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Monday ■ August 10, 1992 Saipan, MP 96950 -Serving CNMI for 20 Years.

DPS threatens to close shop

Model of the proposed TIC hotel-casino complex

Tinian approves $125M hotel-casino project

By Nick Legaspi

THE TINIAN Casino Gaming Control Commission approved last Friday a two-year conditional casino license for Tinian Investment Corp. (TIC) which has proposed to build a $125 million resort hotel and casino complex.

Operation of the casino will be handled by Pedara Management while management of the hotel is expected to be given to Hilton Hotels.

About 800 employees will be needed to run the complex when it is fully operational.

Commission spokesman Allen Perez explained that the conditional license, which would take effect upon payment of all fees and taxes due to the commission, was not a license to operate a casino, but only allows the TIC to proceed with the development of the project site and construction of all facilities needed for the

project, including the 304-room, five-star hotel.

The company, owned by Alexander J. Bowie and his family and Jesus Q. Guerrero, was given until October this year to pay the $500,000 fee to the commission, to make the conditional license effective.

Perez said the company must also comply with the 12 conditions attached to the project. Upon compliance with these conditions TIC would be granted a full license, which will authorize it to operate the casino.

Perez, during a telephone interview, refused to reveal the 12 conditions. A former high-ranking government official who attended Friday’s public hearing, however, said the conditions were presented by the commission during the hearing.

He said one of the key conditions was the completion of the project within two years.

Still pending with the commission, which is chaired by Joseph M. Mendiola, are two other casino license applications— one from Tinian Marine Resort of Saipan businessman Antonio Guerrero and another from James Fleming.

Perez said Tinian Marine’s application was classified as “current” and that of Fleming as “not current.” Asked to explain the difference, he said Fleming’s application had been set aside, pending payment of certain fees.

The Tinian Casino Act of 1989 authorizes the commission to issue up to five casino licenses, Perez said.

Sources at the hearing said TIC officials were preparing to leave for Hong Kong to tap financing for the project.

In its project proposal, TIC said it would build the six-storey hotel/casino complex on 25,500

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VISIBLY angry Public Safety Director Gregorio Camacho during last Friday’s press briefing.

By Gaynor L. Dumat-ol

CALLING the police’s 911 emergency line for help? Starting tommorrow, make sure that' the Department of Public Safety central office and its stations are still open. Otherwise, your phone call might endup at Senator David M. Cing’s line.

Department of Public Safety Director Gregorio M. Camacho and other DPS officials have threatened to close police operations starting tomorrow to dramatize tl. ir dismay over the moves of certain Senate leaders which had dragged the budget crisis for weeks.

In their meeting last Friday, Camacho said, the DPS leadership was taking one direction: to close down if the budget remains unpassed tomorrow.

The DPS leadership likewise

planned to have all 911 calls connected toCing. Last Thursday, Cing obtained a Superior Court order to temporarily stop the Office of the Governor from disbursing funds under the 60-day state of emergency declared by Gov. Lorenzo I. Guerrero last July 24.

“If the budget is not passed, I ’m sorry but we willhave to close downTuesday,” Camacho said in a press briefing.

The DPS needs $808,000 for operational expenses for fiscal year 1992 which covers gasoline for patrol cars, batteries of police officers’ transceivers, ambulance maintenance and equipment and prison food among others.

Another $228,000 was being awaited for salary and other personnel expenses.

Acting Gov. Benjamin T. continue! on page 3

Congress wants more funds for CNM IWASHINGTON (AP) -The US Congress is recommending more monéy for Pacific insular areas during fiscal 1993 then the Bush administration had proposed because of federal budget constraints.

Congress has agreed to provide the Northern Mariana Islands $27.72million incommonwealth covenant funding, $5.72 million more then recommended by the administration.

Appropriations committees also approved increases in operations and construction funds fra American Samoa and for Palau, a

trust territory under Interior Department administration.

The appropriations committees, noting American Samoa’s deteriorating financial condition and a General Accounting Office probe of its fiscal management, asked Interior and the territorial government to form a working group to address the problems. The group is to make a preliminary report to the House of Representatives by Dec. 31. The Senate called for quarterly

'reports.The appropriations committees

said that since the CNMI and Interior have not reached agreement on

covenant funding, the 1992 level of $27.72 million would be carried .over into fiscal 1993, which starts OcLl.

The committees said “this level of mandatory funding will continue until a new agreement is reached.”

Interior and CNMI covenant funding negotiators tentatively are scheduled to resume talks Aug. 24- 25 in Honolulu.

The administration had recommended a $317 million budget for its Office of Territorial and International Affairs for fiscal 1993. The House approved a $32.5 million increase and last week the

Senate approved a $24.26 million increase.

The $8.3 million difference will be resolved by conference committee later this year.

Specific OITA budget figures, in millions, with the president’s request first, House and Senate

■ recommended appropriations: American Samoa: operations,

$21.885million,$23.285,$23.585; construction, $4.5, $6.5, $6.·

Northern Mariana Islands: covenant funds, $22, $27.72, $27.72. Guam: federal tax rebate, $48.5, $48.5, $48.5; GPA loan, $1.26, $1.26, $1.26.

Palau: operations $15.651, $18.595, $18.009; construction, zero, $7.4, $2.

Fiscal 1993 funding for the freely associated states of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia is mandated under Compacts of Free Association which went into effect in 1986.

The Marshalls will receive $17.357 million in federal programs and $37.7 million in compact payments. The FSM will receive the same amount in federal programs and $81.6 million in compact payments.

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W © r ld A ffa irsSomalia: Dead in every hutBy REID G. MILLER

BARDERA, Somalia (AP) - An odor of putrefaction hangs over Bardera, the smell of death.

Many people have died here. More will.

Starving men, women and children Walk its earthen streets. But notmany. Most of Bardera’s people have fled to escape war. It seems as if the business of living is too hard in Bardera.

Once abustlingdistrict capital of 100,000 residents in southern Somalia, Bardera now is home to only about 5,000.

It is one of five Somali towns to which the United Nations hopes to begin delivering food by air or sea in the coming days and weeks. Food already is reaching four communities, including the divided capital of Mogadishu.

When thefood arrives inBardera, someof the people will comeback.

An estimated20,000livecamped out in the desert brush or in small villages surrounding Bardera. They, too, are starving. Children eat grass and the dried stalks of millet and maize. Mothers boil camel skins for food, the meat of the animals consumed long ago.

Kurt Nielson of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) visited Bardera the other day to assess its needs and discuss them with town elders. It was his second visit.

“If you look into the huts you’ll find someone dead or starving in every one,” Nielsen said.

Brigitte Doppler, accompanying Nielsen cm a separate survey for the Frenchrelief groupMedicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) estimates 30 to 40 people are dying daily in Bardera.

“I keep hearing Somalia being compared with Ethiopia,” she said. “It is worse than Ethiopia. There it

was mostly confined to erne region. Here it is the whole country.”

The Paris nurse referred to the great famine that claimed more than 1 million lives in Ethiopia in 1984-85. She was there, too.

“We are losing an entire generation of childrenhere,” Ms. Doppler added. “There will be nobody coming along to build the country, even if the fighting stops.”

The United Nations estimates 1.5 million people are in danger of starving to death in Somalia if food does not reach them soon. The Red Cross and other humanitarian agencieshavecalledfor a doubling of relief efforts.

In the capital, Mogadishu, 200 children are dying per day, Olivier Brochu, of Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) said in Paris afterretumingfroma 10-day trip to Somalia.

He said relief groups around the world should urgently send aid.

Medicins Sans Frontières said Wednesday that 4 million people face death from starvation, war and sickness.

Bardera has been without food for months and only became accessible to relief agencies in recent weeks as the clan warfare that engulfed the city earlier in the year moved farther away.

Forces led by Gen. Mohamed Fairah Aidid, the warlord nilèr of southern Mogadishu, captured Bardera in late June from a militia loyal to former President Mohammed Siad Barre.

Siad Baire had been waging a hit-and-run campaign in central, southern and western Somalia ever since his ouster from Mogadishu in January 1991. He finally fled to KenyainMayandlater wasgranted political asylum in Nigeria.

Nielsen, Ms. Doppler and their companions were taken on a walking tour of Bardera by elders and

Mohammed Geffe Kahie, a colonel in Aidid’s army.

They strolled through the largely deserted market, its empty shops and stalls mute testimony to hunger. The streets were littered with rotting garbage and bones.

The bones, a dull white in the reddish earth, were of camels, goats, sheep and cattle that once formed the principal wealth of this region along the Juba River.

The United Nations estimates more than 70 percent of Somalia’s domesticanimalherdshave already been slaughtered to feed the starving.

“Itisveiy,very badhere,asyou can see,” the colonel told his visitors. “We need aid from the West, a great deal of aid. We do not understand why it is so slow in caning.”

Aid has been delayed to Bardera and the rest of Somalia because vast amounts ofithavebeenstolenbyclan militias.

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By KENNETH L. WHITING

SINGAPORE (AP) - About 1,000 gangsters and drug traffickers are being held indefinitely without charge in Singapore, according to a-senior government official.

Opening a three-day symposium on Thursday on the interaction between law and social services, Home Affairs and Law Minister Shunmugam Jayakumar said the government offered no apology for keeping them behind bars.

It was believed to be the first time that an official figure has been announced for alleged criminals detained without charge. The last known political prisoner was released two years ago.

Jay akumar said those held were impossible to prosecute and convict because witnesses were too frightened to testify against them. Preventive detention was necessary in such cases because the criminal justice system, in which a verdict is reached on the basis of evidence presented, was thwarted, he said.

Jayakumar acknowledged that foreigners often express surprise at preventive detention, and the mandatory death sentencefor convicted drug traffickers. At least 37 people have been hanged for trafficking since 1975.

It was deliberate policy that took into account the interests of the country’s 3 million people, he said.

“It has meant that we have had to enact and enforce some measures that in other countries would be objected to by lawyers, social scientists and human rightists. But we make no apology for these measures.”

Jayakumar said the government “decided early that the answer is to protect the interests of the vast majority of our people, who are law-abiding and want to live, work and enjoy their leisure free from harm and molestation.”

The Internal Security Act allows for anrest without charge and indefinite detention without trial. British authorities introduced it in 1948 to deal with suspected communists during an uprising in what was then the colony of Malaya.

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After coup, Gorbachev fades awayBy BRIAN FRIEDMAN

MOSCOW (AP) - In the year since Communist Party hardliners tried to overthrow him, Mikhail S. Gorbachev ended up losing power anyway.

Returning to Moscow Aug. 22 after being held prisoner in his Black Sea dacha, Gorbachev remarked he was coming home to “a different country.” He was right. The Communist Party, discredited by the attempted coup, lost authority and he resigned as its leader.

As the Soviet Union dissolved into 15 independent nations, with Boris Yeltsin’s Russia principal among them, Gorbachev found himself a president without a country. On Dec. 25, he resigned as president

Gorbachev, 61, said he would not disappear from public life, but wouldnot lead theopposition against Yeltsin. The ex-president was given a monthly pension of 3,900rubles (worth about dlrs 60 at the exchange rate at the time) but complained in February that he could not live on that alone. He began writing a monthly column for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, which was syndicated around the world. He started his own private think tank, the Gorbachev Foundation, in March. He and his wife, Raisa, moved into a three-room Moscow apartment.

Gorbachev, who is disliked at home but remains popular abroad, embarked on a series of trips to Germany, Japan, Israel and the United States, and raised more than S 1 million for his foundation on the trip to America alone.

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By TONY SMITH

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)-Trying to fend off criticism over reported atrocities in Serbian camps, Bosnia’s Serb leader has proposed dismantling the compounds and exchanging prisoners'with Croat and Muslim enemies.

President Bush praised the detention camp offer made Saturday, but he had harsh words for another Bosnian Serb who threatened “kamikaze missions” against nuclear plants in Western Europe in the event of outside military intervention.

Bush com .mned Aleksa Buha, foreign minister of the self-pro- claimed Serbianrepublicof Bosnia- Herzegovirtia, as “reckless” for his threat of suicide strikes.-

Buha told reporters in Belgrade that ethnic Serbs outside Yugoslavia “have offered to participate in kamikaze missions against European targets in the event of Western aggression” against Serbs in Bosnia. “They would be prepared to attack nuclear power plants throughout Europe,” he said. Bush, speaking to reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine, reiterated his reluctance to become involved militarily in Bosnia.

“We are not going to get bogged down in some guerrilla warfare,” he said. News reports last week of Serb detention camps where Muslim prisoners have allegedly been beaten to death, raped and starved have shaken the world, reminding many of the Nazi horrors during World War n. They have also provoked talk of military intervention.

But Washington and its allies remain wary of sending troops into the civil war, except to ensure aid

deliveries. The United States is preparing a U.N. Security Council proposal to use military force to protect aid shipments.

Relief flights to the UN-controlled Sarajevo airport resumed Saturday after a three-day suspension.

Shelling around the capital also resumed late Saturday. Heavy fighting was reported around Visoko to the northwest, where government forces have been trying to break the Serb siege of the city.

Clashes also flared along Bosnia’s northern front, particularly along the Sava River border with Croatia. Two people in the Croatian town of Slavonski Brod were reported killed by artillery and rocket fire from Serb positions in Bosnia.

Bush said that despite some remaining differences between the United States, France and Britain, “We are continuing to work with UN Security Council members on the substance of a resolution.”

“Providing humanitarian assistance is our goal,” he said.

Bush said he had talked earlier Saturday with UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told The Associated Press on Saturday he has proposed handing over all detention camps to the Red Cross and has ordered the immediate release of all sick prisoners and those at least 60 years old.

Karadzic also called for an “all- for-all” exchange of prisoners with Mus

lim forces in Bosnia and said he was ready to close down all camps in Serb control within three weeks if the other sides agree to do the same.

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Manglona’s call for new session on budget fails

By Gyanor Dumat-ol and Rafael H. Arroyo

ACTING Gov. Benjamin T. Manglona tried calling a special legislative session Friday afternoon in another effort to have the proposed budget passed but acting House Speaker Diego Benavente decided against heeding th.e call, while the Senate lacked quorom.

“M ae than likely we could not get the budget passed anyway,” said Benavente in an interview shortly after Manglona sent a memorandum calling for a special session to theactingHousespeaker.

“He will not see a budget passed during the weekend so I told him to recall his memorandum,” Benavente said

Manglona said he wanted a special session to begin at 2 p jn. last Friday and suggested that the legislators stay up until midnight just to have the budget f a fiscal year 1992 passed.

Benavente, however, said that the congressmen needed time and may only be able to hold a session

this week.On the other hand, members of

the Senate failed to create a quorom because Senate President Joseph S. Inos and Senators Juan S. Demapan and Henry San Nicolas did not show up.

Only Senators P a u l. A. Manglona, EdwardU. Maratita and David M. Cing were present.

Boija even asked Manglona and Public Safety Director Gregorio M. Camacho to help find the three— Inos, Demapan and San Nicolas.

The acting governor said he and Camacho could not act on the request becausecompellinglnos and the twoother “missing” senators to come to the session hall was the dutyof theSenatesargeant-at-arms.

Manglona said he was disappointed over the failure of the legislature, particularly the Senate, to hold a special session. “I can sense they are playing a game at the Senate and that is too bad because we are in dire need of a budget,” he said.

“Theyknowthebudgetcrisisfor three months now, if they want to

be here to represent the people they should have been here f a the session,” Maglona said.

The acting governor sensed that a rift had divided the Senate. “It appears that some peoplehave other motives. They have two concerns, one is the budget and the other is an internal problem thathas been lately plaguing the Senate. My concern is the budget because we are in a state of financial crisis. With regards to their internal problems I have to distance myself and just hope that they can settle whatever differences they have,” Manglona said.

Inos, Demapan and San Nicolas are in the same faction while Senators Borja, Cing, Manglona and Maratita are on the other side.

The second faction had been pushing f a a budget version that would give more funding to Tinian and Rota.

Demapan doubted the acting governor’s motive for calling for a special session last Friday, saying, Manglona knew that “two of Saipan’s great senators are still officially absent”

“If you wish to destroy a major

political party and the interests of the great people of Saipan, this is politically disastrous,” Demapan said in a letter to the acting governor.

The Saipan Municipal Council likewise expressed concern about the consequence of having a special session with only one Saipan senator present

But despite the absence of a budget and the Superior Court or- dertemporarily stopping theOffice of the Governor from disbursing funds, government employees got their salaries last Friday after the acting governor ordered the reprogramming of funds.

Manglona warned, though,'that if the crisis would continue and there would be no more funds to reprogram, another declaration of a state of emergency might be issued.

Under the reprogramming scheme, the acting governor tasked Finance Director Eloy S. Inos to identify departments and agencies which still had excess funds. The excess funds were then transferred to departments and or agencies-

Manglona whose payroll money had run out

After the Superior Court issued the temporary restraining order last Thursday, Manglona called the finance director and Planning and Budget Office officials to come out with reprogramming schemes.

Under 1CMC Section 7402, the governor may reprogram up to 25 percent of the funds appropriated by the annual appropriations act f a the operations and activities of departments, agencies and offices of the executive branch.

The reprogramming was able to coverpaychecks of all government employees.

But by September, the finance directorsaid, the excess funds from individual departments and agencies may run out.The acting governor said in such a situation, the Office of the Governor “may come back to a declaration of emergency if the legislature still fails to pass a budget for fiscal year 1992 and if the situation worsens.”

S S S u -pagai T o r r e s a s s u r e s A u g . 2 5 o p e n i n g o f c l a s s e scontinued from page 1police officers and die rest of DPS personnel would still receive their, pay but the DPS director said it was useless for the police.; officers to continue reporting for Work if they do not have the budget for gasoline and other operational expenses.

“I demand that the money be passed,” said a visibly irked Camacho.

“This problem is very crucial. The DPS is dealing with emergency)” Camacho said.”if we are to continue this job they have to give us a budget,” he added.

The DPS leadership, according to Camacho, has analyzed the budget problem and found out that the four senators including Cing who voted against House Bill 8-135 which provides for a $158.6-million overall budget, had caused the crisis.

One of the reasons why the budget was snagged was that at least one senator insisted that 30 hill time employees of the Tinian Municipal council be transferred to the mayor’s office.

Camacho said die senators who voted against the budget “don’t belong to the legislature.” “They are so ignorant,” he added.

“We have three municipal council members in Saipan who do not even have an employee,” the DPS director added.

Tomorrow morning at 8 am., the DPS leadership would again to finalize their plan.

“OnTuesday, you’re gonna see the action,” Camacho said.

Manglona expressed regret upon learning of the DPS leadership’splan. “I don’t think we should come to that stage,” he said.

Manglona said the governor’s office will try to find a solution to the lack of hinds at DPS, saying die de- partmentistheone“protectingpeople and property.”

By Gaynor L. Dumat-ol

PUBLIC schools in the Northern Marianas will definitely open on August 25, Education Commissioner William S. Tories said late last week.

The number of -students this school year is expected to increase slightly from 9,500 last year.• “I would like to assure the public

that despite the budgetary crisis, •the education board and the management and staff of the Public School System will stand by our decision to open on Aug. 25,” Torres said in a telephone inetrview.

“The school opening can only be changed if the date is overruled by the Board of Education but so

Torresfar it’s still Aug. 25,” said Torres.

Earlier, Acting Governor Benjamin T. Manglona raised the possibility that the PSS might delay school opening if the budget crisis-would remain unresolved.

Manglona said PSS was wait

ing for funds under the fiscal year 1992 budget for text books, meals and other school supplies as well as the salary of PSS personnel. “Some people are concerned if we don’t have a budget the opening of school may be delayed,” said Manglona earlier.

But the education commissioner remained hopeful that whatever the outcome ‘of the budget crisis would be, executive and legislative leaders would prioritize the needs of the PSS.

“I have faith in government...there is no doubt of the adminisiration’s support for students,” Torres said.

Torres assured that the PSS still has a budget for students’ meals to last for two months...

Under House Bill 8-135 which shagged at the Senate when four senators voted for and another four legislators voted against the proposed appropriations for fiscal year 1992, the PSS would get $34 million or about $3 million more than its budget last year.

Torres said the increase would go mostly to the increase in salaries of PSS personnel under Public Law 7-31.

The PSS is expecting a slight increase in the number of private and public school students this year but the estimate was not immediately available.

Last year, Torres said, about 9,500 students from headstart to senior high school enrolled in both public and private schools.

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square meters of leased prime land in the southeast part of Tinian, some 700 meters from Tachogna Beach. The elevation of the site provides panoramic views and allows the design of a building nestled against the cliff.

The site is about 10 minutes from the Tinian airport and three kilom eters from San Jose, Tinian’s only township.

The project will be self-sufficient in power, water and sewerage treatment.

The casino will provide gaming facilities on one level which is supported by three restaurants. Convention facilities include provisionsforballroombanquets, meeting rooms and theater.

In addition to the hotel/casino complex TIC proposed to build a staff village remote to the complex, with its accommodation,

dining and recreation facilities for 800 employee's.

TIC has projected a lack of middle- and high-level white collar skills when all the five casino licenses authorized under the casino law are issued by the commission. This would necessitate off-island recruitement.

The company said, however, that it was committed to an employment program that would ensure the participation of residents to the fullest degree possible. It said it was prepared to launch an accelerated recruitment and training program that will feature off-island training for management, middle management and certain clerical level candidates and on-island training for skilled pôsitions.

During the hearing, Tinian lawyer WilliamNabors expressed

support for the decision to approve TIC’s application.

He noted that the local initiative which allowed casinos in Tinian, also provided for the cancellation or suspension of casino licenses during their 40-year term f a violation of the initiative and failure to comply with the conditions of the license.

“The bottom line is that local initiative provides adequate safeguards to project the people of

Tinian against any abuses by a casino licensee,” Nabors said.

Vicente M. Manglona, president of the Tinian Contractor’s Association, also submitted a written statement in support of TIC’s application.

He said the casino, which has been sought for a long time, will increase economic activities on the island, including farm production, fishing, tourism, construction and other industries.

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BRIEFSWeapons team works in hotelMANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - UN weapons inspectors were limited to working in their hotel Saturday becauseof whatlraqi officials said was the country’s most important national holiday. It was Iraq’s official celebration of the end of the eight-year Iraq-Iran war in 1988. The 22 UN weapons inspectors,

who arrived ona 10-day visit Friday, are waiting to see whether Iraq will keep promises made under US military threat and comply with disarmament measuresof the 1991 PersianGulfWar cease-fire. Iraq this week vowed to bar searches of government ministries.

Sri Lankan general killed

By JENNIFER DIXON

WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of low-income children may be going hungry this summer because a federally funded program that provides summertime meals is not available in communities across die country, an advocacy group said Thursday.

“Instead of enjoying die long, lazy days of sunmier, many children from low-income families eagerly await thefirstdayofschool and theopening of the school cafeteria,” saidRobertJ. Fash, executive director of the Food Research and Action Center.

The group said its review of Agriculture Department data found that while more than 12 million low-incamechildrenreceivedfreeorlow- priceschoolliinchesml991, only 1.8 million took part in the summer food program.

Of the 42,000 children from kw- inoome families in Hawaii who par- tidpatedindieNaticxialSchodLimch Program during the 1990-91 school year, only seven percent participated inthesummerprogram. Hawaii’s summer program is run in selected low-income areas as part of the city- county summer fun programs.

Participation figures for this summer are not yet available. Reports indicated the number was expected to be higher than last year, but not nearly enough to close the gap, the group said.

“On Mondays during the academic

year, teachers see children who devour their schocd lunches like they’re the first real meals the kids have had since Friday.Just think what happens to these Children when Monday at school is three months away,” Fersh said.

FRAC said communities, states and the Agriculture Department are to Name for the summertime meal program’s failure to reach more children USDA’sFoodandNulrition Service operates both the Summer Food Service Program for Children and the National School Lunch Program.

The group cited USD A for failing to promote the program adequately and said the department has made participation by some groups un- necessarilydifficulLAtthesametime, itfaidted some states agenciesfor not doing enough to encourage use of the program.

And the group said most local community organizations, public agencies and schools that are eligible forfederal money tocperaieprograms do not seek iL

Phil ShanhcAtzer, a spokesman for the Food and Nutrition Service, said the agency agrees in general with FRAC.

“We think this is a good program and we’d like to see it grow, too,” ShanhcAtzer said “We would like to encourage states and localities to operate the program.”

Shanholtzer said USDA did made

it tougher for private, non-profit organizations to participate after several unscrupulous groups took the government’s money and provided few, if any, services in return. Congress banned them from the program, and they only got back in two years ago. “We’vebeencareful in our dealings with them since then,” Shanholtzer said

Fersh urged community groups and government agencies to make the program a priority, because children who go hungry in the summer may lose ground nutritionally and developmenially and are likely to be at an educational disadvantage.

Sponsors can include public or private non-profit schools; units of local, municipal, county or state government; summer camps and certain private non-profit organizations.

USDA spent$181 million on the summer feeding program last year, upfiom$113 million in 1986, when 1.5 million children participated The Summer Foodservice Program for Children was established in 1968. Sponsors may operate feeding sites in areas in which at least cate-half of the children are from Icw-income households, or at sites where half of the children participating are from low-income families.

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By DAVID BRISCOE

WASHINGTON (AP) - Japan’s education system could loosen up a little, while American schools need more rigor, US Education Secretary Lamar Alexander said at a news conference Thursday with Pacific Rim education officials.

Education administrators from 14 countries, meeting for the first time, set up an Asia-Pacific education forum and took the first steps towards adopting similar standards for mathematics, natural sciences and other technical subjects.

“We’re not talking about imposing uniform standards on all our societies,” saidAlexander, who was flanked by the other participants.

He said the goal in each country is to improve education without destroying cultural traditions. Committees will, meet to discuss standards that might be adopted iri some areas, he said.

The challenge, Alexander said, is todetermine “whatchildrenneed to know and be able to do to live, work and compete in a world where higher standards of knowledge are required”

With Japanese Education Minister Kunio Hatoyama nodding agreement, Alexander said Japan is looking for ways to relax, its rigorous education system, while the United States and some other countries are looking for ways to increase achievement standards.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The top commander of the war against Tamil separatist guenillas was killed Saturday along with nine other officers in a land mine explosion on a northern island, officials said It was the single biggest killing of military officers in the eight-year-old separatist war that has claimed 17,000

BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (AP) - President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, a former dictator stripped of all but ceremonial powers last year, has lost his seat in Congo’s-first presidential election since 1963, the interior minister said Saturday. Sassou-Nguesso becomes the sixth African leader in two years

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Atlantis swooped through a cloudy sky and landed Saturday with seven astronauts whose mission to fly a satellite, on 12 1/2 miles(20kilometers)of string was ruined by a tangled line. Nearly 400 spectators watched from bleachers as Atlantis rolled to a safe stop on the concrete-runway at Kennedy Space Center. The crew includes the first Italian and

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Vice Premier Yao Yilin of China will visit Malaysia for five days beginning Monday, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

Yao will hold talks with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and also attend briefings on

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Thousands of Brazilians waving banners reading “Collor Get Out” demonstrated Saturday to trotest President Fernando Collor de Mello’s corruption- plagued administration.

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, the

OTTAWA (AP) - Wealthy immigrants who can invest at least > 150,000 in Canada in return for

visas deserve better treatment amd protection, parliam ent members of all parties say in a report released Friday.

lives. Also killed were fee top army and navy commanders for northern SriLanka.TheTamilrebelsclaimed responsibility for the death of Maj. Gen. Denzil Kobbekaduwa, but it was not immediately dear whether the land mine was part of an assassination attempt or was left over from an earlier campaign.

to fail to win a new term against newly legalized opposition parties. Two other candidates who received mere votes in the Aug. 2 balloting will compete in a runoff election later this month, said Interior M inister Alphonse Nzoungo. He said voter turnout was about 59 percenL

the first Swiss in space. The astronauts enjoyed only partial success in orbiL It took the crew an extra day to release a European Space Agency science satellite because of communication problems with the craft. On Wednesday, NASA called off a dlrs 379 million experiment to generate electricity with tethered spacecraft that had taken two decades to plan.

Malaysia’s development.He will speak to the National

Chamber of Commerce and Industry on China’s current economic reforms and the strengthening of Sino-Malaysian trade relations.

leftist candidate Collor defeated in the 1989 presidential elections, was among speakers who openly called for the president’s impeachment or his resignation. The demonstration drew nearly 10,000 people to Sao Paulo’s Roman Catholic cathedral.

But the Commons immigration committee stopped short of supporting a ban on a special type of Canadian investment fund for immigrants that has received an ugly reputation in Asia.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALSThe Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) is soliciting proposals to perform a financial and compliance audit of the CPA for fiscal year ending September 30,1992. The proposals must be submitted to the Office of the Public Auditor, P.O. Box 1399, Saipan, MP 96950 no later 4:30 P.M.. Monday. August 17.1992. The audit must be performed in compliance with the following guidelines:

1. OMB Circular A -1282. Standards for Audits of Government Organization, programs

Activities and Functions-revised3. Guidelines for Financial and Compliance Audits of Federally

Assisted Programs4. OMB Circular A-102

Proposals must have the following information:Title Page:

a. Request for Proposal subject.b. N ame of your companyc. Local address and telephone number.d. Name of contact person and submission date.

Transmittal Letter:a. Briefly state your understanding o f the audit work to be per

formed. Include an affirmative statement to perform the work within the time period specified.

b. State a comprehensive fee for which the audit will be per formed.

Your company’s Profile:a. Provide a brief description of your company which to include

your personnel’s educational background and experience, number of staff, level of staff (partners, managers, supervi sors, etc.) and a listing of clients.

• b. The description must also include an affirmative statement that at least the partners are certified public accountants.

Award will be based on four equal evaluation factors: price, technical competence, prior experience and ability to meet deadline.

The contract for this audit will be awarded on August 24,1992. The audit work shall commence thereafter and be completed by November 20,1992.

All inquiries on this request for proposals should be directed to Mr. Scott K. Tan, Public Auditor, 5th Floor, Nauru Building, telephone numbers 234- 6481/2 or 234-8662. Audit reports from previous years are available at CPA’s main office at the Saipan International Airport.

The Public Auditor reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, for any reason, if in its sole opinion, to do so would be in its best interest.

/s/Scott K. Tan, Public Auditor . 8*.,o-i2.u ^HKeep Saipan Beautiful

Atlantis lands safely

Yao to visit Malaysia

Brazilians protest vs. Collor

Better treatment for investors

Sassou-Nguesso loses seat


Movie portrays Korean soldiers as mercenaries

By B J . LEE

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -.An ambitious new movie about the Vietnam War has triggered debate here by portraying South Korean soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War as mercenaries encouraged by the US government The controversial film, “White Badge,” based on a novel by Ahn Jurig-hyo, recounts the psychological tramas of sane of the 350,000 Korean soldiers sent to fight alongside US troops in Vietnam.

Themain theme of the film is the suffering, guilt and atrocities conmittedby Korean soldiers sent to the war at the behest of the US government, allegedlyin exchange f a economic assistance at hone. Korean troops were the largest faeign contingent in Vietnam after the Americans.

Neither the South Korean a the US government ever has referred to Korean soldiers as mercenaries. They claim South Korea volunteered to fight Communist ag-

gression in Vietnam as other nations helped South Korea fight Communist aggressors in the 1950- 53 Korean War.

“The soldiers Were mercenaries who fought f a the American dollars -. not because of freedom or other noble causes,” Director Chung Ji-young said. M ae than 4,600 South Korean soldiers were killed and 150,000 were wounded in Vietnam before the war ended in 1975.

“Nohistoical approach (toward the war) was possible before because the military dominated the Koean government,” said Chung, who went to Vietnam f a the first time to shoot the movie.

Chung told foreigners at a screening this week he does not feel the government likes the movie, but it did not obstruct production.. The drls 2.5 million film, low- budget by Hollywood standards, is the most expensive South Korean film ever made.

Chung said the movie is meant to capture the war through the eyes of

Koreans, “as fighting between Asians.”

More than 100,000Koeans have seen the movie since it opened in early July. Veterans groups claim it distorts and misrepresents their coitributiois to the war.

Past South Kaean movies on the Vietnam War focused a t bravery and heroics.

F a viewers, “White Badge” is the first graphic exposure to alleged Kaean atrocities,brutalities, war guilt and the lingering psychological pain of battle. Chung said the incidents are based a t reality.

US movies on Vietnamhavebeen available in Kaea, but are dismissed as entertainment

Public interest in the film coincides with new charges from the Vietnam Veterans Association that hundreds of South Kaean soldiers were exposed to the US toxic defoliant Agent Orange.

The veterans group says 644 veterans were known victims of the toxic agent and 57 have died.

T h a t c h e r s i g n s d e a l w i t h B B CLONDON (AP) - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will work exclusively with the British Broadcasting Corp. to produce a documentary of her political life, according to the BBC.

The four-part documentary will include exclusive interviews with Mrs. Thatcher and leading

-politicians with whom she dealt during 11 years at

10 Downing Street until her forced resignation in November 1990, the BBC announced Saturday. The series is scheduled to be shown next year.

The deal for an undisclosed amount was signed Tuesday, the BBC said.

Thatcher has also signed a contract with Harper- Collins to write her memoirs.

E l v i s P r e s l e y w e e kMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Break out the hair dye and jumpsuits. It’s Elvis Presley week, and up to 20,000 pilgrims are ready to dance, party and cry. “It’s a way of keeping his spirit and legacy alive and pass it along to other generations,” said Cricket Coulter, a Smyrna, Ga„ fan in Memphis f a Elvis International Tribute Week. “I’m going to be here through it all.”

Presley died Aug. 16,1977, at Graceland, his Mem-

tion, drawing more than 600,000 visitas a year.Fans return each August to remember the king of

rock’n’roll and to gyrate to his hits including “Hound Dog,” “ Jailhouse Rock,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” and “All Shook Up.”

Graceland managers expect a large pilgrimage this year since it’s the 15th anniversary of Presley’s death, at age 42. Many of the Elvis pilgrims come from

phis mansion. It’s now the city’s largest tourist attrac- abroad.

S e x a n d s m o k i n g i n a t r a i nLONDON (AP) - A London magistrate fined a couple for having sex and smoking in a non-smoking compartment on a train.

“It was only on their action in lighting up the cigarettes that the witnesses actually came up to

ecutor Nazir Afzal told the court on Thursday.John Henderson, 29, and Zoe D’Arcy, 19, were

each fined the equivalent of $142 for violating the smoking regulation and committing an indecent act during the May 25 trip.

them and complained about their behavior,” pros-

A c t o r a w a r d e d f o r h e r o i s mSALEM, Mass. (AP) - A cta Gregory Allen Williams has received an award f a helping save a man’s life during the Los Angeles riots.

Williams recently played Martin Luther King Jr. in the plày “The Meeting” and portrays a lawyer on the ABC TV series “Civil Wars.” He was honored Wednesday during the dedication of the Salem Witch Trials Memorial.

Williams is credited with saving a Japanese man who

was beaten by a crowd and taking him to an emergency room.

“After the Rodney King verdict,! felt the same anger and rage that African-Americans are worthless,” said Williams, who is black. “But I ’ve also been blessed with the tools to deal with my anger and self-contempL I have heroes in my life who have given me those tools, who have taught me that my worth is not defined by the actions of others.”

J o h n a t h o m e i n A t l a n t aATLANTA (AP) - Elton John finds it difficult to

remain anonymous in the city he sometimes calls home.

“Even though we try to give him as much privacy as possible, he just generates energy,” said Gerry Klaskala, chef at the Buckhead Diner, an upscale restaurant the British rocker favors.

Despite stares from the curious, a friend suggests

John likes Atlanta for its people. He owns a condominium here in addition to two homes in England.

“He seems to feel that people are a lot more polite,” said real estate agent Eli Saleeby. ‘This is his American home. He loves it here.”

John, who rarely gives interviews, opens a North American concert tour with performances here Tuesday and Wednesday.

N O T IC E T O P R E -Q U A L J F IE D B ID D E R SThe Marianas Public Land Corporation is issuing this notice with the

intend to determine if there is interest and capability from local construction firms who are interested and capable of undertaking the complete planning, design, procurementof materials and construction of power distribution system within the planned KAGMAN Ш (1,500 lots) Village Homestead. It is the Coiporation intend to pre-qualified from those who are found to be capable and invite the pre-qualified firms to submit bid proposal for the proposed project.

AUTHORITY FOR PROJECT:The Marianas Public Land Corporation is mandated by Article XI, Section

5 (a) of the CNMI Constitution and Public Law 1 -42 to implement the Village Homesteading Program. P.L. 1-42, as amended, requires the Coiporation to plan and develop village homesteads in accordance with modem urban planning standards which must-include the provision of basic infrastructures within each of the homestead. Article XI, Section 5 (g), as amended by the Second Constitutional Convention authorized the Corporation to expend moneys collected from the rental of leased public lands to fund construction of basic infrastructures within the village homestead. The source of funding for the KAGMAN IB Village Homestead is the public benefit contribution paid to the Coiporation by S.C. Properties Incorporated for the Kagman Golf Course Public Land Lease.

GENERAL SCOPE OF WORK TO BE PERFORMEDEach prospective bidder will be required to undertake the complete

planning, design and construction of electrical power distribution system to service the planned 1,500 lots Kagman Ш Village Homestead. It is imperative that the prospective bidder must be able to work closely with the Public Utility Coiporation (CUC) because all aspect of planning, design and actual construction of the proposed power distribution system must have prior approval and acceptance of CUC due to the fact that the power distribution system will be dedicated andjransfer to CUC.upon completion.

BASIS FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION OF PROSPECTIVE BIDDERSThe Corporation will pre-qualified each prospective bidder based on the

combination of following evaluation criteria:The ready local capability of the firm to undertake the proposed project in

terms of equipment and other construction hardware usually found in a construction firm.

Professional qualifications of the key staff and consultants who are to work on the proposed project and their familiarity and experience with similar projects on Saipan.

Ability of the firm to closely coordinate the proposed scope of work to be performed and secure the prior approval of all planning and design work and acceptance of the complete project by CUC.

Financial soundness and stability of the company.Overall personnel policy of the firm in terms of number of local hires (U.S.

Citizens & CNMI Legal Residents) for management & supervisory positions and regular construction workers.'

Overall capability of the firm to procure the required materials and supplies directly from off-island manufactures (cost saving without going to middle man) and timely delivery to Saipan.

SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTSAll interested prospective bidders who are interested to be pre-selected

must submit to MPLC Office located in Capitol Hill, Saipan, no later than 11:A.M., August 18,1992, the following documents and information.

1. Audited financial statements of the firm for the last two years.Copy of coiporation dpcuments and business license.Listing of key staff and consultants and brief bio-data.Provide staffing chart/pattern showing number of local hires (U.S. Citizens & CNMI Legal Residents) and no-resident employees for the last two years.Listing of construction equipment inventory.Copy of currentJBusiness Gross Receipt Tax.A preliminary work plan on how the firm is,-planning to manage and execute the project and proposed lime schedule for completing the project.

8. Any documentary evidence of previous working relationship with CUC on related projects.

The Corporation reserves the right to reject any or all submittal and to waive avy imperfection in the submittal in the interest of.MPLC. For further informatio; and clarification please contact Mr. Fred Camacho, MPLC Chief Planner, at 322-7142/6914/6915 or visit MPLC Office in Capitol Hill.

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L e b a n o n s e ts f i r s t e le c tio n s in 2 0 y e a rs

By DONNA ABU-NASR

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - In this city more accustomed tobullets than ballots, Nihal Husseini had an unannounced visit from a group of strangers the otlier night.

They offered to give her five children scholarships. There was only (Hie condition: Mrs. Husseini, her husband and their three children whoareover21 should vote for their benefactor, Ahmed Traboulsi.

Traboulsi is (Hie of the scores of candidates campaigning for Lebanon’s first general elections in 20 years, to be held on three consecutive Sundays from Aug. 23 to Sept. 6.

Mrs. Husseini, 42, a middle-class Shiite Muslim, dismissed the visit with a laugh. “It’s just like the old days,” she said.

In Lebanon, “the old days” mean a time when people elected a Parliament. A time before Syrian and Israeli troops carved up die nation. A time before 15 years of civil war left 150,000 people dead. A time before apresident,apresident-elect,aprime minister and other politicians were assassinated by bombs.

The election is for a 128-seat Parliament _ half-Christian, half- Muslim, to more accurately reflect the makeup of this country of 4 million people. It would end the automatic supremacy the Maronite Catholics have enjoyed since Lebanon’s independence from France in 1943.

The new Parliament is expected to carry out more political reforms stipulated in the Arab-brokered peace agreement that ended Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war.

Nearly all the country has been swept up in an election fever far more intense than before. Only the Christian heartland in east Beirut andnorth of the capital remain aloof.

Right-wing Christian leaders have denounced President Elias Hrawi’s intentions to hold general elections before the 40,000-member Syrian army withdraws from Beirut and other major cities.

They fear that elections with the Syrians in control of two-thirds of Hrawi, a Syrian-backed Maronite Catholic, signed reforms in September 1990 in which the Syrians don’t have to leave Beirut until after the

capital votes.The election is tobe conducted on

three separate days to give the Lebanesearmy time to shiftits troops to provide security.

Syrian-patrolled north Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley are to vote first, on Aug. 23. Beirut and the nearby Chouf Mountains, also under Syrian sway, are to vote Aug. 30. South Lebanon, which is divided between Syrian and Israeli spheres of influence, is to vote Sept. 6.

So far no one is running in the Christian enclave, but Beirut candidates have until Aug. 15 to file.

Elsewhere in Lebanon, every day brings a new batch of contenders - lawyers, doctors, businessmen, economists and engineers. Few of them belong to the old families of all faiths who traditionally controlled Lebanese politics.

In parliamentary elections, which were held every four years before things fell apart, parties hardly ex- istedexceptas namesof convenience forthepowerfulclans. Thepatriarchs, or warlords, of those clans built their power blocs before and after the elections.

This biggest change this time is among the Shiites, who have long been at the bottom of the social, political and economic ladders despite their ever-increasing numbers.

This time, the Shiites have their own first-generation warlords and pro-Iranian Islamic fundamentalists seeking to break the hold of a few old-time wealthy Shiite landowners who used to cut deals with the Sunnis and the Maronite Catholics.

On Wednesday, the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, the militant umbrella group for factions believed to have held most Western hostages in Lebanon, said it will field eight candidates but declined to release their names for security reasons.

The new candidates are going at the campaign with gusto, spending thousands of dollars to win over voters.

Eachcandidatehastopay lOmillion Lebanese pounds ($5,000) to thegov- emment when he formally submits his candidacy. Campaignexpensesinclude not only posters and banners that have been plastered on almost every wall, lamp post and tree trunk but personal laigesse, such as die scholarships offered to Mis. Hus9eini’s five children.

Business failures in Hawaii soarHONOLULU (AP) - Business failures in Hawaii are soaring as the national recession continues to slow the state’s economy.

The New York market search firm of Dun and Bradstreet Corp. reports that nearly five times as many Hawaii businesses went belly-up in the first half of this year than in the first half of last year:

It’s the biggest increase in the nation.

Business failures from January

through June totaled 107, compared to 19 during the same period last year.

Small Business Hawaii President Sam Slom said the failures show Hawaii isnot recession proof.

Thefiguresrepresentonlythetip of the iceberg because many other struggling companies move out of the statem, he said.

The state’s high taxes and government over-regulation share the blame for the increase in business failures, Slom said.

TRICIA Tenorio and RaymodMendiola (third and fourth from left) are Duty Free Shop-Saipan’s June Employees of the Month. Each received a certificate and pin and $100 cash. Others in photo are, from left, David Hawkins and Marie Welch who recommended Tenorio and Assistant Manager Maria Guerrero.

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NEW YORK (AP) - Alison Gertz, who said, she contracted the AIDS virus during her first sexual encounter at age 16 - and who publicized her misfortune to show that heterosexuals can be at'risk - died Saturday. She was 26.

Miss Gertz, whose story was told in the television movie “Something To Live For,” died at her paren ts’ home in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, according to friends of the family.

She said she was exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus the first time she had sex and that she only had sex once with the partner who infected her.

She was not diagnosed until age 22, long after her health began to decline. She blamed the delay on what she said was doctors’ assumptions that an affluent heterosexual woman wasn’t at great risk of acquiring HIV.

Her father, Jerrold Gertz, is the grandson of a founder of the Gertz department stores. He mother, Carol, co-founded a national chain of fashion stores called Tennis Lady.

Miss Gertz founded the New York-City based AIDS activist group Love Heals, and, when her health permitted, lectured on AIDS to students.

The movie about her life, starring Molly. Ringwald, aired on the ABC-TV network earlier this year.

The movie showed “that AIDS is not just a gay problem,” Miss Ringwald said at the time.

“Young people are very vulnerable because they’re experimenting sexually, yet often feel it can’t affect thepa,” Miss Ringwald said. *

Miss Gertz attended the Parsons School of Design and had worked as an artist doing illustrations and architectural renderings.

IN V IT A T IO N F O R B ID IFB92-0044

The Chief, Procurement and Supply is soliciting com petitive sealed bids from qualified individuals or firms for JANITORIAL SERVICES for the Criminal Justice Planning Agency.

Scope o f work m ay be picked up at the O ffice o f Procurement and Supply, Lower Base,.Saipan, during working hours (7:30 A.M . to 11:30 A .M . and 12:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.).

A ll bids must be in a sealed envelope marked IFB92- 0044 submitted in duplicate to the office o f the chief, procurement and supply, Low er Base, Saipan, before 2:00 P.M. August 1 0 ,1 9 9 2 , at which time and place, all bids w ill be publicly open and read aloud. A ny bids received late w ill not be considered. The CNMI government reserves the right to reject any or all bids in the best interest o f the government.

/s/D avid M. Apatang7/17-24-31 8/10

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R E Q U E S T F O R P R O P O S A LRFP92-0045

TheChief ofProcurementandSupply is soliciting sealed proposals for an OFFICE SPACE LEASE FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC AUDITOR.

SPECIFICATION A minimum of three thousand (3,000) and a maximum of four thousand (4,000) square feet with a large central area for staff and 3 or 4 smaller individual offices, or space which could be so divided.Restroom facilities.Centrally located in the Garapan business area with direct access to major roads.Adequate parking for 12-15 cars.

5)' Reliable utilities, including backup generator.6) Air conditioning7) After hours security

&Proposal will be evaluated by the following criteria:1) Square footage of office space and location2) Rental rate3) Adequate parking4) Utility reliability

All proposals must be in a sealed envelope marked RFP92-0045, submitted in duplicate to the office of the chief, Procurement and Supply, LowerBase, Saipan, nolaterthanAugustlO, 1992before2:30 P.M. Any proposal received late will not be considered. The CNMI government reserves the right to reject any or all proposals in the best interest of the CNMI government.__________________ /s/David M. Apatang 7/17-24-31 n/io

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MANAGER1 ASSISTANT MANAGER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,000.00-$1,700.00 pe" month. Contact: Y.O. SAIPAN CORPORATION P.O. Box 1060 CK, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel No. 234-6653(8/10)M/2451.

1 GENERALMANAGER-Collegegrad.,2 years experience. Salary: $1,500.00 to $7,596.07 per month.Contact: STS ENTERPRISES INC., P.O. Box 3203, Saipan. MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-3760-62(8/10M/8635.1 MANAGER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $5.50-$7.50-per hour. .1 COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $5.00 per hour.1 HOUSEWORKER- High school grad.,2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact J & E ENTERPRISES, Caller Box PPP 446, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel No. 234-6420(8/10)M/8628.1 GENERALMANAGER-Collegegrad.,2 years experience. Salary $1,800- $2,200 per month.Contact: HANACHOI CORPORATION, P.O. Box 3052, P.R. 336, Saipan, MP 96950.TEL. NO. 235-2488(8/17)M/ 8691.

MECHANIC2 AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC - High school equiv., 2 years experience. Salary $3.50-$5.00 per hour.Contact: J & E ENTERPRISES, Caller Box PPP 466, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 234-1361/2(8/17)M/8695.5 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $2.15-$2.50 per hour.Contact: MARIANAS REPAIRS COMPANY, INC., P.O. Box 2690, Chalan Lau-Lau, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-9083/4 (8/10)M/8632.

MAINTENANCE1 BUILDING MAINTENACE REPAIRER -High schoolgrad., 2years experience. Salary: $2.15 per hour.Contact: INTERTEXINTERNATIONAL INC., Caller Box PPP 319, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-5000/6000 (8/10)M/ 8638.______________________1 BLDG. MAINTENANCE REPAIRER- High school grad. 2 yrs. experience. Salary: $2.15 per hour.1 PERSONNEL SUPERVISOR - High school grad. 2 yrs. experience. Salary: $850 per month.Contact: HAKUBOTAN SAIPAN ENT., INC. P.O. Box127 Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 234-7362/3 (8/17)M/2489.

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1 ELECTRICIAN2 CARPENTER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $2.15-$3.00 per hour.Contact: JOSEPH T. TORRES dba Courtney’s Construction, P.O. Box 714, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-1662, (8/10)M/8637.

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1 ASST. SUPERVISOR (SEWING SECTION) -High school grad. 2 yrs. experience. Salary: $5.50-10.00 per hour.Contact: UNOMODACORP., P.O. Box 1847 Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No 234- 1861/2 (8/17)M/2486.

MISCELLANEOUS1 COOK - High school equiv., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: POKER PLUS CAFE, P.O. Box 310, Saipan, MP 96950. (8/10)M/ 8626.

10 COOK2 ASSISTANT COOK5 BARTENDER2 GENEflAL CASHIER 8 DISHWASHER 10 CLEANER, HOUSEKEEPING6 FRONT DESK CLERK6 WAITER (RESTAURANT)10 WAITRESS (RESTAURANT)8 CASHIER-High school grad., 2years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.5 MAINTENANCE WORKER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $2.15-$2.50 per hour.2 (GENERAL) MAINTENANCE WORKER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15-$3.50 per hour. 5. BARTENDER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $2.15-$2.35 per hour.1 GOLF-COURSE STARTER - High school grad., 2yearsexperience, Salary: $2.15-$2.20 per hour.2 (TEPPANYAKI) COOK - High school grad., 2years experience. Salary $2.15- $2.80 per hour.1 MANAGER (KARAOKE AND NIGHT CLUB) - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,000.00-$1,500.00 per month.1 APPLIANCE REPAIRER-High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,600.00 per month.1 MANAGER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary$1,000.00-$1,800.00 per month.1 (GOLF COURSE) MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $700.00- $1,000.00 per month.1 ARCHITECT-College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,000.00 permonth. Contact: KAN PACIFIC SAIPAN, LTD. P.O. Box 527, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-2211/12/13, (8/10)M/2455.1 UNDERWRITER - SALES REPRESENTATIVE - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $3.50 per hour. Contact: JOHN T./GLORIA DLG SABLAN dba JTS Insurance Co. Inc. P.O. Box 2119, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 234-8808/09.(8/10)M/8639.

1 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $4.00 per hour.Contact: JOHN M. DL GUERRERO dba L & T. Business Consulting Services, P.O. Box 550, Saipan, MP 96950 (8/ 10) M/8629.

3 WELDER, COMBINATION - High school grad. 2 yrs. experience. Salary: $2.15 per hour.2 LANDSCAPER - High school grad. 2 yrs. experience. Salary: $2.50 per hour. Contact: MGM, INCORPORATED,P.O. Box 803 Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 233-0508/234-7637 (8/17)M/08705.

15 SECURITY GUARD - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: JOAQUIN V. GUERRERO dba ISLAND SECURITY SERVICES, P.O. Box 803, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-0508/8808.1 SCUBA DIVER-High school equiv.,2 years experience. Salary $800.00- $1,000.00 per month.1 SCUBA INSTRUCTOR-High school equiv., 2 years experience. Salary $1,000 per month.Contact: MARIANAS SCENIC COORDINATION, P.O. Box 1142, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 234-5778.(8/10)M/2453.

1 COMMERCIAL CLEANER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: PEDRO C. SAN NICOLAS dba PAB General Construction & Manpower Services, P.O. Box, San Roque Village, Saipan, MP96950. Tel. No.322-4670,(8/ 17)M/8700.

10 PRESSER - High school grad. 2 yrs. experience. Salary: $2.15 per hour.2 (CHIEF) ACCOUNTANT - College grad. 4 yrs. experience. Salary :$ 770.00 Bi-weekly.Contact: SAIPAN MANUFACTURERS, INC. P.O. Box 2017, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 322-9908/322-3006 (817)M/ 08689.

1 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - Collegegrad., 2yearsexperience. Salary $4.62 per hour.Contact: STS ENTERPRISES INCOR-. PORATED, P.O. Box3203, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 235-3760-62,(8/17)M/ 8697.

4 PRINTER-High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.50 per hour. Contact: ASG CORPORATION dba Elite Enterprises, Caller Box PPP 273, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 235-2677(8/ 17) M/8692.

1 COOK - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: Y.H. SONG CORPORATION dba Serona Snack, P.O. Box 1401, CK, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 235-1570(8/ 17) M/8690.

1 WATER-TREATMENT PLANT MECHANIC - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15- $3.00 per hour.Contact: RAINWATER-SAIPAN, INC. dba Culligan Marianas, P.O. Box 1518, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. No. 234-8461 (8/ 17) M/8688.

3- QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hoyr.Contact: SAIPAN INSPECTION SERVICES INC., Caller Box AAA 225, Saipan, MP96950.Tel. No. 235-5267(8/ 17) M/2488.

2 TRASH COLLECTOR - High school equiv., 2years experience. Salary: $2.15 per hour.Contact: ISABEL A. CRUZ dba Cruz Garbage Collection, San Vicente, Saipan, MP 96950. (8/10)M/8630.

1 WAREHOUSE WORKER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Sal· aty: $2.15-$2.30 per hour.Contact: R & K INC. dba R & K Construction Company, P.O. Box 1328, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-7242 (8/10)M/8633.

1 PARALEGAL ASSISTANT-College grad., 2 years experience. Salary: $1,000.00-$1,600.00 per month. Contact: BRIAN W. MCMAHON dba Law Office of Brian W. McMahon, P.O. Box 1267, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-9315 (8/10)M/8627.

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1 COOK - High school grad., 2 years experience; Salary $373.00 monthly. Contact: GEORGE F. FLEMING dba Fleming's Enterprises, P.O. Box 702, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-6587/ 0438(8/24)M/8752.

1 'GENERAL CLERK 3 SOLID WASTE TECHNICIAN - High school equiv., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: ISLAND WIDE SANITATION SERVICE, INC., P.O. Box311, Saipan, MP 96950, TEL. NO. 234-7387(8/24)tW 8753.

1 TOUR COORDINATOR (TOUR DESK)1· TOUR COORDINATOR (AIRPORT STAFF) - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,100 per month. 1 OPERATION SUPERVISOR - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,900.00 per month.Contact: CREATIVE TOURSMICRONESIA, INC., P.O. Box 152 CHRB, Saipan, MP 96950. Tel. NO. 322-7417/6389(8/24)M/87i>5.

1 DRESSMAKER-High school grad.,2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: ALFREDO W. TEREGEYO dba Zest Enterprises, P.O. Box 1212, Saipan, MP96950, Tel. No. 234-1187(8/ 24)M/8756.

2 NURSE - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,000-$1,500 monthly.Contact: MHM INC., dba Saipan Health Clinic, P.O. Box 2878, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-29O3(8/24)M/8750.

1 BUTCHER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 - $3.00 per hour.Contact: J.C. TENORIO ENT., INC., P.O. Box 137, Saipan, MP 96950. tel. No. 234-6445(8/24)M?2527.

1 ASSISTANT MANAGER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,000.00 per month.2 MASON2 CONSTRUCTION LABORER 7 CARPENTER - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: J.C. INVESTMENT INC., Caller Box AAA 295, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-2256/5i(8/24)M/8751. '

1 ASSISTANT MANAGER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $5.77 per hour.Contact: GRACE INTERNATIONAL INC., Caller Box PPP I09, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-9682(8/24)M/8748.

1 ASSISTANT MANAGER - College grad., 2years experience. Salary $1,000- $1,300 per month.1 FARMINGS INTERPRETER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $5.77 per hour. ,Contact: LIN Nl INTERNATIONAL CORP., Caller Box AAA 218, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 256-5001 (8/24)M/ 8744.

1 ACCOUNTANT - College grad., 2 yoars experience. Salary $900.00 per month.1 ASSISTANTSURVERYOR-College grad., 2 years experience. ?alary $1,700- $1,900 per month.1 SURVERYOR, INSTRUMENT-High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $950-$ 1,100 per month.Contact: JESUS LG. TAKAI dbaTakai & Associates, P.O. Box 263, Chalan Kanoa,’ Saipan, MP 96950," Tel. No. 234-7180(8/24)M/8741.

4 SINGER (KARAOKE) - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.4 WAITRESS - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15 perhour. Contact: ESQUIRE INC., dba BBOSS KARAOKE, P.O. Box 1219, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-3311/3399(8/24)M/ 8749.

1 (HOUSEKEEPING) MANAGER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,000-$1,800 per month. Contact: SAIPAN HOTEL CORPORATION dba Hatadai Beach Hotel, P.O. Box 338, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. NO. 234-6495 ext. 806(8/24)M/2528.

1 ASSISTANT PURCHASING MANAGER - College grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,250.00 per month.1 FRONT DESK CLERK - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.30 per hour.Contact: MICRO PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT, INC., dba Saipan Grand Hotel, P.O. Box 369, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. NO. 234-6601/3(8/24)M/2538.

9 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR 1 MAINTENANCE MECHANIC - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15-$4.00 per hour.Contact: NEW STAR CORPORATION, P.O. Box 1749, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-5296/7(8/24)M/8745.

10 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15-$7.45 per hour.6 CUTTER, MACHINE - High school equiv., 2years experience. Salary $2.15- $4.30 per hour.Contact: KYUNG SUH (SAIPAN) CO. LTD., P. O. Box 2029, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1501-3(8/24)M/ 2525.

40 SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR - High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15-$4.50 per hour.2 PRESSER MACHINES-High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $2.15- $4.50 per hour.Contact: UNO MODA CORPORATION, P.O. Box 1847, San Antonio, Saipan, MP96950, Tel. No. 234-1061/2(8/24)M/ 2540.

1 SINGER-High school grad., 2 years experience. Salary $1,200.00per month. Contact; JOSEPH W. WAECHTER dba Pacific EntertainmentServices, P.O. Box 5235, Saipan, MP96950, Tel. NO. 234- 9253(8/24)M/8743.

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Born today, you have been endowed with tremendous stores of mental, physical and emotional energy, and your endurance is not likely to be matched by anyone else born under your sign. You are aware of your strengths and your limitations, and you know how to put both to work for you; setbacks are nothing you are likely to get used to throughout your lifetime. There is an adventuresome aspect to your character, and you have been known to indulge in daring feats — which others have quite sensibly avoided.

You thrive on a quiet and harmonious home life, but you know full well that such a luxury is not always easy to come by. You never let a crisis get the best of you at home; you are quick to rise to the occasion and work out lasting solutions for everyone concerned.

Also born on this date are: Herbert C. Hoover, U.S. president; Eddie Fisher, singer; Rhonds Fleming and Norma Shearer, actresses.

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

TUESDAY, AUG. 11LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A head-on

assault is your best bet today, particularly when dealing with sensitive emotional issues.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - You mustn’t fool yourself into thinking that all is well when, in fact, you are.harboring a secret frustration.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - You are after something more meaningful at this time. You needn’t look far, what you seek is just around the corner.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - This is a good day to begin reviewing commitments and goals. You may want to return to the basics at this time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Problems may arise out of unforeseen financial tensions. Be sure you are not throwing good money after bad.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - You may find yourself stuck between a rock and a hard place today — particularly if you’re not open and honest with all.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Loved ones are likely to increase their expectations of you today. It’s time to set specific limits for yourself.

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may feel as though you’ve arrived at an emotional plateau. A friend or loved one is waiting for you to speak up.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - The day’s events are likely to spark a new interest in an old and familiar activity. Plans may have to change.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Approach relationship issues with a clear head and a willingness to be original and creative.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - This is a fine day to pursue a new area" of interest. You may be on the road to increased pleasure and profit.

CANCER (June 21-JuIy 22) - You’ve been “living a lie” recently, and the time has come to stop. You'll know by day’s end how to come clean.

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AGE DOES not really matter when it comes to sports for fun’s sake, as these two participants in last Saturday’s track and field practice event show.

By BRIAN TRUSDELL

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Of all the medals the host team has won in its most successful Olympics ever, could -any have been sweeter than the soccer championship Spain w o t Saturday night?

Francisco “Quico” Narvaez chipped a loose ball over Polish goalkeeper Aleksander Klak in the final minute to give Spain a 3-2 victory and its first Olympic soccer gold medal.

The goal sent the crowd of 95,000, which included King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Intema- tionalOlympicCommitteepiesident JuanAntonioSarnaranch,intoaflag· waving,sciig-singmg, drum-banging

frenzy.“The key was emotion,” said

Spanish coach Vicente Miera. “It was a great show tonighL Internationally speaking, this is the greatest feat as far as a Spanish team, is concerned, rmmore than happy with the outcome.”

David.Villabona set up the goal by blasting a shot from the top of the penalty area. The rebound came to the right side, and Narvaez netted it from about 10 meters (yards).

The Spanish players mobbed Narvaezandtheyfellinamass before getting up and racing back to defend the final seconds.

Poland’s Wojciech Kowalczyk opened die scoring six seconds into first-half injury lime.

Spain tied it at the 65th minute whenFC Banrekmamidfielder Josep Guardiola sent a free kick from the far side of the penalty area.

Poland rallied to tie with less than 15 minutes remaining. Ryszard Staniek took a chip pass in the area from Kowalczyk and knocked the ball over sprawled goalkeeper Antonio Jimenez.

Spain took the lead for good when Albert Ferrer led Narvaez in the penalty area. Narvaez twisted a shot back across the goal from 10 yards and past Klak.

It was Spain’s second medal in Olympic soccer, the first a silver in 1920 at Antwerp.

In die bronze medal game Friday, Ghana defeated Australia, 1-0.

B a r c e l o n a p r e p a r e s f a r e w e l l c e r e m o n y

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Barcelona will bid farewell to

the 1992 Games, and their mascot Cobi, Sunday with an Olympian ceremony that includes dragons and devils, samurais and skaters,

planets and stars, great balls of fire, and a bit of “Gone With The Wind.”

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ise to be an iiri&ginative, avant garde eruption evoking the history and culture of this ancient seafaring city of Picasso, Miro and Gaudi.

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• 23 years, until Powell finally broke it on an electrifying night inTokyo lastyearwhenLewisbarelymissed it.

Lewis did edge Powell and won his third Olympic gold in the long jump, though winds and heat dashed his dream of finally claiming the record.

Itmay yethappen. Lewis ’ anchor leg in Estadi Olimpic Saturday erased any thoughts that the sprinter might be on the downslope of his career.

Twenty years ago, when Lewis was nearing his 11th birthday, he won the long jump at a junior track meet inPhi]adelphia.Theman who presented his medal knew he had seen something special.

“You’re really talented,” Jesse Owens said. “You’re a little guy, but you beat all the big guys.”

Now, with eight Olympic golds, hehas beateneven thegreat Owens ’ legend, even if America has been ini tated over the years because Lewis did not act like humble Owens.

Lewishas mellowed, andismore at ease with himself and the world. But his past outspokenness and different lifestyle have landed him in disfavor many times.

Owens, if he were alive today, likely would express appreciation for something other than Lewis’ physical talent Nobody has, done more to make track and field a respectable profession, where the gifted can make a decent living.

Many Americans have conveniently forgotten that Jesse Owens, the great hero of the Berlin Games of 1936, quickly slipped from Olympic glory and was reduced to racing ponies for lunch money.

And for all his records and medals, Lewis says he mainly hopes he has made things better for his fellow athletes.

“If I helped change the sport,”he said, “by creating more attention (or it, by fighting drug use, by bringing more money into it, if I helped give the sport a voice... then that’s how I’d like to be remembered the most.”

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - The drug Clenbuterol struck again, causing the expulsion of a second American athlete from the Barcelona Olympics.

Shot putter Bonnie Dasse flew back to the United States Saturday after testing positive for the same steroid-related substance that got hammer thrower Jud Logan kicked out of the Games.

Dasse, 33, was tested at random Wednesday after finishing eighth in her preliminary group and failing to reach the final.

“She recognized having taken the product,” said Prince Alexandre de Merode, chairman of the International Olympic Committee medical commission.

“She said it was given to her by a friend she trusts. She didn ’t try to lie and to give false explanations. She was very cooperative.”

Dasse has ranked in the top 10 among US shot putters every year

( since 1983. She was Olympic Festival champion in 1986, 1987 and 1990. However, she has had little success in international competition.

Dasse was the fourth athlete to test positive for drugs during the Games. The others were Logan, Chinese women’svolleyballplayer

Wu Tan and marathoner Madina Biktagirova of Belarus. Wu and Biktagirova were nabbed for using stimulants.

“Four cases is notenonnous,” de Merode said. ‘Two were unfortunate cases. It’sfewer than previous Games. I’m very optimistic that the fight against doping is progressing well. The prospects for the future are very good.”

Dasse is the fifth American Olympian banned for drugs since testing began in 1972.

“We are saddened any time there is a positive drug test for any American athlete,” US Olympic Committee executive director Harvey Schiller said. “We hope this unfortunate occasion will send a message to other athletes that the use of performance-enhancing drugs will not be tolerated.”

More than lOathletesfaileddrug tests at the 1988 Games in Seoul. Most of those cases involved steroids. Suddenly, it seems Clenbuterol has become the banned drug of choice.

Two British weightlifters were disqualified after testing positive for Clenbuterol in Britain before the Games. Katrin Krabbe, the world sprint champion who skipped the Games, tested positive for the same drug in Germany last month.

U S D re a m T eam e n d sb a s k e tb a ll n ig h tm a r e

By BILL BARNARD

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - America’s “Dream Team” of top professionals put an end to the country’s basketball nightmare by winning an Olympic gold medal with their workmanlike 117-85 victory over Croatia.

“We were able to do what everyone expected us to do,” said Michael Jordan, who scored a team- high 22 against the Croats on Saturday. “Now we can be proud of our basketball program again.”

The so-called Dream Team was bom out of the humiliation of a series of international losses, including the 1987 Pan American Games to Brazil, 1988 Olympic semifinals to the Soviet Union and the 1990 world championships to Yugoslavia.

The United States was unstoppable in all eight of its games in Barcelona, even when trailing 25-23 more than halfway through the first half against Croatia.

“There were about three times (in the tournament) I felt threatened, and one of them was tonight in the first half,” US coach Chuck Daly said.

Charles Barkley hit a 3-pointer, turned toward the opposing bench and pumped both fists as if to tell

the Croats they wouldnever see the lead again. They didn’t.

The United States went on to a 56-42 halftime lead, still its smallest of the Olympics, then started the second half with an 11-2 run. The gold medal, wily the United States’ third in basketball since 1972, was never in doubt again.

The Americans shattered the previous Olympic scoring record and became the first team to score at least 100 points in every game. They averaged 117.3 points, easily eclipsing the 1^60 US team’s standard of 101.9. They won by an average of 43.8 points - the 32- point margin in the final being the closest

When it was over, the players on thebenchhuggedDaly, andBarkley - smiling widely - went on the court andgavehiswarmupjackettoCroat Dino Radja.

On the medals stand, Magic Johnson, Jordan and Barkley carried American flags draped over their right shoulders, hiding the Reebok logos on the warmup suits some players had protested wearing because of conflicting commercial endorsements.

The seeds of the United States recruiting its top professionals to play cm the Olympics goes back to 1972, when a US team of college

amatures suffered the first-ever American loss in 63 Olympicgames - to the Soviets, when the final seconds were replayed three seconds, allowing the winning basket to be sewed.

That memory served as some final inspiration Saturday night “Before the game we watched the tape of the 1972 Olympics,” Barkley said.

“This is the greatest athletic event in my life,” Barkley said.

“TTiis is the best,” agreed Magic Johnson. “You can combine them all together and it still wouldn’t rank with this.

Barkley, the team’s leading scorer through the Olympics, finished with 17 against Croatia. Patrick Ewing had 15.

Drazen Petrovic led Croatia with 24 points, followed by Radja with 23 and Toni Kukoc with 16 points and nine assists.

Croatia has four players who were on Yugoslavia’s team that won the 1990 world title, the last major international basketball tournament without American NBA players.

Croatia, which lost by 33 points to the Americans in the preliminary round, practically conceded the victory to the United States before the game.

L e w i s l e a v e s m a r k i n O l y m p i c sBy LEE BYRD

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - A split second after American teammate Dennis Mitchell slapped the baton into his trailing left hand, 100 meters from the finish of his third and most improbable Olympics, Carl Lewis hollered with joy.

“Yes!’? he screamed. And,even with arms and legs pumping furiously, a huge smile crossed his face. And again: “Yes!”

His shining teeth were bared. Not in the grimace of effort, or the strain of his incredible acceleration, unriiatchedby anyone. Lewis was flying on wings of laughter. And with each lengthening stride, he.was leaving his indelible stamp on the Summer Games.

The American came to Barcelona predicting a world record. He got one, as well as a gold medal he never expected. Now he has eight golds and a silver. No American track athlete has ever done better.

Mitchell had given him a one- stride lead overrunners from Britain, Nigeria and Cuba in the men’s 400-meter relay. End of contest.

Lewis, with 70,000 people standing and cheering, finished six strides ahead of the Nigerian who put his team second:

His time, a world record 37.40 seconds. And the 31-year-old Lewis, who had qualified only in the long jump after a virus slowed him in the sprints at the US trials, had a second gold medal of the Barcelona Games.

Mitchell, Leroy Burrell and Mike Marsh - the men-edged him out of the individual sprints in the U.S. trials - shared the relay honors. But none ran faster on this night than Lewis, who made the” teams as a replacement whenMark Witherspoon suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon by a week ago. Mitohell hollered at Lewis just before the handoff. “I was telling him, ‘They’re coming! They’re coming! They’re coming!” ’ Mitchell said. “You betterrun! You better run! You better run!”’

“Yes!” came the joyful reply. “That’s exactly what I said,”

Lewis said. “When I first got it, I did scream. That was helping me bring focus to running fast. I put my hand back, the baton was there, and I was saying, ‘We have the

gold medal.’”After flashing across the line,

Lewis eased to a trot, then leapt straight up, again and again, when the world record was posted on the scoreboard. Pumping his arms several times, he then threw the baton into the crowd, turned and embraced his teammates.

“That finish line was the most special of them all,” Lewis said, laughing again. “Because getting the record is incredible. It’s definitely the one.”

The mark broke the standard of37.50 set by the United States at last year’s world championships in Tokyo. That team was the same as the current record-setters, except Andre Cason, not Marsh, ran the leadoff.

After his heartbreak in the US Olympic qualifying trials, Lewis, still the world record-holder in the 100, was left with only the long jump.

Fully recovered, he hoped not only to beat teammate Mike Powell, but to get the one world record that has eluded him throughout his career. The standard had been Bob Beamon’s, for

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