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Attao 'warned' on Hawaii trip
Villagomez says any 'improper' travel 'will be dealt with' By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff
NEWLY-named Hawaii liaison officer Vicente T. Attao can bring his staff and their families to Hawaii, but the incoming administration of governor-elect Pedro P. Tenorio will "go after them," the chair of the Tenorio transition team said yesterday.
"This is improper," Dr. Jose T. Villagomez said, referring to Attao's memo on the "need" for the staff and their families to be flown to Hawaii.
"This outgoing administration has four weeks left before they 're out and they still want to penalize the c,ommunity with this costly transfer despite the current budget situation," Villagomez said.
''This will cost a lot, and knowing them they will probably fly
Vicente T. Attao
first class," he added. "My only advice for them is
'Go ahead but we'll go after you afteiwarcls."'
Villagomez said the contracts of all the people named in Attao's memo will be terminated once the new administration is sworn into office.
Meanwhile, he added, the transi-
lion team has already asked the Office of the Public Auditor to look into the planned transfer.
"I've heard ( outgoing Gov. Ftuilan C. Tenorio) is not signing the travel authorizations-we hope it's true," Villagomez said.
Attao in a memo to Robert Guerrero, who succeeded him as special assistant for administration, said he will need to bring his staff and their families to Hawaii to "efficiently" cany but his duties.
Those needed to be flown to Hawaii include Bernie S. Cabreraltibus and family, Gregorio V. DL Guerrero and family, Antonio DLG. Cabrera and family, Vincent S. Attao, Vicky Tudela and her children, Doraine S. Camacho, Nicanor Norita and family, Jeffrey Tomokane and Pedro C. Cruz and fai_nily.
School administrators and SCBE members !;lather for a group photo during a S(?B~ meeting Thursdc!Y to present recent House Resolutions commendtng four schools for the 6-year accreditatJOn they have obtained.
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Tenorio cites need to • • • ra1se m.1TI1m.11m. wage
By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff
LOCAL and non-resident workers may soon heave a sigh of relief when plans to increase the minimum wage next year push through.
The incoming CNMI Administration on Friday revealed plans to draw up measures to increase the existing $3.05 per hour minimum wage when it assumes office January next
year. Governor-elect Pedro P.
Tenorio said he will meet with the members of the community, including the business sector, for a possible minimum wage adjustments.
Tenorio hinted the creation of a mulit-sectoral committee to map out recommendations on minimum wage adjustments which will be submitted to the
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INS. rejects· 'Guam-o.nly' Philippine visa waiver WASIIlNGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Immigration and Natu,ralization Seivice has rejected Guam's Philippine visa waiver pilot program proposal. .
Guam Delegate to U.S. Congress Robert Underwocxl, · said 'This comes as a very great disappointment" following months of good-faith. efforts by his office and the Philippine Waiver Task Force to have the test program implemented.
The pilot project proposed the entryofnomorethan lOOvisitors from the Philippines per month, for no longer than a 15.-day stay.
It also was proposed that applications for such visitor entrie$ originate in Guam, ensuring a local contactfortracking and return
. confinnation pmposes. u.s~ Federal law currently al
lows a Guam-only visa waiver program for countries with visa denial rates ofi 6.9 percentor ·
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less. To qualify for non~visa . entry into the United States, a visadenialrateof2 percent is· required.·
"Unfortunately, the deni.al rate for the Philippines," Underwood said,<'is still more than 30percent, 'even though it has declined from the 60 . percent :rate when we began· looking into a pilot program." ·
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TCGCC member charged with gov't vehicle 'misuse'
By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff
THEA TTORNEY General's Office has charged a commissioner of the Tinian Casino Gaming Control Commission for alleged misuse of public vehicle ..
Martin San Nicolas was charged with two counts of "misuse of government vehicle, lack of marking on government vehicle, and lack of government vehicle license plates."
Assistant Atty. Gen. Alan Lane in the complaint said that San
Nicolas last Nov. 28 "unlawfully operated a government vehicle (TCGCC) for purposes other than official government business."
Lane said San Nicolas drove the vehicle "at a time other than normal working hours and without written authorization in his possession from an official with expenditure authority to certify that the use of the vehicle outside normal working hours is for official business purposes."
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Appeal on Teno eligibility expected to be filed today
By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff
THE CHAIR of governor-elect Pedro P. Tenorio's transition team yesterday said an ::µpeal
, , to reverse the Supenor Court f; ruling on Tenorio's eligibility ti is expected to be filed today at b'I the Supreme Court. r.',1 Dr. Jose T. Villagomez, in ~:J an interview, said lawyer !2J Sebastian Aloot has informed ~ the govemor-elect's attorneys
that the appeal will be filed ~ today.
"We 're not worried of .course," Villagomez said. "I'm
' more worried about the Packers and the Buccaneers football game that I'm watching."
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RP police nab 25 in anti-kidnapping drive MANILA, Philippines (AP) -Officials announced Monday the arrest of25 suspected kidnappers in a major anti-kidnapping drive following public protests over an upsurge in abductions.
The uproar over the kidnappirigs forced President Fidel Ramos to sack the national police chief, Recaredo Sarmiento, on Friday.
"We will not tolerate further kidnappings in this country," said Justice Secretary Teofisto
Guingona, who presented the suspects at a news conference. Some had unexplained bruises on their faces.
"This is a quick response and warning to all who defy the law," said Guingona, who also heads the Presidential Anti-Crime Com-mission. _
An upsurge in kidnappings, mostly of wealthy Chinese-Filipino traders, has led to criticism of President Fidel Ramos, whose administration already is con-
Japan authorities detain 72 .Chinese illegal immigrants TOKYO (AP) - The coast guard stopped a fishing boat off Japan's southwest coast and arrested 72 Chinese susi;ected of trying to enter the countty illegally, maritime officials said Monday.
1heboatwasstoppedSundaynight off Amami-Oshima, 1,300 kilome-
ters (780 miles) southwest of Tokyo, saidShinichiro Y anagidaof the Maritime Safety Agency.
The occupants of the boat- 61 men and 11 women -were arrested Monday on suspicion of violating immigration law by notcanying any passports or maritime identification.
fronted by economic problems caused by a regional currency crisis.
Guingona said some of the suspects were involved in the recent kidnapping of Ignacio Ong, sonin-law of business tycoon John Gokongwei. Ong .died last week along with four abductors in a shootout at a police roadblock.
Also arrested were suspects in the killing of Gordon Tan, a young trader shot to death when he resisted suspected kidnappers north of Manila on Nov. 27, Guingona said.
Police officials said the 25, including two women, were arrested at hideouts in metropolitan Manila and several provinces in a series of raids that began early last week.
Guingona said all of those arrested confessed their participation in the kidnappings.
Police confiscated rifles, handguns, several cars, hand-held radios and a chain and padlock used on an abducted ethnic Chinese woman.
Teresita Ang-See, a prominent anti-crime crusader, commended police for the arrests but said they should find the masterminds and government protectors of kidnap groups who could otherwise easily form ne'w groups after their subordinates are arrested.
"This would deter future kidnappings. This will calm the people who are living in fear day in and day out," she said.
1tea l.i:r.-u~~ o:f ' 2Koreasto . resume food. aid dialogue
SEOUL, South. Korea (AP)South Korea's Red Cross proposed to its North Korean counterpart Monday that they meet in Beijing Dec. 22 to discuss additional food aid to the faminestricken North.
. The South Korean Red Cross made th_e proposal in response to a North Korean suggestion in November that both sides meet in Beijing "as soon as possible' to discuss new aid.
South Korea so far has delivered I 00,000 tons of food to the North. In proposing the new talks. South Korea asked for more stringent outside monitoring of future aid. ~
Many South Koreans suspect that some of the intem:itional relief goods given to the Nonh has been diverted to the country's military. No11h Korea has den it'd the allegations.
Two consecutive years 'of flooding and a drought this summercompounded years of chronic mismanagement of North Korea's collective agriculture and resulted in acute food shonages.
North Korea says it has lost 1.8 million tons of com and rice to natural disasters this year, about one-third of the irrain it needs annually for its 24 ;1illion people.
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TIIESDAY, DECEMBER 9~ 19-97 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3
New tax system eyed By Aldwln R. Fajardo Variety News Staff
THE Northern Mariana Islands will witness big change~ in the tax collection SY.Stem when the new CNMI administration assumes office next year, it was learned
. during the weekend. Governor-elect Pedro P.
Tenorio said he will immediately form a Tax Task Force to map out plans for the possible implementation of a simplified tax collection system in the Marianas.
"Immediately after I take office, I will once again form a tax task force to come out with a
Teno to form task force to simplify NMI tax collection simple and fair tax system which for a simplified taxation system form tax rate and the scrapping of will benefit the private sector and for the community," he added. excise tax, excluding tobacco, al-also the government," he said Finance experts said a simpli- coho! and personal commodities during a roundtable discussion fled taxation system would mean worth over $1,000. with the Society of Professional · highercomplianceamongtaxpay- But various sectors feared that Journalists. ers which would eventually lead the replacement of sales tax with
Tenorio said there is an imme- to more revenues for the govern- a flat rate would adversely affect di ate need for the government to ment. the tourism industry, which is the draw up recommendations for a Outgoing Governor Froilan C. highest revenue-earnerarnong simplified and equitable taxation Tenoriohasearlierfonnedamulti- other CNMI industries. system for the CNMI. sectoral task force to study the The United States Internal Rev-
He said the present taxation possibility of a flat tax system, in enue Code, which has remained scheme is "too complicated" and an effort to boost the CNMiis unchanged for 19 years, has been that there is a need to review the revenues. strictly enforced in the Northern existing system. "We have to look The flat tax proposal was also Marianas, though the CNMI
expected to lower the individual implements its own taxation laws. and corporate tax burden, as well This developed as Tenorio ex-as attract foreign investors into pressed doubts the CNMI gov-the Marianas. ernment will be able to generate
The finance department previ- the projected $262 million rev-ously suggested a IO percent uni• enues for 1998.
"I am not sure if we are going to collect the $262 million 1998 revenues projections. I am worried about that," he stressed.
The Senate leaden,hip, last month, asked assurance from the CNMI Planning and Budget Office that its $262 million projection of 1998 revenues is correct, and whether the 1997 projection revenues of $247 million turned out to be correct.
The Public School System may yet get its $56 million piecemeal budget unless the $262 million projected revenues for 1998 is proven accurate.
Senator Paul Manglona was earlier quoted as saying that he will .Jean toward supporting the PSS budget if the $262 million projection for 1998 is correct ..
Gov't intensifies fight against TB
By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff
IN AN efforttoreducecasesoftuberculosis in the Northern Mariana Islands, the government is intensifying its campaign against the ills of the viral lung disease.
Governor Froilan C. Tenorio during the weekend said his aclminJstration is recognizing TB as among the ,major health problems in the Marianas.
This has apparently led Tenorio to declare the second week of Derember as tl1e Tuberculosis Awareness Weck, which was aimed at creating public awareness against the ills of the disease.
TB kills more people than any other infectious disease - an estimated three million people a year, including almost 300,CXX> children under 15 years old.
At current rates of infection, there · areover7,CXXJdeathsandover24,CXX> new cases everyday. In 1993, the World Health Organization declared the worsening tuberculosis epidemic a global health emergency.
In the Pacific, Saipan has the highestrateoftuberculosis, whichishigher than tl1e cases reported anywhere in the United States mainland.
Dr. Artin Mahmoudi, in a previous interview, said at least 150 for every 100,CXX) persons in Saipan are infected or are sick with TB, which is
significantly higher than the rate in the US mainland at eight cases per I 00,CXX> populatioIL
The Commonwealth Health Center has recorded an increasing trend in TB cases, blaming the influx of foreign workers which comprise most of the CNMI's labor force.
Adiseaseethnicityreportfumished the Variety indicated 47 percent of TBcasesontheislandwereFilipinos, followed by the ChamoITD, Chinese and Carolinian communities respectively.
A report from the WHO said an estimated two billion people, or a third of the world's population, are already infected with TB, while an additional 300 million people are expected to be infected with the disease.
Tenorio said many fllness such as diatetes or kidney failure increase the rsk of developing TB, "while it takes the combined efforts of the Department of Public Health, the outlying clinics, physicians,nurses, health educators and everyone to beat TB."
"By coming together, we can defeat the disease that was once called 'thecaptainofall these men of death'," the governor said in a media statement.
Tenorio is also urging the public to take a proactive role in assuring "optimum" care against preventable diseases.
Frank M. Eliptico of the Governor's Public Information Office welcomes a group of NIKE Japan tennis players who arrived yesterday for training here on Saipan. Photo by Lallo c. Younis
Cing says there is 'shortage' of funds at Tinian Mayor's Office
By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff
SOME EMPLOYEES working for the Tinian mayor's office did not get their pay checks du ring the last payday due to a possible shortage of funds, Sen. David M. Cing (DTinian) said yesterday.
Cing, in an interview, said the "payless payday" came after the employees got only 40 hours worth of salary on the previous payday.
Citing information supplied by some of the employees, Cing said the lack of funds may have been caused by the "lump sum" salaries given to contract workers before the Nov. I elections.
Cing said the employees have already complained to the officials at the mayor's office, but were merely given "vague excuses."
"Somebody in the mayor's office or in the Finance De-
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partment should come forward to tell these employees the truth," Cing said.
Meanwhile, he added, he will ask the Finance Department to "double check" the financial state of the Tinian mayor's office.
Cing said he will also look into rumors that the contract
workers given "lump sum" salaries before the elections are still on the payroll.
"You pay employees 'lump sum' for their unused annual leave and only because they 're already quitting their jobs," he said.
"But there is something going on here if they received their lump sum and are still holding on to their positions," Cing said.
Shortly after the Nov. 1 elections, which saw the defeat of the senator's Tinian Independent slate to Mayor Herman M. Manglona's Unity-Democrat ticket, Cing vowed to work on reducing the excess spending at the Tinian 's mayor office.
He cited, in particular, the "notoriously" high number of exce-ss and often illegal hiring of full-time employees even without having the necessary funding for it.
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:4:MARlANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIBWS-TUESDA..Y~ DECEMBER 'cJ. -1'997
SC shoots down 'no-knock' search By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff
THE CNMI Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the trial court con,·icting a man of illegal possession of a gun and less than a !IT'JJTI of CI}stal m;than1phetarnine following a "no-knock" search conducted by police officer,.
TI1e hil!h llibunal rnled that since there is n; stntutory authority to issue "no-knock" search warr.rnts in the Commonwealth, the trial judge did not have the autl1ority to issue such semi::hwm-JI1tagainstdefendantJesus Akiyama Aldan.
'Toe language of tlle statute is clear. It mandates that an officer shall knock, announce his presence, and wait prior to serving tlie search warrant," said Justice Pedro M. Atalig andSpecialJudgeDavidWisemanin the opinion issued Thursday. ·
Coutt documents showed that on July 20, 1995 a police officer executed an affidavit in support of a noknock search warrant
Pursuant to the no-knock search warrant nine armed police officers
from the Department of Public Safety entered Aldan's residence witllout aru10W1cing tlleir presence.
Aldan was found sleeping in his bedroom. The search yielded .74 grams of "ice" and a loaded .22 caliber rifle, which had expired license.
Following a trial in June 1996, Aldan was convicted. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment not subject to suspension, probation, or parole.
Aldan, through counsel Steven Pixley, ap.pealed.
Justice Atalig and Special Judge
Ramon G. Villagomez
Wiseman in their opinion said any attempt to escape by Aldan would have been futile considering tJie presence of nine armed police officers and the fact tllat tJie defendant had been roused from his sleep by tlle intrusion.
"The mere allegation that Aldan stated in tJie past that he would destroy evidence, without any corroborating facts, and without more specific inferences of exigency; did not justify tJie officers' failure to comply with a statute (on how to execute search warrants)," said Atalig and
Kids, holding candles, take a break on stage at the American Memorial Parks amphithreater after joining the annual Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention parade Wednesday night. Photo by Ferdie de 1a Torre
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Wiseman. Justice Ramon G. Villagomez,
however, disagreed with Atalig and Wiseman.
Villagomez in his separate opinion saidinbalancingtlleindividual'sconstitutional right to privacy with tJie government's responsibility to enforce its criminal laws, the CNMI Constitution allows a ''no-knock" search warrant upon a showing of exigent circurns.tances.
Exigent circumstances exist when tllereisathreatofphysical violence or where police officers have reason to believe that evidence would likely be destroyed if advance notice were given, court records indicated.
Villagomez said the affidavit provided information that Aldan would destroy any evidence of controlled substance if he knew tllat the police officers were approaching.
In addition, tJie justice pointed out, only 12hours beforehand, Aldan had sold "ice" at his house to a police
informant and an earlier search had prcxluccd marijuana and "ice."
"Under tllese circumstances, the Superior Court correctly found that exigent circumstances existed justifying the issuance of tJie 'no-knock' search warrant," Villagomez said.
With regards to gun possession, tJie justice said the court did not err in concluding that Aldan possessed an illegalfirearmatthetimeoftllesearch.
On the penalties, Villagomez reversed the court's decision. He said tllecourt was not required to sentence Aldan to five years witllout parole.
Superior Court Associate Judge Timothy Bellas found that tJie court was required to sentence Aldan· to five years without parole.
Pixley in a press statement said the high court's opinion is a landmarlc · constitutional decision in thatitfinnly establishesthattllerighttoprivacyfor , all citizens of tJie Commonwealth is an important right guaranieed by tJie Commonwealth Constitutim
By Rick Alberto ~ a ~~t~ fu;t~b1111t jip!ari Vanety News. Staff thatassessestheimpactoftheW'?ject
OVERHUNTING and the filling oo,the~~ll11<l.ho~iJfanmini~ andpollutingofk,calwefuuidsled mIZetheunpact.: ? i i/ \}·· to the extinc~on of the Mariana A ~veloper inay pe gn1111L!fl iu:i. mallard duck, or. ngClflga, which . .incidental . ~ permit. tllarllllgws waslastseenonSaipaninthe1980s; ~~.~ill the ~ffi ~q
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The loss of habitat often results 'This specie$ beciu¥ ,extitict .aµ fromdeforestation;acidrain(caused Pagan island and itexisteclonR.c>ta by pollution), and land develop- in prehistoric times. • ._ .-•.. ·. . ... __ , .. · ·. , ...• ment, according to tJie book, which The moor hens were sighted. in is now in printable form. ponds planted wiilisedge afthe
. The book also cites another sig- sewage treat!llent plan(as well nificant threat to species on the !lS at the water l;iazards on the Northern Mariana islands: the in- golf course. __ ... . .... troouctionofnon-nativespedeslike ''The creation· of wetlands at tJie brown tree snake, which has . the .Rota.·Resorthasprovided destroyed nwnerous wildlife spe- suitable habitat for an eri.dan-cies on Guam. gered species.
The book particularly cites the But while the resort paved for Marianafruitbat,orfanihi, and the the return of the Mariana Mariana fragile tree snail as on the moorhens, a, large area of.the brink of becoming endagered or habitat for the Mariana crow and tllreatened. other species was destroyed.
They are among the candidates "It remains to be seen how for listing on tlle federal Endan- seriously wildlife populations gere<l Species Act, although tlley were affected by the develop-are already in the CNMI list, the ment," the book says. book says. It says that the only way to
It says that in order for a devel- preserve the crow on Rota is the opertogetapennitforabigproject protection of its forest..
Sobriety checkpoint in Rota THE DEPARTMENT of Public Safety is informing the general public of Rota that there will be a sobriety checkpoint on December 13 thru early morning of De-
cember 14 in the areas of San Francisco Highway.
DPS Rota is set for another sobriety checkpoint on December 19 and 20, 1997.
Oleai PTSA meets today THE PRINCIPAL of Oleai Elementary School is reminding paren ts and guardians that the monthly OES PTSA meeting is set for today, December 09, at the school cafeteria at 6:00 p.m.
Very important school matters
will be discussed and all parents/ guardians are greatlncouraged to be present at this meeting.
Raffle tickets will also be so on sale during the meeting.
For further information please call 234-6167 or 234-2074.
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Kagm.an eyed for bird habitat By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff
TIIE B.OARD of Public Lands has designated the Kagman Wildlife Reserve area as site for the upland habitat mi ligation bank where developers can "repopulate" bird species tliat may be destroyed by tlieir ongoing projects.
DLNRlooks ·_ for missing . -· . radio sets ·.
By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff
1HE DMSION ofFish and Wildlife has already beenissuedradiosetsforits brown tree snake program. The catch thoughisthatthecommunicationequipment are missing, it was learned.
"There are now ongoing efforts to retrievetheradios,'' said outgoing Lands and Natural Resources Secretary Maggie Wonenberg.
Wonenberg said tlle program's fonnercoordinatorwhoisnotanymore employed with DLNR has claimed he too does not have the equipment
Wonenberg refused to name the former official, saying though tllat a case involving "otlier DLNR matters" has been pending against the person at the Office of Personnel Management
'Toe problem with the Division of Fish and Wildlife is that it has to deal witll what has happened in the past
''There was a radio set issued to DFW. But apparently, it is missing," said Wonenberg.
She however failed to say exactly when the radio set was issued.
Wonenberg, shortly after she was appointed by Gov. Froilan Tenorio to the DLNR post in August, it will be recalled, vowed to work on the purchase of the communication system, following criticism that DLNR's fish and wildlife division staff, which handles lhe brown tree snake program, has been slow in responding to snake sightings.
This was especially highlighted several months back when an Oleai resident complained that it took DFW almost two hours to respond to his call ofa snake sighting.
ThecallwasmadethroughtheEmergency Management Office. EMO, in turn, tried to get in touch witll DFW which was then already closed for tlle day.
Scott R. Vogt, a biologist who heads the program, it was later on gathered, does not have a rddio nor a beeper where he may be tracked during such situations.
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'Wewilldesignateotherareasupon anauthoritatuve findings whioch may state tllat tlle present one is not enough," said BPL Chair Tomas B. Aldan.
Aldan failed to say how big tJie wildlife reserve area is, though he nonetllelessstressed tllearea, believed to be around 70 hectares, is enough to accomodatetheCNMigovemment's mitigation bank project
Underthisscheme,developerslike tlle Haas and Hayne, are required to finance the "repopulation" of certain bird species like the nightingale reed warbler tllat may be endangered in tlle course of tJie firm's construction of a large golf course in Obyan.
The mitigation bank was originally planned to be situated in Maipi.
'We are hopeful, Haas and Hayne doesnotanymorehaveanexcuse(for the delay ontlleirproject)," said Aldan.
HassandHayne,itwill be recalled, are among several developers whom
Aldan has recently chided for delays in tJie construction of their respective projects on tJie island.
Otllers include the Nakamoto Development which is asking for an extention of their lease agreement's provisions on construction phase.
Aldan said all firms will be utilizing tJie same mitigation site.
These include tlle Bird Island Development Inc. which is building a big tourist facility in Maipi.
In related developments, Aldan said BPLhasgiventheBlackMicroCorp. tlle go signal for the tests it was earlier ordered to conduct on the impact of its quarrying activities to nearby residents and the construction of a multimillion dollar hotel a few hundred meters away from tlle quarry site.
'The tests should not take more than a month," said Aldan.
Black Micro has recently been ordered to shutdown and operate elsewhere in the CNMI due to adverse
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effects its operations have caused to the residents.
Large cracks can now be seen on walls of houses lining up tlle road to the firm's Marpi quarry site. The cracks were reportedly caused by explosives detonated by the firm in its quarrying activities.
Black Micro appealed tlledecision saying it will bring in experts from Guam and conduct the tests to deter-
mine whetller their explosives are causing tJie cracks.
The firm has also been asking for a 15-year extention.
Aldan said the company is using tJie explosives tests as a bargaining chip for the extention, which, he stressed, should not be the case.
"Theonlythingwedon'tlikeabout Black Micro is that tlley are saying that if tJie testing turns out good tllen we will execute tlleir extention. I don't want tliat (testing) to be a condition," said Aldan.
Aldan said tlle tests were asked because World Corp, which is building thehotel,hassaid it can't proceed with tlle initial stages of tJie construction due to fears the vibrations caused by tlleexplosions could weaken tlleir hotel.
Also,residentshaveexpressedconcems tlleir homes may eventually be deslroyed from the explosions' im-pact .
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-'4:MARlANAS VARIETY NEWS AND ViEWS-TUESDA..Y~ DECEMBER 'rJ, ·f997
SC shoots down 'no-knock' search By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff
Tiffi CNMI Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the trial court con\·icting a mm1 of illegal [X)Ssession of a gun and less thm1 a gram of crystal methan1pl1etamine following a "no-knock" search conducted by (X)iice office1,.
Tiie high tribunal ruled that since t11ere is no starutory authority to issue "no-knock" search W3Ji'JJJL~ in the Commonwealth, me nial judge did not have t11e aumority to issue such search w::urantagainstdefendantJesus Akiyama Aldan.
'Toe language of the statute is clear. It mandates mat an officer shall knock, announce his presence, and wait prior to serving me search warrant," said Justice Pe<!,ro M. Atalig andSpecialJudgeDavidWisemmiin the opinion issued Thursday.
Cotu:t documents showed (flat on July 20, 1995 a police officer executed an affidavit in sup[X)rt of a noknock search warrant
Pursuant to the no-knock search warrant, nine armed police officers
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from the Department ofPublic Safety entered Aldan's residence without announcing their presence.
Aldan was found sleeping in his bedroom. The search yielded .74 grams of "ice" mid a loaded .22 caliber rifle, which had expired license.
Following a trial in June 1996, Aldan was convicted. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment not subject to suspension, probation, orparole. .
Aldan, through counsel Steven Pixley, appealed.
Justice Atalig and Special Judge
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Wiseman in their opinion said any attempt to escape by Aldan would have been futile considering the presence of nine armed police officers and the fact that the defendant had been roused from his sleep by the intrusion.
'The mere allegation that Aldan stated in the past that he would destroy evidence, withoutanycorroborating facts, and without more srecific inferences of exigency; did not justify the officers' failure to comply with a statute (on how to execute search warrants)," said Atalig and
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· Wiseman. Justice Ramon G. Villagomez,
however, disagreed with Atalig and Wiseman.
Villagomez in his separate opinion said in balancing me individual 'sconstitutional right to privacy with the government's responsibility to enforce its criminal laws, the CNMI Constitution allows a "no-knock" search warrant upon a showing of exigent circums_tances.
Exigent circumstances exist when there isa tllreatofphysical violence or where police officers have reason to believe that evidence would likely be destroyed if advance notice were given, court records indicated_
Villagomez said the affidavit provided infom13tion that Aldan would destroy any evidence of controlled substance if he knew that the police officers were approaching.
In addition, the justice pointed out, only 12hoursbeforehand,Aldanhad sold "ice" at his house to a police
informant and an earlier search bad produced marijuana and "ice."
"Under these circumstances, the Superior Court correctly found that exigent circumstances existed justifying the issuance of the 'no-knock' search warrant," Villagomez said.
With regards to gun possession, the justice said the court did not err in concluding mat Aldan possessed an illegalfireannatthetimeofthesearch.
On the penalties, Villagomez reversed the court's decision. He said the court was not required to sentence Aldan to five years without parole.
Superior Court Associate Judge Tnnothy Bellas found that the court was required to sentence Aldan- to five years without parole.
Pixley in a press statement said the high court's opinion is a landmarlc · constitutionaldecisioninthatitfinnly establishes thattherighttoprivacyfor , all citizens of the Commonwealth is an important right guaranieed by the Commonwealth Constitution.
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and poll~ting9fI~ wetlaridsled ~the~~/•· : • ... , .....••... •··•·· to d~ ex~c~9n of ~ Nlariana . A ge~el<;>pe~ ,p.ia)':te ~t¥fl{ag mallai:d · du~ ()I' f g011gai wliich i · incidental. take permittha(hllciws 1NaslastseeJ.1()l!Sai~~19l}%•·.·.··· i ~~ ~ jµ#Je ~~·· .... ~gtoaforthcorajngbookoi:i < ···some · . · · &Ne! J · .. . . . . . . ·.· .. · .......... ·. · · .... ·.· ·. ···· ...... ··· .. ieid 11s.· .•... ••.·. '
econ1ik~m~i~~J~ will~ the fi.rsJ&ill 1.extb&k ontheN~~~~t~; lists• oth(:r ~~ 9f fXti,nction of( S[::eCies, the numbef one being the>
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fromdeforestation,acidrain(GlUSOO by pollution), . and land development, according to the book, which
. is now in printable fonn. · · The book also cites another sig-
. nificant threat to species on the Northern Mariana islands: the introductionofnon-nativespecieslike the brown tree snake, which has destroyed numerouswildlife srecies on Guam.
The book particularly cites the Mariana fruit bat, orjanihi, and the Mariana fragile tree snail as on the brink of becoming endagered or threatened.
They are among the candidates for listing on the federal Endangered Sr,ecies Act, although they are already in the CNMI list, the book says.
It says that in order for a developerto get a pennitfor a big project
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J!Ond~.plante~ with. sedg~ ~tJhe se~age treat~ent plant ~s "."~11 as at the wate(hazards ·on tlle golf cou~. . > · ··· .. · , ... '/
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gered'species .• ···········,\\..... /\: •. · •• r:• But while the resort pavecl for
the return of the Mari aria moorhens, alarge·.area of~e· habitat for the Mariana cr9w and other species was destroyed. ·
"It remains to be seen how seriously wildlife populations were affected by the development," the book says.
It says that the only way to preserve the crow on Rota is the protection of its forest.
Sobriety checkpoint in Rota THE DEPARTMENT of Public Safety is informing the general public of Rota that there will be a sobriety checkpoint on December 13 thru early morning of De-
cember 14 in the areas of San Francisco Highway.
DPS Rota is set for another sobriety checkpoint on December 19and20, 1997.
Oleai PTSA·ilieets today THE PRINCIPAL of Oleai Elementary School is reminding parents and guardians that the monthly OES PTSA meeting is set for today, December 09, at the school cafeteria at 6:00 p.m.
Very important school matters
will be discussed and all parents/ guardians are greatlncouraged to be present at this meeting.
Raffle tickets will also be so on sale during the meeting.
For further information please call 234-6167 or 234-2074.
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Kagman eyed for bird habitat By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff
THE B!)ARD of Public Lands has designated the Kagrnan Wildlife Reserve area as site for the upland habitat mitigation bank where developers can "repopulate" bird species that may be destroyed by their ongo-ing projects. ·
DLNRlookS' . for missing radiosets .• By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff
THE DMSION offish and Wildlife hasalreadybeenissuedradiosetsforits brown tree snake program. The catch though is thatthecommwlicationequip-ment are missing, it was learned.
''There are now ongoing efforts to retrievetheralios,"saidoutgoinglands and Natural Resources Secretary Maggie Wonenberg.
Wonenberg said the program's formercoordinatorwhoisnotanymore employed wim DLNR has claimed he too does not have the equipment
Wonenberg refused to name the Fonner official, saying though that a case involving "other DLNR matters" has been pending against the person at the Office of Personnel Management
"Toe problem with the Division of Fish and Wildlife is that it has to de.11 with what has happened in the past
''There was a radio set issued to D~. But apparently, it is missing," saJd Wonenberg.
She however failed to say exactly when the radio set was issued.
Wonenberg, shortly after she was appointed by Gov. Froilan Tenorio to the DLNR post in August, it will be recalled, vowed to work on the purchase of the communication system, following criticism that DLNR's fish and wildlife division staff, which handles the brown tree snake program, has been slow in responding to snake sightings .
This was especially highlighted several months back when an Oleai resident complained that it took DFW almost two hours to respond to his call of a snake sighting.
ThecallwasmadethroughtheEmergency Mmiagement Office. EMO, in tum, tried to get in touch with DFW which was then already closed for the day.
ScottR. Vogt, a biologist who heads the program, it was later on gathered, does not have a radio nor a beeper where he may be tracked during such situations.
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''Wewilldesignateotherareasupon anauthoritatuvefindingswhiochmay state that the present one is not enough," said BPL Chair Tomas B. Aldan.
Aldan failed to say how big the wildlife reserve area is, though he nonetheless stressed the area, believed to be around 70 hectares, is enough to accoip.odatetheCNMigovemment's mitigation bank project
Underthisscheme,developerslike the Haas and Hayne, are required to finance the "repopulation" of certain bird species like the nightingale reed warbler that may be endangered in the course of the firm's construction of a large golf course in Obyan.
The mitigation bank was originally planned to be situated in Marpi.
''We are hopeful, Haas and Hayne doesnotanymorefutveanexcuse(for the delay ontheirproject) ," said Aldan.
HassandHayne,itwillbereca\led, are among several developers whom
Aldan has recently chided for delays in the construction ofmeirrespective projects on the island.
Others include the Nakanloto Development which is asking for an extention of their lease agreement's provisions on construction phase.
Aldan said all fums will be utilizing the same mitigation site.
These include me Bird Island Development Inc. which is building a big tourist facility in Marpi.
Inrelateddevelopments,Aldansaid BPLhasgiventheBlackMicroCorp. the go signal forthe tests it was earlier ordered to conduct on the impact of its quarrying activities to nearby residents and the construction of a multimillion dollar hotel a few hundred meters away from the quarry site.
'Toe tests should not take more than a month," said Aldan.
Black Micro has recently been ordered to shutdown and operate elsewhere in the CNMI due to adverse
Tomas B. Aldan
effects it~ operations have caused to the residents.
Large cracks can now be seen on walls of houses lining up the road to the firm's Maipi quarry site. The cracks were reportedly caused by explosivesdetonatedbymefuminits quarrying activities.
Black Micro appealed the decision saying it will bring in experts from Guam and conduct the tests to deter-
mine whether their explosives are causing the cracks.
The finn has also been asking fora IS-year extention.
Aldan said the compmiy is using the explosives tests as a bargaining chip for the extention, which, he stressed, should not be the case.
"The only tllingwedon 'tlikeabout Black Micro is that they are saying that if the testing turns out good then we will execute meir extention. I don't want that (testing) to be a condition," said Aldan.
Aldan said the tests were asked because World Corp, which is building the hotel, has said it can't proceed with the initial stages of the construction due to fears the vibrations caused by the explosions could weaken their hotel.
Also, residents have expressed concerns their homes may eventually be destroyed from the explosions' impact
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Bill to d Teno 'events' By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff
THE SEN A TE may hold a session next week to work on the budgets of governor-elect Pedr-o P. Ten;rio 's transition
·committee, the funding for the Jan. 12 inauguration and for the CNMI's Covenant Section 902 negotiating team.
Senate Vice Preside•lt Paul A. Manglona (R-Republican), whq is the incoming Senate president. yesterday said the Senate leadership has decided to hold one or even two more sessions before the end of the year to address "pressing·· legislation.·
Included in the Senate's priority are the bills to :i.mend the CNt\11 retirement law, the ,:il:1ry adjustment for govern-11,ent employees and the Pu.b-1 ic School System's $56 million ··piecemeal" budget.
To be given "special attention." however, is the funding
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for the CNMI' s negotiating panel to the so-called Section 902 talks with the Clinton administration.
With the expected resumption of the talks when governor-elect Tenorio is sworn into office, Manglona said the Senate should start locating the needed funding for the CNMI's panel.
"One of the governor-elect' s priorities is to improve relations with the federal govern-
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Bank of Guam hereby gives notice of its intent to relocate its Tinian Branch from its current site at No. 1 Palayo Street, Tinian, MP 96952 to a new location on the Ground Floor of the F. V. Hof~chneider Bldg_., Sanjose Street, Sanjose Village, Tinian, CNMI 96952.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call our Tinian Branch at (6 70) 43.3-3258.
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ment, so I think the Senate can be of help by already setting aside the needed funds for 902," Manglona said.
Governor-elect Tenorio, in an earlier interview, vowed to reestablish communications and improve CNMI's relations with the Clinton administration.
CNMI-federal relations have turned from "bad to worse," after President Clinton announced in May that federal immigration and minimum wage Jaws should now be ex tended to the Northern Marianas.
Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio responded by intensifying lobbying efforts in Congress, and
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by winning support from U.S. Republican lawmakers.
The governor-elect said, however, that his administration will no longer continue the confrontational stance of the outgoing governor.
He said he will also resume the Covenant Section 902 talks with the Clinton administration, but added that the "federal takeover" proposal may no longer be included in the agenda.
There are already three federal takeover legislation filed in Congress since April.
Section 902 of the Covenant, the political document that governs CNMI-U.S. relations, provides for regular consulta-
tions between the Commonwealth and federal· governments "on all matters affecting the relationship betwen them."
CNMI's political and business leaders believe that applying federal immigration and minimum wage Jaws to the Commonwealth will be disastrous to its economy, which is heavily dependent on· the free flow of cheap, alien labor.
Citing the support from U.S. House Republicans, however, Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio has said that the current GOPdominated Congress will never pass any federal take~ over bill.
P.O. Bo.x 678 • Saipan, CNMI 96950 Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio shakes hands with Sha Un, member of a visiting Chinese delegation, during an exchange of souvenirs. The delegation was here Friday looking at trade prospects with the CNMI.
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Torres' opposition won't sway decision on Nakamoto- BPL
By Jojo Dass Variety News Sf.a.ff
THE BOARD of Public UUlds has expressetl concerns that Nakamoto Development, which is building a five-star hotel in Garapan, may be afaced with problems involving its project's funding sotrreeS in Japan.
Nakamoto officials have been proposing that BPL allow an extension of their lease agreement's construction phase, saying they have finally found a financier.
"'There's a possibility that since Nakamoto has found a second financier, there could be a legal case against it involving the first one," said BPL Chair Tomas B. Aldan.
''Let'spresumethatthefirst(fmancier) sues Nakamoto. The second financier may pull out upon learning about this. And we're sitting ducks," he explained.
"We want to make sure." BPL, sources said, is verifying if
there indeed is a case i:ending against the private developer in Japan.
Aldan said BPL has asked NakarnolOtosubmitastatementproving that the firm has purchased all fourlots it needs to construct the fivestar Le Metidien Hotel.
Aldan said an approval of Nakamoto 's request "all depend on their report and our findings."
Meanwhile, Aldan said Represen- ·
tative Stanley Tones' recent request asking BPL to deny Nakamoto's i:etition for an extension will not have a bearing on any decision of the Board regarding the matter.
"TheBoarddecidesbasedonmerits of the case," he said.
Torres, it will be recalled, wrote Aldan a letter asking that the petition l:e rejected saying the firm has allegedly been using the extension formula on lease agreements "to buy time" while looking for a financier.
Torres proposed instead that the leased land be used for a cultural center highlighting "our ancestor's way of life."
His proposal stemmed from archeological findings suggesting that the construction site was an ancient burial ground .
At least six human remains, 1:elieved dating back to the i:eriod l:efore foreigners began colonizing the islands, were recently dug out
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Wonenberg, upon learning of the incidentwhichhappenedwhenDLNR has yet to fonnally have its secretary, hasvowedlOworkonthcacquisitionof the communication equipment
"I am still working on it," she asstrred.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY.NEWS AND VIEWS-7
Teno to 'revarnp' gov't By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff
GOVERNOR-elect Pedro P. Tenorio on Friday hinted the possible retention of s'ome incoming government officials to office when his administration
.assumes position in January. . But Tenorio promptly added that the recommendations will come from the transition committee reviewing the performance of various government offices and officials.
He also said the "firing sprees" of the present administration came to him as a surprise because he did not encounter similar incidents when he first assumed the CNMI gubernatorial seat.
Tenorio said, however, he does not believe the firing of
government officials by the outgoing leadership were intended to jeopardize his assumption to office next year.
The incoming governor also e_xpressed concerns about the possibilities of the ifiredi officials celebrating a "blue Christmas" because they were untimely rendered out of service.
"It's sad because how can one probably provide for a family of seven when he is untimely fired off," he said.
At the same time, Tenorio confirmed a pending reorganization of government, adding that the transitional committee is already reviewing government agencies and will soon come up with some recommendations.
He said a reorganization will
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make government agencies more effective.
He said there are existing contracts employing highly-paid consultants including those who are outside the Commonwealth but added they could not get copies of the contracts yet.
"I believe yes, we do have,.
unfortunately we can"t get some of the contracts, like I say, for some reasons I don't know, we can 'tget them but we will wait," the newly-elected governor said.
Tenorio mentioned the possibilities that his camp may raise
. the issue of the open-government policy to get some the contracts, adding that there may be expiring contracts that has to be reviewed.
He said the are some restrictions on governor signing professional services contract since the legislature must review and pass the proposal, as well as make sure that there must be an appropriation for that specific contract, because otherwise, it will be in violation of the law.
"So the only remedy that we can do is to file an injunction
but again it will take time," Tenorio said.
He stressed he is particularly concerned about some employees being fired and transferred from on department to another.
"We have a concern there are so many things that are going on and I donit have the complete document to present at this time. There are some employees that are being transferred from one department to another," he added.
Tenorio said his administration will try to reduce as much as possible the size of the government, though he said they may encounter difficulties handling the'streamlining since the present administration has been "signing new contracts."
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Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Council for the Humanities
THE COVENANT: THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS PUBLIC FORUM
The CNMI Council for the Humanities, in conjunction with
the Resident Representative to the United States and the
Diamond Hotel, is sponsoring a public forum to focus on the
CNMI Covenant. The purpose of this forum, entitled "The Covenant: The Next Twenty Years", is to revisit the Covenant
and examine through discussions with legal experts, historians,
negotiators, community leaders and the general public matters
concerning the Covenant's history, implementation,
accomplishments, problems, and most of all its future.
The public forum, to be held at the Saipan Diamond Hotel Hall
on Saturday, I 3 December I 997 at 9:00 a.m. through 4:30 p.m.,
will feature Mr. Howard Willens, Mr. Edward Dig. Pangelinan
and other individuals who actively participated in Covenant
negotiations and implementation.
· Because seats are limited, we encourage interested persons to
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Council \Vants changes in 'handicapped parking act'
By Gerr R. Cayabyab, Jr. Variety News Staff
THE GOVERNOR's Developmental Disabilities Council Executive Director Thomas J. Camacho last week asked House Speaker Diego T. Benavente to amend the law on handicapped parking.
Camacho. made the request basedonGDDC'sresearch,analysis and information received from concerned citizens with disabilities and parking owners which suggested that Public Law 8-34 needs change.
"We also believe the enforcement section needs some amendments to strengthen its weaknesses," Camacho stated in a letter,
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According to Camacho, GDDC has analyzed eight ADA issues that the public· should be aware of.
Among these include standardized permanent and temporary
placards, identification of disabled persons, local standards inconsistent with ADA, accessible parking standards, lack of enforcement (unauthorized vehicles parked at designated accessible stalls), vehicles encroaching and/ or blocking designated accessible parking space, accessible route (walkways, sidewalks, pathways, etc.) to accessible parking and maintenance of accessible features.
Camacho said the law does not specify the size of a permanent and temporary placard to be issued.
Camacho recommended that placards be standardized to 4 inches in width by 8.5 inches long and made of hard paper or plastic.
MVB Managing Director Anicia Tomokane and Miss CNMI Universe Melanie Sibetang (center) join a group photo with the 'Mixed Culture' dancers in recent JATA trade fair in Osaka. Photo courtesyo1Mve
Wonenberg outlines critical issues incoming DLNR chjefmust tackle
By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff
THE KAGMAN irrigation system, the call for a halt on the bombings atFarallon de Medinilla island and the brown tree snake program are among critical issues that the new head of the Department of Lands and Natural Resources must work on, said outgoing DLNR Secretary Maggie Wonenberg.
Wonenberg, who is tendering her resignation at an "appropriate time," said she will have to keep herself employed.
"I have to work," she stressed. "I don't have plans right now,
but I know I will work because I need to."
Wonenberg said there are "so many critical issues facing the department that nqt one is over the other."
"One can not compare the critical importance of the irrigation system and the contracts for that particularproject in Kagman with the move to stop the bombings at the Farallon de Mendinilla Island," she said.
"And the brown tree snake too,
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is likewise important." Wonenberg expressed hopes
the incoming DLNR chief would tend to these ongoing concerns.
Wonenberg, shortly upon assuming post last Aug., vowed to stop the ongoing, unhampered U.S. Navy bomb runs on FDM saying the military exercises pose a threat to the island's ecological suucture.
Her efforts, insiders said, were howevermadesur,posedly in vain as the war drills have been mandated under the Covenant which integrated the CNMI into the US political system.
"So far, it's a deadlock," said
one DLNR official requesting anonymity.
Meanwhile, with its canine unit having been activated and a 24-hour holding facility for all inccimingcargoes being worked out with the Commonwealth Pores Authority, DLNR's brown free snake program is reportedly still being hampered by the lack of one necessity: communication equipment.
Wonenberg had vowed to acquire radio sets for the program only to find out that radios earlier issued have been missing (sec re-lated story). .
The Kagman irrigation project, which showed signs of finally getting off the ground a few months back, still has to be ironed out.
"I just hope the incoming sec. retary, whoever he or she maybe, will tend to these matters," said Wonenberg.
Wonenberg said her option is to take employment with the private sector or with another government agency,
"The sure thing is that I wiil work. I need a job," she said.
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'No takers' as open hunting season in Sariguan continues
Department of Public Safety's Santa Claus joins students from different Saipan schools during Wednesday night's Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention annual parade in Garapan. Photo by Ferdie de 1a Torre
By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff
SARIGUAN Island has been declared as an open season hunting ground with no limit on the catch for the past ten years.
This was dondn a bid to contain the threat posed by the growing population of goats and other· feral animals that have been causing irreparable damage to the area's vegetation and top soil.
Unfortunately though, nobody seemed interested in going on hours-long boatride to the place and go hunting, said Fish and Wildlife Deputy Director Richard Seman.
Now, the CNMI government is afaced with the task of hauling away all of the estimated 1,000 wild goats and rehabilitate the island.
"Ten years ago, we amended our rules and regulation on hunting. WedeclaredSariguananopen season with no limit," said Seman.
"We were hoping that people would just take advantage of the amendment. But nobody had the real desire to go there and hunt,"
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he lamented. "We did not neglect the island
to the point where the feral animals' threat is now considered in its advanced stage."
It has taken government the past year to prepare for the "cleansing."
Seman said the project could take off early next month with the arrival of a biologist contracted through the Honolulu Fish and Willdlife Service office to assist the local DFW.
"We did not decide on this project overnight," stressed
Seman, noting some opposition DFW has been receiving over the project.
The opposition stemmed from questions on where the goats will be transferred, among other issues .
Former Lands and Natural Resources Secretary Benigno M. Sablan, it will be recalled, had earlier said the animals will be given away to Saipan livestock raisers.
Northern Islands Mayor Joseph Ogumoro had expressed reservations on the plan saying that he should be informed on what DFW plans to do with the goats since the island falls within his jurisdiction.
Seman, meanwhile said all necessary eq11 ipment and supplies have now been put in place on the island.
He said Kurt Kessler, the biologist who will be in charge of the project, is expected to arrive on Jan. 14,
"He (Kessler) will ivork very closely with our staff," said Seman.
· Deputy ,DPS com_missioner seeks classified rank for post By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff
DEPARTMENf of Public Safety DeputyCommissionerforOperation Lino S. Tenmio ha~ requested for a restJucturc of his position to that of a
police major. Tenorio in a letter to then DPS
Commissioner Jose M. Castro said after careful thought and consideration he decided it would be most beneficial to him and his family ifhe
will step down from an unclassified position to that of a classified rank.
"Having served this department proudlyastheDeputyCommissioner for Operation for the past three years, I feel that it is time for me to get back
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~~-: Elsewhe~e in .the Pacific Fiji PM urges help for Cooks, PNG relief MP's get behind Skate SUVA (Pacnews)-Fiji 's prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has launched an appeal to help the Cook Isl ands and Papua New Guinea.
Rabuka said banks would open special accounts for donations towards the relief and rehabilitation work that is being undertaken in both countries and those who want to donate food and other items can contact the Red Cross.
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Guinea Prime l\linistcr I3ill Skate is confident he has the numbers.to thwart any moves by the Oppostion to wrest power from him.
In a show of solidarit)' SunJay. Skate's image-builders orchestrated a media conference at the Prime Minister's official resi.dence, Mirigini
House, with about 20 ministers and MPs in attcnJancc, the Post-Courier reports.
And if it's true that Sir Michael Somare's National Alliance has joined Skate, the National Capital District MP will be in a much stronger position than before the Mujo Sefa sect;et tapes controversy.
The Post-Courier reports that Somare could not be reached Sunday night. but if his N.\ hadjoiiied the government. it is because the Member for East Sepik <loes not like sacked Deputy Prime Minister Chris Haivcta.
Skate said he would announce his deputy this week.
Meanwhile, Opposition deputy lea<lerMasket Iangalio has moved to the government after forming a n;w political party with two ministers and vice ministers. Enga Governor Peter Ipatas said the
Solomons· to pay USP debt HO:\IARA (Pacnews)---:Solomon lsbnds education minister. Rodney Mani. has again said the government will settle Solomon Islands· SUS7 million Jcbr with the Llni1·ersity of the South Pacific by Ju11e next year.
Mani said he's pulling a paper to cabinet next week on a schedule to pay up the debt which has been accumulating since 1995.
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,la!C. Mimi said that despite the fi
nancial con,traints, his government will ensure the country's debt with the USP was settled by· next June.
United Resources Party had been formed at a secret meeting just outside Port Moresby Sunday.
Members include Transport anJ Civil Aviation Minister Phi lemon Embel and Roy Yaki among others.
In a related move, four Pangu Pati deputies met Prime Mini.ster Skate Sunday an<l assured him that the party was still with the government.
Speaking at the launching Friday in Suva, Rabuka said the people of the Cook Isl ands and PNG are suffering from rhe loss of ho11Jes and from sh?rtage of food, and it is important for Fiji to show its willingness to help them, the Sunday Post reports.
The Cook Islands was badly hit by tropical cyclone Martin last month, and pans of PNG are suffering from a drought which has covered the country since January.
Australian Army Chinook helicopters await the arrival of emergency food aid onboard an Australian Air Force Hercules C-130 transport plane at the Kiunga airstrip Thursday in Papua New Guinea. The C-130's cargo of rice and flour was airlifted to 6,000 refugees from Indonesia's lrian Jaya facing food and water shortages. AP
Samoan MP charged with careless driving APIA (Pacnews)-A Samoan Member of Parliament has been charged driving with negligence cm1sing death.
Aana Alofi No. I MP Suafoa Launisi was charged by police after a pick up he was driving allegedly struck and killed a policeman on November 25.
This has been confumed by Police Commissioner Asi James Blakelock.
TI1e policeman, Mathew Seiuli, 21, died instantly after being struck while crossing the road at Malie
village on the night of November 25.
Suafoa first entered Parliament after last year's general elections. He won tlie Awm Alofi No. 1 · as a candidate for the Samoa National Development Party (SNDP), but later defected to the ruling Human Rights Protection Party.
Police Commissioner Asi said the MP was taken into custody Saturday but was later remanded at libetty. The MP is scheduled to appear in the Magistrates Court next Tuesday to enter a plea.
Nauru settles $26M debt CANBERRA (Pacncws}--llie RcpublicofNauru isrc])Jrted tohavepaiJ Aust $38.S million ($US26m) to settle a long-nmning dispute witli mi Australi,u1 property developer over its J"iurclwse of the controversial Queen Victoria Hospital site in Melbourm:'s central business district.
·n1e site was bough! by tlic Nauru Government in 1994 from property developer David Marriner for$49.5 million ($US33.34m) - just six months after Marriner bought the land from the Victorian Government for $12.5 million.
Under tlic deal, Nauru paid a deposit of $11 million ($US7.4m). witli tlie n:maining $38.5 million due in September tl1is year.
Wl1en Nauru failed to meet tlie purclmsc sel!lcmcnt deadline, Mm1"incr
took legal action anJ regained possession oftlie site. Nauru w,l, unsuccessful in two appeals against 1.be decision.
In mrngreementreached Sunday full details of which have not yet been revealed- Naum will retaintl1c site mid will drop legal actionagainstMarriner's comp,my.
·nic Austrafom Firnmcial Review lmsquotedasPJkesperson fortlieGovcmmcnt of Naum a, confirming tlrnt Nauru is considering developing gardens mid ,ITT underground carpark on tl1e old hospital site.
llie spokesperson said tl1e court decision to revert the site to Marriner wouldhavecostNauruits$1 I million dCPJSil.
In addition, if Marriner sold tlic site for less tltm1 tl1c m11ount contracted wit11 Nauru, it would have been liable for tl1e difference.
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RP m.urder suspect battles extradition TORONTO (AP)-A Philippines murder suspect was taking his battle against extradi~ion to an Ontario court.
Lawyer Wes Wilson will argue· that a decision by former Justice Minister Allan Rock to permit
· Rodolfo Pacificador' s Lo be turned over to Philippines authorities should be quashed at a hearing beginning Monday in Ontario Court, general division.
Failing that, Wilson will seek to have Pacificador released on bail from the city's Don Jail, where he has spent the last six years.
The hearing before Justice Michael Dambrot, scheduled to last two weeks, will involve contentions that the charges Pacificadorfaces including murder and four counts of attempted murder are politically motivated, and that in absence of an independent judiciary, his chances of getting a fair trial are remote.
In an affidavit filed with the court, Pacificador stated his innocence and maintained he fled the Philippines after the overthrow of the Ferdinand Marcos regime in 1986 because he was "'genuinely· afraid for my life."
Although his flight occurred about a month after the assassination of Evelia Javier, he said he did not realize at the time that he and his father, a Marcos loyalist, faced charges in the homicide.
"When Javier was initially gunned down, there were news-
RPexports . . · increase 23%
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine expotts temained strong in October, growing 23 percent from a yem· earlier to $2.32 billion despite Asia's recent financial turmoil, the government said Monday.
For the first IO months of tl1e yem·, expot1s also climbed 23 percent to $20.69 billion, the National Statistics Office sai<l.
Unlike in the Philippines, cxpotts have slowed for some other Southeast Asian nations hit by tl1e regional cutTcncy ciisis.1l1c crisis has inflated inte,est 1:ttes and slowed economic growti1.
Electronics and components remained the Philippines' top doll:u· e:micr for October, 1x1sting a 39 percent incn:asc to $1.09 billion. 'Ille pro<lu_ct group accounted for 47 percent of all exports.
Garments accounted for7 percent of total exports for the month but declined 11 percent from a year earlier to $167.4 million because of stiff foreign competition and steep local labor costs, the agency said.
Computer periphci:1ls conttibl!lcd 6. 7 p;rccnt of total ex pott n:ccipts for October. or $154.9 million, a huge improvement from the yca1·-earlicr $65.8 million.
Once aJain, the United States was the Philippim:s' larges! market, accounting for 34 percent of total exports. The second biggest market was Japan with a 17 JlL'.rccnt sh:u-c.
lmprnts :u\; :umounced sqxu,1tely by the government each month.
paper reports regarding the incident, but none of them ever mentioned me as being involved in the shooting," Pacificador told the
·court. Explaining his father had been·
assistant majority leader of the pro-Marcos CBD party and that he managed his father's constituency office in Antique province, he said that before he left he learned that "50 or 60 armed men had raided our family home in Manila looking for myself and my father."
Reaching Canada via the United States in I 987, he immediately filed for refugee status. Although an adjudicator found a "credible basis" for the refugee claim, the process has been on hold pending the case outcome.
Pacificador has no criminal record in Canada or the Philippines.
~orke'.s prepare to m_ove large lanterns to be loaded onto a van Wednesday for distribution to different areas m Manila. Lanterns will be put up on electric post as part of the city's decorations for the yuletide season. AP
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re offers 'flexibilit ByCHARLESJ.HANLEY
KYOTO, Japan (AP) - U.S. Vice President Al Gore, faced with European demands for more, offered new American flexibility Monday on cutting back gas emissions tied to global wanning.
His speech brief and without spe-. cific new proposals got a lukewanm
welcomefromEuropeandelegates to the 150-nationconference, which was entering the final three days of talks onanewintemationalclimatechange accord
Before Gore spoke, the leader ofa small Pacific island nation one that may someday be imperiled by global wanning's rising waters appealed to the industrial powers to end their bickering and cut greenhouse emissions soon and shruply.
"No nation has the right to place its own misconstrued national interest before the physical and cultural survival of entire countries," said Kinz.a Clcxlumar, president of Nauru.
He expressed disappointment in the U.S. position particularly and said industrial nations would be committing "cultural genocide" if they failed to control emissions adequately.
Differences between Europe and Americaoverhowdeeplytocutgases has stood as a major obstacle to cornpletionoftheKyotoProtocol,an unprecedented global agreement to control energy use in the2 l stcenuuy.
European governments, environme:ntal.ists and olhers had been looking fora more ambitious U.S.offeron reducing carlx:m dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
On a lightning one-day visit to the negotiations, Gore said the United States would not "promise what we cannot do."
The vice president then announced to the delegates he had just spoken with President Clinton by telephone Monday morning, and "I can instruct our delegates right now to show increased negotiating flexibility" if the eventual plan preserves basic principles of the U.S. position.
Administrntion and congressional sources reported a key condition for deeper U.S. gas reductions remained the "meaningful participation" in cutback plans by developing countries, which thus far have been exempted.
India's environment minister, speaking after Gore, responded to that suggestion.
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28 to Governor Froilan Tenorio expiessed support with Tenorio' s request
"After careful evaluation and discussion with Cabrera, I am being informed that this is possible and with your approval, we can immediately process his personnel action," Castro toid the governor.
Tenorio last vacated a police captain's position before being appointed as deputy commissioner for operations.
Such restructure will change Tenorio's political-appointed position to a civil service position.
commitments for developing countries," said Saifuddin Soz.
European reaction to Gore's remarks was restrained
"I hope this means the Americans arenyingtogetclosertoaresult,"said RittB jerregaard, the European Union environmentoommissioner. She said the U.S. position thus far has been "far too mcxlest"
American environmentalists welcomed the signal of movement from Gore. Alden Meyer, chainnan of a U.S. environmental coalition on climate change, called it "a real breakthrough."
But William F. O'Keefe, head of the U.S business lobby Global Climate Coalition, said he was "very disappointed and troubled by reference to increased negotiating flexibility." His group, ledbycoalandoil companies,contendsenergyrestraints will lead to an economic slowdown and job losses in the United States. ·
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U.S. Vice President Al Gore waves as · he arrives at Kansai lntemational Airport, Japan Mon~ day morning to attend the international global warming confer-ence.in Kyoto. AP .
ters of scores of other countries were addressing the historic conference Monday and Tuesday as the paoe picked up toward a Wednesday conclusion.
Behind the soenes in the complex, highly technical talks, negotiators were juggling a bagful of adjustable features timetables, reduction levels, the gases to be covered in an effort to find a U.S.-European compromise.
'"Thedifferencesarenotenorrnous. They're capable of being overcome inthenextfewdays," said U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an observer at the talks.
But the Connecticut Democrat was less optimistic about another dispute, the u_s. effort to win concessions from developing nations on emission reductions, a feature the Senate demands for eventual ratification in Washing- · ton.
The l 0-day conference wraps up two years of negotiations to
strengthen the 1992 Climate Change Treaty, by setting legally binding limits on 34 industrial nations' emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, mostly byproducts of fossil fuel buming, that trap heat in the atmosphere. The United States produces 24 percent of global carbon dioxide.
International scientists reported in 1995 global temperatures had increased about 0.6 degrees Celsius ( 1 degree Fahrenheit) in the past century, apparently in part because of the greenhouse effect
They projected temperatures would rise up to an additional 3.5 degrees Celsius (6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, shifting climate zones,unSettlingregional weather and raising sea levels up to 95 centimeters (37 inches), inundating islands and shorelines, including low-lying areas of Florida and Louisiana.
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Patients dying in N. Korea By RAYMOND CHOW
HONG KONG (AP)- People are dying io North Korea because of a shortage of medical supplies, and doctors have to perform surgery without anesthesia, a relief agency said Sunday.
Dr. Eric Goemaere, director general of Medecins Sans Frontieres, said hospitals and clinics in North Korea have "nothing to offer to the patients" because of the collapse of the medical system.
Goemaere, just back from a weeklongvisittoNorthHarngyong, a province of more than 3 million people bordering China, said many patients are dying at home.
"Becausetherehavebeennosupplies to the hospitals for the past three or four years, the doctors have not been able to help and patients have chosen to stay at home to die," a statement from the group said.
Korea is not like famines in Africa, where people have died directly from lack of food, U.N. officials say North Koreans are dying from disease brought on by food shortages and the collapsing health care system.
Reckoning the scale of North Korea's problems has been difficult because the isolated, secretive communist country has not given relief workers access to all parts of the country.
During his trip, Goemaere said there was no visible sign of widespread famine, such as skeletal people collapsing from starvation . in the streets.
However, there were signs of food shortage in the country.
"People are scavenging for the last grains of rice after the harvest has been taken in," the statement said.
There are "no antibiotics,-no antiseptics, only traditional herbal drugs," Goemaere told a news conference.
He said many people in the province were suffering from pneumo- · nia because of the cold weather, and that diarrhea and skin diseases were also common.
A video footage shows an infant suffering from malnutrition in the North Korean province of Kangwon. Relief groups estimate at least 1 million people have died in a large-scale famine, after years of flooding and a drought this summer compounded years of chronic mismanagement of North Korea's collective agriculture. The footage, released by Medecins Sans Frontieres Sunday was taken in November. AP
Goemaere said that in the mountainousregion,onlymaizewasgrown but this crop is easily affected by drought
MSF has been working in North Korea since 1995, when it provided emergency assistance after floods. ·
In 1997, the agency distributed 2,200 tons of spring barley seeds to increase agricultural production.
He also released a videotape of appendix surgery being performed without anesthesia on a you·ng woman in a hospital in the southern province of Kangwon.
The patient was tied to the operating table and dirty scissors were used instead of scalpels. The woman, who suffered great pain, died two days later of infection, Goemaere said.
He said there was no reliable ,statistics on the number of people
who have died because of the collapse of the medical system.
His delegation visited four cities in North Hamgyong, the northernmost province, which Goemaere said is very isolated from the rest of country.
Two years of flooding and a
drought this summer- compounded years of chronic mismanagement of North Korea's collective agriculture.
Reliefgroupsestimatethat I million to 2 million North Koreans may have died in the famine.
While the situation in North
Since July this year, eight of its employees have been running a medical and nutritional emergency relief program in three southern provinces.
Health official says bird fl:u outbreak on humans unlikely HONG KONG (AP) - The death of a second person in Hong Kong from an influenza strain previously found only in bird-s and poultry does not indicate the disease can be spread among humans, a senior health official said Sunday.
Dr. Paul Saw, who heads a special investigation team that includes u:s. medical experts, said there was no cause for
panic because "the evidence does not suggest that the disease is widespread."
A 54-year-old man, who was not identified-, died Friday, and a 13-year-old girl is still in hospital after she was stricken with the HSNI influenza A virus.
In May, a 3-year-old Hong Kong boy died after contracting the virus, the first known case of human infection. Last
month, a 2-year-old boy suspected of having the virus was hospitalized but recovered.
"Our initial findings of the first four cases have shown that the virus does not appear to have human-to-human transmission," said Saw, who is Hong Kong's deputy director of health.
"To rule out this possibility, we need further tests and further investigation," he told a
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news conference, which also was attended by Dr. Keiji Fukuda, an expert from the U.S. Centers on Disease Control in Atlanta.
The Hong Kong government also has called on the World Health Organization to investigate the cause of the mysterious cases.
"Our findings have also shown that in all these cases, they do not share a common single source,"
said Saw. "The four cases are not linked to one another."
Blood tests will be conducted on family members, relatives, colleagues or schoolmates who have been in touch with the patients, health experts said.
Saw said that since the first case was confirmed in August, the government has introduced a surveillance program that successfully picked up the following three cases.
A vendor catches a cock in a poultry shop, Sunday in Hong Kong, where people are alarmed by the spread of H5N1 influenza A virus that was previously f(!und only in birds and poultry. Two more people may have caught this rare btrd flu and one has died bringing to four suspected or confirmed cases. AP '
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Demonstrators protest the lack of medication for those living with AIDS Sunday in Abidjan: Ivory. Coast, f!t the opening ceremony of the 1 oth International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Tr~nsm1tted Diseases 1n Africa. Most of the more than 20 million people in sub-Saharan Africa who carry the virus that causes AIDS don't even know they have it, Dr. Peter Riot, executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/ AIDS, told the conference Sunday. AP
AIDS expert says m.ore than 20 million affiicted in Africa ABIDJAN,IvoryCoast(AP)-More than 20 million people in sub-SaharanAfricacany the virus that causes AIDS, and most of them don't even know it, an expert on the disease told an international conference Sunday.
''The situation in this region is unprecedented," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive directorof the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/ AIDS, or UNAIDS.
Piot was addressing the opening session of the 10th International Conference on AIDS and SexuallyTransmitted Diseases in Africa, a five-day gatheringbringingtogetherhundreds of researchers who will discuss methods forstemmingthedisease 'sspread on the continent
French President Jacques Chirac was also to address the gathering.
Morethan20millionoftheworld's
By BRENNAN LINSLEY KIGALI,Rwanda(AP)-The U.N. human-rights chief on Sunday criticized Rwanda's human-rights record, saying the Tutsi-led government lacked a committed policy of reconciliation while Hutu rebel attacks made lives in parts of the country virtually impossible.
The· government, meanwhile, dismissed her statement as "unfortunate and inaccurate," but promised to cooperate.
Mary Robinson, the newly appointed U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said arbitrary arrests, killings and prolonged detentions in overcrowded jails have risen dramatically in past few moths.
"Atthemoment,the situation is a very serious and a bleak one," said the former Irish president. "There has been no movement toward reconciliation."
Robinson said diplomats and · aid worlcers described the situation in
30 million known AIDS cases are living in sub-Saharan Africa, according to figures from UNAIDS and the
· WorldHealthOrganization,Piotsaid One in every 13 men and woman between the ages of 15 and 49 are caniers of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
But he said that UNAIDS estimatesthatnineoutoflOpeopledon't know they are infected and therefore never seek medical assistance or arrange future care for themselves and their children when they become ill.
The developing world's lack of access to the latest, and most expensive, treatments plays a majorrole in the spread of the disease in Africa, according to Piot, who noted that many industrialized countries were seeing a drop in AIDS deaths as a
northwestern Rwanda, where most of the violence is concentrated, as a "war situation."
Security has deteriorated rapidly in parts of Rwanda, where ambushes and attacks by Hutu rebels and reprisals by Tutsi-led army have left at least 6,000 people dead since the beginning of the year, according to the London-based Amnesty International.
From April to June 1994, at least half a million minorityTutsis were slaughtered during a campaign orchestrated by the thenextremist Hutu government.
The current government, which took power in July 1994, says the Hutu rebels returned late last year along with more than I million refugees who fled to neighboring countries in fear of reprisals for the massacres.
During her four-day mission to the country, Robinson met twice with President Pasteur Bizimungu and Vice President Pau!Kagame to
result ofnew therapies whose price is far beyond the reach of most AfriC811S.
"Only a very small proportion of people in the developing world have access to these treatments," said Piot
UNAIDS currently is involved in efforts to launch a program in Ivory Coast that would make some AIDS drugs available to patients at subsidiz.ed prices, but even if drug companies taking part in the plan slashed their prices by half they would still be too expensive for all but a very fewivorians.
The solution, Piot said, is an "unprecedented global effo1:t'' to make drugs more accessible in developing countries and to imprqve health services so that more people-can be tested andrespond early to the disease.
ay to persuade them to cooperate more readily with the U.N. humanrights monitors and to investigate allegations of abuses.
Robinson arrived Thursday, a day after a second Hutu rebel raid on a prison in Bulinga, where at least 500 Hutus being held pending trial on charges of genocide escaped. Raiders hacked six Tutsis to death and wounded three soldiers.
Bulinga is about 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest of Kigali, which is at the heart of Rwanda. Robinson said she was aware of the government 'scommitmenttoresolvingtheproblem throughpublicawareness, education and confidencebuilding, but that it lacked coordination and structure.
Also, she said she discussed with officials the establishment of an independent Rwandan human-rights body, which would be a vehicle for investigation of abuses by police and military.
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El Nino powers storm By DENNIS ANDERSON
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The season's first storm strengthened by El Nino soaked Southern California on Saturday, flooding people out of mobile home parks and blocking the Pacific Coast Highway.
Rain began falling Friday, but the tempest saved its strongest punch for later. While the Santa Barbara area had 9 inches of rain over24 hours, the National Weather Service said Laguna Beach had 6.34 inches Saturday morning alone.
"We've had a tremendous amount offlooding activity," said Capt. Scott Brown of the Orange County Fire Authority. "Most of our storm channels and drainage culverts are near crest."
The Pacific Coast Highway was closedduringthemorningbyflooding at Huntington Beach.
The storm also brought snow and ice to the mountains north and east of Los Angeles. Interstate 5 \\las closed for three hours north of the city because of slippery pavement inTejon Pass, at an elevation of only 4,100 feet.
The Orange County Fire Authority had a backlog of street flooding reports.
Orange County firefighters had to use inflatable boats to evacuate elderly residents of two mobile home parks in Huntington Beach afterwaterfilled streets and rose up to doorways early Saturday.
No injuries were reported there or inland at Lake Forest, where several cars were swept into a storm
channel, Brown said. The weather service posted se
vere thunderstonn and flash flood warnings for parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties after radar detected strong wind, heavy rain and large hail. ·
In West Los Angeles, a lightning bolt hit a palm tree at3:30a.m. anct" shattered two dozen windows of an apartment building, residents said. No one was injured.
"I thought it was a bomb. We were very scared," said Bobby Kohanbasher, 15.
Heavy winds and rain cut power in many areas. .
In Riverside County, flooding damaged 18 homes, some heavily. Some residents had to go to a Red Cross shelter, said fire Capt Pixie Evans.
Standing on top of.his RV, John Gurney surveys the damage at his place of employment, the Black Forest BMW Services in Costa Mesa Calif., Saturday. The shop owners, Randy and Vicki Nelson said that everything under three feet was ruined. The storm from the Pacific Northwest, strengthened and bent southward by the El Nino warm water condition, soaked Southern California, flooding people out of mobile home parks and blocking the Pacific Coast Highway. AP •
Klan rally brings protesters BELOIT, Wis.(AP)-Hundreds of shouting people were kept back from a Ku Klux Klan rally Saturday where hocxled Klansmenrailed against blacks, homosexuals and Jews.
Ku Klux Klan G_rand Dragon Mjchael f_vfcO_ueeney, second from right, addresses a crowd of protesters and supportf!rS dunng a KKK ral!Y m Be/01t, Wis., Saturday. About 17 Klan members in hoods of black or white stood with red crosses outside a courthouse and denounced laws protecting minorities and others. AP
About 17Klanmembersinhoods of black or white stocxl outside a courthouse and denounced laws protecting minorities and others.
Police armed with shields and batons used high fencing to pre-
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vent the estimated 400people who protested the demonstration from getting too close to Klansmen.
Protesters shouted "Death to the Klan" and "Police and the Klan go hand in hand," during a speech . by Michael McQueeney, Grand Dragon of the Wisconsin KKK.
There was at least one physir:al clash between Klan supporters and protesters, but police had no information on arrests.
It was unclearwhy the Klan chose this city of 36,000 people near the Illinois state line for its demonstration. Authorities believe it was because of the city's high minority population.
Police had asked Klan protestors to avoid the demonstration and attend instead a "unity rally" at Beloit College. About 1,000 people attended the rally, officials said.
WESTON, Fla. (AP) - A man depressed about financial problems shot and killed his wife and two teenage children as they sat at the breakfast table and then turned the gun on himself, police said Saturday.
The bodies of Daniel Vitaver 53 his wife, Magaglia, 50, dauihte; Cynthia, 19, and son, Eduardo, 16, were found at the breakfast table of their rented home in an affluent gated community. Investigators think the shootings occurred Thursday morning.
Vitaver' s brother, Pablo, found the bodies Santrday when he went to the home to check on the family. He told authorities he grew worried because he hadn't teen able to reach them since We<lnesday.
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Lawrence Watson, right, a surrivor of the bombing of Pearl Habor takes a photograph during the memorial wreath-tossing on the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum Sunday in New York, in recognition of the fifty-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Habor. Water from the remains of the USS Arizona, a battleship which was sunk in the attack on Pearl Habor, was sprinkled on the wreath before it was cast off the Intrepid. AP
House panel: White House papers should be 'public' WASHINGTON (AP) - The Congressional Research Service is siding with a House panel in a fighr overwhetherintemalWhiteHouse documents pertaining to a proposed Indian gambling casino are protected by executive privilege.
In an opinion issued last Wednesday and released Saturday by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, a specialist in the American Law Division ofihe research service advised Rep. Dan Burton, the committee chairman, that the White House privilege claim is without foundation.
"We conclude that under the current state of the law, and in light of the nature of the documents and the circumstances under which they were produced, it is likely that a reviewing court would hold that none of the privileges claimed are sustainable before your committee, but that the White House has not, by the production, waived any assertable privileges it might raise in a court action even if the committee
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A man who fatally shot his girlf1icnd after a domestic dispute held police at bay for six hours Satur<l:1y before app:u·cntly taking his own life.
A police officer m1d a county she1ifrs deputy were shot accidentally by collea1crucs during the standoff.
'lhc episode began around 6:30 a.m. whcnanoff-dutyTravisCounty sheriffs deputy went to the house of neighbor Victoria Treminio, 44, to investigate a domestic scuffle. Several ofTrcminio's relatives were in the home at the time.
The deputy called police for help. By the time they arrived, Treminio's 43-year-old boyfriend, Ignacio Martinez, had shot her several times with a handgun, police said.
should publicly disclose the material during the course of its proceed in gs," wrote Morton Rosenberg.
:Toe issue is not whether the committee can get access to the documents, but whether it can use them in a public hearing. The White House has voluntarily given the panel all, or essentially all, of the disputed papers, but maintains thatthey cannot be publicly disclosed by the committee because they are protected by executive privilege.
Burton, R-lnd., wants to use them at a public hearing.
The · internal White House memos, reviewed by The Associ-
. ated Press in October, show that despite warnings that White House involvement would be "disastrous" and "political poison," presidential aides contacted the Interior Department three times in 1995 about an Indian casino opposed by a Democratic fund-raiser.
The aides inquired about the pending decision on whether to approve a Wisconsin casino
sought by three tribes and learned weeks in advance that Interior was likely to rule in favorofriva] wealthy tribes opposed to the project, the documents show. The tribes that won later donated more than $270,000 to the Democratic Party.
The meinos show that a lobbyist-fund-raiser for a tribe opposing the casino pressed the White House to intervene. Federal court records show the lobbyist suggested to Democratic officials around the same time that he could get some tribal members to attend a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser for President Clinton.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has acknowledged telling a lawyer that top White House aide Harold Ickes pressed him to reject the casino application. But Babbitt subsequently said there was no pressure, that he was just trying to brush off the lawyer, an old friend, and that he made the · decision "wholly on the merits, without any regard to campaign contributions."
Crews recovering oil spilled from freighter
DUTCHHARBOR;A.13ska(AP) -Cleanup crews have now recovered nearly 25,(XX) gallons of thick bunker fuel ~-pilled from a Japanese freighter that went aground near here.
Andncwinforrnationhasre<luced the estimate for the total amount spilled to somewhere between 50,000and80,000gallom,saidPetty Officer Adam Wine of the Coast Guard.
The 368-fciot vessel lost its Mchor and ran aground in heavy seas on Nov. 26 near Dutch Harbor, a busy fishing port 800 miles southwest of Anchorage. Two crewmen were killed
· Officials originally thought the ship was carrying its full capacity of 160,000 gallons of fuel, Wine said. But now it appears the ship ha<l 122,000 gallons aboard when its anchors drngge<l in a st01m and the ship ended up firmly aground.
On Friday, workers remove<l about 57,000 gallons of fuel from the ship, leaving just residual amounts in the hull
Then, on Saturday, they ocgan scooping up oil from the 3,500feet of beach affected by the spill. Workers also were on the job cleaning Summer Lake. Most of the lake's shoreline was oiled by the spill.
ByJOHNIAMS MOSCOW (AP) - As long as airports are built near residential areas, accidents like the c.-ash of a military cargo jct into an apartment building in
Siberia arc bound to happen, an aviation expert said Sund av.
l'aul Duffy. a Moscowbased aviation writer and consu lr:111r. sai<l il was d:mgcrous
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COMMONWEALTH PORTS AUTHORITY
CPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS NOTICE OF MEETING
Pursuant to Public Law 8-41, Section 11, GovemorFroilan C. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus C. Borja, through the Commonwealth Ports Authority Board of Directors, hereby give notice that the regular meeting of the CPA Board of Directors will be held on Friday, December 12, 1997 at I 0:00 a.m. at the CPA Conference Room, Saipan Seaport Office, on Saipan.
The following items are on the agenda for the above-referenced meeting:
I. PRELIMINARY MATIERS I. Cal I to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Adoption of Agenda 4. Adoption of Minutes (10/24/97 & ll/17/97)
· II. CORRESPONDENCE Ill. COMMITIEES REPORT
I. Finance Committee a. Adoption of Financial Statements
2. Seaport Facilities Committee 3. Airport Facilities Committee 4. Personnel Committee
IV. EXECUTIVE REPORT I. CPA Tenants Christmas Party
V. OLD BUSINESS I. CPA Ports Revenue Bond
- Resolution No. 04-97 2. Salary Increase
VI. NEW BUSINESS I. Supplemental Budget Request No. 98-02
VIL PUBLIC COMMENT(S) VIII. (Executive Session) LEGAL COUNSEL'S REPORT IX. ADJOURNMENT
All interested persons are welcome to attend and to submit written or · oral testimony on the above agenda items.
ls/VICTOR B. HOCOG Chairman, Board of Directors
November 22, 1997
A soldier car;/es Sunday remains of the An-124 cargo plane, that crashed Saturday in the Siberian city of Irkutsk killing at least 62 people. AP
to have residential areas near airports.
"If there are residential buildinl!s in line with a runway. ev~entually there will be an accident,'' he said. "People will l!Ct killed." ·
In ;ecenl years, Russia and other former Soviet republics have been pla&ued by a series of deadly air crashes. Ex pens have blamed poor maintenance, safety violations and cost-cutting.
A military An-124 jumbo jct-sized cargo jet apparently. losl power seconds after takeoff from an airfield near the city of Irkutsk on Saturday and crashed into· an apartment house. Killing dozens of people.
Dul'fy said there could be a number of reasons for .Satu1·cJay's crash. including b,1d fuel. pilot error, c:nginc failure or poorly stored C,ffgo.
Russian ol'l'icials acKnowlcdgc thal aviation safety standards plungd after the Soviet collapse in 199 I. But they ,tr~u<: th,11 ,t bianK<:t condcrnnation is unfair and say comlitions ~ire in1proving.
Du fl\ agreed. '"Three years ago. in I 994, there was areason lo feel concern over commercial aviation safety ... he said Sunday. "'Now, ii is basically about as safe, or more safe, than in the West. ..
The deadliest crash in Russia since the 1991 Soviet collapse also occurred in Irkutsk, when a Tu-154 went down in 1994, killing 124 people. There were al least nine other fatal crashes that year. three oflhcm involving military aircraft.
i\nd. in one of the most glaring lapses of safely that year. ;111 Airbus i\-310 passenger jct slammed into a snowy hillside in Siberia en route from
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The tail of an An-124 cargo plane, that crashed in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, leans against an apartment building as rescue workers survey the scene Sunday. The plane, carrying jet fighters to Vietnam, crashed seconds after taking off. AP
Moscow lo Hong Kong. Killing all 75 people aboard. Investigators said the son or one or the pi lots had been al the controls.
The military. ,1·hosc plane w c n l down S ,1 l u rd ,I y and whose crew \\',IS al the controls. has separate wocs. mainly stc1111ning frcim ;1 lack or cash.
i\ir Force (ien. Victor Prudnikov said <.",1rlicr this year llwt Russi,111 combat pilots on averngc were logging only ahoiJt I 9 hours of flying
tim..- annu,illy bcL·ausc of fuel shortages and J,1d or funding for tr;1ining.
"l'ilo1s \\'ho do not h;11·e chances 10 flv swif1l1 lose their skills." J~c wrote-in thL~ nc11·sp;1per Scgodnya in· February.
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Arafat on West Bank:
'US wants substantial pullout' CAJRO, Egypt (AP) - Palestinianleader Yasser Arafat said Sunday that his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine AlbrigbtshowsWashingtonbacks his demand for "a substantial" l<;raeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Osama el-Baz, a top adviser to Egytian President Hosni Mubarak, quoted Arafat as making the remark in reporting to Mubarak on his talks Saturday with Albright. She said after the meeting that she expected a "credible further redeployment" by Israeli troops.
"Arafat sees that the American position as represented by President Clinton and Secretary Albright is encouraging and that the American side is convinced by the Palestinian position that withdrawal should be tangible, Sl!bstantial and credible," el-Baz told reporters.
On Friday, Albright urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to turn over a sizable chunk of the West Bank to the Palestinians, but her drive to get Mideast peacemaking moving was rebuffed by Netanyahu.
She also said that "bold deci-
sions" were required on both sides. Arafat also complained that
Netanyahu is procrastinating in implementing the I 993 and I 995 Oslo accords with the Palestinians, el-Baz said after the Palestinian leader met Sunday with Mubarak.· ·
The Israeli Cabinet has conditioned even a limited pullback of Israeli troops in the WestBankon Arafat's Palestinian Authority providing more security for Israel.
"From a practical side, Arafat believes that .the Israeli position does not help to push peace for-
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright looks at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. during their joint press conference in a Parisian palace Friday. Netanyahu, on a two_-day visit to Franc_e, sa,~ that Israel is committed to achieving peace with the Palestimans, but excluded a ma1orrole for Europe m helpmg unblock the peace process. AP
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for it," he said, adding that Aloot and the Democratic Party should "give up."
"The community thinks so, too," he added. · . ''They already had their day in court, but we heard that this lawsuit is coming from (outgoing Gov. Froi!an C. Tenorio) himself which we tend to believe because there is no way ( former congressman Manasses Borja) could have afforded the legal costs involved," Villagomez said.
It w.as Borja, a member of the Democratic Party leadership, who filed the lawsuit challenging the governor-elect 's eligibility to serve an unprecedented third term. · The CNMI's only two-term governor, Tenorio sought and won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination last year and went on to defeat incumbent Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio and Lt. Gov. Jesus C. Borja in the Nov. 1 general elections.
The govemor-elect's camp has maintained that the constitutional amendment limiting the gover-
nor to two tenns was ratified during the Republican Tenorio's incumbency and therefore does not apply to. him.
Superior Court Associate Jus-
tice Edward Manibusan in his Dec. I ruling agrees.
He said the constitutional amendment can not apply retroactively.
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ward but rather to procrastinate," el-Baz said.
Later, Arafat told reporters at Cairo's airport that the Palestinians insist Israel fulfill all agreements it signed earlier"and top on them the redeployment" in the
West Bank. The Palestinian leader flew to
the Gulf state of Qatar. He is expected Monday to leave for Iran to take part in a summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
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Tenori'o ... fered by major economies in Asia including the depreciation of other Asian countries' currency.
Tenorio said it is more likely for the CNMI to suffer the effects of economic crisis in some major Asian countries since the Marianas is nearer to the Asian region than it is to Washington D.C.
"As we all know, Asian countries are experiencing all kinds of problems and we are I 0,000 miles away from
·Washington D.C. and if there is an impact in this area, that will affect our economy," he said.
He said his leadership will be working closely with the members of the business community and the public sector to come up with some recommendations as to how the CNMI government can handle the minimum wage issue.
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The new governor, who will be taking his third gubernatorial term, also expressed optimism his administration will hardly find ·difficulties working with the Federal Government, citing principles of negotiation.
"I always believe in negotiation. I don't believe in confrontation ... That's the reason why some people label me as not a fighter (because) I am not a fighter," Tenorio said.
He added his leadership will discuss issues confronting the Mariana Islands with diplomacy, while stressing that he will not tolerate any confrontation because lwe would like to work together.i
"And if we could prove that we meet our requirements to the Federal Government, I am sure they will be very willing to work with our· administration," he continued.
unlawfully operated a vehicle belonging to Department of Labor and Immigration last
filed Thursday said the vehicle Nov. 28. wasnotclearlyandlegiblymarked The AGO recently charged "as such on both front doors." Rufino M. Mendiola, an em-
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San Nicolas was summoned vehicle to a poker joint on to appear in court this Friday. Tinian last Nov. 26.
Last week, the AGO also Violating misuse of govern-charged Margaret B. Iba of ment vehicle law carries a maxi-Tinian for alleged misuse of mum penalty of three days' im-
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of San Roque, Saipan passed away in the Grace of our Lord on Friday, December 5, 1997 at the age of 67.
Born: December 19, 1929 Predeceased by: · Wife: Dolores Duenas Babauta (Deceased) Mother:Maria Miyasaki Babauta (Deceased) father: Juan Cruz Babauta (Deceased) Father and Mother In-Law: Jose Villagomez Duenas (Deceased)
Nieves Palacios Duenas (Deceased)
Children, Spouses and Grandchildren: Daniel & Remedio Q. Babauta (Jally, Jervy, Lufo) Merced & John S. Pangelinan (Marji, Christopher, John, Raina, Fae, Nikki) Edward D. Babauta & Thelma C. Brazas (Ted Curt) Lydia & Noel Q. Taisacan (Lorraine, Lyvonn, Don Felix) Thomas & Sylvia S. Babauta Norbert & Kimiyo T. Babauta (Delynn, Norbert Jr., Russell, Randy, Ryan) Carmen & Diego DLG. Camacho (Primitiva, Diego Joaquin) George & Eunice S. Babauta (La Jeanna Nikkine, George Jr.) Sandra & Franklin T. Sablan (Sanivette, Nieves, Francine) Brothers and Sisters and In-Laws: Manuel M. & Ana B. CDeceased)Babauta Santiago M. & Carmen N. Babauta(Deceased) and Noboki Babauta Jose M. & Maria L. (Deceased) Babauta Jesus M. & Petra R. Babauta Miquel M. (Deceased) & Anuncia Q. Babauta Luisa B. & Victorino (Deceased) Castro Solidad B. & Felix Sasamoto Maria M. Babauta & Joaquin C. Duenas
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Brothers/Sister In-Laws & Spouses: ~,.,,,~..._ ...... Pedro P. (Deceased)) & Lucia A. Duenas Antonio P. (Deceased) & Dolores F. Duenas ~ Jose P. & Rufina I. Duenas " Rita D. & Robert (Deceased) Hawkins Antonia D. & Tony Dela Rosa ' Ignacio D. & Trinidad (Deseased) C. Duenas Martina D. & Vicente Camacho Maria D. & Mike Weineger
He is additionally survived by numerous uncles, aunts, cousin, nephews, and nieces.
Rosary is being said nightly at 8:00 PM at his residence in San Roque . Last respects may be paid at on Saturday , December 13, 1997 beginning at 8:30 AM at his residence . Mass for the Christian burial will be at 3:00 PM at San Roque Church , followed by burial service in Tanapag Cemetery.
Your thought and prayers are appreciated.
From the family
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Also born on this date are: John Milton, poet; Beau Bridges, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Kirk Dougl,is, and John Malkovich, actors; Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, congressman and Speakerofthe House; Tom Kite, golfer; Dick Butkus, football player and actor.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)-Like your Sagittarius neighbor, you may find your energy waxing and waning in an inconsistent fashion throughout the day.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - You may have to tend the truth slight! y today in order to ensure the success of a new plan. Take care that you don't stoop to falsehood.
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Sixers defeat PIIlLADELPHIA (AP) - Allen Iverson scored 27 points and Jerry Stackhouse had 20 Sunday as Philadelphia 76ers ended a three-game losing streak by beating the New York Knicks 93-78. Iverson shot 9-for-18 from the fie!~ and had seven assists:
Allan Houston had 27 points for the Knicks, who have lost three of their last four and four straight road games.
Patrick Ewing scored New York's first six points but was held tojust four more theremainderofthegame.Ewing played only six minutes after halftime and sat out the entire fourth quarter as NewYork fell behind by 25.
Pistons 93, Raptors 83 In Toronto, reserve Jerome Will
iams had 20 poipts and 11 reboundsas the Detroit Pistons snapped a fourgame road losing streak.
Chiefs ... Continued from page 24
The Chiefs outgained Oakland ( 4-10) 418-93, and beat their oldest rival for the 15th time in 17 meetings·with 27 first downs to five for the Raiders in their first shutout since 1990
Packers 17, Bucs 6 Brett Favre threw two ID passes to
become the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for 30 TDs in four consecutive seasons as the Packers ( 11-3) won their third straight divi- . sion title in a game billed as Tampa's biggestsincethe I 979NFCtitlegame.
The Bucs (9-5) now have to beai either the Jets on the road or Chicago at home to earn their first playoff ocrth since 1982.
Giants 31, Eagles 21 Tiki Barber ran for 114 yards,
Danny KaneU threw three touchdown passes and Jessie Armstead had two interceptions, one returned fora touchdown, for the Giants (8-5-1 ), who can clinch the NFC East with a win at home next ·week over Washington.
"We said amongst each other that we had to step up," said Armstead,
Potter ... Continued f~om page 24
Potter,a21 yearsoldteacherofSan Vicente Elementruy School won the 4.2 mile Plumeria Turkey Trot up to Mt. Tapotchau in a record time of34 minutes.
Two days later he won the Beach Road Pathway Fun Run.
Halverson the female Athlete of tl1e Month, won the women's divi-
Sprewell ... Continued from page 24
is that, in t:his instance, there's been a rush to judgment. I think the league has overreacted," said Hunter, who is black.
Sprewell received a one-year susix:nsion Thursday, a few hours after theGoldenState Waniorstenninated the final three years of his four-year, dlrs 32 milliol) contract for attacking coach P J. Carlesimo at practice last Monday.
Witnesses said he grabbed Carlesimo in a choke hold and threatened to kill him. About 15 minutes later, Sprewell returned to practice and confronted the coach again before being pulled away.
The players' union has filed griev-
John Wallace scored 23 points for the struggling Toronto Raptors,who extended their fumchise-record losing streak to 16 games.
Grant Hill had 20 points and IO rebounds for the Pistons, while Brian Williams finished with 18 points and eight rebounds.
Damon Stoudamire had 21 points and nine assists for Toronto.
Bucks 97, SuperSonics 91 In Milwaukee, Terrell Brandon, who
cametoMilwaukeeinathree-waytrade that sent VinBakertoSeattle, scored20 points andthe Milwaukee Bucks overcame Baker's 29 points to beat the Seattle SuperSonics.
Ray Allen also sc.ored 20 for Milwaukee, while Annon Gilliam added 19 and Glenn Robinson 18.
Baker, traded to Seattle on Sept 25
who led a Giants defense that had three interceptions, two fumble recoveries and foursacks as they all but knocked the Eagles (6-7-1) from the playoff race.
Redskins 38, Cardinals 28 Jeff Hostetler threw for 226 yards
and three touchdowns in his first start in relief of Gus Frerotte, out for the season with a broken hip.
Brian Mitchell returned a punt 63 · yards for a score and Cris Dislunan
SC-Ored on a 29-yard interception return as the Redskins (7-6-1) stayed a game behind the Giants in the NFC East
Jake Plummer was 19-of-38 for 337 yardsandfourtouchdowns, three to Rob Moore for Ariz.ona (3-11 ).
Patriots 26, Jaguars 20 Drew Bledsoe, whohasnotthrown
an interception in his la~t three games, was 26-of-35 for 234 yards and two touchdowns as the Patriots (9-5) kept at least a share for first in the AFC East, where they hold all the tiebreakers.
Before a record crowd of73,466, the Jaguars (9-5) lost for the first time in 13 home games and also missed a chance toclinchaplayoffberth. Their
sion of the Northern Marianas National Body Building Championship that was held at the La Fiesta Tropical Plaza.
Other outstanding performances by athletes during the month of November were Jerome Ierome who wontheMen'sdivisionoftheBodybuilding Championship; Sean Seman, who won the boys division in the Plumeria Turkey Trot; Dean Palacios who won three
ances against the NBA and the Warriors, arguing that the penalty was excessive. The case will oc heard by Fordham Law School Dean John Feerick no earlier than Jan. 4.
Sprewell and Tellem have consulted with attorney Johnnie Cochran, who successfully defended O.J. Simpson on murder charges.
Sprewell is expected to make a statement Tuesday or Wednesday. Carlesimo did not return phone calls Sunday.
Commissioner David Stem and the Waniors were applauded by many, including several black National Basketball Association players, for meeting force with force and sending a message that the league would not tolerate what it called "premeditated assault"
"I think there was a public outcry,
in a deal that brought Brandon and Tyrone Hill to the Bucks from Cleveland, hit a fade away from the baseline that pulled Seattle to 91-89 with 52 seconds left.
But Allen coun(ered with a basket and Baker picked up his fifth and six fouls over the next 30 seconds, the last oneleadingtoBrandon'stwofoulshots that put Milwaukee ahead 95-89 with 23 seconds remaining.
Pacers 99, SWJS 97, OT In Phoenix, Reggie Miller hit a 13-
foot (4meter) baseline jumper at the overtime buzzer to give the Indiana Pacers their sixth consecutive victory.
With 25 seconds remaining, Miller took a midcourt inbounds pass from Mark Pope, drove to the baseline and fired an arching shot over Phoenix's Jason Kidd that swished through as the
last two games_ against Buffalo and Oakland-are on the road, where they are2-4.
Colts 22, Jets 14 Marshall Faulk ran for a season
high 133 yards, and the Colts registeredaseason-higheightsacks to win for the eighth time in their last nine games on the road against the Jets (8-6). .
It was only the second win in 14 games for Indianapolis, knocked the Jets out of a first place tie and left them needing to win their two final games to make the playoffs
49ers28, Vikings 17 Steve Young threw for two touch
downs and ran for a third as the 49ers (12:2) finally beat a team with a winning record, although the Vikings (8-6) are on a backwards roll _ this was their fourth straight loss. The victory came after a 44-9 loss in Kansas City.
Randall Cunningham, who was out of football last year, played well in his first start since September 1995, completing 16of31 passes for 178 yards in relief of BradJohnson,outfortheseasonafter neck surgecy.
events in the All Schools Swimming Championships and Jenny Pereda who led her San R<,que School team to the Soccer Championships.
Student Athletes of the Month for October should have been both John Reyes Jr. who plays for the Toyota Wheels and Tennis player . Ramsey Lemaich.
The association apologizes to John for omitting his name.
at least a concern in the public that things were sort of getting out of control, and I think the league had to demonstrate that they are in control," Hunter said.
"I think that the league is posturing because of the strong possibility that the current collective bargaining agreement was going to be blown up, and so I think that what they want to do is to send a message to the players that they're in control."
Tellem did not specifically say the confrontation between Sprewell and Carlesimo was a racial incident. But he pointed to other incidents involving the coach, including divisive splits last season with black players Rod Strickland and Isaiah Rider of the Portland Trail Blazers.
horn sounded. Miller, scoreless in the first half after
missingallfiveofhisfieldgoalattempts, finished with 19 points as Indiana won its fifth straight on the road on coach Lany Bird's 41stbirthday.
Danny Manning had 25 points for the Phoenix SWJS, who rallied from a IO-point deficit with 3:57 remaining to force overtime.
Nuggets 100, Clippers 92 In Denver, LaPhonso Ellis scored a
season-high 21 points and the Denver Nuggets rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to' defeat the Los Angeles Oippers.
Ellis fueled the rally with ninefourthquarterpoints as :he Nuggets outscored Los Angeles 30-14 in the final period and won foronly the second time in 17 games.
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million more in performance bonuses. Six other players also agreed to
contracts before the deadline: •San Francisco brought back a pair
ofpitchers,agreeingtoa$1.42million, two-yearcontractwith left-hander Rich Rodriguez and a $550,000, one-year contract with right-hander Danny Darwin.
•Texas and left-hander Scott Bailes agreed to a $200,000, one-year deal.
•Anaheim and right-hander Rich Delucia agreed to a $400,000, oneyear contract that gives the Angels a $700,000 option in 1999.
•Toronto gave infielder-outfielder Juan Samuel a minor-league contract that would earn him a $420,000 salary if he makes the team.
•Milwauk:eeagreedtoaminor-league contract with outfielder Damn Jackson that calls fora$.550,000 salary ifhe' sin the majors plus the chance to make $450,000 in performance bonuses.
Officials from the union and management agreed to stopped the clock for an hour to give St Louis and Andy B~nes time to work out a new contract, but the team and the pitcher couldn't get it done in the additional time. Benes and other free agents not offered salmy arbitration cannot re-sign with their former teams until May I. Those who were offeredarbitrationhave until Dec. l 9toacceptorrejecttheoffersand may negotiate with their former clubs
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Maslers Division Win Loss Pel Lile Boo 105 60 84 Pacam Bad Boyz 81 84 49 Mom's Bad Boyz 80 85 48 S.S.R. Shoolets 64 101 39 A DMslon: Oleai Beach Rest 96 36 73 Norpac Dart Busleis 85 47 64 R.CA. 85 47 64 Perlect Settings DiafOOMS 68 64 52 Rudy's Dal Shcd<ers 59 62 48 P~s-Tag Attack 27 83 25 Dal Vaders 20 101 17 B DMslon: Oleai Beach Whie Trash 99 55 64 Gesaram Dartbuslers 95 70 58 Oleai Beach Bums 86 79 52 STSAlas 74 80 48 T earn Red llorJ 69 85 45 Team SCS'B' 53 f01 34 C Division: Rudo~ro Oarthoi:s 93 50 65 t.lom's Bad Company 80 63 55 Team SCS'C' 69 63 52 Angus Beel Eateis 62 81 43 Oleai Dart Tarts 48 95 34 Mixed Doubles Division: Bobbie &Oira 100 32 76 Steve & Cassie 81 51 61 Sheie&M~e 72 60 55 Joe&Mlrx:eJ 61 71 46 Greg& Grace 53 79 40 Tom & Carol 49 83 37 Wayne &Jean 46 86 35
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TliE COMMONWEALT!iOFT!iE
NOR1HERN MARIANA ISLANDS
Bank al Saipan Plainlirf, vs. John T. Sablan and G~ria DLG. Sablan
CIVIL ACJ]ON NO 93-1320 IHIBP NOTICE OE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, pursuant to an Order issued by lhe Court in this matter on December 16, 1997, the Pacmc Medialion Cen1er, through John Joyner, will sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder, on the terms and cond~ions se! forth hereinbelow, all of John T. Sablan and Gloria DLG. Sablan's right, title, and !nteresl of Defendants in and to lhe following properties; real properties situaled In Saipan, r-.brthem Mariana Islands, ... de=ibe<I below:
A. Lot 005 D 116 (originally Block t, Loi 6), containing an area of 697 square meters more or less, as more particularly desaibed on Drawiog/Cadas1ral P~I No. 005 D CO the original of which was recorded 27 November, 1970 as Document No. 651 at Land Regolry Saipan.
B. Lot 1625 New-13 {forrr<>rly part of Loi 1625 New-RI, which was part of original lot 1625, TO 605}, containing an area of 1,000 square meters, more or less, as more particulaJ~ descriled on Drawing/Cadaslral Plat No. 2046/ B9, the original al wh'chwas recorded 21 February. t9B9. as Document No.B9-0529 at Commonwealth Recorder's Saipan.
C. Loi 1627 [T.D. 442), containing an area ol 13,092 square meters, rmre or less as roore particularly described C?n Asia Mapping Sketch No. 11 (located in Garapan, D~lricl)
D. Loi 005 D 04 (formerly Lo14, Blocf< I), Garapan, Sai)an containing an area of 747 square melers, more or less, as more particularly described on Drawiog/Gadasffal Plat No. 005 DOO, lheoriginal ofwhk:h is registered21 Cdober 1970 at Land Commiss~ri. Saipan. 1. Date, Time and Place al Sale: The Sale will be held on December 16, 1997, at the hour ol .1:30 p.m. al the Pacific Mediation Center, 0/eal Center, 2nd floor, Susupe, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. (670)-235-111161 (lei~ 235-807D!fax). ThesalewiUbeopen to the genecalptbli::. 2. lnspeciion of Properties. The properoes described above are present~ localed in Garapan and Gualo Rai, Saipan, Northem Mariana Islands. It is the obligation of lhe bidder to inspect the properties. Failure to insped lhe properties or any portion thereof will not constitute ground for any claim, adjustment. or rescission by any buyer. 3. Warranties arxl Covenants. All propeflies listed ror sale in U,is Notice will be sold in its current condition, and at its current location. The sale will be held Vwithout arrt warranties or covenants whatsoever, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties or merchantability. and.for title lor al1)' purpose whatsoever, all of which warranties and covenants are hereby expressly disclaimed. Neither the unders~ned nor the Plaintiff may give any warranty or covenant, express or ifrl)lied with respect to the property listed for sale in this Notice. Neither the undersigned nor the Plain!ifl listed for sale in this No\Ce. Ne~herthe undersigned nor the Plainlll! shall be ftable !or the qua!ity of 1he properties listed for sale in lhi~ Notice, or for any fault or defect in lhe descriplion thereof. Buyers shall no! be enlilled t:, recession, damages, or any other remedy on account the,eol. 4. Conduct ol Sale.
a. Reserve. The auction sale maybe held with reserve. The reserve price on any p1operty offe1ed lor sale may or may not be disclosed to bidders in the sole discrelion of the undersigned.
b. Rights and Duties of Bank of Saipan. Consistenl with the laws, customs and usages of the Comm:mweahh oflhe Northern Mariana lslards governing auction sales. the Bank of Saip.an shall have the following r~hts and duties in conduciing the auction sale; 1) to withdraw the p1operties ltSled for sale in this Nolk;e before sale or before a bid for such property is accepted; 2) to adjourn the sale without oo1ice al any time before any specific property is sokt ott, without incurring any liabi6ty whatsoe\ler tnereby; and (3) to reject any or all bids, for any reason.
c.Bkis. 8idsmaybesti:lmit1edinadvance for any or all of the properties listed in this Notice. the highesl of such bm will automalical~ be considered the opening bo lor lhe !em. Advanced bids may be submitted only in writing. signed by the bidder, and deliverOO to the John Joyner Pacinc Mediation Center, AAA-399; Box 10001, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, certified mail. The Bidder assumes all rtSk or non-delivery, late delivery. or mis-delivery of bids. Any person, including the Plaintiff. may bid in person at the auction sale, whether or not such person has submitted in advance bid.
d. Disputes. The Bank of Saipan may resubmit any property listed in this Notice if a dispute arises as to any bid thereon .
e. Order ol Sale. The Bank of Saipan rcsciv~ in its sole discretion the riGhtto sell the properties described o10011e rn order of rts choice, until satisraction of outstanding obligatK>ns is made. 5. Enrorcement of Auction Sa!e.
a.Depost Every successtul bidder shall pay to the ur.dersigned a deposit ol ten pe,cent (10'%} of the purchase price immediately after lhe sale is consummaled. Paymenl shall be in cash or by certified check. The balance must be paid to !he Plaintiff, ln care of Pacific Medialion Center, within three (3) days from the date of sale, in cash or by certified check. If the balance is not so p.:iid, Pla.intift will retain the deposit as liquidated damages, and will again offer the property for sale. 6. Memorandum or Sale. JI requested by the undersigned, every successful bidder must sign a Memorardum of Sale, immediately af1er the sale ol any property is struck olf al auction. 7. Court Approval Required and Deed. Every sale is subject to approval by the Court and any and all outstanding Jiens or defects of title. The Bank of Saipan/ Pacific Mediation Center make no warranties or promises with respect to coufl approval of the sale, including but not limited to the time in wh~h such approval may be granted. N{f delay in the granling of court approval shall t>e ground for any claim adjustment or recession by any successlulbdder. The successful ciclder will be promptty notified if any when court approval is granted and a deed will issued pursuant lo 2 CMC Section 4627 and 4629. e)eculed by John Joyner. 8. Change o!Te1ms a:·,d Conditkms. The Banlt of Saipan reserves the righl to change any of the terms hereof by announcement, written er oral, made before the action s.are or aH lhe commencement lhereol and such change or changes. by virtue of this clause, shall be binding on all bidders by constructive notice.
Dated this 23rd day ol Novetrber, 1997.
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'24-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-TUESDAY-DECEMBER 9, 1997
SPORTS Potter, Halverson top November athletes
Karen Halverson
By Priscilla T. Castro Variety News Staff
1HE NORTI-IERN Marianas Amateur Sports Association has chosen runner Craig Potter and l:xxiybuilder Karen Halverson were the Athletes fortheMonthofNovemberlastweek.
The student athlete of the month
for November goes to Daxyl Ada, a student of Oleai Elementary School .land Quarterback for the Oleai Turtle Team which the school won the 1997 -Aag Football Championship.
Ada threw 20 touch down passes during the season. He canies a 2.5 GPA average.
In the girls category, Jill Pierce a student of the Saipan Community School, Pierce was one of the students who competed in the November 29 All Schools Swimming Meet at the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool.
Jill won three events including the relay to help SCS take the division title.
Pierce also competed in the Tan Holdings Jr. Tennis Classics which thewontheJuniorTitlethathappenat the Coral Ocean Point last weekend.
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Sprewell's suspeh.sion · debated as racial issue
By CHRIS SHERIDAN NEW YORK (AP)· Some people, including many blaclcs, think~ qoeyear suspension of Latrell Sprewell from the National Basketball Asrocia- _ · lion was suspiciously toug!L ·- • · _ . _ . . · : : ; , · - ,: : : ; . .' _
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white?Orwhatifthecoachheattack;edwasb1ackL< ·:; , _ · · · .. The racial angle is beinginjx:tedintothede~te:tl'Ver~:NB.! :sloogest non-drug suspension, and -S~well'.s agenr~ to the. controv~. Sunday. _ - _ . _- _
AppearingontheABC1V network,agentAmTellemsaid:'1thinkwhen -you look at it, I don't think the issue of race can be ignored. I think that's the best way-to answer. I think it must be looked into. · · ·
''You have a white coach who has a history of having problems with playera in the NBA Obviously, the players that he's had problems with~ black players." ·
However, Billy Hunter, executive director of the NBA Players Association, said, ''I don't think that that's the issue at all."
''I think what you've got is a league that's predominantly black and an administration that's predominantly white," he said on the NBC network.
''If there are individuals who wish to read~ race card or race issue into it, they can do that, but I haven 'tfOWld any evidence of that. What I've found
,. ' NEW YORK (AP)-The Green · Bay Packers are just where they
wanttobe-NFCCentralchampions again. But Denver, the best
_ teamintheU.S.NationalFootball League for most of the season, now faces theprospectofentering the playoffs as a wild card.
The Packers (11-3) clinched the NFC Central on Sunday with a 17-6winoverTampaBay, which
• : willhavetowaitatleastonemore ' ; week to clinch its first playoff • '. berth since 1982. They still trail ii:: San Francisco (12-2) in the race i: for home field because the Niners C beat Minnesota 28-11. i : But the Broncos lost 35-24 in ;:: Pittsburgh, falling into a tie in the (\ AFC West at i 1-3 with Kansas [.,J City, whichshutout0akland30-f.i 0. The Chiefs, who clinched at f.~ least a wild-card ~rth ·sunday, f] will win the division if they win tj their final two games _ at San ij Diego and home to New Orleans. ~- It was a big day for a ·1ot of
teams. The Steelers (10-4) not only
,· hurt Denver, but took over the lead in the AFC Central with their winandJacksonville's26-201oss to New England. They also clinched at least a wild-card berth when the New York Jets lost
And the New York Giants , moved a game away from the
~.l:; NFC East title with a 31-21 win k over Philadelphia f: In other games, it was Chicago H 20, Buffalo 3; St Louis 34, New :q ·Orleans 27; Baltimore 3 l, Seattle iJ 24; Atlanta 14, San Diego 3; In:,j dianapolis 22, the New York Jets f j 14; and Washington 38, Ariz.ona ,,, 28
::J Detroit was at Miami on Sun-"1 -;1 day night. .
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AP , ~-Carolina plays Dallas on Monday
night. Steelers 35, Broncos 24
Kordell Stewart threw three touchdown passes to Yancey Thigpen in the first half and ran for two scores as the Steelers rallied from a 21-7 defi-cit.
Stewart went 18-of-29 for 303 yards, hitting 14 of his last 18 passes, and ran for 49 yards to outduel John Elway, the quarterback he emulated while playing at Colorado. Elway was 17-of-42 for 248 yards and two touchdowns.
Thigpen 'sscoringcatchescovered 33, 69 and 21 yards and came in less
than 20 minutes. StewartgavePittsb.Irghthelead
for the first time with a 4-yard run with 2: 16 left in the third quarter, then finished it off with a 9-yard run with 1 :57 to go.
Chiefs 30, Raiders 0 Most fans at Arrowhead Sta
dium spent their time watching Denver-Pittsburgh scores go up because the Chiefs dominated so thoroughly.
Rich Gannon ran for a touchdown and threw for another and improved his record to 4-1 in relief of the injured Elvis Gtbac.
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Anderson, Molitor sign new pricey contracts
By RONALD BLUM NEWYORK(AP)-Brady Anderson, Paul Molitor and Gary Gaetti were among nine free agents who returned to their fonner teams Sunday, agreeing to new contracts before the midnight deadline to offer playerssalaxyarbitration. Ander-
son got a $31 million, five-year contract from the Baltimore Orioles, Molitor got a$4.15 million one-year deal from the Minnesota Twins and Gaetti got a $1 million, one-year contract from the St Louis Cardinals thatgiveshimthechance to earn$ I. I
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,:Nick,·Price wins th~ Million· :_, · I>ollar ChallEinge at ~un .. City ._-;
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13-under-par total of 275. Second place on 276 was shared
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