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CNMI officials join hotel owners in cutting the ceremonial ribbon to officially open the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino Friday. From left, Tinian Mayor Francisco Borja, CNMI First Lady Sophia Tenorio, Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio, Tinian Dynasty Chairman Michael Kwan and his wife, lnny. Photo by Mar-Vic c. Munar

Tinian Dynasty Casino & Hotel formally opens

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

TINIAN-The Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino formally opened Friday with a promise to generate more job opportunities in the CNMI.

Top government officials and guests from Saipanjoined the hotel owners and staff in the ribbon-cutting ceremony that inaugurated the $200-million five star hotel touted to become a haven for casino enthusiasts in the Pacific region.

"We are confident that the Dynasty will serve as a substantial source of new jobs, employment and training opportunities for our local people in both entry level and management capacities," Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio said in a speech congratulating the hotel staff.

The governor also expressed confidence that the rise of a world­class casino on Tinian would turn the island into a "destination for international travelers" and help revive the CNMI's tourism indus­try.

The ribbon-cutting was followed by fireworks and the traditional Lion Dance, which according to Chinese belief, brings good luck.

The casino has a total of 80 gaming tables and over 400 slot machines with a progressive jackpot worth more than $100,000. It also has blackjack, baccarat, roulette, Asian sic bo and pai gow, as

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Two HIV-positive workers deported

By Aldwin R. Fajardo of the confirmatory tests con-Variety News Staff . ducted on the blood samples of

1WO NONRESIDENT work- another two nonresident work-ers who have been found to be ers with questionable results are

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can-iers of the human immuno- expected to be out this week. deficiency virus [HIV] have al- Heexplainedthatguestwork-ready been deported, Acting ers who test positive for HIV Health Secretary Joseph Kevin will have to b°e repatriated be-Villagomez disclosed. cause the CNMI government

Villagomez said the deporta- cannot pay for the medical ex-tion was voluntary, stressing that penses of HIV-infected indi-the two foreign workers opted viduals due to high treatment to leave for their respective costs. countries upon learning that they At the same time, House com-were infected by the virus that mittee on health and education causes AIDS. chair, Rep. Heinz Hofschneider

He said the two were deported said he will look into the Iegali-days after their health examina- ty of the deportation of nonresi-tions confirmed they were posi- dent workers with HIV. tive for HIV. Hofschneider (R-Prec.3,

"They prefe1Ted to leave and Saipan) agreed that foreign be with their families. It was a workers should not be deported deportation but it was volun- on the basis of their being in-tary," he added. fected with the AIDS virus, add-

Villagomez added that results Coritinuea on page 23

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

THE BANGLADESH Embassy in Washington D.C. has filed a protest with the U.S. Department of State against the CNMI in con­nection with the alleged maltreat­ment of its workers in the Com­monwealth.

The-Embassy, in an April 27 letter, requested the State Depart­ment "to initiate appropriate mea­sures to enforce, safeguard and uphold the rights and interests" of Bangladesh workers in the CNMI."

··11 appears that workers from Bangladesh were in many cases lured into employment contracts with false promises of lucrative employment in premium US com­panies in US, leading to US· green

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had tried to seek legal action "to hold the employers to their con­tractual obligations but the au­thorities have not been help­ful."

Probers believe teenager's death 'gang-related'!: By Ferdie de la Torre are eyeing additional suspect.ls as the 'Ille incident was repor1ed at 1

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Insular Affairs Director Allen P. Stayman, who is among the proponents of the federal take­over. proposal, noted that Bangladesh's protest was the third one filed with the State Depart­ment in recent months. The first two complaints were filed earlier by the governments of Sri Lanka and Nepal.

"The Bangladesh protest sim­ply underlines the need for greater federal involvement in the immi­gration, labor and law enforce­ment problems in the Marianas," Stayman said.

Since federal immigration and minimum wage laws do not apply in the CNMI, St,iyman said, "the federal government cannot use its best tools to help remedy these

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sA11na11 portmali Says UN chief knew but told troops not to act on genocide plans NEW YORK (AP) - Kofi

Annan, now U.N. Secretary-Gen­eral. knew months in advance about plans by the Rwandan gov­ernment to exterminate minority Tutsis. but his office ordered U.N. peacekeepers not to intervene, according to a report appearing in Monday's edition of The New Yorker magazine.

Annan was the head of U.N. peacekeeping operations on Jan. 11, 1994, when the commander ofU.N. forces in Rwanda warned the world body that the Kigali

government was planning to slaughter Tutsis.

In-a fax sent to U.N. headquar­ters in New York, the commander quoted a senior Rwandan secu­rity offical as saying he had been ordered to register all Tutsis in Kigali for the purpose, he sus­pected, of ··their extermination."

In reply, Annan 's office ordered the U.N. commander, Gen. Romeo Dallaire, not lo protect the informant or take military ac-

tion to confiscate arms stockpiles. Annan was aware of the order,

said his aide, Iqbal Riza, who signed the response.

''I was responsible," Riza. still Annan's deputy, told The New Yorker when shown a copy of the order. "This is not to say that Mr. Annan was oblivious of what was going on. No. Part of my respon­sibility was to keep him in­formed."

The Rwandan genocide empted

RP presidential candidates (from left to right) Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, Sen. Raul Roco, House Speaker Jose De Venecia and Vice President Joseph Estrada raise their hands while singing a religious song as they join the charismatic group El Shaddadi in an early morning prayer Sunday in suburban Pasay City. As election draws closer, candidates go to big gatherings of people. AP

Taps in Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur may stay dry indefinitely KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Strict water rationing affecting nearly 2 million people around the capital will continue "indefinitely," news reports said Sunday.

For two weeks, I .8 million people a.round Kuala Lumpur, the capital, have had water sup­plied to their homes and busi­nesses on a rotating basis during designated hours of the day.

The plan, which had been scheduled to end Tuesday, has been extended indefinitely, Che Mohamad Che Jusog, direcror of the city's water works de­partment. was 4uotcd as saying in The Star newspaper.

Despite heavy rains, the four reservoirs that feed the Kuala Lumpur area have remained at critical levels due to the worst drought in decades.

The city has begun to dig un­derground for water for the first time ever.

The Selangor state government, which governs over the capital area, recently hired a local com­pany to dig for water that could supply residents in Klang and Banting, near the capital.

Klang's Chief Minister Abu Hassan said the company, Pangkal Tulin, would begin pumping water from 45 meters ( 150 feet) underground that was

expected to reach homes by May I I.

InPerlis state, more than 8,000 fanners will suffer lower crop yields, said Ishak Arshad, the state agriculture committee chairman.

Ishak said that nearly 10,000 hectares (24,700 acres) of rice farms had dried up and another 1,500 hectares (3,705 acres) of land could not be cultivated because the area's natural wa­ter sources had mn dry.

In parts of Sabah state, the drought has destroyed crops in 627 villages and stricken more than 19,000 farming families with food shortages.

Gore: No Mideast breakthrough

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JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. Vice President Al Gore left Israel Sunday without r,ersuading the Jewish state to agree Loa more extensive withdrawal f;:om tl1e West Bank. media repo1ts said.

Go,e was in Israel to celebrate its 50th ,mnivcrs,uy ,md to smooth dis­agreements over ,m Amc,ican initia­li~•c lxfo11.: lsral:i i and P.ilcstinimi lead· crs meet with l J.S. Scc1etmy of State Madcleinc Alb1ight in London on Mond,1v. -

·111c i'alcstinim1s h,1w already ac­ccpt,xl lhc /\rnc,·ican pruposal lhal links mcasurcs at?ainsl Islamic rnili­t,uits to ,111 Israeli ~vithdrawal trom I 3 pcrcern of l11e West B,mk.

In a l,Lst minute attempt to persuade Prime Minister Ben j,m1in Neumyahu to agree to the U.S. initiative, Gore held a two-hour meeting with the Israeli leader late Sunday night, Israeli media repoited.

However, the ai1po1t meeting did

not lead to ,my b1caktJ1rough mid Gore left for Egypt for meetings with Egyptian P1csident Hosni Mubrn·ak, the ICJJOJls said.

Nctmyahu aide David B,u--lll,u1 said he would check the 1cpons but had no immediate comment.

Isrncl has said that a 13 percent pullback will unJcrrnine iLs security but there have been rcpons that Nct,myahu could offer ,ui 11 pcrccrn witlidrawal.

After meeting G01c on Friday, Nctanyahu indicated that he could meet tJ1e Palestinians halfway.

Gore said Saturday, after meeting with Palestinian leader YasscrArafat, that it apr,emed that "some progress has been made."

April 6. 1994, and by the time it was over three months later, Hutu eKLremists had killed at least 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

French, Belgian and U.S. offi­cials have denied they bad any warning of a government-orches­trated slaughter.

While Dallaire's fax detailing the Rwandan government's geno­cidal plans has been public since 1995, U.N. officials have blocked probes to determine who saw the fax and who ordered the general to abandon his plan to intervene.

In a letter to the Belgian gov­ernment last year, Annan refused to let Dallaire break a non-disclo­sure agreement and testify before a Belgian panel investigating the events in Rwanda because he did not believe it was "in the interest of the organization."

But a copy of the response sent from U.N. headquarters and ob­tained by New Yorker correspon­dent Philip Gourevitch, showed that Annan was responsible for the decision.

Besides discouraging Dallaire from intervening to head off vio­lence, Annan's office told him lo assume that the late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyari man a was not involved in planning for the genocide - despite the informant's claims.

He also was told to tum overt he in formant's reports to Habyarimana and the French, Belgian and U.S. ambassadors to Rwanda.

Riza said Dallaire 's fax was speculative and since it came just four months after 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in Somalia during a U.N. peacekeeping mission, there was no political support for mili­tary intervention in Rwanda.

Alain Destexhe, an aid worker in Rwanda during the genocide, said Dal la ire's memorandum

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should not have been so readily dismissed.

"I would like to know if ever before, in the years since 1945, the U.N. has received a fax or a cable announcing an extermina­tion," Destexhe, now a Belgian senator, told The New Yorker. "I think the U.N. should be account­able."

Annan, on a tour of Africa, was not immediately available for comment. But during a visit to Djibouti on Saturday, he said he would support the creation of a truth commission to investigate the genocide, the British Broad­casting Corp. reported.

For his part, Dallaire has re­peatedly lamented the interna­tional community's moral failure in Rwanda.

"Who really comprehends that more people were killed, injured and displaced in three and a half months in Rwanda than in the whole of the Yugoslavian cam­paign, in which we poured 60,000 troops and more?"

Dallaire told Canadian televi­sion in an interview last year. He says that with 5,000 troops he could have saved thousands of lives.

The article is an excerpt from Gourevitch 's book, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Fami­lies: Stories from Rwanda," to be released in September.

An '!nidentified member of the European parliament gives a thumbs-· up m ~russels on Saturday after the parliament voted to endorse the select,on of 11 nations that will adopt a single European currency next year. AP ·

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Teno submits $240M budget By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Stall

GOVERNOR Pedro P. Tenorio on Friday submitted to the Leg­islature his proposed fiscal year 1999 CNMl budget of$240 mil­lion. saying that "for the first time in the history or the corn­monwea I th, the projected resources ... are lower than those of the previous year.··

The proposed budget, which is $7 million Jess than the government's current funding level, does not include the $6.7 million allotted to the Division of Public Lands (DPL) and de­rived from public land lease rev­enues.

Under the proposed budget, all the branches of government, with fhe exception-of the judi­ciary, will get slightly lesser fund-. ing levels compared to what they received in FY 1998, which ends on Sept. 30. (See table)

Thejudiciary·s budget will in­crease from $5,778,986 to $5,908, I 00, or by S 129, I I 4.

But despite cuts in their fund­ing, the Public School System (PSS) and the Department of Public Health Services (DPHS) will continue to get the largest share of total appropriations.

The governor proposed $4 l ,025,200forPSS, which pro­posed $46.9 million in its FY 1998 "piecemeal" budget that was not, however, enacted.

DPHS. for its part. will get $37.5 million, or close to $4mil­lion less than its $41.5 million

budget in FYs 1997-98. The Department of Public

Safety (DPS) will also have less funding in FY 1999-$13.36 mil­lion, compared to $14. l 5 million in FYs 1997-98.

With the exception or Tinian, the Office of the Governor, the Attorney General's Office (AGO), the Departments of Fi­nance (DOF) and Lands and Natu­ral Resources (DLNR), the rest of the municipalities and executive departments will have less fund­ing compared to their FYs 1997-98 allotments.

Even the Legislature, whichap­provedaS7.6million"piecemeaJ" budget for its FY 1998 or,erations, will be allotted a lesser arnount­$7.39 million for FY 1999.

'!lie last CNMI budget passed by tJie Legislature was the $247 million appropriations for FY 1997.

Saying that the financial fig­ures submitted by the then Demo­cratic governor were "doubtful,"' the Republican-dominated Legisla­ture did not pass a budget for FY 1998.

Since Oct. I, 1997, the govern­ment spending has been based on the FY 1997 budget.

Uncertainties Tenorio. in his letter to the Leg­

islature, described his revenue projections as conservative, not­ing the current "economic uncer­tainties, .. and the impact of the various tax reduction measures passed by legislators last year.

He said the government's "best approach" now "is to encourage

How much go to major depts. FY 1999 Governor's Budget Proposal

FY 1997 Appropriation FY 1998 Proposal FY 1999 Propo.>al (PL 1041/J0-.34) (There wa.r" no budge/

11naclddfor FY 1998)

Judiciruy $5,778,986 $5,419,500 $5,908,100

Legislature $4,937,000 $7.649,000 $7,393,100 (A.sprovfdtrdlryP.I- J/.J)

Office of the Resident Rep. $1,531,600 $1,287,000 $1,515.200

Office· of tbe Governor $17,261,231 $19,099,600 $17,467,500

Attorney Gcncrars Of-ficc $2,457,600 $2,728,400 $3.647,000

DCCA $5,092,819 $5,222,600 $4.543,500

DOC $10,768,540 $) 1,497,200 $9,242,000

DOLI $7,932,900 $8.231,800 $7,734,900

DPS $14,154,100 $15,116,800 $13,366,500

DOF $11,153,040 $10,821,800 $ I 2,030,300

DPHS $41,514,600 $47,349.300 $37,549,600

DLNR $9,539,600 $12,353,600 $ I 1.822,200

DPW $10,480,630 $10,237,100 $8.935,500

PSS' $42,481,300 $46.930,400 $41,025,200 (A.r provide:d by P.L 10-34}

growth where we can, husband our resources and work closely with the private sector to grow our economy."

There will be, he added, a slight upswing in economic activity in FY 1999, resulting largely from capital imp1ovementpmjects(CIP), theoi:,en­ing ofTinian's rn~ino indust:Jy ,md a few private developments.

However. tlie continuing decline of the tourism industry through mid- l 999 is also anticipated, Tenorio said, adding that "we do

not project any net growth in FY 1999."

He proposed mi expansion of the government's cum:nt austerity pro­gram "'to furtherreduce non-essential government exr,enditures (and) the size of government wherever practi­cable, and to improve the ... managementofpublic programs mid se1vices."

Sacrifices For the coming FY 1999, ··we

will all need to tighten our belts and make sacrifices wherever

possible in order that our gov­ernment can operate within its means," Tenorio said.

Personnel costs will be moni­tored, he added, and reduced whenever possible by not filling non-essential FfE (full-time employee) vacancies, reducing starting salaries, freezing salary increased and reducing overtime expenditures.

Tenorio said savings will go to essential services, programs and C!P projects.

Speaker says MVB should not be abolished, but has to do better

Guam Manamko King & Queen

By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

CITING a c1itical situation in the islands' tourism sector, House Si:,eaker Diego Benavente said the Commonwealth needs now, mrnc thm1ever. theserviccsofthe Mmimn, Visitors Bu1cau.

But Benavente is appm·cntly not plc,L,cd with 1hc pe1fomi,mce of the tourism bureau he W,L, propo,ing a

1wrg,uiiz;1tionol-the MVB. plaL·ing il Ji l\.'l'II v under the Oil i L'l' , ii 1h,· ( ;, i1 -

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"W,· \\'l'rc· \\'llrki11g Oil ,I pi,·c,· of kgisbtiun lli,11 11 uu Id du th.rt [ tr,u1s-1·c r MYB to the Ollice ol the (iovcmor[ .. .lx1cJ..: to what it W,Ls lx-101c tht.:cxccutive orcb was issued," he told Vm-it:ty.MVB chai11nw1 /\n­to1110Guem.:roo11·11iursday suggested the abolition ol the bu1cau to save on the secu"L·e financial n.:sources of the government. I k said the promotion or the NM I a, a 1m11ist clc:stination c,m be supc1viscd ;md ad111iniste1cd hy a managcrunderthe Office of the Gov­e111or.

I le said the Lcgislrnu1c tixls the need to 1corg,mizcc lhc MVB and place it under the gove111or's ortice lx:causc ";1t lhat time, MV B was vc1y dkctive and working w1y well."

"We would like Ill sec thal ,1gain [ M VH 's grxid JJCl'lorm,u1ce J IJCcausc let's 1·acc 11. we\·,· heard so 111any [thingsJ alre,rdy not just here kx·,dly but ewn our ncighho1ing isl,uids, as

Diego T. Benavente

well ,L, individuals who have ixcn working with the indusuy. witJ1 MVB, that it has not been able to work," he stressed.

Benavente said Llie1c isan app,m.:nt "slipping back" at Ll1e Visitors Bu­rcau 1ight now· ·,md mrn,, tlicui ever. we need MVB to Ix mrnc effective.'"

He said tht.: N01them M,uima Js­l;uids' tourism i11dusuy is facing a difticu It ;uid serious situation witl1 dipping ,uTi val fi gu 1cs brought about by the economic downturn in Asia ,md the Pacilic.

"We have a ve1y scrious situation in our tourism indusu·y tJ1at needs to LJC addressed agg1css1vely .. .'l11e situ­ation needs to be aud,~ssed witJ1 a lot ut' ct'fons and that\ JU st nut happen­ing nght now so .. .1'111 gl,1d that the [ MVB I chainn,ui is inlerestcd in rc­org,mizing tlic bureau." he ar.ldcd.

Antonio S. Guerrero

Th,.: I louse S11Cakcr also s,1id lk Lcgislatrnc is supp.JI1ing proJXJsals. mid in fact, hm lx:cn working on a Jcgi,;lation, that would make over MVB.

"We a1c uying to 1corganizc it and I think our intention is Llic s,uiic. l11,1t is just to somehow 1egroup and lricus on improving the situation in Llie tour­ism indusuy," he continued.

Bcnavemc cmph,L,izcd tJ1at tJic rc­rn·gwiization would not 1csult to Ull~ displacement of MVB employees since tJ1e tou1is111 body will just lJC pl,1ced in ,u10Ll1cr system ··mid in ,motlier m,magcment. ..

"lhavcabill tlwtaclually prnposed to create mi oflicc underthe Oflict.: of lhc Governor and lht.:re ,m: also pro-1xisals to keep the awhority or the lxiard ;uiJ we ~1ink that it is impon;mt

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The 17th annual Manamko Rai and La Raina coronation took place Friday morning at the Hotel Palace Guam with Seniot Paul Sebay (right photo) of the Pili Senior Citizens center as Rai and Senora Rita T. Castro of the Talafofo center as La Raina. La Raina Rita is with her two month old great grandson, Kenneth Reyes (above).

P11oto b~· Eduardo C. Siguenza_

II c» Letters to the Editor

Sloppy journalism and Pride in our homeland

lx:,u- Editor.

,\lth,1ugh I onh spent a fc:1\ sh011 ye,u, in the bosom of the Ch,m101rn people on S:up,111.

"Rota ,mu Tini,111 I cherish that sp,111 of time as being some of the best of my life. I made life-long f1iends then,. M,my of tl1i: folks witl1 whom I made contact shapeu ,m indelible: m,u'k on my soul.

Du1ing my tenure as editor of the Vmiety wid the rniginal T1ibune I ate with !he people or tl1e Northern Mwiana Islands. was invited lo their homes, pwties and shal\:d mmiy fiu,1ily moments wilh them ... and yes. at times, ,u-gued with them about ideals I held dem· ... al !he lime.

"Patience," I was counseled. "Keep yourmou!h closed and pen neutral befo1e you w1ite about what's ·wrong' witl1 us," !was at time !old by !helegendruy Jo Ten and my ooss. Abed Younis. Finally. I did lerun to obse1ve and found many of the ·journalistic ideals" I held so dew· from my mainland days did not work on Saipan.

One the Commonweal!h 's gieatestdefenders, Larry Hillblom (God rest his soul), helped ch:mge my bigoted ideas and l was impressed how he spent countless hours ,md dolhu-s .1ne111pting to rerum the rights stolen by the rurngant U.S. bureaucrats from m,my M,ui;mas citizens. Lan)' was proud 10 be a citizen and he did his bit to make swe the CNMI wasn't trampled on by !he Feds.

I jusl wish he was alive NOW to take on the jackals of the media who have suddenly declared tl1e CNMI as being some sort of throwback to the ante-bellum pre-civil war Sou!h, with slaves working feverishly over eve!)' sewing machine.

Today's enemy is not necessarily !he federal government; it's members of the mainland media who arc ignorant of Western Pacific economic realities. mid they gullible enough 10 swal101~' the J1ivel being shoveled out by tl1e liberal hoale do­gocxJe1-s. - They eagerly want to apply their mainland mores to a Pacific cultu1e mid turn Saipan and our other beautiful islands into California, Alaska or even Hawaii.

TI-!OROUGH 1ese:u·ch of st01ie,dealingwitl1 !heCNMl can't be done ina week. or C\'Cn a month.

Yet. membc1-s of the press swoop down (usually into !he rums of the "do­gocxlc1,"J and spend a few days (or even just hours) here, talking to carefully pre-selected "victims." walking our "WWII debris strewn beaches·· and maybe spending a little time in a big Japanese-owned hotel.

Then it's back to their 747's business or first-class seats to write aboul their "scoop" of oppression in "America."

No one takes the time to ask the foreign workers about their homeland and what their economic lives were like there.

Instead. they focus on 1he gul liblc - those workers who allegedly spent thousands of dollars JUSl to get a job on Saipali.

Is what happens in another coun1ry the faul! of the CNMI government or her people~ Of course not.

Yet. the way the mainland meuia writes it. the dastardly deed was done by the Chamorro people themselves.

There are parallel situations across the United Stales in migratory farm c:1mps. big city sweat shops and other industries using alien labor.

Former alleged governo1·. Froilan Tenorio. did linle or nothing to help our image othl'r than shell out millions to a purponeJ PR agency that seems Ill h,1\C done l111lc: tu curb 0r l'\t:11 pLic:11e the· rneJi,1 hounds.

Hh !::hor,kpartnwnl mrn1011' ld1 ch,1us r111hcir wahc ,1nJ th,rt i, wh,1l pul

the IJlouJ 111 the med1.: w,1lns. But. 1h,tt wa, thc:n and this is 11011 Term's back in diargc and l predict a

l,lt ul the ,u-calkJ ".ibuscs" will be taken can: uL Thal being said. I would encourage a more confrontational style when

Je,Llin~ with the media. St:1r~ with calling or writing the cuito1, or publishers of newspapers :md

magazines that p1im one-sided stories about the Commonwealth. If' possibk. send e-mail. Wi1h the lower phone costs to call the mainland media directly and

complain ,:bout sloppy reponing local members of the public should call U[l and complain.

lt WILL make a dillcrrncc. Ir l sec: an inaccurate story I make it a poinl to cai I the pub I ication. wire sc1-v ice or TV m:twork and complain about poor or biased researched.

The very first challenge to a reporter's research of a story can usu,t!ly be found in the fir,t kw paragraphs. EVERY story or"testimony" slamming !he CNMI always says we arc either a "territory" a "possession" or a "U.S. Trust Te1Tilory."

The Northern Mariana Islands arc uni4ue in the world, having never been a "possession," "territory" or "U.S. Trust Territory." They WERE part of the United Nations Trust Te1-ritorics ,\DMIN1STERED by the U.S. The "Cornmonw~alth" relation~hip is political and was not won al gun point or by the exchange of currency from one nution 10 another.

If a reporter can not gel 1hc - fundamental - - facts crnTect, is not the rest of their article su;;pect?

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Pagan beckons ONE advantage that the CNMl has over Guam as a tourist destination is !hat it not only has one island to develop. It has one or l\vo other islands north of Saipan wilh potentials for eco-tourism.

The CNMI already has three islands capable of drawing tourists. Saipan has become a tropical playground for Japanese tourists, Rota is attracting a gooo number of tourists, lured by its unspoiled natural attractions, and Tinian has started drawing in casino players, including people from Saipan and Guani, since tl1e opening of its first major hotel and casino, !he Tinian Dynasty, last April 25.

******** Now, Pagan is beckoning and is poised to become !he

nexl island destination catering to eco-tourists and divers. Abracadabra I Aquaventures, a P ADI five-star dive center, is proposing to make Pagan a kayak diving destination. However, visitors who want to go to Pagan and explore its "multiple civilizations/cultures. endangered bird species. large pelagic fishes, black dian1ond beaches, and scientific we,tltli" would also be accommoda!ed.

Abracadabra! intends to minimire the visitors' presence and impact on the island so !hat the numberof guests would be limited to groups off our. 1l1eirstay would also be limited to just four days and three nights. Tourists would be flown lo the island using !he services of Macaw Helicopters.

******** Tiie accommodation envisioned by Abracadabra! is not

even a !Wo-orone-star-type but a "pala pala"-type structure made of native materials. Tiie ambiance that it wants to create is a "maximum ecological awareness" in a Pacific setting. But Abracadabra! doesn't rule out tl1e "upgrading" and expansion of facilities should demand increase. Tiie toilet facilities, which are lime pit outhouses, would be separated from the living area, away from tl1e beach. Showers would be solar-type portables, witl1 the waler corning from a well owned bv Mr. J .G. Sablan. There are also rain wa1ercatchmcnL,cxi:sting on tlie islarnl. 'Ilic waler from tl1e wdl would be made 1:x:,wble tlirough a water cbmsingifiltcr system. Since electricity requirements will be low. a small portable g,LS or diesel generator would provide enough power. according 10 Abracadabra! What is environmentally commendable about tl1e project is its pl:m 10 remove from the island all plastic and other non-biode­gradable refuse. "What is carried in will be carried out," the project proposal states. Some existing trash is even planned to be removed from tlie island.

Abracadabra! pl wits lo transpcrt tl1rce dive kayaks to tlie e,lstcm side of tl1c island for diving ncarTogari Rock. ·me area is deemed to offer tl1e same weatlier protection a~ Saipmi 's Lau Lau Bay,adiving spot. Pagan also has an area which reportedly offers what divers like to see: rocks. large fishes, corals, mid a good drop-off/wall. In between diving, guests can explore the island's interior areas, using tlie extensive animal trails, according to Abracadabra1's pro­posal.

******** Abracadabra I, it seems, is rdl'ing to start the project, which

it says would provide employment opportwiities to return­ing residents of Pagan. '111is type of project has been along­time drcan1 for the people of Abracadabra! Aquavcnlures and.should theprojectbecome successful, would help us to repay the debt we owe the people oftlie CNMI for accepting us imo their homes and heans for so many years," says Abracadabra! founders Ed Comfort, Jewmie Comfort, Lina

Wingenbach, Eric Berndt, and Soonae Kim. Ed and Jeannie Comfort have been residents ofSaipan since 1988; Wingenbach has been here for the past several years as an attorney and a P ADI scuba diver/insnuctor, Berndt is a· recent resident; and Kim is a design artistcunently enrolled at the Northern Marianas College.

******** Abracadabra! was founded last year as a PADI dive

center and got upgraded as a PAD! five-star instructor development center through the efforts of Ed and Jeannie Comfort, themselves certified P ADI master diver insnuc­tors. Abracadabra! has already tniined and certified over 150 local divers.

******** Already, Abracadabra! is soliciting the support of some

agencies, including !he Coastal Resources Management, for its proposed venture on Pagan. Saying it hopes to tum its project into a "mini-laboratory" for marine sudies and as a "specific microcosm to be able to study tlie effects ... tliat divers exert on a specific area," Abracadabra! foresees sharing its findings and facilities to scientists. "We utltimately hope that scientists world-wide will take advantage of the ~nique and diverse conditions of Pagan and be able to conduct in-depth ecological and oceanographic studies," Ed Comfort says.

******** Some people who have known about tlle proposed

project of Abracadabra! like the idea of exploring !he marine and ecological resources of Pagan. One local resident, forexan1ple,said she would be willing to pay $500 to $700 for several days of stay in Pagan, which George Baldwin of CRM, who coordinated a scientific expedition to tlmt island in January last year, said has a "tremendous" potential for tourism development given the fact !hat it has "all kinds of historical artifacts of World War Il"; a large variety of vegetation; extensive, beautiful beaches; mid mountains.

"It isa very beautiful island." Baldwin gushed. altlmugh he said fresh waler i, a problem. Pagrn1, which is 173 miles north or Sairan, was declared a disaster area when its volcano erupted in 1981 and since tl1en, it ha5 become uninhabited. Will tl1isAbracJdabra! venture signal Pagan's resurrection'> We wish Abracadabra! luck and hope tliat it will realize its long-time dream soon.

******** BRIEFS. A4ua Resort Club offers a light- lunch

:tltcmati ve lo tl1e usual heavy stuffbuffe t, a "sandw ichbord'' buffet in its Costa Terrace Restaurant during weekdays. We recommend its taco whose chili con came is wow!. Truly, it, desserts are anmng the best offered in town. Try tl1e ice cream bombe, linzercake ( it, sweetness is just right), chocolate mousse, ,md caramel custard. !LS spaghetti witl1 pesto sauce is herbally aromatic. You make your own sandwich witl1 breadsbakedinARC'sin-housebakery and an array of fillings and garnishes. ARC's food and beverage manager. Pol V. Urcia, and executive chef, Hubert S. Friedle, have good teamwork in making AR C's Cos1aTerraceandothcrrestaurant,popularchoicesan10ng Sm pan's food connoisseurs .... Listcn one of t11ese days to Lcxxus' new band, whose members each came from different groups which played in Hong Kong and Japan entertamment spoK Sometimes in one of !heir playful moments, -they jan1 mid come up with beautifu I versions of f'.inoy (Filipi~~) rock songs. TI1ey also belt out !he best My Shtrona rend1uon an10ng the bands in town.

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I defends survey assessing MVB 'poorly'

Teno denies authorizing anyone to pay I&S debt

By 2aldy Damian Variety News Staff By Rick Alberto

Variery News Sra/1 A SURVEYo!"local hotel l(cn­er;ll rnanagcrs rating the 11er­for111a11cc of the Marianas 'lisitors Bureau poorly was n1nducted 011 the request or the rncrnhns of the lcgish1-ture. l1i'ficials uf thl· Hot~l .\,­soci,1tion of the ;\/urthnn M:1rian;1 Islands said last "cd,.

The sur\·c~ was br,tmkd as a "mickey mouse" survey by MVB Managing Director Anicia Q. To-mokane during the MVB board meeting Thursday. -

Thirteen hotel members of the HANM!were respondents in the survey conducted last week.-

The hotels were identified only by number to "allow for free expression of opinion."

According to the executive· summary of the survey. the respondents "were unanimous in the opinion that they do not feel MVB is responsive to tourism industry leaders and that it is not properly promot­ing our islands ...

One hote I manager went as far as suggesting tile removal or the current bo,1nl and rnan­aging dircl'tor ,111d replacing the board with pri\·atc sector professionals from the tour­ism i1idusty.

Anmherclaimed that .. many people on the current board or directors have no experience in the tourism industry."

Still :mother saiu thi: boa1·d had ,tccomplishcd "almost nothing !his year due to 1he fact that they have been so consumed with the l&S (the

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MVB's Japan-based PR and advertising agency) contract and pending legislation."

In an emotional tone last board meeting attended by HANMI officials, MVB Man­aging Director Anicia Q. Tomokane questioned the motive and the timing of the poll.

"What's the motive of all this?...What is the timing of this mickey mouse survey?" she said.

She said there was a conspiracy to"ease me out ofmy position."

HANMI officials and mem­bers were in the board meeting to present the Visit the Mariana Islands Year campaign next year.

Tomokane had differed with the hotel industry as to the timing of the campaign, saying such a huge task entailed at least a year ur preparation.

The campaign was initimed by the industry as a 4uick re­sponse lo the tourism crunch brought about by the Asian economic turm(ii I.

In his presentation of the project. Hyatt Regency Gen­eral Manager Mustafa Issa said of the campaign, "A little publicity is better lhan noth-

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Com.men ting on the survey, Board Member Rosita Hocog said, "I'm also insulted by this· report, but I don't feel that much because you people (re­spondents) are free to express your opinion."

HANMI President Ron Sablan said the survey was in response to a request of a sena­tor.

"We did not initiate the sur­vey," Sablan told the board meeting, adding that HANMI had never asked the board to be fired.

GOVERNOR Pedro P. Tenorio de­nied Friday that he has authorized anyone to pay I&S, saying that the Japanese advertising agency's pro­posed $3.5 million conln1ct with the Marianas Visitors Bureau is still un­der review.

"I don't know who authorized that, and I don't know who is saying I authorired it,"Tenorio told reporters.

He said his instructions was for I&S and MVB to consult with the Anomey General's Office (AGO) which, he added, is still reviewing l&S's proposed contract

The governor was reacting to ear­lierniediareports, whichquotedMVB Chair Antonio S. Guerrero as saying that Tenorio has authorized the pay­ment

"I should have been asked (to con­finn his statement)," Tenorio said.

Asked, at the same time, to com­ment on Guerrero's proposal to abol­ish MVB, the governor replied, "We will reorganizeMVB, not abolish it"

"Westillneedanagency likeMVB, but (this time) it should have more participation from the private sector," he said.

An administration-supported leg­islation that would reorganize MVB into a semi-autonomous agency is currently before the House of Repre­sentatives.

The bill, which was introduced by

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Senate Majority Leader Pete P. Reyes (R-Saipan), would also al­low the governor to appoint a new board of directors.

Meanwhile, Variety sources said AGO is currently going through I&S's receipts to determine the CNMI's "financial obligation" to the ad agency.

fuSept 1997,MVBrenewedits contract with I&S, which has been assisting MVB in promoting the CNMI in Japan since 1992 ..

However, then governor Froilan C. Tenorio refused to sign it, citing the lack of funds.

I&S then told MVB it would withdraw from the contract, but was assured by'MVB officials that it would be signed eventually.

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Tinian employer fined $21,500 By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

Dec. 31, 1996.

A TINlAN employer who allcg­<:lily faikd to provide work to two nonresident workers h,1s been or­demi to pay $21.500 in unpaid wages. fines and liquidated dam-

to a ruling penned by Herbert Soll of the Department of Labor and l mm i gr:r t ion's Ad mini strati ve lfraring Office ( DOLi-AHO). was likewise permanently dis­qualified from hiring new non­resident workers.

They, however, were not pro­vided work and. after several months of being unemployed on Tinian. were transferred by Diaz to a still unidentified friend on Saipan.

"But." Soll noted, lDiaz ') friend was unable or unwilling to fur­nish them (workers) with employ-

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ment." Soll likewise stated in his find­

ings that Diaz allegedly failed to cooperate in a department inves­tigation on the case.

In his ruling. Soll maintained that Matin stands to receive from Diaz, a total of $9,234 in unpaid wages and liquidated damages covering a $4.617 employment contract.

For his part. Mridha is likewise ordered to be given $9,770 also in unpaid wages and liquidateddam­agcs for a $4,885 work contract.

"Diaz," Soll further ruled, ''is in violation (of three Common­wealth laws) forherfailuretoappear for investigation aml her failure to provide work for each ofheremploy­ees. 01

Soll gave Diaz untilJ une I this year to pay the workers who, for their part, were allowed to seek new employers.

He also dirt!ctcd Diaz to pay the department a civil penalty amounting to $1,500 for the labor violations. Diaz was given until July I also this year to pay the fines.

Landless employer able to hire farmer

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Immigration (DOLi) is now looking into the case of an employer who managed to hire a nonresi­dent worker as a fam1er despite his having no land to fmm.

The worker, identified as a ce1tain Chen Tian Bin, eventually endeded up illegally employed as an auto repairman for another employer who, DOU however noted, "had no legal right to hire him."

The employer has since left the Commonwealth. Chen, who mTived in the Commonwealth in June last year, was

neve1theless granted employment since he was an abandoned worker. ''(Chen) was brought to Saipan ... on a labor contract as a fmmer for

an employer who did not have land to farm. "He (Chen) was given no work and after a period of one month, he

was found by (DOU) to be working on a casual job as an auto repair person," read a copy of the ruling on the case by Herbert Soll of DOLI's Administrative Hearing Office (AHO).

The department, government officials said, is still investigating the case regarding Chen's first employer.

Chen was discharged but was likewise warned that "any future acts of unautho1ized work will be dealt with in a firm manner and may result in required repatriation or deportation."

Dope found in inmate's possession inside cell

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

A MAN convicted of 1mmkr was 1·ound in possession of controlled substance believed to be mari­juana in his eel l at the Department uf Public Safety's Di, is ion of Cor­rections Thursday.

Public Safety Information or­firer Maj. J. J. Camo said a DOC officer confiscated marijuana le:1ves and sticks from 21-year­old .lames i'vlil·hael Sablan Ada.

Castrn said :1 DOC officer in­spcctc:d 1hc j:1il altc1· he s111clbl n1ariju:1n,1 being burned.

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started spraying his cell with air fn:shcncr.

The officer searched the inmate's bed and saw the con­trolled substance placed in a box.

Ada allegedly admitted posses­sion of the drugs. police said.

Ada was among the six persons charged and subsequently con­victed in the gunslaying ol'Byung Ok Suh on Nov. 13, 1996.

Ada and the group robbed the former Chalan Market in San Antonio and shot Suh with a .410 shotgun.

The group ra11 away ll'i !Ir SI ,500 c;1sh, court documents showed.

Bill on health fund OK,d By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Slaff

Till: IIOLJSI: or Rcprcsl'llt:1-t i ,·c, lr:is p:1,sc d ;1 hi II rh a 1 \\'()u Id ,·s\;ihl1sli ,111· annu,:I n.:volvinl.! fund 1·or the ;1cquisitio11 ul rncd i'­c·al ,upplies and equiprnl'.nl.

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Rep. I lcinz S. l lofsl'hneidcr, author or the bill. said the pro­curement of lifc-sustaininl.! phanuaceutic:rl supplies and :1p'-

par:rtuscs should be pursued "in a re liable manner consistent with stand:1rds or pr;1cticc cs­rahlished by health care institu­tions with similar patient care objccti vcs."

The bill specified that the funding oft he revolving imprest l'uml account should come from fonds due lo the Commonw,ialth llcalth Center for services rcn­Jercd to members or the Gov­crnmcnt l lcalth Insurance Plan.

I lofsclrncider also said that the proposed revolving imprest fond account shall not exceed $2 million annually within the Department or Health.

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CHC sues to collect bills

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE COMMONWEALTH Health Center has sued seven more employers to collect alleged outstanding medical bills fortheir alien workers.

Sued we1e Emerald Enterprises, Edward A. Ayuyu, EPC Interna­tional, Sterling Development Co., Joaquin Q. Atalig, Fine Incorpo­rated, and GCD Development Corp.

Cl-IC, through counsel Assis­tant Atty. Gen. Celeste E. Andersen, sued the defendants for alleged breach of contract and violation of the Non-Resident Workers Act.

CI-IC asked the Superior Court to order the defendants to pay bills totalling$38.742. l 7 from the defendants.

According to the complaint, the Emerald Enterprises' four non­resident workers received medi­cal services amounting $4,183.55 from 1993 to Aug. I 996.

Ayuyu 's 12 guest workers re­ceived services amounting $8,344.41 in 1993 to Oct. 1995.

Andersen said others that also received services were:

EPC's four employees­$5,485.42 in Feb. 1996 to Nov. 1997; Sterling's two workers­$6,177.21 in Oct. 1995 to Oct. 1997: Atalig's worker­$5,103.86inJan.1997;Fine'ssix employecs-$4,065.88 in March

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Babauta: 'Focus on local market' By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

WITH THE slumping tourist arriv­als, a legislator on Friday urged busi­nesses in the Northern Marianas to shift concentration from foreign to tJ1e local market in order to survive.

House committee on commerce and tourism chair Rep. Oscar Babauta said most of the retail out­lets and department stores on the island cater to tourists, leaving local and tempordfY residents very little option with regards to trading.

Babauta said there is a great op­portunity to expound on the local market and eventually minimize the

economy's dependence on the tcur­ism industry.

'The CNM1 should reassess eco­nomic benefits and one of them is diversification in tenns of economic opportunity by enticing or luring for­eign investors on diversity aside from the tourism industry," he said.

Babauta said the government should strut encouraging business­men tccome to the CNMI anµ manu­facture different types of items aside from grument products.

"We can probably assemble chips here. There are small-pipe industries that we can cater to. We can venture into soap-making from our coconuts

Oscar Babauta

in the islands," he added. Babauta said local businessmen

who operate even small retail outlets in Garapan should start shifting mar-

ket strategy and lure participation from among local and tempor'JI)' residents.

He said most of small stores espe­cially in hotel streets down in Gara pan cater to tourists, when they can in fact survive longer and better by catcfing to local residents , or guest workers who stay on the is­lands longer than tourists.

He mentioned the possibilities of handicraft-making, and the putting up of small food stores or booths selling local prcxiuce and local fruits.

'That is a big part of economic growth. We can start depending on the local rnarket,"Babautaslressed.

DOLi patrols back in Garapan Take a bile

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Immigration (DOU) has re­newed its night patrols in down­town Garapan following reports of a resurgence of prostitution activities in the area.

In an interview Friday, DOLi Labor Director Gil San Nicolas said the patrols are meant to ensure that employers and non­resident workers are observing labor and immigration laws.

"We are back (in Garapan) because we need to make sure that the business district (there) is in compliance with the law," said San Nicolas.

"We are keeping the employ­ees and employers in line with labor laws... if there are

prositution activities, it will be noted up and sent to proper agencies," he added.

San Nicolas said the patrols were reactivated last week.

The activity was put on hold over the past few months to al­low DOU operatives more time to prepare necessary violation notices against erring employ­ers.

The lull in the nightly patrols, government officials said, was also meant to pull in resources during last month's sustained unannounced inspections of gar­ment factories.

With DOU having become less visible in the tourist area, suspected pimps and prostitutes have reportedly become more "open" in their activities.

A number of shop owners have told Variety that Garapan 's Hotel street has once again be­come "alive with prostitution activities."

The patrols reacheded their peak late last year during the term of former DOU Secretary Tho­mas 0. Sablan who personally supervised the operation.

Several night joints, mostly karaoke bars, were found to be in violation of the Commonweal th' s Non-resident Workers' Act.

These establishments were also suspected of being fronts for a sex trade syndicate operating in Garapan.

Close to 30 nonresident work­ers, mostly Chinese females, were also rounded up during the four-month operation.

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NMC Draina Class presents 'On the Bridge at Midnight'

First Lady announces Mother's Day walkathon FIRST Lady Sophia P. Tenorio announced yesterday that the Women's Health Initiative Partnership Program is ~ng a Mother's Day Walkathon on May 9 along the Beach Road pathway. ·

THE PACIFIC Islands Club will again scrv as a theatrical center this week as the Northern Marianas College (NMC) Drama Class and the Associated Stu dents of NMC present "On the Bridge at Midnight." an old fashioned melodrama in three acts, a news release from NMC said.

''This play allows the actors an opportunity to play their roles to the hilt and they have fun doing so." director Cheryl Treiber said.

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Two performances are sched­uled at the PIC's Charley's Caba­ret: Thursday, May 7 and Satur­day, May 9 both at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5 and proceeds go to cover production expenses.

The May 7 performances will have interpretation for the hear­ing impaired.

The PIC is providing a special dinner discount at the Magellan Room for theatre goers.

"Our students have worked on

their performances and it shows in their work," Treiber said.

"We're proud to win the All· Schools Speech and Drama Festival one act play competi­tion and we invite the public to attend this week's perfor­mances and judge the play for themselves."

Tickets are available at the NMC student government of­fice, S-Mart in Chalan Kanoa and at the door.

Tue walk will startat6:30from Kilili Beach to China House Restaurant and back to Kilili Beach.

"Walkingprotectsyoufromheartdiseaseandhelpspreventadultonset diabetes, hypertension,osteoporosis and depression. In addition, walking is gentle oil yourbackandeasyon your knees. Iencourageeveryone from the community to joun us in promoting health and well-being," Tenorio said, "Remember, Health is Wealth."

All CNMI women are also urged to bring their families and all children to bring their mothers to walk on the beautiful Beach Road. pathway.

1998 Tinian San Jose Fiesta a success

1998 San Jose Fiesta King and Queen wave to the crowd during the Royal Parade fast Saturday.

Tinian residents and visitors march in the procession during the cel­ebration of the San Jose Fiesta last Saturday.

1998 San Jose Fiesta Queen Frances M. Hofschneider is all smiles while indulging in delicious fiesta food.

The Marianas High School JROTC cadets lead the Royal Parade before the fiesta last Saturday.

Participants in the San Jose procession carry the statue of St. Joseph, the saint honored in last Saturday's event.

1998 Fiesta Queen Frances M. Hofschneider shares a smile with 1998 Miss NM/ International Sonya P. Pangelinan during the San Jose Fiesta last Saturday.

The 1998 San Jose Fiesta Royal Court leads the crowd in lining for the fiesta food tables. All pholos by Laila C. Younis

Saipan Intermediate School Reunion

TO ALL who entered Chalan Kanoa Elementary and Chalan Pic10 Intermediate from 1948 and would have graduated in 1957.

Please be informed that a class reunion is tentatively

scheduled for June 5, 1998. We would like to set up a

meeting to discuss the details of the reunion.

All interested parties, please contact Rep. Frank G. Cepeda at 664-5377 for more information.

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4, Special Feature:

A local businessman 'locks' into· the future FRANCISCO Alfonso is one of few CNMI residents with adisability who rnns his own business.

excited about running my own busi- ensure his own business success." ness, but I was unsure - how can a As for future plm1S, Frnncisco is person selling keys for$1.75 make a interestedinlearningaboutprosthetic living? Now I know.if you want to be devices, sohecansetup an area in the

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Turtles are so cool A childhood ailment destroyed the muscles in his left leg and now he uses a brace, which he designed, to assist him with walking- "without it," he says "I can not walk."

a success, you have to work backpm1ofhisshoptoproviderepair You can't even resist them Oh, how much I love them

He recently received his diploma from Folsey Belsaw lnstituteofLock­smiths, which makes him the only ce1tified locksmith on the island and possibly in the CNMI.

When asked about his expeiience as a businessman, he says he decided three years ago that he wanted to be a locksmith and that he would run his own business as such.

With help from CDA, Frnncisco was able to secure a loan which he bought Action Locksmith, Saipan's only established Locksmith business -he's been open for about two years and reports that things are going well.

·When asked about his expeiience as a businessman he says, " I was

TIIE Northern Mmianas Housing Corpomtion (NHMC) has decided to delay the planned sale of the government's largest parcel of non­commercial prope1ty in Garapan.

NMHC had planned to offer for sale the 74,CXXl square meter land in midtolate 1998.NMHCwouldhave been able to sell the property after its contract with the United States De­partment of Housing and Urban De­velopment (HUD), to operate subsi­dized housing for families of low to moderate income, expired in June.

But because NMHC will obtain the maximum piice possible by sell­ing both subdivisions as one parcel, NMHC has decided that it would be in tlie corporation· s best interest to delay the sale until after the conuact with lllJD to operate Annex II ex­pires.

NMI-IC'\ derision not to 11:ne1v its operating contract with HUD on Annex I sp,u'kcd a lawsuit by a num­ber of Annex I tenants.

This lawsuit has since lx:en settled in prut by NMHC agreeing to allow the temmts to 1emain in tlieirunits for mi addition,~ ye,u·,md obtain ingn:ntal of p1ivately owned houses.

NMHC currently operates two housing projects on the pmpe1tywhich ,u-ecommonly known as theGarap,ui Annex I and Annex II Subdivisions.

Annex I consists of 14 three- mid 6 four-bedroom houses, while Annex II consists of 16 three- mid 9 four­bedroom houses.

NMHC's conm1ct to operate the Annex I Subdivision expired on De­cember 8, l 997.

HUD initially infrnmed NMHC that i L~ contract to operate Annex II would expii-e in June of 1998, but in

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hru·d ... peoplewithhandicapsai-eusu- and adjustment services. ally shy to open up about what they According to him, there is no one need mid what they want." on-island who offers that type of ser-

He points out that unlike "in (his) vice - "once or twice a year, OVR time, people with disabilities now b1ings someone fo1m Hawaii to pro-have unique programs that can really vide such services." help. The thing is the handicaps still Jack Peters is confident that the have to decide for themselves what idea will be a tI-emendous success-they wanttodo and then they have to "Francisco's mechanical inclination work to get it -I worked with tlie make shim ideal for that type of ser-piiorownerof the store for one year, vice." training with no pay." Francisco states,"! hope other

Jack Peters, Director of the Busi- handicaps overcome the shy mental-ness Development Center at North- ity and try for the opportunities that em College, brags that there aren't are out there, but they have to know too many clients like Francisco - what they want before they can get

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Bill to require parents to sign report cards rejected

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

';[HE HOUSE Committee on Health, Education and Welfare has rejected a bill that would require parents to sign the report cards of their children.

InareportsubmittedtotheHouseofRepresentatives,thecommitteesaid parental responsibility should not be legislated.

"If parental involvement is lacking," according to the report, "then the reacher and the school administration should work together with the parent-teacher organization of their respective schools to develop ways that would increase parental involvement."

Introduced by House Minority Leader Dino M. Jones (D-Prec. 4, Saipan), House Bill J l-49 also seeks to grant administrative leave for parents working in government who want to attend parent­teacher conferences.

The reports states, however, that the provision is unfair to parents who work in the private sector. ·

The rep011, which was signed by seven of the committee's nine members, noted that the committee requested comments from Assistant Attorney General Robert B. Dunlap, acting Education Commissioner Margarita C. Dela Cruz and newly designated Edu­cation Commissioner Rita Inos.

Jones' s bill proposed to penalize parents who do not attend parent­teacher conferences.

It states that parents who fail lo sign report cards would be liable for a civil penalty of $50 for every card not returned within five days.

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'Economy is taking back seat to federal concerns'

By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

THE LOCAL economy is taking a back seat in favor oflaws adopted by the government to satisfy federal con­cerns, according to a business sector leader.

"It seems to me that at this point the piiority is not really in the economic area, in te1ms of encouraging more investments," Saipan Chamber of Commerce p1esident Joe C. Ayuyu.

Ayuyu said the CNMI govern­ment is more pre-occupied witl1 cor­recting labor ,md immigrJtion prob­lems of the past, tl1e concerns raised by the federal government fol lowing a takeover proposal.

"I would suggest though that our government leaders start looking at 1heeconomic side bec,:use tl1ese prob­lems that we have. it is going to take so much time conecting," he said.

He added that the local economy shoLJld not suffer in favor of other concerns because our leaders in the government crnmot just forget the

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economic future of the CNMI. "We need to do something about

that too,"' he told V aiiety. Ayuyu said the Commonwealtl1 is

cunently in a "catch 22" situation because of tl1e continuing pmblems on labor and immigration, adding tliat the1e is a Jot of pressure from tl1e US government to 1esllict and limit the numberof people coming into tl1c CNMI.

He said tl1e Nrnthem Mrnirnn, is

also faced with economic problems with tl1e dropping visitor arrival fig­mes over the past months, as he stressed that the only way to resolve this pmblem is to encourage more investments in other fields.

"So when you encourage more investments, you would be needing more people so the1e's a conflict be­tween add1essing federal concerns and the economic tum1oil," he said.

Betweenthetwo,accordingtohim, the action that the government should take must be the one that ··pays the bill."

"We got to make money to pay the bills. If we don't generate money rmd encourage m01e investments, then who is going to pay all the govem­mcntcmployees •. who's going to pro­v ide infaL~tJuctrne?" he said.

Ayuyu sn-esscd that tl1e govern­ment should do what is right for the local economy and for tl1e local 1esi­dcnL~. "In the process, we should continue to con-ect our past mistakes

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Ryphand, Torres have no objection to Legislature, Rota, Tinian intervenors

By Rick Alberto Variety News Stall

Tl IE plaimiffs in the Senate reap­portionment case filed al the fed­eral district court on Friday posed no objection to the motion of the CNMI. the 11th le~islaturc. and the municipalities ~f Tinian and Rota to intervene and be named as defendants.

Through thcircounscl Theodore R. Mitchell. plairniffs Jeanne II. Rayphand and former Rep. Stanley Tones said. howcv<.!r. thal they rcs<.!rv-:d their right to ··seek and collect an award for all fo<.!s and costs incurred in this action·· against the intcrvenors.

The four intervcnors, mean­while. have fikd a motion lo dis­solve the three-judge court which wil I hear the case. saying it lacked

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Rayphand and To1Tcs arc seek­ing the reapportionment of the Senate seats based on the popula­tion of Saipan, Tinian and Rota.

Saipan, thus. would be repre­sented by eight senators and both Rota and Tin ian by only one sena-1or, based on the I 990popu lation.

The latest lo file a motion to intervene. the kgislaturc a1·gued that it is a necessary or indispens­able party since it has a "profound interest in the subject matter or this action."

"The plaintiffs should have named the legislature as defen­dant in the first amended com­plaint," said the legislature's mo­tion filed by counsel Stephen C. Woodruff. "Their failure to do so

is but a thinly veiled attempt to exclude the legislature from this action, out of unhappiness about the vigorous defense the legisla­ture previously has mounted against the complaint.'"

In the amended complaint filed on Jan. 15, the defendants named were the members of the Board of Elections and its executive di­rector.

The motion also said that the: disposition of the case without the legislature would impair the: ability of the legis­lature lo protect its interests.

Besides, it continued, the "case law clearly recognizes that reapportionment is a leg­islative duty not to be usurped by the courts," citing a 1964 decision.

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Reyes has alternative Jones wants locals to own poker industry to new tax on banks By Haidee V. Eugenio

Variety News Staff By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

THE CHAIR of the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday said he wi II introduce legislation that would no longer allow banks to deduct "everything" from their taxable income.

Rep. Karl T. Reyes (R-Prec. l, Saipan) said his bill, which would not impose a higher tax rate as he earlier proposed, will not give banks an excuse to raise their in­terest rates.

"We could maintain the current 1ax rate:. (while at the same time) not allowing the banks LO deduct a lot from their (tax base) ...

In this way, he said. more tax revenues would be available lo the cash-strapped government

BOS sues its __ _ former Tinian br~nch fuana:g~r for damages

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Stall

THE BANK of Saipan has filed a lawsuit demanding damages against its formerTinian branch manager who was convicted for embezzling company's funds.

BOS, through counsel Rodney J. Jacob. asked the Superior Court to order Mihaina Pangelinan to pay $25,000 in damages for alleged conversion of company's money.

Jacob in the complaint stated that between April and August 1996 Pangelinan, as BOS Tinian branch manager, fraudulently took and converted to her own personal use $187,000 from the bank's vault.

Jacob said Pangelinan falsi­fied BOS records to avoid de­tection and forged the signature of a certain bank customer ac­count holder on a savings ac­count withdrawal slip.

··upon discovering that Pangelinan had unlawfully con­verted these funds, plaintiff de­manded the return of its funds. Defendant, however. has re­fused to do so.'" said the lawyer.

Jacob said BOS then reported iis loss 10 i1s insurcr. Na1io11:rl Union Fire Insurance Co. ut" Pi11sburgh pursuant lo !he lcrms of a fiJeli ty bond issued to plain­tiff.

lnAug.1997,Jacobsaid,N,i­tional paid to BOS $162,000 in disclrnrge of its obligations un­der the fidelity bond.

"By virtue of defendant's wrongful acts, she remains li­:rble to plaintiff for the balance of the misappropriated funds . in the amount of $25,000," he added.

The Attorney General's Of­fice charged Pangelinan with theft and forgery for the same offense. She entered a plea agreement and admitted commiting theft.

Following the agreement, the Superior Court sentenced the defendant last month to IO years in jail, all suspended except the first IO days.

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even without an outright imposi­tion of new taxes.

"If the banks look at the (amount of taxes they're paying) they have nothing to complain ifwe (some­what) increase (the rate)," Reyes said.

He added that he is now look­ing into the tax rates paid by banks in California and elsewhere in the US, saying that his legislation will be carefully drafted.

In an earlier interview, Reyes said his committee is also consid­ering legislation that seeks to im-

pose new taxes on the CNMI's garment products, which enter the mainland US duty-free.

But, he added, the new tax should not push the garment in­dustry "to the brink of closure."

Instead of a dollar-per-garment product tax proposed by then rep­resentative Stanley T. Torres, Reyes said the rate could be in "cents."

The administration, however, maintains that the government could still survive without resort­ing to new taxes even as six ex­ecutive branch divisions will run out of funding before the current fiscal year ends.

Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio's spe­cial adviser on finance and bud­get, Mike S. Sablan, said "some things have to happen" to prevent such "drastic actions" as new taxes.

He recommended "more disci­pline" in government spending, particularly on its use of utilities, off-island official travels and per­sonnel costs.

HOUSE Minority Leader Dino M. Jones wants ownership of poker machines held by local CNMI people.

The localization of the poker machine industry according to Jones, will enable the Chamorros and Carolinians to benefit from the millions of income gener­ated by poker machines.

"The revenues generated by these poker machines should re­turn to the.local people because it is basically these people who are victims of this kind of money­making," stressed Jones. in an interview with the Variety.

Saipan has an estimated 244 poker machines which are be­lieved to be owned byonlya few of Saipan 's biggest business­men.

lfever the I ocal residents ben­efit from these machines, it is only minimal, Jones said.

"Only a certain percent is be­ing re-invested back like on sponsoring sports events. And how much is that compared to

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what the local people have shared in it?" said Jones.

The congressman added that CNMI locals have the capacity to maintain the operations of poker machines through "pub­lic land leases."

"We have money from public land leases that belong to the Chamorros and Carolinians of the Northern Marianas so we can tap that money to maintain the operation of these, provided that it generates positiveinvest­ment, not a negative invest­ment," he said.

Jones also made a pitch on the

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Permanent cease-fire signed in Bougainville

t;zat• Elsewhere in the Pacific · Ona warns peace lllonitors

MELBOURNE tPacnews)­The permanent ceasefire on Bougainville took effect Thurs­day midnight after the signing of the agreement at a ceremony Thursday afternoon in the island·:, capital. Arawa.

The signing was done in front of an enthusiastic crowd of about 2.000 at Arawa's Indepen­dence Oval.

The vice president of these­cession i st Bougainville In­terim government Joseph Kabu1 says a new course had been set for Bougainvilie.

MELBOURNE (Pacnews}-1lie increasingly isolated hm,lline seces­sionist leaderon Papua New Guinea's 13ougainvi lie island. fomcis Ona, h,L, tlire;tened to kill unmmed i;eacc monitors if tlicy venture into his tcni­tory.

Gillespie, Francis Ona claims to con­trol a lm·ge partofCentrJI mid South­em Bougainville.

But the Bougainville Revolution­my Army comi'nmiders from most of diesemeashaveendorsed the ceas;efin: mid a number of them were in Arawa -niursday for the signing.

Tiie m-ea Ona might still contml is much smaller, in -inland Central Bougainville m-ound the abandoned copi;ermine. It· s out of bounds for the Ausu11limis, New Zcalmiders, Fijim1s

and Ni-Vanuatu in the peace moni­toring group and there's a big map on the wall of the PNG 's headquar­ters showing the area circled mid shaded.

Gillespie has become Ona 's point of contact now that he's sacked the three overseas rep1-esentatives of the secession movement, Moses Havini, Mmtin Miriori mid Mike Forster.

Tiiey arc backing Joseph Kabui and Sam Kauona who signed -niursday' s ceasefir-e.

Radio Australia· correspomlent Sean Dorney rcpons from Cen­tral Bougainville, that the gov­ernment of Papua New C_iuine;1 and the secessionist leaders ex­changed pigs and shell money to sea\ the peace. Radio Australia reports.

His president Francis Ona boycotted the signing - hut Kabui says he hoped that Ona would take ice of the cries of the mothers and the children for peace.

Radio Ausu11lia's cones-pondent Jean Dorney reports from Bougainv illc that Fmncis Ona h,L, also:acked al I otliersecessionist lcad­e1~ who took 1xut in Tiiu1~day 's si6'1l­

ing of the i;e1rn,ment ceasefire, Radio Ausu-alia reports.

In a statement issued tlimugh his Australian adviser. Roscmar"

Nauru leader fears Asian crisis American Samoa given multi-million dollar loan

MELBOURNE (Pacnews)­N au ru 's president, Kinza Clodumar, says Pacific economies have been hit hard by the Asian currency crisis. President Clodumar told the Asian Development Bank board of governors meeting currently underway in Geneva that the situation in

Asia threatens the economic growth potential of the Pacific region, Radio Australia re­ports.

He says the current eco­nomic climate jeopardizes many of the reform measures being taken by Pacific gov­ernments at the urging of the Asian Development Bank.

President Clodumar asked the bank to provide techni­cal assistance to improve government management services to help improve economic growth prospects at the local level.

He attended the Geneva meeting as a representative of the Pacific region.

PAGOPAGO (Pacnews)-The American Samoan government's coffers should be boosted by millions of dollm-s within the next two weeks now that the bomtl of di1ectors of die government employees retirement fund has approved the administration's request for a multi­million dollar loan.

Tiie bom·d gave the green light on Tuesday, however, no details were 1-evealed, the Samoa News reports.

Board chairman Aleki Sene, says

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Tiie legislatio!l in allowing gover­nor Tauese Sunia to make the lomi, specifies that $US4.5m should be used for government payroll; $US3.5mfortaxrefunds;mid$US5m to pay overdue debts to local vendors.

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Water waste deeriedin . Cook Islands

RAROTONGA (Pacnews)-A prominent Cooks Islands community leader in Rarotonga has threatened to publicly release the names of i;eople who continue to waste water while a shortage i;ersists.

The shortage is due to no signifmit rainfall in the past month, Radio AKTIV Cook Islmids reports.

Teariki Siniiona says people have been contacting him about others' carelessness in allowing taps to run at all times to water gardens or for live­stock.

He says people should have regard forthoseexperiencing lowwaterpres­sure or no water at all.

According to water supply director Ben Parnkoti, water intakes level around Rarotonga are at their lowest due to no heavy downfalls in reoent weeks.

Samoans encouraged to eat snails APIA (Pacnews )---Samo.ms are be­ing encouraged to cat gimit Afiicm1 snails to help rid tlie counlly of the infestation,

Since aniving five yeai-s ago fmm American Samoa, the pest has w1eaked havoc on local crops despite numerous eradication attempts by the agricu ltur-e department

The i;ests which are able to grow up to eight centimeters long was first thought to be p:iisonous and unedible. But p1esident of the environmental watchdog ·o le Siosiomaga Society, Dr Water V crrnuelen says the snails have a high protein low fat content, making them "practically a health food",

A local rccii;e involves isolating the snails for four days, ,md then boiling tlicm several times befor-e adding gm·-lic mid coconut cre:mi. ~

·nmi; is also a potential export rmu-kct.

TopAusu,llim1rcstaumnL,m~scrv­ing Africm1 snails for about $1 O a do7.cn, while Tahiti has the Fr-ench delirncy listed on some of its menus.

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Marshalls tackles economic woes By Giff Johnson

MAJURO - The Marshall Is­lands government made some "µnwise economic decisions" in the past, but looking backward won't help improve the cun-ent economic outlook, Foreign Min­ister Phillip Muller told a group of business and government lead­ers in Majuro.

The Marshall Islands needs so­lutions to bring it into the new century with an "economic base that is vibrant and alive." said the foreign minister this week in ac­knowledging the severe economic problems affecting this central Pacific nation.

Despite nearly $ I billion in funding from the U.S. since l 986, the Marshall Islands con­tinues to be entirely dependent on aid from the U.S. and other donors. Much of the U.S. fund­ing was devoted to government­sponsored businesses- includ­ing a milk factory, locally owned long line fishing vessels, jet air service to Honolulu - that failed.

"Our economy has crashed, and to our knowledge we have seen no report on why, we have seen no re pot on how, and we h.ive seen no indication of who,"

said an editorial in the Marshall Islands Journal on the country's economic predicament.

"The Marshall Islands had enough money to foster an inde­pendent economy, driven by the private sector. Yet what we saw was expansion of government employment, ari exodus or fail­ure-to-start spate of business movement, and a continuing failure of the government to re­alize that mortgaging future in­come to obtain immediate cash was a short term solution to long term dependency.:·

Muller, said that looking backward will not benefit the country, and added that the gov­ernment is embarking on projects to boost the economy.

He ticked off government ac­tivity aimed at developing an economy that is "driven by mar­ket forces," including reducing the government work force and expenses, and establishing a pri­vate sector unit to work with lo­cal businesses to see how the pri­vate sector can be more produc­tive in an effort to revamp the economy.

The government is also encour­aging establishment of a fish loining plant that is a business

Underwood· amendments to Defense bill accepted

Variety News Staff TAMUNING, Guam - Con­gressman Robert A. Underwood has secured inclusion of four amendments to the Fiscal Year '99 Department of Defense (DOD) Authorization bill duting mark ups by subcommittees of the National Security Committee in Washington D.C., last week.

In the Morale,Welfare, and Rec­reation Panel, Underwood in­serted language to grant commis­sary privileges to National Guardsmen called up during fed­erally dec\ru-ed disasters or emer­gencies,

Other language doubles the number of military commissary access days for all National Guard and Reserve personnel. Currently Guardsmen mid Reservists e,mi I 2 visits a year, if passed the visits would increase to 24 times a year.

"This issue came to my atten­tion during Typhoon Paka, when Guardsmen were called up but were not eligible for commiss:uy privileges. 111e ch:mge I sug­gested, mid has passed the panel. will fix that problem," said Underwood in a news release.

On a broader note for all Re­servists and Gum·dsmen, he said he was able to increase the num­ber of authorized commissary days to 24.

"This ought to be an incentive for i;eoplc to be in the Reserves and the Guard. It's also a matter of convenience for them. These two items are very good for the C,uard and Reserves and we 're happy to be of assistance," Underwood said.

In the Installations and Facili­ties Subcommittee, Underwood secured language requiring the

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Depm'tment of Defense to report to Congress as to why DOD Dependent Schools were estab­lished on Guam, what plans there ,m:: for eventual reintegration with the Guam public school system, ,md on any plans to constrnct new buildings ,md facilities in Guam for DOD schools.

''DOD has never been explicit aboutthei1·reasons. This (amend­ment) was to require DOD to be above: bo,u·d .uid to repo1t on that as pmt of the condition of getting funds to build the DODEA schools on Guam."

Underwood said DOD is seek­ing$ 13 million inconstrnccion fonds specifically for OODEA in Gumn.

Tiie Suboommitt.ee also accepted Underwood's an1endment requir­ing DOD to 1-ender a report to Con­gi-ess on proposed plmis for the privatization of militmy-operated utilities.

''For us on Guam this is pm·­ticularly important for water works, a little bit for power, ,md toalimitedextent,telephone. This is good for us; it is good for planning purpos~s on Guam, ,md it's a good way to keep the De­paitmcnt of Defense above board in their dealings with civilian community." Underwood said.

venture by the shipping line PM&O and Starkist, and a gar­ment factory operated by a Chi­nese company.

The fish loining plant is ex­pected to employ 300 workers.

"We're looking for opportuni­ties to use aid to create jobs," Muller said.

A key issue is air service to the

Marshal ls. The government, he said, is lob­

bying Continental Micoroncsia not to reduce the number of flights. Continental has an­nounced a reduction from three to two weekly f1ights to Majuro, but has delayed the move at least until September.

In addition, Micronesian lead-

ers are now seriously considering a sub-regional airline proposal, the foreign minister said.

"We need support and time (to succeed)," Muller said.

He thanked the business com­munity for its support and perse­verance as the Marshal ls attempts to navigate the current economic difficulties.

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Lee retiri11g in 2000 , By ANNIE HUANG TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP)-Prcsi­dent Lee Teng-hui 's legacy. after a decade in power. would seem se­cure.

He has pt:acefully ,muiagc:d tu end tJ1e iuleof a mainland Chineseolig,u-­chydominate<l bytlie familyofChiang Kai-shek and built a democracy.

As the island's fir.,t native-born leader. he has offered Taiw,mese a chance to asse11 their identity and given them a say in tJ1eir own affairs.

But in another sense. tl1e isl,md remains captive - to crime and cronyism. mid tJ1e constmt presence of main hmd China across tJ1e Tai w:m Sn:1i1.

To rmmy p;opk. Lee· s revolution lu, only n:placcJ one setof problcms with anotl1er.

This month. the 75-year-old Lee marks the half-way poim of

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the four-year term he won in Taiwan's first democratic presi­dential election.

He is expected to retire in the year 2000. As public grievances rise, Lee's popularity dropped­from more than 80 percent to slightly over half.

"Lee has been too preoccupied with the power strnggle to. Jay down a framework that will guide Taiwan's future," said lawmaker Wang Chih-hsiung of the ruling Nationalist Party.

"We <lo have democracy, but have things gotten better?"

Lee took over in 1988 upon the death of Chiang Ching-kuo, the son and successor of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, who led the 1949 exodus to Taiwan when Nationalists lost China's civil war.

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The younger Chiang ended martial law just before he died.

Lee established a multi party de­mocracy that guarantees freedom of speech, and won election in 1996.

But loosening Taiwan's virtual dictatorship opened it to crime, and exposed endemic conuplion. Democracy has not brought clean and efficient government, and Taiwan's 21 million people widely feel a sense of lawless­ness.

While fighting opponents of re­form, Lee allied himself with poli­ticians linked to organized crime, analysts say.

"He has survived well in a crocodile lak~. but he also owes much lo those who saved his life," said lawmaker Shen Fu-hsiung of the opposition Democratic Pro­gressive Party.

Kong J aw-sheng, an executive of Lehman Brother., investment firm, says Lee's bold intentions are tar­nished by a tendency to compromise at key moments.

Gangster., with political connec­tions have rigged bids for public projects and government purchases.

'They were tolerated at fir.,t be­cause they helped the Nationalists win elections.

Officials fought back only after organized crime spread to unlikely areas such as religious cults, profes­sional baseball, and the stock market, causing a public outcry.

After January's local elections, couns handled nearly 500 allegations of vote-buying.

Officials say a third oflocal council member., are linked to organized crime.

Lee's annointed successor, Lien Chan, was accused recently of se­cret! y funding adisgrnce<l politician's election campaign.

Lien shrugged off the complaints, saying the money was a personal lomi.

l11e Nationalists have lost several key local elections, pai1ly because Lee chose to run unpopular loyalists.

He also is criticized fornmning old allies to the Cabinet instead of new, uncom1pt faces.

··we paid a heavy piice fordemoc­rncy-a complete collapse of moml­ity ," the China Times newspapersaid.

Rcsolv ing tl1e con11icl with China, whichrcg,u·dsTaiw,ma,ab1cakaway province, h,Ls evolved into m,maging mi uncertain status quo.

Under Lee, Taiw,m h,L, become the world's I 4th-1,m,est tra<linn na­tion, ,md Taiw,u1cs~ busincs~1cn have invested heavily in tJ1e rnain­hu1d.

I !owcvcr, Lee w,mh to keep the lllainhuiu al ,um 's lcngtJ1 Ulllil it be­comes more dernocrntic.

He appears lo be counting on eco­nomic or political lunnoil as Beijing n:lorms. said political scientist Kuo Chcng-li,uu,.

In tl1e m;antimc. Lee's effrnt, lo raise Taiw,m 's inlcmational profile ,mgered China,causinga nearly 1hree­yc,u· 111pture in contacl, tl1at ended in Ap1il.

Mm1y scholars ,u,d politicim1s say he lacks tl1c tact to deal with Beijing.

IrBeijing wm1Ls to talk, W m1g said, it probably will wait until Lee's gone.

By Ted Bridis WASHINGTON (AP) - Or­ganizers of a film festival re­jected a Chinese demand that .they cancel the Saturday night screening of a movie that de­picts China as a brutal occupier of Tibet.

The Chinese Embassy Je­scribe<l the movie "Win<lhorse" as a smear and demanded that the Washington International Film Festival withdraw it.

Anthony- Gittens, the festival's director, said no. "We will not compromise our right of free cultural expression." he said.

Paul Wagner, an Academy AwarJ-winning producer and the film's director, said he was depressed by the Chinese ac­tion. "They are saying the film is a lie;'' Wagner said. "It's not a lie. It's bused on the everyday life of a Tibetan."

The contemporary movie, filmed in Nepal and Tibet, re­counts the story of an aspiring Tibetan pop singer who wins favor with Tibet's Chinese rnl­ers. She reconsiders her career after her cousin. a Buddhist nun, is imprisoned and tortured for her religious beliefs.

The controversy stirreJ in the nation's capital just a month before President Clinton is to make a slate visit to Beijing. The embassy statement, in the name of Li Gang, the embassy's cultural minister, did not men­tion the pending visit, and festi­val director Gittens said Satur­day he has not been contacted by the State Department or other official U.S. agencies about the case.

In a statement. China said the film was meant "obviously to smear China's policy toward Ti­bet. It has been widely acknowl­edged that Tibet has achieved remarkable economic growth and social progress.

"This embassy then:fore strongly regrets the decision of the film festival and demands that this film be withdrawn," China's minister of cultural af­fairs. Li Gang, said in the state­ment.

Wag,1er said depiction of the torture of Buddhist 11u11s is mild ,·ompared ll'ith reality.

"ThL· torture of Jhese nuns is wiJely uocumentc'.d by sevnal 1mcrnatiunal hurnan rights or­ganizations." he said.

(iittens gave the Chinese em­bassy a videotape of "Windhorsc" and invited em­bassy officials tu attend Sa1urday's showing. He said he haJ hoped "the embassy would be willing Jo ... p.1nicipal.: in an open di,ilugue about the film and its issues."

"I wa, more Jis.1ppo1nted rha11 .,urpri.,ed." (ii11,·1h ,;1id Satu1 day. --1 thought 1t ll'ould lie an opportunity lor th.:111 tu come and presrnt their side, tlwir per-

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with President Jiang Zemin at a June summit, the first by an American president since the 1989 crackdown on democracy demonstrators llt Tiananmen Square.

China has protested its depic­tion in films before.

Last year, Beijing heavily criticized the films "Red Cor­ner," in which Richard Gere portrays an American murder suspect trapped in China's jus­tice system; and "Seven Years in Tibet." in which Brad Pitt plays an Austrian who scales the Himalayas and meets a young Dalai Lama.

In 1996. China protested the release of "Kundun," about the Dalai Lama's early life, and barred director Martin Scorsese from Tibet.

Tibetan nuns gather in New Delhi to leave for Dharamsala, India Thursday where Thupten Ngodup, the Tibetan exile who set himself on fire in protest on Monday will be cremated. The strike was a protest of China's decades-long rule of Tibet. AP

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Australia's most wanted arrested DARWIN, Australia (AP) -Austr,1lia 's most wm1ted ft.H>.itive. bank robber and prison es~apee Brendon James Abbott. w,L~ :urested Saturday after ne;u-lv six months on the iun:police said.·

Abbon,36, was k11m,~1 asthe··Post­cmu B,mdit .. because of 1epo1ts he sem postc,u-ds to police from his bank heists.

Police believe Abbott. a two-time prison escapee. has netted more th.m $ 2.6 million (Ausualian dolhu, 4 million) from 38 bank robbe1ies.

He w,L~ anested outside a super­market in cenn-al DUJWin about 5 p.m. by aimed police who had staked out the store, a spokeswomm1 said.

An accomplice, Brendm1 Luke Belie hon, wanted for the shooting of two police office1, in Apiil, is still at I.u·ee.

Abbott w,L~ fo,t jailed for bank robbery in 1987. but escaped within two vem-s.

ties ovemight mid drop down when staff ai1ived to open the vau Its in the mommg.

Hewasagaincaughtin l995,sur-1endeii11g without fuss.

He w; convicted of three bank robbe1iesand sentenced to 12 yeru-s in jail.

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He used the p1ison workshop to make blue overalls simil,u- to those worn by ,1,11.w.1-ds. cut through bars and leapt th1ee men-es fmm a roof to f1eedom.

Police said that within a month he had bes11.m committing anned rob­be1ies.

Du1ingfive yemson the nm Abbott would often hide in bank ceiling cavi-

TI1eycut through cell bars.climbed razor wire swrounding their pdson block and used wi1e cutters on three peiimeter fences with the help of accomplices on tl1e outside.

The accomplices, said to include Brendan Berichon, fired shots at guards du1ing the escape.

A woman looks at the p,rice tag of a leather belt closely as a vendor tries to call passers-by in his discount corner at Tokyo's Ginza shopping district Saturday. It's not easy, but getting consumers to open their pocketbooks could be the key to bringing Japan out of an economic slump that has dogged if for most of the decade and reinvigorating business throughout a.II of Asia. AP

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP)-An influx of tourists from Eastern European and Scandina­vian countries has boosted tour­ism in Penang, a resort island in northern Malaysia, news reports said Thursday.

Their arrivals in recent months have helped offset losses for the island's 30 hotels, hurt by a drop in regular tourists from Western Europe, the United States and the Far East, the New Straits Times reported.

Recently, tourists have been coming from Romania, Bulgaria, Norway, Denmark, Finland and former Soviet republics includ­ing Belarus, Uzbekistan and Latvia, said Zulkifly Mohamed Said, director of the Northern Tourism Promotion Board.

''Their arrivals were the direct result of last year's promotion drive cmTied out in the East Euro­pean and Scandinavian countries by the Penang International Ho­teliers Association, via foreign contacts," Zulkifly said.

Due to the regional economic downturn, Pcnang tourist arrivals have dropped by IO to 15 percent i'rn111 the 500,000 foreigners that usually visit the island every three months.

Last year, the state's revenue from tourism dropped by 400 million ringgit ($ I 05 million) from the previous year.

Budget hotels and those that depend on domestic tourists face a 30 to 40 percent drop this year. ''Malaysians, especially civil ser­vants, have been told to be thrifty, and many have suffered a reduced disposable income following take­home pay cuts of employees," Zulkifly said.

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US wants Mideast decision

Honor guests to Israel's 50th jubilee, from left, Sarah Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Premier Netanyahu, Tipper Gore and her husband US Vice President Al Gore, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Presi­dent Ezer Weizman and his wife Reuma stand during the playing of the Israeli national anthem "Hatikva." AP

By Karin Laub An AP News Analysis

JERUSALEM (AP) - It's been a frnstratingyearforU.S. mediators in the Middle East, with a flu1ry of meetings on three cominents pro­ducing nothing but hollow declara­tions and dashed expectations.

Now London - where new talks me to be held Monday- is supposed to be the moment of nuth for Israeli Prime Minister Ben jaJ'llin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Y asser Arafat

Having run out of patience, U.S. Sec1etaryofStateMadeleineAlbright expects sunightanswers toan uncon­firmed U.S. proposal for an Israeli troop withdrawal from 13 percent of the West Bank, in return for a more genuine Palestinian effo1t to fight Islamic militants.

Arafathasaccepted,butNeumyahu has been almost eager to confront Washington, declwing that the 1-e­poned 13 percent is unacceptable mid that he will not "capitulate" to U.S. pressure.

The Israeli leaderappm-entlythinks theAmeiicans me bluffing when they hint that they might make their pro­posals public-thus in effect blam­ing Netanyahu-orwalk away from the u1lks altogether.

Netrn1yahu, a ma,ter at lobbying Congress, is gambling that President Clinton will not defy 81 senatOI, who w.u11cd tl1e pn.:sident in a letter h,l month against p1-essuring Israel.

The Isrneli leadcrah-eady w,L, busy lowe1ing expectations F1·iday. say­im! there w,L, no 1>.u,u-ar1tee of al!n:c:­m~m. and that pr~g1ess might reZ1ui1e 11101e time.

Since his election in 1996, Nctanyahu has walkedazigwgcourse ofu-ying toappe,L,e the United States with decimations of unwave1ing sup­port fortl1e peace process while at the same time giving ,L, little as possible to t!1e Palestinians.

He has withdrawn Israeli m:>0ps from most of the West B,mk town of Hebron, ,L, promised hy his predeces­sors, but h,L, missed two deadlines fOI' funher Israeli pull hacks in the West B,mk.

Net,myahu ,u·gues tliat lsrnel cw1-not give up land w; Jong ,L, Arafat breaks his promises to help protect Jsrael against attacks by Islamic mili­tanL,, who since] 994havecwTiedout

more than a dozen suicide bombings. Amfatcannot be trusted, Netanyahu

says, pointing to incessant incite­ment against Israel in Palestinian schools and media and the release of lslaJ'llic militant, from Palestinian jails when it is politically expedient.

But some suspectthatNetanyahu 's ultimate goal is to scuttle the peace accords, which he relentlessly at­tacked a, opposition leader.

"This government was elected to abort the peace process and that is what it's going to do," said Shlomo Avineii, a political science professor at the Heb1ew Univer.-;ity of Jerusa­lem.

Arafat, on the other ha11d, has to stick to the process if he ever hopes to establish a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank and Gaza. His strategy is to getwhat he cmi from Netanyahu and perhaps hold out for a more dovish Israeli government.

It comes as no surpiise, the1-efrne, that he settled for the Ameiican pro­posal even though it gives him only a third of his initial demand. I-le 'II also sco1e points with the Americans that will come in handy in the futu1e.

Arnfat was dowrnightenthusiastic on Fiiday, saying he accepted the Americm1 initiative in all it, details.

I-le can only profit from tl1e Lon­don t1lks. Jfthe1-e is progress, he'll have a little mon: lrn1d them he had before. If not-mid that's th<! mo1e likelvscenmio-tl1e world will bhune Net~yahu.

But the peace process cannot drift imlefin1tely. A new deadline is al­ready looming, this one with a major c1isis built in.

On May 5, 1999, the fivc-yem· pe1iod of Palestiniai1 autonomy ends, and lsrncl ,me.I the Palestinimis me to have negotiated a permanent peace agreement.

The accord is to set final borde1-s. find lli1 ainmgement for disputed Jeiusalcm w1d detern1ine tl1e fate of Palestinimi1efugeesmdJewishsettle­mcnts.

Arafat h,L, said tl1at in May 1999, he wil I declmc statehood in the pait.~

-oftl1e West Bw1k mid Gaza Suip he conu·ols, reg,u·dlcss of whetl1cr the1e is a deal with Israel. Net,myahu lu~ hinted he would 1ctaliate by annex­ing some of the West B,mk.

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Group protests vs gun violence SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)­Protesters marched outside America's largest handgun maker Saturday to demand safeguards they say will cut down on the thousands of gun deaths that hap­pen each year.

··we arc holding the gun imlus­try responsible bccau.,c they h;1,c rdused tu Jcsign. ad, cnise and

market their products to save the lives of children,'' said Arlene Locicero. 58. of Hawthome. N .J.

Locicero, whose daughter was one of six people killed in a 1993 shooting aboard a Long Island commuter trnin. was among 150 people protesting outside Smith & Wesson.

The protest was one of several

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Protesters laid out 5,285 pairs of shoes to represent the number of young people age 19 and under whodied fromgunshotseitherby homicide, suicide or accident in

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Americans Against Handgun Violence protesters march during a rally as they walk across the street from gun maker Smith & Wesson in. Springfield, Mass., Saturday. The marchers use shoes to represent the numbers of children who have died as a result of gun violence in 1995. AP

1995, the latest year for which statistics were available.

The Silent March protesters as they called themselves want weapons manufacturers to make guns childproof, drop laser sights and hollow-point bullets, display prominent warning labels on guns, reduce production and raise prices.

"I think the gun manufactures have created this environment," said Tina Johnstone, the Silent March founder whose husband was killed in San Francisco in 1992. "The country is awash in handguns that are killing people."

About 100 people showed up in Southport, Conn., to protest at Sturm, Ruger & Co. Another hun­dred protested in Bal ti more. Maryland is home to the gunmaker Beretta.

"I think it's far more important that we work together," said Nancy Fenton, executive dircc­torof Marylanders Against Hand-

gun Abuse. Gunmakers, she said, "can be­

come the best salesman for fire­arm safety. They really have the opportunity, and we feel they have the responsibility to provide that kind of education."

Congress is now considering a child access prevention bill in­tended to educate parents about proper gun storage.

Ed Shultz, Smith & Wesson's CEO and president, said his com­pany already sells guns with trig­ger locks and takes many of the measures suggested by the protest­ers.

However, "There is no substi­tute forpropertrainingof those that are using fireaims." He said gun owners must learn the importance of safe storage that keeps guns away from children.

About50,000peoplediedingun­rclated violence between 1985 and 1995.

CNN anchor Harrison dies KENNESAW, Ga. (AP)-Don Harrison, a CNN Headline News anchor who had been with the channel since its 1982 debut, died Saturday of renal cancer.

He was 61. Harrison joined the Cable News Network in Atlanta in 1981. During his

tenure at CNN, Harrison won the 1987 Cable Ace A ward for best news anchor.

BeforecomingtoAtlanta,HanisonanchoredforthrceyearsatWfSP-1V in Tampa, Ra, and four years at KMSP-'IV in Minneapolis-Saint Paul.

He also spent two years at WBAL-1V in Baltimore, where he was awarded a local Emmy for best newscast, and 11 ycan; at KCIV-1V in Kansas City, Mo.

\Vhile at KCfV, Harrison was honored with an award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a documentary called "This Old House."

A native of Onawa, Kan., Hanison began his television career at WIBW-1V in Topeka, Kan., after several years in radio. .

Harrison lost a leg to bone cancer when he was 13 and a kidney to cancer in 1993.

"Don was one of the most talented people in the television news industry. He al~ was an extraordinary human being - inspiring personal and professronalexcellencein those who knew him," said Bob Fu mad president of CNN Headline News. • '

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Palestinians sc einlraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Scores of Palestini,ITT delegates traded blows ;md spat at each other Saturday as h~1q 's dqmty p,ime minister.u1d vice president slm-ed in helpless amaze­ment.

·111'" brnwl bmke out at a meeting of sm LI~1de unionisL, :u,d politicim1s from Arab states ajier a Palcstini:m delegate, who supports Palestini:m Authrnity Chaim1an Ya,ser Arafat, took the podium to speak.

"Get this spy down," anti-Arafat Palestinians repeatedly shouted from die floor of the conference, which was convened to show support for embattled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

Pro-Arafat delegates responded with chants of "Long live Arafat," and within seconds members from

die Ii val groups we,e punching each od1er.

Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Rmnadan and Deputy Prime Minis­terTmiq Aziz stood by in bcwi lder­menL as other delegates pulled the rivals apart. lraqi delegates then began shouting pro-Saddam slo­gans.

Sections of the Palestinian com­munity have never accepted the Israeli-Palestinian accords of 1993 and 1995, calling Arafat a traitor and accusing him of conceding too much and gaining little.

111e division has widened since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neumyahu took office in June 1996, and pursued hard-line policies blamed for the current impasse in fuc peace process.

UN chief Annan warns about famine in Sudan

Iraqi and Arab workers in Baghdad demonstrate and shouti anti-U.S. slogans on May Day, Friday in front of the UN compound, against the latest Security Council's resolution against Iraq. AP

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mreat of famine in southern Sudan and said me United Nations hasn't been able to rnise enough money to help.

The U.N. World Food Program has said about 700,0CJJ people in rebel and government-held regions in the south are in danger of famine because increased fighting and per­sistentdrought kept mem from plant­ing crops.

'The situation in (southern) Sudan is tragic, and me possibility of a fam­ine is real," Annan told reporters in the Ethiopian capital. "We will do whatever we can to assist die affected

· population." Annan said he wou Id focus on me

Sudanese conflict duiing his eight­nation African tour that _began Wednesday in Addis Ababa.

He left for Djibouti later Saturday ;md is expected Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya, the base fm tl1c United Na­tions and private agencies ecu1yi11g out hunw1it:u·i:u1 work in soutl1cm Sudm1.

Rebels in soutl1cm Sud:ui have been lighting since 1983 for g,eatcr autonomy from the Muslim. /\rab nrnth. Most southemcrs mc citl1er Ch1istim1 or :u1i111ist.

Mrn-e d1:u1l.S million Sud:u1cse have died du1ing the rebellion, most from hun!!eror frunine broul!ht on bv the fighti~g. ~ ..

·n,c Sudanese !!Ovemmcnt is 1-e­strictin!! relief ffo!hl~ into the south­westcn; 13al1rel Gl1a,1Li n:gion, when: the tlu-eat of famine is !!Jeatcst.

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US Vice President Al Gore, right, shakes the hand of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat before their meeting in the West Bank town of Ramal/ah Saturday. Vice President Gore, on a four-day trip to the Middle East, came to Israel to participate in its 50th anniversary celebrations and to meet with the leaders of the area. AP

By Brian Murphy

JERUSALEM (AP) - With the crowd applauding wildly, Vice President Al Gore spoke oflsrael 's destiny as the "promised land." ·

But Gore's current dip into troubled Middle East waters also is limbering him up for a crusade to different hallowed ground: the Oval Office.

Gore's four-day trip to the Middle East, which kicked off with Israel's 50th anniversary celebrations, offered the opportu­nity to buff up his foreign policy credentials as the 2000 presiden­tial campaign begins.

Doing what his Democratic ri­vals cannot, Gore represented the White House in efforts to nudge along the stalled Middle East peace process.

The vice president held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ben­jamin Net::mynhu and met late Saturday with Palestinian leader Y asser Arafat.

Afteraone-hourtalk witl1 A,~ifat in the West 13:mk city of Ramall:~1. C,01e said he Llmught some prog,ess has lxxn made in the Israclt-!';1ics1i11-i,m rx:acc pnx:css but the tougl test issues sti II h:1ve to be faced.

Grn-e mid tJ1e Israeli prime minister we1-e to have :u10tl1cr mcding at Tel Aviv's airport before the vice president's depa11urc for Cairo e:u·!y Sunday, ,m Ame,ic:m oflicial said.

In a speech cw-JitT Saturday to Jewish-American leaders and key Democratic fund raisers in Jerusa­lem, Gore emphasized his sup­port for lsrae I.

"I want to underscore the fact that this was not a negotiation and I am not a negotiator," Gore said "I came here not only to celebrate lsrnel 's achievements but also to restate cur ironclad commitment to Israel's security and well-be­ing in its m:xt half-century and beyond."

During a 24-hour visit to Saudi Arabia that ended .:arly Saturday, Gore met with King Fahd - an important U.S. ally - and his

apparent political successor, Crown Prince Abdullah.

Gore told troops at the Prince Sultan Air Base, who enforce the southern no-fly zone over south­ern Iraq, that tl1ey were in the front line against "tl1osewhowould tl11eaten world peace."

But most importantly on his aip, Gore was able to reinforce his bond wim Israelis and, in tum, comt the suppott of Jewish-Ameiican voters.

"This is acanipaign stop disguised as diplomacy," said Avinoam Bar­Josef, a political commentator for the Mamiv newspaper. "Butnoonecared. This is what they expected."

Gore is considered the early front­iunner among potential cm1didates who include House Mino,ity Leader Richard Gephrn·dt ,md me Rev. Jesse Jackson.

A crowd of' potential Republic:m c,mdidates, including fom1er Vice President D:m Quayle, has already been poking around Iowa, tl1e state that holds tl1e first presidential cau­cuses in e;u·!y 2000.

Gore enjoys v:L~t goodwill witl1 Jc11 ish-J\111cric:u1 voters - going h:1ck to the strong sup1x111 l,ir Israeli statd11xxl by his 1·au1cr. 1,mncr Tcn-111:sscc Sen. ,\lbe,t liun} Sr.

And h:uiging onto the backing of Jewish voters is considc1-ed c,ucial for piim:uies in hu·ge states such as New York :md Florida.

In his speech in Jc111salcm on Sat­urday, Gore repealed ly cited America's affinity for Israel and even likened the battlefield imag­ery in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to Israel's early struggle for survival.

At times, the warmth for Gore was positively blazing.

"He's a friend of the Jews," gushed Aaron Tillsman of New York. "It would be awfully hard for me to imagine voting for someone else ...

Ida Fallman of Worchester, Mass., insisted it was the "obliga­tion" of American Jews to work for Gore's election.

Gore's standing among Isrnelis

also appeared to shoot upwards, particularly after he sprinkled snippets of Hebrew in his speeches.

"He seems like a friend of Israel. Whether he's really more friendly than Clinton I don't know, but he is certainly more enthusiastic in one thing - his

efforts to learn Hebrew," said Hila Saguy, 25, a pharmacist.

Yet amid the glowing reviews from Gore's Israel stop, there was plenty of advice from Jewish American voters.

The loudest was: loosen up. During a visit to the Yad

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"I was looking for a tear," said Elaine Spielberg of Los Angeles. "But nothing. He didn't Jose my vote. He just maybe lost a little respect."

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c·arter attends family reunion By Chelsea J. Carter

PLAINS,Ga.(AP)-JimmyCu1er swapped fanily tales Sat1mlay witl1 ~lXl of his closest 1-elarives - all ,.kscend:u11s of his posse-tiding, gun­toting gn:at-great-g1~mdfather.

· ·1 ·ve b::en inundated witl1 srrnies," the fom1er pt-esident s:1id atier shak­ing hm1ds,md posing for photographs at a family reunion in his hometoM1.

·111e gathering commemornted the 2(Xlth ,mnivers,U)' of the birth of his gn~at-great-grandfather, WileyCmter.

1l1e fom1erp1-esident had spent the past year tracking down Wiley Cu1er's dit-ect descenchmL,.

Carter's sem·ch for info1mation on his f,unily 1-evealed some hair-mising details.

As a mcmocrof a posse in northern Georgia, Wiley Cu1er killed a 111m1 over a slaw.

In the next generation, the fom1er president's great-gr,mdfather was killed in I 873 in a gunfight with a business p:uu1er over money from a camu~I. And his grarn.Jfatl1crdied of a shot in tl1c back in 1903 after a fight with a man who stole a table from the fm11ily scon:.

"I'm glad to see that evetybody hete :u-e good people who don't argue m1d fight:· Cmter quipped Saturday.

Cai1ersaidhealsowasabletopiece together a family puzzle about Wiley Cm1cr's youngest daughter.

"We didn't have any information on her childien. Now we know why.

She didn't have any," he said. Most of the people at Saturday's

invitation-only galhe1ing had never met Cm1er but they still called him "cousin."

"I'm sun: then: wen: a lot of times during my presidency when they said they weren't 1dated lo me. A lot of them were Republicans, unfottu­nately," Cuter said.

Chm-Ies Ernest m told Cuter how he had tonsillitis as a child and w,L~ nursed back to health by Cmter's mother, Lillian.

"I just wanted him to know how much she helped people," said Ernest, of Annapolis, Md.

Eula Shannon recalled how her sister - a lifelong Republican -

worked on Cm1er's l 976presidential campaign.

"He was the only Democrat she would work for," she said.

Members of the extended fam­ily wore white T-shirts with the green Carter family crest on the front and, on the back, a family tree with the names of Wiley Carter's 12 children. Name

badges explained how they were related.

The reunion gave I 0-year-old Jonathan MetzofHuntsville, Ala., a chance to convince fellow schoolmates he was telling the truth about his Carter heritage.

"Now they have to believe me," Metz said after having his picture taken with Carter..

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t t Two-snouted, 3-eyed pig to get surgery ·~ Bibiana s. Rabauliman LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ditto.

the pig with rwo snouts and thtl!C eves who was saved from being s;ld to a circus fn:ak show. is ?1 healthy, happy porker mid a p1ime c:mdidate for surgery to let him em normally, an animal 1ights activist says.

The 8-month-old defonned pig underwent a CAT scan Friday that showed he is an excellent candidate for tl1e conective sur­gery, said Rocky Mote, executive di1ector of Pigs Without Pm-ents, the organizati~n that paid about $ 6,CXXJ to buy the pig and ship him to safety.

"With that con-ective surgery, Ditto will be able to eat like ano1mal

pig," Ms. More said. 1l1c pig, a Yorkshire-Duroc cross­

breed, now eats a blender-mix of pig chow through a n1be placed deep inside his mouth, she said.

One of Ditto's jaws needs to be ad justed so he can eat properly, she said. The pig has only one func­tioning mouth and nose structure. There -is no sight in the third eye.

'The kind of surgery that Ditto will be having is not cosmetic," Ms. More said. "He 'II still have two snouts.

That's not going to change. But he' II be able lo eat better, b1eathe better.''

Doctors in New YorkCity,have offered to perform the surgery for

free, but Ms. More said PWP is hoping to find a doctor who specializes in reconstructive surgery closerto Southern Cali­fornia.

After the surgery, Ditto will be in no shape to travel and will require a lot of care, making it necessary to have the surgery performed nearby, she said.

Ditto must wear a protective helmet to protect his head because a neurological disorder causes him to fall over, and he has to use a special walker because his front legs don't work properly.

Otherwise, Ditto is just a regular pig who is affectionate and loves people, Ms. More said.

Vicente M. Amirez

We invite all relatives and friends to join us in commemorating the 1st and 4th Anniversary of their passing into eternal life by attending the nine day Eucharistic Celebration at 7:00 p.m. at San Jose Church, (Oleai).

On Tuesday, May 05th, Rosary will be said at 12:00 Noon. The 1st and 4th Anniversary Mass of Intentions will be offered at Sanjose Church at 5:00 p.m. Dinner will follow

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She is survived by her Children and Spouses: Jose 0. & Victoria (t)A. Dela Cruz Brothers and Sisters and Spouses: Maria M. Aldan (t) Joaquin S. Matagolai Vicente M. & Ines D. Aldan Juanita M. Sakisat Ignacio M. ( t) & Felicita R. Aldan Manuel S. ( t) & Delgadina B. Matagolai Joaquin T. (t) & Remedio A. Villagomez Lourdes M. & Younie Dejillas Manuel SN. & Dolores A. Lizama Estanislao A. & Sita Matagolai Alfred M. & Myriam B. Aldan Alfred E. (t) & Merced A. Hockett Max C. & Maria A. DLGuerrero Juan M. & Maria T. Aldan Ramon M. & Francisca B. Aldan Josepha M. Aldan ( t)

-~Y:., Additionally survived by numerous grand children, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, uncles and aunties. Last respects may be paid on Tuesday, May 5, 1998 beginning at 8:00 a.m. at the residence of Merced Hockett in Koblerville.

Responso at 12:00 noon. Mass for a Christian Burial will be offered at 4:00 p.m. at Mt. Carmel Cathedral. Interment Services will follow after the mass at CK Cemetery.

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preparing to wind down the operation of Annex IT, NMHC dete1mined that H,UD was mistaken and that the con­tract would not expire until June, 1999.

HUD has since confirmed NMHC's position.

By keeping the unit in annex I

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and at the same time continue to enhance the economy."

He said there have been several

Speaker ... Continued from page 3

that we have individuals in the imJus­t1y with the knowledge ,md under­standing that would i; able to better rnn the MVB," he said.

He added that the reorg,mization proposal is not a mallerofi~dividuals losing their jobs stressing that every­one of those positions is needed.

Tinian . .. Continued from page 1

well as computerized horse race on a mechanical race track e4uipped with sound and visual effects.

Hundreds of guests from Saipan trooped toTinian on Friday, avail­ing of the free boat ride offered by the Dynasty's Tinian Express.

Michael Kwan, chairman or Hong Kong Entertainment Over­seas Investments which Ltd. which operates the Tinian Dy­nasty, assured the government that the casino-hotel would contrib­ute to the economic growth of the CNMI as it would lure tourists and create more job opportuni­ties.

"'As we receive from the com­munity, so we shall return to the community," Kwan said.

"We want the people of the CNMJ and the peopleofTinian to be able to share in our success. To this end, the Tinian Dynasty will make contributions to the local

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ing that tht:y shoulu be giw11 th;: opportunity lo submit 1·casons against t hci re: x pu ls1011 aml to h:ivc the ea.,e rnmplc:tely l"l"l'il'\l'l"d.

I k said lic will consult the ,\t­torncy Gcncral ·s Office with re­gards to the legalities ol"thc HIV­related deportation procc:durcs.

The International Commission on Human Rights said that an

occupied during the remaining terrn of the Annex II operating conu-act with HUD. NMHC will be able to maximize its revenues while it pre­pmes to sell-off the prope1ty.

The prope1ty, which represents the I argest non-commercially developed lot in Garapan, is boarded by Middle Road to the East, beach Road to the West, theGanipan Elementary School totheSouth,andAme1icanMemonial Park to the North ..

companies that previously signified intentions to set up businesses in the Commonwealth but eventually backed out because of the unavail­ability of labor.

" ... And that's a se1ious problem," the business sector leader said.

"We '1-e talking about what we 're uyingtodohetein the House mid that iL~ recreating a new MVB," sais the speaker.

Gucn\!ro haid said a downsized tourism of!ice with only a mm1agcr ,u1d a secrctm)' would even be moil! effective tl1m1 a full blown agency like the existing MVB.

I-le WR, citing MVB 's beginning as a two-num operation

community in areas ·such as edu­cation health social welfare and infrastructure," he added.

However, Kwan admitted that the new casino industry still has .. a long way to go.,.

He said that more hard work is re4uired lo improve the island's infrastructurc. roads, airport, as well as power and water avail­ability.

Vicente M:u1glona, chaim1m1 of the Tini,u1 Casino Gm11ing Conu"Oi Commission. said Friday's celebra­tion was "just a beginning." "We all have just begun and there is nothing that can derail our oarn­ing indu;try if we all stay u~ited and properly allocate our intel­lectual resources to maximum best use,: Manglona said.

"A successful industry requires rapport between the investor and the policy makers," he added.

This month, another rnulti-111il­lion casino establishment, the Tinian Marine Hotel Casino. is expected to break ground.

alien lawfully in the territory or a stale rn:1y be expelled only in pur­suance of a decision reached in accot·dance with thc law, the pub­lic he,ilth exception not being a 1·c;1son ror the ll0lhljlj1lic;1tio11 or the salcguards.

Rights advoc:1tes said human rights considcrations arc simply not taken into account when deci­sions ,ire maue to expel a person on the grounds of protecting pub­lic health.

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Sources said blood spots led the investigators to a house whe1e the suspect was hiding.

The suspect, desciibed as a mn­away, suffered some inju1ies in the hands. He allegedly admitted duiing police's questioning that he stabbed thevictimonordersofthegangleader/ s, sources said.

No inforrnation was available as to the name of the gang and its leaders.

Police said the victim was alone

when the crime happened. No forced enuy into the house was noted.

Sources said it was actually the victim's·eight-year-old brother who first came to the house and saw the dead body earlier that afternoon.

Tne boy, however, was shocked andinsteadwenttoaneighbor'shouse where he watched TV.

Buchholz said the suspect was charged by the police with first de­gree murder and burglary.

The AGO may file today in the SuperiorCourt forrnal charges against the suspect, Buchholz said.

"We are a~king any members of the public who have inforrnation re­garding gang activity and who have the specific facts in this case to please bring them to the attention of our local enforcement agencies," he said.

Buchholz said that under the juve­nile code, only 16 and 17 years old can be charged as an adult in murder, rape and traffic cases.

So if the anestee in the Dandan murder will be subsequently con­victed, Buchholz said the boy will remain in jail until he reaches 18 years old.

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MARIANA ISL.-\NDS

Bank of Guam. Plaintiff. ·\"·

GuillcnminaC. Ccp<da, Defendant. CiYil Action No. %-688

NOTICE OF SALE

~OTICE IS HEREBY GIVE:S: that. pursuant to an Orclrr issul'd bv th~ Court in this mattl'r on ~ort'mrit'r 20. l 91.}i, twill sdl.at ruMic Jurtion, lo 1hr hil!hl·sr tilJJrr.@ ttll' ,l·m1s .111J \'lHJJilions sec fo111l hert·in~l(rn, ;11! l)I thi: ri~ht, 1i1k. :111J inll'rt.'.\t

of DrlenJant in anJ to th,· fellowing property: Loi 265 T 06. ~itu:1lL'J in Tini~m. ;'.;LmhL·m ~1ari:ma IsLinJs, as morr (\trtirnbrl) Ji:scril\:J on Drawing. C.::itL!str.11 Plat ~o. 265 T O:.J. th~ ori~inal of whkh \l.JS rcgistm:J 22 Odo\-1\.·r 1976 :L..; Dlx·um~·nt No. 561.1 at the Land Regis!!), Saipan.

D.11e lime and Place of Sale. The sale will oc held on Friday. May S. 1998, Jt the hour of I: 15 p.m .. at the law ofJices of White, Piere,, Mailm1n & Suttin~. Joeten Crnter, Susupe. Saipan. ~or1hcm Mariano Islands. The s.1le will re open to the general public.

Inspection of Pror;:ny It is the responsibility of each bidder to inspect the property. Failure to insJXC[ thL' propeny or any portion thereof will not constilutc ground for any claim, adjuslmcnl, or rescission by any buyer.

Warr:mtics and C:ovenams All property listed for sale in this Noiire will be sold in Its current condition, ,md at its current location. The sale will be held without any warranties or covenants whatsoever. whether e.~prcss or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, merchantability, and/or fitr<ss for any purpose whatsoever, all of which wananties and covenams nn, hmby expressly disclnimro. Neither the undersigned nor the Plaintiff may give any wnmnty or co~·enant, express or implied, with respect to the property listed for sale in this Notice. Neither the undersigned nor the Plaintiff shall oc liable forth, quality of the property listed ror sale in tnis Notice. or for any fault or defect io the description thereof. Buyers shall not be entitled 10 rescission. dam;igi:s. or any other remedy on account thereof.

Conduct of Sale. J. Rcr.Cf\'l'. Thi.' auction s:-ile m:iy he held with

reserve. The reser\·r pricE on ;my prope11)' offered for SJle nt1y or may no1 ix' disclosed to bidders. in lhc sole discretion of the under.;igned.

h. Riohts and duties of auc!ionrer. ConsistC.ll wi1h the laws. customs, and usagl's of lhl' Commonwt'alth o; 1hr .'\onhrm .\fari;in:i isbnJ.~ ~orcming JUl'[ion :,;;:ii.'. thl' un\Jt•rsigncJ shall ha\'l' tht' following righ1s and dulil'~ in conducting Uir auction s::le: ( l) to v.i1hdraw th,· rmperly listt'd for \'.'.!C in thi~ J\oticc \x'forr s:i!r of txirr1rr J biJ for sud,. prop,:ny i~ JL'CL'ptl·J: l2 :, 1~-, :1Jjoum t\·1l' s:11,· withuul notkt' at ~ny til1"u: t",dorc any spl'cifk property is struck l1ff.,,., ithout irK·urri.r.g :1:-iy liahill;) whatsor.:vt'r lhl'Tl'by; anJ (~} lO rl'jl'C:l. on hi . .'h:ilf 11f

the seller. any or :ill hid~. fur :my rt·uson c. Bids. Bid$ :11:1y ~X' ~uhmitteJ ;n aLh:.m,): !,Jr

any or :ii! olthc: pmrx:r1) listcU in this ;,,'u:ict. The hi~hi:st cf such tiids v. ill ;1u10111;1lirally l•: considcrcJ !ht' 1.,r,rning t-HJ f11r lhc: item. AJ, ;111((' ti:Js m.1y tx­~utimit1tJ 0nlv in \,ri1i11!:!. si~mJ h, the J-iiddrr. anJ Jrli\l'rt'd tn.thr l;m Cif1~~ts of°Whitl'. Pierce. \ bilm:.1n £.: \'·.itting. Jo,·,cn (' enter. su~uix·. s~1ir:.m. \l1:1ht'm :i.tirian.1 b!..tnJ:-.. Th,, tiiJJi.:r :i)~umi.:s :ill :-i,l or n·:111-Jdin·1. btl' .Jdi,rr). or mis·Ji:11\l'r:, ,lf\..,:Js. :\ny f"T)·.'.11. in,:!udin; llir Pl;ii:.tiff. ntt) tiiJ in p..·r.-,cn at thl' :1union s:1k. wr:ethcr or not such p..T~tm h:!s ~ut1m1 tlcd ,mad\ J.ncc: bid.

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iu 1hc undcrsigni.·J :i dL'plViit uf trn p.:rccm ( l 01 CJ oi the rurchasl' ;:irit'L' :mmeJi:.it,·I) ar"tcr th:: s:.dr i~ con~umm:itl'J. P~:rn1em .\h:t!I Pt· in cish m h, 1.'1.T:itied check. T~e tia!:u:~'C mu~1 bt' p,11J to 1h~ Pl:iintiff. in \'.JrL' of \\'hi!l'. Pirrl't' . .\1:iilm::n & .\l:l!in~. v..-i1hin thr,:r ,)) J:!,.-,; from '.!":L' J:iie of ~,1k, ;n c:1~/;vr bv t\:1ili,·J chL·,·I:. If th:: h:1l:1nct' ij n:11 s,1 ;'.11J. P\1in1.iff \i.iL rL·t::in thr J1:r,J.\il as li~u:~:1!d J.irn:i;i.:s. ,mJ \\ill;:~,;,; rJfrr :hl' p~Ji•:;:., Jc,~ \:ik

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1J1Kk1-:.i~llt'r.l an1I thr Pl:1in11i'r' rt'Sl'f\t' 1hr ri~ht In ch:in~l' any ilf thl' 1mn'> l'.l'ft·n! hJ anrH1uJ1CL'[lll'lll.

\.l.rittrn or r,r.1l, 111:1de hdlirr 1h~· ;:union '>:ilr ur :il !hi: cu:1t11t·nci.:mrm thl'reo! :1nJ s;uch change r1r d1:1n~e'>. by \·inue of 1his cl:1:.1):.:, sh:111 h.' b;nJ1ng on all bidder; by co:1sm.1etivr n01ict:.

DATED, this 6th day of April. 1998.

s'JOHN R. JOYNER.Aurtionm

IN TilE SUPERIOR COURT OF TilE COMMONWEAl:rn OF THE NORTHERN

MARIANA ISLANDS

Taro Sue Corpor.ition. dro King's Enterprises, Plaintiff ·V·

James A. Fleming. dba Island Trnnsit Systems, Defendant. Ci1il Action NO. 95-909

SECOND AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thJt, pur..uant to a Writ of Execution issurd by the Court in this mailer on July 26, 1996, I will sell, nq,1blic nuc1ion.101hc hi,ghcst bidder, on lhc lmns and conditions :it::t fortl1 herdnoclow, all of the right, title, and interest of frfrndml in and to thr fo!/owing pruJXrty:

Lot No. 006 T 15, situated in linian, Northern Mariana lslarx:is,conlaining ana~aof901 sciuarc ~tcrs. more or less, as shown on the Division of lands and Sumys OfJicial Cadastral Plat No. 006 T 01 dated April 29, 1983, the description therein being incorpnrated herein by this rererence; and Lot OJ2 T IJ, situated in Tiniao, Northern Mariana Islands.and containingannn,aof 4,999 square meters, more or less: and Lot 006 T 196, situated in 11nian, Northern Mariana Islands, containing an nrea of 1,011 square meters, more or less, as shown on the Division ofl.ands and Surveys Official Cadastral Pint No. 006 T C6 dated September 28, 1993, the description therein being incorporated herein by this reference. nm; Jjme and Place of Sale. The sale will be

held on Friday, May 8, 198, at the hour of I :00 p.m, at the law offices of White, Pience, Mailman & Nutting, Joeten Center, Susupe, Saipan, Nor1hem Mariana Islands. The sale will be open to the general J)\Jblie.

Jnspe;;Jion of Proreny. The property described above is presently located at linian, Northern Mariana Islands. It is the responsibility of the buyer to inspect the property. Failure to inspect the property or any portion then!Of will not ronstirute ground for any claim, adjustment, or rescission by any buyer.

Wammties and Covenants. All property listed for sale in this Notice will be sold in its cunreot condition, and at its current location. The sale will be held without any warranties or covenants whatsoever, whether express or implied, including h!t not limited 10 wruranticsoftitle, merchantability, and/or fitness for any purpose whatsoever, all of v.llich wananticsand covenants are hereby cxi:ttSSIY disclaimed. Neither the undersigned nor the Plaintiff may give any warranty or covenant, express or implied, with respect to the property listed for sale in this Notice. Neither the undersigned nor the Plaintiff shall be liable for the quality of the property listed for sale in this Notice, or for any fault or defect in thedescriptionthen,of. Buyers shall 001 be entitled to rescission, damages. or any oth~r remedy on account tltEreof.

Conduct of Sale. J. Reserve. l11e auction sale nuy be held with

reserve. The rcscn·c prici.: on any property offered for SJle may or may not be disclosoo to bidder.., in the sole discretion of the under.;igned.

Ji. RiDhts and duties of auctioneer. Co1tc.istent with the laws. customs. and us.iges of the CommDnwealth of the Nonhem Mwiuna Islands governing auctions sales, the undersigned shall have the following rights and duties in conducting the auction sale: (I) to withdr.iw the propcrty listed for sale in this Notice before sale or Jxfore a bid for such propeny is accepted; (2) to adjourn the sa.lc without notice at any time before any specific pcoperty is struck off, without incurring any liability ~ha~omr thereby: and (3) to reject, on behalf of the seller. any or all bids, for any reason.

c. Bids. Bids m::i.y b; submitted in advance for any or nll of the property li~cd in this Notice. The highest of such bids will automatic.illy be considered the o~ning bid for the item. Advance bids may tie suhmittcd only in writing. signed by the bidder, and delivered to the iaw offices of White, Pierce, Mailm:rn & Nuning, Joeten Center. Susupe, Saipan, Northern M:mam Islands. The bidder assumes all risk of non-delivery, late delivery, or mis-delivery of bids. Any p:r30n, including the PlaintilT, may bid in per..on nt the auction sale, whether or not such per..on has submined an advance bid.

d. Disrutes. The undersigned may resubmit any pcoperty listed in this Notice if a dispute arises as to ,my bid thert'on.

Enforcement of Auction Sale. a [)'oosit. faery· successful bidder shall pay

to the undersignrd a dqxisit of ten ixrcent (10\,) of the purchase price immediately after the sale is comummatd. Payment shall bi.: in cash or Dy ccrtifirJ check. The b.:!lancc must be p:1id to the PL!Intif:. in c:irr of White, Pinet', Mailman & .\L:tlir,g. within thrt:(! ( J ,1 days from the d:1te of SJk. in ~·:!.-..h orb·, ci.:n:iii.:J c~,cck. If the !'ab.nee is nul so rxiiJ, Pl:1in!i1f \\ 111 ri.:tain the dtpc>~it as liquidated d:tm:igcs. ,md w1il :tpin offer the pror,erty for sale.

ti. ~krn:ir,mdurn of Sak. !f requested by the unde~igncd. every successful t,idder mu~\ sign ,1 .\.krr1orJnJum of S,tlc. im:nedi:itciy after the SJlc oi· ;my prorcny is struck off at c1.uction.

c. Court Approval Required. Every sale is sunjeet to :ipprovol by the Court. The auctioneer makc!i no warranties or promises with resrcct to court opproval of the sale, including out not limited to 1hc time in \~hirh such arprovci! may~ gr.mte<l. .\o dd;iy in thi.! granting of cour1 ;ipproval sh:ill be ground for any claim. <:djustmcr.!. or rcscissinn hy any succcssf ul biddrr. Tor sun:e~sful h:dJrr will be promptly notil"ied if ond when coun approval is gr.mtl'd.

d, Removal or Stor..1gc nf Pcrson;il Propcrtv. Th, successful bidder shull have one ( I J working d:1y after coun opproYal of lhc sale to rcmol'e any p:rson:il prop:ny purehascd from the plucc of sole. After lhc expiration of this 24-huur period, the successful bidder shall oc,r theentin: nsk of loss of or don'1ge to such propeny, and shall oc liuble for ;dl CX[l{.'nscs of c;.iring for and/or storing such pmp:ny.

C'han!!c nf Term:,; and (ondi1ions. The unJcnignrd aml the Plainti/T rcser"c the right to ch:mgr ;1ny ur the trrm~ hereof by announccm:nl, wriucn er or:il. made bcfon: lhi: auc1ion sale or at thr rnmmcnccment lht'rcur. and such ch:mgc or chang~s. hy vinuc of this clauS(. shall bi: binding on all bidders by constructive notice.

DATE, this 3nl day of Marth, 1998.

YNER Auctione •r

Sloppy . . . Continued from page 4

DJes the mticle lack balance? In other words, is only one side pre­sented~ Is anyone from the govem­ment. business community or even the man orwomm1 on the street given any space to voice their opinion1

Finally, a more sensitive sub­jerl: The CNMI 'sown media pro­fessionals. I say this not from a racial, but cultural perspective. I am mmTied to a Filipina I met and married while in the Common­wealth.

More effort needs to be made to

PUBUC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

Civil Action No. 97-t 039B

Saipan Intema1ional School, Plaintiff,

-vs-QUANTUM INTERNATIONAL INC.

Defendant.

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thal, pursuanl to an Amended Writ of Execu­tion issued by 1his Coun on April 2, 1998, I will sell al public auclion, lo ihe highest bidder, for currenl lawful money of the United S1a1es, the following per­

sonal properly:

30 Liebert 39,000 BTU Air Conditioners

The sale will be held at the warehouse of Nonh Pacific Enterprises,"lnc. on Middle Road in lhe Horizon Building Second Floor be1ween Paradise Hotel and Oriental Hotel on Wednesday May 6, 1998 at I :00 p.m. If queslions, or if a viewing is desired, call me at 235-7736.

The sale wilt be held wilhout any war­ranties whalsoever, wheiher express or

implied, ult of which are hereby ex­pressly disclaimed. The sale is subject to apprnval by the Courl. The right is

reserved lO reject any and all bids, for any reason.

DATED. this 24th day of April, I 998.

is/FRANK M. CAMACHO

IN TIIE SUPERIOR COURT OF lllE COMMONWEALTII OFTIIE NORTHERN

MARIANA ISLANDS

JOH:S: MlCELSON. Plaintiff, VS.

TOWER CONSTRUCTION CORP, HYON OK LEE, CIIJ\G EUN K El and JOH\ OR JANI: DOES \l ,\1BER I TIIROL'GH 10, Dcfenda111.~. Ciril Action No. 98-094

AMENDED SUMMONS

TO C"HI\G EC\ KEI

YOL" ARE HEREBY SL:\1\IONED and notifi:.:J 10 !ik an\ answer \UU wish tu m:1ke to the rnrnp ainl. ;/ copy of ·wliirh 1s gi\'~n you herewith, w11hin twent1 one (21) ua1s after the fourth publ1c~t1on of 1f1i.\ Amended.Summons. and lo deli\·er ur mai I a copy of your amwi.:r to the Law Offices of Da,id A. Wiseman, whos,: add rm" PO. Hox 26117 CK, Saipan MP96950 JS .tioon a.s. pr:ictic.ible LJfter filing your answa or .sending it to the Clerk ofthts Coun for filing.

Your ,nswershould be in writing anu filed with the Clerk of this Coun at Soip:m, MP %9511. It ma~ be prepared and signed for you by your counsel and .sent to the Clerk of thi., Coun bv mc~sen~er or mail. It is not nccessarv forvou tO appear personallv until funher notice. '

If mu fail 10 file answer in accord:mct with this summons, Judgment by Default ma, be taken against you for1l1e relief demanded in the Complaint.

By order of the above coun. Dated thts 16th day of April, 1998

ls/Deputy Clerk of Cuun

encourage local students to con­sider journalism as a profession.

Local labor laws should man­date only allow U.S. citizens to be reporters 'in the CNMI. I have found that many alien reporters bring their own agendas about news coverage.

With all d~e respect, I submit some reporters do little to write positive stories about how the CNMJ labor process works and they are all aware they are "guests" and can be deported. This also can affect their ability to cover the news without bias.

Mainland reporters also bring their own ideas and emotional baggage to the CNMI-blinding them for a time to the ways of the western Pacific.

I realize Chamorro tradition loathes making a public display of family problems. Since many of the families in the Common­wealth are related to each other by marriage, local reporters would be placed in a cultural dilemma: If they report the news fairly and without bias they could cause fam­ily embarrassment and thus hurt their root relationships.

Frankly, I don't know a way out

CHC ... Continued from page 7

and May 1997; and GCD's 12 workers-$5,38 I .84 in April I 995 and April I 997.

The lawyer said that in separate instances, CHC sent written notices to the employes informing them of oust.anding bills for their employees.

The AttomeyGenenil 's Office also wrnte letters to the defendants outlin­ing the lists of the CHC's collection effo11.s and making demand for pay­ment.

Bangladesh .. Continued from page 1

outrages, which often occur be­yond federnl authority."

TheplightoftheBangladeshiwork­ers in the CNMI were first given ,mention early last year. Critics of the CNMJ including some US legisla­tors, human rights advocates and the mainland ptess have since taken the

IN TIIE SUl'EKIOI( COURT OF Tl IE COMMONWEAJ:rl I Ol'TIIE NORTlll,RN

MARIANA ISi.ANDS

J. SCOIT MAGLIARI, Plaintiff, \S,

TOWER CO\STRIJCTION CORP., HYON OK LEE, ,\\D CJII\G l'lj,'\ KEI AND JOIJ.\ OR JA\E DOES \U.IIHER I TIIROL'GJJ 10 lldcml:1111s. Ci1il Action :\o. 97-12711)

AMENDED SUMMONS

TO: CHl.'\G EUN KEI

YOU ARE HEREBY Sl!MMO:S:EIJ and notifttd to file any answer you wish to 111,le to the co111plain1, a copy of ~hich is given vou herewith, witl1io twenty one (21) days aftcr°the founlt publical!on of this Amended Summons, and 10 Ucli~·cr or mail a cop) of your an<;wer to the Law Offices of David A. Wisem:111, whose address is P.O. Box 2607 CK, SJ1pa11 MP969511 as soon ;LS pract1cablc after filing your answer orscnding ii to the Clerk of this Coun for~ling.

Your ans.er should be in writing and rn,-d with the Clerk of this Court at Saipan, \1P 969i0. It 111ay be prcpare<i and signed for you by your counsel and sent. to the Clerk of tlm Coun by messenger or mad. It 1s not necessary for )OU to appear personally until funhcr notice.

If you f:itl to f1lt :111 answer in accordance with thi.\ surm1m11\ JuJomcnt bv Default may be t:1kcn ag;iinsl you for~hc rclittf dcmandell in lhc Comploint.

BY OR DER OF TIJE ABOVE COURT.

Dated this 16th day of April. 1998

01' /s/l)cou11• Clerk of Court

of this; perhaps Chamono and Carolinian Elders should be con­sulted, interviewed and a com­promise reached which would encourage locals to consider jour­nalism.

This has gone on longer that I intended. Fellow lovers of the Commonwealth I encourage you to stand up and complain about biased and unfair news reporting. Make calls, write letters invite reporters and media executives to spend some TIME in the CNMI and meet the people before paint­ing our islands with the black brush of being some sort of slave haven.

I can not close this letter with­out apologizing for a cultural gaffe I committed a long time ago. I offer a sincere apology to the people and church at San Jose. Many years ago I wrote a column in which I decried the speakers that broadcast the sound of church bells calling people to worship.

Chalk it up to being a boorish haoles who subsequently learned better.

DA YID T. HUGHES

Jones ... Continued from page 11

difference between a negative and a positive investment.

"Negative investment is that which is either break even, mean­ing no profit, or it's only for the operation of the company. Posi­tive investment, on the other hand, is that where there is profit, there is money after you deduct the total cost. And that money can be given to the local people," Jones concluded.

Bangladesh issue, among others, against the CNMI.

Hundreds ofBangladesh workers, who had paid between S5,CXX) and $ I O,<XXJ in recruitment fees and other expenses, cmne to Saipan to find that the jobs offered them did not exist.

"Quite a few of the recruiting com­panies were sham outfits who peri­odically declare bankruptcy and re­register under new names," the Bangladesh Embassy noted.

At least one of the rec111iters, a Filipino, had been convicted by the U.S. Cou1t.

Some of the victims of fraud recruitment remain jobless, while others who have been hired by local comranics complain of la­bor conditions.

"In several instances, they wercn 't paid for months altogether for services rendered and work­ing conditions and job descrip­tions were outrages and far from the contracted standards anc.l specifications," the Embassy said.

"Workers demanding their rights or protesting maltreatment, have reportedly been subjected to physical assault. various forms of violence, harassment and intimi­dation (by) their employers." it added.

Stayman blamed the CNMI's immigration policy for the prob­lem.

He said that because the CNMI docs 1101 have visa-issuing pro­cess, workers from Bangladesh who enter the Commonwealth arc not screened at !he Saipan airport.

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Employment Wanted

01 AIR CONDITIONING TECHNICIAN­Salary:$3.05-4.00 per hour 01 ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER-Sal­ary:$700.00-1,000.00 per month 02 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER-Sal­ary:S3.05-4.00 per hour 03 PLUMBER-Salary:S3.05-4.00 per hour Conlact: ISLAND PLUMBING & MAIN­TENANCE SERVICES, INC. Tel. 234-3533 26203

03 PHYSICAL THERAPIST-Sal­ary:$1,000.00 per month Plus $10.00 per hour commission Contact: HIS, INC. dba Masa Shiatsu Siudio Tel. 233-2525(5/11 )M7195B

01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal­ary:$3.05-3.20 per hour 01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Sal­ary:$3.05-3.30 per hour Contact: MODERN OFFICE FURNI­TURE & SUPPLIES Tel. 234-6832(51 11)M71962

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.60 per hour Contact: SAIHON DEVELOPMENT, INC. Tel. 234-6832(5/11)M71960

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$700.00 per month Contact: YOU WON TRADING CORP. dba M's Mart/Little Tokyo Tel. 233-2025(5111 )M26319

01 ASSISTANT SALES MANAGER­Salary:S3.50 per hour 01 AUTO MECHANIC-Salary:S3.50 per hour 01 SU PERVISOR(SALESJ-Sal-ary:$3.50 per hour 01 GENERAL IVIAINTENANCE HELPER-Salary:$3.05 per hour Contact: YCO CORPORATION dba YCo Servistar Hardware/Liberty Plaza/ YCO Construction Tel. 233-3112(51 11)M71959

01 BARTENDER-Salary:$4.00 per hour 04 WAITRESS/WAITER-Salary:$4.00 per hour Contact: JAVA IMPORTS LTD. dba Cof­fee Care Tel. 323-5282(5111)M26310

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02 TIRE REPAIRERS-Salary:S3.25 per hour Contact: SAi PAN AUTO SUPPLY CO., INC. dba Sasco Service Plus/Quality Builders Tel. 234-8379(5/4)M26235

01 CLERK-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: J & JEV ENT., INC. dba Bay View Markel Tel. 256-9483(5/4)M26232 -------·--- ----01 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary:S994 .51 per montl1 Contact: AMERICAN PACIFIC TEX­TILE, INC. dba Hansae (Spn), Inc. Tel. 235-1501 (5/4)M26234

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01 SUPERVISOR, CONSTRUCTION­Salary:$700.00 per month Contact: ZHONG JIAN PAC (SAIPAN), INC. Tel. 235-8861(5/18)M26406

01 WAREHOUSE CHECKER-Sal­ary:$3.05-3.60 per llour Contact: SAIPAN SHIPPING COM­PANY, INC. Tel. 322-3858(5/18)M26403

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01 COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYST­Salary:$900.00 per month Contact: REYNALDO 0. YANA dba Yana Law Olfice Tel. 234-6529(5/ 18)M26402

01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary:S3.50 per hour Contact: DELOITTE & TOUCHE Tel. 322-7337(5/11 )M71949

01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR­Salary:S3.50 per hour Contact: MOBIL OIL MARIANA IS­LANDS, INC. Tel. 234-7796(51 11)M26313

02 MASON-Salary:$3.05 per hour 08 CARPENTER-Salary:$3.05-3.40 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$1,100.00 per monll1 Contact: NORTH PACIFIC BUILDERS,

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01 COOK-Salary:S3.05-4.00 per hour 01 TOUR GUI DE-Salary:$3.05-3.50 per hour 01 NIGHT AUDITOR-Salary:S4.70 per hour 01 MAINTENANCE BUILDING RE­PAIR-Salary:$3.05-4.60 per hour Conlacl: MODERN INVESTMENT, INC dba Saipan Ocean View Hole! Tel. 234· 6832(5111 )M71961

01 TRANSLATOR-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: X-CORPORATION Tel. 233-0691 (5/11 )M26309

01 SPORTS INSTRUCTOR (SCUBA DIVING)-Salary:S1 ,000.00-1,500.00 per monlh Contact: BLUE SEA SPORTS, INC. Tel. 234-7903(5/11 )M26308

01 SUPERVISOR, DEPARTMENT-Sal­ary:$3.05 per hour Contact: MICRONESIAN GARMENT MFG., INC. Tel. 235-7120(5/11 )M26307

01 TRIMMER-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: MAN ON ENTERPRISES INC. Tel. 235-8922(5/11)M26317

01 BLDG. MAINTENANCE REPAIRER­Salary:S3.05 per hour 01 REF./AIRCON TECHNICIAN-Sal­ary:$4.45 per hour 01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary:S4.45 per hour Contact: GLOBAL TRADERS, INCOR­PORATED Tel. 234-7415(5111 )M26315

02 CASHIER·Salary:S3.05 per hour Contacl: LFP CORPORATION dba Marg's Kitchen Tel. 234-3706(5/ 11)M26314

01 BARTENDER-Salary:$4.00 per hour 01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASST.-Sal­ary:$3.75 per hour Contact: L & W AMUSEMENT CORP. Tel. 234-8864(5/11 )M26324

01 PACKER (HAND)-Salary:S3.05-3.60 per hour Contact: MICHIGAN, INC. Tel. 234-9555(5/11 )M26323

01 BAKER HELPER-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: MEITETSU SHOPPING CEN­TER, INC. dba Meitetsu Mart Tel. 234-6230(5111 )M26326

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In Re lhc Adoption of

MADONNA CUi\ANAN SABLAN

A Minor Child.

FCDAD CIVIUCTJON NO. 98-0519

NOTICE OF HEARING

\UllCE IS lll'Rl:BY GI\ I:\ 1h,it

Circg,m,,C Sablan :md,\ndrca C. Sabl:tn

have r1lctl with 1hc Clerk of thi.s Court a

Petition for 1ennina11on of Pareni-Child

Relationship anti for 1he Adoption of

Madonna Cunanan Sablan. a minor child.

TI1e hearing of lhe Petition is set for 9:30

a.m. on Thursday, the 16th day of July,

1998, at the Commonwealth Superior

Court, Susupe, Saipan, Commonwcalih

of the Northern Mariana Islands. For

funher parJicuJars. con1ac1 John M.

Chambers. Esq .. a11orney for Petitioners

by le le phone al (670) 233-690 I, or by fax at(67 t J 233-691)3

Daled lhis 301h of March 1998.

:s:Clerk of Coun

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YOUR BIRTHDAY l\10:\DA Y

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20) - You may be jumping lo conclusions. but your options should be clear to you. You may want to discuss issues as they arise with othe1·s.

ARIES (March 2 I-April 19) - You must think about the mor-c practical matters to­day. Tcnc.l to things one at a time. Focus on what brings you a sign of things to come.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - You will be surprised to learn that what you have in mind is not altogether an origi­nal idea. Someone else has been on the same track.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dcc. 21)- You may be struck with a plan today that can solve many of your prob le ms, proviJed you put it into mo­tion in an expeditious fash­ion.

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National. League roundup

Mets lose 6th straight NEW YORK (AP) - Slumping Ellis Burks hit a grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning Satur­day and the Colorado Rockies sent the New York Mets to their sixth straight loss, 7-3.

Vinny Castilla, Lan·y Walker and Neifi Perez also homered for the Rockies, whowonforthefifth time in six games.

The Mets' losing streak is their longest since dropping eight straight in August 1996.

Burks, stuck in a l-for-19 skid, hit his ninth career slam and first since June 26, 1993, with the Chi­cago White Sox.

Dennis Cook (2-1) took the loss. Curtis Leskanic (2-3) pitchec.l two scoreless innings for the win.

Reds 8, Brewers S In Milwaukee, Lenny HaITis'

pinch-hit RBI single off Chad Fox in the eighth inning broke a tie and lifted Cincinnati to the win.

Barry Larkin started the win­ning rally with a one-out single to left that snapped a career-worst O­for-30 slump.

Larkin, who left the game in the bottom of the inning with a cramp in his left shoulder. took thirc.1 on Jon Nunnally's single and scored when Harris bouncec.l an 0-2 pitch past Fox (0-1) up the middle for a

6-5 Reds leac.l. Cincinnati added one more run

in the eighth and another in the ninth to give Gabe White (1-3) the win. Jeff Shaw got the final three outs for his eighth save.

Cubs 4, Cardinals 3, l linnings

In Chicago, Sammy Sosa doubled in Mark Grace with two outs in the 11th inning to give the Cubs the win. ·

Grace singled with two out off Kent Bottenfield ( 1-2) and then Sosa doubled into the left-center gap over the head of left-fielder John Mabry.

Grace baITeled over catcher Eli Manero to beat the relay to the plate.

Ten-y Adams ( 1-1) pitched two perfect innings of relief, striking out three of the six batters he faced, as the Cubs won their third straight game.

McGwire, who has 399 career home runs, went 0-for- l and walked four times, twice inten­tionally, to raise his major league­leading total to 34 walks.

Braves 4, Giants 3 In Atlanta. Michael Tucker

homered twice and Keith Lockhart hit an RBI single off Robb Ben (3-1) with two outs in

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F'orsrnan; ~eel 1*itJ1 ~)amet1 at • 6-u11derajte:t:3p\iqles, had~ 68. :fie andryiaggeiti~I 0-unqera.t 206 wi.th l .8 qolesr~T''iiningintheevent on UJe; Town~ntP!ayers Course at111eWoodlands.

Janzen had a 71, and was a shot aheadofFredCouplcs, who carded Dan Forsman chips out of a a 70. bunker on the ninth hole during

Mikel-lulbert.,FranklinLangham the second round of the Shell ,md Stephen Ames were at 211 Houston Open Friday. A?

with Hal Sutton and David Duval on each hole, tl1en birdied the pru·-among a group of golfers another 316th with ,m!S-footputt. shot back. His birdie attempt at No. 17 was

Magge11 le<l.the tournament after short by a couple of inches, ruid he th1ee rounds in both J 991 and 1996, finished 18 with a par for the !::est but· failed to hold on. In 1991, he round of the toumamenL soared to ;m 80 on die final clay. For,mrn1, seeking his first vie-Two y~u'S ago, he lost in u playoff tory in six years, had six sm.tight to Mark Brooks. pars before back-to-back birdies

That wa., one of 11 rurmerup on Nos. 7 and8.A6-footputtatNo. finishes in. his sewn yem-s on t11e 11 gave him another birdie mid tour, including a second this yearat pulled him into a tic with Maggert Bay Hill in March. He has won at 9-under. . once, in 1993. Abirdieattemptatthcpar-412th

tvlaggert staited the dayat 2- slidjustpastthehole,butFor.mmn under, four shots behind forsman c6nve1ted at No. 13 to go I 0-under and Janzen. before his tee shotori the par-3 14th

Magge1t statted with a birdie at landed in a•· bunker. thepar-5No. I, snung consecutive A potential par-saving putt at 14 ·birdiesonNos.4,5and6,ahdadded rimmed off the cup, dropping him another 1110 on 9.10 anctJJ. He · otitofashareofthe!eadbefore he follgwedthem withthree consecu-· &overed with a.4-toot birdie putt

· tiv~ i,w~, 11}1~sing birrl.i¢s by inc he~ > .• .. at !'{o. l6. to. tie Magge1t.

the ninth. Atlanta has won five straight,

nine of 11 and 14 of 17. San Francisco has lost three straight overall and 14 of 17 against the Braves.

The Giants are 3-18 in Atlanta during the last three years.

Kerry Ligtenberg (3-1) got out of a first-and-third, one out jam in the ninth by getting pinch-hitter Chris Jones to fly out to shallow right and Bill Mueller to fly out.

Astros 4, Phillies 1 In Philadelphia, Mike

Hampton (5-0) allowed one run and seven hits in 7 2-3 innings to win for the 17th time in 20 decisions and be­c~me the NL 's first five-game winner.

Houston has won 12 of 14. Curt Schilling (3-3) gave up

two runs - one earned - and five hits in seven innings, while striking out 13 and walking one.

Schilling, the major-league

Countdown· .. Continued from_page 28

in two ycm-s. ll1is is the 9th Tagaman ,md we would keep it going.''

··Let's say that we may not have the quanlity but we have the quality. We m-e expecting three athletes from Hawaii, one from New Zealm1d, two from Hong Kong and several from Guan1. It is the fo-st time that we ai-e going to have somelxxly from New Zealand," Sakovich continues.

St:uting on the 15th of May, the Hafa Adai Beach Hotel will be the official headquaitm for the 1998 Tagaman Tiiathlon.

TheTagamanwillstmtwithaswim course insic.lc the lagoon out towards the reef and back to the beach for the two kilometer-swimming event.

The swim course will be followed by triathletes 1iding their individual bikes st:liting nem· the Hafa Aclai Beach Hotel.

11iat would be a 60 kilometer bike 1ide along the Beach Road going to the south approaching the aid station slightly beyond the Pacific Jslmids.

111c race will head back 1101th on Beach Road to the G.u-ap:u1 Police Station tuming:u·ound :md back tlm:e times. ll1e final leg will oc on the Muro Beach.

Sakovichadds,'"Tiiatl1lonisa1XJPU­J,u· spo1t hen: mid it is sometl1ing that we don't need lo use major facilities fm (hosting this kind of cvcm). We jusl use the natural faci litics. I hope next yc,u· we could gel J(Xl to 4(Xl 1xuticip,uits."

Sampras . . . <:;ont!_,:iued from page 28

Stoltenberg broke the 24-year-old Pavel to take a 4-2 lead in the first set, then broke again in the eighth game to take the set.

Stoltenberg broJ.:e in the fourth ga1m: of the second set to lead 3-1 and was serving for the match al 5-3,

Pavel broke serve, only to lose his own in the next game.

strikeout leader with 78, fanned 11 of his last 17. He has fanned I 0 or more in five of seven starts.

Billy Wagner pitched the ninth for his seventh save.

Padres 8, Marlins 7 In Miami, Wally Joyner had

three hits, including one that fractured the right wrist of Florida starter Eric Ludwick ( 1-3) in the third inning.

San Diego took an 8-2 lead and hung on to win for the sixth time in seven games.

Ludwick will be sidelined for two-to-three months.

Joey Hamilton (3-1) allowed five rnns and eight hits in five­plus innings, and Trevor Hoffman got three outs for his eighth save in eight chances.

Dodgers 5, Pirates 4 In Pittsbui-gh, Roger

Cedeno 's two-run single and some sloppy Pittsburgh de­fense he I pee.I Los Angeles open a 5-0 lead and win for the sixth

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And he b1islled at commenL, by Vm1 Gundy. a fo1mer Riley assistant, whosaidMoumingshouldstopwhin­ing ;md accept the NBA 's bumping and banging "'like a mm1."

··rm disappointec.l Van Gundy woulc.1 go after my center," Riley said. "When a guy lobs spitballs enough, somelxxly is going to tum on him."

Lobs;md jabs aside, both tearns,u-e

time in eight games. Ramon Martinez (3-2) al­

lowed four runs - three earned - and eight hits in eight-plus innings. and Scott Radinsky got three outs for his fifth save.

Catcher Mike Piazza threw out Lou Collier attempting to steal second to end the game.

Jon Lieber ( 1-4) gave up five runs - four earned - and eight hits in five innings.

Expos 5, Diamondbacks 4 In Montreal, Ryan McGuire

hit an RBI single off Russ Springer (1-2) in the 12th, sending Arizona to its fifth consecutive loss.

Shayne Bennett (1-1) pitched a hitless 12th for the Expos, who fell behind on Travis Lee's 10th-inning homer off Steve Kline but retied it on a single by Scott Livingston and a pair of wile.I pitches by Felix Rodriguez.

smlll1blingtocomeupwitht-evamped lineups, and the outcome may hinge on the adjustment,. B0tl1 coaches dee\ im:d lo reveal their strnters Satu r­day.

The absences of Mournin~. Johnson,u1dNewYork'sCh1is Mill, -,dsosusp.:nded-leave botli te;m1s without much of mi inside ~ame.

Secondary playe1-s sudd;nly a,­suming primary roles may include Keith Askins and Mark Suickland for Mianii m1d Teny Cummings and Antl1ony Bowie for New York.

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TRIPLE: 1. Pauline Yamada Marpac Sakau 4 2. Jennifer Germance R&C Tours Island Girls 3 3. Dora Taitingfong Saipan Stevedore Starters 2 4. Evelyn Fran kl in Marpac Sakau 2 5. Mary Benjamin Marpac Sakau 2 6. Anita Pangelinan R&C Tours Island Girls 2

DOUBLE: 1. Jovie Omar R&C Tours Island Girls 6 2. Beverly Skerei Bencamp Adil Yakau 5 3. Pamela Riungel Marpac Sakau 5 4. Emiliana Quitugua R&C Tours Island Girls 5 5. Anita Pangelinan R&C Tours Island Girls 5 6. Annaliza Emiliano R&C Tours Island Girls 5 7. Jennifer Germance R&C Tours Island Girls 5 8. Dolores Yanneris Marpac Sakau 4

RBI: 1. Emiliana Quitugua R&C Tours Island Girls 32 2. Dolores Yanneris Marpac Sakau 21 3, Brenda Haddox KPS Corp. Mamma Rhakas 17 4. Liz Lebria Saipan Stevedore Starters 17

RUNS: 1. Emiliana Quitugua R&C Tours Island Girls 25 2. Semerina Simram R&C Tours Island Girls 24 3. Mary Olmos Marpac Sakau 16 4. Annaliza Emiliano R&C Tours Island Girls 16

ERA: Avg. Inn. 1. Dolorina Paunelo Marpac Sakau 5.18 50 2. Semerina Simram R&C Tours Island Girls 5.73 55 3. Polly Omechelang Bencamp Adil Yakau 8.02 48

STRIKEOUT: 1. Lucy Ada Mayor's Off. Marauders 17 45 2. Semerina Simram R&C Tours Island Girls 17 55 3. Polly Omechelang Bencamp Adil Yakau 15 48 4. Brenda Haddox KPS Corp. Mamma Rhakas 15 46

Team Standings TEAM WON LOST PCT RF RA GB 1. R&C Tours Island Girls 10 0 1.000 180 70 2. Marpac Sakau 7 3 .700 141 66 3.0 3. Bencamp Adil Yakau 5 5 .500 118 112 5.0

· 4. Saipan Stevedore Starters 5 5 .500 102 131 5.0 5. KPS Corp. Mamma Rhaka's 2 8 .200 89 140 8.0 6. Mayor's Oflice Marauders 1 9 .100 45 156 9.0

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28-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- MAY 4, 1998

Sanipras cruises to AT&T finals DULUTH,Gcorgia(AP)-Top see<l Pete Sampras cruise<l into the final of the$ 315,000 AT and TChallenge with a 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 victory over Alex Calatrava of Spain.

The worl<l 's No. I player, seek­ing just his thir<l career title on clay, will meet second seed Jason Stoltenberg of Australia in Sunday's championship match.

Stoltenberg, a finalist here last year, was a 6-2. 6-4 winner over Romania's Andrei Pavel on Sat­urday.

Sampras' solid and aggressive play Saturday contrasted sharply with his matches earlier this week,

·Countdown.·· starts for· Tagaman '9.· 8 · ..

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By Louie C. Alonso Variety News Staff

BARELY twelve days before the most-awaited spotting event i the TagamanTriathlon '98areveryopti­mistic about the May 16 meet.

This early, 36 participants from Japan, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Taiwan m1d Hawaii have already given their full confomation to p,u--. ticipate on this event. At the same time, triathletes from Guam. Saipm1 mid Rota are expected to grace the Tagamm1 race.

According to Bill Sakovich, one of the coordinates of this event, the aim of this yem·'s Tagaman is to help promote the tomism in Mmiana Is­lands.

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when he struggled to find rhythm on his serves and groundstrokes in cold, damp conditions.

On a court fim\lly dried after days of rain and clouds, however, the first set played like a serving duel.

The lanky Calatrava, who battled through three qualifying matches and three in the main draw, served seven aces while Sampras countered with eight.

After neither player dropped serve, Sampras roared to a 4-0 lead in the tiebreaker.

Calatrava battled to 5-all and then saved a set point at 5-6 when Sampras' backhand flew deep.

The Spaniard's miss on an easy forehand on the next point, how-

ever, gave Sampras another set point at 7-6 and he won the set with a serve-and-volley point.

The second set featured more baseline rallies.

Sampras, looking ever more confident, played more consis­tently to force Calatrava into mis­takes.

Sampras broke the Spaniard in the fourth game to go up 3-1 and nearly broke serve again for the match at 5-2.

Stoltenberg, a top I 00 player for eight of his 13 years on tour, came up with more solutions than Pavel to strong, swirling wind.

Playing calmly while trying to get to the net as often as possible,

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1998 Women's Softball-.League Statistics as of 4/28/98 · (End ofSeason) Pennant Champ: R&C Tours Island Girls Runner-Up: Marpac Sakau NAME TEAM AVG.

;~~~~~- ,:<:, \; ;,j~.·,:_. '' • 1. Emiliaila'Qtiiugua' . , .. ,. :.R&C I ours.Island Girls,: · .750

2. Pamela.Riungel . " Marpac Sakau.. ,·- .. ·· . >.567 3. Liz.l_~bria ; •·· .. •.• . ·.·· ·,saip~ifStevedore Starters::~·. ':':::'\533: .. Evelyn·F,rartklin \: Marpac Saka~ . , ; ;. . :> .

4. Anita Pangelinan · · · R&C Tours Island Girls \ 5. Beverly Skerei . · Bencamp AditYakau · 6. Zerah Santos · · · ~aipan Stevedore Starters .

.526. :515· ·

. . .485 · Dolores Yann eris .• . Marpac Sakau . < · · · .

7.AnnalizaEmiliano. . R&CTours Island Girls. · · .484. a:.·oora Taitingfong: . ·. . Saipan Stevedore Starters· .471

. 9: Lillian ~gou~ ·. · Sa:ipan Stevedore Starters···-'. .. ,.._ .469 10. Semenna S1mram R&C Tours Island Girls · · .455 HOMERUN:

1. Emiliana Quitugua 2. Liz Lebria 3. Brenda Haddox 4. Annaliza Emiliano

R&C Tours Island Girls Saipan Stevedore Starters KPS Corp. Mamma Rhakas R&C Tours Island Girls

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Germany's Nicole Struse, right, and Elke Schall hold the trophy after winning the European doubles title at the Euro 98 Table Tennis Championship in Eindhoven Saturday. AP

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Heat, Knicks stagger to a gruelling finish

By Steven Wine MIAMI (AP)-The two teams stagger toward one final confrontation, bruised and angry, and feeling the effects of too many punches.

The New York Knicks and Miami Heat, both shorthanded, meet in Grune 5 Sunday to settle their differences - for this season, at least

The Indiana Pacers await the winner in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Following four games of trash-talking, shadowboxing and throat­slashing gestures, perhaps the Knie~ and Heat will finally focus on basketball.

Or perhaps not. Miami coach Pat Riley pledged that his team will again be intense and emotional, and he complained that the Heat- and center Alonzo Mourning in particular - have been victims of a New York mugging.

Mourning's fight with Larry Johnson at the end of the Game 4eamed suspensions for both players.

"Ifit costs us the series, that's the way it goes," Riley sai<l Saturday, his voice rising in anger.

The se1ies has apparently soured the once-close relationship between Riley and his fo1mer protege, Knie ks coach Jeff Van Gundy.

Riley denied that the 1ivahy has turned ugly because of the physical playing style he first introduced as coach in New York.

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Baseball expert to visit Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae PALIKIR (FSMIS) - Ray The purpose of his trip is to Brown, baseball development develop junior baseball, with ' officer, for Baseball Oceania coaching workshops for play-

, , will be visiting Chuuk, Pohnpei crs and coaches: train umpires i : and Kosrae in May, according ancJ work \Vith the men base-L: to Jim Tobin, Secretary Gen- ball teams that will be partici- i ·· i:· 1·.· eral for the FSM National paling in the upcoming , , r Olympic Committee. Micronesia Games. f,

Brown will be visiting The baseball course is i:.J Chuuk from MAy 2-10, fundedfromOlympicSolidar- n Pohnpei from May 11-18 and ity and the International Base- fj

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