Budget Senate's priority...THE SENA TE will iron out prob ... Sheu identified the woman as Wen Fang...

---------------------------------------------"""!""'-----------::_:-::_=-:_:"'.".=-=-=-~=-::::.---=--::-c=~-~

Budget Senate's priority

Paul Manglona

By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

THE SENA TE will iron out problems about the CNMis' 1996 budget as soon as the l 0th Legislature starts working in January, Republican Sen. Paul Manglona said ..

"Once we organized, the budget issue will be one of our first priorities. We'll speed up hearings in the Senate," Manglona said. "We want to address that immediately."

The budget situations of some government agencies have been unstable since Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio exercised his line-item veto authority on signing the budget for fiscal year 1996, which was pegged at $206. 7 from the originally proposed $230 million approved by the Legislature.

Several agencies which were left without current budget are placed under continuing resolution, meaning, they have to operate under the previous fiscal year's appropriation level.

But this setup has been facing legal questions.

Some legislators have the continuing resolution can not be ap-· plied considering the existence of an omnibus budget for the current fiscal year.

Discussions about the budget were snagged by elections.

"We are facing the question of whether or not we are under the continuing resolution," Manglona said.

He stressed the urgency of reevaluating the government's resources as several agencies now operate under tight budgetary constraints.

Among the casualties of the

Still awaiting invitation

line-item veto included the Public School System, the central government departments such as Commerce, Public Works, and Lands and Natural resources.

"We need to address this immediately," he said.

Manglona, however, said it would be impossible at this time for the lameduck legislature to tackle the issue considering the frequent lack of quorum.

"It's hard to get a session going because the incumbents who lost in their reelection bid are pretty much on vacation," Manglona said. BOE certifies

poll results 'I'm happy being Independent' THE BOARD ofElections certified yesterday the results of the Nov. 4 elections.

Board executive director Juan M. Diaz said final counting of the ballots affected only the results of elections for the Board of Education's Rota seat.

After the final counting, Aniceto Mundo pulled the board seat away from Marja Lee Taitano.

ing the off-island and challenged votes were included in the final count.

At least 15 of ·a total of 22 challenge petitions on Rota were heard by the board.

One challenge petition on Tinian did not spell any difference in the election final results.

Some of the challengers on Rota, according to Diaz, withdrew their petitions.

Stanley T. Torres

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff TWO weeks after "hinting" that

he would consider rejoining his former party, Rep. Stanley T. Torres is still awaiting a formal invitation to rejoin the Republican fold.

In the meantime he is happy being Independent.

No, he is not asking for the invitation, meaning, he is not that eager to go back to his old party.

After all, he said he was voted overwhelmingly (he placed sec-

ond among six winners in Precinct 3) as an Independent candidate.

"It's amazing how many voters and supporters insist that I stay put (as Independent}, and the majority of these voters were from the Republican," he said.

Three days after the Nov. 4 elections, Torres and Precinct 3 topnotcher Heinz Hofschneider (9-lso an Independent) said they would consider rejoining the Republican Party if they would

Continued on page 5

In the initial counting, Taitano was leading by· nine votes. After the final count, Mundo was shown .to lead by three votes.

The board released the final and official results of the elections after deciding on the challenge petitions on Rota and Tinian.

"They decided that the voters they have challenged were indeed residents of Rota," Diaz said.

Of the 15 Rota cases, Diaz said, nine challenge petitions were declared by the board as "good" and. therefore not

H · th·· 0 I? ave you seen ... 1s gir.\ ®

A total of 22 ballots, includ- Continued on page 6

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Public Safety has sought public assis-

A MILLION THANKS TO YOU Maryann Aldan-Pierce, of Duty-Free Shop, receives a J-tero's Award from the. Islands of Beauty Program during yesterday's Thanksgiving ceremony !ill _lhf! San v,cen~e Elementary School. DFS donated $37,000 to the IBP's youth development program. At nght, ,s IBP coordinator Charles Grayer.

tance in locating the whereabouts of a Chinese woman who was reported missing since last Nov. 5.

DPS Information Officer Cathy Sheu identified the woman as Wen Fang Lin, 23.

Sheu said Lin, described as 5 '3" in height and 88 lbs., was last seen wearing a red dress.

No other details were given about Lin's identity and behind her sudden disappearance.

Sheu has encouraged those who have seen the woman to call DPS at 234-6333/6431 or the Criminal Investigation Section at 234-8370.

In another police report, unknown person/s reportedly stole $900 cash from a desk drawer in the main office of Hopwood Junior High School Monday morning.

In Garapan, an unidentified person/s burglarized an apartment in Western Garapan and got away $4,400 cash belonging to four men Monday night.

DPS received six burglary and theft cases and 13 vehicular accidents on Saipan over the past two days.

Wen Fang Lin

Weather Outlook

Partly ·cloudy with Isolated showers

. , I

l

I ',

.;

' \ ,•

j

I I

\

2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- NOVEMBER 22, 1995

Sad Tuesday

Bosnian peace talks suspended By SLOBODAN LEKIC

DA YrON, Ohio (AP) Bosnian peace talks wen: suspended early Tuesday whenitbecameapparentthatanagreement could not be reached on remaining territorial is.sues, a Croat official said

It was unclear whether negotiations would resume later in the day orwhether the move marked the end of the threeweek peace conference here, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, in the United Arab Emiratcs,aBosnianofticial was quoted Tuesci.1, as ,;ayin£ he uicl not expect U.S.-s~1nsc,rL{i ialks for ,;cUling the B3l~:m ,::~ir rn !....'-:~·; l;.'1 an :1gr-e~m~nt.

'!<() ;:r:P:',_"~'., ,,-,: '."\·,:I (J 1''.'.· made l1~! r·-

:---L1-::_.:.n \: ~,~:I:Y,-;__ r:',c :s!j:...:. • ,: inini.~t:...:r, i'.' tl1c :;r~ill ,.:c,m::"!i::_:_:;,: :,_;r (~K)pcrJ~(,i:

1..1.:i1.b lhi."'. United r'"::ujiJib.

TI1e Paris mc~i:i:1~ ht rcfcrre.d to \\-~L..;

supposed to be rhe final ix.ace conference on tl1e former Yugoslavia involving all five nations that were established after the bre..'lkup of the old Yugosla\'ia in 199 l. ~ The English-language Emirates News said Muratovic made his remarks at a lecture Monday night.

Official'., in Dayton have said previously that further talks might be needed in Paris regardless of what happened at the U.S.-sponsored talks.

U.S. officials declined to comment on overnight rep::,rts that talks here were being suspended. They indicated they would have a s~ment larer in the day.

Dismissing earlier reports of a deadlock, diplomats from all three Balkan countries had expressed cautious optimism late Monday night as negotiators headed into a second all-night ses.sion in pursuit of an end to the 43-month war.

U.S. officials insisted then talks still

Experience exciting Italian specialties in our casual atmosphere.

could go either way Tuesday, ending with a ceremony to mark the initialing of a peace accord or an announcement that they had failed.

"It's really still 50-50," a U.S. official said

A top official in one of the Balkan delegations said late Monday the only serious issue holding up agreement wasacomplicated, three-way deal over the remaining l percent of Bosnia's territory.

'We are all awaitino the Fmal Ameri= pmp.is.tl on the ~nitn1ial di\'ide," 31111ncr BaLk:m official saick:.uiy 1,xla_y.

A ;.olutio:1 tn the pmblcm. requiring c.xc~arn2e~ of ~li,·cG c{ hnd held b\' R( ,,~ii;/" Seth·-:, \ 1u~lir:1,: :1nd Crnat.~. \:.·,,u\~ l1:..:J1, r,.:-..,11\·e :1·,~- ;; __ 1_~-: \c.\ii~~ dL:11 :l:1:~ n( rj :~: iwcr;.:.Jl ~::a:~i~;:1·~111 ,_ .. S Sccn.?t;:.r_yc.!'St:1!L" \\': 1i··:.:· .=-hri,t,~phi:'.·· h~:. pk..,Jgcd t,, ac'.:uc,<.'.

The main tinn:S(l!\·CJ l-':,;t.l: ,1• ;,_, :-cc:xmc:J to b-..' the so-calleJ Pll"-1\·im, ~-orriJor. a thin strip of Serb--l1cld land linking their holdings in western Bosnia tCJ Serbia proper.

The Serbs, who control the 30mile (48-k.-ph) -long passage between their ea.,tem and western holdings, are seeking to widen il. But the Bosnians want th;irterritmy to :::ut through the strip of land in orrlerto give them access to the Sava River on the Croatian borcler.

The two sides reportedly had settled theirterritorial differen= S undaynight, but Croatia balked at going along, a senior Clinton administn1tion official said, spealcing on condition of anonymity.

As a result, at one stage Monday all parties prepared to leave, wilh the Serbs loading baggage and equipment into a Yugoslav airlines plane in a move described as pure ''theater" by State Department spokesman Nicholas BWJ1S.

The talks teetered on tl1e verge of collapse until President Ointon intervened from Wa~hington with a last-

1f:- ~T -+-· f<. E G E N C Y

SAIPAN

ditch telephone call to Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman. That conversation resulted in ' ' an encouraging reply" from Tudjman and an immediate reversal of meeting's prospects, the official said

If agreement is reached Tuesday, it

would consist of an umbrella peace accord comprising 11 annexes dealing with a constitution for the Bosnian union, its internal boundaries, an arbitration tribunal, human rights ~ues, the return of refugees, elections, military ~ues and an international police

force. The U.N. Security Council also was

preparing to consider suspending the UN. economic embargo againstSerlJ.. dominated Yugoslaviaif a peace agreement is initialed, a U.S. diplomat said Monday.

Tom Jefferson, the official presidential turkey, gets intervie~ed after being introduced to. the media Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Fresno, Califor'}ia. T~e 61-lb. bird will be presented to President Clmton by the chairman of the National Turkey Association_ m a. Rose Garden cer1:mony be~ore Tha!7ksg1vmg, but will receive a pardon and be donated to the Presidential Flock at the National Zoom Washmgton, D.C. AP

Kashniir separatists offer to trade two hostages

By THOMAS WAGNER NEW DELHI, India (AP) - In

dia on Tuesday was studying a proposal by Kashmiri separatists

to exchange two Western hostages who have become ill for an imprisoned guerrilla - their best offer yet in the nearly five-monthold kidnapping drama.

age separatist groups in JammuKashmir to kidnap other people. But it could conceivably agree to exchange two sick hostages for one jailed guerrilla.

Authentic Italian cuisine, delightful appetizers, cntrccs,

tempting desserL, and true Italian coffee.

United News ofindia, quoting official sources, reported Monday that the Al-Faran militants made the offer in a four-minute phone call, and that the government could soon give its reply.

Government spokesman Abdul Rasheed confirmed Monday night that contact had been resumed, but he had no information about the conversation between the militants and an Indian negotiator.

Al-Faran has not said which hostages are ill, but earlier statements suggested they are the American, Donald Hutchings, 42, of Spokane, Washington, and one of the Britons.

Last we~k the rebels said one hostage- presumably Hutchingshad become critically ill and urged his relatives to return to India prepared to collect his body. Open seven night,; a wyek,

from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm.

Club at the Hyatt

cards welcome.

"You're gonna love it!"

GiovANNi')

However,on Tuesday a top government official in the federally controlled government of JammuKashmir state said on condition of anonymity that the news report was accurate. He also said that India was discussing how to respond to the offer.

It is the third time that AI-Faran has reduced its demands for the releaseofthehostages: an American, two Britons and a German. When the drama began, Al-Faran demanded that I5 imprisoned guerrillas be freed. Last week, it scaled down that demand, saying it would agree to swap hostages for six jailed captives.

The militants have said two of the captives have become ill - one critically - while hiking from one hideout to another in the Himalayan mountains since being captured in July.

India has repeatedly refused to exchange hostages for rebel prisoners, saying that would encour-

Al-Faran reportedly has had local doctors examine the hostages in the Himalayan hideouts south of Srinagar several times.

The wives and girlfriends of the hostages left India Oct. 26, after their pleas to Al-Faran made no progress.

Besides Hutchings, the other captives are Keith Mangan, 33, of Middlesbrough, England; Paul Wells, 23, of London; and Dirk Hasert, 26, of Erfurt, Germany.

Another American, John Childs of Simsbury, Connecticut, escaped soon after being kidnapped, and a sixth hostage, Norwegian Hans Christian Ostro, was decapitated by Al-Faran.

Al-Faran is one of dozens of militant groups fighting for the independence of Jammu-Kashmir, the only state in predominantly Hindu India with a Muslim majority. About 12,000 have been killed in fighting between the rebels and thousands of Indian soldiers.

f

f ; ~. I

I

r j'.

' . )

I

{ r

,·.

! I

WEDNESDAY , NOVEMBER 22, 1995 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3

DPW wins in Coldeen case By Ferdie de lo Torre Variety News Staff

THE DEPARTMENT of Public Works has won a civil case in connection with the I 992 road accident in Navy Hill that left a teenaged girl dead and injured other persons.

In a written order issued on Monday, Superior Court Presiding Judge Alexandro Castro said pursuant to the verdict of the jury which was returned last Friday, judgement is entered in favor of DPW_

Marianas Cable Vision sportscaster Robert Lee Coldeen, through counsel

David Banes, has sued DPW for its alleged negligence resulting to the death of his daughter Kristan and injuring another daughter Carla.

Castro said the jury found by the preponderance of the evidence that DPW was negligent in failing to maintain Navy Hill Road in a safe condition.

However, the judge pointed out that the jury "did not find by the preponderance of the evidence that. the unsafe condition of Navy Hill Ro.ad was a substantial factor in causing bodily injury/emotional dis-

tress to plaintiffs." The other plaintiffs were

Martha Coldeen, mother of the victims, and Vidal Camacho.

According to the complaint, on April 17, I 992 at about IO p.m., a car driven by two women ran into the ditch along Navy Hill Road.

A pick-up truck driven by Camacho with Kristan and Carla as his passengers, saw the stranded car so they stopped off the road side to assist the two women.

Christine Tudela, who was driving a Station Wagon down the road, failed to avoid strik-

PSS reduces requirelllents for teacher certification TIIE Public School System has streamlined the requirements for teacher certification and is utilizing the expertise of PSS Staff to teach the required courses.

The required courses which all tea.chers must take include Northern Marianas History, Teaching Strategies and a Cultural Seminar. To date 224 teachers have completed these courses and are BOE certified Another205 teachers are taking courses which are presented during intercessions and on Saturdays according to Commissioner of Education William S. Torres.

The commissioner complimented the Instruction Division and RITC Office of PSS for scheduling the courses at times that are most convenienttotheteachingstaff. He said that this has enabled teaching staff to acquire their BOE teacher certification status in a fraction of the time that it used to take when the PSS was totally

dependent on contractors to provide these courses. The History of the Northern Marianas Islands courses are being taught by Sam McPhetres onSaipanandNoelTaisacanonRota. The Teaching Strategies course is being ieam taught by Ana Larson, Evelyn Coates. The Cultural Seminars are also being taught in teams by Francis Sablan Dolores Marciano, Noel Quitugua, Henry Kaipat, CannenTairnanaoandJimWilliams.

Torres said that all classroom teachers must possess at least a baccalaureate or higher degree. For those teachers who have a degree in education or a valid teaching credential from another jurisdiction are put on a fast track called Track 1 which only requires them to complete the HistorJ of the CNMl and a Cultural Seminar.

Teachers entering the CNMI who possess a baccalaureate or higher degree in some field other than education and who do not have

a valid teaching credential are Track 2 teachers who must complete the CNMl History course, the teaching strategiescomseandtheculturalseminar and any two of a battery of seminars in alternative assessment, classroom organizationand management, inter-disciplinary strategies,, special education, library skills, content area courses & studies and computer literacy.

BOE teacher certification is a prerequisite for contract renewal and for eligibility for pay differentials for teaching in after school, Saturday school, summer school and intercessions, the Commissioner noted.

He urged all teachers who have not yet met BOE teacher certification requirements to take advantage of the many classes and seminars taught by the Instruction Division of the PSS which are scheduled throughout the year.

2 .. su.$pe~~s to_ .eJlter J?l~.~ .~.~ ~. ·~-_ il ty_ . -___ · : . -. ~ ' . . - ' . ... . . '• ,• . , . . . . _, ,. . . . ' ,

Ex-hotel worker in cash theft ... A FORMER general cashier of the Hyatt Regency Hotel ac..."l!Sed of stealing from the hotel $94,221.89 in cash expressed yesterday her intention of admitting the offense.

During a status conference, defendant Serenade Mereb appeared with her counsel David Juarez.

SuperiorCowt Associate Judge Ed-wardManibusansetthechangeofplea hearing on Dec. 12.

Court information showed that Mereb took the money by withholding thecashrereipts between Nov. I, 1994 and Jan. 5 this year.

Mereb allegedly stole cash receipts, then deposited the checks received without recording them.

She allegedly recorded the checks later as being rereived so that actual deposits appeared equal to the recorded receipts.

out the scheme, the AGO said. Mereb left Saipan for her home on

Palau last Jan. 6. Mereb returned to Saipan recently

after learning that the AGO filed a criminal case against her. (Fon

r: .J ~).· ,·;.'"; 1 ·

,::~.

ing the car, Kristan, Carla, Camacho and the two women.

In an amended information, lawyer Banes said DPW' s failure to adequately construct and maintain the road in a safe condition "was the direct, proximate, and concurrent cause of the wrongful death of Kristan and the personal injuries and physical, and mental damages suffered by plain-

tiffs." Banes claimed the area had

no streetlights. The ditch was obscured by long grass and no any warning sign.

Earlier, Tudela "settled" the case against her.

The case for the other co-defendants in the original information such as Department of Public Safety, Commonwealth Health Center and others, was dismissed.

····•:mt~.·-· J/ill&i q{i:fie]abo{ . will furs ·· •lfli¥•-·~-••~··••~~t¥111§tihn'·-·-g~:':th~. ~p~.to .rel~.-a Bitilgla,g~~.y~ill .. )ile.fotwe. ·•••i:rbt?9;h .. ¢4\lcap11i \:)oth.· tll.e··· Y'?f~~r~~dtliep~si~~.~ ow11~rn;• *$ t<>~. J<it ~ ~r~li m.*P~-··

-•••.n\l\ll,~t~f.bPtjl••r~.P9l't¢cl·.at19.•u.13t ___ .. •._._.

1 J'{P~{t~1?riih.\t xiil~#p#~,; .·•y#!gQm;.s.aid.,<2Ppi~#f,tb.epam-• phle,t wjll be niade a vails,ble at the f_;#,ancezy offi~s of the Diocese §(Cllalan Katloaand?[efree.of · charge. . ...

Reyes renews support for 4-year work limit REPRESENT ATIVEPete Reyes reiterated his support for a proposai to impose a limit on the employment of alien workers to four years.

Reyes said he local labor law states that a nonresident's contract coven;d only one year of employment.

Some employers allow the renewal of nonresident workers contract for an unlimited number of times.

'The law limits it to one year but we need

to spell it out by statute," Reyes said. He said the CNMI controls its own

immigrationandlaboraffairsandtherefore "can dictate how long a nonresi-

dent worker can stay in the Commonwealth."

'The idea here is to protect the local workers," Reyes said. "Some alien workers are made to believe that their contracts can be renewed automatically and this is where we see a lot of problems."

In most cases, he said, nonresident workers who were to be replaced by local workers ran to the cowt and contest the employers' decision not to renew their contracts.

"Our intent is to limit nonresident employment to four years," Reyes said.

The Attorney General's Office filed Mereb was the general cashier then and the only one in a position to carry

.. , ... ---------- ~ t;;. ;~ '~ one count of theft against Mereb. ,

... another in pig theft A KOBLERVILLE man accused of stealing two pigs admitted the offense before the Superior Cowt yesterday.

Pursuant to a plea agreement, Associate Judge Edward Manibusan suspended the imposition of sentence against Antonio B. Camacho for a period of three months.

Camacho, through counsel Ted Christopher, and Assistant Atty. Gen. Gabriel Acosta reached a pl~ negotiation.

Manibusan ordered Camacho to pay $50 fine within two months or perform 12 and a half hours of community work services.

The Attorney General's Office charged Camacho with theft after

he stole the two pigs of Henry Pangelinan last July.

A Crime Stoppers' tip led to the arrest of Camacho and the questioning of two other male juveniles.

Camacho said he sold one of the pigs, while the other was consumed.

The pigs' total value was $300. Meanwhile, a 54-year-old man

accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl on Saipan expressed yesterday his intention of admitting the charge.

The court set for a change of plea hearing on Dec. 15.

Court information showed that the sexual abuse was committed last March 15. (FDTJ

/.,·

,,.

I Randy Grom/ich, Micro'!e~ian Teleph.one Corp. man_ager for ~ale~ and mar~etif!g, han_ds a $_1,000 donation tor Philippine typhoon victims to Margie Tudela, president of V1smmda organization. Witnessing the turnover are Doris Bisnar, Visminda auditor, and Joey de la Cerna, assistant business manager. Donated relief goods were transported to the Philippines courtesy of Continental Micronesia.

' I ., :, ·: ij I

i I

l I i

I Galaide by John S. DelRosario, JR.

IN the Focus section of Fairfield Business Journal, May 15, 1995 edition was printoo a story about casino gambling and what it has done to the Hashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe in Bridgeport, Connecticut

The $900-million-a-year enterprise (Foxwoo:I Resort) "is making the tiny tribe a major power in the region." Believe it or not, the Hashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe is comprised of thn:e--hundred-and-twenty-one (321) people. The success of Connecticut's first and only casino has stunned a lot of people throughout the oountry and it is under study to determine what factors played into it~ thriving operations.

'1he gamblers who clamber out of buses with pockets brimming with quarters destined for the slot machines will soon be greeted by a $150 Million NativeAmerican cultural center tracing the history of the tribe ... Hashantucket's Tribal Council is using casino proceeds to assure the future of its descendants for at least seven generations".

"However, the tribe won't depend on casino profits. It plans to invest much of the current proceeds into creating a resort area with visitor-drawing attractions such as golf, horseback riding, a tree-top monorail system and the $150 Million NativeAmerican heritage museum."

'1he casino is a means to an end ... and we want to build it into a complete resort that takes advantage of the area's natural beauty".

A member of the tribe explains: "The tribe, which employs nearly 9,000 people is investing in its future rather than making direct multi-million-<lollar payments to its members as some other tribes have done".

"The concept of using gambling to ensure the future resonates in Bridgeport, a nearby city, who also wants to use a casino to invest in itself. Bridgeport hopes to gain $15 Million a year for community projects from casino. The Hashantucket Tribe gave away almost that much in 1994, including a S 10 Million donation to the Smithsonian Institution. Bridgeport plans to set-up a' Reinvestment Commission ... to sink that yearly gaming revenues into the city's beleaguered waterfront".

While people in Bridgeport struggle to secure approval of casino gambling in its soil, the Hashantuckets are continuing to invest in the casino and in building swrounding attractions. "The tribe recently won the right to expand the reservation by 247 acres". They don't want the land for more casinos, ''but to build the kind of attractions that will keep tourists coming to Hashantucket Pequot country".

"The H.ashantucket Pequot tribe's members have become fabulously wealthy from its Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, where total 1994 revenues hit $800 Million."

A number of issues started flowing into mind a~ I dwell upon the success story of the Hashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe, inch.:ding whether this concept and the principles for which it was founded should be explored by all concerns todetennine its =nomic viability and sw;tainability. Perhaps a single casino firm should be piloted jointly between the CNMI Government and a reputable casino management operation out of Las Vegas to include construction of family oriented facilities. If the lack of revenue is the very source of our discontentment today, shutting the doors completely without providing an alternative is definitely irresponsible.

Given the current mind-set, bankruptcy of the medical referral program, crowded classrooms, lack of funds to cover our scholars abroad and oth~r equally mind numbing concerns would continue to be revisited with the same tired old impractical rhetoric that we have heard in years past. Proponents and opponent, of casino must act responsibly in tenms of honest and forthright explanations of the benefits and drawbacks of establishing a highly regulated gaming industry here. There has to be an extensive public education on this issue so that the voters are equipped with concrete information before deciding the fate of this matteron ce and for all.

While some may argue that this industry should be kept on Tinian, it should be understood that a realistic assessment of whcihcr it'll survive leans more towards the negative. In the first instance, it"ll take more than just a visit to the game rooms to make it work as envisioned by their leaders. In other words, there's insufficient visitor diversification activities comparable to what's available on the main island of Saipan. It doesn't have the requisite basic infrastructure, i.e .. an international airport to handle a daily and steady flow of high rollers from Japan and Asian Countries, discounting other basic facilities. It doesn't have the population base to patroniz.e food concessions and other rela~ businesses that would have to be built to complement the casino industry.

I have nothing short of admiration for our brothers and sisters whose proacti vity ought to be emulated by those from the main island of Saipan. They want to make things happen for themselves even against all odds. How I wish that I have the requisite funds to build a bridge between here and Tinian to pennit the flow of both indigents and non-indigents to patronize the casino industry. Pernaps this has been and continues to be the missing vital link that should have been addressed from the outset

A bridge would have opened up the island to Saipan visitors, including tourist~ from Japan and other Asian Counnies. Riding in the comfort of an air-conditioned toor bus on a one hour ride above the deep blue sea between the two islands is a toousand peroent bener by way of experience than hopping on small commuter airplanes. It will give Tinian the grand opportunity to link-up with the main hotel industries here. It'll give mainlanders a weekend alternative away from home. Economic opportunities abound if this plan-bridge construction-is taken to the hilt Opponents of establishing a highly regulated gaming industry her can't interminably employ politically correct arguments to fill our empty coffers. The CNMI needs a new infusion of direly needed revenues. Si Yuus Maase yan Ghilisow!

PHAT THREADS,

DUDE

ENGLISH' ·:J TIIE OFF !CIA\. LANGUA~

~ I.I: 1 1 l:l~S iC il·II: l:l)liCI~

Repeal of P.L. 7-45 sought Dear Editor: NOW that the elections are over, I

wish to urge fellow parents and educators to lobby for the repeal of the current Public Law 7-45, regarding the employmentofnon-UScitizens. Wemust takeaseriouslookattheconsequences of this law.

I am really saddened to see dedicated, highly competent teachers leaving the CNMI. Many Filipino and other non-US teachers dedicate the majority of their time to the students and student activities. They are role models and positive influences in the livesofourchildren. Mydaughterstill enjoys returning to Hopwood to visit

her teachers, who motivated her to improve in her studies and left a very positive effect on her life. These teachers deserve the support of parents and fellow educators.

Anotha problem with all the Filipino and non-US teachers leaving is who will replace them? Already the CNMland thePublicSchool System is unable to recruit enough teachers from theCNMlorthemainland United States to fill ex.isling positions. Year-round education has not eliminated overcrowding in the classroom because of the lack of teachers. If these current overcrowded conditions cannot be eliminated at the present time, what is

going to happen when over I 00 teachers are forced to leave CNMI? The Filipino and non-US teachers have proven their dedication for our students, and have invested many years in teaching in the CNMI. What is =the advantage of replacing with a stateside hire, who only expects to teach in the CNMI for two years?

We must set aside prejudices, and stand up for what is right!

KAREN L. BORJA Parent & Teacher P.O. Box 7241 SVRB Saipan

Koch assails DPS, AG anew Dear Editor: THANKSGNING is a time for re

flection. A time when we count our blessings and recognize how truly fortunate we are.

Others are less fortunate. Others are forgotten. Others are ignored.

The law enforcement agencies on Saipan in the guise of the Department of Public Safety and the Anomey General's office are doing their absolutebestto ignoreand forgetthefollowing "Others':

•Hirozo Fujikura: Murder under investigation for 33 l days;

•Hou Zhao Ming : Murder under investigation for 241 days;

•Huang Yu Hua : Murder under

investigation for 240 days; •Daniel Takao : Murder under

investigation for I 05 days; •Ali Koch : Murder under

investigation for 91 days; •Manuel Arriola: Murder under in

vestigation for 84 days; and •Tie Mei Mao : Murder under

investigation for 79 days. Can anyone accept as true a Police

Department and Anomey General's Office so bumbling and inept that they are unable to solve this number of murders?

!cannot. I do not believe that he Attorney

General's Office and the Police Department Management are filled with

highly paid PROFESSIONALS??? so obtuse that they are not able to solve a single one of these outstanding murders.

I believe it is much more likely that they have identified the killers of some ofthesevictimsandhavedecidednotto pursue the investigations for familial or political reac;ort~.

Who do the people appeal to when the two primary Jaw enforcement agencies of Saipan are suspected of collusion in the suppression of evidence in multiple murder investigations?

DAVID M. KOCH Work.Number: 322-6583

Give casino a chance Dear Editor: Please allow me to respond to the

article printed in the Variety (nov. 15) about our Speaker's opposition tocasinos. His pretext statement about casino gambling in the CNMI is wrong and misleading to the people he represents. If I am an elected Public Official and holding the title of Speakership, I'll be a fool to mislead the people into believing that casino is bad for the CNMI.

Mr. Speaker, I urge you and all the elected Public Officials who oppose casino gambling to please come forward and explain to us (the people of the CNMI) what is so wrong about casino, and tell us what is good about it, so we can make our decisions to legal -izeoroutlaw 1his issue once and for all.

I will prove to anyone that the benefits of casino outweigh the disadvantage as you repeaterlly stated in the news.

You are wrong to assume that the casino gambling is bad when you fail to illustrate the benefits it could bring to the CNMI. Mr. Speaker, please be candid and give us some direction to legalize or outlaw the entire gambling device in theCNMiincluding POKER MACHINE, PACHINKO, BINGO, COCKFlGHT, BATO) so we can put this issue to rest Mr. Speak~r. please be spedfic and act as a leader; don't talk about gambling because you are an example to the community. Your co-operation and leadership will be recogniz.ed if you open up an opportunity to give the government a chance to prove

that Casino gambling is not bad altogether and can provide the financial means to improve our infrastructure and our economic development. We (the people) want yourcooperation, we have suffered long enough to feel the pain we have gone through paying heavy taxes to run the government, so please use your common sense for the sake of our children's future. One day, you will be proud to stand up and tell Uncle Sam, "We are prepared to assume ·the full responsibility and enjoy self-government because you have found the treasurer.

J.CEPEDA

•'<ft t.t·f_f_l •. •.•.','.',..' •. .°.,'_.· .... £,_a. I I IC I It 1 1· o ,. r ,I.• 4 ~ • • • • • • • • • • • • • •' • '• • •, • • • • • • • • •

t l i

Students to repaint defaced bus stops A GROUP of students on Nov. 25 will repaint bus stops on Saipan that havebeendefacedsincelastsummer.

Lupe Borja-Robinson, Governor's special assistant for youth, said about 16 students from Marianas High School's JROTC progran1, Grace Christian Academy, and Marianas Baptist Academy will remove graffiti from the bus stops this Saturday, in line with the "Youth Against Graffiti'' projectinitiaJedbytheGovemor' s Office of Youth Affairs last summer.

The "Youth Against Graffiti"

project was organized last June to promote beauty and pride among island yout11 for public and private property.

Steve Lizama, youth programs assistant, wiU direct the youth this Saturday, with assistance from Sgt. Maj. Don Aguigui of MHS' JROTC mid other adult volunteers.

The "Youth Against Graffiti"' was initially funded lastJ une with a $1,100 grant from the Public School System to purchase paint and brushes.

Christmas with the arts exhibit THE Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture is inviting the public to visit its "Christmas With the Arts" exhibit, to be held at the Multipurpose Center, Susupe, from Nov. 25 through Dec. 3. The exhibit will include Micronesian and international craftwork, artwork and photography produced by local artists. All

,., J ~!~ · .•• \\; 1:r,m 111.app-· -· -'"- - i. AJl '· , · · ;;y·oo.,;,

Continued from page i

be invill.:d. Torre::-: r-lof.~L·hn~idcr . ..:L"fJ<!r-;.ncd

-:-,·nn1 Lhc l<tf1Lblic2n t\trty in I's.)\;'? L nf i1ic;1J pr:ncip);,_'..s.;,

11: :1 )\'. :us no: in• itni !iirr,

·,.'L ·:- :'~-_i1<1b!y r:-1~:~ lh--.:: "Jan1agc ,·::!'; hcC-i""t lklitC L-.,_-,;-,1 both ur us:·

"I c~un,: bacL v.'ith n1y ~;!~dg.eh;u;1merand (the p:uty) came back with (its) sledgehammer. and there· s some dent in there. I think there· s still that fight in their part," he added.

However. he said he"s willing to rejoin the ruling party on condition that it "fom1ally invite us."

He may still rejoin without the formal invitation if an extraordinary '\:vent would happen'" or "significant changes" occur in the pany.

[HJ HONDA.

work will be for sale. Exhibit hours are: Saturday, Nov.

25 and Sunday, Nov. 26, from 9 am. to 3 p.m.. Monday through Friday from 8 am. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 am. to 3 p.m.

For further information, you may contact Robert Hunter or Sinforosa Pinaulaattelephone322-9982or322-9983.

For the meantime, he said. he wdl remain Independent. adding that he was happy being one.

!. Ic said, though, tb.:H voter~ :.:L·i: ,·d hirn n, ,1 .10 much because :-.,~· ;·;u~ ~1~ aJi '·:ci:.:pcndcr:1 c:s 11,.>

,..::ui.\1.~ :·,fhi:-i ~Lt:;.,·,'·iliDlislHncnt:, . .! ;.,

, . ; ,~ :·. : [ ,•,: :;-:- , ,pie . -. t -.; i_:i__1 ', ,1

i~H._· !-,c· :i.lL!~t: ih:..'.)') u.rL:--;~:t:·ftt:d'.1.<1..h \:.. hm 1xe did iri ih,:· }·,;,L-,t t\'> ,_·i )-'ear~.·

A11Lng 1J1~ lndcpL:n<len! c:.mdid:1lt.'\ tl1at 1cm in the la.,t eb·tinns, only Torre, and Hotsdmeider won.

He said he was not expecting rJ1.it number of votes he got.

··1 mn happy to be an independent for rJ1e next two years;· he said.

A,kcd1fl1e would behappit:rbeing with the rulingparty,hc said, "I don't know."

But he seems to be enjoying, too, the fact that" I have many friends·· in the Republican Party.

HONDA

234-8333/8334 Fax: 234-8335

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1995 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-5

"Androcles and the Lion" at the park "ANDROCLES AND THE LION" which opened Nov. 18 at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library, will have another playdate on Friday, Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. at the American Memorial Park. The Play, based on an Aesops Fable about a lion who is helped by a passerby and in turn returns the favor, includes a host of comedic characters.

Other playdates are Saturday, Nov. 25, 4 p.m., at Tanapag Beach Park; Sunday, Nov. 26, 4 p.m. at American Memorial Park playground; Saturday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m., at Kagman Homestead Park and Sunday. Dec. 3, 5 p.m. at American Memorial Park playground.

The play perf'ormed by the Northern Marianas College

Drama Troupe, is sponsored in part by the Nat ion al Endowment for the Arts and its granter the Commonwealth Council for Arts and Cultu re.

Cheryl Treiber, Northern Marianas College instructor and the show's producer, encour~ge families to bring their picnic food and other items to the plays

TURKEY WITII STUFFING WITII A CHOICE OF THE FOLLOWING: Honey Baked Ham or Prime Rib

COMES WITII: Choices of Red or White Rice or Mashed Potatoes

Soup-French Onion or Vegetable Garden Soup Open Salad Bar with a Choice of Dressing: Thousand Island, Italian, Frenc/1, Ceasar, Ranch

Dinner Rolls and Desset

Choice of No;,-aicohol JJe,,e,·age

.P_RICE: 512.CO flr!n.?r

I

i

==:~=;"fj;,~~~1,Ji;;~:Jf P;tif~~~~;J

. e:2, tGi®ff a gri~ mi wm1r ~amrnm1, I . fhlia~~®~~ fD([]ffbr.a $~IU~ta for 3ay[y TuVh~~1 you can earn as much as 8. 75°/o in our investment accounts&

lntereste Rate

7.50°/o 8.00°/o

per annum

Term

3 mos.

6 mos_

12 mos.

18 mos.

30 mos.

Min. Investment

$1000

$1000

$500

$100

$100

per annum

·s.50°/o per annum

8.625%per annum

8. 7 5 °/o per annum lli~~m~mr&E*fil:IB~mw:f'iig11J:~n~mrn~tm~r::J.t~g;~g;;;;tx~~1~~r.:-::1r=tr~~i~1:r~m.:mf1~~t~w1>..~~~,«~™"~

Tamuning 647-6840

Dededo 635-7320

Saipan (670) 234-0142

• Rates subject to change without notice. For Guam and Saipan residents only

" ,, if j.' ·I

!/ t·:

i

11

' J i .~

_J

6-MARIANAS VARIE-r:Y NEWS AND VI~\\'_5__-_\\ll:;[JNE_SQ_1Y_: NOVEMBER 22, 1995

The Philippines

8 fishers jailed for reporting crime freed PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (AP) - Eight fishcnnen wen: set free T uescby. more than four ye= after being locked up when they went 10 authorities to report illegal fishing by their employer.

"l can-t understand why they were even held. We intended to use them a., witnesses agJ.inst their employer," Cmdr. Carlos Gagalac of the Philippine Coast Guard sa.id at a cowt he,uing last \,c'..!k. He sa.id the Coast Ciuard never ftb:l charges against the ci:::ht.

Court renm.ls shnw<".d tlut in miclJli'-J 1. the eight men went to a Cc,N Guard dct:ichmcnt and sun1211dered sc1·cr.1..l tx.1gs of Stxlium cyanide and

the fish they had caught with the poison.

They reported that a businessman who hired them to collect sea cucumbers ordered them inste..1d to catch high-priced groupers using the poison. The chemical stuns the fish. alIowim: them to be collected and St•ld live in-se..1food restaura!ll,.

For soil unkno1111 reasons. a state prosecutor included the eight in the illc!.!al !i,hin!l c.1.-.c against thl' hu,ine,;m,m. and a,lch!; c·harge of illcS!.cl rxis"'-"s,ion L,i' s,-xlium cv:mide - Lawyer Robc11 Ch,m ,iihe bwimnmental l .cpl .-\ctirn1 Center ,;;lid t11at while rJic husi ncssm:m WL'fl[ free·. the fishem1cn \\t:re t,x, p.x1r ll> 1x11

l 0.000 pesos (S 385) bail each and spent rmm: than four ycai, in the pmvincialjaiJ in Puerto Princesa. 592 kilometers (370 miles) southwest of Manila.

Chan tlXlk the case to court and wl1n t.l1eir freedom after learning uf tJ1e case from the fishennrn' s 1dati,·es.

Ch:m callcdt11cca.,;ean "incn.x!ibk travestY of justice" ai1d blamed it on pmscc~trn~ 11·ho "chose to stick to their 0 !...'l.lilty' theorvbc>eauscthev were too p; ,ud-to admit t.l1ey made ·a mistake."

... Ilic Dcp:mment or J u,,tice ought 1,, rm·estigatc :md pinp.1int ri::sports1-bility." h.: s:ud.

Ramos bares Manila's APEC plan PRESIDENT Fidel Ramos arrived last Sunday night after a successful trip to Japan where he attended the leader's summit of the APEC in Osaka, Japan.

The President left Osaka immediately after the signing of the APEC declaration and Action Agenda at the end as he assured that the Philippines will maintain the political momentum transiating it into an action plan when the country hosts APEC next year.

The Chief Executive called the action plan to be crafted next year as the "Manila Acti on Plan for APEC" or '"MAPA\996" because "we are literally charting the future of the APEC economies."

APEC in the country "is a big challenge to the Filipino people."

Severino said there will be constant consultations and meetings among APEC offi-

BOE ... Continued from page '1

counted. Six challenged votes were

counted after the board denied the petitions.

Also made official by the elections board is the CNMI voters' rejection of Legislative No. 9-1. a proposal to raise the buuget ceiling of the legislature and legislative bureau.

cials "to compare, discuss and assess these action plans."

Our preparations should be excellent. It should be the best," the President said Sunday morning during a teleconference.

The proposal, the board said, "failed to be ratified by an affirmative majority of votes actually cast for such initiative."

Based on the complete and official result, of a total of 4,739 rejected LI 9-1, while 4,288 voted in favor of it.

Also yesterday, Diaz reminded all candidates to file their campaign financial statement to the board. Filing deadline is Dec. 24. (MCM)

Ramos meanwhile, is expected to convene soon the APEC 1996 organizing committee. DFA Usec Rodolfo Severino said that holding the

BUCKLE UP SAIPAN I •

I EFFORT

Basic Construction Supply is coordinating for relief supplies to be donated to the people of Pampanga province in the Philippines.

Many citizens in Pampanga have lost all of their poss.essions due to the flooding from typhoon rains and the devastation of the lahar flow from Mt. Pinatubo.

Basic Construction Supply has drop boxes for clothing, money or any relief supplies destined for the Pampanga relief effort.

Basic Construction is located on Beach Road, North of Quarter Master Road in ~halan Laulau.

BASIC ~ ~ ,; CONSTRUCTION-Y SUPPLY

P.O. BOX 331, SAIPAN, MP 96950 PHONE: (670) 234-6609; 7666; eng FAX: (670) 234-8720

TI1e provincial prosecutors office refused to comment.

Released were Dario Echon, Monicio Pontineo. Mario Tesorio,

Gualberto Gallego, Ferdie Bernardino, Alfredo Tolgo, Rodolfo Ortega ru1dTotoHusay, all in their late 20sor early 30s.

: Chile President arrives I • CHILE President Eduardo Frei Pacific." will tackle issues on i RuizTaglearrivedyesterdayfor the Asia-Pacific economy, the ! a two-day state visit to strengthen environment, and regional secu-/ historic, economic, and cultural rity.

ties with the Philippines. This · Meanwhile, Ambassador to morning, Frei will address the Chile Rodolfo Arizala said "the opening oft he International con- visit of Chilcm1 President Edr1ardo fcrcncc of I.he Christian Demo- Frei RuizTaglcandmcmber,;ofhL, cratic International (CD[) at the delegation to the Republic of the Philippine International Cultural Philippines is a historic mid a sig-

. Center. nificant one. It is the first visit of a The conference. with the head of state from Chile to RP. It

theme ''Economic with a Hu- definitely enhances further the so- : i man Face: The Emerging Eco- cial, p<)litical and economic rela- • , - • I

/ nomic Structures of the Asia tions between the two countnes. J1 L_--·-·----·--·--··--·-----·-··----·-----------------------------·

Legal experts hopeful PHILIPPINE legal expert.~ are hopeful t.l1at an upcoming opinion by the world" s supreme judicial authority on the illegality of the use of nuclear weapons will clear the way for a global pact against nuclear disarmament

The Philippines wa~ one of23 countries tliat gave oral arguments before the International Cowt of Justice in two-week hearings that ended Ia.st week in The Hague, Netherlands.

The IO wa.s asked by the UN General Assembly and the World Health

Organization to give a non-binding opinion on whether using or threatening to c.leploy weapons is prohibited by international law.

Prof. Emmanuel Lallana of the Department of Foreign Affairs Foreign Service Institute pointed out that while the !CJ' s opinion is not binding, what is important is that we have the weight of the legal opinion of the world's highest judicial body regarding the legality or illegality of nuclear weapons.

US official visits Manila US TRANSPORTATION Secretary Federico Pena arrived Monday in the region. Pena, who signed the advisory declaring the Ninoy Aquino International Airport unsafe, led a 21-member US trade mission. He is the highest ranking official to visitSubic since the closure of the US naval base.

Transportation Secretary Jesus Garcia and NAIA General Manager Francisco Ataydc who met with Pena al the .-\irport said the

downgrading of the airport to conditional status will be taken up in their talks scheduled today at the Manila Hotel which will include Air Transportation Office chief Panfilo Villaruel Jr. and Filipino officials and businessmen.

Garcia said the NAIA is ready for a new inspection by the Federal Aviation Administration and expressed optimism the country's premier airport will eventually have a category I status.

MICROL INSURANCE has immediate opening for a highly

motivated person to work as

Automobile Insurance Adjuster (Local Hire)

candidate must posses the following qualifications:

1.) 2-year experience in the Automotive Industry 2.) proven mechanical skills which must be supported by

references 3.l must have outstanding customer service skills 4. must have good clerical & communication skills 5l must be prepared to work beyond ordinary working hours 6 must be able to work within a team environment 7) insurance background preferred but not required.

Plese submit applications, resume & reference at Microl Insurance Office, Ground Floor, Urn's

Office Bldg. cor. Beach Road, San Jose, Saipan. Mi.crol lnsu.rance is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

I~ BETTER DRIVERS I I~ BUCKLE UP _J

;111

I

Cl

.:1 l., ~.

,,!·. ,'; .: {/

I· ;_;':~ ·. ' '

.• 11 /•. 1.l,_,

i I I I

___________________________ _:_:WE~WTESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1995 -MAR.JANAS VARJETY NEWS AND VIEWS-7

P{lcific Islands · . . . .

Pohnpeians elect new gov., legislators PALIKIR, Pohnpei- Nearly 20 thousand registered voters in Pohnpei and elsewhere went to the polls on November 14, 1995, to elect the new Governor, Lt Governor, and twenty-three members of the 4th State Legislature whose tenn of four years will begin in January 1996.

Unofficial results as announced over Radio Station V6AHby Election Commissioner Samson Alpet is as follows: Gubernatorial candidates Del Pangelinanleadhisotherfouroponent.s with, 6,190 votes not enough to avert a runoff; second to him is incumbent Johnny David with 4,936votes;Edwel Santos got 2,935 votes; Itor Hanis,

1775 votes and Kletus James got 192 votes.

In the Lieutenant Governor's race, Dion G. Neth lead with 7,544 votes; next is Victor Edwin with 4,401 votes; William Seneres with 2,244 votes and Simon Kihleng with 1,616 votes. There will also be a runoff election after 28 days between Del Pangelinan and Johnny David and Lieutenant Governor's candidates Dion Neth and Victor Edwin.

Unofficial winners for the 23 Legislative seats are as follows: for the four winners for Sokehs are Feliciano Perman with 1,378 votes; Ausin Lambert with 1,327 votes; Almes Leben

with I, 189 votes and Peter Lohn with I, 185 votes.

Kolonia winners are Fernando Scaliem with 846 and Y osuo Phillip with 566 votes. Sapwuafik winner is Alfrerl Phillip with 235 votes defeating incumbent KenioFrankwith203 votes. Incumbent Gerson Lekka from Nukuoro defeated Dison Gide.on with J 94 and 114 votes, respectively. IncumbentKapingamarangiSenatorlohp Loehete defeated challenger Taitos Hikarip with 183 to 146 votes. M woakilloa incumbent Senator Ismael l..ebehn won over Sailas Henry with 289 votes.

Unofficial results from Kitti show

Papuan PM on nuclear test PALIKIR, Pohnpei-The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea and current Chairman of the South Pacific Forum issued the following statement regarding the second nuclear test conducted by France on October 2, 1995, at Fangatufa Atoll in French Polynesia: "I have held long and constructive discussions with the French Minister for Co-operation, Mr. Jacques Godfrain, during the Post Forum Dialogue meeting two weeks ago reiterating Papua New Guinea's abhorrence to France's arrogance

and, whilst we want to create a closer links, France's attitude disregards and shows arrogance. This continues to be barriers and destructive to our good intentions."

"I am obliged to restate categorically and emphatically the extreme outrage Forum Governments feel at France's decision to continue its nuclear testing program so soon after the Forum Statement on nuclear testing was issued at the recent South Pacific Forum in Madang followed by the dialogue meet-

ing we had with the French Minister for Co-operation, Mr. Jacques Godfrain.

"In expressing our concerns over the second test, I have requested the Forum Secretary General to take immediate steps to ask all Forum Governments to immediately begin a review of France's status as a Post Forum Dialogue Partner. This action is in accordance with the decision of Forum Leaders which I quote: "Should France continue its testing in the Pacific, the Forum will review France's status as a PostForum Dialogue Partner."

Workday. Workday. Workday. Workday. Workday. Workday. Sunday.

(What's another workday between friends?)

...

.;;. -., :~-....

....

~~~'

Saipan Paging now open Saturdays. Saipan Paging is extending its office hours to further its commitment

to providing the finest quality paging seNice on Saipan. Our centrally located office will now be open at the following times:

Monday - Friday 8am-5pm Saturday 9am-2pm

Pauline and Martha from Saipan Paging look for\\/ard to seeing you any six days of the week.

See our agents at MicroPac and CommPac.

8AIPAij bAGING SAIPAN PAGING MMC II RM. 101 CI-IAlAN KANOA BEACH RD. SAIPAN, MP 969fl.J • TR. (670) 23H24'.l PAGE) 7637 • FAX: (670) 235-7640

the following as winners: Bernie Martin with 1,367 votes; Bernell Edward with 1,224 votes; Hennan Semes with 1,151 votes and Francisco Joanis with 1,090 votes. From Madolenihmw unofficial winners include Naiten Phillip with 1,186 votes; Nelson Pelep with 1,093 votes; Dachuo Johnson with 1,022 votes and Benskin Etse with 923

votes. Unofficial winners from U are Joseph Moses with 842 votes and Ambros Senda with 781 votes. Unofficial winners from Nett are Quirino Mendiola with 1, l 70 votes and Valerio Hallens with 860 votes. The unofficial returns from Pingelap has not been publicly announced by the Election Commissioner Samson Alpet.

1fe

1\t'

~-~

fnuumJgwlng ~eaah jii

(f"i\ ·-) ~. ., Ol LOBSTER MISO SOUP ~~ Honey Glazed Ham with Apple Sauce ~ Glazed Apple Roast Smoked Flavor Turkey Breast with iK- Au-jus Sauce and Cranberry Compote (Complimentary

!_I('·· Champagne) Glazed Sweet Potato and . ( Buttered Vegetables.

l..;._..... * * * '~- PUMPKIN CHEESE CAKE

11l·.~_;_-_-.· COFFEE OR TEA

• It\ $14.00 PER PERSON ~*~) jf il> r211tfilfl7'T,~~}1T:11~~7-fff;1TI~~--~TJ -0\!i))

,Jj.J r;/t&

~ Ji.:

j, .

1l~ :,~ i~ (r;p};

.

)""''~ '~( \- ,a)

-!p

Grilled Marina,ed Fish Fillet on Crispy G2.rde11 3reer: with Balsamic Viniagrette and tomato Cou!ies .

* * * Honey Glazed Ham with Apple Sauce am::

Glazed Apple Roast Smoked Flavor TurkGy Breast with Au-jus Sauce and Cranberry Compote (Complimentary

Champagne) Glazed Sweet Potato and Buttered Vegetables.

* * * Roast Prime Ribs Served with Port Wine Sauce

and Green Pepper Corn, Au-jus Sauce and Horseradish. Baked Potato and Buttered Vegetables.

THREE CHOICES OF DESSERT Three-Layerd Mousse Pumpkin Cheese Cake

Fruit Jello with Almond Cream Cheese

Jt-,

;,NNER SERVED :::~~p~:::: GCASS OF vaNE $24.00 PER PERSON

,tft ,CT J. ""~.: .!:I' ' ~ c:l

:!

,.,, .._._

i I

j I

I

I

I I

,I

.I

_j

8-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS ANQ VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- NOVEMBER 22. 1995 =---- ------·-----

US OKs first new AIDS treatment By KIM I. MILLS

WASHINGTON (AP)-The U.S. Fcxxi and Drug Administration approved the first new therapy for tL<e as an initial AIDS treatment in nearly a decade Monday, authorizingthedrug 3TC to be used with AZT.

When the two drugs are paired, 3TC appe.ars to boost immune systems and lower the amount of the HIV virus in the blcxxi for ar least six

months, says Glaxo Wellcome Inc. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., which makes both drugs.

The combination therapy appears to work best in patients who have never tried AZT alone, prompting an FDA advisory panel to recommend earlier this month that it be offered as an initial therapy.

Monday's action makes the 3TC combination American patients' first

new choice for initial treatment since AZT hit the market in 1987. AU other AIDSdrugssoldtodatearesupposed tobeusedafterAZTfails. Glaxo's wholesale price for the combined drug therapy will be dlrs 12.67 to $13.96 per daily dose. This would total $ 4,600 to$5, I 00 a year, said Glaxo. Sold under the trade name Epivirandalsoknownaslamivudine, 3TC should be available in pharmacies next week, Glai,;o said in a statement

It is the fifth memberof a family of AIDS drugs that fight the disease by incapacitating a protein important in the virus' reproduction.

The FDA's action was based on data from four clinical trials enrolling about 1,CXXJHIV-infectedadults who received either the combined 3TCAZTtherapy, 3TC alone, AZT alone or AZT and ddC. The latter drug, ddC, was approved for use against

AIDS, but, unlike 3TC, was not approved for use as an initial therapy.

The trials showed that patients treated with the combination of3TC and AZT sustained a higher increase of CD4 cells - a reflection of immune system strength- than patients on the other three regimens. On average, CD4 cell counts in patient~ on the combination of 3TC and AZT increased by 30 to 50 cells above the levelsatthestartofthe24-weektrials. ''The real significance of this combination lies in its potent and sustained . antiviral effect, and its boost to the immune system," said Dr. Joseph J. Eron Jr., assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He was the primary investigator of the U.S. study of the combination in previously untreated patients. Numerous questions remain about the 3TC combina-

tion.111erearesomesuggestionsthat when patients develop resistance to 3TC, they also may not respond to alternatives, such as the drugs ddJ and ddC.

"I am very uncomfortable giving this regimen in a widespread way," Dr. Douglas Mayers ofW alter Reed Anny Institute of Research in Washington said earlier this month.

Despite the questions, AIDS advocatessaidtheywere generaUypleased by the FD A's action.

"This is an incredible turnaround time for the agency in getting the drug out there to people with HIV," said Ben Cheng, spokesman for Project Infonn,aSanFrancisco-basedAIDS information and advocacy organization.

But he also voiced some concern over 3TC' s side effects, noting that some children in the clinical trials had developed pancreatitis.

New menopausal tablet WASHING TON (AP) _

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first combined estrogen and progcstin tablet for women taking hormone replacement medication during menopause.

MAKE IT A HABIT ALWAYS READ THE

Ho(ilrm f(t$t!Dl1Vlf!Ol

Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories said Monday it had won clearance to market the combined tablets, which could simplify therapy for the 4.6 million American menopausal women who take estrogen and progcstin.

Physicians prescribe hormone

replacement therapy to help women avoid bone loss and to treat such symptoms of menopause as hot flashes and night sweats.

The tablets will be sold under the brand names Prempro and Prem phase.

arianas 'Variet

Aside from our a la carte menu, we offer American & Japanese set

We have different chasers to go along

with our Fresh Beer-menu for only

$6·00 each I

1 , J J , ! f ~ /· ' I I . I . ' 1 . , , , . 1 ~ ., ; I ~ 1 t , , ,

• ~ ~ f I I~' " 1 , .... i 1 .' J ', I I I ', : t • •

You will be surprised with our very affordable prices Come One, Come All

We are open from Tuesday to Sunday (Close on Mondays)

Breakfast 7:00am- 9:00am Dinner & Beer Hall 6:00pm -12:00mn

We also have spacious banquet hall for holiday parties and other gatherings.

We are located at the lobby of <WW'AN

Holiday in Saipan Resort Club eLe11

(formerly Blueberry Hotel) in SCHOOi.

Garapan For inquiries & reservations,

please call 234-3554 or 233-3920

9ioMa!J In Saipan

'l(esort C[u6

, , , 1 < I ( J I J } ' I } \ ~ ·, , 1 , • o o 1 • o : I I ~ . '•. • • • • • .', ,: 11:1~·~~· ,·,~~- ·,·,· . ' ... : . ' ' ._ . ',

I• t l

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1995 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND V!EWS-9 ------------------

EITETIU ART

D/M Spaghetti Sauce 26.5 oz ............... $1.29/ea. 8/H Slicedpineapple 20 oz ................... $1.29/ea. Gold Mt. Buttom Mushroom 15oz ....... $1. 79/ea. Sukiyaki No-Torno 8.75 oz ................... $4.98/ea. D/M Stewed Tomatoes 15oz ................ $0.89/ea. Nestle Condensed Milk 400g ............... $1. 79/ea. Carnation Evaporated milk 12 oz ......... $0.98/ea. D/M Pine Apple Juice 46oz .................. $1.59/ea. Master A-1 Tuna Aji-No-Moto Bundaberg White Hormel Corned

Hrmel Spam 12 oz. 1 case Limit.. ....... $1. 79/ea. 7 Oif __ 1,..><""'".,--:'--cc' ! 6oz. ~ Sugar 2kg Beef2 2~z. 8/H Salad Macaroni 1602 ..................... $1.39/ea.

Asahi, Beer Z or Dry Can

$1 falo~/OJ/~~o

Coors, Beer Reg./ Light/Extra Gold

TOILETRIES/SUN[;>RIES

Joy Diswashing

Liquid 22oz.

Pork SpareRibs 5-Up ~,:,.1J ef'(J ffil /Rf}-1, ~ l:Jl.l Ut;;Jg Lil1JJc

Pork Ears

Prell Shampoo/

Conditioner 15oz.

Ultra Downy 60 use

r.··, .-·:

--- '.".}

-·-.r:.> :1Ur 1 1 ::.i :_( .. ,'-~,·-,, <~.l~ ' . ' r:- I·! J ·.: r ] \ \

:~) r-~-: · \ \_:~< I f ·1 !. ir-ifi l '. \. -:_ ___ ,.-· l j '. -~~ -

Coast Bath Soap 3/5 oz./pkg

Beef Spare Ribs .................. $1.19/lb. Beef Tripe ............................ $0. 79/lb.

Beef Feet Skin-On

Chicken Drumsticks (Family Pack)

nD.·'I (J~j·} .<"< f'l::'1P '--~ t _. L·· _:·_ ( /·::_4 r. /1 · /i,~ ~ il I ' ,.J 1J J ,/, 1 :.'\'\ ,1b 1,J·._: _ . _ ~,~ ~: .. ~k,1 _ o [''·j·_ 1,-._:l r:l • r. ;·· .,:, "1,j' n ,. [,, 1J ,·. -., ,;:, ''I~ r, ' '- :l ,·: · r, f,: /,a.•, f(t .. , 1,J ''I a· .,',1 r,~ r. '"--- ~ ~ ..... 1· --~ i:..;......../ ru

L'

Chicken Drumettes 1 O lbs./bag .... $8,00/ea. Chicken Wings (Family Pack) ....... $1.49/lb. Stewing Chicken ............................. $1.09/lb. Cornish Game Hen 20 oz . ............. $2.39/ea.

I f

We are not responsible for any typingiprinting error . I


Commander back on Earth:

Did he leave anything in 'Atlantis' ? By MARCIA DUNN

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - The commander of the successful shuttle docking with the Russian space station Mir couldn't be happier. But now that he's back on Earth, he can't help but wonder: Did he leave anything behind?

Atlantis is scheduled to return to Mir with more astronauts in four months and they can get it then, commander Kenneth Cameron said after guiding Atlantis to a smooth landing Monday.

The noon touchdown wa, broadca,t liveatRussianMissionControloutside Moscow. However, Mir's three cosmonaut,, who spent three days with the five astronaut, while their spaceships were docked, had to wait more than an hour before getting official word because of sporadic communications. The mission was NASA's fourth in the joint U.S.-RLL,sian program, including two doc kings, and the la,t shuttle flight of the year. Shuttle manager Tommy Holloway said the missions

have "far exceeded my expectations." "I would have expected us to take

longer to come together ( with the Russians) and operate a~ smoothly and as well as we do," he said. Thernpport in omit was a major conaibutor to that su=ss.

"It wasn't like moving in with family and you get refrigerator rights or bathroomrights. Thatmaycomeaswe get into an international station," Cameron said. Yet "we were more than just... visitors for a short period of

time, and that's becaLL-e we did know the people we were dealing with." Cameron said it was tough saying goodbye,andheand his crew wish they could have stayed a little longer. The eight men hope to reunite in the spring; the cosmonauts don't return to Earth until late February.

All five remaining Atlantis-Mir linkups are needed to improve work between the two space programs and to ferry supplies to Mir, Holloway said.

On this mission, for example, the

astronauts dropped off supplies and a Russian-built docking port that will make future shuttle visits easier and safer. They brought back more than 800 pounds (360 kilos) of equipment, mostly science experiments.

Cameron said he had a nagging feeling that he might have left something on Mir, but he couldn't say whether it was a personal item or equipment. "I haven't lost any sleep over it," he added.

Leeson to get fair trial, says Kohl By VIJA Y JOSHI

SINGAPORE (AP) - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Tuesday said he believesex-Barings trader Nick Leeson will get a fair aial after Germany expels him to Singapore this week to faoe fraud and forgery charges. Leeson, the trader who helped bring down Barings, Britain's oldest bank, is expected to be

extradited any day and has promise<l to cooperate with Singapore investigators.

"Mr. Leeson expressly consented to his extradition and I think that he will be given a fair trial here in Singapore,'' Kohl told a news conference at the end of his official visiL

Kohl, who is on the last leg of an

• J · l ;J :-~-----------Pork Butt Bnls "Dub" .............................. $1.59/Lb. Pork Sparerib 2DN Danish ....... 10/Lb ............. 15.95/Lb. Pork Hock ........................................... 0.69/Lb. Smoked Ham B/119/22 ........................... 1.79/Lb. Dub Frank Ckn/Pork ............... 1 /lb ............. 0.99/Pkg.

• J·l 1l 5 a :\'d Turkey Whole Tom ................................. 1.19/Lb. Whole Fryen Chicken ............. 30/Lb ......... 24.95/Lb. L.I. Young Duckling ............................... 1.69/Lb. Chicken Thigh •..................... 5/lb ................. 4.85/Box Turkey Tail TIP ..................................... 0.49/Lb.

Enterprises Saipan Inc. P.O. BOX 2725, SAIPAN, MP 96950TEL.: 234-7243 • FAX: 234-3304

Asian tour, spoke about invesunent opportunities for Europe in Asia and also about his preceding visit to China and Vietnam.

But he obviously was expecting a questiononLeesonbecausehcrcadout from a prepared statement and prefacedit bysaying: "I canonly thank God that I have a text here."

"I am not one of those who think that once they are elected, the good Lord has also given them the whole of the expertise they need inordertodeal with any question that may come up,'' Kohl said.

He added that the extradition is on the basis of a decision by his govemmentonNov. 14, whichinturnactedon

Carnation Ice Cream ... ··········-· 1/2/Gal. ....... $3.00/ea. Carnation Sandwich 5 oz .......... B's/Pkg ....... 3.00/Pkg. LC Assorted Piua 1 PW ............................. 1.00/Pc. Corn Cobbettes 24's ................................ 6.95/Pkg. American Sliced Cheese 120's ... 5/Lb ............ 11.95/Lb. Assorted Mousecake 1 O" ........................ 13.50/Box. ta ;t·X3 4 ;Ji t _______ _ #1 O Mashed Potatoes ............................. $5.50/Can #10 Sweet Peas 8'STD .............................. 4.35/Can #10 Fruit Cocktail .................................... 5.95/Can #10 Creamy Butter Peanut ......................... 8.95/Can Mayonnaise ......................... 1 Gal ............ 5.99/Blt.

l•&B J ;t·) ·1113 !Ji Red Apple Fancy 88's ............................... 0.59/Lb. Gold Apple Fancy 88's .............................. 0. 79/Lb. Green Apple Fancy 88's ............................. 0.89/Lb. Fiji Apple Fancy 100's ····················-········· 0.89/Lb. Cello Red/Gold Apple .............. 8/Lb .............. 1.99/Lb. Kiwi Fruit·---·-··········-···················-·········· 1.79/Lb. Orange Cello 113's ................. 3/Lb ............. 1.85/Bag Persimmon Fryer Sml/Large ................. 1.75/1.95/Lb. Danjou Pear 1 OO's ................................... 0. 79/Lb. Asian Pear ............................................ 1.99/Lb. Tangerine Honey ...................................... 1.00/Lb. Painted Pumpkin······-··························· .... 2.95/Ea. Garlic Braids 20" ······-···························· 10.95/Box Cello Carrot··-·················"···· 1/Lb ............ 0.59/Bag Jumbo Carrot_ ........................................ 0.59/Lb. Jumbo Garlic ......................................... 1.29/Lb. Brazil Ginger ......................................... 1.79/Lb. Korean Lo Bok .........................•.......•.•.... 0.69/Lb. Pumkin Squash .........................•.......•.... 0.59/Lb. Yellow Oman Jumbo/Meduim ...................... 0.35/Lb. Potatoes 90'S ...........................•.....•.•.•.. 0.39/Lb. Sweet Potatoes Red ................•.•.•............ 0. 79/Lb. Cello Radish ..••...................•. 6 oz ............... 0.59/Lb. White Radish .......•.............•......•.....•...... 0.59/Lb. Ex-Large Eggs Ckn ...•.............. 1 /Dz .............. 1.29/Ct. Medium Eggs .......••.............. 1/Dz .............. 1.09/Ct.

Special oll 10% Discount price on all California Cooler and Gallo Wine tor Thanksgiving day.

* Above Special are good from Novembet 21, to November 25 '95 or while supplies last. Kwek's Ent. is not responsible for

-any "type error"' or any misprint by newspaper.' : o

'

an Oct. 14. cowt order. 'There is a legal time frame that will be adhered to. 1his is a very official statement and there is nothing thatlhave to add to it," he said.

Thesecrecyoverthedateofl..eeson's retumhasheightenedasenseofdrarna,

. similar to the time when the 28-yearold trader fled Singapore on Feb. 23. He was arrested in Frankfurt a few days later.

He is accuse<l of forging documents and using a fictitiousacccunt to deal on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange where his losing bel, on the future of Tokyo stocks brought down Barings in February under the weight of$ 1.38 billion in debts.

Leesoninitiallyclaimedhewouldbe unfairly rried in Singapore, but later retracted the statement and apologized to the government and the people of Singapore.

The change of heart came after a Singaporeinvestigators' reportaccused top Barings executives in London and Singapore of cover up and not imposing proper controls on Leeson' s operations. An earlier Bank of England report tried to pin most of the blame on Leeson.

Once he returns, Leeson will be formally charged in a magistrate's cowt. A date for the trial will be fixed if the magistrate is satisfied that there is enough evidence against Leeson.

The case could be settled by January or even sooner if Leeson pleads guilty, but his lawyer, John Koh, has been tight-lippedabouthisstrategy. Since he fled Singapore, there is little likelihood of bail being gmnted. There isno jury system in Singapore. JfLee.10n isfoundguilty,hefacesamaximum 14 years in prison. He will serve his sentence in Changi Prison on the eastern tip of the island.

Phone fraud forces Beijing to unhook lines BEIJING (AP) - Hundreds of pay phones in Beijing's university district have been shut down after students made long-distance calls without paying, the state-run China Daily reported Tuesday.

Technicians with the Beijing Telecommunications Administration found that some people had decoded the pay phones, allowing long-distance calls to be made for one fen (one-twelfth of a cent), the newspaper said. The administration, which had the phones dismantled over the weekend, said it lost several hundred thousand y·uan (tens of thousands of dollars). It still has not figured out how the phones were decoded.

I f: !,

r1 :l I,,. .·'

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1995 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-11 --------------------------------

Asia-wide media power in the making By DAVID SMYTH

NEW YORK (AP) - Asia Times, an English-language newspaper to be launched in Bangkok Dec. 6, is the latest link in what Thai publisher Sondhi Limthongkul says will become an Asia-wide media power.

"The news media are no longer monopolized by the West," Sondhi said in an interview in New York announcing his new bid for readership in the Asia-Pacific region.

"I am on my own turf. This is my territory and I will fight for it," he said. "It will be a very good fight. I want to create a pan-Asian media empire covering all of Asia."

Sondhi, chairman of M Group PLC of Bangkok, is chief executive officer of a conglomerate active in print, broadcasting, on-line publishing, multimedia CD, database marketing and information services.

Its publishing arm, Manager Media Group, lists assets of$ 700 million and publishes a stable of business and financial, technology, trade and lifestyle magazines. Buzz magazine in Los Angeles also belongs to Sondhi, whose assets are held in an intricate web of cross-holdings. Another of Sondhi' s holdings is Asia Broadcasting and Communications Network, which has the right to launch and operate a telecommunications satellite for Laos.

M Group is also in the hotel business in Laos, China and Vietnam, and is involved with plans to build a huge cement factory in Vietnam. Sondhi said that some years ago he tried to buy United Press International but the American news agency refused to sell to him. (Sources at UPI said at the time that he offered too little money).

As he becomes more competitive against Westernowned media, Sondhi said "years from now they will have to come knocking at my door.'' Asia Times is launching its first issue with 45,000 copies. but Sondhi said "we expect to raise circulation to 120,000 within two or three years." The daily' s main readership will be in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, but Sondhi said "we expect to sell 5,000 copies in the United States and somewhat less in Europe."

Asia Times will be the second Bangkok-based effort in under a year to launch a business-oriented regional newspaper. In January, Thai and Singaporean investors began publishing Business Day, but plans to distribute the new_spaper outside of Thailand ap-

Click-It or

Ticket

pear to be lagging. Sondhi himself worked at a failed effort at an English-language business daily in the mid-1970s, Business Times. Before that he worked for a Thailanguage newspaper.

On its home ground, Asia Times will face fierce competition from the two long-established English-language dailies, the Bangkok Post and The Nation.

At the same time, Manager Media Group has been posting losses this year, prompting personnel cutbacks in some of its departments.

The group's best known regional publishing venture is the Hong Kong-based English language magazine, Asia Inc. The slickly designed monthly is said to be turning a profit after three years in operation.

different nationalities. All reporters are either nationals of the country they cover or have extensive Asian experience."

The newspaper has an ex-

~. ··i ..

tensive staff of foreign correspondents in addition to 80 people working in Bangkok.

Sondhi said "Asia Times is being created to fill a void in

the regional print media still dominated by imported titles" such as the Financial Times of London and the Wall Street Journal.

"Asia Times is written from an Asian point of view," Sondhi said. "It is not a western interpretation of Asian affairs. Editor in chief Pansak Vinyaratn is a veteran Thai journalist and served as an advisor to former prime minister Chatichai Choonhaven. He heads an editorial team of 30

Pierce School first graders Ellen Lee, left, Daniel Mendelson, ce~ter, and ~acory Winslow, right, hold their anti-smoking signs during the Great Amencan S!17_okeScream m Brook/me, Ma~s., Thursday, Nov. _16. Students from dozens of schools in Massachusetts 1omed others from across the nation to scream out against the tobacco industry. AP

Join us as we turn on over 800,000 lights and kick off the holiday season!

Lighting Ceremony 6:00 p.m.

Visit with Mr. & Mrs. Santa 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. bring your camera! (You can also visit with us every Saturday from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. throughout November and December)

Live music & dancing with t~e Freddie ~aints Band .. ~ 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. ~··

/ -,

./ \

()

0 ,:-~}',

e••• .••• ci••e o*@«> '"'@@ee • o e IJl ... 8 $ e O e e GI 0 8 @ 0

$ • e •· • • o • © e ct O e 8 e .·· -:. ..... · ~ ..... · -:. ..... · ...... · .... . THANKSGIVING DAY November 23

.Sa.iya.n ®

.....___,=-....,--;;.;,=~ . . . . . . '.'.'.

1,'.::~.· . :·.:;'

i ·~


Temporary budget deal reopens gov't By ALAN FRAM

W ASlHNGTON (AP)-Withabudgettrucerevvingthe govenunmtback to life, the White House and congressional Republicans pledged Monday to use December talks to champion divergentspendingprioritiesthathave so far been irreconcilable. The Re-

publicans signaled !X)SSible give on their prized tax cut

Democrats and Republicans alike seemedrelievedthatthelongest-ever partial federal shutdown wasending, a six-day ordeal that had both parties fearing retribution by disgusted voters. But there was doggedness, too,

--~

l ' '1.l

and White House S!X)kesman Mike McCurry warned, ''We'll be right back where we were" unless the two sides strike a budget deal by midDecember.

Aday afterbipartisanleadersshook hands on a pact reopening government through Dec. 15, the House

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton receives a T-shirt from Steven Koh, 13, of Andover, Mass., Monday, Nov. 13, at Boston's Logan International Airport where she met 25 student tobacco control activists from across the state. Mrs. Clinton is also in Boston to stand in for her husband at a presidential fundraiser. AP

I .

Celebrate Than~giving Day, Thurway, November 23, 1995 wilh your-family and friends at Giovanni's Restaurant or Kili Cafe and Terrace.

( '.,,--,, /' ~ ·~,·1·( -..J \_)\,L.\1 111 )

I SA!PAN

This Thanksgiving you do not have to cook for dinner, Hyatt Regency

Saipan has done it for you!

Giovanni's will feature an cxqu1s1!t:

champagne brunch. The brunch 1s

open from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., p:1ced a, $25.UU for a<.Jults and $13.0(J for children. .. - >)

r. // (·c~~:.? )<: .. - -··--

On Thursday, November 23, 1995 Kili Cafe and i;,~rracc will have a

Dinner Buffet that will incluclc traditional carvings and a barbct1uc.

( __ . ---~--

If you prdcr a more e&ual style, \/ then Kili Cafe is for you. Their J champagne brunch is open from /.;,··

..,f./ 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., priced at $25.00 .,-:-:( for adults and $13.00 for children. ..,<: .. <\

. - . . \

Club at the Hyatt Card;; wdcome. ·.\?

0

The Thanksgiving Dinner Buffet at Kili Cafe is open from 6:00 p.m. to

10:00 p.m., priced at $24.00 for adulls and $12.00 for children.

Club at the Hyatt Cards welcome.

For reservations or inquirie? _please call ?}4-1234 ext.: 26, . ' ... • ' • , J • , • • • • • • • •• - - • • ' •

debated the measure and planned to ship it to President Clinton for his signature. The legislation commits both sides to seeking a balanced budget in seven years using congressional economic calculations, which Republicans had demanded for months, and to protect social programs, as the White House insisted.

BeforerecessingforThanksgiving Thursday, theHousealsopreparedto give the final congressional blessing to the Republican plan for balancing the budget by 2002. It would overhaul Medicare, slice scores of programs and trim taxes for millions.

Ointon's long-promised veto of that measure will serve as the starter's flag for bargaining that Republican leaders said they hoped would begin next Monday.

Thepresidenthadlongsaidthatthe Republicans' seven-year, budget-balancing timetable would force overly harsh spending cuts. Democrats said Monday that to meet that schedule, the key in upcoming negotiations would be to force Republicans to shrink their planned $245 billion tax

break for families and businesses. "Well, I think that has to be on the

table," responded House Speaker Newt Gingrich on NBC's "Today" program. Trimmingthetaxcutwould make things easierfoqxiliticians and bureaucrats, but"harderforparents,'' he added.

Both sides said they were mulling plans for the soucture of their nego-

tiations. But for now, each stressed that going in, they had achieved what they wanted.

"If we do what we should do between now and Dec. 15, it won't make any difference who won and who lost," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. But he couldn't resist adding: "I think we won. We didn't blink." That's not how Democrats saw it

"The president got what we wanted,'' boasted White House staff chief Leon PanettaonABC's "Gocx! Morning America," saying the administrationgotRepublicanstopromise to protect Medicare, Medicaid, education, theenvironmentandaidto working families from severe reductions. Panetta insisted that the administration had surrendered little in accepting the Republicans' timetable, saying it was spending levels for iin!X)rtant social programs that really counted On NBC' s "Today,'' he even seemed to hedge a bit on the timetable itself.

''If we can work out an agreement that protects those priorities, we can do it in seven years or eight years,'' Panettasai d. "But the important thing is protecting those priorities, and that's what we got in the agreement last night."

Those remarks infuriate.ct Republicans, whonotedthattheSundayagreement called for an elimination of annual deficit, "not later than fiscal year2002.''

Clinton support steady from 1992 RALEIGH,NorthCarolina(AP)The common perception that President Clinton is in deep trouble with voters and has lost much of his support from 1992isnotreflectedinpolls in 35 states, a polling expert said Monday.

TI1rn.J Beyle, a political science professor at the Uni versityofNorth Cami in a al Chapel Hill, said polls indicate Clinton would have about the s:unc support he did in 1992 if he were matched up with Sen. Bob Dole, the Republican front-runner.

"While both projected 1996 major party candidates have considemble lead, over llilyone else in their own party for the nomination, neither candidate has a lead of any consequence acrossthestates,"Beylesaid. Beyle compared !X)ll result, for 35 states in

an article for the National Network of State Polls Newsletter, which is published through the Institute for Research in Social Science at UNCChapel Hill.

l11e individual polls generally were commissioned by newspapersordone by university researchers.

Vvl1ile it is still too early to make solid predictions, Beyle wrote, the survey results indicate Clinton ha, picked up significant support in Connecticut, Massachusett, and New J ersey, exceeding his 1992 results by 10 percentage points or more.

In seven states, his sup!X)rt has increased since I 992 by 5 to 9 percentage points over his 1992 returns. TI1e seven are New York, Arizona, l'1 ebraska,'Calif omia, Utah, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Aniericans urged to give to charity WASHING TON (AP) -A group of conservatives who want charities to replace government for the needy kicked off a campaign Monday urging Americans to devote more time and money to private help organizations.

The effort will feature TV public service announcements and newspaper ads emphasizing "a call to compassion'' and contending government cannot solve the problems of the poor.

'There are no government solutions. Only our personal in-

volvcment is going to make a difference," said Arianna Huffington, chairwoman of the Center for Effective Compassion.

The group hopes to encourage citizen participation with private groups that work with drug addicts, pregnant teens, the homeless and others. The center is an rum of the conservative think tank, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, which has close ties to House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Huffington' s husband, Michael, lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in California la~t year.

-·-,· li "

,, ')

t,,l

)

,, 1 .• I,

j,

I t lq-i ~~; ·.;ifJ 'f.r~

.-,J_'.;

. l',

l· TURKEY

n I

'--, -;• .• ; I

I

I

!


·- __ .._::: --- ·-·- ____ :. :_

·.;,,,.,'.;,.

I

PUMPKIN PIE 9"

PUMPI(IN CAl(E

' i •, 1.

\ ... ·------·--·--------·------------~----· ,

. I C. ---. ~~

.,. \

,~·/ .. \

Jf~\Jh)

1 ... ! I

l i 1_:

, I

fl 11 [! '; ., CI

I \

14-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDA ¥-NOVEMBER 22, 1995

Thanksgiving

·MEAT DEPT.·· ·paoouc·E· OEPT. WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

U.S. WHOLE FRYERS, 30 LBS.

U.S. HEAD ~CABBAGE

LB.

/, .. ·- "'). HON~DEW

•,4~. ~pi:~~:S,20LB5 •• ,,~ f.fo:~.. tJ7j ~=-{\ MELON

U.S. JUMBO GARLIC LI.

U.S.HEDIUH BROWN ONION lB. U.S. BROWN POTATOES LB.

U.S. CANTALOUPE LI.

U.S. FRESH ORANGES LB.

U.S. RED APPLES LB.

U.S. SEEDLESS RED GRAPES LB.

. \ , ....... ,;;.-7:-'--~ . ··) ------- ------- ~-·· ____ La_. ________ ___, ' .

. GROCERIES 0

ORE IDA GOLDEN CRINKLE CUT FRENCH FRIES, 2 LBS.

LB.

CHINESE SUN EGG ROLL WRAPPER, 160Z.

U.S.FROZEN SQUID, I LBBX.

t•H C EA.

., o, EA.

•t 15 EA.

. . c·HILL . '

WHOLE RED GINGER

MOMOYAKIM CHEE BASE, 1,200 G

AVOSET WHIPPING CREAM, 32 OZ.

PRINCELLA CUT

YAM, 29 oz.

LB.

KIKKOMAN SOY

SAUCE 1.6 LITRE

LIMIT I CS.

EA.

. .

;-.. -,~_AR.~·~--- P.~QQ,~-~JS;\

ZEE PAPER

NAPKINS, 360CT.

ULTRA TIDE

POWDER DETERGENT,

BS LOADS

ICHIBAN DRAFT,

12/633 ML $I.SO EA. t9~~,~

EA.

LIBBY'S FRUIT BUDWEISER BEER NECTAR, ,,. DRY,LIGHT ff 15 11. 5 OZ. U OR REGULAR, ANY FLAVOR 12/12 OZ. PK.

HILLER urE •t•s coKE, sPRITEt f t•s BEER, OR FANTAS, 12/12 OZ. PK. 24/12 OZ. CS.

COLORTEX BATHROOM TISSUE, 12 ROLLS

SPRINGFIELD CLEAR PLASTIC COCKTAIL CUPS, 9 oz.

PK. X 20 CT. PK.

REYNOLD'S WRAP HOME & GARDEN ALUMINUM FOIL DECORATED 18"X 35.5 PAPER SQ. FT. PLATES,

PK. 9"X48 CT. PK.

PK.

WONDERFUL POWDER DETERGENT,

SOOG •ttt. CLORALEEN LIQUID BLEACH, t f 11 I GAL EA.

OCTAGON IRISHSPRING DISHWASHING BAR SOAP, LIQUID, f f f 5 3/l.5 OZ. .,. 40 OZ. EA. BARS · PK.

DINNER ROlL PKG.

g.tOt\'fS B"f s,oan clUB

CARt>\GAN B'fBOON\E

-lUMfEtl B'f \JMUMf{EO

§HOl\'fS S£1 Bl FRENCH 10AST

M\ClE'f & M\NN\E 1 -SHIil

AMERICAN GREETINGS THANKSGIVING PAPER PRODUCTS& ACCESSORIES

-

WHITE RAIN SHAMPOO 15 oz.

SPRINGFIELD BABY WIPES 84'5


SPRINGFIELD COTION SWABS 375'S

JERGENS LOTION 10oz.

G.E. LIGHTBULB 4/PK

16-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY-NOVEMBER 22, 1995

KfDS SHOES HENS SHOES WOMENS SHOES. ALL APPARELS ALL HATS

ENTl~E STOCK

,_1. '. • •• · .. ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·_._

NOV. 22-28

SUSUPE, TEL.: 235-6964 GARAPAN, TEL.: 234-1236

Everything in Store on Sale

NOV.22 TO 28

HAFA ADAI SHOPPING CENTER GARAPAN

TEL. NO. 233-4653 <••I, 0 O •• I I I I I IO••• ' .' .' .' ' ' ' ... ' .. ' .. _ ·- .

. - - . . . . - .

WEDNESDAY , NOVEMBER 22, 1995 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-17

Solidarity hero brought own defeat By MAGDALENA KULIG

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Life was never so difficult for Lech Walesa until he became president. It might just get easier now that he's been unseated.

The 52-year-old symbol of Solidarity's struggle for Poland's self-determination was a hero at home and abroad until his 1990 election. That's when his faults started showing.

He was too combative and stubborn, wielding his v.eto power liberally, shunning compromise, alienating potential allies. His way of expressing himself was often vague, confusing - even insulting.

Walesa only survived the Nov. 5 first-round presidential election because no other Solidarity-rooted candidate stood a chance of defeating the articulate ex-Communist Alexander Kwasniewski.

Even in defeat, the common side of Walesa that so often turned off his countrymen showed through.

The scrappy former electrician just couldn't resist a cheap shot at Kwasniewski, who foiled his reelection bid by winning 51.7 percent of the vote in Sunday's runoff.

"We're not going to talk because we don't have anything to talk about," Walesa told reporters Monday when asked his response to Kwasniewski' s call for reconciliation.

"I took a few slaps in the face, so much so that in accordance with the O!d Testament I've got to strike back until his jaw falls off," he added. That was Walesa's way of saying he hopes to mount a strong opposition, forming a political bloc that will try to wrest control of parliament from Kwasniewski' s leftist coalition.

In a country where men still kiss women's hands in greeting, people expect their president to he more polite.

"He doesn't live up to any stanJur<ls, Polish or Europeai\,'' said

DariuszWersinski, a 56-year-old journalist. "He is a simpleton.''

Walesa turned off many when he refused to shake Kwasniewski' s hand last week after a nationally televised debate.

"It's more true than Walesa lost ttie election than that Kwasniewski won it," said former Walesa friend Bronislaw Geremek, chairman of parliament's foreign affairs committee.

More than half of Walesa's votes came from people who backed him as the lesser of two evils, fearing a Kwasniewski victory would mean a resurgence "of corrupt Communist apparatchiks.

The election outcome showed a rejection of Walesa's authoritarian bent, which had included attempts to govern by decree and stubborn resistance to civilian control of the military.

Still, there was sadness at the hero's fall, even among people who voted against Walesa.

"There is certain feeling of depression among people in Poland today and one can see it everywhere - in the store, at the hairdresser," Janina Paradowska, a left-leaning political commentator, said Monday. Paradowska said in an interview that she believed many people who voted Kwasniewski did so out ofresentment for Walesa's style, while actually hoping for his victory.

"Walesa was never aware that democracy means a constant discussion. Walesa rather sought to wield power. He did not realize that the democratic power means persuading people,'' said Geremek. Whatever he does now, no one questions that Walesa is a living legend, not just a Nobel Peace Prize winner but also a playful, charismatic man who makes people laugh with ease.

Even Kwasniewski acknowledged Walesa's "indisputable place in Polish history'' in his nationally televised address on Monday.

Microl Corporation P.O. Box 267

San Jose Village. Salpan. MP 96950 Telephone Nos.: 234-5911 /5

HAS AN IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

Auto Mechanic - at least high school graduate w / 5 yrs. of experience and must have own tools

Body & Fender Repair Person - at least high school graduate w / 5 yrs. of experience and musf have own tools

company Benefits: Health/Life Insurance, vacation/sick/bereavement leaves, retirement plan. paid holidays. company discounts.

Application may be picked up at the personnel office located at the new car showroom during the hours of 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M .. Monday thru Friday.

CNMI requires us to ensure that anyone we hire Is legally entitled to employment In the CNMI; and we comply with this law on a non-discriminatory basis. Please bring proof of work eligibility. Mlcrol Corporation Is an equal opportunity employer.

One thing is clear, Lech Walesa will not fade without a fight.

"I am going to serve Poland in some other way," he told supporters Monday. Political commentator Konstanty Gebert

jokingly suggested Walesa create a foundation, like Mikhail Goibachev inRussia,orbecome "anolderroving subversive meeting with disgruntled from the entire planet." Kwasniewski suggested during the

campaignthatWalesa,knowntoshun books, follow the example of fonner U.S. presidents and build a library. '~isnotreallyanewrolethathe might take," said Gebert. "He will invent one."

,._;-'· .... ,,;;:

,r .. A woman waits for customers to buy her barracuda fish on a beach in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday, Nov. 13. The fishingisdonebymen, but women are in charge of buying the catch from the fishermen to then resell it. AP

Introducing 2 New Networks only on

Saipan Cable TV Channel SO

t-1\ove \Jt't.vie+-y D0t.y & NiBV\i-

DRAMA · ACTION M;i·#Pi:t4W

fxm: NoY•es from Fox features both legendary and contemporary movies from the 20th Century Fox library. uncut and commercial-free.

Hollywood's First

MUSICALS COMEDY Fox BEST

fxm: Nov•es from Fox showcases 60 years of movies and the studio that produces them. Now you can watch movies direct from the source.

Movie Network

Tel. 234-6629 W,\, W~ Tc E~ Y~ Ttt. E~

.. . {

18-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- NOVEMBER ""22, 1995

Agitators planted in settlers' ranks? By JACK KAlZENELL

JERUSALEM (AP) · Anti-government activists accused the Shin Bet secret service on Monday of planting agitators in their ranks in an attempt to touch off violence and discredit them

Opposition leaders in parliament demanded an investigation of the role of suspected Shin Bet mole Avishai Raviv, a friend of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin' sc.onfesse.d killer, Yi gal Amir.

Since Rabin was murdered Nov. 4, the right wing has been blamed for creating the climate for the assassination with harsh rhetoric intended to undennine the legitimacy of the government

Raviv is the leaderof theEyal group, a tiny offshoot of the anti-Arab Kach movement Israeli media reports have said Raviv has been an informer for the Shin Bet since I 993.

Raviv has denied a link to the Shin Bet He was held for several days for questioning in Rabin's death, then was released last week

On Monday, settler leader Eliakim Haetzni said Raviv rented a room in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba outside Hebron about a year ago. His landladywasMiriamGoldstein, widow of Baruch Goldstein, 1he settler who shot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers

inaHebronmosqueinFebruary 1994. "Sincethenhehasbeenactingnotas

an informer but as an agent provocateur," saidHaetzni,aresidentofKiryat Alba.

MosheFeiglinistheleaderoftheZu Artzeinu (This is Our Land) group that has blocked West Bank roads to protest government plans to withdraw from occupied lands. He said Raviv and some followers stoned Palestinians and smashed windows of Arab homes during a recent gathering of settler supporters in Hebron.

"Asmallgroupledby AvishaiRaviv went out to the Arab neighborhoods, assaulted Arabs, threw stcnes at them and made sure that the news media were there to see it," he saicL

An Israel TV reporter said Sunday said that at a right-wing protest on Oct 5, Raviv came up to him to show him posters of Rabin in a Nazi uniform, an especially inflammatmy image in Israel. Raviv returned a few minutes later to make sure the reporter had used the posters in his broadcast. Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticized for not breaking off the rail y when the posters showing the c!vetored images were raised. On Monday, right-wing politicians demanded a thorough investigation. "'The fact that it was he (Raviv) who distributed the poster

This Thanksgiving Weekend Why Not Try Kevin Costner For Dessert?!

~M©VIE H®USE 3:, 7: & 9:45 3:, 7: & 9:45 3:, 7: & 9:45

A Great Family Adventure Film

Showlimes: 234-FILM

ofRabin inan SS uniform is something very strange and wonisome," said former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the opposition Likud Party. "How did he get this and who told him to do this?" Shamir asked on Israel radio.

The right-wing leaders said they

did not kn~w if the Shin Bet or- arrested a new suspect m the mur-dered Raviv's acts of violence or der case. Avshalom Weinberg, 24, even knew of them in advance. is a religious man from Moshav

"But they certainly knew they Gamlicl,acooperativ~farmi~gvil-had happened," Haetzni said. "So lage so~th of Tel Aviv. Weinberg the question is - why did they not served m the paratroopers and then put a stop to them?'' enrolled at Bar Ilan Uni~ersity, the

In another development, police school attended by Amir.

Jewish leader's wife gets 10 days in jail

By DIANNA CAHN JERUSALEM (AP). The wife of the Jewish settlement movement's founder was sentenced to 10 days in jail Monday after she sat on a courtroom floor, refused to move, then screamed ''Murderers of Jews!" at police.

Miriam Levinger was arrested as part of a government crackdown ordered after the Nov. 4 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist

The Cabinet decided Sunday to disband subversive groups and ban Jewish extremists li vingabroad from entering Israel. Police have said they were preparing indictments against several dozen Jewish militants.

The American-born Mrs. Levinger, in her 50s, was taken by police from her home in the West Bank town of Hebron to a Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Monday.

Mrs. Levinger was brought in to hear a verdict on charges she attacked a police officer in Hebron several months ago and prevented another officer from carrying out his duty.

Mrs. Levinger sat down on the courtroom floor and refused to get up forthe judge, who then sentenced her to 10 days in jail for contempt of court As she was earned away by halfadozenpoliceofficers,sheyelled: "Let'sgo,Bolsheviks!l..et'sgoStalin! Let'sgoMcCarthy!Let'sgomurderersofJews!" Police spokesman Eric Bar -Chen saidthataftersheserves the 10 days, Mrs. Levinger will be brought before the court again to hear the verdict Mrs. Levingerhasrepeatedly refused to appear in court

Mrs. Levinger immigrated to Israel from New York City nearly 30 years ago. She led a group of eight women and 40 children who established the first Jewish enclave in Hebron in 1979.

Her husband, Moshe, is the spiritual leader of the 450 Jewish settlers nowlivinginHebron,acityofl20,()X) Palestinians.

Another Hebron resident, Baruch Marz.el, was taken to the Hebron police station Monday and served by police with an army order restricting himtohishomeuntilDec.26.Marz.el,

head of the outlawed anti-Arab Kach movement, wassenthomelaterinthe day.

Marz.el is permitted to visit the Kiryat Arba settlement outside Hebron during the day, but needs a special army permit to go anywhere else, an army spokesman said Monday.

Marzel was jailed for several months without trial after the February 1994 mosque massacre in which KachmemberBaruchGoldsteinshot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers in Hebron. Since then, Marze! has been under house arrest, but has frequently flouted the restrictions.

The warrant renewing his house arrest was issued in September, but Marze! managed to dodge it until Monday.

Also Monday, Israel army radio said policearresteda22-year--0ldJewish settler on suspicion he threatened settler Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun. The rabbi had given police names of colleagues he believed issued re-1 igi ous rulings that justified Rabin's assassination.

Mother, son arrested on hubby's faked death TOKYO (AP)- Police in western Japan arrested the wife and son of a Japanese national accused of faking his own death in the Philippines for fraudulently attempting to cash in on his life insurance policy.

Earlier this month, Philippines national police filed charges of falsification of official documents against Taka,hi Mori, 47, and his 20-year-old son, Ritsu.

Mori, a former private hospital executive from Osaka, admitted last

month to Philippine investigators that he faked his death with the help of Rit,u, so his family in Japan could claim his life in.,urance policy. Mori has been in police custody in the Philippines.

Four Philippine police officers have been charged with falsifying official documents last week in helping Mori's scheme. Mori has said he paid 150,000 pesos($ 7,770) to the officers last Decemberto prepare a police report and other papers to

certify he had drowned. A spokesman of the Osaka Pre

fectural (state) Police said Mori's wife, Kayoko, 45, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly trying to collect about 400 million yen ($ 4 million) in. insurance money in April over her husband's supposed death from Japanese insurance firms.

Ritsu, who has been charged with swindle, was rearrested for an attempted fraud.

We'll do everything except carry your suitcase But if you take us with you, we'll do that too!

CALL WORLD TOUR FOR RESERVATeONS

233-3750 / 3800 / 3850 Call right now and ask about our great package tours.

Planning A Thanksgiving or A Christmas Getaway ,then You must Call Right Now

The Best Prices in Town.

LET'S GO TO SYDNEY. WE CAN ALSO HELP WITH VISA'S

Please Call Us At 233-3600, 3650, 3700, 3750, 3800 And Ask For Edgar, Mira, Juvy or Miss Huang


Business/Finance!!m:E-Dollar falls in wake of budget concerns

By KAREN GULLO NEW YORK (AP)- The American dollar ended .mostly lower against other key currencies Monday as traders took a second look at the U.S. budget agreement and decided Republicans and Democrats are still far apart on key issues.

Confidence in Sunday's breakthrough- which ended a weeklong government shutdow;, - gave way

to worries that the two sides are still divided on how to cut the deficit.

"A more sober assessment of the agreement caused there to be some selling," said Chris Iggo, international economist at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

In late New York trading, the dollar fetched 101.35 yen, down from 102.05 Friday. The dollar also traded at 1.4067 German

marks, up from 1.4060. The British pound was quoted at $1.5539, up from $ 1.5445.

The White House and Congress inked a deal Sunday that reopened the government, allowing hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees to return to work.

A second agreement to fund operations through Dec. l S passed the Senate and was expected to

clear the House later. Both sides agreed to work to

wards balancing the budget within seven years. But President Clinton and Republican leaders in Congress still disagree on cuts in Medicaid, education and the environment. "Traders are disappointed that it doesn't appear to be a strong agreement but rather just sort of a frame- . work,'' said Dave Glowacki, senior trader at NBD Bank in Detroit

The budget deficit is believed to be akeyunderlyingcauseforthedollar's chronic weakness against the yen and marlc.

Traders also said the dollar was adversely impacted by technical factors in a thin milrket The cwrency strengthened in overseas trading on news of the budget agreement, but when it did not rise above certain levels against other currencies, traders sold to capture profits.

Kerkorian out to oust Chrysler director By MIKE McKESSON

DETROIT (AP) - Kirk Kerkorian, Chrysler Corp.' s largest shareholder, said Monday he will try to oust a company director and replace him with Kerlmrian lieutenant Jerome B. York, a former Chrysler executive.

Kerlcorianhasbeenpushingtheboard for nearly a year to take steps he believes will increase Chrysler's shareholder value. In April he launched an abortive attempt to take over the c.ompany.

A meeting Monday between Kerkoriari and Chrysler Chainnan Robert 1. Eaton apparently did not satisfy the billionaire investor from LiL, Vegas. The two had not met since la,t December.

In a statement after the meeting, Kerkorian' s T racinda Corp. said it will file document, with the Secwities and ExchangeCommission to solicit shareholder support to unseat former Kmart Corp. Chairman Joseph Antonini from the Chrysler board at the c.ompany' s annual meeting next spring.

RJRNabisco files suit vs 2 investors

By SKIP WOLLENBERG NEW YORK (AP) - RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. accused investors Bennett LeBow and Carl Icahn in a lawsuitMondayofillegallyconspiring to gain control of the huge food and toba= company.

A spokesman for LeBow's Brooke Group Ltd. said the lawsuit was ba,;eless and was designed to distract attention from the financiers' efforts to press theRJR board for an inunediatespino!T of its food business. The lawsuit escalates what is becoming an increasingly nasty fight, which is symbolically being waged over the timing for the separation of RJR Nabisco's food and toba= businesses.

LeBow and Icahn favor an immediate spinoff of Nabsioo' s food business from RJR' s tobac.oo business as a way to boost the stock price. The food businessincludesbrandssuchas Oreocookies and Ritz crackers, while the tobacco lineup includes Camel and Winston cigarettes.

RJR said there is some merit to the spinoff idea but the timing is wrong for turning over it, remaining interest in the food business to RJR shareholders.

The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in North Carolina a~ Le Bow and Icahn were poised to nominate a slate of candidates to replace the current RJR board and proceed with the immediate Nabisco spinoff.

Antonini could not be reached for comment Monday.

Kerkorian owns or controls more than 14 percent of Chrysler's stock. The proxy solicitation involves a~king

other shareholders to sign -over the voting rights of their stock. Corporate directors are elected by shareholders, with each share of stock representing one vote.

are

Ava1lable at yaur favorite market.

York left Chrysler's top finance job three years ago to bec.ome chief financial officer at IBM Corp. He left IBM this fall to join Kerkorian. Kerkorian' s pressure on Chrysler, including the

Red Dog Beer. Enjoy It Responsibly.

Plank Road Brewery.

failed attempt at a$ 23 billion takeover last spring, is rooted in his c.ontention that the company is too conservative in managing it~ cash and that it should share more with shareholders.

Distributed by Pacif1c Trading company.

C 1995 Plank Road Brewery f,l<lwaukee, WI

) I

' 'i

if . i .~

; ·,I

;;

'-Ole'I MliiliiUUUIUlml

(Ungraded) The Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC) is soliciting employment applications for the aforementioned position for the Central Office in Garapan, Saipan. It is a policy of NMHC that equal opportunity be given to all qualified applicants without regard to aQe, sex, race, marital status, place of origin, religion, handicap, or political affiliation. NMHC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: These include, but are not limited to the following:

Directs and coordinates activities of the Fiscal Division in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Establishes, maintains and directs accounting systems and recommends changes as necessary, through the collection and interpretation of financial data.

Prepares a variety of federally-funded assistance program reports and other reports involving Covenant Funds. Community Development Block Grant, Section 8 HAP Contract, HOME, etc.

Provides financial statements and information as required by the Corporate Director and/or Board of Directors.

Supervises employees and provides guidance in work planning, execution and maintenance of performance standards; evaluates employees on their performance and provides counseling or enforces disciplinary procedures as required.

Prepares NMHC's annual operating budget and provides required justifications for review and approval of Corporate Director and the Board of Directors.

Develops and maintains a system of record keeping, security thereof and records confidentiality.

Reviews and approves periodic reports and payments on payroll and other tax deductions .

. Acts as the principal advisor to the Corporate Director and Board of Directors on oil fiscal and financial matters.

SALARY: Salary commences at PL 35, $28,808 per annum, up to a maximum of $42,558 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications. Salary above Step 1 requires the approval of the Chairman of the Board.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting from a U.S. accred1ted educational institution, plus four (4) years of experience ot which two (2) years must have been in a supervisory capacity, and substantial knowledge and background in federal grants, computerized accounting and data processing. Computer literacy is a must in order to satisfactorily perform the required duties and responsibilities.

WHERE TO APPLY: NMHC Employment Application form can be obtained at the NMHC Central Office in Garapan, which must be submitted together with an official school transcript, diploma or certificate for all education and training claimed, and police clearance, no later than December 6, 1995 to the Corporate Director, Northern Marianas Housing Corporation, P.O. BOX 514, SAIPAN, MP 96950. For further information, call telephone numbers 234-6866/9447 /7689/7670 or write to the above address.

"NMHC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT AND FAIR HOUSING PUBLIC AGENCY"

1~£.i lf • J. V.1.'-.1.'- \C1.&. J - i ~v ............ b

the end of a second straight disappointing year in foreign markets, American investors in international stock mutual funds may be starting to wonder whether they took the wrong route.

As U.S. funds investing overseas suffered a series of jolts in 1994 and early 1995, large numbers of their shareholders kept the faith, reasoning thatthe bright promise in foreign economies was worth the price of a little shorttenn volatility.

Since then, however, their confidence has been tested further. While the U.S. market has rallied sharply to new highs, other markets around the world have staged a less rewarding rebound.

Through the first three quarters of 1995, an average of 276 international funds tracked by the research finn of Lipper Analytical Services Inc. posted a 7.44 percent return, including reinvestmentof dividends. That pales beside the 27 .20 percent return recorded by Lipper' s average of 1,934 funds investing primarily in U.S. stocks.

For the five years through Sept. 30, international funds had a cumulative return of 67.76 percent,. only a little more than half the U.S. domestic funds' average of 128.84 percent.

"This is the second consecutive year that our international fund allocation has been a drag on the performance of our portfolios," says Walter Frank, chief investment officer at the advisory service IBC's Moneyletter in Ashland, Massachusetts.

"After a two-year run with such

the outlook for the international equity markets.'' One reason why Wall Street has fared better than most foreign financial centers this year, Frank says, is that profit growth in the United States has been stronger than expected, making progress by foreign companies look less compelling by comparison.

Also, he says, an unexpectedly

large drop in U.S. interest rates has made American stocks look like better values than they might otherwise have appeared.

At the same time, many analysts have noted an apparent shift in the way American investors with a global viewpoint have approached the markets. Rather than venture directly into foreign stocks, a significant number have decided this year to seek to participate in global growth by owning shares of U.S. multinational companies.

These big-name blue chips have a much more stable image than investments in overseas markets. But the exposure that can be gained through them to world

The companies that make up Standard and Poor's 500-stock composite index, one of the best known yardsticks of the U.S. market, in the aggregate do nearly one-third of their sales volume outside the United States, say Le

wis Mandell of Marquette University and Mary M. Cutler of Central Connecticut State University.

In addition, they point out, index funds modeled after the S and P 500 are significantly cheaper to run than funds that invest overseas, with all their research and operating costs.

"Recognition of the benefits of such a strategy might help to explain the large flow of funds from riskier foreign securities markets back to the U.S. capital markets in 1995," says Mandell, whoisdean of the college of business administration at Marquette, in Milwaukee.

But developments like this haven't soured bullish analysts like Frank on international funds. Indeed, he asserts, foreign stocks now can be viewed as very attractively priced.

"The pickings in the U.S. market are going to be slimmer from now on," he says. "Meanwhile, the recovery in continental Europe is still in its early stages. The Pacific Rim countries have been growing, are growing, and will continue to grow."

Certainly, foreign stock markets have come back strong in the past from periods of a year or two in which they lagged behind U.S. stocks.

THE ADVISORY COMMISSION ON COMPENSATION OF THE GOVERNOR;

LT. GOVERNOR, LEGISLATORS, JUSTICES AND JUDGES, RESIDENT REP

RESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED STATES AND MAYORS, WILL CONDUCT A

PUBLIC HEARING ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1995, AT 9:00 A.M. IN

THE SENATE CHAMBER, NORTHERN MARIANAS COMMONWEALTH LEG

ISLATURE, CAPITOL HILL, SAIPAN.

THE PURPOSE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING IS TO SOLICIT PUBLIC COM

MENTS, VIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE COMPENSATION OF THE

GOVERNOR, LT. GOVERNOR, LEGISLATORS, JUSTICES AND JUDGES,

RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED STATES AND MAYORS.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATIEND. ANY PERSON WISHING TO

TESTIFY, PLEASE CONTACT THE CHAIRMAN, HERMAN T. GUERRERO.

FoR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL MR. GUERRERO AT TEL. No. 664-2282 OR FAX No. 664-2390.

/s/ HERMAN T. GUERRERO, CHAIR DATE: NOVEMBER 21, 1995

Just a few of the new improvements we've

made at FHP to keep in step with our

members' needs, and to make sure your

appointment is right on schedule.

f=M.P HEAL TH ·CARE

" Y o u r h e a l t h f o r I i f e .. partner

'For Guam and Salpan raaldences only.

22-MARIANAS VARI_E:TY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY- N0'{.~\1BE~ 22, 199_5~------ ----------------------------~---------

Asia cargo hub

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -Philippine and U.S. officials signed an agreement Monday that will allow freer air cargo operations and promote the Philippines as the cargo hub of Asia.

The agreement signed by

Philippine Transportation Secretary Jesus Garcia and his U.S. counterpart Federico Pena also calls for the two countries to open their skies to passenger carriers from the other country by 2003.

The new accord amends the 1982 Philippines-U.S. air transport agreement. "The

accord is a partnership in the truest sense because it broadens opportunities for carriers on both sides ... by increasing the number of cargo and passenger flights,'· Pena said.

He said more flights would increase the number of tourists travelling between the two countries, raising investments

REQUEST fOR PROPOSALS The Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) is soliciting proposals for the procurement of one (l) new tractor for agricultural use and one (1) 15 feet Batwing Mower with hydraulic accessories. The tractor should equipped with 2300/2500 RPM, 70-80 gross HP, on PTO, two-wheel drive with the tire size 16. 9 x24 x 89 reply gear, 7.50 x 16 x 6 front, power steering, dual stage clutch, hydraulic system, diesel fuel, 12 volt system with all additional standard equipment and transmission of eight forward and four speed reverse w\th sliding collars and helical gears industrial yellow color, four cy\\nders, 450 RPM PTO.

Proposals must be submitted to the Commonwealth Ports Authority, Office of the Executive Director, Saipan International Airport, PO. Box l 055, Saipan, MP 96950, on or before December l, 1995 at l O a.m. at which time the proposal(s) will be publicly opened and read. The CPA reserves the right to reject any and al\ proposals pursuant to Section 3.2(7) of the CPA's Procurement Rules and Regulations.

/s/Mr. Joe B. Aldan Acting Executive Director

Joa(!!Jin Cruz Babauta ( /th Anniversary)

Rufina Lizama Babauta ( 4th Anniversary)

We the family of the late Joaquin C. and Rufina L. Bahauta cordially invite all our relatives and friends to join us in prayers as we commemorate the Anniversary of

our Beloved Mother and Father. Nightly Holy Rosary will commence on Saturday, November 25, 1995 until Sunday, December 03, 1995 at the residence

of Juan L. and Manuela A. Babauta in San Roque at 8:00 p.m. On the final day, Sunday, December 03, 1995, Mass of Intention will be said at

San Roque Church at 8:00 a.m. Breakfast will be served immediately after mass. PLEASE JOIN US IN OUR PRAYERS

THANK YOU

FROM THE FAMILY

and creating more jobs. He also said the agreement was significant in view of the growing air passenger service in the Asia-Pacific region, which will increase from the present 35 percent to more than half of all global air traffic by 20 l 0. Federal Express Corp. already operates its Asian hub from the Subic Bay Freeport, a former U.S. naval base 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Manila.

Investors warned

SINGAPORE (AP) Singaporeans were warned Monday against putting their money in investments that promised sky-high returns.

'"Many complaints have been received from the investing public that they have been duped by unscrupulous operators, some of whom operate from overseas,'' said a statement from the Commercial Affairs Department, the investigative arm of the Ministry of Finance.

"Several investors have also lost substantial sums of money on the foreign exchange and futures markets because they have little or no knowledge about the mechanics of forex trading or futures trading,'' the CAD said.

It gave no examples of those who incurred losses and gave no details of suspect get-richquick schemes.

Exchange rates

HONG KONG (AP) - Senior officials of the central banks of four countries and Hong Kong signed agreements Monday that permit them to cooperate in stabilizing their exchange rates, a senior Hong Kong official said. The central banks of Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesian and Hong Kong signed bilateral agreements that al-

emergency cash on a temporary basis in exchange for U.S. Treasuries, said Joseph Yam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is the British colony's de facto central bank.

Representatives of the central banks of Japan, China, the Philippines, South Korea and New Zealand also attended the signing ceremony.

Yam said an informal meeting of the 10 central banks was a followup to a gathering last January where some of them talked about ways of boosting cooperation.

He said Monday's meeting was "to review developments in the financial markets and to examine the opportunities for further cooperation among central banks."

Merrill Lynch

TOKYO (AP) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday said it has issued a warning to U.S. brokerage house Merrill Lynch for infringement of securities regulations applicable to non-Japanese securities companies. Merrill Lynch earlier this month was forced to refrain from arbitrage trading for its own account for two days as a penalty for its violations of Japan's underwriting laws, a penalty it has accepted.

Following that penalty, Monday's warning was "the lightest action we could have taken,'' an exchange official said. There was no fine imposed, and the warning will be the final action the bourse will take in the matter, he said.

Merill lynch has bccb penalized for over six years of illegal trading in share of' compnies for which it was underwritting stock and convertible bond offerings. Merrill Lynch said the technical violations were a result of

low tht:rn to offer each other oversight. ~=~·==--===~·~~-==~== i'

,.A: V

MARTIN C. LIZAMA (BETTER K~OWtJ

AS MARTIN BATITA~G)-

5th Joint by beloved brothers:

Norbert C. Lizama-30th Augustin C. Lizama-21st

Joint by beloved grandparents:

Antonia B. Cruz-7th Aila C. Lizama-4th

Frederico T Cruz (Okoro)-22nd Jose M. Lizama-Blh

We Ihe family would like to invite all our friends and relatives to join us in prayers for lhe anniversary of our beloved sons/ brothers and parents /grandparents beginning Wednesday, November 22, 1995. Nighlly rosary will be said at 8:00 PM al the residence of Mr. & Mrs. Joaquin & Monica Lizama in San Jose. On the final day, November 30, 1995, rosary will be said at 12:00 noon. Mass of intenlion will be offered al 5:00 pm at San Jose Church. Dinner will follow immediately at Mr. & Mrs. Joaquin & Monica Lizama's residence in San Jose.

The Family


After war, packages save lives By DAN SEWELL

ATLANTA (AP) - For hour after hour, Klaus Putter and his fellow German soldiers stared at the brown boxes lined up on the floor of their prison hospital barracks. Lounging on their bunks, they argued late into the night about the newly anived packages.

They suspected a trick, and why not?

They had spent months subsisting on cabbage soup in a camp in Bayonne, France. Putter had been among the defeated soldiers who accepted an offer to clear land mines in return for better rations and, after 1,000 mines were cleared, freedom to go home.

Neither rewarri materialized. Instead, on what Putter remem

bers as mine No. 2,684, he heard the snapping of a spring below his foot, threw himself on the sandy ground, then gritted his teeth as the mine exploded. A severed artery and other injuries landed him in the prison hospital.

There, he recuperated and brooded, about his two years as a soldier, spent fighting a losing battle on the Russian front, and his now-interminablestayinastark c.amp in war-ravaged France.

The anival of packages marked "C.A.RE.," said to be supplies donatecl by Americans, his country's enemies, seemed toofferpotential for yet another setback.

"We were really run down. We actually debated for three days and two nights - why are they doing this? What is the snag? There must be a snag!

"Would we have done that for Russian prisoners? The answer we c.ame to was "probably not" Frnall y, one prisoner said, "I think I have the answer - these Americans are different They just like to help people." Opening the packages brought revelation - in the fonn of chocolate, cheese, biscuits, sugar, cigarettes, canned meats.

"We were very much overwhelmed," Putter recalls. "It was a my of light for us. It was a very, ve1y in1portant momenl''

In this yearof anniversaries marl,:ing the end of World War II, CARE, an organization that filled bellies and lifted spirits in the grim years that followed, celebrates its 50th year of existence.

"Not only were the goods we supplied important, but the compassion from America that they represented was vital to people who had been both friends and enemies," says Peter Bell, president of CARE, which moved its headquarters here from its New York City birthplace two years ago.

ItwasNov.28, 1945, when leaders of22 religious groups, labor unions, businesses and charitable cooperatives agreed to combine forces for a large-scale effort to ease the widespread suffering and shortages in a pootwar Europe ofboIT\bed factories, battle-tom fields and households whose breadwinners were killed.

Theyobtainedsome2millionpackages of U.S. Anny field rations, each package with enough to feed 10 soldiers, that had been stockpiled for an 1

invasion of the Japanese mainland that never came.

The outpouring of generosity and eagerness to help far exceeded what

the organization's founders expected, as Americans lined up to pay dlrs I 0 to send shipments to relatives, wartime acquaintances, anyone they might reach.

In 1948, Japan was added as a destination. Later, as the Cold War chilled the 1950s, the role of CARE packages for winning hearts and minds was recognized in ad campaigns that urged Americans to "be a diplomat for America" by sending them to countries caught in East-West conflicts. CARE began preparing its own packages, with ethnic-sensitive diets and sewing materials, shoemaking kits, mechanic's tools and farm seeds and equipment, and expanded its development work overseas.

The organization estimates that more than 100 million packages have been sent since the first delivery to France on May 11, 1946.

For Klaus Putter, the drab-

" ,.-

brown packages and their simple contents gave him both hope for the future and an enduring admiration for America. Within a few years, he had a job with CocaCola driving a truck, and eventually worked his way to a senior vice president position in Atlanta before retiring in 1987.

Irena Urdang De Tour, now of Deep River, Connecticut, eager] y awaited the packages in the ruins of Warsaw after years of slave labor in Berlin. "There was soup. chocolate, Spam. I thought it was ambrosia," she says. Ms. De Tour, who went on to become a literary cditorandgalkry owner, has hem a philanthropist most of her life and keeps a can of Spam in her cupboard as a reminder of those who he! ped her.

CARE has been transformed over the years, focusing now on help for developing countries, with offices around the world

\ \,

i :\

helping run long-term programs for health, education, agriculture and environment.

Even the letters making up its acronym have changed - from Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe to Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere to today's Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere. And the trademark "CARE packages" were phased out near! y 20 years ago as a major function of the organization. :i.lthough they · arc still used for emergency relief in such places as, most recently, Haiti, Rwanda and Bosnia.

"These efforts are rcall y prcventi ve," Bell says of today's concentration on development help.

With a series of anniversary commemorations this year and next, CARE hopes to boost its $ 50 million in annual donations that support missions in 66 countries with a total of 10,000 em-

t- '• ~ ~

ployees. Among them is Bosnia, where

CARE workers have dodged artillery shelling and sniper fire to provide medical care, trauma counseling, water purification, home repair kits and food to Muslims, Serbs and Croats alike under its nonpartisan tradition.

Wearing flakjacketsandsometi= travelinginsideaU.N.arrntd~rsonnel carrier, they visit the homes of thousands of what Brenda Cupper, CARE' s 'Z.agreb-based Bosnia director, calls "'the invisible elderly" -people isolated because ,,[· mmuri.t_y ethnicity, living in shelled ap:_;Jt;ncnt buildin_;:, without jXJ\V:cL

Some of the eider!:,: being helped now J.Jso received CARE pack.ilges five decades ago.

'They like to tell stories about the CARE packages they received after World War II, remembering what was in there,'' she says. "To them, CARE means survival.''

Pairere #1 ®TOYOTA Microl Corporation

San Jose Tel.: 234·5911 Fax.: 234·6514

I 11

,, .


Treasure trove beneath Beirut rubbles ByTAREKAL4SSAWI

BEIRUf, Lebanon (AP)- The destruction of downtown Beirut during the civil war has provided a treasure rrove for archaeologists.

Ruins from the Irr;n and Stone ages as well as the Phoenici;in, Hellenistic. A.s.wrian. Pcrc;i3n, Roman. B vz1mtine." Crusuder. Mameluk and Otto-

~ \!. \,-<

I" z f. >:

i.· -t ;c..

t; -~-"

·--f1

t " ~ ~

~ ::J

f.1

3 0 ....,

,I ~

! -< 0 ., C ::!: (1) -+ (/)

::J ;:,;:: 0 ...., 0 .:-,

""CJ 0 Q C

0 ::J Q_

s· ;:,;:: 0 0 ::J p' ""CJ 0 ::; ::J t) (0

..., ' •, '.1

~ 0.. (D -. ':l'l

1:;_: --~ ..... e-l-

~ i,-----=!.

cJ)

0

-~ . ,

man eras have been found since reconstruction began more than a year ago. The layers of bygone civilizations began surfacing when the bulldozer, moved in tocle,'lfaway the rubble of offices, stores and theaters shattered by the n:Jentlcss shellinl! of the 1975-90 war.

~'lt"s ironic that t/Je same w:ir that ~

FAS Moving & Storage, Co. ,· needs 2 tracklor truck drivers

for further information, call George Fleming Sr.

at 322-6587/8

Ct) ~). r--=='' (4) (f)

;.i)'< '--· ' : •~· :,,---- ¢

~~ 0 i:-~~) CD F', ~

C.i:1;_:. __

~ (D

' ~-;

,· r

destroyed the city has paved the way for excavations," said Hareth Boustany, archaeological consultant for Solidere, the downtown development company. ''Tu fighting leveled the area All we had to do was dig in sean::h of ancient treasw-e." Archaeologists cmwl, kneel and laboriously b~sh away dirt umlera searing sun, their yellow hard hats occasionally popping up from what was once a bustling commercial districL

"We have discovered several n:1-ics with 12 distinct laym and colors, some of them going back to I 000 B.C.,'' Helene Sader.an archaeology professorattheAmericm1 University of Beirut, said of one recent find of pottery and cups.

A Crusader castle wall, a Phoenician wall and the remains of a city dating back to 4000 B.C. also have been unearthed

Other discoveries at the three majorandseveralminorexcavalion sites: a marble statue of Apollo, the Greek god oflight, art and beauty; a marble statue of a woman from the Roman era; a Roman cave used for storage; several marble statuettes of Persian cavaliers; about I 0,000 pieces of pottery.

One excavated area between Martyrs Square and the B;oimt seaport appears to be a series of (!rave,. ancient walls and decaying ~t,l11e stair,. l tis the ruins of a hnusc :ri v:hal ··.\·~1:-: a B1·onze Age citY. Si:-: rc,orn:-._ each ahl)llt l3

feet by 13 feet ( 4 meters by 4 meters), connect with narrow and wide corridors.

Much of the445-acre ( 180-hectare) downtown has been razed to make way for new business and entertainment centers under a government reconstruction plan.

Beirut has been destroyed at least twice by earthquakes and once by fire in the last 20 centuries. It is generally accepted that remnants of several cities lie beneath today's Beirut.

"We intend to dig deeper," an excited German archaeologist, Uwe Finkbeiner, said at an excavation site 13 feet ( 4 meters) deep. He led a IO-member team from the University of Tu bingen in Germany.

The Hariri Foundation, a social aid and charitable organization financed by Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's personal fortune, and UNESCO have donated $ 1.3 million to pay for excavations.

Solidere also chipped in, providing $ 3 million so far to finance digs a

nd altering reconstruction plans so as not to damage the finds. Academics have until at least 1998 Lo finish their work, said Hans Culver,s, a Dutch archaeologist. After that, Solidere says, buildinp will begin going up on much ,1'the downtown land, leaving no n.~~-iin for digging. So far

archaeologists have studied areas totaling about three city blocks. Whenever the workers who are razing buildings and putting in new sewers stumble on new ruins, the archaeologists move in to study the site. French, Dutch, German and British archaeologists are working with Lebanese colleagues. Americans are missing out because of an 8-year-old U.S. State Department ban on travel to Lebanon that was imposed because of security concerns during the hijacking and hostage-taking era of the 1980s.

"lt'stheirloss," Boustanysaid. "They might never get another opportunity like this one.''

More than 350 foreign archaeologists, including 20 Americans, have expressed interest in participating in the dig.

"American archaeologists, friends of mine, regret being left out of the campaign ... they blame their government for that," said Culverts, the Dutch archaeologist.

Some relics are to be displayed at the National Museum or at a future downtown archaeological park. Larger discoveries, such as the Crusader castle's wall, will be preserved on site.

"It will not be touched," said Rashed Fayed, a Solidere spokesman who noted that a sewage n,i,work had been altered to avoid ,Lunaging the castle.

- -.6

<::,-}"feaf3 .· (ti?" '......- ~l-~.·'

},,·_:._:,;_~_-·>.: ".·_ ... '.~-.-.',·.· .. _:· ... ·.·_.·:·_·_,_.,-;:,,-·,;·'-:: ..• _.··.· .. ·. :('·.~--'· ,,'.·.·.. _.•-.,: F, .. ",, ! .. ,.-,_., '.'"' "';-':·· .. ;_., ~-- ;_,"' - _ ~~. ~'.'.~j:J~-.l:.{~.) '-.~Pt:;

Ccr-.':L~ -:._ · ,IbS~1t;.tCLi:J: r:j r~_; 11;~-.-- ·(::-.: sh.inp:.J I\1ond::,v to the t.lLffid L-:m','i:":; ;i:: P~Lris, \~,(~re they \:.JU ~o on lfr;~l:~y just in ti1ne for Cbrisuna\.

· inc Coca-Cola Co. fir:,t rnmmis; ,ioncd Swedish-American artis. : H::dd::mSundb!omin 1931 todepict

S.2r·,!:_: CL.iu~ as a ii'l~n~,·- rosy--cb:eL~d \-,., :<•".·•-;:J.11 \'";\_h '\ +1ff; riJ l('~ hcarci 'llJ'-1

~~,i·;~:kt\'r~g ey,~.s 1.vh~ p;:1~~~ in his g;(!~ night duties long envagh to erJoy a Cuk~ ..

Sundb!orn ;,dinted numerous Santa

ponr.ut.5, which were use<l in Coke's holiday packngu1gand advertisements

Lqtil 1966. He died l O ~/t.·~·,r:; latet. ; :.1-..: p~ritir::,~.:- y_·J\ i">:;.: :--:h;J;_.:;··· ln ~1..:-:

:,:.:J1ibition0Harttmd,1dv£'.1ti_j_i:ig_ filXn , D~c. 20 through Rb. 29.

foe exhibiti,.,n will be in a pub- · !tc gallery, Le. Carrousel du Louvre, in the complex at ti:c !...ouvrc museum.

·------------------··---·---·---------------~------------

I n1 · -uuy~FR~~o_.96

~ :~~,, p sLl fo The NORTHERN MARIANAS COLLEGE is soliciting competitive sealed J

proposals from qualified Contractors for the Mechanical portion (Air Conditioning) of DISTANCE EPUCATION / RADIO STATION in building "N" at the NMC As Terlaje Campus.

For details, blueprints are available at bidder's expense at BLUEPRINT SERVICES, in Chalan Laulau, telephone no. 234-8391. Proposals will be entertained only from qualified Air Conditioning contracts. Bidders are free to alter the design if, in their opinion, the installation would be improved and with the approval of NMC GIP Coordinator. Bidders must provide manpower, materials and equipment for the c~mplete "turn-key" installation.

Proposals must be submitted in a sealed envelop marked with the respective NMC RFP NO. 96-139; to the NMC Procurement & Property Management Office As Terlaje Campus, Bldg. "L", Saipan, no later than 11 :30 a.m. December 01, 1995.

The Northern Marianas College reserves the right to reject any or all proposals for any reason and to waive any defect in proposals if determined by the College to be in its best interest. All proposals shall become the property of NMC. For additional information, please call NMC Procurement a\234-3690 extension nos. 2300,2301 or 2302.


\itlfi!'firt!'lJiI::z~,i~~,iir/tf.til,f s Wariety'- :;",~'.~'.:~::: 7:,~:;:,:;:,•::;::,rn" run "' 11 r i I' .a. f immediately to make the necessary corrections. The Marianas

L. T -C ~ -I [ • T , y r ..aL '4"' • T J [ ] ; J Variety News and Views Is responsible only for one incorrect , - [; J;+:;j p 3, • ffl '7 • C;;JCar:hr ft ;I, • I ~~e~~°annv"i~:.serve the right to edit. refuse, reject or cancel any !

Employment Wanted

"iscellaneous 01 SALES SUPERVISOR-Salary $700.00 per mon!h Contact: MARIANAS EXCHANGE CORP. dba AUTO PARTS TEL: 234-9531(11/29)W21477

02 SALES REPRESENTATIVES-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: DIAMOND ENTERPRISES dba EX-TREME BOUTIQUE & BEAUTEE CHANNEL TEL:235-7430{11/23)TH21385

01 STATIONARY ENGINEER-Salary $1,700.00 per month Contact: PACIFIC DAIKEN co .. LTD dba TEL: 234·7453/4{11/29)W21466

02 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Salary S2. 75 per hour Contact: CRIS MAGLALANG dba TAURUS ENT./HOUSEKEEPING SVCS. TEL: 288-0817(11/29)W21463

01 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Salary $1,000.00 per month Contact: WINDSURFING SAIPAN, INC. TEL: 234-6965{11/29)W21462

52 SECURITY GUARDS-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: ISLAND SECURITY SERVICE INC. TEL: 233-7490{11/29)W21458

01 COOK-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: SAIPAN FAST FOOD INC., dba CAFE MANILA TEL: 234-1700/6089(11/29)W21455

01 STOCK CONTROL CLERK-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: THE Q CORP. TEL: 235-9691{11/29)W 21454

04 CARPENTER-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: 3K CORPORATION TEL: 235-2222(11/29)W21453

02 WAITRESS-Salary $2. 75 per hour 01 COOK-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: SHIP ASHORE INC. dba SHIP ASHORE RESTAURANT TEL: 235-7170(11/29)W21456

02 WAITRESS-Salary $2.7S per hour 01 CHOREOGRAPHER-Salary $700.00 per month 02 SINGER-Salary $2.75 per month Contact: WESTERN PACIFIC ENT. INC. dba KIMCHI CABANA NIGHT· CLUB & RESTAURANT TEL: 234-6622{11/29)W21457

01 WAITER, RESTAURANT-Salary $2.75 per hour 01 BARTENDAR-Salary $2. 75 per hour 01 RESTAURANT MANAGER-Salary $1,500.00 per month Contact: THE SAMURAI CORP. dba SOUTHERN CROSS/HYAKU-BAN REST. TEL: 234-337 4/235-5760( 11 / 29)W214BO

01 TRAVEL AGENT-Salary $800.00-1,375.00 per month 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary $1,000.00· 2,000.00 per month Contact: R&C TOURS SAIPAN, INC. TEL: 234-7430{11/29)W21461

05 WAITRESS-Salary $2.75 par hour 10 DANCER-Salary $2. 75 per hour Contact: VICENTE C. ALDAN dba V&A ENTERPRISES TEL: 235-2557(11/29)W21465

01 CUTIING SUPERVISOR-Salary $1,085.00-2,600.00 per month 01 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary $1,085.00-2,900.00 per month 01 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR· Salary $2.75-7.36 per hour Contact: SAM MARIANAS INC. TEL: 322·3444/5/6(11/29)W214B9

02 ACCOUNTANT-Salary $3.00 per hour 01 INTERNAL AUDITOR-Salary $1,000.00 per month 02 COOK-Salary $2.75 per hour 01 WAREHOUSE HELPER-Salary $2. 75 per hour 01 FOREIGN EXCHANGE OFFICERSalary $2.75 per hour Contact: TRI-ALL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION dba WHOLESALE.RETAIL, SNACKBAR, FOREIGN EXCHANGE TEL: 234·1603(11/29)W21467

01ALUM. FABRICATOR-Salary $3.00 per hour 01 STEELMAN-Salary $3.30 per hour Contact: TAC INTERNATIONAL CONST. INC. • TEL: 235-5004(11/29)W4549

02 SALES REPRESENTATIVE-Salary 2.75-2.80 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary $3.50 per hour 02 WAREHOUSE WORKER-Salary $2.75-2.80 per hour Contact: TRANSAMERICA CORPORATION TEL: 234-1629/235-5004(11129)W4548

01 SALES CLERK-Salary $3.50 per hour 01 SALES SUPERVISOR-Salary $6.92 per hour Contact: EL MUNDO INC. dba ESPRIT TEL: 322-5636(11/29)W4558

.. "iscellaneous · 01 BARTENDER-Salary: $2.75 per hour Contact: NIPPON GENERAL TRADING CORPORATION dba COUNTRY HOUSE RESTAURANTTEL. 233-1908 {11/22)W21364

02 AUTO BODY FENDER-Salary: $2. 75 per hour Contact: MOTION AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR CENTER TEL. 235-348(11/22)W21355

01 CARPENTER-Salary: $2.75 per hour Contact: RITAS. BENAVENTE dba RB MANAGEMENT TEL. 288-3208 {11/22)W21359

01 ELECTRONIC MECHANIC-SaJary: $3.00 per hour Contact: SAM CORPORATION dba SAM ELECTRONICS & WATCH REPAIR TEL. 234-5419 {11/22)W 21357

01 STOCK CLERK- Salary: $2. 75 per hour Contact: VIP COPRORATION dba VIP SHOPPING CENTER TEL. 235-9611 (11/22)W21353

01 COOK-REST-Salary: $3.00 per hour Contact: MARGARITA R. TENORIO dba DR. JACK'S BAR & GRILL TEL. 234-8296 (11/22)W21352

01 FRONT DESK CLERK-Salary: $2.80-3.15 per hour Contact: MICRO PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT, INC. dba SAIPAN GRAND HOTEL TEL. 234-6601 ( 11/22)W4399

10 PRESSER {IRONER)-Salary: $2.75 per hour 07 CUTIER-Salary: $2.75 per hour 07 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKERSalary: $2.75-3.00 per hour 07 OVERHAULER-Salary: $2.75-3.00 per hour 50 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR· Salary: $2.75-3.00 per hour Contact: MICHIGAN INCORPORATION TEL. 234-9555 (11122)W21362

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $550-900 per month 01 AUTO ME CHAN IC-Salary; $2. 75 per hour Contact: PELLEY ENTERPRISES, INC. TEL. 233-3973 (11/22)W4392

01 CUTIER-Salary: $2.75 per hour 03 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR'SSalary: $2. 75 Contact: ONWEL MFGJ {SAIPAN) LTD. TEL. 234-9522 (11122)W21358

01 SPORTS INSTRUCTOR (DIVING)Salary: $1,000 per month 01 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Salary: $1,000 per monih 01 HELPER SCUBA DIVING-Salary: $2.80-4.80 per hoilr Contact: PRO-DIVE SAIPAN, INC. dba PRO-DIVE SAIPAN TEL. 233-5415 (11/22)W21354

01 ELECTRONIC MECHANIC-Salary: $750. per month 02 WAITRESS-REST.-Salary: $3.75 per hour Contact: L & W AMUSEMENT CORP. TEL 234-8864 (11/22)W21351

"iscenaneous 01 ASSISTANT MANAGER-Salary $3.00 per hour Contact: J&S CORPORATION TEL: 234-2623(12/6)W21087

01 CARPENTER-Salary $2. 75 per hour 03 MASON-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: RITA S. BENAVENTE dba RB MANAGEMENT TEL: 288-3208(12/6)W21567

01 STATION MANAGER-Salary $1500.00-2500.00 per month 01 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary $3,000.00-3,300.00 per monlh 01 SUPERVISOR, TICKET SALES-Salary $2,500.00-2,700.00 per month Contact: ASIANA AIRLINES INC. TEL: 288-2625(11/29)W21459

01 (CAMERAMAN) VIDEO OPERATOR-Salary $480.00-652.00 per month 01 COMPUTER & WORDPROCESSOR-Salary $1,000.00 per month 01 ASST. OFFICE MANAGER-Salary $1,000.00 per month Contact: SAIPAN TV PRODUCTIONS, INC. TEL 234-0386(12/6)W21560

02 COOK-Salary $2.75 per hour 14 WAITRESS, BAR-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: KWON ENTERPRISES dba K'S HIDE-AWAY KARAOKE TEL: 234-1775(12/6)W21562

01 FLOOR MANAGER-Salary $1,500.00 per month 02 HOUSEKEEPING CLEANER-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: CHALAN KANOA BEACH CLUB CORP. dba CHALAN KANOA BEACH CLUB TEL: 234-7829(12/6)W21575

150 OVERLOCKING SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary $2.75 per hour 150 SINGLE NEEDLE MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: UNITED INTERNATIONAL CORP. TEL: 235-7888(12/6)W21578

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary $4.83 per hour 01 ASSISTANT MANAGER-Sala,y $1,500.00-2,300.00 per month Contact: PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT INC. TEL: 322-8796(12/6)W21593

01 COOK-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: MARGARITA S. CAMU dba JEM ENT. TEL: 235-0484{12/6)W21568

01 CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISORSalary $3.50-4.50 per hour Contact: LVP PACIFIC DEV. CORP. dba GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TEL: 288-5330{12/6)W21566

01 CUTIER, MACHINE-Salary $2.75-4.00 per hour 01 PRODUCTION MANAGER-Salary 8.00-10.50 per hour Contact: HANSAE(SPN) INC. dba NEW STAR CORP. TEL: 234-5296/7(12/6)W21565

Employment

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary $3.80 per hour Contact: SHINRYO CORPORATION TEL: 322-1195(12/6)W21563

01 {ASST.) FRONT OFFICE MAN· AGER-Salary $1,200.00-3,700.00 Contact: HOTEL NIKKO SAIPAN INC. TEL: 322-3311 EXT. 2020/21122(12/ 6)W4563

02 SECURITY GUARDS-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: JOSEPH T. TORRES dba COURTNEY PLAZA TEL: 235-1662/234-6098(12/6)W2i 571

01 QUALITY CONTROL CHECKER· Salary $2.75-3.20 per hour Contact: YANG YIN COMPANY dba YANG JIN BUYING & TRADE INFOR· MATION SERVICE COMPANY TEL: 235-2421(12/6)W21570

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary $5.19-8.00 per hour Contact: MICHIGAN INCORPORATED TEL: 234-9555/6(12/6)W21572

01 CHAMBERMAID-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: CAMACHO INVESTMENT CORP. dba SUMMER HOLIDAY HOTEL TEL: 234-3182/3(12/B)W21574

01 SUPERVISOR-Salary $700.00 per month Contact: ANGEL CORPORATION dba ANGEL MARKET/LAUNDRY TEL:234-1124(12/6)W21577

2 WAITER-Salary $2. 75-3.00 per hour Contact: NINO'S INC. TEL: 233-9298(12/B)W46B7

Will BUY YOUR PACHINGKO SlOT MACHINIS llCINS(

ALLOCATION-CASH BUYER. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL:

234-6789 or 322-5004

Los, PASSPORT of

Park Yoon Joo Lost her passport if found,

please call Tel. No. 235-3027 Passport #GM-007694.

And since a 12-year sludy shows that. being 40% or more overweight puts you al high risk, ii makes sense to lollow these guidelines !or healthy living! Eat plenty of fruits end vegetables rich In vitamins A end C-oranges, cantaloope, strawberries, peaches, apricots, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage. Eat a hlgh-flbel; tow-lat diet that Includes whole-grain broads end cereals such as oatmeal, bran and wheat. Eat lean meats, fish, skinned poultry and lowfatdalry products. Drink alcoholic beverages only In moderation. For more informationt call 1-800-ACS-2345.

AMERI CANCER SOCIETY•

lf£ClJ&l•fl .a1,a1 It's the Law

WE'VE GOT A JOB FOR YOU! The JOB SHOP guarantees high-paying assignmenls tailored lo your skills. Full-time & Part-lime. Management, Accounting, Secrelary, Receptionist. General Ottice, Restaurant, Medical. Legal, Technical. 100% EMPLOYER PAID FEES! Call Reg IN' nna at 235-5696

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COUHT OF THE COMMONWEALTH

OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

CIVIL ACTION NO: 94-312 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KALEB UDUI, DECEASED.

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT Of GENERAL GUARDIAN FOR MINOR CHILDREN

Nolice is hereby given that petilione1, Adeline R. Cruz has filed a pelilion requesling appoinlmenl as general guardian for her three minor children. Xody Rechuldak Yano Cruz (DOBL 02/04/78); Virginia Sue Rechuldak Cruz (DOB:12/23/87); and Zack Ka1mi1 Rechuldak Cruz (00810/28/91 ). The minor children have a polenlial reversionary inleresl under lhe will ol decedent Kaleb Udui, which is being probaled in !he above-enlilied case. To Insure 1hat their inlerest is adequately protecled, !he appoinlmenl of a guardian is being sought.

A hearing on lh pelition will by conducted by lhe Court on Decembe1 12, 1995, al 1 :30 p.m. in Courtroom B, Superior Court. All persons inleresled are hereby nolilied lo appear at the hearing and show cause, if any, why lhe order should no1 be made.

Relerence is hereby made to the pelilion for lurther particulars. (s)Oeputy Clerk of Court Dale:11/17/95 ·

Dan't Driak & Drive If It. 'O 't :'lo ........ o. • ~ • •• L .. • ... o,1.,..t-., .. •'"' • •.•.• .... •.•.•" •" '.• •'•"•·• • • 4 ~ ,- .... ,. _ ... •'"

·-"

I ,

:..

26-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-WEDNESDAY -NOVEMBER 22, 1995

Garfield® by Jim Davis

PEANUTS® by Charles M. Schulz

STELLA WILDER

I WONDER IF J..lE'D STOP SOMEPLACE WJ..lERE WE

COULD 6ET SOME DOUGl1~UTS ..

YOUR BIRTHDAY

By Stella Wilder

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22 Born today, you are an adven

turer. There are times when you think nothing of taking your life in your hands. However, you mu~t never risk the lives of others in

your pursuit of excitement and adventure! You would benefit from a careful balance between danger and safety. For practical reasons neither extreme is suitable for vou. You enjoy striking out on your own, but you also value CO!llpanionship. Often, you find mspirat10n in your close connection with one or two special individuals.

You are not the kind to be limited or restricted by anyone. There will surely be times when you are willing to fight city hall. The surprise, of course, 1s that you will sometimes win! Never one for lost causes, you always feel that a fight can be won.

Also born on this dale are: Benjamin Britten, composer; Hoagie Carmichael. actor and songwriter; Charles De Gaulle. French military leader and president; Wiley Post, aviator; Boris Becker and Billie Jean King, tennis players; Jamie Lee Curtis and Mariel Hemingway, actresses

BARBS In Washington, "highly placed

sources" are snitches with offices above the 10th floor.

Our jalopy is so old that a speeding ticket would be a complunenl

Anvone still around who can recall a Western Union lad delivering a message on a bicycle"

To those for whom life no longer offers any challenge: Just try to get your quarter back when a pay phone rings a wrong number ..

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find vour birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

THURSDAY, NOV. 23 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21) - If you really want time to yourself today, you're going to have to tend to your basic responsibilities as early as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - You can learn a great deal today by watching an expert at work. Ask a lot of questions-the answers will be very informative.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - This will be a fast-paced day, but there 1vill be at least one occasion for you to take some time off for yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - What recently be~an as simply a working relationship may actually move to a higher level today. You will be pleasantly surprised!

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Avoid giving money to a person who offers you a seemingly great deal. Stay informed, and try to use your common sense.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Repetition will help you become accustomed to an activity that may have been foreign to you only a short while ago.

Then there's the fellow who hoped to be king. He saved every cent for a reigny day.

We have no trouble with our cash flow All our money goes right down the drain.

We've come to the conclusion that any tune that can be hummed or whistled is al least 20 years old.

Just try to explain to a 3-year-old how Santa comes through a baseboard heating unit instead ot down the chimney you don't have.

•J!9% NEWSPAPER E~ Ef\PfUSE ASSN.

I WONDER IF HE'D DROP ME OFF AT Tf.1E COURTI-\OUSE ..

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -A quick, clever and creative approach will work best for you today. However, you may want to fall back on a trusted technique if you gdstuck

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Now is the time for you to turn on the heat, and face an opponent with guns blazing. Failure to be aggressive may spell defeat for vou. . LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - If there is something you feel you truly deserve, stake your claim now. Hesitation on your part could be disastrous, and set you back days or weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -There is more to being impressive today than showing off. You must also be willing to share what you know with those around you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) -Speed is essential, but you mustn't go so fast today that you sacrifice safety or accuracy. There will b_e no room for carelessness at this time.

SCORPIO <Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -Give yourself a little more room to maneuver today, and you'll enjoy the results. Evening brings an opportunity to explore something hidden.

Cop~Til{nl 19~5. United Fc:aure Syu1faalr, Inc

In 1891, Claude ~ onet became finaneially independl·•tt after winning the state lottery in t ranee. He thereafter devoted his lif, · to painting and became one of the :oremost French impres&ionist paint, rs, roaming the French countryside ,omelimes working on up to six pai ,tings at a Lime.

Having secretly ,. 1tered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike , ,rntest in Monte Carlo, Charlie Cha1-lin placed third ..

, 1995 NEWS!'APF:R E TEHPFUSE ASSN.

U~date. your dictionary. A peer group is a·gathering of peeping Toms.

CROSSWORD PUZZLER

, -;·~· ~ i 11.11 ::ic

(2 wds.) 5 -delerens 8 Planet

12 Bronte heroine

13 Black cuckoo 14 An Adams 15 Refuse from

grapes 16 Heir 17 Apportion 18 At reduced

price (2 wds.)

20 Actress Glenn. et al.

22 Execute

36 Diminutive "~ ~~_d'.n~' .. . .., . ...,, .............. ..;, .....

cloaks 38 Singer--

CoolJ 39 Failed to hit 42 Flower child 46 Mine

entrance 47 Cry of ·sheep 49 TV's Thicke 50 Baseball

team 51 Paddle 52 Starch

23 Rip 24 Destiny

53 11 llows into North Sea

54 Indian memorial post

55 Yoko. et al. 6-1ic 1995 United Feature Syn<fteate

27 Farm feature 31 Simpson

judge 32 Having

weapons 33 Deity 34 Soft drink

(2 wds.)

DOWN

1 Secretary's note

2 Baseballer Nolan-

3 Is mistaken

4 Ten years 5 Flower um 6 Year (Sp.) 7 Franker 8 Walk down

-lane 9 Fruit drinks

10 Ceremony 11 Witnesses 19 Behold! 21 Alight 23 Domesticates 24 Douglas-

(tree) 25 From--Z 26 Also 27 Pastry

container (2 wds.)

28 Rep. 29 Decay 30 Ike 32 Alane 35 One who

experiences flavors

36 Texas city (2 wds.)

38 Roman 51 39 Numerous 40 Amin. et al. 41 - qua non 42 Male deer 43 Schedule 44 Character in

"Othello" 45 Baseball's

Slaughter 48 Motorists'

org.

'' YOU MUST TRYTI-IIS,MARGE. I'VE GAINED LESS WE:16~T ON Tl-ll':> OIET °™A.N ANY 0~ Tl,JE OT\,U:~':,. 11

0 19~5 l.11'1\er1 !=e,ature SyndiCS.IP. ,,.,c __ _

·3s1:1nd 'S3SSV183A3 '1:13NNV8 ,,"Al:llv'O .. 'N81S .,\7',. '38v'>i:Jv'd :ll3HS 'll::lV:J NI 000.:l :l:l3MSNV

Use color and sales will blas1 off!

Add one color to your newspaper ad and soles ;> will reolly take off. In fact, when you use one color'-< sales will Increase an average of 43%. Call us today to place your ad and get sales flying

tJ.farianas %rie~ Tel. 234/6341 /7578/9797 • FAX 234-9271 ~

The CNM/TaekwondoAssociation recently promoted Derek Sasamoto to first degree black belt. He has won several trophies by competing in Guam tournaments. Greg Sasamoto was promoted to second degree black belt. He was instrumental in promoting Taekwondo in the Commonwealth.

.!1 ~ "'' :'G ~~ -::'"lt:· .. ,-;: ,~ 1:·'L ·'.ifi. /fl,,. j ,-, ~e-o h' /I< ,,1 W _,... J pr:,"'.,---,- .,-, "· '..,I• .-: , -~ -.....\r /t ~ v.:~"-~v - /_t• ~J1 !,:, ~:::, (]jj' \' q , . t: r, ~: t.;·.· d ·•.:· .~ _..:. '(:1 ;· .. ,;

1_,.,. ,,,;"'. c• ,,r; y,~-; j.__ -.::::~ ""', 4 '-" f~"" p ··· >J":J M ~· \'.', -~ ,_,: Si, J,: I.. l't ~ •. I " <"1! •~ ry - -· ·=- -· ~ ·=~ .'.,...,..,,. "'-•_;: ..,, ...... ,.,--"·=·- ... - '·"" ·-

rvn/VVIT (AP) ·- Quarterback Elvis pIT)\'Cd to 3-2 ,:.~; J. stu1r~: thi:-:, '.",.~-::.~•,:\;, Grhac and the San Francisco 49er, The 49ers sacked l\1.uini, un tilt' !:N upstitgcJ COU!ltcrparts Dan J\. hrrino :md three plays. anJ Il1en it got '.vrn;..;e f'orthe the Miami OolphinsintheNorthAmcri- Dolphins (6-5). Before Marino rnuld can National Football League's Mon- match the career record he coveted day night game. most - Tarkcnton's 342 touchdown

Grbac of the 49ers threw for 382 pa,se., - San Fr.incisco led 38-13. yards and four scores, negating two Therecorcl-tyingpa,swasa4-yarder touchdown passes by Marino of the to O.J. McDuffie late in the third quar-Dolphins that tied Fran Tarkenton's ter. Marino earlier threw a 42-yard career NFL record. And San Francisco touchdown pa,s to Gary Clark. producedanotherblowoutatJoeRobbie Marino, who broke Tarkcnton's Stadium by beating Miami 44-20. rerordsforpassingyardageandcomple-

Even more lopsided than the 49ers' tions earlier this year in games Miami 49-26routofSanDiegoinlastseason' s lost, completed 23 of38 pa,se., for255 Super Bowl at Miami, the victory was yards. especially impressive on the heels of ThereelingDolphins, who have lost their 38-20romp past Dallaseightdays five of their past seven games, fell two earlier. games behind AFC Ea.-t leader Buf-

San Francisco (7-4) again won with- falo. The 49ers pulled into a first-place out injured quarterback Steve Young, tie with Atlanta in the NFC West. who warmed up before the game but watched from the sideline while Grbac completed 31 of 41 passes. He im-

SABA Games Results Nov. 20 staUstlcs

First Gama Taam: Brewers Players No. 3P 2P FT F Tf Dar/I Voss 33 2 4 1/2 0 15 Andy Nepaial 7 0 2 4/10 0 8 Sha"1! Frink 3 0 6 1/2 2 13 Allen Lebria 5 1 2 - 0 7 Gardner Robinson 9 0 1 2/4 0 4 Charles Cepeda 11 0 1 - 4 2 Jay Sanlos 10 0 2 - 3 4 Harry Blanco 15 0 4 5/8 0 13 Yasu lrinaka 13 0 1 - 2 Bruce Brerlein 4 0 2 6/9 0 to To!JII 3 25 19/35 9 78

Ternn: D' 4o Players ~o. 3P 2P FT F TP Jack N. 12 0 4 - 5 B Sam K 5 0 1 0/2 0 2 Benji F. 8 0 1 - 2 2 Johnny Samm 10 0 6 0/1 4 12 Jess A 4 0 2 - 1 4 Ile T. 11 0 D - 1 0 Emory F. 40 0 0 - 2 0 Skat J 6 0 t 1/2 3 3 Tony 6. 7 0 0 - 4 0 Aslerio T. 9 1 3 2/4 4 11 TDl>I 1 18 3/9 28 42 Hallime score: Br,,..,s 38, D' 4s 25

Second Game Taam:Sunrlsars Playan Ila. 3P 2P FT F TP Tom Tudela 11 0 3 418 4 10 Joe Tudela 7 0 0 1/2 4 1 Jack Tudela 18 0 2 1/2 t 5 Jay Mo1asheta 8 0 t 2/5 5 4 Clark Ngiraidong 6 1 2 1{2 4 8 Oscar Masga 17 0 4 1{2 5 9 Jerry Benavente 13 0 6 3/3 2 15 George Masga 10 0 6 7/9 1 19 Jerome Reyes 15 0 t - 2 2 Malfejelan 14 0 0 - 1 0 Frank Babauta 2 0 2 - 0 4 Totll 1 'D 2Q/33 211 77

Taam: Putllm Plr,yn Na. 3P 2P FT F TP Jess Slol 8 0 4 2/4 3 10 Mel Sakisal 9 1 2 1/2 1 8 Poland Yamada 12 0 5 3/6 5 13 Dave Camacho 13 0 3 3/9 0 9 Michael Wrighl 5 0 4 - 3 8 Juan Salas 4 0 3 1/2 4 7 Dennis Camacho 7 0 1 5/6 4 7 John Duenas 10 0 2 1/2 3 5 Gary t.ashley 14 0 t 2/6 2 4 Lee Cabrera 15 0 0 2/6 3 2 Total 1 25 20/42 28 13 Halnime score: St!nr~ers 20, Panthers 33 Regulation lime score: Ued at 67 atl

Top ... Continued from page 28

It is the player's responsibility to check match time and court assignments to be po~te<l at the American Memorial Park Tennis Center, Las VegasGolfandTennis,andMicropac.

For further inquiries, call tournament directors Jun Villafuerte at 233-3532, Gil Agatep at 235-9441, Roel Payumo at 234-6819 and Mar Fajardo at 322-3794.

Mesa ... Continued from page 28

Mesa, who finished second behind Randy Johnson for the American League Cy Young award Tuesday, was able to fire his powerful fastball- clocked at 98 mph ( I 57 kph)- for a single inning without risking the fatigue that had marred his latenning performance as a starter.

'' I never thought about it. I km:w that I had the skill lo do i and a good arm," he said.

The Indians won the American League championship, but lost the World Series to the Atlanta Braves in six games. Mesa said the experience was valuable for all of his teammates - many of whom had never appeared in the postseason - and good preparation for the future.

' • I think we' re going to be right at the top for the next two or three years," he said.

Mesa's 46 saves, the most in the major leagues this year, set a team record. His 38 consecutive saves broke the major league record of36 set by Dennis Eckersley of the Oakland A's in 1 992.

Mesa said he was happy just to be mentioned in the same breath as Johnson for the Cy Young award.

"When you' re talking about names like Randy Johnson, it's some tough competition," Mesa said.


Young ... Continued from page 28

ther graduates of the last Rotary Club Youth Basketball League or teamless rookies based in villages and schools.

How the two rules were included was the initiative of veteran SABA referee, official, and Governor's Special Assistant for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Richard Pierce in line with the program to widen the antidrug and alcohol abuse campaign, not just in the sports community, but the public in general.

Like most of the team and league officials, 01' Aces 2 trainor Elias Rangamar lauded the passage of the new rules. But as he welcomed the move, he hit the nail right on the head when he opined that the effort of conc~rned agencies must not end with penalizing athletes.

··concerned af!encies and the public r;rnsl get rid not unly the

C:on'rlnued ·~rci'n p8ge ~:~ - . -

each and Charles Cepeda :t;;t! Ya:,11 Irinaka two each.

!t was a classic come-from-behind victory in overtime period for the Sunriscrs in the second Earnc against the Panthers. -

Down by 13 points at the end of the first half, 20-33, George Masga, Oscar Masga and Jerry Benavente successfully mllied to even the game at the end of regulation period at 67 all.

Orlando . . . Continued from page 28

ton to win its fifth straight game. Boston made just 2-of-11 free

throws in the fowth quarter and 9-o f-22 for the game as its winning streak ended at two games. Houston was 28-for-33 for the game and 7-for-11

branches but especially the root cause of the problem which is cutting the supply line of drugs, the dealers, pushers and importation point," Rangamar said.

"That way, instead of spending government and tax funds prosecuting the users, we can use the money to rehabilitate them and bring them back to the mainstream of society. Almost everybody already knows about prohibited drugs and its ill effects. Get rid of the supply and you have no user to rehabilitate," Rangamar added.

Rangamar welcomed SABA's move because it is beneficial especially to his 01' Aces 2 team.

Out of his 15-man team lineup, most of them came from Rotary Club Juniors Division, except for · Jim Hapdai who played in the youth league in Yap.

Aside from 01" Aces 2 t~am. D' Oner, has about l l youth players. fin~ of 1.hern rockie\. Primos ha~ :..i.bout i:in~ pla)Cr:-.~-11.v,: d( ll1er;·:

\\'ri~:hi <_·,.·,rL·d [\·.\) r:E1.:,.· B{_:! ~'.unri;)cr,· l~r:.m\ Fhi1:!UL:1~:1:1...

.kromi.? [\e·-:c) '.1:'.10 '.V:..:r~ :-;.._·l:-rdc.".~ i,: the rc~uiaJr;n period con\·cne.d fuur and two points. re,penivcly while George Masga scored four moretwo \~'ithin the perimeter and two more from the fou1 line that gave the Surnisers the final margin~

Panthers' Poland Y arnada scored 13, Jess Stol IO, Dave Camacho 9, Mel Sakisat and Wright 8 each. Juan Salas and Dennis Camacho 7

in the final period TheRocketstooktheleadforgood,

75-74, on Clyde Drexler's driving layup with 22 seconds left in the third quarter and led by as many as seven points in the fowth.

Drexler scored 18 points, and Robert Horry had 16 points and I 5 re

boW1ds for the Rockets. Boston was

rookies and seven from the Rotary League. And there are five more teams with both veteran and youth players in their lineup.

The SABA rule stipulating stiffer penalties to players verbally and physically assaulting referees and co-players aims not only to deter the short- tempered from such unsportsmanlike attitude, but to encourage the older ones to be role models to the younger players to play a clean game.

The rule on alcohol will likewise give the players no excuse to challenge a referee's call that his judgment was influenced by it as some have claimed in one or two incidents in the 1994-95 season.

The two rules - if observed to the Jetter - will not only bring back the wholesome days of basketball. It will likewise encourage the young to sbow their hcst and d~velor, :heir skills tn win honors not oni'y in :}11.: ongoin,;~ league but in :ht: i'uu:rc , ,_'.!2 un~i; ~~,tn1e:,.

l':,r:; -:·_,ti":,_. '.(.1• 0.(,--,.:.~· iY~!..!.:;g2 :,.1,

Clz!:·:, ~;iraid-·n~ ~;'., .L.~.j: ~\1J;:.,Jo. 5 J,y \'c,,·t:h,r·i ,,n,i Babaur·, 4 ~,.tel~: a;1:1 i<.,:.:

1

~·~,.,~-'"1_···· ·- -~

There wili be no !lames on Thursday, Thanksgi·,1ng Day. Games will resume Saturdav.

(Variety Sports is requesti~g the other SABA teams to fax in their rosters at 234-9271 to avoid misspelling of their players' names for the duration of the league.)

ledbyGregMinorwith21 pointsand Dino Radja with 13 points and 17 reboW1ds.

With the score 91-87, Boston·s Sherman Douglas missed two free throws and Houston got the next three points on Drexler' s foul shot and0lajuwon'sjumphookwith2:42 togo.

Wild Locals sweep 3 sets vs Mix Blood WILD locals swept Mix Blood in a three-set match in the continuation of the 1995-96 rocball league yesterday at the Marianas High School Pugua Court.

The winning team downed Mix Blood by 17 points, 35-18.

Wild locals jumped to a comfortable ] !-point lead in the first set match 16-5.

Mix Blood improved its offensive in the second set, but Wild Locals still managed to increase its lead by 16 points when it took the next set with a five-point lead, 17-12.

The victories were still up by a point, 2- l, when the buzzer ended the hopes of Mix Blood.

Fiftet:n aces, four xunks, five kees

and one goal were scored in the game.

Celina Somo! of Wild locals was the heavy hitter with five aces, one xunk, one kee and one goal for a total of 17 points.

Shiela Kapileo was the top scorer for Mix Blood with four aces, one xunk and one kee for I~ points.

Round six will start on Nov. 27.

r·i 7 teams j·oiii -youth Spike league I

Oleai, GCA, and Lali 4. I SEVENTEEN teams will see action in the se-:ond Athlete's Foot Youth Volleyball League which will kick off.on Dec. 1 at the Gil· bert C. Ada gymnasium in Susupe.

The league will feature four cat· egories. Five teams will compete in each of the girls' 12-14 category and girls' 15 to 18 gI"Oup, three teams in the boys' .15 tol 8 bracket and four i,eamsin theboys

Polini ... Continued from page 28

beating of last-placed Budweiser. Aro Marquez provided the scoring punch for Taxi with a 583 series.

Robert Talavera rolled 196,224 and 196 fora 616 series as Bud Ice played a 2-2 tie with Marpac Ice Draft. Talavera, overshadowed by San Juan's brilliant game, upped his leading average to 187 .2 and a full three points ahead of secondplacer Ross Zapanta.

J.G. Sablan beat Chemtek, 3-1 (915-914, 949-998, 930-874 and 2794-2786).MannyBalocaledJG with 518, while Pol Torres topped Chemtek with 522.

12 to 14 category. The teams in the girls' 12 to 14

are Aschooscho, Tanapag, Grace Christian Academy, Whispering Palms School and Garapan.

Competing in the Girls 15 to l B are two teams from GCA, Olea.i Angels, Mt. Carmel School and Lali 4 from District Four.

The boys' 12 to 14 group is made up of a village team from Qarapan,

Marianas High School and two / other village teams from Garapan . and Oleai will compete in the boys' I 15-18.

Deadline for the 15 -man rosters and payment of $100 entry fee is on Dec. lat 5:30 p.in. ·

League organizer Tony Rogolifoi said the league<is still opeo Jo late registrants. ·

PBA 14th season standings Week 13, Nov. 18

Team w L Pct.GB Pins Polini 32 20 .615 -37973 RV Ent. 32 20 .615 -37720 Taxi 29 23 .558 337624 RB Elect. 28 24 .538 437738 CMS Inc. 27.5 24.5 .529 4.537821 Bud lee 26.5 25.5 .510 5.537682 Fun&Games 25 27 .481 737994 Ice Draft 25 27 .481 737756 J.G. Sablan 24 28 .462 837498 Chemtek 24 28 .462 837394 Mark Shark 20 32 .385 1237548 Budweiser 19 33 .385 1337656

....

-.

I j

I ': i' 11./ 1 '1

I

! '

'i ,·


Brewers rout D 4s

Sunrisers beat Panthers in OT BREWERS and San Vicente Sunrisers took off smoothly in the 1995-96 Miller Lite Basketball League by posting impressive victories Monday at the Ada gym in Susupe.

The Brewers routed newcomer team D' 4s by a commanding 36-point margin in the opener, while the Sunrisers posted a thrill-filled, four-point win over the Panthers in overtime play in the second game

after tailing 13 points in the first half.

Daryl Voss, Shawn Frink and Harry Blanco combined skills in lifting the Brewers in the first game to a safe, 13-point lead at the end of

the first half, 38-25, with limited opposition.

the last half.

Top netters expected in Gatorade Classic

Instead ofincreasing the momentum of its offensive in the final half to neutralize the Brewers' lead, D' 4s slowed down scoring only 17 points against the Brewers' 40 points for another 23-point lead in

Voss scored most for the Brewers with 15 points, followed by Frink and Blanco with 13 each, Bruce Boerlein 10, Andy Nepaial 8, and Allen Lebria 7. Gardner Robinson and Jay Santos had four

Continued on page 27

TOP tennis players are expected to compete in the Third Gatorade/fan Holdings Tennis Oassic slated on two weekends at the Pacific Islands Oub which will also serve as the tournament headquarters.

At stake in the event is Jeff Race's hold on the singles men's open title he won last year, his and Peter Sinclaire's doubles open title, the women's open title won by W. Herring, and the women's open doubles won by Herring and E. Musashi.

Games are scheduled on~- 2, 3, 9 and 10.

As in the first tournament., the December classic will include men's and women'sopen,6ver40,4.0,3.0inboth the doubles and singles event There will be novice competition only in the singles event

The juniors division will be limited to the boys' and girls' 15-and-under categories.

The National Tennis Rating Program system will be applied in the said

tournament Interested netters may register on or

before the Nov. 7 5 p.m deadline. Registration fee is $10 per person for each event for Ftlata members,and$15 for non-members. Drop entries and fees at Las Vegas Golf and Tennis, Micropac and Vestcor.

No entries will be accepted unless the waiver at the reverse side of the form is signed. Draw date is Nov. 28 at Pacific Island Oub at 6 p.m


Buyaka juices out No Fear OLEA! Buyaka overwhelmingly defeated Northern Marianas College No Fear yesterday in what is considered as the widest victory point of the season.

Buyalr.a defeated No Fear taking all four sets of the game at the Northern Marianas High School Pugua Court, 54-2, in their round five rematch.

with 12 points. Jack Gabriel of Buyaka was the

game's heavy hitter with six aces, two xunks and two kees.

Buyaka dominated the game both defensively and offensively. No Fear's only hitter was Vince Salas who scored one ace.

There were 13 aces, three xunks, three kees and one goal scored in the game.

Young players to gain from, new SABA rules

Playing with five players each, Buyaka beat No Fear which was scunked in the first, third and fourth sets, 14, 12 and 16 to nothing.

No fear scored two points in the second set but Buyaka ended the set

Round six will begin on Monday with Tin Kun playing against the Cronies.

THE addition of two ground rules in the Saipan Amateur Basketball Association about drug and alcohol use and sportsmanship conduct was passed at the most opportune time.

It speaks of the maturity of team and league officials to concretize long standing desire to improve the quality of basketball on Saipan.

The two rules were passed unanimously by those present in the meeting last month and were supported later by the rest in a move to keep Saipan basketball healthy, whole-. some and upright.

The move was taken in preparation for the 1995-96 Miller Lite Basketball League, which opened last week, and the succeeding SABA-sanctioned leagues to ~ome.

The decision to include the new rules reflected the sensitivity of team and league officials about the change in the makeup of the 12 teams competing in the current league.

A survey made by Variety Sports indicated that the on-going league is made up of 60 percent young players who are ei-

Contmued on page 27

Orlando Arena is still Magic ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -Anfemee Hardaway scored 29 points and Dennis Scott 27 as the Orlando Magic remained unbeaten at home with a 101-95 victory Monday night over the Golden State Warriors.

the Warriors in the game. Joe Wolf made two key baskets in

the last three minutes and Vaughn, the Magic's first-round draft pick, delivered seasonhighsof8 points and five rebounds in 14 minutes.

Mesa chosen Relief Pitcher of the Year Nick Anderson had 20 points and

the Magic, which played without Horace Grant, got its first meaningful contribution off the bench from rookie forward David Vaughn to improve to 7-0 at Orlando Arena

Golden State was weakened when Latrell Sprewell, whoscored2 points, left the game late in the first quarter because of swelling in his left elbow. He didn't return.

CLEVELAND (AP) - Jose Mesa lacked a track record as a closer in spring training when the Cleveland Indians gave him that role. Now he has been honored as the Rolaids Reliever of the Year.

Mesa had just two career saves to his credit when the Indians put him in the role at the start oflast season. As unlikely a move as it seemed at the time, it paid huge dividends en

route to the Indians' 100 regularseason victories.

Mesa, who converted 46 of 48 save opportunities and set a major league record with 38 consecutive saves, was named baseball's best reliever Tuesday.

Mesa, 29, said he planned to divide the $25,000 that accompanies the award between a Cleveland church, his children's school and

Polini, RV share PBA lead / TI-IEsecondhalfofthe 14thseasonof Polini had an easy time with Mark

the Philippine Bowling Association Shark, winning all three games, 947-League resumed Saturday at the 873, 955-901 and 1069-971. Saipan Bowling Center. After 13 MikeMacamrolleda540seriesfor weeks of play, Polini and R.V. Ent Polini, while Ric Cuizon contributed shared the lead, three games ahead of 535. Mark Shark's offense was awful their closest pursuer. . · as Wency Lamson led the team with a

RV.Enterprises, whichheldathree- 517 series score owing to a 236 game game lead over Polini before the start in the third game. . of the game, lost to defending cham- Meanwhile, Joe San Juan broke the pionFun&Games, 1-3, whilePolini season's individual record and led forced a tie for first place with a 14-0 CMS to a 3-1 victory over RB Electri-win over Mark Sharlc. . cal, 955-850, 988-1014, I 035-998 and

Both R.V. Ent and Fun & Games 2978-2862. He rolled 193, 237 and played with four-bowler lineups. Fun 239 for.'a 669 series. His feat broke & Games won the first two games, individualrecordsforhighgamewith 1009-891 and 944-933, and narrowly 271 handicap, high scratch series with lost the third game, 962-969. 669, and high series with handicap of

Jun Lim and Rene Cabigao led the 765. defending champs with 570 and 562. Taxi climbed to third place, three Val Marcelo led RV' s offensive with games behind the leaders, with a 3-1 a 520 series. Continued on page 27

Thanksgiving softball meeting TIIE PACIF1C Islands Club will sponsor a three-day Men's and Women's Thanksgiving Slowpitch Softball Tournament on Nov. 24, 25 and 26 at the Susupe Ballfield.

Interested team officials and rep~tatives must attend a meeting

with organizers at 5:30 p.m. today at the Ada gym conference room.

Interested teams may contact Bert Sablanat288-8805 for inquiries. Entry fee is $100. Team reservation is on a first-come, first-served basis because of limited slots available.

~arianas %riety;• Micronesia's Leading Newspaper Since 1972 ~

P.O. Box 231 Salpan. MP 96950 • Tel. (670) 234-6341 • 7578 • 9797 Fax: (670) 234-9271

the Jose Mesa Foundation, which helps orphaned children in his native Dominican Republic.

In addition, his contract calls for the Indians to pay him a $400,000 bonus for winning the award.


I

Chris Mullin led Golden State with 23 points and Jon Barry had 14 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter to keep

. "' .4 , ·.~.,~; . _A!ff,

·. 'e '':' tS,-. . .,. . . .

Rockets 98, Celtics 93 In Boston, Hakeem Olajuwon

scored 24 points, and Houston capitalized on poor foul shooting by Bos


~r~nd champion Yokozuna Akebono from Hawaii, right, loses balance as he is pushed out from the ring by 1umorchampion second class Komusubi Takatorlki during the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka Japan recently. (AP Photo) '

'·

Budget Senate's priority...THE SENA TE will iron out prob ... Sheu identified the woman as Wen Fang...

Documents

Transcript of Budget Senate's priority...THE SENA TE will iron out prob ... Sheu identified the woman as Wen Fang...