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5 c h a rg e d in J a p a n e se ’s m u rd e rBy Gaynor L. Dumat-ol

THREE brothers and two of their friends were charged before the Superior Court yesterday for the murder of a Japanese in Tanapag beach last month.

Lee Sablan Norita, 21, was charged with first degree murder which is punishable by a mini­mum of 10 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.

He was named in the criminal complaint as the one who fired a .22-caliber unregistered revolver at Kuniyoshi Ishii, 28, employee of Pacific Engineering and Con­sulting Inc., before dawn last July 22.

His brothers George and Anto­nio and their friends Vicente A. Sablan and Roy Magofna were charged with aiding and abetting first degree murder as well as assault and battery.

The four alleged accessories face imprisonment of about 10 years.

Judge Alex Castro set a Sl- million bail for Lee Norita and $500,000 each for the four others after hearing the charges at Courtroom B prepared by assis­tant attorney general Jane Arthur- Burkhart.

Lee and the four others heard the charges with bowed heads while some of the suspects’ rela­tives were teary-eyed.

The criminal complaint stated that Ishii was first beaten up and kicked before he was shot.

A tip from a friend of the sus­pects was the major factor that helped police investigators iden­tify the Norita brothers, Sablan and Magofna, according to a statement submitted to the court by detective Hirosi I. Boaz of the Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigation Division.

For fear of reprisal, the witness asked that he remain anonymous until called in court to testify.

The five were arrested by po­lice officers between 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. last Sunday.

According to the unnamed wit- ness, Lee Norita, Sablan, Magofna, himself and two other unnamed persons whom the wit­ness did not identify, were at Mom’s Round Two in Garapan on the night of July 21.

At about 1 a.m. on July 22, the five moved to Tanapag beach and drank beer, the witness told the investigator.

While drinking on the beach, continued on page 3

LEE SABLAN Norita, left, principal suspect in the killing of a Japanese worker in Tanapag last month, is escorted by a police officer back to the DPS jail after hearing the charges against him at the Superior Court yesterday. _______ ____________

Brown says Inos’ ouster legalBy Rafael H. Arroyo

THERE is nothing illegal with the ouster of Joseph S. Inos as president of the Senate and the election of Juan S. Demapan to take his place was totally proper under the official rules of the Senate, Senate legal Counsel Pam Brown said.

She said that it was Inos who violated certain Senate rules.

Brown said an analysis of what transpired in the night of August 12 indicated that the adjournment of the session called by then President Inos was not binding, so the Senate could entertain the resolution that removed him from office.

“Once the president’s move to adjourn the session was put to a vote and was defeated by a five- to-four-vote, that adjournment issue was dead and the session could go on,” Brown said in a memorandum to Demapan, who had sought her legal opinion on the issue.

Questions have ben raised on the legality of the Senate’s “hall­way session” right after the chamber passed the budget for fiscal year 1992 last week.

Observers said that the Senate was in recess, thus the via' presi­dent could not reconvene the scs-

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sion and the resolution to oust Inos could not have been enter­tained.

Brown recalled that when Inos called for a recess, there was a motion from Senator Paul A. Manglona to have the call sub­jected to a voice vote to determine if all were in favor of it.

“The request for a roll call vote on that matter was entirely legal within the rules. Under Rule 9, section 5, the president may ad­journ the Senate for a specific period of time, subject to appeal of the Senate,” Brown pointed out.

This means that in order to ad­journ, a majority of those present must vote in the affirmative.

According to Brown, this did not occur, therefore the session was still convened.

“Inos was in dereliction of his duties and responsibilities under the rules as his actions appeared to be in open defiance to an ap­propriate motion and second on a matter clearly authorized and sanctioned by the rules,” she added.

At that point, Inos allegedly entertained and subsequently ruled unilaterally on a motion by Senator Juan S. Torres to resolve into a committee of the whole without putting the motion to a

vote by the members.“He failed to carry out his duty

by: failing to vacate the chair; entertaining a motion to resolve into a committee of the whole; failing by failing to put the motion to a vote by the members despite their repeated objections; and fi­nally, actively entering into the debate while still chairing the meeting,” Brown said.

But while the session was sup­posedly resolved into the com­mittee of the whole, Inos unilat­erally declared it in recess despite a provision that such is subject to appeal to the Senate.

He allegedly refused to put the issue to a vote and instead, gath­ered his papers and left the chair. At this point Vice President Francisco M. Borja assumed the chair prompting Inos to come back and reassume his seat.

Under the rules, the president could not reassume the chair without the concurrence of the vice president and the resolving of the body into the regular ses­sion, Brown said.

“None of the prerequisites oc­curred, the former president never requested such, the vice president never relinquished such and the body never voted to resume the regular session out of the coin-

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C a m a c h o a c c u s e s

C i n g o f i n t r u d i n g

D P S f i r e s t a t i o n

DIRECTOR Gregorio M. Camacho of the Department of Public Safety has filed a counter complaint against Sen. David M. Cing, two days after the senator accused the DPS director of kicking him last Tuesday.

Police Chief Antonio Reyes said the director filed at 8 a.m. last Friday morning a complaint that the senator alleged] y intruded the DPS fire division grounds fronting the legislature building where Camacho and about 100 other officers and personnel of DPS were protesting the delay in the passage of the budget for fiscal year 1992.

Camacho filed his complaint before the DPS central office front desk. Like Cing’s complaint which was filed Wednesday noon, the DPS Criminal Investigation and Internal Affairs Divisions would look into the complaints filed by the two officials.

The police chief said Camacho complained that the senator, without any invitation, had his car parked in front of die director

in the DPS fire division premises.Cing, the director’s complaint

also said, called the police officers “coconut heads. ’’The director also reported that Cing said he would “bang all coconut heads.”

Cing was quoted in the com­plaint of the director as having threatened that the legislator would see to it that the budget was not passed and allegedly labelled the police officers as ignorant for protesting the delay in the passage of the budget.

But Cing’s account of the inci­dent said that Camacho hit his hand and kicked at his direction but the kick hit a door of the senator’s car. Last Tuesday when the budget was not yet passed, the DPS staged a picket, saying the delay has caused the police’s op­erational and personnel funds to run dry.

The DPS singled out Cing in its protest move because the senator obtained a court decision stopping the Office of the Governor from disbursing funds under a state of emergency in lieu of the budget.

2-MARIANAS VARIETYNEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY-AUGUST 18,1992

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By EDITH M. LEDERER

LONDON (AP) - The West has many military cards to play in Yugoslavia, but wary generals and politicians are trying to figure out whether any of diem are winners.

There are grave misgivings that even a small military operation to speed humanitarian relief to belea­guered Bosniamight drag the West into a Balkan quagmire reminis­cent of Vietnam.

The United Nations, which ap­proved force as a last resort to deliver aid, has snick to a military peacekeeping role. But military experts say this could quickly esca­late to a far more aggressive peacemaking operation if convoys are attacked.

British Gea Sir Anthony Fairar- Hockley, former commander-in- chief of allied forces, northern Europe, said the problem is that Western governments are saying something should be done when they really do not want to do any­thing.

“The cheap option is always the most expensive in the longrun,”he

warned. “If there is to be military intervention in Bosnia- Herzegovina or elsewhere in the former state of Yugoslavia, let it be wholehearted and well founded.”

At the core of the current debate are two vexing questions: Where would an international force cone from and what exactly would it do?

The United Nations did not au­thorize anyone to command a military operation. It did not com­mit any soldiers, and only a few thousand troops havebeenpledged by France, Turkey and Spain.

What can be done depends cm the size of the force.

The military options range from massive military intervention to pacify the country, to air strikes, i securing land corridors to Bosnia, monitoring heavy weapons, estab­lishing sanctuaries for refugees, and turning Kosovo, Macedonia and otherpotential flashpoints into safe havens to ensure no ethnic cleansing takes place.

Military experts estimate it will take from 10,000 to 200,000 sol­diers todeliverfood,medicine, and relief supplies to Bosnia, and at

Communist leader hits Ramos’ peace overturesMANILA, Philippines (AP) - The founder of the country’s Commu­nist Party on Monday assailed PresidentFidelRamos’peace over­tures to rebels as a campaign to divide Marxist forces.

Government officials fly to the Netherlands on Tuesday to discuss peace with leaders of die Commu­nist-led National Democratic Front, which has been waging a 23-year insurgency to establish a Marxist state.

Party founder Jose Maria Sison, wholivesmtheDutchtityofUtredt, said in an interview with private radio Sation DZXL that Ramos should show goodfaith by releasing political prisoners and other steps before talks begin.

“I had said all political prisoners must be freed,” Sison said. “Guide­lines of talks should be clear even if they are only preliminary negotia- tions.” __________________

Without such steps, Sison said the government would simply be using propaganda “to divide the revolutionary forces.”

Ramos’ predecessor, Corazon Aquino, opened talks with therebels in 1986. But the talks broke down after the government refused any concessions.

Ramos served as military chief of staff in 1986 and both rebel and government negotiators accused him of sabotaging the peace talks by imposing clearly unacceptable conditions at every stage of the negotiations.

Sison, who was released from prison in 1986,describes himself as a consultant to the Front

The Philippine military claims Sison resumed leadership of the Party after his release and runs the organization from his exile in die Netherlands.

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least half a million soldiers to end the fighting throughout Yugosla­via.

But Weston powers have ruled out a large-scale commitment of groundtroops. NATO is so far tire only organization to contemplate supplyingmanpower to enforce the U.N. resolution to speed relief to Bosnia.

On Friday, however, NATO re­jected a proposal to deploy about 100,000 soldiers to provide a safe corridor for aid, and asked its ex­perts for a new plan with smaller numbers by Aug. 24.

But time for action may be run­ning out.

“Weare lOweeks away from the first snowfall in Sarajevo,” said Col. Edward. Cowan, who was Britain’s defense attache in Yugo­slavia from· 1987-90. “If Serbian bombs and bullets haven’t killed the inhabitants by then, winter will get them instead. So there’s not much time to waste.”

Military experts note that it took fivemonths toput 14,000UN troops on the ground in Croatia to monitor the January cease-fire agreement

ending the war with Serbia.US Gea John Galvin, who re­

cently retired as NATO’s top military commander, said the West should consider establishing an 80,000-strong coalition ground force right now in an enclave like the Croatian port of Split.

“We might use that base for something and we might not,” he said in a telephone interview from the US Military Academy at West Point,N.Y.“Itwouldcertainlysend amessageofgreatconcemtothose peopleinBosnia-Herzegovinawho are outside of international law in the things they are doing.”

Farrar-Hockley said a force of' about 80,000 including three or four divisions plus air and helicop­ter support would enable the West to call its own tune and not “dance to the Serb guerrillas’ tune.”

Such a force might demoralize the Serb militias, just by its pres­ence, and bring them to the negoti­ating table. But as British Air Chief MarshalSirMichaelArmitagesaid, “these people are guerrillas par excellence” who proved their mettle in World War n.

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o p t i o n sLONDON (AP) - Here are some of the military options that Western military experts have suggested an international force could undertake in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia:

STRENGTHEN ESCORTS FOR RELIEF CONVOYS. To protect aid shipments, light-ar­mored vehicles should accom­pany convoys, helicopter gun- ships and ground-attack aircraft could provide air cover, and troops could be posted on high ground to guard against am­bush.

AIR STRIKES. The threat of aerial bombing could be used to try to get the Serbs to stop fight­ing and negotiate. If they refuse, air strikes could be used to de­stroy a range of targets from the air force to bridges, weapons and Serbianfighters themselves.

ESTABLISH SANCTUAR­IES FOR REFUGEES. Sanctu­aries similar to those created for theKurdsinnorthemlraq could be set up in areas of Bosnia where there are large numbers of refugees, such as Sarajevo and Bihac.

BEIJING (AP) - Malaysian De­fense Minister Najib Razak held closed-door talks Monday with his Chinese counterpart about pro­moting friendly ties between the two countries’ armed forces, an official repxxt said.

Razak arrived Sunday and was given a welcome ceremony Mon­day morning by Chinese Defense

Minister Qin Jiwei.The state-run Xinhua News

Agency said it was the first visit by a Malaysian defense minister to China since the two countries estab­lished diplomatic relations in 1974.

Xinhua gave no details of their talks.

Razak’s visit likely was prompted by China’s recent moves

to project its pxiwer into Southeast Asia as the United States and former Soviet Unicm pull back from the region.

China hasaggressivelyreasseited its claim to the whole of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Ma­laysia is oneoffiveotherclaimants to someor all of thechainorits territorial waters.

Relief convoy returns to SarajevoBy JOHN POMFRET

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - The first UN relief convoy to reach the besieged city of Gorazde returned to Sarajevo early Monday after a daring night journey through ter­ritory littered with mines and roamed by gunners.

The UN official who led the convoy described Gorazde as “tragic in its helplessness” and said preople wept when they ar­rived with about 46 tons of food and medicine.

The convoy of eight empty trucks and eight armored prerson- nel carriers rolled back into the UN-preliced aiiport in Sarajevo 40 hours after it left for Goradze, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Sarajevo. Tfre city has been under Serb assault for nearly four months.

“We saw four operations at the hospital being down without anaesthetics, we saw extremely gaunt hungry pieople,” said Larry

Hollingsworth, head of the Sarajevo office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Hollingsworth said the ship>- ment included six tons of medi­cine, but no anaesthetics.

He said the convoy took the risk of travelling by night because of heavy clashes. Fighting in Rogatica, a city on the route from Gorazde to Sarajevo/left 10 pieople dead on Sunday, he said.

Hollingsworth disputed a repxirt by Sarajevo radio Sunday that the warehouse holding the UN goods in Gorazde was hit by shells Sat­urday, destroying th^ stocks.

He said that convoy had been dispersed to four different ware­houses to reduce the possibility of losing all the supplies in one attack.

“ButI know they will be shelled again,”he said. “Indeed, probably the most pxiignant thing was that none of them wanted us to leave. They said as soon as we’d leave the shelling would begin.”

“It was a very disturbing city,”

he said.Croatian radio said shelling in

Gorazde killed two pieople and wouhded 14 after the UNHCR convoy arrived.

he convoy, protected by UN guards, waited most of Sunday for a French crew to clear mines from a bridge.

The mission to Gorazde was seen as a critical test of a UN Security Council resolution passed last week that authorized the use of force to ensure humani­tarian aid is delivered to Bosnia- Herzegovina. After the Security Council vote, Serb leaders de­clared they would not block hu­manitarian aid.

Hollingsworth said in a show of unity with the pieople'of Gorazde he and French Lt. Col. Eric Stabenrath, who led the armed escort, walked into the city in front of the vehicles.

“The people just stared in dis­belief,” he said. “It was very emo­tional. Most of the townspieople

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Pinatubo still acting up for violent eruption

5 charged...thé witness said Lee tried starting a fight with him, prompting the framer to go to his car.

It was at that instance when Lee’s two brothers of Lee— An­tonio and George— arrived in separate cars and joined the drinking spree.

About 20 minutes after the two brothers arrived the witness heard Sablan shouting. The witness saw Lee holding a gun and chasing Sablan.

The two other Norita brothers were also running so the witness saidhe became curious. He moved his car closer to the area where the four were heading.

The witness then saw Sablan and the three brothers kicking a red pickup truck parked in the middle of the road in God’s Little Acre housing area leading to Tanapag beach.

The red pickup later turned out to be owned by Pacific Engineer­ing and driven by Ishii.

Lee then hit Ishii’s face with the gun and, with the help of Sablan, pulled the Japanese out of the car, the detective learned.

The witness said he could hear the Japanese shouting for help while Magofna and the two other Norita brothers took turns hold­ing, kicking and punching Ishii.

Ishii was able to slip away from his attackers and ran towards the. beach but the witness said Lee, who was eight to ten feet away, shot the Japanese in the back.

The Japanese managed to con­tinue running away but Magofna, Sablan and Lee chased him, said the witness. Meanwhile, George Norita drove the company pickup driven by Ishii to the side of the road. -

Sablan and Magofna caught the Japanese, beat the victim up again while Lee fired two shots in the air.

The victim again managed to flee. Lee chased Ishii, the witness said. Minutes later, the witness heard two more shots but said he was unable to see the victim and Lee because the two were in a dark area.

After the last two shots, the wit­ness saw Lee with the gun in his hand. Lee placed the gun inSablan’s carandbeganlaughingwithSablan.

The witness said he then rushed fra home. At daybreak on the same day of the incident, the witness said, Sablan came to his house and called him a “chicken” and warned him against squealing.

Sablan, the witness claimed, threatened that the witness better not tell what happened “...or (he) will get what (he) saw at Tanapag beach.”

After hearing the charges against them the defendants, excep* for Sablan who is represented by pub­lic defendant Dan DeRienzo, said they could not afford a lawyer so the judge scheduled the hearing for the accused to answer the charges on Aug. 27. Public attorneys would be assigned to them.

A woman witness who declined to be named disclosed earlier that some residents in God’s Little Acre were roused from sleep by several gunshots followed by screams which later turned out to belshii’s.

The witness said she and several

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other occupants of the house heard a few more shots followed by the man’s screams.

“The man was screaming help, help,’’the witnesssaid. The woman interviewed said not one of them dared go out but a neighbor de­cided to check outside because the dogs did not stop barking.

The neighbor also .could not ig­nore the man’s screams for help, so he went out, found Ishii bloodied butstillaliveat3:20a.m.andcalled the police.

Prior to that, Police Officers J. Somol and R. K. Camacho found the red pickup driven by Ishii, its keys still on the ignition and the car engine warm. Abeer can wasfound on the bed of the truck arid more rat the side of the road were found still cold.

Ishii was pronounced dead from a lone gunshot wound at 4:36 am attheCommonwealth Health Cen­ter.

The killing of Kuniyoshi has caught the attention of the media in Japan. A day after Kuniyoshi was shot, several reporters planed in all the way from Japan to get first­hand coverage of the homicide in­cident.

Ishii’s house was not far from where his body was found.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Scientists said Monday there was still a “high probability” of a vio­lent eruption by Mount Pinatubo but that the volcano was exhibit­ing unusual characteristics mak­ing it difficult to predict its activ­ity.'

The Philippirielnstitute of Vol­canology· and Seismology had warned of a violent eruption within a one week pieriod which ended Sunday.

On Monday, seismologists re­

mittee of the whole,” she said.Under the authority granted him

under Rule 1, section 4, Borja and the majority members then an­nounced that due to the refusal of Inos to conduct the session ac­cording to the rules, the Senate was being officially moved to the office of Demapan.

The five members, including Borja as acting president, recon-

corded 22 high frequency and 190 low frequency earthquakes around the northern part of the volcano, 110kms(60miles)north of Manila.

The volcano continued to emit small amounts of lava, but there was no violent eruption.

“The possibility of explosive eruption is still strong,” said Rene Solidum, a spokesman for the Ihstitute. “We cannot understand why it did not follow its pattern last year, but it may be that it is

vened the session and Manglona was appointed acting floor leader and Frances Reyes as acting Sen­ate cleric.

Inos, since the night of August 12, could not be reached for com­ment.

Meanwhile, Senators Manglona and Edward U. Maratita chided House Speaker Thomas P.

exhibiting another pattern."In June 1991, Pinatubo erupted

after centuries of slumber, killing 700 pieople and left hundreds of thousands of pieople homeless.

The eruption also forced the United States to abandon Clark Air B ase and altered weather pat­terns worldwide.

The 1991 eruption was the first for Pinatubo inmorethan300years. Lack of data on previous eruptions has made it difficult to predict ac­tivity, the Institute has said.

Villagomez for issuing a state­ment that he still recognizes Inos as president of the Senate.

In an earlier interview, Villagomez said he still believed Inos was president unless the court ultimately cranes up with a deter­mination on the legality of the ouster and Demapan’s ascent to the top Senate pxist.

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4-m a r ia n a s v a r ie t y NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY-AUGUST 18,1992

Abortion stand hurting BushBy MIKE FEINSILBER

HOUSTON (AP) - Many del­egates to the Republican conven­tion say the party is hurting President Bush’s re-election chances chances by demanding an outright constitutional ban on abortion.

Some delegates went so far as to say the party’s inflexible po­sition - going beyond the president’s - could cost the Re­publicans the election. Others said Bush would lose credibility and votes if he seemed now to be vacillating.

Richard Rosenbaum of Roch-

ester, N. Y. recalled that Bush had already changed his abortion stand once. “He flipped in ’80,” Rosenbaum said. “Now if he flops, you can’t do that without alien­ating both sides.”

Scott Peterson, an alternate delegate from Camby, Ore., said that the party would lose ground politically if it watered down its position.

“The firstruleof politics is never betray your base,” Peterson said. “If hie switches, he betrays his base.”

Utah delegate Alex Hurtado asked: “How would it look if we changed now?” “Bush has made

this his position,” said Blake Hall, who heads the Idaho delegation. “For him to change now would appear terribly political.”

“Fpr a lot of people out there, it’s their only issue,” said a Vir­ginia delegate, Jo Strickler, 22, of Blacksburg. “If it’s not in the plank, they wouldn’t vote at all.”

But “the extremist plank is a loser,” said Howard Denis, a state senator from Montgomery County, Md., in,the Washington, D.C. suburbs. A South Carolin­ian, Gus Roberts, predicted the party would “turn off a lot of females” by stressing an anti­choice stand

And a Virginia delegate, Roger D. Hill, went so far as to say the platform stance “will probably lose the election for them.”

But Spencer Noe, a Kentucky delegate, argued the issue is cru­cially important only to a handful of voters. “If abortion was the only thing on the ballot, I don’t think 97 percent of the people would walk across the street to vote one way or another.”

The platform that goes before the convention Monday and ap­pears certain of approval calls for a constitutional amendment that bans abortions.

cry spontaneously in my life.”Since the civil war began in

February, Goradze’s population is believed to have swelled from 15,000 as refugees from neigh­boring towns sought safety. But Hollingsworth estimated the population at around 40,000, half of previous estimates.

Serbs, about a third of Bosnia’s population, have captured two- thirds of the republic since the state’s Croats and Muslims voted for independence Feb. 29.

Serb militants want to remain part of Serb-dominated Yugosla­via, now comprised only of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro. More than 8,000 people have died in the war, and more than one million people have been forced to flee their homes.

On Saturday, the convoy got caught in crossfire between war­ring Serbs and Muslim forces. It was also held up by Serbian mi­litia and blocked at anothermined bridge.

“We finally got food into the town, and for us that’s perfect,” said Sylvanna Foa, spokeswoman for the UNHCR in Geneva.

Foa said more UN aid convoys would be sent this week, to the northern Bosnian towns of Banja Luka on Monday and Bihac on Tuesday.

But Adnan Abd-elrazek, a UN spokesman in Sarajevo, said the problems with Serb mines on the road to Gorazde may lead officials to reconsider plans to bring aid outside Sarajevo.

“The facts are clear now it’s not very easy to send aid into Serbian territory. We have to rethink the whole thing,” he said.

Eleven days ago another UNHCR convoy attempting to reach Gorazde had to turn back when it ran into a Serbian minefield.

About 260 Bosnian refugees were refused entry by Croatian authorities near the city of Novska, where about 1,350 poured out of Bosnia in recent days. UN troops in a Serb-held area of Croatia sheltered the refu­gees Sunday in a half-destroyed factory after Croatian authorities said the refugees had no docu­ments to prove they would be taken in by relatives or friends.

The refugees told Associated Press reporter Roland Prinz their homes in Bosanska Dubica were being shelled, and Serb police were robbing them.

In Paris, meanwhile, a French government minister said his country was the only Western power taking significant steps to help stop the Yugoslav war.

He appeared to be referring to France’s pledge to send 1,100 soldiers to safeguard relief con­voys in Bosnia. France also has 2,700 U.N. peacekeeping forces in Croatia.

In a newspaper interview with the Paris weekly Journal du Dimanche, French Foreign Min­ister Roland Dumas also noted a “lack of enthusiasm” among France’s allies to commit ground troops.

DOLORES D VENAS BABA UTABom: September 27,1931

Died: August 15,1992

Daughter of the late Jose Villagomez and Nieves Palacios Dueñas, was called to her eternal rest a t the age o f 60.

She is survived by her husband, Donisio Miyasaki Babauta, her children and spouses:Daniel D. and Remedio Q. Babauta, Merced B. and John S. Pangelinan, Edward D. Babauta, Lydia B. and Noel

Q. Taisacan, Thomas D. and Sylvia S. Babauta, Norbert D . and Kimiyo T. Babauta, Carmen B. and Diego DLG. Camacho, George D. and Eunice S. Babauta, Sandra D. Babauta.

Brothers, Sisters and in-laws: Pedro P. and Lucia Dueñas, Jose P. and Rufina I. Dueñas, Antonio P. (Deceased) and Dolores (Sachi) Dueñas, Antonia D . and Antonio Déla Rosa, Rita D . and Bob Hawkey, Ignacio P. and Trinidad C. (Deceased) Dueñas, M artina D. and Vicente Camacho, M aria D. and Mike Wineninger

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CUC takes over water monitoringTHE ROUTINE microbiological monitoring and analysis of pub­lic water supply systems has been transferred from the Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. (CUC).

DEQ, in a press release, said the transfer took effect on Aug. 7, followingreceiptofprovisional certification from the US Envi­ronmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the CUC’s new water quality laboratory.

Renato Alcazar, acting CUC comptroller, said the utility firm would also analyze samples from the sewage treatment plant at Sadog Tase.

The transfer of the responsibil­ity for routine microbiological monitoring and analysis of the public water supply systems was agreed upon in a memorandum of agreement between CUC and DEQ last Jan. 1.

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A G N E S M cP hetres , p re s i­d e n t o f th e N o r th e rn M a r ia n a s C o lle g e , in tro ­d u c e s N M C fre s h m e n to c o lle g e l i fe d u r in g y e s ­t e r d a y ' s o r i e n t a t i o n p ro g ram . N M C is expecting a b o u t 1 ,000 enro lees in th e fa ll sem ester, in c lu d in g o ld stud en ts .

REGISTRATION for fall semes­ter at Northern Marianas College begins today for returning students and continues Aug. 19 and 20 for all students.Registrar Cynthia Camacho said, “We hope to see enrollment up overlastfalTsrecord,767 students.”

“NMC offers more than a hun­dred different classes in a wide variety of subjects, something for practically everyone, from adult

basic education, to certificate and degree programs in academic and vocational fields,” Dean of In­struction Leo Boyer said.

“Ours is a community college, we try to meet the needs of our people,” Boyer said.

“It’s important we remember a community college is not just for young people,” Associate Dean Jack Sablan said.

“We have many mature adults

brushing up on their skills or going for their degrees,” Sablan said.

“A number of our courses are scheduled in the evenings to ac­commodate working people, par­ticularly our English classes.

“this summer a number of adults used those classes, such as College Composition, to spruce up their writtenEnglish skills,’’Sablansaid.

Financial Aid director Joe Bermudes reminds all needy stu-

dents to apply for federal finan­cial assistance as soon as pos­sible.

“The Board of Regents ’ policy on financial aid has been changed so that* all those applying for local CNMI financial aid must first apply for federal assistance.

“The complication is that pro­cessing of federal forms takes several weeks,” Bermudes said.

Animals at zoo get off to running startBy NITA LELYVELD

WASHINGTON (AP) - The new­est arrivals at the National Zoo get off toaruruiing start eachmomingas they careen around comers, lunge through the towgrass, and leap in the air in pursuit of their prey. Cheetahs are back on exhibit at the zoo this summer, for the first time in decades. And they’re leaving ob­servers awestruck.

Each morning, visitors can watch as die fast cats zoom around their yard stalking a mechanical hue.

It’s justa simple white plastic bag that moves along a motorized wire- and pulley-track. But it zigzags through clumps of African grass at up to 45 mph (75 kph), and it looks like breakfast to die swift, spotted cats.

They hunt it, chase it, sometimes even catch it - and their efforts are a thrill to watch.

The new Cheetah Conservation Station, which officially opens Thursday, is just a minute’s stroll from the zoo’smain entrance. So it’s the first exhibit most visitors willsee.

“We’vealwayshadazoo that was

dull for the first 200 yards, but this is really something,’’saidZoo Director MichaelRobinson, as he watched the morning chase amid a crowd of visi­tors.

Cheetahs once lived in Asia, North America and Africa, but now can only be found in a few isolated parts of the African continent. Scientists at

die zoo have been woridng for years to understand what’s getting in the. way of the world’s swiftest animal.

They’vetraveledoftentoSerengeti National Park in Tanzania, and to zoos withcheetahs inresidence. And they now know through their re­search that not only docheetahs lack the genetic variability that helps spe­

cies survive, but that most cheetah males are.byhumanstandards, infer­tile.

Their goal is to come up with techniques to boost cheetah repro­duction, and last year they helped produced the world’s first cheetah cub by artificial insemination.

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includes four cheetahs - two 8- month-old cubs - a brother and a aster - andtwo4-year-o\dbrothers. The zoo’s cheetahs will be used as sperm donors and recipients of arti­ficial insemination.

For kids, there’s apair of cheetah pawprints - 23 feet (7 5 meters) apart - that show just how far a cheetah can travel in one solitary stride. There’s also a special stalk- ingtrail-cutthroughtall.thickgrass - dial lets them pretend they’re out hunting their prey.

ThemostpopuJardisplay-which elicits both giggles and gasps - is a scale that tells visitors what kind of meal they’d make for a cheetah, a hyena or a lion.

The zoo staff hopes the interac­tive exhibit will make the public care more about the cheetah’s sur­vival.

“I think the more people get to look at an animal and get to know it, the more they come to understand how terrible it will be if it’s gone,” said Stuart Wells, the cheetahs’ keeper. “This is a real concerted effort to save these cats.”

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By DAVID ESPO

HOUSTON (AP) - Republicans tested attack lines against the Democrats on Sunday on the eve of a national convention scripted to boost President Bush’s re-elec­tion drive and spiced suddenly by reports of a possible military strike against Iraq.

“We’ll have Clinton bashing all week,” Senate GOP leader Bob Dole said. He and other Republi­cans lashed the Democratic nominee - leading handsomely in the polls - as a tax and spend liberal also lacking in foreign policy or military sophistication.

From Bush on down, the Re­publican high command heatedly rejected any suggestion that a showdown with Saddam Hussein was motivated by political con­cerns, as charged by an unnamed official quoted in the New York Times.

“I totally deny thatl’m trying to pick a fight for political reasons,” Bush said as he arrived at the White House from Camp David.

Bush trails Clinton by between 15 and 20 percentage points in most polls, and he vowed in a televised interview, “We’re fighting back. I think people want to see me fight back.”

The president and Vice Presi­dent Dan Quayle are scheduled to arrive in the convention city on Monday. “Both Barbara and I are

fired up and ready,” the president told convention workers by tele­phone hook-up from the White House.

Congressman Sid Morrison of Zillah, Wash., said the anxiety of many Republicans could be laid to “the plummeting numbers of a president that could have been elected king of the world just a year ago.” It was a reference to Bush’s soaring popularity in the wakeofthel991GulfWar. Dole said an attack strategy wouldn’t be enough.

“The president does need to make some dramatic statements - pose some dramatic programs,” commented the Kansas senator.

In his ABC interview, Bush offered no specifics on his Thursday night convention speech, but Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady offered a hint: “I am not going to upstage anything the president might say at the convention ... but he feels very strongly that the American people are overtaxed.”

Bush was interviewed Thurs­day, days before word of a possible showdown with Saddam surfaced. Even so, news of the looming confrontation dominated pre­convention interviews, and in­jected a fresh element of volatil­ity into a campaign that has been anything but predictable.

Even as Republicans bristled at the suggestion that Bush would

play politics with foreign policy, they weren’t above analyzing it in those terms. “It’s a questionable assumption that a strike would be a political plus,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. “But even if you did, why would you do at in the middle of the con­vention. Why step cm your own story?”·

The transformation of the As­trodome from baseball stadium to political arena was complete. A podium that resembled a Holly­wood sound stage - complete with a false-sandstone entrance from backstage - was ready for the opening gavel. Enormous American flags hung from the upper decks.

The delegates nibbled and sipped through the social whirl.

Kansas’ delegates collected invitations to eight receptions, brunches and breakfasts in little over five full days in town, and these were not exactly pot lucks. The list of sponsors of the events ran to RJR Nabisco, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, South­western Bell Telephone, the US Telephone Association, the American Association of Retired Persons and the American Bank­ers Association.

From their command trailers behind the Astrodome podium, the Bush command stayed silent on the specifics in Bush’s accep­tance speech.

HOUSTON (AP) - Here are high­lights of the Republican platform scheduled for adoption Monday at the Republican National Con­vention:

FAMILIESWe will promote whole, caring

familiesby eliminating biases that have crept into our legal and tax codes. We will advance adoption through significant tax credits, in- surancereforms,andlegal reforms .... We support pro-family policies: job sharing, telecommuting, compressed work weeks, paren­tal leave negotiated between em­ployer and employees, and flextime... We want to expand the Young Child Tax Credit to $500 per child and make it available to all families with children under the age of ten... We will remove the marriage penalty in the tax code....

EDUCATIONParents have the right to choose

the best school for their children. Schools should teach right from wrong. Schools should reinforce parental authority, not replace it We should increase flexibility from federal regulation.... We also support the right of parents to provide quality education through home-based schools ....

We oppose programs in public schools that provide birth control or abortion services or referrals. Instead, we encourage absti­nence.... We support the right of students to engage in voluntary prayer in schools... We also advo­cate recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools as a re­minder of the principles that sus­tain us as one Nation under God.

HEALTHRepublicans believe govern­

ment control of health care is irre­sponsible and ineffective.... The President’s plan will make health care more affordable through tax credits and deductions that will offset insurance costs for 95 mil­lion Americans; and make health care more accessible, especially for small businesses, by reducing insurance costs and eliminating workers’ worries of losing insur­ance if they change jobs.

AIDSAIDS should be treated like

any other communicable or sexu­ally transmitted disease, while at the same time preserving patient confidentiality. We... will oppose ... any discrimination against Americans who are its victims. We encourage state legislatures to enact legislation which makes it a criminal act for anyone know­ingly to transmit the AIDS, virus.

GAY RIGHTS . We oppose efforts... to include sexual preference as a protected minority receiving preferential status under civil rights statutes at the federal, state, and local level. ... We oppose any legislation or law which legally recognizes same-sex marriages and allows such couples to adopt children or provide foster care.

PORNOGRAPHYWe call on federal agencies to

halt the sale ... of pornographic materials. ... (We) condemn the use’of public funds to subsidize obscenity and blasphemy mas­

querading as artWELFAREToday’s welfare system is anti-

workandanti-marriage....Wecall for strongenforcementand tough penalties against welfare fraud and insist that work must be a mandatory part of public assis­tance for all who are able to work....

ABORTIONWe believe the unborn child

hasafundamentalindividualright to life which cannot be infringed. We therefore reaffirm our sup­port for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we en­dorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using pub­lic revenues for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate i t . ... We reaffirm our support for appointment ofj udges who respect traditional family values andthesanctity of innocent human life.

GUN CONTROLRepublicans defend theconsti-

tutional right to keep and bear arms. We call for stiff mandatory sentences for those who use fire­arms in a crime.

TAXESWe will oppose any attempt to

increase taxes. Furthermore, Re­publicans believe that the taxes insisted on by the Democrats in the 1990 budget agreement were recessionary... Webelievethe tax increases of 1990 should ulti­mately be repealed...

PUBLIC TELEVISIONWe deplore the blatant politi­

cal bias of the government-spon­sored radio and television net­works.... We call for sweeping reform.... We look forward to the day when public broadcasting is self-sufficient.

ENVIRONMENTEnvironmental progress must

continue in tandem with eco­nomic growth. Crippling an in­dustry is no solution at all. Bank­rupt facilities only worsen envi­ronmental situations.

MIDDLE EASTThe United States should con­

tinue to provide large-scale secu­rity assistance to Israel .... A meaningful peace must assure Israel’s security while recogniz­ing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. We oppose the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Nor will we support the creation of any politi­cal entity that would jeopardize Israel’s security.

CHINAOur policy toward China is

based on support for democratic reform. We need to maintain the relationship with China so that we can effectively encourage such reform.

SEX HARASSMENTThe Department of Defense

will not be an exception to our assertion of family values. Re­publicans will not tolerate sexualharassment ormisconducttowardany individual in the ranks. We demand both its prevention and its punishment... we urge ahaltto the sale, in military facilities, of sexually explicit materials.

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r e b e l sDHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Angry villagers gouged out the eyes of eight Maoists rebels who had tried to extort money from a businessman, police said Mon­day.

The rebels, who belong to an outlawed group advocating armed communist revolution, attacked the businessman with meat cleavers Sunday when he refused to pay them 100,000 takas, worth $2,564, said a police officer reached by telephone.

Villagers in the town of Ranirhat, 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Dhaka saw the gang dragging the wounded man and chased them into a house. Police said a mob broke into the flimsy building after a two-hour siege, dragged out the men and blinded them with iron nails, in a common form of mob retribution in this country.

The eight were hospitalized under police custody, but no vil­lagers were immediately arrested, police said.

The rebels were members of the East Bengal Proletariat Party which has little support in this predominantly Muslim nation of 111 million people.

G u a m m i n i s t e r g u e s t a t l o c a l M e t h o d i s t c h u r c hCON$ORCIA A. SAnchez, ex­ecutive director of the Bible So­ciety of Micronesia, will be the guest minister on Aug. 23 at Immanuel Mission Methodist Church.

Rev. Sanchez was ordained in the United Methodist Church of the Philippines and was appointed to her position with the Bible Society. She lives in Guam and attends the Guam United Meth­odist Church.

The worship service begins at 8:30 a.m., followed by a time of fellowship.

The church is located on As Lito Road in Koblerville. The public is invited. Call 288-7777 for more information.

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Driver charged with rapeBy Gaynor L.Dumat-ol

A MAN working for a private security service in Saipan was charged yesterday with kidnap­ping, assault and battery and rape before the Superior Court.

Superior Court Judge Alex Castro required a $25,000 bail for the temporary release of Florente B. Ilao, 32, who was arrested over the weekend following the

complaint filed by a 27-year-old Saipan woman before the police.

Police Chief Antonio Reyes said the woman reported that D ao came to her house in San Roque, tried choking her, dragged her into a car and brought her to Marpi last Saturday night.

Reyes said the woman reported she was raped near Suicide Cliff...

. The suspect worked as driver at the Joeten Security Services which

is owned by a close relative of the rape victim.

Ilao came to Saipan about a year ago as a contract worker from the Philippines.

He was ordered by the court to surrender his passport and other travel documents and to stay away from the complainant.

The case against Ilao will be heard at 9 a.m. on Aug. 27.

Meanwhile, two structural fires

occurred in Saipan over the weekend but damage was mini­mal.

The first fire happened at a house rented by alien workers in front of the Pacific Islands Club. A leaking kerosene stove caused the fire that gutted part of the house’s ceiling. No one was hurt.

The second fire occured near the cemetery at the back of Mt. Carmel Church.

Insane driver drives taxi through crowdSEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A mentally disturbed taxi driver drove his taxi twice through the same crowded pedestrian plaza Sunday, injuring 22 people, po­lice said Monday.

Police said Lee Bong-ju, 37, first drove through a crowd in a

plaza in central Seoul at 50 kph (30 mph), injuring seven pedes­trians.

After fleeing the scene, he re­turned to the site ten minutes later and caused a second collision in which 15 people, some clearing the accident site, were injured.

Eight of the 22 victims were seriously wounded, police said.

They said Lee turned himself in after the second collision, saying he wanted to kill everyone, and take revenge on society.

According to police, Lee has suffered from mental diseases

since 1986 and was once hospi­talized for long-term treatment.

It was not clear how he had received permission to drive a taxi. However, taxi drivers are in short supply in Seoul and screening procedures are gener­ally weak.

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A rg u m e n t tr ig g e r s s la u g h te rBy TRACY FIELDS

MIAMI (AP) - Authorities said Sunday a shootout that killed four people and wounded 17 inside a crowded Jamaican nightclub ap­parently was triggered by an ar­gument between two groups of men.

Bullets showered the dance floor at the Taste of The Islands Club early Saturday when several

gunmen opened fire as scores of people took part in a birthday celebration.

One of those killed was Hilda LaToy Reynolds, who was cel­ebrating her 17 th birthday.

“We were dancing to Caribbean music and the shots started. I was dancing with LaToy,” said Rene Zeleya, 19. “One shot just led to another and people just started falling. The last time I saw her she

was lying on the floor.”Police initially said the shoot­

ing may have been drug-related and tied to local gangs known as Jamaican posses.

But Detective Donald Blocker said Sunday no such link had been established although one of the dead and one of the wounded were posse members.

Meanwhile, investigators spoke with several people Sunday who

were among the 75 to 100 people at.the club.

“We believe, from what we know now, there was some type of altercation between two differ­ent groups of males,” Blocker said. “An argument probably transpired and it escalated into a shooting incident.”

The others killed were: Chris­topher Morris, 26; Samuel Joseph, 29; and Ricardo Mitchell, 17.

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Police have made no arrests.Two of the wounded were in

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M a r c o sMANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Fidel Ramos on Monday saidgovemmentcases alleging Imelda Marcos ille­gally maintained bank deposits abroad have been nullified by the new foreign exchange regulations.

“Now, the cases filed by the government against Mrs Marcos ... have become moot and academic because of the new regulations that have come out of the Monetary Board,” Ramos told reporters.

“Well, that is to her advan tage, but the main reason for the deregulation of the foreign exchange is to open up trade and investment in the Philip­pines,” Ramos added.

The widow of former Presi­dent Ferdinand Marcos has been accused in 39 cases of maintaining foreign bank ac­counts, mostly in Switzerland, totalling about $365 million without permission from the Central Bank.

The cases are among 80 criminal and civil suits filed by the government in connection with allegations that the Marcoses and their associates embezzled billions of dollars from the national treasury.

Last Monday, Ramos an­nounced a new policy liberal­izing foreign exchange rales, including the abolition of the Central Bank requirement on foreign bank accounts.

Three days later, Judge Manuel Muro dismissed 11 of the foreign deposits cases, cit­ing the hew foreign exchange rules. Another judge had earlier dismissed three cases, saying the deposits involved were made before the 1983 Central Bank requirement.

On Friday, Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon said he would ask the Supreme Court to oust Muro for prematurely dismiss­ing the 11 cases.

Drilon explained that the new foreign exchange regulations have to be published officially before they can have legal ef­fect.

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the Tokyo Stock Exchange edged up on Monday in a technical re­bound, while the US dollar moved higher against the Japanese yen.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 109.30points,or0.74 percent, to close at 14,929.55 after recovering the 15,000-point level at the end of the morning session.

On Friday, the average gained 52.08points, or 0.35 percent. Ithad fallen a total of 1,215.47 points or 7.6 percent over the previous six trading days.

T ask force le a d e r tagged as k id n a p gang m asterm in d

By OLIVER TEVES

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The leader of a police anti-kidnapping task force was arrested Monday after a self-confessed corrupt policeman identified him as the mastermind of a kidnap gang.

Maj. Jose Pring was arrested at the home of Vice Présidait Josef* Estrada, head of a presidential task force to combatrising crime in this country.

Estrada had invited Pring and Maj. Timoteo Zarcal to his home ostensibly to discuss efforts to curb a wave of kidnappings of wealthy Filipino-Chinese businessmen.

After the two arrived, Estrada produced another policeman, Nonito Arille, who had escaped fromjail after having been arrested for involvement in kidnappings. Arille had turned himself in to Estrada following his escape.

Estrada said that Arille then identified Pring and Zarcal as masterminds of the kidnap gang. Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation, who had been se­cretly deployed to Estrada’s home, took thé two into custody immedi­ately.

Arille told reporters that the two police · majors each received 500,000 pesos ($20,000) for every kidnapping.

Both Pring and Zarcal denied die allegation. They were appointed to the anti-kidnapping force by former President Corazon Aquino, who left office June 30.

“This syndicate is aie of die biggest,” Estrada said. “I feel very bad because where can you find the chief of an anti-Jddnapping task force who is the king erf’ the kid­nappers?”

The incident was the latest in a bizarre series of events sunound-

ing that scandal-ridden Philippine National Police, whose members have been accused of crimes rang­ing ftomkidnafping to murder,rape, bank robberies and extortion.

President Fidel Ramos has prom­ised to curb crime and restore pro­fessionalism to the police. But die administration’s plans to revamp the organizationhavebeenhampered by kgalobstacles,poUtical influence and bumbling by inexperienced Cabinet members.

On Sunday, most Manila newspa­pers quoted urmamed administration sources as saying Ramos had fired police Director Cesar Nazareno and replaced him with his deputy, Raul Imperial.

ButRamos told reporters Monday that “what I know is I have not dis­missed him” and that Nazareno “is still the chief’ of die 100,000-strong police force.

Asked whether there were plans to

replace Nazareno, Ramos replied “We will gettothatlater.”Ramos was asked whether he was satisfied with Nazaneno’s performance.

“I think we should not discuss that in a press conference in fairness to him,” Ramos replied

Mrs. Aquino appointed Nazarenc to a four-year term in 1990. Nazareno was acloseassociateofMrs. Aquino’s brother, Rep. Jose Cojuangco.

Sources close to die administra­tion, speaking on condition of ano­nymity, said Ramos and Interior Secretary Rafael Ahinan wanted to replace Nazareno but could not do so without due process since his term was fixed by law.

But the {dan to replace Nazareno was leaked to reporters before the police chief and the administration could arrange for a face-saving exit

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L aw lessn ess boosts s e c u rity business

By WENDY SLOANE

MOSCOW (AP) - When a cus­tomer at the Delhi Indian restau­rant drinks too much and starts bothering other guests, the man­agement has a simple solution: Grigory Zabolotny.

Hired from an agency with links to the elite OMON police unit, the brawny Zabolotny wears a green military uniform and carries abilly club. He rarely smiles.

When he approaches, a cus­tomer behaves or is thrown out.

As lawlessness grows in Rus­sia, people who have lost faith in the police are turning increasingly to men like Zabolotny and other private measures to protect their newly won private property.

Critics may call them merce­nary thugs, but bodyguards, se­curity men and private detectives have done a brisk business since crime began increasing with the collapse of the Soviet Union last year.

Extra security has become a must for restaurants like the Delhi, which rely heavily on foreign guests and the convertible cur­rency so attractive to Moscow criminals.

“We decided at the beginning of the year to use them, because with the fast economic changes coming in Moscow, especially with the economic reforms, crime is on the rise,” said Visay Kumar Sawhney, the manager.

For the extra protection, he pays 10,000rubles amonth, about twice

the average monthly wage.Fear of crime grows with the

crime rate, which rose by one- third in the first half of 1992 be­cause of economic desperation and declining respect for the law.

Police say murders and other violent crimes are up 23 percent, with 185,000 cases reported, and burglaries and property thefts up 50 percent to more than 952,000 cases.

Newspapers carry tales of gruesome crimes, such as the discovery of a man’s head in a plastic bag in the stairwell of an apartment building. They say a corpse is dredged from the Mos­cow River about once a month.

A visitor from the United States was shot in the arm when a gang robbed adowntown cafe. Russians are killed in shootouts.

“People don’t believe they’ll be punished anymore for connf- mitting crimes,” said Maj. Gen. Vyacheslav Ogorodnikov of the Interior Ministry, which is re­sponsible for the police. “They know the system has broken down, and they are less afraid of the system now than they used to be.”

Ministry officials estimate more than 100,000 private detectives and guards are at work in Russia.

Valeiy Kosyakov, head of the Alex guard service, saidmore than 150 security agencies have sprung up.

Kosyakov, a former investiga­tor of economic crimes, left the police in 1989 to start his firm. It is the only private agency whose

guards are licensed to carry arms.“There are a lot of tasks the

government isn’t able to do, es­pecially guaranteeing personal safety to citizens and economic safety to private businesses,” said Kosyakov, a short, stocky man of 33 who wears a '

Makarov pistol in a holster.“The police don’t give us

Kalashnikovs,” Kosyakov said, referring to the well-known as­sault rifles, “because then we’d pose too much competition.”

He employs 2,500 people at 25 branches throughout the former Soviet Unioa Most of the guards are former members of OMON, aged 25 to 40.

During the Gulf War, menfrom Alex guarded the British Embassy and the offices of Pan American and British Airways, Kosyakov said.

Last August, during the failed coup, they helped defend the Russian parliament building, where President Boris Yeltsin led the resistance.

Now most of its jobs involve protecting private Russian busi­nesses, including restaurants and clubs frequented by foreigners.

The need for security services arose in 1988, when laws were changed to allow cooperatives, a form of private ownership, Kosyakov said. When that led in turn toprotectionrackets, the new entrepreneurs sought real protec­tion, from companies like Alex.

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Ira q faces escalating actionWASHINGTON (AP) - The United States and its allies will unleash a series of escalating moves against Iraq, including military action, if Saddam Hussein refuses access to UN weapons inspectors early this week, administration sources said Sunday. Angry at last month’s long standoff over entry to a key ministry in Baghdad, President Bush is determined to prevent Saddam from setting conditions for UN inspec­tions, even at the most sensitive sites, these officials said. The military options include shooting down Iraqi military aircraft, cutting off the flow of oil from Iraq to Jordan, and bombing military targets, the officials said.

Congo votes fo r new presidentBRAZZAVILLE, Congo (AP) - Balloting opened Sunday to chose a president in a campaign that has focused on rescuing the country from economic collapse. The voting came one day after Congo’s 32nd Independence Day. The frontrunner was geneticist Pascal Lissouba, a former Marxist endorsed by outgoing President Dennis Sassou-Nguesso. Lissouba faced Bernard Kolelas, a French-educated lawyer and long­time opponent of one-party rule. First returns from the election were not expected before Monday. There were 2,950voting stations and 1,332,821 voters registered. The first round turnout was nearly 60 percent, but it was expected to be lower in the second round.

B ra zilia n s ignore Conor’s pleaRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - President Fernando Collor de Mello asked Brazilians to support his government by wearing the national colors of yellow and green on Sunday, but most ignored his appeal or wbre black - for impeachment. In Brasilia, about 10,000 black-clad protesters gathered near the Planalto Presidential Palace to demand that Collor step down. Collor is accused of taking money from Paulo Cesar Farias, his close friend and 1989 campaign treasurer. Farias is under investigation for graft, corruption, tax evasion and influence traffick­ing. Congress has unveiled a massive corruption scheme involving hundreds of millions of dollars linked to Farias. Part of the money went to pay Collor’s personal and family expenses.

K enya seizes 1,500 refugeesNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has protested the government’s seizure of more than 1,500 refugees in two cities and holding them without food or blankets, a spokesman said Sunday. The refugees, mostly women and children, were seized in Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa beginning on Saturday, said Panos Moumtzis, a UNHCR spokesman in Nairobi. The UNHCR protested the force used in seizing the refugees and the conditions under which they are being held to the Home and Foreign Affairs ministries, but has received no response because all senior officials are away for the weekend, he said.

B rita in sends aid to Som aliaLONDON (AP) - Britain is sending an additional 18 million pounds ($29 million) in aid to the Horn of Africa, much of it for Somalia.

Baroness Chalker, overseas development minister, announced the new funds on Sunday. The aid is in addition to 23 million pounds ($44 million) given in response to a United Nations appeal.

Drought and warfare in Somalia already have killed tens of tnousands _ perhaps hundreds of thousands. Aid workers say another 1.5 ihillion people could die within weeks if food does not arrive immediately, and that millions more need emergency assistance.

Easy voter registratio n setHONOLULU (AP) - For anyone who has not yet registered to vote, the state’s chief elections officer is hying to make it as easy as possible.

Lt. Gov. BenCayetano says that as of Monday, motorists on Oahu will not be able to sign up at curbside in front of the state Capitol on Bereiapia Street.

Volunteers and election staffers will be on hand to provide the curbside service in the pullout fronting the Father Damien statue.

.Cayetano said he'is trying to reverse a decline in voter registration figures.

B ill to boost tourism in d u stryHONOLULU (AP) - The US Senate has approved a measure that could be a boost to Hawaii’s slumping tourist industry, especially on the Neighbor islands, US Sen. Daniel Inouye announced.

The measure co-sponsored by Inouye is to encourage Asian and European tourists to visit the United States.

Inouye said it includes a provision for a Rural Tourism Development Foundation to promote tourism in rural areas, including Hawaii’s neighbor islands.

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s t o i y d u g u pBy RON FOURNIER

HOUSTON (AP) - Leading Re­publicans questioned Bill Clinton’s fitness as commander- in-chièf Sunday, as President Bush fended off accusations that he planned to use a military at­tack on Iraq to boost his re-elec­tion campaign.

South Carolina Gov. Carroll .Campbell, speaking to the Arkan­sas delegation, said defense cuts planned by the Democratic presi­dential candidate would cost 1 mil­lion jobs.

“We cannot emasculate defense like those who literally don’t know anything about defense are propos­ing to do,” Campbell said.

He said Clinton’s proposals would “putusbackto 1979-80when we were being held hostage by a tinhomdictator.”JimmyCarterwas president when Americans were held hostage in Iran.

Clinton has proposed to cut de­fense spending by $50 billion more than Bush over four years. The Ar­kansas governor would use the money for deficit-reduction and domestic programs.

Energy Secretary James Watkins noted that Bush was a World War II fighter pilot, and compared that to Clinton’s efforts to avoid the Viet­nam draft.

“Our president can go down to the Vietnam Memorial and feel the engraved names of those fallen in Vietnam. Can the other guy?” Watkins asked the Arkansas del­egates.

U S r e a d y to b o m b I r a qBy JIM DRINKARD

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is ready to bomb Iraqi mili­tary targets if Saddam Hussein in­terferes with a UN weapons in­spection team seeking access to sensitivelocationsinsidelraq,senior Bush administration sources say.

President Bush declined to talk about any attack plans, but repeated past warnings to Saddam Hussein: “He cannot be allowed to dictate what can and cannot be inspected” as he did for three weeks in July when inspectors woe barred from a government ministry in Baghdad.

“The United States hasplans to be sure that Saddam Hussein does what he’s supposed to do,” Bush said Sunday at the White House. He said Iraqi must comply with resolutions

forcing them to destroy nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and to protect Iraqi mi­norities.

The president also denounced suggestions that military force was being used to help his own political standing, calling them “ugly and uncalled for.”

Senior administration sources, speaking oily on condition of ano­nymity, said die plans included an escalating series of attacks aimed at cutting off the remaining flow of Iraqi oil, grounding the country’s air force and striking other military targets.

One source said the targets may include Iraq’s Defense Ministry in Baghdad and its Ministry of Mili­tary Industrialization, which has been a key component of the

country’s weapons development programs.

“There are lots of military targets left in Iraq. The place is nothing but a military convenience store,” said one administration official.

‘Everyone should be prepared, as soon as we take that first step,” the official said. “It may have to esca­late very quickly.”

ARussian-led inspection team that has been working with unusual se­crecy in Iraq forthe past lOdays was scheduled to wind up its work Mon­day, and the US sources said in­spections of highly sensitive facili­ties were planned.

One senior official said the United States believes Saddam is less likely than ever to permit the inspections, and has laid plans to use military force if the team is

interfered with.Iraq’s UN ambassador, Abdul

Amir al-Anbari, called reports of planned military action “a black joke.”

“The best thing is to dismiss these rumors,” he said. “All these things are meant to be provocative in order to elicit some ill-advised action” from Iraq. Any attack, he said, would be “illegal, immoral and an act of aggression.”

The first report of military ac­tion against Iraq was published by The New York Times on Sunday. The story said the United States and its allies had decided to pro­voke a confrontation Monday over the right to inspect a sensitive building. If Iraq refused to com­ply, American warplanes would bomb the building, the report said.

Hawaii Republicans reject political angleBy JEFF HOLYFIELD

HOUSTON (AP) - Members of Hawaii’s delegation to the Re­publican National Convention said Sundaymight they give no credence to reports that Presi­dent Bush was setting up a military confrontation with Iraq to give himself a political boosL

“President Bush is a veteran combat pilot. He knows what it’s like to stand on the wing of a shot- down aircraft Heknows what war

is all about, and I think is a person of character and integrity,” said Jared Jossem, chairman ofHawaii’s Republican Party.

“I can’t see in his personality any indication that he’d take interna­tional military action on such grounds,” Jossem said.

Stoney Burgess, of Kihei, Maui, said it would be totally out of character for Bush to try to put Americanlivescnthelineforvotes.

“Of course, I don’t have the an­swer to that, but judging from the

president’s record, I just absolutely don’t see him doing anything like that,” he said.

Another delegate, Walt Decker, of Kailua-Kona, said his reaction to the report was simple: “That’s (he biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard.”

Decker, a retired Navy fighter pilot, said Bush, as a World War n Navy pilot, knows the risks and dangersoforderingmenandplanes into the air few bombing missions.

“When you’re doing carrier

landings, you either do it right or you’re dead. He knows that. He knows what it’s like. He’s not going to forget it and he’s not going to order anything like that just for political reasons. He knows there’s too much at stake,” Decker said.

The president said Sunday that Saddam Hussein won’t be al­lowed “to dictate what can and cannot be inspected” in Iraq by UN teams seeking evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

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W arlords say they can't contro lBy DUSAN STOJANOV1C

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - As harrowing tales of atrocities and violence multiply in Bosnia, even local warlords insist they don’t have complete control over their troops.

In Zagreb and Belgrade, the governments accused of arming and encouraging the combatants have been telling the world for months they have no control over the fighting.

Western governments have

refused to get involved. They say sending their own soldiers into the confusion would do little to stop the carnage and could get the soldiers killed.

“The ethnic hatred in Bosnia has reached such proportions that now it cannot be controlled,” said Radovan Karadzic; the leader of Serbs in Bosnia, in a recent in­terview.

Karadzic said he has full con­trol over the Serb army commanding two-thirds of

Bosnia’s territory but no author­ity over other irregular forces.

The irregular forces are the fighters accused by refugees of rounding up and killing civilians.

The fighting has killed thou­sands of people and left more than 1 million homeless.

Dule Tuzlancic, an officer of the Bosnian Serb army recently interviewed in northern Bosnia,· accused Serb irregulars called “Chetniks” of most of the atroci­ties blamed on Serbs.

“They are the real criminals,” he said.

Tuzlancic contended they were financed and armed by former Communists in neighboring Serbia.

Similar reports of the lack of central command arecomingfrom the Muslim and Croat side, which is fighting the Serbs. Serbs are also the target of most of the al­legations of mistreatment of civilians and atrocities, but there are accusations against Muslims

troopsand Croats as well. The West has accused Serb-led Yugoslavia of inciting and helping rebel Serbs in Bosnia. The United Nations has imposed tough economic sanctions on Belgrade.

Reports of maltreatment and even killings at detention camps run by Serbs in Bosnia have shocked the world and sparked calls for military intervention.

But ever since it announced in May that it was pulling the Yugoslav People’s Army out of Bosnia, the federal government in Belgrade has maintained that it no longer has anything to do with the conflict.

That is the message from the new premier, Yugoslav-born US businessman Milan Panic.

“We are a separate state,” Panic said in an interview. “We have nothing to do with Bosnia now. The West does not understand that we have no influence over Karadzic and his forces.”

Despite reports by some media and warnings from the United Nations, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman repeatedly has denied his regular troops are fighting in Bosnia.

Herzegovina, the southwestern section of the republic, has aheavy Croat population. A myriad of militias, some with tight ties to Zagreb, dominate the area and are struggling with each other for con

trol.There are an estimated 200,000

armed people, 19 regional war­lords and at least seven major warring factions in a country tom by centuries of rivalry between Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats.

“The warring groups sometimes form tacit or open alliances that shift from day to day, or from region to region,” said Milos Vasic, a military analyst for the independent Belgrade weekly Vreme.

Muslims and Croats, sometimes said to be allies, have clashed in the central Bosnian towns of Travnik and Zenica. Croats and their bitter enemies the Serbs ral­lied against Muslims at least once during the war.

Karadzic’s Serbs this month fought Serb irregulars in northern Bosnia, and regular Croat units last week killed theBlaz Kraljevic, commander of the Croatian De­fense Forces, or HOS, in southern Bosnia.

In an effort to ensure that food and medicine get to those caught in the middle of the 5-month-old war, the UN Security Council last week authorized military force if necessary to protect relief cara­vans.•Many Western generals are

wary of the commitment it would take to secure relief routes. Many in Yugoslavia agree.

“We have a real Lebanon-style war going on in Bosnia now,” Vasic said. “Western intervention could only make things worse in this utter chaos.”

Belgrade media and officials say the lack of central command could easily spark a full-scale war.

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Born today, you are one of the most vigorous, outgoing, accepting and open individuals born under your sign — though to suggest that you don’t have your dark side or your secrets is to ignore much about you that really drives you forward on a daily basis. For, indeed, what others enjoy as the positive and open-hearted in you is truly the result of a synthesis between that which is bright in your soul, and that which is more cloudy, enigmatic and often hidden from others.

You do have the capacity for mak­ing and keeping friends, and even those you haven’t seen for some time are always welcome in your home even without warning. You know how to make strangers feel at home, and you always give those around you the benefit of the doubt — something you don’t always do for yourself!

Also born on this date are: Cas­per Weinberger, former U.S. secre­tary of defense; Rosalynn Carter, former U.S. First Lady; Robert Red- tord, actor and director.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - You may get your feelings hurt quite easily early in the day. Avoid widening any rifts between you and another.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - A turning point is upon you, but this has more to do with relationships than with career affairs. Be true to yourself.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Invest in those things which you can have seme say over today. Avoid that which is beyond your control.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Don’t take everything quite so person­ally today. You can surely benefit from the sort of criticism you’re likely to get.

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Business/FinancegsS^SC h in a ’s in d u s tria l o n tp n t np 21.8%BEUING (AP) - China’s indus­trial output in'July was up 21.8 percent from the same month in 1991, the biggest gain in more than four years, the official China Daily newspaper reported Mon­day.

July’s high output pushed the industrial growth rate for Janu­ary-July to 19 percent compared with the same period one year earlier, the newspaper quoted the State Statistics Bureau as report­ing.

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By ALAN COOPERMANNIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) - Dmitry Kazakov thinks ci­vilian bakers will like the ovens he used to build for nuclear subma­rines, but he wishes the clunky steel boxes were more attractive. “Why can’tour designers addsome coloi?”Kazakov, 25, asked through the blue smoke of his arc welder at the Ulyanov Appliance Factory. Russian workers rarely had such worries before.

The Soviet state was their only customer. A faceless pencil pusher in Moscow told them what to pro­duce, who to sell it to and at what price. They paid no more attention to the appearance of their products than to the droning lectures at compulsory Communist Party meetings.

That is changing now, and no­where is the wrenching of mental gears more painful than in military plants converting to peaceful pro­duction. “We never thought much about buyers before,” said assembly worker Yevgeny Veselov, 23, who was suddenly struck by an idea.

“Would you like to buy one of these?" he asked a reporter, point­ing to a 50-loaf oven that stood eight feet high.

President Boris Yeltsin of Rus­sia has called for a nationwide ef­fort to convert military plants to peacetime manufacturing, and the USCongress appropriated dlrs 400 million last year to help.

As part of the US contribution, two retired businessmen arrived May 13 in Nizhny Novgorod, a city 240 miles (386 kilometers) east of Moscow formerly known as Gorky.

Joseph Walls, 67, of Fairfield Glade, Tena, and Keith Mazurek, 68, of Port Ludlow, Wash., plan to spend a year helping the Ulyanov Factory and other military plants find American companies inter­ested in jointly producing civilian goods.

The US government chose Nizhny Novgorod because it is

with the same month of the pre­vious year and averaging the dif­ferences.

The People’s Daily (Renmin Ribao) newspaper said heavy in­dustry outpaced light industry, which had been the leader in re­cent years. Energy production was up 6.2 percent in July, it said - healthier growth than the sector has seen lately but still falling far short of industry’s needs.

The China Daily said econo­mists at the bureau were uncon­cerned about the high growth rate because worker efficiency and

exports also were up.Imports from January through

July totaled $39.32 billion, up 22.6 percent from the same pe­riod last year, while exports rose 16.4 percent to,dlrs42.75 billion, the paper said..

Trade· at China’s borders, for­merly tightly restricted or closed, doubled as a result of new gov­ernment encouragement. Direct trade at the border with India recently resumed for the first time in decades, and new trading points also have been opened along the borders with Vietnam,

Russia and other former Soviet republics.

Neither paper gave detailed performance figures for state factories, only one-third of which have shown profits in recent years.

But the papers said state facto­ries as a group turned 91.6 bil­lion yuan ($16.9 billion) over to the government in profits and taxes during the first seven months of 1992, up nearly 18 percentfrom the same period last year.

The China Daily said increased

construction this year has caused inflationary pressures but gave no figures. The last time the gov­ernment released comprehensive inflation figures was in May, when it said prices rose an aver­age of 11 percent in the 35 cities, the biggest jump in four years.

Raw material prices were up 6.4 percent in January-June compared with one year earlier, the government disclosed last month, an increase likely to be passed on to consumers in the second half of the year.

Russia’smaineconomicguineapig. Local officials have made the city of 1.5 million a model of reform by auctioning off state-owned stores and encouraging the conversion of military plants.

With their tailored suits, direct eye contact and talk of “corporate matchmaking,” Walls andMazurek stand out in this smokestack city like surfers in Siberia.

More than a dozen state-run fac­tories have invited them to assess the outlook for products ranging from 100-foot(3O-meter)hydrofoil boats to an electronic cattle castra- tor.

Already, they have collided with the mindset created by 70 years of central planning.

“An engineer was showing me his idea for an instrument,” Walls recounted. “Itdidn’tloddikemuch. He said, ‘Well it does the job, doesn’t it?’

“Isaid, ‘If you want something to sell, it not only has to do the job, it has to look like it’ll do the job.’”

Attitudes and aesthetics may prove to be the easy part of military conversion, however. Finding capital to retool plants and retrain workers is far more difficulL

‘Conversion is not difficult in theory. It’s simply a matter of

money,” said Grigory Yavlinsky, a leading Russian economist who moved here from Moscow to help guide the reforms. Yeltsin’s gov­ernment is short of funds and has left most factories cm their own. Also, indecision at the top has al- towedmanyfactorymanagers tooling to hopes that military budget cuts will spare their plants.

“No one can say yet what

Russia’s military doctrine will be, so"no one can say which factories must be preserved,” Yavlinsky said.

Russia’s procurement plan for 1992 has not been published and may be changing because of new arms-control treaties. Forecasts say weapons spending will fall 60 percent and amount to only 2.9 percent of the military budget.

Orders to domestic defense firms are expected to drop from 29.6 billion rubles in 1991 to 11.2 billion rubles this year, not count­ing inflation. As a result, 1 mil­lion workers may lose their jobs over the next 12 months. The effects could be devastating in Nizhny Novgorod unless it suc­ceeds in converting to civilian production.

In the eyes of many workers, the specter of capitalism haunts Nizhny Novgorod Factory em­ployees fearful of losing their jobs shouted “Shame!” and “Down With Gaidar!” when Vice Pre­mier Yegor Gaidar, architect of Yeltsin’s economic reforms, toured the city in April.

Until last September, Nizhny Novgorod was closed to foreign­ers because its factories make sub­marines, armored vehicles and MiG jetfighters. Officials estimate up to 40 percent of its jobs are defense- related. The Ulyanov Factory, a complex of brick buildings sepa­rated by muddy courtyards, is struggling to change course amid the turmoil.

It is named for Vladimir Lenin, whose real name was Ulyanov, and has a long history of service to the state. Fbr decades, its 4JXX) workers have made electric heaters, ovens and torpedo parts for the navy.

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By CHARLENE L. FUWENZHOU, China (AP) - Ke Jiayou made more money in the last five months of 1991 than the average Chinese worker makes in eight years.Ke and a partner, both musicians, opened a men’s boutique in AugusL selling expensive importedclothes. They now have three stores, incuding one for women, and plan to open a children’s-wear shop next year.

In a nation that has preached plain living and sacrifice, Ke, 31, and He Wei, 26, are not exactly the communist ideal. But they are not unusual in Wenzhou, a small coastal city that is more capitalist than socialist While most Chinese cities experiment cau­tiously with free-market methods, Wenzhou has privatized most of its economy and has allowed entre­preneurs to grow fabulously rich by Chinese standards.

The “Wenzhou model” drew praise in the mid-1980s, when China’s economic reforms were at their height but fell under a shadow in the conservatism that followed the crackdown on the pro-democ- racy movement in 1989. .

It became a focus of attention once again after senior leader Deng Xiaoping declared in January that the labels “socialist” and “capital­ist” do not matter as long as the economy develops.

Premier Li Peng, party chief Jiang Zemin and other leaders have visited this vibrant city 250 miles (402 kilometers) south of Shang­hai to observe such innovations as tapping private funds to run the city and build the infrastructure.

For instance, license plates and telephone numbers, xboth in great demand, are auctioned off to the highest bidders. Money for road projects comes from leasing gov­ernment land to developers.

Officials do not boast about the size of the private sector or indi­vidual wealth.

May«· Chen Wenxian told for­eign reporters only one-third of the Wenzhou region’s 6.7 million residents have annual incomes equivalent to dlrs 600 or more, but

citizens say reporting low earnings to avoid taxes is common practice. The average urban income else­where in China is about dlrs 480. The official newspaper China Daily said about 90 percent of Wenzhou’s economy is private. Chen put the figure at 38 percent, but even that is several times the national average.

Whatever the numbers, Wenzhou’s capitalist bent is clear.

“We don’t care about politics. We just want tomake money,” said ZhangXueguang, one of thousands of private taxi drivers who clog Wenzhou’s narrow streets with two-cylinder Fiats made in Poland.

Wenzhou, historically a center of trade and commerce, is driven by the pursuit of money and proud of iL Visitors frequently hear the saying, “People are making money, spending money and eating around the clock in Wenzhou.”

Lu Xiaoqiu and her husband, also taxi drivers, are typical.They used to work in a state-run drugstore that paideachofthemabout$40amonth.

Twoyearsago.theyquitand bought a FiaL By driving from dawn until late at night in alternating shifts, they earn about $6,000 a year.

Last year, they spent dlrs 1,600 to redecorate their apartment, but still desaibeitas“very ordinary andplain” when compared with homes in the city with marble floors and imported lighting fixtures. Lu wears a thick gold bracelet, gold rope chain and four gold rings, all 24-karaL

Itis to such conspicuous consump­tion that Ke and He cater at their boutiques.

Prices at the twomen’sstores,both called Blackies’, start at $52 for a simple sport shirt. A sign says, “We accept Hong Kong dollars.”

Dark wood paneling, warm track lighting, carpets, photographs of Western models in European set­tings, black mannequins and loud rock music are a dramatic contrast to sterile state stores, where clothing hangs in rows against bare white walls.

MissBladdes’,forwomen,cleared neady $1,000 on opening day from customers unfazed by such prices as $135 for a skirt-and-top set from Hong Kong.

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S P O R T SNavratilova captures Virginia Slims title

By WENDY E LANE

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) - With’ the US Open just two weeks away, Martina Navratilova hasmonrentumonherside.Monica Seles is trying to find scane.

Navratilova played her best ten­nis in months, routing the world’s top-ranked player 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday to win the $350,000 Vir­ginia Slims of Los Angeles.

Playing against a woman almost half her age, Navratilova, 35, used a big serve to rout the 18-year-old Seles in just 58 minutes at the Manhattan Country Club. It was the second blistering defeat for Seles in less than two months; she was routed 6-2,6-1 by Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon in early July.

The win was surprisingly easy for Navratilova, who lost just 11 points cm her serve and never faced a break point. She set the tone fca the match when she broke Seles’ serve in the opening game.

“I never would have believed there would oily be rare break in that first set and. that I was never going to face a break point the entire match,” she said “If you

would have told me that ahead of time I would have told you you were nuts.”

The victory was worth $70,000, pushed Navratilova’s career win­nings over the $18 million mark and moved her past Gabriela Sabatini into third pi ace in the world rankings.

Seles, the top seed, looked flat. throughout, committing 22 errors to 10 for the second-seeded Navratilova. Seles couldn’thandle her opponent’s serves, and her usually reliable forehand kept sail­ing long.

“I had trouble with my ground strokes and returning,” Seles said “It was rare of those days. She didn’t let me into the match.”

She said she was slowed by a bone strain in her left ankle but refused to blame the injury for the loss.

Since winning six of the first eight tournaments she played this year, including the Australian and French Opens, Seles has skidded She will play in the Canadian Open in her final tuneup before defend­ing her US Open title. “It’s not a slump. I don’t want to call it that,”

she said “I have to work stronger. I’m going to have to play every tournament at full speed”

Seles hasn’t won a tournament since the flap over her grunting at Wimbledon. She was mostly gruntless against Navratilova, who has beenoneofthechiefcomplainers about Seles’tendency to grunt when she hits the ball

“It was great,” Navratilova said of the silent Seles. “You didn’t have to think about it, which was nice.”

While Seles struggled quietly, Navratilovafoundmuchtoliteinher game. She got only 53 percent of her first serves in, but her second serve proved formidable and she won 70 percent of her net points.

Navratilova went up two breaks in the second set with a series of blister­ing forehands while Seles dumped hers into the net. Navratilova held serve in the next game to put the match away.

Navratilova beat Seles for the first time in three meetings,dating backto last November. Aiming to stay com­petitive in the sport she loves, Navratilova said beating upper-ech- elon players is justification for stick­ing with tennis.

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MASON, Ohio (AP) - Pete Sampras held off a determined challenge by a revitalized Ivan Lendl to win the$1.4million ATP Championship 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Sunday.

Sampras pocketed $187,500for the win, his third this year. Lendl, who lost his second consecutive finals match, got $98,600.

“I was really aggressive in the first set,” Sampras said. “In the second, I think I was staying back a little toomuchT just told myself, ‘Get to the net and get my first serve in,”’

But the third set didn’t go ac­cording to: plan; with five service breaks.

“It was kind of a strange third set,” Sampras said. “I was trying : to serve too hard and too close to the line.”

Although Samprasdidnot think he served well, he sometimes reached 120 mph (193 kph) plus, while Lendl seldom topped 110 mph (177 kph).

After losing the second set, Sampras said Ire couldn’t help but think about last year’s finals loss to Guy Forget.

“I let him (Lendl) back into the match a bit by not serving that well,” Sampras said.

ItwasafrustratinglossfraLendl, whose play had improved every day of the tournament.

“I felt I had a chance, and I just wasn’t able to get my game go­ing,” Lendl said. “I just didn’t feel thatlplayedwelltheentirematch.”

Trailing 2-1 in the first set; Lendl double faulted on game point It was his ratly double fault of the ; match, butenough to giveSampras the set

Leading4-3 in the second, Lendl broke Sampras then struggled through his serve but held to win the set

In the third, Sampras broke Lendl at 2-1, thefirstof five straight service breaks; The second time he was broken, Lendl fired a ball into the air; the last time he threw his racket.

Sampras then served four straight pointsfor the setandmatcb.

The raily highly ranked player Lendl beat on the way to the finals was No. 5 Michael Chang in the semifinals, after top-ranked Jim Courier was knocked out of the bracket.

Sampras had to beat sixth- ranked Petr Korda in the quarterfinals and No.2 Stefan Edberg in the semifinals. But he alsonearlylostathird-roundmatch to Mark Woodforde, fighting off match point.

Royals rout Orioles Two-time British Openloser bags 74th PGA title

WALLY Joyner and Mike Macfarlane hoimered in the third inning and the Kansas City Royals added eight more runs in the fourth fra their highest-scoring game ever against the BahimoreOrioles, a 15- 2 rout Sunday.

The Royals got 17 hits, includ­ing three each by Joyner, Gary Thurman and Juan Samuel, in their highest-scoring game of the sea­son. Every Kansas City starter had sewed by the end of the fourth inning, by which time it was 11-0.

Jeff Craiine hit a two-run double and Gary Thurman had a two-run single in the Royals ’ biggest inning since an eight-run burst on July 11, 1991, at Detroit. Joyner finished with three RBIs and George Brett drove in two runs.

Hipdito Pichardo (7-4) pitched seven innings and gave up a solo home run by Leo Gomez, his 14th. Alan Mills (8-3) left in the fourth.

Mariners 8, Twins 7In Seattle, PinchhitlerPeteO’Brien

singled home the winning run with two outs in the ninth inning and Se­attle Manners sent Minnesota to its ninth loss in 13 games. The Twins blew a pair of four-run leads and fell five games behind Oakland in the AL West.

Ken Griffey Jr. opened the ninth with his fourth hit of the season, an infield single off Mark Guthrie (2-3). Griffey moved to second on Brian

Harper’s passed ball and to third on Lance Parrish’s groundouL After an. intentional walk and a strikeout, O’Brien singled onTom Edens’first pitch. Rookie Jeff Nelson (1-4), the fifth Seattle pitcher, got his first ma- jw-leaguevictray.Miniresota’sShane Mack extended his hitting streak to 21 games, second-longest in the ma­jors this season

Athletics 5, Angels 4 In Oakland, Calif., Jose Canseco

singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning arid the Oakland Athletics beat Califomiafor their 18th victory in 23 games.

Joe Grahe (4-4) relieved with one out and none on in the ninth and gave up a single to Lance Blankenship, who stole second. After an intentional walk, Jerry Browne was hit by a pitch, loading the bases.

Canseco then grounded a single through the hole of the drawn-in infield to left. Dennis Eckersley (6- 0) got rare out in the ninth fra the victory.

Indians 4, Blue Jays 2 Blue Jays 6, Indians 2

In Cleveland, Dave Winfield homered, doubled and singled, driving infive runs, andJackMraris beat Cleveland for the 31 st time as the Toronto Blue Jays salvaged a split. The doubleheader, necessi­tated by a raindut Saturday, was the Blue Jays’ first since July 17,1989.

By BOB GREEN

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Nick Price converted, the lessons learned in two British Open losses into a three-stroke victory Sunday in the 74th PGA national championship.

Price held off a comeback bid by Nick Faldo and dashed the hopes of the other would-be con­tenders with a gritty, 1-under-par 70 in the final round over the unforgiving Bellerive course.

Price acquired his first major- toumament title with a 278 total, six under par.

Price withdrew from this event a year ago to be with his wife at the birth of their first child.

It was his withdrawal that pro­vided a place in the tournament field for John Daly, who went to a startling triumph as golf’s longest hitter.

Daly also took Price’s caddy for that year-ago event, but Squeeky Medlin was again at Price’s side this time and brought home his second consecutive PGA champion.

“Maybe Squeek’s got the golden touch, not me,” Price said.

Faldo, the British Open cham­pion who took himselif out of it with a 76 in Saturday’s third round, came back with a 67 on Sunday and tied for second at 281.

“If I shoot 73 yesterday, I’m right there,” Faldo said.

But he didn’t, and he wasn’t.He tied with Gene Sauers, who

led or shared the lead through the first three rounds, Jim Gallagher and John Cook, the runner-up to Faldo in Scotland.

Cook and Gallagher each had a shot at second alone, but each bogeyed the final hole and matched par 71.

Sauers, who blew the lead with a double bogey from a pond on the sixth hole, shot 75.

Jeff Maggert, not yet a winner of a PGA Tour title, took control at that point, but played the last five holes four over par and fell back to 282 after a closing 74 that included 40 over the back nine.

Dan Foreman j id lefty Russ Cochran, tied at 283, were the only others under par for the tournament Cochran shot 69 and Foreman 70, but neither was ever /

really in the title chase over the final 18 holes. Price, a native of South Africa, veteran of the Rhodesian air force, holder of a British passport and a resident of the United States, pocketed dire 280,000 for the victory.

He also gained a 10-year ex­emption from qualifying, ex­tending the similar exemption he won for a 1983 victory in the World Series of Golf.

Perhaps more importantly, he atoned for runner-up finishes to Tom Watson in the 1982 British Open at Troon, where he blew a three-stroke lead with six holes to play, and to Seve Ballesteros in 1988 at Royal Lytham and St. Anne.

“I learned that to win a major, you have to play a special game,” Price said.

“For the last 18 months, I ’ve felt I was close to that special game, close to taking the next step.

“In this tournament, I think I took that next step,” he said.

He showed that special game in a struggle

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