow surface, wilting weather and best-of-five matches have turned the Olympics into an endurance test that skews results. Squeezing the tournament between

Wimbledon and the US Open magnifies the mental and physical strain, they say.

“This tournament was not scheduled at the right time,” said Boris Becker of Germany, a third- round loser.

“The problem is not that there’s no prize money here,” said Ion Tiriac, Becker’s manager. “The problem is that every player is worried about how his ranking will drop if he puts too much into the Olympics and is not ready for the US Open.”

In 1988, when tennis became a medal spori. the Seoul Games immediately followed the US Open, and many top players skipped the Olympics. This year’s lineup was stronger, but the Barcelona Games extended the European clay-court season for players who might otherwise be taking a break.

“I ’m just a bit tired,” Sampras said: “With only a coupleof weeks off after Wimbledon, to come back and play best-of-five in singles and doubles in this heat is a lot of tennis for me.”

There’s been a dearth of upsets on the women’s side, where m atches are best-of-three. Quarterfinalists include the seven highest seeds, led by Germany’s Steffi Graf, whose first two victories took 35 and 47 minutes. Several players say the men’s matches should be trimmed to best-of-three for the Atlanta Games in 1996.

“We already have five best-of- five tournaments. We don’t need another one,” said Becker, who needed nearly five hours to win last week’s opening match on center court.

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SPORTSPSaUS bows to Japan; Cuba unbeaten

THE ROKUROKU Panomi Nokai of Japan recently donated sports equipment to the Garapan Elementary School. Hiroyuki Kinjo, president of the association, is shown presenting the equipment to Victoria DLC. Cabrera, vice principal of the school.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP). - Back-to-back home runs by Koji Tokunaga and Shigeki Wakabayashi sparked a four-run sixth inning for Japan which then rolled over the United States 7-1 in Olympic baseball Sunday night

The loss means Japan will play Taiwan it its first medal-round game on Tuesday. The United States will play Cuba, which is the hr st seed with an unblemished 7-0 record.

Cuba drubbed Taiwan 8-1 Sunday to remain unbeaten in its last five years of international tournament pjay. The Cubans ’closest game during the Olympics was their 9-6 victory over the United States.

Although the United States, Taiwan and Japan finished with identical 5-2 records, the Americans lost out on the tie-breaker - runs allowed head-to-head.

The two semifinal winners Tuesday will play for the sport’s first Olympic gold medal on Wednesday. The losers play for the bronze.

In the early games Sunday, the Domincan Republic rallied to beat Italy 7-5 and Spain scored three

runs in the ninth inning to defeat Puerto Rico 7-6 in the final Olympic baseball game for all four teams.

Spain 7, Puerto Rico 6 Luis Leon’s pinch-hit, two-run

single highlighted Spain’s three: run ninth inning off pitcher J ames Figueroa that gave the Spaniards their first win in the tournament.

Spain, which ened its tournament with a record to 1-6, took a 4-3 lead into the. ninth on the strength of a grand slam by Felix Cano. But Puerto Rico, which finished the tournament 2-6, rallied for three runs off starter Xavier Civit.

Angel Morales had a single and sacrifice fly and drove in three runs to lead Puerto Rico.

Dominican Republic 7, Italy 5 The Dominican Republic blew

a two-run lead in the ninth inning Sunday before rallying on Teofilo Pena’s two-run single in the 10th inning to beat Italy.

Italy, which ends the tournament with a 1-6 record, tied the game 5-all in the ninth on GuglielmoTrinci’s one-out, two- run double.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - They came to the Olympics to put their countries on the map.

Namibia and Slovenia weren’t at the last Summer Games. Nor were Armenia or Estonia. Or Latvia or Lithuania.

Now they’re the new Olympic countries on the block.

Some are even winning gold medals.

At least 10 of the world’s newest countries, the dye barely dry on their flags, managed a medal on their first try.

The Baltic republics of Latvia and Estonia have medals. So does the former South African territory of Namibia. And the ex- Yugoslav republic of Slovenia, along with former Soviet repub- . lies Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Georgia.

And there might be more before the Games end next Sunday.

The medals they won at the 1992 Olympics, have given these fledgling nations a sense of national pride that even the United Nations couldn ’ t when it accepted them as members over the past two years.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Former Soviet Vitaly Scherbo made gymnastics history and paid tribute to the system that produced him.

A m erica’s Trent Dimas emerged a savior for a forgotten US men’s program and paid back his father’ labor of love.

The ¡incomparable Scherbo and the American whose father helped build the gymnasium on which he started the road to Barcelona, produced an unforgettable finale Sunday night.

Scherbo, the superstar on a Unified Team making its first and only appearance in the Summer Games, set an Olympic record with six gold medals in gymnastics.

There on the chest of Scherbo’s green Unified Team uniform was a stark reminder of the dismantled system that produced him and so many other gymnastics stars: The hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union, his very own good-luck charm.

In all likelihood the last of that long, gilded line, the 20-year-old from Minsk became aii Olympic legend Sunday. He won four gold medals in men’s individual gymnastics finals - rings, vault, parallel

bars and pommel horse - adding to his individual all-around and team titles in Barcelona.

“I certainly did not expect this to happen,” he said. “It seemed impossible that I could win so many gold medals.”

But along with the gold was the Red: The crossed tongs of the old communist regime, silver against a red background in a heartshaped emblem. Where his teammates showed a blank space, Scherbo wore his roots in proud tribute.

“It was like a good-luck charm,” he said. “It was the symbol of the ex-Soviet Union. I was not given the emblem of my own country (Belarus) so I used that one. I could not appear with a vest with nothing on it. Besides, I ’m used to it. It’s almost like a religion now.”

Dimas’ gold in the high bar was the product of his family’s dedication to keep him in the sport at any cost.

“His dad helped me build my gym because they couldn’t afford to pay me,” said Dimas ’ coach Ed Burch. “Everytime we had ameet, his dad would pay me just before the competition or I would take care of it myself.”

Burch also predicted Dimas’ gold medal will help turnaround the US men’s program, which

has been in recession since 1984, when the US team captured six medals against an Olympic field that was minus the Soviets and most Eastern bloc countries.

“A lot of things are going to change because of that medal,” Burch said. “This is what our country needed. It needed a hero lik ' Trent. We’ve been put down a lot. All the big countries were here, and we ’ve got a medal now.”

Scherbo exceeded the previous record number of gold medals - four - in Olympic gymnastics by fourformerSovietstars: Vladimir Artemov (1988), Nikolai Andrianov (1976), Viktor Chukarin (1952) and Boris Shakhlin (1960).

Scherbo was better than any other gymnast - ever. Scherbo Sjpent he night smiling, hugging and kissing coach Leonid Arkaev and piling up gold.

Scherbo qualified for five of the six individual finals.

In floor exercise, the first event of the night, Scherbo missed the landing on one of his somersaults and stepped out of bounds. He finished last, then headed to the pommel horse and a place in history.

The last athlete up on that piece, Scherbo tied North Korea’s Pae Gil Su’s score of 9.925.

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