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In 'hot goods' shipments probe

US seeks action vs two garment firms

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

U.S. DEPARTMENT of Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman has asked the federal court to compel two Saipan garment firms to com­ply with an administrative sub­poena issued against the compa­nies.

Herman, through counsel Cheryl L. Adams, named as re­spondents in the petition for en­forcement of subpoena Marianas Fashions, Inc. (MFI) and Marianas Garment Manufacturing, Inc. (MGM).

Herman asked the court to re­quire MFI and MGM to explain why the respondents should not produce in full the documents in question required by the adminis­trative subpoena.

The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the subpoena against the two firms

Alexis M. Herman

in connection with its ongoing investigation on the firms' com­pliance with the Fair Labor Stan­dards Act of 1938 (FLSA).

Michael Dotts, counsel for MFI and MGM, in a telephone inter­view yesterday said the firms had provided the documents re­quested, except the names of the

buyers which are not that impor­tant in the investigation._

Dotts said disclosing the identi­ties is tantamount to harassing the buyers.

Dotts, however, pointed out that they have no problem with releas­ing the names as long as the De­partment of Labor will not issue a press release until the investiga­tion is completed or the court shall give the firms some protections from forms of harassment.

According to court documents filed by Herman before the U.S. District Court for the NMI last Friday, the Department of Labor has been conducting an investi­gation of the wages, hours, and other conditions and practices of employment maintained by MFI and MGM, including compliance with overtime, shipping and record-keeping provisions of the

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Rotarian ladies. Rotary Club Saip9n members (from left) Philippine Consul Julia Heidemann, Rhoda Smith, PSS Associate Commissioner Rita Sablan, and NMC President Agnes McPhetres were among those who attended Saturday's Rotary get-together held at Plumeria Resort. Photo by Louie c. Alonso

Tourism will take a hit from 'federal takeover'

By Haidee V. Eugenio V.1riety News Staff

THE CNMI tourism industry will likely suffer once the fed-. eral government takes over la­bor and immigration policies, the Marianas Visitors Author­ity (MV A) said. . Perry Tenorio, MV A manag­ing director, said a "federal take­over" would hasten the exit of non-resident workers who make up the bulk of the workforce needed for tourism-related ser­vices like hotel operations.

At the same time, Tenorio pointed out there is a lack of local manpower to fill up the void to be left by alien workers once they exit the CNMI.

"They are providing impor­tant services that the local work force cannot provide so they are important for the success of our tourism industry.

"Reports have it that we don't have local work force to meet the demands of the industry ... That's why the administration is trying to protect the industry

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and CNMI's economic needs,''' the MV A official said in an in­terview·.

MV A, however, said federal takeover would not necessarily result in stricter entry for legiti­mate tourists.

Tenorio said the CNMI would also have to waive the visa re­quirement program for legiti­mate tourists from certain coun­tries once the U.S. takes control of immigration policies.

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Bill to repeal video tax now heads to governor

Heinz S. Hofschneider

tion on Friday passed a local bill , that would repeal the Viewer's ~ Tax. !!

In_troduced by the d~legation j! chair, Rep. Hemz S. i: Hofschneider (R), House Local :1

Bill 11-15 now goes to Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio for action.

The measure was approved following deliberations wherein Hofschneider said he was able to "convince" lawmakers it is "hypocritical" to tax video pa­trons, most of whom are the youth, to fund a project that will

By Jojo Dass supposedly benefit them. "We convinced the members yariety News Staff

i SAIP AN residents may soon no that there are alternatives to (: longerneed to pay an additional funding ... the youth programs i I and maintenance for facilities I ;1

15 cents for every movie video i

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Youth elections turnout dismal By Marian A. Maraya Variety News Staff

DISAPPOINTMENT has gotten over Youth Congress coordina­tors last night as they saw a low turnout in yesterday's Youth Con­gress elections.

A total of 1,542 registered young voters were expected to exercise their right to choose their leaders yet only a small percent­age showed up at the polling loca-

tions. In Precinct I alone, only 47

individuals cast their ballots out of the expected 694 registered voters.

Youth Congress judge inspec­tor for Precinct I, Rep. Karl T. Reyes expressed disappointment with the low turnout.

"We did not expect it to be this low," Reyes said last night, while

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Raisa Gorbachev dies MOSCOW (AP) - Raisa Gorbachev, the spirited and out­spoken wife of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, died yesterday in a German hospital after a battle with leukemia. She was 67.

Mrs. Gorbachev, who was widely admired in the West and long resented at home, died of circulatory and inner organ fail­ure at University Hospital in Muenster, said hospital spokes­woman Jutta Reising.

Mrs. Gorbachev had been at the hospital since July 25 to receive treatment for leukemia. She un­derwent chemotherapy and had shown some improvement, but condition deteriorated in recent days.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its collapse in 1991, stayed in Muenster and was at his wife's side throughout her illness.

After Mrs. Gorbachev fell ill, the couple that had been so

widely despised in Russia sud­denly received a flood of sup­port and sympathy-with thou­sands of Russians sending let­ters, flowers and money to the Gorbachev Foundation office in the Russian capital.

Some suggested special diets, others offered their prayers. A few offered blood and bone mar­row transplants. Herbal medicines an-ived from Siberia. One woman offered to go to Germany to cook for Gorbachev, saying he must be tired of German cuisine.

"It must be in the Russian char­acter-to run somebody into the mud, and them laud them to high heavens after a tragedy strikes," Vladimir Polyakov, a Gorbachev spokesman, said recently.

Fort Worth memorial service. Kendall Russell, 3, visits with Texas Gov. George W. Bush prior to a community-wide memorial service in Fort Worth, Texas for the victims of the Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting. AP

Hurricane watch issued in Bermuda MIAMI (AP)- Foul weather in the Gulf of Mexico formed Tropi­cal Storm Harvey late Sunday, and a hurricane watch was issued for Bermuda in anticipation of Hurricane Gert.

With 130 mph winds, Gert was approaching Category 4 strength. A hurricane watch and a tropical

Japan braces for democracy show part 2

TOKYO, (Reuters) - It looks I ike an election, sounds Ii ke an election and feels Ii ke an election.

But it is the race to be Japan's prime minister and despite almost non-stop pub­lic debate, the outcome is es­sentially a done deal.

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and the two challeng­ers for the head of the Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LOP) are heading down the homestretch in Tuesday's poll for the president of the party, which in turn brings the post of prime minister bee au se of the LDP's dominant posi­tion in. parliament.

storm warning were issued for Bermuda by the National Hurri­cane Center late Sunday.

At 1 I p.m. EDT, Hurricane Gert was about 460 miles southeast of Bermuda. The system was head­ing northwest at near 12 mph, and was expected to keep to that course through the night.

LONDON(AP)-FormerPrime Minister John Major called his predecessor Ylargaret Thatcher "mad" and "loopy," according to diaries wriuen by his former po­litical adviser.

Excerpts from Judith Chaplin's diaries were published Sunday in The Sunday Telegraph, a London newspaper.

"I want her isolated, I want her destroyed," Mrs. Chaplin quoted Major as saying in June 1991, eight months after he succeeded Lady Thatcher as leader of the then-governing Conservative Party. Mrs. Chaplin wrote in an entry later in June that Major de­scribed Lady Thatcher as '"mad," ''loopy" and "emotional."

At the time, Lady Thatcher had been publicly criticizing Major when his actions and policies dif­

,fered from her own. Even Mrs.

Hurricane force winds extended outward 120 miles from the cen­ter.

In Bermuda, customers began heading to grocery stores for sup­plies on Sunday.

"It's a threat to Bermuda ... it's a strong storm," said public safety minister Paula Cox.

John Major

Thatcher's friends had begun to suggest she find a different role outside the House of Commons.

Major and most of Thatcher's Cabinet professed to support her just before her November 1990 ouster by rank-and-file legisla­tors worried about her lack of popularity and irtcreasing antago­nism toward the European Union.

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29 dead in bus crash in Spain LA MUELA, Spain (AP) - A passenger bus going on a three-day trip to the coast careened off a highway in northeastern Spain on Sunday, killing at least 29_people and injuring two dozen more, authorities said. '

All of the victims were Spaniards, although ages and identities were not immediately released, said Juan Carlos Cordoba, spokes­man for the regional government of Aragon. He said rescuers found more than a dozen of the victims crushed under the bus.

The accident occurred Sunday afternoon near the northeastern city of Zaragoza. The bus, carrying 52 passengers and the driver, was en route from Madrid to the town ofGerona when it tumbled off the NII highway and down into a ditch full of water.

Bangladeshi woman slays her daughters

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A woman, reportedly upset by her husband declaring they were divorced, slaughtered their four sleep­ing daughters with a meat cleaver and set the house on fire, police said Sunday.

Police recovered the charred bodies of the girls, aged 2 to 8, after they were killed Friday night at Khodabakshpur village in Mymensingh district, 70 miles ( I 12 kilometers) north of the capital, Dhaka.

Rashida, who uses one name, was arrested on murder charges and her husband, Abdul Khaleq, a poor farmer, was detained for ques­tioning, a police officer said on customary c<;mdition of anonymity.

4th generation of Gandhi wows Indian crowd

AMETHI, India (AP)- She stood tall with her arms outstretched in the back of a Land Rover, then ignored her machinegun-toting guards and plunged into the crowd.

The people went wild. Campaigning in the parliamentary district that once belonged to

herassassinated father, former Prime Minister Raj iv Gandhi,Priyanka Vadra, 27, represents the fourth generation of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty.

Chavez to meet with US leaders CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will meet with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, President Clinton and 0th.er leaders this week during a trip to the United States aimed partly at countering what he says are misconceptions about his radical reform program.

Chavez announced the meeting with Jackson on Sunday during his weekly radio call-in program, "Hello, President."

Along with Clinton, Chavez is scheduled to meet with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, business leaders and major media outlets. He also will address the U.N. General Assembly.

Lithuanian pilot completes death-defying flight

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - A Lithuanian pilot maneuvered his stunt plane Sarurday under 10 low bridges along a winding, city­center river flying at speeds approaching 300 kph (180 mph).

Jurgis Kairys dipped his Russian-made SU-26 under one bridge span,with just six meters ( 19 feet) clearance between the water and the concrete overhang. The organizers of the stunt flight had insured the bridges for$ 2.5 million in case of a mishap.

Among 100,000 cheering onlookers watching from the river bank was Prime Minister Rolandas Paksas, himself an aer9batics pilot. He had wanted to join Kairys in performing the stunt, but was talked out of it by his security service.

Anti-Milosevic protest may get boost

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - A leading Serbian opposition leadernow says his party will join protests against Slobodan Milosevic - but only if the Yugoslav president rejects opposition demands for early elections.

"If the opposition manages to create an agreement about demo­cratic, free and fair elections, and Milosevic refuses those demands, the Serbian Renewal Movement will participate in joint anti-govern­ment protests," the opposition leader, Vuk Draskovic, said in com­ments published Sunday.

Draskovic, who heads the Serbian Renewal Movement, has con­sistently resisted calls from other main opposition leaders to join in a united front against Milosevic.

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Bangladeshi wdrker testifies be.fore Young panel: ·

'Conditions in By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

A BANGLADESHI national told members of Congress how he and other alien workers had to work here for free for 20 weeks to pay their recrniter the $29,000 being demanded fora job that paid $3.05 an hour.

"This was my first glimpse into how life under the U.S. flag in the CNMI is different than anywhere else on earth," said Nousher Jahedi during last week's hearing called

by Congressman Don Young (R­Alaska).

"(We) could not pay our pro­spective employer $29,000, so we found ourselves homeless and des­titute. I lived hand-to-mouth for a year before finally finding a menial job. On some days, I only had one meal; on others, I and the others went without food," recounted Jahedi.

J ahedi lamented that a complaint he has filed with theCNMIDepart­ment of Labor and Immigration

(DOLi) has remained unresolved for tw0 and a half years, "being processed in a system ove1whelmed with similar complaints from traf­ficked and exploited workers."

Jahedi said he paid $7,000 in recruitment fee, was robbed $1,700 at gun point by his "predatory hu­man trafficker" while in the Philip­pines on their way to the CNMI, and has now "lost everything."

He could not pay the $3,500 he owes a Bangladeshi money lender thereby causing his family whom Don Young

Cing challenges Hocog to public drug test

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By Zaldy Dandan Variety Associate Editor

SENATOR David M. Cing (D-Tinian), who is seeking a third term, is challenging his Republican opponent, Tinian Rep. Jose A. Hocog, to a pub-1 ic drug test.

Cing yesterday said the

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Tinian Republicans are imply­ing that "certain Democrats" on the island were using drugs. He did not elaborate.

"As I stand ready to prove that these allegations are false, I would like to challenge the [Tinian GOP] to call for a pub­lic drug trust for ... Hocog and

Unlicensed tobacco sellers face seizure of merchandise

By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

AS THE 90-day grace period for the implementation of Public Law 11-75 ended in June, the Depart­ment of Commerce' Alcohol, Beverage and Tobacco Control (ABTC) is now after business es­tablishments that do not still have licenses to sell tobacco products.

Andrew Salas, ABTC director. said husincsscs without licenses face confiscation of merchandise, regardless of whether their to­bacco products are legal or ille­gal.

Businesses were given until June 29 to secure licenses and to dispose of illegal tobacco prod­ucts, particularly those with health warning signs "US General Sur .. geon Warning."

Salas said despite the long pe­riod of time given to business establishments, there are still a number of them that do not con­form to the provisions of PL 11-75.

"The 90 days were sufficient for everybody to get accustomed to the new law ... I instructed my men that if they come across es­tablishments with no license, to confiscate all cigarettes regard­less of whether they are legal or illegal. That would give this per-

son an urgent reason to come to our office to get license," said Salas.

Once a license is secured, the confiscated products - except those illegal cigarettes - will be returned to the business estab­lishment.

The ABTC chiefreminded busi­nesses that it is cheaper to secure a $100 license than to have their tobacco merchandise confiscated all at once.

Under certain circumstances when a business establishment cannot sell its tobacco products legally because of its proximity to a school, the ABTC will give that firm an option to recoup its money invested in buying the merchan­dise. Salas said the business firm will be asked to present to the ABTC another business firm that can legally buy and then sell these products.

The law also prohibits estab­lishments from selling cigarettes either directly or through vending machine to individuals below 18 years.

Salas also said the proliferation of illegal cigarettes here tend to jeopardize the CNMI government's efforts to secure settlement money from the US tobacco industry.

myself as soon as possible," Cing said.

Hocog yesterday declined to comment.

Asked to comment on the on­going probe into the bribery charges faced by one of his staunchest supporters, former Sen. Herman M. Manglona, Hocog again declined.

He added, however, that the investigation does not concern him, and will not affect his can­didacy.

Cing earlier said Tinian vot­ers should be reminded that the man running against him missed half of the 32 House sessions held from January 1998 to March of this year.

Hocog, according to Cing, should explain to the people of Tinian why he is the "number one absentee legislator."

Hocog has more absences in

his first 14 months as House member compared to Cing's record during the past eight years, the senator said.

But Hocog's chief of staff, Liana S. Hofschneider, said all of the Tinian Republican's absences were justified.

"He was excused," she said, adding that Hocog is not ne­glecting his duties, referring to the significant number of bills he introduced that be­came law.

A former Democrat, Hocog is running with Municipal Council Chair Henry H. San Nicolas, the Tinian GOP's candidate for the island's lone House seat.

Cing, for his part, is run­ning with Municipal Council Member Norman S. Palacios, who wants to campaign as a CNMI Republican.

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he wanted to help, to "merciless" harassment and threats.

Worse, he said he has been warned he may be the next victim of a hate crime in the CNMI.

"But I don't care. I have lost everything, all I had has been taken from me. !tis (now) in God's hands. And yours," Jahedi told Young in his testimony.

Young has always taken the po­sition that CNMI's labor and im­migration problems arc "local" ones, thus necessitating "local so­lutions."

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By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

A MAN has filed a $ !-million lawsuit against a woman who al­legedly rented his house on Saipan but later developed it into a com­mercial rental property.

Henry J. Yarofalpiy sued Evelyn C. Reyes for fraud and breach of contract before the Su­perior Court.

Yarofalpiy, through counsel Thomas Clifford, asked the court to issue a judgment declaring that the lease is void or in the alterna­tive terminated for breach.

The plaintiff sought judgment to get back the land and the house (improved and expanded).

Accordingtothecomplaintfiled Friday, the family members of

· Yarofalpiy owned the subject 827 square meters of land. The plain­tiff and his immediate family moved onto the lot in 1989.

The plaintiff constructed a two­bedroom concrete house on the lot. And in 1995, Yarofalpiy and Reyes discussed the possibility of the latter leasing the house.

Court papers said Yarofalpiy and family moved to their home­stead in Kagman.

Reyes prepared the lease and the plaintiff signed it without read­ing the documents because he trusted her to have recorded their verbal agreement.

The complaint said the first page of the lease was later substituted for a different page because Yarofalpiy remembers seeing the first page as different than the first page on the copy of the lease.

The lease shows the time pe­riod to be 20 years with a renewal at the sole option of the lessee for an additional 20 years.

Yarofalpiy only agreed to lease the house for IO years not 20 or 40 years, said the complaint, adding that the document shows the leased premises to be the house, but al­lows for unlimited improvements and subleasing at the sole discre­tion of the lessee.

The complaint said Yarofalpiy only agreed to lease the house for $150 per month because Reyes was his friend and that she needed a place to stay.

Y arofalpiy riever intended for herto be able to develop the house into a commercial rental property.

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Working moms. troop to DPH's night clinic By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

WORKING mothers now have the opportunity to address their health needs without being ab­sent from their job as the Divi­sion of Public Health (DPH) yes­terday disclosed the success of their first-ever 'night clinic' which began last week.

And if the weekly schedule continues to be filled up, DPH may have to hold another 'night clinic' on a Tuesday.

DPH started offering free breast screening, pap smear and pelvic examination services Thursday night, in line with the administration's goal of reach­ing out to the whole community.

Christine Kapi!eo, managerfor DPH's breast and cervical can­cer program said that in a four­hour clinic from 4 to 8 pm, at least eight women can be ac­commodated well for a 30-minute examination each.

"We were fully booked. Eight women showed up, most of them working mothers while about two just waited for somebody to arrive from work to take care of the baby so that they can come here," saidKapileo who is also a

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registered nurse. She also said the schedule for

this Thursday night is already fully-booked as of Monday morn­ing. Those who want to be exam­ined but cannot be accommodated this week will be asked to coni.e back next Thursday.

Screening services used to be offered only from 8 am to 4 pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Kapileo said if next week's schedule will also become fully­booked, DPH may have to hold another night clinic next Tues­day.

NedArriola,DPH'sdeputy sec­retary, said the program needs to be '"flexible" and "creative" to be

able to meet the demands of the community and thus, the hold­ing of night clinic at least once a week is inevitable.

"We would like to encourage working mothers to come to us and get screened. This is a program made specifically for them," said Arriola.

He added that the Common­wealth Health Center (CHC) was constructed for a 30,000-population. Now that CNMI's population is pegged at over 66,000, CHC needs to innovate and expand programs.

Health Secretary Joseph Kevin Villagomez also said earlier that free breast screen­ings will also be offered in the San Antonio Clinic when its expansion is completed before the end of the year.

"In the near future, we will locate the program away from the congestion of the CHC for more efficiency and privacy, and continue to be open one night a week for those who can­not visit in the daytime. This is part of Gov. PedroP. Tenorio's promise to expand medical ser­vices to the people of our Com­monweal th," said Villagomez.

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Following the non-appearance, Presiding Judge Edward Manibusan issued a bench war­rant against Christine S. Aldan.

Manibusanseta$3,500bail for Aldan in the two cases.

The 35-year-old Aldan was charged with theft of services for allegedly avoiding payment of a restaurant bill amounting to $192.50 last May 16 at the Remington Club and Restaurant in Garapan.

In a separate case, the Attorney General's Office also charged the defendant with theft, theft by fail-

ure to make required disposition of funds received, forgery, and misconduct in public office.

The complaint stated that Aldan, who was a DOU staff at the time, stole approximately $1,400 which belonged to Chang WueWei.

The AGO said Aldan "did an illegal act, under the color of of­fice to wit: while an employee at DOU and acting in that c~pacity took and converted a sum of U.S. currency to her own use, with the knowledge that said U.S. currency was to be paid to another."

The arraignment was set yester­day. A lawyer from the Public Defender'sOffice, who represented Aldan, only appeared in court.

DEQ seminar on today By Marian A. Maraya Variety News Staff

THE DIVISION of Environmen­tal Quality (DEQ) is spearhead­ing the initiative to create aware­ness among environmentofficials through a seminar on proper wa­tershed management in the hopes of improving the state of the is­lands' watersheds, a DEQ official disclosed yesterday.

The conference is being held on the island of Tinian starting today featuring keynote speakers from the NMI, the Northern Is­lands, and Guam.

According to DEQ information officer Michael Wright, part of the reason why Tinian was cho­sen as workshop venue was be­cause the island has exhibited re­markable ways of caring for its watershed areas.

"Tinian is doing a good job of managing watersheds. They con­tinue to grow and this is one of the reasons why we're holding the conference there," said Wright.

"Hopefully, Rota could fol-low the lead of Tinian ... as Northern Islands develops ... it can learn from the mistakes of Guam and Saipan ... " he added.

Meanwhile, Saipan is not do­ing as well as Tinian, said DEQ.

"Saipan developed quickly ... in the 80s and early 90s. And we have encountered some problems. But it's not hopeless. We can continue to work and help our lagoon," Wright said.

The three-day workshop, ac­cording to Wright, will address various water shed management issues.

Rota fiesta spurs high demand for vehicles

Edward U. Maratita

By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff

THERE may not be enough cars to accommodate· the estimated 2,000 merrymakers coming to Rota's annual feast of San Fran­cisco de Borja early next month, according to the organizing committee's overall Chair, Sen. Edward U. Maratita (R-Rota).

In an interview with reporters, Maratita likewise said this year's celebrations will be the grandest so far, which will feature games and street dance competitions, the usual feast queen coronation and procession, a hydraulics car show, cock derby, live entertainers and a "fiesta" lunch.

A visitor appreciation dinner

will also be held on the second day of the three-day festivities, Oct.9.

"At this time, the car rental com­panies don't have the necessary cars to provide," said Maratita.

He nonetheless said 0rganizers will be providing a shuttle bus to transport visitors around the is­land from the airport.

"We are expecting some 2,000 visitors. This fiesta is going to be bigger than the last," said the Rota senator.

Dubbed "BisitaLuta," the three­day festivities start on Oct. 9, will also be highlighted by a display of international cuisine, a "paradise open market, and the "Battle of the Bands" where several groups of musicians will be competing.

This early, organizers said the island, with its scenic, rustic vil­lages and pristine shores, is al­ready buzzing with activities as lodging inn operators, car rental shops, marts, stores and restau­rantowners begin dressing up their establishments, putting the best foot forward to leave a lasting impression on the visitors.

Visitors are expected to come from as far as Hawaii to neighbor­ing Tinian, Saipan and Guam.

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3rd W'arrm1t out for cop By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE SUPERIOR Court yester­day issued a third bench warrant against a police officer who again failed to show up at a hearing in the same small claims filed against him.

Associate Judge John A. Manglona ordered the arrest of Police Officer Daniel Martinez fornotappearing at the scheduled bench warrant proceedings in con­nection with the small claims case John A. Manglona

DPH cites 2 food firms THE DEPARTMENT of Public Health ordered the temporary clo­sure of two restaurants last week due to violations of existing health and sanitation standards.

On its Sept. 12 to 18 inspec­tions, the DPH's Bureau of Envi­ronmental Health (BEH) ordered the shutdown of the Chalan Kanoa-based IMF Restaurant and the Hai Huang Restaurant in Garapan.

The two establishments, how­ever, were allowed to operate again only a day after their clo­sure due to swift compliance with sanitation regulations, DPH said.

IMF Restaurant received Grade A, while Hai Huang Restaurant got Grade B upon their re-opening.

Five other establishments got the highest compliance rating. These were the Hole in the Wall in Susupe, Kim's Tofu Manufac­ture in San Jose and three Garapan-based firms: Canton Restaurant, Hotel California (sale of refreshment) and Paris Crois­sant Bakery.

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By Marian A. Maraya Variety News Staff

ENOUGH trees grow on CNMI's lands and forests but adding more to the islands' vegetation for future generations wouldn't hurt, the De­partment of Lands and Natural Resources (DLNR) said yesterday.

The Department anticipates an­other tree-planting season come October, as the CNMI celebrates Arbor Month, spearheaded by the Division of Agriculture.

DLNR foresters who monitor the state of CNMI's forests on a daily basis reveal that the islands' woods are far from "depleting."

Tree planting activities will be performed in schools and along the roads of Saipan, according to DLNR information officer Marianne C. Teregeyo.

As part of the yearly tradition, Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio himself will kick off the celebration by planting a tree on October I st.

DLNR is currently awaiting fed­eral grant approval to fund the project, said Teregeyo.

"I still have to confirm if we were able to secure federal funding for this," Teregeyo said, in an in­terview.

Grade B went to Tita's Cater­ing & Fastfood in Chalan Kiya, Chang Chun Restaurant in San Antonio, Diamond Chinese Res­taurant in Garapan, Lite House Bar in Chalan Kanoa and Ebisoya Bakery House in Susupe.

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sumers against patronage of es­tablishments that are not comply­ing with existing health and sani­tation regulations, as they increase risks of communicable and food­borne diseases.

Aside from ensuring private sector's compliance with health and sanitation laws, DPH's regu­lar and unannounced inspections are also aimed at instituting cor­rective and preventive measures to avoid recurrence of massive food poisoning that plagued the CNMI in March. (HVE)

filed against him by Deputy Mar­shal I Ronald H. Mandell.

Martinez is currently assigned at the Department of Public Safety's Di vision of Corrections.

Court records showed that Martinez made a personal loan from Mandell in the amount of $2,000 on Sept. 24, 1997, payable in one year_

The police officer borrowed $1,000 again on April 3, 1998. The loan was payable in six months.

The parties agreed that Martinez shall pay $200 for the two loans every two weeks.

When the officer missed pay­ments, Mandell decided to file the small claims. At the time, Martinez owed a total of $1,130.

At the June 4 hearing, Mandell agreed to cut the interest, lower­ing the loan to $945.25.

The officer, however, made only one payment in the amount of $308 since last January. Now, Martinez owed $636.79.

Martinez did not show up at the first hearing. A judgment was is­sued ordering him to pay $50 ev­ery two weeks.

During two other scheduled re­view hearings, Martinez failed to appear, prompting the judge to issue twice bench warrant against the officer.

The officer once posted $150 bail and claimed he was sick at the time.

Martinez was once convicted for a traffic case in 1998.

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Saving face A RANKING Senate official once suggested that the commonwealth increase its minimum wage rates to federal level.

Senate Vice President T-homas P. Villagomez (R-Saipan) said doing so will encourage resident workers to seek jobs at the private sector.

More to the p;int, he said, a federal rate will end the practice being done by foreign investors who come to Saipan, open up business, pay the workers cheap and bring home the earnings or diversify elsewhere abroad. leaving the CNMI with not much investment returns to run its government efficiently and develop vital infrastructure.

"If they (investors) want skilled professionals. they should pay these people rates fit for skilled professionals not cheap." said Kiyu.

Which brings us to the ongoing debate in Washington, D.C. on legislation seeking to extend federal immigration laws to the Northern Mariana Islands.

For quite some time now, the locals have been seeing a steady fl_ow of ··alien workers:· mostly from underdeveloped and developing countries. being brought to their islands to handle a range of job posts from manageri;I one~ to news reporters, "exotic" dancers, garbage collectors, farmers. gasoline station attendants and so on.

While there are CNMI laws supposedly guaranteeing that these workers be given free housing and transportation benefits, for in­stance, the st;tutes are 11ot being practiced across the board, leaving a room for the exploitation of Third World peoples. whose culture of poverty has deprived them the needed sense of _dig_ni_ty at the work­place. to which investors appear to have been cap1tahzmg on for better returns on investment rates (ROis).

The federal government has been frowning on this not so much because the employment practices are inhuman (This government has engaged itself in wholesale inhuman acts through politico-economic and military activities in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, and even East Timar where Kissinger's policy of .. realism" virtually gave way for Indonesia's 1975 invasion.) but more so because the hiring and exploitation of Third World workers for jobs at a developed nation like the U.S. exposes Uncle Sam to what the Office of Insular Affairs itself call as "embarrassment... m the international community."

The "embarrassment," said Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget John Berry is "due to complaints from nations whose nationals are mistreated" in the commonwealth.

I could not agree more on the need for the U.S. to move in and address conce~s about labor exploitation to uphold human rights in the CNMI. I doubt the sincerity though, for how could displacing some 35,000 "alien workers," as what the Murkowski bill wants, do that?

It's a face-saving measure to be done at the expense of the workers.

**** Gemma Q. Casas, a very close colleague who is now in Manila, once

told me how life for a guest worker on Saipan could to be "too monotonous" that it may almost seem to border on the bland, the banal.

"You share the same jokes after work, share the same stories or maybe recycle ones told a week ago to have something to say during peer discussions. .

"You l!O to the same places. the same outdoor hikes. You see the same fac~c, on the road, at work, at your living quarters, at department stores:· she said. during one of those island motoring get-aways we used to do every weekend.

Mediocrity. she said, reduces one's struggle into passive obedience. The bright, shining embers into ashes of resignation.

The things we all have to put up with.

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Reinventing government No. 1: the right to privacy

WASHINGTON -Walt Kelly's comic charac­ter Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

He was paraphrasing James Madison, who put it somewhat differently in No. 10 of the Feder­alist Papers: "Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult to all who feel it to discover their own strength and to act in unison with each other."

Two points: He feared the tyranny of the majority, but he found security in the knowl­edge that such a majority would have difficulty discovering its own strength in a large nation.

One problem: The Internet has changed all that.

Madison based his theory upon the difficulty of widely separated people of like minds to rapidly communicate with each other or even find each other. but he didn't count on the Internet. This ubiquitous medium provides for mass communication on a scale not even ap­proached by newspapers, radio and television. It can be passive or interactive, and it is nearly cost-free, making it accessible for virtually ev­eryone to get their messages out.

Madison's theory of safety through diffusion seems to have been replaced by the Sunshine Theory: truth emerges under the glare of lights. In other words, more information is better infor­mation. Let the odd and unusual groups be heard. Their arguments are self-defeating. But what about the arguments of the majority?

The inherent conflict between the eternal mi­nority (the individual) and the majority repre­sented by the state was thought to have been resolved by the first l O amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

Now, with the likelihood of majorities rapidly forming on a variety of issues, the rights of the individual are once again being threatened.

The solution lies in an expansion of the Bill of Rights, including:

A Right to Privacy The U.S. Supreme Court has occasionally

found such a right in other amendments, par-

ticularly the 14th, but the concept has been applied narrowly and without uniformity.

Interestingly, most Americans assume they have such a right. They do not. The public's (majority's) right to know has superseded an individual's presumed, but nonexistent, right to privacy.

Here are some examples (though some states have passed inhibiting laws):

- Individuals are regularly compelled to pro­. vide "confidential" tax returns in civil lawsuits.

- Individuals (even the president) may be questioned in court about consensual sexual be­havior.

- Individuals are susceptible to the dissemi­nation of credit information based upon hearsay, rather than public records.

- Individuals' employers regularly provide hearsay information about them on a confiden­tial and, therefore, unrefutable basis.

- Individuals' cellular telephone conversa­tions are overheard and occasionally taped.

- Individuals are susceptible to being video­taped in the "privacy" of their own homes.

-Individuals' buying habits are gleaned from credit cards and other cards and then used or disseminated by the collecting company at will.

A historical footnote: The Federalist Papers were written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and Madison to sell the new Constitution to the public during the debates of 1787 and 1788. The primary p_oint in the debates was that a republi­can form of government could work for a large nation, whereas conventional wisdom maintained that republics and democracies were fit only for smaller city-states.

But Madison argued that the shear size - by geography and later by population - would inhibit the formation of tyrannical majorities. His theory was proved regionally when Western states were added to the union and acted as a buffer to the North-South hostilities which twice erupted into confrontation. The New England states voted for secession in 1814 when the South held sway during the Warof 1812, the end of which ended the controversy. Then, a few decades later, when the North became dominant, the South seceded in 1860-61 and civil war ensued.

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Trump l'oeil tease WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is not so egotistical. Some­times he actually goes off the record to brag about himself.

And he promises that, if elected President, he would not change the name of 1600 Pennsylvania to the Trump White House or build a bronze and glass tower over the West Wing.

He would probably stock the joint with supermodels, though, and keep the hot tub President Clinton installed on the South Lawn.

"We would have a lot of fun," says the man who always seems to be having fun, except when ex-wives or bankers pester him for gazillions.

Once The Warren began toying with a Presidential run, could The Donald be far behind?

Never underestimate a guy who pulls himself out of a $9.2 billion hole. Why should his legacy be a skyscraper that casts a shadow on the U.N. when he could cast a shadow on the world?

"To be blunt, people would vote for me," Mr. Trump says. "They just would." Why? "Maybe because I'm so good look­ing," he banters. "I don't know. Larry King calls and says, 'Do my show. I get my highest ratings when you 're on.' "

The man is pure id, no trepidation, no guilt, no P.C. restraints. (As a friend of his says: "He transmits; he doesn't receive.")

His only fear: "I photograph short. I'm 6 foot 3." In a landscape of black-and-white candidates, he's Technicolor.

The rakish plutocrat thinks he could do better with the work­ing class and minorities than "my own people." He says: "Rich people who know me love me.

Rich people who don't know me hate me. The working man loves me." And how would the famous ladies' man do with the women's

vote? "I might do badly," he kids. "They know me better than

anybody else. Women are much tougher and more calculating than men. I relate better to women. I go out with the most beautiful women in the world. Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can't get beautiful models."

He does not think Americans would mind a twice-divorced playboy in the White House. "Actually, I think people like it," he says about his racy love life. "It's a fantasy.

"Of course, if necessary, I could be married in 24 hours," he adds. "It would be very easy. Believe me."

Mr. Trump has a new book, "The America We Deserve." Everyone else is mistaking a campaign for a book tour, so why not mistake a book tour for a campaign?

Jesse Ventura, who doesn't want the jagged-edge Pat Buchanan to be the Reform Party candidate, is wooing Mr. Trump, a registered Republican who describes himself as an independent tilting liberal on social issues .

The two men met 12 years ago when Mr. Ventura appeared in Wre~tlemania at a Trump casino-hotel in Atlantic City. Now all politics is Wrestlemania.

Things Trump told me: On Pat Buchanan: "He's medieval." On Bill Bradley: "He puts me to sleep. And he was the

architect of a tax plan that cost many more billions than it saved. He suffers from a lack of common sense. He didn't run again

in New Jersey because the polls were showing him in deep trouble, not because of any great moral reason."

On Al Gore: "Highly underrated." On W.: "He escaped from the drug issue, but his answers

didn't give people a lot of comfort." On Bill Clinton: ··He handled the Monica situation disgrace­

fully. It's sad because he would go down as a great President if he had not had this scandal. People would have been more forgiving if he'd had an affair with a really beautiful woman of sophistication. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe were on a differ­ent level. Now Clinton can't get into golf clubs in Westchester. A former President begging to get in a golf club. It's unthink­able."

On the Clinton Chappaqua house: "Very overpriced. I could have gotten him that house for $600,000 less."

On Ken Starr: "Starr's a freak. I bet he's got something in his closet."

On Hillary: "The concept of the listening tour is ridiculous. People want ideas. Do you think Winston Churchill, when he was stopping Hitler, went around listening?"

On Rudy: "He's made New York the hottest city in the world. Ifhe gets beaten, it's virtually unfair. Hillary should run in New Jersey."

On Tina Brown's Talk: "The magazine looks terrible. Eliza­beth Taylor on the cover? Crazy. At least they didn't use a current picture of her." .

On plastering the name TRUMP all over the General Motors building: "It's only on there five times. But I haven't done the back of the building yet, on Madison Avenue."

(The New York Times)

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Fear and loathing in the boxing arena IT WAS one of those days when not even a single seat could be found in a place that can hold thousands of people. I'm talking about the boxing event billed as the fight of the millennium!

The Oscar Dela Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad fight was seen here on Sunday afternoon at the Palace Hotel. Everyone who wanted to see what was supposed to be a carnage was there.

It was standing room. only. The fight went the 12-round distance, probably because dancing around the ring is still not prohibited in a boxing match.

By Philippe Naughton DARWIN, Australia (Reuters)-An Australian-led force to restore order to blood­ied East Timor will put on an intimidating show of firepower when it lands in Dili on Mon­day, but the key to its success lies as much in its ability to smooth-talk its way out of trouble.

So far Australian Defence Force chiefs have kept opera­tional details about the mission under tight wraps, refusing even to confirm the day on which the troops will take off from the north Australian city of Dar­win.

But force commander Major­General Peter Cosgrove flew off to Dili on Sunday determined to be as open as possible with the force that presents the only cred­ible threat to the International Force for East Timar - the Indo­nesian military or TNI.

With the TNI on board, Cosgrove hopes his force will then only have to mop up rem­nants of the pro-Jakarta militia responsible for most of the re­cent killings in the former Por­tuguese colony.

And that is when the intimi­dation factor, provided by a large force with vastly superior firepower, will come into play.

"We are anticipating that there may be some disquiet at our arrival. That's why we are at­tempting to gain some high level of transparency, of our broad plans, with TNI," Cosgrove told reporters at a Darwin airforce base before his departure.

"As for the militia. it's hard to say. Plainly they are the factor. We would be encouraging the militia to lay down their arms, to go to their homesand get on with their lives."

Troops set for noon land­ing. An Indonesian military spokesman, less squeamish than

Yes, good jabs, and a few good punches were thrown, but the outcome was more sur­prising than the actual fight.

Those in attendance thought that Dela Hoya won hands down (no pun intended). But when the judges' decision cards were analyzed and the winner announced, the crowd at the Palace Hotel seemed read~ to gnaw on skulls. It was one of those decisions that floored even the most sea­soned viewer (not myself).

"The boxing world is turn­ing. into the World Wrestling Federation with just a little less glitter," someone told me when Trinidad was declared

his Australian counterparts about revealing operational de­tails, told reporters in Dili on Sunday that 2,500 Interfet troops would land in Dili at noon (0400 GMT) on Monday.

The first challenge the force will face will be to secure the Dili airfield and other landing strips in the territory. The troops will land in Hercules C-130 air­craft. known as "Fatboys, ·· which can also carry armoured personnel carriers.

Deployment in Dili would be closely followed by sea land­ings to allow the force to unload the bulk of its military equip­ment including light armoured vehicles, more APCs and- if the Australians are determined to show off their firepower - Ger­man-built Leopard AS I tanks.

"The key will be to intimidate the militia with an overt dis­play of firepower and tech­nology. Being confronted with a Leopard tank is not a pleas­ant experience," one former Australian peacekeeper told Reuters.

Some 2.000 Australians will form the bulk of the vanguard force. probably including around 800 sent in from Australia's Rapid Deployment Force based in Townsville in northern Queensland.

The force will also include 250 British Gurkhas, lending the force a politically useful Asian face and an intimidat­ing reputation as fighting troops.

The Gurkha uni ts, from the second battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles that is essen­tially on loan to the Sultan of Brunei, are trained in jungle warfare and already well acclimatised to the tropical conditions of East Timor.

But the Gurkhas· main role will be to guard the force it­self. while the Austrnlians

the winner. Those who consumed adult

beverages by the truckload and devoured food at Palace Hotel paid hard-earned money to see this much-publicized fight. They, of course, expected to get their money's worth. How­ever, it turned out to be an anti-climatic event.

"It's just a ploy so that mil­lions more can be made and all of us will have to do this again," I overheard someone said.

Which really isn't that bad, said another one, "because it got me out of doing my chores the wife wanted done this past weekend."

patrol Dili and spread out in small groups across the terri­tory. As the situation stabilises, the troops will in­creasingly turn their attention to humanitarian assistance.

"The Australian troops are well trained and well experi­enced in low-level operations of this kind. most notably So­malia in 1993 where they ef­fectively banished banditry from the area of operations," said a veteran peacekeeping soldier with experience in So­malia, R wnnda, Cambodia and Mozambique.

"Basically Australia h·as written the book on low !eve 1

operations of this kind. They are among the best troops in the world for such a mission ...

Howard warns campaign could be long, costly. In a televised address to the nation due to be broadcast on Sunday night. Prime Minister John Howard warned Australians that the campaign could be both long and costly. Austra­lia has lost only one soldier in active service since it pulled out of the Vietnam war. but Howard said casual tics \\'Crc a possibility.

But the soldiers themselves appear confident that the mis­sion will be successful and the poorly armed militias will not put up any resistance.

If the mission is a success. the 8.000-strong force will be transformed into a traditional blue beret styk peacekeeping force without having used the robust "all necessary mea­sures" mandate granted it by the U.N. Security Council.

"I am not a gambling man. but if I were to rake a bet I would say there will he no casualties:· said one officn with the force who is a vet­eran of various C.N. pcacc op­erations.

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Landowners oppose H.R. 2462 provision

Robert A. Underwood

Variety News Staff

GUAM ANCESTRAL Lands Commission Chairman John M. Camacho has written a letter to Congressman Robert A. Underwood (0-Guam), express­ing strong opposition to Section 2 of a bill he introduced last July in the U.S. House of Representa­tives.

According to Camacho, Sec­tion 2 ( which deals with the return of Guam land) of H.R. 2462, or the Guam Omnibus Opportuni­ties Act. would attach conditions and restrictions on the future re­turn of federal excess properties.

··Particularly. we object to the extraordinary restrictions on land use that the Act provides where federal agencies united to restrict use of excess/surplussed land in perpetuity. under penalty of re­version," Camacho said.

Excess land leased to a federal agency. Camacho added. would be exempted from transfer until

the leasehold is tolled and the U.S. Department of Defense is given a veto over use of lands once surveyed.

In recognition of the extraordi­nary burden these conditions im­pose on land use. Camacho said H.R. 2462 exempts the United States from the very restrictions it would impose on Guam.

"The bill would grant similar veto powers to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Besides this veto, the bill would establish a dispute resolution process which virtually guarantees unresolved, holding refuge land hostage in­definitely," Camacho noted.

In addition, he said the bill vests huge powers to the administrator of General Services to create ad­ministrative law.

"The administrator of General Services, then, becomes the land agent of both the Department of Defense and the Depanment of Interior. The Ancestral Lands Commission finds all this offen­sive and entirely unacceptable, an example of federal feudalism at its worst," Camacho said.

Moreover. Camacho said the definitions section in the bill fur­ther limit land use through a nar­row definition of ·'pu blicpurpose."

He stressed that the intent of Congress is the return of excess land to Guam for private owner­ship and use without delay.

"For questionable reasons, this legislation departs from tradition," Camacho said.

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Nakamura as~s!~'1llll 'Ratify Kyoto acCil"tl'

By Eileen 0. Tabaranza For the Variety

KOROR {Palau Horizon) -President Kuniwo Nakamura has appealed to the Olbiil Era Kelulau to ratify the accession of the Republic of Palau to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Pro­tocol to uplift the stature of Palau in the international com­munity.

"I now ask you that you reaf­firm that earlier endorsement of the principles embodied by the UNFCCC (or Convention) and the Kyoto Protocol (Prq­tocol),'' Nakarnurasaid in his letter to House Speakerignacio Anastacio. .···.. .. .·. . .·. .

He also urged OEKto take up this matter as spon as pos­sible, as signing to the Con­vention and Kyoto Protocol would improve Palau's stature in regional and global bodies;

He· said ratification of ac­companying access.ions before the opening of the South Pa­cific Forum (SPF) on Oct. 1 this .year would be a signifi­cant gesture of Palau'sunity with the other members, as he

Nakamura said Palau will be active participants in the glo­bal efforts.torationally man­age developmentwhile pro. tecting the environment artd resources which are the country 'slifeblo(')cL•·

The preside11tc.ited that\yith' so many nations alr~ady par­ticipatin~ inthe (Jonv~nti9!l­framework and the ft?t?C81

.. program~, the results of tpf C()rtfore?ces, rneetj1}~8;/c.on­ventions. · a11d Jora • as.s9ci~ted

.· .. with ___ thos.r i11~truments \VilI ijotecLthat the reBublic is the

. gnly member of the SPF which ···· •.. knot a participant in the Con-

•· have a realjffipact on Palau . . whether th~ 9f'{!l[f '.Vin gar--

•.. ·ticipate or rtoL_·.·•·•·•·. ••·•········ .•. <·• ventio~-·or tht:f<yoto·Ptotocol.

Th~ president.inade the. ur­•·· g~n~51JHasPala~ rnu~tpay heed · tb Jhe en.vironmental conse­quenc~s of human endeavors. "The potential effects are . felt most profoundly, h?wever, by developing island nations such as ours. We .. all witnessed the damage wrougl)f by the effects of:E!Nino. We can only begin to i~~gine the potentialdevas­tation from permanent change," he said. ·

By acceding to the (:;onvens ·• ··· tion .. and· the Protocol,

"Thtop~l.lour···llC<:e.~-~i{)'} fg those agr~ein~nts,.we \Vill\Pts . com: eligible . .forspecial asf sistance.to grow ~? d7y~lgp in a sustai11able fashionrrif?. is fOmpati,ble·_.\Vith'.lh7Jqij~1 term ·hea1th.ofthe.R1a?Ff'tlie president.said. • \ +·

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AG motion to dismiss murder raps nixed By Eric F. Say Variety News Staff

SUPERIOR Court Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood yesterday denied Attorney General John F. Tarantino 's motion to dismiss the murder charges against a Superior Court marshal.

Jury selection for the trial ofFrank Ronald Castro, who is accused of fatally shooting Franklin Ulloa, will begin Monday, Sept. 27 at 9 a.m.

Gatewood also denied Tarantino's motion to "seal" the discussion in the judge's chamber between her, the attorney general and Assistant Attorney General Richard Luxemburg, during Thursday 's'hearing.

In her five-page ruling, Gatewood revealed that Tarantino

and Luitemburg said that a witness may have committed perjury.

The judge said the typed min­utes of the conference will be made available to the public.

Gatewood said Tarantino's ba­sis for his motion to dismiss was taken from a 1985 court ruling in which the case was still at the pre­indictment stage.

However, she said, Tarantino's motion came at the eve of trial.

Further, she added, the motion to dismiss is contrary to public interest.

Gatewood said Tarantino's rea­son for dismissing the case is backed only by allegations based on internal investigation conducted by the Superior Coull.

The judge said Tarantino did not

· offer any representation that the allegedly perjured testimony is rel­evant to the guilt or innocence of the defendant.

"[T]he p11 blic has an interest in ensuring that homicide cases are prosecuted swiftly and aggres­sively," Gatewood said.

She added, "The defendant him­self, along with the public, needs finality to this year-old case."

Tarantino's motion to dismiss Thursday came as a surprise.

Castro was indicted by a grand jury after the April 1998 shooting incident in Barrigada.

Ulloa was shot in the head and killed while attempting to leave the house that was being raided.

He was unarmed at the time of the shooting.

DCCA Sec. Thomas A. Tebuteb (left), Lt. Gov. Jesus R. Sablan (center) and Rep. Heinz Hofschneidergather for a photo after last Saturday's Refaluwasch mass held on Managaha Island. Photo by Louie c. Alonso

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS 9

Dynasty seeks ferries back By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff NEGOTIATIONS are under­way bet ween the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino, and the De bis Financial Services, Inc. for a new repayment plan on the $7.6 million loan acquired for two high-speed vessels which was recently seized by the financing firm over alleged payment de­fault.

In an interview yesterday, Tinian Sen. Joaquin G. Adriano said Dynasty may still have to "satisfy" Dcbis on the proposed repayment schedule though, be­fore the ferries may be released through court order.

"The Dynasty has sent a repre­sentative to Debis company to renegotiate again the payment plan. Once they have that, they (De bis) will return the feITy back," said Adriano.

"If Debis is satisfied, I think they will go back again to the com1 to make it official," he added.

The boats' seizure was effected

Joaquin G. Adriano

through a court decision made Aug. 25, and in favor of Debis which recently filed a lawsuit against Dynasty over alleged pay­ment delinquencies involving some $7.6 million acquired by the casino company for the ves­sels. The loan was to be paid at a rate of$753,270every six months for seven years.

The Dynasty has cried foul over the seizure, explaining that the casino company was able to pay Debis some $2.3 million to cover

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·······•···~y .. Er&·~····~ay i .. Variety /\Jews Staff GOVER.NOR Carl dutiMrezior{ Frjd~}'stiidevery' lawrnak.er apparem1x."Yants._.tq become gov.enlo1·,5itingJh~ ~til.l .ongoing_ !Jud get hqatin~sppn­. clucted ·,·. by seyera{ committees•···•··• . even '-" ith only t\vo y.'eeksJeft before'the,start•of•fiscal. year 2000, ........ ·.·· .· ... ·.· ..... ,·.·· .·· ..

"Yoll don't···begin•[1eliberat­ing on tq~ !Judgetl• arthe last monthand thcndecidc to dump the thingon my deff.atl11eJast . .. . .. rpipp\~.and expt:9p17 ~q s.fg11 it{.··... off-.isl~ng;JhqJinanci a r. c.on­tj1e .ggvemor _saip, ), . )\'··•.••·•·•·.,· s.trai.p,ts)rnpQst:clby.tpeLegis­····1-If. S1tid_.QV.~J'Sjght he~rfogs . ]at~1·~preventedh,imfrpm.go-

!1aye been g.oipgpnfpfthe last .••... ipg\t(} •. }Y~shipgron,·. p.c .• to coupkofmonths but as ofthis .... appear befqre congressjonal date, no budgetbill{orfY2000 hearings that had a direct im-has been passed. . pacr9n Guam. ·

Gutierrezsaidthecurrentbud- Gt1tienez was referriilg. to gethearingscombinedwithFrce- the recently concluded U.S. dom oflnformation requests ai·e Senate and U.S. House hear-only''muddling" the budget pro- ings on CNMI immigration. cess.

The governor, a former chair of the Legislature's Ways and Means Cammi nee, said the panel used tohave total oversight on thebudget. · .. ·

''Now its job is not being done properly," he said. ·

''Why do 13 people have to look at everything that goes on within the line agencies of our

. i~lancl 1henw~.know where we ~-e pnansiaHy, ~nd :we need to · gettqis \hingdone or thousands · of people's jobs ilre at risk," Gutjerrez said. .· ·

Gu.de1Tez ~,1id the Republican: controlled ~gislature is antici­pating a )ubematorial run-off and is derailing his administration's current efforts toresunect the island's slump­ing ecqnomy.

He noted ihat while certain lawmakers could still travel

In an earlier interview, S pcaker of the Legislature An­tonio Unpingco (R-Santa Rita) reiterated the need for the Gov­ernment of.Guam to consider ''aU lll,Oiley-sriving'' options;

He .said Guinn 's finaricial trouble is "unusually severe," referring to GovGuam's $25 million overdue power bil1s, as well as its $20 million debt to vendors, miscel[aneous pres vious year financial commit­ments amounting to more than $2 million, and unpaid 1998 tax refunds that total $24 mil­lion.

Unpingco was reacting to Gutierrez's letter expressing disappointment over the Legislature's inability to workon the proposed $497 .3 mi Ilion budget for fiscal year 2000, whkh begins on Oct. I.

default payments and show "sin­cerity and willingness to repay."

The Dynasty lamented that Debis apparently did not "appre­ciate" the move.

Having been in.operation over the past two years, . the vess.els, which ferries people from Saipan and Tinian and vice-versa, have become a primary mode of trans-

port for the islands. The Dynasty said the se·iz.ure

·'will definitely impede the growth of the local economy and all of the businesses" on Tinian.

Members of t~e Carolinian Community gathered at the Managaha Island last Saturday to honor the Carolinian Chief Aghurubw. Photo by Louie c. Alonso

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Health seminar at C.O.P. THE OSA TO Research Institute will conduct a seminar on the health food Bio-Normalizer to­night and tomorrow at the Las Es-pana Restaurant of the Coral Ocean Point Resort Club. a media release said.

Sponsored by Sun-0 Interna­tional. Inc .. the seminarwiJI begin at 6 p.m.

Dr.JamesAkiraOsatoandother invited physicians from Japan and the Philippines will conduct the seminar.

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He advocated the Biopathy theory in 1980.

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DOE asks for money By Eric F. Say He told the Legislature's Com­

mittee on Education, which is chaired by Vice Speaker Lawrence Kasperbauer (R-Dededo ), that the extra money is needed tohelpbring the public schools' maintenance system "up to par."

Democratic Party candidates and their supporters flash the number one sign after filing of nominating petitions at BOE's Garapan office recently.

Variety News Staff HAGATNA-Acting Education Director Michael Reidy appeared again before lawmakers to reiter­ate his department's need for an increase in its fiscal year 2000 budget.

The Department of Education (DOE) is requesting nearly $184 million.

DOE's FY 1999 budget was S 165 million. but Reidy yester­day said the department will spend only $152 million when the cur­rent fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.

He said DOE wants to "outsource" many activities that are currently being done "in­house," but emphasized that jobs would not be lost in the process.

Reidy said DOE's proposal is not a ··wish list," but what the department "really needs" to ef­fectively run the island's public

Social Security office moves . - . . .

THE U.S. Social Security Office has moved to its new location on the second floor of the HongKongBank building in Puerto Rico.

which is on the East (back) side of the building. The Social Security Office is not accessible through the bank lobby.

People visiting the Social Se­curity Office should enterthrough the building's main entrance

Parking for Social Security cus­tomers is also on the East or moun­tain side of the building, close to the main building entrance.

Re-electionist House Rep. Karl T. Reyes flashes the "V" sign near supporters bearing his posters during a roadside campaign

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all my relatives, friends and supporters who participated in one way or another in my fundrnising event on Sunday, September 19, 1999 at the Garapan Central park. Your presence and support contributed to the success of my fundraiscr.

I am humbled by all your support and confidence in my candidacy for this upcoming election that I commit to work zealously for you, the people of the CNMI.

I would like to extend my Best Wishes and Congratulations to all the youths vying for a seat in the Second Youth Congress. Our islands need positive role models and leaders. I encourage all youths, please exercise your right to vote again in the upcoming General Election on November 6, 1999. Let your votes be heard today, tomorrow and into the millennium.

Thank You, Si Yu'us Ma'ase & Ghilisow! Your Candidate,

RAMON SANTOS (MAKA) GUERRERO (KUMOI) Saipan Senatorial District

Journalism gurus give tips to island reporters

By Eric F. Say Variety News Staff

HAGATNA-The lead in any story is that which grabs the reader's interest and prompts him to get more information from a report.

That was the focus of a seminar sponsored by the Micronesia So­ciety of Professional Journalists (MSPJ) and attended by the island's print and broadcast jour­nalists this past weekend at the Hilton Hotel.

The many topics covered by Hawaii broadcast journalist Elisa Yadoa and former Guam repo11er and now University of Hawaii Professor Tom Brislin high­lighted a number of topics that face a sometimes stressed group of reporters.

Brislin conducted a quick but very info1mative test among jour­nalists that revealed how they arc under such stress anu pressure that. at times. the "real facts·· arc missed.

It was noted that thi: newsroom at deadline time is ··equivalent to that of being a major city trauma

ward on a Saturday night. But life goes on and tomorrow is just an­other day ...

Durin!! the two-dav seminar. topics su-ch as. ··The cii mates and Cultures of Journalism.'· \\hich deal with the people 1,·ho cm c1 the news anu set the news agenda on Guam. were discussed.

Brislin said Guam is a melting place for may cultures anu each reporter must be aware of that.

"If not aware of the signifi­cance of that. than the real story of what is being said is lost." Brislin said.

Yadao. who is managing editor at Hawaii ·s leading teleYision sta· tion. KHNL TY-8. said that no matter what a reporter does it is important that he gets the ··real story. ··

However. Yadoa added. a rc­po11er should not sell hi rnsc If short by reporting C.\actly the facts that arc told ID him b1 llC\l'S SDUl'CCS.

Further. ··11·, imponant to rc­membcrthat although people may sci: us I reporters I as somewhat as c·clebritii:s. 11·c arc nDt. We arc only a means to gi1·c information

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS 1l

Taiwan arrivals on decline By Eileen 0. Tabaranza For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -The lackluster performance of the Taiwan tourist market has dragged down the overall visi­tor arrivals in the first eight months of this year, data from the Palau Visitors Authority (PY A) showed.

Overall visitor arrivals, ex­cluding returning residents, in January to August this year dwindled by 16 percent to hit only 38,468 against the 45,765 recorded in the same period last year. To include return-

ing residents, total tourist ar­rivals reached 45,667 in 1999 against 53,215 in 1998.

The deep plunge could be attributed to the 45 percent drop in the number of Tai­wanese tourists, Palau's sec­ond largest tourist market. during the eight-month period. This market accounted for 20 percent of the total tourist ar­rivals.

Total arrivals from Taiwan went down to only 8,160 in January to August of 1999 from the 14,714 posted in January to August of 1998.

Although said market rccov­ereu from slump in July this year at 1 .474. the number of Taiwanese tourists in August went down anew to 1.286.

Tourists from the United States mainland. including Hawaii and Alaska. also suf­fered an I 1 percent drop to reach only 4.017 in the first eight months of this year from 4,494 in the same period last year.

ket. Arrivals from the People's

Republic of China, the Philip­pines, Korea. United King­dom, Germany anu Singapore also posted increases uuring the eight-month period rang­ing from two percc n t to 13 6 percent.

Further. PY A statistics showed the actual number of foreign visitors stood at 33.387, while returning resi­dents numbered 6,704 in the first eight months of this year.

Airline. A total of 7,182 boarded through charter flights in January to August this year, down by half from the 14,462 recorded in the same period I ast year.

There were 3,375 and 800 tourists took Japan Airlines flights and private plal)e and sea arrivals, respectively.

Out of the 800, 91 tourists came through Philippine Air­lines (PAL) charter flight in August this year. PAL ser­viced those people who par­ticipateu in the Palau-Davao City trade mission on Aug. 18.

Power outages investigated

Data also showed the nu m­ber of travelers from Hong Kong dwindleu by 12 percent. from 314 in January to August last year to only 275 in tl1e same period this year.

The number of tourists from Japan, on the other hand, in­creased slightly by five per­cent to 15,410in the first eight. months of this year against the previous year's 14.709. Japan emerged as the country's largest tourist mar-

By mode of transportation. bulk or 34,260 passengers boarded Continental Micronesia Airline in the first eight months of 1999. This figure represents a six percent drop from the 36,416 recorded in the first eight months of 1998.

For the month of August alone, the number of visitors that flock into the country reached 5,081, 19 percent way below the 6,251 posted in the same period last year.

By Eileen 0. Tabaranza For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -The Palau Public Utilities Cor-p. (PPUC) is CUlTently looking into the power outage problems, par­ticularly the 15-minute intelTup­tion that occulTed during the state funeral of the late Senate Presi­dent Isidoro Rudimch last Sept. 8 this year.

PPUC General 'Manager John Quinn said in an interview that 90 percent of the recurring power outages experienced in the past few months was due largely to vegetation and some was due to electrical problems.

"Power intenuptions were to­tally unplanned and unanticipated. We rarely get anything wrong, or any problems to our power gen­erators," he said, adding that PPUC's power equipment are properly maintained.

According to Quinn, the power failure that occuITed at I :20 p.m. during the state funeral of the late senator was caused by an electri­cal problem in Unit 5 generator at the Aimeliik power plant.

President Nakamura was about to deliver his eulogy speech for the late senator last Sept. 8 this year when the power broke out, which lasted for 15 minutes.

Due to the electrical problem in Aimeliik, the generator went off line, which caused the generators in Malakai power plant to trip also. Quinn explained the trip occu1Teu because of the small di­ode, a littk switch that controls or helps control the exciter 01· the generators, that went out.

At l :35 p.m., PPUC crew at Malakai power plant was able to restart the generators at said plant and to supply power for Koror.

The PPUC reported that Aimeliik power plant came on line by I :40 p.m. Quinn said the power went back after PPUC had

fixed the diode. "We cou Id have replaced all

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Kiribati's Tito says UN entry benefits people SUVA (Pacnews)-Kiribati Presidem Teburoro Tito says his counu-y's admission to the United Nations is exp<!cted to bring a lot of benefits for his people.

lions." he said. Pre sic.lent Ti to said :in other b<!n­

efi t for Kiribati is that they can participate and get assistance from the UN system.

Plutonium shipments may be turned back

Kiribati. Nauru and Tonga were admitted to the world body in New York last week.

President Tito told PACNEWS in Suva today though Kiribati is small compared to other UN mem­bers, its vote is equal within the world forum.

He said one of the greatest ben­efits is that Kiribati will now be­come part of the UN's decision­making processes.

"Ki1it:ati expects to wp imo the n:sourccs available within the UN system. I know the UN In, a lot of resources that deals with small island nations that we can benefit from. Now that we a.remcmbe11,ofthe UN we have these resources at our dis­posal. It's up to us now when to require them;· President Tito said.

He said Kiribati wil I raise its concerns on global warming and the threat it i; having on so;:;,e of the atolls.

HONIARA (Pacncws) - Two ships c,l!Tying nuclear material from Europe to J:1pan amidst strong criticism by Pacific states could be forced to make a U-turn following revelations that vital safety related documents were faked by the British Nuclear Fu­els Limited (BNFL) in England.

"South Pacific governments have come out in strong opposi­tion to the cutTent shipment. Why should the people of the region be exposed to the significant risks of these transports again because of problems in the shipping states?'" Greenpeace Pacific's Samantha Magick said.

BNFL, which manufactures

plutonium-MOX fuel elements, informed Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) that vital safety checks had been by­passed and data "falsified" to "save time".

A Japanese nuclear safety offi­cial in Fukui Prefecture, where the plutonium fuel is bound, warned that since an examination of the fuel" cannot be caITied out in Japan, it may be necessary to have the ships transport the fuel back to Europe."

"If BNFL is prepared to mis­lead one of its most important customers, what confidence can be placed in their assurances to the people and governments of

the enroute states that their ship­ments are safe." said Mike Townsley of Greenpeace Inter­national in Tokyo.

This week BNFL also revealed that a second plutonium shipment is being planned for Japan, de­parting from Europe in Novem­ber. The South Pacific is again a potential route.

This news comes as Solomon Islands joins the growing list of South Pacific countries that op­pose the shipments through the region.

Fiji, Vanuatu,NewZealand and the Federated States of Micronesia have also made their opposition public.

"We kno\\' that by being out there. by being able to participate in this particular decision making processes. \l'e kno\\' that we have gre;nersecurity. We have a greater sense of security that we arc part of those processes. even if our view is not been taken. at least \W

are part of the big world ou1 there." PrcsiJern Tito said.

"We arc concerned about cli­mate change and global warming became of the assumption that if nothing is done at the global level. then some of these islands are going to disappear under the wa­ter. That would be disamous for small island countries like Kiribati.''

Unions back ban against Indonesia "As a small island state. the

Republic of Kiribati had learned that its fate was subject to the C\'ents happening in the world around it.

We depend on the state of the world economy. ;md some poli­cies of in1ernationa! fin:mci;il ins1iw1ions could easih frus­trate our dcvclopmellt asp1ra-

"We have been very :ictive and \'Ocal at the regional and interna­tional level and \l'e \\'Ould like to use the U"l system 10 1·urther our concerns in 1hese areas ... Presi­Jern Ti10 said.

Two atolls in Tarawa lagoon have disappeared as a result of global 11;irr11ing and climate change.

HONIARA (Pacnews) - The Solomon Islands Council ofTrade Union (SICTU) has sought inter­national assistunce to identify In­donesian interests in the Solomon Islands to effect a union ban on Indonesian trade.

The Council is supporting in­ternational concern over the treat­ment of the people of East Timor by Indonesia forces and the anti-

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independence militia in the prov­mce.

Council President, David Tuhanuku said their ban would include all shipping services and the importation and export of goods between the two coun· tries.

He appealed to Solomon Is­landers to support any consumer boycott organised by the unions

against Indonesia. Tuhanuku acknowledged there

are possible economic costs to the country, but said these are only "short-term" costs.

Tuhanuku said the country must bear the costs to ensure the international community re­spects the fundamental rights of indigenous people to self-de­termination.

MP won't cross the floor RAROTONGA (Pacnews) -Cook Island Party MP for Aitutaki, Teina Bishop says he won't cross th.e floor over his lack of confidence in his party's leadership.

He however suggests that closer co-operation between the government, the opposition and the private sector could help al­leviate some of the problems fac­ing the country.

''The budget debate has shown us there are some members on the opposition bench who are supportive of the budget. Tam sure that if a guidelinewasputin place whereby some elements of the manifestos' of each party were taken on board, the opposi­tion would support the moves government made, especially if they were viewed as good for the country," Bishop said

"The opposition would stop opposing government just forthe sake of it and this could lead to a new spirit of opposition."

He said that keeping the coun­try on the reform track was im­portant, and added that action

not words is the way to achieve this. ·

"Th<' party manifesto needs to· be looked at and common

. grounds identified, this' would helppoliticiansknowwhichpoli0

des we are following andwould provide policy guide] ines reprc~ sentative ofbcith sides." Bishop said.

According(o Bishop the cur­rent gov.(ri1rn •. entha.spve~loo~~d the ... importapce pf. maint:iinfog strong links with the business

community. . .····.·.···•·. •••· ·........ • ··••• •·••· · ''Part of the .refo1m structure ,,,.as thattM counfrY be private sector driven, a more econorni -cally sound way ofgoverning. So far there has been no sign of this and statements made by the leaders Sllggest they are dead against the private sector," he said.

"What politicians must realise is that they have politi­cal power but tha( economic power is better for the country. We have got to get business people involved withoutpoli­ticians," Bishop said.

·French minister in Polynesia visit

PAPE'ETE (Pacncws)­Francc 's Assistant Overseas Min­ister Jean-Jack Queyranne is in French Polynesia for a four-day official visit, during which final consultations about the territory's planned change of political status will take place.

Qucyranne will meet top offi­cials from tile political, religious and civic sectors, to consult on the proposals.

He also will take part in the local monitoring committee's de­bates on the matter, which could change French Polynesia's status as an "overseas te1Ti tory" to an "overseas country."

Last June, the French National Assembly in i>aris unanimously passed a constitutional amend­ment on the status change.

Next month, the French Senate is to vote on the same matter.

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Landfill ordered to stop operations

By Eileen 0. Tabaranza

For the Variety KOROR (Palau Horizon) -The Environmental Quality Protection Board (EQPB) has ordered the· Ministry of Re­sources and Development (MRD) to stop the operations of M-Dock landfill project in Medalaii after it was found violating the Environmental Quality Protection Act (EQPA).

In an order, the board issued cease and desist order to MRD for not operating and main­taining the landfill in accor­dance with earthmoving per­mit conditions.

MRD is the one responsible for the operation and mainte­nance of the M-Dock solid waste landfill located in Koror State.

On the same EQPB permit issued to MRD, the ministry is also permitted to construct new landfill on Babeldaob and close the M-Dock landfill.

EQPB Chairperson Paula Holm said MRD's activities present a threat to the heal th of the people of Palau and the environment.

During the inspections, EQPB staff has found out that refuse was not being spread and compacted because of lack of heavy equipment and trash is pushed into the mangrove areas.

The staff also noted that there was flooding because drainage structures were not being maintained and petro-

leum products, including fuel and asphalt emulsion, were being improperly stored with­out containment.

The EQPB also said all weather access road and tip­ping area were not maintained because of lack of aggregates for re-surfacing and necessary heavy equipment, including a wheel loader, which was re­quested in a letter from the former EQPB chairman dated April 28. 1999.

Along with the$ I 0,000 civil penalty imposed by EQPB for the said violations, the board also asked MRD to provide secondary containment for the fuel storage tank and remove the barrels of asphalt emul­sion from the landfill.

The MRD was also asked to provide sufficient heavy equip­ment such as one track type tractor and one wheel loader at all times to properly operate and maintain the landfill.

Other standby heavy equip­ment, including trucks, addi­tional bulldozer or excavator, shall be provided when re­quested on an as needed basis, the EQPB order said.

The order is also mandating MRD to provide sufficient coral aggregates to maintain the access road in a service­able condition and complete improvements to the drainage structure to prevent flooding.

If allowed to continue will adversely affect marine wa­ters and the environment, Holm said.

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Variety News Staff THE U.S. military on Guam is helping out in theinternaa tion.ajrelief a11d peace 0 keepc Ing_efforts.for.EastTimor: · American relief goods were already flown into Dar­win, Australia from Guam for distribution to Timorese refugees.

"We 're getting 300 ol' those that arc being sent in from Guam, that are being sent in from the United States," Matt Francis from AusAID said. · "The important thing about

those is that they are all pre­packaged, they contain high energy biscuits, chocolate, that kind of thing.

''They can be dropped very easily and very quickly from the back of an aircraft and give. an easy form of assis­tance to people on the ground," Francis said.

On the peacekeeping side, American military personnel

will also be drawn from a variety of U.S: fuiHtary in­stallations in .Asia and the Pacific inc]uding Guam.

However, the American forces are expected to play a support role, uni ike in other international peacekeeping operations such as Kosovo and Bosni,1 whnc American soldiers were on tht ground to patrol the peace.

So far, too, fcdcrnl offi­cials have no plans of letting U.S. aircraft fly into Timor but U.S. planes such as Air Force C- I 7, C-130 and C-5 transports wil I ferry other nations' heavy equipment into Darwin.

In case U.S. flights to Timar ure authorized by the Pentagon, some 30 to 40 American troops who spe­cialize in remote airport op­erations may go in to orga­nize refueling operations and air traffic control.

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Toribiong appointed to Airai council of chiefs

By Eileen O. Tabaranza For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -Private lawyer Johnson Toribiong was formally ap­pointed as the new Ngeraked of Airai State last Sept. 12 this year by the matriarch and other women from Tmeleu clan to suc­ceed the late Ngeraked Roman Tmetuchl who died on July I this year.

Toribiong is one of the young­est and highly educated ap­pointed chiefs among Council of Chiefs on Palau .. He is the nephew of the late Ngeraked Roman Tmetuchl.

The ceremony was held at Bai ra rrai, the traditional Bai for the Airai Council of Chiefs known as the Ngara-lrrai with the women of the clan and rela­tives who were gathered at the public Bai called Bai-re M elengl witnessed the ceremony.

Pursuant to customs, the clan contributed money known as Tichiau for Toribiong's purse for him to use to meet his obliga­tions as the. newly-appointed Ngeraked. The members of the clan· raised $20,000 and two pieces of Palauan money.

The matriarch of the clan, Ubad Ngerud Matlab, led Toribiong from Bai-re Melengl to Bai ra tTai where he was intro­duced as the new Ngeraked .

"I was introduced and they accepted me unanimously," Toribiong said.

He added that the matriarch of

Johnson Toribiong

the clan paid for his "bridge" and seat in the Bai. Immediately after that, the matriarch offered a chant to basically acknowledge the ap­pointment and acceptance of Toribiong as Ngeraked.'

Asked about his feelings being the successorof the late Ngeraked Roman Tmetuchl, Toribiong said he accepted the appointment with a lot of personal reluctance.

"When I was approached I turned the offer down. !told them I'm too busy and I have political and busi­ness aspirations and to become a chief means I have to be more or less the father of the clan or a community," Toribiong nairnted.

Aftertheclanmembersconsid­ered other candidates, the clan has requested him again at which point for him now to place him­self above the collective interest of the clan because Palauans al­ways subordinate their personal interests to the interest of the clan.

Toribiong said he accepted the position with a very sincere hope

of trying to bring the people of his village and the state of Airai together to heal the wounds of political divisiveness to promote the rnmmon goals of the people and to be the peacemaker.

"Palau is too small for us to expand our resources and en­ergy in fighting. We should try to promote the interest of every­one and can be a peacemaker," he said.

He said he likes to play the role of a peacemaker. which is the traditional role of Airai Coun­cil of Chiefs. The paramount chief, Meteiibelau, who is the Airai god, according to Toribiong, means the "peace­maker of Palau."

"That's the role I want to play and to work with the chiefs of Palau to promote the tradi lions and customs upon which the tra­ditional leadership organization is based not against the demo­cratic process or democratic gov -emment,"Toribiongcommented.

Toribiong said he would cre­ate a sense of confidence and trust in the community by not using his title for self advertise­ment. It is a very high standard of morality ethics that go along with the customs and traditions. he added.

"I will try to follow the tradi­tions. I think chiefs become too anxious to promote certain projects which are important so they take short cuts. I will try to follow the traditions of Airai to the letter if I can," he said.

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International peacekeepers arrive on trucks at the port in the provincial capital of Dili, East Timar Monday. The peacekeepers were dispatched to quell violence in the former Portuguese colony. AP

Top E. Timor rebel plans for new gov't

DARWl."i, Australia (AP) -East Timorese independence leader Jose Alexandre ··xanana" Gusmao is making plans for a transitional government and send­ing a delegation to the World Bank laterthis month. a spokesman said Sunday.

Voters in East Timar approved independence for the territory in an Aug. 30 referendum. after a quaner-century of brutal Indone­sian rnle.

Gusmao fled from Jakana on Saturday night to set up the head­quarters of his resistance move­ment in Darwin. Australia. after receiving death threats.

Darwin. sta!!in!! area for the multinational pea;ekeeping force heading into East Timor. is an hour's flight from the half-island terTitory. The peacekeeping troops were to start art'iving in East Tim or shonly after dawn on Monday.

"The main purpose of his trip is to discuss plans for the develop­ment of East Timor." spokesman Joao Clrt'ascalao told The Asso­ciated Press. He said that included the 1·ormation of the government of the future nation.

Gusmao. head of the National Council for East Timar Resis-

Jose Alexandre Gusmao

ranee (CNRT), is widely expected to become the first president of independent East Timor, a pro­cess that could take 18 months or more and would include general elections.

Cart'ascalao said Gusmao was sending a group of professionals to Washington on Sept. 29 to seek suppon from the World Bank. International lenders are believed to look positively on loans for the impoverished region.

Carrascalao also said Gusmao wi II begin setting up an adminis­tration to plan for East Timor's development. and will commute between DarwinandDili, theeapi­tal of the former Portuguese

colony. Gusmao will lead a meeting in

Darwin soon on East Timar' s tran­sition from a province of Indone­sia to a sovereign nation, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported.

The spokesman said the 53-year-old Gusmao had left for Australia because of death threats, even though he'd taken shelter inside the heavily protected Brit­ish Embassy in Jakarta.

··Toe British Embassy couldn't guarantee his security and he had to leave in a hurry,'' said Carrascalao.

Indonesia invaded East Timar in 1975. Hundreds of people have been killed, and hundreds of thou­sands have fled looting, burning and rioting in EastTim~r's town; after the region's vote for inde­pendence in the U.N.-supervised referendum. which set off a vio­lent backlash by pro-Indonesian militias.

Indonesian President B.J. Habibie granted Gusmao amnesty earlier this month, after he had served nearly seven years in prison for leading rebels against Indonesia's occupation of East Timor.

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Tim.or peace force begins deployment DARWIN, Australia, at6.30a.m. (2230GMT, Sun-(Reuters) -The first troops of day). a multinational force flew off "It starts firstly attheTindall from military bases in north- airbase where the early move-em Australia at dawn on Mon- ments would have taken place day on a mission to restore by now," Moore said of the order in East Timar. deployment, Australia's larg-

Auslrnlian Defence Minis- estdeploymentoftroopssince ter John Moore said the Indo- World War Two. nesian military command had "The second movement promised full cooperation at a would have been here from meeting in the Timor capital Townsville where I think four Dili on Sunday with Interfet Hercules departed very early peace force commander Ma- this morning, of the order of jor-General Peter Cosgrove. five o'clock.

"Therefore the launch goes ·The next will be from Dar-ahead this morning," Moore win, where there will br: a to-told Nine Network television. ta! of about 16 flights, I think, "We hope to have, by the end during the course. ofthe day." of the day, in excess of 2,000 Moore said large. numbers on.the ground in Dili." of Indone~ian military \Vet~

Thousands of people are be- leaving Ea.srTimor. ..... · .···.·.· < lieyed to have •. been slaugh- Moore said Cosgrpve AaP tered in East Timor since its received securit)' ~µa.i;~ni~~!) people overwhelmingly voted from thy Indonesian !!ljlita.ry • for independence [n a U.N.- in a. meeting .in ~ilt?° Sytj~/ sponsoredballofonAugust~O. day. < . .... \ • . •. > .···•· > . The force, which will evens "We expypt t.helll J? •• keep ? tuaUy number about 7,500 those guararytyeS! ~t1rrent1rw~ troops front more than 20 na- are. goi'.1giin ~i tfi sorpe ~<>llfj< ·• ti<>nS, was created by the denceof~9~ouk!raHheP)Sirit

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Nepalese fighters will be among first into· East Timor DARWI:\', Australia (AP) -Gurkhas, fearsome Nepalese fight­ers who for 200 years have served in the British army, will be among the first international troops de­ployed to restore peace in East Timor.

Carrying theirtrademark 13-inch (33-centimeterJ kukri knives, some 250 Royal Gurkha Rifles will join mostly Australian troops in the first wave of international peacekeep­ers, which is expected to enter East Timor on Monday.

The high-profile assignment for the Gurkhas comes as the dwin-

dling force is falling on hard times. In World War II, I 12,0<XJGurkha~ served under the British flag. Now, there are fewer than 2,500.

This weekend, 5,000 retired Gurkhas marched through the Nepalese capital, Katmandu, de­manding equal compensation with retired British officer.;, and alleging discrimination by the British army.

In Nepal, one of the world's poor­est countries, entire villages live from the salaries of men serving in foreign armies.

Members of the 2nd Battalion of Royal Gurkha Rifles on Thursday

Royal Gurkha Rifles infantry of the British Army are briefed by their commander during a training session at Robertson Barracks on the outskirts of Darwin, Australia. AP

were among the first foreign troops to arrive in tropical Druwin, the northern Australian city where the international force is gathering.

Wearing camouflage green, the Gurkhas marched beneath the blaz­ing sun at Darwin's Robertson bar­racks in heat of up to 90 F (32 Celsius) in preparation for their deployment.

Though the Gurkhas originate from the Himalayan mountains, most of the Nepalese troops were brought from their last station in the sultante of Brunei, one of Indonesia's closest neighbors.

TIJESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1999-MARIA~AS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-15

Police tear gas protesters KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (APJ-Malaysianriotpolicefired tear gas and water cannons on Sunday at thousands of support­ers of jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim who were demonstrating at the National Mosque.

Protesters hurled stones at po­lice and yelled, "Dogs of the gov­ernment!" and "You are pigs!" Both are harsh insults in mostly Muslim Malaysia, where pigs and dogs are considered unclean.

Police were seen beating dem­onstrators with batons. It was not immediately known if there were injuries. Police were seen drag­ging at least a half-dozen protest­ers into police vans.

Clutching handkerchiefs to their faces, men{bers of the crowd fled into the mosque compound after they were hit by the water laced with an eye-stinging chemical and by tear gas.

More than 1,000 riot police stood guard outside the mosque and a police helicopter circled overhead.

Police fired without warning on the crowd of about I 0,000 people that had gathered at the mosque to protest Anwar's prison treatment and then begun march­ing toward the National Palace.

Anwar Ibrahim

Demonstrators wanted to de-1 i ver a memorandum to Malaysia's king calling for a royal commission of inquiry into Anwar's claim that he was being poisoned in prison, organizers said.

Supporters say they have no faith in a police probe already underway.

The rally was the largest in nearly a year, since Anwar's ar­rest sparked unprecedented anti­government protests. He was con­victed in April on corruption charges and sentenced to six years in jail.

Anwar says all the charges against him were trumped up to end his challenge to Prime Minis-

ter Mahathir Mohamad. His sod­omy trial was to resume on Mon­day.

Anwar was admitted to a hospi­tal last week after accusing his political enemies of trying t; poi­son him. His family and lawyers released test results that they said showed a dangerous level of ar­senic in his urine. The govern­ment hospital where he was ad­mitted has yet to release its test results.

The protests came on the eve of the first anniversary of Anwar's arrest after he led a massive anti­government march from the Na­tional Mosque following his dis­missal as deputy prime minister.

The memo to the king was de­livered by Anwar's eldest daugh, ter, Nurul Izzah.

She addressed the crowd be­fore the violence erupted and was then ushered by family aides to the king's residence, where she handed the petition to pal­ace guards.

Nurul spoke to the crowd from the same spot where her father gave his final public speech. She was greeted by loud ap­plause and shouts of "Reformasi!" - the battle cry of Anwar's supporters.

Supporters of jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim who gathered at a downtown Kuala Lumpur mosque try to march toward the National Palace during a protest Sunday. The rally was the largest since Anwar was convicted in April of corruption charges and sentenced to six years in jail. AP

Anwar's chief accuser weds KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - In a ·simple late-night ceremony, the man who accused former Malaysian deputy pre­mier Anwar Ibrahim of sodomizing him married a col­lege student after the couple had been arrested on i 11 ic it sex charges, news reports said Sun­day.

Azizan Abu Bakar, 39, was ar­rested on Thursday with 22-year­old Norhayati Saad and both were charged in an Islamic court with "close proximity" after religious police found the two scantily clad in a room alone together.

Accompanied by family mem­bers, the couple exchanged vows around 9:30 p.m. Saturday night

at a mosque in Perlis state, on the western coast of Malaysia.

Norhayti spent the morning tak­ing a marriage course for Muslim couples. Azizan, a widower, was not required to attend the class, the New Straits Times reported.

A day after their art'est, the couple were denied permission to marry from their state Islamic Affairs Department pending completion of a mandatory mar­riage course for Muslim couples.

Islamic law prohibits sex out­side man'iage. Police raids are common and offenders are tried in Islamic courts. Azizan faces up to two years in jail and a 3,000 ringgit ($ 790) fine if con­victed.

The couple's case is sched­uled for Wednesday. The 39-year-old Azizan, now a busi­nessman, has accused Anwar, the former deputy prime minis­ter, of repeatedly sodomizing him several years ago while he worked as a chauffeur for the politician's family.

Azizan 's allegations form the basis of the sodomy case against Anwar, who is already serving a six-year jail term for corrup­tion.

Anwar says the sex and cor­ruption charges are part of a political conspiracy to quash his challenge to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. He faces up to 20 years if convicted.

A Thai border police office holds two toxic gas tanks as he walks through the debris at a once a fruit factory after it was exploded in San Pa Thong district of Chiang Mai province, 3 75 miles north of Bangkok. The explosion killed at least 20 people and injured more than 100. AF

TAIPEI, Taiwan(AP}-"-'-ChinaAidines defended a pl lot's decision to land during a tropical storm in. Hong Kong, saying Sunday that aninitiaLreport on the deadly crash

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16-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 21, 1999

Ahead of anniversary

ASIA

China cracks down on sect BEIJING, (Reuters) - China has arrested at least 300 members of the banned Falun Gong quasi­religious sect in a nationwide sweep ahead of celebrations mark­ing 50 years of Communist rule, a Hong Kong rights group said on Sunday.

The Information Centre on Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China, a Hong Kong

rights group, said sect members had been rounded up in cities across the country in the past week, including Dalian, Shenyang, Changsha, Chongqing, Beijing, Wuhan and Tianjin.

Chinese state media said police had arrested one Falun Gong leader and detained 26 members for illegal assembly, and urged greater vigilance in the run-up to

Workers line up a giant red star as it is lowered into place on a float in Beijing's Tiananmen Square Saturday. The star was being prepared for a parade to mark China's 50th anniversary on October 1. AP

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the October I anniversary. "Although the social tumour of

the Falun Gong group has been cut out, its germs have not been entirely eliminated and are still trying to erode the healthy body of society," the People's Daily said in a commentary.

China banned Falun Gong - a mixture of breathing exercises, meditation, Buddhhism and Tao­ism - in July. The sect shook the government in April when 10,000 members besieged Beijing's Zhongnanhai leadership com­pound to demand official status for their faith.

The People's Daily said police in Nanchang city in southern Jiangxi province, acting on a tip off from a former Falun Gong believer, seized 20 members late on September 16 as they planned

a meeting. Authorities were investigating

the case and would punish the group severely if they were found guilty, it said.

Police in Qinhuangdao city in northeastern Hebei province also detained six Falun Gong mem­bers after 21 adherents gathered in front of shops to practise Falun Gong on September 3, said a copy of the Hebei Daily seen in Beijing on Sunday.

The organiser, Meng Fanjun, was arrested, the newspaper said.

The Information Centre said I 0 sect members were taken from a public garden in Changsha early on Sunday. Their whereabouts were not known.

Many of those detained were released after five to IO days, the Centre said. But it said con-

ditions in detention had been dif­ficult.

One released woman had said her hands and feet were bound with heavy chains and she was beaten.four times when she said she would continue to practise Falun Gong. She was deprived of food and drink and use of the lavatory for 48 hours, the report said.

The People's Daily said efforts to disband the sect had been largely successful but Falun Gong and its leader Li Hongzhi still posed a serious threat to the sta­bility of nation

China has offered a $6,000 re­ward for the arre~t of Li, who lives in exile in the United States, but Washington has ruled out his extradition on political and reli­gious grounds.

Explosion rips through Thai factory SAN PA THONG, Thailand (AP) - An explosion leveled a fruit processing factory in Thailand on Sunday, killing at least 20 people and injuring about I 00, police said.

The explosion was believed to have been caused by gas used in drying and preserving longan fruit at the factory near the northern city of Chiang Mai, police Sgt. Manat Nonglai said. A large supply of ammonium nitrate, a chemi­cal used as fertilizer and in some explosives, was found at the site.

Police at the scene said 26 factory workers were missing and feared the casualty toll would mount. Body parts strewn around the site were collected in bags as relatives waited nearby to identify the

dead. A deep crater about 15 meters

( 49 feet) in diameter was seen near the center of the factory, which the explosion reduced to chunks of metal, brick and con­crete scattered around a 1.6-hectare (four-acre) area.

A large number of structures, including a Buddhist temple and a hospital, were badly damaged. The roof of the temple was torn off by the blast and houses as far away as three kilometers ( 1.8 miles) were damaged.

"I live two kilometers ( 1.2 miles) from this place and when I heard the big bang, windows and other glass in my house were shattered," said villager Somkuarn Chitman.

ITV, a television station, re­ported that the Taiwanese owner, identified only as Mr.

Lee, was in police custody being questioned about the cause of the explosion.

He reportedly told police that he was. storing 10 tons of ammonium nitrate in the fac­tory to distribute to farmers who sell him longans.

The medium-sized factory dried the fruit and packaged it for export.

Rescue teams were initially reluctant to scour the blasted area for fear that two large, still intact gas tanks might explode. The stench of gas still hung over the site hours after the explosion.

The factory is about 20 ki- · lometers ( 12 miles) south of Chiang Mai. Police blocked the main road leading to the town to facilitate rescue op­erations.

A Thai border police office walks through the debris at what was once a fruit factory after it was exploded in San Pa Thong, Thailand Sunday. AP

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US defends N. Korea decision WASHING TON, (Reuters) -The Clinton administration has traded little more than access to Coca-Cola in return for a break on what it terms a serious missile threat from North Korea, Presi­dent Bill Clinton's national secu­rity adviser said on Sunday.

Responding-to Republican-led criticism, Samuel Berger, the na­tional security adviser, defended the lifting on Friday of key parts of a nearly 50-year-old trade em­bargo against the North, the world's only remaining Stalinist state.

The administration acted after what U.S. officials called a pledge from the highly militarized North to refrain from test-firing long­range missiles it has developed. This cleared the way for trade in consumer goods and raw materi-

· als. "So, in effect, they get Coca­

Cola and we get a temporary ban on their missile program" while talks continue on a long-term ban, Berger said in a wide-ranging tele­vision interview.

Republicans who control the U.S. Congress have been scepti­cal of rapprochement with the North, accusing it of"blackmail" for allegedly pushing events to

Sandy Berger

the brink of war. Foreign Relations Committee

Chairman Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican, has made it clear he opposes becoming a "benefactor of the most repres­sive communist government on the planet," an aide said on Fri­day.

Asked whether he trusted Pyongyang, Berger, on the NBC programme "Meet the Press," said, "Of course not." At the same time, he dismissed as "just wrong" a comment attributed to Robert Oakley, a former State Depart­ment counter-terrorism official, that the United States was "pay­ing off' North Korea.

'l,hailand will stop drawing IMF funds BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)­Thailand will stop withdrawing funds from the International Mon\:tary Fund since foreign re­serves have risen to a comfort­able level of $32.2 billion, a newspaper said Sunday.

That would signal the first step towards withdrawal from a rescue program instituted by the IMF to help Thailand cope with an economic crisis which erupted mid-1997.

The Nation newspaper, quoting an unidentified source, said Thailand's par­tial economic recovery and growing reserves made it un­necessary to draw more IMF funds.

Thailand has withdrawn $14 billion from the total rescue

package of $17 .2 billion, and ha] ting further borrowing would ease its interest rate payments to the IMF.

Thai land and the IMF signed the first letter of intent in Au­gust 1997 after the devalua­tion of the Thai baht currency, and the program is scheduled to end August next year.

The government is hopefu I that an expected boost in ex­ports and increased fiscal spending will further strengthen economic perfor­mance.

Such spending is part of the $22 billion government bud­get approved Saturday by the House of Representatives for the fiscal year 1999 which begins Oct. l.

Berger said North Korea, which shook up Japan in August 1998 by test-firing a ballistic missile over its soil, was close to trigger­ing an Asian missile race "which could be very damaging to our interests."

The United States was giving North Korea a chance to build "a more normal relationship with South Korea,Japan and the United States," he said.

U.S. sanctions date to 1950 when the North invaded the South. in an effort to reunite the penin­sula under Communist rule.

If the North continued "pro­vocative" missile and nuclear­weapons programmes, Berger said, "our response will be one of containing the threat and being prepared to deal with any provo­cation."

Republican National Commit­tee Chairman Jim Nicholson ac­cused Clinton and fellow Demo­crats on· Sunday of "taking no action to develop" a proposed shield against ballistic missiles from North Korea or elsewhere.

"That's vital to our country," he said on Meet the Press. Clinton in 1998 dropped his Jong-stand­ing objection to anti-missile de­ployments and the Pentagon is

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)-111e mother of Thailand's Queen Sirikit has died of an undisclosed illness at the age of 89, newspa­pers reported Monday.

Bua Kitiyakara, who was born in the time of absolute monarchy, passed away Sunday and her body will be kept in a ceremonial um before cremation.

The wife of a diplomat who served in Washington and Lon­don, Bua served as a royal court­ier and was active in charities until withdrawing from the social scene in the 1950s.

Sirikit, the wife of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, is one ot· Bua's four children.

now carrying out tests. On another matter, Berger said

the administration was still re­viewing a CIA determination that China had suppled M-11 missiles to Pakistan. A declassified ver­sion of the CIA analysis was made public this month.

"Whether they have actually provided missiles is something that we 're looking at, and we will act in accordance with the law" he

said. Such missile transfers would violate the Missile Technology Control Regime, a 3 I -nation pact designed to curb the spread of dangerous weapons.

Berger also said China has "sub­stantially decreased" nuclear co­operation with Pakistan in keep­ing with a May 1996 pledge to refrain from helping nuclear fa­cilities outside international safe­guards.

Chung Mong-hun, center, chairman of Hyundai Electronics Co., enters the Seoul Prosecutor's office for questioning on the stock manipulation scandal Sunday. Unidentified bodyguards accompany Chung. AP

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Pursuant to Public Law 8-41, Section II, Governor Pedro P.

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of the Public Auditor is soliciting proposals for a financial and compliance audit of the Commonwealth Deuclopment Au­thority (CDA) and its subsidiary, the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NivlHC) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1999 in accordance with 0MB Circular A-133 and applicable auditing standards. Proposals shall be submitted to the Public Auditor, P.O. Box 1399, Saipan, MP 96950, no later than 4:00 p.m., on October 8, 1999. Copies of the RFP package may be obtained from CDA at Wakin's

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Gore raising money for the general vote

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WASHINGTON (AP) Months before the first presiden­tial primary, Vice President Al Gore is raising millions for a po­tential general election campaign using a strategy frowned on by election regulators.

By July ,Gore had already raised $2 million for a special type of legal fund intended for presiden­tial nominees. The existence of the fund allows him to solicit a second contribution of $1,000 from supporters otherwise lim­ited to giving a maximum of $1,000 to Gore's primary cam-paign. ·

Previous candidates have used such general election funds to skirt federal limits on spending during the presidential primary season. That was one reason cited by the Federal Election Commission when it voted last month to ban fund raising for the general elec­tion account until June 1 of a presidential election year.

The change has not taken effect and Congress could block it. Gore has been and remains within his rights to seek such contributions.

His Democratic opponent, fonner Sen. Bill Bradley, has not set up ·a similar account because he does not want to use "legal loopholes" to finance his cam­paign, said Bradley spokeswoman Anita Dunn.

Months before officially receiv­ing the 1996 Republican presi­dential nomination, Bob Dole reached into his general election fund to pay for campaign events, staff salary and staff travel. The move helped keep him on the campaign trail when his primary campaign had spent virtually all it could under federal law.

FEC auditors later said Dole's general election fund improperly spent $377,186 that should have been paid for by his primary cam­paign. That was one of the issues raised when the FEC voted to require that Dole's primary and general election campaigns repay $3.7 million.

In 1992, the FEC said Bill Clinton's primary campaign could

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Vice President Gore, flanked by FEMA Director James Lee Wiit (left) and Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater take part in a teleconfer­ence at FEMA in Washington Wednesday. AP

borrow money from his general election fund while waiting for some reimbursements it was due. The Clinton-Gore campaign also raised general election money early for the 1996 race.

Gore campaign spokeswoman Kiki Moore said the vice presi­dent was raising money for the second fund now because "we believe Al Gore will be the Demo­cratic Party nominee and the par­ticipant in the general election."

If Gore does not win the nomi­nation, the campaign must refund the money to the donors under FEC rules.

Candidates must agree to spend­ing limits if they accept partial federal funding of their primary campaigns.

In the general election, candi­dates can receive full federal fund­ing for their campaigns by agree­ing not to raise any private funds -except to pay the costs of com­plying with the election rules.

For this, they set up the special legal funds. Individual contribu­tions are limited to $1,000,just as they are for primary and congres­sional campaigns.

Some experts are concerned that Gore, facing a well-financed pri­·mary challenge from Bradley, could push up against the spend­ing limits-expected to be around $40 million - next spring. That is what happened to Dole.

Gore's early fund-raising for the general election "is a recogni-

tion that this is going to be a costly campaign for him and he's got to find ways to avoid rubbing against that overall limitation," said Herbert Alexander, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Southern Cali­fornia.

Meanwhile, Republican front­runner George W. Bush, who is not accepting federal funds dur­ing the primaries, could spend as much money as he could raise, unencumbered by spending lim­its. Bush had $30 million left in the bank as of June 30. Gore had $9.4 million, while Bradley had $7.5 million.

Gore used a single fund-raisino letter to make a pl~a for donation~ to both of his funds. Seeking money for the general election fund, the lettec says that if his campaign as the nominee has to cover legal costs, '"we have less to invest in the necessary political work necessary to ensure victory in 2000."

Only three other presidential candidates - Republicans Bush. John McCain and Dan Quayle -have set up these special accounts so far, FEC records show.

Bush raised $37.410 through June30andQuayleraised$4,l 17. but records show both candidates simply accepted excess money from donors who exceeded the $1,000 contribution limit to their primary campaigns. McCain's fund raised nothing.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-19

Clinton appeals to NRA on gun deaths WASHINGTON, (Reuters) -President Bill Clinton said on Saturday the National Rifle As­sociation and its supporters must assume more responsibility for the mass killings across the United States in recent years.

The most recent shooting was Wednesday, when a lone gun­man killed seven people and himself in a Fort Worth, Texas Baptist church. The attack sparked more calls by Clinton and gun-control advocates for tougher limits on the purchase of fireanns.

Officials of the NRA and its many supporters across the country and on Capitol Hill say mass killings will fall if the fed­eral government would enforce existing gun laws more strictly.

During a speech to the annual dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus, Clinton said: 'The NRA and that crowd have to stop using arguments like this as an excuse .to avoid our shared responsibility" to end the killings.

In fact, the spate of school yard shootings and terrorist bomb­ings of the World Trade Centre in New York and the Oklahoma City federal building ''has been the most painful thing that (Vice President Al Gore) and I and our families have had to en­dure," while in office, Clinton said.

In his speech, Clinton also said the $792 billion, ten-year tax cut favoured by the Repub­lican-led Congress would jeopardise the nation's eco­nomic prosperity, since it would prevent the administration from

President Clinton speaks to reporters in the White House Roosevelt Room Thursday saying that he decried the latest shooiing rampage Wednesdayin a Texas church, and appealed to Americans to take action against gun violence. AP

paying down the federal debt which would help reduce interest rates on home mortgages, college and auto loans.

Earlier, during his weekly ra­dio address, Clinton promised to veto the Republican's budget plan,

which contains the proposed tax cut.

"If the Republicans send me a bill that doesn't live up to our national commitment to educa­tion, I won't hesitate to veto it," Clinton said.

Bradley didn't consult Army on gays WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Bradley said Sunday he did not consult with military officials prior to telling a gay and lesbian magazine that homosexuals should be permitted to serve openly in the military.

"This is a statement of my per­sonal views, my personal belief that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military,"' the Democratic presidential candidate said on ABC's "This Week."

In an interview with The Advo­cate, released last week, the fonner New Jersey senator said gays also should be protected under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Bradley also said he would not support a California ballot ques­tion that seeks to outlaw same­sex marriages, although he said he remains opposed to such unions.

He was asked in the wide-rang­ing ABC interview whether he consulted with senior military officials about why they view the anned services differently from other areas of government where gays serve openly. Bradley said he did not and did not see a need to.

Bill Bradley

Bradley said that gay Ameri­cans should be allowed to serve in the military if they can serve the country as policemen, nuclear scientists, doctors and lawyers.

"There have been gays in the military as long as there's been a military. They've only had to hide," he said.

Bradley, who is challenging Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic nomination, de­scribed the Clinton's administra­tion '"don't ask, don't tell," policy on gays in the military as a near failure. The 1993 policy allows homosexuals to serve in the mili-

tary as long as they do not discuss their sexual orientation openly. Military superiors also cannot in­quire about the sexual orientation of their troops.

On other topics, Bradley said: • Illegal drug use by a presiden­

tial candidate mattered ... , do think that if someone violated the law. they should state whether they did ornot," said Bradley, who has used marijuana "but never co­caine." Questions about possible past illegal drug use hounded GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush last month until he acknowl­edged-with out further elabora­tion - that he had not used illegal drugs within the past 25 years:

• The booming economy was more responsible for substantial drops in the number of people on welfare than a 1996 reform law. Bradley said he would suggest further improvements to the sys­tem later on in the campaign.

• He would have voted against the two articles of impeachment against President Clinton stem­ming from the Monica Lewinsky investigation. "I didn't think that the punishment was propo1tion­atc with ... what he did."

Dragging case is seen to go to jury BRYAN, Texas (AP)-The sec­ond capital murder trial in the dragging death of a black man who was chained by his ankles to the bumper of a pickup is ex­pected to go to the jury on Mon­day.

Prosecutors have promised to seek the death penalty if fonner prison gang leader and white su­premacist Lawrence Russell Brewer is found guilty.

Brewer, 32, testified for four hours Friday and laid the blame for James Byrd Jr.'s death on a third defendant. Closing argu­ments were set for Monday morn­ing.

Brewer said it was 24-year-old Shawn Allen Berry who slashed Byrd's throat during a scuffle, then attached the chain to Byrd's

ankles and the pickup, and drove down a deserted logging road with Byrd dragging behind. Byrd's body was found shredded and dis­membered near a black church nearby.

For Brewer to be convicted of capital murder,jurors will have to agree there was another felony involved, such as kidnapping, and that Brewer helped chain Byrd to the pickup before the 49-year-old was dragged to his death.

Brewer admitted being in the truck with all four men-includ­ing Byrd -June 7, 1998, and trying to kick Byrd during a scuffle after the men got out to smoke. But he said he knew nothing about a kidnapping and didn't realize what happening the night Byrd died.

BOARD OF ELECTIONS COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN

MARIANAISLANDS

PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to 1 CMC §9910(a) and (b), Governor Pedro P Tenorio and Lt Gov­ernor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Board of Elections, hereby gives notice that the Board of Elections will meet on Wednesday and Thursday, Septem­ber 22 and 23, 1999. The meeting will convene at 10:30 a.m. at the Office of the Board of Elections, Gara pan, Saipan. Additional information concerning this meeting is available at the Office of the Board of Elections, Gara pan, Saipan.

AGENDA

I. Preliminary Matters a. Roll Call b. Adoption of agenda

II. Executive Director's Report Report and recommendation for certification of candidacy petitions for the 1999 regular general election; ballot format and contents; and proce­dural requirements for special elections.

III. New Business a. Review and certification of candicacy petitions for the 1999 regular

general election b. Determination of format and content of 1999 regular general

election ballots, initiatives ballots and judge's retention ballot initiatives, and judge's retention question

c. Review of Requirements for special election IV. Adjournment

ls/Gregorio C. Sablan Executive Director

COMMONWEALTH PORTS AUTHORllY

NOTICE OF CPA. BOA.RD !UEETI.NG Pursuant 10 Public L:iw 8-4!. Section I 1, Governor Pc-<lro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor ksus R. S:1hl;\n, through thr.: Commonwc:al!h Port~ Authority Board of Dircrlors. h~·rc:bv !.;i vc not in: th:it 1]1c r,:::;ubr 11:cding of thl' CPA Board of Dirl'l'llirs will]~ hclJ un Friday. Scpt~m--hcr 2-L \ 999 11!

10:00 a.m. ;11 thl' CPA Confrrl'IKl' Room. Saipan Scapmt Ollicl' on S,1ipan.

Thl' fo\\owinL; items arc on lhl' a~l'nda, for the abovc-rdi.:renci.:J mei:tin,1: L PRELIMINARY MATIERS

0

I. Call to Order .1. Adoption or Agenda 2. Roll Call 4. Adoption or Mioutes (81.ll/99)

II. CORRESPONDENCES (information only) 111. COMMITIEE REPORTS

I. Financial Affairs 3. Seaport Facilities · Adopt. of Fin. S1mrn1cn1

2. Airport Fucilities 4. Pcrsonnd Affairs IV. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REP0RT

I. Project Slatus Report V. OLD BUSINESS

I. Adoption · Second ( 1999) AmemJmcnt to Tl'nninuJ Tariff Rce:ulatiom rl' St.'.apon parking fl'c (re effective Uate) -

2. Prnposed CorrL'Ctions to Terminal Tariff (re irnpleml.'nl.ition thttcs) 3. ATCT Turnowr-Contract or FAA and CPA

VI. NEW BUSINESS I. Election of Officers 2. Air lint! Incentive Program~New Carrier/New Market

VII. MISCELLANEOUS MATIERS VIII. PUBLIC COMMENT IX. (faecutivc Session) LEGAL COUNSEL'S REPORT X. ADJOURNMENT

All intcn:stl'tl f}l'rsons :m: wL·lrnrnl' IO attL"nd anti to suhmit writti.:n or oral testimony on thi.: ,ih(Wt.: agenda items.

is! ROMAN S. PALACIOS Ch:1irman, Board of Directors

Sept. 16. 1999

. 20-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY-SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 NATION

Lapses seen at weapons.labs WASHINGTON (AP) - De­spite finding marked improve­ments in security at the government's three nuclear weapons Jabs, investigators still were able to penetrate some sen­sitive areas of the Jabs' com­puter systems, according to a top-level Energy Department re­view.

However, a team of security experts was unable to penetrate the top-secret computer network used for nuclear weapon design during the intense security re­view conducted over the sum­mer.

But one official said at two of the Jabs-Sandia and Lawrence Livermore - the security spe­cialists were able obtain from the outside "sensitive" -though not secret- information on un­classified computer systems

"without a whole lot of diffi­culty."

At Los Alamos, which has been the focus of a three-year investigation into alleged Chi­nese espionage, such penetra-

. tions were successful only from within the lab compound, said the official, who spoke on con­dition of anonymity.

The report by the Energy Department's Office of Inde­pendent Oversight says the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico overall showed significant improvements in its security and was given a "satis­factory" rating.

The Sandia National Labora­tory near Albuquerque, N.M., and Lawrence Livermore Na­tional Laboratory in California both were given "marginal" rat­ing. Officials said security im-

provements already underway make it likely the two labs' rat­ing will be raised to satisfactory by year's end.

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said that while more work is needed, the findings of the report, to be formally re­leased Monday, showed major improvement and demonstrated that his security reforms were working.

The Associated Press learned the substance of the report in advance.

"It's good to get a decent re­port card on security measures," Richardson said when· ques­tioned about the forthcoming report in a recent telephone in­terview. "Security at our labs is good and getting better. The labs deserve credit for their improve­ments rather than continued

Bill Richardson

criticism." Separately, Sandy Berger, the

president's national security ad­viser, said Sunday that attempts to beef up security, beginning in 1997, were hampered by "bu­reaucratic resistance" and "an institutional unwillingness' by the research labs to adopt more rigorous security controls.

Berger, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, defended ad­ministration responses to alle­gation of Chinese espionage at the labs about which he got a detailed briefing in mid-1997.

President Clinton directed new security measures in Feb­ruary, 1998, but it was not until earlier this year that tough, new measures were put in place by Richardson.

The independent review by a team of investigators Richardson calls '"junk yard dogs" was intended to test those new security measures, includ­ing computer safeguards and improved handling of classified material.

fied network has been compart­mentalized, separatiog "sensi­tive" from other information, and electronic mail is being ran­domly monitored.

Nevertheless, said one offi­cials familiar with the review, investigators were able to get into the sensitive areas of the unclassified system at all three labs during their reviews this summer. He said changes were made at each of the Jabs to plug the gaps.

Access to the unclassified computer network has been of concern because at Los Alamos, investigators last March found that a scientist had improperly transferred thousands of files of top-secret computer codes into his unclassified office -com-puter. .

The scientist, Wen Ho Lee, was fired last March for other security violations after he had been the prime target of a three­year FBI investigation into the alleged theft of nuclear secrets by China in the 1980s.

Lee has not been charged and has denied proving China with any secrets. While acknowledg­ing he moved the computer codes, he claimed he did so only to make his work easier.

The security review at the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico was conducted in two stages in Au­gust, officials said. It found the Jab had beefed up computer se­curity, improved protection of classified material, improved accountability of nuclear mate­rials, added additional guards and put in additional alarm sen­sors.

Four young men gather to pray at the front of the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas Sunday. The church held its first service after a gunman entered the church on Wednesday, killing seven people. AP

Over the past six months new procedures have been put in place to guard against moving data out of the top-secret classi­fied system, and to better safe­guard the unclassified· system against outside access, officials said. For example, the u.nclassi-

More important, said a vet­eran DOE security official fa­miliar with the review, there was "a marked change in atti­tude" about security among Los Alamos scientists and manag­ers.

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FORT WORTH, Texas, (Reuters) - Worshippers on Sun­day returned to the scene of de­ranged gunman's rampage at a Baptist church as Fort Worth pre­pared to host a city-wide memo­rial service for the victims of shooting.

Wedgwood Baptist Church re­opened for Sunday services just four days after Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, sprayed a crowded youth service with bullets on Wednesday.

Fourteens and three adults were killed and seven others wounded before Ashbrook, described by police as a paranoid loner, put the gun to his own head and commit­ted suicide.

Wedgwood's pastor Rev. Al Meredith, in a sermon entitled "Where is God in all this?", told his faithful the victims were in heaven and that God would help the survivors get their lives back

in order. Holding up an egg, he drew an

analogy to the nursery rhyme "Humpty-Dumpty."

"We have had a great fall. But you know what, unlike all the king's horses and all the king's men, someone can put the pieces back together again. You know who that is? God," he said.

The main church hall or sanctu­ary, wheretheshootingtookplace, was packed to near its 1,000-per­son capacity.

Meredith said there had been an outpouring of support and prayer, evidenced by more than 5,000e-mails from people around the world and the fact that the church "People are praying, they're praying, praying, pray­ing, and you've been praying, and that's why we have a victory," Meredith said.

After regular morning church services, religious leaders were

due to gather at a local sports stadium for a city-wide memorial expected to draw thousands of people.

TexasGov.GeorgeW.Bushwas due to attend the memorial service at the stadium atTexas Christian University in Forth Worth, which can hold up to 48.000 people .

Sunday's memorials marked another day in a long weekend of mourning.

The first funeral services were held on Saturday for four victims - 17-ycar-old high school student Justin M. Ray, Southwestern Bap­tist Theological Seminary stu­dents Shawn Brown, 23, and Kim Jones, 23, and 1991 seminary graduate Sydney R. Browning, 36. .

The remaining three victims' funerals were set for Monday. They are Kristi Beckel, Joseph Enis, and Cassandra Griffen, all 14 years of age.

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Saddam blames US on oil prices BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)-Presi­dent Saddam Hussein, whose country boasts the world's sec­ond largest oil reserves, said oil prices are still 75 percent below their value 25"years ago and holds the United States responsible.

"It is American policy which holds sway over oil prices in the world," Saddam said in remarks published Sunday. "It is capable of plunging the peoples of oil producing countries into a series of crises in accordance with its strategy."

Saddam said members of the Organization of Petroleum Ex­porting Countries, producing more than 26 million barrels of crude a day, have two alternatives to regain lost value of their ex­ports.

He said they should strip global oil markets of American influ­ence, and second, put their own national interests ahead of Ameri­can interests.

"These are the rudiments of our oil policy," state-run newspapers

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quoted Saddam as telling minis­ters at a Cabinet meeting held late Saturday.

Saddam's remarks came as oil ministersrepresentingOPEC's 11 members geared for a meeting in Vienna on Wednesday to review prices and output Ministers are expected to extend the produc­tion cutbacks adopted last spring to help boost oil prices, which are moving closer to $ 25 per barrel.

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Higher oil prices expected LONDON (AP) - Consumers could pay even more to heat their homes and drive their cars this winter, with OPEC members showing little sign of budging be­yond their current levels of oil production.

Ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are expected to stick by their most recent round of cuts in output when they meet Wednesday in Vienna, Austria. OPEC produces more than 26 million barrels of crude each day, almost two-fifths of the world's total.

At its last meeting in March, the group agreed together with key non-OPEC producers to slash daily production by 2.1 million barrels, or 2.6 percent of the glo­bal supply, in an effort to buoy prices from I 2-year lows. The agreement, which followed cuts the year before, extends through March 2000.

OPEC has displayed uncom-

mon unity since, achieving a high degree of compliance with its re­duced quotas and causing a sharp turnaround in prices.

Contracts for U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil were trading in New York last week at more than $ 24.50 per barrel, more than double a year­to-date low of dlrs 11.26 on Feb. 17.

U.S. heating oil has made a similar rebound, trading last week at more than 61 cents per gallon compared to a low on Feb. 16 of 29 .20 cents per gallon.

And unleaded gasoline prices have risen even more steeply, to almost 69 cents per gallon from a year-to-date low of 32.40 cents per gallon.

These higher prices could tempt some in OPEC to pump more oil than their quotas allow.

In recent weeks, however, min­isters from several of the 1 I mem­ber countries have expressed sup-

port for continued restraint, and none has objected to the idea. OPEC's compliance with this year's production cuts has been high, peaking at 92 percent in August, according to the Interna­tional Energy Agency in Paris.

As a result, industry analysts expect that this week's meeting will not lead to any immediate changes in output.

"It would be wrong for them to change their production quota simply because of this sharp rise in price.

That would be a knee-jerk reac­tion,'' says Mark Redway, an ana­lyst with the London-based bro­kerage Greig Middleton and Co. Ltd.

OPEC aims to keep oil prices stable at a high level, and any increase in production wou Id risk triggering a new round of volatil­ity.

"What they have to do to stabi­lize prices is keep to their cuts

A TV cameraman films inside the new Ferrari 360 Modena presented at the 58. International Motor Show (/AA) in Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday. This sports car is equipped with a VB 3.6 liter engine powering it with 294 kW (400 PS). AP

Ford has new car with twice typical mileage WASHINGTON (AP) - Ford Motor Co. is delivering a full-size family car to the C.S. Energy De­partmentnext month that gets about 25 kilometersperliter(60mpg)­twice the gas .mileage of a typical car.

Government officials are calling the step a milestone in joint gov­ernment-industry attempts to find technologies to achieve a mass­produced, family car that gets far greater fuel efficiency than today's family cars.

The Ford car, called the P2000 LSR, ha, a hybrid diesel-electric engine system and can easily be refueled and driven daily. It has the passenger room, trunk space and driving acceleration of a Taurus.

But it is made mostly of alumi­num and other lightweight materi­als, making it 40 percent lighter than the Taurus, or about 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms), Ford en­gineers said.

Ford will tum over the keys to the car in October, company offi­cials said. Other automakers are working on similar fuel-efficient hybrid cars or have produced work­ing models.

But Ford is the first automakerto give the Energy Department such a hybrid family car that can be driven daily and that they can test.

Unlike other future cars being developed, such as those using hydrogen fuel cells, the diesel-elec­tric hybrid can be refueled at a gas station.

Toyota already hasahybridgas­electric vehicle on the road in Japan, called the Prius. The four­seat compact car gets 28 kpg (66 mpg), and Toyota expects to in­troduce it into the U.S. market next year.

Ford and General Motors Corp. have said they do not plan to have a hybrid car in production until the next century.

Postal Service,· carriers in deal

WASHINGTON (AP) - An ar­bitration board announced Sunday that the U.S. Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Car­riers had reached agreement on a three-year contract that includes wage and health benefit increases for240,0001ettercarriers, the Postal Service said.

The contract covers the period from 1994, when the former agree­ment expired, through Nov. 20, 200 I, the service said in a state­ment.

It includes general wage in­creases ofup to 2 percent plus cost­of-living adjustments, and an in­crease in the postal service's share of health benefit contributions.

The postal service had reached an earlier agreement with two of its largest unions, the 361,000 mem­ber American Postal Workers Union, and the 61,000-member National Postal Mail Handlers Union.

until they feel stockpiles have come down to an appropriate level," Redway argues.

Global oil inventories are ex­pected to fall as temperatures cool and seasonal needs for heating oi I increase.

Economic recovery in Asia and to a lesser extent, Brazil, should also have an effect, says IEA ana­lyst Deborah White.

The IEA is part of the Organi­zation for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of the world's most developed nations.

White foresees global demand rising by 5 million barrels per day to create a total daily demand of 78 million barrels by the first quar­ter of next year.

Upward pressure on prices for crude and refined products should grow accordingly.

Charlie Sharp of the brokerage T. Hoare Canaccord predicts that the price for Brent crude could peak this autumn at$ 25 per barrel.

"But we wouldn't expect that to be sustained for the rest of the year," he says.

·' As oil prices go up, there will be more and more temptation for OPEC countries to bust quotas, and there will be more and more oil coming in from non-OPEC countries as well."

OPEC's members are Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, the

United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, Indonesia and Iraq.

Venezuela recently proposed setting up a mechanism to regu­late prices for the benefit of all producers.

It wants OPEC countries to ad­just production whenever prices approach either extreme of a pre­determined band.

OPEC ministers are expected to discuss the idea in Vienna, but some analysts doubt the idea could ever work in practice.

"It's very difficult to target any price," says Leo Drollas, chief economist at the Center for Glo­bal Energy Studies in London.

"The main problem is informa­tion. You don't know enough about oil supplies - about oil demand - on a month! y basis .... So you'd be flying in the dark most of the ti me."

The choice of a successor to OPEC Secretary General Ri lwanu Lukman of Nigeria is one poten­tially divisive issue of the meet­ing.

Saudi Arabia and Iran, OPEC's two largest producers, have both nominated candidates to replace Lukman, who is resigning. But Algerian Oil Minister Youcef Yousfi, who is also president of OPEC, is widely regarded as a possible compromise candidate.

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Miss erica to help Vets

Miss America 2000 Heather Renee French, the former Miss Kentucky, acknowledges a reporter during her news conference in Atlantic City, N.J., Sunday. AP

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ence as a high-profile spokes-- The new Miss America, woman for veterans. whose father is a disabled "I've already heard fr6m six Vietnam veteran, says she or seven (veterans) just since hopes to use her crown to spot- last night. They said they 're light homelessness among vet- really grateful that someone erans. like her can be a spokesper-

Miss America 2000 Heather son for them. It's about time Renee French, 24, of the veterans had a spokesper-Maysville, Ky., a graduate son." design student who has done French had dreamed of be-volunteer work for the Veter- coming Miss America since ans Administration, will cam- she was about 9 years old, her paign for increased govern- mother said. ment assistance for down-and- She pursued it doggedly, en-out veterans during her reign. tering the Miss Ohio pageant

"We have over 250,000 once and competing in the homeless veterans, spread na- Miss Kentucky pageant three tionwide," she said Sunday. times before winning it on her "A large population, of course, ·fourth and qualifying for a are in Washington, D.C., and shot at Miss America. in large cities. You find they On Saturday, she sang "As congregate in the larger areas If We Never Said Goodbye·· because that's where the fa- for her talent offering during cilities are that treat those the nationally-televised 79th needs." annual pageant. She won a

Her father, Ron French, 52, $40,000 scholarship and be-served in the U.S. Marine came the first Miss Kentucky Corps in Vietnam and was ever to win the Miss America wounded in combat - he was Pageant from that state. shot in the wrist - early in The scholarship money, to-his four-year hitch. gether with the pageant's de-

He said he believes his cision to drop a 50-year-old daughter will make a differ- ban on abortion and divorce.

made for comic fodder during the telecast.

Prior to French's corona­tion, co-host Marie Osmond joked that the new Miss America would split the schol­arship money. "She ·s going to share it with her ex-husband," Osmond quipped.

French ducked questions about her opinion of the rules change Sunday.

She has never been married, but she has a 38-year-old boy­friend, Tracey Morris, who is an investor.

Still, it wasn't Morris who kissed hrr for the cameras Sunday.

In an unexpected twist on an old Miss America tradition, a surfer approached French as she frolicked in the surf for photographers.

Carrying his surfboard, Joe DeMelia of Brigantine walked up to her. "Hey! Miss America!" he said.

Then he handed her his surf­board and clutched her from behind as the photographers. snapped away. "I gotta' go surfing, but first I gotta' kiss Miss America," he said.

61-year-old billionaire searching for cancer cure SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -To catch a fly, chemical mag­nate Jon Huntsman explains, you have to know where it's headed.

The 61-year-old billionaire leaps to his feet to prove his point on an unsuspecting insect. First calculate its trajectory, he whispers. He kneels down on the plush carpet, then snatches tlie air where the bug should be. A swoop and a miss. The fly gets away.

Huntsman shrugs and settles back into the couch. Failure is just part of the process, he says.

"Always shoot ahead of the target," he says, reciting les­sons learned as a naval gunner. "You have to use your imagina­tion."

It's a philosophy that works for the man who built the world's largest privately owned chemical company from scratch and is embarking on his next mammoth task: finding a cure for cancer.

Last week, he officially opened the Huntsman Cancer Institute, a six-story addition to the University of Utah campus.

With $151 million out of his own pocket and a pledge of mil­lions more each year, Hunts­man built a center that looks more like a corporate headquar­ters than a hospital and staffed it with 300 researchers lured from the top laboratories in the nation.

His priority is to focus on the precursor genes that could help · doctors predict cancers, and he envisions inoculations in the not-too-distant future that would protect high-risk patients.

For Huntsman, the bottom line is simple: End human suf­fering.

It's a goal he has carried since his youth in rural Idaho, since receiving a scholarship to study at the University of Pennsylva­nia, since he started donating $50 of his $320-per-month na­val salary to the poor decades ago. He found the means when he created the Styrofoam egg carton and the famous McDonald's clamshell burger container, then went on to found his own company in 1 970.

He claims he is building a massive petrochemical empire just so he car. give the proceeds away. With April's purchase of four divisions of London's Im­perial Chemical Industries, Huntsman Corp. is expected to nearly double its revenues to $7.5 billion per year. Forbes magazine calculates Huntsman's personal wealth at $3.2 billion.

"It's such a joy to give money away and it's such a privilege, and it's even more than a privi­lege - it's an absolute duty in life," Huntsman says. His com­pany lists charitable giving in its mission statement, and its 16,000 employees regularly top fund-raising lists for the United Way and other causes.

The cancer institute - an at­tempt to single-handedly revo­lutionize cancer care - is a personal mission for Huntsman. His mother, father and stepfa­ther died of cancer, and he has fought off prostate and mouth cancer.

But, he insists, his goal is not to protect his own nine children

and 40 grandchildren, whose framed pictures cover every inch of a table in his living room.

"I don't think you can move science forward or provide re­sources for science for your own personal edification. It has to be for the general good," he says.

As an example, he points to Michael Milken, who co-chairs a prostate cancer association with Huntsman and has given at least $45 million to cancer re­search. Huntsman praised Milken's dedication, but sug­gested his colleague's goal of curing his own acute prostate cancer may be myopic. The same goes for those entrepre­neurs who wait till their death to give their billions away.

But then, he admits, most moneymakers have sharehold­ers and heirs to answer to. Huntsman says that's why he has kept Huntsman Corp. pri­vate, despite a "phenomenal .. buyout offer from a top Ameri­c.an company in recent months, he says.

By keeping the company in family hands, Huntsman has the control he craves. Eldest son Jon Jr. heads the cancer insti­tute, second son David runs the company from Brussels. and all of his children except his young­est son, who is mentally dis­abled, work in the business. Each family member is self-suf­ficient and none rely on his lar­gesse ..

Down the hall, a phone rings. Huntsman glances but at the Salt Lake Valley spread below his sunken living room - he's not usually home during the day, he says, and he's enjoying the nov-

elty. Above the fireplace is his favorite painting, a scene of pio­neers camped by a stream.

A reproduction by the same artist welcomes visitors to the cancer center, where Huntsman's own pioneers work in the lab. To some, it seems a gamble. Not to the man who never takes notes into acquisi-

tion meetings, and who says success-like catching flies­is just a matter of staying ahead of your target.

"It's hard to see inside each other, what makes us tic.k and what motivates us to take risks," he says. "But I don't think I've ever taken a risk in my life."

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YOUR BIRTHDAY TUESDA Y,September21, 1999 Born today, you are destined to enjoy great longevity in your ca­reer. Your status is sure to remain unchanged once you achieve the success you most desire, provided, of course, that you don't get side­tracked in some way. You may prove to be one of the ground­breakers in your line of work, and the founder of a healthy heritage that lives on long after you have passed from the scene. Despite notoriety and success, you 're not the kind to take yourself too seri­ously, or to think of yourself in anything but the most realistic of tenns. Despite the "idol" status you may attain, you will always consider yourself nothing more than an average person!

Boredom and frustration are not overly familiar to you, and both your professional life and your personal affairs will offer you more, each day, than most people might let themselves expect. You, however, can get quite used to living the kind of life of which most others only dream.

Also born on this date are: Ricki Lake, actress and talk-show host; Bill Murray, actor and comedian; Stephen King, author; Larry Hagman, actor; H.G. Wells, au­thor.

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tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

WED., SEPTEMBER 22 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -

You may not be able to put your best foot forward today as you had planned, but you can still be noticed and rewarded notwith­standing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) -You must be willing to do things a little more slowly, and with a little more care today. Yourusual style may not be hazard-free at this time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -A sudden feeling ofinadequacy is not likely to last long today, as an opportunity to shine will be upon you before nightfall.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21)-It's time to find anew outlet for your creativity, as you are very likely feeling cut off and stifled right now, whether you know it or not.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)- You may encounter some­one or something today that puts you on a slightly different path. Be sureyou'reaware of any subtle changes.

AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.18) - You'll enjoy a good deal of excitement as a result of an unusual

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encounter today. Don't let per­sonal safety slip through the cracks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - You're likely to get a good look at someone you love in a new and exciting light today. Re­newed interest and vigor are two valuable benefits.

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Sosa sn1acks 61st home CHICAGO (AP)-Sammy Sosa has used his home-run hop 61 times so far, bouncing out of the batter's box. following the flight of another ball as it s~ils ove~ a fence and then stutter-stepping his way around the bases.

The sly le is all his. And now he has a record all to himself as well - the first man to reach 60 hom­ers twice.

'Tm sure he's not done for the year," Milwaukee pitcher Jason Bere said Saturday after surren­dering No. 60.

And Bere was prophetic. Sosa came back Sunday and hit a pro­digious homer in his first at-bat for No. 61 off Hideo Nomo. With a 16mph windblowingout,Sosa's homer went way out of Wrigley Field. bounced, hit the windshield of a parked car and then rolled halfway down a side street as fren­zied souvenir-seeking fans went in chase. -

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Act. Last April, Wage and Hour Divi­

sion regional administrator George Friday issued the administrative subpoena to the respondents re­quiring them to produce certain records and documents necessary to the probe.

Herman said the respondents have failed to provide a substantial number of the documents required by the subpoena, and has redacted ponions of documents it has pro-

Tourism ... Continued from page 1

gram in the U.S. (for those com­ing) from Japan (and other coun­tries). When they take over im­migration, I'm sure those waivers will become applicable to the CNMI," said Tenorio, adding that there are about J 7 countries in the list.

But still, MVA maintains a strong stand against federal take­over.

'"We would like to retain local control of labor and immigration. By doing that. we are pr;tecting those companies that are depen­dent on foreign labor for tourism­related businesses such as hotels,"

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it (funding for youth projects) does not have to come from the pri­mary benefactors who are essen­tially the kids,"Hofschneidersaid.

What helped convince mem­bers of the legislative body, said Hofschneider, is House Bill 11-464, which was introduced by House Vice Speaker Jesus T. Attao (R-Saipan).

The bill seeks to cut five per­cent from the I 0-percent gam­ing jackpot tax and have it used to fund youth and senior citizen projects.

On the heels of his 66-homer season a year ago when he lost to Mark McGwire by four in baseball's epic home run derby, Sosa hasn't let up.

"We knew he'd strike out a lot, but he had such potential, .. said Jim Lefebvre, who was Sosa's first Cubs manager in I 992 and is now managing the Brewers the rest of the season.

"He's one of the real treasures we have in the game now. People ask me if I saw greatness in Sammy. I saw a five-tool guy with three outstanding traits - a great body type, he is absolutely fearless and he wanted to be great. He worked hard at it. But to think he'd hit 60 - and twice - I couldn't have predicted that."

Who could have? When Sosa reached 60, he ended a seven­game homerless streak in which he was obviously pressing to make history.

duced. Suchsubpoenarequiredthefirms

to produce certain specified docu­ments relating to the volume of sales. annual dollar volume of busi­ness, identity of customers, and identity and dollarvolumeof goods shipped by respondents in com­merce.

Herman said the documents in question are necessary to the Wage and Hour investigative detennina­tion ofrespondents' coverage un­der and compliance with the prov i­s ions of the Act.

"In the event that respondents are investigatively determined, for

Tenorio said. MV A Board chairman David

M. Sablan said earlier that the U.S. government's downplaying of CNMI effons in reforming its own labor and immigration laws has gone too far to jeopardize the efforts of the entire CNMI to pro­mote the islands as a prime tourist destination.

The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands (HANMI), for its part,hasrepeat­edly said the imposition of U.S. labor and immigration laws on the CNMI would spel I socio-eco­nomic disaster to the half-a-bil­lion tourism industry.

For one. the recruitment of workers from only t1vo sources - the U.S. mainland and

Hofschneider said the body is "in full support" of Attao's bill which was recently passed by the House. It is now pending before Senate.

"There are other ways that we can fund youth programs and that is essentially what Vice Speaker Attao has introduced. That is why they were in full support of the new legislation (HB 11-464) that was intro­duced and passed by the House and is now at the Senate," said Hofschneider.

"That (Attao bill) is a more appropriate piece of legisla­tion," he added.

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And now with I 3 games left after Sunday, he has a slim chance of matching McGwire's almost unfathomable 70 of a year ago. McGwire did his part Sunday, hitting two against Houston to reach No. 58.

"'Basically, the name of the game now is home runs," Sosa said. '"All the people come to the park to see us hit them. That was one of the reasons why Mark and I brought baseball back last year."

Sosa still packs 'em in at Wrigley Field, even as the Cubs continue to play embarrassing baseball with an 18-45 record since the All-Star break before Sunday's game against Milwau. kee.

Beginning Monday, Sosa and McGwire will go head-to-head in the first of six meetings be­tween the Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in the final two weeks.

example, to have shipped and or to intend to ship goods it produced, in violationoftheAct'sovertimepro­visions, to persons or firms outside the Commonwealth, Wage and Hour would need to be able to make contact with such persons or firms in order to enforce the Act's so-called "hot goods" provisions," the secretary said.

Wage and Hour, under such cir­cumstances, Herman said, would also need to be able to take all necessary and appropriate en­forcement action relating to such actual or intended "hot goods" shipments.

Micronesia- would pose finan­cial burden to employers and would also lower down quality of services.

HANMI said while recmitment from US would be cost-prohibi­tive, workers from Micronesia come with no job skills, and that FSM carries its citizens only through the sixth grade level.

It added that despite the contri­bution of Micronesian workers to the tourism industry, their signifi­cant social impacts and costs to local governments have become the subject of regional contro­versy as more Micronesian fam­ily members who do not work have migrated to Saipan. Guam and Hawaii to join their employed family members.

enacted into law in August of last year to fund construction of vil­lage youth centers.

Asked why a public hearing was not called on the matter, Hofschneider rep! ied that the bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee whose members "early on decided to pass it since they thought 15 cents is innocuous."

The government has projected to collect $1.2 million in gam­ing jackpot tax.

Some $920,000 has been col­lected during the first nine months of the current fiscal year, according to records of the Ways and Means Committee.

Chicago Cubs catcher Benito Santiago (left) and right fielder Sammy Sosa ( ripht) celebrate following their 8-7 win over the Milwaukee Brewers m Chicago's Wrigley Field Sunday. Sosa scored the winning run on a ball hit by Santiago with the bases loaded in the 10th inning.

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checks have been mailed," said Nielsen.

Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio has as­sured some $26 million in rebate money will start coming out this month, even as he stressed that his administration is aiming at releas­ing all the checks before the Oct. 15 deadline.

··r made a commitment that the rebate is forthcoming and so the

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the Election Board tallied the re­sults.

On the brighter side, however, the school level elections showed slightly higher returns.

"I think because yesterday was a school day and the students are near their respective polling loca­tions. On the village level. how­ever, they did not have that con­venience.

"In addition, the students who registered by precinct also had classes. Others were working," Reyes said.

Some polling locations for other precincts were as far as San Vicente and Capitol Hill.

"I think it was because of the transportation problem," said Youth Congress Precinct candi­date, Luis John DLG. Castro.

Reyes and Castro both believe that the low turnout could have been avoided had the polling lo­cations at both precinct and school levels been stationed near each other.

Youth Congress judge inspec­tor for Precinct 4. Rep. Frank G. Cepeda was also disappointed with the apparent ··passivity."

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rebate i~ forthcoming," said the governor, in an interview with re­porters shortly before he left for Washington, D.C. to attend con­gressional hearings on federal take­over legislation.

Rebate money this year, accord­ing to the governor's special advi­sorforfinance and budget, Michael S. Sablan, is some $6 million lower than in previous years-at least $32 million each in 1996 and 1997 to some 19.000 taxpayers.

Sablan attributed this "partly" to changes in rebate rates.

··1 am, in a sense, disappointed because of the lack of participa­tion on the youths' part. We were expecting that because it's the Youth Congress' second year, that we would be able to invite more support from them," said Cepeda.

But Precinct 4 saw an increase in the number of voters as op­posed to last year's.

··This is an improvement be­cause last year. only I 5 voted. Now, we had 19 vorers come in. out of the total 100 ... said poll worker Juliana T. Lizama.

The low turnout is an indica­tion that the CNMI youth have not fully understood the program, said Cepeda.

"They need to come in and learn. As someone older, I could give the advice and teach them the ropes. I have been coaching them on how it is. This is a good expo­sure for them as future leaders of the commonwealth, .. said Cepeda.

The Youth Congress Election Board has yet to r~veal the offi­cial results and according to the Youth Congress Coordinator. re­sults have to be verified by Rep. Ana S. Teregeyo before candi­dates can be proclaimed winners.

Results from Tinian and Rota are still being awaited as of press time last night.

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s defeat Jets, 17-3 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -Vinny Testaverde often seems to be watching when Doug Flu tie does his one-man gang act.

He certainly was watching Sun­day night as the Buffalo Bills' 36-year-old quarterback beat the New York Jets 17-3 with his arms, his legs, and even his 179-pound body, sacrificed in a crushing block that sprang Antowain Smith on a 12-yard run that set up the game's first touchdown.

"Doug's a player. He makes plays," Bills coach Wade Phillips said in something of an under­statement. "He made them throughout the game, even block­ing. We don't expect him to do that."

Sure Flutie had help against a team that was missing six start­ers, including Testaverde, the quarterback who also was on the sidelines as a redshirt for Miami when Flu tie threw the "Hail Mary" that beat the Hurricanes for Bos­ton College in 1984.

Smith, held to 7 yards on six

carries by Indianapolis last week, gained 113 on 30 carries Sunday night.

Bills nose tackle Ted Washing­ton and linebacker Sam Cowart stuffed Jerald Sowell on fourth­and-inches at the goal line when the game was scoreless in the second quarter. Overall, the Bills gained 224 yards on the ground against a New York defense miss­ing nose tackle Jason Ferguson after being held to 47 in a 31-14 loss at Indianapolis.

Coach Bill Parcells of the Jets (0-2) didn't blame injuries.

"This is the first time I've been disappointed in the team," said Parcells, who also was angry af­ter the second exhibition game with Philadelphia.

"It wasn't injuries. I wouldn't use that as an excuse. Poor play­ing. That's what we needed to overcome. We had a nose tackle out but they did a good job run­ning and I give them credit for that."

Flu tie credited the running and

the defense. "When we're running the ball

well, it opens up other things," Flutie said. "It creates an attitude and temper. The offensive line can1e in with the attitude that we 're going to show you, we 're going to show the league that we can run. We hammer the ball."

And Phillips pointed to the fourth-down play that set the Bills off on a 99-yard drive the other way for the first score.

"The fourth-down play was a big play for us. To take it all the way down the field really changed the game for us," Phi]lips said.

That was when Flutie first shined as the Bills broke open a lethargic game and giving Buf­falo (1-1) all the points it would need.

First he ran for 14 and 24 yards on the 99-yard drive that came after Washington and Cowart's play.

Then on a third-and- I from the Jets' 13, Smith ran right, then broke left, pursued by Mo Lewis,

Buffalo Bills fullback Jonathan Linton (35) is stopped by NY Jets defensive end Anthony Pleasant (98) in first quarter action. REUTERS

Buffalo Bills head coach Wade Phillips cheers with wide receiver Andre Reed (83) as the Bills make their final score over the New York Jets Sunday. The Bills beat the Jets, 17-3. REUTERS

NewYork's257-poundProBowl linebacker. As Lewis lunged for Smith, Flutie leveled him.

··r was looking for a defensive back,'' Flu tie said. "But then I saw Mo behind me so I headed for him. I didn't think he saw me, so I was going to hit him high. But then I chickened out and just cut him."

Added Flutie: "A couple ofline­men came over to congratulate me. I expect that attitude from everyone on the field. !don 'tblock all the time but sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself and your body."

Smith gotta the 1 and scored on the next play to make it 7-0.,

Then, on the first possession of the third quarter, Rutie took the Bills on a 57-yard, 8-play drive, that he capped with a 24-yard scor­ing run on which he rolled right, zigged left and then went straight up the middle for the score that made it 14-0,

Rick Mirer, replacing Testaverde who tore his Achilles' tendon in the opener, was 13-of-28for 121 yards for an offense that never really got going.

··r think as we went along, I got comfortable with what we were doing," Mirer said. "But we couldn't put any drives back to back."

Tom Watson makes first mark on Senior PGA tour DALLAS (AP) - Tom Watson has 34 PGA Tour vic­tories, has won eight major championships and is in the World Golf Hall of Fame. On Sunday, he made his first mark on the Senior PGA Tour, shoot­ing a course-record, I 0-under 62 in the final round of the Bank One Championship to win by five strokes in his second event as a senior.

The 62 broke Watson's ca­reer low of 63, which he had accomplished three times. His 20-under 196 total was a sea­son-low on the senior tour and he became the tour's 10th first­time winner this year, breaking the record set in 1989.

Bruce Summerhays started a

shot behind the leaders and had a 66 to finish second. Summerhays had seven birdies in a span of nine holes and was within three strokes of the lead after a birdie on par-5 16th, but Watson, playing in the next group, answered with a two­putt birdie on the same hole.

Watson, who was tied for the lead with five others at 10 under after two rounds, birdied Nos. 2 and 3 and then took charge of the tournament with an eagle on the par-5, 530-yard sixth hole at the Bent Tree Country Club.

Watson added birdies on 7 and 9 for a 6-under 30 on the front nine. He nearly holed approach shots on 11 and 12 for two more birdies. He came up just short on thepar-5 13th,thenchipped within

3 feet ( I meter) and made the putt to go 9 under for the round and take a five-shot lead.

Watson's approach on the final green landed 40 feet (12 meters) right of the hole and his first putt rolled 3 feet ( 1 meter) past.

After he calmly made the par putt, Watson took off his hat, raised his arms in triumph and flashed his famous gap-toothed grin.

Watson's first senior win came against the tour's best as the top 11 players on the money list were in the field.

w atson started the final round tied with money leader and five­time winner Hale Irwin, who shot a course-record 63 Saturday, and last week's winner Gil Morgan, who is fifth on the money list.

Tom Watson acknowledges applause from the gallery as he walks up to the green on 18th hole at the Bank One Championship Sunday. Watson won the tournament with a three day total of 20-under-par. AP.

iS-Mt,.RIAN~S VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- SEPTEMBER 21, 1999

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By Eddie Siguenza Variety News Staff

ONE VICTORY keeps Guam from the Olympics. Another victory, of sorts, could redeem Guam from a disheartening loss.

The pullout of American Sa­moa and Samoa from the Oceania Basketball Tourna­ment later this month, an Olym­pic qualifier, leaves Guam as the only competitor against the host team New Zealand.

It has come down to one game for either team to earn a spot in the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia next year.

"I was under the assumption that it would be a Best-of-3 tournament," said Guam Coach Paul Shimizu. "But now it's just one shot. One game."

According to Shimizu,

American Samoa and Samoa were removed from competition for player ineligibility. Shimizu said he was told that Samoa was dis­qualified by the Oceania Basket­ball Confederation because 16 of the 18 team members did not meet residency requirements.

"What I was told is that Ameri­can Samoa pulled out because of economic difficulties," Shimizu said.

Last month, Fiji pulled out of competition as well. That opened the door for Guam to enter its first Oceania tournament since 1981.

The sanctions against Samoa draws controversy as well regard­ing their participation in June's South Pacific Games. Samoa de­feated Guam for the basketball gold medal, shortly after Guam recorded seven straight victories.

If players on the Oceania squad

were ineligible, were there illegal players on Samoa's SPG team as well?

"That (Oceania) is a separate issue, but I know it's in front of the (OBC) board," Shimizu said. "I don't know what they 're going to do. But we made enough noise of the situation."

Samoa was disqualified from competition in the 1997 Mini Games in American Samoa. That enabled Guam to play the host nation for the gold medal. Guam lost by a bucket.

When Papua New Guinea hosted the 1991 SPG, Samoa was again disqualified from competition for player ineligi­bility. It has also happened in prior SPGs.

After two weeks of practice, Shimizu said the . Guam SPG team is intact for the upcoming Oceania tournament with the

Krung SGA September champ MR. HARRY Kamg, a new member for the Saipan Golfers' Association took home the Septeber 1999 ti tie last Satur­day at the Laolao Bay Golf Re­sort West Course.

Kamg shot an front nine score of 44 and a back nine score of 42 for a total gross of 86.

Kamg handicap of 16 gave himthe best net score of 69 to capture the days tournament event and to qualify for the December SGA "Ace Cham­pionship Tournament".

This year SGA is planning to hold the yearly "Aces of Aces" tournament at the Rota

Resort & Country Club on Rota. Time and date will be an­

nounced at a later date. Second place winner was

awarded to Nobert Sablan who also came with identical net score of 69, but had to concede as he is already an ace winner.

Sablan shot 41 in the front and 42 on the back for a days total gross score of 83,

His 14 handicap gave him the 69 net score.

The third winner was awarded to Mr. "consistent" Tom Aldan who shot 40 front nine and 43 on the back nine for a total gross of 83.

Mr. Aldans' 12 handicap gave him a 71 net for the day.

In the closest to the pin con­test, Frank "Koboy" Sablan won hole #3, Jung captured #7, Joe Demapan was the best on hole #13 with only inches away for the $500.00 SGA hole in one prize.

SGA will be holding next monthly tournament this com­ing Saturday September 25, 1999 for October's Champ.

This is only tentative at this time.

Please contact Ray Diaz at Tel# 234-5997 for more de­tail.

Cardinals to challenge Sosa ST. LOUIS (AP) - Home run leader Sammy Sosa should get his cuts in the six games

i left against the St. Louis Car­i' dinals and his closest chal­

lenger, Mark McGwire. Manager Tony La Russa

complained last season when teams wouldn't pitch to McGwire, who hit his 57th and 58th homers and trails Sosa by three heading into a three-game series Monday night in Chicago.

··we 're going to pitch him like he's dangerous," La Russa said. "That means you don't go four balls and over to first. But you don't say, 'Here's a room-service fastball and have Mark McGwire

some fun.'" La Russa said the only time

Sosa would be intentionally walked is if there was an open base in a tight game.

"You pitch him tough, you expand his strike zone," La Russa said. "'That's what they do to McGwire, except he's got patience to take the walk. So, we 're going to work him over."

Sosa and McGwire each have four homers against each other's team. Sosa is 9-for-22 with 10 RBIs and McGwire is 7-for-21 with 11 RBIs.

The Cubs and Cardinals also close the season with three games at Busch Stadium.

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In their place is Carmen Blas and Manny Alegre, two players who tried out for the SPG team prior to May.

The team rounds out with Fred Peters, Jine Ho Han, Lloyd Lagutang, Eddie Pelkey, Arnold Mesa, Mike Lee, Mike Swaney, Joey Santos,· Joey Cepeda and Jesse Pinaula.

The Oceania tournament will be held Sept. 30 in Auckland, New Zealand. It was to con­clude Oct. 4.

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