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Workers may lose benefit Bill to make workers re~ponsible for medical bills up to Gov.

By Zalcly Dan'dan Variety News Staff

A CONTROVERSIAL bill that would make employers no longer responsible for the medical costs of their alien workers was passed by the House of Representatives Friday, and now heads to Gov. Froilan C. Tenqrio for his sign~­ture.

The House legal counsel has said that Senate Bill 10-4 may violate federal law, a view shared by some members of the House leadership.

However, the Senate legal coun­sel in a memo dated March 26, 1996, said the bill can be enacted into law provided it is drafted to

avoid any equal protection prob­lems.

As passed by both houses of the Legislature, S.B. I 0-4 allows employers to deduct the cost of health insurance premiums from their alien workers, even if the deductions reduce the worker's net pay below the applicable mini­mum wage.

Under _the legislation, the em­ployer will no longer be respon­sible for the following medical costs of an alien worker:

• Dental care • Pregnancy and childbirth • Routine physical exam ( other

than required by the Nonresident Workers Act)·

• Non prescription medication and drug

• Preexisting conditions at the time of recruitment

• Activities outside the scope of employment and off the premises, including barracks, of the em­ployer

In justifying its provisions, S.B. I 0-4 states that the medical costs for the alien workers are continu­ally increasing due to current law holding employer:, responsible for medical related expenses of alien workers "24 hours a day ... regardless of the nature of the activity ... or the source of the illness or injury .... "

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Passenger settles with airline for $40,000 By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

A KOREAN Airlines passenger who sued after a piece of lug­gage f~ll and hit her head from an overhead bin has settled the case, getting an award of $40,000 from the airlines.

Eneida Rodrigues, of Saipan, said in a complaint filed in the federal district court on June 19 that she suf­fered from bodily injury as a result of the incident which happened Dec. 13 last year.

She was returning from Zurich and in the process of disembarking minutes after landing on Saipan Interna­tional Airport, a flight atten­dant accordingly opened an overhead bin and during the unloading the plaintiff's carry-on bag hit her on the he.ad.

"The pl_aintiff suffered se­vere injuries to head, neck arid teeth," the complaint, which was amended July I 0, stated.

Rodrigues accused the air-

line and attendant of negli­gence.

Rodrigues and Korean Air, through their lawyers Jay H. Sorensen and Michael A. White respectively, settled the case in principle as early as Oct. l, agreeing on the amount of $40,000.

It was only after the re­lease of the amount recently that both parties, on Dec. 12, signed a stipulation dismiss­ing Rodrigues' complaint with prejudice.

A student from Gregorio T. Camacho in a TV set outfit performs a dance number on a roller blade during the MVB Candle Light Parade Saturday night.-Photo by Ferdie de la Torre

Transisiton team 'upset' over failure to file appeal

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

DESPITE an assurance from lawyer Sebastian Aloot, the appeal to reverse the Superior Court ruling on governor-elect Pedro P. Tenorio' s eligibility was not filed Friday. ·

Dr. Jose T. Villagomez, the chair of Tenorio's transition team, yesterday called the failure to file the appeal "puzzling" and "upset­ting."

"I really don't know what they're up to," he said. "I heard Aloot left the island Friday," he addeq. "They announced

that they'll file the appeal on the snme day, but now they've delayed it again."

Villagomez said the people who voted for Tenorio are beginning to be "upset" over the "puzzling delaying tactics."

"As I've earlier said, it's not them versus (Tenorio and lieutenant­governor elect Jesus R. Sablan), but them versus the over 5,000 voters who chose (the two)," he said.

With or without the appeal, however, Villagomez said the transi­tion subcommittees will begin its inquiry into the various executive departments and agencies.

"Expect to see the subcommittee members going to the various Continued on page 3-6

Bill to restrict. business licenses passed by Hou$e

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

A BILL that would disallow alien workers from e:ettim!: business Ii-

2-MARIANAS V ARlETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- DECEMBER 22, 1997

Laos elects parliament By LINDA EHRICHS

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -With all the candidates ap­proved in advance by the rul­ing communist party, Laotians voted Sunday for a new par­liament that is expected to continue gradual changes to­ward a more open economy.

Bars closed an hour earlier than usual Saturday night to ensure the I 50,000 residents of Vientiane, the capital, got a good night's sleep before the polls opened at· 7 a.m. The

police presence was heavier in the days preceding the elec-tion. ·

The streets of the capital were crowded with pedestri­ans Sunday morning as voters made their way to schools and temples to cast ballots. Photo­graphs and biographies of the candidates were posted out­side to help make last-minute decisions.

Among the I 59 candidates nationwide contesting the 99 National Assembly seats, all

but four private businessmen are members of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. Twenty-seven are women and about one-third of the country's 47 ethnic groups are represented.

Voting is mandatory for the 2.5 million eligible voters among the country's 4.5 mil­lion people. Results will be known in four to five days as tallies come in from isolated areas.

Though the country's

A street of Tokyo's famous Ameyoko market place is jampacked with shoppers, seeking to buy items to prepare for Christmas and New Year Sunday. The market estimates more than five hundred thousand people are expected to turn out during the last five business days before the end of the year. AP

Taiwan se_es investment boom TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Despite Gennan chemical maker Bayer A G's cancellation of a huge invest-1nent, f oreigncompanieswill pump about 50 million Taiwan dollars (U.S. $1.5 billion) into projects in Taiwan next year, the Economics Minist:iy said Sunday.

Bayer's announcement Friday that it was dropping plans to build a 49billionTaiwandollar(U.S.$I.48) chemical plant sent shock waves through tl1e business community.

ButU.S.,French,SwissandGer­man companies plan to take advan­tage of the island's secure domestic environment, robust economy and advantageous government policies with upto ! I large investments, the minist:iy said.

It did not release the names of companies planning to invest or specify types of investment, sayjng they wouldremainconfidential until

agreements were signed. ForeigninvestrnentinTaiwangrew

83 .2 percent in the first 10 months of 1997, reaching 3.4 billion Taiwan dollars (U.S. $ I 00 million), the min­istry said. That compares to 1.9 billion Taiwan dollars (U.S.$ 57 million) in the same period last year, and 1.8 billion (U.S. $54 million) in the first 10 months of 1995.

Financial markets in Taiwan have experienced a roller coaster year, but the island's economy has largely avoided the regional economic crisis.

However, Bayer dropped plans for a plant in central Taichung County following 18 months of delays and the newly elected county executive's decision to subject the plant to a public refer-endum. ·

Opponents claimed the plant

threatened Taiwan with economic calamity.It would have made tolu­ene diisocyanate, or TDI, a poly­urethane component used in elas­tic fibers and coatings,

But Bayer said the plant would be one of the most high-tech and leastpo\lutingofitstype. The com­pany said it spent millions on two environmental impact assessment studies, and soothed fears among residents with a series of public hearings about the project

The company said it would build the plant instead in Baytown Texas, where it al­ready has a construction per­mit. American and European trade groups here warned the holding of a refer.,. endum as an additional hurdle to invesunent would seriously hann foreign invest.or confidence in the island

power structure is unthreatened by the vote, it is the closest thing to an opinion poll since the ruling party came to power at the end of the Indochina conflict in 1975.

Chaleun Yiapoheu, presi­dent of the outgoing Assembly's standing commit­tee, called the election "a large political assessment session for the whole party, army and population."

In a country where mpst people live in isolated com­munities of a few hundred, months of publicity have en­sured that everyone knows of the election.Campaigning has been polite- candidates are forbidden from negative com­ments about their rivals.

Laos, once one of Southeast Asia's most closed countries.

remains unmarked by the rela­tive political instability of some of its neighbors - Thai­land has had four governments since 1995 and Cambodia had a coup in July.

But the economic crisis rav­aging Asia's far more power­ful economies has not spared Laos. The country's biggest trading partner is Thailand, and the Laotian kip, closely tied to the slumping Thai baht, has plummeted 80 percent since midyear.

Constitutionally, the As­sembly has the authority to pass budgets, make laws and oversee the executive and ju­dicial branches. Practically, however, power rests with Prime Minister Khamtay Siphandone and the party Po-

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Girl decapitated; police nab woman with knife

PETERBOROUGH, Ontario (AP) - Canadian police charged a woman with first de­gree murder after being called to a house in which a 14-year-old girl had been decapitated.

Police confirmed the decapita­tion after the autopsy was com­pleted in Toronto on Saturday.

Officers arriving at Adrienne Amikons' house in the Toronto suburb of Peterborough on Thurs­day evening to investigate a noise complaint were met by a woman covered in blood, wielding a knife.

She cut a policeman's hand in the ensuing struggle with offic­ers. Police later found the girl's body and her head in the house.

Jean Anne Rudski, 40, of Peterborough, was charged with first degree murder and remanded in custody until a court hearing Sunday.

Police said she spat on officers and cursed at everyone in the

HONG KONG (AP) - Po­lice said Sunday they have arrested two men and seized 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of herbal cannabis worth I 5 million Hong Kong dollars (U.S.$ 1.9 million). · The drugs, believed to have

been smuggled in from Cambo­dia via China, were seized in a

courtroom during her appearance on Friday. They confirmed Rudski knew Amikons, but they won't discuss the nature of their rela­tionship.

"We 're trying to track the ac­tivities of both the victim and the accused on the day of the mur­der," Insp. Ray _Yandervelde said Friday.

Weeping friends and classmates gathered Saturday to remember the shy student and to place flow­ers on the lawn of the semi-de­tached home where Amikons was slain.

"She was very quiet and re­served," said Tom Jenkins, 14, who Ii ves across the street. "You had to coax stuff out of her."

Peterborough's aboriginal com­munity has set up a fund to help the girl's mother, Roberta Amikons, her l 6-year-old daugh­ter, and son, 9, deal with funeral costs.

factory Saturday, police said. The suspects, whose names

were not disclosed, will be charged with trafficking in dangerous drugs, they said.

Police noted that there is usually an increased demand for cannabis during Christmas because revelers like to smoke the drug at parties.

Burma's military government reshuffles eight ministers RANGOON, Burma (AP) -

The military government has re­shuffled eight ministers in the first Cabinet changes since Nov. IS, when the regime changed its name and shifted several officials.

The changes, announced Satur­day on state radio and television, were expected, and they seemed

to complete the government trans­formation started last month. No reason was given for the new changes.

Only Foreign Minister Ohn Gyaw appears to have maintained the same Cabinet position from the previous State Law and Order Restoration Council, now re-

named the State Peace and Devel­opment Council.

Most of the government top leaders, however, have not changed. '

In Saturday's shuffle, the best­known figure was Brig. Gen. David Abel, fonnerly minister of planning and development, who

is now a minister in the SPDC office. His old job has been filled by Soe Toa, previously telecom­munic.ations minister.

Cooperatives Minister Than Aung was shifted to serve as edu­cation minister; Energy Minister Khin Mang Thein to finance min­ister; Finance Minister Brig. Gen.

Win Tin to telecommunications minister and education minister Pan Aung to railways minister.

Railways Minister Win Sein replacesAung San as culture min­ister, while Aung San becomes cooperatives minister. Brig. Gen. Lun Thi was appointed energy minister. ·

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DOLi sues bond firn1 By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Immigration has sued an in­surance firm for alleged unlawful refusal to pay $100,000 in em­ployment bonds covering several Chinese alien workers.

For alleged refusal to pay workers $100,000 tary. Hill explained that acting La­

bor Director Patrick Guerrero sent a demand for satisfaction of claim to Royal Crown on Sept. 24, 1997.

DOU asked the Superior Court to compel defendant Royal Crown Insurance Corp. to comply with its legal obligations and prevent the firm from issuing additional bonds.

Assistant Atty. Gen. Robert Goldberg, on behalf of DO LI, said the suit also seeks to stop other insurers from adopting similartac­tics to renege on their legal obli­gations.

The complaint filed Friday said that last Sept. 22, Labor hearing office supervisor Linn H. Asper issued an ·administrative order over the 64 nonresident workers' labor case against Soon Hyung Lee.

Asper stated that Royal Crown's

six bonds are ordered to be ap­plied to pay complainants three months' wages and to provide repatriation airline tickets· as needed and as directed by DOLi.

Goldberg said Royal Crown did not appeal Asper's order.

Goldberg said pursuant to the bonds and Asper's order, the de­fendant is legally obligated to make full payment to DOLi for the benefit of these 64 complain­ants.

The government lawyer re­quested the court to issue a judg­ment declaring Royal Crown in violation of its contractual obli­gations, the Labor order and the Nonresident Workers Act.

Goldberg sought$90,2 l 6 award in connection with the bonds at issue.

The Variety, however, gathered that Royal Crown filed on Thurs­day before the Division of Labor

Robert Goldberg

a petition for reconsideration of Labor's decisions.

Royal Crown, through counsel Joe Hill, in the petition said the company was not represented by lawyer during any of the prior proceedings and not given timely and adequate prior notice of the hearings.

Grade schoolers from Mt. Carmel School gather around their teacher for a game during celebration Friday of the school's annual carnival. Photo by Lalla c. Younis

House OKs $325K for 'Teno' events: Senate session set

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

THE HOUSE of Representatives on Friday passed a bill appropri­ating $325,000 for governor-elect Pedro P. Tenorio' s office of tran­sition and the CNMI government's inaugural expenses.

House Bill I 0-477, which got the unanimous approval of the House, is also expected to clear the Senate when it holds a session tomorrow.

Senate President and lieutenant governor-elect Jesus R. Sablan (R-Saipan) said Friday that the Senate will try to pass bills "of grave concern," adding that it will be the Legislature's job to "make Christmas brighterforeveryone."

He said he remains optimistic

despite the current uncertainty over the state of the government's finances.

"We just need to put our heads together," he said, adding that there will be no more room for bickering and gridlock when the new administration is sworn into office.

"That's the only way to make the CNMI better, and to make sure that we enter the new year with a smile," Sablan said.

Introduced by Vice Speaker Jesus T. Attao (R-Saipan), the acting chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, H.B. l 0-477 would provide $25,000 more than what the governor­elect's transition committee requested.

The bill, however, will include the expenses for the inauguration activities of the Washington representative's office.

The transition committee's original request would si.t aside $30,000 for the transi­tion activities, and $185,000 for the Jan. I 2 inauguration.

Also included are the tran­sition and inauguration activi­ties for the office of the mayor on Rota ($40,000), Saipan ($20,000), Tinian ($20,000) and the Northern Islands ($5,000), for a total requested amount of $300,000.

"To offset costs," the tran­sition committee also plans to solicit donations from the pri­vate sector.

Joe Hill

Hill said last Dec. 16 the Labor wrote a letter determining Royal Crown to be liable on the bonds.

Hill said the Dec. 16 letter also indicates that one of the basis for i;efusal to consider Royal Crown's Sept. 30, I 997 letter as an appeal was because it was not directed to or received by the DOLi secre-

Royal Crown's Sept. 30 com­munication was and should be reasonably deemed, to have been in reply to Guerrero's demand letter, Hill pointed out.

The defendant's counsel said upon receipt of Royal Crown's letter the director knew or should have known that the firm objected to and de­nied liability on the bonds based on cancellation for nonpayment of premiums. ·

Hill said Royal Crown gave written notice to Labor of cancel­lation of the subject bonds last March 3.

"Pursuant to the 60-day termi­nation provision of each bond, the surety's obligations under the bonds ceased on or about May S, 1997," Hill contended.

Grand Hotel wins top prize in lights conte-st

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

THE Saipan Grand Hotel won the first prize in the Common­weal th Utilities Corp. 's Christmas lighting and deco­rating contest, commercial category, it was learned.

The CUC will formally an­nounce and present the cash prizes to the winners, includ­ing in the residential category, tomorrow in a special cer­emony at the utilities firm's headquarters in Lower Base, Public Information Officer Pamela A. Mathis said.

The top prize in the residen­tial category went to Jose Pangelinan, whose house is next to the San Vicente church.

The other winners in the commercial category are Hafa Adai Beach Hotel, second prize, and Hakubotan Duty Free shop, third.

The house of Bernadita Torres, in Garapan (road in between Garapan Elementary School and the Chamber of Commerce) won second prize, and that of Carmen Reyes, in Dandan, third prize.

The first, second and third business awardees will get $1,000, $500, and $250, which will all be donated to the char·

ity of their choice. The residential awardees

will get $500, $250, and $150 in cash or in utility credit.

Mathis said La Fiesta Mall would have won, but since it is not a CUC customer, it didn't qualify to join the con­test.

The criteria for the judging included overal I appearance, creativity, number of lights, and the judge's personal pref­erenc~.

It was a close competition between Grand Hotel and Hafa Adai, with former leading by a mere .25 point. Grand got a total of 46.S points out of a possible 50, while Hafa Adai garnered 46.25 points, Mathis said.

Although Hafa Adai's 152-foot-high Christmas tree­shaped stringed lights on the hotel's facade were impres­sive, Grand 's profuse lights and decorations on its grounds and entrance made the hotel win the top prize.

According to Ben Cruz, owner of the First Floral, which was hired by Grand to light up the hot-::!, a total uf 8,636 bulbs of various colors were used to shape a giant tree.

Atte~tion Vari.ety re~ders . · /ln celebration of the holidays, the Marianas Variety will ~ not be published on December 25 (Christmas Day) and 26,

1997, and on January 1 (New Year's Day) and 2,1998.

This is to provide employees of the Younis Art Studio ample time to share the joy and spirit of Christmas with their friends and loved ones.

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4-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- DECEMBER 22. 1997

Christmas float parade

Calvary Christian Academy grade schoolers do hand gestures as they sing a song for the MVB Christmas parade choir contest.

GTC Elementary students join their very own "Santa" in his sleigh during the parade march.

WSR students, garbed in their flowery best, await for their turn to perform.

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Participants from Saipan International School don unique costumes as they do their dance number.

The DPS float with Santa on top: Still imparting a message against impaired driving during the holidays. Photos by Lall• c. Younis

Bill seeks $2M for fishermen, farmers affected by typhoons

Crispin I. DL Guerrero

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

THE House of Rcprcsentati ves passed a bill Friday appropri­ating $2 million in assistance to farmers and fishermen af­fected by the two recent ty-

rhoons. House Bill 10-47K, intro­

duced by Rep. Crispin I. DL Guerrero. will go to the Sen­ate for its approval.

The bill noted that "many farmers and fishermen ... suffcrcd extensive damage to their equipment and materials" as a result of supertyphoons Keith and Paka which struck the CNMI on Nov. 2 and Dec. 9 respec­tively.

Keith, however, proved to be more destructive than Paka.

The bill says the loss of crops to farmers was "devas­tating."

"The aftermath or both supertyrhoons Keith and Pak a

have disrupted the livelihood of such victims (farmers and fishermen) because fishing and farming play a huge role in the lives of many of our residents," the bill suys.

The proposed $2-million ap­propriation will be used to compensate farmers and fish­ermen who have sustained losses or damages to crops, equipment and materials.

It will also be used to pay the wages of employees du r­ing the idle time imposed by the typhoon conditions.

While Saipan and Tinian suffered the brunt of Keith, Rota felt more the effects of Paka which was nearer the path of the typhoon.

Laos ... Continued from page 2

litburo. Top party members arc among those run­ning, including the president of the current Assembly, Samane Viyaketh. Candidates on average are younger than in the first parliamentary elec­tions held five years ago. Many were educated in the former Soviet bloc and France, the former colonial power.

They are expected to carry on with slow economic re­forms instituted since 1986, when neighboring communist Vietnam also began opening its economy.

Laos is one of the world's least-developed countries, and most people live by subsis­tence agriculture. One-quar­ter of men and half of women are illiterate. Life expectancy is short - 50 for men and 53 for women.

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's I&S contract off By Laila C. Younis

Variety News Staff

GOVERNOR Froilan C. Tenorio will not sign the I&S Corporation $3.5 million ad­vertising contract as it may "significantly preempt future decision-making" for the in­coming administration.

Tenorio says he will not sign $3.5M advertising deal

In a letter Friday to Marianas Visitors Bureau Board Chairman Antonio S. Guerrero, Tenorio explained he has "no way of knowing whether MVB eventually wi JI receive more or less funds than requested".

"The new government and legislature might decide that an increase in tourist promo­tion is worth spending in hopes of increasing government rev­enues even more," Tenorio said.

"On the other hand, they are just as likely to decide to cut the budget for MVB along with everyone else," he noted.

"For this reason, I have not approved the $3,550,000 con­tract change order for l&S to continue to provide promo­tional service~ to the Marianas Visitors Bureau," he said.

"This is a large expense and its approval now would significantly preempt future decision making."

Tenorio pointed out that visitor arrivals "have de-

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creased significantly in the last few months due to the advefse exchange rates with· the Japanese Yen, Korean Won and other Asian curren­ciesH.

"Non-dollar destinations have become cheaper, while Saipan, Rota and Tinian have beconie comparatively more expensive," said Tenorio.

"Suspension of service by Korean Airlines has exacer­bated the problem. The drop in tourism has led in turn to a reduction in government rev­enues," he said.

Tenorio also cited the pas­sage of Public Law 10-44 which he had vetoed, will now "reduce foreign investment'' and the delayed opening of

Antonio S. Guerrero

the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino will cause "govern­ment revenues to begin to flow several months later than originally expected".

"As a result, I will shortly transmit to the legislature a revised revenue estimate for Fiscal year 1998. This esti­mate will be much lower than the original estimate of $262 million," said Tenorio.

"At this point;decisions on establishing priori ties for al­location of budgetary re­sources rightfully belong to the new governor and legisla­ture," he said.

Although it is important to promote the Commonwealth, MVB has competition for these scarce funds, he said.

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For example, PSS and the Judicial branch have each re­quested substantial increase in appropriations," he added.

Tenorio also noted the "ret­roactive salary increases reaching $15 million", North­ern Marianas College request of a $8. 7 million increase, and that the legislature "may give itself as much as $6 million under the new amendment to the Constitution".

"This leaves little room for the operation of the govern­ment, including the Marianas Visitors Bureau", he said.

Tenorio, however, reasoned that the ··same political party that controls both houses in the Tenth Legislature will also control the 11th Legislature".

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"I will sign the contract if I receive written assurances from the leadership of both the house and the senate that they have no objection to the contract and that they wi II take it into consideration in the. eventual budgetary appropria­tions," said Tenorio.

Senate Vice-President Paul Manglona, in an interview Fri­day, stated that the Senate Leadership, however, is "non­committal" to the I&S con­tract.

"MVB has legitimate rea­sons to push for it but we have not looked into the details of the contract. We still need to talk to the House because we need to work together on this," said Manglona.

"But I don't understand why the Governor is withholding his signature when the Office of Procurement and Supply has already approved it," he said.

"The governor should handle the government more responsibly because I've heard he gave the 'go-ahead' on the contract. Now the CNM1 gov­ernment will be liable for the contract," he added.

House Speaker Diego T. Benavente also said in earlier statements that the House Leadership "will not be com­mitted" to the I&S contract.

6-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- DECEMBER 22 1997

ta power restored By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

ELECTRICAL power was fully re­stored on Rota island Thursday night, . the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. said.

The CUC, mem1while, sent 200 power poles and three bucket trucks Thursday to Gumn, which was dev­astated by supertyphoon Paka last week.

CUC Public lnfom1ation Officer Pamela A. Mathis also said they sent 12 linemen to help in the restoration of the power system in the neighbor­ing island.

~CUClmdcarliercalled itscounter­partonGuamaskingifitneededhelp, Mathis said.

MathissaidtheywcrctoldthatGuam de~~rately needed power poles.

At the time CUC called, Guam's. utility firm had counted 90 dovmed poles and die counting hadn't been completed yet. Mathis said.

CUC HELPS GUAM. A bucket truck, one of three that CUC sent to Guam Thursday, is being prepared for loading at the Port of Saipan. Photo courtesy or cue

Mathis said ·Guam will pay die CUC for the electric poles.

Guam would have waited for 60 days before the poles anive if it had orderedfiomdie US mainland,Mathis said.

"We 're fortunate to bein a position to help them," Mathis said.

Mad,is said die CUC linemen would be on Guam until Jan. 7.

The CUC could afford to dispose of 200 poles since Mathis said it had 300 poles in stock.

"We had ordered a lot of poles in anticipation of a bad typhoon season and forourrenovation project. After recovering from Keith, we had 300 poles in stock," Mathis said.

Mafuis said power was restored in Sinapalo vill?ge Thursday night so d,at only damaged houses remained without electricity.

The other main village, Songsong, had its power restored Wednesday night.

DEQ solicits ideas to c.ombat· nonpoint source pollution·. · By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

THE Division of Environmental Quality has asked the public to give ci,eir ideas on how to combat pollutions coming from nonpoint sources. ·

Nonpoint source pollution is polluted water runoff that goes to the sea and other bodies of water.

Susan Burr of DEQ said all

ideas arid suggested solutions to the pellution problems will be reviewed by the lnteragency Wa­tershed Group.

They will also be used by the DEQ to solicit detailed proposals from profit and nonprofit organi­zations for projects that aim to reduce and control nonpoint source pollution.

Burr said the DEQ got a grant

from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to fund the projects.

Before, she said, the grant funded projects that the DEQ had proposed.

But in fiscal year 1997, theDEQ decided to share it with other gov­ernment agencies that submitted anti-nonpoint source pollution project proposals.

This FY 1998, it was de­cided to open the competition to private organizations, Burr said.

Out of these project proposals the DEQ will select as many num­ber of projects that the grant can furid.

The Watershed Group is com­posed of representatives from DEQ, the Coastal Resources Man-

agement, Fish and Wildlife Divi­sion, Natural Resources Conser­vation District, and private com­panies.

The Group is headed by Patrick Calvo oftheSaipan and Northern Islands Soil and Water District (SNISWD).

Burr said all information must be in writing and submitted to the SNISWD before Dec. 30.

Reaching Hard for that Christmas Spirit hristmas season

or not, it is hard

to forget the im­mediate problems that face us

and will continue to do so in

tLe new year to come. Tum

up the volume of the Christ­

mas carols on the radio as

much as you want, but it

won't drown out a variety of

concerns which won't easily

go away.

First there are the obvious

and legitimate concerns, such

as a revenue shortfall that is

going to present our govern­

ment with a lot of hard work

and some tough choices in

the year to come and beyond.

As we watch giant Asian

economies around us suffer­

ing through their own huge

problems however, I guess

we should be pieased that

we've managed to create an

economy worth worrying

about in the CNMI. Most of

our immediate neighbors

can't say the same.

And then there are prob­

lems for the CNMI that are

caused in large measure by

ignorance of persons far

FROM THE GOVERNOR'S DESK I MANAHANTE PARA HAMYOILEADERSHIP

away who nevertheless have

the power to damage our in­

terests. Their favorite roosting

place is in Washington, D.C.

and if they've never been

closer to our islands than

l 0,000 miles, that won't keep

them from weighing in on the

subject of the Commonwealth

of the Northern Mariana Is­

lands.

For evidence that Mr.

Scrooges people are working

'overtime this holiday season,

consider Mr. W. John Moore

of the National Journal, who

contrary to the world map

thinks we are located in the

South Pacific. Mr. Moore ap­

pears to object to our hiring of .

a lobbying firm to represent

our interests. As Mr. Moores

article once again demon­

strates, we're up against an-

FOR THE PEOPLE

other very well funded lobby­

ing fiIJll, which is also known

as the Department of the Inte­rior. The same old, well worn

lines that we've seen in the

Washington Post and the Read­

ers Digest and heard from Mr.

Allen Stayman in person, are

wanned up again and served

for Christmas dinner, but this

time they come out of the

mouths of Congressional staff­

ers and other Washingtonians

who probably also couldn't

find us on a map.

I guess our Christmas

present is that, as Mr. Moore

at least makes clear,

Congressman Miller and his

backers in various Washington

offices have made no progress

at all in having their way with

our local control of govern­

ment.

Another Christmas present

comes from an anonymous

editorial writer for the news­

paper Roll Call, which is much

read on Capitol Hill (District

of Columbia). I can't tell how

good his grasp of geography is,

but since he describes us as a

"U.S. Pacific possession" he

probably doesn't understand

our political status or that we

natives are also U.S. citizens.

What's obviously bothering

Mr. Anonymous is he didn't get

to go on the trip and further,

that its possible that the legis­

lators and staffers who did

might have had a good time

and even played a few rounds

of golf as well as learning

about the CNMI. I understand

jealousy, but draw the line at

outright untruth, as when Mr.

Anonymous claims that some

Congressional staffers (anony­

mous of course) who visited us

said they were shown "only

what the government wants

them to see" [ and] "[ were l un­

able to talk to human rights ac­

tivists." Sure sounds like a

nasty place, doesn't it, even

with sunny skies and golf

courses?

There will always be criti­

cism of course and some of

it will be misinformed and

unfair. I think we've made a

lot of progress in putting

right the problems that have

led to legitimate criticism of

the CNMI arid I think this

process will continue in the

future.

Setting aside these prob­

lems of the day, I think that

we have to look no further

than 120 miles to the south

to realize that we are truly

olessed this Christmas sea­

son. There are no people on

earth with more sympathy

for Guf).m after the massive

destruction of Supertyphoon

Paka than our citizens in the

Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands.

Individually and as a govern­

ment we will do everything

humanly possible to help.

Truly, there for but the grace

of God go we! Felis Pasgua and Anu

Nuebu,

Si Yu'us Ma'ase'

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-7

Tomokane: Promotions critical PROMOTIONS ~nd advertise­ments for the CNMI "are criti­cal" and must be "invested in" in order to keep the tourism market afloat, according to Marianas Visitors Bureau Managing Director Anicia Q. Tomokar.e.

"Tourism remains the CNMI's most viable and vital industry. But our economic opportunity is not a free ride," said Tomokane in a press re­lease.

"We have to invest in pro­motions or lose our market share. It is a critical situation right now," she said.

Tomokane pointed out that the current . "economic troubles" of the Asian region, such as Japan and Korea, fur­thers the need for promotional campaigns.

"The problems with the Ko­rean economy are headline news these days. The country needs about $57 billion in emergency aid from the Inter-. national Monetary Fund just to keep afloat," said Tomokane.

"The won has lost almost half of its value over the past year. What a mess. There is no way to ent'irely avoid the whiplash effect here," she said.

Tomokane noted that despite a "50% plunge" in November arrivals, MVB "remains com-

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mitted to the Korean market." "When their (Korea) eco­

nomic clouds disperse, we'll be happy to give them some tropical sunshine,." she said.

Tomokane also said that the 5% decrease in Japanese visi­tors "was highly correlated with the expected loss from Super Typhoon Keith, which was estimated to reduce tour­ism arrivals by 7 to 10% for the month." ·

"Given the problems in the Japanese economy, the (ar­rival) numbers by could have been far worse. We tallied 35,110 arrivals from Japan for the month," she said.

"If the current slide in tour­ism continues, we expect the CNMI economy to lose well over $70 million in on-island sales for the fiscal year," said Tomokane.

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To help assess Guam, CNMI typhoon damage

Firm seeks FE By Gerr R. Cayabyab, Jr. Variety News Staff

REPRESENTATIVES of a private agency based in Herndon, Virginia, hired by the Federal Emergency Man­agement Agency recently ar­rived on Saipan to recruit and train qualified individuals as FEMA inspectors.

Parsons Brinkerhoff Field Manager Paula Ziegelasch yesterday said the current ef­forts of its office is in connec­tion with the Presidential di­saster declaration on CNMI

due to supertyphoon Keith. She said the islands of

Saipan, Rota and Tinian will be inspected as soon as trained FEMA inspectors are avail­able.

"Parsons Brinkerhoff is seeking independent contract inspectors to perform resi­dential damage assessments. We prefer persons with a five-year experience on _ei­ther construction trade, real estate, appraising or any re-1 a ted professions," Ziegelasch said.

"After training the recruits," Ziegelasch said," they wi II be tasked to conduct appraisal, inspection or damage assess- -ment on the areas ravaged by Keith." _ According to Ziegelasch,

other trained FEMA represen­tatives will also be assigned t~ Guam to assess damages wrought by supertyphoon Paka.

She said the agency did not set an specific number of re­cruits nor a deadline for re­cruitment as long as

A temporary school building used for a fifth grade class at Chief Brodie Elementary in Tuman, Guam, lies in rums after ti was destroyed by Typhoon Paka last week, as shown in an image from television. AP

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Leall,f.ishing months ahead'·due to El Nino

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

THE ISLANDS' fishermen will face lean months ahead as the El Nino weather phenomenon keeps surface water abnormally wanner for fish species, said acting CNMI Fish and Wildlife Director Richard Seman.

This was gathered as the Divi­sion of Fish and Wildlife, ac­cording to Seman, begins ana­lyzing 1997 fourth quarter data on fisheries to get a bigger pic­ture about El Niiio's impact on the estimated 2,000 small- and medium-scale fishermen oper­ating along waters of the island chain's beaches.

·The problem is not so much at;,out fish not being there," said Seman in a recent interview.

"A lot of the fish don't stay long enough on the surface be­cause of warmer than normal water temperature."

Consequently, he explained, the school of fishes has already gonedowndeeperincoolerparts by the time a fisherman can manage to throw his line after a catch.

"Sometimes," he said, "when fishermen managed to hook one or two fishes, by the., time- they bring their catch in, the school has moved elsewhere."

Seman said DFW is resort­ing to installing at least eight -more buoys, called Fish Ag­gregation Devices, next month to help ease El Nino's impact on fishermen.

FADs, studies have shown, enable schools of fishes to stay in one place longer.

Fish, explained Seman, tend to mill under FADs for some­time.

"Maybe its because of the shade the buoys bring," he said.

There are already two FADs in place off Saipan wateri;.

'fliese gadgets are being in­stalled.througn funding from the United States Fish and, Wildlife Service.

Seman, it will-be recalled, has earlier rasied the alarm on what he called as the dwin­dling 'commercial fish catch brought about by El Nino.

CNMI's yearly commercial fish catch is pegged at 400,000 lbs, all consumed locally.

The figure, noted Seman, is a conservative estimate since a lot of island residents "also go out there (at the sea) and catch fish for their meal."

With El Nino creeping by, Seman said this year's fish catch may onely reach 200,000 lbs.

An El Nifio occurs when the westward trade winds blow­ing across the tropical Pacific Ocean weaken, scientists say.

This, according to them, al­lows a mass of warm water that the wind normally pushes toward Australia to move east­ward toward South America.

The warm water heats the atmosphere and other parts of the ocean altering storm tracks.

Scientists have however pre­dicted a difference this year as signs of the weather distur­bance began appearing earlier than anticipated. . This is seen to i~crease the uncertainty on the phenomenon's catastrophic effects.

The 1982-83 El Nino, ac­cording to reports by the As­sociated Press, killed 2,000 people and cause about $13 billion in damage around the globe.

Seman said no dire effects is seen to happen in the CNMI.

Man arrest~d for 'hitting __ woman A 45-ycar-old man was ar­rested for allegedly punching and pushing to the ground his common-law wife at their house in Dandan Thursday night.

Department of Public Safety Information Officer Maj, J. J. Castro said arrested for as­sault and battery was Edward Sablan Cabrera of Dandan,

Investigation showed that prior to the assault, the victim was telling her kids to get ready because they were leav­ing for a relative 's house.

Cabrera told the victim to

stop her big mouth, triggering an argument.

The suspect then punched the victim on the mouth and pushed her, police said.

A neighbor called the po­lice.

Meanwhile, an air-condi­tioner belonging to the Fish and Wildlife was reportedly stolen on Thursday.

The case was placed under further investigation.

In Chalan Kanoa, a 15-year-old girl reported that unidentified per­son stole her mountain bike Fri­day before dawn. (FDT)

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helps clients get jobs By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE NUTRITION Assistance Program has been helping food stamp recipients get jobs in coordination wilh the Depart­ment of L:1bor and Immigrn-lion. ~

NAP Ad111i11istr:1lor Patricia Palacios De Iker said in Fis­cal Y car 19')7 they have re­ferred 377 "ahlc-l;odied cli­enls .. to DOLi for work rcgis-tralion, ~

Out of 377 cl icnts, De Beer said 205 m 54 percent com­plied and 53 were hired. Those who did 1101 comply were de­leted from 1hc rood stamp pro­gram.

l'or 1-'iscal Year 1997, De Iker said the henef'ils !liven to clienls lotalbl $2.982.292.

The admi11istr-a1orcxplained

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in the NAP's annual report that !he coupons redeemed totalled $2. 97 4,05 tJ or which $890,772 worth were earmarked "local" coupons and $2,083.287 worth of general purposes coupons,

Indemnification sought by Apatang on lawsuit

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

FORMER Procurement and Supply Chief David M. Apatang has asked the court to indemnify him from any prospective liabil­ity in connection with the law­suit over an alleged unautho­rized building lease deal.

Apatang, through counsel Eric Smith, said at all times he was complained of he was acting in his capacity as chief of Procure­ment and Supply of the CNMI.

Apatang in his answer to the third party complaint told the Superior Court that as Procure­ment and Supply chief he exer­cised due care in the performance of his official duties and there­fore immune from liability.

Businessman Joaquin M. Manglona filed a $2.3 million

suit against the governme!lt for alleged nonpayment of lease rentals of a building previously occupied by the Department of Labor and Immigration.

The government filed a coun­terclaim against Manglona seeking the return of DOLi's rental payment of the building amounting to$697,325.50. The government said Manglona was not entitled to payments because they were unauthorized expen­ditures of government funds.

Thegovemmentalsofiledathird­party complaint against Apatang and several Olherformertoppublic officials for allegedly acting with­out legal authority when conunit­ting CNMI to such lease tenn.

Apatang asked the court to Jet the government pay for his de­fense in the suit.

Official: PSS has not adopted Goals 2000

By Laila C. Younis Variety News Staff

THE PUBLIC School System has not adopted 1he "Goals 2000 Plan", and therefore it is not con­sidered as one of "PSS's Master Plans", said Federal Programs Coordinator William M,7tson.

"It has to be reinforced that the Goals 2000 Plan is a com­munity document and not a PSS plan," said Matson.

"We will be working with the Goals 2000 Plan Panel to see how PSS can be able lo use the plan," he said.

Matson was referring to Northern Marianas College President Agnes McPhctres earlier statements on "the need for PSS to adopt one Master Plan".

Mcphetres had said that PSS "has three Master plans", in­cluding the Goals 2000 Plan.

And by having three plans, she stated, wil I not allow PSS faculty and staff to "push for a

more unified plan" which is needed to "deliver better in­structional services".

"The 7-year Education Plan and the 5-Year Instruction and Administration Plans arc PSS plans," said Matson_

"The 7-year and 5-year CIP plans are separate from the educational plans because they deal specifically with infra­structure and buildings," he said.

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The difference between the benefit issuance and redeemed coupons in the amount of $8,233 represents the floating coupons, De Beer pointed out.

NAP under De Beer's lead­ership has successfully nego­tiated with the federal gov­ernment to maintain the an­nual $5. I million grant of which $990,000 will be ~scd for administrative cost.

NAP in collaboration with the Attorney General's Office reviewed cases that were im­pacted by the Welfare Reform Act to be implemented Jan. 1, 1998.

CNMI NAP is designed to promote the general ~velfarc and to safeguard the health and well-being of the Commonwealth's population by raising the levels of nutri­tion among low income fami­lies.

The program also seeks to stimulate the local economy by earmarking 30% of the food stamp allotment solely for the purchase of food grown, raised, caught, or processed in the CNMI as a finished food product.

De Beer said NAP's retail and redemption unit autho­rized 94 stores on Saipan,

eight on Tinian and 11 on Rola to accept food stamp coupons.

The NA P's management

evaluation unit has conducted 73 home visits and reviewed 97 active cases, she added.

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Coast Guard planes get assistance in to Guam HONOLULU (Pacnews\-A second l:.S. Coast Guard C-130 aircraft left Hawaii for Gu:1111 last night with power generators. drinking w:ltcr. and other essen­tials for military families on

Guam affected by Typlwon P:1ka. Aboard the plane are Red Cross. Federal Aviation Ad111inistration and Federal Em er!! c n c 1· l'v1 an a!! e men t AgcnC)' pc;·son nel. t1~avcl ing to Gua111 to assist with emer­gency rdid operations.

AnotberC-130 aircraft depa11ed

from Barbers Poi11t Air Station yesterday with replacement com­munications equipment.

Typhoon Pah:a ·s winds. of up to 236 miles per hour, blew down several of the essential transmit­tinl! and receive antennas at the Co;st Guard facility serving both Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Pacific navigation buoys also were damaged by the typhoon. The Coast Guard tender Bass­wood is in the process of making repairs.

Tuvalu withholds funds FUNAFUTI (Pacnews)-111e Tuvalu government has decided to withhold further capital in­jections io the Development Bank of Tuvalu until the bahk has completed collection of oustanding debts from past bor­rowings.

opment Banh:, the Tuvalu Na­tional Bank, the Tuvalu Provi­dent Fund and the secretary of Finance and Economic Plan­ning.

Boxes of food are spilled open Thursday at the Navy Exchange Commissary warehouse ~n N~val S_tation Marianas which was ripped open by high winds created by "~uper Typhoon" Paka, which hit the_ island Tuesday night with average sustained winds of 175 mph. One wmd gust was recorded at Anderson Alf Force Base was the strongest ever recorded on earth at 236 mph. AP

Meanwhile, the government has begun a feasibility study into the possibility of obtaining a soft-loan from the Asian De­velopment Bank for the devel­opment of the country's outer islands.

Mutiny officers get 5-10 years A special task force has

also been formed to investi­gate future options for the development bank, Radio Tuvalu reports.

The task force comprises the general managers of the Devel-

The total fund envisaged is $6 million ($US3.9 million), to be paid over 40 years.

PORT MORESBY (Pacnews)-Five Papua 'New Guinea Defence Force officers convicted of mutiny were Thurs­day sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years with hard labor.·

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Defence Force Judge Mark Sevua ordered that the five be seperated for security reasons - to prevent a repeat of what the Special Forces Unit did to forcefully release Major Walter Enuma from Boroko police cells, the Post-Courier reports.

CaptainBolaRenagi, who mas­terminded the mutinous opera­tion, was sentenced to JO years hard labor, Captain Belden Namah, Lt Michael David and

2nd-Lt Linus Osoba were given eight years hard labor and Major Enuma was given five years hard labor.

There were tears and cries of anguish in the courtroom as the sentences were pronounced, with family members and friends weeping openly.

Defence counsel PowesParkop said he would file a Supreme Court appeal early today. He would also file a seperate appeal for Major Enuma.

Solomons gov't reviews security needs Qf islands HONIARA (Pacnews)­Solomon Islands' prime min­ister, Bartholomew Ulufa 'alu, Saturday announced the com­mencement of a strategic rewiew of Solomon Islands' security needs.

The review will look at the present and future challenges to Solomon Islands' security and the best possible ways of promoting stability and na­tional development.

Ulufa'alu says security is much broader than simply maintaining law and order.

He says it involves protec­tion of the nation's resources, control over who and which goods enter the country, and the safety of people and their

property. Ulufa 'alu says the review

will take into account the views of communities throughout the country.

It is being undertaken by a steering committee headed by the secretary to the prime min­ister and cabinet, George Hie le, and includes senior of­ficials from appropriate gov­ernment departments includ­ing the commissioner of po­lice.

A consultant from the Aus­tralian National University, Doctor Stewart Woodman, who has assisted several coun­tries in similar reviews will be assisting in the review of Solomon Islands security needs.

Tonga readies for 2000 NUKU'ALOFA (Pacnews)-Tonga' s na­tional millennium committee is intensifying its plans to welcome the year 2000. The committee has planned a se­ries of events next year as part of celebrations for the new millennium, Radio Tonga reports.

Committee Secretary 'Amelia Tupou says a calen­dar of events include a canoe

carving exhibition, an inter­national boxing competition, a whale watch festival, a brass band championship plus various cultural exhibi­tions, talent quests, sports tournaments and religious activities.

She says celebrations will be based on activities which increase appreciation of the environmental, social and re­ligious aspects of Tonga.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11

Palau's Ellomes Society start development plans PALAU-A new'ly formed businessmen's association called Ellomes Society has started to implement several projects aimed to stimulate local participation in the eco­nomic development of Palau.

The projects include the Ma­rine Industrial Complex, SCO­RIA low-cost housing, the manufacture of clay and brick roofing tiles, growing of tropi­cal cut-flowers for export, a family-owned and -operated lodging resort, and food pro­cessing and handicraft busi­ness.

Ellomes board chair Johnny Reklai said he is especially interested in helping locul families operate lodging re­sorts under a franchise sys­tem.

The concept of this program is to give interested Palauans an opportunity to own and operate small-scale lodging resorts that are environmen­tally friendly.

The society wi II help and

support each owner on a casc­by-case basis depending on the need, Reklai said.

The society has already ap­plied for a grant from the US Economic Development Ad­ministration to implement the low-cost housing and clay

. brick and roofing tile projects which the group be) ieves will reduce house construction costs and improve the quality of homes on Palau.

The society is also working with the Service Corps of Re­tired Executives, Peace Corps Volunteers, Small Business De­velopment Centers, and other or­ganizations to help local entre­preneurs in packaging both busi­ness and housing loans in col­laboration with the National De­velopment of Palau, the US Small Business Administration, and other federally funded pro­grams and international finan­cial institutions.

"I want to. emphasize that the Ellomes Society is a non-profit organization that will be work-

ing with different government agencies and organizations in and out of Palau," Reklai said.

"We expect to work with them as may be appropriate to support each other in every way we can," he <1dded.

_The society has retained the services of a consultant, David Nakagawa, an attorney and a m_cmber of the Service Corps of Retired Executives, a US-spon­sored .organization.

Nakagawa is also the former president of the Pahiu National Development Bank and was head of the US Small Business Asso­ciation in the Paci fie.

The Ellomes Society started as an informal meeting.of business­men who discussed and shared among themselves their ideas re­lated to their business involve­ments.

It became a formal organiza­tion on June 26. after Presi­dent Nakamura signed its cor­porate charter to become rec­ognized under the laws of Palau.

Clinton declares Guam disaster

President Bill Clinton

HONOLULU (Pacnews)-The U.S. Pacific territory of Guam has been declared a major di­saster area by President Bill Clinton, as a result of the more than 200 million dollars caused by Typhoon Paka's sustained winds of l 7 5 miles per hour Wednesday.

The presidential action, re­quested by Guam Governor Carl Gutierrez, means Guam now is eligible for federal emergency disaster relief funding.

Still preliminary estimates in­dicate as many as 20 percent of Guam's homes were destroyed by the typhoon and up to 60 per-

PNG, Solomons PMs will have Bougainville X'mas PORT MORESBY (Pacnews)-Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Bill Skate and his Solomon Islands counterpart, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, plan to spend Christmas on Bougainvilleas a peace gesture.

Skate will travel to Honiara Sunday and the two leaders will fly to Buka Tuesday, the Post-Courier reports.

They are expected to visit various parts of Bougainville including Buin, Wakunai, and

Arawa, spending Christmas Eve in Arawa town.

Bougainville Transitional Government officials have been trying to arrange a meet­ing at Rorelang with rebel political leader Joseph Kabui.

Skate said in his Christmas message to the nation: "As I reflect on the events of this year I consider it very app·ro­priatc to be on Bougainville, particularly during this tradi­tional time of peace and good­will among mankind."

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remains out throughout the northwest Pacific island, but some telephone service is avail­able.

One third of the Guam is with­out water service.

Commercial flights to Guam have been canceled, although both Guam's international air­port and Anderson Air Force Base are accepting emergency flights.

Approximately I 00 disaster. relief specialists now are enroute to Guam from Hawaii and the U.S. mainland.

Court to hear Nuia inquiry

PORT MORF.SBY (Pacnews}-111e Papua New Guinea National Court Thursdav gr,mted controver­sial:umyoftice1'.MajorWalterEnuma leave for judicial review of the deci­sion of the National Executive Coun­cil to appoint Leo Nuiaascommander of the PNG Defence Force.

Chief Justice Sir Arnold Arnet gnmtcd leave after counsel PatJick Harrich:nen for Enuma produced two National Gazettes showing General Nuia 's termination from the army as a colonel in 1996 and his appoint­melll in July this year, the Post-Cou­rier repqrts.

Sir Arnold instmcted Harrich:nen (Mr) to consult with the Supreme Court registrar for a date to be fixed for an expeditious hearing to be con­vened before the end of the year .

WhilethcNationalCou,twasgrant­ing leave at Waigm1i, at about tl1e san1e time, on the other side of Port Moresby at Mun-ay Bmrncks, Major Enuma and four other officers con­victed of mutiny were given hefty sentences by Judge Mark Sevua .

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:8 IaSts rock RP military depot ZA'.\IBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - E,plosions destroyed t\\'O ammunition dumps in a sou1hern Philippine military d<.'rot. damaging nearby houses anu builuin~s bu1 not causing any c;1sualti1.•s. police' s:1id Sund:1v.

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The blasts were heard sev­eral kilometers (miles) from the depot in Zamboanga, where Muslim rebels and ban­dits have a presence, espe­cially in the hinterlands.

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sentenced to up to 24 years in prison on graft charges, was given permission by the Philippine Su­preme Court to go abroad for treat­ment of her glaucoma on humani­tarian grounds.

A statement from the Oph­thalmic Consultants of Boston said she has been examined by Richard and Ruthanne Simmons, a father-daughter team of eye spe­cialists.

It said Mrs. Marcos, 68, "suf­fers from a rare and serious form" of glaucoma called "normal ten­sion glaucoma" and also "angle closure glaucoma." No details were given.

Glaucoma is a disease in which pressure within the eye nonnally increases, damaging the optic nerve. Sufferers can go blind if the condition is not treated.

Mrs. Marcos told her staff she has undergone laser treatments at the Boston Eye Surgery and La­serCenter. The first operation was conducted on her right eye Tues­day. She was to undergo an op­eration on her left eye Friday. "If all goes well, my[ast appoint­ment with the eye specialists is on Dec. 28," a statement from her office in Mani la quoted her as saying.

Following the eye treatment, she is expected to meet U.S. Judge Manuel Real of the U.S. District Court in Hawaii, which awarded dlrs 2 billion from the Marcos estate to about I 0,000 Filipinos who won a cl ass action suit against Marcos for human rights abuses during his 20-year rule.

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victed of graft in 1993. She is free on bail pending her appeal.

She faces numerous other civil and criminal suits in connection with accusations that her husband stole billions of dollars while president.

The Marcoses fled the Philip­pines during a popular revolt in 1986 and went to Hawaii, where Marcos died in I 989.

Last week, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland paved the way forthe return of$500 million in Marcos' Swiss banks to the Philippines by ruling that the money can be transferred to. an escrow account in Manila.

The· ruling, however, upheld an earlier decision by the Swiss court that the money can only be handed over to the Philippine gov­ernment if the government wins a criminal conviction of Mrs. Marcos in connection with the Swiss deposits.

Mrs. Marcos said she welcomed the court's decision, saying it will lead to a settlement with the Phil­ippine government over attempts to recover Marcos' wealth.

Before leaving Manila, she said she wanted to return in time to spend Christmas with her grand­children.

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Divers try to recover jet MAKARTI.JA Y A,lndoncsia(AP) ] Q4 [ b d h . ·zz ' ' +. d d d -Crewsbattlcdpowc1fulrivcrcur- peop e On Oar S ip Sfi missing, ~eare ea

Palcmbrn1g. 35 miles south of th~ era.sh site. on Saturday.

rcnl~Sunday to ret1ieve a Singa[XJrc- locate tl1c wreckage. what it was. owned jetliner's wreckage, strewn ·n1cy went lx:low again Sunday at across tl1c bottom of a fast-flowing 7 a.m.. searching for places on the 1iver on Suma~·a island. - main p,ut of the pl:me to attach cr;u1e

same color :L, the missing !light re­corders w:L, found Saturday, but in­vestigators would not sr-eculatc on

Two SilkAir tlighl, fcnicd 2(X) n;l,HiVl:s of the passengers to

Dozens of the passengers hired speedboats to watch a 1loti Ila off :1do­ncsirn1 )XJlice ,md na >)' brnts scour a JO-squ,U"e-milc area of :·ivcr :mcJ sw,m1p for debris :u1cJ humrn1 re­mains.

Divers worked with two floating cables. lhey also were assessing cranes to recover the mostly intact whethertocutor-en itsj:m1111cddoors fuselage, where officials believe most ,md recover some bodies lx:fore at-of the I 04 r-eople aboard SilkAir tempting tl1c lift. Flight MI-185 were still strapr-ed in An attempt to p1y or-en the doors their seats. failed on Saturday as divers com-

"Everybody is dead. Most of them plained of poor visibility in the dm-k me still inside the phme," said police muddy river, which has swollen to Sgt. Ganep Nasir. 500ymuswideduetomonsoonrains.

1l1e Boeing 737-300 crashed into Along with the fuselage, officials the Musi River on Friday, halfway also hoped to 1ecover the plane's through a flight from Jakarta to flightdataandvoicerecorders, which Singapote. could shed light on the cause of the

Divers on Saturday groped their crash. way through the opaque water to A twisted piece oforange metal the __________ -,-::.,.

·me airline said remains rccovrn~cJ so fm· have been taken lo a 1°·,orgue in a hospital in Palemb:mg.

An Indonesiw1 womrn1 who tlew there with her husband from Jak,u1a said she lost Lhroc relativ<:s.

"] c.u1 't believe they're 1.kac.l," she said. ··Four days ago. we cdeh1:1ted my sister-in-law' sbirthday. And now they are gone."

Helicopters flying overhead dropped divers intotJ1c water. Nearby villagers watched tJ1e search from longboaL~.

Rescuers cll.'it a net over the plm1e to prevent debris from drifting away. Investigators pored over pieces of the plane's shattered tail and examined items such as clothing and a yellow life jacket for clues to why the plane crashed.

Indonesian Transport Minister Haryanto Dh,mutirtorcf used to com­ment on report.~ the plm1e exploded. Police quoted witnesses a~ saying the plane exploded twice in the air mid again when it hit the water.

Minister of Communications Mah Bow Tan (left) speaks to reporters at the news conference at Singapore Changi Airport early Saturday. To his left is Mak Swee Wah, General Manager of SilkAir whose Flight M/185 crashed. Silk Air is a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines. AP

Small parts of a Boeing-737 aircraft of Singapore's Silk Air which crashed Friday into the estuary of Musi River are pilled up on a speedboat of the Search and Rescue Team Saturda. No body was found yet as rescue work continues underway. AP

Villager Ahmad Ha~an said he heard the explosions.

"It came in very low. It was going down. It exploded in the air and then

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evasion and organized crime, apparently jumped to his death from the roof of an eight-story building, a studio spokesman said Sunday. He was 64.

Itami. director of the inter­national I y acclaimed film "Tampopo." <lied at a Tokyo hospital Saturday evening, said Toho Co. spokesman Masahiko Suzuki.

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Agenda (CDA) I. ROLL CALL 11. ADOPTION OF AGENDA Ill. ADOPTION OF MINUTES IV. REPORTS

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Miyamoto. In "A Taxing Woman,"his 1987hit,sheplayed a no-nonsense investigator stand­ing up to comipt tax evaders.

In 1985, he won acclaim in Japan and abroad with "Tampopo," starring Miyamoto as a noodle-shop owner. The film juxtaposed her battles to concoct a savory bowl of noodles with humor­ous side stories, all centered around the theme of food.

Miyamoto told Toho she had no idea what might have driven Itami to suicide, ac-

cording to Suzuki. In May 1992, Itami was

slashed in the face and neck in front of his Tokyo home, less than a week after the release of his film, "Minbo no Onna," or "The Gentle Art of Japa­nese Extortion."

Five gangsters were con­victed in the stabbing last year and are now in prison.

"I won't be giving up. I hope we can all continue to struggle together,'' Itami wrote in a letter from his hos­pital bed after the attack.

Senior Indonesian Cabinet minister dies aft.er long illness JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Soesilo Soedarman, a se­nior Cabinet minister and a close aide of President Suharto, died Thursday after a Jong battle with heart dis­ease, Indonesia's State Sec­retariat said. He was 69.

Officials said Soedarman. the coordinating minister for political affairs and security, underwent cardiac surgery in a Jakarta hospital recently. No details were immediately available.

His death came amid speculation about the health of President Suharto, who is 76.

Soedarman, a retired four­star general, served as Indonesia's ambassador to the United States between 1986 and 1988. He was also a former minister of tourism. post and telecom­munications. At one time, he was a candidate for vice president.

He was among the first gradu.ates oflndoncsia 's Na­tional Military Academy in 1948, three years after it de­clared independence from Dutch colonial rule at the end of World War II.

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school's commander. He also attended military

schools in the United States and the Netherlands.

A few hours befon: -Soedarman' s passing was announced, Suharto at­tended a graduation cer­emony of cadets from the military school.

It was Suharto's first pub­lic appearance since he was ordered to rest at home by doctors two weeks ago.

His absence from public duty fueled rumors that Asia's longest-serving leader was seriously ill. All rumors have been denied by the gov­ernment, which maintains that the president was only fatigued after a long over­seas trip.

Suharto has not named a successor- a factor has that worsened market nerves al­ready frayed by an Asian eco­nomic crisis that has hit Indonesia's currency and stock markets dramatically.

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Soedarman is survived by his wife and five children.

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South Korea has new president:

Kim supporters celebrate win SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -Trailing in early returns, their fa­vorite son finally took the lead· and headed toward victory. For millions of Kim Dae-jung sup­porters, it was the dream of al­most half a century.

"Kim Dae-jung, President!" chanted 200 supporters who were staking out the veteran opposi­tion leader's red-brick house in the Seoul suburb of Jlsan.

From Kim's neighborhood to an obscure fishing islet off the southwest coast, ,;here Kim was born 73 years ago, tens of thou­sands of supporters spilled out onto the streets, singing, dancing and crying.

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South Korea with political dissi­dent.

It was in the provincial city southwest of Seoul that govern­ment paratroopers machine­gunned hundreds of pro-democ­racy protesters in May, 1980, in what is known as the Kwangju Massacre.

As e:u·ly returns showed Kim tail­ing the majrnity pa11y's Lee 1-loi­chang, K wm1gju citizens were glued to TV screens in what the national news :1gcncy Yonhap c.lesc1ibed a~ a "'blood-d1ying silence.

Soon, Kim caught up. As his victory became evident,

one by one, Kwangju citizens began coming out of their homes. Soon 60,000 gathered at the city's central plaza, where the massacre took place 17 years ago.

··Mansci (hurray)." the crowd

shouted repeatedly. They danced and marched

around, holding hurriedly scrawled placards which read: "We have done it!" "Change goof government in 50 years!"

The government accused Kim of fomenting the trouble in Kwangju, hundreds of people held a victory rally in a plaza, chm1ting ''Kim Dae-jung." Kim spent most of his cm·ly years in Mokpo.

Offtheport, on Haeui Island, when: Kim was bom, hundreds of his rela­tives and villagers also celebrated the victory, beating gongs and drnms ,md cJ:mcing around bonfoes.

ft wiL, Kim's fowth. nm at the presidency in a mave1ii:k political cmeer sp:mning four decades ,md the victo1y c.u11e as a pay back for the yc:us he spent in prison mid exile ,L, South Korea's most fem·ed dissident.

South Korean president-elect Kim Dae-jw:,g (center) jubilates after addressing the National Assembly Friday irr Seoul. Kim was elected President of South Korea by a narrow margin over rival Lee Hoi-chang. Looking on and applauding are South Korean representatives Kim Jong-pi!, left, and Park Tae-joon, right. AP

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Khn \Vorries spy agency

By Sang-Hun Choe SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -One of the first things Kim Dae­jung did after winning South Korea's presidential election this week was to rea~sure his oppo­nents he wouldn't seek political revenge.

If anyone has reason to still worry, it's officials of the power­ful government spy Planning.

The agency is no ordinary spy organization. To South Korean political dissidents, it has been a tool wielded brutally by the-

country's former military dicta­tors to shadow, kidnap and tor­ture them.

The president-elect knows that firsthand: He was one of the agency's victims.

Fearing he was a threat to South Korea's conservative govern­ments, the agency has hounded Kim for decades. It painted him as a dangerous communist for his campaign for greater human rights. Its agents kidnapped and tried to drown him.

In all, Kim says, the agency has tried to kill him four times. He still wears a hearing aid in his left ear, which he says was damaged when government intelligence agents tortured him in 1980.

Despite Kim's physical and mental scars, observers doubt he will embark on a vendetta when he takes office in February.

"I don't think Kim will indulge in political revenge. Bu the will at least try to reform the agency," said Auh Sao-young, a political scientist ·at Seoul's Ewha

Women's University. The Moonhwa !Ibo, a national

newspaper, said that an overhaul of the agency now appears inevi­table.

Unti I the early 1980s, the orga­nization wa known as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. While skeptics viewed the agency's name change as a cos­metic attempt to clean up its im­aae after becomin!'. notorious in-1;;,rntionally for -human rights abuses, most observers say it has curbed its previous excesses while sti II keeping its foot in domestic politics.

Kim has said he will restruc­ture the agency so that it will be barred from meddling in domes­tic politics. Instead, he will focus the agency's activi.ties on gather­ing information overseas.

During the campaign, he re­peatedly warned the agency against interfering in the election and accused it of orchestrating past government attempts to de­pict him as a dangerous commu-

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nist. Kim has proposed revising laws

that give the spy agency the au­thority to "investigate anyone sus­pected of sympathizing with com­munist NorthKorea."Thatpower, he said, has too often been abused to suppress political opponents.

1998 Nissan In testimony to Parliament,

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Kim's distrust of the spy agency runs deep.

During his 1971 presidential campaign against fonnerdictator Park Chung-hee, Kim was injured in a traffic accident that he be­lieves was an attempt on his life. As the result, he still walks with a limp.

After the election, Kim went into self-imposed exile abroad. It was in Tokyo in 1973 that South Korean agents seized him in a hotel room. The agents were stopped trying to drown him, then released him in Seoul several days later.

A close aide to the president­elect said Kim would not under­take a reform of the agency until after the cu1Tent economic crisis has been resolved.

"There is a matter of priority. People right now arc preoccupied with the economic problem," said Kim Keim-tac, 50, a former jailed dissident and now a legislator from the president-clect's main oppo­sition party.

Despite all tbat, many doubt that the next government will be able to overhaul the spy agency swiftly.

'"He has a lot of limits to over­come," said Nam Kyu-sun, a secretary-general at Minkahyup, a human rights group.

Kim's election touches a nerve among the nation's conservative elite that has ruled the country since its founding in 1948, and Nam said he could face tough resistance.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997 -MARiANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-17

In Guyana .

Tension high after .elections By Bert Wilkinson

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - The losing presiden­tial candidate pledged Satur­day to fight what he called the rigged election of an Ameri­can expatriate, and said her quick swearing-in was a vio­lation of the constitution.

Desmond Hoyte accused elections commission Chair­man Doodnauth Singh of vio­lating the constitution by de­claring Janet Jagan, widow of the popular former president Cheddi Jagan, the winner while votes were still being counted, and without consult­ing other commission mem­bers.

"We now have an unlawful government ruling our coun~ try," said Hoyte, who vowed to continue to dispute the re­sults of Monday's election.

Meanwhile, the army chief of staff and the police com­missioner issued a statement Saturday denying that they had advised the quick swear­ing-in.

On Friday, Singh had said security officials suggested Mrs. Jagan be sworn in imme­diately and in private to avoid "a declaration of a state of emergency."

"Neither the chief of staff nor the commissioner of po­lice can attest to this consulta­tion," the statement said. "We are concerned with the reports and wish to indicate that we reject the assertion."

Mrs, Jagan was sworn in while Hoyte's opposition People's National Congress party was at the Supreme Court seeking an order to pre­vent her from taking office. The PNC and other, smaller political parties challenged the results of the general election in this country situated on the north coast of South America.

Singh declared Mrs. Jagan the winner at noon Friday with 90 percent of the vote counted, saying her advan­tage over Hoyte was greater than the 37,000 ballots lcfl to be counted.

After she was given the oath of office in a private ceremony three. hours later, Mrs. J agan addressed supporters at a rally. When two court marshals tried to serve the order preventing her from taking office, secu­rity officers grappled with them.

When handed the order, Mrs. Jagan threw the papers over her right shoulder, dismissing them in front of her support­ers and the media.

"You also witnessed on television the utter contempt with which Mrs. Jagan treated the order of the court and her blatant disregard for the rule of law," Hoyte said in a state-

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were reported Saturday. On Thursday, 11 people were in­jured when police fired pel­lets and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators claiming that the vote was rigged in Jagan 's favor.

Hoyte urged his followers to "keep the peace" and "do nothing to bring our country into disrepute."

Mrs. Jagan, 77, is a Chicago native. She became a Guyanese citizen and served 30 years in Parliament, as well as several months in jail in the 1950s with her late hus­band, for their allegedly pro­communist leanings.

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Peruvian soldiers help hostages escape from the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru, April 22, 1997. In a violent end to a four-month hostage crisis, Peruvian forces stormed the residence, freeing dozens of captives of the Tupac Amaru guerrillas. AP

By Teofilo Caso LIMA, Peru (AP) - A year after leftist guerrillas took hundreds of people hostage at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru's president and military leaders are waging their own battle to take credit for freeing the cap­tives.

Tens·ions in the very public disagreement escalated Satur­day when President Alberto Fujimori ordered Peru's re­gional military ceremony, to "return immediately to your respective posts of command and to the responsibilities to which you are assigned."

The armed forces have been a main source of support for Fujimori since he took power in 1990. However, the rebuke Saturday was not viewed as a split between Fujimori and the military, but rather a power

struggle between the presi­dent and Gen. Nicolas Hermoza, president of the joint chiefs of the armed forces.

The Japanese ambassador's residence was taken over by 14 Tupac Amaru rebels Dec. 17, .I 996, during a cocktail party for 500 guests in honor of the emperor's birthday.

The majority of the hostages were quickly released.

A rescue operation involv­ing 140 commandos freed the remaining 72 hostages four months later. Two comman­dos, one hostage and all 14 rebels were killed in the dra­matic rescue, which was broadcast around the world.

The dispute between Fujimori and the military lead­ers began after Hermoza pub­lished a book purporting to describe the rescue.

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Fujimori criticized the book in an interview published on Wednesday, the anniversary of the rebels' raid on the em­bassy. The daily newspaper El Comercio quoted Fuji mori as saying Hermoza partici­pated in neither the design nor the strategy of the rescue but only in executing the opera­tion.

"I know perfectly how the operation was developed. It was I who designed it," the newspaper quoted Fujimori as saying.

Military and police officials quickly closed ranks behind Hermoza.

At a televised military cer­emony Friday, Gen. Carlos Pergamino, chief of the first military region, told Hermoza: "You, General, per­sonify and represent the army of Peru. Therefore, any at­tempt to discredit your accom­plishments is an offense tc our institution as a whole."

Pergamino did not explic­itly refer to Fujimori in his remarks.

The ceremony was attended by Peru's military leaders, the ministers of defense and interior and the head of the national intelligence service.

At an earlier military cer­emony Friday; Fujimori and Hermoza "maintained a cold and obvious distance," ac­cording to one journalist's re­port.

Fujimori has been consider­ing changing the structure of the military's leadership -changes that could affect Hermoza.

"The internal bickering concerning who gets credit for the rescue of the hostages has created the conditions for Fujimori to redefine the insti­tutional hierarchy of the mili­tary," said Juan Paredes Castro. political commentator for El Comerica.

The military, headed by llermoza, supported Fujimori whci1 the president suspended the constitution, congress, and the constitutional tribunal in April 1992.

At the end of 1994, after a successful campaign against the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru rebels, Fujimori called Hermoza a ··victorious gen­eral."

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By Leon Barkho BAGHDAD,lraq (AP)-A U.N. rums inspector singled out for criti- · cism by Iraq shrugged off the government's attacks as an effrnt to divert attention from its refusal to provide access to all suspected weap­ons sites.

"Instead of addressing this issue, it appears the Iraqi authorities have cho­sen to vilify an individual inspector," Scott Ritter, of the United States, told The A~sociated Press on Saturday. "Such vilification in no way moves the process forward."

In the past few days, Baghdad re­peatedly has lashed out at Ritter.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tmiq Aziz told reporter.; Fiiday thut Ritter was "a troublemaker."

Imqi newspapers condemned him forcanyingout aswprise inspection Thursday of a tomist 1esort where President Saddam Hussein is known to stay.

Iraqi officials also accused him of being an agent of the U.S. Centml Intelligence Agency.

"It is absolutely untrne .... I have never been employed or affiliated with tl1e CIA," Ritter told the AP. "I find it disturbing and even insulting that Iraqi authorities with whom I have worked in the past six yem, would undertake such tactics."

Ritter, a U.N. weapons inspector for six years,cu1rently leads a team of 18 inspectors in Irnq.

The U.N. Security Council has warned Baghdad it will not lift the sweeping trade sanctions imposed afterits 1990invasionofKuwaituntil Irnq proves it has eliminated its weap­ons of ma,s destruction.

Iraq says it has notl1ing left to hide. It maintains that there arc no more brnmed weapons or document, in it, possession.

But Ritter said the Iraqi authorities had adopted a sophisticated "con­cealment mechanism" that allows them to keep a step ahead of the inspectors and foil their surp1ise vis­its.

He declined to elaborate, but said part of this mechanism was the denial

of access to p1esidential sites. Baghdad has 1uled 60 sites, includ­

ing about 40p1esidential palaces,off­limit, to tl1e U.N. inspectors on grounds of national sove,eignty.

In one high-profile incident, Ritter, 36, ML, turned away in September, when he tried to enter the presidential compound on the west bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad. · !rJqi authrnities said the site wa~

out of bounds ,md his attempt was provocative.

"We do not focus on a site a~ being presidential or otl1e1wise labeled," Ritter said. "If Iraq h:L, dcclm·cd a given site presidential, this is their prerogative. But it in no way gives them tl1e tight to deny access to that site."

Ritter said he had spent tl1c pa,t 18 months keeping tabs on tl1c means by which Iraq "syslcm:1tically conceals its prosc1ibcd mate1ial mid activi­ties.''

'This is an extremely difficult task which requires perseverance over an extended pe1iod of time," he said.

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At Gulf Summit: •

Kuw-ait blasts Saddarn By Diana Elias _

KUWAIT (AP) - Kuwait's leader lashed out at Iraq during an Arab summit Saturday. charging Saddam Hussein with bringing suffering on his own people by refusing to fullycomplywith U.N. weapons inspectors.

"The Iraqi regime is still trying to evade the international resolu­tions,"' Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al­Sabah told leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

By such evasion. the Baghdad government caused the U.N. trade sanctions to be maintained and inflicted "suffering on the broth­erly Iraqi people," the emir told officials gathered at Bayan Pal­ace.

The United Nations imposed an oil embargo and other eco­nomic sanctions on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which touched off the Gulf War. The world organization has said the

Leaders attend the opening session of the 18th summit of GCC {Gulf Cooperation Council) states Saturday at Bayan Palace in Bayan, Kuwait City. Kuwait's emir opened the summit of six Gulf states, pouring scorn on Iraq and praising Iran for its new friendliness toward its neighbors. AP

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Iraq says it has complied but U.N. officials dispute the claim. Meanwhile, international aid agencies say Iraq is suffering shortages of food and medicine.

But the emir, in his welcoming address to five other leaders of the GCC, praised Iran, which many Arab states have viewed warily amid allegations that it exports Islamic revolution.

The emir praised the role of Iran in last week's Organization of the Islamic Conference sum­mit in Tehran, saying the Iranian government had launched a ·'new ~ra'" of neighborly relations in the Gulf.

Turning to the Middle East peace pro~ess, the emir said there could be no peace in the Israeli­Palestinian conflict without "the return of all occupied lands, and the setting up of a Palestinian state with holy Jerusalem as its capital."

The GCC - which comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - is organized to bol­ster trade and political ties among the six nations on the Arabian peninsula. But the group has re­cently been accused of not mov­ing fast enough toward that goal.

A former Kuwaiti education minister, Ahmed al-Rubei, wrote in the AI-Qabas newspaper here this week that the 16-year alli­ance was moving "at the pace of a turtle."

A Kuwaiti public relations of­ficer, Osama Safar, told The As­sociated Press that "the on! y tan­gible achievement I can see is that they have allocated a separate passport counter for GCC nation­als at the airports."

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By RACHID KHIARI ALGIER..",, Algeria (AP) -A bomb bh,t killed five people and militru1L, sh,hcd-to death five otl1er people in attacks near the capital blamed on a Muslim insurgency, according to re­por1s Thursday.

The powerful bomb exploded Wednesday on a roacJ next to a vehicle transporting city workers from El Merdja, a southeast sub­urb, said sources close to Zmirli Hospital, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The blast killed five people an<l wounded two otl1ers. one of whom was in critical condition Thursday morning, the sources said.

Attackers posing as police slit the throaL, of five merchants at a fake police roadblock early Wednesday on the road between Sidi Rached and Atattba, near Tipasa, I 00 krns (60 miles) west of Algiers, according to taxi drivers from tl1e region, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Hezbollah, Israel may do exchange RASHA YA, Lebanon (AP) - A senior Hezbollah official said Satur­day that his gueni Ila group and Israel were close to canying out an ex­change of Lebancsc p1isoners for the · remains of Israeli soldiers killed in southern Lebanon.

But Israel said it was not aware of any exchange.

An official with the International Committee of the Red Cross has informed Hezbollal1 that Israel has accepted the conditions for the ex­change, said Sheik Nairn Kassem, deputy leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

"We are waiting for the Israelis' response to our latest proposal," Kassem told a Hezbollah rally in the town of E'.in el-Tineb near Rashaya, in southeast Lebanon.

Kassem said there were still some details to be worked out before a prisoner swap could be finalized, but he did not elaborate on the details or give a time frame for an exohange.

But in Jerusalem, Israeli govern­ment spokesman David Bru·-Illan said he was not awrue of any such ex- -change.

Israeli security sources said Israel had submitted a detailed proposal for the return of a soldier's body parts to the Lebanese government and was awaiting an answer.

Last week, Hezbollah spokesman Nayef Koraim told The Associated Press that a prisoner-swap agreement could be reached by the end of the year if Israel agrees to fiee more detainees than it has offered.

Hezbollah legislator Mohammed

Fneish h,t~ said that Israel offered to release 20 Lebanese prisoners as well a, the remains of h'llenillas for the body pruts ofbraeli soldiers killed in a botched cornmm1do raid in south­ern Lebanon on Sept. 5.

TI1e negotiations for m1 exchmige have been undertaken by the Genev~l­headqumtered International Com­mittee of the Red Cross, whose del­egates have been relaying messages between tl1e Lebanese and Israeli govemments.

The remains of guerrillas Hezbollah is seeking include the body of Hadi Nasrallah, the son of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheik Hassan Nasrnllah, killed in a clash witl1 Isrneli troops on Sept 12.

Israel, which is known to hold about200 Lebanese detainees, seeks tl1e temains of one of its soldiers killed in the commando raid. Eleven other Israel is died in the raid, but their bodies were re­trieved by their retreating com­rades.

However, Hezbollah has said it holds body paits of more than one Israeli soldier.

Last.year, Hezbollah traded the remains of two Israeli soldiers for 45 Lebanese detainees held by Israel and its allied Lebanese mi­litia.

Hezbollah is the most active of Lebanese guerrilla groups fight­ing to end Israel's occupation of a border enclave. Israel set up the zone in 1985 to act as a buffer against attacks on northern Is­rael.

Lebanese people wave national flags at the reopening_ on. Friday of th1:3 Kfar Fa/ous crossing, one of several m south Lebanon lmk1~g an Israeli­occupied border enclave with the rest of the country, following a 12-year closure. Some 150 cars drove from the Christian town of Jezzine, which is controlled by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia to Sidon, shortly after the crossing reopened. AP

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Arafat accuses Isr3el of peace process violation CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Pal­estinian leader Yasser Arafat said Saturday that Israel's an­nouncement that it will not limit settlement construction is "a gross violation" of the peace process.

Arafat also vowed that the Palestinians will not surren­·der "a grain of sand from Holy Jerusalem."

Arafat's.statements came a ·day after Israeli Prime Minis­ter Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not limit settlement construction in the occupied West Bank or Jerusa­lem, despite U.S. calls for a time-out.

"What Netanyahu said is a gross violation of the signed agreements, the peace process and international resolutions," Arafat told reporters. He spoke after briefing President Hosni Mubarak on his Thursday meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Paris.

"It should be clear that the Palestinian people are at­tached to their occupied land and (are committed to) liber­ating it from Israeli occupa-

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tion," he said, shortly before departing for Gaza.

Last month, Nefanyahu also dismissed U.S. calls for a delay, calling the growth of communi­ties on disputed land a "non­issue."

Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Is­rael, also reacted strongly to Netanyahu's statement.

If Netanyahu insists on fol­lowing through with this policy, it could lead to "the almost com­plete collapse of the peace pro­cess," Foreign Minister Ar11r Moussa told reporters after Arafat's meeting with Mubarak.

He also called Netanyahu 's remarks "a tremendous step

Benjamin Netanyahu

back." "These lands are the ones

from which a withdrawal is requested, just as there was a withdrawal from Sinai and there will be a withdrawal from the Golan and south Lebanon," Moussa said.

Syria has demanded that Is­rael withdraw from the Golan Heights, which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East War, as part of any peace agree­ment. Netanyahu has said the strategic heights are vital to Israel's security.

Israel withdrew from Sinai, which was also taken in the 1967 war, as part of the peace agreement with Egypt.

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Kuwait blasts Sadda1n By Diana Elias .

KUWAIT (AP) - Kuwait's leader lashed out at Iraq during an Arab summit Saturday, charging Saddam Hussein with bringing suffering on his own people by refusing to fully comply with U.N. weapons inspectors.

"The Iraqi regime is still trying to evade the international resolu­tions,'' Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al­Sabah told leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

By such evasion, the Baghdad govemmentcaused the U.N. trade sanctions to be maintained and inflicted "suffering on the broth­erly Iraqi people." the emir told officials gathered at Bayan Pal­ace.

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Leaders attend the opening session of the 18th summit of GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) states Saturday at Bay an Palace in Bayan, Kuwait City. Kuwait's emir opened the summit of six Gulf states, pouring scorn on Iraq and praising Iran for its new friendliness toward its neighbors. AP

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sanctions will remain in place until U.N. inspectors certify Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq says it has complied but U.N. officials dispute the claim. Meanwhile, international aid agencies say Iraq is suffering shortages of food and medicine.

But the emir, in his welcoming address to five other leaders of the GCC, praised Iran, which many Arab states have viewed warily amid allegations that it exports Islamic revolution.

The emir praised the role of Iran in last week's Organization of the Islamic Conference sum­mit in Tehran, saying the Iranian government had launched a "new era" of neighborly relations in the Gulf.

Turning to the Middle East peace process, the emir said there could be no peace in the Israeli­Palestinian conflict without "the return of all occupied lands, and the setting up of a Palestinian state with holy Jerusalem as its capital."

The GCC - which comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia.and the United Arab Emirates - is organized to bol­ster trade and political ties among the six nations on the Arabian peninsula. But the group has re­cently been accused of not mov­ing fast enough toward that goal.

A former Kuwaiti education minister, Ahmed al-Rubei, wrote in the Al-Qabas newspaper here this week that the 16-year alli­ance was moving "at the pace of a turtle."

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By RACHID KHIARI ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - A bomb bh,t killed five people and militml~ sla,hcd-to death five other people in attacks near the capital blamed on a Muslim insurgency, according to rc­po11., Thursday.

The powerful bomb exploded Wednesday on a road next to a vehicle transporting city workers from El Merdja, a southeast sub­urb, said sources close to Zmirli Hospital, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The blast killed five people and wounded two others, one of whom was in c1itical condition Thursday morning, the sources said.

Attackers posing as police slit the throats of five merchants at a fake police roadblock early Wednesday on the road between Sidi Rached and Atattba, near lipasa, I 00 kms (60 miles) west of Algiers, according to taxi drivers from the region, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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But Israel said it was not aware of any exchange.

An official with the International Committee of the Red Cross has informed 1-Iezbollah that Israel has accepted the conditions for the ex­change, said Sheik Nairn Kassem, deputy leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

"We are waiting for the Israelis· response to our latest proposal," Kassem told a Hezbollah rally in the town of Ein el-Tineb near Rashaya, in southea~t Lebanon.

Kassem said there were sti II some details to be worked out before a piisoner swap could be finalized, but he did not elaborate on the details or give a time frame for an exc-hange.

But in Jerusalem, Israeli govem­mentspokesmanDavidBar-Illansaid he was not aware of any such ex- · change.

Israeli secuiity sources said Israel had submitted a detailed proposal for the return of a soldier's body parts to the Lebanese government and was awaiting an answer.

Last week, Hezbollah spokesman Nayef Koraim told The Associated Press that a prisoner -swap agreement could be reached by the end of the year if Israel agrees to free more detainees than it has offered.

Hezbollah legislator Mohammed

Fneish has said that Israel offered to release 20 Lebanese p1isoners as well m; the remains of gueni Has for the body pmts of Israeli soldiers killed in a botched commm1do raid in soutl1-em Lebanon on Sept. 5.

1l1e negotiations for m1 exchm1ge have been undertaken by the Geneva­headquartered International Com­mittee of the Red Cross, whose del­egates have been relaying messages between the Lebm1ese and Israeli governments.

The remains of guerri !las Hezbollah is seeking include the body of Hadi Nasrallah, the son of Hezbollah SecretaJy-General Sheik Ha~san Nasmllah, killed in a clash with Israeli troops on Sept 12.

Israel, which is known to hold about 200 Lebanese detainees, seeks the remains of one of its soldiers killed in the commando raid. Eleven ·other Israelis died in the raid, but their bodies were re­trieved by their retreating com­rades.

However, 1-Iezbollah has said it holds body parts of more than one Israeli soldier.

Last year, Hezbollah traded the remains of two Israeli soldiers for 45 Lebanese detainees held by Israel and its allied Lebanese mi­litia.

Hezbollah is the most active of Lebanese guerrilla groups fight­ing to end Israel's occupation of a border enclave. Israel set up the zone in 1985 to act as a buffer against attacks on northern Is­rael.

Lebanese people wave national flags at the reopening on Friday of the Kfar Falous crossing, one of several in south Lebanon linking an Israeli­occupied border enciave with the rest of the country, following a 12-year closure. Some 150 cars drove from the Christian town ofJezzine, which is controlled by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia to Sidon, shortly after the crossing reopened. AP

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-23

Arafat accuses Isr8el of peace process violation CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Pal­estinian leader Yasser Arafat said Saturday that Israel's an­nouncement that it will not limit settlement construction is "a gross violation" of the peace process.

Arafat also vowed that the Palestinians will not surren­·der "a grain of sand from Holy Jerusalem."

Arafat's.statements came a ·day after Israeli Prime Minis­ter Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not limit settlement construction in the occupied West Bank or Jerusa­lem, despite U.S. calls for a time-out.

"What Netanyahu said is a gross violation of the signed agreements, the peace process and international resolutions," Arafat told reporters. He spoke after briefing President Hosni Mubarak on his Thursday meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Paris.

"It should be clear that the Palestinian people are at­tached to their occupied land and (are committed to) liber­ating it from Israeli occupa-

Yasser Arafat

tion," he said, shortly before departing for Gaza.

Last month, Nefanyahu also dismissed U.S. calls for a delay, calling the growth of communi­ties on disputed land a "non­issue."

Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Is­rael, also reacted strongly to Netanyahu 's statement.

If Netanyahu insists on fol­lowing through with this policy, it could lead to "the almost com­plete collapse of the peace pro­cess," Foreign Minister Amr Moussa told reporters after Arafat's meeting with Mubarak.

He also called Netanyahu's remarks "a tremendous step

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back." "These lands are the ones

from which a withdrawal is requested, just as there was a withdrawal from Sinai and there will be a withdrawal from. the Golan and south Lebanon," Moussa said.

Syria has demanded that Is­rael withdraw from the Golan Heights, which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East War, as part of any peace agree­ment. Netanyahu has said the strategic heights are vital to Israel's security.

Israel withdrew from Sinai, which was also taken in the 1967 war, as part of the peace agreement with Egypt.

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key suspends EU t s By Alice Ann Love

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tur­key has broken off talks with the European Union on human rights and disputes with Greece a!l(J Cyprns. all cited by the Europe­ans for removing Turkey from prospective EU membership.

"We have suspemJed our po­litical dialog,'' Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz said Saturday in an interview on CNN lntemational.

The EU excluded Turkey last weekend from a list of potential future members, including IO East European countries and Cyprus. The IS-member alliance cited misgivings about the Turkish troop presence in the northem part of that Meditenw1ean island na­tion. human rights violations and tense relations with EU member Greece.

"The European Union made a

distinction between Turkey and the other eleven countries, al­though many of these countries were behind Turkey in terms of democracy or in terms of economy. That was a clear dis­crimination against Turkey, and I will not accept it," Yilmaz told CNN.

The Turkish prime minister continued to back away from pre­vious threats that Turkey would withdraw its application for EU membership.

Despite the break in talks.over political conditions to full mem­bership, Yilmaz said, Turkey con­tinues to honorcu1Tent agreements with the EU.

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"I th.ink the future of Turkey lies in cooperation with the West­ern world," Yilmaz said.

Yilmaz did not directly respond to questions about his prior asser­tions that the EU is a "Christian Club." biased against largely Muslim Turkey. He said only that "we share the same val­

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sic freedoms." "But," he said, "we are not

in a position to bargain, to negotiate with· terrorists."

The Clinton administration actively promotes EU mem­bership for Turkey, a strategi­cally located ally at the cusp of Europe and Asia.

Yilmaz agreed Friday at a meeting with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to

allow John· Shattuck, the as­sistant secretary of state who deals with human rights, to visit Turkey and consult with officials on human rights.

Most human rights violations alleged against Turkey relate to its war with Kurdish rebels fight­ing for autonomy in southeastern Turkey. A Kurdish guerrilla . leader has appealed to the EU to mediate peace talks.

President Clinton meets with Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz Friday in the White House Oval Office. In an interview with CNN a day later, Yi/maz said his government has suspended talks with the European Union on human rights and its disputes with Greece and Cyprus. AP

Russian hero agent had heart attack By Maura Reynolds

MOSCOW (AP)-AtopRussian security agent died of a heart attack afteroffering himself as a hostage in place of a Swedish diplomat, Russia's security chief said Satur­day.

The agent, Col.Anatoly Savelyev, 5 I, was also struck in the leg by a ricocheting bulletduring gunfire that killed the hostage-taker and ended a six-hour standoff at the Swedish

· Embassy. But the wound was not life-threat­

ening, and doctors said Savelyev ·s death was caused by a heart attack, said Nikolai Kova!yov, director of the Federal Security Service, the ma.in successor to the Soviet-cm KGB.

"It is the doctor's definite opin­ion ... that he had a heart attack," he said at a news conference.

Kovalyov said snipers opened fire early Samitlay after the at­tacker, who was ,umed with a gre­nade mid a pi~tol, began changing

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a few seconds later it explcxled again when it hit the water," he said.

Residents of Makarti Jaya, a vil­lage a half-mile from the crnsh site, said the plane went down at high tide and there were concerns that some bodies were swept away, the offi­cial Antara news agency reponed. It was not known whether the

his demands and it recame clear that force was "the only ]XlSSible" way to end the standoff.

The hostage-taker seized Swedish trade counselor Jan-OlofNystrom as he entered the Swedish Embassy about 7 p.m. Friday. He demanded $370,00'.) and a flight out of Russia His reasons were unclear.

Savelyev, one of Russia's most experienced hostage negotiators, re­placed Nystrom in thebesiegedVolvo sedan after more than four hours of tense negotiations.

A veteran of Russia's elite Alpha commando force, Savelyev served in most of the country's hot spots during the past 20 years. He had ~uccessfully negotiated resolutions to a number of similar situations, including the hi jacking of a passen­ger plane from Magadan earlier this month.

A few hours later, Savelyev told his colleagues he was feeling unwell, news reports said, and a medic en­tered the car. The medic. Dmitry

plane tried to make an emergency landing.

Singapore's Sunday Times re­ported the plane was traveling at 31,000 feet when it asked Jakarta for permission to switch to Singapore air-traffic control. The paper said the plane received per­mission but Singapore air trnffic controllers never heard from it.

"There were no distress sig­nals. There were no adverse

Azovsky, told the NTV network thatSavelyev was unconscious and

· seriously ill. As the hostage-taker, who called

himself"Alexei,'' helped1hemedic dragSavelyevfrom thecar,asniper fired and wounded him.

The attacker fued back, news reports said, and when the medic was out of the way security forces unleased a barrage of gunfire. The gunman was killed and Savelyev struck in the leg. He died later at a hospital.

The identity of the hostage-taker remainedunclearSaturday. A pass­port wa~ found on his body, but Kovalyov said investigators doubt it bc!Qnged to him.

President Boris Yeltsin praised Savelyev in a condolence message to his family and collea6'1les.

'Toe nobility and coumge of Anatoly Savclyev demonstrates that true heroes and real palliots are working in our security agencies," Yeltsin said.

weather conditions. There was no mountainous te!l'ain. It is obvi­ously very puzzling," said Mah Bow Tan, Singapore's commu­nications minister.

SilkAir,adivisionofSingapore Airlines, said the plane was car­rying seven. crew members and 97 passengers, including 40 Singaporeans, 23 Indonesians, 1 O Malaysians, five Americans, and 14 Europeans.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-25

Bosnia prepares for Clinton By Aida Cerke.z

SARAJEVO,Bosnia-He!7.egovirui (AP)-PresidentClinton 's llrst visit to this war-battered capital is an un­precedented security headache for foreign l!oops and local police, who must uy to secure a counuy without effective borders.

Clinton is scheduled to visit here Monday to meet leaders of the I3osnim1 fedemtion government and to address tJ1c Bosnim1 people in a speech at t11c National ·nieatcr. He also will tI-avel to the northern city of Tuzla 10 shm-e a holiday meal with U.S. peacekeeping troops stationed tJ1ere.

The discovery ofa powerfu I bomb and the roundup of suspected terror­ists just days shy of the 12-hour visit illustrate the dangers facing the presi­dent and those guarding him.

Sarajevo police said Friday they discovered a 22-pound explosive devicecontainingtwoanti-tankmines and a hand 'grenade connected to a lirnernexttoaRomanCatholicchtirch in a western suburb.

In a similar incident in Sarajevo last spring, a powerful bomb was discovered under a bridge just hours before Pope John Paul II rcxle across it

Clinton's visit also follows the re­ported arrest of at least 19 people in central and northern Bosnia over the past month, including several from Islamic countries.

The state prosecutor's office said some of those talcen into custcxly have been charged with terrorist acts, including the unsolved killing of an American citizen, William

· Jefferson, near Tuzla in 1996. Members of the NATO-led peace

force and local police, whose leave was canceled until funher notice this weekend, 1u-e nonetheless con­lldent they can protect the first U.S. president to set foot in Sarajevo.

"We are not concerned about his safety," said Maj. Louis Garneau of Canada, a spokesman for the NATO-led force. "We are satisfied that the matter has been handled by the civilian police."

Expanded police patrols stood guard on Sarajevo street comers Saturday, and security was in­creased at religious sites and gov­ernment offices.

"We think we have experience by now," said Suad Amautovic, spokesman for the federal interior minisuy. Although, he admitted. the security operation for Clinton "carn1ot be compared" with any­thing for the pope orothcr visitors.

The president's delegation in­cludes his wife, Hillary; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Rob­ell and Elizabeth Dole; and at least a dozen lawmakers. The number and stature of the group concerned Amautovic.

"It isn't only the president's se­curity," he noted. "J\ great number of dignitaries arc a!l'iving with him. We have altogether about I (Xl people to watch."

With the Muslim-Croat police not in control of Bosnia's borders, security is even more complicated. "Sarajevo is unique in the world in terms of security," Amaulovicsaid. 'The only border we control is the one at the Sarajevo airpo11."

On Clinton's only other visit to

President Clinton

Bosnia, in January 1996, he skipped Sarajevo-reportedly because of the security risk.

Now, Sarajevo is welcoming Clinton as a "hero," Bosnian offi­cial Ejup Gm1ic said on Bosnian state radio Saturday.

This time, the president hopes to build suppol1 for an extended de­ployment of U.S. peacekeeping troops in Bosnia. Robel1 Dole, Clinton's Republican opponent in last year's election, has made a commitment to help Clinton build support for the prolonged deploy­ment.

Two Bosnians pass by a NATO-led implementation forces light tank Friday, several days before the Presidential visit of Bill Clinton to Sarajevo. Security is expected to be increased in Bosnia before Clinton's arrival to visit US troops. AP

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key suspends EU t By Alice Ann Love

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tur­key has broken off talks with the European Union on human rights and disputes with Greece and Cyprus, all cited by the Europe­ans for removing Turkey from prospective EU membership.

"We have suspended our po­litical dialog." Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz said Saturday in an interview on CNN International.

The EU excluded Turkey last weekend from a list of potential future members, including I OEast European countries and Cyprus. The 15-mcmber alliance cited misgivings about the Turkish troop presence in the northem part of that Meditemmcan island na­tion. human rights violations and tense relations with EU member Greece.

'The European Union made a

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The Turkish prime minister continued to back away from pre­vious threats that Turkey would withdraw its application for EU membership.

Despite the break in talks over political conditions to full mem­bership, Yilmaz said, Turkey con­tinues to honorcun-ent agreements with the EU.

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"I think the future of Turkey lies in cooperation with the West­ern world," Yilmaz said.

Yilmazdid not directly respond to questions about his prior asser­tions that the EU is a "Christian Club," biased against largely Muslim Turkey. He said only that '"we share the same val­ues and objectives with other democratic countries in the field of human rights and ba-

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Yi lmaz agreed Friday at a meeting with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to

allow John· Shattuck, the as­sistant secretary of state who deals with human rights, to visit Turkey and consult with officials on hu.man rights.

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Russian hero agent had heart attack By Maura Reynolds

MOSCOW (AP)-AtopRussian security agent died of a heart attack afteroffering himself as a hostage in place of a Swedish diplomat, Russia's security chief said Sanir­day.

The agent, Col.AnatolySavelyev, 51, was also struck in the leg by a ricocheting bulletduringgunfirethat killed the hostage-taker and ended a six-hour standoff at the Swedish

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en.ing, and doctors said Savelyev's death was caused by a heart attack, said Nikolai Kovalyov, director of the Federal Secmity Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB.

"It is the doctor's definite opin­ion ... that he had a hemt attack," he said at a news conference.

Kovalyov said snipers opened fire early Saturday after the at­tacker, who was mme<l with a gre­nade and a pistol benan eh:mnin" : , ::;, b 0

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a few seconds later it cxplcxled again when it hit the water," he said.

Residents of Makarti Jaya, a vil­lage a half-mile from the crash site, said the plane went down at high tide and there were concerns that some bodies were swept away, the offi­cial Antaranews agency reported. It was not known whether the

his demands and itbecameclearthat force was "the only possible" way to encl the standoff.

The hostage-taker seized Swedish trade counselor Jan-Olof Nystrom as he entered !he Swedish Embassy about 7 p.m. Friday. He demanded $370,000 and a flight out of Russia His reasons were unclear.

Savelyev, one of Russia's most experienced hostage negotiators, re­placedNysoumin the besieged Volvo sedan after more than four hours of tense negotiations.

A veteran of Russia's elite Alpha commando force, Savelyev served in most of the country's hot spots during the past 20 years. He had successfully negotiated resolutions to a number of similar siUJations, including the hijacking of a passen­ger plane from Magadan earlier this month.

A few hours later, Savelyev told his colleagues he was feeling unwell, news reports said, and a medic en­tered the car. The medic, Dmitry

plane tried to make ,lll emergency landing.

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Singapore air-traffic control. The paper said the plane recci ved per­mission but Singapore air traffic controllers never heard from it.

"There were no distress sig­nals. There were no adverse

Azovsky, told the NI'V network thatSavelyevwasunconsciousand

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himself"Alexei,''helped-themedic dragSavelyevfrom thecar,asniper fired and wounded him.

The attacker fired back, news reports said, and when the medic was out of the way security forces unleased a barrage of gunfire. The gunman was killed and Savelyey struck in the leg. He died later at a hospital.

The identity of the hostage-taker remained unclear Saturday. A pass­port was found on his body, but Kovalyov said investigators doubt it belonged to him.

President Boris Yeltsin praised Savelyev in a condolence message to his family and colleagues.

'The nobility mid coumge of Anatoly Savelyev demonstrates that true heroes and real patriots are working in our security agencies," Yeltsin said.

weather conditions. There was no mountainous ten-ain. It is obvi­ously very puzzling," said Mah 13ow Tan, Singapore's commu­nications minister.

SilkAir, a division of Singapore Airlines, said the plane was car­rying seven. crew members and 97 passengers, including 40 Singaporeans, 23 Indonesians, I 0 Malaysians, five Americans, and I 4 Europeans.

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Bosnia prepares for Clinton By Aida Cerkez

SARAJEVO,Bosnia-Her,.egovina (AP)-PresidcntClinton 's first visit to this war-battered capital is an un­precedented security headache for foreign troops and local police, who must try to secure a counuy with out effective borders.

Clinton is scheduled to visit here Monday to meet leaders of the 13osnim1 fcderntion government and to address the 13osnim1 p::oplc in a speech al the National TI1cater. He also will travel to the northern city of Tuzla Io share a holiday meal with U.S. peacekeeping troops stationed tl~re.

The discovery of a powerful bomb and the roundup of suspected terror­ists just days shy ofthc 12-hourvisit illustrate the dangers facing the presi­dent and those guarding him.

Sarajevo police said Friday tl1ey discovered a 22-pound explosive deviceconlainingtwoanti-tankmines and a hand ·grenade connected to a timernexltoaRomanCatholicchtirch in a western suburb.

In a similar incident in Sarajevo last spring, a powerful bomb was discovered under a bridge just hours before Pope John Paul II rode across it

Clinton's visit also follows the re­ported arrest of at least 19 people in central and northern Bosnia over the past month, including severJI from Islamic counnies.

The state prosecutor's office said some of those taken into custody have been charged with terrorist act~. including the unsolved killing of an American clt1zen, William

· Jefferson, near Tuzla in 1996. Members of the NATO-led peace

force and local police, whose leave was canceled until further notice this weekend, are nonetheless con­fidentthey can protect the first U.S. president to set foot in Sarajevo.

"We are not concerned about his safety," said Maj. Louis Garneau of Canada, a spokesman for the NA TO-led force. "We are satisfied that the matter has been handled by the civilian police."

Expanded police patrols stood guard on Sarajevo street comers Saturday, and sccmity was in­creased at religious sites.and gov­ernment offices.

"We think we have experience by now," said Suad Amautovic, spokesman for the federal interior minislly. Although, he admitted, the security operation !"or Clinton "cannot he comp;u~d" with any­thing for the pope orothcrvisitors.

The prcsident 's delegation in­cludes his wife, I Iillary; Sccrctmy of State Madeleine Albright; Rob­ert and Elizabeth Dole; and at least a dozen lawmakers. The number and stature of the group concerned /\mautovic.

"It isn't only the president's se­curity," he noted."/\ great number of dignita1ics arc a1Tiving with him. We have al Iogcihcr about 1 (X)

people to watch." With the Muslim-Croat police

not in control of Bosnia's borders, security is even more complicated. "Sarajevo is unique in the world in terms of security," Amautovicsaid. 'The only border we control is the one at the Sarajevo airport."

On Clinton's only other visit to

President Clinton

Bosnia, in Janumy 1996, he skipped Sarajevo-reportedly because of the security risk.

Now, Sarajevo is welcoming Clinton as a "hero," Bosnian offi­cial Ejup Ganie said on Bosnian state radio Saturday.

This time, the president hopes to build support for mi extended de­ployment of U.S. peacekeeping troops in Bosnia. Robert Dole, Clinton's Republican opponent in last year's election, has made a commitment to help Clinton build support for the prolonged deploy­ment.

Two Bosnians pass by a NATO-led implementation forces light tank Friday, several days before the Presidential visit of Bill Clinton to Sarajevo. Security is expected to be increased in Bosnia before Clinton's arrival to visit US troops. AP

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Sierra Leone gov't under fire ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -West African leaders told Si­erra Leone's military govern­ment Saturday that it must stick to its agreement to hand over power to a civilian gov­ernment in April.

The announcement. made at the end of a meeting of for­eign ministers from five na­tions of the Economic Com­munity of West African States. came two days after Sierra Leone's military leader said he was unlikely to abide by the agreement.

The ministers "emphasized the need to adhere to the time table of the peace pl an." saiJ the announcement. which also accused the junt:1 of attempt­ing to illegally import weap­ons and called for rhe deploy­ment of a United N:nions ob­server force.

Maj. Johnn,· Paul Koroma. ·.,ho ~us1cd Il;c: 15-mor'1th-old gm·crnment of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in a bloody May coup .. told the BBC World Service on Thursday that he didn't

think a handover to civilian rule would be possible by April 22, as his government had previously agreed.

Koroma blamed delays in steps leading up to the handover, especially on dis­armament, which was sup­posed to have started Dec. I. However. Koroma 's govern­meni has refused to alIZw West African peacekeepers to carry out the disarmament.

Kabbah's government in exile. in a statement released Satunla~ in neighboring Guinea. lashed out at Koroma.

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The Nigerian-led peace-

keepers tried to dislodge him, and then West African states imposed a U .N .-approved port blockade. In October, the junta signed a cease-fire under

which Kabbah is supposed to return to power by April 22.

The deal includes amnesty for the coup leaders and dis­armament of military factions.

Vendors try to sell the last of their Christmas decorations at a busy intersection in Abidjan, Ivory Coast Saturday. Temperatures were in the 90s in this mostly Muslim country as the teenage boys sought to sell small plastic trees and tinsel. AP

Bouterse seeks Suriname presidency By Bert Wilkinson

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) - He's overthrown two governments and faces trial on drug charges in the Netherlands.

That isn't stopping former dic­tator Desi Bou terse from wanting to be Suriname's democratically elected president.

In recent months, thousands of Surinamese have massed at po­litical rallies to cheer Bouterse's attacks on the Netherlands. The dictator-turned-politician s~ys Suriname's biggest aid donor is trying to dictate how its former South American colony should be run.

"I might just run for the presi­dency in 2001 just to make them (the Dutch) feel bad," I am aim­ing straight for an electoral ma­jority and there is no stopping me."

Bou terse - pronounced BOW-ter-say- has feuded with the Netherlands since February l 980, when he and a group of fellow army sergeants demand­ing higher wages overthrew an elected pro-Dutch government.

He imposed martial law and censorship, and he was accused of ordering the killings of 15 top intellectuals, political leaders and journalists in 1982. He conceded his regime, which rnled until 1987, was 1:csponsible for the killings, but hasn't acknowlcdgcu any per­sonal rcspomibility.

The Netherlands, Suriname's coloni:il ruler until I lJ75, reacted lo the slayings by suspending a vital S 1.5 bi 11 ion aid package. Aid was resumed when Boutcrsc pcr­rnittcd elections in I 987, but was suspended again when he led a bloodless coup in 1990 and in­stalled an interim president.

Bou terse allowed new elections the following year, retired from the military an_d started building his army-based National Demo­cratic Party.

In 1996elections, the party cam­paigned on a strongly nationalis­tic platform and won the most seats in Parliament. It assembled a coalition government that named a close Bouterse associate, Jules Wijdenbosch,

president. Wijdenbosch, in tum, named

Bouterse a special adviser - a move that could give Bouterse diplomatic immunity when trav­eling abroad and possibly help him avoid drug smuggling charges filed this year by Dutch prosecu­tors.

The Dutch allege Bou terse, now a timber executive, exported tons of drugs to Europe and had links to Colombian cocaine cartels. Bou terse denies it.

'They can't now say that I am a communist, or a dictator, be­cause I am the leader of the big­gest political party in Suriname. The party has successfully con­tested free elections, and if now they talk about drugs, that is only the latest accusation they are mak­ing against me," he said.

A charismatic speaker, Bou terse has tried to take advan­tage of the failure of internation­ally supported economic auster­ity measures to improve living standards for Suriname's 420.000 people.

Stll"inamc once enjoyed one of the most prosperous economics in South America but entered a rapid decline after independence. To.day, it has the second-lowest standard of living in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti.

Many Surinamese remember better times under military rule, when Bouterse instituted a land reform program for the country's poor.

Others, however, fear a return of repression. In recent months, Bouterse has stepped up his an­tagonistic to his nationalist views.

On Dec. 8, the 15th anniversary of the executions, thugs beat the husband of Nita Ramcharan, edi­tor in chief of the newspaper De Ware Tijd. "This is a present for December 8 for all of you," the men told Edward Toon before throwing him out of a car.

One of the i 982 victims was a young De Ware Tijd journalist, Lesly Rahman.

At the urging of human rights groups, the government has agreed to create a commission to look into abuses committed dur­ing the 1980s. But it hired a lawyer who represents Bouterse to organize the commission, draw­ing protests from rights advo­cates.

Bou terse dismissed the idea of a commission. "The population is more-concerned with survival," he said.

Bouterse says he wants Suriname to be less dependent on Dutch aid, still consider­able at $65 million this year. Suriname is seeking loans from a Saudi Arabia-based bank and wants to open the country's vast mineral re­sources to f'oreign investors.

"Development of Suriname is closely linked traditionally to (Dutch) development aid," he said. "They determine what is correct and what's not. In these modern days we cannot continue like this."

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Pope sends Cuba message

Pope John Paul II

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Pope John Paul II sent Christmas greet­ings to the Cuban people Satur­day, rejoicing that the communist government declared this Dec. 25 an official holiday to honor his coming visit to the island.

'That this brilliant day has once again become a holiday in this country is a reason for much hap­piness," said the message, which took up much of the front page of Granma, the Communist Party newspaper.

Saying he hopes his message will reach "those who have the grave responsibility of directing the nation's destiny," the pontiff called Christmas "part of the reli­gious and cultural patrimony of Cuba."

Scores of devout Roman Catho­lics applauded Saturday morning after Cardinal Jaime Ortega read the message aloud during an out-

door Mass he celebrated outside the towering San Francisco de Paula parish church.

"This is wonderful, just what we were waiting for," said Daisy del Toro, a doctor who works full-time as a church volunteer. "The L,Jrd has been great with us."

Having the papal message pub­lished in the party newspaper "is a huge gain, a triumph for the Cuban Catholic people," said Aida Marti 11, 24, who attended the Mass with her husband.

Cubans lined up at newsstands early Saturday to buy a copy of the paper.

The pope's message was ,,Jso read Saturday morning on the government-controlled Radio Reloj news station.

Ortega and other leading Cu­ban bishops delivered a copy of John Paul's message to President Fidel Castro during a rare meet­ing Thursday night, which church officials say lasted eight hours.

Granma also reported Satur­day on Castro's meeting with the bishops, characterizing itas "con­structive and friendly."

Castro has become increasingly accommodating toward the church as the pope's Jan. 21-25 visit approaches. Last weekend, he said his government would grant several church requests, in­cluding the declaration of Dec. 25 this year as an official holiday.

But there was no indication it would become a permanent holi­day.

During a three-hour speech to parliament, Castro also vowed to give the church access to govem­ment-controlled media to adver­tise the papal visit and to help with public transportation to the papal Masses_

In one section of his message, the pope made it clear he hopes his visit will have a long-lasting effect on Cuba.

"I hop~ that after my visit, the

Church ... can continue having, more and more, the liberty neces­sary to carTy OUt its mission and adequate space to continue serv­ing the Cuban people," John Paul wrote.

For Ortega, that was key. "The pope comes to give us an

internal strength, to awaken val­ues, to awaken hope." he said after the Mass. ''It will be some­thing very positive. That is what I want_ for Cuba."

The Cuban government and the Vatican have maintained dip-

lomatic relations since the 1959 revolution that brought Castro to power.

There was friction between the church and government in the early years, marked by the expul­sion of foreign priests and the expropriation of religious schools and some other church proper­ties.

But relations have warmed in recent year·s, especially since the government declared itself secu­lar rather than atheist in 1992 and

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Cuban Cardenal Jaime Ortega is greeted by the crowds after a mass at San Francisco de Paula church in Havana, Cuba. In an open mass, Cardenal Ortega read a message from John Paul II, which rejoiced in the communist government's declaration of Dec. 25 as an official holiday to honor his coming trip. AP

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Clinton lacked veto authority \\' .\ S l·I I ~ G TO :\ l .\ P l -l'resid.:111 Clinwn l:tck.:d au-1hori1y \\'hen ho: used the line­item 1cll' 011 ,1 spending bill prn,·isi,111 al lm,·ing veteran kderal employees to change pension systc:ms. the While !louse said Saturday.

The reversal applies only to the pension item and will not afkct continued use: of the president's authority to strike individual cost items from leg­islation, spokesman Barry Toiv said.

he' bclil'\'c'd \1·h.:n Ile slrud; duwn !he pe11sil111 languag.:.

Tuiv said the presidclll acted ;1gains1 !he pro\'ision in the: firs! pJ;1cc "because ii \\'Ould cost taxpayers S2:i I million O\'t:r 10 years. It never \\'as debated in the House or Sen­ate and was essentially snuck into the conference report at the last minute.

··The president continues to bclie\'C the line-item veto is a useful 1001 for curtailing wasteful spending and intends to make use of it in the fu­ture." Toiv said.

The change in position will allow I. I million federal an<l postal workers hire<l before I 983 to consider changing to a newer retirement plan that includes a stock investment program. The employees might be given an "open sea­son" next year, a period when the workers could make the switch.

The Justice Department and the National Treasury Em­ployees Union will present a federal court with a consent agreement detailing the administration's position, the spokesman added.

President and Mrs. Clinton host Washington area children during a Christmas reception Thursday in the East Room of the White House. During the party, the group sang Christmas carols and the president read "Twas the Night Before Christmas." AP

The union sued the govern­ment over the veto. Arguments had been scheduled in a few weeks in U.S. District Court on the NTEU challenge and two other lawsuits challenging the veto power's constitutionality. The two other challenge remain.

Clinton talks on teen drug use The Washington Post, quot­

ing administration sources. said officials realized the pen­sion provision fell outside Clinton's discretionary bud­get authority, contrary to what

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the Communist Party dropped a ban on religious believers in 199 l.

ln the United States, the Ro­man Catholic Archdiocese of M:ami canceled a cruise from South Florida to Cuba for the pa­pal visit, bowing lo criticism from prominent Cuban-exile Catholics

and business leaders. Many exiles opposed the trip

because they said it would serve as a tacit endorsement of Castro's government.

Ortega declined to comment on the cancellation, saying only that it was a personal decision made by Archbishop John C. Favalora aimed at defusing tensions in Miami's Cuban-American com­munity.

WASHINGTON (AP) - With a survey showing a glimmer of hope that more young people are turning away from drugs, Presi­dent Clinton on Saturday urged a renewed effort by parents to win the battle ''at kitchen tables all across America."

Clinton tied his weekly radio message to a new survey report­ing an encouraging increase in drug disapproval by eighth grad­ers, but greater drug use by older teens. .

The president emphasized the positive portion of the federally commissioned University of Michigansurveyof5 l ,000eighth, l 0th and 12th grade students in

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"Today's eighth graders arc less likely to have used drugs over the past year. And, just as important, they are more likely to disapprove of drug use," the president said.

But the study found that an in­creasing percentage of 10th and I 2th graders had tried marijuana at least once, cocaine use by high school seniors increased and daily cigarette use among seniors is at the highest level since 1979.

The battle "is far from over," Clinton said, aiming his message at parents. "The most effective strategy we have against drugs begins at home."

"It's a fight that can be won at kitchen tables all across America. This holiday season as we spend some hard-earned time with our families, I urge all parents to sit down with their children, as Hillary and I have done, and share a simple and important lesson: drugs are dangerous, drugs are wrong, and drugs can kill you."

Republican lawmakers were far more negative about the survey results.

"Teenage drug abuse has more than doubled over the past five years, and it has grown to unac­ceptable levels." said Rep. Rob Portman. R-Ohio, in the Republi­can radio response to Clinton's address. 'This is not the time to take comfort in a report that docu­ments that increase. Rather, we must redouble our efforts to ad­dre.ss the drug crisis."

Portman praised the ··Just Say No" campaign by former first lady Nancy Reagan as the kind of mes­sage that got through. But a group of researchers in a statement said "Just Say No" programs "have at best only short-term effects on the very young."

Because only variationsof''Just Say No'' get federal funding, "we don't know what works yet," complained Dr. Joel Brown, ex­ecutive director of the nonprofit Center for Educational Resources and Development in California.

Brown criticized the Univer­sity of Michigan study, saying · that it did not reach the children most at risk - those who are kicked out of school for substance abuse.

Among the findings of The University of Michigan's 23rd annual "Monitoring the Future Survey" of drug use among ado­lescents:

-For the first time since 1991, the percentage of eighth graders disapproving of occasional use of marijuana increased, to 78.1 per­cent from 76.5 percent last year. Disapproval ofregularmarijuana use, occasional cocaine powder use, heavy drinking and frequent cigarette smoking also increased.

-54.3 percent of high school seniors, 47 .3 percent of l 0th grad­ers and 29.4 percent of eighth graders said they have used an illicit drug at least once in their lives.

-Marijuana remains the most widely used drug among adoles­cents, with the percentage of I 0th and 12th grade students who've tried it at least once increasing in the past year. Daily marijuana use by eighth graders decreased to I. I percent from I .5 percent in I 996, while daily use among high school seniors inncascd 10 5.8 percent from 4.9pcrccnt last year.

-Cocaine use rcm.iinc<l level for eighth and I 0th graders. but the percentage of I 21h gradus who have used any form of co­caine at least once increased from 7. I percent in I 996 to 8. 7 percent this year- the highest rate since 1990. -

-The percentage of eighth graders reporting heavy cigarette smoking decreased over the past year, but use of cigarettes in the past month by seniors increased to 36.5 from 34 percent. Daily cigarette use among seniors in­creased to 24.6 percent, the high: est level since I 979.

-Eighth graders also showed a decrease in the numberoftimes they got diunk over the pa~t 30 days, but drinking increased for older teens.

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According to Speaker Gingrich:

GOP has balanced budget By Laurie Kellman

WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after acknowledging presidential ambitions, House Speaker Newt Gingrich telephoned reporters Satur­day to tout new figures that he said prove the Republican-led Congiess has balanced tl1e federal budget.

He based the claim on a$2.4billion swplus the figmes indicate for the last I 2 months.

"It's proof that, from November to November ... , we have actually bal­anced the budget," Gingiich said in an interview from his home in Mrnietta, Ga. "It's a tJue Chdstmas p1esent for tl1e Amc1ic,m people."

His round of calls came a day after the Mrnietta Daily Journal 1epo1ted that Ging1ich, apprnently 1ecovcrcd from a July attempt an10ng his lieu­temmL~ to unseat him, said for the fir.;t time that"of course" he would like to be president.

Several people close to him, not all supporters of a Gingrich candidacy, have said p1ivately for months tJmt he is systematically orgrn1izing a bid for the GOP nomination in 2CXXl.

On Saturday, Gingrich vowed to "not even think about it" until I 999. He complained tJmt his comments to the Marietta newspaper "we1e inter­preted exactly backwards" and indi­cated he wou Id follow the strategy of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, widely perceived to be tl1e early front-rnnner

Newt Gingrich

for tJ,e GOP nomination. "I fnmkly admi1e what George W.

Bush has done, saying he's going to focus on being govcmorofTexa, and other things come later," Gingiich said. In the interview with his home­town paper, "my point was not to ta! k aboutrnnning forp1esident,''Ging;iich said. "Mypointwa~ to say, let's focus for all of I 998 on serving tl1e Ameti­cim people 1md solving problems."

One of those problems, baltmcing tJ1c budget, h,L, been solved for a whole yem·, Ging1ichsaid. Bt1t White House officials cautioned that those numbers may not represent the budget's nue state.

Treasury Depmtment statistics show the federal govemment spent $ I .597 nillion from December 1996 through last month. In contrast, the government received $ 1.599 nillion in income-a diffe1ence of roughly

$2.4 billion. Though tl1e White House wel­

comed the rosy number:; :is evidence that the budget is headed for surplus, adviser.; counseled the president on F1iday to refrain frnm bragging about them because they may not represent the nue slate of the deficit. It, tem­per.11ure is taken at the end of the fisc.al year, at a more stable time, when iL~.llue size ecu, be better mea­sured, Gene Sperling, Clinton's na­tional economic adviser, said Satur­day.

"Everyone should pause and note that the next official deficit estimate <loesnotcomeoutfor I l months, and anything before that could be quirky or unreliable," Sperling said.·

Even if the statistics prove tJue, they do not settle a raging debate ,m10ngRepublicansand many Demo­crats over how to spend the money. Gingrich told the House Budget Com­mittee in October tlmt he would like to see the surplus spent on tJ-ansporta­tion, science and defense. On Fiiday, he proposed spending some of the money on deficit reduction through a "rainy-day" fund similar to the type

many states keep. But Congress' leading economics

experts, including House Budget Committee Chairmen John Kasich, R-Ohio, insist that surpluses fir.;t be spent on deficit ,eduction before other proposals are considered.

House Appropriations Committee Chaillllan Bob Livingston expressed disappointment in an October inter­view that Gingiich and other GOP leaders were, in effect, spending hu·ge chunks of a surplus that didn't offi­cially exist.

"It's a bad idea," Livingston said. "We bave got to get that deficit down before we go spending it on ,mything else."

Asked about the reservations of

such top Republicans, Gingrich snapped Saturday: Tm very well aware of that. I speak to them regu­larly. Everything I've said is in the fr.1mework of making sure we get to ;r surplus first."

"Hopefully, today's news aboul the budget actually having been technically in balance for I 2 months will give them encour­agement," Gingrich sai<l of the doubters.

Former New Jersey Governor Tom Keane, a member of President Clinton's advisory board on race relations, answers questions outside the the West Wing of the White House Friday. Others at the session are (from left) civil rights activist Linda Chavez, University of California regent Ward Connerly and Rep. Charles Canady. AP

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''C'[;;ananlJI ,;/!.ana" January 8, 1924- December 11, 1997

Predeceased bv: Husband: Jose Quitugua Lizama Mother: Anuncia Borja Tudela Father: Jesus Sablan Tudela Mother-in-law: Ana Quitugua Lizama Father-in-law: Antonio Cabrera Lizama Brother: Francisco Borja Tudela

Survived ID' Children and Spouses: Antonio T. and Beatrice Lizama Jess T. and Victoria LG. Lizama - Guam Atty. Juan T. and Mariko S. Lizama Ramon T. Lizama Frank T. and Cindy A. Lizama Vicente T. and Vilma Lizama Richard T. Lizama Remy L. and Ben C. Seman Cecilia L and James Salvatore -Texas Dr. Larry T. and Pauline S.A. Lizama - Guam Rudolfo T. Lizama - Washington James T. and MaryAnn Q. Lizama Esther L. and Nick P. Muna

(She is additionally survived by 34 grandchildren and 4 greatgrandchildren)

Brothers/Sisters !!ill! Their Spouses: Francisco B. (deceased) and Ana DLG. Tudela Magdalena T. and Vicente (deceased) Salas Raimunda T. and Francisco Palacios Rufina T. and Victoriano Querubin - Florida Sabina T. and John (deceased) Pangelinan Juan B. ang Antonia M. Tudela Rufino B. and Consolacion F. Tudela Sr. Cecilia B. Tudela, MMB

Brothers illli! ~ ln Law: Maria L. and Pacifico Borja (Both Deceased) - Guam Sr. Antonia Q. Lizama, MMB Estefania L. and Juan (deceased) Castro - Guam Vicente 0. and Modesta Lizama - Guam Remedio Q. Lizama (deceased) Rosa 0. Lizama (deceased)

Rosary is being held nightly at 8:00 p.m. in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Chalan Kanoa. Last Respects may be paid on Monday. December 22, 1997 beginning at 8:00 a.m. MASS FOR CHRISTIAN BURIAL will be offered on the same day

at 4:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral. Burial will follow at the Chalan Kanoa Cemetery.

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Condominium. fire An AP news analysis

US Congress flip-flops on FBI director Freeh

Residents walk away from a three-story condo building which was completely guHed by fire Thursday in Oakland Park, Fl. There were no reports of serious injury although dozens of elderly residents were left homeless as firefighters battled the blaze which destroyed the building. AP

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By Walter R. Mears WASHINGTON (AP) This is a bad cop-good cop case with a difference. Same

· cop, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh.

Congressional Republi-. cans were assailing him not

long ago as a mismanager or worse. Now he is the fa­vorite GOP G-man because he recommended that a spe­cial prosecutor be named to investigate Democratic fund-raising c,ises involv­ing the White House.

Word of his recommenda­tion seeped out' of the FBI be fore Attorney General Janet Reno announced that she would not seek to have an independent counsel take over the investigation of office fund-raising tele­phone calls by Pr;sident Cl in ton and Vice President Al Gore.

Republicans pointed to Freeh 's dissenting advice in their uproar at Reno's re­fusal to invoke the indepen­dent counsel law. And the leaking of Frech 's position angered administration Democrats who saw it as an attempt to spare the FBI di­rector backlash from the Reno decision.

Republicans arc still cit­ing Frech, in their continu­ing demands that an outside prosecutor take over to end what they call conflicts of interest in Reno's supervi­sion of an investigation into her own adm ini;tration -which is a point Freeh made in advocating an indepen­dent counsel.

The White House griev­ance is not so much about the advice as about the leak­ing of it. That not only gave ammunition to Reno's crit­ics, it became a separate controversy when a Repub­lican-run House committee subpoenaed the memo F1n:h wrote on Nov. 25.

After refusing to turn it over - Reno said that do­ing so would compromise her ability to get candid ad-

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vice from advisers and other officials - the FBI has agreed to read portions of the memo to the committee chairman.

That reading wi II not include sections bearing on the cam­paign finance investigations still under way by the Justice Department and the FBI. Reno said disclosing that would give away the evidence and risk tipping off the targets.

"We're doing this in a con­fidential manner, so that we are sharing the iaformation with those members of the committee," said Deputy At­torney General Eric H. Holder Jr. "Our hope is that informa­tion would obviously stop there and that it would not be shared beyond that."

But the thrust of it already has leaked from the FBI, and congressional committees usually are leakier.

When Freeh, a Clinton ap­pointee, came under congres­sional attack early this year over problems at the FBI crime lab and the conduct of contro­versial cases, the White House expressed confidence in him. The comments now are short of that.

··I-Jis decision to dissent in that case has no effect on what­ever opinion I have of him," Clinton said at his year-end news conference. without de­scribing that opinion. But the president said he didn't want to get into "this confidence business."

Not that it makes much dif­ference. Frceh's tern1 runs beyond Clinton's, to 2003. Freeh said Tuesday he has no plans to leave, but couldn't predict whether he will serve the full IO-year term.

On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Frech pri­vately has expressed little cer­tainty about his future. In dis­cussions with associates the paper did not name, Freeh said he would step down if he were convinced he could no longer lead the bureau well, the newspaper reported. The as­sociates said he has been badly stung by White House offi-

cials' implied criticism. Ironically, it was Republi­

can confidence in Freeh that seemed shaken earlier, to the point that Freeh told a House committee that might be grounds for his departure. "If you lose confidence in my integrity, then I should not be FBI director," he said March 5, after Republican congressmen told him the FBl's reputation was falling apart and political agendas were reaching into the bu­reau.

There were complaints about Waco, Ruby Ridge, the leaking of the Atlanta Olym­pic bombing suspect, the improper transfer to the Clinton White House or FBI personal files on former GOP officials.

In a Senate speech at the time, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-lowa, accused Frech of trying to whitewash prob­lems in the FBI crime lab and called it a cover-up.

"The issue is that the FBI can't police itself." he said.

Which is just about the is­sue Freeh raised in advocat­ing an independent prosecu­tor take over the Justice Department's campaign fund-ruising investigation.

Reno has praised Frech as an honest, dedicated profes­sional, and he has returned compliments.

'"That I made a recommen­dation different from the ul­timate outcome in this in­stance docs not mean there is a professional rift be­tween us," rrech told a House committee Tuesday. shortly after the attorney general testi'fied that she was wasn't shielding any­thing, only doing her duty, and that his dissent was healthy.

"It promotes good investi­gative work and clear think­ing about the law," she said.

'"Prosecutors and investi­gators often do disagree," rreeh said. "That two law­yers disagree should not be surprising."

5 die in van crash . LUMBERTON,N.C.(AP)-Five people on their way to a funeral wen~ ki lied e,u·ly Saturday when the d1i vcr of the van they were tiding in lost control of the vehicle, sideswiped another car and ove11urned.

The van ove11umcd several times, c jecting several passengers and tip­ping seats out of the vehicle.

Five other people in the van were injured in the I :30 a.m. accident on lnte1atate 95, authrnities said. Their injuLies were not Ii fe threatening, ·11,e five injured also were from- New Jersey.

No one in the car was injured. Policesaidnoalcohol was involved

and it appears the van's dtiver had a momentruy lapse of concentration or do7.ed off.

11,e van was traveling to Lake City, S.C., for the funeral of a family member.

The five killed were identified as Leroy Brown, 71, Vern Prn1er, 63, M;tlachiBrown,62,0lctliaCameron, 57, :u1d OmaBrown,88. All are from Paterson, NJ.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-31

S.upre1ne Court's Tho1nas opens up

By Karen Testa WEST PALM B~ACH, Fla. (AP) - Clarence Thomas has avoided attention since his contentious appointment as a Supreme Court justice in 1991, but he willingly opened up to a clutch of curious schoolchi 1-drcn.

··what you do in the next I 0 years will determine how you spend the rest of your life," Thomas told about a dozen youngsters who lingered long after 500 business-suited adults left a luncheon where the justiL-c spoke Friday.

Thomas offered a glimpse into his life after addressing a meeting of the Forum Club, an organization of.profession­als that has monthly speakers, amazing the youngsters by telling them he went to high school six days a week and was in bed by 9 p.m. as a teen-ager.

Now, he rises at4a.rn. each day and usually gets to his office by 7 or 7:30 a.m. Evenings are spent in his study, until he retires around 11 or midnight.

'Tm one of those people who believes you don't need any more than three or four hours of sleep - so why are you in bed?" He spoke to each of the students who waited for him alld wrote per­sonal messages to those who sought his autograph.

"You don't know what's going to be an inspiration," he told one of his young admirers. "That's why I try."

The students "have no precon­ceived notions," he said after the middle- and high-school students gathered around.

His wife, Virginia, and 6-year­old grandnephew, Mark Martin, accompanied him. The couple took custody of Mark, his sister's grandson, about a month ago and live in Fairfax, Va.

"He's a good kid,"Thomas told The Associated Press as the little boy waved his Santa puppet to anyone who would look and played hide-and-seek with the U.S. marshals guarding the fam­ily.

"He's used to a little bit more attention from his uncle," Mrs. Thomas explained.

Attention is something Thomas, 49, is willing to give, but rarely tries to attract.

His nomination by President Bush was threatened by explo­sive allegations of sexual harass­ment from law professor Anita Hill, who worked with him a de­cade earlier.

He was na1Towly confirmed by the Senate after a bitter fight. Tho­mas denied harassing Hill and criticized the committee's hear­ing as a "high-tech lynching."

During his speech, Thomas said his single biggest surprise on the high court has been the manner in which the justices treat each other.

After his confirmation, he paid a customary courtesy visit to his new colleagues. One told him, "You are here now, and what you do here is all that matters."

Thomas apparently has em­braced that advice.

"It is not simply a job- it is a part of my life itself," he said. "For one who thought he lost his vocation when he left the semi­nary, now I know I did not. This is my vocation."

Though Thomas has been a

frequent dissenter on the court, he said there is rarely animosity among the justices. In fact, he said in the speech, "It is like working with eight friends .... I just feel honored to be among them."

Asked to list some of his favor­ite books, Thomas included the Bible, "Fountainhead,·· "Democ­racy in America" - and Louis L'Amour novels.

"I read very little fiction, though, except for the newspapers," he said.

Former .5!e.nate Ma;iority'Leader Bob Dole_ and.his wife, Elizabeth Dole, president of the Red Cross, laugh on !.he tele~IS(O'} studios.et at the Newseum m Arlington, Va. Saturday, where they read the newspaper editorial

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Italian ex-PM under fire

Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi with his longtime associate and lawmaker Cesare Previti in a 1996 file picture. Prosecutors in Milan asked Saturday an indictment against Berlusconi in an ongoing investigation into judge bribing where Previti is also indicted. AP

By Candice Hughes ROME, Italy (AP) - Prosecutors moved to indict forn1er ltali:m pre­mier and media mogul Silvio BerlusconionSaturday,accusinghim of using a slush fund to bribe judges in cases affecting his business em­pire.

Berlusconi immediately dismissed the indictment request, saying it was another underiianded attempt by his

.political foes to discr1;:dit him. The Mihm prosecutor,' request

comes al a lime when Berluseoni's leadership of the center-right opposi­tion is being questioned because of a series of electoral setback:;. He also faces charges in several othercomJp-

tion-rdated cases and was convicted em-lier this month of fraud.

The bribery case has dominated the news for weeks and Berlusconi's lawyer, Ennio Amodio, said the indictment re­quest was no surprise.

For some members of Italy's cor­ruption-scarred· political establish­ment, the investigation is an example of prosecutors meddling in politics.

On Friday, President Osc-dl" Luigi Scalfaro said it was time for politi­cians and prosecutors to "get back on u11ck." Most newspapen; interpreted this as a warning to prosecuton; to back off in the Berlusconi case.

Berlusconi rose to prominence in

the uncertain political times that fol­lowed the fall ofltaly's political elite inthcconuptionscandalsofthe 1980s.

He served as premier for eight months in 1994, but his govern­ment collapsed when a key ally pulled out of the coalition when Berlusconi himself was charged with corruption.

Berlusconi's vast business in­terests include three television net­works, a string of publications, an insurance company, real estate and retailing interests.

In a statement, Berlusconi called the prosecutors' request "improbable and vague," and he said he would continue his political life "with a clear

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conscience and full faith in the power of truth."

Berlusconi already faces charges in several other cases. He is accused of complicity in bribing tax inspec­tors and of illegally channeling funds into the defunct Socialist Party. He is due to stand uial next year on charges of taxev;Lsion ;md fraud in a land deal in Milan.

On Dec. 3,a Milancomtgave him a 16-month suspended sentenced :md fined him $30,000 for falsify­ing documents of his Fininvest media empire during the 1987 acquisition of the film distribu 0

tion company Medusa. Prosecutors an: also pursuing

cases against others believed to be linked to Berlusconi.

They have asked for indict­ments against Cesare Previti, who was Berlusconi 's lawyer, top aide and defense minister. In addition, they asked for indictments against former Rome judge Renato Squillante and attorney Attilio Pacifico.

Previti is a member of parlia­ment and, as such, enjoys immu­nity from prosecution. Parliament is expected to vote on lifting his immunity next month. Prosecu­tors believehe;md13crlusconi bribed Squilhmtc ;md Pacifico to inlluence judges.

NATO-led troops seize Bosnia papers

By Aida Cerkez SARAJEVO,Bosnia-Hcrz.cgovina (AP)-Soldien;withtheNAlD-led peace force surrounded Sarajevo's central jail early Saturday and seized documents from a nearby Bosnian military facility.

The operation, involvingabout I 00 French and German soldiers, was mounted to help U.N. police with a regular check of the jail, said NA 1D spokesman LL Cmdr. Dirk Verdonck of Belgium.

In previous jail inspections, inter­national police have found prisoners of war who should have been re­leased under the 1995 Dayton peace accord.

But no prisoners emerged with the NA1D troops prison building with flashlights after power reporters said. ThebuildinghousedSarajevo'smili­tary court during the 1992-95 war as well as the army's personnel and propaganda departmenL~.

Instead of prisoners, French sol­diers took what appeared to be video-

tapes and documenLs, apparently seized from military offices adjacent to the jail, according to the reporters.

VerdonckconfirmedthatNAlD­led troops "went into the mmy com­pound nearby," but he would not describe what was taken and for what purpose.

"We are still srudying the stuff, so theactionisongoing,"Verdoncksaid.

Gen. Rasim Delic, commanderof the Bosnian army, said the raid sur­prised him and he would protest to NA 1D. He said thetroopscnteredhis army's press center, seizing material for the next issues of the army news­paperanda lV seriesaboutthearmy ..

The raid was the second time in three days that NATO-led soldiers were in action at an early hour. Early Thursday, they moved against two Bosnian Croat war crimes suspects nearthe townofVitez,about30 miles northwest of Sarajevo.

Both were taken to the interna­tional war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

· Ukraine jet-wreck_ found By Bena Becatoros

FOTINA, Greece (AP)- Rescue teams reached the charred wreckage of a Ukrainian passenger jet Sarurday on a remote slope near the Mount Olympusrange. None of the 70people aboard survived.

Meanwhile, crews recovered the bodies of five air force offirers killed Saturrlaywhcnthcirmilitaryplanewent down on its way to help the search.

Investigaton; and rescue workers who reached the siteofWednesday 's crash said little remained of the So­viet-designed Yak-42. It wa~ found in dense woods at an altitude of 4,CXX) feet, about 40 miles southwest of Salonica.

"There arc no survivors," one sol­dier told reporters as he made his way down the mountain.· The entire time we were up there we found nothing. You can't even scpm111e the cockpit from the earth, it is one m;Lss."

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deep ravine. A black smudge mark among the trees was all that remained of fuselage.

Defense Undersecretary Dimitris Apostolakis said rescue crews would work through the nighL

The heavy snow and thick fog frusl!~Ilcd efforts to find the phme, a search that involved more than 5,(XXl civilian and military personnel.

Elsewhere, the bodies of the fiv" officers were removed from an air force cargo plane that plowed into a hill in heavy fog about 25 miles west of Athens.

It had left from the capital for a military airfield to pick up about 150 troops to be taken north for tl1e Yak-42 search. Military sources said the pilot, rushing to pick up the troo~, took a shorter but more d;mgcrous route through hilly counl!}'side.

""The men of our ;ITT11cd forces showed gr1;:at altmism these p,Lst days," said Pr.:mier Cost,Ls Simi tis.

The chm1c1cd Yak-42, cm1ying mostly Greek mid Ukrainian passen­ger.;, crashed while on a second at­tempt to hmd at the northern port of Salonica. It had left from Odessa, Ukraine.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS.AND VIEWS-33

Commonwealth I Sangkattan Siha Na Islas Marianas Dipattamenton Hotnalero yan Imigrasion

Dibision Setbisiun Manempleha P.O. Box 1007

Saipan, MP 96950 · Tilifon: (670) 664-2085/86

Fax: (670) 664-3183

NUTISIAN PUPBLIKU I Dipattamenton Hotnalero yan lmigrasion un Cabinet-level na eskaleran dipattamento ni dibidi entre singko ni mamprisinsipat siha na dibision: i Dibision Hotnalero, Dibision lmigrasion, Dibision Setbision Administrasion, Dibision Hotnalero yan Sisteman Aidentifikasion yan Dokumento lmigrasion yan i Dibision Setbisiun Man Empleha. Kada dibision kinabesasayi ni Direktot ni gaige gi papa Sekretarium Dipattamenton Hotnalero yan lmigrasion,· ya mafieiietbe sigon gi minalago' i Gobetno.

I Direktot Setbision Manempleha as Sifiot Joseph B. Dela Cruz, ha na'fanmanhahasso' i pupbliku hinerat, espisiatmente i RESIDENT WORKERS. (tat komu i taotao tano', Siudidanon U.S., Siudidanon Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands yan Republic of Belau) na i Dibision Setbisiun Manempleha guiya responsapble para u asigura i ma emplehan-fiiha i Resident Workers gi Praibet siha na Bisnis gi halom i Commonwealth. Este ha engklulusu i para u ma pribeniyi ayudun riniferen cho'cho', i ma settefikasion na ti sifia i mambakante siha na cho'cho' manma sodda'i ni manresidente siha na hotnaleru, i minanehan prugraman emplehao siha, prinebiyen teknikat siha na ayudu yan i ma satban hafa guaha na yinaoyao gi entalo' i manemplepleha yan i Resident Workers.

Para mas infotmasion yan ayudu, put fabot bisisita i Ofisinan-mami gi Dipattamenton Hotnalero yan lmigrasion, Mina' Dos Bibenda, Afetna Square, Sengsong San Antonio osino a'agang maseha hayi na taotao Setbision Manempleha gi tilifon numiru 664-2085 pat 664-2086 osino gi Fax 664-3183.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The Department of Labor and Immigration is a cabinet-level department with five main divisions: Division of Labor, Division of Immigration, Division of Administrative Services, Division of Labor and Immigration Identification and Documentation System and Division of Employment Services. Each Division is headed by a Director who is directly subordinate to the Secretary of Labor and Immigration, and serves at the pleasure of the Governor.

The Director of Employment Services Mr. Joseph B. De/a Cruz would like to remind the general public, especially RESIDENT WORKERS (Locals, U.S. Citizens, citizens from the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands and Republic of Belau) that the division of employment services is primarily responsible for securing employment for resident workers with the private sector in the Commonwealth. This includes providing job referral assistance, certifying that job vacancies cannot be filled with resident labor, coordinating employment programs, providing technical assistance, and resolving disputes between employers and resident workers.

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back operations to about one-third their 1990 level. Some of the sick go abroad for surgery; some die.

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The theme of isolation is at the center of this weekend's runoff election, the fourth attempt to re­place Slobodan Milosevic as president of Serbia. Constitu­tionally barred from a third term, he took over the federal presi­dency of Yugoslavia in July.

Sunday's race pits ultranation­alist Vojislav Se~elj against Milosevic loyalist Milan Milutinovic. A U.S. envoy has branded Seselj a fascist, and his victory would widen the gulf be­tween Yugoslavia and the inter­nationakommunity. Milutinovic, Yugoslavia's foreign minister, focuses on the need to rejoin the world - though his government has done little to encourage it.

Businesses are hungry for world markets, but as they try to rees­tablish contacts, many find that major partners lost interest.

The former Soviet Union and its satellites have shifted their business elsewhere, and Middle East countries that once welcomed hordes of Yugoslav engineers have rallied behind Muslim-led Bosnia.

"We have been in an almost claustrophobic situation. We couldn't maintain contact with people with whom we'd been in almost permanent contact," said Vladan Batanovic, general man­ager of Belgrade's Mihajlo Pu pin Institute, which once supplied sophisticated production control systems in Western Europe and the Middle East.

"The picture of the country is not a happy announcement for the company .... Serbia is seen as some kind of wild kid."

Batanovic said his company spent the past few years mostly on research and development, pro­ducing computerized systems to regulate water distribution and toll collection devices that are cheaper than its international competitors.

Yet potential buyers would still need credit. Yugoslavia's com-

panies don't have cash, and can't get loans at home or abroad. The United States, hoping to encour­age further cooperation in peace efforts, has blocked Yugoslavia from rejoining world financial bodies.

Hardest hit have been public services, starved of statti support and kept going by infrequent hu­manitarian donations.

The health sector, once the envy of Yugoslavia's socialist neigh­bors, has plummeted. Doctors go unpaid for months, broken-down medical equipment is scrapped for lack of spare parts and once easily-curable diseases are again taking a toll.

"In this department, we rely completely on donations from abroad," said Mila Stajevic­Popovic, the surgeon who heads the pediatric cardiac surgery unit at the Mother and Child Institute. She said the rest of the health field was no better off.

A visit last month from a Mem­phis, Tenn.-based doctor boosted her supplies and spirits. Dr. Wil­liam Novick brought a second­hand ultrasound machine, medi­cine and 13 colleagues to help train the Belgrade staff. Together, they performed several opera­tions.

Dozens of other children still await treatment. Mahmuti, the 4-month-old, weighed in at just 7.7 pounds, and was ravaged by in­fections that made immediate operation impossible. Through tubes rnnning into his nose and neck, he is receiving the nourish­ment and antibiotics to allow him to withstand open heart surgery.

The tiny, wan child •vas the worst-off in the ward, but hardly the only example of the price of isolation.

"There are huge vitamin defi­ciencies, the likes of which my parents saw after World War II, and a big increase in diarrheal diseases," sai'd Dr. Stajevic­Popovic.

"Children die of simple bron­chial illnesses because immunity. has gone down during the past few years."

Italian NA.TO soldier looks trough binoculars as he secures the area for the .meeting of top NATO officials in Sarajevo Friday. The NATO Secret~ry Genf!ral Javier Solana warned Bosnian Serb leaders that war cnmes md,ctf!e<! still at lar9e should turn themselves in or face NA TO-led force s,mJ/ar to that m the Bosnian Croat town of Vitez on Thursday. AP

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In Northern Ireland:

Militants home for holiday By Shawn Pogatchnlk

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)-Cluistma~ is in the air and convicted te1rnrists are loose again on the peaceful streets of Northern helm1d. And that's just the way the Biitish government likes it.

Mme than 250 I1ish Republican Army mid pro-B1itish militants­mm1y of them bombers and mw;s murderers convicted underanti-ter­rrnism laws - will spend IO days at home with fiiends and fm11ily as pmt of tl1e government's strdTige practice of providing holiday breaks for many of Ulster's most hardened ctiminals.

1l1ep1isoners, who have returned voluntm·ily to jail since the experi­ment began in the late 1980s, say the holiday release program is fine butnotnem·lyenough in Iightoftl1e cunent cease-foe by both sides.

Some relatives of their victims, meanwhile, think tl1e whole thing is a crime.

"1liey are getting the conces­sion of enjoying Christmas with their families, but my wife has not been given that chance," said Sir Donald Maclean.

Muiiel Maclean was one of five people killed in 1984 when an IRA bomb wrecked an English hotel, narrowly missing then-Prime Min­ister Margaret Thatcher. Patrick Magee, whoreceivedeightlifcsen­tences for the bombing, will be among more than I 00 IRA mem­bersleavingNorthemlrelm1d 'sthree p1isons starting Tuesday.

"Ifl could fora moment begin to believe that it would advance rec­onciliation at all in heland, I might see some sense in it," said Sir

Donald, who is writing a letter of protest to Ptime Minister Tony Blair. "But from my reading of the history oftenurism, whcrevenmd whatever, the mote concession~ they get, the mo1e demands they make."

1l1e IRA in July declared a cea<;e­fiie in its campaign against B1itish rnlc of Nrnthem !Ieland. But the out­lawed group has 1efuscd to stmt dismming, which Jed to tl1c collapse of it~ p1evious I 7-montli trnce in Pebrn,U)' 1996.

Two pro-British paramilitaI)' groups - the Ulster Defense Asso­ciation ;md Ulster Volunteer Force -me maintaining their own 3-year­oldcease-fire, though dissidents have killed five Catholics this yem·.

Though tl1eir political goals in Belfast's ongoing peace negoti a­tions are fundamentally opposed, both sides are demanding the same unconditional releaseoftheirpris­oners.

The Irish government granted early parole Friday to nine IRA inmates. In response, representa­tives of the Ulster Volunteer Force threatened to withdraw from the talks if the British government didn't show similar generosity to their convicts.

Jim Gibney, an executive mem­ber of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, says freed IRA prisoners and their opponents consistently stay out of trouble over Christmas and return voluntarily.

·"These are disciplined politi­cal prisoners, many cif whom have been in 15 or 20 years. They're committed to a wider cause," said Gibney, who was behind bars for IRA offenses from

Shoppers and buses crowd Oxford Street, one of London's main shopping streets, as Christmas shoppers get the last of their presents for the holiday Saturday. As always, stores and streets are full of colourful displays and herds of shoppers are prowling the shops, the fortunes of merchants vary as sharply as the world's economies. AP

Council workers begin to clean up the streets of Londonderry early Sunday after a series of overnight d{sturbances by nationalist youths in protest of a Loyalist Apprentice Boys parade which went through the city centre Saturday. AP

1979 to 1988. "Tm not so sure ordinary prisoners would come back like ours do."

Northern Ireland's silent ma­jority takes the prisoner holidays in their stride - in much the same vein, indeed, as they talk about the shootings and bomb­ings of yesteryear.

"I've never heard any particu­larobjections, because there have been no serious breaches. Every­body goes back to prison," .said Steve McBride, a senior member of the Alliance Party, supported by moderate Catholics and Prot­estants alike.

McBiide said temporary releases help "reform offenders, to keep them in touch with life outside and test their ability to deal with it."

Once freed, McBride noted, few paramilitary prisoners commit ad­ditional crimes.

"Once they've spent time in jail, they're considered vulner­able, because their identity is well-known to the authorities. So they're not likely to be used for terrorism again," he said.

Grantingholiday''home leaves" began in 1948 for non-paramili­tary prisom:rs, known as "ODCs" or "ordinary decent criminals" in

local parlance. "Christmas home leave is not

a political gesture. It has long been a phenomenon in North­ern Ireland," said the government's prisons spokes­man, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

Nonetheless, the rules have steadily been loosened as part of a wider bid to improve rela­tions between prison authori­ties and inmates._

Paramilitary prisoners now qualify if they have served at least IO years, or are in the final third of a smaller sentence.

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By Karin Davies. BUTAJIRA, Ethiopia (AP)-A 17-ye:u·-oldgirl,herskinshiningwith swe:1~ s1111gglea to strenglhen legs withered by polio. Mahuba Shifa pulled herself along the clinic's pm·­allel bm,, dragging heavily braced, child-sized legs.

"Had I been vaccinated, I would not be crippled,"saidShifa, who was stricken befme she learned to walk. ··1 am very happy that lhe children are being vaccinated because they won't end up like me."

lN THE SUPERIOR COURT OFll~E CO MMONWEALTII OF THE NORTHERN

MAR JANA ISLANDS

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DATE!) this 21st dav of ;-;o,emher, 1997. .

/s/D.-1. \'ID A. \\ISDIA\ Attornc1 for Petitioner

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After yeru-s of neglect that left this impoverishea country with one of the world's highestrntesofpolio, Ethio­pian officials acceptea a new ap­proach toeradication that has workea in 105 other counuies.

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on vs Polio teer, unveled by pickup uuck, bi­cycle or foot to 25,CXXJ posts in al­most every village and urban neigh­borhood to vaccinate every child under age 5. The operation w:t, repeated over lhree days in mid­December because several doses rue needed for full protection.

l11e $4.6 million effort was fi­nanced by the U.S. Centers for Dis­ease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Agency for International Develop­ment, the U.N.Children'sFundand Rotmy Intemational.

It is another important step toward a polio-free world by 2CXX), a goal advanced in 1981 by Rotary, the Chicago-based service club for busi­ness ru1d professional people, and adopted by the 166-nation World Health Assembly a decade ago.

"If progress continues at the presentpace, wildpoliovirusescould be eradicatea from the world by the year2CXXl," said Dr. Hany Hull, the Geneva-basedchiefofWHO'spolio program. .

Thete is a preceaent. After a 12-year erndication program, the last case of smallpox was recorded in Somalia in 1977-23-year--old Ali Maow Maalindeveloi;ed the disease and lived. Two yem, later, afterlhor­ough verification, the world was de­clared free of lhe disease.

Success in beating polio would help Elhiopians overcome other

Workers . .. Continued from page 1

The bill states that the require­ment should only include emer­gency and acute care.

But because of this requirement, according to the bill, some em­ployers have restricted the free­dom of activities of its workers during unsupervised hours.

"The purpose of this Act is lo reduce conflicts between work-

Transisiton .. Continued from page 1

offices tomorrow," he said. A former acting attorney gen­

eraL Aloot is counsel fm former congressman Manasses Borja, the member of the Democratic Party leadership who filed the court challenge.

On Thursday, Aloot told the

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or she has a foreign investment certificate or long term business certificate, both of which requires an applicant to have $1 million as capital.

The bill, which now heads to the Senate, proposes that alien workers who arrived in the CNMI after July 28, I 987 should not be allowed to apply for a business license.

Five years after the bill is signed into law, workers who arrived before July 28, 1987 would also no longer be permitted to engage

chronic health problems, including deadly outbreaks of measles, pneu­monia, diarrhea, malaria and tuber­culosis, experts say.

WHO estimates that once polio is emdicatedand immunizationhaltea, the global savings in immunization, ucatment and 1ehabili tation costs will amount to more lhan $1.5 billion a year:

In lhe past decade, more than I billion children have been immu­nized against polio. The number of cases has been slashed by 90 i;ercent -down from an about350,octJcases to 35,CXX) to 40,CXX) today. An esti­mated 2 million to 3 million children who would have been disablea by polio are now able to run, walk and play nonnally.

But for Shifa, in Butajira, 85 miles soulh of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and up to 20 million people worldwide living with polio paraly­sis, lheerndication program has come too late.

Shifa doesn't remember walking before polio struck.

Her family, typical of many Ethio­pians, believed her illness was a punishment from God. Ashamed, they keptlheirdaughterhidden inside their mud-wallea hut

Because Shifa was confinea to a reed mat, crawlingjustoccasionally, her leg and buttock muscles atro­phied.-Finally, just months ago, she was brought lhe few miles to Acacia

ers and employers and to increase the unencumbered liberty en joyed by the workers during non-work­ing hours," the bill states.

In her June 6, 1996 memo, how­ever, House legal counsel Maya Kara said the bill is "fatally flawed" as it violates the Preg­nancy Discrimination Act of 1978, and allows employers to deduct medical premiums even if it low­ers the pay to below the prevail­ing minimum wage.

Variety that the appeal will be filed Friday by his co-counsel, Timothy Skinner, but when asked for a comment Thursday, Skinner's office declined.

l11e CNMI's only two-te1m gov­ernor, Tenorio sought and won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination last year and went on to defeat incumbent Gov. Froilan C. Teno1io (D) and Lt Gov. Jesus C. Borja (Ind.) last Nov. I.

in business. However, the bill exempts alien

workers who have been in the CNMI before July 28, 1987 and arc already engaged in business before the measure is signed into law. ·

Apatang (R-Saipan), in an ear­lier interview, said his bill would stop the practice of alien workers applying for business licenses without going through the "nor­mal channels."

He added that the current setup is "not fair" to employers whose workers engaged in business may not be devoting their "full en­ergy" toward their job.

House to get the help she needs. Her body is well-sculptea from lhe

waist up and her brilliant smile fea­tures a Lauren Hutton gap between her front teeth.

Belowlhewaist,herspine is twisted. Her trn-so juts perpendicular to the linoleum floor. But she has been fit­tea with brnces, and for the first time she says her legs are not entirely useless to her.

Shi fa's case influenced people in her village like 2.emzen Ferja, who brought her 2-year-old twin daugh­ters to be vaccinated. "I don't want them to end up like my neighbor," she said. "She can't walk or work ·or help her family. She is a bur­den."

Swiftly, a health worker moved down a line of toddlers, squeez­ing two drops of bitter, reddish vaccine into tiny mouths.

When the first child screamed, the others clamped hands over their mouths and flailed their legs.

Three adults struggled to ad­minister two drops to one child .. When coaxing failed, the child's nose was plugged. When he gasped for air-drop, drop, went in the medicine.

A WHO medical epidemiolo­gist, Bernard Moriniere, estimates Ethiopia has 500 to 1,000 new cases of polio every year, making it one of the largest reservoirs of polio virus in the world.

Other critics of the bill noted that it would only be "fodder" to the mounting clamor in Washing­ton, D.C. !Oextend federal minimum wage and immigration laws to lhe CNMI for its supposedly "irrespon­sible" wage and immigration poli­cies.

With its economy heavily dei;en­dent on alien labor, such a "federal takeover" is considered "disastrous" by most of the CNMI's business and political leaders.

The govemor-elect's camp has maintained that the constitutional amendment limiting the governor to two tenns was rntifiea during lhe Republican Tenorio's incumbency and therefore does not apply to him.

Superior Court Associate Justice Edw;ird M:mibus;m in his Dec. I

ruling agrees. He said the constitutional

amendment can not apply re1ro­actively.

Apatang said some workers with businesses even rccrnit their co-workers whom they suppos­edly advise to file frivolous cam­plaints in order to "change em-ployers." -

He said his bill would help re­duce the number of frivolous la­bor complaints.

A similar, but more stringent, bill has been filed by House Minority Leader Dino M. Jones (D-Saipan).

Unlike H.B. I 0-417, Jones's legislation has no exemptions, ·and would disallow all alien workers from engaging in business.

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the great proponents of indi­vidual freedom, and you will stop at nothing to sec that those around you enjoy the same kinds of liberties that you in­sist upon in your own life. Everything you do is done with this in mind, even when you seem to be serving no one but yourself in your endeavors. If you don't feel that you are working toward a greater good, you feel discontented and empty. without any kind of purpose or motivation. and you quickly sink into frustra­tion and depression. You are not a selfish individual.

Still, you arc not above pur­suing personal pleasures -provided that they do not get in the way of your primary objectives in life. You arc a romantic individual, and you see yourself in an old-fash­ioned light, not unlike a char­acter from a storybook.

Also born on this date are: "Lady Bird" Johnson, U.S. first lady; Giacomo Puccini, composer; Barbara Billingsley, actress; Steve Garvey, baseball player; Diane 5,awyer, journalist.

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

TUESDAY, DEC. 23

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-J an. 19) - Work may take you away from your familiar environment today and intro­duce you to people and oppor­tunities you have not consid-. erect.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Remember the adage about all work and no play making someone dull, dull, du! I? Today you have a chance to enjoy a little fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - You are going to have to keep your eye on the clock all day. Do not letyourselfget so far behind schedule that you have to cancel anything.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Today, you may be on the receiving end of a threat which you are compelled to take seriously. Resist the temptation to answer in kind.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - You may find that it is · almost impossible to do things in the manner to which you are accustomed today. Be pre­pared to experiment and im­provise.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - It may seem as though any and all attempts to follow the rules arc thwarted today. The stars are demanding that you get a little creative.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - A little more money may be at stake today than you had anticipated. You may want to reshape your plans - but don't postpone them alto­gether.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) - You and a friend can ac­complish a great deal working together today, where indi­vidually you . may come up against a number of obstacles.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Why do something the old-fashioned way today when you know you can rely on new and improved methods to see you throu.gh any difficulties?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - You may feel as though you 're nearing an im­portant junction in your life. Consider options as they arise, but don't make long-term plans yet.

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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) - Dennis Rodman grabbed a season-high 24 re­bounds and Michael Jordan ig­nited an I !-point fourth quarter run that led the Chicago Bulls to their fourth straight win, 100-92 over the New Jersey Nets on Sat­urday.

Jordan finished with 24 points in a so-so perfo1mance that gave Bulls coach Phil Jackson his 499th career coaching victory. If Chicago wins one of its next two games, Jackson would break Pat Riley's record for fewest games to reach the 500-vic­tory milestone.

RonHarperadded 19points, while Toni Kukoc had seven of his ! 4 poinL, in the final quarter when Chi­cago outscored New Jersey 35-21.

Keith Yan Hom led New Jersey with 20, while Jayson Williams had 12 points and 17 rebounds.

Wizards 94, Raptors 92 In Toronto, Ch1is Webber scored

28 points mid tipped-in a missed shot . at the buzzer to lift Wm,hington to iL, fourth straight win.

Raptors coach Dim-ell Walkerrm1 onto the court to protest tl1e shot, c!aimingitwentdownaftertl1ebuzzcr, but to no avail.

Webber added a grn11e-high 12 rebounds, while Rod Suickl,md fin­ished with 18 poinL, mid six assists and Ju wan Howard added 15 points, nine rebounds ,md seven assisL,.

Lakers 109, Hornets 100 In Charlotte, North Ou·ol ina, Nick

· V mi Exel scored 11 poinL, in the final 3:06as Los Angeles gained iL, league­leading I 0th road win.

Van Exel finished with a team­high 24 points to lead seven Lak­ers in double figures. Eddie Jones contributed 19 points and Rick Fox had 17. Los Angeles con­nected on IO of 20 shots from 3-point range.

Glen Rice led Charlotte with 32 points and Ylade Divac had 17 points and 18 rebounds.

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s stop Nets, 100-92 Pistons 115, 76ers 78

InAubumHil!s,Michigan,Jemme Williams had career-highsof22 points

· and 13 rebounds off the bench to lead the Detroit to a rout of Philadelphia.

The game came just two days afier the 7<5ers traded Jerry Stackhouse and Eric Montross to the Pistons for Theo

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Ratliff and Aaron McKie. The Pistons certainly looked like

they got the better of the n·ade as Stackhouse (20) and Montross (6) outscored Ratliff (8) and McKie ( 4) by 14 points. Montross also added a season-high 14 rebounds.

The game was Detroit's highest­. scrning of the year, and tl1e margin of victory was its biggest ever against the 7<5ers.

Heat 99, Hawks 92 In Miami,Alonzo Mourning made

hisfirststartoftheseasonandblocked two of Steve Smith's sboL, down the stretch to help Miami over Atlanw in a matchup of GL,lem Conference leaders.

Mourning, who returned from the injured list ern·Jier this week ,md had been coming off the bench,scored2 I poinL, with 12 rebounds mid four blocks.

Tim Hardaway, who was held scoreless Wednesday night, scored 18 points with .13 assists and a fran­chise-record eight sleals.

Smith paced the Hawks with 23 points and Dikembe Mutombc added 19 poinL, and 15 rebounds.'

Pacers 95, Magic 92 In Orlando, Florida, Chris Mullin

and Mark Jackson scored 18 points each and Indiana scored 12 of its last 16 points from the foul line to hold off Orlando and win its sixth straight ·

Rik Smits was the only Indiana player to score from the field in the last IO minules, and the Magic over­came poor shooting to cut what was once a 17-pointdeficittooneon Rony Seikaly's tip-in with 6.4 seconds to

Chicago Bulls' Dennis Rodman dunks the ball during the fourth quarter Saturday against the New Jersey Nets in East Rutherford, N.J., Rodman pulled down 24 rebounds and scored eight points as the Bulls won 100-92. AP

go. Antonio Davis made two

free throws to give Indiana some breathing room, ·and Orlando's comeback bid fell short when Horace Grant's 3-point attempt bounced off the rim at the buzzer.

Seikaly scored a season­high 37 points and grabbed 12 rebounds forOrlando.

Timberwolves 92, Clippers 91

In Minneapolis, Kevin Garnett's tip-in with 5.8 sec-

onds to play highlighted a diz­zying final I I seconds as Min­nesota upended Los Angeles.

The Wolves trailed 91-88 but scored the game's final four points, then survived two late shots by Maurice Taylor in the final seconds.

Connors • • • Continued from page 40

130 ATP singles titles is the star attraction for the over 35 s event.

Garnett had 20 points and 14 rebounds and Stephon Marbury, who came off the bench due to a sore toe, con­tributed 16 assists.

Lorenzen Wright had ;i ca­reer-high 22 rebounds to go with 15 points for the Clip­pers.

Spurs 100, Rockets 87 In San Antonio, Avery

Johnson scored a season-high 21 points as San Antonio avenged its worst loss of the season. Sean Elliott also had a season-best with 20 and Tim Duncan added 20 for San Antonio, which won its fifth stra1ght and got even for a 30-point loss at Houston on Dec. 9.

Clyde Drexler paced the Rockets with 26 points and I 0 rebounds, and Charles Barkley scored 22 and had 14 boards.

Kings 89, Mavericks 88 In Dallas, Corliss

Williamson matched a career­high with 27 points and rookie · Michael Stewart made a key block in the final minute as Sacramento ended a nine­game road losing streak.

The Mavericks have lost eight in a row.

Dennis Scott scored 14 of his 21 points during a fourth­quarter surge as the Maver­icks turned an eight-point defi­cit into a five-point lead.

But Mitch Richmond's 20-footjumper with 2:04 left tied it at 88-88, and Williamson made one of two free throws with I :37 remaining to put Sacramento ahead for good.

be - where it was in the 70s and early 80s," Connors said.

Li psinski, Kulik conquer Champions Series finals

Two-time Australian Open win­nersGuillellllO YilasandJohanKriek join John Lloyd, Jose Luis Clerc, Tim Wilkison, Andres Gomez, John Fitzgerald and Wally Masur.

Connors began the Champions Tour with three events in 1993 and it has since blossomed into a 21-stop worldwide circuit.

"We 're here to further tennis and if what we've brought to the game over the past 25 years con­tinues to enhance the game, the excitement and keep the interest of people, then so be it.

"We're certainly not here to criticize theotl1erguys. It's theirtum to take over and to take what we have left them.

"But we've left a very high stan­dard, so it's up to them to fulfill that ,md to continue to make the g,m1e By COLLEEN BARRY

MUNICH,Germany(AP)-Figurc skating's youngest world champion has put away the rainbow-colored costume and taken care of a littleedge problem on her lutz, shedding both the little girl image and a bad habit.

The reward: A victory Saturday at the Champions Series Final, just the kind of result IS-year-old Tara Lipinski would like to repeat in two months at the Winter Olympics.

Skating last, Lipinski followed flawless and elegant long programs by Russian Malia Butryskaya mid Germany's Tanja Szewczenko. Butruskaya hit six clean tiiples. Szewczenko seven, a first for the Gellllan champion.

The pressure was on. Like Szewczenko, Lipinski hit

seven triples, but four were in difficult combinations, including her unique triple loop-triple loop.

ThemarkswentupbeforeLipinski

reached tl1e 1isec a majority of 5.9s for both technical and expression.

"I was so happy. TI1cy came up so fast," Lipinski said. "It feels really good that I won."

Since winning the 1997 world championship's at age 14, Lipinski has been working on maturing her image, concentrating on chore­ography that emphasizes her graceful spins and spirals, as well as her jumping.

But this season she was nagged by an unexpected problem: low technical scores that judges ex­plained were due to her tendency to switch edges on the lutz.

Lipinski 's coach Richard Callaghan said he sees the differ­ence in her lutz - and that the judges must, too. The remarks show "respect for her ability, and her age," Callaghan said.

Szewczenko, making a come­back after an I 8-monthhiatusdue

to a viral illness, doubled over with joy at the end of her pro­gram. "It's the first time ever I hit seven triples. I'm really happy," Szewczcnko said. She finished second, ahead of Butryskaya.

In the men's competition, world champion Elvis Stojko fell on his quad, and was beaten by an un­flappable Ilia Kulik of Russia. After landing two hands to the ice on his quad toe attempt, Kulik hit eight clean triples and earned five 5.9s for presentation.

Kulik hasn't won a major inter­national competition since the Eu­ropean title in 1995 and says it's just been a question or growing up .

"I'm gaining more confidence in my free program. As you saw last season, it was always a big struggle for me," said Kulik, 20. Little things don't rattle like they used to.

He said the veterans did not want to criticize the ATP tour.

"We 'rcherctoccrtainly be a part of what lennis is and to hopefully get tennisbacktowherewethinkitshould

Hamed ... Continued from page 40

old New Yorker, now47-2-2, with 32 knockouts.

McKinney's upset win could put him in line for a fight with Hamed. Arturo Gatti, the IBFjun­ior lightweight ( 130) champion, also is being talked about as fu­ture Hamed opponent.

Jones, a native of Brooklyn, was cut under the right eye by a head butt in the first round, but after three rounds he looked to be on his way to retaining the 122-pound title. He was all over McKinney in the second round and in the third he knocked down

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the challenger from Memphis, Tenn. with three rights and a left hook to the head.

Jones, however, threw 205 punches in second and third rounds, and literally punched him­self out. In the fourth round, an exhausted Jones went down from a right to the jaw. He got up, but staggered across the ring and fell face down,andreferee Wayne Kelley stopped it at 2:41. ·

Now the 3!-year-old McKinney (33-31, 19 knockouts)canhopefora big money match against Hamed.

For Jones, it was was his third loss against 44 wins, 27 by knockout, and also a lousy way to spend bis 27th birthday.

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NEWYORK(AP)-Theen- Knocks .challen:1er Kelle:v out in 4th round I've proved myself ... at the trance was pure show biz, but ~ J... end of the day I'm the cham! Prince Naseem Hamed proved 11,954. wanted to cause so much excite- hooks. Hamed, who weighed the pion of the world," Hamed that under the flash there is While Kelley waited for IO ment in this arena," said the un- class limit of 126 pounds, fin- said. steel. minutes in the ring, Hamed posed beaten Hamed, making his U.S. ished the fight at 2:27 of the round "He's not as good as he says

"Look at me, that's the heart behind a spotlighted screen, then debut. "I wanted to basically take when ·he knocked down Kelley, he is, but he is champion to-of a lion," the 23-year-old Brit- sauntered down the aisle to ear- him out and show all my skills on 125 1/2, for the count with an- night," said Kelley, a30-year-ish-born Arab said after knock- numbing music as confetti the mat." · other hook. Continued on page 39

·· ing out Kevin Kelley and re- spewed out of balloons. Once on Hamed (29-0, 27 knockouts) taining the WBO featherweight the apron, he grabbed the top almost knocked Kelley down with

t title at Madison Square Gar- rope and somersaulted into the two rights in the first round, but ~ den. ring. Kelley responded with a right that tc,! [,~ The Garden ring certainly "Iwantedtoshowallmyskills," put Hamed down for a count of (1 was no place for the faint of said the native of Sheffield, En- six. Hamed also suffered knock U heart. gland, whose parents emigrated downs in the second and fourth (:·! First Kennedy McKinney got there from Yemen. rounds when his gloves touched (j up from. a third-round knock- He meant his boxing skills, not the canvas after head blows from

down and stopped JuniorJones his acting skills. He did show a Kelley. in the fourth round to win 'the granite jaw, and tremendous "Icantakesomeshots,butlcan WBOsuperbantamweighttitle. punching power, but his perfor- give some too," Hamed said.

That was just a warmup for mance after the opening bell was Kelley went down from a right ! the six-knockdown (three each) anything but flawless in the battle in the second round, and midway

donnybrook Hamed and Kelley of left-handers. through the fourth round he was staged for a roaring crowd of "I wanted a better fight, I knocked down again by two right

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COO LUM, Australia (AP)-Austra­lian Craig Parry won the Cool um Clas­sic golf toummnent by three strokes Sunday with a final round of 67.

Parry produced some spectacular shoL~ to take first place over fellow Australian RobertAllenby, who closed with a 66 over ti1e par-72 Hyatt Re­gency resort course.

Parry's rounds of70-68-7I ,md 67 gave him a 12-under-par total of 276.

Australian Shane Tait shot 72-70-69 and 72 to finish third on five under.

Robin Byrd ofti1e United States shot a final-round 71 to finish at 285, nine strokes behind Parry. American Payne Stewart closed with a 68 to finish at 286.

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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -Leading tennis players are more interested in their bank balances than their world rankings, ac­cording to former world No. I Jimmy Connors.

Conners, speaking ahead of the inaugural Sydriey leg of the 21-tournament Champions tour for veterans, said the older play­ers wanted to see tennis atti­tudes return to the 1970s and

·80s. "It's interesting the way ten­

nis has gone. It has gone into the big l;,usiness realm of sport, just like basketball, football and baseball," Connors said

Wednesday. "They're so caught up in the

actual business part of it, the making of money.

"Once tennis turned into big business, I think a lot of atti­tudes changed and it wasn't tha; you really wanted to be the best player."

Connors made U.S. $ 8.6 million on the ATP tour in a career which included five US Open titles.

"Now, the money comes ix;_ fore you even have a reputa­tion," Connors said.

The 45-year-old winner of Continued on page 39