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Ruling may affect many landowners

Guam judge to-·preside over Demapan lawsuit

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

A GUAM judge will. preside· over the $3-million lawsuit filed by former Senate PresidentJuan S. Demapan against acti.ng Attorney General Maya Kara, Public Safety Commissioner Charles Ingram Jr. and other persons, the Variety learned yesterday.

By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

SUPERIOR Court Presiding Judge Edward Manibusan has issued a decision finding the CNMI government liable for the use and taking.of land from private owners for public road widening purposes.

Manibusan ruled that Leon Taisacan is entitled to just compensation for the taking and use of his lot by the now defunct Marianas Public Land Corporation (MPLC).

Lawyer Jane Mack, counsel for. plaintiffs Taisacan and estate of Ramona Satur Taisacan, told the Variety that the court's decision could potentially affect a large number of landowners in the CNMI.

"This is good news for the other landowners along W-2 Highway (Middle Road) who have not yet been paid for their land being used as roadway," said Mack,

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adding that the amount to be paid could reach approximately $500,000injusttheTaisacancase alone.

Court records showed that lot 177 4 located in Chalan LauLau is the property of the heirs of Ramona Taisacan. A severed portion of the land consisting of 1,199 square meters, is being used as a public right of way under the control of the CNMI government.

CUC upgrades aging water pipes on Tinian

By Haldee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

THE COMMONWEALTH UtilitiesCorporation(CUC)yes'terday disclosed the upgrading of water pipes in the San Jose area on Tinian is underway, marking the first time such rehabilitation is done in a period of 30years.

Gregorio Castro, CUC deputy director for Tinian, said the upgrade of galvanized water pipes will further improve 24-hour water distribution in the island.

He said galvanized water pipes, which easily get rusty and therefore may contaminate water supply and result in leaks, will be upgraded to plastic pipes.

"Both phases of the project

are expected to be finished by July 2000, in the old village and the subdivision. Oncetheproject is done, we expect more water will be saved because there will no longer be pipe leakages," said Castro in a telephone interview.

San Jose is the first area in Tinian to replace its water pipes as part of CU C's efforts of bringing better services to its customers.

The CUC official added the elimination ofleakages will also make it impossible for water rationing or water shortage to occur in San Jose. CUC is able to pump some 1.1 million gallons of water on a daily basis which are "more than enough" for the

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In 1992, the government began a roadway expansion and improvement project on the existing road at Lot 177 4.

In a letter to MPLC in August 1992, the then governor acknowledged that the land was owned by Taisacan and had been used for many years for.public purpose as "a major leading access to government offices, commercial establishments and other businesses."

The governor certified the acquisition of 1,199 square meters of the lot for the roadway project as a public purpose.

MPLC then contacted Taisacan stating the importance of acquiring the land and asking if a land exchange would be acceptable.

Taisacan and MPLC executed in 1993 the following year a memorandum of understanding in which the government agreed to acquire the 1,199 square meters


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Superior Court Presiding Judge Edward Manibusan called into his chamber yesterday morning lawyers Pedro M. Atalig, Joseph A. Arriola, and Assistant Attorney Generai L. David Sosebee.

The three lawyers appeared in court for the scheduled motion to disqualify Atalig and Arriola from representing plaintiffs Demapan and businessman Cheung Ping Yin.

Sources said Manibusan recused himself and told the lawyers that the court will appoint a judge pro tern from Guam to handle the entire case.

Arriola when contacted yes-

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terday confinned the information.

"It's good for us because there will be no political maneuvering that may likely happen," said· Arriola without elaborating.

Demapan and Yin sued Kara, Ingram and other persons over an alleged illegal arrest during a raid at their "legitimate gambling establishment" in Gara pan.

Demapan is broth·er of CNMI Supreme Court Chief Justice Miguel Demapan.

In that lawsuit, the plaintiffs,


Kids spend the whole day Saturday washing cars to raise money for the upcoming space camp (for deaf kids) to be held in Alabama next year. The club is hoping to raise enough funds to send Johnny Reyes (left) and Evelyn Sanchez (middle), two hearing-impaired kids, to the space camp for an experience worth remember-ing. The club welcomes donations at tel. no. 235-3659. Photo by Marian A. Maraya

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Charfauros to appeal libel decision ·· Guam to get $7.58-M in 11

Compact impact money 1 By Eric F. Say Variety News Staff

HAGATNA - FORMER Sen. Mark Charfauros, who was found by a jury to have slandered members of Guam's First Family, said he is not surprised by the outcome of the trial, but added he will file an appeal.

The jury decided that Charfauros did lie about an incident that occurred at the Golden Motel in Tamuning in 1994, in

which he said members of the Gutierrez family were involved in a drug bust but were later released as a special favor to Gov. Carl T.C. Gutierrez.

Charfauros said it is upsetting that First Lady Geri Gutierrez was also found to have made a libelous statement against him, but was not ordered to pay any damages to him.

Charfauros was ordered to pay Mrs. Gutierrez and youngest

daughter Hannah $25,000 each. "You can take my shirt and the

shoes off my feet, but I will not stop defending the people of this island," Charfauros said.

The former lawmaker said he believes the verdict against him was "political."

Charfauros blamed the Guam judicial system for being allegedly corrupt.

He said he will appeal the verContlnued on page 26

HAGA TN A-Congressman Robert A. Underwood (DGuam) has announced that negotiations over the Fiscal Year 2000 federal budget have been completed and additional funding for Compact Impact aid for Guam survived the process.

Guam can expect to receive $7.58 million for FY 2000, $3

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million more than the annual · $4.58 million it currently gets.

"We didn't get the $5 million that we had hoped, and which President Clinton promised, but this is still excellent news for us, in that it is entirely new money," Underwood said in a media release.


Cuban leader Fidel Castro attends the opening ceremonies for the Ibero American summit in Havana Cuba Tuesday. From left: Portuguese President Jorge Sampaia, Castro, Panamanian Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Aleman and Brazilian President Fernando Hennque Cardoso. AP

S it leaders call for freedom HAVANA (AP) - Calling for individual liberty and respect for national sovereignty, leaders of Spain, Portugal and Latin American nations began heading home today after a summit that brought political gains to bqth President Fidel Castro and his domestic critics.

MexicanPresidentEmestoz.edillo told the closing session, "men and women who can fully exercise their essential freedoms; freedom to think and give opinions, freedom to act and participate, freedom to dissent, freedom to choose."

Panama's president, Mireya Moscoso, offered a similar statement "Democracyperrnitsthefreedomtoexpressourideas, todissent with those who govern," Moscoso said.

freedoms." The statements coincided with a

series of meetings between several national leaders and prominent Cubandissidents-apparentlythe first ever on Cuban soil by visiting heads of state or government.

Heavy press attention to the visits apparently irritated Castro, who charged at a news conference that they created a false, "virtual reality" that ignored the achievements of the summit

Boy, 13, convicted of murder by jury PONTIAC,Mich.(AP)-Oneof the youngest murger defendants in U.S. history was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday for shooting a $!ranger outside a convenience store with a rifle when he was 11.

In a case that stirred fierce debate over how to treat young offenders, Nathaniel Abraham, 13, sat expressionless and looked straight ahead as the .jury announced its verdict after 18 hours of deliberations over four days.

He was acquitted of first-degree murd(ir, which could have sent him to prison for life with no chance of parole.

At his sentencing Dec. 14, Nathaniel could get a maximum of life in prison with a chance of parole or he could be sentenced as a · juvenile to time already served, or held until his 21st birthday.

Prosecutors said they would recommend a blended sentence, keeping him imprisoned until at least age 21 and then reviewing his case to determine whether he has been rehabilitated. · 'This case was about interven

ing on behalf of a troubled and dangerous youth who needed help and didn't get it a long time ago," prosecutor David Gorcyca said. "My whole intent was to not throw away the key on an 11-year-old boy, now 13. My intent was to give him the help that he needed."

Defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger said the verdict was "born out of anger."

"I think the rest of the world will scorn us and hold us in contempt," he said.

Nathaniel was already suspected in nearly two dozen crimes, including theft, beating two teens with

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metal pipes and snatching a woman's purse at gunpoint, when he shot Ronnie Greene, 18, in Pontiac in 1997.

Police said Nathaniel fired a stolen .22-caliberrifie from about 100 yards away, although later tests· placed the distance at 66 yards.

Two days after the shooting, he was arrested at school, his face painted for Hallqween. He became the first youngster charged under a 1997 Michigan law allowing adult prosecutions of children of any age for serious crimes.

Jury foreman Dani.el Stolz told reporters that the fact that Nathaniel was 11 atthetime"didn'tmakethe job any easier."

But, "he knew the firearm was dangerous and that it could cause harm," Stolz said. "Ronnie Greene was standing there, and the gun just doesn't raise itself automiitically."

Some law enforcement officials said Nathaniel's case proved the need to get tough with kids who are a menace to society. But Amnesty International chose his frightened face for the cover of a 1998 report condemning America's justice system as being too harsh on juveniles.

Castrowontheintemationalprestige of hosting a major summit, a denunciation of U.S. laws affect-' ing property in Cuba and calls for social justice in the closing declaration late Tuesday.

But as summit host, he also presided over visitors strongly linking democracy with individual freedoms, and many visitors met with often-jailed dissidents whom Castro has referred to as tools of the United States.

Earlier in the summit, Spain's King Juan Carlos and Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio also spoke out on the commitment to individual freedoms by Ibero-American nations. .

Stocks surge as Fed hik~s rates

'There cannot be sovereign nations withoutfreemen and women,"

The closing "Declaration of Havana" - like those of most previous summits - expressed a more general commitment to "respect for human rights and fundamental

Colom_bia rocked by urban bomb attack BOGOTA (Reuters) - A powerful bomb exploded in Colombia's northwest city of Medellin on Tuesday, causing damage but no serious injuries in the fourth blast to rock a major urban center in the country in the past week.

Military officials said the blast in Coiombia 's third largest city, home to more than 2 million people, was triggered by members of the urban guerrilla network of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

"This was another insane act by the FARC," said Gen. Eduardo Herrera, whose Medellin-based Fourth Army Brigade is headquartered less than l,OOOfeetfrom

the secluded area where the bomb was detonated.

Herrera did not elaborate, but he and other officials said pamphlets were found at the site in which the F ARC claimed responsibility for the blast and indicated its intended target was the brigade headquarters.

The FARC is currently engaged in slow-moving peace talks with the government but has refused to call a cease-fire while negotiations progress. Its commanders have recently vowed to target major cities in a bid to bring their three-decade uprising in from the countryside to the doorstep of the country's wealthy elite.

NEWYORK(Reuters)-Stocks cut loose Tuesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates only a modest quarter of a percentage point, unshackling them from fears that more rate hikes were in store before year's end.

"I think investors are looking forward," said Hugh Johnson, the chief investment officer at First Albany Corp., N.Y.

"Although the Fed has raised interest rates, it does not appear that there will be a need to raise interest rates for the foreseeable future, maybe not until as late as mid-next year," he said.

The Dow Jones industrial average surged 171.58 points, or 1.59 percent, to close at 10,932.33, putting it only slightly more than 3 percent off its record high of l 1,326.04setonAug. 25.

The Nasdaq composite index jumped 73.51 points, or2.28 percent, to close at a record 3,293.05. But traders said the Nasdaq trading system shut down for about 20 minutes before the close because of system glitches.

The Standard and Poor's 500 indexalsoclosedatanewhighof 1,420.03 afterrising25.64points, or 1.84 percent Its previous high

Traders use a phone post to complete transactions on the floor of the t:Jew York Stock ~><,change Tuesday after the Federal Reserve Board interest rate dec1s1on. AP

was 1,418.78 reached on July 16. Analysts said markets took heart

from the Fed's decision to downshift into "neutral" from a "tightening" bias, which Wall Street interpreted as a sign the coast is clear until the central bank's meeting in early February.

"The Fed did exactly the best thing it could have done for fmancialmarkets,"saidA!fredGoldman, technical analyst at A.G. Edwards & Sons, St. Louis. 'The Fed is saying: 'That's it We're out of

your face at least until spring."' Although the Dow swooned

shortly after the Federal Open Market Committee nudged up the federal funds rate target by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.50percent, stocks mostly drove back to highs by the session's end. In addition to raising the fed funds rate for overnight bank loans, the Fed also increased the discount rate for direct bank loans to 5.00 percent from 4.75 per-cent. ·

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Atalig to-be tried on Rota By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

THE SUPERIOR Court yesterday ordered that the trial for former Coastal Resources Management Office Director Felipe Q. Atalig will be held on Rota.

The court granted Atalig 's motion to change the venue from Saipan to Rota. The trial date was also moved from Dec. 1 to Dec. 14.

Michael Dotts, counsel for Atalig, said the court agreed to move the trial venue because all Felipe Q. Atalig

Teno surprised about certainty of Fund hike

By Jojo Dass Variety News Staff

GOVERNORPedroP. Tenorio is "surprised" the Retirement Fund will be pushing through with a two-percent increase in government's 24-percent contribution, despite earlier calls he has made on the need to review the system.

"I was surprised. I want to see how they are going to do it," the governor told reporters.

He also implied further discussions with Fund officials may not anymore be necessary as official figures already speak for itself: The government has not enough money.

"I don't know whether it is necessary for us to meet," Tenorio said.

Fund Board Chairman Vicente Camacho said there is nothing government can do to pre-empt the hike, which was recommended by a recent study of RF's operations.

"The two-percent hike is automatic to keep the Fund sound and to pay for unfunded liability," Camacho said, Tuesday.

The increase may take effect before the year ends.

Tenorio, last week, said the RF system needs to be reviewed, noting that the 24-percent contribution is already aggravating his administration's financial conditions.

A two-percent increase could contribute to bankruptcy.

The government already owes the Fund some $26 million mainly due to the contribution system.

House Ways and Means Chair, Rep. Karl T. Reyes (R-Saipan) has proposed that the administration reduces the 24-percent contributions, stressing that it is grossly unfair for government to be shouldering much of its employees' retirement pension at the expense of private sector taxpayers.

the witnesses and the alleged crime took place on Rota.

Dotts explained that under the Commonwealth law if the crime is alleged occuron Saipan where the court regularly sits, the court goes ·to that island to hold the trial.

"Since we have identified eight witnesses for the defense, it's very hard for us to fly out eight witnesses for a trial...put them in hotels. So we are going to Rota

. for the trial," said the lawyer in an interview.

The Attorney General's Office charged Atalig with four counts of assault anci battery, two counts of disturbing the peace, and two counts of misconduct in public office. · ·

The AGO filed the charges after the defendant allegedly sexually assaulted one of CRMO staff during the March 11 and 12 CRMO's week-long beautification project on Rota.

Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio terminated Atalig as CRMO directoras a result of the filing of the case.

Atalig has maintained innocent .of the charges.

Dotts said it was just a romantic evening that allegedly went too far. "And because the romantic evening allegedly went. too far, . my client has been forced out of his public employment. What we intent to show and what the witnesses and we believe wou Id show is this was a very consensual romantic evening. There's no reason for him to be charged with misconduct in public office," Dotts said.

HANMI sets focus on higher level of quality service to lure more tourists

By Haldee.V. Eugenio

Variety News Staff A FOCUS on the quality of services provided by hotel employees is needed for tourists to keep coming back to the CNMI in the midst oflimited selling points to attract more visitors here, the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands (HANMI) yesterday disclosed.

This has been one of the three primary goals set by HANMI following the election of a new set of officers last week.

Ron Sablan, HANMI president, said the organization will raise the level of services provided by HANMI member-hotels through training and education of both local and contract employees.

In fact, HANMI adopted last week the move to direct 15 percent of membership dues to the development of local employees and students, particularly in pursuing hotel management courses.

"We want our employees, and students to pursue their studies in hotel management here or offisland and after their studies they will come back here and work for our member-hotels," Sablan said in an interview.

Sablan, who is general manager of the Pacific Gardenia Hotel, is joined by Mustafa Issa of Hyatt Regency who was elected senior vice president.

Wendy Lee-Sang of Pacific lslandsClub and Mark Murai of Aqua Resort Club will now be serving as vice presidents.

Yoshitsugu Abe of Nikko Hotel will serve as HANMI treasurer, while Hideo Sugiyama of Chalan Kanoa Beach Club was elected secretary.

Aside from training employees, HANMI also aims to cooperate with other tourism-related business and organizations to attract more visitors to come to the CNMI, including the move to make more airline seats available to CNMIbound tourists.

"We have excellent accommodations in the Commonwealth. We need increased airline capacity to Saipan in order for us to fill more rooms," said Sablan who is serving the final year of his second, two-year term withHANMI.

Sablan also made a pitch on the depth of knowledge the newlyelected officers bring to the table, with two of them having served as HANMI presidents in the past.

"With this type of experience, and fresh ideas from a vibrant

newofficer, weexpectthfagroup to effectively advanceHANMI's interests, which is particularly important now during this critical period of the CNMl's economy,'' said Sablan, adding that the new Board is comprised of representatives from small, medium, and large-sized hotels.

HANMI also eyes working with the local government to make the CNMI more attractive to visitors, and build its reputation as a vacation destination at par with other prime international destinations.

Among industries in the CNMI, the tourism business has been the hardest hit by the Asian economic crisis with monthly hotel occupancy averaging only 58 percent in 1998, the lowest ever in a period of seven years.

HANMI is a professional.association made up of the 20 leading hotels representing over 3,400 rooms in the CNMI. It aims to support and encourage cooperation among memberhotels by providing a forum for sharing ideas on issues of common concern.

All members are expected to follow the association's code of ethics and standards, and participate in community projects.

Educator stresses on 'family time' By Marian A. Maraya Variety News Staff

TIMEspentwithfamilyenhances better "learning." This according to Dr. Christian Wei, President of the Eucon International School (EIS) of Saipan.

The whole process of successful learning greatly involves parents' participation and according to Wei, if parents do not provide support, the kids' learning potential will not be fully maximized.

"Parents,"Wei continued, is one of the four keys to fruitful learning.

"We should not fall victim to modem temptations ... nowadays, parents allow television to be the babysitter ... and kids learn a lot of junk from TV," said Wei.

"It does more harm than good ... there 's violence, immorality ... but of course, we cannot blame it all on TV ... it all depends

on the parents and their guidance, to direct their kids to be on the right track, by spending more time with them," he added.

Wei also emphasized on the essential keys to learning.

"A teacher is key ... ," he said. Secondly, the environment is also a major factor in one's learning.

As an educator, Wei stressed on discipline as a vital part in acquiring education.

"We teach them the value of self-discipline ... because teachers can only teach them certain things but the rest is up to them," he said.

Finally, students are the major active components to their own learning.

"They need to be responsible ... we have good students because they have motivation," he said.

These are the clements that build academic excellence, according to Wei.

Intent on getting families together, EIS will be unveiling its first ever field day carnival on Saturday, November 20, for parents and kids by promoting family "quality time."

The special carnival will start from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, at the EIS grounds, said Wei.

The carnival will showcase different fun booths and games for the whole family.

Kids during Saturday's event will also be given a chance to experience their very first "auction."

"This is to give the kids a glimpse of what is done in an auction ... to give them an idea of what's done on such a setting, to prepare them for the real world," said Wei.

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Union showdown looDls Variety News Staff

THEPROCESS ofwhetherGuam will be a union town or not starts this Friday when "The Right To Work Act of 1999" is heard at the Tamuning gymnasium and nonunion firms are gearing up for the battle.

The Right To Work Act,orBill 340, establishes policies to ensure that employees are given a choice whether to join a union or not.

The bill proposes that the right of persons to work will not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union or labor organization.

Guam Chamber of Commerce official Bruce Kloppenburg, who is spearheading the Chamber's mobilization efforts to support the bill, said that if Bill 340 does not become law, employees ofunionized companies will be forced to become members of the union and pay dues even if they don't want to.

"This bill would level out the playing field. I think it's a human rights issue and should be treated as such. This is a worker's choice issue, not an anti-union issue," Kloppenburg said during yesterday's Chamber meeting.

Kloppenburg urged Chamber members to mobilize and make a show of force during Friday's hearing on the bill.

He said some 500 corporate leaders and employees are ex-

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(.]) To require any employee, as a condition of employment, or of continuance of erpployment, to be or become or remain a member or affiliate of any labor orga~ nization or agency; ·

(2) To require any employee, as a condition of employment, or of continuance of employment, to abstain or refrain from membership in any labcr organization; or

Chamber members met yesterday to mobilize support for the Right to Work Act of 1999.

(3) To require any employee, as a condition of employment, or of continuance of employment, to pay any fees, dues, assessments orother charges or sums of money whatsoever to any person or organization.

pected to attend the hearing to express the Chamber's support.

"Even more important than us business leaders, we need our employees to testify. Moreover, they have to testify of their own free will and they must not be coerced,"' said Kloppenburg, who heads Kloppenburg Enterprises, one of the prominent tourism companies on island which operates optional tours, bus service, and rental and charter services.

According to Kloppenburg, it's importantfornon-unionizedcompanies to show their support because unions against the bill are also expected to be present in strength including the Guam Fed-

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business because something like this can only hurt our economy," Kloppenburg said.

He added that the Guam Hotel & Restaurants Association will be putting up hospitality tents

According to Kloppenburg, the initial feedback he got is that the Legislature is amenable to passing the bill.

Teno cautions legislature on scholarship funding options


GOVERNOR Pedro P. Tenorio yesterday said the Legislature may cut the proposed funding for the departments to have the money channeled to the scholarship program instead. He however cautioned that his administration still has otherfinancial obligations that need to be add~essed.

The governor met with leaders of the Senate, Tuesday, to· try to resolve "differepces" arising from calls to increase the program's $2.5 million proposed funding for the current fiscal year.

Senate President Paul A. Manglona(R-Rota) said the meeting discussed ways to which the Senate can cooperate with the govemor"in trying to get as much done" in the remaining days of the I l th Legislature, including the passage of an FY 2000 budget and other pending bills.

"Ifthe Legislators feel that they want to cut some of the department's (budget) and put some to other agencies, it is up to them. They have the authority to do that," the governor told reporters.

"I am sure that if we can iden-

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tify some money, definitely we will support the scholarship program. We are trying everything possible to see if we can fund (it). And not only scholarship, we have many other responsibilities that we have to consider.

"We have to pay our Retirement Fund bill. We have to pay our utility bills.

So when you start thinking about funding some needs, you have to take into consideration that there are other outstanding accounts that we have to meet," Tenorio added.

House Ways and Means Chair, Rep. Karl T. Reyes (R-Saipan) has recently said that some mem-

.• bers of the Legislature are not too keen about funding the scholarship program; despite Senate Floor leader Pete P. Reyes' (RSaipan) insistence that it be given priority.

The governor said he was "told" there are "some differences" among members of the Legislature on the matter. · ;'ldon'twanttopointafingerto

anybody," he however said, adding that the crux of matter "is always funding." Manglona assured the governor has the Senate's cooperation on the budget issue.

Reyes, also on Tuesday, said at · least two options are being con

sidered for the scholarship program: A government-guaranteed loan arrangement with Bank of Guam, and a legislation asking the Marianas Public Land Trust to invest on the program.

The Senate Floor leader, for his part, said he is looking at transferring government agencies renting office spaces to public buildings, cutting down housing allowances for government employees and closing down the Mani la Liaison Office to get funding.

Benefit- concerts for _Felipe Litulumar By Haidee V. Eugenio and Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff LOCAL singers and bands will

get together for a two-day special concert Nov. 19 and 20 to raise funds for the benefit of crash victim Felipe Litulumar who is in

Hawaii struggling to recover from partial paralysis.

According to concert organizer Cinta Kaipat, the musical show will be staged at the amphitheater of the American Memorial Park from 7:00 up to 11 :00 p.m.

Litulumar met an accident in

Marpi months ago, wherein his Ford truck rammed into a pine tree while he was traveling on the road. As a result of the collision, he broke his spinal cord and hip bone.

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THE Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture (CCAC) has released the names of the recipients of the Governor's Arts Awards.

Those who won include singer Kevin Atalig who was chosen as this year's Outstanding Performing Artist.

Atalig was joined in the adult division category by three other awardees, Francisca Celis, who was named the 1999 Traditional Craftsperson; Kuniyoshi Ukita, this year's Outstanding Visual Artist; and Scott Russell, who is 1999's Outstanding Literary Art-ist. ·

The four winners were also joined by a history class from Tinian high School and 14 other students from the various schools in the three islands who competed in the high school category.

CCAC Arts Coordinator for Performing Arts and Festivals Cindy Macaranas said the winners were judged by a panel composed of representatives from the various sectors including previous award recipients.

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s awardees named The Governor's Arts A wards is

held once a year and is observed not only in the CNMI but all the states under the United States.

The students who won along with their various titles were Ramona Concepcion, 11th grade, Marianas Baptist Academy - Performing Arts/Tel-Com; Yun Yuan Lu, 12th grade, Marianas High School - Performing Aru/ Theater Drama; Jamie Ogo, 12th grade, Rota High School - Literary Arts; Maximo Cabrera, 12th grade, Marianas High School -VisualArts;BillieJoe Ulloa, 12th grade, Rota High School- Visual Arts; Carmen Marie Indalecio, 12th grade, Marianas High School - Performing Arts/Dance-Vocals; Shelwyn Taisacan, 12th grade, Rota High School - Traditional Arts; Estelle Hofschneider, 12th

·grade.Marianas Baptist Academy - Literary Arts; Walter Manglona, 12th grade, Rota High School -Performing Arts; and the NMI History class, of the Tinian High School for the Traditional Arts.

Contestants from Tinian and Rota were automatically chosen for the award. However, a second

place for the high school category has to be created due to the big number of participants.

TheyareLuisJohnCastro, 11th grade, Marianas High School -Performing· Aru/Tel-Com;

Amanda P. Borja; 11th grade, Mount Carmel High School-Performing Arts/Theater-Drama; Jessielyn Jerado, for dance and vocals, Philip Villaga, visual arts; and Tanya Dickson, literilry arts, all of the Marianas High School.

The category was participated by students from 9th up to 12th grades.

"We don't have any prizes except with plaques that we will have to give, but these are customized plaques which are very

costly. Due to the recognition, they are meaningful specially that the governor will be personally awarding them," said Macaranas.

Macaranas who is the coordinator.

The Governor's Arts Awards also honored .five ardent supporters who are Rep. Ana Teregeyo; Lino Olopai; Marianas Visitors Authority; American Memorial Park; and the Spectrum Electric.

The awarding ceremonies has . been scheduled for Nov. 24 at 10: 00 a.m. at the Multi Purpose Center.

This year's art award was a little bit more extravagant and meaningful since it is the pernJltimate to the current mill en-

nium. Also the three named humanities awardees for this year will be formally recognized

They are Scott Russel for his Outstanding Contributions to the Preservation of the Ancient History of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Dr. Pius Mau Pialug for Outstanding Contributions to the Preservation of Traditional Carolinian Navigation; and Don Farell, Outstanding contributions to the Preservation of the History of the Common wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Macaranas, who is also the coordinator for the art award said an exhibit has also been scheduled for Nov. 24, 26, 29, and 30.

USFW rejects CNMI offer of landfill mitigation site


THE LOCAL government had proposed that mitigation site for bird species to be affected by the Marpi landfill project be placed at the Northern Islands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife, however, turned it down.

"We wanted to give them (USFWS officials) the other 14 islands to select (where the mitigation site will be). They decided not to select there," said Lt. Gov. Jesus R. Sablan, expressing dismay.

The USFWS has yet to grant the commonwealth government a permit to build the landfill site, which is being seen as the solution that will finally addressed federal government concerns on the dangers posed by the Puerto Rico dump.

"There will be a setback," said Sablm1. "But," he added, referring to USFWS concerns about bird species to be affected by the landfill project, "I don't think that it is of that importance to delay this project."

"I want them to issue us a permit."

Sablan said some 200 hectares ofland have been identified across Saipan for the mitigation site.

Governor Pedro P. Tenorio has earlier expressed similar concerns on the delay of the project, stating that if birds are being given protection, equal attention should likewise be given to humans.

"We are concerned that the endangered species are protected. But at the same time, how about the health of our people ? Which is more important ? We have to follow the

F&W regulations, but at the same time they (F&W officials) have to look at the issue on the health of the community over here," the governor told reporters, in an interview last week.

Tenorio said it is about time the Puerto Rico dump is finally closed for good.

Marianas High School students Soo Sun Jung and Franklin S. Palacios hold their winning entries to the 1999 Poster Design Contest for the Annual Governor's Arts Award. At left is art teacher Wesley Foster and at right is Cindy Macaranas, coordinator for the arts award. Photo by Rene P. Acosta

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OBVIOUSLY, other government agencies have been affected by the raging court battles that stemmed from a raid at an alleged illegal gambling activity in Garapan. One clear example is the Board of Public Lands. Many were surprised when BPL suddenly voted two weeks ago to "dismiss" its two "off-island" lawyers and instead Board members conducted meeting in Chamorro and Carolinian languages. Insiders disclosed to us that Board members decided in that meeting to "kick out" lawyer Thomas E. Clifford and Assistant Attorney General L. David Sosebee from representing the Board. Sosebee was placed in a very awkward situation because despite his presence BPL members held the session in local dialects.

*** *** *** During that meeting, the Board decided to request the Attorney

General's Office to authorize and allow BPL to hire a private attorney who could speak either in Chamorro or Carolinian. The Board reportedly wanted to be represented by a government lawyer who could also speak the local dialects. BPL reportedly felt the need of lawyers who could understand the local culture. The members said they could express better in Chamorro or in Carolinian. When we interviewed Sosebee recently, he stated he was not sure if he was indeed fired because the entire session was done in Chamorro. The next BPL meeting would be surely interesting considering that Sosebee insisted to still attend the session.

*** *** *** Sosebee explained that under the Constitution, the AGO is legal

counsel to BPL so he would come back in the next meeting. He asserted that he has no problem with BPL members speaking in Chamorro because they have the absolute right to do that. Many people, however, doubted BPL 's real intent behind such sudden decision. Sosebee for his part said he believes Pedro M. Atalig is the only person in the Board who is really dissatisfied with him. Well, Sosebee is representing acting AG Maya Kara in the lawsuit filed by former Senate President Juan S. Dernapan. Atalig, a BPL member representing Rota, is Dernapan's counsel too in the case.

*** *** *** We are aware that it was Demapan, through lawyers Atalig and

Joseph A. Arriola, who questioned Kara's alleged illegal holdi_ng_ the position of acting AG. And in response, Kara and her co-plamt1ffs, through Sosebee, aq:used Atalig and Arriola of violating the Government Ethics Code. The Senate for sure is going to defend all the way its decision in giving Arriola an "independent contract." And what about Clifford? In 1996 the AGO, through then Assistant Attorney General Clifford, filed a $4-million lawsuit against Atalig and six other persons over alleged land grabbing case in Rota. The case is pending in court. During the BPL meeting, Atalig, however, did not participate over the discussion and subsequent voting to "oust" Sosebee and Clifford.

*** *** *** If indeed these pending civil cases are the real reasons behind BPL's

decision, we could not blame the Board members. Can we expect them to work efficiently as a team if one doesn't like their legal counsel? Absolutely, there is a conflict. And do you think a lawyer feels comfortable sitting in the meeting wherein his clients speak in a dialect which he could not understand while one or two members personally dislike him? If the Board membersgettheirwish, they should, however, always bear in mind that they have a sacred duty. They must protect and preserve now and for the future generation our limited public lands _for the rightful owners-the people from the Commonwealth. Meanwhile, Presiding Judge Edward Manibusan is right that he should appoint a pro tern judge from Guam to preside over Demapan's lawsuit. The case should be immediately resolved once and for all. Otherwise more agencies would likely be dragged too in the controversies. For the meantime, let us wait for Kara's next move. We hope not from the

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violent behavior By R. Bruce Dold

IT ALL would be so much easier to sort out if seven young black men had gone to a lunch counter in Decatur and been told they wouldn't get served.

It would be so much easier if seven young black men had wanted to register to vote in Decatur and been turned away. Or if they had simply wanted to enroll at Eisenhower High School, new students with a fresh slate, and been blocked at the schoolhouse door.

More than 30 years after Greensboro and Montgomery and Philadelphia, Miss., we know the answers to those questions. Give Jesse Jackson credit, he helped to provide the answers.

But what's happening in Decatw is something different. America's oldest and most vexing problem, racism, has run up against America's newest and most frightening problem, violence in schools. This time, Jesse Jackson doesn't quite have the answer.

There was a big fight in the stands during an Eisenhower football game on Sept. 17. Apparently the only weapons used were fists, not guns or knives or pipe bombs. No one was seriously hurt. But the school board came down hard on some of the students. They were expelled for two years.

That was harsh, too harsh, because it amounted to an academic death penalty for those kids. Everyone knows that if they were barred from their school for two years, they would never go back.

But I'm not going to kick the school board, nor assume the penalty would have been more modest had the students been white.

You watch that videotape and it is frightening, seeing that fight roll through the stands, seeing the people scramble to get out of harm's way. I have a daughter who's a freshman in high school, and I watch that tape and think that if she had been in the stands, in the way, I'd still be purple with rage.

The weapons in Decatur were fists, but the backdrop was Columbine High School and guns and murder. And that probably has more to do with the school board's overreaction than the race of the students.

Look at what has been happening around the country.

A Kansas school canceled classes just on the rumor somebody was going to bring in a gun. A Downstate Illinois 7-year-old was suspended for

bringing a nail clipper to school. A New Jersey teen was suspended and arrested for drawing a picture of a man in the cross hairs of a rifle sight. A Texas 7thgrader was arrested for writing a scary Halloween essay. In the last year, at least three suburban students have been expelled for bringing toy guns to school. I don't know that anyone has done a survey, but I would guess that many of the students who were punished in these seemingly crazy post-Columbine cases are white.

Ever since the shootings in Littleton, Colo., every parent sitting on a school board in this country has been on notice. You can't let it happen here. What are you going to do? Cops in the hallways? Metal detectors at every door? Daily backpack searches? Mass expulsions?

And every parent on a school board has known that if they go only halfway on security and something terrible happens, somebody dies on school grounds, they'll be haunted by it. And they'll be blamed. Have all these overreaching school board people gone off the deep end? No. This is a time for a shaking out, for figuring out how schools can be made safe without being armed camps. A lot of mistakes are being made, but they're not necessarily being made by bad people.

The confrontation in Decatur has revolved around race. Jesse Jackson says it isn't race-"it's not black and white, it's wrong and right"-but race is underlying the whole thing, from the school board vote on the expulsions that divided along racial lines to the students' lawsuit claiming their civil rights have been violated.

Where Jackson has miscalculated is in understanding America's oldest problem but not its newest problem-the real fear of school violence.

When the Decatur school board offered a compromise Monday night-one-yearexpulsion and enrollment in an alternative school, Jackson should have declared victory. But he insisted that the fighting students be returned to Eisenhower High right away. He lamented the lost education opportunities for several chronic truants while his made-for-TV confrontation kept 950 students out of school for two days.

By Wednesday, after the videotape of the fight had clearly undermined Jackson's position, he started to retreat. Jackson opened the door to accepting an

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To Jack ·Peters IN THE interest of the people of the CNMI, I respectfully request that you reconsider your move to create a new and separate Small Business Development Center (SBDC) program at the Commonwealth Development Authority (CDA).

I can understand your reasons for waiting to create such a new program, but I think that what you are doing is not right.

Your move, as you well know, is motivated by revenge directed against a few people at the Northern Marianas College (NMC).

However, the true victims of such retaliation would be those people of the CNMI who are intended to benefit from the SBDC program.

Some background information would help us understand what the problem is and why you are willing to destroy a good and successful program at NMC in order to punish some people.

First, your contract as former director of the SBDC on Saipan was not renewed beyond April 1999. Therefore, you sought your current position as director of the Pacific Islands Small Business Development Center Network (PISBDCN) at the University of Guam (UOG).

At that time you had programmatic supervision over a $200,000 grant, from the Office of Insular Affairs to fund an economic study for the CNMI. You negotiated and recommended that certain people from UOG be awarded consulting contracts in connection with the economic study.

Second, you also wanted to award yourself a related contract and tried to get NMC President Agnes M. McPhetres to sign the contract on behalf of the college. The president refused to sign, believing that such contract was inappropriate and probably illegal.

Someone else already had such contract and you, as

SI3DC or PISBDCN director, should not award yourself a contract in a project that you had been· supervisiqg. After ;\gnes refused to sign, you tried to get Rep. Oscar M. Babauta to sign the same cons tract. He refused for the same reasons. You were observed to have become very upset and angry at the president and Mr .. Babauta.

Third, you urged Eric Plinske to award a contract using $5,000 of Small Business Administration funds, to Patrick Calvo, regarding SBDC interns. Patrick was one of the people who interviewed you for your current position. Eric resisted your order because Patrick was a member of the advisory council for SBDC, and had not expressed any interest in such a contract. Eric believed that an award of such contract would create a conflict of interest for Patrick. You became upset and angry at Eric.

Fourth, after securing your current position as PISBDCN director, you arranged to start working at UOG on April 1, 1999. At the same time, you gave notice to NMC that your employment at NMC would end on April I 5, 1999. In other words, you would be holding two separate full time jobs and receiving .a salary from UOG and NMC at the same time. Also, since the director of PISBDCN oversees the director of SBDC, you would become your own boss and your own subordinate all at the same time.

I was at our Rotary Club meeting when Agnes pulled you to a table and told you that your attempt to double dip was inappropriate. You became angrier at Agnes for daring to tell you what was inappropriate. After all, she was no longer going to be your boss, and you were going to become the boss of the SSBDC at NMC.

Fifth, after you moved to UOG, Agnes appointed Rik Villegas as temporary director of SBDC at NMC, pending

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arrangement similar io the one he had rejected two days earlier.

But even after he viewed the videotape, Jackson declared it was a milder dust-up than the average hockey or National Basketball Association game. He compared it to the New York Knicks playing the Miami Heat. In likening

that scary Decatur melee to mil-1 ionaire jocks at play, JesseJackson looked as out of touch as Jesse Jackson has ever looked in his life.

Jesse Jackson's political career is over. The old and flirtatious question-Will he run for president?-is now moot. What Jack-

the hiring of your full time replacement. You wrote to Agnes about the SBDC at NMC, listing numerous deficiencies and informing herthat certain things that should have

· been done had hot been done. Rik, as temporary director

responded to that letter, pointing out that those things which should have, but had not been done, were supposed to have been done by you, while you were director, but you failed to do them. Also, the deficiencies that you listed were the result of your own acts as previous director. You became so upset, embarrassed and angry at Rik that you decided not to recognize him as temporary director of SBDC. You have refused to correspond with him and you pretend that he does not exist.

Well, he does exist. Rik recently made a presentation to the NMC Board of Regents about the new programs, goals and objectives of the SBDC.

There is a great deal of ambition and progress in that office and the regents were impressed. The office continues to function even though you have not sent us a penny out of the $45,000 that we should have received from your office for the first and second quarter this year.

Sixth, Agnes, realizing that NMC's and SBDC's relationship with you was getting worse, asked me, as chairman of our Board of Regents, to look at the situation and see if I could make any recomrnen~ dation to improve the situation.

The first thing I did was to meet with Mr. Lujan of the SBA office. Rik, Eric and Agnes had reviewed all the correspondents available at that time.

After gathering the facts and learning about the situation, I suggested that we needed to meet with you, along with the president of UOG. Mr. Lujan, and whoever else had a role to play in these relationship.

Agnes arranged the meeting in the office of UOG Presi-

son brings·to the country now are the skills he brought as a young preacher fresh from his service to Martin Luther King Jr., an ability to bring awareness and clarity to issues of justice and fairness .. Thus far, Jackson hasn't shown his old mastery of either trait in Decatur.

(Chicago Tribune)

dent Jose Nenedog on Oct. 20. Present at that meeting were you, Preside.nt Nenedog, Agnes, Jim Denney, Eric, Cliff Shoemake and myself. I explained . that we were there because we wanted to work with you, not against you, improve our relationship, comply with all the requirements, recognize your supervisory position, change our attitudes, and make our programs successful for the benefit of the people of the commonwealth. We also pr~sented you with documents showing compliance with your previous citations.

President Nenedog declared that he had earlier talked to Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio about ourupcoming me.eting and that the governor hoped that we would come up with a solution to our problems. He closed by saying that he wanted to maintain the good relationship that exist between NMC and UOG and that he is pleased that we have decided to work together harmoniously from then on.

You told us about previous actions and correspondence by SBDC personnel which tarnished your name and you were told by higher-ups to "get rid of the bad apple." Meaning the SBDC at NMC.

At the end, however, you stated that you, too, would like to see some changes of attitudes, that you want us to be able to work together, and that you would review the documents we submitted and would get back to us after such review.

Instead of reviewing the documents, you have done something else which I will discuss below.

We walked away from that meeting thinking that there is a hope for our future relationship.

However, about a week later we received feedback from some people at UOG. You had told them that NMC people came crawling back to you with their chairman of the Board of Regents, humbling themselves, but that you were not impressed. Whatever your impression was, we did what we did because we wanted to maintain and improve our SBDC program for the benefit of our people. If you recall, I specifically told everyone at our meeting on Guam that this program is not intended for you and I.

It is intended for our people.

Th.erefore, we should not think of ourselves, but about

· the people who we are supposed to serve.

Seventh, recently, we have received correspondence which show that you have been secretly d.iscussing with CDA your desire to set up a new and separate SBDC program at CDA. You have drafted the necessary agreements and letters for the signatures of CDA and our governor. You have also been C0°ntacting your friends in the states- offering to hire several people to work in "Paradise" at CDA with good pay, -good benefits and possible free housing.

Instead of reading our documents, this is what you h~ve been doing.

Here are some of my thoughts about what you are doing.

First, we have a wellequipped, well-managed, and successful SBDC program at NMC which you want to destroy so you could get back at some people who have angered you or hurt your feelings.

I urge you to think about our people and n0t so much about your personal feelings.

Second, it appears that you are trying to get CDA, UOG and the governor to rally behind you in your deteFmination to execute revenge and retaliation against certain people at the college.

What the commonwealth needs, in these difficult times. is positive leadership from you. Leadership that manages to get all the different government agencies and institutions to work together harmoniously for the benefit of our people.

Third, to use your government power to destroy a good program in order to .satisf) your personnel feelings is an abuse of power.

As a government official you have a solemn duty to help our people, not to harm them.

By maliciously destroying a good government program. you would be harming the people of the commonweal th.

I respectfully ask you to take one step back. Look at what you are doing. Give us positive and productive leadership.

And let us work together, not against each other.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

RAMON G. VILLAGOMEZ Chairman of the Board of Regents, Northern Marianas College

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Thai community to hold Candle Float Festival

"Some say that it is an act of thanksgiving go the Goddess of water for her gift of water to man an act for her pardon for polluting it in some ways," a representative from the Thai Community said.

"Others say that we do this to show respect to Lord Buddha. Some scholars believe that it is an occasion to rejoice after the planting season is over," she added.

President of the Saipan Thai Community Apple Wuttayagon (center) speaks at the Saipan Rotary Club meetinFJ about the upcoming Thai Festival set for Sunday, Nov. 21 at Kilill Beach. Also in photo are Saipan Rotary Club President Alex Sablan (left) and Rotary Secretary Hermie Queja. Photo by Marian A. Maraya

This Sunday, the CNMI will be witnessing activities that the Thai community have put together for the festival.

The line up of activities include a showcase of Thai traditional dances, the Fine Thai ladies Contest, and other song and dance presentations.

THE THAI Community on Saipan will be celebrating the Festival of Candle Floats this Sunday, November 21st at Kilili Beach.

The festival is a special event celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month, said Thai Community

Inc. President Apple Wuttayagon yesterday.

Thais have different ways of creating meaning to the festival, said Wuttayagon.

"Usually, three incense sticks and a candle placed in the kratong are lighted before it is let go on the placid water.

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Volunteers sought for ACS program

By Haldee V. Eugenio Variety News Staff

THE DIVISION of Mental Health and Social Services (DMHSS)has moved to establish a local American Cancer Society (ACS) Fresh Start program with the upcoming visit to Saipan of an ACS trainer.

ACS Fresh Start is a program designed tohelppeoplequitsmoking cigarettes.

DMHSS, along with ACS Guam Unit, eyes a total of 15 volunteers to take part in the training set on Nov. 19 atthe Northern Marianas College (NMC) Human Resource Training Room from 8 am to5 pm.

Helene Lizama, prevention specialist at DMHSS, said Royce Ledbetter is interested in coming to Saipan to help establish the

national program locally through the conduct of a training.

"We are encouraging JO volunteers in facilitating and five volunteers in mentoring (to take part in the training)," said Lizama in a letter to DMHSS Director Josephine T. Sablan.

Due to the limited number of slots for the ACS Fresh Start training, Lizama said interested individuals are asked to contact her office (#323-6578/79) not later than today.

Qualifications for interested individuals include those who have successfully quit smoking for at least six months; those·who want and feel comfortable in helping others; and those who are willing to conduct four to six Fresh Start programs annually.

Days of Wine and Roses this weekend AFTER the success of "Steel. Magnolias," the Friends of the Arts is set to come out with another play entitled "Days of Wine and Roses," a melodrama portraying the damaging effects of alcoholism.

The drama is set in a fast moving milieu of Madison A venue where social drinking is a norm.

In order to scale the corporate ladder, mastering the art of mixing after hour socializing business is mandatory.

Joe Clay, one of the main characters, is determined to excel and he masters the after hours scene with ready ease. Maybe too ready.

Joe meets and . marries Kirsten, a woman who truly shares his proclivity for the bottle.

The couple continue to tell themselves that they drink because they choose to, however, soon social habit becomes a · serious problem.

This problem is unfortunately not apparent to them.

The failure to acknowledge the power that alcohol has over their lives plunges them headlong into a decade of shattering events - a career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of family and friends lost, and an innocent child made the victim of their obsession.

In the poignant end, there exists hope, the depth of torment,

-yFWmeeting THE MONTHLY meeting for VFW Post 3457 will be held tonight at Oleai Beach Bar beginning at 6:30 p.m.

All members are urged to attend.

Continuous members who have not paid their annual membership dues for year 2000 are requested to do so by Dec. I, 1999.

For more information, please contact Jerry Kraus at 235-1756 or Pete Callaghan at 234-5626.

and a lesson of how compulsive behaviorof one of two penetrates the lives of many.

The cast is led by Roy Rechebei and Susan Fishman with Melody Actouka, Mindy Gibson, and Victoria Tudela Cabrera.

They are supported by Dorinda Salas, Marie Coleman, Diane Palacios, Lydia Villagomez,Judi Castro, Jessielyn Jurado, and Tina Kraul.

Days of Wine and Roses is a second of a series of the plays presented by Friends of the Arts, which is projected to create and awareness of social issues through entertainment.

Friends of the Arts has designed these plays to touch audiences emotions, so they could relate to live performances, empathize with the characters, understand their plight.

The Division of Mental Health and Social Services' Substance Abuse Program will distribute information related to the issues addressed in the show.

Performances are scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Marianas High School (MHS) Theater.

Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday Matiness are at 3:30 p.m.

General Admission is $10 each. Student tickets are at S5 each.

Youth retreat postponed THE AGAPE Youth weekend retreat scheduled to take place on Nov 19-21, 1999 has been rescheduled.

This exciting event will be held on January 29-3 I, 2000.

Karidat is still accepting application forms.

Youths between 15 to 18 years of are eligible to enroll.

For more infotmation please call Karidat at telephone Number 234-6981/5348.

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BPL counsel's dismissal surprises DPL director

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EVEN the head of the agency tasked with oversight over public lands and the distribution of homesteads is surprised about the recent action of the Board of Public Lands in dismissing its counsel, Assistant Attorney General L. David Sosebee.

"It's surprising because we have been having board meetings for the past two years in English and all of a sudden we are out in vernacular," said Division of Public Lands Director Bertha Leon Guerrero yesterday.

The board members e_xcused the government attorney purportedly because they want an indigenous counsel who could

Bertha Leon Guerrero

understand both the Chamorro and Carolinian languages, aside fom English.

The members of the board has already conducted their last meeting mainly in Chamorro.

While she does not want to

dip her finger into the issue, Guerrero said she was really surprised over the board's action.

"I don't know why they want to excuse Mr. Sosebee from being a counsel to the board. I don't know the reason. They just said, 'we don't want,"' she said.

Guerrero said she does not know whether the board move was in order and if Sosebee can be "kicked out just like that."

By law, the Office of the Attorney General represents the Commonwealth government in any litigation and other legal matters. · Earlier, Sosebee said he will still attend future meetings of the board.

TIIffPUBLIC:: School System to schools should.be reviewed (PSS) Food and Nutrition Ser~ by the certified nutrition.istup at vice.s (FNS) ye~terday warned the NMC [Northern Marianas all ~ch09l ve11~% ~gainstsel1° College ] ... for .. the. meantime ing (<,104 and .drinks outsi<le when FNS does not have one," FNS;s knqwk:dge,>.·.•.·•·.···· .•.... ··.··.. saidSanchez.

FNS Administrator Jess "We want to make sure that Sanchez . said the warning was all foods are consistent with the issued out of corici:m for the intent of the FNS program ... to 10,000 kids who consume food bring about a healthier and more and beverage at the schools. physically. fit CNMI comrnu-: foci4.ve11do/s pattic;ipatingfo nity," he added.

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By Marian A. Maraya Variety News Staff

A NEWLY chartered coalition of private schools has plans to push for legislation allowing foreign, non-U.S. citizens to attend elementary and intermediate schools in the CNMI.

The coalition believes that granting foreign, non-U.S. students the "1-20" foreign student visa, similar to that of Guam and the United States, will benifit the local economy.

The present set-up allows foreign, non-U.S. citizens to enter the CNMI school system only if they are in the college level, the Variety was told.

Some private schools plan on bringing in Asian students, said Eucon International School (EIS) ofSaipanPresidentChristian Wei.

"We are hoping to introduce this idea to the lawmakers, to create a law making it possible for foreign students to attend school

here as early as grade or high school," said Wei.

'This is a good way to attract investors since if the students study here, their parents will also come and invest here ... ," he said.

"The I-20visa applies in Guam but Saipan has an advantage over Guam. IfI am an investor, Saipan is likely to be my choice since the wage is lower here," Wei added.

EIS, according to Wei, has plans on strongly pursuing the initiative.

'This will be beneficial for all private schools. We have already contacted some lawmakers and they say that this is a good idea," said Wei.

"This is not a new concept. Guam has this and the U.S. has this. I think we need to have this here, Our design is to attract more investors to the islands,"Wei said.

Private schools are mainly tapping Asian students from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, possibly even

YCMPA fundraising concert THE CNMI Youth Center c,f Music and Performing Arts (YCMPA) will be hosting a fundraising concert this Saturday, November 20 at the Susupe Beach Park, from 4 p.m. to midnight.

The group plans on releasing a holiday CD and is hoping to produce· funds for the needed equipment through the fundraiser, according to YCMPA executive director Sam Joyner.

"We have our own CD recorder and CD dubber. We are raising funds for materials like blank CDs and printing labels," Joyner said.

In addition, YCMPA is also in need of computer equipment, a color copier or xerox printer, music books, and other materials for the CD project, Joyner added.

This Saturday, YCMPA will bt': featuring local teen talent,

"Ro," along with guest performances from local celebrities.

Kelvin Duenas, Sheldon Eichi, Roman Tudela, Jr., the Unique Dances, the Pack Girls, and possibly Kevin Atalig are expected to perform at the concert.

YCMPA is a non profit organization chartered to provide developmental education services to the youth of the CNMI.

Among its accomplishments this year is the full implementation of reading, writing, and arithmetic through music and performing arts, according to Joyner.

YCMP A is hoping to get the community's support for this special event beneficial for developing youth talents, said Joyner.

Saturday's concert will also be particiflated in by t~~

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Furthermore, EIS is also planning on introducing college courses to for both foreign and local students.

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Economic crisis pt111S imports down to $7.3M

By Eileen 0. Tabaranza For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon)Business activity continues to decline as Palau's total merchandise imports slipped by four percent to only $7. 31 million in October this year as compared to $7 .67 million recorded the previous month.

Data prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Statistics Specialist Bernard Pullon showed that total imports, which leveled off at the $7-million mark in the past three months, have been steadily decreasing this year due to sluggishdemandforbasiccommodities as a result of the economic activity slowdown.

However, increased importation of construction materials did not pull up the overall imports for Oaober.

The lowest import· figure was recorded last April, a month when Pullon came up with comprehensive import data, pegged at $5 .89 million.

Imports hit its highest at

$9.47 million in May this year, previous month, represent-but this was not sustained in ing a 65 percent drop. June when import expendi- There was also a·32.5 per-tures went down to $6.17 mil- cent drop in the total impor-lion. Data revealed that im- tation of vehicles other than port expenditures went on-the railway or tramwlly rolling uptrend in July onwards. stock, and parts and acces-

Import spending for bever- series. · ages, spirits and vinegar Total value of cars im-p! unged by 15. 7 percent to ported into Palau in October only $373,915 in October this sfood. at $470,495 agaim;t year against the previous September'& $697,662. month's $443,452. .. . On the other harid, import

Demand for dairy products, spending for iron an.d steel, vegetables and certain roots two of the basic materials and tubers, cereals, wood and needed for the construction of articles of wood, coffee, tea the 53-mile compact road and meat spices, clothing ap- project around Babeldaob, pare I, and pharmaceutical soared to $ l. U million in products decreased during the · October this year. This.figure same month, the data showed. surged by 908percent against

Importexpendi tures on cof- the measly $105,577 J"fCOrded fee, tea, and spices decreased in September this yell)", dramatically by 58 percenuo Demand for this building reach qnly$64,563 in Octo- material has been steadily ber this year as compared to increasing since July this $103;414 recorded the previ~ · year due tothetompa<:troad ous month. project.

Data showed that total im- Import spending for. mef-portation of wood and articles als also movedtremendously of wood also slowed down to to$14,905, ()[ 426 percent $71,088 in.October this.year . more than the$2,834posted from the $204,840. posted the the. previous month.

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Daewoo to hire lo.cals for Palau road project.

By Malou L. Sayson For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -Daewoo intends to hire as many local workers and local sub-contractors as possible for the company and its major sub-contractors, assured the United States Army Corps of Engineers. .

In the next two to four months, there will be more opportunities for the involvement of the local labor in the project, said USACE Resident Representative Officier Alex Morrison in an interview.

Morrison reiterated that the contractor will be needing a workforce of about 700 to 800. "Qualified local people will be given preference," he said.

But the majority of the required labor force will be sourced from the outside.

Morrison said the contractor is eyeing the Philippines, Indonesia, Korea and Guam as sources of manpower for the project.

While Morrison noted that labor mobilization is not yet complete, he also pointed out another critical component of the project which is the sourcing of the needed materials for the construction.

According to Morrison, part of the compact agreements is to "make the materials available where possible." This is in response to the question about some issues relating to where cou Id the national or the state governments come in in supplying the necessary materials for the road con-

struction. "If the government has its own

supply of the needed materials, ihenitcandeliver," saidMonison. The contractor could also tap pri~ vate suppliers.

Morrison, however, pointed out that the· best solution forthe contractor is "to get the materials from government sources." This may ;ot be possible in all locations, though, he said.

The contractor, according to Morrison, should determine a way for the contractor to get materials in the most economical manner. The USACE, in this aspect, will assist the contractor and work with the government of Palau.

The way Morrison assessed the availability of local materials, supply is not a problem when limited to the materials for subbase (below the surfaGe of the road) construction. However, for high to medium quality materials, there is some kind of a problem.

Morrison, "for instance, cited granite, a hard rock considered as top quality material which is not available here on Palau. Basalt, too, which is also a good material, according to Morrison, is hard to find locally.

The sand materials for the concrete will have to be imported. Coral sand though in abundance here is of medium quality.

Since importing material has its own risks and is very expensive, Morrison said "it is betterto find local resources if they can.''.,

Child allegedly abused by adoptive parents


KOROR (Palau Horizon) -The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has filed criminal charges against the adoptive parents of a three-year old child who has been allegedly abused starting in or about February 1999 to about Sept. 15, 1999.

Slapped with two counts of abuse and one count of assault and battery are Johnny Sekoul and Motol Becheselchad. AssistantAttomey General (AAG) Steven Carrara filed Criminal Case No. 99-288 last Nov. 3 before the Supreme Court Trial Division.

The case of a child abuse wa, reported on Sept. 28, 1999 by Rebecca Koshiba of the Belau National Hospital. It would be noted that Koshiba runs the Victims for Crimes Assistance Promarn.

According to a tw~-page Affidavit of Probable Cause, Police Officer Nonnan Bintorio, who was assigned to investigate the case, was informed by Koshiba that she received a phone call on Sept. l 5, l 999 about an abused three-year old girl (name withheld). The following day, the child was brought to the hospital by the adoptive parents.

Koshiba noticed that the child

was covered with old sc;ars, bruises and numerous open sores all over her body, especially her face.·

As stated in the affidavit, as Koshiba went to change the child's diaper she noticed a large red open wound on the child's left buttock.

According to defendant Becheselchad, the child got the wound over a month ago in a cooking incident but she did not seek assistance and chose to apply herbs and medicine.

··As part of my investigation. I interviewed the child's natural mother who info1med me that the child had been living with defendants since February this year,'" Bintorio stated in the affidavit.

The police officer also interviewed several witnesses in Ngeremlengui who reported that the defendants placed the child in a tub of water for several hours because she had wet herself. Also in August this year, another witness stated that they observed defendant Sekoul hit the child several times with the hard end of a '"skobang" or a coconut broom.

Sekoul admitted to the police officer that he did slap the child in the mouth over IO times after which was bleeding.

Palau Compact Road project seen snagged


KOROR (Palau Horizon) -Daewoo Corp. still has to hurdle yet another process, the environmental assessment (EA), which may take about 90 days to complete, for the dredging of three to four harbors needed to accommodate ocean-going barges that will bring in heavy equipment and materials for the compact road project.

The EA process had not been considered previously in the project's environmental impact study (EIS) which covers coral dredging in selected sites for use in the construction of temporary roads and base camps. In the earlier report of Palau Horizon, there are about IO potential sites for this purpose.

This was learned in an interview with United States Army Corps of Engineers' (US ACE)

Resident Representative Officier Alex Morrison who said, ··this EA is delaying us," as he explained why there has not been much visible activities going on in relation to the project.

Major sub-contractors have already arrived, though. These includeOCDC from the Philippines; Putra, Indonesia; Sun Jin Industry, also Indonesia; Jung Joo, Korea; and Guam Advance, Guam. There is one local contractorwhich is Socio Micronesia.

According to Morrison, it is better to lose time early rather than later in the project when it will difficult for the contractor to make up. The 90-day delay is for the entire project, he said.

Morrison reiterated that the contractor has yet to complete an EA for three or four potential dock sites in Ngaraard, Melekeok, Ngatpang and Imul near the Aimeliik power plant.

The EA, according to Morrison, will be done by Wi!Chee based in Honolulu with inputs from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Marine and Fisheries, Fish and Wildlife, and the local Environmental Quality Protection Board (EQPB). The EA will be completed sometime in December this year.

The harbor dredging, Morrison said, goes into the plan and is a key to accomplishing the plan to construct the road. The contractor will work in multiple sites with the harbors providing the necessary access.

The EA will need to look at the impact of coral dredging for purposes of improving, widening or deepening of the already existing dock sites in the four mentioned sites. The dredging of corals; Morrison said, would be done very close to the construction of the harbor.

Palau braces for new millennium By Malou L. Sayson For the Variety

KOROR (Palau Horizon) -A MULTI-sectoral meeting conducted by Vice·PresidentTommy Remengesau, Jr. has drawn up plans to celebrate the new millennium on the islands.

According to proposals, everyone will be asked to light a candle as the clock strikes 12mn bn Dec.31.

Following this, a five-minute firework will light up the sky.

And as sun appears in the horizon, a grand prayer breakfast will be held participated by all

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Those who participated in the meeting include Emory Mesubed of the Bank of Guam and Chamber of Commerce, Leilani Reklai of ChamberofCommerce, Presley Etibek of the Palau Community College, Salvador Tellames of

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Bribery trial of former Tonga minister begins NUKU'ALOFA (Pacnews) -Tonga's Supreme Court has begun hearing the bribery and forgery case against former Minister for Lands, Survey and Natural Resources, nobleman Honourable Fakafanua.

The four-week case is being heard by Chief Justice, Gordon Ward, who is assisted by a seven-member jury.

Fakafanua is charged for 12 counts. Prosecution alleges the former Minister accepted bribes, forged a land lease title and received money under false pretences.

Fakafanua has denied all charges.

The charges are related to three incidents. The first relates to a piece of land that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints allegedly requested from

PAPEETE (Pacnews) -The President of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse is in Paris, France to promote a proposed increase in thenumberof seats in Tahiti's territorial assembly.

the Ministry in 1996. The Minister allegedly asked

the Church to pay 3,000 Pa 'anga ($US 1,845) for the land. The money was allegedly paid to the Minister but was not deposited in the Ministry's account.

Similarly the Tonga Develop_ment Bank allegedly sought two pieces of land from the Ministry in the outer islands and was told to pay I 0,000 Pa'anga (SUS6, 151 ).

The money was allegedly paid by the Bank but was not deposited by the Minister into the Ministry's account.

In the third case involving the ANZ Bank and a local businessman, the Minister is alleged to have forged two signatures, one for the Works Minister and another of a senior Lands official, on a land lease title.

Flosse, whoisalsoexpectingto hear a Paris court decision on corruption charges against him, wants to increase representation in the outer islands of the French Territory.

New gov't may take over in Cook Islands. RAROTONGA (Pacnews)- A new Government is _expected to be sworn in in the Cook Islands tomorrow - just three and half months after the last Government led by Prime Minister Dr Joe Williams was sworn into office. . Long-time Opp.osition Leader and now leader of the Demo·cratic Alliance Party (DAP) and the New Alliance Party (NAP) coalition, Dr Terepai Moate, is expected to be sworn in as the new Prime Minister.

The Coalition will move a no confidence motion against Prime Minister, Dr Joe Williams and his·Cabinet tomorrow morning. The DAP/NAP coalition has the support of 14 Parliamentarians in the 25-seat

However, opposition parties want a reduction of seats in favour of ,an increase for the more populated Windward Group.

Opposition Leader Emile Vemau.don said PresidentFlosse

House. The ruling Cook Islands Party (CIP) has 11 seats.

Local media reports said Dr Moate will announce his Cabinet tomorrow afternoon after the no confidence vote. The Cabinet is expected to be sworn in later in the day.

Last week the Coalition announced that Dr Moate will be. Prime Minister in the new Government.

His Deputy will be the leader of NAP, the junior coalition partner, Norman George, who broke-away from the CIP Coalition Government a few weeks ago. The Ministerial line-up will include Dr Robert Woonton, Tangata Vavia, Jim Marurai and Nga Mau Munukoa.

According to reports from

wants to wCJrsenanalreaiiyuJt'air systern.··''With26,00Q'people,•.ilie outer islands currently hold 19 bf the 41 ~eats in the territ9.fial as. sembly. So a candidateJs eiected with only 500, or 609. vptes.

Rarotonga, Prime Minister Dr Williams, in a last ditch attempt befor~ the crucial parliamentary vote, · approached the Queens Representative, Sir Apenera Short, to · dissolve Parliament and call a snap election.

Hqwever, senior officials of the DAP/NAP Coalition heard about the approa·ch to the Queens Representative and called their own meeting with Sir Apenera to explain that they had the numbers to form the new Government.

Dr Moate has told Cook Islands Television he will not renege on the Coalition agreement with the NAP after some calls were made for the DAP to form a partnership with CIP. He said there is no way he will deal with CIP.

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Kiribati pensioners.to get 50% pension raise·, TARAWA (Pacnews) - The Government of Kiribati has announced a 50 per cent increase in payments for pensioners from next year.

According to the Kiribati Government Bulletin the increase is in line with the annual inflation rate in the country. Cabinet is said to have approved the increases because the pension rate has remained the sameforover 20 years.

There are about 50 pensioners in the country.

'"Increasing the pension had not been possible until 1997, when the present Government got the

Pension Act approved in Parliament. The same act also disqualified pensioners who are not IKiribati," the Government bulletin said.

Before the Pension Act of 1997, Kiribati used to pay pensioners in Tuvalu, who were retirees of the former Gilbert and Ell ice Islands administration.

The pensioners are mostly retired Government workers.

The bulletin noted the 50 per cent increase means the Government would be paying about $AUS13,000 (SUS8,706) a month as pension payments from January next year.

Fiji PM holds talks with India5 Mauritius PMs DURBAN (Pacnews) - The Prime Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudhry has held bilateral talks with his Indian counterpart, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and Prime Minister of Mauritius, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam.

A Fiji Government statement said the discussions focussed on promoting co-operation bet ween the three countries.

The talks were held in Durban, South Africa where the leaders are attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

The Prime Minister of India welcomed Fijim intention to open a High Commission in New Delhi.

Both Leaders agreed there was a great potential to promote in-

creased two-way trade between Fiji and India.

The Prime Minister of Mauritius asked Chaudhry to make an official visit to his country.

Dr Ramgoolam and Chaudhry noted that that Mauritius and Fiji are members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group in the Lome Convention with the European Union.

·'Both countries share a common interest in safeguard their sugar industry in European Union under the Sugar Protocol of the Lome Convention.

Both also have common interests in developing their tourism and garment and other manufacturing industries," the Government statement noted.

Philippine President Joseph Estrada (center) hands the saber, symbolizing the command, to new head of the Phil!ppine National Police Director Panfilo Lacson (right) during the Change-Of-Command ceremony at the Po/fee headquarters at suburban Quezon City Tuesday. Lacson, President Estrada's favorite police general, vowed to restore the good image of the tarnished police force. At left is retiring acting PNP Chief Edmundo Larroza and second from right is Interior Secretary Rona/do Puna. AP

RP House OKs budget MANILA, Philippines (AP) -The Philippine House of Representatives has approved a65 l billion peso ($ 16.27 billion) national budget for next year that calls for a freeze on government hiring to trim a hefty projected deficit, officials said Tuesday.

The budget, 9.7 percent larger than the current year's, must now be reconciled with a Senate version, and then must be signed by President Joseph Estrada.

House Majority Leader Manuel Roxas said the budget, approved by the House late Monday, may have to be revised before Estrada signs it to take into account the country's growing budget deficit.

The budget calls for a freeze on government hiring because of inadequate revenue and the already bloated government bureaucracy, House Speaker Manuel Villar said.

· The Department of Education is to receive 94.3 billion ($ 2.35 billion), followed by the Department of Defense with 55.14 billion pesos ($ 1.37 billion) and the Department of Public Works and Highways with 43.5 billion pesos ($ 1.08 billion), lawmakers said.

The Department of Interior and Local Governments is to receive 37.26 billion pesos ($ 93 l million), including a 29 .2 billion peso ($ 730 million) appropriation for the 117,000-member national police force, they said.

The budget also includes a 7.1 billion peso ($ 177 million) special fund - widely opposed by many groups - for lawmakers' pet infrastructure projects.

Opponents say the "pork barrel" fund could be a source of corruption.

In the first 10 months of the year, the government posted a

budget deficit of 96.804 billion pesos($ 2.42 billion), higher than the targeted 83.296 pesos ($ 2.08 billion) for the period, and about 2. 7 percent of the gross national product.

Government officials attributed the wider deficit to revenue shortfalls.

The government has targeted a budget deficit of 85.3 billion pesos ($ 2.1 billion) for all of 1999.

For September

RP trade surplus surges to $1.1-B

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippine trade surplus swelled to$ l. l billion in September from$ 332 million a year earlier because of extraordinarily strong export growth and slowing imports, officials said Tuesday.

In the first nine months of the year, the country enjoyed a trade surplus of $ 2.4 billion following a deficit of $ 962 million the previous year.

Philippine central bankGovernorRafaeI Buenaventura said the favorable September trade figures should help boost the peso in the coming months.

''It should clearly prove th at the peso should be stronger," Buenaventura said.

Exports surged 32.6 percent in September from a year ears lier to, $ 3.693 bil1ion, while illlpqrts,grew Onlx 3.fperce,nt to $ 2.5481:iiUion, exten.ding a trend ohlowfr i1t1poi;t grow th, th~ ,National $tatistics Office

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ing import growth is not a sign that the country's economic recovery is slowing.

Many manufacturers built sizable inventories earlier in the year and will be relying less on imports in the coming months, said All AsiaCapital and Trust Corp. research director Helen Alvarez.

Imports of electronics and components, accounting for close to a quarter of total i mports, rose 16.2 percent to $ 620.4 million in September from a year earlier, noticeably less than August's growth of 2'1.4 percent and July's 40. J percent.

Analysts expect the trade surplus to widen further over the rest of the year as. exports raHy ahead of Christmas.

Japan was the Philippines' biggest source of im.ports, accounting for 18.9 percent' of its total with p&yrnents of $ 482. l million. The United States was second with$ 464.8 million, or 1K2 ~rcent ofJhe total.

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US bishops near showdown WASHINGTON(AP)-Roman Catholic bishops sympathetic to worried Catholic educators are hoping to head off a vote by the U.S. hierarchy on new rules to tighten church control of Catholic colleges.

During a Monday presentation on the issue, Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., asked about the proper procedure for bishops who want to delay a decision this week in order to hold further talks with college leaders.

The dispute 's origins date back to 1990 and a Vatican decree on Catholic universities approved by Pope John Paul II. Responding to the Vatican decree, the U.S. bishops in 1996 passed overwhelmingly a loose policy that met colleges' concerns about academic freedom and institutional autonomy. The Vatican rejected the bishops' policy.

The college dispute was expected to be a major topic during a closed-door meeting of the bishops today. A vote was scheduled for Wednesday, and the decision could be close because a twothirds margin is required for endorsement. After that, the Vatican would need to approve the legis-

WASHINGTON (AP) -The special counsel re-investigating the 1993 Branch Davidian siege has asked the FBI to rum over the firearms carried by its on- . scene personnel to determine whether federal agents fired shots during the standoff' sfinal hours.

The FBI has long denied that its agents fired any shots during the seven-week standoff, which ended when the Davidians' corn- . pound was destroyed in a fiery inferno. Cult leader David Koresh and some 80 followers died during the blaze, some from the fire, others from gunshot

Some ?90 ~ishops _from across the country attend the 58th general meeting of the National Conference of Cat~oh~ ljJishops m Washington Monday. The president of America's Roman Catholic bishops said "mamtammg our Catholic identity through education" is the big issue facing church-related colleges. AP

lation. The most controversial rule

would require any theologian to receive a "mandate" - endorsement - from the local bishop in order to teach at a Catholic campus.

Catholic conservatives say some church-affiliated colleges are nearly indistinguishable from secular campuses. Catholics have tangled over theology professors criticizing church policy, commencement speakers in favor of

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The 235 U.S. Catholic colleges and universities affected by the legislation enroll about 670,000 students.

The chairman of the committee that drafted the college ru Jes, Bishop John Leibrecht of Springfield, Mo., told the bishops that the current text has "more flexibility" than a version from a year ago. He said the rule that a majority of teachers and trustees be committed Catholics now has the phrase added, "to the extent possible."

"We all know our institutions have many very loyal people on the faculties and boards who are people of other faiths, but they support the mission of the Catholic institutions," he said.

Leibrecht said similar hedge language has been inserted to meet educators' "justifiable concerns" about possible conflict with federal and state laws.

"There are so many diverse situ-

ations that we know we have to relate these parti_cular ncnns to those situations," he explained.

But Leibrecht's panel did. not budge regarding the required mandate for theology teachers. The late.st version says a ·theologian wHo gets a mandate can maintain it if he moves to a school in a different diocese, although the bishop of the new diocese has the right to review or cancel the mandate.·

Meanwhile, a Iiberakaucus met in a hotel across the street from the bishops' meeting to publicize a protest on homosexuality. The petition was endorsed by 4,551 Catholic individuals and organizations, including groups from 50 U.S. religious orders.

The signers atta-cked a Vatican order lastJ ul y that Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father ·Robert Nugent halt their ministry to Catholic homosexuals. They want the U.S. bishops to ask the Vatican to reconsider the decision and establish "a serious and open dialogue with lesbian and gay Catho-lics." · ·

Bishop Joseph Fiorenza of Galveston and Houston president of the U.S. bishops said that NugentandGramickdidnot"fully reflect the constant teaching of the church that homosexual activity is intrinsically disordered."

On Monday, Fiorenza also won consent from the bishops to issue a personal call for the United Nations and United States to end·, an economic embargo against Iraq.

Bishops also were asked to press Congress and the Clinton administration to get Israel to halt.construction of a Muslim mosque next to a major Catholic sanctuary in Nazareth. Archbishop Theodore McCarrick of Newark, N.J., told the group that Israel had caved in to "extremist Muslim groups" and allowed a "provocative act" that amounted to discrimination against local Christians.

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The tentative deal, which still had some loose ends involving language, would help the White House achieve one of its foreign policy goals for the year. Support for an international effort to help spark the Third World economy by relieving debt has come from Pope John Paul II, liberal and conservative politicians, and even the Irish rock star Bono of the group U2.

The agreement emerged after repeated meetings between House Majority Leader Dick Anney, R-Texas, and Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and other Treasury aides. ·

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be allowed to revalue enough of its gold to create a $3.1 billion, interest ,bearing fund. IMF rules require it to value its gold at just $48 an ounce, about one-sixth of its market value.

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The IMF had to abandon earlier plans to sell 14 million of the 103 million ounces of its gold reserves after gold-producing countries objected that such a sale would drive down the precious metal's price.

Still to be finalized is language ensuring that the money be used only for debt relief, and that the aid can only be conditioned on a country's policies aimed at encouraging economic growth.

Both provisions have been sought by Republicans. The latter provision is aimed at blocking Democrats who want the IMF to encourage countries to change their laws to emphasize environmental and social issues.

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For having sex with officers' wives:

Major general de1noted WASHINGTON (AP) - A highly decorated general was demoted to colonel for sexual misconduct with three women over several years, the Anny said Tuesday.

Major Gen. John J. Maher ill who was vice director of opera~ tions with the Joint Chiefs of Staff until October, was demoted two ranks and will retire from his 29-year career with a reduced pension, said a statement from Anny

Secretary Louis Caldera. The action was ordered after a

hearing last month found Maher had improper sexual relationships with the wives of two military subordinate officers and attempted to have an improper personal relationship with a female subordinate soldier, the statement said.

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that there is no place in the Anny for this behavior," Caldera said.

He said the incidents represented "a failure to uphold and honor the loyalty and trust that must exist in relationships between ·superiors and subordinates."

The Anny said the behavior took place over the period of 1991

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GOP pushes for spending cuts WASHINGTON (AP)-Republicans pressed the \Vhite House on Tuesday to accept :1 small ;icrossthe-board cut in U.S. govemmet spending as the two sides edged to the brink of a near-S 400 billion budget deal that Congress might vote on by Wednesday.

President Bill Clinton vetoed a 1 percent reduction in agency budgets two weeks ago. and Demo~rats have accuse~d the GOP of pursuing mindless. excessive cuts ever since. Eagerforpolitical cover. Republican negotiators have offered a 0.4 percent reduction. and House Speaker Dennis Hastert pursued such a cut in a telephone talk with Clinton. who is in Turkey.

"I talked to the president last night, he didn ·1 reject it." Hastert said.

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TI1e hunt for about S 6.5 billion in savings loomed as the major remainin-g hurdle to a budget package that would all but finish Con;ess' work for the year. The savings are aimed at letting Republicans claim they honored their pledge not to spend Social Security surpluses - a contention rejected bv Democrats and the Congressional Budget Office.

President Clinton (center) receives applause from congressional lawmakers after signin_g the Financ_ial Services. Modernization Act of 1999 in. t~e Eisenhower Executive Office Building Friday in Washington. The sweeping measure lifts Depression-era bamers and allows banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge and sell each other's products. AP

Another possible problem was a demand by Sen. Robert Byrd, to let West Virginia's coal mines continue stripping ;ountaintops and dumping the waste intc valleys and streams. The administration was threatening to veto such a measure on environmental grounds, butwasoffering temporary ~lief as a compromise.

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The emerging budget deal would combine five spending bills financin;,: seven Cabinet departments, d;zens of agencies and the budgets for the District of Columbia 'and foreign aid. The other eight measures-for fiscal 2000, whi~h began Oct. 1. have already become law.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)Internal Revenue Service officials say their agents don't make politically motivated decisions to audit tax-exempt groups, but that doesn't mean tax officials are oblivious to the motivations of those requesting action.

A handwritten memo, referring to a request from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer, R-Texas, made it clear that the complaint had to be handled gingerly.

"This letter was so 'hot' po-

litically that ... the final outgoing correspondence went directly out from the A/C's (assistant commissioner's) office," the memo said. The document viewed by the AP was not signed.

Archer had written Sept. 4, 1996, asking the IRS whether a college course taught by thenHouse Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., had been singled out for an audit.

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One Aug. 4, 1995, memo implied that Sen. Phil Gramm, RTexas, really didn't care about the substance of the IRS' reply to a constituent's complaint about a tax-exempt organization's political activities.

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"Why not say: The FTC has referred a letter dated April 10 from your constituent, Joe Crank, to this office for reply."

The IRS has issued special guidelines to its employees for handling requests from Congress, urging officials around the country to ''develop positive, productive, working relationships" with lawmakers.

Those guidelines note the IRS receives numerous phone calls and letters from lawmakers, and advises "the way the service handles these calls and letters collectively will be significant in determining how members of Congress view the service."

Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., when he still was a member of the House, asked the IRS to investigate a tax-exempt group he believed had "violated the rules for tax-exempt organizations by engaging in lobbyin~ activities," according to an agency summary.

The memo was stamped "expedite." IRS officials said congressmen's requests are routinely stamped that way to remind employees they need to

provide a written response within 15 days.

When Rep. Owen Pickett, DVa., wrote the agency in 1994 inqumng whether black churches had been improperly targeted by the IRS for political audits, he got a three-page response from then-IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson.

The commissioner wrote that there was no targeting based on race, but she acknowledged "not all of our field offices fully adhered to the Manual Instruction."

"Recent contacts were made with five churches in the Commonwealth of Virginia after medi a reports about apparent church actions that could jeopardize tax-exempt status," she said, explaining that the contacts were "an informal and nonthreatening way" of reminding churches of their responsibilities under tax Jaws.

Most complaints from lawmakers and the White House end up getting referred to IRS field offices, according to a court filing by Thomas J. Miller, a projects chief in Owens' division.

"The only information items generally not referred ... are those that are either unintelligible or that allege no wrongdoing. or that are more in the nature of a generic question regarding the tax laws," Miller told a federal court in a freedom of information lawsuit.

Sometimes, referrals are so sensitive that lawmakers refuse to discuss them or even identify the groups they referred.

Among those whose offices declined to provide details of their letters when questioned by The Associated Press were Bunning, Sen. John Breaux, DLa., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

TIIURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1999 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-17

Group urges school choice WASHINGTON (AP) - A group that advises state officials on education policy says state lawmakers could help improve schools by giving parents more of a choice where they send their children.

In a policy paper released Monday, the Education Commission of the States also calls for giving principals more authority to spend federal and state education funds and letting taxpayer dollars follow students instead of going directly to a given school.

The commission is a 34-yearold nonprofit organization that

works with governors, legislators and educators and has more potential than many other groups to help shape public-education policy. Until recently, only a few groups supported choice - which ranges from letting children transfer to other public schools in their districts to the more divisive voucher systems allowing public money to pay for private and parochial schooling.

However, the panel is more focused on innovative ways for the nation's 16,000 public school districts to deliver a quality education than on advocat-

ing any one particular system, including private school vouchers, insisted Sheree Speakman, who helped write the report.

"The larger question is what to do with thousands and thousands of regulations we have, now that we are getting serious about improving student learning as a nation," said Speakman, a panel member and education policy consultant. "Everybody's doing policy. The question is what are they doing in terms of policy and performance."

Citing concerns over low test scores, the Denver-based group says its report is meant to get

Jesse Jackson is led away in handcuffs at student protest

Decatur police handcuff and arrest the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Ill., Tuesday after he tried to force a confrontation over the treatment of six students expelled for a brawl. AP

DECATUR, Illinois (AP) -The Rev. Jesse Jackson was led away in handcuffs by police Tuesday after he, parents and ministers tried to force a confrontation over the treatment of six students expelled for a brawl.

Jackson and his followers fought their way through a mob of reporters and cameramen to the edge of the grounds of Eis<.!nhower High School. There an officer cuffed the

hands of an unresisting Jackson behind his back. Several officers led him away, while anoth~r videotaped the arrest.

Police set up a barricade ear-1 ier Tuesday morning in anticiaption of a protest on school grounds. Three other demonstrators were arrested, Jackson's aides said. But police would not say who they were and what charges Jackson or· the others faced. and it was unclear whether he would post bail or

remain in jail. "We want the youth to stand

still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them," Jackson said shortly before his arrest.

Detective Cmdr. Mark Barthelmey said that two officers were struck in the face during the confrontation after Jackson was led away. He did not provide details on who was involved or whether the otlicers were injured.

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SPOKANE, Wash.(AP) - Police have arrested a man after finding what they suspect are the remains of his 9-year-old daughter on a remote hillside.

William Jackson, 3 3, was jailed without bail Monday for investigation of second-degree murder.

Sheriff's officials say constant surveillance of the former truck driver since his daughter Valiree 's Oct. 18 disappearance eventually Jed investigators to the remains. The body was unearthed from a shallow grave about 40 miles northwest of Spokane, the state's second largest city.

Detectives believe the body had

been moved from a site closer to the home the girl shared with her father and paternal grandparents in suburban Spokane Valley.

Sheriff Mark Sterk said the body was consistent in size with the 4-foot-8, 70-pound girl, and wearing clothes similar to those the red-haired third-graderreportedly was last seen in - blue jeans and a white turtleneck shirt.

An autopsy was scheduled for today.

Detectives have also reopened the investigation of the unsolved 1992 disappearance ofYaliree's mother, Roseann Stone Pleasant. Jackson, who had custody of the

girl, had separated from Pleasant. Jackson had told authorities his

daughter disappeared while playing in the yard. Her backpack was found on the front porch.

Investigators searched the neighborhood repeatedly and contacted all registered sex offenders living ;ithin two miles of the girl's l{ome. Posters with Valirce 's photo were distributed and Jackson solicited donations for a fund to help find the girl.

The case gained national attention with an-airing late last month on the" America's Most Wanted" television show.

lawmakers to consider one of two options for deciding how schools are ru11.

In the first, which is more traditional, districts would continue to hire superintendents and principals, bargain with unions, and hold schools accountable for results. But innovations that mirror ongoing experiments in school-based management would let individual schools write their own budgets, hire and fire teachers, and make more . decisions about how money is spent. Typically states designate school districts to make these decisions.

The second option outlined in the report describes a system in which schools are run by independent groups or firms, limited only by state and federal laws and the terms of their contract with the district. The concept is similar to the charter school approach in that it would allow a variety of organizations

to run schools, including forprofit companies.

But many educators are. far from embracing the shift" particularly the group's recommendations that districts support independently operated schools.

"This option would also allow parents to enroll their children in publicly funded private and parochial schools, establishing a national voucher-like program," said Mary Ellen Maxwell, president of the National School Boards Association and a school board member from Moyock, N.C. "This is not realistic for states or school districts seeking to improve their schools.··

The report says states would have to change 'their laws on funding and collective bargaining. They would also have to create district "chartering" boards and create public school real estate trusts to lease space to chartering schools.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

PROMOTIONAL & OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION ANNOUNCEMENT

HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE 11 is the pol~y ol lhe Board of Educalion, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, that the Publ~ School syslem shall be applied and adminislered according to lhe principles of equal employmenl opportanity as defined by the Northern Marianas Comrnonweatth Public Law 6-10, regardless of age, race. sex. r~igion, pol!ical affiliation or belief. marital status, handicap or place of origin.

Applicants fort his position musl bea U.S. Cilizen or be eligible and authorized to work in lhe U.S .. including lhe Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

EXAM. ANNOUNCEMENT NO: PSS.()25-99 (AmendmenUReannouncemenl) OPENING DATE: September 3, 1999 CLOSING DATE: Until Filled POSITION/TITLE: Fiscal & Budge! Officer (Chiel Financial Officer) SALARY: PL-35/01 • 12 $28,807.51 • $49,266.21 PA LOCATION: Public School System. Slate Ollice

DUTIES & RESPQNSIBIL[IES:

The applicanl for this position shall report direcUy ro the Commissioner of Education. Plans, formulates an<l rerommends financial policies, standards, techniques. and directives relative lo the overall financial activities of lhe Public Schoof System. Creates an interactive budgeling process so !hat key financial management centers. such as Legislatures, Departmenl of Finance. OPA. and independent audnor. are fin<ed under a uni· fied ched<s and balances on public funds matters. Consults with and advises the members of the Board of Educalion. the Commissioner of Education. lhe School Principals and the Program Managers on all matters relating to financial and budget issues. Collaborates with the Federal Programs Office. the Human Resources Oflice and the Procurement & Supp~ on all financial budget slatus. Advocates a posnive relationship wilh members ol the Legislature (both House & Senate) lo assure conditional support on legislative 1Ssues affecting the Public School System. in particular the annual budge! processes. Works wilh and ma1nlains cooperative relationship wnh the CNMI GovemmenUExecu:Ne Branch, in particular the Go,emor·s Special Assistant on Management and Budget. the CNMI Department of Finance and cognizanl governmenl agencies involved wnh linancial & budge! maners. technical assistance support for computer seNices. gathering of pertinent information or related specialized funclions. Pertorms other related duties as assigned. Organizes, Conlrols, Super· vises and directs the overall financial requirements of lhe Public School System. Supe,vise Personnel of the Fiscal & Budget Office. Manages the operafJOn ol the Finance & Budget Ollice and the computerized financial managemenl syslem. Schedules lhe month~ and annual financial reports and comparative analysis reports. Recommends and implemenfs the creation of customized financial reports. Delegates agency representation for the annual single audrts and all other Public Schoof Systems audits. Systemalizes the program dev~opmenl for lhe facilnarKin and coordinalion of lhe financial activities of lhe Public Schoof Systems. Dratts and submits sustainable annual budget requesl for the Public School syslem. Insures thal all monies due lo the Public School System are collected and deposied in a timely manner lo appropriate bank accounls:

a. CIP funding are collected and deposiled in a timely manner. b. All federal grants are property billed and drawndown, and deposited accordingly. c. All local lunds approprialed by lhe CNMI Legislature are allotled ard cash transfers are trsnsmtled

lrom the CNMI Treasur1 to PSS accounts. d. All c,1aims against the PSS are c:osely scrutirizea 10 assure validity ar.d pro:iriety of se111e:nents.

PHYSICAL DEMANQS; Exer.,ng up lo twenty (20) pounds of force oc03s1onal'y andior a negl1g1tle amount ol lor:e lreq•cently.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: This position may require the applicant to perform some travel, evening and weekend works.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Applicant musl hold a Bachelors Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related fields and must hold a valid licensure as a Certified Public Accountanl OR MA degree in Business Admnislra11on.

Appllcanls must also have knowledge and experience In the following areas: In-depth knowledge of General~ Accepted Accounting Principals, including governmental accounting, budget· ary, and cost accounting. Knowledge ol lhe CNMI laws and regulations including laws and regulation relating 10 governmental finance, administration, and personnel. Knowledge of budget and ao:oun1ing requirements relating 10 federal education programs. Knowledge or JDEIIBM computer applications. Ability to communicate and build consensus with and among slal<eholders, including leg1slalure. central and school level management, slaff, represenlatives ol o1her CNMI agencies. Experience in working with s~1ort and Jong range plan~ ning. Experience in working with CNMI and federal legislative enlities. Experience :n working with policy setting bodies.

Preferred a candldale holding a CPA deslgna1fon Issued by any Slale ol lhe Uniled Slales, ns lerrilory or possession.

INTERESTED APPLICANTS MAY OBTAIN AND SUBMIT COMPLETED APPLICATION FORMS TO THE PSS HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE AT NAURU BUILDING, THIRD FLOOR, OR MAIL YOUR CURRENT APPLICATION FORMS TO:

ATIN: PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE TEL. NOS. (670) 3700/3761 NAURU BUILDING, THIRD FLOOR P.O. BOX 1370 CK SAIPAN, MP 96950

YOUR APPLICATION FORMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE PSS HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE ON OR BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE OF THE POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT.

CNMI GOVERNOR'S DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES COUNCIL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

posmoN & SALARY· Projoc:t Coordinator, Partners In PoltCymaking $1,153.85 B/W or $30.000.00 PIA

LOCATION·

EA NA 99-201

CNMI Governor's Developmental Disabilities Council, Saipan

DUTIES A BESPQNSIE!IUTIES·

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To establish, implement & maintain the Partners training program that Includes: t) Networking with organizations & devek>ping presentations that provide intormation about the Partners in Policymaking training program; 2) Reviewing continuously materials related to the topics presented during Partners sessions including selecting current materials that promote '1:Jest practices" & sending materials in the monthly pack· ets; 3) Developing homework assignments that locus on each session's competencies & enhance the learning experience ol the Partners; 4) Establishing timelines for training sessions, locations & times for training sessions, and recruibnent of candidates lor training including destgning agendas, using a combination of learning methods that ensure that the Partners sessions renect the values being taught (inclusion, empowerment & respeci for all people in the program); 5) PrD'w'iding training IOI' Identified candidates including payment for presenters & travel for candidates as well as rocruiting nationally recognized speakers who are leaders in their fieid & who will instruct Partners in "best practices" in disability issues; 6) Providing f0Uow-t.1p for training program including evaluation of training outcomes (to include evaluating all aspects of the Partners program on a regular basis & mako necessary improvements to ensure that the program reflects the hjghest quality standards); 7) Assisting in the development 01 publtC awareness materials, gathering materials for public awareness. preparing press releases, brochures, pamphlets, and other materials for distributioo & assist in development ol n8'NSletter to include photography; 8) Providing technical assistance & performs travel-related activtties as requested; 9) Preparing & submitting quarterly progress reports, and 10) Perlorming other related duties as assigned.

OUAURCATION REOYIAEMENIS· Any combination equivalent to graduation from college with a degree in Public Administration, Human Resources or related field and one (1) year of experience in a program which serves people with disabilities or al least one (1) year as a Program Coordinator. At leas\ one {1) language in vernacular plus fluency in English preferred. Copy ot degree, ofUclal transcript and pollce clearance must be attached to the application.

Interested persons may obtain application form at the: Office of Pers011nel Management First Floor, JM Building Garapan, Saipan, MP 96950

APPLICATION PEAPUNE· Novernbflr 20 1999 Application musl be submitted to the Office of Personnel Management no later than 4:30 p.m. For more inlOffllation, please call the DD Council at 664-7000 °' contact the Ottice of Personnel Management al 2~5/8036.

ARLENE YAMAGATA Acting Executive Director

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Wakin's Bldg., Gualo Rai, Tel. 234-7145n 146/6293 • .. Saip:m. MP %950 .

o"(J" PUBLIC NOTICE . November 18, 1999 0

PURSUANT TO PUBLIC LAW 8-41, SECTION II, GOVERNOR PEDRO P. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS R. SABLAN, TilROUGH THE CDA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARE HEREBY GIVING NOTICE THAT THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECl'ORS OF THE COMMONWEALTII DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (CDA) WILL BE HELD ON TIJESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999 AT 10;00 A.M. AT THE CDA CONFERENCE ROOM. WAKlN'S BUILDING, GUALO RAJ, SAfPAN.

AGENDA: I. PRELIMINARY MATTERS

I. Roll Call JI. ADOPTION OF AGENDA 111. ADOPTION OF MIN!ITES IV. REPORTS .

I. Fund's Availability Repon 2. Chainnan's/Exccutive Director's Rcpon 3. Committees' Repon 4. Manager's Repon

V. OLD BUSINESS I. Loan Guaranty Agreement 2. FY '99 Financial Audit 3. SBA Micro Loan Program

VI. NEW BUSINESS I. CPALoan

VII. DCD MATfERS I. Loan Status

VIII. ADMINISTRATIVE MATfERS IX. OTHER MATfERS X. ADJOURNMENT

All interested ~rsons are welcome to attend and to submit wriucn or oral testimony on the above agenda items. (Note: Pursuantto Public law 8-4/, Section /3(a)(7) and Section /J(c), 1he Board may vole lo meel in executive 5e.~sion).

ls/JUAN S. TENORIO Chairman. CDA Board of Directors

@ NORTHERN MARIANAS HOUSING CORPORATION : · . . ·-.PUBLIC' NOTICE· · . · The· Board of Directors of the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC), through its Chairman Mr. Juan S. Tenorio, is informing the general public that the Northern Marianas Housing Corporation (NMHC) will be accepting applications to establish a Waiting List for its Section 8 Existing Housing Program. Families residinr: in Saipan who arc in nee<l of housing assistance are encouraged to apply. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (USHUD) and including the Section 214regulations (NonCitizenship Ruling). If eligible, applicants will be placed under the Section 8 Housing Program Waiting List.

Applications will be accepted beginning November 08, 1999, and will close on November 18, 1999. NMHC will accept applicants from household composition ranging two {2) to ten (10} members for 2-, 3-. 4- and 5-bedroom units.

Non person shall be denied housing assistance on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disabilities, familial status, or national region.

For details regarding the Section 8 Existing Housing Program, contact Norman K. Pangelinan, Manager, Program and Housing Division, William Agulto or Melinda Pangelinan, Housing Specialist, at 234-6866 or 234-9447, or visit our NMHC's Office in Garapan, Saipan, from 8:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.

/s/MaryLou S. Ada Executive Director

"NMHC is an equal employment and fair housing public agency"

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley hands over his $1,000 check to Secretary of State Bill Gardner Monday at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. Bradley filed his papers to have his name on the nation's earliest presidential primary ballot on Feb. 1, 2000. AP

Bradley shows his multifaceted appeal MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -One day Bill Bradley is a star jock. The next, he's pairing up intellectually with a fellow Rhodes scholar.

Responding to a reporter's suggestion that he - and not the oftreinvented Al Gore · is the chameleon of the presidential race, Bradley screwed up his face and deadpanned, "Yeah, precisely. That was the whole strategy. We 're manipulating all of you just beautifully."

Firmly tongue in cheek, Bradley's remark nonetheless seemed a pre-emptive strike against what his campaign expects from the vice president's rival camp when Bradley today unveils his first TV ads of the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

When news leaked last week that Bradley had been working on the ads with Madison Avenue executives for more than a year, Gore spokesman Chris Lehane called it evidence that Bradley was a "typical politician" trying to reinvent both his style and his Senate voting record.

In New Hampshire Monday, Bradley showed off the multifaceted appeal that has won him the odd - if. perhaps, not very deep·

potpourri of support showing up in polls and on his campaign'finance report from nostalgic sports enthusiasts, Ivy Leaguers, Wall Street financiers, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, liberals, independents and Republicans.

He meandered down Derry's main drag, a regular guy trailed by news cameras. Popping into the barber shop, he bounced his hand off 12-year-old Paul Pereira 's bristly new, flat top. "What kind of wax do you use?"

At Mary Ann's I 950s-style luncheonette, the candidate who skipped lunch swiped fries and onion rings off the plates of bemused diners. "That's all he wanted," Ethel Schommer, 80, chuckled with a nod toward her onion rings.

"This guy's the all-American boy," said nonaligned Democratic consultantJim Duffy. "It's all part of the package and what makes people take a second look. No matter where he goes - Princeton, Oxford, the NBA, the Senate -he's a winner .... And there's a certain naturalness to it for Bradley."

Earlier Monday, Bradley sat beside former Clinton administration Labor secretary Robert Reich at St. Anselm College, two

former Rhodes scholars talking with reporters about the problems of poverty and health care.

It was less. than 24 hours after Bradley's flashy fund-raising reunion at Madison Square Garden with his former basketball pals -an event criticized as too "convenient" by Gore supporters who remember Bradley purposefully avoiding basketball during his 18 year in the Senate.

Was he repackaging himself day by day?

Bradley took the question Monday as stupid, and even though the reporter did not mention his inattention to basketball during his Senate career, the candidate bit back at what his campaign saw as cynicism in some reports of the Garden event.

"I played professional basketball for 10 years. I'd have to be stupid to say I want everyone to help me but my friends who are in professional basketball," Bradley said.

Then, he added that his many facets feed the same core.

"You can I ook at these as two different areas of life or one continuum of life underlined by the same set of values - courage, discipline, responsibility, imaginalion, resilience."

Major US airlines said Y2K compliant WASIDNGTON (AP)-The Federal A viationAdrninistration says major U.S. air carriers have no problems that will keep them from complying with safety standards at the tum of the year, but about200 smaller passenger and cargo carriers still fare glitches.

The FAA was releasing information today on how wen 2,822 U.S. air carriers, including hundreds of small charter and local companies, are doing to get ready forJan. 1, 2000whencomputers might mistakenly think it's the year 1900.

. The FAA earlier checked systems on airplanes t.bat handle flight and navigatioruilsystems.

These systems will not be affected by the date change, or will have alann systems to red0flag problems before takeoff, Peggy Gilligan, tl1e FAA's deputy associate administrator for regulation and certification, said Monday.

The agency then looked at how carriers will handle automated ground-based systemsthattrnckcrew schedules,pilottraining,recoro-keepinganddataused toprovetheirplanes and pilots are safe.

Of 2,822 carriers checked, 91 percent, including the nation's 10 largest airlines, received the bi ghest of three FAA ratings. The top rating means they have no Y2K

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ity to comply with FAA rules. Another 209 carriers were

given the second-highest rating. The FAA is following up with them to see whether there are. Y2K issues that might affect compliance. Twenty-seven of the carriers provide scheduled passenger or cargo service us, ingaircraftwith !Oseatsormore; 182 provide charter, nonschedc uled passenger service and do not use computer systems to meet federal safety standards.

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Tokyo governor defies Beijing TOKYO (AP)-Despite protests from China, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is pushing for closer city-to-city ties and cultural exchanges with Tai.pei, a city official said Tuesday.

Ishihara, an outspoken supporter of Taiwan, returned on Monday from a three-day trip to the island that was harshly criticized by Beijing, which considers Taiwan a province of China. They separated amid civil war in 1949.

Tokyo city officials refused to confirm media reports and claims by Chinese officials that Ishihara and Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou discussed making Tokyo and Taipei sister cities.

But Shin Yamamoto, the head of Tokyo city hall's Li-

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Defense Department acknowledged Tuesday that if helpedtSouth Korea obtainAgent~ra11getodefo- · hate areas along.the demili-. tarized zone three deca4es agO - something it said fop officials of both countries were aware of at the time.

SouthKorea's defense minister has ordered an inquiry into the use of the herbicide blamed for causing cancer among U.S. and other Vietnam War veterans. It use in Korea was reported by SBSTV of Seoul, citing previously classified U.S. documents,

Rear Adm. C::rnig .Quigley, at a P.entagon briefing, said U.S. mi[itary authorities re~ searched the matter as a resu!Cof South Korean media reports. He said there is no evidence ofan effortto cover up use of Agent Orange in Korea. He said its use was not classified but "just had fallen off people's scopes for a long period of time."

Quigley said there was "widespread knowledge" of the use of herbicides in Ko-

aison and Protocol Section, said the governor wants to build relations with Taipei.

"The governor is saying that ... we should first promote cultural exchanges, including movies· and animation and other things," Yamamoto said.

Chinese officials came out forcefully against any formal arrangement between Tokyo and Taipei, and said closer ties would jeopardize relations between Beijing and the Japanese capital.

"I would like to express our serious concern over this," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi said Tuesday.

Beijing and Tokyo are already sister cities and a similar deal with Taipei "will un-

rea a.tJhe time, with involve· ment 6fthe U.S. secretary of state andcomparable South Korean officials.

"The records are clear that that was a decision made by the South Korean governmerit and military at that time;" But he said research into the records has been "spotty." He said he could not confirm reports that more thari 20,000 gallons (76,000 liters) were used in the Korean operation.

South Korea paid for the defoliant and South Korean soldiers applied it using hand sprayers because airplanes co1.1l~fo't fly over the border region, Quigley said.

He said ihe records show that Agerif Orange and other toxic chemicals were used to clear dense foliage which. infiltrators frOm North Korea were using as cover, and its use was ended primarily for financial reasons.

Quigley said he was not aware of any complaints of Koreans being harmed by use of Agent Orange or other chemicals along the border, and there were no reports of

dermine the political basis between Beijing and Taipei and constitute a serious political event," Sun said.

Relations between Beijing and Tokyo city hall have been strained since Ishihara was elected governor in April. The outspoken nationalist has publicly criticized China's communist system, its human rights record and its policy towards Tibet.

Yamamoto said the city does not want to damage relations with Beijing, but Beijing cannot tell Tokyo what to do. Ishihara was the highest profile Japanese politician to visit Taiwan since Japan cut diplomatic ties with the island in 1972. He met with Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui on Sunday.

such complaints in Seoul. But thousands .of South

Koreans who fought alongsideAmerican soldiers in the Vietnam War are seeking corripe11sation from the U;S.

· govemment for exposure to Agent Orange, resulting in cancer, deformities and birth defects. They have been waging a legal battle in the United States since 1994 and are seeking $ 1 billion compensation.

A consortium of Dow Chemical and other manufacturers of Agent Orange paid$ l 84mi11ion in 1984 in an out-of,court settlement of suits by Vietnam veterans from all countries except South Korea.

Lawsuits had been filed on behalf of veterans from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but South Koreans were excluded.

South Korean Defense Minister Cho Sung-tae, in ordering an inquiry into the Vietnam-era use of Agent Orange in Korea itself, said, "At this stage, factual verification is important..,

Rival Koreas hold 'good' talks WASHINGTON (AP)-A senior North Korean official is expected to visit Washington sometime after the conclusion of cun-ent talks between the two countries in Berlin, the State Department said Tuesday.

Spokesman James P. Rubin said officials from the two sides had a good meeting Tuesday. The discussions are focussing on ways to improve relations and on North Korea's missile program.

"We look forward to conduct-

ing a high-level visit by a North Korean official sometime after the Berlin talks. No date has been set for such talks," Rubin said.

The administration had said previously that North Korea's agreement in September not to test a long range ballistic missile was expected to lead to a visit by a senior Pyongyang official.

Former Defense Secretary William Perry, who has served as the administration's point

man for North Korea and issued a report last month on North Korea policy, visited Pyongyang last May as part of his policy review.

"I believe that we 're prepared to continue to work di Ii· gently to pursue a serious dialogue," Rubin said. At the Berlin talks, the U.S. side is being led by Ambassador Charles Kartman while the North Korean delegation is headed by Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gyc Gwan.

Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (left) shakes hands with visiting Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara Sunday in Taipei. lshfhara, who began a three-day visit to Taiwan Saturday, is the highest-level Japanese official to visit Taiwan. AP

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Taiwan's Nationalists expel presidential bet TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - The ruling Nationalist Party said Tuesday it is expelling former top official James Soong for running against the pany' s nominee in next year's presidential election.

Soong openly flouted the paz1y's decision to choose Vice President Lien Chan as its candidate by maintaining his rival candidacy. said Chien Wei-chang. chairman of the party's discipline committee that voted Tuesday to give Soong the boot. - .. As a p'ast key party official. Mr. Soong frequently stated that party members must obey the party's decisions. Now he seems to have forgotten those words," Chien told a-news conference following the committee's meeting.

The discipline committee's ruling will be submitted to the decision-making Central Standing Committee for final approval on Wednesday.

Expulsion is a mere formality. Soong' s alienation from the party leadership has grown increasingly severe, with Taiwan's president, Lee Teng-hui, openly attacking Soong as a traitor to the party.

But Soong wields a large lead over the official Nationalist candidate, Vice President Lien Chan, in most public opinion polls. His

candidacy threatens to split the party's support and could cause the party to lose its 54-year-hold on power in Taiwan.

Along with Soong, the committee ruled to exp;! six of his longtime confederates for helping with his campaign, said Chien.

··You might call them his core group. They-have followed him into his rule-breaking candidacy and must also be expelled," Chien said.

Soong was secretary general of the party during a crucial period following the end of martial law, and helped Lee secure his position against conservatives who opposed him becoming Taiwan's first native-born president.

Lee then supported Soong to become Taiwan's first directly elected governor in 1994, a powerful position that Soong used to bui!d a vast network of grassroots support.

But he fell out with the party after Lee decided to severely downsize the provincial government and make the office of governor an appointed position.

Soong moved into open opposition to the party leadership after losing his job last December, and in July announced he would not seek the party's nomination but instead run as an independent.

Plainclothes and uniformed police struggle to detain a Falun Gong practitioner during a protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square Tuesday. About 20 practitioners held a banner and practiced Falun Gong exercises before being taken away by police. AP

Police make Falun Gong arrests BEIJING (AP) - About 20 members of the banned sect Falun Gong unfurled a large red banner in China's Tiananmen Square Tuesday and held up their hands in a meditation pose until police quickly jumped on them and pushed them into a van.

Under orders to stop Falun Gong's persistent acts of defiance, police hurriedly drove the

van away, knocking down a woman in a large circle of people. It was not clear if the woman and others in front of the van were protesters trying to stop it or merely onlookers who got in the way.

The protest seemed timed to coincide with a four-day visit to Beijing by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who met on Tuesday with Chinese leaders. Annan said in Tokyo on Friday he would bring up his concerns about the government's crackdown on Falun Gong members.

Group members have appealed for help from the United Nations. In one letter addressed to Annan, 305 followers from at least four provinces said the group did not oppose the government "because Falun Gong is very little concerned with politics, only with perfecting our souls."

Annan said Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan gave him "a full explanation as to how the government sees the group" and said that the fundamental rights of citizens would be protected.

"I leave here with a better understanding of some of the issues involved," he said.

Since banning the popu Jar group in July as a threat to society and the regime, the communist government has ordered millions of believers to renounce their beliefs or face arrest. But followers have converged on the capital to appeal, arguing that Falun Gong is not a threat and improves health and morality.

The protesters, both young and old, stood on the vast square quietly with feet spread slightly, their arms stretched above their heads in a posture of meditation, and faced the Gate of Heavenly Peace and its portrait of revolutionary leader Mao Tse-tung. Behind them, others held up the red banner with yellow characters: "The Great Way of Falun."

Paramilitary police quickly pulled the banner down, and plainclothes and uniformed officers kicked some of the meditators to break up the protest.

Falun Gong is an offshoot of traditional schools of slow-motion exercise that channel unseen forces of nature to the body.

Blending ideas from Buddhism and Taoism with those of its founder Li Hongzhi, an ex-government clerk, Falun Gong was practiced openly in public parks and parking lots before the ban.

Five groups of Falun Gong members around the country have written letters to Annan urging him to organize a U.N. fact-finding mission to study Falun Gong and complaining that poli_ce have beaten some members, the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China has reported.

The letter from the 305 followers, a copy of which was given to The Associated Press, claimed the government suppressed studies proving Falun Gong's merits.

They asked Annan to send an independent panel - ·'preferably scientists who have studied traditional culture, religious ascetic practice or religion" - to determine whether Falun Gong was beneficial or harmful.

Those who signed gave their addresses or work places, including hospitals, companies, scientific research associations and universities.

"Our teacher, Mr. Li Hongzhi, has always taught us to be truthful, virtuous and tolerant," the letter said.

"When we are attacked, criticized or even treated inhumanely, he taught us that we should bear no grudge or hate and instead should examine our own behavior to see if we have not handled something as well as we should and then do better in the future."

Stung by its inability to wipe out Falun Gong, Chinese leaders intensified its crackdown last month, ordering new arrests. branding the group "an evil cult" and having the Communist Partydominated legislature revise a law on sects to provide for harsher penalties.

In the first of what is expected to be a series of trials this month. four ''backbone" leaders of the group in southern Hainan province were sentenced Friday to two to 12 years in prison. In addition. scores of believers who refuse to recant have been sent without trial to labor camps.

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Greek police bans protests ATHENS, Greece (AP) -Claiming that U.S. President Bill Clinton's safety could be at risk during his visit to Greece, police Tuesday announced a sweeping ban on demonstrations and protest marches in an area that encompasses large swaths of the capita!.

In a decision that has little precedent since the fall of military rule 25 years ago, the chief of the Athens metropolitan police issued a 26-hour ban beginning 3 p.m. (1200 GMT) on all open-air gatherings and protest marches on routes stretching from Athens international airport to the U.S. embassy, located more than 5 kilometers (9.4 miles) away. The ban includes all avenues and side streets on Clinton's expected itinerary.

The ban covers the entire time Clinton is expected to be in Greece. The White House had postponed and shortened Clinton's visit due to security concerns.

But the harsh measures could lead to serious confrontations with anti-American protesters who have planned a wave of demonstrations against Clinton's visit.

"The holding of or attempt to hold such gatherings at any

Presiden_t of T_urkey Suleyman Demirel applauds Presicjent Clinton during their welcoming remarks outside the Presidential Palace m Ankara, Turkey Monday. Clinton is traveling to Greece next later this week. AP

of the above mentioned places and times will be dealt with using all legal means. Those participating will be prosecuted," said an announcement issued by police Brig. Gen. Giorgos Skaltsa.

The decision came after

Clinton postponed his scheduled Nov. 13-15visitandshortened his stay to a 24-hour stop beginning Friday. The rearrangement of the schedule put heavy pressure on the government of President Costas Simi tis from critics claiming Greece's

international reputation was badly tarnished.

Anti-Clinton demonstrations have not been banned by the announcement, but protesters will not be allowed to leave the confines of central Syndagma Square, where the Parliament is

located, OT move along any · streets le;iding to places where Clinton will be during his visit.

The police announcement said the decision was made after ta~ing into account ''the protection of the life and bodily integrity" of Clinton and "members of his delegation, and the securing to them of a feeling of safety while they are in our country."

But the decision...:_ the harshest such ban since democracy was restored in 197 4 - could further anger many leftist groups, including the Greek Communist Party, which strongly oppose the visit. Coming in the wake of a nearly oneday traffic ban· along some ·of the capital's busiest .avenues, the ban could also anger many average Greeks.

Clinton's visit to Athens comes at a time when antiAmerican sentiment runs high.

Wednesday marks the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against the military junta which at the time ruled Greece. Many Greeks blame the United States for supporting the 1967-7 4 dictatorship.

Hundreds of police were preparing to deal with violence during Wednesday's anniversary march.

Israelis, Palestinians deadlock Russian troops close in on Chechnya's capital JERUSALEM (AP) - In

what began as a minor tiff but turned into a full-blown dispute, Israelis and Palestinians were deadlocked Tuesday over who should decide what land Israel hands over. A top U.S. envoy was unable to settle the argument.

Israel said its exclusive right to sketch West Bank withdrawal maps was anchored in earlier peace accords.

The Palestinians disputed that, saying they had to be consulted. "No one has the right to impose maps on us," Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Tuesday. The argument's outcome could have far-reaching effects.

It could determine the scope of two more partial West Bank withdrawals Israel has to carry ahead of the final peace accord set for September 2000. It also could shape the negotiations on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, said Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian negotiator.

"Israel is trying to create a precedent for the coming phase and for the final status talks, that the map be ready and that the Palestinians should simply agree to it," Ere ka t. said after a meeting with President Clinton's Mideast troubleshooter, Dennis Ross, in the West Bank town of Jericho.

Ross came to the region to assess progress in the so-called final status talks that began last

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week, but instead became entangled in the dispute for most of his two-day visit. He was scheduled to return to Washington by early Wednesday.

Ross is to visit the Middle East every two weeks until February to monitor the talks and report back to Clinton. The argument over the withdrawal began over the weekend, when Arafat refused to sign off on maps outlining an Israeli troop pullback from 5 percent of the West Bank.

Arafat complained that the areas being offered were too scarcely populated and did not connect the isolated en.::laves already under his control.

On Sunday, in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the headquarters-of the Mossad spy agency near Tel Aviv, Arafat demanded he be given control of three densely populated Palestinian suburbs of Jerusalem.

Israel refused, saying it would

not go back on its original offer, and the dispute held up the withdrawal, which was planned for Monday. No new date has been set. Until now, Arafat had always accepted Israel's withdrawal proposals. This is the first time he has demanded changes in the map.

Israel's Foreign Ministry said the interim peace agreements didn't s_ay Israel had to consult the Palestinians about which territories it would leave, as the Palestinians insisted.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher confirmed the Israeli interpretation in a letter attached to the 1997 agreement on an lsraeli pullback from the West Bank town of Hebron, Israeli officials said.

The Christopher letters were reaffirmed in the 1998 Wye River interim accord, the ministry said.

Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian academic, said there was nothing in the interim peace accords to support either the Israeli or Palestinian position. Ross said the two sides should work out the problem, noting "a very clear intention on the part of both to find ways to continue to move ahead."

Also Tuesday, an Israeli soldier was slightly wounded near the West Bank town of Ramallah when stones were thrown at his jeep, presumably by Palestinians, the army said.

GROZNY, Russia (AP)- Russian troops tightened the circle around two large Chechen towns Tuesday, sending civilians fleeing, and human rights advocates condemned what they said were indiscriminate attacks against settlements.

Troops were just over a mile from the town of Achkhoi-Martan, 15 miles southwest of the capital Grozny; surrounded Argun, nine miles east of the capital, and pressed in on Grozny itself from strategic heights to the east.

They appeared intent on repeating the strategy used last week to conquer Gudermes. Chechnya's second-largest city: shelling it into submission and then sending in ground troops. ~

The Russian military demanded Tuesday that the inhabitants of Argun force out the militants or face shelling, said Khasan Gapurayev, press secretary of the Chechen parliament. He said residents of Argun were fleeing south toward the mountains.

Maj. Gen. VladimirShamanov, a top Russian commander, denied that any ultimatum was made.

He said his men would conduct negotiations with elders in the town, ··so they can drive the rebels out of their villages themselves." Another top military official, Maj. Gen. Vadim Timchenko, said of Achkhoi-Martan: "We have not attempted to storm the city and are npt planning to."

Russian troop movements along the main highway leading fro~ Grozny to the west slowed the

flow of refugees into the neighboring Russian republic of Ingushetia. Some 1,000 people crossed into Ingushetia on Tuesday, about one-quarterof the number who have been crossing each day-recently. -

Nearly 210,000 Chechens have fled to neighboring regions. the Federal Migration Service said. Russian airstrikes were slowed Tuesday by poor weather, as well as by increased resistance from rebels, the Interfax news agency reported .

It said that militant bands had attacked Russian forces with small arms-fire and mortars along the heights to the north and e,~~t of Grozny. as well as in the UrusMartan area. 12 miles southwest of the capital.

Chechen officials have said more than 4,000 civilians have been killed since Russia launched its offensive in September.

In Moscow, the Russian human rights group Memorial issued a statement protesting "indiscriminate aviation. rocket and artillery strikes against populated areas of Chechnya." Oleg Orlov. the president of Memorial. said the Russian aimy has closed many escape routes for refugees. "Roads in general are being shot up.

There are no humanitarian corridors. Any road is dangerous," he said. He added that Chechen refugees had reported that Russian planes dropped leaflets warning people not to use the roads in Chechnya's mountainous south.

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Nasdaq systems crash NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Nasdaq stock market said a software upgrade designed to ease the burden of surging volume caused its systems to crash Tuesday - on its busiest day ever.

The system shut down at 3:40 p.m. just as the Nasdaq logged a record 1.48 billion stock trades in a wild rally driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve 's decision to raise short-term interest rates, but put further hikes on hold.

The shutdown, which lasted for about 20 minutes, comes at a time when Nasdaq is building sister markets in Europe and Japan to create a24-hour, global electronic stock market.

.. The problem from what we

can tell was due to an inter-day software upgrade," Nasdaq spokesman Wayne Lee said. "It was being upgraded to help with heavy volume."

The upgrade disrupted SelectNet, Nasdaq's main orderrouting facility, and SOES, its small-order execution system.

Alternative trading systems, also known as electronic communications networks, or ECNs, profited from the shutdown as major brokerages funneled them orders from customers.

ECN s, sometimes nothing more than an office full of computers, can match stock trades independently of Nasdaq.

As a result, large brokerage

firms with heavy order flow from customers routed their business to ECNs.

"We have our own data feed, so we continue to trade as we would normally do," said Cameron Smith, general counsel for Island, the No. 2. U.S. ECN.

System glitches have dogged Nasdaq in the last year, as it watches the daily trading volume of its shares mushroom·due to a seemingly unstoppable U.S. economy. In early October, three electronic trading systems closed down temporarily because Nasdaq's systems overloaded.

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Pfizer to oust Warner-Lambert board in a nasty merger battle NEW YORK (AP)-Pfizer Co. is taking its $ 75 billion hostile takeover bid for rival drug maker W amer-Lambert directly to shareholders.

In court documents filed Monday outlining the plans, Pfizer also said it would try to oust WarnerLambert's board of directors and replace them with seven independent directors.

Warner-Lambert has rejected Pfizer's overtures in favor of a$ 71 billion merger with American Home Products. The two New Jersey companies announced their deal on the morning of Nov. 4, but Pfizer made a counterbid that afternoon ..

Tangled up in the fray is a deal between Warner-Lambert and Pfizer to co-market WarnerLambert's blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor.

Warner-Lambert threatened publicly Monday to sever its contract with Pfizer Co. to co-market the drug in a bid to get Pfizer to drop its hostile takeover bid.

Warner-Lambert and Pfizer have engaged in a game of brinksmanship designed to sway shareholders, who may have to vote for either Pfizeror American Home Products.

The company that wins control.

of Warner-Lambert will be the world's largest prescription drug maker and own Lipitor, which has annual sales of$ 3 billion.

In a harshly worded letter, released to the press Monday, the chairman of Warner-Lambert accused the head of Pfizer of distorting the financial impact on both companies if the Lipitor agreement falls apart.

"'Pfizer is inappropriately using information about the Lipitor arrangements ... to its own advantage," and had broken their contract, wrote Lodewijk J .R. de Vink, chairman and chief executive officer of Warner-Lambert.

The letter, sent to Pfizer Chairman William C. Steere Jr., received a terse retort from Pfizer general counsel Paul S. Miller, who said there was no breach of the contract and "any such suggestion by Warner-Lambert to the contrary is simply inappropriate and wrong."

Mondayevening, Warner-Lambert released a summary of its marketing agreement with Pfizer on Li pi tor, saying the purpose was to benefit shareholders of the two companies. The summary explains how the companies will share expenses and sales during . . . . - - - - - - - . . '.

the I 0-yeardeal and specifies that Warner-Lambert can terminate the deal after the fourth year, on March 31, 2001, if control of the company changes.

It also says both companies have the right to back out if there is a "material breach" of the contract.

Miller, the Pfizer general counsel, had said earlier in the day that Pfizer agreed to release confidential parts of the contract to the public.

Warner-Lambert, which also makes products like Trident gum and Listerine mouthwash, knows the Lipitor drug is it's most valuable asset. But the company's threats to end its co-marketing agreement with Pfizer may only strengthen Pfizer's resolve.

"If it ever looked like WarnerLambert had a shot at eliminating the contract, that would just make it all the more urgent that (Pfizer) win," said Carl Seiden, an analyst with J.P. Morgan.

That may be the case: Pfizer filed documents in Chancery Court in Delaware claiming they were unfairly shut out of the bidding for Wamer-Lambertand that Warner's directors entered "into an illegal and invalid merger agreement" with American Home Products .

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electronic and has no physical trading floor. Consequently, systems make up its lifeline to traders who deal in the 5,000 stocks listed on the market.

The world's highest-priced technology companies, such as Microsoft C_orp. and Cisco Systems Inc., trade on Nasdaq.

Nasdaq resurrected its systems in time to keep them open from 4 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. (2100 GMT until2330GMf). Recently, Nasdaq decided to keep its pricing systems open until 6:30p.m., even though it still officially shut its own last trading session at 4 p.m.

"It was down for 20 minutes. It came up for a few seconds at the end, but then went back down,"

said James Volk, co-director of institutional trading at D.A. Davidson and Co., of Portland, Ore.

Some traders linked the breakdown to the record share volumes.

''.Basically, around 3:35 (p.m.), the system just went down. Maybe it was overloaded," said a Nasdaq trader, who wanted to remain anonymous. "I called Nasdaq and they said it was systemwide."

Nelson Gold, a trader in Nasdaq-listed stocks at Wachovia Securities in Atlanta, took the system glitch in stride.

"It's a little traumatic when you' re trying to do business," Gold said. "But it's not the end of the world."

Motorola, ldentix unveil new fingerprint reader LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Consumers worried about a breach of security on their computer devices will soon be able to protect information with a chip that would only recognize the owner's fingerprints and bar others from access.

Technology group Motorola Inc. and fingerprint security system maker Identix Inc. unveiled Tuesday a next-generation fingerprint-based security system that would be small enough to fit into mobile telephones and laptop computers.

The two companies said at a news conference at the Comdex computer show in Las Vegas that ~e new product would allow consumers to access computer networks, programs and information with a fingerprint instead of a password or personal identifica-

tion number (PIN). The DFR 300 reader, which

resulted from an alliance between the companies announced in May, is smaller and less costly than previous versions developed by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Identix.

The reader only measures 4.5 mm in thickness and is 80 percent smaller in size than its previous version, which is currently used in Compaq Computer Corp. 's desktop computers. The product will cost only about $60 compared with $99 for the previous version.

In the past, the technology, which was larger and cost about $500, was only used by federal agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for fingerprint identification, Identix said.

Traders shout order_s in the Eurodollar pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Tuesday Just after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates o_ne-qufJrfer po_int to 5.50 percent. The rate was increased for the third time this year in an effort to slow the sizzling U.S. economy and keep inflation from becoming a problem. AP

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25 films added to national registry WASHINGTON (AP) - A Marlon Brando classic and a movie featuring the first bigscreen kiss are among the 25 films that have been added to the National Film Registry.

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waii hospital's intensive care unit (ICU). Kaipat said the victim has already run out of insurance money.

Proceeds of the concert wi JI defray exorbitant emergency medical expenses, as well as the needs of the victims' family while he and his wife are still unable to work.

"If it takes 50 concerts to get Phil the kind offinancial support he needs, then we will do our best to try and accommodate that," said Kaipat, who asked the community'ssupportforthefunding venture.

Meanwhile, a similar benefit

YCMPA ... YCMPA Power Crew namely; Dina, Marilou, Mercy, Cherrylou, Peter, Romnick, Reyna, Jay, Allen, Oliver, Joanna, Darrel, Mollie, Samu, Jason, Frank, Deigo, Paul, JR, Alvin, Don, and Masaki. ·

launch Brando's career, and "The Kiss,'' a 15-second flick made in 1896, are among the films the Library of Congress chose for the list.

By law, the Librarian of Congress names 25 films of cultural, historic or esthetic importance to

conceit will be held on Nov. 27 at the Pacific Gardenia Hotel's Sunset Bar 'n Grill sponsored by Pacific Gardenia Hotel, Pacific Trading and friends and relatives of Litulumar.

Ron Sablan, owner of Pacific Gardenia and Litulumar's employer for 12 years, yesterday called on individuals to help raise funds for the victim's medical needs by attending the concert.

Sablan said while Litulumar is already out of the ICU, he still needs to undergo a series of neurophysical therapy and may even need to stay in Hawaii in the next six months.

"He is a strong man but in his condition right now, he needs our help," said Sablan, adding that the concert hopes to raise at least $12,000 to pay for hospital bill-

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The concert is being sponsored by World Tour and Travel, Micronesian Sales, Marianas Variety, Hertz Car Rental, Pacific Trading, Marianas Printing, Townhouse, The Field, and S-Mart

go on the registry each year. Steve Leggett, coordinator for

the National Film Preservation Board, said the registry encourages the preservation of movies that might otherwise disappear.

Other films on the preservation list:

ings and his family's needs. The concert will be held from 6

pm to I am on Nov. 27. Among the entertainers will be CM Serenaders, Maliu Band, Olomwaay Band, Kevin Atalig, Island Cruisers, Northern Star Band, Cool Change, Marianas Rhythm, Alfred & Group, Kelvin Duenas, and more, with Col. Alex Sablan as the master of ceremony.

The American Memorial Park concert will be participated in by Kevin Atalig; Dave Ayuyu, Larry Lee; the Olomwaay and Island Family Bands; Pala Pala Boys; and the Boyz2 Mix/ Gyrlz2 Mix.

It is also being sponsored by legislators, two radio stations, and various business and individuals, and also by the Olomwaay and Friends.

For more information, and tickets, contact, Maggie Sablan at 236-4653 or 256 1680 or the CNMI YCMPA at 233-3331/ 7043/233 1235 (fax). Tickets are at $IO each, with food. (MRAM)

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

MICROL CORPORATION, dbo TOYOTA RENT A CAR, Plaintiff, •V·

CARMELITA PALACIOS, Defendant.

CIVIL ACTION NO. 9S.292A

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and notified to file any answer you wish to make lo the Complaint, a copy of which is served upon yau hereby, withm twenty-one (21) days after the fourth pubJication of tlus Summons, and to denver or mail a copy of y9ur .inswer to White, Pierce, Mailman & Nutting, the Plaintiff's Attorneys, whose address is P.O. Box 5222, Saipan, MP 96950, as soon as practicable after filing your answer or sending it to the Cleric of Couns for filing.

Your answer should be in writing and filed with the Clerk of this Court at Susupe, Saipan. It may be prepared and si,gned for Y.OU bv your counsel and sent to the Clerk of this Loun by messenger or mail. II is nm

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IN CELEBRATION OF HIS NEW LIFE JUAN REYES SABLAN Also known as John Tang was called home by our Heavenly Father on Wednesday, November 10, 1999, at the age of 49, in Concord, California.

Loving memories of John will live on in the hearts of his: Wife: Angeline Marie Flores Sablan Children: Jon Eric, Vinson Edward, JeIU1ifer and Margaret Josefa Reared Sons: Manuel J. Villagomez, Jeffery A. Villagomez, Sol Dalusong Mother-in-law: Margarita Pangelinan Flores K.intol Sisters/Brothers and Spouses: Mariana S. and Thomas C. Aldan; Emiliana S. Ada; Antonio R. and Maria A. Sablan; Lucia S. and Edward T. Duenas Reared Sisters & Spouses: Elphidia R. Muna; Bemadita R. and Domingo B. Mercado; Joaquin Crisostomo

Brothers and Sisters-in-law & Spouses: Donald G. and Cecilia U. Flores Edward, Jr. & Guadalupe A. Flores Erica K. and Edward Cruz James P. and Daria M. Kintol Elizabeth K. and Juan S. Tenorio Jerome P. and Cristy N. Kintol Joseph and Yoko Kintol Godparents: Soledad Reyes Concepcion and Godofredo A. Sanchez

In his new life, John now joins his: Parents: Vicente Pangelinan Sablan and Josefa Diaz Reyes Fathers-in-law: Edward A. Flores and Herman M. Kintol Brothers-in-law: Sylvia C. Ada and Manuel D. Muna and Robert Kintol Reared Sister: Maria (Marlene) R. Crisostomo

Sponsor Family ( San Francisco) Homer and Patricia Thiele and children He is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces.

Mass intentions for John are offered daily at 6:00 a.m., at the Mount Carmel Cathedral. John's body will arrive from California on Friday, November 19, 1999 at 2:45 p.m., and will be taken to the CHC Morgue. Last respect for John will be on Saturday, November 20, 1999 from 7:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at the Mount Carmel Cathedral. Mass for Christian Burial will be at 11 :00 a.m. at Mount Carmel Cathedral and interment services at Mount Carmel Cemetery follows immediately thereafter.

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01 SCREEN PRINTER HELPER-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: EVERBRIGHT CO., LTD. Tel. 235-8228{12/2)Th33541

01 WAITRESS/WAITER-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: UNIVERSAL (U.S.) DEVEL· OPMENT, INC. Tel. 235-4492(12/ 2)Th33542

01 FOREIGN CLERK-Salary: $3.25-4.00 per hour Contact: CNMI CURRENCY EXCHANGE, INC. Tel. 234-3318(12/ 2)Th33543

03 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $3.25-7.00 per hour Contact: PETER MICHAEL P. TENORIO dba Equitable Consulting Services Tel. 234-6676(12/2)Th33544

01 BUILDING MAINTENANCE REPAIR-Salary: $3.30 per hour Contact: PLAZA CORPORATION dba Highway Market/Coin Laundry Tel. 233-0386 (1212) Th33545

01 DRESSMAKER-Salary: $3.05 per hour 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $3.05-5.20 per hour Contact: SERVILLANA B. MENDOZA dba Celebrity Enterprises Tel. 234-2056(12/2)Th33548

01 SUPERVISOR, RETAIL-Salary: $3.05 per hour 02 ELECTRICIAN-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: HANMI, INC. Tel. 233-2211(12/ 2)Th33550

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $3.05-5.75 per hour 01 QUARRY SUPERINTENDENT-Salary: $1,725.00 per month 03 PLANT TENDER-Salary: $3.05-3.25 per hour 01 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORSalary: $3.05-3.25 per hour 04 MASON-Sala,y: $3.05-4.65 per hour 02 PLUMBER-Salary: $3.05-4.70 per hour 01 CONSTRUCTION WORKER-Salary: $3.05-5.20 per hour 02 CARPENTER-Salary: $3.05-6.55 per hour 02 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANICSalary: $3.05-3.25 per hour 01 ELECTRICIAN-Salary: $3.05-3.40 per hour 01 BLOCK MAKING MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary: $3.05-3.35 per hour 01 LUBRICATION SERVICER-Salary: $3.05-3.25 per hour 02 DISPATCHER (QUARRY)-Salary: $3.05-3.55 per hour Contact: CONSTRUCTION & MATERIAL SUPPLY, INC. dba CMS, Inc. Tel. 234-6136(1212)Th81710

01 CONSTRUCTION WORKER-Salary: $3.05 per hour Contact: SAIHON DEVELOPMENT, INC. Tel. 234-6832(12/2)Th81695

03 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORSalary: $3.05-3.30 per hour Contact: WESTERN EQUIPMENT, INC. Tel. 322-9228(12/2)Th81704

01 COOK HELPER-Salary: $3.20 per hour 02 COOK-Salary: $3.05-3.55 per hour 01 JANITOR-Salary: $3.10 per hour Contact: PACIFIC MANAGEMENT, INC. dba Mariana Restaurant Tel. 322-3324( 12/2)Th81715

01 OPERATIONS MANAGER-Salary: $4.00 per hour Contact: ISLAND HOME PHARMACY CORPORATION dba JPA Homecare & Medical Supplies Tel. 233-7404(12/ 2)Th81722

01 ACCOUNTANT- Salary: $4.69 per hour Bachelo~s degree preferably CPA Duties Includes: responsible for recording transactions, summarizing, analyzing & interpreting the result thereof. Pay close attention to the cash posttion and look primarily at the monetary assets & liabiltties. Piepare monthly bank reconciliation general ledger trial balance & financial statement as a basis of pre~ring a budget for the coming year. Calculate CNMI taJCes & others. Know how to use accounting programs such as Peachtree !or windows and other i:irograms. Contact: ANTONIO S. CAMACHO dba Westpac Freight Tel. 322-1212(12/ 1)W33536

WANTED: HOUSEMAID Salary : Based on eXJJCrience and

performance Live-out, must be honest and hardworking

Contact No: 234-6564 ; 234-3424 Contact Name: Mrs. Teresa H. Lim

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a Volt/Frequency Meter. Salary Range $6.00 to $12.0tl per hour Depending on experience. Pick-up an application in person at PACIFIC MACIIINERT in As L~o Phone # 288-6902

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You 're likely to stake your claim to fame at an early age, but the road to the summit may be a long and winding one, particularly in your youth. Still, with fortitude and foresight, you can minimize the risks, overcome obstacles, and acc'omplish everything you've planned and more.

Also born on this date are: George Wendt, actor: Howard Rollins, actor; Tom Poston, actor; Jimmy Breslin, author; Arthur Miller, playwright; Rita Hayorth, actress; Margot Kidder., actress; Eve! Knievel, daredevil.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - You may have to make even routine things crystal.clear for others today, as communication and comprehension may be quite difficult.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - You must be tender, generous, and understanding with those who are trusting you to show them the way today. Patience is the key!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)- You must be willing to look at a difficult issue from more than one perspective today. The unfamiliar may be most beneficial to you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Someone may accuse you today of making the wrong choice, but the jury is still out. In time you 're sure to be vindicated.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Something you've not been aware of may become so influential to you today that you are unable to ignore it any longer.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Take your cue from someone else who has been in your shoes recently. Be sure you don't shrink from a hidden challenge when it is revealed.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - You may be able to have exactly what you want by day's end, but you will have to work hard to hang on to it for any length of time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -You may be unusually stubborn today, for no apparent reason whatsoever. Take care that you don't let your mood become aggrcssi ve or abrasive.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Your insecurities may be rising to the surface once again today, but a close friend is in a position to see you through a difficult patch.

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Irvin mum on return IRVING, Texas(AP)-Michael Irvin is being uncharacteristically quiet about his football future.

Rumors persist that the star receiver, sidelined by a neck in jury five weeks ago, has caught his last pass. Irvin isn't saying, and the Dallas Cowboys aren't asking.

Team owner Jerry Jones and coach Chan Gailey each spoke with Irvin over the weekend, but neither pressed him to decide when or ifhe plans to return. They didn't even ask when he plans to decide.

"He has as much time as he needs to make a decision," Jones said Tuesday. "This is about a career. This is about loyalty. This is about a lot of things."

Jones added that Irvin is still gathering the information he needs to decide whether to retire, return or postpone a decision until next year.

"I think that information should come real soon, possibly in the next few days, maybe 10 days,''. Jones said. "He's continuing to consult and to revisit some of the same people who've evaluated h . " Im.

Gailey and Irvin met before the Cowboys' 27-13 victory over Green Bay on Sunday.

"I sat down with him and had a very serious discussion about where he is," Gailey said. "Nothing definitive came out of his mouth or my mouth. We just discussed it.

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for a land exchange. Taisacan agreed to authorize

the government to immediately enter the property, giving an irrevocable easement to be converted into fee simple title when the land exchange was completed.

MPLC then specified a lot in Kagman to be exchanged on the condition the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) relinquished its claim on the land parcel.

But by 1997, the land exchange deed had not been prepared and Taisacan had not received compensation.

The plaintiffs decided to file a lawsuit naming as defendants MPLC, a.k.a. Division of Public Lands of the DLNR, and the CNMI government.

In Nov. 1998, the governor decertified the acquisition of Lot 177 4 as serving a public purpose on the ground thatTaisacan received compensation by the Micronesian Claims Commission (MCC) for the indefinite use of the land, which gave the government the right to permanent use of the land without further compensation.

Taisacan filed a second amended complaint. The trial proceeded on three claims:

• Defendants used plaintiffs' real property without jusi compensation.

•Defendants used plaintiffs' real property without due process.

•Defendants breached a contract to provide for just compensation in either a specified amount or by land exchange.

Manibusan in his decision said the government built and maintained a public roadway on Taisacan' s lot.

"This is a permanent, physical occupation of private property.

Thus, the government clearly effected a taking requiring just compensation," Manibusan said.

Manibusan also disagreed with MPLC position that Taisacan already receiv.ed compensation under the War Claims Act and therefore, the government is not required to pay again.

The judge said that in I 971, the U.S. Congress passed the War Claims Act to compensate Micronesian inhabitants of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

The Act, Manibusan said, established two titles under which Micronesian inhabitants could make claims for damages.

He said Title I compensated Micronesians for damages resulting from the actual hostilities between the U.S. and Japan during World War II, while Title II compensated Micronesians for damages occurring after the securing of the island.

The court finds the MCC's decision to apply a constructive lease controlling, said Manibusan, pointing out that under the Act, MCC had authority to render final decisions.

"The MCC was created for a specific purpose and for a specific time period. The MCC was directed to take claims for a one year period.

After the expiration of the one year period, the MCC was given three years in which to adjudicate the claims," Manibusan said.

Thus, the judge said, the Act

Martinez. • • Continued from page 28

Seven NL pitchers have won in a shutout: Sandy Koufax (1963, 1965 and 1966), Bob Gibson (1968), Steve Carlton (1972), Rick Sutcliffe (1984), Dwight Gooden (1985), Orel Hershiser (I 988) and Greg Maddux ( 1994 and 1995).

The only pitchers to win both AL Cy.Young and MVP in the same year were McLain (1968), Vida Blue (1971 ), Rollie Fingers (1981 ), WillieHemandez(l984), Clemens ( 1986) and Dennis Eckersley ( 1992).

Don Newcombe (1956), Sandy Koufax (1963) and Bob Gibson (I 968) did it in the National

Bucks. • • Continued from page 28

free-throw line. Notes: Eric Piatkowski missed his sixth straight game for the Clippers with bruised ribs. ... Ervin Johnson made his first start of the season for Milwaukee, replacing J.R. Reid in the lineup. Johnson has impressed Bucks coaches in the season's first two weeks with a renewed work ethic and his rebounding. Johnson had seven points and five rebounds Tuesday, while Reid had 11 points and eight boards off the bench .... Dale Ellis sat out for Milwaukee with a strained calf.

does not contemplate claims against governments that were not formed and were not involved in the acts of the U.S. military or Trust Territory government.

Taisacan next asserted that MPLC effectuated a taking and use of the land without due process. Taisacan is suing the defendants in their official capacities.

Manibusan ruled that "neither the CNMI nor its officers acting in their official capacity can be sued."

Thus, Manibusan said, this claim must fail.

Finally, Taisacan asserted that MPLC breached the contract for land exchange as compensation for the use of the land.

Manibusan said the manager for the Division of Public Lands testified that the board never approved the appraisal value for the lot north of the lot.

Testimony established that there was no evidence of board approval forthe exchange of public land for Lot I 77 4, the judge said.

The manager further testified that there was no public notice and that no deed had been drawn up and recorded.

"Thus, even though Taisacan had an MOU and a letterof agreement, the necessary requirements fora land exchange were not met," he said.

These two documents, the MOU and the letterof agreement, Manibusan said, do not evidence a final, binding agreement under the land exchange regulations.

"The court finds and concludes that no contract for land exchange was formed. Thus, plaintiffs' claim for breach of contract fails," he added.

League. Martinez said his pick for

MVP is teammate Nomar Garciaparra, who hit a leagueleading .357 with 27 homers and 104 RBIs. Cleveland's Manny Ramirez, whose 165 RBIs were the highest singleseason total since 1938, may be a slight favorite.

Martinez, a 28-year-old righthander, started the season 15-2, putting himself in position to become baseball's first 30-gaITJe

Guam to ... Continued from page 1

"It means that the federal government continues to acknowl- · edge that they have unmet obligations here and that Guam deserves the increase every year."

Underwood credited House leaders, particularly Democratic Whip David BoniorofMichigan, Gov.Carl T.C. Gutierrez's repre, sentatives in Washington, D.C., and the Clinton administration negotiators with keeping the funding issue for Guam on the negotiations table.

''This is the result of the work of many people and my office continuing to push it," he said.

The Clinton administration's request for $10 million was contained in the Interior Department's budget but was eliminated in the House, he said.

Underwood said he was able to restore it during work on the bili

Charfauros. Continued from page 1

diet to Guam's Supreme Court and, if possible, to the U.S. District Court.

"We are going to take this in for an appeal and if we have to take this into the federal court system to get it out of Gutierrez's kangaroo court, then that's what we will do," Charfauros said.

He said this case is now not a matter ofhimself against the First Family but "one of principle. "

He said the people of Guam should be allowed to say what they want to say against the island's rich political families.

But Sandra Lynch, who repre-

winner since McLain with the I 968 Detroit Tigers.

"I think my best chance was this. year," he said. "I think it could happen but it's going to be really difficult to get. The way the rotation is these days, you have to get every bre!}k. It's almost like being perfect for one year."

He went 8-2 in the second half, · missing two weeks because of a stiff right shoulder. Still, he finished with big leads in all the major pitching categories.

by the appropriations committee. "But it was killed on the House

floor," Underwood said. Compact Impact funding was

not included in either .the House or the Senate version of the budget bill.

"The fact that the president vetoed this measure and the fact that there was a budget impasse meant that the administration was able to put it back on the table.

"As a result of our continuing efforts in working with the administration and on the· budget impasse, we have it on good authority that we have been allotted $3 million more for next year," Underwood said.

"But it is important to point out that this is only for a fiscal year. We have a year to work on the increase and hopefully increase it even more.next year, and to make it on a more permanent basis."

The negotiated appropriations meas<:ie is now expected to go to the U.S. House floor.

sented the First Lady and her daughters Carla and Hannah during the eight-day trial, said yesterday that Charfauros 's most re_., cent statements "clearly shows that he is continuing the same behavior patterns that got him into the lawsuit."

Legal experts said an appeal must be made to the Guam Su-preme Court. .

They also said it is "highly unlikely" that the U.S. District Court would take up the matter unless significant evidence was brought to federal prose cu tors that the Golden Motel incident actually occurred.

Witness testimony in the civil case clearly indicated that no such incident ever occurred.

CUC. . . Continued from page 1

need of some 700 residential and commercial customers of the utilities agency in Tinian.

Since 1994, Tinian remains to be the only island in the CNMI which has a 24-hour water supply from CUC, said Castro.

Some 615 CUC customers in Tinian have metered water supply, reversing the situation almost five years ago where only about 37 customers had a metered water supply.

Guam. . . Continued from page 1

through counsels Atalig and Arriola, questioned Kara's allegedly illegal designation as acting AG.

In response, the AGO sought disqualification of Atalig and Arriola from representing plaintiffs, saying the two lawyers violated the Government Ethics Code.

AGO said Atalig currently serves on the Board of Public Lands as an appointed non-employee member and also the special master in Larry Hillblom probate case.

Arriola currently serves as paid legal counsel to the Legislature and also an appointed non-employee member of the Board of Parole, the AGO said.

It was not clear yet as of press time who was the Guam judge appointed to handle the matter.

TIIURSDA Y, NOVEMBER 18, 1999 - MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-27

Tennis bids Graf goodbye NEW YORK (AP)-Steffi Graf stood on center court at Madison Square Garden one more time Tuesday night, the spotlight shining on her career this time.

"You have been a role model for all those who love sports," Judy Levering, president of the U.S. Tennis Association told Graf. "You have been an inspiration to all of us, young and old alike."

Surrounded by a number of other players, Graf was honored for a career that spanned 1 7 years and produced I 07 tournament title·s, including 22 Grand Slam singles crowns.

Among the many gifts she received were thedoortoherlocker, No. 19, at the French Open, and a picture taken by her favorite photographer, Peter Beard.

And a banner inscribed with her name and the years she won the season-ending WT A Tour event played at the Garden was raised to the rafters, joining the one honoring Martina Navratilova. Theirs are ihe only two banners that do not belong to members of either the New York Knicks or the Rangers, the two teams that call the arena home.

·"You came back dramatically from many injuries to make a strong sport even stronger," said Bart McGuire, chief executive officerofthe WTA Tour. "You've been great fun to watch."

The appreciative Garden crowd

Tennis star Steffi Graf gets a kiss and an autographed t~nnis rack~t from Arantxa Sanchez Vicar{o, wh_ile Mary Pierce (right) watches during a ceremony honormg her retirement at the Chase Cahmp1onsh1ps Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. AP

agreed,greetingGrafwith a standing ovation that lasted until they turned up the lights in the arena. It almost brought her to tears, as did the flood of memories that came when a video of her career was

shown, accompanied by Whitney Houston's version of "One Moment In Time."

"I've had so many of those," Graf said.

She said there were too many

people to thank individually, but mentioned her parents- hermother Heidi was sitting in the stands -and her coach, Heinz Gunthardt.

"I don't only call you a coach," she told Gunthardt. "I call you a

friend, too." Then, after a pause, she said, "I

knew I would get emotional." Dave Checketts, president of

Madison Square Garden, presented Graf with a Rangers jersey with the No. 5 and her name on the back. He explained the 5 was the number of season-ending championships she had won at the Garden.

He also presented her with a basketball signed by the Knicks -one of her favorite athletes is Knicks center Patrick Ewing -and aKnicks sweatsuit, along with a diamond pendant.

Levering and Geoff Pollard, president of Tennis Australia, represented the four Grand Slam tournaments. Besides the locker door from Paris, she received a picture from the Australian Open, a framed record of every match she played at Wimbledon from the All England Club, and a plaque from the U.S. Open that included a picture of Graf along with a piece of the court from Louis Armstrong Stadium where she won several of her titles.

Her fellow players each presented her with an autographed racket, and former Knicks stars Earl Monroe and Dave Debusschere helped raise her banner.

During her thank you speech, a fan bellowed, "Where's Andre?" referring to Andre Agassi, Graf's romantic interest.

Cards, Rockies in 7-player deal ST.LOUIS(AP)-TheSt.L-Ouis Cardinals are hoping a change of altitude will work. wonders for Darryl Kile.

Kile, a big-bucks bust in two seasons at Coors Field, was sent from the Colorado Rockies to the Cardinals in a seven-player trade Tuesday.

Along with a· potential No. l starter, St. Louis also got a new

· closer in Dave Veres, who had 31 saves this year, and pitching prospect Luther Hackman.

The Rockies acquired righthanders Jose Jimenez, Manny Aybar and Rick Croushore, plus minor league infield prospect Brent Butler.

"His whole approach will change once he gets out of there," Cardina.Is general manager Walt· Jocketty said of Kile. "Getting him out of Colorado will be a psychological lift for him, as it would be for any pitcher."

The Rockies continued. an off season makeover thl)t includes the trade of outfielder Dante Bichette and general manager Dan O'Dowd stressed the "flexibil.ity" that results from dumping $9.3 million in salary.

"It's the next step in the plan, in the process that I've been talking about," O'Dowd said. "We are very excited about the three young arms that we received. All of them, in our minds, were power arms that throw strikes."

The sides reached a tentative deal early Monday, contingent on the Cardinals' restructuring the

final year of Kile's contract. Kile is scheduled to make $8 million next season.

The Cardinals were negotiating to reduce the salary to $6 millionandaddanoptionfor2001 with a $2 million buyout, and the final hangup was negotiating incentiveclauses for the option year.

Kile, who turns 31 next month, joins 1996 AL Cy Young winner Pat Hentgen, an 11-game winner last year who was acquired last week from Toronto, to revamp a staff that has been the Cardinals' major weakness the past two seasons.

Kile was 19-7 with a 2.57 ERA with Houston in 1997, but was a major bust in Colorado after signing with the Rockies as a free agent. He was 21-30 with a 5.84 ERA in two seasons for Colorado.

Last season, Kile was 8-13 with a 6.61 ERA. The right-hander struggled with his curveball at the

.mile-high altitude and those problems ended up affecting his other pitches - h~ woun~ up with a 7. 77 ERA at Coors Field, the highest home-field ERA among major league pitc~ers.

The Cardinals think he 'II be a different pitcherclosertosea level.

"Honestly, I never thought that way,"Kile said. "You make good pitches, you get outs. You make bad pitches, you don't, and that holds true no matter where you pitch."

But Kile wasn't exactly overjoyed to be leaving Denver.

"I liked it here," Kile said. "That's why I came here a couple years ago. I can't say I'm excited to be leaving, but I'm excited to be playing for the Cardinals. Does that make sense?"

Veres was 4-8 with a5.14 ERA overall, but was 20-for-21 in save opportunities and had a2.52 ERA on the road.

"Iknowlhadfourorfivegames in Coors that were pretty horrendous," Veres said. "A bad pitch there doesn't go to the wall, it goes 20 feet over it."

Veres, 33, was 3-1 with a 2.83 ERA and eight saves in 63 appearances as a setup man in his Rockies debut in 1998.

Jimenez, 26, pitched a no-hi lier and two-hitter against Arizona's Randy Johnson this year, but the rookie later spent time in the mi.nors and was 5-14 with a 5.89

·ERA. Aybar, 25, was used mostly in

relief and was 4-5 with three saves and a 5.47 ERA in 97 innings. Croushore was 3-7 wjth a 4.14 ERA,eightsavesand88strikeouts in 71 2-3 innings.

Butler, 21, was a Cardinals' third-round draft pick in 1996 and hit .269 with 13 homers and 54 RBIs last year at Double-A Arkansas. He played mostly at shortstop but also has experience at second base.

O'Dowd said Butler was the holdup in the deal.

Hackman, a rookie righthanded reliever, was 1-2 with a 10.69ERAinfivegameslastyear.

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28-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-lHURSDAY- NOVEMBER 18, 1999

SPORTS

Spurs rip Pacers in OT SANANTONIO(AP)-Jerome Kersey hit a go-ahead 14-:foot jumper with 7.6 seconds left in overtime as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Indiana Pacers 90-87 Tuesday night.

Tim Duncan and David Robinson each scored 22 points for San Antonio. Indiana's Jalen Rose tied his career-high with 28 points.

Rose, Sam Perkins and Mark Jackson each hit 3-pointers as the

· Pacers took an 85-82 lead with 1 :37 left in overtime.

But San Antonio rallied and took the lead.for good, 86-85, on Kersey'sjumper. The Spurs, who

trailed by 13 points earlier in the game, then clinched the victory with three free throws by Mario Elie and one by Terry Porter in the final 7 seconds.

Perkins scored 16 points for the Pacers, whose three-game winning streak was snapped.

Both teams shot only 39 percent from the field.

San Antonio trailed by eight points in the fourth quarter before rallying to take a 67-66 lead on a three-point play by Kersey with 5:21 left. ·

Indiana answered with a I 0-.2 run that featured consecutive 3-pointers by Reggie Miller and

Perkins. The spurt put the Pacers up 76:69 lead with 3 minutes remaining.

A driving basket by Elie and a 3-pointer by Porter with 50. 7 seconds left in regulation cut Indiana's lead to 76-74.

After Robinson made a free throw with 22.4 seconds remaining, Kersey stole a pass by Rose, and Robinson was fouled with 2.2 seconds left by Dale Davis. Robinson then tied the game by making one of two free throws.

Miller missed a' 15-foot jumper as time expired, sending the game to overtime.

Bucks defeat Clippers, 101-93 MILWAUKEE(AP)-Glenn Robinson scored 24 points and Sam Cassell had 20 points and nine assists as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Los Angeles Clippers IO 1-93 Tuesday night.

The Bucks, who began the year with five of seven games on the road, remained unbeaten at home. Ray Allen added 19 points and six assists for Milwaukee as the Clippers, playing the second game of a five-game road trip, lost their fourth straight.

minutes, Anderson was helped to the locker room and didn't return.

Clippers coach Chris Ford returned to Milwaukee for the first timesincebeingfiredbytheBucks and replaced by George Karl last year. He was greeted with indifference from the Bradley Center crowd, which saw Karl return the Bucks to the playoffs last season for the first time in seven years.

Lamar· Odom had 22 points and 10 rebounds for the Clippers, who were already without starting forward Maurice Taylor because of a sprained foot. Brian Skinner had 10 points and 17 rebounds for Los Angeles.

Los Angeles pulled within 96-91 with 2:38 left, but Milwaukee took a six-point lead into the final minute, and the Clippers elected not to foul intentionally as the Bucks grabbed a pair of offensive rebounds and eventually ran out the clock.

Indiana Pacers guard Travis Best (4) loses control of the ball as he is guarded by San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson (50) during their game in San Antonio Tuesday. AP

Derek Anderson had 27 points for Los Angeles before getting hurt in a collision with Milwaukee's Danny Manning early in the fourth quarter. After laying on the court for three

The lead changed hands 25 times and neither team was ahead by more than six points until Cassell stole the ball from Eric Murdock and drove the length of the court for a layup that gave Milwaukee an 80-73 advantage moments after Anderson left. The basket was part of a 12-2 run that put the Bucks up 86-75.

Los Angeles was hurt by poor shooting. Starters Tyrone Nesby and Troy Hudson were a combined 6-for-26 from the floor, and Odom was 3-for-7 from the


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