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Armed men rob store By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

A 44-year-old man was injured after one of two teenaged boys assaulted him during a reported

armed robbery at a store in Koblerville Friday night.

Young Bum Park, of Koblerville, was taken to the Com­monwealth Health Center for

treatment. Initial police investigations

showed that the incident occurred at Core Market at 7:20 p.m.

Acting Department of Public

Rep. Dino Jones (right, foreground), accompanied by hydrplogists from CUC,. visits the.As Matuis wat(!rta,:,k Friday. Facing Jones is Robert Caruth.Second from left 1s water conservation coordmator Alex Fahg with another CUC employee. Photo by Mar-Vic C. Munar

New water sources sought for Northern Saipan areas

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

THE COMMONWEAL TH Utili­ties Corp. is searching for more water sources to solve the short­age of supply in the northern por­tion of Saipan, a US hydrologist said Friday.

UponRep.DinoJones' request, Robert Caruth, of the US Geo­logical Survey, toured the San Roque, As Matuis and Tanapag areas "to check the water situa-tion."

Families in San Roque and As

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Matuis get their supp! y from three wells.

A tank located in As Matuis, which can store one million gal­lons of water, delivers supply to San Roque area between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.

Residents of As Matuis get their supply between 2 a.m. and 5 p.m.

"What we have to do is find other areas where we can drill additional wells to help improve their supply," Caruth said.

He said the CUC targets a 24-hour service in the area.

The northern part of the island, Caruth said "has very fragile fresh water lands. "

"This area is kind of narrow and because of this, the fresh wa­ter land is thinner," the hydrolo­gist said. "You can't overpump the well because if you do, you'd get salty water."

But because of the need to pro­duce more water, Caruth said, there was a tendency to overpump the three existing wells.

"What we'd like to do is drill Continued on page 6

911 emergency phones to be installed near beaches

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

SAIP AN will soon have "911" emergency phones installed in four of it~ beaches.

According to Mike von Alvensleben, diving safety of­ficer of the Northern Marianas College, the phones can save lives in times of accidents in­volving .swimmers, divers and excursionists in such areas as Obyan-Naftan, Lao Lao, Degrade and Ladder Beach

where the phones will be set up. He said these beach areas ~e

far from the conventional land­line phones.

For example, Lao Lao Beach is about 20 minutes from the nearest phone, he said.

Von Alvensleben said an av­erage of 200 to 300 divers go to the four beaches daily.

The phone, according to von Alvensleben, willbeforthepur­pose of reporting any kind of

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Safety Commissioner Frank Duenas said Park was at the veg­etable section of the store when he heard the door open and some­one walk in.

Upon checking, Park saw the two suspects near the cashier's counter.

One of the suspects, described as skinny and wearing a Jong­sleeved shirt with a hood cover­ing his top head, suddenly struck Park with a metal object.

Park tried to defend himself and ran outside, but the skinny sus­pect continued attacking him with the metal and punched him sev­eral times.

The suspects then fled on foot toward Turnkey Housing.

The second suspect was de-

scribed as fat and clad in white T­shirt.

Responding emergency medi­cal technicians from DPS treated Park at the crime scene before transporting him to CHC.

It was not indicated in the report whether Park is the owner or an employee of the establish­ment.

The report also did not specify whether the suspects got any money from the store.

Police said the suspects ap­peared to be familiar in the area.

Investigators from the Crimi­nal Investigation Section have identified the suspects but re­fused to reveal them to prevent the ongoing investigations from being jeopardized.

902 rep prepares for talks on citizenship

By Rafael H. Arroyo Variety News Staff

THE CNMI panel to the Cov­enant Section 902 negotiations is getting ready for the resump­tion of discussions on the is­sues of citizenship and of sub­merged lands.

According to special 902 rep­resentative Brenda Y. Tenorio, she is preparing for a trip to Washington, D.C. for a pos­sible 902 meeting early next month, pending confirmation frpm her US counterpart, Ed Cohen.

In a telephone interview yes­terday, Tenoriosaidsheislook­ing forward to hearing Cohen's opinion on a position paper turned in by the CNMI on the Commonwealth's plan to re­strict US citizenship from cer­tain persons born in the CNMI.

She said she also expects to present another position paper to Cohen on the issue of sub­merged lands.

Under a proposal being con­sidered by Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio, US citizenship is to be granted to CNMl-bom persons only if they have at least one US citizen parent.

The current provision under Covenant section 301 accords US citizenship to anyone born in the CNMI, regardless of the ethnic background of the par­ents.

The 902 representative has had initial discussions with Cohen on the citizen­ship issue a while back but the latter recommended that an official position paper be submitted by the CNMI

Brenda Y. Tenorio

side. Having submitted that a

couple of months ago, Tenorio said it may be time to hear what the US side has to say on the issue.

According to Tenorio, the proposal to restrict US citi­z~nship is being explored on the premise that the unique political status of the CNMI under the Covenant may al­low such a policy.

Another factor that has led to the proposal is the observa­tion that automatic US citi­zenship is creating a class of citizens out of a steadily in­creasing non-resident popula­tion.

Currently, the CNMI con­trols its own immigration un­der the Covenant allowing for the influx of non-resident workers in unlimited numbers, as needed.

"We would like to see Continued on page 6

2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY- JANUARY 30, 1996

NATO suffers worst death toll By SRECKO LATAL

SARAJEVO, Bosnia­Herzegovina (AP) - The happi­est day of the Bosnia peace for hundreds of freed prisoners of war was the deadliest day yet for NATO troops enforcing it.

Three British soldiers were killed Sunday when their arniored personnel carrier hit a landmine in northwestern Bosnia, and a Swedish soldier perished when his vehicle slid off a road in the north.

lt was the worst death toll for a single day in the NATO mission to enforce peace in Bosnia since it started Dec. 20, and showed the perils that will linger years after war because of 6 million Iandmines strewn across the state. Only 30 percent of them are marked.

that should have been freed on Jan. 19 under the peace accord.

But the international Red Cross - which oversaw the releases -said not all of the 900 prisoners on its lists were free.

"There are still people on the list of900 who have not been released yet," said Pierre Krahenbuhl of theRedCrossofficeinBanjaLuka, the Serb city in the north. He could not say how many remained in detention.

The three British soldiers were west ofMrkonjic Grad, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Sarajevo, when their vehicle blew up in an area not thought to contain mines, said Lt. Col. Chuck Merlow, a NATO spokesman.

Mines and bad weather pre­vented recovery of the bodies.

been caused by mines, as have most civilian casualties.

A Swedish soldier was killed and a colleague injured when their vehicle skidded off a road near Doboj in the north.

Earlier Sunday, a U.S. officer was grazed by a sniper's bullet in a Serb-held Sarajevo suburb. He was only slightly hurt.

The American soldier was hurt after two French patrols in Ilidza came under fire.

NATO sources speculated the shootings resulted from growing nervousness in Serb areas, which transfer to the Muslim-led gov­ernment by March 19.

Some prisoners released over the weekend spoke of severe mal­treatment.

Sefik Ademovic, 42, stood for­lornly amid a tumultuous wel­come for many of the released Muslim prisoners in the front-

line suburb of Dobrinja. The last time he saw his wife

and two children was at the U.N. base of Potocari, a few kilometers (miles) north of the eastern en­clave ofSrebrenica, which he fled last July 11, hours before it fell to Serbs. Serbs captured him a few days later and moved him from one prison to another.

The Bosnian Croats held back 50 people under investigation for possible war crimes.

Pierre Gauthier, Red Cross spokesman in Sarajevo, said the Croats had the right to keep them "for a reasonable time."

Thousands of people from Srebrenica are still missing, many of them believed executed and buried in mass graves.

Ademovic said he and others were clubbed and kicked in their Serb prison in Knezina in eastern Bosnia.

"One of them took a knife and sliced my face,'' he said, stroking a long scar on his left cheek.

"I was never so close to death, I thought I will not survive that night."

Ademovic said his imprison­ment otherwise passed without harassment.

Several others released Sunday said they were treated correctly in Serb prisons.

Late Saturday, as Serb relatives greeted freshly released govern­ment prisoners,Dragisa V aragicsaid he was beaten with rifle butts and at onepointweighedjust47kilos(about 100 pounds) during more than three years of incarceration at the infamous "Silo," a granary and food processing plant in Tarcin,justnorth of Sarajevo.

''I've just come from the 15th cen­tury,is that enough?" saidthehollow­cheeked 24-year-old, who looked 10 years older.

The tragedies occurred as Bosnia's fornier foes claimed to have released all the prisoners

Since mid-December, when peace took a shaky hold after 3 1-2 years of war, most of NATO's 35 injuries and eight deaths have

Report: Tai\Vanese cargo ship shot by Chinese boat

Petty Officer 1st Class Don Berger of Viginia Beach, Va., lifts weights during a break at an U._S. jFOR base near the demolis~ed Zelr8; sports staduim, oackground, ,n ::,ara1evo. Berger, an electronics te_chn1c1an, 1s part of a 20,000 strong-American contingent of the mternatwnal NATO effort to enforce the Bosnian peace plan. AP

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A boat believed to be Chinese sprayed a Taiwanese cargo ship with bursts of machine-gun fire, but no one was injured, the military said Sun­day.

Military officials said they re­ceived a radio signal calling for help Friday morning from the Hang Jung No. 9, a 4,500-ton, Panama-registered ship which claimed it was being followed by a boat flying the mainland Chi­nese flag about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Taiwan.

The suspected Chinese boat closed in after a three-hour chase and fired several machine-gun shots at the Taiwanese ship, but the crew was unharmed, the mili­tary said.

The ship was carrying timber from Southeast Asia.

Chien Teh-chuan, captain of the Taiwanese vessel, told reporters that his ship then rammed the smaller Chinese boat in order to break away and returned to Kaohsiung port in southern Tai­wan Saturday.

The military said two warships and one helicopter were sent to the scene, but arrived after the suspected mainland Chinese boat had already left. It added there was no way to verify the identity of the attacking boat.

The United Daily News said the Taiwaneseboathadsomebulletholes in its hull and its port side was slightly damaged.

It also cited Chien as saying the suspected Chinese boat probably suf­fered damage on its starboard side.

Taiwanese boats plying the open sea off the island have long accused mainland Chinese boats ofharrassing and robbing them.

E:arlier this month, a Taiwanese fishing boat crew member was ab-­ducted for IO hours by Chinese fish­ermen in seas north of Taiwan after failing to settle a dispute over tangled nets with two boats from the main­land.

There have been 134 reported major fishing disputes between Taiwanese and Chinese boats since 1990, according to the Ag­riculture Council.

:1 Gunn1en open fire on factory, ,8 killed

I JOHANNESBURG,SouthAf- Johannesburg. not imm:diately_clear. Mon~ay's attack evoked rica (AP) - Unidentified gun- According to witnesses, a group Past violence m_t?e area often memo~1es of the terror at-men opened fire Monday on of about seven men armed with was part of a po~1lical st~ggle tacks m ~he an_:a fro~ 1990 people waiting in the pre-dawn assaultriflesandhandgunswa)ked between the Afncan ~at10~al to 1994 m which tram and cold for possible jobs at a fac- uptoalargegroupofpeoplelmed Congress and Zulu natwnahst taxi commuters often were tory, killing eight and wounding up for 500 meters (yards) and Inkatha Fre:dom P3;1y. shot to death in a similar 20, police said. opene~ fire, Weber said. Thatfightmgsub?1dedafterthe manner.

The shooting was reminiscent Temfied people fled toward the ANC won the Apnl l.99~ e~c- -~ The ANC long accused po-of terror attacks that plagued nearby Tokoza black township, t10n to head _the nation s first lice of instigating such at-black townships in the some getting shot as they ran. post-apa~the1d government. tacks to destabilize black Johannesburg area in the four One body was found hundreds of Sporadic clash.es and attacks communities in a bid to de-years prior to the nation's first meter_s (yards) from where the have occurred ~1?ce then, b~t rail moves to end apartheid. all-race election in 1994 that shootmg began. most of the political unrest m A new Truth Commission

. ended apartheid. · The gunmen fled in the dark, black townships near set up by President Nelson Police Superintendent Wikus according to police. Johannesburg had ended. Mandela's government is to

. Webersaideightbodieshadbeen Pools of blood and discarded Fighting betwe~n the A1,!.C begin hearings soon on apart-removed from the scene and at blankets and shoes lay scattered and Inkatha has _mcreased m heid-era crimes. 1east20peoplewerewoundedin at the sce~e, while.fires lit by ~e recent mo?ths m the Zulu . It is expected to focus on the shooting at a die casting fac- group dunng the mght to provide hom~land m KwaZulu-Natal crimes by government secu-tory in Alberton, an industrial warmth continued to smolder. provmce over a power.struggle rity forces against anti-apart-

1 suburb · southeast of The motive for the attack was for control of the reg1011. ·heid activists.

Taiwan has urged China to re­sume semiofficial talks suspended last June to help solve fishing disputes and other problems.

The talks were suspended after a visit to the United States by President Lee Teng-hui angered Beijing, which regards Taiwan as a breakaway province.

War jitters · .. · · .send forex .. deposits i~ ·. · Roe· soaring

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Ner­vous about Chinese military threats, Taiwanese are seek­ing safety in foreign currency, pushing deposits up 70 per­cent to a record U.S. $7.8 bil­lion, offic.ials said Monday.

Foreign currency deposits at the end of last year were up by U.S. $3.2 billion from the end of 1994, the Central Bank said.

Tai wan also registered capi­tal outflow of U.S. $8.16 bil­lion between July and Sep­tember, a period during which China conducted missile tests off Taiwan's waters.

The officials said Taiwan­ese were fearful of an inva­sion, or of a fall in the Tai­wanese dollar because of the rising tension.

The missile tests were pro­voked by China's anger over a visit by Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to the United States in June. China claims sovereignty over Taiwan and saw the visit as an attempt to promote Taiwanese indepen­dence.

The Central Bank has been buying the Taiwan dollar to keep it at about 27 .5 to one U.S. dollar.

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H1llblom brothers summoned ,,r

Randall Fennell

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE SUPERIOR Court has summoned the brothers of Larry Lee Hillblom to answer the petition filed by David Moncrieff seeking heirship claims for the late businessman's alleged daugh­ter J ellian Cuartero.

The court required Grant A. Anderson and Terry Hillblom, both residing in Kingsburg, California, to "appear and de­fend the pet1t1on (Moncrieff) .... within 20 days

from the date of service." Also summoned was Peter

J. Donnici in his capacity as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hillblom Charitable Trust.

Donnici is based in San Francisco, California.

"In case of failure, Moncrieff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the petition," said the clerk of court in the sobpoena is­sued Friday.

Moncrieff is guardian for Jellian.

Randall Fennell' s law firm, which represented Moncrieff, sought a notice for the trio "as a matter of legal procedures" following a court ruling last week on heirship claims.

In that ruling, Superior Court Presiding Judge Alexandro Castro prevented Hillblom's estate executor to use the estate's money in de­fending against heirship claims.

Castro said because petition­ers Kaelani Kinney and Moncrieffheirship claims will

not deplete estate assets, actively litigating against it does not fall within the executor's fiduciary duty.

Castro said the beneficiaries of Hillblom's will are responsible for establishing and defendine their own rights in the estate. "

In Hillblom's 1982 will, the multimillionaire wanted that a charitable trust be created and gave the residue of his estate to its trustees-Donnici, L. Patrick Lupo, brothers Terry Hill bl om and Grant Anderson, and Stephen J. Schwartz.

Torres, Rayphand insist on Mitchell as counsel By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

LA WYER Jeanne H. Rayphand and Rep. Stanley Torres have ex­pressed confidence that the dis­qualification of Theodore R. Mitchell as their counsel in the taxpayers lawsuit will be reversed.

In their response to a letter by David G. Banes, counsel for L&T Group of Cos., Ltd., Rayphand and Torres claimed that through­out his legal career, Mitchell has been an advocate of constitutional rights.

They said the rights, included but not limited to, the fundamen­tal right to equal voting power, the Article X requirement that public debt not be authorized with­out legislative approval, the Ar­ticleXII protection of private land, and the right of the public to pub­lic records.

The plaintiffs explained that if they are forced to go to trial with­out Mitchell as their counsel, all of the preparation for the pro­ceedings completed by Mitchell, will have to be re-done.

This will escalate attorney's fees and costs ultimately ''to be borne by the defendants if plain­tiffs prevail," said Rayphand and Torres.

On the other hand, the two said, if they lose at trial and then obtain a reversal of the disqualification on appeal, the entire trial will have to be re-done, further escalating fees and costs.

With regards to L&T's offer to settle the case, the plaintiffs in­stead reminded Banes that the very same offer was rejected last Jan. 17.

They said L&T i&nored their counter proposal that the com­pany pay $18.8 million as the fair rental value of the property and agree to include some of the pro­visions which are standard in other public land leases.

The plaintiffs said that the lawsuit was filed to establish that govern­ment officials are held to a strict fiduciary standard when dealing with public land. _ "It is a breach of that fiduciary duty to dispose of public land without first

Stanley Torres

obtaining an independent appraisal, without testing the global market and considering all proposals for the de­velopment of the property to its high­est and best use, and by leasing the property at less than fair rental value and on terms that are less than com­mercially reasonable," they said.

RayphandandTorressaidthecourt has already held that "the Governor, the Secretary of the Department of Lands and Natural Resources, and

fi~llJllj~Hbegin.Si~S'tlSI g(ifj.!.~~n.i11ing. wage· levels st ~~f~J/ ~jji.ftdj~/ According to. Torres, the board's

· .. Variety.News $tEiff realmissionhasbegun-thedetermi-THEWAGE and Salary Review nation of appropriate wage levels and Board bas begun the next phase thattheprocesswill"remainopenand

• of its work which is the actual within full view of the public." determination of the most appro- He said he welcomes the participa-priate wage levels for the CNMI, lion and views of the US Interior Bp?,rd chairman Joaquin S. Department and the Department of Torres~o~~~ed yesti:rday. Labor in the wage. determination cf- . .•. I~. f statpMe11t is~ued. ?yJus fort QWGe,Tort¢.saj,§~.annqqncedhe · 'The board pledges that it wm do )s ~.ch~cluµligA secp11d series .of everything in its power IQ fully COO]r public hearings on the wage js- . erate with these agencies. As it pro-sue starting febru.ary 6,.. . .... i ceeds, the members look foiwrntl to

AUhe same time, Torres de: implementing a p~ that will al-. fended the board'$ earlier rec- lowustofindtherightwage-forthe ommenda tiqn tllat th~ wage levels worker, for industry and fortbepeople ¥ftwfrtatJ?<J5.levi:1$ until itgalh;, and government of the CNMI," said ~ tlx;.~ .ne.<;e1,~ to b~ the Torres in his statement

~J~io~.~~~~i ~-~~=t:d Jtipkci>~v9lyattlle~. . evaluatewageissuesintheCNMlaod Iria.rellitivefyshmtperipdoftime;it . recommend ways at achieving the )lw;9igarui.e.!anq~acoursetc> ..• • . federal wage level at the earliest pos­.~lishitsltlissi(.)J),"sitid~Qtl'eS; .. . .sible time• without adversely im­

}'Rhas ~ froroiiffected and · pacting the local economy. ~iq~~~1an~~b(#l Currently, the CNMIWageand able lO ~ .(0 determirie hQw. •It Houi: Act presets a 30-cent in-

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federal wage level of$4.25 per hour. UnderPublicLaw8-21, theCNMI

basic hourly pay should have gone : up from $2.75 to $3.05 last Jrumruy hud itnotlx.-en fortheboard' srequcst that the hike be postponed until July of this year.

The six-month deferment was deemed necessary by the board ow- ; ing to the need for more backup data i from theCNMl.middecade census. i

Accorditig to Torres, the board is l current!. yv,iaitingfortherightkindof 1

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data to become available within the next three weeks so it can conduct /1

the nocessaiy analysis and make , somefirrndedsions; . i

"Until then, iris difficult, ifnotJ irnp:,ssible, for.this ~yage boaro to make }t~ d~isi?ns,". s~d ·Ton:es:.... <•·· .) .. ·•·ii .. ······.···•·····.··i·i···

• "The .b®d• beJkves that itsiasks should not be compromised by ex, pediency or be obspired by <\ politi­calconstituency lhatthrives onshort- i tenn, quick-fix solutions in wanton •

,disregard for long term conse­quences, flasks only that it be given a chance to oompleteitswO!k," read

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Jeanne H. Rayphand

the Director of the Division of Public Lands are held to a strict fiduciary standard concerning the treatment of public lands."

Banes sent a letter to Rayphand Friday expressing their intention for settlement by amending the lease contractbetweenl..&T and the gov­ernment to guarantee a minimum rental payment of $10.8 million.

Reacting to Rayphand and Torres letter, Banes said if

Theodore R. Mitchel/

Mitchell is an advocate of the constitutional rights, Superior Court Associate Judge Edward Manibusan should not disqualify him as counsel in the suit.

The plaintiffs agreed to settle the case as long as Mitchell gets $2.2 million, said Banes.

"Now that Mitchell is out and cannot get the attorney's fee, why they don't want to settle," Banes said.

CPA to adopt incentive program for employees

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

THE Commonwealth Ports Authority will adopt this year an employee incen­tivc progrnm toaward the most produc­tin: ,md punctual workers.

TI1c pmgrnm was unanimously up-­proved by tl1e CPA board dwing a meeting yesterday.

Juan T. Guerrero, board vice chair, in urging his colleagues to vote for the program's adoption, said that it would also"makeouragencymoredrug-frec."

"I think it's a good program that this board should administer and imple­ment immediately," he said.

Later in an interview, Guerrero said the award would spur CPA employees to be more productive, more efficient, and more service-oriented.

The program's rationale states that as CPA "produces positive results and continues to chart its course, equal recognition shall also be made to em­ployees who are responsible forsignifi­cant accomplishments. After all, our employees are extremely important resource and responsible for executing our plans."

The award, according to the pro­gram, may vary in title, such as Group/ TeamAward,Safety Award,BestT= Player Award, or any other recognition

tailored to·the line of work of the em­ployee.

The proposed program, which is up for review by various supe1visors, will give a Bronze Award to an employee who is punctual and has perfect atten­dance during a specific month. Twoor more employees from a department may receive this award.

Th.is award may be given in the form of a conunendation letter, a certificate, or a monetary gift.

The Bronze Award is aimed at im­proving attendance and punctuality, and helping the CPA avoid paying for overtime of employees pitching in for absent personnel.

Every end of a quarter, employees will be evaluated for the selection for the Silver Award as Employee of the Quarter.

The award may come in the form of a monetary gift, a recognition certifi­cate, or a two days' off via administra-tive leave. ·

The Employee of the Year will re­ceive the Gold Award.

The type of ~ward may again be a monetary gift, a certificate, or adminis­trative or educational leave to attrr, .. classes. The awardee, for exampk, may be be excused for 80 hOW'S over a one-year period.

by: John De!Rosario

Pareho proteksion gi papa' Lai SESO huhufigog tefiga gi fina' konbetsasion halom natibo na ti pareho direchon taotao hiyofig yan hita nu i taotao tano'. Lache este na sentimento ya presiso ta komprende na deste 1978 'nai man halom hit gi papa' familian politikan Estados Unidos de Amerika, matulaika este na hagas nina' pa yon i Trust Territory Government giya hita. Kumeke ilegho na i hagas plaset esta otro pisufia yan kelatfia ya pumareho direchota yan direchon taotao hiyoiig guine gi papa' i lai Amerikano.

Komprendiyon yangin esta pago ta kontinunua este na hinefigge i ti pareho direchota yan siha. Lao pot fabot kemprende na esta man patte hit (deste 1978) gi papa' banderan Estaodos Unidos de Amerika 'nai pareho proteksionta yan siha gi papa' lai. Makat ta aksepta este na konsepto osino tinilaika sa' hag as mana' fan pa yon hit areglamienton i Trust Territory Government 'nai guaha tres eskaleran sueddo para i apaka, natibo yan taotao hiyofig. Ti mafigontento hit nu ayo na areglamiento piot 'nai sige ta soda' mona hafa dipotsihe direchota siha gi papa' i lai Amerikano.

I punto na debi ta komprende afafielos i fakto na hui'iggan esta pareho direchota gi papa' i lai Marianas yan Amerika yan taotao hiyofig. Ti sii'ia ta kontinua inabiban i ha gas ta popolu komo sahfige direchota komo taotao tano'.

Un' patte ha' 'nai sumeparao direchota komo natibon este siha na islas: Todo fii'igkas salape' gin en tano publiko, hita ha' nu i natibo man duefio. Estague' un' proteksion na ni uno sifia u mentalue' i natibo. Man libre hit muna' sahfige este na salape' para adelanton taotaota gi bandan hinemlo', edukasion yan otro programan sosiat pot para ta adbfinsa linala' natibo. Ti sii'ia i taotao hiyofig sumaonao guine sa' gi primet lugat ti dueiio gi tano' natibo.

Mauleg ta komprende este na tinilaika giya hita nu i tao tao tano' sa' hui'iggan esta deste 1978 pareho direchota yan siha gi proteksion lai. Mufiga man linaisen nu i checho' impitu sa' ni achogha' para un 'fan guot' mahetog, i plaset pareho direcho pot proteksion esta hagas ma-establese gi pisun lai Marianas pot disi-sais ai'ios pago na sakan. Debi todo hagas pinayonta yan fan 'atanta gi todo as unto u' tatulaika osino ha dingo hit i sahyan justisia.

I man presenten este siha na taotague nos pot minalago' niha. Gaige este na linetgon giya hita mis mo yan i·ta entrega komo temuneron tano'tadeste 1978. Kada guaha disision mafatinas pot hinatsan fasilidat turista, hahaso ha' na ti u'menos ke tres sientos na taotao hiyofig siempre u'fan halom para u 'kubre este na chochu' siha. Ti nahoi'ig taotao tano' para i kantidan chochu' gi hotels guine.

Gaige na hachichiget hit gi entalo' paderon yan un' tadoiig tase i disision pot adelanto guine gi tano' parahiso. Faisen maisa hao para haye este siha na debelopmento? Hufiggan i fasilidat ni mahatsa gi tano' publiko siempre hita manduefio. Lao hafa na para ta sige ha' manmafialuda Japones yan Chino pol salape? Para figaian 'nai sifia manohge hit gi dos adefigta ya tasafigane kometsianten ginen hiyoi'ig na esta nahofig i numeron fasilidat hotel ya debi u' mana' para pot dies afios na tiempo? Hanac' hit kampo tuma 'Jon u 'mabalua kao dinadanche ha' planuta pat guaha mas debi u'malimienda antes de u'fato i otro dies afi.os.

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Education changes slow in South Africa PHO LAP ARK, South Africa (AP) -One look at Encochoyini Primary School in this squatter camp of 30,000 blacks reveals the hopelessness of expecting rapid improvements in South African education.

The roof leaks, windows are broken, doors hang loose in their jambs and the baseboards of its row of bleak, prefabricaied classrooms havecrumbledaway.

"Encochoyini" is the Xhosa word for "mountain peak," but the school seems as far from any swrunit as President Nelson Mandela 's government is from transforming a disheveled., unequal education sys­tem.

Everyone involved - from parents to administra­tors to policy makers - agrees that vast changes are needed if millions of black students are to get school­ing even close to the quality reserved forwhit.es under apartheid.

They also know the simple truth: There is too little money available for too many needed changes.

"New schools will be built, but they won't be enough," said Linda Chisholm, director of the &lu­cation Policy Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.

'There will be more teachers, but not enough. A new cuniculwn policy probably will be imple­

mented., but it won't be dramatically different'' · A fifth of the national budget - 4.3 billion rand

($ l .2billion)-wenttoeducationlastyear, the first full year in power for Mandela' s African National Con­gress after winning the nation's first all-race election in 1994.

Much of the focus was on consolidating 16 differ­ent education department, creaied along racial lines dwing white rule.

Treasury officials say wealthier nations would be proud to spend such a large portion of their a,sct, on education and advise their colleagues in education to use funds more effectively instead of expecting more.

"When one looks at the size of the problem, it becomes obvious a bit of time will be needed to solve it," Deputy President Thabo Mbeki told reporters as he toured impoverished, overcrowded schools soon after the new school tenn began Jan. 10.

Mandela's government faces overwhelming de­mands for development, such as building more roads, hospitals, houses and schools for impover­ished blacks. It has had to retreat on campaign promises to scrap tuition.

At Encochoyini, teacller Victoria Mrobo had 140 six-year-olds in her first-year class last year. She could give few the attention they needed, and only 40 percent were pa,sed to the next level. That frustrates parents like Charlotte Y akobi.

"We want education for our kid,, a better educa­tion," said the mother of 15-year-old Polite and 10-year-old Wiseman, two of the roughly 900 student, at Encochoyini.

'The gove11Unent must build enough schools and bring in teachers."

Under apartheid, the government did that for whites, spending up to five times more per pupil on whites than blacks. The education ministry promises

to balance spending by 1999, the end of Mandela's term, but says attemptir.g to shift more quickly would be disruptive.

"We don't want to destroy the system that has already been built," said Lincoln Mali, spokesman for &lucation Minister Sibusiso Bengu. "We want to build on it"

Anti-apartheid groups used protests overeducation toeneqµzetheirmovement, beginning with the Soweto uprising of 1976 when township schoolchildren dem­onstrated against being taught in the Afrikaans lan­guage of apartheid masters.

With the protests, spurred by the ANC slogan "No education before liberation," came an anarchic disre­spect for schools and teachers. Little learning went on in places where students were in charge - boycotting classes, bringingviolentprotestsontoschoolgrounds, threatening teachers who refused to pass them at the end of the term.

That continues in some places today. "We have to first acknowledge that there's a total

breakdown of discipline in our schools," said Thulas N xesi, general-secretary of the South African Demo­cratic Teachers' Union.

The union, the largest of its kind, with 120,000 members, used to promote protest against the white minority government

Now, Nxesi's union is trying to find a way to tell students to stop protesting and start learning. Other problems involve trying to bring standards and facili­ties for blacks even with whit.es.

While well-equipped white schools can no longer tum away blacks, high admission fees, protests and intimidation have prevented widespread integration in many areas.

Black schools still offer a wat.ered-<lown version of the lessons available in white schools, a holdover from the days when blacks were trained for jobs as servants and clerk.,.

While syllabuses have been rewritten to excise racist and sexist language, major changes to improve quality are needed, along with training teachers and obtaining new textbooks and other materials.

Despite such obstacles, glimmers of a hopeful future exist

At Reasoma High School in Soweto, 98 percent of la,t year's class - the first graduating class to have completed all five years at Reasoma -passed national exams, compared to a national rate of 55 percent

Principal Thembi Buthelezi insists on order, lock­ing Reasoma' s gates while classes are in session from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and ensuring that parents back her when she punishes a lazy or defiant student

Buthelezi concedes she had the good fortune of starting with a clean building, energetic teachers and no history of student militancy when the school opened six years ago.

She kept her teacher-student ratio at l-to-38 last year, a class size almost unheard of in Soweto.

Now the provincial education department wants to send more students to relieve overcrowding else­where, she says, but there is no talk of more teachers atReasoma.

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

THE DIVISION of Labor has awarded 10 contract workers a

total of $124,690 in unpaid over­time dues, medical expenses, air­fare reimbursements, and unliquidated damages against a garment company.

The partial resolution of the case against the American Interna­tional Knitters Corp. came after five years of seemingly endless motions and counter-motions from parties involved.

A standing issue involving the complainants' request for trans­fer relief has yet to be heard on Feb. 16.

The class suit, dated back to Jan. 15, 1991, was filed by 10 garment workers Jed by Edwin Correa. They were represented by lawyer Joe Hill.

The complainants had filed claims for unpaid overtime dues

covering the period between Jan. 15; 1986andJuly 1, 1988.

Other claims sought by the gar­ment workers included the reim­bursements for airfare illegally deducted by their employer from their salaries; medical expenses and liquidated damages.

Hearing Officer Linn H. Asper took over the case on Dec. 28 last year and capped it through an administrative order he issued last Jan. 22.

Asper explained that the case stayed on for five years in the labor division due to constant re­placement of investigators and hearing officers.

Each time a new investigator or hearing officer took over, new issues would be added to the case file, Asper said.

He said the case could have been resolved two years ago through an administrative order issued by retired Judge Robert

Bus operators who employ unlicensed aliens warned

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

THE Department of Labor and Immigration warns bus operators who employ unlicensed aliens to drive tourists in the Common­wealth.

Labor Deputy Secretary Herman Palacios stated this warn­ing last week after the department held for questioning nine Kore­ans found driving buses without proper documents anti licenses.

The Koreans, Palacios said, were employed by a Korean bus lines operating at the airport.

He would not give further de­tails, saying the department is currently working on the case.

"We're will deal with them(un­licensed drivers) in accordance with the law," Palacios said in a brief interview.

The employers will also be sum­moned for questioning, accord­ing to Palacios.

Hefner who was tasked to handle the appeal.

But the parties involved did not heed Hefner's decision and in­stead "proceeded to ex tend the case through months of proce­dural motions, pleadings, and de­liberations ... "

What was otherwise a simple administrative case, Asper re­marked, had thus been trans­formed into a "hybrid court pro­ceeding."

Last Jan 22, Asper ordered the garment firm to pay the complain­ants $51,133 in unpaid overtime dues; $13,522 for medical ex­penses; $4,450 for airfare reim­bursements illegally deducted from their salaries; and $55,583 in liquidated damages.

Prior to the filing of the case, the complainants received mon­etary awards from the employer as a result of a joint Federal/Com­monwealth inves-tigation. The management paid the overtime

dues covering the period between July 1988 and July 26, 1991.

The payment of awards was made in November 1990.

In a complaint filed before the labor department, the workers asked for the payment of over­time dues prior to the July 1988 period. The workers were hired between 1985 through 1990.

Asper said the "complainants produced sufficient evidence to establish the unlawful overtime practices of 1988 to 1990 which extended back to 1985 ."

The issue on medical ex­penses was among other is­sues that hampered the expe­ditious resolution of the case.

The employer had argued that its responsibility ended soon after the complainants' contracts were terminated in November 1990.

On the other hand, the com­plainants and the government opined that the medical ex-

pense responsibility of an employer continued while the case was pending.

"If the delays were attribut­able to the complainants or the labor division, then it would be unfair to continue to hold respondents responsible for medical expenses, "Asper stated.

But in this case, Asper said, both parties were at fault for the delay.

"This situation continued until the case was taken under advisement in May 1995," Asper said. "Since the medi­cal expenses claimed were in­curred before 1995, the re­spondents are responsible for them."

As for the complainants' claim that the employer did not renew their contracts "in retaliation for their filing of the case," Asper said this alle­gation was not proven.

II He said the surveil;ance on bus

operators was part of the department's efforts to track down workers illegally working in the ~----------------_J .,,,

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Commonwealth. 26, 1996. Represented were employees of the Procurement and Supply Division, Planning and Budget

Herman Palacios "We have been successful in Office, Public Works, the Public School System, Public Auditor's Office, Commonwealth Utilities Corporation,

these efforts," he said. Commonwealth Ports Authority, Commonwealth Development Authority and Northern Marianas College.

I Court refuses to set aside I I irifOrmation in rape case 1

. By Ferdie de la Torre the defendant.of the charges, and to thesam~,r~gardlessofthename 1

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Variety News Staff plead double Jeopardy. of the v1ctJ.m. SUPERIORCourtPresidingJudge Castro ruled that the statute re- Although the information is Alexandro Castro has denied a quiresthataninfonnationbea"plain, sufficient despite the fact that it motionseekingthedismissalofthe concise and definite written state- does not disclose the victim's infonnationfiledagainstamanac- ment of the essential facts constitut- name, Castro noted that the in-cused of raping and assaulting a ing the offense charged." formation does not state whether woman. Hesaidthepwposeoftheinforma- ornotthevictimwasthedefendant's I

In rejecting the motion, Castro tion is to state the facts and elements spouse. said the essential elements of rape of the alleged offense necessary to Castro ordered the government andassaultandbatterycharges filed inform the accused of the charge so to amend theinformati.on withiJJ 10 again.stAntonioMeodiolaCarruw;:ho that he/she can prepareadefenseand, days to include the allegations con-are stated in the infonnation. ifappropriate,pleaddoublejeopardy. ceming the victim's marital rela-

Toe government mentioned the ''The sufficiency of the infonna- tionship to the defendant. narneofthevictimineachcountby tion is not a question of whether it The statute does not require that initials only. could have been more definite and theotherpersonbespecificallyiden-

Camacho, through his counseL certain but whether it contains the tified by name for the crime of moved to dismiss the infonnation, ele~ts of the offense intended to assault and batterytooccur,he siad claiming that the failure to identify be charged," said the judge. Last Nov.4, Ounacho allegeclly thevi~'sfullnameresultsinthe Castro said nowhere does the pulledawomantothefloor,heldher coort'slackofsubjectmatterjuris- statue require that the person be iumsandrapedher. . diction. specifically identified by name. Threedays~,.Camacho?83"1 ·. The prosecution argued that the Indeed, he explained, the ele- rapedtbesamevtct:un,accordingto

. infonnati.on is sufficient to inform ments of the crime of rape remain a court information.

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Continental may serve Rota, Tinian By Rick Alberto Variety News sraff

FREEDOM AIR is willing but will not be able to fully fill the gap that may be created by the tennination of Pacific Island Aviation's flights to Tinian and Rota on Feb. 20.

Continental Micronesia, however, is likely to come to the rescue.

According to George A. Sablan, chairmanoftheCommonwealthPort Authority's airport facilities commit­tee, "there's already an understand­ingthatContinentalandFreedomAir

would be working together to fill in the gap when PIA moves out"

Sablan and CPA Executive Direc­torCarlosA. Shodarecently met with Continental president Donald J. Breeding and Freedom Air president Jack Flores in Guam to discuss the eventual termination of PIA opera­tions.

PIA has filed a notice of termina­tion after it has objected to what it claims are exorbitant passenger facil­ity charges for Tinian-Saipan and Rota-Saipan flight~.

Gov't workers complete five-day workshop CONTRACT Administration of "How To Get All You Should for the People's Tax Dollars" was the topic of a five-day workshop held at Northern Marianas College January 22-26, 1996.

Dr. Michael Razmek was the instructor for the workshop, which was sponsored by the USDA Graduate School.

Participating Workers were from Procurement and Supply Division, Planning and Bud­get office, Public Works, the Public School System, Public

Auditor's office, Common­wealth Utilities Corporation, Commonwealth Ports Author­ity, Commonwealth Develop­ment Authority and Northern Marianas College.

The course covered the most difficult contract issues fac­ing government personnel who supervised satisfactory completion of contracts. It also explored key decisions of the Board of Contract Appeals and th~ Federal Courts in the matter of claims, protests and disputes.

Sablan said the termination of the operations is supposed to take place on Feb. 20, not Feb. 1 as earlier reported.

''We have to assume that it (tenni­nation) is gonna go through; they (PIA) filed officially with DOT (US Department ofTransportation). The DOT has not informed us that PIA has changed its mind," Sablan told the Variety.

''Wehavetoassumefortheworst," he added.

Sablan told a CPA board meeting yesterday that Continental Micronesia, as major carrier here, has a moral obligation to fill the needs of travelers from Tinian and Rota as a result of PIA's withdrawal.

He said Freedom Air, a local com­muter airline, "is more than willing to

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whether or not the US can support our view that as a unique political entity, we can exclude certain classes of individu­als from the citizenship provision of the Covenant," said Tenorio.

According to the 902representative, the CNMI government is also submit­ting an official position on the issue of submerged lands as it applies to the Commonwealth.

The US Congress, through a pend­ing legislation S. 638, proposes to as­sert control over CNMI marine re-

Carlos A. Shoda

eitpand (its) seivices but not at the same level as what the PIA is doing."

sources beyond a 12 mile radius offits coasts.

The CNMI government has taken a position that local government main­tains sovereignty over its coa,t, for up to the 200-mile radius of it, exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

While in Washington, D.C., Tenorio said she expects to touch

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accident including a car accident that may happen in those areas.

Sablan said there's not much prob­lem with regards to flights to Tinian since it is the major point of destina­tion for Freedom Air.

PIA's withdrawal would most ad­versely affect Rota to where PIA fly at least five times daily.

Sablan explained that Freedom Air had informed them that based on calculations of demand, if they should try to meet PIA's level, "it's not going to be economically viable."

The PIA had threatened to sus­pend services to Tinian and Rota for two days before the elections last Nov. 4.

Shoda called this threat a black­mail to force the government to give in to the airline's demand to eliminate or lower the $4.45 facility charge.

base with key members and staff of US Congress on the progress the CNMI has been malcing in the area of labor reforms.

She said she may be updating appropriate officials on a progress report being pianned for submis­sion to the national lawmalcing body as per an April 1996 deadline.

There are fears that vandals would destroy the phones, but according to von Alvensleben, the police would be patrolling the sites where they are in­stalled day and night

NMI chapter ·of PIBBA to hold first annual meeting

'They'reforanytypeofemergency, not just for divers," he said.

Von Alvensleben said they hope to install the first phone in Ladder Beach sometime in March.

At present there are I 0,000 phones of this kind of installed in d.iff erent parts of the world.

People will also be educated on the proper use of the phones.

The phone can also be protected from a thief because he cannot get it without activating 911 and the patrol car responding.

Von Alvensleben, who also works a~ instructortrainor for the Department of Public Safety said the emergency phone project is a joint endeavorof the NMC and the DPS.

1 THEPACIFIClslandsBilingual Bicultural Association, North­emMarianalslands Chapter will hold its first annual membership meeting on Wednesday, Janu­ary 31, 1996 6:00 P.M. at the Garapan Central Park. . Current PIBBA members from 34the CNMI and those in­terested in joining the organiza­tion are asked to come to this important meeting.

The general membership meeting will include election of

' officers, review of vision and

mission of.the organization, and to discuss and plan for panicipa­tion in the annual conference to be hosted by Palau.

Annual membership fees are as follows:

• Primary membership- $20.00 (Individuals who are of Carolin­ian and Chamorro descent resid­ing in the Commonwealth);

• Associate membership -$20.00 (Any individual who sup­pons PIBBA's mission and vi­sion); and

• High School students - $ l0.00

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Please call and leave your name and contactnwnberifyou wish to become a member and could not make it to the meeting.

Strictlyforemergency use, llie phone automatically activatess 911 after a button is pushed.

The phone is solar-powered with no wire attached to it.

"Anyone can just open the lid, pick up the phone, hit the button and it activates 911," von Alvensleben said.

New ... Continued from page 1 more wells so we can reduce the pumpage in the three wells," Caruth said.

Jones, for his part, said he looks forward to working with his col­leagues in the legislature and the

Von Al vensleben said the Ameri­can Red Cross, the Diving Associa­tion, the Marianas Visitors Bureau and an unidentified donor have all committed to donate a phone unit which costs $41500. executive branch to solve the water shortage problem in the area of his constituency.

"My constituents have been bringing this matter to my attention and I want to work with all agencies concerned to explore all avenues to produce a_dequate and safe water," Jones said.

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Bill sets conditions for leases ROT A Senators Eusebio A. Hocog and Ricardo S. Atalig made good on their Inauguration Day promise with the introduc­tion of a bill that establishes guide­lines for fifteen year lease exten­sions of public land.

In a news release yesterday, Hocog said that legislation of this nature was long overdue and that this is just the first step they will take to ensure "that the people of the CNMI can truly benefit from the lease of their land."

"It's time to start putting the interest of the general popula-

No jail· for'man · . . who used, stolen .·.· · credit· cards · By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE SUPERIOR Court handed yesterday a suspended sentence to a man facing 55 years in jail for misuse of sto­len credit cards and illegal possession of a gun.

Pursuant to a plea agree­ment, Associate Judge Edward Manibusan sentenced Ronald M. Sablan for each of the two cases to five years imprison­ment, all suspended.

Manibusan, however, or­dered Sablan to pay $1,960 fine in two years and restitu­tion to Island Wear, Collecion Boutique and Sam Corp. in one year.

Sablan was required to per­form 240 hours of community work service and return all items purchased with the sto­len visa credit cards.

Sablan was charged with misuse of credit cards, nine counts of aiding or abetting forgery, and illegal possession of firearm in another case.

Sablan, through counsel An­tonio M. Atalig, entered a plea agreement with Assistant Atty. Gen. ChristineZachares.

He pleaded guilty to six counts of the charges. In re­turn, the court agreed to dis­miss the remaining charges.

Court information showed that on Dec. 5, 1994, a theft was reported at Bird Island Look Out. The credit cards belonging to Molly M. Keryan were among those stolen.

In separate incidents in 1994, Sablan and his girlfriend bought clothing and electronic cards using the cards at differ­ent establishments.

The police recovered some of the purchased items and a .22-cal. rifle at Sablan' s resi­dence during a search.

Sablan' s girlfriend, Thelma Hawkins, was also sentenced a few months ago after plead­ing guilty.

tion ahead of personal inter­ests. We must move beyond the destructive policy of ac­commodation without just com­pensation and start asking investors, 'What will you do for the people of the CNMI?"'. said Hocog.

Atalig agreed, stating that the primary motivation behind the introduction of S.B. 10-13 is to put the public's interest at the forefront of every public land lease.

"If we were to write a book about all our past land trans­actions it could be accurately titled 'Land leases of the Rich and Famous"', Atalig said.

"We are the guardians of this precious commodity but I hon­estly believe that we have failed to act in the best interests of our people. Hopefully we can put a stop to this trend here in the Tenth Legislature."

Hocog added that the CNMI would probably be a much better place if this had been the government's policy from the beginning. ·

"We need to realize that land is a valuable source of indig­enous ·power and an inextri-

cable part of our history and identity as islanders." Accord­ing to Hocog, shortsighted and careless bartering of CNMI an­cestral land is a betrayal of the past and negligent exercise that will ultimately deprive the next generations of what is rightfully theirs.

"We need to temper our desire for economic growth with the egalitarian customs of our cul­ture. I think this bill represents a step in the right direction and is, quite simply, the right thing to do," said Hocog. Eusebio A. Hocog

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Energy saving daunts states of former USSR BANGKOK-(United Nations In­fonnation Services)- Many econo­mies of the newly independent States of the former Soviet Union, including the Russian Federation, are half as efficient as those of rnarkec economies when it comes to saving on the use of energy.

In their struggle to overcome ewnomic hardship in the transi­tional period on their way toward a better economic future, these countries are faced with a contra­diction: in order to increase in­dustrial production and reduce costs, they must use energy more efficiently.

But many countries do not have t.lle funds or the infrastructure nec­essary to install energy saving measures.

Energy experts from Annenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, the Rus­sian Federation, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam met at the United Nations economize on the use of energy while incorpo­rating environmental concerns in those decisions.

The three-day regional seminar on Promotion of Energy Effi­ciency and Institution Building in Transitional Economies of Asia, which began on 10 January, was organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commis­sion for Asia and the Pacific (ES CAP) and funded by the Gov­ernment of Japan.

The seminar was followed by a three-day study tour of institu­tions in Thailand which are oper­ating under the national energy conservation programme.

Government representatives from the Russian Federation told the seminar that the Russian en­ergy policy is hampered by fast growing energy prices.

The country's primary energy production declined by 23 per­cent during 1990-1994, while en­ergy consumption in the residen­tial and commercial sectors grew.

At the same time, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and in­dustry production in Russia have decreased by some 50 percent since 1990, resulting among other

things in lower wages. As a result, many Russian municipalities spend 50 percent of their budget on hot water and heating for pri­vate and public buildings.

Yet, the financing of energy saving projects such as the in­stallment of heat meters to detect energy waste is made difficult by the tough loan conditions imposed by Russian banks.

Armenia, a country almost en­tirely dependent on its own elec­tricity production, has seen a slow­ing of energy production from 1988 to 1994.

During the last couple of years, the Government has been forced to limit the use of water and elec­tricity to three hours per day dur­ing winter time.

Energy losses, in the network, which was at 40 percent during 1994 to 1995, is a contributing factor to the shortage of energy.

The representative of Armenia expressed the hope that new eco­nomic representative of Armenia expressed the hope that new eco­nomic representative of Armenia

FSM deputy rep to U. Nations resigns to accept home post PALIKIR, Pohnpei - Pohnpei Gov­ernor Del Pangelinan has nominated David W. Panuelo to head the De­partment of Resource Management and Development in his administra­tion.

In accepting his nomination which needs confirmation by Pohnpei Leg­i5lature, Panuelo submitted his letter or resignation from his current post as Deputy Permanent Representative of the FSM's Mission to the United Nations, a post he held from 1993 to the present

His resignation talces effect on

march 15, 1996, according to his lenerofJanuary 22 l 99&to Secretary Asteria Takesy, Department of Ex­ternal Affairs.

Panuelo joined the FSM Depart­ment of External Affairs in\ate 1987, after graduating from College. From 1989 to 1993 he was assigned to Fiji as FSM's Deputy Chief of Mission.

In his nomination letter, Governor Pangelinan expressed his confidence that Panuelo possess the needed edu­cation, skills and experience to head the department for which he was nominated and urged the Legislature

PUBLIC NOTICE January 25, 1996

. The Board of Directors of the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC), a subsidiary corporation of the Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA), hereby serves notice that it will hold its regular Board Meeting on Wednesday, January 31, 1996 at 10:00 a.m. at the NMHC Conference Room in Garapan, Saipan. The public is welcome to attend. The agenda is as follows: 1. PRELIMINARY MATTERS

A. Call to Order/ Roll B. Adoption of Agenda C. Adoption of Previous Minutes: December 15, 1995

II. MIHAVILLE PROJECT 11. DEVELOPER PROPOSALS

A. Building Solutions, Inc. B. Royal Building Systems (Guam) Inc.

IV. FINANCIAL REPORTS A. FY 1995 Audit B. FY 1997 Budget C. Financial Statement D. Public Auditor's Report

V. CORPORATE DIRECTOR'S REPORTS A. Memorandum of Understanding: DPS/CJPA & DCCA/DYS B. Emergency Sheltered Families at Sugar II C. Tinian Gym Visual Fire Alarm System & Ramp Construction D. Tinian Repair & Maintenance Services E. First VA Loan Closing for Rota F. Loan Status Reports G. Mihaville Rehabilitation Project

VI: OTHER MATTERS A. Administrative

VII. ADJOURNMENT

JUAN S. TENORIO Chaimian of the Board "NMHC is an equal employment and fair housing public agency"

to confinn him. Panuelo' s resignation which fol­

lowed the departure of former Am­bassador Yosiwo George who got elected toCongressinJuly 1995 Spe­cial election leaves the FSM' s Mis­sion to the United Nations without permanent representative.

President Bailey Olter' s nomina­tion of Former Secretary ofExtemal AffairsResioMosestoreplaceformer Ambassador George as FSM' s Am­bassador to the United Nations is pending in Congress.

Congress Resolution No. 9-56 on Moses' nomination was introduced onNovember28, 1995, wasassigned to theConunittee on External Affairs Chaired by Senator Isaac Figir of Yap, says Legislative Council Brian N. Zanze. (FSM Press Release)

New vehicles . for PNG· police

POLICE in the Highlands of Papua New Cuinea are await­ing the arrival of new vehi~les to begin stepped-up patrols along major highways linking the north and south of the country.

Launching the Year of the Law Enforcement recently, prime minister Sir Julius Chan said there would be increased surveillance of highways both from the ground and the air, in order to reduce attack/ on freight trucks and travellers.

Highlands police com­mander, Samson Mapi, says his men are awaiting the de­li very of more vehicles to be­gin intensified action against robbers who have made key highways unsafe. Mapi says ihe higher level of patrols have been delayed because of a shortage of vehicles as a re­sult of government financial restrictions .... Pacnews

expressed the hope that new eco­nomic relations with neighboring countries and increased use of local energy sources would bring about a solution to these prob­lems.

Opening the seminar Adrianus Mooy, the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Com­mission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), called for economic cooperation between the coun­tries in transition on import and export of energy.

He urged them to establish tradelinkswithothercountriesinAsia, the Pacific and Europe to expand their marl::ets.

Environmental aspects should be incorporated in energy sector deci­sion-making in accordance with Agenda 21 and the Framework Con­vention on Climate Change and the European Energy Charter, he said.

Several economies in transition have embarlced on panial or gradual energy price adjustment and institu­tional reforms.

Specific energy efficiency demon­strationprojectshavebeenestablished undertheEconomicConunission for Europe (ECE).

All the Central Asian economies in transition have recent! y signed the European Energy Charter and the Related Environmental Impacts.

57 % voter turnout in Tonga elections TONGA'S latest election figures indicate that 57 per cent of the 49,409 eligible voters went to the polls in last week's election to elect nine people's representatives to the legislative assembly. The highest turnout was in the Niuas where 1,159 from the 1,586 voted - representing a 73 percent turnout.

In the final results, 'Akilisi Pohi va had a comfortable lead of 9415 votes in Tongatapu, followed by Mahe'uli'uli Tupouniua with4595 and Viliami Fukuoka with 4198 votes.

Samiu Vaipulu led the Vava'u race with 2515 votes followed closely by Masao Paasi with 2423 votes. Ha'apai sitting members 'Uliti Uata and Teisina Fuko were re-elected with 1936 votes for Uata and 1383 for Fuko.

Tu' ipulotu Lauaki who entered parliament in a by-election for 'Eua last year has secured his seat for the coming session with l 000 votes. A new face to the house is 'Aisea Fa' ofi who won 311 votes for the twoNiua's.

On Friday, Pacnews incorrectly quoted Radio Australia's Pacific corre­spondent Erina Reddan in the Tonga election stoiy in the second edition. It

as pro-democracy leader, Akilisi Pohiva, and NOT Reddan, who said he whisstrongelectionwinasamandatefromthepeoplefortheDemocracy

vement to move forward .... Pacnews

Meeting scheduled to avert UMP boltout THE meeting of the highest deci­sion-making body of Vanuatu's ruling Union of Moderate Parties, the National Council, has been brought forward to this Wednes­day.

The meeting in the capital, Port Vila- originally scheduled for the second week of March - is called to try to avert a threat by six UMP members of parliament to cross the floor to join the opposition Unity Front.

The six who include two former government ministers, Charley Nako and Amos Bangabiti, have

issued a strongly-worded state­ment to UMP president and prime minister Serge Vohor calling for a reshuffle of the cabinet to give more cabinet position to the party. UMP's 17 MPs currently hold 7 portfoliosrothenineNationa!United Party MPs' five ministries.

Pikione confirmed this week's meeting will discuss the issue. At the same time he has called on the dissenting group to reconsider their position, warning that the Unity Front was trying to weaken the UMP by spliting in MPc ...... Pacnews

Fiji reacts to British minister's criticism THE Fiji government has re­acted sharply to criticism from British Foreign Office State Minister Jeremy Hanley who claimed the country discrimi­nated against its ethnic Indian citizens.

Acting prime minister Ratu Timoci Vesikula says the speech to the Pacific Islands Society of the United King­dom in London was made without a genuine understand­ing of the situation in Fiji.

Vesikula says it's unfortu­nate that Hanley should make

his statement without visiting Fiji or holding talks with gov­ernment authorities on the human rights situation.

He says Hanley should know that Fiji has a constitution that prohibits discrimination on any grounds. But he says if Hanley was referring to gov­ernment policies which favour indigenous Fijians, then he must have forgotten that a cen­tral feature of Britain's colo­nial policy in Fiji was to re­spect and protect the interests of the native races .... Pacnews

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Help sought for US Air Force cadet By SANG-HUN CHOE

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -Hundreds of South Korean Air Force cadets have lined up as possible bone-marrow donors as a nationwide campaign heats up to help a Korean-born American with leukemia.

"With other means failing now, Koreans must help this beautiful young man.

His country already aban­doned him once," said Kim Chang-jo, producer of a one­hour documentary on Brian Bauman that aired Sunday night on state-run KBS TV.

"It's two countries working together - the country which gave birth to Brian and the country which gave him a bright future."

Born Kim Sung-duk and adopted in 1977 at age 3 by American parents in Pine City, Minn., Bauman was diagnosed with leukemia last October.

Doctors say that without a marrow transplant, the U.S. Air Force cadet has at most five years to live,

A media campaign, timed around the documentary, came after a search of bone-marrow banks in the United States and South Korea failed to turn up a compatible donor.

KBS and major dailies, which carried Bauman' s story over the weekend, reported a surge in requests for his ad­dress and offers of financial help. A few claimed they were Bauman' s biological parents .

"We feel elated. We are just swamped with sympathetic calls from potential donors," said Han Mi-kyong of the Catholic Medical Center's Bone-Marrow Information Bank, where eight staffers were checking newly collected blood samples overnight Sun­day.

On Saturday, 240 cadets and faculty members of the Korea Air Force Academy lined up to give samples for a possible match. The school said the other 700 will follow suit this week.

"Sung-duk and I have differ­ent nationalities. But we share the same Korean blood and we are pursuing the same goal. I really hope he can fly in the blue sky again," cadet Eum Chung-shik said.

Scheduled to graduate this spring, Bauman seemed healthy until October, when he com­plained of stomach pain, fatigue and loss of appetite during flight training.

Those problems now keep him in bed 18 hours a day, but he has remained determined to attend class and earn his degree.

Few Korean-Americans are registered at U.S. bone-marrow banks, so. Bauman' s parents, along with sympathetic Kore­ans and a supportive Air Force, have launched an international search for a donor.

"The love the American par­ents showed for their adopted son, the concern the Minnesota community showed for the ca-

det, were more than we imag­ined;" said producer Kim.

Doctors say Bauman has an 85 percent chance of survival if a relative can be found to give marrow and less than 45 percent if another compatible Korean donor can be found.

The chances of a match, usu­ally l-in-200,000, increases to 1 in 20,000 among the homo­geneous Koreans, experts say. But bone marrow

transplants are not well known here and only about l 0,000 potential donors are registered.

"We still hope Brian's bio­logical parents would show up. That's the best way," said Yoon Ju-hyun of the Seoul­based Eastern Child Welfare Society, which helped arrange Bauman's adoption with the Children's Society of Minne­sota.

The Seoul orphanage where Bauman lived before his adop­tion has little information about his biological parents.

A police search for his

mother, using only on a name ism-rooted society, an unwed believed to be hers, failed. mother carries a social stigma.

On KBS, Bauman, in his ca- Many Koreans are reluctant det uniform, said he wants to to adopt orphans. meet his mother to tell her Since 1958, 132,000 South about his accomplishments Korean children have been and that her decision to put adopted overseas, including him up for adoption was not a 85,800 in the United States. mistake. Of the 3,000 orphans

Despite strong child-parent adopted annually, only about

cording to government fig­ures.

In recent years, media and civic groups have urged the nation to adopt more at home and pay more attention to Ko­rean orphans taken abroad.

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Arafat accused of poll cheating By DONNA ABU-NASR

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - More than a week after the Palestinians' first national election, a final vote count is still not available and an air of suspicion clouds the West Bank and Gaza.

Yasser Arafat, facing wide­spread charges of cheating, holds tight to this line: The endorsement of international observers proves the Jan. 20 elections were free and fair, a popular mandate for his rule and the peace process.

But the observers them­selves are being criticized for superficiality and for leaving quickly before crucial vote­counting was over.

And Arafat's election offi­cials are reluctantly starting to admit some of complaints are valid.

The alleged irregularities in­clude missing ballot boxes, opposition candidates being denied access to the counting, manipulation of illiterate vot­ers - and just plain confusion.

Few contest Arafat's strong victory over challenger Samiha Khalil for the presi­dency, with a reported 88.2 percent of valid votes.

But Tewfic Abu Ghazaleh of the Central Election Com­mission has admitted "mis­takes and violations" could have affected the parliamen­tary results and many of the

complaints lodged by 35 can­didates seem based on "sound and precise evidence."

"We will take the proper measures after we finish our investigations," said Abu Ghazal eh.

In many cases, doubts stemmed from changes be­tween initial and later winners' lists - usually favoring candi­dates from Arafat's Fatah party, who according to the most recent list won about 50 of the 88 seats.

"The whole process was marred by forgery, fraud and manipulation. How else can you explain the fact that those who were up suddenly found themselves down?" said Hosni Zurub, a candidate from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Zurub, who is the Education Ministry director-general but ran as an independent, says election officials told him 15 hours after polls had closed that he had won a parliament seat. After a day of celebrations. he was dryly in­formed that he had lost.

The election commission has said final results- including a vote tally and the percentage of ballots invalidated - will only be released after Wednesday's regeat vote at two polling stations ih Jebaliya, north of Gaza City.

In that district, two candidates believed favored by Arafat, Imad Falouji and Sufian Abu Zayda, did not gain seats.

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The revote was ordered after reports of "serious violations," said Ali Safarini, an elections of­ficial.

Among the complaints: -Ballots and other voting ma­

terials were available outside poll­ing stations.

-Palestinian security forces were present inside the polling rooms and not outside as required by law. Sometimes they advised people to vote for Fatah candi­dates.

-Although one person can le­gally help three illiterate people mark ballots, some people helped more than 20.

-Ballot boxes were reported missing and kept resurfacing even

after provisional results were an­nounced.

In one case, a box arrived at Hebron' s district elections office 41 hours after voting ended and provisional results were released.

-Some candidate representa­tives were barred from observing the voting and counting process.

-Some polls counted more votes than voters.

-Hussein Shiyoukhi, a lawyer, was briefly detained by Palestin­ian police while on his way to the elections office to complain about irregularities in Hebron.

-Reporters Without Borders, a France-based watchdog group, said access to the Palestinian state media favored Fatah candidates

for most of the campaign. According to Palestinian

sources, election commission head Mahmoud Abbas argued with Arafat over the cheating be­fore leaving the country for sev­eral days last week, apparently in protest.

There also was dissatisfaction with the 700 European and Ameri­can observers who joined 2,900 Palestinian monitors.

The observers, including former President Jimmy Carter, said the elections were essentially fair despite some irregularities.

Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the People's Party who lost in the West Bank town of Ramallah, said the foreigners were "used as a cover so they can write a report saying it was a fair election."

"The observers came in the morning and said, 'Good, good,' and left. Then they came in the evening and said, 'Good, good," and left without having the faint­est idea of what's going on," said Faris.

Still, even Arafat's critics ad­mit some complaints may be ex­aggerated.

Raji Sourani, a human rights activist and outspoken critic of the Palestinian leader, noted "there are more than 600 candidates look­ing for an excuse for their loss."

"In our culture, we don't recog­nize facts," he said.

"If someone fails, then there must be some conspiracy behind this failure."

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In his death he now joins his Parents: Joaquin and Juana Tenorio; First Wife: Rita Villagomez Tenorio; Second Wife: Antonia Santos Tenorio;

Children: Ignacio V. Tenorio, Herman V. Tenorio, Herminia V. Tenorio, Francisco V. Tenorio, and Joseph S. Tenorio

Brothers: Blas P Tenorio, Miguel P. Tenorio, Jose P. Tenorio, Lino P. Tenorio and Francisco P. Tenorio, Vicente P. Tenorio

Sisters: Dolores T. Sablan, Maria T. Borja, Joaquina l Villagomez, Antonia T. Villagomez, Rosa T. Fejeran, Ana T. Villagomez, Isabel P. Tenorio and Soledad T. Castro

Parents in-law: Manuel & Antonia Villagomez, Juan Q. & Maria S. Santos

Brothers and Sisters in-law: Juan S. Villagomez, Joaquin S. & Soledad Villagomez, Vicente S. & Rosalia C. Villagomez, Jesus S. Villagomez, Jose S. Villagomez, Joaquin Delos Reyes, Jose Sablan, Juan Castro, Jesus Fejeran, Eugenio Villagomez, Benbad Borja, Adelia Tenorio San Nicolas, Magdalena A. Tenorio, Ines S. Muna, Daniel S. & Joaquina S. Borja, Thomas C. Dela Cruz, and David Scherer.

His peaceful spirit and memories will live in the hearts of his children, spouses, grandchildren and great granddaughter:

Jesus V. & Irene Tenorio(Mina, Jesse, Manny, Ignacio, Joaquin, Antoinette) Herman S. & Eleanor S. Dela Cruz(Yvonne, Gordon, Geoffrey, Yul in, Yvette, Gaiy & Yolanda)

Edward S. & Lillian A. Tenorio(Christopher and Andre) Francisco S. & Yvonne B. Tenorio(Lorna, Abraham & V.J.) Linda S. Tenorio Lillian S. Tenorio

Great Granddaughter: Joaquina Tenorio

Sisters: Consolacion T. Sablan and Ines T. Delos Reyes

Brothers in-law: Joaquin LG. Sablan, Tito Muna, and Jose S. Santos

Brother and Sister in-law: Manuel S. & Luise P. Villagomez, Jesus S. & Linda Santos

Sisters irJ-law~--Guadalupe P. Tenorio, Antonina C. Tenorio, Susana C. Villagomez, Remedio S. Dela Cruz, Lourdes S. Waki, Justina S. Scherer

He is additionally survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Rosary is being said Daily 12 Noon and 8:00 p.m. at his residence in Fina Sisu.

Last respects may be paid at his residence in Aila Sisu on Wednesday, January 31, 1996 from 4:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Thursday, February !, Mass of the Christian Burial will be offered at 4:30 p.m. at Mt. Carmel Cathedral. Internment services will follow al Chalan Kanoa Cemetary.

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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS VOTER INFORMATION

AMENDMENT No.16 REPLACEMENT OF ARTICLE 20: CIVIL SERVICE DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

Section 16: This section is new. In the 1976 Consti­tution, there was a Section 16 on civil service in Article ill: Executive Branch. In the 1985 amend­ments, the civil service provisions were moved to a separate Article XX. They have been moved back to the original placement and Article XX has been deleted entirely.

Section l 6(a): Define the civil service as including everyone employed by the Commonwealth, with three exceptions; (l) elected officials; (2) appointed positions provided in the Constitution; and (3) exceptions created by the legislature.

Section 16(b): Provide for the civil service commis­sion appointed by the Governor and decrease its size from 7 to 5 members; no member may hold any other government job; provide 5-year terms.

Section 16(c): Give the civil service commission authority to classify positions and to recommend salary increases. The legislature may reduce or reject these salary recommendations but may not increase them.

Current Article XX, Section 1, on the civil service, has been deleted. It provides: Sectfon 1: CM) S(ryke. The legislature shall provide for a non­

partisan and independent civil service with the duty to establish and administer personnel policies for the Commonwealth government. The commission shall be composed of seven member.; appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Six member.; shall serve a tenn of six years, staggered in such manner thar the tenn of one member expires each year, and one member shall serve a tenn of four years expiring concurrently with the tenn of the governor. Members of the civil service commission may be removed only for cause. The commission's authority shall extend to positions other than those filled by election or by appointment of the governor in the depanments and agencies of the executive branch and in the administrative staffs of the legislative and judicial branches. Exemption from the civil service shall be as provided by law, and the commission shall be the sole authority authorized by law to exempt positions from civil service classifications. Appointment and promotion within the civil service shall be based on merit and filncss demonstrated by examination or by other evidence of competence.

Transition Provision. Upon ratification, the governor is authorized 10 adjust the tenns of member.; currently sitting on the civil service comm!ssion in such manner that one mem~r·s tenn will expire the same day as the governor's term and the term of one member shall expire in January of each of the following years: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991.

AMENDED CONSTITUTION AS PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

ARTICLE III, SECTION 16

Section 16: Civil Service,

a) The civil service shall include all persons who are employed by or whose salary is paid by the Commonwealth except persons holding positions filled by election, appointed by the governor under this Constitution, or designated by law as excepted professional, managerial, educational, overseas, and elected officials' personal staff positions. The civil service shall be non-partisan and independent. Appointment and promotion within the civil service shall be based on merit and fitness as demonstrated by examination or other evidence of competence.

b) There is hereby established a civil service commission to develop, administer and adjudicate personnel policies and standards for the civil service. The commission shall he composed of five members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. At least one member shall be a resident of each senatorial district and no member may hold any other government position. Other qualifications and compensation shall be as provided by law. Members shall serve five year terms, with one term expiring each year, and may be removed during a tenn of office only for cause.

c) The civil service commission shall establish a classification for each position for which it has jurisdiction, but may exempt positions from classification where necessary to serve important government interests. The civil service commission shall establish policies for the compensation for civil senice positions and may submit to the legislature salary schedules based on such policies. The legislature may accept, reject or reduce a salary schedule submitted by the commission, but may not increase any salary or take any other action with respect to salaries for civil service positions.

SCHEDULE ON TRANSITTONALAND RELATED MATTERS

Section 2: Transition with Respect to Article III, Executive Branch

b) Section 16; Civil Service Commission.

(1) The current terms of civil service commission members shall not be changed under the amend­ment to section 16. As these terms expire the provisions of section 16 shall come into force. The first and second tenns to expire will create vacancies that shall not be filled. This will reduce the size of the commission from seven members to five members. As the remaining terms expire, the terms of the new appointees shall be five years as provided in section 16.

(2) The decreased size of the civil service commission shall not disturb the legislative requirements for representation from Rota, Tinian, Carolinian and other constituencies. As the commission moves from seven positions to five positions, those requirements shall continue in force.

(3) Positions that have been specified by the legislature as outside the civil service system and that qualify as professional, managerial, educational, overseas, or elected officials' personal staff positions shall remain outside the civil service system after the effective date of this amendment. The civil sen-ice commis­sion has no authority over these positions. Positions that ha,·e been formerly specified by the legislature as outside the civil senice system but that under the amended section 16 are within the civil senice system shal\ be incorporated into the system as provided by the chi! service commission.

(4) Positions that have been specified by the legislature or the civil service commission as within the civil service system, but outside the classification system, shall remain in that status until changed by the cMI service commission.

(5) Nothing in these amendments shall impair rights in contracts existing on August 4, 1995. Con­tracts that specify excepted status or exempt status as those terms were used prior to this amendment shall continue in force under the former use of these terms until expiration of the contracts. Employment contracts that do dtt fall under an excepted class are subject to the policies and standards promulgated by the civil service commission.

FOR ADDITTONAL COPIES CALL THE POST-CONVENTION COMMfITEE OFFICE 235-0843

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AMENDMENT No.17 REPLACEMENT OF ARTICLE 19: CODE OF ETHICS

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

Title: The title of Article XVII has been changed from "Code of Ethics" which covered a direction to the legislature to enact legislation on ethics to "Ethical Standards" to reflect the statement of constitutional standards.

Article XVII requires all public employees to avoid appearances of impropriety and not to use their positions for private gain.

Current Article XIX on the code of ethics is deleted. It provides: Section 1: Code of Ethics The legislature shall enact a comprehensive code of ethics which shall apply to appointed and elected officers and employees of the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions, including members of boards, commis­sions, and other instrumentalities. The code of ethics shall include a definition of proper conduct for members of the legislature with conflicts of i.nterest and a definition of the proper scope of debate in the legislature, shall require disclosure of financial or personal interests sufficient to prevent conflii;ts of interest in the performance of official duties, shall define the offense or corrupt solicitation of public officials, and shall provide for punishment of offenses by fine and imprisonment.

[Note: Current Article XVII on oath of office has been moved to Article XIX, Section l. This change is the subject of Amendment 19.]

AMENDED CONSTITUTION AS PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

ARTICLE XVII: ETHICAL STANDARDS

A public office Is a public trust. The people of the Commonwealth expect that public officials and employees must adhere to the highest standards of ethical conduct, respect the public trust and the rights or all persons, avoid the appearance or impropriety, and ncit use their position for private gain or advantage. Each branch of government shall ensure that appropriate laws and regulations are enacted to enforce these standa·rds. ·

AMENDMENT No.18 AMENDMENT OF ARTICLE 18: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

Title: The title of Article XVIII has been changed to reflect the new section on mutual consent.

Section I: Decrease the number of signatures required on a petition to amend the Constitution by popular initiative from 50% to 30% of the qualified voters. (This is current Section 4(a).)

Current Section l has been deleied entirely because the format of Article XVIII has been simplified and this section is no longer needed. Current Section l provides: Sectjop I· Proposa) of Amendments Amendments to this

Constitution may be proposed by constitutional convention, legislative initiative or popular initiative.

Section 2: A constitutional convention may not be called for 25 years (until the year 2021). The number of signatures required on a petition to call a constitu­tional convention is increased from 25% to 30% of the qualified voters. Delete the provision for calling of a constitutional convention by the voters in one senatorial district (This is current Section 2(b).)

AMENDED CONSTITUTION AS PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

ARTICLE XVIII: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND MUTUAL CONSENT

Section 1: Amendment by Popular Initiative.

The people may propose rnnstitutional amendments by initiative. An initiative petition shall contain the full text of the proposed amendment. The petition shall be signed by at least thirty percent of the persons qualified to vote in the Commonwealth and at least twenty-five percent of the persons qualified lo vote in each senatorial district.

Section 2: Amendment by Constitutional Convention.

• An initiative petition may submit to the voters the question, "Shall there be a constitutional conven-

tion to propose amendments to the Constitution?" The petition shall be signed by at least thirty percent or the persons qualified to vote in the Commonwealth and at least twenty-fi\•e percent or the persons qualified to vote in each senatorial district. An initiative petition for this purpose may not be used until the year 2021.

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AMENDMENT Current Section 2(a) which pennitted the legislature to call a constitutional convention has been deleted entirely. It provides: The legislature, by the affinna1ive vOle ofa majorily of the members of each house, may submit to the voters the question, "Shall there be a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the Constitution?" The legislature, or the governor in the event the legislature fails to act, shall submit this question to the voters at a regular general election no later than ten years after the question was last submitted and as provided by law. An act of the legislature under this subsection may not be vetoed by the governor.

Current Section 3, which allowed the legislature to propose constitutional amendments has been deleted entirely. It provides: Section 3: Legjs(atjye Initiative The legislature by the affirmative vote of threc-founhs of the members of each house present and voting may propose amendments to this Constitution. A proposed amendment may nol embrace the subject matter of more than one anicle of this Constitution. An act of the legislature under this section may nOI be vetoed by the governor.

Section 3: Provide that consent to changes in the Covenant can be accomplished only by enactment by the legislature, approval by the governor, and ratification by the people. (This is new.)

Section 4(a): Require the Attorney General to certify that there are no conflicts between the proposed constitutional amendment or mutual consent provi­sion and articles of the constitution that are not amended. (This is current Section 4(b).)

Section 4(b ): Add requirement that the election at which a constitutional amendment proposed by popular initiative is submitted to the voters be at least 90 days after certification by the Attorney General; and changes the approval requirement to 60% of the votes cast (This amends current Sections 4(b), 5(a) and 5(b).)

Section 4(c): If the voters approve the calling of a constitutional convention by a majority vote, the legislature convenes a convention which operates under prescribed rules: election on a non-partisan basis; no elected officials may run; the convention enacts its own rules. Amendments proposed by constitutional convention are submitted to the voters at an election at least 90 days from the end of the convention, and are approved by a majority of the voters (unless the convention's rules provide for a larger majority). (1bis combines and amends current Sections 2(b), 2(c), 2(d), 5(a) and 5(b).)

Section 4(d): A constitutional amendment approved by the voters becomes effective immediately, or as provided in the text approved by the voters. (This is new.)

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Section 3; Mutual Consent.

Consent by the government of the Commonwealth to amendment of any fundamental provision of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America protected by the mutual consent requirement or section 105 of the Covenant shall be communicated to the United States wtd bind the Commonwealth only after the proposed amendment to the Covenant has been approved within sixty days by a vote or three-fourths of the members of each house of the legislature after public hearings and adequate information about the position of the United States as to its consent, approved by the governor, and ratified by the people in accordance with section 4 of this article. If the legislature has not acted within sixty days, the proposed amendment shall be deemed approved by the legislature.

Section 4: Ratification.

a) An initiative petition or a proposed consent to a change in the Covenant shall be filed with the attorney general for certification that the requirements of this article have been met and that, if approved, there are no direct conflicts with provisions of the constitution not amended.

b) A proposed constitutional amendment by initiative petition or a proposed consent to a change in the Covenant certified by the attorney general shall be submitted to the voters for ratification at the next regular general election that is held at least ninety days from the dale the petition has been certified or at a special election provided by by law and shall become effective if approved by at least sixty percent of the votes cast.

c) If the calling of a constitutional convention is approved, the legislature shall convene a convention promptly which shall be organized under rules enacted by the convention. The number of delegates to the convention shall be equal to the number of members of the legislature. No person holding an elected office may be a delegate. Delegates to the convention shall be elected on a non-partisan basis. Constitutional amendments proposed by a convention shall be submitted to the voters at the next regular election that is held at least ninety days from the end of the convention or at a special election pnlYidcd by law and shall become effective if approved by a majority of the voles cast or such higher requirement as provided by the convention.

d) If a constitutional amendment or consent of the Commonwealth is approved by the voters, It shall become effective immediately or as provided in the text approved by the voters.

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AMENDMENT No.19 REPLACEMENT OF ARTICLE 17: OATH OF OFFICE AND ARTICLE 22: OFFICIAL SEAL/FLAG AND LANGUAGES

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

The title is new; it reflects the combination of Article XVII with Article XXII and the addition of a new section.

Section I: No change (1bis is current Article XVII, Section 1.)

Section 2: The date "1978" has been substituted for · the words "official seal" on the official seal. The color Marianas Trench blue has been specified for the seal. (This is current Article XXII, Section 1.)

Section 3: No change (This is current Article XXII, Sectio-!12.)

Section 4: No change. (This is current Article XXII, Section 3.)

Section 5: This specifies that Saipan is the capital of the Commonwealth. (Th.is is new.) [Note: Current Article XIX on code of ethics has been moved to Article XVII. This change is the subject of Amendment 17.J

AMENDED CONSTITUTION AS PROPOSED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

ARTICLE XIX: COMMONWEALTH. UNITY

Section t; Oath or Office.

All members or the legislature and officers and employees or the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions taking office shall take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation:

I do solemnly affirm (or swear) that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth or the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, the applicable provisions of the Constitution, laws and treaties of the United States or America, and that I \\ill faithfully discharge my duties to the best of my ability (so help me God).

Section 2; Official Seal.

The official seal or the Commonwealth shall consist or a circular field of Marianas Trench blue having in its center a white star superimposed on a gray latte stone, surrounded by the traditional Carolinian mwaar consisting or the following flowers: langilang, flores mayo, angagha, and teibwo, on the outer border, and the words encircling the mwaar, ''Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands" and "1978."

Section J; Official FJai:,

The official flag of the Commonwealth shall consist, on both sides of a rectangular field of blue, a white star in the center, superimposed on a gray latte stone, surrounded by the traditional Carolinian mwaar; The dimension of the flag, the mwaar, the star and latte stone shall be provided by law.

Section 4: Official Lammages,

The official languages of the Commonwealth ~hall be Chamorro, Carolinian and English, as deemed appropriate and as enforced by the legislature. The legislature may provide that government proceedings and documents shall be in at least one or the three languages. This section shall not be subject to judicial review.

Section S; Capital.

Saipan shall be the capital of the Commonwealth.

SCHEDULE ON TRANSITIONAL AND RELATED MATTERS

Section 8; General Transitional Provisions.

a) Except as provided in this Schedule, amendments to the Constitution shall take effect immediately after ratification by the voters.

b) Laws in force in the Commonwealth on the day preceding the effective date of any constitutional amendment that are consistent with the Constitution as amended shall continue in force until they expire or are amended or repealed.

c) Any amendment proposed by this Convention that is submitted to the people for ratification 1d the same election as an amendment proposed by the legislature that relates to the same subject shall supersede the legislature's amendment if both are ratified irrespective of the number of votes each amendment receives. The legislilture shall make no law inconsistent with this provision or that otherwise interferes with the right of ~he ~~le. t~ ~ote on the amendments proposed by the Convention. No amendments to the Constitution by legtslallve m1llallve shall be presented to the voters at the November 1995 general election or subsequently other than House Legislative Inititative 9-1, until the people have had an opportunity to decide whether th~ legislature should continue to have this authority.

d) These transitional provisions shall remain in effect until their terms have been executed. Once each year the attorney general shall review the foregoing provisions and certify to the governor which have been executed. Any provisions so certified shall be removed from this Schedule and no longer published as an attachment to the Constitution. The attorney general shall publish each certification in a newspaper of general circulation.

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In.don military cordons kidnappers JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The military has tightened a blockade around a group of rebels who are holding 13 hos­tages in eastern Indonesia in order to prevent them from moving deeper into the jungle, an official said Sunday.

The rebels, who are cam­paigning for autonomy for the province of Irian J aya, are de­manding the withdrawal of troops in exchange for the lives of their seven Indone­sian and six European hos­tages.

"We are tightening the en­circlement around his camp to prevent them from escaping," Lt. Col. Maulud Hidayat said by telephone from the mili­tary command post of Jayapura, 3,482 kilometers (2,157 miles) northeast of Jakarta.

In the meantime, he said, the military is continuing ef­forts to negotiate for the free­dom of the hostages.

The move came a day after Brig. Gen. Prabowo Subianto, com.mander of the army's elite Special Forces, predicted that the rebels would try to slip through the military cordon into the thick jungles of Baliem Valley - an inhospi­table area that is home to some of the most primitive tribes in the world.

Maulud said that rebel leader Kelly Kwalik, a former school teacher, has not been in radio contact since Thursday.

He had been negotiating with Christian missionaries.

He said that Kelly, whose relatives had been killed by Indonesian troops in 1994, seemed intent on taking a hard line with the army and would not give in to their request that the hostages be released.

But he added that military action "would only be used as a last resort."

Maulud said the rebels of the Free Papua Movement

China ships nuclear power station parts to Pakistan BEIJING (AP) - China has shipped parts for a nuclear power plant it is building in Pakistan, according to an official newspa­per report.

The condenser, high- and low­pressure heaters and other equip­ment left Shanghai Friday for Chasma, the Liberation Daily re­ported Saturday.

The report did not indicate when construction of the 300-megawatt plant south of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, would be completed. Industry experts expect it could begin operating as early as 1998.

China is believed to be aiding Pakistan in building a 40-mega­watt reactor at Kahuta that intelli · gence analysts fear could be used to produce nuclear material for weapons.

Pakistan is presumed to have the capability ofbuilding a nuclear weapon, and China has long been suspected of supplying Pakistan

with components for M-11 mis­siles.

The CIA last summer accused China of ignoring an ~greement limiting sales of missiles and parts. China has denied violating the Missile Control Technology Re­gime.

The agreement prohibits the transfer of missiles, and the parts that could be used to make them, with payloads of over 500 kilo­grams (l,lOOpounds)andarange of 300 kilometers (180 miles).

India, which has fought border wars with both Pakistan and China, on Saturday test-fired a long-range ballistic missile New Delhi says is needed to keep up with Pakistan.

On Sunday, Pakistan's state­run media quoted Foreign Secre­tary Najmuddin Sheikh vowing to match India's missile capabil­ity unless New Delhi halted its missile development program.

Tamil rebel attacks kill 16 soldiers in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP)

.· - More than 200 Tamil rebels attacked a military base with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns in northeastern Sri Lanka early Monday, kill­ing at least 13 soldiers, mili­tary officials said.

"They (rebels) surrounded the camp and launched their attack," said Major Tilak Dunuwille, a military spokes­man.

One soldier was reported missing from the camp, manned by 30 soldiers, at Pulmoddai village in Trincomalee district, 250 ki­lometers (155 miles) northeast of Colombo.

The rebels also suffered ca-

sualties in an exchange of fire with government forces, but details were not immediately available, said Dunuwille.

On Sunday, the rebels am­bushed a military patrol and killed three soldiers at Janakapura village in the north central Anuradhapura district, said Dunuwille.

The guerrillas are fighting for a homeland in the north and east for minority Tamils.

They allege widespread dis­crimination in education and jobs by majority Sinhalese who control the government and military.

More than 40,000 people have been killed in the fight­ing since 1983.

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were estimated to be less than 300, with a few carrying arms, while others use spears, long knives and bows and arrows.

The rebels kidnapped 26 people, including four Brit­ons, one German and two Dutch nationals, on Jan. 8 from the tiny village of

Mapenduma, about 160 kilo­meters (72 miles) from a mili­tary outpost in Wamena.

Since then, they have re­leased 13 hostages including German Frank Momberg, 31, who worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature, through the mediation of Christian

missionaries. The group had been work­

ing on a government project to study animal and plant life.

Irian Jaya, a former Dutch colony, makes up the western half of the island of New Guinea. Papua New Guinea makes up the eastern half.

Six rebels killed in East Timor JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) • Six rebels have been killed by Indonesian troops in two separate incidents in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor, the official Antara news agency re­ported Sunday.

Capt. Djoko Purwadi, spokesman of the military command in East Tim or, was quoted by Antara as saying that five of the rebels were

shot dead in clashes with troops on Jan. 26 near Dilor in the Vi.queque regency, 200 ki­lometers (120 miles) south­east of Dili, the provincial capital.

The report said the troops seized two M-16 rifles and one SP-1 rifle as well as three magazines of ammunition.

The sixth rebel was killed in another military operation on Jan. 25 at Atsabe in the Ermera

regency, 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Dili.

Purwadi said 27 rebels fighting for the independence of East Timar have been cap­tured· or surrendered to au­thorities in the last 10 months.

Jakarta annexed East Timar in 1976, a year after Indonesian troops invaded the troubled ter­ritory amid a civil war that erupted after the Portuguese left.

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Daiwa, Sumitomo banks I okay US asset transfer TOKYO (AP) - Scandal-plagued Daiwa Bank has ar­ranged to sell its outstanding loans and other related assets in the U.S. to Sumitomo Bank, the two institutions said Monday.

Daiwa said the two banks signed a contract Friday cover­ing the transfer, worth $3.3 billion.

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Nov. 2 ordered Daiwa to terminate its U.S. operations within 90 days and filed criminal charges against it after a rogue trader at the bank's New York branch in­curred $I.I billion in bond trading losses over 11 years.

Daiwa hid the losses from U.S. authorities for two

months. The incident temporarily

strained relations between the two countries and led to inter­national concerns about the se­cretive practicesofJapan's banks and their close relationships with financial regulators.

As part of the Friday deal, Daiwa's Chicago branch and 14 other U.S. branches will be sold to Sumitomo Bank, Daiwa said.

Moreover, Daiwa' s trust bank­ing subsidiary will be transferred to Sumitomo, Daiwa said.

The banks, which are be­lieved to be considering a merger, said that the entire transfer process will be con­cluded by the Friday dead­line.

Dollar higher, stocks lo-wer TOKYO (AP)- The U.S. dollar was trading higher against the Japanese yen at midaftemoon in Tokyo Mon­day, while prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange finished lower in moder­ate trading.

Trading remained slow as many investor, avoided making major moves ahead of a U.S. Federal Re­sel.>'e policy-setting meeting set to begin Tuesday, traders said.

Traders also said it's unlikely the Federal Reserve will elect to cut inter­est rates ahead of U.S. bond auctions later in the week, as such a move could have a detrimental effect on bond values.

Many market participants say they have already factored in cuts in key U.S. rates early in 1996asthe United States is seen wanting to stimulate its economy.

At midaftemoon, the dollar was traded at 106.92 yen, up 0.16 yen

from its late Friday level in Tokyo and also above its late New York trading level at l 06.67 yen on Friday.

On the stock market, share prices wereweakmuchoftheday'ssession, with a see-saw performance of sell­ing from domestic institutions and buyingfromoverseasinvestors,deal­ers said.

Some players retreated to the sidelines to await the outcome of the Fed's meeting and that of Gennan central bank's board of directors slated for Thursday, dealers said.

Dealers said players' s interest is whether the Bundesbank in its upcoming meeting will lower its interest rates to spur its economy.

The225-issueNikkeiStockAv­erage fell 74.64 points, or 0.36 percent, closing at 20,589.20 points.

The average closed at 20,663.84

points on Friday, up 249.15 points, or 1.22 percent from the day be­fore.

The Tokyo Stock Price Index of all issues listed on the exchange' s first section was down 3.92 points, or 0.25 percent, to 1,593.22 points. On Friday, the TOPIX was up 13.50 points, or 0.85 percent, closing at 1,597.14 points.

An estimated 480 million share.5 changed hands on the exchange's first section, up from Friday's 423.83 million shares. Despite the declines in key indexes, advancing issues nar­row 1 y outnumbered decliners 541 to 509, with 160 unchanged

The benchmark No. 174 10-year Japanese government bonds were quoted at 111.43 yen, up 0.12 yen from Friday's close.

Their yield fell to 2.935 percent from 2.950 percent.

·. . . . Asian business newsbriefs · BANGKOK BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -Thailand's oil imports surged more than 17 percent during 1995 while overall demand grew 10.9 percent, according to statistics from the Petro­leum Authority of Thailand

Crude oil from the Middle Fast fueled the skyrocketing import totals of rapid1y industrializing Thailand, up 27 .4 percent to 282,860 barrels per day.

Total demand for petroleum reached 805,400 barrels a day. Im­ports hit 630,850 barrels a day.

The total cost of crude oil to Thai­land during 1995 was 71.3 billion baht ($2.85 billion) an increase of 30.6percentor 16. 7 billion baht(S668 million).

SHENZHEN SHENZHEN (AP) - Shenzhen Lionda Holdings Co. and MC Pack­aging Hong Kong Ltd. will begin outputattheirnewaluminumcanand

pull-tab factory in early February, company officials said Monday.

The joint venture, set up in 1992, represents an invesunent of $29 mil­lion, with MC Packag:4Jg holding a 60 percent interest and· Lionda the remaining 40 percent, according to an official in Lionda' s securities de­partmenL

Lionda lists Oass A and B shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. MC Packaging trades shares on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

TOKYO TOKYO (AP) - Japan Tobacco Inc., the former government­owned tobacco monopoly, ex­pects a 20 percent increase in the production of its export tobaccos for the current fiscal year ending March 31, the company said Mon­day.

IT said it expects production of export tobaccos to increase to 22. 7 billion units from I 8.9 billion units

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last fiscal year. Last fiscal year, IT' s export sales totaled 51 billion yen ($481 million).

In the first half of this fiscal year alone, IT produced 10.9 billion units for export, which is equivalent to 32 billion yen ($302 million) in sales.

About 70 percent of IT's export tobaccos go to Asia, particularly to Thailand and Indonesia.

The company said it hopes to es­tablish its second overseas produc­tion base somewhere in Asia.

IT acquired Britain's Manchester Tobacco Co. in 1992 as its first over­seas production base, and it is build­ing a larger factory in the region to expand production.

NEW DELHI NEW DELHI, India (AP) -Apple Computers plans to launch software in Indian languages, a news report said Monday.

"Apple plans to invest millions of

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dollars in India over the next few years," said Graham Brown, the company's managing director for India.

Press Trust of India news agency quoted Brownassayingthatthecom­pany had received the government approval to setup a lOOpercentowned subsidiary in India

He said the company had already prepared prototypes ofits software in three Indian languages. ''Weareshow­ing it to the industry and the product should be in the market within a year."

Apple already has set up a technol­ogy center in the southern Indian state ofKamataka It would provide tools, technologies and products specific to the Indian market, Brown said

BANGKOK BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -A senior Japanese aid mission be­gan meeting with Thai officials

Monday to size up Thailand's needs for additional soft loans and expertise to help develop its economy.

Atsuhiko Y atabe, special assistant to the Japanese foreign minister, led the visiting specialists as they re­viewed Thailand's use of previous aid from Japan and explored its priorities beyond 2000.

Japan sent its last high-level aid mission her five years ago. Yatabe' s group plans to meet for six days with seniorofficials from the Thai ministries of economic affairs, finance and foreign af­fairs.

Japan lent Thailand 61.7 bil­lion yen ($576.2 million) in low­interest loans last year, said Yoichi Tsukamoto,adiplomatattheJapa­nese Embassy in Bangkok.

The annual interest rates on the loans ranged from 2.3 percent to 2. 7 percent.

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Singapore alters tourism Plan By VIJA Y JOSHI

SINGAPORE(AP)-Ifyoucan't beat 'em, join 'em.

Worried that the sunny beaches, cool hills and thriving cultures of the region will cloud its booming tourism industry, Singapore is forming partnerships with neigh­boring countries in a modified strategy, a top tourism official said Monday.

A city-state of3 million people, Singapore attracted a record 7. 14 million visitors in 1995, said Tan Chin Nam, chief executive of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board.

But Singapore's 1996 strategy is to sell itself as a joint destina­tion with places in Malaysia and Indonesia, he told reporters.

The idea is to offer Singapore as a gateway for other exciting destination after tourists have spent a few days shopping and admiring the city-state's cleanli­ness and order and other attrac­tions.

"We are definitely facing more competition from the region. There are wonderful attractions

in this part of the world," said Tan.

Releasing STBP's annual re­port, Tan said Singapore has set aside 4 million dollars ($2.8 mil­lion) for jointly promoting, mar­keting ai1d developing destina­tions in Malaysia.

It also has signed tourism coop­eration agreements with India, Indonesia and Vietnam and is exploring opportunities with China, Australia and Burma, he said.

All of Singapore's attractions are manmade: the glitzy shop­ping malls with the latest fashion from Europe and America; a world-class zoo and a bird park; convention facilities; golf courses; and an amusement park that oc­cupies an entire island off the mainland Singapore.

ln 1995, about 1.17 million Japanese, I million Indonesians and about 5 million others from all over the world spent 11.6 bil­lion dollars ($8.28 billion) here, according to the STBP annual re­port. STBP officials say the visi­tors spent 80 percent of their time

shopping. But the rising value of the

Singapore dollar has made shopping and hotel cost more expensive recently whereas Malaysia and Indonesia offer more for less.

"Singapore is a mature des­tination with a strong cur­rency, and the high growth rates of the early 1990s can­not be sustained indefinitely," he said.

The currency will hamper the "relative attractiveness" of shopping and hotels, "and this

will require a lot of innova­tion and hard work by our busi­nessmen" to overcome, Tan said.

Besides going regional, Singapore aims to meet the challenge by making the Singapore experience memo­rable, enhancing efficiency and productivity, improving the service and retail sector to and repositioning Singapore as the "New Asia," Tan said.

"Singapore has a colonial charm but still it is modern, sophisticated and conve-

nient," he said. In line with this strategy,

the STBP is changing its old advertising catch phrase "Sur­prising Singapore" to 'Singapore: So Easy to Enjoy, So Hard to Forget,"' he said.

To encourage the service sector to treat guests better, the STBP will offer annual awards for "Best Dining Ex­perience," "Memorable Shop­ping Experience" besides the other tourism awards for best taxi driver, best hotel door­man, he said.

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Vietnam reports progress in border talks with China HANOI, Vietnam (AP)-The latest round of talks with China over their disputed land border ended with "some positive moves," the official Vietnam News Agency reported.

The announcement late Saturday came as the two sides prepare to open rail service across their border for the first time since Chinese troops poured into Vietnam in 1979 to punish it for invading Cambodia.

China and Vietnam normalized relations in 1991 but have been nego­tiating ever since over their land and sea border.

The Vietnam News Agency re­ported that worldng-level talks held inHanoilastMondaythroughFriday ''tookpaceinanatmosphereoffriend­ship, franlmess and mutual under­standing (and) saw some positive moves."

It did not elaborate, but most previ­ous sessions have ended without any announcement 01 progress.

The next round of talks will be held in Beijing in April, the five-sentence report said

Relations between the two neigh­bors, which have swung in recent decades from socialist solidarity to armedcontlict,have warmed percep­tibly in the past few months.

When Vietnamese Communist Party chief Do Muoi visited Beijing in November, the two sides agreed to restore rail serviceattwo borderpoints.

Vietnam hopes to open service at Dong Dang near Friendship Pass, about 160 kilometers ( I 00 miles) north of Hanoi, on Feb. 12, but China has not yet agreed to the date. Rail offi­cials from both sides are to meet in Hanoi next week to make a decision.

However, the Vietnam Investment Review, published by the planning ministry, said Sunday that the Dong Dang rail link will not be direct

It said passengers will disembark at Pingx.iang on the Chinese side, travel several kilometers (miles) to the border by road, then continue by

road to the Dong Dang station which alsoisseveralkilometers(mi!es)from the crossing.

At the western town of Lao Cai, Chinese and Vietnamese trains will travel short distances across each other's borders, then stop so passen­gers and goods can be transferred to local trains.

The reason is the difference in the twocounuies' track widths, the news­paper said.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yukuhiko Ikeda, accompanied by secretary of State Warren Christopher, ans"'!ers <! ~eporters ques(1ory at the .stat~ Departi:nentJn Washington prior to their working lunch. The foreign mm,ster, making his first foreign trip met with C/Jnton administration officials earlier this month to discuss issues of mutual interest. AP

Death and Funeral Annoucement ENRIQUE MANGARERO SABLAN (ELIAS)

also known as "Henry" of San Vicente, Saipan was called to his eternal rest on Thursday, January 25, 1996

Predeceased by his parents: Father In-Law:

Survived by his wife:

Elias P. and Carmen M. Sablan Nicolas S. Rabago

Louisa Rabago Sablan

His children, spouses, and grandchildren Elias R. and Diane Sablan (Ayla, Lainie, Branon, Lora-Lee, Elias Jr.) Enrique R. Sablan and Mayra Davis Wilmer R. Sablan and Erny T. Torres (Isaac Wilis) Felixberto R. Sablan Bertha R. Sablan Andrew R. Sablan Rudy R. Sablan

Mariano M. and Mariana R. Sablan David and Rita C. Sablan Merced M. Sablan Rudy M. and Rosalia T. Sablan

Mother In-Law: Ninfa P. Rabago

Brothers and Sisters In-Law: Juan P. and Guadalupe Rabago Theresa P. Rabago (Deceased) lnes R. and Juan Q. Guerrero Antonio P. and Josephine S. Rabago Patricia R. and Manuel B. Villagomez Jose P. and Divina R. Rabago

Brothers, Sisters and Spouse: Rosalia R. and Jim Chandler Maria S. and William S. Reyes ( Both deceased) Thomas P. Rabago and Rosa Arriola Magdalena S. and Francisco Manahane He is additionally survived bv numerous Ignacio M. and Maria M. Sablan (Deceased) nieces and nephews. ·

Mass of intention is being said dailv at 6:00a.111. at Kristo Cburcb. Tbe first nine days of rosa,y is being said daily at 8:00p.m. at bis residence in San Vicente. Tbere will be no rosary for the remaining nine days, except for the daily Mass of intention at Kristo

Rai Cburch. His last Mass of intention will be on Feb111ary 10, 1996, 6:00a. m., at Kristo Rai Cburch. Last respect may be.paid at bis residence in Sa11 Vicente on Friday, Feb111a1J' 2, 1996 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 5:00 p.m. at Mt. Gannet Catbedral. lntennent senlices will follow at Cbalan Kanoa Cemetery.

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Labor party lags in Australian poll By GEOFF SPENCER

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -Australia's political leaders hit the campaign trail on Monday as new opinion polls show the oppo­sition consen,a1ive Liberal-Na­tional party coalition has made big gains over Prime Minister Paul

Keating's Labor Party govern­ment.

Keating. who has been prime minister for four of Labor's 13 years in power, has called a par­liamentary election for March 2.

He· s shrugged off the latest polls, one of which puts the oppo-

sition a massive 14 percentage points ahead of the government -more than enough for a Liberal­National landslide.

Pollsters say they' re surprised by the figures.

the community that says 13 years of failed government is enough and people want a new start," deputy Liberal Party leader Peter Costello told Aus­tralian Broadcasting Corp. ra­dio.

US Coast Guard searches for crew of missing boat

Keating, who has a reputation as a tough and effective cam­paigner, argues they don't reflect the true mood of voters.

He predicts a majority will sup­port his government when they reach the ballot box at the end of the five-week campaign.

"We also know, however, we go into this election as an underdog because we've been in opposition for 13 years."

Keating announced the elec­tion date on the weekend when three new opinion polls were taken. By MAUREEN CLARK

ANCHORAGE, A.laska(AP)­The U.S. Coast Guard searched a 361-square-mile (935-square­kilometer) portion of the Bering Sea for seven crewmen aboard a crab boat that apparently cap­sized in stormy weather.

The search Sunday forthe 127-foot (38-meter) fishing vessel Pacesetter began Saturday night after the Coast Guard was alerted to an emergency radio beacon.

The signal was pinpointed to about 60 miles (95 kilometers} south of St. George Island, 700

\ miles (1,126 kilometers) south-

west of Anchorage. A fishing vessel that reached

the area early Sunday found a life raft and buoy float with the Pacesetter's name on it and the transmitter that had sent the emergency beacon.

Another fishing vessel found a second life raft about two hours later.

There was no sign of the vessel or the crew, and it's not known if any of those on board survived, said Senior Chief Gary Jens en at the Coast Guard command cen­ter in Juneau.

Many analysts are also treating the poll results with caution and some have questioned the accu­racy of survey methods.

They say it's too early in the campaign to gauge real voter sen­timent.

While most acknowledge that Labor's support is lagging, they note Labor, under Keating, came from behind to win the previous election in 1993.

The opposition, which needs only a small shift in voting patterns to win, also expects Labor to put up a dogged fight.

"We know there's a mood in

The Morgan poll, published in the Bulletin newsmagazine, puts the Liberal-National op­position eight percentage points ahead of Labor with a two percent margin of error.

The Quadrant poll, pub­lished in Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper, said the op­position is six percentage points ahead of Labor, with a 2.5 percent margin of error.

The AGB-McNair poll, pub­lished in the Sydney Morning Herald, says Labor is behind by 14 percentage points, with

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June 26, 1907 - January 25, ·1996 . · ' . · of Hachijo Jima, Japan

was called to her eternal rest on January 25, 1996, Thursday, at the age of 88 years.

In her death, she now joins her husband, Enrique Castro Dela Cruz, and her parents, Jujiro Tamaoki and Okatsu Sasaki.

Ignacio Flores Dela Cruz, Maria Crisostomo Castro, Maria Borja Ogo (all deceased) Her long years ol /Jardships, devotion and dedicated services, as single parent and widow, will long be remembered and embraced in our hearts.

CHILDREN& SPOUSES: MARIA DLC. CABRERA & VINCENTE M. CABRERA (DECEASED), EDWARD T. DELA CRUZ & FLORY M. DELA CRUZ, MANASES T. DELA CRUZ & VIOLY M. DE:LA CRUZ, TRINIDAD DLC. CABRERA & PROBIO M. CABRERA, ELPIDIA DLC. NAUTA & BILLA NAUTA, DR. IGNACIO T. DELA CRUZ & VICKY F. DELA CRUZ, ENRIQUE T. DELA CRUZ & BERNIE B. DELA CRUZ.

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a four percent margin of error. The e~ection campaign is

shaping up as a contest which will be fought on the person­alities of party leaders rather than their policies.

Labor television commer­cials portray Keating as deci­sive. They say while he's not liked by many Australians, he's respected for opening up Australia's economy and forg­ing a new national identity in the Asia-Pacific region.

In contrast the commercials portray Howard, who tried and failed to win office at elec­tions in 1987, as a weak, ul­traconservative leader bereft of new policies or vision who wants to turn back the clock.

For his part Howard says Keating has been a "failure as prime minister."

He maintains the govern­ment has been in office too long and it's time for change.

Labor has received one set­back already - the resignation of a junior minister, Gary Punch, who says he will not seek re-election because of family reasons.

Keating started his cam­paign on Monday by announc­ing a dlrs 209 million ($U.S. 156 million) package to tackle problems such as unemploy­ment, homelessness and drug addiction among young people over the next four years.

Last ·week Keating an­nounced a big package to help the environment, which is re­garded as a major campaign issue along with economic management, unemployment, labor relations and health care.

80 hurt as building in Bangladesh collapses DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -A newly-built textile factory in northern Bangladesh col­lapsed over the weekend, in­juring at least 80 people, po­lice said Monday.

Forty five of them were hos­pitalized, police said.

The roof of the two-story building collapsed under the weight of nearly 200 workers who were giving finishing touches on Sunday in Gazipur town, 20 miles (30 kilome­ters) north of Dhaka.

Many workers trapped un­der the rubble were rescued by local people.

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Final arguments in Okinawa rape case

Stiff sentences sought for US soldiers By BRAVEN SMILLIE

NAHA, Okinawa (AP) - De­nouncing the rape of a 12-year­old Okinawa schoolgirl as "ex­ceptionally vicious," prosecutors on Monday demanded prison sen­tences of 10 years at hard labor for three U.S. servicemen accused in the assault.

In final arguments in the rape case, which has galvanized oppo­sition to the American military presence on this small Japanese island, prosecutors read a state­ment from the girl's father plead­ing for the harshest possible pun­ishment for the two Marines and a Navy sailor.

"Please keep these criminals in prison until they die," the father appealed. Prosecutors say the girl was bound, beaten and raped in the back seat of a rental car before being dumped on a remote road.

The three servicemen - Marine Pfc. Rodrico Harp of Griffin, Ga., Marine Pfc. Kendrick Ledet of Waycross, Ga., and Navy Sea­man Marcus Gill of Woodville, Texas - are being tried together in Naha District Court on charges of rape causing injury, which carries a minimum sentence of three years and a maximum of life in prison, and confinement.

A ruling is expected about three weeks after Monday's final argu: ments, and sentencing would fol-

low soon afterward. In Japan, 99 percent of criminal cases that come to trial result in convic­tions.

Japan does not have a jury sys­tem, and the verdict will be be determined by a panel of three judges.

Earlier Monday, Ledet's de­fense lawyer Yutaka Arakawa said he expected prosecutors would seek 6-7 year sentences.

Even that would have been rela­tively tough; no Japanese court has ever imposed a sentence of more than 10 years for rape caus­ing injury.

Gill, 22, has confessed to the Sept. 4 rape, but Ledet, 20, and Harp, 21, acknowleged only join­ing in the abduction. In their sum­mation, the prosecution said Gill and Harp had actually raped the girl, and that Ledet had tried but was unable to do so.

"His criminal responsibility is equally great, "said the chief pros­ecutor, Masayuki Nomura.

The prosecutor repeatedly re­ferred to what he said was a chill­ing and calculated stalking of the girl as she shopped for school supplies in a quiet neighborhood.

"It was very well planned, and the nature of the crime was bold and exceptionally vicious," he said. !

As the prosecutor spoke, the

defendants listened quietly with heads bowed. At one point, Harp silently shook his head when the prosecutor asserted he had punched the girl with his closed fist.

The defendants·· 1awyer was to make a presentation later Mon­day, in which he was expected to plead for light sentences.

All three of the accused, plus some members of their families, have apologized in court for the attack.

In Japan, a show of contrition can help lighten a sentence.

The three also agreed to pay compensation to the girl and her family, but lawyer Arakawa said the girl's father had refused the second installment of what was to have been a $15,000 payment af­ter hearing that the accused would cite the payment in pleading for leniency.

Islanders have long complained of the high rate of violent crime among American service person­nel. Before beginning what was to be the final session of the rape trial, the N aha District Court sen­tenced Marine Pfc. Joshua Hill, of Youngstown, Ohio, to 11 years in prison in a separate case: the bludgeoning to death of an Okinawan woman last May.

Last Friday, the military con­firmed that an Air Force enlisted

Mothers Barbara Cannon, right, of Marine Pfc. Kendrick Ledet of Waycross, Ga., and Daisey Harp of Marine Pre. Rodrico Harp, of Griffin, Ga. sit in a Naha court during trial. The final day of the trial of three U.S. servicemen accused of raping a 12-year-old schoolgirl was set back after the mothers asked to have trial moved off the southernmost island of Okinawa. Defense lawyers are seen from left: Yutaka Arikawa for Ledet and Koshin Matsunaga for Harp. AP

Burma's ex-president dead at 78 RANGOON, Burnia (AP) - Former President San Yu,oneofBunna's last leaders to have come of age during the country's anti-colonial struggle, died Sunday at a military hospital in Rangoon. He was 78.

San Yu had received treatment at the hospital for several years following a heart operation he underwent in Hous­ton, Texas, in l 983.

The precise cause of his death was not known.

San Yu succeeded Gen. Ne Win as president ofBurma' s military govern-

ment in 1981. He stepped down in 1988, shortly before the country's cur­rent military rulers took power.

San Yu was a medical student when JapanoverranBunna,aBritishcolony, during World War II. He joined Bur­mese anti-colonial forces and helped Burma win it, independence from Brit­ain in 1949.

A spartan, hardworking but color­less figure, he was a loyal lieutenant of Ne Win, who seized power in a coup in 1962 and launched Burma on a disas­trous course of isclation and socialist

self-reliance. San Yu rose to the rank of general in

1972 and succeeded Ne Win as com­mander-in-<:hief of the aimy.

Many Bwmese considered San Yu apossiblerival to Ne Winunti!Burma's paramount leader, sensing a political threat, demoted him in 1977. San Yu replaced the ailing Ne

Win as president four years later. Under his leadership, the government jailed thousand, of opponent,, banned trade unions and abolished Burma's independent press.

man has been charged with rap­ing a 14-year-old American girl on a base on Okinawa.

The concentration of troops on Okinawa has Jong been a source of simmering discontent, but the rape of the 12-year-old ignited nationwide protests and demands for reductions.

Okinawa hosts two-thirds of the 47,000 American troops in Japan.

The troops question has become

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The issue is expected to top the agenda when President Clinton makes a state visit in April.

The two sides areexJ)P..cted to agree to eventually reduce the U.S. pres­ence on Okinawa but to keep overall troop levels in Japan steady.

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Roh trial resumes By PAUL SHIN

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -The bribery trial of former Presi­dent Roh Tae-woo resumed Monday at a .quick pace amid indications that defense lawyers would try to end the proceed­ings early.

Legal officials said the speedy work could enable the court to close arguments and ask pros­ecutors to seek sentences for all but the ex-president by the end of the day.

The prosecution was likely to delay its demand for punish­ment for Roh until other charges filed against him - military in­surrection and treason - are dealt with by another court, they said.

Only three defense witnesses testified during the morning ses­sion.

They denied that the dona­tions given by their companies to Roh were bribes.

The defense originally had planned to call nine witnesses but withdrew six under a new strategy to avoid "unnecessary friction" with the government. according to new reports quot­ing Roh' s attorneys.

The three who did take the stand were aides to the chair­men of their companies: Samsung, Jinro and Dongbu.

Roh, who earlier refused to be questioned, did not ask any­one to testify for him.

Roh's refusal to defend him­self was seen as an effort to be jlOrtrayed as a jlOlitical victim. His predecessor, Chun Doo­hwan, who also faces trial, staged a 26-day hunger strike in December to protest alleged political retaliation.

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of the Samsung group, the nation's largest conglomerate, testified that his boss, Lee Kun­hee, was not involved, claiming that money was passed to Roh through executives.

Oth~r witnesses also claimed the money their companies gave Roh was "political funds," given under a longstanding practice observed by past military­backed governments.

Roh, in a blue prison uniform and rubber shoes, remained mo­tionless in a plastic chair.

As before, news coverage of Monday's trial session, the third since Dec. 18, was severely re­stricted.

Photography was forbidden. Outside the courthouse, about

two dozen family members of ;'political prisoners" under the Roh administration demon­strated, shouting "Death!" for the former military strongman. Several protesters were taken away.

If convicted, Roh faces up to life in prison. Insurrection and treason charges carry the maxi­mum penalty of death, although it is unlikely to be imposed.

Roh, president from 1988-93, was charged with taking $365 million in bribes from dozens of businessmen for a $650 mil­lion slush fund he ha,s admitted he amassed during his five-year term.

In the previous sessions, Roh claimed the money came from donations, not bribes.

Businessmen testified they gave "pseudo-taxes" to avoid administrative disadvantages.

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implicated in the case, includ­ing Lee of Samsung, Kim Woo­joong of Daewoo and Choi Won-suk of Dong-Ah.

The businessmen were charged with giving Roh up to $28 million in return for gov­ernment projects or favors.

They could face up to five years in prison.

Business leaders have ex­pressed worry that any heavy punishment would discourage domestic investment and tarnish their international image.

South Korea relies heavily on conglomerates for its economic development. Lee's 24-com­pany Samsung group, the nation's largest conglomerate, alone accounts for 18 percent of the country's annual gross national product.

Roh' s chief bodyguard, Lee Hyun-woo, faces up to life in prison for allegedly helping Roh take bribes. Four other

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protesters six months later. The trial of Chun, president

from I 980-88, is scheduled to open Feb. 5.

Court officials said it has not been decided whether the two ex-presidents would be tried together or separately.

Motive behind attack on nuns unclear; cops puzzled

By GLENN ADAMS WATERVILLE, Maine (AP)- Four nuns were beaten and stabbed after a prayer service in their convent, and a man whoallegedlybludgeonedatleast one of them with a religious statue was in custody.

Two of the nuns died and the other two remained hospitalized Sunday.

"'This may be one of the most hei­nouscrimesevercommitted in Maine," said spokesman Stephen McCausland of the state Public Safety Deparm1enL

He said police did not know a motive for the attacks Saturday evening at the convent of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament.

The Roman Catholic nuns had fin­ished an evening prayer service Satur­dav when the intruder sma,hed the glass on a locked door, opened it and walked inside about 6 p.m. One of the women wa, attacked in the chapel and the other three in an adjacent part of the convent.

Mark A. Bechard, 37, ofWaterviJle, who had a history of mental problems, surrendered without resistance when police anived.

The officers "took Mr. Bechard off one nun he was beating," said police Chief John Morris.

Bechard was using a religious statue to beat the woman, police said.

Officers declined to identify the reli­gious figure depicted by the figurine.

''Wedidn'tknowexactlywhattocall it, so we called it a religious statue," McCausland said.

PolicetoldBechardtodropthcstatue and put his hands up, "and he did exactly what they told him to do," McCausland said.

Bechard, who was known to the nuns and had worshiped in their chapel previously, was also known to police.

"We have dealt with Mr. Bechard in criminal matters and mental health matters," said Morris, adding that the suspect had been involuntarily com­mitted to a mental hospital in 1994.

Hewouldnotelaborate. Servants of the Blessed Sacrament are an inter­national order. Their only other con­vent in the United States is in Pueblo, Colorado.

The yellow brick chapel in this cen­tral Maine city is open daily to the

public for worship, and nuns take turns keeping vigil near the altar.

The convent's five othernuns were in seclusion and did not answer calls Sunday.

A handwritten sign taped to the in­side of the locked chapel door said: ''Chapel dosed except for Mass. Pray for us."

The chapel is located next to the Maine Criminal Justice Academy, where state and municipal officers are trained. No one was at the academy at the time, McCausland said.

Mother Superior Edna Mary Cardozo, 68, died late Saturday at Kennebec Valley Medical Center in Augusta, and Sister Mary Julien Fortin, 67, died early Sunday, said hospital spokeswoman Mary Plumer.

An state autopsy determined that the women died from "multiple blunt force injuries of the head," a medical examiner's spokeswoman said Sun­day.

Sister Mary Anna DiGiacomo, 72, was in serious condition early Monday, and Sister Patricia Keane, 68, was in good condition.

Teruyuki Onishi, a construction worker, operates a power shovel last Jan. 16 to build an anti-landslide protection wall at the bottom of the Esaki Lighthouse in Hokutan cho in Awaji Island, an epicenter oflast year's deadliest earthquake which hit vast areas in western Japan. Esaki is the northern tip of a fault line which stretched under the seabed of the Seto Inland Sea to the western Japanese port city of Kobe. (AP Photo)

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01 BUTCHER PLANT HELPER-Sal­ary:$2.75 per hour Contact:GLOBAL TRADERS, INC. TEL. 234-7415/8733(1/30)T22167

01 ACCOUNTANT·Salary:$650 per month Contact:WIN FUNG ENT. INC. TEL. 234·323B( 1 /30) T22173

01 GENERAL MANAGER·Sal-ary:$5.00-$7.00 per hour Contact: BEACHWAY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION TEL. 233-2070(1/ 30)T22178

01 ACCOUNTANT -Salary:$3.00 per hour Contact: VARGAS CORPORATION TEL 235-0297(1/30)T221 B1

01 MANAGER -_Salary:$5.00 per hour Contact:MASUDA CORPORATION dba Himitsu Karaoke Club TEL. 322-3782(1/ 30)T221n

01 PROJECT MANAGER-Sal-ary:$3,000-$3,700 per month Contact: SHIMIZU CORPORATION TEL. 322·3482(1/30)T22183

01 INSTRUCTOR(SCUBA DIVING) SPORT-Salary:$600·$1, 100 per month Contact:COMMONWEALTH MARINE LEISURE CORP. dba Marine Sport & Leisure TEL. 234·9157(1/30)T221B4

01 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERZ-Sal· ary:$3.00 per hour 03 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER-Sal· ary:$2.75 per hour 03 HOUSEKEEPING CLEANER-Sal­ary:$2.75"per hour Contact: BIEN SEIKO INC. TEL. 322-7410(1/30)T22169

12 MASON-Salary:$2.75 per hour 11 CARPENTER-Salary:$2. 75 per hour Ccntact:E.C. GOZUM & CO. INC. TEL. 256-0331 (1/30)T221 B5

02 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.00-$5.00 per hour 03 GAS STATION ATIENDANT-Sal­ary:$2. 75 per hour Contact: AA Enterprises, Inc. TEL. 322-4447/3149/0609(1/30)T22168

02 DIVING INSTRUCTORS-Sal­ary:$1,000 per month Contact: PAN PACIFIC TOURS, INC. dba Saipan International Diving School TEL. 234-5684/235-3313/233-5415(1/ 30)T5369

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01 ASSISTANT MANAGER-Sal­ary:$1,000 per month 01 SALES MANAGER-Salary:$1,000 J)er month 02 MERCHANDISE DISTRIBUTOR­Salary:$2.75 per hour 01 WAREHOUSE WORKER-Sal­ary:$2. 75 per hour 02 SUPERVISOR-Salary:$2.75 per hour Contact: TRI-ALL INTERNATIONAL CORP. dba Wholesale/retail/foreign ex­change TEL 234-1603(1/30)T22175

01 KITCHEN HELPER-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: D'ELEGENCE ENT. INC. TEL: 234-9227(2/6)T222524

01 SUPERVISOR-Salary $4.50-8.00 per hour Contact: TROPICAL COLOR FILM DE­VELOPING CENTER MIC., INC. rEL: 234-6306(2/6)T222525

01 MAITENANCE WORKER-Salary $2. 75 per hour Contact: K.B. ENTERPRISES, INC. TEL: 234-5023(2/6)222523

01 GENERAL MAINTENANCE-Salary $2. 75 per hour Contact: ASIAN SOURCES INC. TEL: 235-2730(2/6)T222522

01 WAITRESS-RESTAURANT-Salary $2. 75-3.05 per hour 01 GENERAL MAINTENANCE-Salary $2. 75-3.05 per hour 01 BARl'ENDER-Salary $2.75-3.05 per hour Contact: NIPPON GENERAL TRADING CORPORATION dba COUNTRY HOUSE RESTAURANT! TEL: 233-190B(2/6)T222520

06 CUTIING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary $2.75 per hour 01 HUMAN RESOURCE-Salary $2.75 per hour 01 COMPUTER OPERATOR-Salary $2. 75 per hour Contact: ADVANCE TEXTILE CORP. TEL: 322-5798/99(2/6)T222519

01 MARINE SPORTS OPERATOR-Sal­ary $1,400.00 per month 01 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Salary $1,250.00 per month Contact: PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT, INC. TEL: 322-8786(2/6)T22516

01 ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN-Sal­ary $1,679.00 per month Contact: EFRAIN F. CAMACHO dba EFC ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS TEL: 322-7814(2/6)T5284

01 COOK-Salary $3.05 per hour Contact: SY'S CORPORATION dba PACIFIC GARDENIA HOTEL TEL: 234-3455/66/77(2/6)T5286

01 WAITRESS-REST.-Salary $3.50 per ~our Contact: L & W AMUSEMENT CORP. dba LEN'S BAR & REST. TEL: 234-8864(2/6)T222529

03 HOUSEKEEPING (CLEANERS)­Salary $2.75 per hour 01 COMPUTER OPERATOR-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: MARGIE B. TUDELA dba PYRAMID ENTERPRISES TEL: 235-2849(2/6)T5298

50 OVERLOCK SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary $2.75 per hour 50 SINGLE NEEDLE MACHINE OP­ERATOR-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: NET APPARAL CO. 1EL: 235-7270(2/6)T222526

01 CHEF-Salary: $800-2,200.00/month Contact: SUWASO CORPORATION dba CORAL OCEAN POINT RESORT CLUB Tel .No. 234-7000 (2/13)T5469

01 COMPUTER OPERATOR-Salary: S3.00/hour Contact: RAMONCHITO P . TANGONAN dba LYNN's ENTER· PRISES Tai. No. 288-1116 (2/13)T222618

01 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary: $5.00/ hour Contact: DEV &ASSOCIATES, INC. Tel. No. 234·6187 /88(2/13)T222620

01 GARDENER-Salary: $480.00/month Contact: APEX INTL. CORPORATION Tel. No. 322-3053 (2/13)T222617

01 MECHANICAL ENGINEER-Salary: $2. 75-6.00/hour Contact: WOOSUNG SAIPAN CORPO· RATION dba WOOSUNG CONSTRUC­TION COMPANY Tel. No. 235-1239/ 1240(2/13)T222614

01 AUTO BODY REPAIRER-Salary: $4.50-7.00/hour Contact: JOETEN MOTORS COM­PANY, INC. Tel. No. 234.5562 thru 68 (2/13)T6481

15 PRESSER. HAND-Salary: $22.75/ hour 15 (PACKER) HAND PACKAGER-Sal· ary: $2.75/hour 15 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER­Salary: $2.75/hour 200 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary: $2.75/hour 15 CUTIER, HAND-Salary: $2.75/hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $4.00-5.00/ hour Contact: COMMONWEALTH GAR­MENT MFG. INC. Tel. No. 234-3481/ 7550(2/13)T222612

200 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary: $2. 75/hour 15 PRESSER, HAND-Salary: $2.75/ hour 15 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER· Salary: $2.75/hour 15 CUTIER, HAND-Salary: $2.75/hour 15 (PACKER) HAND PACKAGER-Sal­ary: $2.75/hour 01 MERCHANDISING REP.-SALARY: $2.75/hour 01 SALES COORDINATOR-Salary: $2.75/hour Contact: MIRAGE (SAIPAN) CO., LTD. Tel. No. 234-3481/7550(2/13)T222611

02 WAITRESS, RESTAURANT-Salary: $2.75/hour Contact: MARGARITA R. TENORIO dba DR. JACK'S BAR & GRILL Tet .No. 234-9242/B296(2/13)T-222621

01 TOUR OPERATIONS MANAGER­Salary: $1,500-3,500.00/month Contact: PACIFIC MICRONESIA TOURS, INC. Tel. No. 234-3488(2/ 13)T222632

01 STORE SUPERVISOR-Salary: $1,075-1,800.00/month Contact: NANTO SAIPAN CO., LTD. Tel. No. 234-348B or 235-8697(2/ 13)T222631

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01 MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR-Sal· ary: $4.00-9.00/hour 01 PRODUCTION MANAGER-Salary: $4.00·9.00/hour Contact: WINNERS CORPORATION Tel. No. 235-1804/5 (2/13)T222624

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YOUR BIRTHDAY By Stella Wilder

Born today, you are not the kind of person who keeps your opinions and beliefs to yourself. Woe to anyone who tries to trap you into betraying yourself in any way. You are one of the most ideal­istic individuals born under your sign, and you are always true to yourself no matter what difficul­ties you encounter as a result. When your back is against the wall, you can be an aggressive and formidable adversary. You do not give up until the fight is over and you have come out on top. Al· though you are not prone to offen­sive remarks, you will speak out when you have.been offended.

Ene~etic, vibrant and eager to take a bn:e out of life, you will work harder and longer than almost anyone else born under your sign. You seem to have an inexhaustible supply of inspiration and energy, and your drive and ambition are unmatched.

Also born on this date are: Dick Cheney, U.S. secretary of defense; Gene Hackman, actor; Dick Martin, comic; Vanessa Redgrave, actress; Boris Spassky, chess player.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and

BARBS BARBS BY PHIL PASTORET

Next time you feel sorry for your· self, think of how an astronaut feels. no bathtubs for six zillion miles.

Hell would be watching a daytime talk show, over and over, for eternity.

People with time on their hand should buy t:ghter-fitting watchbands.

Love al first sight can make you wish you'd consulted your optometrist.

read the correseonding para­graph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

- You may not be in charge today, but you can have a controlling in­~ uence if you play your cards right. Background activities will prove pivotal.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - Someone may play a strange guessing game with you, but today you will find the strength to call it quits and move on.

ARIES <March 21-April 19) -Today it will be important to figure things out quickly and accurately before you get caught up in a situ­ation you cannot control.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Someone may be interested in pro­moting your ideas at this time, but you may have to continue to prove yourself until a deal is struck.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Social situations will provide more m the way of career opportunities t?~ay than you could possibly an­ticipate. A chance meeting must not be forgotten.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Are you giving a friend or loved one a reason to be jealous of your behavior? Take care not to step on anyone else's toes at this time.

Politicians love to breakfast in their offices, savoring the aroma of fresh­brewed perks

Trying lo repair a leaky rnucct is guaranteed to keep any do-it·your­selfer humble for a lifetime.

How come we invite people into our homes via the TV when we would never open our door to them'

There's a great future for anyone who can't carry a tune in a basket. Contemporary bands are searching for just such singers.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - You may need a little help today in or­der to make sense of a confusing situation that arose quite suddenly out of the blue.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - It will be important to know the ciif. ference between a family issue and one that should be openly shared with others. Propriety may be an issue today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) -Time spent in and around the home today will serve to strength­en bonds that will prove more es­sential to you in the days and weeks to come.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -This will be a /lo_od day to try to prove your susp1c1ons about some­one else. Do not, however, stoop to any underhanded means to prove your point.

SAGI'ITARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - You may find that routine complications are far more annoy­ing today than they have been in the past. Perhaps you're ready to move on.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- ll will be time to wake up and smell the coffee. Today you'll have a chance to open your eyes and your mind and see things as they really are.

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If someone selling a financial plan says "Trust me," put one hand on your wallet and the other on your credit cards.

How come glue sticks your fingers together so tight you can't use 'em, out other things you use it on foll apart'

Our minister wonders if sinners were invented to keep ministers from being bored to death with do-gooders.

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Dogs in hats, beer for breakfast on football's holiest day TEMPE, Arizona (AP) - Dogs wore hats, ministers preached of foot· ball and breakfast was a beer as the carnival of Super Bowl Sunday fi­nally anived.

"God bless football!" yelled Pitts­burgh fan Lou Gelbloom, a Steelers tattoo on his forehead and a black and gold cape around his neck. ''This is what America is all about"

The Toronto man was one of thou­sandsofpeoplewhojammerlTempe' s streets hours before kickoff, extend­ing the football fiesta well beyond the gates of Sun Devil Stadiwn.

Parldng lots were transformed into dance floors, sidewalks became bar­becues and bodies were turned into billboards as fans got serious, hours

Girl ... Continued from page 20 beat for a racer her gender and age.

The practice time trial was a thriller to the spectators who saw racers take a sharp turn at curbs number one and the sharper horse-shoe turn at curbs nwnbersix and nine, sharp enough to make the tires screech and burn at 6()... mph and leave behind a smell of air mixed with burned-rubber tire.

RacecharnpionNoriyukiKoyama, 21,ofSaitamaJapan; GregHurst,41, of Team Saipan, Jon Sevilla, 31 and Steve Skidmore of Team Guam,

Toyota ... Continued from page 20 riod but not enough to bring their team closer to the trail of the Wheelers.

Unlike its two-man offensive in the top half, 01' Aces evenly pounded the board as a team in the last half with 41 points.

But Wheelers' Ray Lizama, who was scoreless in the first half, led his team' scounter-offensivewith 13points. Frank Iglesias and Richardson con­verted nine points apiece with an 8-point backup from Dado Vista! for the win.

From 16 points in the first half, Pua was limited to one point in the second half when the Wheelersplacedhimand Ken Kalen in a penalty trouble with four fouls each.

BothPuaandKalenledtheOI' Aces

Cowboys ... Continued from page 20

knewitwouldbeatoughgame." The win extended the NFC's streak of vic­tories in the National Football League showcase game to an even dozen. The National Football Conference is one of two conferences in the NFL.

Dallas controlled the first half, with help from O'DoIUiel!, the Pittsburgh quarterback who was high and outside most of the time, even on his comple­tions.

But while they scored on their first two possessions, they could convert those only into 13 points, leaving the Steelers within striking range, even with O'Donnell struggling so much.

Then the Steelers, a, they have so often, scored in the last two minutes, turning it into a 13-7 game.

But while the Dallas offense fizzled, the defensedidn 't, particularly Brown, who joined Miami's Jake Scott 23 years ago as the only other defensive back to win a Super Bowl most valu­ableplayertrophy.Andthatwasenough for the Cowboys to join San Francisco aso

nly teams to win five Super Bowls. Pittsburgh, which won four Super

Bowls during the 1970s, Jost for the first time in five appearances. Dallas'

·· victory also bailed out Switzer, who took over from Jimmy Johnson last season after Johnson and Dallas owner Jerry Jones had their well-publicized

before The Cowboys, with their lirnou·

sines and famous cheerleaders, went into the as the glamour team. They left as champions, having beaten the Steelers 27-17 for their third title in four years.

While Dallas got a warm reception during player introductions, it paled next to the flurry of towels waved as the Steelers took the field before a crowd that appeared to favorthe gritty gang.

Even dogs were decked out in sun­glasses and sparkling hats_ all cov­ered with logos of the Cowboys and Steelers. "Go Boys!" said Craig Dawn, a grin on his face and beer in hand as he had a huge blue Cowboys

Akai- the driver of kart nwnber 28-andtherestoftheracersdidjust that formorethan20lapsoftheentire competition.

The time trial event made the spec­tators believe that it was an all-men event.

Localspectatorswerenotawareof Akai' sage and gender until the quali­fying heat when all contenders were asked to lineup-without their safety helmets-fortheopeningceremony.

Thecrowd wasawedandsuiprised when a chubby youthful girl, just a little over four feet in height, was introduted by the race announcer to

offensivewith l 7poinL~each,followed by Jason Taisacan with JO and Jim Hapdei eight

Wheelers' Richardson finished the game with 29 points, followed by Iglesias and Lizama with l 3e2.eh, Vista! ll, and Gabaldon l 0.

In the second game, coach Tony Rogolifoi's Ol' Aces team bowed to the pressure of San Vicente Sw1risers, 105-97, in the last half of the game. 01' Aces took the first half by a four-point lead, 52-56.

Ol' Aces played good offense in the top half. Junior Renguul and Winsor Peter combined 30 points that gave their team the halftime lead.

The penalty situation spiced up the momentum of the game. As the low post players of both teams found them­selves in the penalty situation, those with less fouls took the cudgel of scor-

split SwitzerthusjoinedJohnsonas the only coaches to win both college and pro championships despite a season of gaffes that left him labeled "Bow the Coach."

TheCowboyswerefavoredby 13 J/ 2 points, but after the narrow win even the trophy celebration was subdued. 'This ball game represenl, tl1e kind of season we've had," said Jones in ac­cepting the Vince Lombardi Trophy from commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who had bitterly attacked Jones on national television earlier in the day. 'This wa~ a sttugglc," said Jones, who turned away quickly as he accepted the trophy. "But this for me was the sweet­est"

Switzer, however, was clearly elated. He joined the Cowboys in a no-win situation-only a Super Bowl victory could guarantee success - and he got it

''Areyouhavingagoodtirne,Jerry?" he asked Jones. "We did it our way, baby! We did it! We did it! We did it! We did it!"

But it was not the way the Cowboys had hoped.

Troy Aikman, who at one point in the first half completed JO straight passes, tying Phil Sinuns for second place in Super Bowl history behind Joe Montana's 13, was good early but fin­ished 15 of 23 for 200 yards.

And Smith, whose fowth and fifth rushing touchdowns passed Franco Harris and Thurrnan Thomas for the mostinSuperBowlhistory, was held to

star painted on his bare chest. One of the thousands standing in

the sunshine before the stadium gates opened, Daum of Pittsburgh was immediately berated by other mem­bersofuis group decked out in Steelers regalia

As a Dailas victory became appar­ent in the last few seconds of the game, another Stealers fan, Dennis Brazinski, leaned his body against a van and shook his head.

"O'Donnellshouldn 'thavethrown those two passes," said the Franklin, Illinois, resident as a fellow Pitts­burgh fan across the street cried into her husband's shoulder.

Dallas fans immediately began chanting, "Go home, Steelers. Go

the crowd Althoughshedidnotfinishamong

thetopfinishers,Akaimadeamodest record in the races.

The youngest of two sisters, Akai started karting in February last year.

She is managed by his dad, a top motocross and go-kart racer himself in Japan who retired from racing last year to train his daughter.

Kazuyoshi owns the Mehan Rac­ing Family Circuit in Osaka with five karts of cliff erentspeedsfor herdaugh· ter to practice on.

Although a former racer himself, the older Iwai said he also has fears of

ing for their team. Sw1risers' Diego Masga, who had

only one foul, scored within the perim· eter for 30 points. So did Winsor Peter who finished the game with 3 l points.

Peter scored three triples spread in the game. WhatMasgafailed to achieve outside the perimeter, he compensated from the foul line, scoring 1.0 points out of 12 charity shots.

The penalty situation prevented Ol' Aces from putting up effective defense in the last half. As Jerry Ayuyu, Peter Camacho and Martin Mettao incurred four fouls each-and Tony Luzama, Renguul and Wayne Perry with three each-the Sunrisers stepped up their offensive for the win.

The Ol' Aces top scorer was Peter with 31 points, followed by Renguul with 25, Camacho 20 and Elias Rangamar 12.

just 49 yards in 18 canies, far short of the 115 he nee<led to become the lead­ing rusher in Super Bowl history. Twenty-three of his yards came on the third play of the game.

But it wa1 the defense that did it, led by Brown. It registered four sacks, one by Charles Haley, who was playing his first game since undergoing back sur­gery seven weeks ago. Haley, who wa, on two champions in San Francisco, became the frrst player ever to win five Super Bowl rings.

That rush, plus some slippery foot­ing may have been responsible for 0' Dmmell' s problems. He fmished 28 of 49 for 239 yards and three intercep­tions, the last on the game's final play.

But the two to Brown were the ones that hurt.

Pittsburgh reached the Dallas 33 on the first possession of the second half. But on fowthand 8,coachBill Ciowhl'.!f" elected to punt and Rohn Stark's kick canied into the end zone, giving Dalla, the ball on the 20.

Dallas didn't move on offense, but then the defense turned the game.

On a third and 9 from the Pittsburgh 48, Dallas' Bill Bate- blitzed, both Steelers receivers nuned inside, and O'Donnell threw out~ide, right to Brown. He returned it 44 yards to the Pittsburgh 18.

The Cowboys dominated the first half, scoring on their first three posses­sions.

But they led only 13-7 at halftime when O'Donnell, shaky for most of the

home." To which their Pittsburgh counterparts offered a vulgar reply.

Early in the game, a street next to the stadium became a giant Jiving room as fans climbed a cactus-cov­ered hillside and filled rooftops in front of a 20.foot (&meter) tall video screen.

Fans turned testy when police turned off the video, trying to disperse the crowd and make way for late­arriving ticket holders.

At halftime, a huge mechanical arm dropped singer Diana Ross into a cloud of smoke on an elevated platform.

Ross, wearing a red minidress that was the first and least elaborate of four costumes, belted out a medley of

his daughter getting injured in her chosen sport

Despite thereseivation, Kazuyoshi said he is giving his daughter his all­out support ''because she's got good armsandpulseforthesportandlooks up to me as her inspiration."

Now on her first year at the Moriguchi Junior High, lwai had competedinfivebigkartingeventsin Japan. She has won the Y arnaha SL Championship in October and the Yamaha Cup in Narra City in De­cember last year.

"I feel excited," Iwai said with a smile when asked what she feels

Sw1risers' Masga capped the game with 30 points. He was followed by Tom Tudela with 18, Ngiraidong 14, Joe Tudela IO and George Ma~ga nine.

The win was the fourth for the Sw1risers in seven outings.

In la~t Friday's game, the Brewers handed the Panthers their seventh de­feat of the season in a come-from­behind win, 8 l · 76, after trailing three points at the end of the fir..t half, 36-39.

The win e.iualed the Brewer.,' series at four wins and four losses. The defeat was the seventh blow sustained by the Panthers. Daryl Voss topscored for the Brewer.; with 26 points. Panthers' Po­land Yamada wrapped up the game with 19 points.

In the second game, Bud Brothers continued to hold on to their leadership by posting their seventh straight win. Their latest victory was against 01'

first two periods, hit Yancey 1bigpen from 6 yards out with 13 se.:onds left before intermission. It was the 10th time in the last 12 games the Steelers had scored in the last two minutes of the first half.

PitL,burgh reached the Dallas 33 on the fir..t possession of the second half. But on fourth and 8. coach Bill Cowher elected to punt and Rohn Stark's kick carried into the end zone, giving Dalla~ the ball on the 20.

Dalla, didn't move on offense, but then the defense twned the game.

On a third and 9 from the Pittsburgh 48, Dallas' Bill Bates blitzed, both Steelers receivers turned inside, and O'Donnell threw outside, right to Brown. He returned it 44 yards to the PitL,burgh I 8.

On the first play, Troy Aikman hit Michael Irvin at the I, and Smith went over on the next play.

Norm Johnson's 46-yard field goal 3:40 into the fowth quarter cut it to 2Q. JO after Tony Tolbert's sack of O'Donnell on third and eight at the 19 stopped Pittsburgh's next drive.

But then came a swprise onside kick by Johnson, recovered by Deon Figures at his own 48. Nine plays later, Barn Morris went over from a yard out and suddenly it was 20.17 with 6:36 left.

The Steelers got the ball back with 4: 15 left at their own 32. After an incompletion,O'Donnellthrewthepass that Brown intercepted, setting up the clinching touchdown.

The Cowboys dominated the first

her hits while battling a man-made breeze that kept blowing her hair across her face.

Ross gamely changed costumes in front of the cameras, donning a flow­ing gold gown while singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."

Hundreds of dancers surrounded Ross, whorosesome20feet(6meters) into the air on the platform an el­evated platform while fireworks blastedaroundher. Thecrowdroared its approval as a helicopter landed at midfield to ferry Ross away.

The singer perched in the aircraft's open door, waving and blowing kisses as another round of fireworks reverberated across the stadium.

when in her race suit at the speed of 6()..mph.

WhenaskedbyVarietySportswhat her friends say about her getting into karting, she said, "They don't know that I'm into this kind of sport."

But does her involvement in such sport make her think and behave differently from other girls her age?

Not at all. After the races, the 12-year-oldgirl

is back in her colorful youthful shirt, shorts and taking a carefree walk around the circuit area clutching a small bag in her hand like any girl her age does.-Sony Dakno

Aces II. The Brother., remain the only unbeaten team in the league.

The Brother.. defeated 01' Aces IL I 05-97, after putting up a 15-point lead at the end of the first half, 52· 37.

01' Aces managed to score four more points in the last half against the Brothers just enough to cut the trail down from 15 to 11 points.

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half, swring on their first three posses­sions on a field where footing was never too. sure.

But they led only 13-7 at halftime when O'Donnell, shaky for most of the first two periods, hit Yancey Thigpen from 6 yards out with 13 seconds left before intermission. It was the I 0th time in the last 12 games the Steelers had scored in the lamwo minutes of the first half.

Dallas took a 3-0 lead on Chris Boniol's 42-yard field goal on the game's first possession. It could have been more - Aikman hit Irvin for 20 yards and Smith broke loose for 23 yards before the Pittsburgh defense stiffened, holding Kevin Williams to 2 yards on a reverse on third and 8.

The Cowboys came right back on their next possession, with Aikman hitting Sanders for 47 yards against Willie Williams to set up the score, a 3-yard pass to Jay Novacek-set up by an apparent illegal pick. One play ear­lier,Aikmanhad hit Novacekon athird and 9 from the 13.

At that point, Dallas had outgained Pittsburgh, 127-9. ·

The Steelers finally got an offense going, but it was a plodding one, con­verting a fourth and inches on Kordell Stewart's sneak, then getting to the Dallas 36 on an I I-yard third-down pass from O'Do[ll1ell to Ernie Mills. But on the next play, Dermontti Dawson's snap was over O'Donnell's head and the 13-yard loss effectively stopped the drive.

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POR Cowboys win Super Bowl TEMPE,Arizona (AP)-The glam­ourous team from Dallas backed up its bluster, but barely.

And they can thank one of their least glamorous players, Larry Brown, for their third Super Bowl victory in four

In 27-17 victory over Steelers to take the lead.

Then, after Pittsburgh had closed to 20-17 and had the ball with four min­utes left, Brown,justashedid to seal the NFC title game with Green Bay, made another interception, returning it 33 yards to set up another Smith touch­down run, this one of four yards.

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Brown came up with two intercep­tions at moments when Pittsburgh was just about to take control of the game and was named the Super Bowl's most valuable player.

"We've got so many stars on our team, I just wanted to go out and play hard," said Brown.

His 44-yard return in the third quar­ter of Neil O'Donnell's pass setup a I­yard touchdown run by Enunitt Smith that put Dallas up 20-7 after Pittsburgh, which fell behind 13-0, seemed ready

Only then did the Cowboys and coach Bany Switzer celebrate a strug­gling Super Bowl victory that capped a struggling season. And the hugs in the end zone reflected relief more than the noisy braggadocio with which the Cow­boys faced Super Bowl week.

'There were high expectations but it was a relief just the same," quarterback Troy Aikman said ''ltwasn'tthepret­tiestgameweplayed,thedefensereally stepped it up, but a win is a win. We

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Toyota, Sunrisers beat Aces teams THE 1WO 01' Aces teams in the Miller Lite Basketball League suffereddefeatsfrom theirrespec­tiverivals late lastweekattheAda gym court in Susupe.

games. The win likewise fortified the Wheelers' hold of third spot in the elimination games .

John Richardson spearheaded the Wheelers' offensive with 20 points that gave his team a 14-point uppem.and in the first half, 53-39.

Dal/as Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders, right, snuggles up to 320-pound tackle Nate Newton as they leave the Cowboys training facility in Irving Texas last week for a workout at Texas Stadium when a cold front moved into North Texas and sent temperatures below freezing, and the wind factor near zero a week before yesterday's Super Bowl XXX. The Cowboys beat the Stealers, 27-17. AP

The 01' Aces team of coach Elias Rangamar sustained its fourth and latest setback in the hands of the Wheelers by a 22-point margin last Saturday, 102-80.

The win was the sixth for Wheel­ers coach Tony Sablan in seven

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AKIRA 1W AI, a 12-year-old from Osaka, japan, became an example at the first Micronesian Kart Champi­onship last Sunday that a girl her age can break barriers in an adult and male dominated sport.

Instead of the usual games with friends, she would rather tinker an RC- I 00 go-kart with her dad Kazuyoshi Iwai.

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cal teen dresses, but she feels more sense of fulfillment driving at 60 miles per hour in a circuit in a safety race suit and crash helmet

Iwai wasamongthe30profession­ally licensed circuit racers from Guam, Japan and Saipan who competed last Sunday in the first Marlboro Micronesian Kart Champion '96 in Marpi.

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event joined by men whose ages ranged from 19 to 42, Akai's pres­encedrewmore interest and curiosity among a crowd of about I 00 specta­tors and race staffers.

Akai clocked 54 seconds per lap in the time trials which is either three seconds ahead or behind the other more experienced contenders.

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Myth breaker. The youngest 60 to BO-Mph driver to visit Saipan-Akari lwai, 12, from Osaka, with her father/ trainor Kazuyoshi, was the only girl to join the Marlboro Micronesian Kart Championship. Her presence· in professional competitions continue to break the myth that karting is solely an adult-male sport. Akari, right photo, exits the pit for the time trial event. Photos by Sony Dalano