ananas cVariety^Vol. 22 No. 95 ©1993 Marianas Variety

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WOMAN with big umbrella reads names on Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall during second day of exhibit at American Memorial Park yesterday.

Time to put war to rest’A SMALL American flag and several white flowers in frontoftraveling wall complete serene tribute to soldiers who died in Vietnam.

Guerrero plans to visit barracksGOVERNOR Lorenzo I. Guerrero will visit Saipan gar­ment factories and barracks to see for himself the working and liv­ing conditions of workers.

In an interview Friday, Guerrero said he would personally see to it that employers who violate labor regulations with regards to work­ing and living standards “will be

dealt with accordingly.”“I want to make sure we are

correct when we say we do not condone abuse here,” he said. “They (employers) must shape up or suffer the consequences.”

“I ’ve never done this before and I hope the employers cooper­ate with us,” Guerrero said.

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THE VIETNAM Veterans Memo­rial in Washington, D.C. was built as a tribute to the men and women who served in the controversial war, including 58,183 who died there. A half-size replica of the “Wall”, as the memorial is now commonly known, has been dis­played in hundreds of cities and towns throughout the United States since 1984 to let other people who could not go to Washington feel what the families of the dead sol­diers felt.

In the end, the Vietnam War would be put to rest. “It’s up to the veterans to put it to rest,” said John Devitt, founder of the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall, adding

that the hostility and anger that characterized the war “is still going on.”

Devitt was 18 when he enlisted in the Army and went to Vietnam in September 1967, extending his tour up to May 1969. He served as a door gunner in a helicopter in the 1st Air Cavalry.

He does not seek recognition for himself. But “I want those guys who got killed to get recognition.”

He also sympathized with the families of Vietnam’s dead. “Fami­lies carry the loss by themselves; nobody walked up to them and showed they care,” Devitt said.

The traveling wall, consisting of 140 aluminum panels that stretch

250feet, allows other people to feel what it meant to lose a son or daughter in an unpopular war.

Devitt said the moving exhibit, which starts in February and ends in September every year, will goon “for as long as they are necessary.”

It is already booked for the next two years. The Northern Marianas was able to get into the “Wall’s” itinerary through the efforts of Frank G. Cepeda, himself a Viet­nam veteran and now president of the CNMI Veterans Association, because of the CNMI’s proximity to Guam, where the “Wall” was earlier scheduled to be shown.

The Saipan exhibit opened Sat- continued on page 2

Wage, tax to close factoriesTHIRTEEN garment companies operating in the Northern Marianas expect to lose $9.7 million a year once the local minimum wage is raised to $2.75 per hour and the user’s fee is increased to 5 percent (from 3 percent at present), accord­ing to an industry study.

The Saipan Garment Manufac­turers Association (SGMA) stud­ied the effects of Public Law 8-21, which provides for a 30-cent an­nual increase in the basic hourly pay starting December this year until it reaches $4.25 per hour, or up to 1999.

Thirteen out of 20 garment com­panies in Saipan responded to the SGMA study...These companies are expected to realize a combined profit of $7.3 million .this year. Three of them, however, will actu­

ally lose, namely: Concorde Gar­ment Manufacturing, owned by Willie Tan, amounting to$546,826, Saipan Manufacturers Inc. ($2.12 million, and Marianas Garment Manufacturing ($528,240).

The first 30-cent adjustment in the basic wage will increase these companies’ cost by $5.97 million and reduced their combined profit to $1.33 million.

The number of losers will also increase to seven: Concorde, Mariana Fashions, Michigan Inc., SMI, Jin Apparel, Sam Marianas Inc. and MGM.

At $2.7 5 per hour, the 13 compa­nies will shoulder $11.94 million additional cost, turning their profit to acombined loss of $2.6 million.

The industry is also facing an continued on page 2

SAIPAN GARMENT MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION (SGMA)FACT SHEET

1. Total number of garment factories in the CNMI 252. Total number of members of SGMA 203. Total number of members included in the survey 154. Total gross revenues of the 15 members $222,015,8085. Total Foss wages paid to employees by the 15 members $47,444,2066. Total social security taxes paid to the CNMI government $3,367,9877. Total number of employees of the 15 members 5,2088. Total gross employees'housing expense ofthe 15 members $4,174,1609. Total gross employees’ food expense ofthe 15 members S4,534,35910.Total gross employees’ medical expense ofthe 15 members $264,44411 .Total gross employees’ transportation expense of the 15 members $410,89512.Tota! users fee paid by the 15 member to the CNMI government $6,721,612,13.lncremental users fee to be paid if the rate will be increased

to 5% of gross export sales $4,379,17914.Total incremental wage if the mimmu n wage per hour will be

increased to $2.45 $5,969,97815.Total incremental wage if the minimum wage per hour will be

increased to $2.75 $11,939,95

2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VffiWS-MONDAY- JULY 26,1993

Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association (SGMA) Review of Minimum Wage Law (PL 8-21)

Evaluation of New Minimum Wage Increase

Member CompaniesIncome (Loss)

For 1993 and

Resultant $2.45/HR Net

(13.95% Income Increase) (Loss)

1994

$2.75/HR(27.90%Increase)

ResultanNet

Income(Loss)

(From 3% to 5%)

Additional Users Fee to be Paid

ResultantNet

Income(Loss)

Trans-Asia Garment Forte Corp. $3,040,075 1,122,561 1,917,514 2,245,122 794,953 1,102,619 -307,666Concorde Garment Mfg., Corp. -546,826 370,289 -917,115 740,579 -1,287,405 250,408 -1537,813Mariana Fashions, Inc. 170,409 357,302 -186,893 714,604 -544,195 237,083 -781,228Michigan Incorporated 18,970 238,367 -219,391 476,734 -457,764 132,330 -590,094Pang Jin Sang Sa Corporation 1,319,722 490,348 829,374 980,695 339,027 336,106 2,921Saipan Manufacturer’s, Inc. -2,117,770 1,023,464 -3,141,234 2,046,927 -4,164,697 444,570 -4,609,267United International corp. 2,874,162 611,789' 2,262,315 1,223,577 1.650,585 535,767 1,114,818Uno Moda Corporation 320,529 312,776 7.753 625,552 -305,023 258,395 -563,418Jin Apparel, Inc. 41,717 171,317 -129,600 342,634 300,917 65,149 -366,066Sam Marianas, Inc. 250,771 476,370 -225,599 952,739 701,968 195,841 -1,897,809Kyung Suh (Saipan) Co. Ltd. 2,175,275 368,222 1,807,053 736,444 1,438,831 362,653 1,076,178New Star Corporation 280,058 145,505 134,555 291,011 -10,953 79,832 -40,785Marianas Garment Manufacturing -528,240 281,(588 -809,808 583,336 -1.091.576 106,078 -1.197.654

$7,298,852 5,969,978 1,328,824 11,939,954 -2,635,332 4,106,781 -9,697,883*(7 out of 13 factories or 54% will close upon i * 9 out of 13 factories or 69% will close upon implementation of S2.75/HR)Note: This schedule does not include survey data from 8 companies which did not submit data. Advance Textile, Grace Int’l. Corp., Linson Inc., Neo Fashion Inc., SakoCorp., Onwel Mfg. Inc., Micronesian Garment Mfg. Inc., and Commonwealth Garment Mfg. Inc.

G uerrero...He said he would also called on

the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Public Health and Environmental Services tojoin him in the planned visits.

Representativesoffederaloffices in the CNMI are also welcome to join him, Guerrero said.

Guerrero’s decision to inspect the garment situation was in reac­tion to the recent New York Times article about widespread exploita­tion of workers in Saipan.

It pictured Saipan as an island where garment workers are work­ing under “slavelike conditions, stitching together US brand name apparel products at about half the prevailing wage in the mainland.”

The article was used as a rallying point by Congressman George Miller to block approval of the SI20 million federal assistance to the CNMI under Section 702 of the Covenant

According to Guerrero, the ar­ticle was very untimely as it came out at a time when the funding package was being discussed in conference by US Congress and because corrective measures had been instituted.

“It is very unfortunate that some­one,perhaps purposely.has to come up with such a repon to coincide

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with current budget conference deliberations over our 702 fund­ing. I still hope Mr. Miller recon­siders and reassesses his position with regards to our702,” Guerrero said.

According to the chief execu­tive, he has been delivering on his promises for reforms since the July 30 hearing called by the Subcom­mittee on Insular and International Affairs.

During that hearing, Guerrero promised reforms in local mini­mum wage and taxation policies, better enforcement of basic legal rights of workers, among others.

“We are doing the reforms not just because of federal concerns but because we’d like to also do them for ourselves. Since the start of our administration we’ve been doing the corrective measures to cure our problems,” he said.

Guerrero said the garment in­dustry gives the CNMI economy the chance to diversify.

“We have to have economic di­versification so we can support the needs of our people. We just can not rely on one industry, tourism. We must raise funds for our infra­structure for our future demand. We are indeed a peculiar situa­tion,” he said. (RHA)

JOHN Deviti, the man behind Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall.

Wage...continued from page 1additional burden in the form of an increase in the user’s fee from 3 percent to 5 percent under the pro­posed tax reforms. The two per- centage-point increase means an additional cost of $4.1 million.

This would increase the 13 com­panies ’ combined loss to $9.7 mil­lion. As a result, only one company will still show a profit: Pang Jin Sa, which is projected to retain $2.921 net earning.

SGMA said that upon imple­mentation of the $2.45 wage rate seven out of the T3 complies would close. At $2.75, nine would cease operating. The association did not identify the companies that were expected to close in wages were raised.

In a related development, Tan, who owns several garment compa1 - nies.includingTrans-AsiaGarment Forte Corp. and Concorde (both included in the SGMA survey),. said none of the industry’s buyers from the US would accept a price increase to reflect higher wages because of the bad state of the US economy.

“Our competitors in other na­tions such as Philippines, China, Indonesia... are helping their gar­ment manufacturers reduce their costs by giving tax breaks, rent subsidies and other incentives to keep the industry afloat, he said in a letter to Representative Pete P. Reyes, who is studying the pro­posed tax reforms.

“Our buyers are looking for cheapest sources,” he added. “They do not care about the CNMI economy.”

Because of the wage increase, he said the industry could not afford any tax increase. (NL)

"Time...continued from page 1

urday and would last until tomor­row. Its next destinations are Maui and Molokai in Hawaii.

Inquiries have alsobeen received from other countries (The names on the “Wall” include soldiers from Canada, Germany, Japan, England and France).

The list also includes five sons of the Northern Marianas: Gregorio L. Pangelinan, Frederico DelaCruz, Vicente P. Moreham, Joaquin P. Cabrera and John J. Kintaro. Their names are marked in red. (NL)

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MONDAY, JULY 26,1993 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VŒWS-3

Committee fails to finish work on compromise budgetSENATE and house representa­tives to a conference committee failed to come up with a mutually acceptable version of the government’s budget for fiscal year 1993, this was learned Satur­day.

A source in the committee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the negotiations were on the verge of collapse because of irreconciliable differences over how the fiscal year 1992 deficit is to be handled. He declined to elaborate.

“The conference meetings were suspended until Monday, but it seems it will be an uphill climb again to reach agreement again,” the source said.

Only last Friday, the commit­tee said it had reached agreement on the budget.

Except for some more printing and typing jobs, the committee said the budget for fiscal year 1993 would be ready for a vote by both houses this week.

“We have reached agreement

and now we are doing a final review of the whole package,” said Rep. Pete P. Reyes and Sen. Jesus R. Sablan, chairmen of the House and Senate segments of the conference committee, in an interview Friday.

They said there were no more stumbling blocks to the passage of House Bill 8-226.

“Our work has been harmoni­ous, cooperative and very pro­ductive,” Sablan said.

Three members each from the House and the Senate startedmeet- ing last Wednesday to come up with a compromise budget.

HB 8-226 was passed by the House in February. The Senate, however, amended the bill. This prompted the House to reject the bill, resulting in the creation of a conference committee to work for a mutually acceptable version.

The major argument was on the Senate provision that allowed an additional 20 full time employees each for every major island, or a total of 60 FTEs all in all, funded

Tax reform to raise prices in groceries

By David J. BurgerKPMG Peat Marwick Director of Saipan Operations

AN EARLIER article I wrote dealt with the change in income tax oility that would be experienced by fourdiffcrcnt taxpayers under the posed tax reform, but did not address the increase in prices that

.· lid necessarily accompany tax reform, this article attempts to \ _ess those increases,

he proposed tax reform legislation includes a provision to treat the Business Gross Revenue Tax as a deduction rather than a credit. Other changes include a reduction in rebates and increased excise taxes. These three changes have been considered in preparing this article,

ing actual figures from one of our clients, we chose four products e commonly purchased in Saipan and calculated the increase in

the retail price necessary for the retailer to maintain its aftcr-tax profit, using the. proposed changes noted above.

Our findings are as follows:

ProductCoca-Cola, 12 oz. can, 24 can case Budweiser, 12 oz. can, 24 can case Calrose rice, 50 lb. bag Hormel Spam, 12 oz. can

PresentPrice*$9.4915.0025.00 2.35

NewPrice$9.9918.2025.102.44

PercentageIncrease4.11%21 33% 0.4%3.9

As you can see, the proposed tax reform legislation will result in higher prices at the grocery store. You can also expect higher prices at the gas pum p, in restaurants, and for virtually everything you consum e. Your purchasing pow er will decrease in the event the tax reform legislation is passed.

Wisner, Ramos discuss Southeast Asia security

MANILA (AP) - US Undersecretary of Defense Frank Wisner conferred Saturday with President Fidel Ramos about the changing security situation in Southeast Asia following the clo­sure of American military bases here, Filipino officials said.

Wisner, a former ambassador to the Philippines, arrived Satur­day for a two-day visit en route to foreign ministers meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Singapore.

Filipino officials have urged the United States to maintain its mili­tary presence in the area. Ironi­cally, that presence was shaken when Manila ordered US forces to leave the Philippines in 1991.

The last US base here closed last November.

Despite the closure, the US- Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty remains in effect, committing Washington to defend this former US colony from external aggres­sion.

out of some $3.2 million unused lapsed salaries from the previous Fiscal year.

The House argued that the lapsed money should not be touched as it should be used to cover the prev ious $7 million defi­

cit realized in fiscal yearl992.Reyes, before coming into con­

ference, said the government could not afford to fund more FTEs when efforts should be geared towards reduction in its size.(RHA) Pete P. Reyes

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Fahad Falah al-Maktouf, 32, and his Lebanese-born wife Ameera Issa, 30, were not present when the three-judge panel issued its ruling.

Al-Maktouf has been in the Cen­tral Jail since his arrest last March. His wife has been free on bail to carefor the couple’s three children.

The 23-year-old maid, Sonia Panama, died in March after a month in intensive care where she was treated for severe injuries that included bums and broken bones.

Al-Maktouf had testified earlier that he had hit the woman with his hands and a rope-like head band but insisted it was not a severe beating.

Mariam Marafie, a lawyer ap­pointed by the Philippines Em­bassy, said the sentence was “ex­cellent ... and would deter others

from mistreating their maids.” She said the maximum penalty

for beating that leads to death was 10 years in jail.

Ms. Marafie said she will file a suit seeking compensation for the Panama family after deliberations with the embassy staff.

Middle East Watch, a New York-based human rights group, said in areportlast year that physi­cal assaults on maids had been largely ignored by the govern­ment.

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Soviets owe $4M in parking ticketsWASHINGTON (AP) - When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, so apparently did the hopes of US government officials to collect al­most S4 million in parking tickets accumulated here by Soviet Em­bassy personnel.

Those uncollected fines account for about two-thirds of all the un­paid parking tickets attributed to cars with diplomatic plates in Wash­ington.

State Department spokesman Mike McCurry said the agency has tried to pursue the matter with Rus­sia but without success.

“There does not appear to be a lot that can be done about the situa­tion,” McCurry said.

He noted that Russia has taken on many of the international re­sponsibilities of the former Soviet Union. “I’m not certain that that extends to municipal matters,” he said. The Soviets, he added, “skipped town.”

Under international agreement, diplomats are immune from pros­ecution. But McCurry said the State Department nonetheless expects personnel from foreign embassies to obey local traffic laws and topay any fines for violations.

MANILA (AP) - Rene Requiestas, whose comic career soared after co-starring with former President Corazon Aquino’s daughter, died Satur­day at 37 of a lung ailment, hospi­tal sources said.

Requiestas, whose trademark was a toothless, raffish grin, be­gan his film career in the late 1980s after appearances on a tele­vision political satire show, “The Sic O’Clock News.”

In 1990, he co-starred with Kris Aquino in “Pido Dida,” a comedy which broke Philippine box of­fice records. He and Miss Aquino completed a second sequel, “Pido Dida 3,” the day before his death.

Requiestas then appeared in a series of comic roles and was elected to the city council in sub­urban Taguig last year.

He is survived by his mother Irenea and six brothers and sis­ters.

Peres a frustrated poetJERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres once admit­ted he was a frustrated poet, and now his Muse has been set to music, rock music.

“I am no bloodthirsty hunter, but I am also not a naive, desperate wanderer,” pop star Izhar Cohen sings in the song “Traveling Prayer.” Peres said the inspiration for the song came in 1990 when it looked as if he was facing ouster as the Labor party chief at the hands of longtime rival, Yitzhak Rabin, in party elections.

“I was leftalone, as if all was lost and that was it,” he told Israel television Friday. ‘The next day the vote surprised everyone.”

But Peres cautioned that the song is one of hope.“I wanted to say I do not fight at all prices, but I am not a naive man,” he

said.

A daughter in 10 minutesWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman sneaked into the Palm Beach County courthouse and when they emerged 10 minutes later, they had a new daughter.

The couple refused to answer questions Friday about the latest addition to their family. Kidman cradled the baby in her arms and bailiffs and deputies rushed the couple into a waiting elevator.

Cruise, star of the movie, “The Firm,” shielded his daughter from a photographer and pleaded, “Leave us alone, will you please?”

The couple was outraged in January when tabloids reported they had adopted a baby girl in Miami after they canceled plans to adopt a child in Palm Beach County because of the publicity. The couple’s attorney sent an angry letter to the chief judge and demanded an investigation into how the adoption plans became public.

However, Friday’s 10-minute hearing in Palm Beach County was a closely guarded secret and court personnel refused to disclose any details, citing a Florida law that bars the release of any information about adoptions.

Island restricts visitorsROME (AP) - If you want to see Ponza, a speck of an island off the coast near Naples, you’d better show up early.

The mayor of the seven-square kilometer (four-square-mile) island of Ponza, which is overrun by 25,000 tourists on some days in August, has decided to limit the number of daytrippers to 800 for next month, news reports said Saturday.

Ponza, up to a few years ago a sleepy island in the Gulf of Gaeta, in the last few years has become one of the “in” places for Romans to go on summer weekends.

The island, which is roughly 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Naples, has 4,000 year-round inhabitants.

“The island has to be protected from this “overdose” of tourists,” Mayor Antonio Balzano was quoted by the Italian news agency AGI as saying.

Kennedy birthday partyHYANNISPORT, Mass. (AP) - Rose Kennedy’s family gathered at her home Saturday for a formal celebration of her 103rd birthday.

Kennedy, whose birthday was Thursday, was pushed in her wheelchair by Eunice Shriver and Patricia Kennedy Lawford around the walk that fronts her house at the Kennedy compound, where she has lived since suffering a stroke in 1984.

Her son, US Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, his wife, Victoria, and several other family members also were in Hyannisport for the weekend. They took a sailboat trip together Saturday.

The Kennedys intended to presentgifts and a cake to the family matriarch after Mass on Sunday.

No Clinton review for filmLOS ANGELES (AP) - Columbia Pictures decided against using Presi­dent Clinton’s rave reviews of Clint Eastwood’s new movie in ads for the film.

Clinton praised “In the Line of Fire” in an interview Tuesday with CNN’s Larry King.

“I thought Eastwood was terrific.... I liked the movie very much.... I think it was as realistic as it could be and still be a real rip-roaring thriller.”

Jeff Apple, the film’s producer, was flattered by the president’s review, but said he and director Wolfgang Peterson decided against using his quotes in their ads alongside comments from professional reviewers.

“I don’tknow if it’s going to helpor it’s going to hurt," Apple said Friday.

MONDAY, JULY 26,1993 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5

Guerrero approves 3 public law sGOVERNOR Lorenzo I. Guerrero signed three new public laws Friday to ensure fairness in overtime compensation policies for government employees, ex­empt the Public School System from certain provisions of the Planning and Budget Act and cre­ate a government employee sick leave bank.

House Bills 8-130, 8-211 and 8-155 became Public Laws 8-24, 8-26 and 8-25.

Public law 8-24 provides vest­ing service credit for overtime and compensatory time worked by government employees.

The new law will correct a situ­ation in which public employees who performed more than 40 hours a week and contribute to the Retirement Fund are not receiv­ing service credit for work per­formed in excess of 40 hours a

week or 2,080 hours a year.“The new law recognizes the

need to provide fairness to those employees who are required to perform in excess of the total num­ber of normal hours of 2,080. The crediting of overtime or compen­satory time for retirement pur­poses is viewed as fair and logical by the Retirement Fund Board,” Guerrero said.

PL 8-26 exempts teachers and PSS staff from ¿he statutory re­striction under the planning and budget act which disallows salary adjustments without certification from the Planning and Budget Office.

Under such a restriction, no person, including the Civil Ser­vice Commission, may classify or adjust the salary of a govern­ment employee whose salary is paid from appropriations from the

US movieland losing magic

By Linda Deutsch

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Millions of camera-toting tourists swarm Hollywood Boulevard in summer to touch the magic of movieland.

They come from around the world where it is said that two American words are universally spoken: “OK” and “Hollywood.”

“When people come to Los An­geles and you ask them what they want to see, they always say, ‘Hol­lywood,’” says a tour operator.

But fans who fill the forecourt of Mann’s (formerly Grauman’s) Chinese Theater day and night, carefully fi tting their feet into foot­prints of the greats, usually leave the movie capital disappointed.

Alas, the glory days of the Holly­wood district are gone. Klieg lights rarely illuminate the sky for movie premieres and the great nightclubs of decades past have yielded to discos and strip joints.

The stars themselves now fre­quent Beverly Hills and Malibu; you are more apt to see homeless people, prostitutes and drug deal­ers on the streets of Hollywood.

“Statistics show that 20 million people come to Hollywood Boule­vard every year, but they don’t stay,” said Phyllis Caskey. “They look at the footprints and the stars on the sidewalk and then they go spend their money in other parts of town.”

But Caskey, guiding light of the dlrs 45 million Hollywood Enter­tainment Museum project, and oth­ers who put the tourist traffic figure as high as 45 million, say that is changing. After decades of mori­bund leadership and faltering projects, the rebirth of Hollywood could be at hand. .··.

Withfingers crossed and money in the bank, Hollywood is ready,- to welcome such projects as the Hollywood Entertainment Mu­seum, the American Cinematheque, Los Angeles Con­temporary Exhibitions and the

Center for Photographic Studies.“It’s obvious that Hollywood

Boulevard needs help,” said Cinematheque Director Barbara Smith whose project would oc­cupy the landmark Egyptian The­ater and provide activities includ­ing movie marathons and screen­ings of historical films. “This is help that would be meaningful. Hollywood Boulevard would be­come a really fun place to go.”

A “Live on Hollywood” pro­gram, launched in June, has added open air markets, street perform­ers and historic walking tours to Hollywood. Planners envision sidewalk cafes and fine restau­rants replacing electronics stores and fast food stands. Strolling security guards are in place as the first step toward a safe new bou­levard.

“This industry is the image we send around the world of this country. Our Hollywood culture is celebrated all over the world. It has to be celebrated here,” Caskey said. “It’s as important an eco­nomic resource for the city as the airport and the harbor.” .

In the midst of California’s worst economic slump in decades, Caskey sees Hollywood redevel­opment as a key to recovery.

“If aerospace is gone, you have to look at entertainment and tour­ism,” she said. “If you want to createjobs.theNo. 1 employer of entry level jobs in California is tourism. Hollywood is the key.”

Why has it taken so long? Ask the entertainment industry. His­torically, there has been little in­vestment in Hollywood from the business which stands to gain most from sprucing it up.

The exceptions are Paramount Pictures, which renovated its own studio in central Hollywood and helped fund the museum project, and Disney Studios which spent millions refurbishing the historic El Capitan theater on Hollywood Boulevard.

general fund without first receiv­ing a PBAO certification. Also, current laws disallow government hiring without first receiving a PBAO certification thatavacancy and personnel funds for such a vacancy are available.

Under the new law, the PSS will be exempt from such a re­striction and would be allowed to reclassify its staff according to its regulations and policies, provided funds are available for that pur­pose.

Also, for the purposes of re­cruiting qualified staff, PSS, through the Commissioner of Education will be authorized to recruit according to the approved number of full time employees and available funds.

“This new law recognizes the autonomy of the PSS and its elected board. Although it requires

that any reclassification or salary adjustment be done done accord­ing to board regulations and poli­cies, it should be noted that such actions are subject to the avail­ability of funds,” Guerrero said.

PL 8-25 establishes a sick leave bank for government employees to enable certain employees to make use of the unused sick leave credits deposited by employees who are leaving and are not in­tending to come back to govern­ment employment.

Rather than lose all the sick leave credits if departing employ­ees are not reemployed in three years, their leave credits will be put in the bank for the use of others.

“The success of this program will depend on the generosity of others. Of course, unused sick leave hours from contract em­

ployees who decide not to return to government employment within a certain period of time, till be credited to the bank,” Guerrero said.

The bill was passed by the Leg- islature cognizant of the difficulty experienced by some employees when their sick leave credits have all been used up.

“When an employee is sick, he must exhaust his sick leave balance before he can use-his annual leave. When both leaves are used up, he may apply for advance annual and sick leave. If such a request is rejected, he is placed on leave without pay, thus compound­ing his worries. Many employ­ees are willing to contribute part of their sick leave accrual to the sick leave bank,” the new law states. (RHA)

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Giant US com panies m eet w ith Vietnam ese leaders

By Bruce StanleyHANOI, Vietnam(AP)-Themost high-powered American commer­cial delegation to visit here since the end of the Vietnam War will meet this week with Vietnamese leaders to discuss business and trade relations.

The mission represents 16 firms including Amoco, United Airlines, Phillips Petroleum, General Elec­tric and Motorola. The trip is sponsored by the United States- Vietnam Trade Council, an organi­zation based in Washington, D.C. that seeks to prepare both nations for the eventual restoration of trade between them.

American businesseshave grown increasingly restive about the 18- year-old economic embargo against Vietnam that has blocked them

from doing business here. The United States launched the em­bargo after Communist North Vietnam defeated the pro-Ameri­can South and reunited the country in 1975.

Greig Craft, a Hand-based con­sultant and member of the business delegation, described the purpose of the group’s six-day trip as “quasi- diplomatic.”

It is the first time, Craft said Satur­day,that largeUScompanies will be coming “to conduct constructive dialogue aboutbilateral relations and trade issues, as opposed to just con­ing here on a fact-finding visit to learn how to do business in Vietnam after the embargo is lifted.”

The delegates, who arrive Mon­day, will meet with Vietnamese offi­cials in charge of trade, foreign in­

vestment, economic planning and petroleum, before flyingonThursday to Ho Chi Minh City. They will leave Vietnam on Saturday.

President Clinton must decide by mid-September whether to renew sanctions for another year. America’s decision hinges on whetheritbelieves Vietnam is doing all itcantohelp with efforts to learn the fate of 2,253 US servicemen still officially listed as missing from the war.

While in Hanoi, the visitors will receive a briefing on the search for the missingattheofficeof the Pentagon’s JointTaskFcrce-FullAccountingunit, which is tasked with resol ving the fate of the MIA’s.

Virginia Foote, director of the trade council, said the MIA issue is “part of the whole picture” in which the group has an interest.

“I don’t think we need to see the relationship with Vietnam as a con­flict between the commercial and the patriotic,” Foote said. “That’s an un­fair characterization of the potential for the relationship between the two countries.”

American firms are latecomers to this market of70million people, and competitors from Europe and Asia havealreadymadedeepinroadshere.

The commercial rivalry has only sharpened with President Ginton’s decision earlier this month not to impede Vietnam’s access to interna­tional loans, taken as a first step to­ward normalizing relations.

“The Europeans, and the Japanese in particular, are doing eveiything they can to tie up every industry before the U.S. comes back,” Craft said.

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In a meeting of five non-Com- munist opposition parties, del­egates agreed to move toward a formal acceptance of coalition terms as proposed by two new conservative opposition groups - the Japan New Party and the Sakigake (Pioneer) New Party.

The five groups lining up be­hind the proposal included the major opposition Social Demo­cratic Party, the Clean Govern­ment Party and the Renewal Party, a breakaway group from the long- ruling, scandal-plagued Liberal Democratic Party.

Following what they called a working-level meeting at a hotel in downtown Tokyo, the parties said negotiations would start as early as Tuesday on details of a coalition

arrangementIn all, the seven parties won a

total of 244 seats in the powerful, 511 -seat lower house in the general elections of July 18. The Liberal Democratic Party, by far the big­gest single group in Parliament af­ter winning 223 seats, lost its lower- house majority for the first time since its formation in 1955.

If the loose seven-party bloc can field a single candidate for premier in the ballot in the lower house expected to be held in mid-August, they may be able to defeat an LDP candidate as the eighth opposition group, the Communists, would neverjoin the Liberal Democrats as a coalition partner.

The Japan Communist Party won 15 seats in the election.

On Friday, the Japan New Party and the Sakigake New Party put forth conditions for a non-LDP coalition, calling for a package of political reform bills, a tougher penalty for election law violations and a ban on contributions to politi­

cal parties from corporations and groups.

The proposal said the “political reform government” should clean up rampant political corruption by changing electoral districting sys­tem and banning political dona­tions by companies by the end.of this year. The signs ofopposition unity dealt a new blow to the Libneral Democrats, who plan to vote next Friday to replace Kiichi Miyazawa, who resigned as party president and prime minister to take responsibility for the party’s loss of a parliamentary majority in the election.

The LDP voting will be by secret ballot of its legislators, meeting the demand of junior legisl ators who at a heated party caucus Thursday denounced the party’s tradition of choosing its leaders through back­room deals and negotiations.

The newly elected Parliament is expected to meet Aug. 2 to choose the new premier. Miyazawa is to stay in office until a successor is named.

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Philippine Shipyard is the country’s largest, with three re­pair berths and a fleet of tugs in Subic Bay.

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“We are now rebuilding our economy and the collaboration of this nature will benefit both sides,”he said.

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Russia plans to pull out billions of rublesBy Thomas Ginsberg

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia’s an­nouncement that it will invalidate billions of old rubles to combat inflation triggered panic at banks and created a financial nightmare for millions of people.

Russian citizens and people with resident status will have just two weeks, from Monday until Aug .7, toexchangetheiroldrubles atstate- run Savings Banks before they become completely worthless. '·

“I just got my pension yesterday and now it’s been annulled!” shrieked Vera Ivanovna, an elderly woman at a Moscow bank who declined to give her last name. “I ’11 starve, that’s what I’ll do!”

Within minutes of the an­nouncement Saturday, radio star lions were deluged with calls from frantic listeners demanding more information. People rushed to branches of the state Savings Bank to exchange their doomed rubles.

Shoppers crowded around kiosks and in stores in Moscow looking for things to buy with their old rubles. But many private merchants already were refusing any rubles printed before 1993, thenewcutoff date. Russia’s Central Bank said overnight that all banknotes issued up to last year would no longer be legal starting Monday.

That will leave only new Rus­sian bills issued this year in de­nominations of 100, 200, 500,1,000, 5,000, 10,000 and 50,000 rubles, the bank said. The measure will not affect new ruble coins, and some old Soviet kopecks that are good mainly as tokens for pay phones.

The Central Bank said it took the step “to eliminate different banknotes of the same denomina­tion that are in circulation and (because) there are now substantial reserves of banknotes and coins.”

But Deputy Finance Minister Andrei Kozmin said the move would counter the effect of rubles flooding in from other former So­viet republics, and force those with their own currencies into closer economic cooperation with Russia

An estimated 20 percent of all rubles are held outside Russia, Kozmin said. They have prevented the Central Bank from regulating the ruble’s value and reversing Russian inflation that has hit 2,500 percent annually, he said.

Nine former Soviet republics - Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova - have or plan to introduce their own cur­rencies. Saturday’s step will in­validate any pre-1993 rubles they may be hoarding for trade with or payments to Russia.

Neither President Boris Yeltsin nor his top aides commented on the move, indicating they wanted to distance themselves from any po­litical fallout

Officials had said they were pulling old bills gradually from circulation, but the sudden an­nouncement Saturday stunned many across the nation.

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Floods leave 2,100 dead in South A sia

BY Farid Hossain

DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) -The death toll has risen to 2,100 after four weeks of flooding across South Asia that has left nearly half of Bangladesh under water and devastated sections of India and Nepal.

The death toli jumped Saturday when authorities in Nepal reported 300 more people dead or pre­sumed dead raising the total for the Himalayan kingdom past 1,100. A total of 316 people are known dead in Bangladesh, and more than700have been killed in India.

According to newspapers, as many as 20 million people have been forced out of their homes or

lost livestock in Bangladesh, an impoverished nation of 111 mil­lion people that regularly endures catastrophic flooding and cy­clones.

The low-lying nation is criss­crossed by thousands of tributar­ies that branch out from the Ganges and other rivers leaving neighboring India. In its worst flooding in history, 1,400 people were killed in 1988.

At least 30 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts were flooded and “the situationhas taken a serious turn,” the Flood Control Center in Dhaka said Saturday.

People were sitting in heavy rains on rooftops or on flood em­bankments to escape the raging water, the officials said.

Thousands of troops, relief workers and doctors have fanned out across the flooded areas.

Residents and emergency work­ers were dumping sandbags and rocks to build up embankments near the northeastern towns of Habiganj and Moulvibazar after the Khowai River crossed the dan­ger mark, local officials said in telephone interviews.

In Nepal, rescuers have recov­ered 564 bodies of people killed in floods and landslides during the last four weeks. Another 539 people are missing and presumed dead and 250,000 are homeless.

Rescuers have not been able to reach most of the devastated ar­eas of Nepal because of impass­able mountain roads.

Japan earthquake: E xperts caught tota lly o ff guard

By Eric Talmadge

TOKYO (AP) - Disaster came just as Okushiri, a quiet fishing island on Japan’s remote northern fringes, was getting ready for bed. First, the ground crumbled and collapsed. Then the walls of water came crashing in.

Nearly two weeks later, the ocean is still reluc­tantly giving up its dead. Nearly 200 are now known to have died. In Tokyo, where the threat of a major quake is ever present, the experts are admitting they were caught totally off guard.

“There was absolutely no warning,” said pro­fessor Katsuhiko Abe of the prestigious Tokyo University Seismology Research Center. “Unfor­tunately, that’s often the way of nature - suddenly, one day, an earthquake strikes.”

But sometimes there are ways to know a quake might come. Some parts of Japan are monitored constantly by seismographs on land or under the sea _ a practice that can’t necessarily predict big quakes, but gives scientists a general idea of seismic activity in the area that could get worse. The earthquake that hit Okushiri so badly, mea­sured at 7.8 on the Richter scale, was the most destructive to hit earthquake-prone Japan since 1948, when 3,769 people were killed in the port city of Fukui on the central western coast. After­shocks have jolted the island on an average of every 10 minutes since.

Major earthquakes have hit Okushiri fairly of­ten. A temblor centered just north of the most recent earthquake’s epicenter registered a 7.5 on the Richter scale in 1940, and another centered to the south measured 7.7 in 1983.

Even so, experts did not believe Okushiri was in imminent danger. “Our data was too sparse," confessed professor Abe, who just months earlier had said a 7-plus quake was likely to hit the immediate Okushiri area only once every 1,000 years or so.

Disaster prevention officials complain that earth­quake prediction remains an inexact science, and with limited resources it is impossible to watch over all of Japan. They also stress that virtually nowhere in Japan is safe from temblors or volca­noes, and one-fifth of the country - including Tokyo - is already under intense seismic watch.

“Our position has been to focus our efforts on the most active areas,” the Earthquake Prediction Council announced a bit defensively last week. “Compared to the Pacific, activity in the Sea of Japan has been less intense.”

Since the quake, however, a string of seismo­graphs has been placed in the waters around

Okushiri, where about 4,600 people live.Scientists believe the earthquake was caused by

the convergence of two tectonic plates just off Okushiri’s western shores.

The Japanese archipelago precariously straddles four plates - explaining why Japan accounts for roughly 10 percent of all the world’s earthquakes and active volcanoes.

The Eurasian plate, upon which rests much of the Asian continent,

slips under the North American plate along the Okushiri underwater trough, an 800-kilometer-long (500-mile-long) rift through the Sea of Japan be­tween Hokkaido and Russia.

When the North American plate snapped up from the Eurasian plate in 1983, creating a 15-meter-high (50-foot-high) tsunami, more than 100 people were swept out to sea.

Most of Okushiri’s victims were crushed or washed away by three tsunami that hit the island immediately after the quake. The waves wrecked dozens of ships as far away as South Korea and Russia.

The weather bureau in Sapporo, Hokkaido’s capi­tal and largest city, sent out warnings of a major tsunami along the island’s west coast within five minutes of the quake. Radio and television stations quickly broadcast the news.

The warning was issued at record speed. But it came too late for the people on Okushiri, which was almost on top of the quake’s epicenter. Only a few seconds separated the initial jolt from the first crash of the waves on their shores.

“Out in the high seas, the tsunami travel at up­wards of 500 kilometers (300 miles) per hour,” said Abe, who recently returned to Tokyo from the devastated island.

“They slow down as they approach shore, but they also get taller,” he said. “On the western side of the island, the largest wave had a run-up height of about 30 meters (100 feet).”

The run-up height is how high the wave can climb once it reaches shore. Thirty meters would be the largest tsunami to hit Japan this century, and the second-largest ever recorded here.

“When the earthquake came I got my kids and crawled out to my car to get to higher ground,” said Misae Ikeda, a 38-year-old housewife. “But before we could go anywhere, the car Filled with water.”

Mrs. Ikeda and her children managed to climb out the windows of the car before it was completely submerged. After floating helplessly in the first wave, they were thrown back onto high ground, and safety, by the second. Several of her neighbors were not so lucky, she said, breaking into tears.

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newly-appointed Little League administrator, said the foremost mission of the team is to show that the country can clean its rank of cheaters and rebound from the humiliation of last year’s world series in Williamsport, Pa., in the United States.

Little League Baseball, founded in 1939 in Williamsport, holds its annual World Series champion­ship by contesting the United States champion against a cham­pion from Europe, Asia (Far East), Latin America and Canada.

Nazareno stud he hopes other countries which may also have been sending ineligible players to follow the Philippine example and cleanse their own ranks.

“Let’s face it, and this I empha­sized during the last Little League Congress, not everybody is that clean as far as following the age requirement is concerned.” Nazareno told reporters Friday. “Our next step is to erase the notion that we Filipinos are cheat- ers.

A team from the southern prov­ince of Zamboanga won last year’s Asian title against Taiwan and then won the World Series over the U.S. champ from Long Beach, Calif.

That victory, however, was nul­lified when a probe showed the team used ineligible players.

Not only do players have to meet an age requirement, but they also must all play for the same league, which usually are estab­lished by local municipalities.

A country cannot “stack” its team with the best players from around the country or region.

A house-cleaning effort, under­taken by officials here following hie embarrassing title forfeiture, led to the resignation of the local Little League representative.

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MISCELLANEOUS1 COOK HELPER- High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $ 2 .1 5 - $4.50 per hour.C ontact: PACIFIC MICRONESIACORPORATION dba DAI-ICHI HOTEL SAIPAN BEACH, P.O . Box 1029, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6412 (7/26)M/05302.

1 BEAUTICIAN - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 - $4.00 per hour.Contact: CHONG WON CORPORA­TION d b a CHAROTTE BEAUTY PARLOR, PPP 408 Box 10000, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 233-1818 (8/2)M/ 012142.

1 MOVIE PROJECTIONIST-Technical school grad., or with electronic techni­cian background, 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 per hour.Contact: JOHN B. MATSUMOTO dba J.M. ENTENRPRISES, INC., P.O. Box 57 CHRB, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-9050 (8/2)M/05374.

1 AUDITOR - College grad.. 2 yrs. expe­rience. Salary $1,600 per month.10 WAITER, RESTAURANT - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.45 - $2.90 per hour.Contact: SAIPAN PORTOPIA HOTEL CORPORATION d b a HYATT RE­GENCY SAIPAN, P .O . Box 5087, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1234 Ext. 5151/5118/5400 (8/2)M012145.

1 CABLE SPLICER - High school grad.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.50 - $5.00 per hour.1 COMPUTER PROGRAMMER - Col­lege grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 - $6.00 per hour.C ontact: KEY COMMUNICATION(SPN), INC., P.O. Box 2273, Chalan Laulau, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-8400 (8/2)M/012144.

2 REFRIGERATION TECHNICIAN - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $3.00 per hour.Contact: TORRES REFRIGERATION INC., P.O. Box 714, Saipan, MP 96950,

Tel. No. 235-1662 (7/26)M/012077.

1 ELECTRICIAN1 MASON - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $3.00 per hour.1 CIVIL ENGINEER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.80 per hour. Contact: GOLDEN ENTERPRISES, P.O. Box 2372, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-3267 (7/26)M/012075.

1 FRONT DESK CLERK - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary 42.50 per hour.Contact: KIM SUNG SUK dba IS­LANDER INN. COMMONWEALTH REALTY, P.O. Box 1249, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6071 (7/26)M/ 012076.

1 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,000 per month.Contact: UNITED INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, P.O. Box 689, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-6888/7888 (7/26)M/12064.

2 SECURITY GUARD - High school grad., 2 yrs.experience. Salary$2 .15- $3.00 per hour.Contact: JOAQUIN V. GUERRERO dba ISLAND SECURITY SERVICES, P.O. box 803, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 233-0508 (7/26JM/012069.

1 ELECTRICIAN - High school grad., 2 yrs.experience. Salary$700perm onth. Contact: CHONG’S CORPORATION, P.O. Box 800, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6560 (7/26)M/012074.

1 ASST. JAPANESE LANGUAGE IN­STRUCTOR - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $9.00 per hour. Contact: DFS SAIPAN LTD., P.O. Box 528, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234- 6615 (8/2)M/05368.

1 WOODWORKING SHOP LABORER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: YUE WAH TRADING P.O. Box 2350, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 288-1375 (7/26)M/012066.

1 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $700 - $1,600 per month.Contact: MARINEX, INC. P.O. Box 186, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-8400/ 8500 (7/26)M/012089.

1 BUILDING MAINTENANCE RE­PAIRER - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 per hour. Contact: MISA ENTERPRISES, INC., P.O. Box 89, Saipan, MP 96950, Tei. No. 234-6900 (7/26)M/12061.

1 CARPENTER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: GOOD SAMARITAN GEN­ERAL CONTRACTOR, P.O. Box 28, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1116 (8/2)M/012151.

1 ELECTRICIAN SUPERVISOR-High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $4.05 per hour.Contact: SHINTRYOCORPORATION, P.O. Box 2484 CK, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-1195/96 (8/2)M/012148.

CLASSIFIED ADS NEW1 GENERAL MANAGER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2,000 per month.Contact: CAHNGSHIN RESORTSPN. CORP. dba RIVIERA HOTEL, Caller Box AAA 928, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6676 (8/9)M/012216.

1 ACCOUNTANT-College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $900 - $1,000 per month.1 SHEETMETAL SUPERVISOR - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $900 - $1,200 per month.1 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 - $3.50 per hour.1 CARPENTER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.35 - $2.75 per hour.Contact: BLACK MICRO CORPORA­TION, P.O. Box 545 CK, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6800 (8/9)M/05501.

6 WAITRESS NIGHT CLUB7 PHYSICAL THERAPIST (MAS­SEUSE)2 FAST FOOD WORKER 2 BEAUTICIAN 2 BARBER1 HOUSEWORKER - High school equiv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.1 ACCOUNTANT-College grad., 2yrs. experience. Salary $3.25 per hour. Contact: HOCOG ENT., INC., P.O. Box 2013, CK, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-7863 (8/9)M/05505.

2 FINISHING WORKER20 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR 1 MAINTENANCE MECHANIC - High school grad., 2yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 -$6 .00 per hour.Contact: NEWSTARCORPORATION, P.O. Box 1749, Susupe, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-5296/7 (8/9)M/ 012212.

1 CARPET LAYER-High school grad.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.50 per hour.Contact: RMS CARPETING INC., PPP 647 Box 10000, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1153 (8/9)M/012219.

1 SALES PERSON - High school equiv.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: AMERICAN SUN GLOW CORP. dba HUA GUANG STORE, Caller Box AAA 793, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-7856 (8/9)M/012227.

5 (IRONER) MACHINE PRESSER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: SAKO CORPORATION, P.O. Box 1907, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-9661/3 (8/9)M/012223.

1 TELEPHONE INSTALLER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $500 per month.C o n tac t: W ESTER N PA CIFICTELECOM, P.O. Box. 2675, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6030 (8/9)M/ 012214.

2 A/C MECHANIC - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2 .50-$3 .00 per h our.Contact: BERTS REF. & AIRCON APPL. REPAIR SHOP, INC., P.O. Box 1274, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234- 6933 (8/9) M/012222.

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YOUR BIRTHDAYBy S te lla W ilder

B orn today, you a re outgoing, socia­ble, e n te rta in in g , and alw ays a p rim a ­ry so u rce of lively fun when in group situ a tio n s. You a re generous w ith your t im e and energy , w illing to lend your e f fo r ts to o th ers in th e ir sea rch for success . S till, your m ind is usually fix ed sq u a re ly on your own a ffa irs , for th e re is so m eth ing qu ite selfish in your n a tu re w hich n ev er allow s anyone to re p la ce you a t th e cen te r of your own aw aren ess. You know how to m ake life b e tte r , how ever, fo r those a round you.

O th ers a r e o ften fooled by your con­sid e rab le business acum en; you do not g ive th e im pression th a t you know how to m ak e o r m an ag e m oney — but in f a c t f in an c ia l a f fa ir s of a ll kinds a re o f m a jo r in te re s t to you. You enjoy the f in e r th ings in life , and m ay a s a resu lt a m a ss q u ite a fo rtu n e in your life tim e.

Also bom on this dato are: George Bernard Shaw, playwright; Blake Edwards, producer and di­rector; Vivian Vance, actress.

To see w h a t is in s to re fo r you to­m o rro w , find your b irth d ay and read th e co rrespond ing p a rag rap h . L et your b ir th d ay s t a r be your daily guide.

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Today is the 207th day o f 1993 and the 36m day o f summer.

TODA Y’S HISTO RY: On this day in 1847, L iberia, w hich w as founded by th e A m erican Colonization Society as d W est African colony for freed U.S. sla v es , b ecam e an in d ep en d en t r e ­public.

T O D A Y ’S B IR T H D A Y S : G eo rg e B e rn ard Shaw (1856-1950), playwright- critic; C arl Ju n g (1875-1961), psychol- o g is t - p s y c h ia t r is t ; A ldous H uxley , (1894-1963), novelist; Blake Edw ards

L EO (Ju ly 23-Aug. 22) — W hat be­gins a s a fan tasy m ay be tran sfo rm ed in to re a lity today before you know it. Can you keep up w ith yourself?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - You m ay be qu ite m oody a s the day opens, bu t a s things begin going your way you’re su re to se ttle down.

LIB R A (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - You a re feeling m ore courageous a t th is tim e , and a re m ore w illing to try fo r the b ra ss ring. Don’t hold yourself back.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Your em otions m u st not be allow ed to a f­fe c t your decision-m aking today. Suc­cess depends on a ra tio n a l s ta te of m ind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You c an ’t a ffo rd to do any th ing in a random , acc id en ta l m an n e r today. Be c e r ta in , confident, d e lib e ra te .

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan . 19) - You m ay find it unusually easy to be­com e ag g ress iv e and q u a rre lso m e to­day — but you m u st re s is t any such tendencies!

AQUARIUS (Jan . 20-Feb. 18) - O thers m ay be w illing to help today, b u t i t is im p o rta n t to you to be able to go it a lone fo r now.

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(1922-), d irector, is 71; Jason-R obards (1922-.), actor, is 71; S tanley Kubrick (1928-), film m aker, is 65; Mick Jag g er (1943-), singer, is 50; Dorothy Hamill (1956-), figure ska ter, is 37.TODAY’S SPO R T S: On this day in 1955, h o rse sh o e p i tc h e r T ed Allen m a d e 72 c o n s e c u tiv e r in g e r s in M urray, Utah.T O D A Y ’S Q U O T E : “ W h ere love ru les , th e re is no will to power; and w here pow er predom inates, there love is lacking. T he one is th e shadow of th e o th er.” — Carl Ju n g TODAY’S W EA TH ER : On th is day in 1977, a b ru sh fire s ta rte d n e a r Santa B arb ara , Calif., when a kite s trin g and sp o o l b e c a m e e n ta n g le d in pow er lines. W inds gusting to 90 mph pushed th e fire to within one mile of the down-

to bring you the resu lts you desire. I t ’s tim e to g e t som e e x p ert help.

A RIES (M arch 21-April 19) - Duty and responsib ility a re indispensable asp ec ts o f your day. You cannot ignore those who depend on you.

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G E M IN I (M ay 21-June 20) - You m ay be feeling inadequate a t this tim e, bu t th e fac ts a re ag a in st you. T im e and ag a in today you’ll prove yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - A p ra c tic a l and o rd erly approach is best for you today , desp ite y o u r p reference fo r im p ro m p tu perform ances.

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K ansas C ity b ea ts D etro it 6-3By The Associated Press

George Brett homered twice on the 10th anniversary of his infa­mous pine tar home run as the Kansas City Royals beat Detroit 6-3 Saturday, extending the Ti­gers’ losing streak to six games.

Brett’s home run off Rich Gossage 10 years ago was nulli­fied by umpires for excessive pine tar on his bat and later reinstated by then-AL president Lee MacPhail, giving the Royals a 5- 4 victory over the Yankees in New York. This time, he hit a solo home run in the fourth and a two- run drive in the seventh. He has nine home runs this season.

Tom Gordon (5-2), making his first start this season, allowed two runs and six hits in six innings as the Royals won their fourth straight Jeff Montgomery gotfive outs for his 30th save in 33 chances.

Detroit has lost 23 of 30 games. Rookie Sean Bergman (1-2) lost in his second major league start.

Red Sox 5, Athletics 3 ·In Boston, Aaron Sele improved

his major-league record to 4-0 and the suddenly muscle-bound Boston Red Sox hit three homers to beat Oakland for their ninth straight victory.

Boston, which got consecutive home runs from Scott Cooper and Ernest Riles in the second and a two-run drive by Luis Rivera in the fourth, has won 24 of 29 as it moved into first place in the AL

East. Oakland has lost eight of nine.

Sele (4-0), who has made six starts since being promoted from the minors on June 22, allowed three runs and six hits in six-plus innings. Jeff Russell got three outs for his 26th save. All the Red Sox homers came off Kelly Downs (2-5).

Yankees 5, Angels 3In New York, Danny Tartabull

hit a long three-run homer and drove in four runs as the New York Yankees beat slumping California.

Scott Kamieniecki (5-3) al­lowed six hits in six-plus innings to send the Angels to their .eighth straight loss. Scott Sanderson (7- 11) lost his ninth consecutive decision, a career high.

Dion James, who had three hits, doubled with two outs in the fifth and the Angels intentionally walked Don Mattingly. Tartabull spoiled the strategy by hitting a 460-foot homer over the back center-field wall.

Orioles 9, Twins 2In Minneapolis, Harold Baines

got his 2,000th career hit in going 3-for-3 and Brady Anderson hit two solo home runs as Baltimore beat Minnesota.

Baines, who also drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, became the second Orioles player this month to get his 2,000th hit. Cal Ripken reached the mark on July 10.

Jamie Moyer (7-4) has won

Australia...since 1974, ousted defending

champion Germany in thefirstround and has been riding the momentum since them

“We had some anxious moments today in bothsingles and doubles, but we came through,” Turnbull said. “It was a great team effort, and we’d like to keep going. Our girls came here to win this.”

“When we drew Germany, every­one counted us out, yet we are in the final,” Smylie said. “We have to take the same approach against Spain.” Stubbs said she and Smylie thought theycouldand should win the doubles. “But clay is not exactly to our advan­tage so we had to take them very seriously.”

Argentina and Australia, both unseeded, split the singles. GorrochateguibeatMichelleJaggard- Lai 64,6-2, butNicoleProvisevened the score by rallying for a 1 -6,6-2,6- 3 victory over Florencia LabaL

“It just proves that you don’t have to have No. 1 or No. 2 in the world to get to the final,” Provis said. ‘We got this far on our determination.” Conchita Martinez, ranked sixth on the women's tour, outlasted Julie Halard 6-1,3-6,6-3 in an error-filled match to put Spain ahead. That was the first time Spain had lost a singles set in the tournament.

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario stopped Nathalie Tauziat 6-1, 64 with an­other devastating performance to clinch the Spanish victory.

The Spanish double of Virginia Ruano andCristina Ruano was forced to give up after three games in the

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doubles, whenRuanocomplained of a back problem. That left the final score 2-1 for Spain.

The French, who had upset third- seeded Czechoslovakia in the quarterfinals, were unable to pull off a similar surprise.

Halard had her chances against Martinez, but the Frenchwoman failed to hold her serve in the first and the third seL

Martinez was almost equally inef- fectiveon her serve, butshemanagcd to hold when it mattered.

The twotraded breaks atthestartof the third set andMartinezheldfora2- 1 lead No player held again until the ninth game.

Martinez won it ot her first match point, with Halard hitting a volley wide after two hours and one minute of play.

“Our matches are usually close, she was hitting well today as well,” said Martinez, who brought her ca­reer record against Halard to 5-1. Sanchez Vicario came out strongly against Tauziat, gaining a break in the very first game,anotherone in the fifth and wrapping up the set in 23 minutes with another break in the seventh.

The Spaniard went up 3-0 in the second before Tauziat began to put up more resistance. She broke in the fifth game abd both players hit a series of thrilling rallies.

But Tauziat crumbled in the 10th game. She saved three match points but hit two errors - a backhand wide and a long forehand to give the vic­tory to Sanchez Vicario in 64 min­utes.

“I played a great match, I was aggressive from the beginning,” Sanchez Vicario said

seven of his last eight decisions. Jim Poole got his first save.

Baines got hit No. 2,000th hit on a chopped single in the third inning off Scott Erickson (6-11). This time, Anthony Young had no one to blame but himself.

Young lost his 27th straight decision, extending his major league record, when he walked home the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning Saturday and gave the Los Angeles Dodg­ers a 5 4 victory over the New York Mets.

Young (0-13) took over to start the eighth with the score tied at 4. His last victory was on April 19, 1992, and his losing streak started shortly thereafter on May 6.

Jody Reed opened the 10th with an infield hit, Henry Rodriguez singled and Brett Butler sacrificed. Jose Offerman was walked in­tentionally to load the bases and Eric Davis lined out.

But Dave Hansen, batting for Jim Gott (4-5), walked on a 3-1 pitch.

Giants 5, Phillies 4InSanFrancisco,Matt Williams

hit a three-run homer to rally San

Francisco in a game between the NL’s division leaders.

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Association is pleased to announce the schedule for the 9th Annual Saipan International Fishing Tournament. The event will be held on the weekend of August 7th and 8th. A boat parade, kickoff party, and registration will be held beginning at 5:00 P.M. on Friday, August 6. The tour­nament begins at 6:00 A.M. on Saturday and conti­nues through Sunday at 7:00 P.M.

The Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, August 9th at 6:30 P.M.

All fisherman are urged to participate in this pres­tigious event.

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CNMI clobbers Indonesia 18-3Far East Little League opens

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GOVERNOR Lorenzo 1. Guerrero throws ceremonial pitch to open the 1993 Far East Little League Baseball Tournament yesterday. MAMORU Itoh, Far East Little League administrator, swings too high to hit the governor’s pitch.

Australia faces Spain in Federation Cup final

DEFENDING champion Phil­ippines lost its first game in the Far East Little League Base­ball Tournament at the Civic Center ballfield yesterday.

The Philippines lost to Tai­wan, 19-2, in a David-versus- Goliath encounter between the tiny Filipino players and the much bigger Taiwanese. Yesterday's encounter be­tween the controversial cham­pion and traditional tournament leader, however, ended in fa­vor of the mighty.

During the second game, the

CNMI All-Stars proved to be the Commonwealth's pride as they routed Indonesia 18-3 in six innings.

Indonesia scored three runs in the first inning, which also turned out to be its only scor­ing inning. CNMI earned one in the second, four in the third, nine in the fourth and four in the fifth to wrap up the game.

In the Philippines-Taiwan match, the Filipinos from Canlubang, Laguna scored one in the first inning against eight for Taiwan, and one in

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MANILA (AP) - A Philippine Little League team left for Saipan Saturday to defend its Far East title in the first step to recover from the embarrasment of having been stripped of the world under- 13 baseball title last year.

Rep. Dominador Nazareno,

newly-appointed Little League administrator, said the foremost mission of the team is to show that the country can clean its rank of cheaters and rebound from the humiliation of last year’s world series in Williamsport, Pa., in the United States.

Little League Baseball, founded in 1939 in Williamsport, holds its annual World Series champion­ship by contesting the United States champion against a cham­pion from Europe, Asia (Far East), Latin America and Canada.

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DOMINIC Austria of the Philippines in action during opening game against Taiwan.

By Nesha Starcevic

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Elizabeth Smylie, who last played, and lost, a Federation Cup final in 1984, earned another go at the title nine years later by joining Rennae Stubbs for a decisive doubles victory over

Argentina Saturday that put Australian! thefinalagainstSpain. The top-seeded Spanish, looking to repeat its 1991 victory in the women’s version of the Davis Cup, won both singles against the sixth-seeded France before retir­ing in the doubles to take the best- of-three semifinal series 2-1.

Australia last reached the final in 1984, losing to Czechoslova­kia, with its current non-playing team captain WendyTumbull and Smylie dropping the decisive doubles.

Smylie, 30, who was known as Sayers in 1984, and Stubbs on Saturday beatlnes Gorrrochategui and Patricia Tarabini 4-6,6-2,6- 3 for a 2-1 victory over Argen­tina.

Smylie said anything was pos­sible in the final against the fa­vored Spain.

“We were not supposed to get this far and here we are,” she said.

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