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Critical C I gov't offices ready for Y2K

By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

THE ADMINISTRATION's ef­forts at upgrading its computer systems has paid off as critical agencies and depa1tments are now '"Millennium Bug-free."

The Governor's special assis­tant for telecommunications Bob Webb said the Department of Fi­nance, the Department of Public Health. the Emergency Manage­ment Office and the Office of

Personnel Management have all overhauled their computer sys­tems.

"We see improvements in this area and some government agen­cies are also in the process of upgrading their systems to make them Y2K compliant," he said.

The upgrading of the highly­sensitive Finance department's systems, for example, will spare the government from woffying too much on possible financial

Reyes: Referendum on federal takeover

Pete P. Reyes

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

SA YING he is disturbed by what he described as rumors of an impending '"federal take­over." Senate Floor Leader Pete

P. Reyes (R-Saipan) yesterday vowed to push for a referendum that would allow the CNMI's voters to voice out their opinion on the application offederal im­migration and minimum wage laws to the islands.

Reyes was refen-ing to reports that President Clinton has writ­ten Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio a 1

"thank you" note for the governor's supposed willing­ness to work with the White House on the CNMI's transi- . tion to federal immigration and minimum wage laws.

The President met Tenorio on Guam last Nov. 23.

The Variety has learned that the President's 902 special rep-

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data e1Tors. Experts warned that the millen­

nium bug threatens systems run by old computer programs which will interpret the Year 2000 as 1900, which has the same last two digits. As a result, any program with a date such as billing, pay­roll, inventory and bank accounts could crash or give misleading answers starting January 1, 2000.

"We've upgraded the Finance's system, which is J.D. Edwards. a

very popular business software. Other sensitive agencies are also in the process of upgrading their systems," said Webb, who was appointed by Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio as his representative to the Y2K committee.

Webb also said that some agen­cies, 'like the Commonwealth Utilities Corp., will not really be affected by the computer glitch since most of its important data

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A spectacular fire works display sponsored by the Guam Hotel and Restaurant Association light up the skies over Tuman Bay to greet in the New Year. Pt1010 by Eduardo c. Siguenza

Joseph Kevin Villagomez

DPH chief: Privatize gov't health • insurance

By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Public Health has urged the cash­strapped government to privatize its health insurance plan in order to help the CNMI cope up with its own financial turmoil.

Health Sec. Joseph Kevin Villagomez, at the same time, stressed that privatizing health insurance is a more prudent move than drastically increasing the pre­mium rate for any type of enroll­ment.

"Even if you raise the premium, the government - through its health insurance - still does not pay DPI-1 becauseoflackoffunds.

"Once you raise the premium, the government will have more debts," he said.

Villagomez stressed that DPI-1 cannot compel the government for long-delayed payments even if its debt already jeopardizes the delivery of health care services.

I le said if health insurance is only managed by private entities. the government can easily run after them if they delay their pay­ments to DPH for a very long period of time.

··1 continue to believe that we should privatize the government health insurance to remove bur­den from the government. 1 r

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1 Variety News Staff ·· T HAGATNA - Right after being exonerated o( raping _and ~illing

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•· four-year-old D'Anna Olley. Beau Bnmeman will be facmg tnal for ,, ~j another rape-related case. ; J This time, it's for an attempted rape of a 15-year-old girl which .; ,j happened a month prior to Olley's death in 1996. t 1J Bruneman will remain in detention pending payment of a $5,()()0

Inauguration today; Governor's on hold f_:_-.•.1 bail. Paul Vernier, his counsel at the Olley case, will again represent -~ l:J Brnneman. . . . . . \~ ,j Bnmeman was found not gwlty of raping, beatmg, and murdering ::J \;j Olley by a jury of 12 last week. ~ ;i A teary-eyed Bnmeman stood beside his attorneys as the court clerk t ;j read the not-guilty verdict. ;; :. ''Bnmeman basically asserted his innocence from the very day he ,·

was mTested. Justice was done, he was given a fair trial, by a jury that , dete1mined that the evidence in this case was not sufficient to find him guilty of the heinous crime he was chm·ged with," Roland Matanona, one of Bmneman 's attorneys said after the verdict was read.

Matanona added, the hardest job in this case was that of the jurors. "I think the evidence tells the story and the story is basically that

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PAC NEWSPAPER STACKS~

By Jojo Santo Tomas Variety News Staff

HAGATNA - Members of the new Guam Legislature will be sworn in during inaugura­tion ceremonies today, after weeks of post-election uncer­tainties.

Five new senators-four Re­publicans and a lone Demo­crat-will be take their oath of office along with IO other sena­tors at IO a.m.

The new senators all ran on a platform of background and

experience. Kaleo Moylan, Simon Sanchez,

Edward Calvo, and Marcel Camacho have had much experi­ence in the private sector, while Democratic senator-elect Eloy Bermudes holds an impressive military resume in addition to his work as the former general man­ager of the Port Authority of Guam.

While all is set for the 15 sena­tors, the inauguration for the Gov­ernor and the Lt. Governor has

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2-t-1,\Rli\NAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JANUARY 4.1999

Iraqi children sing army songs during a concert organized by the Ministry of Information at the Mustansirija University in Baghdad on Saturday. Iraqi singers gave a concert in support of the Iraqi army and to protest latest U.S. and British missile attacks. AP

Pakistan PM escapes assassination try LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -f-ourpolicemcndie<l when a bomb explmlcu on a bridge in central Pakist:111 on Sunday minutes be­fon: Prime Minister NawazSharif was 10 p:1ss over it. said police, who Jcscribed the attack as an assassination attempt.

The bridge. 3 kilometers ( 1.8 miksJ from Sharif's private resi­dence in Raiwind. was destroyed in the c.\plosion. Raiwind is a small rnwn 22 kilometers (13 miles) from Lahore - capital of central Punjab province.

The explosion occurred at around 0500 GMT as Sharif and his family approached the bridge on their \l'ay to Raiwind from Lahore.

"We staned bte for Raiwind because there wa.s a delay in our prcp:1ration ... the prime minister\ wife. Kusloom Nawaz Sharif. told The Associated Press.

Witnesses said police stopped tr:1fl'ic on the [,alrnre-Raiwind Ro:1d :iftn the hla.st. which 11·:1.,

he:ird for mi:e, (kilornctcrsJ

Nawaz Sharif

around. Sharif and his family used a

helicopter to reach their residence in Raiwind.

Police blamed the ethnic Muttahida Qami Movement (MQM). a former ally of Sharif. for the explosion. Speaking on condition of anonymity a police official said three MQM workers had been arrested in the southern pcm city of Karachi for rl:inning

Myanmar hopes relations with US, EU to improve YA\'GO\', .~l_vanmar (APJ -/vlyanmar's foreign minister hopes his country's frosty rela­tions with the United States ;1ml the European Union will warm in 1999, the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported on Sunday.

··1 hope that friendship and co­operation with the E.U. and its members and the U.S. could be regained as in previous years,'' Foreign Minister Win Aung told diplomats at a briefing, the paper said.

The United States imposed economic sanctions on Myanmar in April 1997 because of the military government's suppres­sion of a dcmocr;1cy movement led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and the regime's alleged failure to fight drug trafficking.

The Eurnpean Union also has imposed more limited trade sanctions on the countryforsimi­lar reasons.

Win Aung also said that Myanmar would continue with its independent foreign policy and hoped to increase its role in inter­national affairs in thccomingyear.

In recent months, the military government has stepped up its campaign against Suu Kyi's political party,detainingnearlya thousand of members and refus­ing to let them return home until they sign "voluntary resignation" letters from the party.

Win Aung is a former anny colonel who joined the diplomatic corps 13 years ago and was am­bassador to England before re­placing the prickly and combat­ive Ohn Gyaw as foreign minis­ter in November.

the explosion. He did not disclose the identity

of the suspects. There was no immediate com­

ment from the MQM. In Lahore, the home town of

Sharif, police raided the MQM office, but made no aITests.

Karachi has been under direct federal rule since Prime Minis­ter Nawaz Sharif dismissed the Sindh provincial government in October for failing to maintain peace.

Some 1,000 people died last year in factional fighting in the southern port city of 14 million.

Sharif has blamed the MQM, a former ally, for most of the blood­letting in Karachi and set up mili­tary courts last month to try those accused in the killings.

The MQM, which represents Urdu-speaking people who im­migrated from British India at independence in 1947, denies the accusation-; and alleges !he govcrnmenl [\ Lngaging in "ter­rorism" against its ethnic group.

· Thafmiriister · · says j<>bs · · situation to rebound in 99

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)­Thailand 's labor minister said his country's employment situation will improve in 1999, with the pace of layoffs slowing during the first few months and being overtaken by new job creation by the end of summer, a media report said Sunday.

New government projects and a slowly improvingcconomy will help turn things around, Labor Minister Sompong Amomvivat said according to the Bangkok Post.

Thailand is in the midst of its worst economic crisis in modem times and is receiving a $ I 7.2 billion bailout from the lmema­tional Monetary Fund.

Labor ministry officials have estimated there are 2 million un­

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Report: N ~ Korea deploying missiles TOKYO(AP)-Nor1hKoreahas deployed medium-range ballistic missiles, a Japanese broadcaster reported Saturday, a move that ap­pears likely to unnerve its neigh­bors.

TI1e reprn1cd deployment comes just months after North Korea fired a long-range missile over Japan, prompting denunciations from Tokyo.

North Korea began developing the missiles, which are known as the Rodong-1 and have a range of about 620 miles, in the late I 980s and completed a test-liring in 1993. public NHK TV said.

The rcpol1 didn't say how many missiles had been deployed or whether they were ready for launch. Japanese Defense Agency officials were not immediately available for

comment Saturday. North Korea manufactured 20

Rodong-1 missiles in 1997 and ,mother l Oby the summerof 1998, NHK said, citing unidentified de­fense officials. Some were exprnted to Pakistan and Iran, the repo1t said.

111e missile fired over Japan in August was believed to have been a Taepo Dong, capable of striking any part of the Japanese archi­pelago.

Nonh Korea has said the rocket launched was a satellite, but Japan has dismissed that claim. The re­clusive communist state said re­cently it is preparing to launch an­other satellite.

Japan has no missile-monitoring system, but has decided to put four spy satellites into orbit by 2002.

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TOKYO (APf--Three elderl)' J~t,1~ese died from choklng on glutinous rice cakes and dumplings, a traditionaldish eaten over the New Year's holiday, local officials said Saturday,

A Tokyo F1reDepartment spokesman saidsirice NewYear's Day, nine other people have been rushed tohospitalswith gooey "mochi" rice cakes stuck in their throats. · · ·.· •

Two of the three victims died. on Friday and the other died. Saturday, said· fire departmentspokesmanJsao Yamaura.

Every year, a handful of Japanese die from asphyxiation when mochi rice cakes, which are usually served grilled with a seaweed wrap or in a thin broth, get lodged in windpipes and prevent proper breathing. ·

In 1998, eight deaths were reported .and more than a dozen others were hospitalized after choking on mochi and. other New Year's

dishes, .. •· .·.·. · .. • . .·.. > .. ·•· ·•···.····• · .... ·.·· .· ..... • · Mochi i.s one .of the most wiclelytecognized ~y~bols ?fthe New .

Year inJapan,when many homes imd shrines3re decoj,ated with ritual·_offe~ngs of hard~ned• blocks of ri~, whiph bec9tne.softartd stickywhell cooked. · · · · ·

Masked students walk around downtown Seoul to stage an anti-U.S. rally Saturday. A placard with a campaign written on it saying that New Year's resolution of USA will turn South Korea into its economic colony through IMF. AP

MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 -- ---- . - - - ·---------- ------- --------·---------~------------ -

I gets failing marks THE immigration, labor, and trade problems of the CNMI remain as troublesome as ever despite the reforms implemented by Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio, according to a federal report. issued last Wednes­day.

OJA: 'Teno efforts have done nothing about basic problems' mum wage policies. Under these policies "The

CNMI has experienced a self­imposed explosive population growth of about 250 percent in the decade and a half from 1980 to 1995 with the total population growing from I 7.000 to 60.000 .... A starting 9 I '7c of the jobs in the private sector are held by temporary alien workers and more arc arriving daily even though unemployment and pov­erty rates among locally-born US citizens area very high. 14.2°/c and 35% respectively ...

The report said that the Clinton Administration .. continues to be concerned about the CNMl's heavy and unhealthy dependence upon an indentured alien worker program and on trade loopholes

to expand its economy." "As a result of this reliance, the

labor. immigration and law en­forcement problems in the CNMJ continue. Of continuing concern is the emergence of serious sec­ondary problems such as worker exploitation and ineffective bor­der control, which are symptom­atic of the CNMl's labor and im-migration policies, .. states the

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ers. ''Allofushavcbusinessback0

grounds and we have. a bu sis ~ess approach. to everything,'' Moylan said during Jhe infer, 111al induction of the Filipinq Community of Guam officers.

.. Vve)vanftp l(){jkat busi11ess ··. plans and w.e want tofook ai

fim1ncial statements. We .Want to tackle the problems right away: We prefer hands-on rnan­agerneni and. we want to get down to. the nitty gritty:'

. Moylan, who will chair the committee on housing, govern­mental services, and foreign development, said everybi!Lin­troduce<.I in the newLegistaiure · wil I be studied closely to ensure

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Guam crimes ·down in 2nd Qtr. By Jacob Leon Guerrero Variety News Staff

HAGATNA -Crimes for the most part were down in 1998 as com­pared with 1997.

According to the Criminal Of­fense Analysis of reported of­fenses between January-May 1998 and January-May 1997, there were four less murders, four less robberies. and 472 less bur­glaries. ~ 1998 saw a reduction in the total number of reported crimes between January-May like rape, aggravated assault. larceny-theft. a~to-thel't, and arson.

There were incidents of man­slaughter between Jan-May for both r 997 and I 998.

All hough it appears that the rate of crimed cooled somewhat for '98, 1999 is already heating up.

Officers from the Guam Police Department confiscated five mari­juana plants at 11 p.m. Friday from the Bonita Apartments in Barri gad a.

According lo GPD spokes­woman Lt. Joanne Oliva, officers discovered the plants while con­ducting a burglary investigation. The plants were growing near the

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CDA collected over $3.5M from borrowers in FY '98

Juan S. Tenorio

By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

DESPITE the shaltcring cco-11umic situation in the region, the Commonwealth Develop­ment Authority [CDA I has col­lected close to $3 .5 111 i 11 ion from its clientclc for thl' lasl fiscal year, it was disclosed.

Development Authority Juan Tenorio said this fi gurc is trans­lated into a monthly collection of at least $297,000 which. he added, is a positive sign cons id-

ering the ongoing financial up­heavals in the CNMJ.

Tenorio said this is auribut­able to a payment scheme insti­tuted by CD/\ to help loan pay­ees' settle their regular finan­cial obli~ation amid 1hc .. hard times," ;hen a big number of borrowers arc normally not be able to service loan payments.

In an interview, he said that CDA is working out with bor­rowers on an agreeable reduced amount to prevent any setback in the payment of their loans.

"We call in those who arc experiencing problems with their loan payment. I ikc delays. and try to lwlp them since ev­ery body knows lhat the ernnomy is not doing re.ii ly good and everybody is suffer­i11g ... Tenorio said.

I le explained tlwt the absence of a healthv economv is on<' of the major ieasons wi1y CD:\ is strctchin~ out the loans, thus. the redu~cd payment scheme

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Allen P. Slayman

Fourth Annual Report of the Fed­eral-CNMI Initiative on Labor, Immigration and Law-Enforce­ment released by the Clinton Administration last week.

Pedro P. Tenorio

The initiative was set in motion by Congress four years ago to address problems in the CNMI. which has al the moment, control of its own immigration and mini-

While the federal government acknowledges the reform efforts of.the Teno administration. "these efforts have done nothing aboul the three basic problems in the

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New law hikes poker fees on Rota By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

THE ANNUAL license fees for poker and pachinko slot ma­chines in Rota has been in­creased to $R.OOO.

This developed as acting Gov. Jesus R. Sablan signed into law House Local Bi I I I 1-14 which imposes a $2.000 hike on the existing $6.000 CNMJ license fee for said gaming machines.

Introduced by Rep. Alejo M. Mendiola, the bill now becomes Rota Local Law No. 11-1.

In his transmittal letter, Sablan said the increase in said fees in Rota is in accordance to the pro­visions of an existing law (Pub­lic Law 11-25) which allows

each Senatorial District -through its Legislative Delega­tion - to impose additional Ii­ccnse fees for poker machines and pachinko slot machines for their respective island.

P.L. 11-25 also removes the cap on the number of poker and pachinko machines in the Third Senatorial District.

Rota's legislative delegation said the fee hike would meai1 additional revenues for the gov­ernment.

There are now 55 poker ma­chines on Rota.

The newly-signed bill also said that any pachinko slot ma­chines licensed before Jan. I, 1999 shou Id be exempted from

the license fee increase. A similar Saipan local bill was

earlier signed into law by Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio. saying that the increase in fees will mean an additional $1.5 million in the government's annual revenues.

Legislators, for their part. said that this additional money may be used to match federal grnnts for capital improvement projects or fund critical govern­ment services like public edu­cation. public safety and medi­cal referrals.

Since the 200-only gaming machines cap was lifteJ in Au­gust, the number of gambling machines in Saipan is now pegged at 766.

Lack of funds hampersAlamagan watch By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

THE EMERGENCY manage­ment Office has disclosed that a complete monitoring of the J\l:imagan volcano has been hampered by lack of funding.

According to J\cting Direc­tor Greg Guerrero, as of now they ha;c to contend themselves with thc obsolete seismograph at the foot of the volcano which is not almost working.

Guarcro was hoping that EMO can get its appropriated money immediately so that they

can replace the seismograph with a new one ..

EMO will also try to send a team of volcanologists from l la­waii early this mo111h to person­ally diecked the condi1io11 of the ,ulcano. llowe1er. this will de­flL'nd again upon the av,1ilability of money.

According to Ciuern:ro. the Hawaiian team could have been immediately called as early as last week. but there was no money to finance their expedition.

The team wi II come from the Hawaii Volcanology Office which

is also helping the EMO moni­tor the situation of Alamagan.

Guerrero was hoping that tht.: expedition wil I pushed through so that they could get a clearer picture :111d abre:1s1 thl'mselvcs of ;\lanwga11·s rL'al :1ctivity.

The only photographs that ihl'. EMO has in its posession were those that wen: taken by a heli­copter.

for now. the National Earth­quake Monitoring Center based in Denver, Colorado is helping the office moni ton he earthquake frequencit:s for Alamagan.

Chalan Kanoa Districts 2 and .'l Nino devotees walk along in front of Sister Remedios School in Chalan Kanoa on their way to Mount Carmel Cathedral yesterday afternoon. Pholo by Tony Celis

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4-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-MONDAY- JA_NUARY4, I99~ __

CPA tries to avert port fee hike By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Staff

BELEAGUERED Common-11·.:alth Pons Authority is facing a dikmma.

'Ilic Pons Authrnity ·s l'l!I1"Cnt fi­nancial status has been forcing the CPA m:ma!.!ement to increase its 1l'1·enues si1;ce this is the only way the agency can pay its annual bond obligation. butbo:u-dchaim1an Ro­man's_ Palacios said this should be looked at cautiously.

Palacios. who is also a member of the Aviation Task Force. said CPA should also protect the inter­est of the program initiated by the Marianas Visitors Authority IMVA] and the task force to in­crease l'isitor affivals and encour­age other foreign c:uTiers to service tl;e CNMI respectively.

Roman S. Palacios

raise its rates by 30 percent in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2002, as well as reduce its personnel costs by l 5 percem in FY2000 and FY2001 to mitigate the negative tin,mcial impact of the g:mnent industry pullout.

Two United States-based bond undcn1Titer·scommissioned by the Prn1s Authority suggested that CPA CPA has been urged to increase

Senate is all set to OK bill to scrap investor deposit

Thomas P. Villagomez

By Zaldy Dandan Variety News Staff

Tl II, Sl-:'.\ATE in its first sessinn nfthis ye:1rwill ac·t on an amended 1crsio11ola llouse bill that would IDwer_ by lJOpercent. the SI (Xl.()()()

fnrc i ~ n i 11\·estmcnt certificate lee_

Senate Vice President Thomas P. Villagomez (R-Saipan) said.

Villagomez was reacting to Commerce Secretary Frank B. Villanueva Jr. 's saying that he will urge the Legislature to scrap the fe/which. h~ added. has only discouraged new investors from setting up business in the CNMI.

·The bi II ( to addre.ss concerns regarding the fee) is already pre­pared and we will definitely act on it in our next session:· Villagomez said.

Sen_ Juan P. Tenorio (R­SaipanJ. the chair of the Senate committee reviewing 1-1. B. 11-131. has said th:1t the amended version will lower the fee from SI 00.000 to SI 0.000. but on con­dition that i111'estors would not be allowed to bring in alien wo1-kers_

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/ Ex-Guam chamber chairman I takes a crack at gov't reform I Variety News Staff

HAGATNA - Freshman senator Eddi" Baza Calvo said he plans to file legislation that would ensure cf:'i,.i.~ncy in government service.

When C.dvo was still chairman of the Guam Ch::mber of Com­merce. he always stresscJ the need to make government more efficient. Ile is now in a position to Jo so.

"I want the Government of Guam to provide top-quality service in the most cfficicnt manner and the least cost. I plan to initiate budgetary reforrn legislation that will seek to accomplish this," Call'o said during the informal induction of the Filipino Community of Guam last week.

Cairn. who has been tapped to chair the standing committee on power, public works. regulatory reform. and municipal and commu­nitv affairs. saiJ onc of his priorities will be budgetary reform.

AccorJirw to Calvo. C,ovGuam agencies have to be made more accountable' for their actions and performance through frequent financial and goal attainment reports as well as human resource assessments.

I le said regulatory proposals must go through a stringent review process. which weighs the risk assessment together with the cost of compliarll'c tll thc public. Rcsults-oriented budgetary criteria must also he established to set bcnchmarks for public services remlcred_

··with the touuh times that we're in now, there arc less revenues coming to the l!;vcrnment of (iuam. So it's important that we create a buJg~tary p(ocess that focuses strictly on providing government services with less expense. We n,xJ tough management pol icics ,md we neeJ to prioritize. We need to make the govc111~1clll more

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its current $0.85 landing fee at the airpon to $1.40 for signatory air­I ines_ The financial consul tams said this is necessmy as this is one of the two options left for the Por1s Au­thority to pay its bond by 2008.

But tourism and aviation task force officials opposed the idea, contending that this would discour­age airlin; companies to increase flights to the Commonwealth, and eventually result to increase in air-

line tickets. Palacios said CPA is not capable

of paying its debt se1vice with the cmTent level of revenues it gener­ates but the Pons Authority cannot also risk losing more flights and visitors because of proposals to increase landing fees.

He stressed that CPA is now looking at generating additional non-aviation revenues like increas­ing rental and lease charges by

concessions at the ai1port and other tenants at CPA proper1ies.

'"With this, the price of airline tickets will not be impacted," he said, adding that CPA remains on track with its austerity measures including the curtailment of over­time.

Palacios also said the Por1s Au­thority is now looking at leakage, or revenues that are not being col-

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Eye injuries high on Saipan By Haidee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

THERE have been numerous cases of eye injuries among manual workers in Saipan due to the inability of wearing eye pro­tectors, according to Dr. David Kho1rnm of the Marianas Eye Institute_

The lone ophthalmologist dis­closed that a number of car-pen­ters, masons, bush cutters, weld­ers, constnrction workers and even gardeners have been treated for eye injuries.

'"These workers ar·c vulnerable to eye accident. If a foreign ob-

ject hits the eye, especially if it's shm-p, the eyes can be pe1forated, can be cut open or mptured,'" he said.

He cited the case of bush cutters whose eyes ru-e easily stmck by small rocks, branches and other debris as a result of their bush cut­ters.

Despite the fact that all eye inju­ries are easy to prevent, cases remain high because of lack of safety mea;ures like wearing safety glasses made of pol ycm-lxmate, said KhorTam.

'They are easily preventable if people wear eye protection when

David Khorram

they 're involved in constnrction activities or gardening,'" he

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History is made yesterday morning at the lnaugur~J NJ~ss in Umatac as the men and women that_wi/1 comprise the 25th Guam Legislature attended at the San D1on1s1o Church. In photo are Sens. Ben Pangelinan, Carlotta Leon Guerrero, Joanne Brown, Lawrence and Tony Unpingco during the offertory procession.

Culture, tourism summit By Tanya M. C. Mendiola

Variety News Staff HAGATNA - Members of Guam cultural and heritage orga­nizations and the tourism inJus­try will hold a wecklong summit to Jiscuss ways to strengthen the islanu·s tourism market.

The summit begins today at the University of Guam International Tourism Center and will concluJe on Saturday, Jan. 9_

The Guam Preservation Trnst. the University of Guam's Inter­national Business and Tourism Institute, the Guam Visitors Bu­reau, the Sustainable Develop­ment Institute and the U.o_c;_ Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Arca Research Center arc spon­soring the summit in a collabora­tive ;!'fort to create island and

regional strategics for develop­ing both economic and cultural sustainability.

The educational summit entitled "'Culture, Heritage and Tourism: Adding Value a~d Creating Op­portunity" brings together lead­ers of the heritage, cultural and tourism sectors to create a part­nership to enhance Guam as a tourism destination by maintain­ing the island's identity.

Ob jccti ves of the summit arc to attract a new tourist market and enhancing the rnrrcnt tourist ex­perience through using the island's CL1ltural heritage as a tool.

Another goal is to promote and strengthen the traditional cultural iJcntity and create an apprecia­tion for the island's cultural heri-

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Phoio by Eduardo C. Siguenza

New Year's eve· accident By Jacob Leon Guerrero

Variety News Staff HAGATANA - A man driv­ing a white 1996 Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck was hospitalized on New Year's eve ,1fter an ac­cident.

According to Officer Gary Toves, of the Guam Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at around 9 p.m. along the Harmon Industrial Park Road. The driver of the white Tacoma truck ap­parently struck a parked trailer.

The operntor was trnveling alone and sustained head trauma and lacerations all throughout his upper body.

The driver was transported to Coritinuea on page 23

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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, J~99 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5

PSS bares new results:

C I still lags in SAT By Louie C. Alonso

Variety News Staff THE CNMI's public school stu­dents ranked very low in the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9) conJuctcd in the spring of 1998-

The Public School System re­leased the SAT results last week.

"Based on all relevant informa­tion and test results, we know where the weaknesses are and therefore resources should then be consistently committed to ad­dress obvious deficiencies," PSS said.

Education Commissioner Rita H. Inos said some schools in the CNMI did fairly well ranking to

By Louie C. Alonso Variety News Staff

REPRESENTATIVE Heinz Hofschneider expressed disap­pointment with the performance of the Public School System for it's alleged failure to improve the quality of education and stu­dent achievement in the CNMI.

After reviewing the result of the Scholastic Achievement Test administereJ to CNMI se­nior students and the outcome of the Stan ford Achievement Test 9th Edition given to ran­dom grade lt:vels in public

80th percentile and more. But the general average shows

the CNMI public schools in the low ranking.

SAT9 is an inclusion test given to students from 3rd, 5th, 8th, I 0th and I I th grade levels and the subjects contained in the test in­clude the core content areas in the school system such as Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.

The SAT 9 was also adminis­tered to other United States ter­ritories including Guam and Ha­waii. It was given to CNMf stu­dents for the first time last year to establish a baseline data and

schools, Hofschneider sees the need to ask the PSS for the state of education report next month.

"For the purpose of formulat­ing pol icics as mandated by the constitution, legislature and the Board of Education, I would like to sec an in-depth report on the state of the Public School System,'· he said.

Hofschneider would like to hear from the PSS what are the goals of the education system in terms of improving the quality of education_

"I'd like to see the justifica-

OES. teach.er countets ·Hofschneider.·•criti.ci.sm

By Louie C. Alonso Variety News Staff

EDUCATION Commissioner Rita H . .Ines reminded the teach­ers and principals of the Public School System tobe very careful with their demeanor as it reflects on the entire education sector.

",I expect teachers to teach (their students) what is right. Whatever they do is part of me. Every action from the member of the educ!ltion community speaks of my actions. They don't carry my ,1ctions bul I carry all responsibilities of seeing these things happen,'' I nos said.

The statement was made after Rep. Heinz Hofschncidcr criti­cized the teachers who, he said, "'tagged along" students in a field trip to Jobby before the Legislature early December.

Inos said thut she was not aware of the field trip until it was shown in the media.

"f think it is iri1portam for us to teach students about democ-rncy but I am not sure if the students gained as much out of that incident. I am not sure how much they were prepared and whether the students understood why. they. were there," Inos.

continued. .. . .· . . . ···.· ·· .. "The most important question tharI wi1La$kjswhttt did the

students learnas aresultof that· I hope that it was 11qt done so th~rwecan use the students to fight.our cause,'' she aclded,

ff the activity early December in Capitol Hillwasrel!Uyafield trip, Inos sr.id that she.is hqping that what happened designates the actual reality of what it means ..

''I don't know if that is. really the case or ifit is instigated to make it known to t~eleaders that they want more resources. The prjc:e of.freedom is som.etimes displayed .in so manyforms. The students should not be used to fight the battle of what we need,'' Inossai<L . . . .

The commissioner.said that children should be placed in areas . that wo~ld ca.tertotheiriearning_ opportunhy.

· Inos also expressed disappointment over teachers who dis-cussedJhe closing down of schools to their students.

· "Wedid discuss about scenarios of our financial affairs. We neverintendto close down the schools. Instead, because of our desire not to close down schools and jeopardizing the kids that weare. now dealing with hard issues. Unfortunately, some teachel"S suy untrue things !O the students," she said.

obtain a comparative analysis for this year's another set of SAT9.

The results inJicatcJ a percen­tile rank, the ranking of CNMI students with those V:-ho took the same test in other nations.

The average percentile norm in the mainland level is 50th percen­tile.

At least 750 students from third grade took the tcs t and C NM I obtained a 13th percentile in reading, 11th percentile in Mathematics, 19th percentile in Language, 17th percentile in Science, 14th percentile in So­cial Studies and 12th percentile

Heinz Hofschneider

lion why the education is it the way it is today and what should be done to improve it. And it seems that there are some in­consistent facts coming out that was previously stipulated to be co-related with the improve­ment, infrastrncturc, funding and the quality of teachers," Hofschneider cominued_

He adJed that the legislature would want to hear from the administrators and the BOE why

in Listening Skills. In 5th grade level, the CNMI

base! inc data include 13th per­centile in reading, I 3th percen­tile in Mathematics, 20th percen­tile in Language, 19th percentile in Science, 19th percentile in Social Studies and 9th percentile inListeningSkills. Atotalof81 l 5th grades took the exam.

A-total of 598 grade eight stu­dents took the SAT l) and gath­ered 16th percentile in reading, 18th percentile in Mathematics, 23rd percentile in Language, 21st percentile in Science and 24th percentile in Social Studies, and I 0th percentile in Listening Skills.

the student performance con­tinue to deteriorates.

The student performance. ac­cording to Hofschneider, have not improved substantially and progressively.

The congressman suggested that the conventional approach in teaching does not work any­more to get the students' atten­tion in learning.

"We neeJ to find ways to be innovative and make learning more attractive and fun for the kids so that there is a reflective improvement in their perfor­mance," Hofschneider said.

It could be recalled that 1-Iofschneider opposed the pro­posed legislative initiative of Rep. Jesus Attao that woulJ in­crease the buJgct of PSS from I 5 percent to 25 percent.

He saiJ that even at the pn:scnt level of appropriation. PSS could not ensure there is a re­flective progression in the stu­dents' learning and performance inside the classrnom.

For 495 I 0th gradc stLldcnts. the result incluJc 15th percentile: in reading. 20th percentile in Mathematics, 21st percentile in Language. 23rd percentile in Sci­ence and 25th percentile in Social Studies.

Of the 350 I l th graders, the CNMI gathered 16th percentile in reading, 19th percentile in Mathematics. 25th percentile in Language, 20th percentile in Sci­ence and 21st percentile in Social Studies.

In addition to the percentile ranking, there are performance standards in which each class is ranked based on the actual num­ber of questions answered cor­rectly. The stanJan.is ha\c four different levels. The levels arc correlated to the National As­sessment of Educational Prol!rcss such as level I (below basic). level 2 ( basic). le1cl .:', (proficient) anJ level 4 (aLl­vanccJ).

SAT 9 also showed similari­ties among the diffcrrnt grade levels that took the test. CNMI students JiJ fairly well in the level one which is below basic. In level 2, basic. the students· average began to drop_ Lei els :, and 4 bares a Jisappointing a1·cr­agc from 9 to O pcrcen r.

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Cepeda: Big earners in gov't must chip in

By Zaldy Dandan

Variety News Staff TO HELP the administration lo­cate additional funds for the Public School Svstcm and the Department of Public Health. Rep. Frank G. Cepeda (R-Prcc. 4. Saipan) said government of­ficials and employees who re­ceive more than $30.000 a year should consider "chipping-in" part of their salaries.

"Maybe we could 'donate· 10 percent of our pay for the next three paydays," Cepeda, who chairs the House Committee on Judicial and Governmental Op­erations. said.

"Of course this is just my sug­gcstion. mv way of proposing a temporary s~lution to the government's financial prob­lems.

"We should recognize that we 're hurting. and that those who could should contribute a bit.'' Cepeda said.

"We should hold hands and work together."

Saying that "leaders should

CNMI INSURANCE MOYLANS PACIACA

Frank G. Cepeda

set an example," Cepeda last month reduced the work hours of his staff members to help save money forthe government.

Cepeda also announced that will return a portion of his $39,000 annual salary to the government. ~ Due to reduced revenue col­lections. the CNMl fiscal year I 999 budget of $249.26 million is now d~wn to $216. 75 mil­l ion, which will lead to an "across the board" budget re-

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A look back at the economy

Regional econo1nic crunch dainpened CNMI's growth

By Aldwin R. Fajardo

Variety News Staff NEEDLESS IO say, the past year has not been a very cooperaiivc year for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in terms of economic development and business growth.

The North~m Marianas, in 1997, witnessed a sharp decline in visitor atTivals following the collapse of the Korean economy, which was a by-product of the investors' loss of confidence in Thailand in July 1997. Other than Korea, its contagion effect was felt in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

While the situation slightly stabilized since the beginning of 1998, a new - and even catastrophic -cuITency dcv al u­ati on snagged Asia during the second quarter of the year as driven by the loss of confidence in Japan's capacity lo reform its economy, particularly its finan­cial sector, as well as uncer­tainty about the Chinese yuan.

Japa11 is CNMI tourism's larg­est market while Korea was the island's second biggest source of visitors. Both G-u-am and the CNMl have virtually lost the Korean market whose economy remains sluggish.

The Com~-onwealth suffered a double-digit decline in the number of visitors from Japan. In fact, overseas travels made by Japanese tourists have steadi I y dropped and economists are predicting slower people traf­fic ahead, as a result of the country's sluggish economy.

Overseas travels by Japanese have dwindled by 2.4 percent. the hi11hesl decline since 1996. Lowe; tourist outbound traffic have persisted among Japanese travelers during the past year due to the depreciation of the yen against the US dollar. · Th; stronger the IJS dollar rallies against the Japanese yen. the weaker the yen gets in terms of buying power which makes tr·avcl to dol lar-bascd economics more expensive.

Reports claimed that Japan.

Joe C. Ayuyu

world's second largest economy, looks like more of a liability to its neighboring Asian countries than a potential savior. Japan's Eco­nomic Planning Agency has said that the country's gross domestic product shrank for two consecu­tive quarters and that if suffered the first full year of decline in 20 years.

A continued plunge in the yen could spark another round of re­gional currency devaluation as Asian countries fight to keep their products competitive in key for­eign markets.

Because of this, quite a big num­ber of businesses in the Northern Marianas have closed shop. The commerce department has re­ported that close lo 200 business establishments have closed dow·n as a result of the downturn in the tourism industry.

Although local consumers feast on cheap-commodities flooding the CNMI market as a result of several "closing down sales," out­going Saipan Chamber of Com­merce Joe C. Ayuyu said the ad­vantages to the end-buyers would be short-lived.

He said this may lead to mo­nopoly especially when the num­ber of establishments involved in a particular field of business is trimmed down further. which, he added, may kill competition.

"In the end, consumers will be I :iced with expensive products since there will be lesser compe­tition, and lesser competition means highcrprices," Ayuyu said, stressing that bigger companies arc more Ii kcly to survive the com­petition which are also more pre-

Pedro P. Tenorio

sumably to dictate prices. He said this could make big­

ger companies out of "already big ones" that can dictate prices on the market, leaving the con­sumers at the losing end since there wi I I be no other place to go to compare prices with.

Restrictive laws Aside from the crisis trig­

gered by financial upheavals in Asia, the local economy took a back seat in favor of laws adopted by the government to satisfy federal concerns.

The Commonwealth found it­self in a "catch 22"' situation because of the continuing prob­lems on labor and immigration, aggravated by a lot of pressure from the US government lo re­strict and limit the number of people coming into the CNMI.

/\t the same time, the North­ern Marianas is also faced with economic problems wilh the dropping visitor arrival figures over the past months which, Ayuyu said. is to be resolved by encouraging more investments in other fields.

"So when you encourage more investments, you would be need­ing more people so there's a conflict between addressing fed­eral concerns and the economic turmoil," he said. Between the two, according to him. the ,tc­tion that Jhe govern men I should take; must be the one that "pays the bill."

Ayuyu stressed that the gov­ernment should do what is right for the local economy and for the local residents. "In the pro-

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.Wo.rker. found hanging on ·New Year's Day By Rene P. Acosta

Variety News Staff A FILIPI NO contract worker committed suicide on New Year's Day by hanging himself after reportedly failing to win back his girlfriend.

The victim was identified as Alex Capili, 29, an employee of the Chalon International who worked as a cook at the La Fi­cs ta Mall. Ile was from IIagonoy, Bulacan in the Phil­ippines.

llis roommate said he ended his life after failing to get back his Filipina girlfriend, Cristina l~aldovino, 26, a saleslady at the Shoe Gallery located at the L:1 Fiesta.

Capili, hanged himself with

the use of an extension cord which he tied around his neck and connected to a wooden beam located inside the comfort room of the Chalan International bar­racks in Marpi.

The beam measuring about l .8 meters high was only about four inches higher than the victim.

Capili 's body was discovered by his roommate Raul Herrera, 24, al about 8: a.m. last Friday. He was in a kneeling position and his eyes closed when found.

Herrera talked to the Variety just hours after the discovery of Capili's body.

According to Herrera, he and another filipino worker. Jerry Yutoc, were on a drinking ses­sion Thursday' night when the

victim arrived at about 9:30 p.m. from work.

He said the victim joined them but while in the middle of their drinking, Capili called up Baldovino.

According to him, he over­heard Capili telling to his girl­f,ricnd over the phone that he was going to drink poison and kill himself.

The witness said after the phone conversation, he whisked away Capili and persuaded him not to take seriously what he had just told his girlfriend.

When the three ended their drinking bout, Capili reportedly transfered to a neighboring bar­racks where he joined the other

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According to Villanueva:

US affiliation to help Tinian. bill to ban 'unsecured' loads on vehicles up to Teno

NMI get over turmoil By 2aldy Dandan (DPS) would be responsible VarietyNew$Staff for enforcing the requirement.

TINL<\N''SJegislators have Manglona said a loaded ve-passed ailocal bill that would - hicle or equipment should. be

By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff SA YING slowdowns are "part of an economic cycle in any coun­try," Commerce Secretary Frank B. Villanueva is optimistic the economy will soon tum around owing to a host of factors which include the US. flag flying on the island.

"We have enjoyed a period of IO to I 5 years of uninterrupted economic growth. However, we must understand that economic slowdowns are part of an eco­nomic cycle in any country." said Villanueva in an interview.

Though very much affected by the current regional economic cri-

Frank B. Villanueva

sis, Villanueva said the Common­wealth "still (has) many advan­tages ... that make (it) stand out from the rest of the Asian econo­mics."

For one, Villanueva noted that the CNMT still has a low inflation and a stable banking system.

"We (also) have the political stability of the democratic tradi­tions and laws under the US. Flag," he added.

According to Villanueva, other factors that make upCNMI' sedge over its Asian neighbors are:

* The sovereignty over wages and immigration;

* The relatively low business taxes; and

* The relief from certain U.S. import tariffs through theCNMI's Headnote 3A exemption.

Aside from Villanueva, other Confinuec:f on page 22

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GOVERNMENT is looking into apprehending empl oycrs classified as "'habitual violators" oflabor laws to petmanently ban them from hir­ing workers.

The move came following nu­merous complaints from nonresi­denl workers who alleged that their employers have managed to put up new businesses under a different registration and hired another group of workers.

These employers were suppos­edly facing administrative orders from the Depattment of Labor and Immigration (DOU), fining them for alleged violations and impos­ing a permanent ban on their hiring of new workers.

DOU Secretary Mark Zach,u-es, in an interview last week, said he will be working with Depmtment of Commerce (DOC) Secretary Frank B. Villanueva on the matter.

''I'll be meeting with him soon, probably after the new year's day and maybe coordinate some ef­i'ons." said Zachares.

"One area that I am concerned, I think it is a mutual concern ofou1·s, is these employers who have nu­merous violations (and) have a re-

voked business licenses. We may put a ban on their hiring or some­thing but that would not stop them from hiring on island.

"What we like to sec is an ag­gressive enforcement effo1t by the commerce department to clean up some of these companies that are habitual violators and to hold their pcnnils," he further said.

Zachares also lamented that there have been "some .. businesses con­victed under federal charges but have still managed to operate.

"Now that there is a permanent captain at the helm of the com­merce (depmtment), we can sit down and discuss these issues and coordinate our efforts to get rid of these companies that don't really contribute to our society," he said.

The DOC and DOU have in the past launched coordinated efforts addressing specific labor concerns.

It will be recalled that then DOU Secretary Thomas 0. Sablan and DOC Secretary Pedro Dela Cntz implemented a policy n:stricting regulations on m:mpo1ver agc11-cics.

The new directivc forced nearly 50 of these employmcnt place­ment finns to close down after failing to provide financial state-

Gov't to spe~d up labor cases By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff GOVERNMENT this year will be aiming to shorten the investi­gation period of all labor com­plaints to expedite its resolution.

Department of Labor and Im­migration (DOL!) Secretary Mark Zacharcs, in an interview last week, said the move is being done "to hasten the delivery of justice to where it is due."

lt came in light of complaints from both nonresident workers and employers who claimed DOLi's investigation and n:so­lution of cases unnecessarily take too long, resulting lo instances where the affected workers have gone back home. " Zachares said DOLi is hiring a third hearing officer to augment the Administrative lli:aring.

Office's (AHO J staff. The AHO hears all labor cases and issues orders lo employers and non­resident workers involved.

"One thing that I would like 10 focus on is the labor cases. How long it takes for a resolu­tion of a particular case. f don 'I think it (cumbersome probe pro­cess) benefits the employee. the complainant. I don't think it benefits the employer nor the Com monwea I th... said Zaclrnres.

"We will be working with our investigators to expeditiously investigate these complaints. I don't wan\ to sec anymorc 1994 or 1995 complaints being heard in 1999," he added.

Zacharcs said he will be dis­cussing this new effort with

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ments supporting their hiring of I arge numbers of nonresident work­ers.

The move, Dela Cruz had said. was taken after it was noted that these manpower agencies were cre­ating ,ITT "abnormal situation" where an unemployment of nonresident workers exist.

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"lfwe c:u11:1ise more aqua-culture products on Guam. we can be more sclf-sufliciem :md lessen our reliance on fish product i111po1t<;.°' Pc1ez said.

Cuam cuITently imprn1sowr$ I 0 million worth offisheries products anmwlly. By expanding: aqua-cul­ture on island. l\:rez said C,uam can reduce :1 significant amount of thcs.: imports.

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creasing itsexpm1sof aqua-culture products.

"Because we are a U.S. tcITitory. we can cxpm1 our products to the mainland and other areas without too much restrictions, .. he added.

Moreover. Perez said the Japa­nese market continues to be a lu­crative one for aqua-culture prod­ucts. "The Japanese still have a big appetite for crabs mid big prawns. ·111at could be another source of revenue for us."

Perez stressed that the Govern­ment of Guam must not only seek to cut down expenses, it must also look for new revenue-generating

Teachers, principals reminded to be careful with their actions

By Louie C. Alonso

Variety News Staff EDUCATION Commissioner Rita H. !nos reminded the teachers and principals of the Public School System to be very careful with their demeanor as it reflects on the entire education sector.

"I expect teachers to teach (their students) what is right. Whatever they do is part of me. Every action from the member of the education community speaks or my actions. They don't carry my actions but I carr:; a!! responsibilities of seeing: these things happen:· Inos said.

The statement was made after Rep. Heinz 1-lofschneidercriticized the teachers who. he said. "tagged along·· students in a field trip to lobby before the Legislature early December.

!nos said that she was not aware of the field trip until it was shown in the media.

"I Ihink it is important forus to teach students about dcmocr:1cv but I am not sure if the students gained as much out or that incident. ·1 am not sure how much they \\:ere prepared and whether the students understood why they were there:· !nos coi1tinued.

"The most important question that I will ask is what did the students learn as a result or that. I hope that it was not done so that we can use the students to fight our cause:· she added.

If the activity early December in Capitol Hill was really a field trip, I nos said that she is hoping that what happened designates the actual reality of wh,1t it means.

By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

\Vlll:N can evidence gathered withouI a warrant stand in court'' Superior Court Associate Judge Timothy Bellas had a clear an­S\vcr.

lkllas dismissed the motion of defendant Ronaldo Catap, who had hecn charged criminally after the Labor division found him to have employed undocumented and ovc1·staying workers.

Catap. who is an architect. had challenged the c.ise and submit-

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led a motion hc:forc: lkllas to sup­press. or in the alternative;. dis­miss the case.

The architect claimed the evi­dence offered by the government through the attorney general's office were illegally obtained and without a warrant.

Catap. was charged after DOLi agents conducted a warrantless search at the construction site in San Vicente last May 7, 1998

The constrnction company with the alleged illegal workers em­ployed were building a house for

ventures. "When we achievealargeraqua­

culture industry, we don't have to lay off people and we can get out of our budgetrny constraints.'' Perez said.

He added that although Guam already has a few aqua-culture farms. there is still a need to fu11her develop the indust1y not only for local consumption but also for ex­prntati on.

Perez said aqua-culture ventures are especially ideal for the island's coastal areas. especially the south­em villages like Talofofo lnarajan. Merizo. and Agat.

Only 15%of amnesty,seekers ·foundjobs

By Jojo Dass

Variety News Staff

ONLY 15 percent of the i ll~gals who have registered under government's amnesty program have so far found jobs, prelimi­nary official figures of the De­partment of Labor and Immigra­tion (DOLi) showed.

This was gathered even as DOIJ Secretary Mark Zachares, in an interview last week. said he i; "impressed'" with the program's tum-out, expressing hopes all overstayers will avail of the op­portunity to gain legal status.

··1 am impressed. This early in the immunity period, I am happy with the tum out. I think it is a testament to a lot of things, the illegals trnst the department now more than in the past," said Zachares.

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U IC P1·csidcnt and Grncral Man­ager James Lin.

During the 1·aid which was prompted by a tip from an infor­mant, an immigration aoent Pe­ter San Nicolas, called c:1ta~ and questioned him about the work­ers who were seen present.

Nicolas also informed him that they have seized various docu­ments from the premises, includ­ing time sheets, log books, and service contracts which Catap asked to take back.

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Bleak prospects for NMI tourism. By Aldwin R. Fajardo Variety News Slaff

11: Tl II: recent report from the !\1:i1·i:111:1s Visitors 1\uthmity is an i11dic:1tilln. prnspcL·ts for the local tourism imlustrl' remains hlc:1k as a1Ti1 :ils during the first two 111rnllhs or the i 'Jl.Jl.J fisc:11 ycar uropped hy '27 pcn:cnt in co111pa1·ison to the previous ycar"s tally.

h,1· thc l'irst two monlhs of

the fiscal year. which started in October, the Northern Marianas played host to a tot:d of 73,438 visitors from about IO countries in Asi,1. l:urnpe and the lJnitcd States m:1inl:1nd.

This figure suffered a ?.7 pa­('Cnt drop from I 00,818 tourists during the same period last fiscal year, as a rcsul1 or the 1·inancial upheavals in Asia ,111d the slow rally of the Japanese economy,

world's second largest. ln October 1998, visitor arl'iv­

als dwindled by 31 percent to 34.137 from the previous year's 49,202. November figures, meantime. dmpped by 2'4 per­cent from 51.616 to :~'),301 dur­ing the period under review.

Trawlers from Japan declined 18 percent from 66,457 durin!! the first two months of last fisc,J

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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, f999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-9

PSS: Braving the storm By Louie C. Alonso Variety News Staff

BARELY six months in her post as the education commissioner, Rita H. Inos has experienced the most challenging times in the Public School System history.

Inos formally signed her four­year contract with the PSS last June 1, 1998. Since then she started her .uphill battle to aug­ment the budget left for the entire 1998 fiscal year.

Before Inos assumed her post in June, PSS Acting Budget and Finance Officer Bill Matson al­ready made some projections in March 1998 that PSS would be unable to meet the FY 98 person­nel costs unless some actions are taken to reduce expenses.

InApril 1998,theconcemswere translated into action by the Board of Education members as they informed the CNMI that person­nel funds were being shifted from the Central Office to schools for the hiring of the teachers.

According to Inos and Matson, PSS ceased the hiring of all Cen­tral Office staff and non-teaching personnel as early as April to be able to hire teachers.

Inos, who was then the acting education commissioner, and the rest of the BOE members worked together during the summer to convert vacant teacher aide posi­tions into hourly teacher assistant positions.

With the passage of FY 99 bud­get, Matson said an analysis dem­onstrated that PSS would be un­able to pay for the personnel.

It started in October when we have our FY 99 budget passed and that itselfcreated a 15 percent shortfall for our personnel which is the major ordeal that we have to deal with," Inos said.

Matson said with the passage of FY 99 budget, it became obvi­ous that PSS would have insuffficient resources to pay the 5 percent 'frozen' and multi-track differential. The freeze hiring became a universal law among PSS family during September.

The overtime payments in PSS staff and employees were ceased during September and continue to be unfunded for the present fiscal year.

In November, the PSS planned to reduce the number of full time employees (Ff'Es) by 28.6 per­cent to slash expeditures in light of Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio's plan to cut the FY 99 budget by 13.4 percent.

'"The PSS received the 15 per­cent reduction in early November which was followed by a 13.4 across the board cut in all govern­ment agencies," !nos recalled.

In November 27, Inos sent a memorandum to all PSS princi­pals stating that the adjusted al­lotment for the PSS has been re­duced rrom $41.6 million to $36 million.

It could also be recalled that almost 60 PSS personnel decided to retire effectiw December 4. 1998. Most of these employees were teachers.

At the start of December, the

Rita H. /nos

PSS decided to give out a 90- day notices to its 470 personnel. Out ofthe470personnel,200ofwhom are members of the teaching staff.

The education commissioner is legally obligated to issue a 90-day notices of non-renewal of con­tracts for those staff whose con- · tracts have aiready expired early this year due to the projected $4.4 million budget shortfall for the wl)ole fiscal year.

And operatingunder ahuge$4.4 million budget shortfall for per-

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sonnel salary and a projected 13.4 percent budget slash, Matson dis­closed early December that the education system would not be able to fund the payroll from Janu­ary to March.

"With the allotment that CNMI government had shared with the PSS versus the current amount of payroll, there will not be any al­lotment at some point in March for us to ask the government to transfer the money,'' Matson ex -plained.

Inos submitted a letter to Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio last December 7 asking for some $1.7 million fi. nancial aid to augment the budget woes of the system.

The Personnel and Fiscal Com­mittee of the PSS suggested a I b percent salary cut among PSS em­ployees as part of the belt-tight­ening measures of the system. It would be presented into the BOE meeting set on December 21.

Teachers, principal and students from Oleai Elementary School gathered into the Capitol Hill in

Bill Matson

mid-December as part of the edu -cational trip and at the same time, to discuss their views on the prob­lems that was facing the educa­tional system.

The move of the school was strongly opposed by some legis­lators.

Eleven days after the PSS' fi­nancial aid request, Tenorio granted the $1. 7 million request of the PSS !hat would provide additional resources for essential education services such as teacher

•Jnitial deposit ;111tl 11l-c.:ount minimum h:1L111ct.· is l 1SSl,OOO. 'IL·tms ,ind conditions ;lpp!r C:111 fnr dL't;1ils.

contracts and educational materi­als.

At the BOE meeting that was attended by more than 20 teach­ers, the board decided to suspend the IO percent salary cut until June 18, 1999.

The commissioner said the ad­ditional funds from the governor would allow PSS to suspend the reduction of salaries for the dura­tion of the present school year.

The board stressed that all teach -ers and teacher aides will be re­tained until June 18, 1999 while non-teaching staff will be given 90-day notices after their contract expiration on March 27, 1999.

Inos continued that some certi­fied employees can be hired based on what's left on the funding ..

Matson told the board that PSS is now only facing with $400,000 ~hortfall as compared from the $4.4 million original projected deficit.

Matson explained that aside from the$1.7 millionfundingfrom

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New PSS school opens today By Louie C. Alonso. Variety News Staff

THE Lina'la'-Malawasch Acad­emy. the Public School System's alternative learning institution de­signed for students with social i,;havior problems, will have its soft opening today.

Strict measures designed to gov­ern student behavior will be the main focus of this alternative edu­cational setting, along with strong academic preparation.

With the PSS's present finan­cial constraint, Education Com­missioner Rita H. Inos said the education system will not hire new

teachers for the academy. The PSS will be pooling its

own people and some volunteers to operate the academy.

"We are looking internally how we could make it happen espe­cially forthose kids to really have the atmosphere of learning. We believe there is a need for the academy before they could get back into the real campus where they belong," !nos said.

The academy situated at Capitol Hill will becomprisedoffourbuild­ings, but only the core building is ready for the students at present.

"It is not really a full-fledged

academy. But most of the com­ponents are ready. Due to the resources and for the PSS look­ing for ways to develop the build­ings, wearenotmovingasquickly as we would like to. It is like a pilot stage and ideas will be laid down as how it would work," Inos continued.

The establishment of the acad­emy is one way to close the loop­holes and gaps of the traditional education.

The alternative school bridges the gap between school, in-school suspension and the detention fa­cility. It is meant to address the

Legisl~tive speaker Ton>; Unpingco, his wife Emily anq Lt: ~overnor¥adeleine Borda/lo join hands in.asking for Divine Gutdance during Inaugural Mass at San D1oms1o church in Umatac. The 25th Guam Legislature will be inaugurated this morning in Hagatna. Photo by Eduardo c. Siguenza

I GOT FLOWERS TODAY

I got flowers today! It wasn't my birthday or any other special day; We had our first argument last night; And he said a lot of cruel things that really hurts;

I know that he is sorry and didn't mean to say the things he said; Because he sent me flowers today.

I got flowers today! It wasn't our anniversary or any other special day; Last night he threw me into a wall and then started choking me;

It seems like a nightmare, but you wake up from nightmare to find they aren't real.

I got flowers ioday 1 And it wasn't Valentine's Day or any other special day; Last night he beat me and threatened to kill me;

Make-up and long-sleeve: didn't hide the cuts and bruises this time; I couldn't go to work today, I didn't want anyone to know,

but I know he's sorry; Because he sent flowers today.

I got !lowers today! And it wasn't Mother's Day or any other special day; Last night he beat me again, and it was much worse than the other times;

lf I leave him, what will l do'1 How will I take care of the kids? What about money? J'm afraid of him. J'm too scared and dependent to leave him'

But he must he sorry; Because he sent me flowers today.

I got flowers today:-Today was a very special day- it was the day of my funeral; Last night he finally killed me - - . -I was beaten to death;

If only I would have gathered the courage and strength to leave him; The women's shelter could have helped me, but I didn't ask for help;

So I got !lowers today .... for the last time.

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needs of those students that the school system is mandated to serve, but cannot do so in the traditional setting.

The academy is conceived to act as the safety net for students who are on the verge oflong-term suspension or expulsion.

The alternative school removes their presence from the traditional school setting, but are given an opportunity to be served with their intellectual needs while at the same time, being provided with assistance to make positive be­havior and attitude adjustment.

Bank announces dividends By Jacob Leon Guerrero Variety News Staff

HAGATNA - The Board of Directors of Guam Savings and Loan announced last week a record dividend of$0.45 per share.

The dlvidend is a I 2.5 percent increase over the previous one and payable Jan. 2, 1999.

The higher dividend is a result of record earnings by the bank. Bank President Philip Flores said, "Our diversification of invest-

ments and growing presence in Saipan and Palau have allowed us to achieve our record results."

"We thank our investors for their continuing confidence in Guam Savings and of course our family of fellow employees who work so hard to make each day better for our customers," Flores said.

Guam Savings and Loan will be converting to a full service bank in 1999.

NMHC awards FSSP recipients By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

TIIE Northern Marianas Hous­ing Corporation yesterday offi­cially welcomed the first batch of housing project owners who have been covered by the Family Self Sufficiency Program (FSSP).

The 21 homeowner members received their certifications yes­terday from NMHC Chairman Juan S. Tenorio.

As members, they will be helped by the NMHC in locating jobs and will be sent to college for a degree or trainings.

"I am looking forward to it. I really want to learn something

that will let me earn not only for my family but for my housing," NlckNuwag,afatherofficewho was among those accepted.

According to project coordi­nator Bill Agulto, FSSP will make the beneficiaries sufficient by helping them to get jobs and train­ing to support their family.

There have been a total of257 families who have availed of the governmenthousingprojects, but according to Agulto only 50 per­cent of the homeowner families will be covered by the program.

FSSPwasapartofthe Welfare Reform Law which was passed by the Clinton administration two years ago.

A homeowner (right) reaches out to shake hands with Family Self­Sufficiency Program project coordinator Bill Ar;;ulto (center) and NMHC chairman Juan S. Tenorio after receiving her applicant's certification for FSSP. Photo by Rene P. Acosta

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North Pacific drought predicted By Giff Johnson For the Variety

MAJURO - Just when the Marshall Islands thought it had said ··good riddance·· to El Niiio ("the boy""), his sister La Niiia decided to show up.

And that means more drought conditions for this north Pacific island group over the next four months, according to Guam-based meteorologists.

While most of the western is­lands in Micronesia - the N01thcrn Marianas, Guam and Palau - are expected to have near normal rain-

fall levels in early 1999, the Marshall Islands and neighboring Kosrae Island in the Federated StatesofMicronesia, both of which lie close to the equator in the cen­tral Pacific, are going to be hit by a drought, the second in as many years.

This is according to predictions issued this week by the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI) at the University of Guam.

The CNMI is expected to get about 80 percent of normal rainfall in January and February, improv-

ing to 90 percent through June, when rains are expected to return to the norm, WERI said.

Despite heavy rains from July through November, the Marshall Islands should expect an extra-dry dry season from January through April this year, though not as se­vere as the six month drought caused by El Niiio in early I 998, according to WERI forecasters.

In ad:l1tion, U.S. and Japanese drought assistance last year pro­vided the Marshalls with more than a dozen water making machines capable of producing about 300,000 gallons of fresh water daily, while hundreds of households added rain catchment tanks last year increas­ing water self-reliance, he indi­cated.

cash crops were sustained (in the l\1icronesian region)," WERI re­ported.

Instead of returning to normal as El Niiioabatcdbymid-1998,ocean temperatures cooled below the norm, producing what meteorolo­gists call La Nina, El Nino 's oppo­site.

FortheMarshallsandFSM,how­ever, gender doesn't matter: both arc drought-producing weather sys­tems.

Chinese garment workers start exodus from Majuro

But the Marshall Islands is in much better condition to withstand an extended drought in 1999 than it was a year ago, according to Bill Roberts, the general manager of the Majuro Water and Sewer Com­pany.

This is because a just-completed Asian Development Bank-funded project has increased reservoir stor­age space for rainwater from 22 to 33 million gallons so that Majuro can stockpile water heading into the dry season, he said.

During l 997 and early 1998, El Niiiowarmedocean waters, chang­ing weather patterns in the central and western Pacific that caused one of the worst droughts on record for the Marshalls and Federated States of Micronesia, a drought that started in December 1997 and didn't break until June l 998.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency provided water making equipment to both nations, as well as food for popula­tions affected by the drought.

The Marshalls' capital, Majuro, and southern atolls will receive just 70 percent of their normal rainfall through April 1999, while K wajalein and the n011hern atolls will be even drier: they are ex­pected to receive just over half of their normal rainfall.

By Giff Johnson For the Variety

MAJURO- 'The first attempt of the Marshall Islands to launch a garment industry ended last week when more than 170 Chinese gar­ment factory workers left Majuro, ending a year-long saga that had generated little work for the em­ployees but considerable concern in both government and the com­munity over the presence of this large number of aliens.

Lanco Pacific, the company that operated the garment factory in Majuro during 1998, agreed to repatriate the garment workers after the Foreign Ministry for­mally requested their removal in mid-December, according to For­eign Affairs officials.

A Korean charter flight arrived in Majuro to collect the workers and return them to the People's Republic of China.

TI1e large group had arrived in January 1998, the first workers that were to launch operations ata garment factory was completed several years earlier but had sat idfc when the government was unable to locate an operator for the factory.

Lanco is a Majuro-registered company that is backed by PRC business interests.

Lanco officials indicated that they will leave a handful of staff behind as caretakers for the facili­ties and sewing equipment, which Lanco shipped in earl icr this year.

A total of 189 Chine workers arrived in Majuro at the begin­ning of 1998. Five returned home earlier in the year. In addition, Foreign Ministry Labor Depart­ment officer Len Lcnsa noted that two of the workers had "disap­peared"' from the factory. He said he knew where they were and it was a matter of "having to track them down."

There has been almost no gar­ment work for the factory work­ers in the year that they have been in Majuro. le,tving them lo fend for themselves by selling small items of merchandise to Marshall Islanders.

The house-to-house selling -which was illegal, according to Lensa .. since the factory workers didn't have business I iccnscs or work permits for this activity -sparked numerous complaints from local residents, and caused the Foreign Ministry to step in.

Lcnsa indicated that the work-

ers had not been paid by Lanco in many months because of the lack of work. ~~~-~---= Continued on page 22 "Serious losses of both food and

From May onward, rainfall is expected to be al most at normal levels, according to researchers at

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Solomons shootout leaves one man dead HONIARA (Pacnews) - One man was killed in a shoot-out yesterday between a group of armed men and police, in Solomon Islands' Central Province.

The victim was reportedly shot in the chest in the exchange of fire with the police.

A police constable was also in­jured during the shooting.

The incident took place on Bungana Island in the Central Province.

Commissionerof Police, Frank

Short, says following the shootout, police seized a quantity of weap­ons from the armed men and ar­rested them. The men are now in police custody pending charges.

Short says yesterday's incident followed a tip off to police about the presence of a power boat and a group of men on the island of Bungana.

He says the shootout began when the men shot at the police, as the police approached the group on the beach.

Value added to copra exports HONIARA (Pacnews) -Solomon Islands will give a boost to one of its top export products in the New Year.

It will stop exporting copra from January. and go into value added copra products.

The Solomon Islands Com­modities Export Marketing Au­thority (CEMA) will process co­pra locally into value added prod­ucts such as coconut oil.

The Authority's Marketing

Manager, Moses Pelomo, says these products will be sold both overseas and locally.

The move will boost employ­ment. Another four copra crush­ing mills are expected to be op­erational by the middle of 1999, along with the existing four mills.

It wi II also mean more revenue for provincial development. The Authority runs the existing four mills in 50 percent partnership

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RETIREMENT Fu ND PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to Public Law 8-41, Section II, Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lt. Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the NM! Retirement Fund Board of Trustees/Workers' Compensation Commission, are hereby giving notice that the Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, January 7, 1999, at 5:00 p.m. in the Fund Conference Room, Saipan.

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~~. Elsewhere in 'the ·Pacific US nixes American Samoa House request for independent counsel PAGOPAGO (Pacnews) -The United States Secretary of the Interior has denied a request by the American Samoa House of Representatives to appoint an independent attorney to prosecute government officials implicated in the sale of government vehicles and spare parts last year.

The request was based on find­ings by the controversial House Investigative Committee that several senior government offi­cials, including Governor Tauese Sunia, abused their au­thority or gained personally from the unauthorised sale.

The Interior Department cited four reasons for turning down

the Representatives' request for a special prosecutor.

First, that an Office of Inde­pendent Counsel already ex­isted.

It was established by former Governor Aifili Lutali in the wake of the misappropriation of hurricane relief funds for farmers in 1991 after Hurricane Val.

Second, that local leaders have a far better sense in knowing who would be the best candidate to appoint as a special prosecutor.

Third, that the request came only from the House of Repre­sentatives and did not have the endorsement of the Senate, and fourth, that the Interior

Department's appointment ofan independent counsel would con­flict with the constitutional power vested in the governor to make executive appointments.

Washington commended the efforts by the House to improve accountability in government and offered several suggestions to achieve the same results without outside involvement.

These include strengthening lo­cal law enforcement, establishing an office of independent counsel by statute and establishing whistle blower laws to encourage and protect those who witness wrong doing to come forward and re­port it early.

Tonga seeks to develop shipping industry NUKU'ALOFA (Pacnews) -Tonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou the Fourth has stressed the importance of developing the Pacific kingdom's shipping industry.

In his Christmas and New Year message, he says there is a need to build a bigger slipway where local ships can be main­tained and serviced, including the government's oil tanker, and

passenger and fishing vessels. He says this will save them

the costly exercise of going abroad.

The King says local marine engineers can provide quality services, as well as build ships locally.

In other points in his mes­sage, he says Tongans could study vegetable gardening in the government's newly acquired

warehouse Floor Space located at the Port of Saipan will be available for

occupancy in early 1999. To reserve a space or for more details,

please contact: Mr. Joannes R. Taimanao

Telephone: (670) 322-8569 Facsimile: (670) 322-8568

e-mail address: saisteve@saipan.netpci.com

property ofTau'akipulu in San Francisco, California.

He says growers in Tonga and other Pacific Island nations should plant two types of wa­termelons that can be sold to Japan, to get higher export rev­enue.

Provincial gov't sµpporfs prison·· administration '

PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) - At least one provincial gov­ernment in Papua New Guinea has allocated some money for prison administration next year.

The New Zeland Provincial Government has allocated 150,000 dollars for a jai I in Kavieng, in line with directions from the national government.

The amount represents a 50 percent commitment with the national government to fund the rest of the money.

The Skate government cut the prisons' budget by 50 percent from 19 million to 9.7 million US dollars in the 1999 budget.

It also directed provincial gov­ernments to meet 50 percent of the prisons budget.

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Eight-year-old Wally lrolocio (second from left) grimaces as his bloodied hand is treated at the Philippine General Hospital for injuries he suffered during the New Year revelries in Manila Friday. AP

Hundreds injured as RP rings in New Year MANILA (Reuters) - New Year's Eve celebrations in the Phil­ippines seemed less raucous than usual but hundreds of people were in ju red in firecracker accidents and from stray bullets, officials and residents said on Friday.

The Health Ministry said 492 people were injured in the past I 0 days nationwide, including 37 who needed amputations. Most of the injuries occurred on Thurs­day night and a vast majority of the in ju red were sent home after treatment, it said.

There were no deaths. At least I 4people, including I 0

in Manila, were injured in gunfire when people fired into the air to celebrate the advent of the new year, authorities said, despite gov­ernment appeals for people not to fire bu lie ts.

Most of the others were burned or sustained eye injuries from fire­crackers.

Filipinos traditionally let off fire­crackers at the stroke of midnight on December 31 - and for some hours on either side - to ward off evil spirits in the new year. But each year hundreds of people are injured and some are killed in acci­dents.

Thursday night was little differ­ent. The sky over Manila, a city of 12 million people, was ablaze at midnight with rockets showering pockets of light into the air while there was a cacophony of noise on the streets below.

Car drivers, huddled in their seats as firecrackers burst around their vehicles, tooted their horns at midnight while people on bal­conies showered coins on the rev­ellers below and beat on the rail­ings.

But this year the noise all but diedouthalf an hour into the year.

"Usually there's noise until two or three in the morning," said a

security guard outside a bar in Makati, the financial heart of the capital, as the lingering smoke from the firecrackers slowly began to lift. "It's much quieternow." ·

Others said the economic crisis in the country had led to less fer­vent celebrations - and a corre­sponding decline in the severity of accidents.

"There are many factors that caused this decline. among them is the economic situation," Health Secretary Albert Romualdez told reporters. "Injuries are less severe this year, which really means that people are more careful."

Police officials said there were no cases reported yet of policemen or security guards firing into the air in Manila, one prime cause of inju­ries in recent years.

Senior police officials have said any policeman found firing into the airtoceleorate would be summarily dismissed from service.

Estrada nixes clemency for death row Filipino MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Joseph Estrada on Satur­day n:jected appeals to commute a death sentence against convicted rapist Leo Echegaray, saying teach­ings by the Roman Catholic Church justified killing a wicked man.

Echegaray, a 38-year-old house painter. is due to die by lethal injec­tion on Monday in the first use of capital punishment in the predomi­rnmtly Catholic country since 1976.

..In view of my sworn duty lo protect the people fron, evil and all criminality, I am upholding the deci­sion of the Supreme Court for the imposition of the death penalty," Estrada said.

His remarks to a news conference followed his teading to reporters ex­cerpts from the writings of Saint Tho­mas Aquinas, whom he described as one of the Church's greatest theolo­gians.

Quoting the 13th century Italian­born philosopher, Estrada said: "Al­though it be evil in itself to kill a man so long as he preserves his ' dignity, yet it may be good to kill a man who has sinned even as it is to kill a beast"

"When a man sins, he falls away from the dignity of his manhood, and falls into the stateofbeasts or animals. Hence, although killing a man who preserves his dignity is evil in itself,

Joseph Estrada

the same cannot be said fora kill in!!. a man who has become like a beast.-:;

Estrada added: ·~n1is is my answer to the bishops."

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines had backed the campaign for a stay of fachegaray's execution for the rape of his I 0-year­old stepdaughter.

Echegm·ay ha, maintained his in­nocence, saying he was framed in the crime.

"I will not change my mind," fatrnda said, as he pointed to reprnt­ers a picture of himself and the rape victim standing side by side at the presidential palace."

Estrada said he asked the girl, who joined him and his guests at a mass on New year's Eve, not to lose hope. He said he also promised to send the girl to school using his own funds.

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Note: All Math courses require a graphing calculator. Models TI-82, TI-83, TI-89, or Tl 92 arc recommended.

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16-MARlAN AS VARlETY NE'y/S AND VIEWS-MONDAY - J ANlJARY~4,Jl_2'99~91_ __________ -=========::::::;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;._. ..

Japanese Emperor gives '99 greeting TOKYO (AP) - :\ crowd of 6-l.000 people. many wa\'ing Jap:mese !lags. tlocked to grounds of the imperial palace in central T,1k\'o on Saturday to hear a Ne\\' Yca;·\ Qreetinl! from the emperor.

.. On the occ?1sion of the ~tart of 1he New Y e:tr. I pray for happi­ness for our nation and the people in thc' world ... Emperor Akihito said.

Thi: royal faniily. including

Empress Michiko. Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife. Princess Masako. appeared on a balcony seven times during the dav and ~vavcd to the crowd of well--wish­ers below.

Some people in the crowd cheered ... Long live the emperor!"

The palace grounds are gener­:tllv closed to the public, except foi Jan. 2 and the emperor"s birth­day on Dec. 23.

I Millenium bug strikes

\ ~~:~~!) in ~~~!!~~~;"_ Japanese Emperor Akihito (left) and Empress Michiko wave to a crowd of we/1-wishe_r~ gathering to celebrate the New Year at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Saturday. More than 23,000 people v1s1tedthe palace

in the morning. AP

Singapore ·s first reported com­puter failure caused by the mil­lennium bu!! struck an unlikely tar~et - ta-xi meters - a full ve;r before the year 2000. ac­~onling to a Sunday newspaper.

ant, .. the report said. Althoughmostdisruptionfrom

the millennium bug - which strikes computers and software that only recognize the last two digits of a year- is forecast for the first day of 2000, the glitch has also been predicted to affect systems over the course of 1999.

Japan reworks health systelll tic changes arc not made," the national newspaper Yomiuri warned in a recent editorial.

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Computerized meters on about 300 taxis went dead at noon on Jan. I for about two hours, re­ported The Sunday Times.

The new meters were sup-

HONG KONG (Reuters)-One of Asia· s leading democracy advo­cates. Hong Kong's Martin Lee, expressed support on Saturday for a Singaporean opposition leader who defied a police warning not to make a public speech without a permit.

.. 1 commend Chee Soon Juan for his ccumgeous stance for democrncv and hum;n 1ights in Singapore,'" th~ Hong Kong Democratic Party chair­man said in a statement.

Chee addressed a lunchtime

The taxi meters' supplier was investigating the incident.

crowd in the heart of Singapore's business district on Tuesday de­spite the police warning. He later received a summons to appear in court, local media reported.

Chee said on Thursday that he would appear in court on Monday to be charged with the offence.

Lee said a judicial system was meant to protect rights, not dimin­ish or deny them, and called on the Singapore government to recognise the right of all Singaporeans to speak and meet freely.

By Joseph Coleman TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese medical miracle has been good to Hiroko Iguchi.

Suffering from a rare skin dis­ease, Iguchi was treated this past year in a major hospital, nearly all of her stay covered by insurance. Just to be safe, her doctors kept her there - for four months.

The care and relaxation paid off. After a while she felt so good she sneaked out of the hospital once every two weeks to teach a college course.

"This is a society that's been kind to sick people," lguchi said in her 16th floor room at Tokyo Medi­cal and Dental University Hospi­tal, shortly before she was sent home late in the year. "Japan is rich, so it can afford it. But we'll have financial problems in the fu­ture."

That future is already here. Health costs are soaring as the

DEATH & FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Mother: Maria Reyes Camacho Brother: Francisco R. Camacho

In loving memory of

Ambrosio Reyes

Camacho Born: December 7, 1947 Died: December 27, 1998

PREDECEASED BY:

Father: Jose Reyes Camacho Father-in-Law: Napoleon Legaspi Poblete

SURVIVED BY: Wife: Ma. Theresa Poblete Camacho Son: Charles Evans Poblete Camacho Brother & Sisters-in-Law: Sister & Brother-in-Law:

Vicente & Malou Camacho, June C. Poblete, Daniel & Maggie Camacho, Marie Ann C. Poblete Jose San Miguel Camacho, Juan Reyes Castro

Mother-in-Law: Ambros Angel: Virginia Cerniaz Poblete Trishia Dianne C. Poblete

Nightly Rosary is being said at 8:00pm at the family residence in Kagman II. On January 4, 1999, at 7:30AM, the body will be taken out from lhe CHG and will be brought

to his residence in Kagman II. Viewing & last respects will begin at 8:00AM untll 3:15PM. Funeral mass will on hold unttfurther notice.

Thank you, ; THE FAMll,.Y :·:/

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population ages. Insurance funds are in debt and sinking deeper. The system is bleeding from duplicated medical tests, overprescribeddrugs and lengthy hospital stays.

Fears of a meltdown are pushing the government to charge patients more for health care, create a sepa­rately financed system for the eld­erly and overhaul the way the gov­ernment sets prices for services and drugs.

"All the systems are in the red­that's the biggest problem," said Tomohiro Onishi of the Health In­surance Bureau of the Health and Welfare Ministry.

The troubles are a blow to the Japanese way of health, which has been credited with helping tum a sickly population ravaged by World War ll into the world's longest­living nation.

The key to that success has been universal coverage. A complex web of public and private insurance pro­grams guarantees care for virtually all Japan's l 26 million people.

And Japan provides that care more cheaply than many industrial nations. The Organization of Eco­nomic Cooperation and Develop­ment says Japan's spending on health care was 7.2 percent of its gross national product in 1995.

That compared to 14.2 per­cent for the United States and 10.4 percent for Germany. Britain was a bit lower, at 6.9 percent.

A government-linked panel sets prices for medical services. Most people pay premiums for their health insurance and must make co-payments fordoctorvis­its. Patients go anywhere they wan.t for treatment, and doctors' orders are almost never challenged by insurance carriers.

The results have been impres­sive. Life expectancy has rock­eted from 54 years for women and 52 years for men in 1947 to 84 years for women and 77 years for men now. The infant mortality is among the lowest in the world.

But the system, put together in the late 1950s for a country struggling to· match Western standards, is running aground in today's affluent, ~ealth,con-scious Japan. · ... ., . .

· "The medical Insurance' sys­tem will c'o(laps~ .~n t~ii\~arly part of the 21st century 1(,~ras-

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A major factor hobbling the system is a sign of its success: long life spans. Japan will have the world's oldest population within a few decades - a big worry for health planners who say it costs five times as much to treat a patient over 7b than to treat a much younger person.

The trend is already taking a toll. Total medical spending has soared 400 percent since 1975, and the share taken by the eld­erly has nearly tripled from 13 percent to 35 percent.

The climb in costs comes as Japan's deepest recession in years is stifling incomes, mean­ing insurance fund contributions taken as a percentage of pay­checks are not keeping pace. And declining birth rates mean there will be fewer workers in the future to pay for coverage.

But the problem is more than just an aging population. Quirks in the system have led to spiral­ing inefficiencies.

One example is hospital stays. Japan has few nursing homes, and most home-care services are not covered by insurance. So the elderly and chronically ill end up at more expensive hos­pitals - for months or years at a time. The result, the OECD says, is Japan leads the world in average hospital stays - 45.5 days in 1995. The Netherlands was a distant second at 32.8 days. The United States aver­aged just 8 days.

"The hospital has become like a welfare center," said Masahira Anesaki, a sociologist at Nihon University School of Medicine and co-author of "Health Care in Japan."

In Iguchi 's case, it's not clear whether she should have been discharged sooner. Her disease· - pemphigus - is serious and long-term, and her weakened immune system means. she is susceptible to other sicknesses. , B.ut thanks to the discretion the medical profession has un­der the insurance system, Iguch~'s doctor was free to con­sider non-medical factors in

,... ' 'l deciding whether to send her home.:' · ·

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Riots mar Indonesia New Year By Lewa Pardomuan

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Loot­ing, religious unrest and arson attacks broke out in scattered ar­eas oflndonesia during New Year ceiebrations, leading to almost 80 arrests on the main island of Java alone, police and media said on Saturday .

On the island of Sulawesi, an angry mob burned a supermarket in a remote district after rumours that its Christian owner had of­fended Moslems by misusing a prayer mat, police said.

"This is a religious case. The owner was apparently notaware of the function of the mat," a policeman in Marisa district in North Sulawesi, some 1,900 km (1,200 miles) from the capital Jakarta, told Reuters by telephone. The policeman said the district was calm but troops were on guard.

In Bandung, the provincial capi­tal of West Java 120 km from Jakarta, police arrested 35 men for throwing stones and firecrack­ers at shops in the city centre, the official Antara news agency said. Windows of dozens of shops were damaged after the attack which happened early on Friday.

In nearby Garut, 28 people were arrested after a mob ransacked and looted six shops. An auto-

mated telling machine belonging to a private bank was also looted, Antara reported.

The Media Indonesia newspa­per reported on Saturday at least 15 people were arrested in Sukabumi, also in West Java, for stoning shops during New Year celebrations.

Residents on Saturday said police and military were on guard there.

In the capital Jakarta an explo­sion badly damaged an empty shop and shattered the windows of several others early on Satur­day. Police said the blast seemed to have been caused by an explo­sive made from firecrackers. No­body was injured.

Indonesia has been plagued by spiralling unrest and crime over the past year as a crippling eco­nomic crisis pushes millions into poverty amid persistent political instability.

Much of the violence has been motivated by ethnic or religious conflict, with Moslem-Christian unrest erupting in several parts of Indonesia in recent months.

Indonesians complain of a growing sense of anarchy in the capital and elsewhere in the na­tion of 200 million people.

Last week, unrest flared in the restive province of Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra. The military

said eight soldiers were abducted and believed to have been killed by sepa­ratistrebels. One body has so far been found.

In the Acehnese town of Lhokseumawe a mob set fire to a police station and attacked military

posts on Wednesday. Violence also flared last week in

the town ofLiwa in south Sumatra, where a mob went on a rampage, torching two police stations after the death of a detainee in police custody.

In central Sulawe~i. the town of Paso was hit by days of unrest, culminating in riots on Monday involving some 8,000 people.

Some residents said a dispute between local Christians and Mos­lems had sparked the violence.

Thousands of youngs_ters assemble at the Ancol Dream Land in North Jakarta to celebrate New Year on the eve Thursday. Unrest, looting and riots marred the celebrations in some parts of Indonesia. AP

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Governor Pedro P. Tenorio and Lieutenant Governor Jesus R. Sablan, through the Northern Marianas ~~using <::orporation (NM_HC)_B_o_ard of Directors and the Division of Procurement and Supply, are hereby g1v111g nonce that NMHC 1s sohc1t111g sealed proposals from qualified construction firms for the construc­tion of the Tinian Community Center at San Jose Village, Tinian, MP, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. P~oposals in duplicate, must be marked "CDBG-Tinian Conununity Center Project", a!1d mus~ be submitted to Procurement and Supply, Lower. Base, Saipan; no later than 2:00 p.m., local tune,_ Friday, January 15, 1999. Any proposals received atter the above time will not be accepted under any circumstances.

A bond of 15% of the total proposal pri<:c: exceeding $25,000 must acrnmpany the scaled proposal docu· mcnts. This security may be Certiried Clw.:k, Cashier's Check, or Bond made pavabk ro the ~orthern Marianas Housing Corporation. ·

Proposers arc also required to submit the following: I) a rnpv of current CNMI-issucd business license; 2) updated, Audited Financial Statement or in-house Financial St,1tement, provided it is certified Lw a Certified Public Accoumant; 3) listing of existing and p,1st projects, including completion dates; 4) Certification of Tax Compli_ance from the Division of Revenue and Taxation; 5) written confirmation from a reputable surety bondmg company, approvcd/ac.:ccptablc by NMHC, as ro the firm's capability to obtain performance and pay~1cnt b~nd; ? ) c.:opy ~f Builder's Risk ~nd Workmen's Compensation coverage; 7) listing of man­power with copies ot CNMI-tssLied work permits; and 8) listing of equipments.

Plans and Specifications for the project arc available on or afl:er December 9, 1998 at the Of!ke of Herman­B. Cabrera & Associ~tes, in San Jos~ Village, Saipani MP 96950 during :he hours of8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through ~rtday, e~cept holidays. A non-rdundablc payment ot $150.00 is required tor each set. A Pre-Proposal Conterence tor the project will be hdd at the Tinian Mayor's Office on Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at 10:00 a.m.

Attention _is c.:alle? t~ ~ection 3 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 which requires ~he prm•1s1~ns ot tra1m~1g and emplorment, and the awarding of contract for work on the project, to low mcome proJect area residents and bus11)ess concerns. NMHC also notifit:s proposers that it will affirmativdv ensure that, in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement minorit1• and women's busines·s enterprises will be accorded full opportunity to submit proposals in respo;1se Jo this request.

Attention is _a!so ~ailed to the Labor Standard Provisions for Wage R.1te Dcterminatirn; of the Comn1on­wealth Classihcanon and Salary Structure Plans, and payment of not less than the minimum salarit:s and wages as set forth in the Contract Documents must be paid on this project.

All documents received shall be the sole property of the NMHC, with the exception of the bond certified check or cashier's check which will be returned to the proposers in ,u:cord,mc.:c with section "lnstr'uc.:tion to Proposers" page 2-3, paragraph No. 03, Proposal Guarantee.

~MHC r~s~rves the right to reject ~n~ and all_rroposals and to wai\'e any ddccts in the s,1id proposals, if in its sole op1111011, to do so would be m its best mterest. All proposals will bec.:omt: the property ofNMHC.

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RebelS shoot down UN plane By CASIMIRO SIONA

LUANDA, Angola (AP)- U.N. officials pleaded Sunday for infor­mation and access to a U.N.-char­tered cargo plane they said was shot down by rebel forces, the sec­ond U.N.-chartered plane to crash in the central highland war zone in eight days.

The C-130 aircraft, with eight people aboard, was hit by anti­aircraft fire 20 minutes after it took off from the city ofHuamboSatur­day, about 300 miles ( 480 kilome­ters) southeast of the capital, Luanda, U.N. spokesman Harnadoun Toure said.

The plane was carrying four Angolans, two Filipinos, an Ameri­can and a Namibian, Toure said. Four of those aboard were crew members, three were from the United Nations and · another was working for the World Food Pro­gram. Toure refused to give their names or further information about them, and said it wasn't known if there were any survivors.

The plane, chartered from the TransAfiic company, was headed to Luanda. After it was hit, the aircraft tried to retum to 1-luambo airport, but crashed about 50 miles (80 kilometers) ouL~ide the city in an area held by the rebel group UNITA, Toure said.

UNIT A rebel officials were un­available for comment late Satur­day.

Another U.N.-chai1ered C-130 with 14 people aboard - includ­ing eight U.N. peacekeepers -crashed in the same area Dec. 26 while flying over an area of fight­ing between the government a1my and rebels. U.N. officials said Sat­urday that they believed that plane

Kofi Annan

also was shot down. The rebels denied involvement

in tha·t crash and said they have no information about possible survi­vors.

The plane that crashed Saturday was carrying U.N. equipment out ofHuambo. Last week, the United Nations evacuated dozens of staff members from the city after it was briefly shelled by the advancing rebels. More than 100 U.N. staff remain in Huambo.

Toure said the United Nations has suspended all flights in the country through Monday and was waiting for more information from UNIT A before sending a rescue team to the area.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday that he was outraged by reports that the planes had been shot down, and he reiter­ated his plea for the government and rebels to assist in rescue ef­forts.

"All threats to U .N. personnel­in the air and on the ground-must cease immediately," Annan said in a statement, urging both sides to

US says Am~~,J11(~a!~ aboard downed p}aE.e ·· WASHINGTON (Reuters)-The United States said on Saturday at l'<a:;t one American wa~ aboard a U.N.-chartered aircraft that went down in the embattled central region of Angola, the second such incident in a week. ·

A U.N. spokesman in Luanda, theAngolancapital,saidtheplanewas shot down as U.N. workers were being evacuated from Huarnbo, a cenmii city under rebel siege, but the State Departmentdklr.otconfinn that :1ccount. ·.·.. ·····• · >

"The United States is shocked and saddened by the losspf ~second United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONU!i.) pla.nein one week,'' acting spokesman Lee McClenny said. . . > \ ..• • . The aircraftreportedlywent down.over UNITA~heldterrit6ry with

eight passengers and crew, he said. · •·•. · ....•... ··•· > •·· < · y "While the final passengerlist is not ci:mfirined; ".'."~ (II'~ aiare ofat

)ea~t one American citizen aboard. The fate of the passengers and crew is uncertain, since the crash site has not yet been reached," :McClenny snid. ·

Angolan state radio said the plane wa~ hit near Bailundo, a UNIT A stronghold some 80 km (50 miles} north ofHuambo. "1be aircraft ..• tried in vain to make an emergency landing i1t Huamboairport," it said.

On Dec. 26, a U;N.-chartered C-130 transport plane with 14 people aboard was reportedly shot down near the same city. The fate ofits crew and passengers is unknown.

After that incident, U.S. officials urged the Angolan government and UNIT A rebels to agree to a ceasefire to help search and rescue operations,

'The United States insisL~ that lJNITA provide immediate, full cooperation with MONUA in the face of this latest air disa~tcr," McClcnny said on Saturday.

He said that the Angolan government had given assurances of' its willingness to provide a~sistance.

"Furthermore, UNIT A and the government should agree to permit and assist search and rescue efforts for this aircraft and the p1eviously downed MONUA flight," he added.

observe an immediate cease-fire. Washington also called on

UNIT A and the Angolan govern­ment to cooperate with efforts to reach the crash sites.

"The United States is shocked and saddened by the loss of a sec­ond United Nations Observer Mis­sion in Angola plane," State De­partment spokesman Lee McClenny said Saturday in a state­ment.

The U.N. mission in Angola has said it wants to ask UNITA rebel leaders about government claims that the movement is holding sur­vivors from the earlier crash. A rebel leader told The Associated Press that government claims of survivors were a ploy.

"It went down in flames. I can't believe there are any survivors," UNITA Secretary-General Paulo Lukamba Gato said earlier Satur­day by telephone. "They know ( the passengers) died, but they want to get some political advantage out of making UNIT A look bad."

On Friday, army spokesman Brig. ManuelJota said captured rebels had told the government they shot down the plane in the first crash and that an unknown number of smvivors were beingheldatrebel basesnearHuambo.

Jo ta did not say how many of those aboard had survived, and the report couldnotbeindependentlyconfirmed.

The Angolan government has often used the radio to broadcast claims against UNIT A that are dif-

ficult to verify because of the re­moteness of many regions of the country.

The government has said it will cooperate fully in U.N. efforts to reach the plane. The Security Coun­cil has condemned the rebels for failing to help determine the fate of the crash victims and has signaled it may take unspecified action against UNIT A.

UNIT A-a Portuguese acronym for the National Union for the To­tal Independence of Angola -stymied implementation of the 1994 peace pact by refusing to relinquish control of its central highland strongholds and by keep­ing a 30,000-strong anny hidden in the bush.

A Lockheed Martin C-130 aircraft is shown in this Sept. 4, 1998 file photo. Rebel forces shot down a UN­chartered_car90 plane similar to _this one Saturday, the_second YN plane to crash in Angola's central highland war zone m eight days, UN off1c1als said. The C-130 aircraft, with eight people aboard, was hit by anti-aircraft fire 20 minutes after it took off from the city of Huambo. AP

China dissidents plan Labor Party By Elaine Kurtenbach

BEIJING(AP)-Dissidentsplan­ning to fonn an independent labor pa11y in China said Saturday that their group would simply monitor the ruling Communist Party in­stead of seeking to drive it from power.

Organizers of the China Labor Party said the group would expel any members who obtained gov­ernment positions, according to a statement received by foreign news agencies in Beijing .

"Our party's responsibility will be to monitor the Chinese Com­munist Party and represent the working class," the statement said.

Plans forthe party have emerged several weeks into a crackdown on dissent that has resulted in lengthy prison terms for leaders of a wou Id­be opposition group called the China Democracy Pa11y, who were accused of attempting to subvc11 state power.

Organizers of the new China Labor Pa11y said they planned to register their group with the gov­ernment on April 19.

'"If the authorities n.:l't1se to treat our application in a lawful maimer, l will radically commit suicide in order to express my desperate an­ger and protest," read the state­ment, signed by a dissident named Li Yongning.

Chinese law requires all organi-

Wei Jingsheng

zations to be registered with the government, although applications by dissidents are usually rejected.

Attempts to register the China Democracy Pany in many prov­inces and cities failed, and dozens of those associated with the group have been detained in the government's hm·shest clampdown on dissent in three years.

The China Labor Party state­ment said the group would lobby the government to re-register all bank accounts in orderto root out illegal accounts used to embezzle public money.

It also said the government should halt statc~owncd en­terprise reforms while it sets up a mechanism for public oversight of the rest111cturing process.

For the sake of the urban poor, many of whom have lost their jobs due to government economic re­forms, it demanded that the gov­ernment provide a minimum living allowance and ensure enough in­come for food, housing and ~edi­cal treatment.

Extremely wary of any move­ment combining political opposi­tion and labor activism amid fem, of unrest among the growing num­ber of unemployed, Communist Party leaders have vowed to quash challenges to pm1y rule.

The crackdown on dissent pre­cedes several major political mile­stones this ycm·, including the I 0th anniversary of the military assault on protesters in Tiananmen Square and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Communist-led government.

Exiled Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, meanwhile, met with a leading Taiwanese opposition poli­tician in Taipei, concluding a two­week visit to Taiwan that has an­gered mainland Chinese officials.

Wei, whoearlicrspokc with Tai­wan President Lee Teng-hui and Premier Vincent Siew, met with former Taipei Mayor Chen Shui-bian.

Chen said he a"rced with Wei's criticism ~1bout his party, which advocates inde­pendence from China.

MONDAY, JANUARY 4, l 999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-19

Clinton to boost defense spending By Sandra Sobieraj

WASHINGTON (AP) -President Clinton proposed a six-year infusion of $100 bil­lion in new Pentagon spending Saturday, his answer to criti­cism of the armed forces' readi­ness to satisfy expanded com­mitments abroad despite aging weaponry and falling recruit­ment.

The proposal, which would end I 1/2 decades of nearly flat defense spending, includes the largest military pay raise since 1982.

From Capitol Hill came im­mediate cries that Clinton's plan was insufficient to reverse the military's deteriorating readi­ness.

"Our troops continue to ex­ecute complex and dangerous missions far from home with flawless precision, as we've just seen in the Persian Gulf," the president said in his weekly ra­dio address.

"Our challenge is to retain the ability to do this as we carry out our entire defense strategy."

Clinton's proposed $12-bil­lion increase for the next fiscal year would combine $4 billion in new money and $8 billion made available from the Penta­gon budget by lower-than-fore­cast inflation and fuel prices. It would mark the first time since 1991, the year of the Persian Gulf War, that Pentagon spend­ing rose above the level of in­fl;tion.

It also would be the largest increase since President Reagan's Cold War buildup of the mid- l 980s.

Plotted over six years, the Clinton administration's pro­posal would commit $100 bil­lion additional funds to shoring up the Pentagon. The president's Defense Department request for the budget year beginning Oct. I would bring total military spending to $268.2 billion, a $ I 0-billion increase over levels earlier planned for that fiscal year, administration officials said.

But Republican Sen. John Warner, incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee who has long been critical of Clinton's treatment of defense spending, noted the military's joint chiefs testified to Congress last fall that they needed sums as high as $17 .5 billion per year to repair readi­ness alone.

Because Clinton's proposed numbers lump in a pay raise and other benefits, Warner said, "It leaves very few funds for readi­ness and procurement and train­ing expenses."

The Virginia Republican plans to convene a hearing Tues­day to assess the military's needs. "I'm confident Congress, in the coming year, will top the president's figures and bring a total sum much nearer to what the chiefs identified last Sep­tember," Warner said.

For Clinton, the proposal rep­resented a big political shift from his presidency's focus on

Bill Clinton

domestic spending. He was re­sponding to complaints by mili­tary leaders and Republicans. about a deteriorating level of readiness in a military under strain from declining recruit­ment, aging equipment, expand­ing anti-terrorism commitments and increasing overseas cam­paigns from Bosnia to Iraq.

The budget proposal, which also includes an increase in re­tirement benefits and a 4.4 per­cent military pay raise, the larg­est since 1982, "will help us to do right by our troops by up­grading and replacing aging

equipment, barracks and family housing," Clinton said.

The new money also would pay for joint exercises, flight training, badly needed spare parts, recruiting and "the next generation" of ships, planes and weapons systems, Clinton said.

Skeptical reaction to the Clinton broadcast came from Democrats too. Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., ranking Demo­crat on the House National Se­curity Committee, worried that Clinton's proposal would not "be sufficient to take care of the needs of the troops plus mod-

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ernize our forces." Separately, officials said

Cl in ton's fiscal 2000 budget will seek a 12 percent, $105 million increase in food safety pro­grams, most of it to upgrade Agriculture Department inspec­tions at smaller meat and poul­try processing plants.

Budget director Jack Lew said Clinton's budget blueprint, due to Congress in early February, would "balance defense needs with an ag­gressive domestic agenda in the con­text of the president's overall policy to save the surplus until we fix Social Se.curity ."

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Hezboll \\Tarns· Israel By Mlral Fahmy

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Is­lamic guerrilla group Hezbollah warned Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday against striking Lebanon to gain election votes, saying the country had been the "graveyard of many an Israeli government." - ··we warn Benjamin Netanyahu against using the south Lebanon card for electoral gains," Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, whose group is battling to oust Israel from Lebano'n·s south. told Reuters at one of his many offices in Beirut.

lsrael is due to hold early elec­tions on May 17 after Netanyahu 's government failed to win broad ;upport for his peace moves with the Palestinians.

'The lives of people of the south should not become votes to stuff the ballot boxes. We want to re­mind Netanyahu that Lebanon was the graveyard of many Israeli governments and that betting on Lebanon to win the elections will backfire.'"

The Shi'ite Moslem cleric was referring to the 17-day blitz launched by former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres against Lebanon a few weeks before the 1996 election.

The "Grapes of Wrath" opera­tion resulted in the deaths of 200

people, mainly civilians, and Peres lost his bid for reelection after Israeli Arabs declined to vote for him in a close-run race.

South Lebanon is the last active Arab-Israeli battlefront. Twenty­one Israeli soldiers were killed there in 1998, prompting the Jew­ish state to review its presence in area.

Israel has controlled parts of the south for 20 years, including a 15 km (nine-mile) deep occupa­tion zone it carved out in 1985 with the aim of protecting its northern borders from potential guerrilla attacks.

Last week Hezbollah lobbed scores of Katyusha rockets across the border after a mother and her ·six children were killed during an Israeli air raid on suspected guer­rilla targets around Baalbek, near Lebanon's eastern border with Syria.

Israel's cabinet vowed on Thursday to hit targets within Lebanon to avenge the rocket at­tacks, which wounded 16 Israe­lis.

Nasrallah said such threats would not spare the Jewish state or halt Hezbollah' s war of attri­tion against the occupation.

'"Words won't do them any good, they must take action. They must withdraw unconditionally

and if they really want to avoid the Katyushas, they should not attack civilians," he said.

"We on! y launch the Katyushas at occupied northern Palestine to revive the understanding which protects civilians."

Under the "pril Understanding" ceasefire deal which ended the 1996 bombardment, the guerril­las and the Israeli anny are barred

, from striking civilian targets, but not military ones.

Despite the agreement, the bloody conflict claimed 28 civil­ian lives last year. Dozens of guer­rillas, mostly from Hezbollah, were also killed by Israel or its local proxy the South Lebanon Army (SLA) in 1998.

On Friday, Israel said its army had killed last week a top Hezbollah bomber near Baalbek, some IOO km (62 miles) away from the Jewish state's northern border. N asrallah admitted that one of his guerrillas was killed in the area but played down the sig­nificance of the incident.

"The martyr was an ordinary soldier who died while detonat­ing a bomb We don't know if Israel or the SLA planted it. But all this hue and cry makes us proud because it shows ... Israel is desperately looking for a victory in the south."

Hezbol/ah's Secretary-General Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warns against Israeli threats to strike targets deep inside Lebanon in response to guerrilla rocket attacks, promising to fire more rockets on northern Israel in retaliation. AP

Bodies of Yemen kidnap victims arrive in Britain

Cyprus Socialists-quit over-missile row LONDON (Reuters)- The bod­ies of three Britons and an Austrac lian killed in Yemen during a res­cue bid arrived in London on Sat­urday as speculation continued over the kidnappings.

Yemen to investigate the shoot­out, believe that the tourists were kidnapped as direct retribution for the December air strikes on Iraq by Britain and the United States.

Yemen's ambassador in London has twice been summoned to the Foreign Office in the escalating diplomatic row over the rescue bid. Britain has said it is "seriously con­cerned" about the discrepancies between the version given by Yemeni authorities and reports from the surviving hostages,

By Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) - The So­cialist junior partners in the Cyp­riot governing coalition quit on Saturday over the cancellation of plans to deploy Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles on the di­vided island.

"The vast majority clearly sup­prnt the withdrawal from the gov­ernment and so our departure should be considered a fact," said Socialist EDEK leader Vassos Lyssarides.

The move docs not endanger the present administration, which is based on a presidential system, but does mean a cabinet re­shuffle.>

The Greek Cypriot-led govern­ment of Cyprus this week aban­doned plans to deploy surface-to­air S-300 missiles, which Turkey had threatened to destroy, after the international community promised to work more vigorously fora settle­ment of the: long-running Cyprus problem.

Cypriot President Glafcos Cieri des. who ordered the missiles two years ago and twice delayed their deployment, took the deci­sion to scrap deployment after con­sultations with close ally Gn.:ece.

The decision was praised abroad but sparked an uproar at home among opposition parties. who called the climbdown a national Lkkat.

Ckridcs 11<m will nc·gotiate 11•1th :\then, for their deployment on the C,reck i,land ol C 'rcte - a rnmpro­mise ,\nkara s:1id could stoke kll­

,;inns with (irec:ce. its t1·:1Jitional rival.

ll1e two countries have long been at loggerheads over Cyprus, di-

vided since a Turkish invasion in 197 4 in response to a brief Greek­inspired coup.

The prospect of deploying the missiles on Cyprus stirred alarm among Western countries, who feared it could open the lid on long­simmering tensions between the two neighbours and respective "motherlands" of Cyprus's ethnic Greeks and Turks.

Among those in the government exodus are Defence Minister and senior EDEK official Yiannakis Omirou and Education Minister Lycourgos Kappas.

"Our resignations will be sub­mitted on Monday," Omirou told Reuters soon after a six-hour meet­ing of senior EDEK officials. Del­egates endorsed an earlier recom-

mendation by another committee in the party to quit the government, he said.

EDEK, long in favourof deploy­ing the missiles, blasted Tuesday's compromise as a sell out.

'This change in decision was not called forunderthecircumstances," Lyssarides told journalists, adding the departure was a matter of prin­ciple for his party.

'This will inevitably be inter­preted as yielding to pressure and threats from Turkey and others," said Lyssarides.

Citing the need for unity among Greek Cypriots, EDEK joined the government of right-winger Glafcos Clerides who was re­elected president for a five-year term in February 1998.

The bodies arrived at Heathrow airport on a flight from Jordan and were met by relatives, an airport spokeswoman said.

The four were among 16 West­ern tourists taken hostage in Yemen by Islamic militants. Two others were wounded on Tuesday when Yemeni security forces raided the kidnappers' hideout.

Britain's Sunday Telegraph re­ported the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation had evidence that the militants were trained in camps run by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden - who is accused by the United States of masterminding the bombing in August of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The newspaper said U.S. intelli­gence officers, who have flown to

Masked Palestinians, some with Palestinian flags tucked in their headdress, march Saturday in the Bethlehem marketplace. The march was held to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the establishment of the Fatah movement. AP

Yemen's Interior Ministry has defended the raid, saying there had · been no time fornegotiations as the kidnappers had started killing hos­tages.

According to one Yemeni offi­cial quoted in Saturday's Times newspaper, Yemenisecuritychiefs knew days before the kidnapping that Islamic guerrillas were plan­ning to attack a British target but failed to alert British diplomats.

The Y cmenis are believed to have discovered the plot after arresting two extremists who were suspected to have come from the IslamicJihad group, the paper said. .

Nine survivors of the gun battle returned to Britain on Friday un­sure who to blame for the deaths of four of their fellow tourists.

"None of us had any idea who fired first and this is a question that has been tired at us time and time again," said Brian Smith. "All we qm answer is that we simply don't · know."

The Independent on Sunday newspaper reported that Y cmen' s recent bid lo join the Common­wealth would be turned down for the time being.

ll said officials did not be I icvc Y emcn meets the cri tcria for mem­bership of the club grouping Britain's former colonies. One of these is evidence of good govern­ment.

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New D.C. m.ayor sworn in By Vicky Slamas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The District of Columbia swore in a new mayor on Saturday, end­ing two decades of zany politics under the leadership of Marion Barry. who earned worldwide headlines when he was caught smoking crack cocaine.

On his first day on the job as Barry's successor, Anthony Wil­liams, a self-described ··big-cared bean counter'' with Ivy League credentials and a penchant for bow tics. calkd for :111 efficient, inno­vative government with a "real sense of community"" in the nation ·s c.1pit:d.

Quoting Christian philosopher St. Augustine. Williams, 47, in-1 itcd attendees at a prayer break-1·ast to ":1lways he striving toward the city of the celestial, not just the city of the terrestrial.··

Barry e:1rned :111 earthy reputa­tion du 1·i 11g his mayoralty. A 1960s ci vi I rights activist masterfu I poli­tician and self-admitted "night OIi'!.". he was caught smoking crack cocaine in a 1990 FI31 sting llper,llillll.

District of Columbia Mayor Anthony A. Williams (right) is sworn in by DC Superior Court Chief Judge Eugene N. Hamilton (left) as Williams's wife, Diane Williams, looks on during inaugural ceremonies at the Ronald Reagan Building Saturday in Washington. AP

After serving six months in prison. Barry returned to politics by being elected to the City Coun­cil. He then won a fourth four­year term as mayor in 1994.

But with the city mired in debt. services almost nonexistent and

crime rampant, Congress in 1995 created an oversight board and eventually stripped Barry of all but ceremonial duties.

One job left to Barry was to

nominate an independent chief financial officer. Ban-y's choice was Williams. a fellow African­American Democrat. then a po­litical neophyte.

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n:ss. we shou Id continue to cnr­l'IXl ou1· past mistakes and at the same time continue to enhance the economy ...

I le s:1id there h:1ve hcc11 sci -cr:tl rnmp:1nics th:1t previously signified illlcntions to set up businesses in the Common­wealth but eventually backed out because of the unavailabil­ity of labor.

The CN MI Legislature and the Administration have imple­mented a law prohibiting the importation of new foreign workers despite pronouncement from othc r government officials and business leaders that the Northern Marianas will still have to depend on foreign work­ers in some fields to he :1hlc to cfi'ectivcly run the local economy.

Representative Melvin 0. Faisao said equal treatment should be accorded to all busi­nesses in the Northern Mariana Islands, regardless of their in­vestments, pointing out that small and medium-scale busi­nesses remain the backbone of the CNMI economy, thus the need for equal treatment, as accorded bigger companies that have infused more invest­ments into the economy.

/1.. provision in the freeze­hiring policy grants businesses on Saipan that have poured in more than $5 million in total investments and Tinian and Rota businesses with over S200,000 in total capital to hire workers from m1tside the Com 111011 weal th.

The Jaw was apparently en­acted to primarily maximize the internal labor pool of the CNMI. and allow foreign workers cur­rently employed in the CNM I to transfer to another company. including change in job clas­sifications and compensation.

Fresh investments Government and private sec­

tor leaders in the Northern Marimias have started to feel the need to encourage foreign invc:stors lo do business in the islands in order to increase economic activity and im­prove the standard or I iv ing.

CNMI C.,ov. Pedro P. Tenorio created the Economic Recovery and Revitalization Task Force to initially develop a plan of action that may be able to stabilize business con­fidence in the Northern Marianas, thus, :1ttract more foreign and local i nvcstors.

Tenorio said his administra­tion is exploring the possibili­ties or granting tax incentives to nurture new industries and support existing businesses. I k also expressed support lD snap the$ I 00.000 cash ,ecu­rity depo,it.

But existing business opera­tors in the CNMI have prod­ded the government to make doing business on Saipan cheaper. The cost of doing business on Saipan is already 25 to 30 percent higher than on mainland, which makes op­eration of even the smal Jest business in the CNMI cost pro­hibitive.

Most medium to large ho­tels on Saipan must provide for their own infrastructure, adding that the cost of water desalinization and power plant ranges as high as $3 million per resort hotel, with more than $800.000 in annual main­tenance.

Construction costs arc also high due to the necessity of building typhoon-proof facili­ties. Imported construction materials cost 30 percent more than the mainland. or I 0-15 pe1-cenl higher than Guam, due to the economics or scale, added shipping expenses and excise taxes.

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"'I went out and found him:· Barry said. "If I hadn't, he wouldn't be mayor today - nol in Washington."

Williams trounced a field of veteran D.C. politicians in last Novc:mber's election to succeed Barry. who decided not to seek a fifth term as mayor.

Williams so impressed D.C. 's oversight board in turning around the city"s finances that the panel handed him the keys to the city on Dec. 21 in a pact that gives him control of day-to-day operations. But the boarJ will remain in place for at least two 11101\! years and can ;;till veto mayoral decisions.

Wil Iiams has pledged to i mprovc city services - including pol-holed streets and exasperating lines for driver license renewals - within six months. It is a daunting task.

The city's tangled bureaucracy needs a lop-to-bottom overhaul, such as easing suffocating pe1mit requirements that can choke eco­nomic development projects for years.

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Just after the New Y car. line­men will move the tree-trimming operation to As Lito Road and continue trimmin!': all trees adja­cent to all major;;. primary elec­trical lines.

According to Villauomez. CUC linemen ha;e receiv;d two certi­fications in tree trimming - one from the American Public Power Association (APPA) in Washing­ton. D.C. and another follow-up

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the governor. the PSS pulled to!':ether the other budget of the sy~tcm allocated for -different services and put it into the per­sonnel salary.

The commissioner assured the public school teachers that ev­erything will he provided until the end of the school year ..

With the opening or Lina'Ja 1\1:ilall'asch Ac:tdemy on Janu­ary. Dandan .md Kohkrville el­ementan ,chools in the middle ol the ye:1r. PSS staff from the

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r:mki ng gm ernmcnt officials have e xprcsscd opti rn ism C NM 1 · s ern­nnmic crisis 1i1:1y be nearing an ..:nd.

Rq1. Karl T. Re\'es. it will be 1-.xallcd. has said 1999 will be a better year for th C

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equipment on public roads with a Jo;1d of dirt. S<md. gra\'el or other material. regardless or size. that could drop. spill. ny. leak or es­cape from the vehicle to cover the

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Labor Di r,xtor Ci i I San Ni colas. "We will be working in that

area. I think that\ the next step I will like to take. getting these cases investigated and getting them heard." he said.

Zacharcs said the thir·d hear­ing officer. Darren Class "has a

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\\'ith four provinces. Pelomo says some of the

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WERI. who accur,1tcly predicted the 19\!8 drought.

There is one side benefit of these continuing weather variations: the

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Officials from two provincial ~overnrncms in the PRC wcre (in isl:1nd this week meeting with Foreign Ministry officials rc­garding futun; operations of the garment factory. The garment f,1ctory in lvlajuro was corn-

sources. "Government a!.!encies and

even civic 0 roups "are working together to balance the need fo~­reliable electrical services and beautification efforts in more ap­propriate areas." explained Villagomez.

Anyone who sees trees grow­ing into power lines should con­tact the Commonwealth Utilities Corpor,1tion for tree trimming at 322-4033.

Central Office will be tasked to fill out the vacant teaching po­sitions so as not to disrupt the classes in public schools.

Lookindorward to 1999, !nos said that -they are anticipating the impact of the $!.7 million because the system have not yet received the second quarter allot­ment.

Operating still under a budget shortfall for I 999. !nos said that she is looking forward into work­ing more closely with schools and being in the frontline for school reforms to approach the achieve­ments of students in a more com­prc:hensivc manner.

Commonwealth's economy. He cited the expected increase

in tourist arrival rate and the be­ginning of construction activities ror capital infrastrncture projects as factors contributing to this.

Reyes said the construction of sevcrnl multi-million capital im­provement projects will lead to an infusion of new money into the economy.

\oad. further. operators of any ve­

hicle or equipment with mud, rock orotherdebris on its body. fender, frame undercatTiage. wheels or tires would be required to clean up the vehicle or equipment be­fore it could be used on a public road.

very nice resun1c. CbSs. according to Zacharcs.

used to work with lawyer Da,·id Wiseman '.s office.

He said the Al!O is being beefed up "to make sure that cases get heard at a timely Cash­ton.

Zachares said DOLi's pro­cessing section is likewise be­ing reviewed "to timely get out applications."

Authority's officers will go to the rural areas to work with agricul­ture extension officers to help farmers produce quality copra. for high grade coconut oil.

Marshalls is not expected to expe­rience :111y severe storms unti I al least September I \!99; indeed, WERI rcpot1cd that.Lsaresultofthe 1997-\!8 El Niiio. u·opical stomi mid typh(X)n activity w:Ls the lowest on record in the western Notth Pacific.

pkted in 19\!4 with a IDw inter­est $2 million Joan frDlll the PRC government.

/\!though merchandise ex­ported rrom the Marshall Islands to the United States is not tax­cxcmpt, there arc rrn quot,1s placed on exports according lO

!he terms of a Compact of FrL·c· /\ssDci,ilion with the !J.S.

CNMI .. according to Allen P. Staym;n, director ;f the Office of Insular Affairs of the U.S. De­partment of the Interior.

Stayman was refer,-ing to the CNMI continued dependence on

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that it has an adequate funding source.

"I plan to introduce a bill that requires appropriations bills to have specific funding sources at­tached to them."

Moylan also stressed the need to not only focus on budgetary cuts but revenue generation as well. "For instance, there are still a Jot of federal grants out there that Guam has not taken fully advantage of."

Moylan said he wants to make Guam a tax haven so that more foreign companies can invest here.

·'J would like to initiate a move­ment to petition Congress to al­low corporations to set up tax

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building. with the largest stand­ing aro~nd 5 feet high~ Oliva said the case is still under investiga­tion.

In other police news, the Winchell's in Mangilao was robbed by a man brandishing a knife.

/\ccording to O\iva. the inci-

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"We want everybody to sur­vive. It is not just collecting funds. If they encounter prob­lems with their present payment, \\e arrange the specific amount that is agreeable to both the CD;\ and the borrower." he told the Variety.

He stressed that the reduced payment scheme was instituted

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duct ion for all government agen­cies.

However, almost all govern­ment agencies arc asking Lo be

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men who were also drinking while Yutoc and l lcrrera went to sleep.

The following morning, Friday. I Ierrcra went to the comfort room where he saw the victim already hanging lifeless.

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employed in the country. Sompong said a new labor law

p:1sscd last August that requires employers to disburse more sev­crnncc and benefits to laid olT

foreign workers and fai Jure to address the problems in the gar­ment industry.

The report noted that "for close to 15 years-through the Reagan and Bush administration and now during the Clinton administration -federal officials have expressed deep concern about the CNMI's growing dependence on inden-

havens here on island. Since that money would remain on island, interest rates here would be lower because of the trickle-down ef­fect and this will grow the economy further. This will also help create more jobs."

Rather than taxing business­men, Moylan said he will find ways to help the entrepreneur sur­vive these tough times and help them grow.

"We must improve our busi­ness climate to allow every citi­zen to reach full potential. Our goal is to empower the people of Guam by expanding employment and entrepreneurial activities. We must diversify our economy by working to attract more investors and inlustries, build real afford­able housing units, and work ag­gressively for the removal of the Jones Act."

dent occuned at around J :30 a.m. last Saturday.

The man walked in and de­manded that the employees open the register. He then grabbed all the cash and fled.

An undetermined amount of cash was stolen. No one was in­jured in the incident.

In an unrelated incident, a home­less Pohnpei man was seriously injured in a car accident on Ma­rine Drive.

According to Oliva, the acci-

to prevent more foreclosures. especially by businesses who have existing loans from the De­velopment Authority.

.. We implemented this loan payment arrangement because we don't want our clients to run down and close their busi­nesses." Tenorio added.

! le expressed confidence that the new payment scheme will work well. "In fact. it is already wof·king to the advantage of both the CDA and our borrowers."

CDA Joan manager Joaquin

exempted from the budget cuts, which could reach as high as 24 percent for each agency if such exemptions were granted.

To prevent mass layoffs in the government-the locals' main employer-some legis­lators have recommended the

According to some men from the neighboring barracks who had drunk with the victim, Capili went home at about 5:30 a.m. Friday.

Herrera said since Capi Ii broke off with Baldovino, the victim had been very silent and often times sad. It was Capi\i

workers has made them think twice about cutting staff.

He said several developments would help create jobs in 1999.

Among them arc the implemcn­t at ion of royally-sponsored projects. which will create about 3,000 jobs; renewed investment in the industrial and service sec··

lured alien labor paid at unfairly low minimum wages to build its economy.

The report re-affirmed the Clinton Administration's deter­mination to support legislation which would apply the normal immigration and minimum wage laws to the CNMI after a substan­tial period of transition.

Moylan is seeking the removal of unnecessary regulations that hamper the expansion of Guam's service-oriented economy. He said now is the time to allow Guam to develop its own tax code in order to successfully attract in­vestors and grow a second-tier economy built on making Guam the financial hub of the Pacific.

"We must work tirelessly to restrain GovGuam 's fiscal ap­petite and encourage more of our local citizens to start their own businesses or enter the pri­vate sector economy by provid­ing the right incentives and eco­nomic stimulus to succeed and grow," Moylan said.

"It is only through this type of financial security that our island and our people can remain stron­ger economically for generations to come."

dentoccurredataround 12:30a.m. S atu rda y near the China Arts Store in Anigua.

Adam Kan] Foster, I 9, of the USS Frank Cable was an-ested for DUI with injuries. Apparently Foster struck the victim with his vehicle. The victim was not car­rying any identification.

111e victim sustained facial in­juries, a fractured skull, and abra­sions throughout his body.

Foster was later booked and released.

Q. Dela Cruz, in a separate in­terview, said CDA extended out the loan payment program in line with the worsening eco­nomic crisis across Asia and the Pacific, which badly hit the Northern Mariana Islands.

''It seems that it [reduced pay­ment scheme] is working as_ we hoped it will in an orderly man­ner. Besides, CDA is here lo help the borrowers and not pin them down because doing so will just hurt us eventually,'' Dela Cruz said.

implementation of more sweeping cost-cutting mea­sures.

The ;idministration, mean­while, continues to enforce the austerity measures put in place by Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio ear­lier this year.

who reportedly asked to cool off their relationship.

However, after two weeks of calling it quits, according to Herrera, it appeared that the vic­tim was the one who could not withstand their separation until last Friday when he committed the suicide.

tors, which should create about 300,000 jobs and a project to send more than 150,000 Thai workers for employment overseas.

He also said more jobs would be created in rural areas, although he gave no spcci fies, and cited the repatriation or illegal immiorant workers to ncighbo7·ing rnun~·ies.

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"I hope it can bring all the illegals out," he added.

Zach ares conceded though that "the number (of applicants) are slowing down" as the program nears its first month.

He also warned that DOLi will be intensifying efforts to arrest overstayers once the amnesty's period is over.

According to a report prepared by Task Force Limited Immunity chief and acting Labor Director Jeffrey Camacho, there were a total of I, 122 illegals who have signed up for the program as of last Dec. 28.

Of these, he said, only 169 have found jobs.

The report stated that Chinese nationals comprised the bulk of the applicants with some 549 of them registering under the pro­gram.

They are followed by 416 Fili-

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On the afternoon. the respon­dent went to the DOLi office to pick up the docun1t:nts and was asked again by the labDr officer about the workers.

After l 9 ,fays. Catap was ar­rested through a warrant and was charged criminally for em­ploying illegal workers. He weas later released after post­ing a bail of $5,000.

He then planned his defense and on September 16. moved to have his statements and all the evidences suppressed. He had also asked for the dis­missal of the case as an alter­native.

Catap argued that the search was a guise to investigative criminality, so there should have been a search warrant, and since there was none. the evidences obtained must be

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year to 54.252 during the same period in FY J 998, while Korean visitors to the Northern Mmim;Ls collapsed by 66 percent to 6,027 from 17,922.

Rccent 1qx111s disclosed tl1atover­scas travels by Japanese tou1ist.s have steadily dropped ;uid economists arc predictingslowerpeopleu,tffic,tl1ead, as a result of the counl.!y's sluggish economy.

In fact. 0•1erse;l, 1.I,1vcls by Japa­nese have dwindled by 2.4 percent, tl1e highest decline since I 996.

Tou1ists from the US mainlm1d, including Gu:mi, ,md Taiwrn1 caved

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lected. "We will pursue that," he said, in a last ditch attempt to in­crease CPA revenues.

But he stressed that CPA is not totally disregarding the possibility of raising prnt fees as suggested by its two financial consultants. "We will raise rates bltt only after we have looked at everything.'_' .

pino nationals, J 12 Bangladeshi nationals, J 8 Korean nationals, 13 Sri Lankan nationals, seven Nepalese nationals, four Thai na­tionals, two Japanese national.~, and an Indian national.

Some 63 of those who found jobs were hired by the garment sector while 15 were absorbed by the construction industry. Some 59 were hired by firms engaged in services; l 3 by the restaurant sec­tor, and two by the hotels.

Nine managed to find jobs as domestic helps; five as farmers; and two as fishermen.

Registered illegals who fail to find jobs within three months af­ter signing up will be repatriated and allowed back in the Com­monwealth for future employ­ment.

Illegals who did not register and were eventually atTested af­ter the program expired, will be deported and not be allowed back for five years, according to Immi­gration Director Edward R. Sablan.

suppressed. However, Bellas ruled that

the .. defendant has failed to demonstrate that he had a le­gitimate expectation of pri­vacy in the area searched by the DOLi agents."

He said that .. the defendant makes no claim whatsoever that the area searched or where the records were located in­volved a place reserved for his exclusive personal use or that he had any expectation of privacy in such area."

Also. according to the asso­ciate judge, not only the records failed to point out where at the site the alleged mid took place but it has ,;!so failed to indicate where the peices of documents were ob­tained.

The court used a previously resolved US case where it says that Fourth Amendment rights arc personal rights that may not be vicariously asserted.

in by 20 percent mid 30 percent re­spectively. US visitors for the first two months of FY 1999 numbered only 9,057 from 11,379 duting tl1c ptcvious ye;u·, while Taiwm1ese to­taled 830 fium I , 187.

MV A 1cpot1ed positive si~'ll in ,ll'­rivals from Horn.! Kom! and Russia. des pi tc a 1ccenl ;, 1emo7'm1dum from the Depmtmcnt of Labor :md Immi­gration 1csuicting tl1e enuy of Rus­si:u1s to tlic Notthem Mrnimm,.

Tornism market from Hong Kong posted a whooping 40 percent in­crease to 926 from the previous year's 662, while Russian visitors to the CNMI increased by l 5 per­cent from 60 during the same pe­riod in FY 1998 to 69 this fiscal year.

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Guam Memorial Hospital and later underwent surgery.

Toves stated that he could not release the name of the driver because the case was still under i nvcstigati on.

Evidence obtained so far has shown that akohol and speed may be factors in the crash.

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"J don't know if that is really the case or if it is instigated to make it known to the leaders that they want more resources. The price of freedom is sometimes displayed in so many forms. The

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stressed. Atthesame time, the eye spe­

cialist said certain sports like

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He added, however, that the House bill's basic concept-to allow investors more flexibility in getting their CNMI investment ce1tificates-will be retained in the Senate version, which, if passed by the Senate, will return to the House of Representatives.

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efficient.·· Calvo added that Guam is now

in a critical situation and the is­land still faces tough economic ti mes ahead.

"We will continue to feel the effects of the Asian economic flu. We kind of got a reprieve in I 9\!7-98 because we got ha! f a bi II ion dollars of external capital through the Supertyphoon Paka emer-

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tage sites and traditions. there­fore, ensuring survival.

Statistics compiled by the tour­ism industry have indicated a de­sire of island guests to interact with the i,Jand and experience its culture.

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people arc going to pay their pre­miums lo private insurance com­panies, then DPI-I or tht: govern­ment can hold the privatt: l'irm accountable to pay their debt.

.. But if the government owes us money, what am I going to do'? Take the government to Court? We cannot do that; it's more costly," said Villagomez.

The Hc:1lth chief also stressed that the government-run CNMJ Group Health and Life Insurance Plirnsshould be tumcd over to the private sector which has better financial capabilities and is more attuned to the curTent insurance business trends.

"Frankly, I think that the health insurance should be handled by people who an: in tune with know­ing how to nm the health insur­ance," he said. adding that if the government continues lo involve itself in the insurance business. "DPH will always be operating on a loss:·

students should not be used to fight the battle of what we need," !nos said.

The commissioner said that children should be placed in areas that would cater to their learning opportunity.

!nos also expressed disappoint­ment over teachers who discussed the closing down of schools to

basketball, baseball and ten­nis arc also leading causes of eye trauma. He thus recom­mended the wearing of safety goggles.

.. We see a lot of eye injuries in contact sports like basket-

Tenorio, the chair of the Re­sources, Development and Pro­gram Committee, said the House bill's proposal of requiring a $ I 00,000 bond, instead of cash, could only create new problems.

In a separate interview, Villanueva told the Variety that scrapping the$ J 00,000 "deposit" could assist the government's curTent efforts to jump-start the slumping economy.

He said investors would rather

gency aid from the federal gov­ernment. But now that money has dried up and we're going to feel the pressure now. It will take coop­erative effott from the Legislature, the executive department, the pri­vate sector and the people of Guam. to get our economy going again. We all have to all work together."

With his business and manage­ment background, Calvo said he will work -to diversify Guam's economy.

The senator's plans include: de­linking from the federal tax code

A report said that the research has gathered info1mation that tour­ists attend events such as cultural performances and visit historical sites in an attempt to experience the island culture.

The report also said that heri­tage tourism is one of the fastest gt\,wing segments of the tourism industry.

The: summit's participation is

Privatization of the health in­surance. however. docs not nec­essarily mean that th<! govern­ment will no longer have a role to play to ensure that its employees arc taken car·cd or properly.

Villagomez said once the health insura~ce is privatized. the government ·s role will be tocnsu1c that tl1c private insu1,mce comprn1y pays DPH diligently for every medi­cal service inrun'l!d by its subscril1-c1,, especially from tlie govcmmcnt sector.

"!lie govcmment will hold tl1csc people accountable for p1uv iding tl1c covcmge that they said tlicy will be shouldering:· said Villagomez.

He also said tl1at p1ivatizi11g the health insur:mcc will promote com­

petition among private insurance !inns.

He explained tl1at all prnticipating private instmmce compm1ies will lX! compelled to have a st,mdmtl mini­mum coverage for govemmcnt em­ployees.

"Anything above mid beyond that covcrnge will be how one comp.my will uy to lute p.:oplc to cnroll lhm1 onc firm to .umthcr:· he said.

their students. ··we did discuss about scenarios

ofourfinancialaffairs. Wcncver intend to close down the schools. Instead. because of our desire not to close down schools and jeopar­dizing the kids that we are now dealing with hard issues. Unfonu­nately, some teachers say untrue things to the students," she said.

ball because of elbows, fin­gers, and even the balls strik­ing the yes of the players.

.. The best way to prevent these from happening is by wearing safety goggles," he said.

use the $100,000 as capital in­vestment. adding that only four new investors have registered with the- Department of Commerce (DOC) since the requirement took effect with the enactment of Pub­lic Law I 0-44.

Then governor Froilan C. Tenorio vetoed the bill for it, but the Legislature voted for an over­ride, noting the influx of''bogus" investors who only wanted to bring in their relatives.

and setting up local code that is pro-growth and non-regressive; pushing for Guam membership in regional policy making bodies such as the forum fisheries Agency and APEC; nurturing small businesses through govern­ment incentives and tax breaks; creating partnerships between Jo­c;JJ entrepreneurs and off-island businesses to encourage more lo­cal participation in the growth of the economy: and the removal of unnecessary GovGuam obstacles against local businesses.

limited to ensure a dynamic and interactive environment.

Summit coordinators hope to provide participants with plan­ning, m;Jrkt!ting and partnership tools to help develop local strate­gies and programs forthe enhance­ment or the island ·s tourism in­dustry as well as local herita~e and c;tltural appreciation and prc~s­ervation.

The health secn:tarv. ho,,·c\W, explained tl1at hcaltl1 in~ur:mce L"O\'­

erage of indigent govemmcnt em­ployees will continue to IX! slmul­de1cd by the government.

C,ov. Pedro P. 'l'c:nrnfo earlier e,­pressed su pporton :my 1110\'e to pti ,·:1-t ize the CNMJ Cimup Health :u1d I j l'c lmur.u,ce l'l;ms. saying it \\'ill help the Gl,h-strnpped gove111111clll sus­tain iL~ operations and to rnntinu­ously provide basic scr\'iccs to the community.

"I will sup1x111 p1ivati1~1tion if that will improve the hillingofinsu1:uicc. I like to sec even some oftlie govcm­rrn;nt agencies privatized. Privmization is not bad."' the gover­nor said in an interview.

The govi::1111111:nt health insur­ance, which is under the auspices or the Retirement Fund. earlier re­vealed that the amount it collects in premium is far lmv.:rthan the claims it paid to subscrib,:rs.

Villagomez also disclosed that the gowmmcnt health insurance owes DPH some ,~27 million for unpaid mcd ical .services for its sub­scribers dudng the l.ist four to live years.

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please coll Alfred A. Pangelinan ot Tel. 664·2078.

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O 1 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$3.05-3.55 per hour 01 CASHIER-Salary:$3.05-3.55 per hour 03 CLEANER. COMMERCIAL-Sal­ary:$3.05-3.55 per hour 0-1 HELPER. KITCHEN-Salary:S3.05-3.55 per hour 01 WAITER (RESTAURANT)-Sal­ary:S3.05-3.55 per hour 0-1 WAITRESS (RESTAURANT)Salary:$3.05-3.55 per hour 01 MANAGER, RESERVATION-Sal­ary:S1 ,500.00-4.500.0D per month 01 COOK-Salary:$3.05-4.05 per hour 01 ELECTRICIAN (MAINTENANCE)­Salary:$3.05-4.05 per hour 01 GARDENER-Salary:$3.05-4.05 per hour Contact: HOTEL NIKKO SAIPAN, INC. 1el. 322-3311\1/4)\.J\29330

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour Contact ROMAN B. MATSUMOTO dba International Wholesale Distributor Company Tel. 234-8474(1/4)M29329

01 MAII\JTENANCE REPAIRER IBUILDING)-SalaryS3.05 per hour 01 ACCOUI\JTMH Salary:S3.25 per hour Contact: LUIS P. & MARIA S. CRISOSTOMO dba APC Company Lim-1:ed Tel. 235·58~ 7( 1. '1 )M29328

Oi SUPERVISOR (CIVIL ENGINEER) CONSTRUCTION-Salary:$ 1.000.00-1,500.00 per month Contact SHIMIZU CORPORATION Tel. 234-5438( 1 ,4 )M2932~

01 MAINTENANCE BUILDING RE­PAI R-Salary:S3.35 per hour Contact: PACIFIC EAGLE ENTEPRISES, INC. Tel. 234-7914(11 4)M29323

01 MAINTENANCE BUILDING RE­PAIR·Salary:S7DO.OO per month 01 ADMIN ASSS\STANT-Sal-ary:S700.00 per month o·, ACCOUNTANT-Salary:$700.00 per month Contact: DALE LEAVITI dba Far East Services PPP 1016 Box 10000,Saipan (1/4)M29321

01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal­ary:$2,500.00 per month Contact: WATABE SAIPAN, INC. dba Watabe Wedding Tel. 235-4 710( 1 I 11)M76244

04 VIDEO (CAMERA) OPERATOR­Salary:$530.00-650.00 per month Contact: SAIPAN TV PRODUCTION ltlC. Tel. 234·0386 29293

Ot MAl~ITH1ANCE BUILDING RE­PAIR-Salary:S3.50 per hour Contact: ANDRES A. & MARIA B. ROBERTO Tel. 288-1107( 1118)M29436

01 ACCOUNTANT·Salary:$700.00 per month Contact: WESTERN PACIFIC ENTER­PRISES, INC. dba K1mch1 Cabana Night Club Tel. 234-6622( 1118JM29435

01 SALESPERSON-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: EVERTRUST CORPORA­TION dba 123 Discount Store Tel. 233-4343(1'11)M29387

01 LIGHT TECHNICIAN-Sal-ary:Sl.000.00 per month Contact: TRAP PLANNING INC. dba Use Us Rental Tel. 235-2060(1/ 11 )M29388

01 GENERAL MANAGER·Sal-ary:S1,800.00 per month Contact: YUNA CORPORATION INC. dba Commercial Space Rental Tel. 235-2060( 1 I 11 )M29389

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Sal­ary:S2.000.00 per month Contact KWEK'S ENTERPRISES SAIPAN, INC. Tel. 234-7243(11 11)M29392

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:S3.05-6.00 per hour $50. 00 gas allowance 01 AUTOMOBILE MECHANIC-Sal­ary:S3.05-6.00 per hour 01 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Sal­ary:S1 ,200.00 per month SSD.00 gas allowance 02 TOURIST INFO. ASST. (CLERK)­Salary:$3.05-5.50 per hour $50.00 gas allowance Contact: PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT, INC. Tel. 322-8876(1/11)M29393

01 MASON-Salary:S3.05 per hour 01 WELDER-Salary:S3.05 per hour 01 CARPENTER-Salary:$3.60 per hour Contact: NORTH PACIFIC ENT., INC. Tel. 233-3990(1/11 )M29386

01 BAKER-Salary:S3.25 per hour Contact: WINCHELL'S DONUT INC. dba Winchell's Donut Inc., Tel. 234-5566(1/11 )M29385

01 PHOTOGRAPHER-Salary:$5.50 per hour Contact: LIGHTNING DEV., LTD. dba Flame Tree Flash Foto Tel. 234-7353(1/ 11 JM76250

01 CARPENTER (MAINTENANCE)­Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: KWEK'S ENTERPRISES SAIPAN, INC. Tel. 234-7243(11 18)M29433

02 AUTO A/C (TECHNICIAN) ME­CHANIC-Salary:S3.05-3.30 per hour 01 SECURITY GUARD-Salary:S3.05 per hour 02 REFRIGERATION AND AIRCONDITIONING TECH.-Sal­ary:S3.05·3.30 per hour Contact: TORRES REFRIGERATION, INC Tel. 234·6098(t/18)M29437

02 CARPENTER-Salary:S3.05 per hour 02 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour 10 PATIERN GRADER CUTIER-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour 295 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary:S3.05 per hour 02 ASSISTANT MANAGER (FAC­TORYJ-Salary:S 1,666.67 per month 02 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:S3.05 per hour 03 MASON-Salary:S3.05 per hour 01 TRUCK DRIVER-Salary:S3.05 per hour 07 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary :S3.05 per hour 01 TRAILER TRUCK DRIVER-Sal­ary :S3.05 per hour 05 PATIERN GRADER CUTIER-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour 20 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR­Salary:S3.05 per hour 05 IRONING WORKER-Salary:S3.05 per hour 02 HAND PACKAGER-Salary:S3.05 per hour 05 IRONING WORKER (PRESSER MACHINEJ-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: UNITED INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION Tel. 235-6888(11 18)M29431

01 ACCOUTANT-Salary:S?00.00 per month Contact: SUN PACIFIC ENT., INC. Tel. 233·4997(1/18)M29441

01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal­ary:S3.05 per hour Contact: PRO-DIVE SAIPAN INC. Tel. 322-1277(1/18)M29443

01 COOK-Salary:S3.05-4.00 per hour Contact: PRO-DIVE SAIPAN INC. Tel. 322-1277(1/18)M29442

01 INSTRUCTOR-SCUBADIV\NG-Sal­ary:SS00-1,500 per month 01 INSTRUCTOR-SCUBA DIVING-Sal­ary:SB00-1,500 per month Contact: PAN PACIFIC TOURS, INC. Tel. 322-1277(1/18)M29444

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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1999-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND YJEWS-25

EEK & MEEK® by Howie Schneider

PEANUTS® by Charles M. Schulz REMEMBER, IF WE MEET SOMEONE ON THE SIDEWALK, SA'<, ''HAPP'{ NEW YEAR''

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STELLA WILDER

IF 1 SA't'.nl-lAPP'<' NEW YEAR," WILL THE'{ GIVE ME A f3JCl(CLE?

YOUR BIRTHDAY MONDAY, JAN. 4, 1999

Born today, you arc a quick,

clever and highly creative in­dividual. You arc always com­

ing up with idea after idea,

which not only wins you re­

sults and respect, but a good

dcal of profit and pleasure as

well. h,r you, life is about

doing. doing, doing. You have

little patiencc with those who

let themselves get bogged down.

Someone who can't get moving

is not worth your interest or

involvement. and you will pass

him or her by without a thought.

This may sound rather callous

to some, but the truth is that

you serve everyone better -

yourself and those around you

- by keeping up the pace.

You can be both intellectual

and emotional when it comes

to love. You will allow your

heart to take over when you

have first used your

brainpower to cardu lly assess

all possible risks. Still, there are times when you Ii kc to

leave things to chance, and

that's when real love can

surely blossom.

Also born on this date arc:

Dyan Cannon, actress; Don

Shula, football coach; Michael

Stipe, singer; Jane Wyman, ac­

tress; William Colby, CIA di­

rector.

To sec what is in store for

you tomorrow, find your birth­

day and read the correspond-

ing paragraph. Let your birth­

day star be your daily guide.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-

.Jan. 19)-A question of taste

is almost certain to arise to­

day, perhaps causing a minor

rift between yourself and a fric1HI. It may be time to com­

pro !11 i SC.

AQUARIUS (.Jan. 20-Fch. 18) - You'll be put in a posi­

tion of increased responsibil­

ity and authority today. Don't

overdo it. Avoid being overly aggressive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - You' II have the oppor­

tunity to go on an intimate

journey of discovery with

someone who is likely to be­

come closer to you thiltl ever

before. Enjoy!

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - You don't want to be

left out today, so be sure to

make your desires known be­fore: it is too late:. Environ­

mental influences may be un­

usually strong.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Perhaps now more than

-ever, you'll be driven by an

internal force you cannot re­

sist. Channel your energy in a

creative vein and reap the

greatest benefits. GEMINI (May 21-Junc 20)

-This may be the day for you

to make an important confes­

sion without fear of reprisals

to a loved one. Increased com­

munication will follow.

CANCER (.June 21-July 22) - You may be able to

trace with remarkable accu­

racy the roots of your own

current behavior today. Many

questions arc sure to be an­

swen:d. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -­

An unusual set of coincidences

is likely to pull you in many

different directions today.

You must be sure to focus

squarely on your primary in­

tentions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Avoid interruptions and

move solidly toward the ful­

fillment of an important goal.

Money matters are high­

lighted. Seek solutions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) - You may be introduced to something new or unfamiliar

today which is likely to affect

you and those around you for

quite some time. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.

21) ~ You must be willing to

get down to business and get

some work done today. Resist

the urge to stray from your

assigned duties.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dcc. 21) - Trust your in­

stincts and a key personal

matter will be illuminat.:J to­

day. Things arc not always

what they seem upon first

glance.

CROSSWORD PUZZLER ACROSS

1 Tipper and Al 6 More secure

11 Didn't exist 12 S.A.

mammals 14 Angered 15 Plane (Fr.) 17 Baseball

term, for short

18-Vegas 19 Type of

poem 20 Nahoor

sheep 21 Landon ID 22 "Kate&-" 23 Those over

there 24 Taken in by

legal means 26 Demi,

Dudley or MaryTyter-

27 - and cons 28 T ravolta's

"Face/Off' co-star

29 - Quarter

31 Meals 34 "-to the

Chief" 35 Playthings 36 Wallach ID 37 Circle part 38 Actress-

Berry 39 "Bali-" 40 Therelore 41 -Vanilli 42 Foreman 43 Indefinite

pronoun 45 Tallies 47 Full of black

dirt 48 "Here's to a

good year,'' e.g.

DOWN

1 McRaney or Ford

2 Mine finds 3 Blushing 4 -garde 5 Wire-stitches 6 Playground

feature

Answer to Previous Puzzle

1-23 © 1998 United Feature Syndicate

7 -vera 8 Cooling

device 9 Printer's

measure 10 Comedian

Gilda-11 Mrs.

Flintstone 13 Disgrace 16 Nullily 19 Singer­

John 20 Mall buys 22 "- showers

bring May flowers"

23 Roman garments

25 Relating to the eye

26 - syrup 28 Orchestra

member 29 - apso (dog) 30 Spelling and

Nevill/) 31 Cylinder 32 Social­

gathering item

33 - cheese 35 Former

Chicago mayor

38 Clure 39 - d'oeuvre 41 Cow sound 42 - constrictor 44 I (Sp.) 46 O'Connor ID

Kidsp,.,,.. SOLVE THE REBUS BY WRITING ~ ... ..,,.IN THE NAMES OF THE PICTURE

CLUES AND ADDING OR SUBTRACTING THE LETTERS.

WHAT KIND OF GARDEN DOES A BAKER HAVE?

26-!\L\Rl.-\N,\S \',\RlF.TY NE\\'S AND V\EWS-MONDAY- JANUARY 4. 1999

Inauguration . Continued from page 1

hL·,·11 ill<'\ cd 1,, a L11cr ,late. "·hich \1 ill he ,1n1i.,un,Yd later.

.\ l'L'ic,1sc frnm ,\dclup said the inaugur:11 for(,,,\·. Carl (,u1k1-r,·1 :111d l.t. Ci,1\. i\l:ldckinc Bord:il\o il;IS kL'll ]'lit 011 \lllld "out ()f rl'­Si'L'L't \() ihL' ,1ng,1ing fc:dL'l':11 L'l)llr\ pn)L'L·:,;_...; rcl:11in~ ll) !hL~·Ntn·c111hcr J l)l)~ l'kt'lil)Jl.··

.-\ dL'cisi,111 011 till' l'L'-,l'hL·dul­i!ll! ,,r am· 1",,r111al inat1l!Lll'ation l'L';'L'flll)J1Y.\lj\j be: held ;ff llll{i\ the n,11,·\usion of the court pro­J..'Css.

The 9th Circuit Court of Ap-

Bruneman. Continued from page 1

there arc 1,,,, many other possibili­ties c1t" how this crime could ha1·c ncrnll'cd and ii 11,1uldn ·1 be f:1i1· for llc:1u to he com·ic1cd in this mat­tc1· ... he :1ddcd.

The jLll"y rnuld not rnn\'ict be­cause so much rcasonablc doubt existed.

E,·cn from the wry beginning of

Reyes ... Continued from page 1

rescnt:1t i \'L'. li S l ntcrior D~parl­mc:111 deputy solicitor Edward B. Cohen. is arri1·ing during the week of Jan11ary I K "to consider further me:1surcs to achie\'L' the transi­tion.

Reyes said ht refuses to hclievc that Tenorio will agr.:c to a "fcu­.:ral tal-:.:m .:r.·· which would scrap current local control m·cr immi­gration and minimum \\'age.

··1 l':111 not bclic:,·c it and I ll'i!I not be! ie, c it." he said. ··J know th:1t the gm cmor knm,·s that the pcr>plc cJI. the CNMI remain op­pusc·d to fcdcr:tl t:1keo1·cr. r\nd the glll cm()\' rcspccts the wishes oft he l'L'llpk. I don't hclic,·c that

Saipan ... Continued from page 28

1.Scniors. girl,) Kathy Pange Ii nan.

(Seniors, boys) Sun Min Chang. (Juniors. girls) Nina Vi I lanucva.

Guam. (Juniors. boys) Jon 11<.:nsley.

Saipan. (bantam. uirls) Kristine C.,ima.

Sairan. , (bantam. hrivsJ Richard

Cahigao. Saipan.

Ryan ... Continued from page 28

C;ir,11', l'crt'.ll'"n Jenkin., :111d ( i:1: !,,rd l'e11).

,\ml ihl' l:1sl lime the llll\\'/\1\ look lnur I!,\\' me rnhn, \\';1s I 'J:'i:'i

J, x: Di \bg~ifl. ( i:1hh: 11:irtndl. ll:1uy \'a11<c :md Ted I.yon,.

(J\cr:ill. the IW\V1\1\ h:1, 1-iccn rathc:r stingy in rc, ·,,nt c kct ions. Its mcml-icrs ha1·c sclcc1cd a total of unly five pl:iyc:rs in the p:1st six vc,1rs. with Don Sutton rnakinl! it . '

last January. That's likely to change as Ryan

and Brett should zoom past the 75

peals in San Francisco has sched­uhl the appeal of District Court Judge John llnpingc,1s ,kcision r,,r i\lard1.

It is not anticipated that any formal cc:remonics will take pl,1cc until after that time.

The appeals case is a stay gra11ted to the attorneys for Gutic:rrez and Borda\lo on an or­der issued by Unpingco 10 hold a runoff election on Dec. 19. The Republican team of Joseph /\da and Fdix Camacho had filed suit stating that Guticrrez-Bordallo foiled to gamer the required ma­jority votc: to win a second term in office.

The stay order was issued just

tbc: trial when the father. David 'Chuck' 01\ey took the stand. there just seemed to be more than what was allowed to be brought forward in COU11.

ProsecutorTom Fisher expressed disappoimment at the jury's ver­dict.

"We cenainly did not get the result we wanted and I am disap­poimcd. I am proud of the job the Guam Police Dcpai1ment did dur­ing the investigation of this case," Fisher said. "Our entire office is

our governor would cvrn suggest accepting federal takeover."

Reyes said to "clear up the is­sue" the people shou Id be con­sulted in a referendum.

"I will also advise (Cohen) that if he's coming over to discuss federal takl!ovcr then he better just stay in Washington. D.C."

Reyes noted that since the es­tablishment of the CNMI. the commonwealth eovernrnent has consistently opposed--on eco­nomic grounds--the application of federal immigration and mini­mum wage laws here.

The CNMI's economy is pre­mised on the free flow of alien workers paid below the federal 111 i 11 i mu 111 wage rate.

Reyes said the CNM! has spent a lot of time and <.Jfort--and even millions of dollars for lobbyists--

But the youngsters didn ·1 get ,ill the fun as their parrnts in­rnJ\·<.:d the mse I vcs in a thr<.:c-gamc match.

The top men and women in the: parent's tournament wc:rc;

(men's) Louie Dim la (Guam). Ross Zapanta, (Saipan), Jack Cruz. (Saipan).

The Women's match had Tilde Diaz. of Saip:m finishing firs: while :Vl:u1ha Rechucker, also of Saip:m \x,1ting out Kathy Vil\,mueva of Ciuam for second place. Vi\l,mucva came in third place.

rerccnt required for clcction and incrc;1se the cu1Tcn1 I !all mcml-icr­ship ol 237.

Induction ceremonies a1·e sel f,,r Ju I y 2.\ with an appropriate I la\ I of Fame nhihition game the follow­ing day -- Ryan's Tex,1s Rangers \ s. Brcll 's K:1n.1as City Roy(tis.

The Veterans Committee will meet M:1rch 2 in Tampa. Fla., and c1n choose up 10 four more ne\\' 111c:mhcrs. llill Mazeroski. Dick Williams and Gil I lodgc:s will be among the: l':md idates.

Ryan and Bretl already arc well­' ,xcscntcdatCoopcrstown. Brett's

pine-tar bat is on display at the shrine, as arc balls and caps from

thrce days before the scheduled runoff election.

Meanwhile. liumln:ds of people packed the tiny ch1,rrh in Umatac )'L'Stcrday for the inaugur,il mass. held there because of its historical value as the oldest church on Guam.

All IS senators to be sworn in today were present with family and friends, as well as Lt. Gov. Borda\lo.

Father Michael Crisostomo was the main celebrant who delivered a humbling homily.

"You must remember who put you here. You must remember to serve the people of Guam."' Crisostomo said.

proud of the job crime lab did and we just didn '1 get the result we wamed. We respect the jury's de­cision although it's not the one we wanted."

Head defense lawyer Vernier summed up the ju1y's role by say­ing, "We think the jury won the case in the sense that they sup­po11ed the system that let the jurors decide whethenhc government has proven its case beyond a reason­able doubt and in this case that system has worked."

to oppose a federal takeover. "We don't want it and we don't

need it. We can not abandon our position." he said. "And that's why I'm disturbed that there are rumors saying that our governor has agreed to a federal takeover. Let's bury this rumor and put a tombstone on it."

He added that he will also ask the Senate leadership to discuss

Critical ... Con_tin_u_e_d f~o~p_a~e 1

are manually recorded. The govcrnOI' also instructed

the director of procurement and supply to require that any further government purchase of computer hardware or software for the

Rocball ... Continued from page 28

recipients of the rocbal\ infor­mation.

In addition to the colleges an·d universities, in California other learning institutions as far away away as Colorado. New Mexico, and Texas also re­ceived the information.

Locally, a 48 page histori­cal data of rocball which in­cluded a le11c1· and handbook

cach of Ryan's record seven no­hi11crs- by late July. their plaques likely will be h,mging in the I bl!, too'

Ry:111 slrnck out S.714 in a 27-ye:ir caren thal began :dkr he signed l\'ilh ihc Ne\\' York Meis in I %5. I k went .,24-292 for the Met.,. ('alifm11ia. I louston and Tcx:1s. tylllg him with Sutton fm 12th i11 victoric:s.

When Ry,m threw his \'inal pitch :11 :1ge 46 - k was forced to leave al"ter tearing a liga111e11t in his righl elbow in a game two weeks before that farcwcll mcctim! with Bretl­he held or shared 7norc than 50 major league records.

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He also offered his services should anv of the new lawmakers need "a ~rash course in public service.

"I think that message hit home," said Sen. Frank Aguon. "We were put into the position of public service. and we are obligated to perform."

Aguon said the ceremony started off with a sign, a sign he takes as something that bodes good fortune for the incoming team.

"Right before the ceremony, there was a rainbow over the church," Aguon said. "That was a good sign. I tho11ght it was a won­derful ceremony, excellent in all

Bmncman took the witness stand in his own defense in the course of the llial. This was considered "very risky" by legal analysts as it al­lowed the prosecution to make open shots at the accused during cross­examination.

Bruneman told the jury."[ want you to know that I did not kill D'Anna Olley and that I'm telling you the truth."

TI1e defense offered the jury two alternative theories during the trial. First, that the victim's father. Dav id

his referendum proposal. "Because a federal takeover wi 11

have a tremendous impact on the local people's lives they should be the ones to decide on this is­sue," Reyes said.

Under the 1976 Covenant that made the islands part of the United States, federal immigration and minimum wage laws will not ap­ply here unless Congress and the

CNMI must have a certificate from the vendor that it is Y2K compliant.

DPH's Resource and Patient Management Systems (RPMS) has been upgraded in order to be more efficient in its billing and collection method, and to enable it to add new packages and capa­bilities.

was mailed to Gov Pedro I'. Tenorio.

Accordingly evCl'y CNMI congressman and congress­woman also received the Rocball handbook.

The Secretary General, Comite International Olmpique, in Chateau de Vidy Lausanne, Switzerland. Sec­retary General, General Asso­ciation of International Sports Federation, Suisse, Monte Carlo. and the United States Volleyball Association in

Up u111il the final few years of his career, Ryan had his critics. They claimed he was too wild (2.795 walks in 5J87 innin_!!s), never won :1 Cy Young/\ ward and did 1101 win rnough -- but he 1·i11ished \\'ith a .5 26 winning 1-icrccntagc. com pared to the .503 mark 01· his teams.

By the way. Ryan will we,1r a Tc.,as Rangers cap on his plaque.

llrett. a 13-tiinc All-Star. 1·:mks 13th 011 the career hits list with 3. 154. The: third baseman hit JOS in a 21-year career spent entirely \\'ith the Royals. and was a .337 lifetime hitter in the postscason.

Y aunt, a three-time /\I I-Star, had 3,142 hits in 20 seasons, all with

respects." Today's ceremony will be much

more formal, with senatorial rep­resentatives (usually children) handing the official certificates of election to Chief Justice Prter C. Siguenza.

Following the swearing-in, Speaker Antonio Unpingco will take the podium and vote for com­mittee chairs for the upcoming legislature. Following an earlier caucus, the committee chairs have already been announced.

Senators are then expected to enter into the first session of the year - many have indicated that they are prepared to introduce bills today.

"Chuck" O\ley, could have com­mitted the c1ime or an unknown third pany could haw done it.

Even though Olley was not on trial, the defense portrayed him as an abnormal man with a drinking problem and frequently had un­derage drinking and sex panics at his home in Marianas Terr.ice in Yigo.

Incestuous reading material and several pornographil' tapc:s \\'Cl'<:

seized during the invcstigittion that belonged to 01\cy.

White !louse enact ,1 law al­lowing thl'ir c'Xtensinn to the CNML

Noting thc· 1·,1riou, labor. im­m i gr ,1 ti D n all d c I l' 11 Ii' ad c abuses in the cD1111mrnwealth. Prcsidc:ntC'linton in May 1997 announced support for legis­lation i11 Congress that would end CNMI control over immi­gration and mini mum wage.

"By upgrading our system, it wi II allow us to add new packages like the quality assurance indica­tors, management and accounts receivables. We arc also \ookin!! at expanding them to includ~ internet connectivity a11d local area networking," Health Sec. Joseph Kevin Villaeomez said. -

Colorado Springs. Colorado, were also eithCI' faxed or a lcncr was mailed to their of­fices :1s we\ I.

In a letter from the World Organized Rocball, Inc., (WOR), Jcger wrote, " I have more to send ... ! intend to satu­rate Switzerland with the same information I have been send­ing out to all these other places".

More than I 00 faxes or let­ters were delivered through­out the New Year weekend.

Milwaukee. He won /\L MVP awards at shortstop and center field. His .285 avcral!e, however mav hold him back tl1is time. · ·

l3rctt(3171!Rs, l.595Rl31s)and Yount(251 l1Rs. l.406Rflls)both got their 3.(){X)th hils in Septe111ber I 992, plus they share this rare dis­tinction: Thcv both arc their fran­chise leader in home runs. triples, doubles and singles. In the modem era, only Willie Mays ((,iants) and Stan Musial (Cardinals) can claim the same honor.

Fisk holds the; AL record for catchers with 24 seasons and hit 376 home nrns. His most famous

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Cardinals stun Cow-boys IRVING, Texas (Reuters) -The Arizona Cardinals stunned the Dallas Cowboys 20-7 in an NFC wild card game on Saturday for their first playoff win since 1947.

In the playoffs for the first time in 16 years, the Cardinals ( I 0-7) beat the Cowboys for just the sec­ond time in their last 17 meetings and earned a chance to play the Minnesota Vikings in the divi­sional playoffs next weekend at the Metrodomc.

The Arizona defence, which had

been scorched for 73 points in two regular-season losses against Dallas, came up big this time.

Pro Bowl comerback Aeneas Williams had two interceptions and held star receiver Michael Irvin to four catches for only 32 yards. The Cardinals sacked Troy Aikman four times and intercepted him three times while limiting Emmitt Smith to 74 yards on 16 carries.

Smith was stuffed for a one­yard loss on a 4th-and- I play at the Arizona 7 in the second quar-

Davenport backs Sampras. PERTH, Australia (AP)-Lindsay Davenport believes fellow world No. I Pete Sampras has done the right thing in missing the Australian Open after a draining 1998 tennis seuson.

Davenp01t, teaming this week with Jan-Michael Gambill for the United States at the Hopmm1 Cup, appreciates the p1essure Sampras was under a~ he fought to 1etain his No. I rm1king for a 1ecord sixth consecutive year.

'111e first minute Thern·d about it I wa~ really shocked and couldn't believe it. but the more you think about it the more you cairnnderstand it," Davenpo1t said Sunday.

"Putting in such an effo11 the last six months of the yern·, he was clearly fatigued. Sometimes you need to force yourself to take a break, and he 1eally deserves one."

Davenpo1t is de1e1mined not to overplay as she bids to hold on to herown top ,~mking, and she will play a teduced schedule this ye:u-.

"I am going to play less toumaments," said the 22-yern·-old Califomian who played 22 event~ l:l,t year. "I am going to t1y and go home for longer periods of time :md only play whe1e I enjoy to play."

Saint Louis' Mandy Lueking (12) struggles to make the pass against Memphis defenders Tiffany Collins (13) and Lauren Jackson (33) during the first half in Memphis, Tenn. Friday. AP

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homer, and one of the most memo­rable ever, won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series at Fenway Park.

Murphy was a two-time NL MVP with Atlanta and hit 398 home iuns. He was a seven-time All-Stm· and won five straight Gold Gloves in center field.

Perez, on the ballot forthe eighth time, came close to election last year when he was picked on 67.9 percent of the ballots. He had 1,652 RBIs for the Big Red Machine -

eve1y eligible player ahead of him is in the Hall.

"I'm proud ofmy RBIs, because a lot of them helped win games for us," he said.

John (288 wins), Ben Blyleven (287), Jim Kaat (283) and Sutler (300 saves) also appear on the 28-man ballot. So do Rice (.298, 382 HRs, 1,451 RBIs), Ca11er(l l All­Starteams) and Dwight Evans (385 HRs, eight Gold Gloves).

Mickey Lalich, 217-191 and MVP of the 1968 World Series, and Minnie Minoso, a .298 career hitter, are on the ballot forthe 15th and final time.

ter. "We stopped their running·

game and never got away from our game plan,'' said Arizona coach Vince Tobin. "Aeneas Wil­liams did a great job on Michael Irvin. I think Aikman stopped throwing in his direction."

Williams refc1Ted to the bibli­cal story of David and Goliath, saying: "We supplied the sling-

shot. I told our guys this morning that you have to earn credit. We eamed it today."

'This is real sweet after all the years of eating the Cowboys' dust."

LinebackerJamir Mil !er had 12 tackles and a pair of sacks and rookie Andre Wadswor1h added two sacks for Arizona. Dallas had led the NFL with fewest sacks

allowed ( 19) this season. Quarterback Jake Plummer,

who signed a four-year, $29.7 million contract less than two weeks ago, passed for 213 yards -to seven receivers- and two touch­downs with two interceptions. Chris Jacke kicked a pair of field goals for the Cardinals. Adrian Mum II rushed for95 yards on 12 carries.

Ohio State "!ide rec_eiver David Boston is f?rought down by Texas A&M defensive back Sedrick Curry after a 7-ya,rd gam for a ftrst down durmg the t/Jird quarter of th.e Sugar Bowl in New Orleans Friday. Boston, the games most valuable player, set a Sugar Bowl record wrth 11 receptions as Ohio State won the game 24-14. AP

Dolphins hold off Buffalo Bills MIAl'vll (Reuters)-Flutie magic came up 5 yards and aoout l O sec­onds sh01t on Saturday as the Mi­ami Dolphins held off tl1e Buffalo Bills fora th1illing 24-17 AFC wild card victrny on Saturday.

DougFlutienern·Iymanufac[U1ed another miracle in Miami - against Jimmy Johnson again - but th; Dol­phins' defence had the final say.

Flutie brought tllc Bills to the Mi,m1i 5-yrn·d-linc with 17 seconds to go ,uid a ch:u1ce to tic but 011 the next play the Bulfa\o qua1terlx1c\.: held the ball a liu\e too Ion!.!..

Defensive end T1~rcc Ar~1stron!! sacked P\utie :md jmn:d the ball loose :md Sh(me Bu1ton recoven~d tl1c fumble at the Miami 3 to pre­serve tht:! win.

'"l11c hL,t play, I should have just thrown it 1ightoutof1hc end zone ,L, soon as I didn't like it," said Flu tic. "But I hung on for a second and not hit as I w,ts-uying to thmw itawa;."

The Dolphins gottheirfirst win in th1ee playoff gan1es in the last four years and will play the Denver Bron­cos or New York JeL, in tl1e divi­sional playoffs next weekend.

Flutiecompleted2 l-of-36p,tsses for 360 yrn'ds, but just one touch­down. He spent most of the day throwing to Eric Moulds, who set an NFL playoff record with 240 yai'ds on nine catches.

'111e 1ec01'd is nice, but I mn not cventhinkingaboutit,"saidMoulds. "We lost mid it's all overafterall th is work. TI1is really hu1ts."

Buffalo piled up the ymus but Mhm1i's defence forced five turn­overs, three by Flutie.

Said coach Wade Phillips: '111e

turnovers killed us. They cost us at least tluee touchdowns, two often­sively and one defensively."

While at Boston College in 1984, Flutie stunned Johnson's Univc1i;ity of Mimni squad with his fan1ous "Hail Mmy"touchdo\\~l p:L,s. Bu-lier this yem·, he dhected the Bills to 16 unanswered fourth-qumter poinL, in a 30-24 victo1y over the Dolphins.

Bu tJohnson finally prevailed ,L, he received bal:mce from his offence. D,m M:uinopasscd for23S v:ulls,u1d a touchdown and Karin; /\hdu\-1:tbb:u· mshcd for 95 y,uds and a SClll\c.

"Ma,ino executed our game p\,u1 J).ciiectly:· said Johnson. "We wm1tcd tostayon the groundandJabbm·gaw us field position :md ball conu-ol all day ,except in the final minutes when they recovered tl1e onside kick."

"It w:L, a big win for us," said Mmino. "We move on now. We wanted to take c,u-c of tl1e football. Our offensive line did a great job. They enabled us to move on."

Miuinoadded: "Doug (Flutic) h:L, abighemt. He had ach:mceat the end to tic tl1e gaine up. Give him cn:dit."

After Mmino d1illed Lam:u· '1110-mas with a 12-yrn·d touchdown to give Mi1m1i a 24-14 lead with .3:42 left, Flu tie gem"Ccl up for some man: magic. He led tl1e Bills on a seven­play, 65-yrn·d drive, including two passes for 38 yards to Moulds, to set up a 34-yard field goal by Steve Christie with I :33 left.

1l1e Bills thought they had a touchdown on the drive when Andre Reed, who was stung by an earlier fumble call, caught a nine­yard pass over the middle and

appeared to reach the end zone but was ruled down at the l.

Incensed by the call, Reed bumped the referee, was penalised for unsportsmanlike conduct and ejected.

Set back by the penalty, the Bills had to settle for a field "Oal after two incompletions"' by Flu tie.

"On the first call (the fumble) I was down and the ~round caused the fumble." saiJ Recd. "On the eatch ,11 the l!O:tl line I twislcd mv bod\' am! !!Llt m·cr. I le (field .Judge -Steve Zimmer) called it right away. I jumped up and we made contact."

··ff that's a touchdown we l!et the field ~oal later and the oa~1e goes int; overtime. This c~ps a bad year with the officials."

"1'111 really upset, really an­gry. What happened to us isn't fair."

Agreed Phillips: "We arc to­tally snake-bit with the oflicials."

But the Bills still had a little magic left. Ku1tSchulzn:cove1"Cd ,m onside kick, which wrn; fumbled by Sam.Madison at tl1e Buffalo 31. 1l1cn Flutic lofted a 30-ym·d p,L,s to Moulds to the Miami 39. 1111ee plays later, Hutie hit Reed's re­placement,rookie K,m1il LDud, witl1 a l 2-yrn'd p,L,s.

Flutie 1,u1 up for tl1e middle for five yrnus ,md hit Moulds with a five-ymu p,L'iS to Ule 17 with 36 seconds left. After a five-yard p:L,s to Kevin Williams :md a three-yard flip to TI1unmm 1l10111:L,, F\ll[ic 1:m up tl1e middle for foury,u'ds to thl! S witl1 17 seconds left.

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SPORTS M 0Mt&ll 0M Saipan bowlers back from Guam

By Tony Celis Variety News Staff . .

AFTER spending a few days in Guam, including Christmas, members of Saipan's youth bowlers returned home. The youngsters, and their parents par­ticipated in the 2nd Annual Guam­Saipan Youth Bowling Tourna­ment.

The event attracted over I 00 youths and adults for a weekend of "friendship tournament".

The venue for the event alter­nate between Guam and Saipan.

In 1999 the event will be hosted in Saipan.

According to Don Hensley the youngsters from Saipan did ex­ceptionally well as they (Saipan youths) garnered a total of, 54 medals.

Guam's youths also did well winning 49 medals.

Headed by Kathy Pangelinan, Risa Cabigao and Maricelle Cabrera, the Saipan girls were favored to do well as they were led by three of Sai pan's up and coming youth bowlers.·

Girl's Division champion. Kathy Pangelinan, proved once again that she is a champion by successfully retaining her Mas­ters title. The Saipan youth was the only two-time winner in the tournament.

The Masters Division consisted of the top five players from each event of the tournament. The overal I champion was determined by the results of a step-ladder elimination roll off.

The top five in the girls division were:

Kathy Pangelinan(Saipan), Naomi Pangelinan (Guam), Risa Cabigao (Saipan), Maricelle Cabrera (Saipan), Samantha Stem (Guam). Sung Min Chang, of Guam was

outstanding throughout the boy's division tournament and secured the Masters division champion­ship for Guam.

Saipan 's boys did very good, as three bowlers made the Masters division tournament. They were headed by Jon Tenorio, Jon Hensley, and Jan Cabrera.

The top five boys during the tournament were;

Sung Min Chang (Guam),

Nap Carino Jr. (Guam), Jon Tenorio (Saipan), Jon Hensley (Saipan),

Ian Cabrera (Saipan). Final leaders by division were;

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Female youth bowlers from both Guam and Saipan pose for a photo at the 2nd Annual Guam-Saipan Youth Bowling Friendship Tournament held recently in Guam. contributed photo

Rocball info reaches Switzerland Ryan, Brett await Hall of Fame- calls By Tony Celis

Variety News Staff WHILE many people were re­laxing and enjoying the New Year's weekend. at least one person was kept very busy try­ing to get the world to know more about the sport of Rocball.

James Feger, had either faxed, or mailed letters and handbooks to an additional 43 publications organizations. They were sent to places as far away as the Chicago Sun Times, Colorado Springs Ga­zette Telegraph Co., Washing-

ton Post. The San Francisco Chronicle.

San Jose Mercury News, and Wall Street Journal-Las Ange­les, were also in the mailing list.

Other recipients of Jegers faxes, letters or handbooks in­cluded 43 members of the Asian Pacific Oceania Sport Associa­tion (APOSA). They include; American Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, China and others including our neighboring is­land Guam. Information about rocball also reached Pakistan, Philippines. Papua New Guines. All forty-three APOSA mem-

bers were also included in the list of organizations that were either faxed or a letter sent about information pertaining to the World Organized Rocball, Inc.(WOR).

Additionally, forty US mainland universities and col­leges also were given the rocball information, they in­cluded; San Francisco State University, UCLA, UC San Diego.

In reviewiung the list it ap­peared that almost all major 1

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The top five male finisher~ in the youth bowling tournament were Nap Carino Jr. and Sung Min Chang both of Guam; and Jon Tenorio, Ian Cabrera and Jon Hensley, all of Saipan. contributed photo

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By Ben Walker ON THE final day of the 1993 season, before the final game of their major league careers, Nolan Ryan and George Brett met at home plate to exchange lineup cards and handshakes.

That afternoon in Texas, the talk al.ready was about their futures. As in, it sure would be nice to see baseball 'scareerstrikeout leader and one of its greatest hitters replay that scene at the Hall of Fame.

"I'd love it if it worked out that way,"Ryan said at the time. "I don't think there's any doubt George is going to be indu~ted and I hope it works out that way for me."

No need to wony, Nolan. The call from Cooperstown is certainly coming Tuesday when results from one of the most eagerly anticipated elections in Hall histo1y are announced. .

In a ballot studded with standout rookie candidates, Ryan and Brett figure to be shoo-ins. Robin Yount might also make it, with Carlton risk and Dale Murphy expected to do well in the votii1g.

Even the list of holdover hopefuls is outstanding, led by Tony Perez, Jim Rice, Tommy John, Gaty Caiter and Btuce Sutter.

Not since the initial election in 1936, when Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson were chosen, have three first-timers been picked. ·

In fact, the last time I 0-year members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted in three players at all was 1991 - Rod

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