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Variety News Staff WHILE other government agen-cies are exploring possibilities of cutting down personnel costs, ranking officials of the Public Auditor's Office may reportedly be getting upward wage adjust-ments starting next fiscal year.

Under the proposed fiscal year 2000 budget submitted by Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio to the Legisla-ture, three senior OPA officials will receive salary increase rang-ing from $5,000 to $10,000 per year.

Figures show total personnel compensation and benefits allo-cation lo OP A increased to $1.681 million for the next fiscal year, from $1.679 during the current year.

Public Auditor Leo LaMotle stands to receive a $10,000 raise from his 1999 salary of $70.000 to $80,000 for the next fiscal year.

Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio (left) is joined by Radio for Free Asia President Richard Richter (?nd left) .a~d /BB officials Ted Kaufman (2nd right) and Tom Korologos in cutting the ceremonial ribbon to open the Voice of America relay station on Ttntan. Photo by Rene P. Acosta

Counsel Richard Weil will re-portedly get a $5,000 adjustment

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VOA switches on its Tinian station

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1 OPA recommends firing of 1 all TCGCC commissioners

I I By Zaldy Dandan

Variety News Staff THE OFFICE of the Public Au-ditor is recommending the fir-ing of Tinian 's casino gaming commissioners for approving former House speaker Oscar C. Rasa's $100,000-a-year consultancy contract.

priation for such purpose. Moreover, OP A said, despite

the commission's constant lack of funding, its officials contin-ued "with their wasteful spend-ing practices."

By Rene P. Acosta Variety News Staff

TINIAN -The $33 million radio relay station, a joint project of Voice of America and Radio for Free Asia, officially signed on here yesterday, commencing the Uniie·d States' task of delivering news and information to Asia, particularly the communist coun-tries.

The relay facility, operating on a 500-kilowatt power, was offi-cially switched on by Radio for Free Asia President Richard Rich-ter and Tom Korologos and Ted Kaufman, who both sit as gover-

nors of the government-owned International Broadcasting Bu-reau in-charge of regulating the two radio services, including Ra-dio for Europe.

The three flew in from Wash-ington.

The relay station which has been operating unofficially since the end of January, gets to the Asian airwaves on three powerful trans-mitters backed up by eight unproportioned antennas measur-ing from 180 up lo 429 feet in an 800-acre lot owned by the US Navy.

The programs are directly

PoJice· brutality victillls urged to come forward

· By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff . . . ·

THE PUBLIC Defender's Office yesterday vowed to assist all victims of police l:>rutaHty in tile CNMI.,.. :: ; . . . · · · ·. · .. ;A.ssistantPublicDefenderMasood:Karimipourin an interv_iew iti1cetfthfr:iobfic)t.1e1p.o~irty:oij~::i1ctimii.M:·by the police to:¢ome·

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beamed from Washington through a satellite receiver into the facility which then carries it through Asia targeting China, Cambodia, North Korea, including Tibet and Burma.

"With this more powerful relay station we can deliver real news and current affairs to the people of these countries," said Richter, saying that China had in the past jammed their frequencies as they carry broadcastoverthatcountry.

Kaufman, on the other hand, said people from the communist states had been experiencing me-

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OPA, in its audit report on Rasa 's contract, said Tinian Mayor Frank M. Borja should hold the commissioners account-able for gross negligence, der-eliction of duty and violations of CNMI laws and procurement regulations.

OP A found that the commis-sioners allowed excessive pay-ments to be made to Rasa de-spite the absence of an appro-

The Variety tried but failed to get a comment from any of the five commissioners.

OPA at the same time urged the mayor to request the Attor-ney General's Office (AGO) to declare Rasa's contract as void from the beginning and to re-cover the $760,000 paid by the Tinian Casino Gaming Control Commission (TCGCC) to the former speaker and one of his children.

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j Changes eyed in equal benefits law: I.' l: 0 By Jojo Dass provisions of Public Law 11-74 hour each and one resident r: § Variety News Staff on standard hourly wage is "sub- worker who receives $6 an hour 1, ~ DESCRIBING the measure as ject to two possible interpreta- -- do you look at the salary of !i ~ "vague," the Saipan Chamber tions." the resident workeronly ... ordo 1! · of Commerce said it will work He noted that since the law ap- you look at all employees in the [1

with hotel owners to lobby for plies to resident workers in jobs job category to determine the amendments in the newly-en- where the standard hourly wage 'standardhourlywage?"'raised acted law giving US citizens the is less than $5.15 or the prevailing Wiseman. same benefits given to guest US minimum wage, "the ques- Wiseman said the Hotel As-workers. tion goes to what is the 'standard sociation of the Northern

David A. Wiseman, chair of hourly wage' for a position." Mariana Islands (HAN MI) "has the Chamber's Governmental "Ifa(Chamber)memberhas 10 a\readycommenceddiscussions Relations Committee, in a letter cooks, nine of which are nonresi- with the Legislature on possible sent to Chamber members, said dent workers who receive $4 an Continued on page 23

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Support grows for ground troops By TOM RAUM

WASHINGTON (Al')-Even as the Clinton administration keeps vowing not to add U.S. ground troops to the NA TO airstrikes in Yugoslavia momen-tum in Congress appears to be shifting in favor of such an op-tion as a fast-approaching last resort.

''When you are in a war, you are in to win." said Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican who is one of a group of 13 lawmakers who began a visit to Europe Wednesday with Defense Secretary William Cohen for NATO consultations on the cri-sis.

Hagel. a Vietnam veteran and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said his views come despite the fact that most of the constituents he has heard from are opposed to U.S. involvement in Kosovo.

"I'm convinced that our lead-ership and the leadership of NATOfeltthatMilosevicwould fold up after a substantive air campaign," Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri,anothermemberofthe delegation. said in an interview. "But he hasn't."

Skelton. senior Democrat on the House Anned Services Com-mittee, said he participated a few years ago in an Air Force study of the Gulf air war, ··and the

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bottom line was, you can't win with just an air campaign."

'You need ground forces," he said.

However, House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt said Tues-day that discussion of ground troops was''irrelevantatthis point. NATO hasn't asked for them, the presi-dent hasn't asked for them," he said.

"I don't think we ought to say no ground troops," said Gephardt But, "I don't think you speak on that until it's asked, and no one 'sasked."

When Congress began its two-week spring recess on March 26, there was overwhelming opposi-tion to using ground troops for anything other than enforcing a peace agreement, particularly among majority-party Republi-cans. And even support for that was narrow.

Dick Gephardt

On March 11 the House ofRep-resentatives, on a 219-191 vote, passed a resolution authorizing U.S. involvement in a NATO ground force - but only to en-force a peace agreed to by both sides. The Senate voted 58-41 on March 23 to support airstrikes only, after the Serbs spumed peace efforts.

Lawmakers had expected to re-turn to Washington next week to grapple with the federal budget, Social Security, Medicare and other domestic priorities. Instead, they've got an undeclared war on their hands.

Congressional officials said the administration was planning a se-ries of briefings for lawmakers when Congress returns. The presi-dent is tentatively expected to host the top leaders at the White House on Monday night, and a larger

Pro-independence East Timorese residents grieve over a body of a man after they were attacked by pro-integrationists in the town of Liquica, outside of the provincial capital of Di/i, east of Jakarta Tuesday. The Indonesian military has denied reports that at least 45 people were killed in clash between pro-independence and pro-integration supporters in the troubled province. AP

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Kosovo at mercy GUAM Governor Carl Gutien-ez reportedly had been notified that the Air Forces facilities at the island's Andersen South may be needed to accom-modate some 20,000 war refugees from Yugoslavia resulting from hostili-ties in the Balkans. Gutien-ez stated that if Guam would have to host refugees again, the island people would show them hospitality. Following Guam's announcement, CNMI has stepped into the issue courtesy of a House resolution requesting the consent of the people to allow ref~gees to stay in the Commonwealth temporarily until they can be repatnated or resettled elsewhere.

*** *** *** The resolution was unanimously adopted. Rep. Herman T. Palacios, who

introduced the resolution, stressed that such move is not an invitatio~ for the refuoees to work in the CNMI. He said the federal government will be responsible for the refugees' welfare if they decide to stay i~ the CN!-11 temporarily. Palacios said because the US plays a maJor role m resolv1?g the conflict ·in Kosovo, the CNMI, as part of the US, should extend 1~s assistance to help alleviate human suffering among refugees, mostly ethnic Albanians, in the war-tom fmmer Yugoslavian autonomous province.

*** *** *** The House's resolution has good intention. No doubt. But it seems that

we are only thinking here of a sound goal, forgetting about its effect. N~w, let ·s say for example, CNMI will accommodate I 0,000 refugees. The firs~ problem is the place where we are gomg to house _them. Ada Gym. Multipurpose Center? Tinian? Of course not at Puerto R1 co du mp. If t~e US will take care of their foods, other matters have to be looked mto like Its impact on our already overloaded sewerage system.

*** *** *** Other serious possible issue is the guarantee of our health syst~m to

sustain l 0,000 or more refugees. Take note we don't know what kmd of diseases these people are can-ying when we bring them in. Because these refugees arc not going to be medically screened. They are to be s~ree~ed when they get here. And what guarantee do we have that the US 1s g~mg to immediately start handling federal aids because we have Albanians landing on the islands? Don't you think we first consult the US government and se; if they are indeed sensitive to our offer?

*** *** *** There's no problem with Guam because it has the ex~rience of_accom-

modatin£ refu£ees. They had dealt before with the Kurdish and Vietnam-ese. Gua~ has-also readily available facilities. The US military is al~eady there to take care of the refugees. Before we bring in these people m the CNMI. even if the US says yes. the question goes back again to the appropriate location. Obviously, US_ will depl?Y some military personnel here and erect their facilities and build their kitchen.

*** ~::.;:* *** There arc more serious things that our elected leaders should consider.

We should start woITying how to solve our economic situation. Why wony more ibout Kosovo? Leave Kosovo to US and NA TO. They_ arc the experts. They know how to handle the situation. Although CNMI 1s part of US, let's face it that the only help we can offer arc prayers for peace. These refugees are suffering. For the meantime. let us focus on our ~ors_ernng sew~rage problem. Let's take another look at our labor code w~1ch IS like an old pants full of patches because of its many amendments since It was enacted. They say charity begins at home. So we must take care of ourselves first, take care of our needs, before we think of somebody else's.

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Warrant out for businesswoman By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

US DISTRICT Court Judge Alex Munson yesterday issued an ar-rest warrant against a business-woman who failed to pay dam-ages to a Bangladeshi worker.

Munson ordered the arrest of Geraldine Sebakrin. doing busi-ness as Geri's Security and Man-power Services. An $8 00 bai I was set for Sebakrin 's temporary re-lease when the warrant is served to her.

Munson issued the warrant fol-lowing a request of Jay Sorensen, counsel for plaintiff Mohammad Miah.

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Court documents showed that in 1997 Miah, a Bangladeshi worker, filed a lawsuit against Sebakrin for violations of Fair Labor Standard Act.

Miah complained among other things, that from Dec. 20, 1996 to on or about March 31, 1997 he worked for her as a security guard, '"including a substantial amount of time in excess of 40 hours per week."

Defendant paid Miah for work of 40 hours per week at less than that required under the Act, the complaint said.

Miah received a court judgment after default on Sept. 2, 1997

against Sebakrin for the sum of $16,828. An order in aid of judg-ment was later entered.

The defendant, however, failed to make the allotment of the su~h payment, prompting Miah to move to have her adjudged in contempt.

The court allowed defendant enough time to pay after she ex-plained why she failed to give the allotment.

Sorensen told the court yester-day that he had not spoke with the defendant since the last hearing.

Sorensen said Sebakrin's se~-retary stated that she is on vaca-tion.

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Tinian youth promote responsible lifestyles

Upward Bound student chosen to attend UH summer program

WHEN adults attempt to instruct teenagers on impo1tan1 matters, their advice is sometimes ignored. In the same regard, when teens try to do the same thing amongst themselves it too often ends with the same result.

However. when the two are combined in a collaborative mix-ture, the blend often produces a more desirable outcome.

Such was the case when the TinianHigh School Peer Leaders Club, spe;headed by award-win-ning teacher Angie Sills Mc Vay, held a conference on Covenant Day, last March 24, at the Tinian Dynasty Hotel.

The Peer Leaders Club, founded this school year, pro-vides leadership training, but more impo11antly promotes re-sponsible l.ifestyles through peer education.

The theme of the Youth2Youth Conferencewas"WalktheTalk." In other words-practice what you preach, and actions speak louder than words.

A large turnout of THS stu-dents, r;presenting 40% of the Scallion student body, covered a variety of responsibility-related issues such as lifestyle choices, relationships, sex, and substance abuse.

Speakers included Capt. Peter Palacios of the Tinian Depart-mentof Public Safety ,Janet King of the Tinian Dynasty Hotel, Corinne Hofschneiderand Maria Aguon of Tinian Elementary School, Tanya Camacho of the Commonwealth Health Center's Community Outreach Program, and J.P. San Nicolas of the Tinian Municipal Council.

The gathering was the second of two workshops held as a result of an endowment awarded to Sills McVay this school year. She won the distinguished Christa McAuliffe Teachers Fellowship Award, a federally funded $25,000 grant, awarded to 55 American educators annually for their proposed projects.

(Mike Cody)

. Workshop at JKPL . THE FAMILY Violence Task Force is inviting anyone interested in leamingaboutdomesticviolence relationships to a free workshop based on the best-selling book, "Men are from Mars," "Women are from Venus,"by Dr.John Gray.

The workshop will be held at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library on

Thursday, April 15, from 8:30 am to 11 :30 a.m.

Seating is limited so interested individuals are asked to register by Tuesday, April 13.

For more information or to regi s-ter, please call Jenny Villagomez at 664-4554 or Michelle Rasa at 322-7469.

UNIVERSITY of Hawaii-Lee-ward Community College has selected Janalyn Mendiola, an Upward Bound participant, to attend the Math & Science Summer Program which will start from June 15 to July 24, this year.

Mendiola and other Upward Bound students will take classes in Marine Science, Computer Science, Mathemat-ics, Hawaiian Culture, Litera-ture and Composition.

In addition, they will receive guidance from professional staff, mentors, and experience college life while living in a dormitory.

Mendiola, a Junior at Rota High School, comes from a family of four and is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Atalig of Rota.

She is an active member of her high school's National Honor Society Chapter and Student Council. ' Presently, Mendiola plans to make a career and serve her community in Dentistry or Ar-chitectuie.

When asked how does she feel being chosen to partici-pate in this year's UH-Lee-ward Math and Science Pro-gram, she responded, "I feel very excited and fortunate for being chosen to participate in this year's UH-Leeward Com-munity College Math and Sci-

OFFICE OF INSULAR AFFAIRS

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Insular Policy Specialist

GS-13 U.S. Department of the Interior

Washington, D.C.

The Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affair's mission is to assist the islands in

developing more efficient government by providing financial and technical assistance; and

to help manage Federal-island relations by promoting appropriate Federal policies. We arc

seeking a highly qualified candidate for the position of Insular-Affairs Specialist.

The Insular Affairs Specialist is responsible for developing recommendation for U.S. policy

towards insular areas on social, political, economic, environmental, and other issues of

national and international significance. Prepares comprehensive reports and briefings on

U.S. position outlining policy options and alternatives. Assists in negotiations regarding policy recommendations with Federal agencies and the Insular areas.

Requirements: Candidates must have at least one year of' specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level that is directly related to the work of this position. U.S. citizenship or national (including American Samoa) required to be eligible for this position. Condition of Employment: Periodic travel to insular areas is necessary to perform the work.

Application Information: Recruitment for the position is being conducted by the Office of Personnel Management located in Washington, D.C. Complete application materials and guidelines may he obtained by calling a voice mail system (202) 606-2700. Follow the recorded directions; request vacancy announcement number WA-RS-9-2763. Position opens

3/23/99 to 4/27/99.

The Department of the Interior is an equal opportunity employer.

ence Program." "I expect to acquire as much

knowledge and information that will help me succeed in my future career choice and goals in life," Janalyn added.

"I know that this program, will provide me with many useful information and I will be sure to apply them through-out my life. I am very grateful

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for receiving this opportunity and I know that I will enjoy participating in this program."

Janalyn is a participant of the Northern Marianas Col-lege Upward Bo'und Program, a Federal TRIO Program tasked with the responsibility of preparing and motivating qualified high school students to pursue higher education.

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Guam court throws out Ex-senator's complaint

Angel Santos

By Eric F. Say Variety News Staff

HAGATNA - Former Senator Angel Santos's complaint against the Guam Election Com-mission has been thrown out of Court, but a serious question remains.

The former Barrigada senator had filed charges against the GEC stating that he was not allowed attend a public meeting in which the 98 election results were certified.

Yesterday, he filed a motion to dismiss the charges on his own behalf.

He was representing himself "prose" (a legal term for self-representation. He asked that they be dismissed without preju-dice.

That means that he could bring up others on charges should the judge allow the motion.

Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood listened to arguments from both Santos and the GEC Board Representative Attorney Fred Horecky.

Horccky asked that the charges be dismissed with preju-dice.

Judge Gatewood did throw out the charges but ordered that Horccky file a brief stating why she should throw out the case with prejudice instead of what Santos desires.

The reason Santos wants the court to throw the case out with-out prejudice is that he can then file another case against the Guam Police Department for his detention during the G EC certi-fication hearings.

Gatewood has reserved the courts right to rule on the preju-dice question until 1-Iorecky files his brief, which is due by Apri I

16th, l 999. Santos than has the opportu-

nity to file an opposition to that brief by April 23rd, 1999.

Gatewood will then make her final ruling after she considers both sides of the question.

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Japanese, British forces likely to join 'Cope North' on Guam

Roben Underwood

HONOLULU (Pacnews)-Japa-nese air force planes are likely to take part in a historic joint mili-tary exercise organised by the United States in Guam later this year.

This was announced by Guam's Congressman Robert Underwood at the end of a US Pacific military exercise, code-named Tandem Th1ust, in the territory.

He said the new operation, Cope Nmth, will primarily be a US Air Force project, bu twill include Brit-

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ish, and possibly Japanese forces. 'Themostsignificantelementof

this exercise is the likelihood often Japanese F- l 5 fighter planes par-ticipating," he said.

"This will mark the first time since the end of World War Two that Japanese Air Force planes will leave Japanese air space for any kind of training mission."

Unde1wood said Guam would

continue to be the location of addi-tional US military training exer-cises, and visits by planes and ships.

"There is a significant shift in the way the military views Guam stra-tegically. It no longer is considered a fo1ward deployment area. but rather an en route base and logisti-cal throughway to any possible fu-ture connicts in Asia. including the Middle East," he said .

NOTICE OF INTENT TO INCREASE CAPITAL

Notice is hereby given pursuant to 4 CMC § 7306(a)(i) that Telebond Insurance Corp., a CNMI insurance corporation, proposes to increase its authorized capital from 100,000 authorized shares to 1,000,000 authorized shares and to authorize the issuance of 100,000 new shares of capital stock for a total of 150,000 shares of stock issued and outstanding standing representing a total capitalization of $150,000.

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Record number of political parties to join Fiji elections StYA (Pacnews)- Fiji ·s first ~eneral election under the new Constitution will see a record number of political parties com-peting for the 7 l seats in the House of Representatives.

Elections are scheduled from Mav 8-15.

S-upervisor of Elections Walter Rigamoto said 20 politi-cal parties are registered to con-test the polls. This is a hundred per cent increase from the 1996 election. He attributed the birth of new parties to changes in the .:kctoral svstem.

··Under the new electoral re-gime. the parties have to be for-mally registered before they can field candidates:· he said.

One of the new parties that has sprung up in time for the

Mav election is the Christian De~10cratic Party. (known in Fijian as the Veitokani ni Lewenivanua Latu Vakarisito).

The Party claims to have the backing of the country's largest Christian denomination, the Methodist Church.

Meanwhile today was the last dav for official registration of voters. It's underst;;od the Elec-tions Office has already regis-tered 419,000 eligible voters. An election official said this was about 90 per cent of the total number of eligible voters in Fiji .

Under the ;ew electoral sys-tem, voter registration and vot-ing is comp~lsory for people aged 21 years and over.

Those who don't register or vote face a $US25 fine.

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Bank of Guam Plaintifflsl, vs. Marilou C. Rentino Defendant( s I, Res. Address: Caller Box CCC J57 Box 10003, Saipan, MP 96950 Small Claim No. 99-369

SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: The above seeks judgment in this Court against you for $556.68 for MasterCard No. 512i-4403-0000-838 l plus interest and costs. This Court will hold a hearing in this matter at the Courthouse in Saipan on May 27, 1999 at 9:00 a.m .. at which time you will appear perso~ally, or by counsel to present any defense you may have. Should you fail to appear, ajudr:,rment may be entered against you by default. If you dispute or disagree with the Plaintiff's claim, you should bring with you all documents and witnesses needed to establish your defense on the date of the hearing.

l\OTICIA PARA I DEFENDANTE: I Kehante ha gagagao judgment i Kotte kontra hago i kantida $.556.68 pot 5121-4403-0000-8381 kon todo ganansia ~a gasto s1ha. Para u guaha inekungok guinc na asunto g1 Kotten S_a1pan gi dia 27 de \lay. 1999 gi oran 9:00 a.m., gume na tiempo debi di un fatto petsonat pat i abugado-mu para un presenta hafa na defense guienaha mu. Yangen ti mattu hao sma gumahajudgment kontra hago ginen i fanatta-mu. 'J:'.angen tikonfotme hao nu i ginagao i kehante, chule halom g1 kotte dokumento yan konne halom I testigo-mu siha ni un nesisita para un presenta gi ha' anen i enekungok.

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ARONGORONG NGJ\LISCHOOL BWANGIL TIPIS I DEFENDANT J: Ara mas iye e lo weilang ittal iye reghal ire mel\61 Jmwal Aweewe bwe Plaintiffnge e tungor alilis ngali aweewe bwele reemw reel llappal salaapi iye $556.68 reel .5121-4403-0000-8381 me bwal schufengal me mille reghal ira bwe ganansia me bwal akkaw llappal millikka ebwe ribw66s. Imwal Aweewe yeel nge ebwe ayoora arongorongol tung6r yeel ccchmwal Aweewe mwu e lo Seipelffinina/Rota/ atol 9:00 a.m. tung6r yeel nge ubwe tooto me ngare ebwe amwuum oumw sch6 ye ebwe alisugh iye reghal ira bwe counsel bwe I bwe lo bwe lo bwe ebwe alist.lgh 1161 y66mw werres. Ngare use tooto nge imwu e~we yoor m_ille ~ch66] Aweewe rebwe iselilong bwe ubwe ghil maas we1rcslo reel. Ngare ameen bwe ese, wel tingor yeel, iwe ubwe bwughi_ito alongal paapid kka ebwe abwaari meeta rughul me ngare evrior schokka emmwel bwe rebwe alist.lgh bwal umwurto Ii6l raalil ye ubwele toolong 1161 Imwal Awecwe.

Date: April 5, 1999 ls/Clerk of Court

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Bougainville rebels ask PNG to honor peace agreem.ent PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) - The Commander of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) Sam Kauona has issued a strong statement call-ing on the Papua New Guinea Government to honour the terms of the Lincoln Peace Agreement.

Kauona wants the PNG Gov-ernment to comply with a clause in the agreement which calls for a phased withdrawal of the PNG Defence Force (PNGDF) from Bougainville, subject to resto-ration of civil authority on the island.

"The disposal of arms by Bougainville forces and the withdrawal of the PNGDF and

Police Riot Squad from Bougainville is core to the Bougainville/PNG peace pro-cess," he said.

The BRA leadership is fully committed to peace and we will make it our duty to protect that peace. We want to completely demilitarise Bougainville.

Unless the PNG Government plays its part according to the agreement we have signed, peace will never be fully realised.

"Whilst the BRA submitted a comprehensive and detailed "Disposal of Arms" submission to the Consultative Committee administering the peace process

at its meeting on March 10, the PNG team on the other hand was totally unprepared."

Kauona claimed PNG Gov-ernment officials did not have a detailed plan of a phased with-drawal of its troops from Bougainville.

"Civil authority has gradually been restored on Bougainville. By the time the Bougainville Reconciliation Government is elected and installed in May, it will be responsible for its own policing, judiciary, education and health," he said.

The PNG Government has not responded to the claims by the rebel commander.

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Japan aids Malaysia on viruS 1'L\.L.-\ Ll"\lPLR. \falay-sia (AP)- The Japanese gov-ernment Tuesday donated nicrney and promised more rechnical help 10 lv1alaysia to hdp the Southeast Asian na-rilm control a ,·iral outbreak that has ki lied nearly 90 people.

Japan's Ambassador to Ma-laysia Issei Nomura presented a check ofS 150.000 10 Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah .-\hmad Badawi and promised to send two Japanese experts to Malaysia to help determine the exact nature of the virus that is spreading from pigs to humans.

The Japanese experts will join 16 other experts from the United States. Australia and Taiwan who. along with scores of Malaysian scientists, have been trying to name the virus and eliminate it.

People in pig-farming areas began dying in October. but the situation became alarming

in January and February when scores of people began dying and thousands of pigs were found to be infected with the virus.

Government health experts initially said it was the Japa-nese encephalitis virus, but later another strain that ap-peared related to the Hendra virus was found to be killing people. Of the 86 fatalities so far, only 25 have died of Japa-nese encephalitis, the Bernama news agency said on Tuesday.

Little is known about the Hendra virus, which was first detected in Australia, where it killed racehorses and three hu-mans in 1994.

While Japanese encephali-tis virus is transmitted from pigs to humans by the Culex mosquito, the Hendra is spread by contact and contamination.

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an inflammation of the brain. Malaysia has said it would

exterminate nearly 1 million pigs, three times the initial number initially planned. to help curb the illness.

Soldiers and police officers, covered head-to-toe in plastic suits, have entered pig-farm-ing villages as part of a mas-sive campaign to shoot the pigs.

Japanese encephalitis was first discovered in the north-ern state of Perak last year where it killed some people.

But this year, it began kill-ing people in Negri Sembilan state in an area just I 00 kilo-meters (60 miles) southeast of Kuala Lumpur.

In the last two months, 73 people have died in the area and its once-prosperous pig farms completely destroyed, leaving the mostly ethnic Chi-nese

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West dism.isses ceasefire BELGRADE (Reuters) -Yugoslavia declared a unilat-eral ceasefire in Kosovo on Tuesday. but the West dis-missed the move as insuffi-cient and said NATO air strikes would continue.

tian Easter holiday, repre-sented an important chance for peace that should not be missed.

But the West was unim-pressed.

··we've made very clear that any hollow, half measures will not stop the bombing," said David Leavy, spokesman for

Russia said the ceasefire. an-nounced in Belgrade to coin-cide with the Orthodox Chris-

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the White House National Se-curity Council, pledging that an "undiminished, unrelenting and unceasing" NATO air campaign would continue.

French President Jacques Chirac said the ceasefire was "essential but insufficient" and promised the air campaign would go on "until this re-gime ceases its criminal re-pression and really allows the refugees to return to their homes."

Chirac said on national tele-yision that a European Coun-cil meeting on April 14 should consider an emergency plan to help Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro deal with the 430,000 refugees the U.N. says have fled Kosovo since strikes began on March 24.

Yugoslav state television said as the 8 p.m. ( 1800 GMT) ceasefire came into effect that all Yugoslav army units in Kosovo were complying with it. The report, citing the army's information service, could not be independently confirmed.

Officials said ethnic Alba-nian refugees would be wel-comed back to Kosovo and one said an amnesty may be de-clared for the Kosovo Libera-tion Army (KLA) guerrilla force.

Their statements made clear they hoped the move, which included an offer of peace talks with ethnic Albanian leader lbrahi m Rugova, would end the NATO bombardment.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Belgrade's decision "opens the way for solving the problems in Kosovo through political means."

Ten minutes past the dead-line, air raid warning sirens went off in Belgrade, where about 200 people had gath-ered on one of the city's main bridges in a human shield

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against a possible NATO strike.

Information Minister Milan Komnenic told Reuters troops would not be leaving Kosovo immediately since that would be an open invitation to the KLA guerrillas.

"If troops leave Kosovo, that would leave an empty space for the KLA and only when the situation is back to normal then the troops will be returned to their original bases," he said.

The KLA 's Kosovapress news agency published the names of 178 Kosovo Alba-nians it said had been executed by Yugoslav firing squads. The list was made up over-whelmingly of men of all ages, but included a teenage girl of 19 and a great-grandfather of 90.

U.N. refugee chief Sadako Ogata accused Yugoslavia of committing unprecedented civil rights violations in Kosovo and attempting to wipe out the province's iden-tity. .

Ogata, opening an emer-gency meeting in Geneva of more than 50 governments and aid agencies on the crisis, said the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo may be even worse than purges seen earlier this decade in Bosnia and other parts of the former Yugoslavia.

"It is frightening ... that this century, as in its darkest hours, should end with the mass de-portation of innocent people," Ogata said.

Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski said his country was in danger of col-lapsing economically and po-litically unless NATO coun-tries stemmed the tide of eth-nic Albanians driven to his country's borders.

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you," he said, reflecting his officially pro-NATO country's growing biuerness at being put in the front line of the alliance's war with Yugo-slavia.

UNHCR deputy head Soren Jessen-Petersen told a news conference in Geneva that the situation on the Macedonian border, where -about 40,000 people were trapped in filthy conditions, had improved con-siderably.

"People have been moving in fairly significant numbers today," he said, explaining that the refugees were being transported to camps set up by aid agencies and Western na-tions.

Macedonia flew about 340 ethnic Albanian Kosovo refu-gees to Turkey on Tuesday and officials said the airlift could carry hundreds more during the night, despite the clear re-luctance of.many to go.

Yugoslavia said at least five people were killed in the early hours of Tuesday when three bombs exploded in a residen-tial area of a southern Serbian town. NATO said it had been careful to avoid civilian tar-gets.

A Reuters correspondent saw the remains of two bodies

-among the ruins of a family house in Aleksinac. The street on which it stood no longer existed.

Serbian media said a third Danube bridge was destroyed, an oil refinery was hit at Novi Sad and targets in or around four other cities.or towns were attacked on the 13th night of allied air strikes.

NA TO said a Yugoslav Army Corps headquarters in the eastern city of Nis, close to the city airport, was at-tacked and it also hit fuel de-pots, bridges, communications centres and transport targets.

France warned that the next wave of strikes would be the heaviest since the start of the NATO bombing campaign.

General Xavier Delcourt, deputy operations chief at armed forces headquarters, told reporters: "With the good weather we are having and the arrival of the U.S. aircraft car-rier Theodore Roosevelt, these are going to be the biggest raids to date."

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Belgrade declares truce By Julijana Mojsilovic

BELGRADE (Reuters) Serbian authorities declared a uni-lateral ceasefire in Kosovo effec-tive Tuesday night but the West swiftly dismissed the announce-ment and said punishing NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia would continue unabated.

A government statement car-ried on state media said all activi-ties against separatist ethnic Al-banianguerrillas in Kosovo would cease at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT).

As the deadline passed, state television said that all Yugoslav army units in Kosovo were com-plying with the truce. The report, which cited the army's informa-tion service, could not be inde-pendently confirmed.

Officials said ethnic Albanian refugees, who have fled the prov-ince in their hundreds of thou-sands over the past two weeks, would be welcomed back to Kosovo and one said an amnesty may be declared for the Kosovo Liberation guerrilla force.

Their statements made clear they hoped the move, which in-cluded an offer of peace talks with ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, would end the NATO bombardment which is about to enter its third week.

Russia welcomed the an-nouncement, saying it was in line with its own efforts to bring peace to the Balkans, and the Vatican urged an end to all violence in Yugoslavia.

But the truce offer fell far short of Western demands for a total withdrawal of security forces from Kosovo and the acceptance of an international force to take their place.

Ten minutes past the deadline, air raid warning sirens went off in Belgrade, where about two hun-dred people had gathered on one of the city's main bridges in a human shield against a possible NATO strike.

Information Minister Milan Komnenic told Reuters troops would not be leaving Kosovo im-mediately since that would be an

A mass of Albanians stand in line for food inside a refugee camp in Stankovac, a suburb of Skopje, Macedonia, Tuesday. Refugees were put up in tents and received food and medical treatment. AP

open invitation to the Kosovo Lib-eration Army (KLA) guerrillas.

"If troops leave Kosovo, that would leave an empty space for the KLAandonly when thesituationis back to normal then the troops will be returned to theiroriginal bases," be said.

"At the moment there is no rea-son to do that yet."

State media said the ceasefire declaration, made in honour of Orthodox Easter next Sunday but apparently open-ended, followed peace talks last week between Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova.

" ... It was agreed to work jointly on reaching a political agreement and work jointly on return of refu-gees," they said, adding that they expected the KLA to respect the truce.

Belgrade said new peace talks with Rugova representing ethnic Albanians should aim initially for a "simple provisional agreement" enabling joint self-government by ethnic Albanian and ethnic Serb and other ethnic communities.

Essential autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia would follow ··after a certain period of time" said the statement, which concluded that the federal Yugoslav governments considered that the initiative re-solved all the acute issues in Kosovo.

Refugee returns should be organised with the help of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the statement said.

NATO says 831,0CXJ ethnic Al-banians, more than half the origi-nal 90 percent majority in Serbia's southern province have been

US Airmen from the 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, load an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on a cart Sunday. The Aviano air base is one of the major centers of operations in the offensive against Yugoslavia. AP

driven from their homes by Serbian army attacks and para-military violence in the past year.

defeated. "We 're offering a unilateral

ceasefire because we believe that the terrorists who used the NATO bombings to put pressure on our country are now virtually de-stroyed," he told private Roma-nian Antena l television by phone from Belgrade.

The government says its mili-tary activities in Kosovo came in response to attacks by the KLA. Yugoslav minister without port-folio Milan Bozic said the truce offer meant the guerrillas had been

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Go re campaign goes on line By Thomas Ferraro

\\' ASHl:\GTO:\ ( Reuters) -\"ice Pr~,;1Jem :\I Gore on Tues-J;J\ be,·ame the la,t of 12 presi-cknti:il lwpefuls to plug into the !111emc1 b:, going online \1i1h hi, ,,1111 ,·:1111paig11 \\·d, site.

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A senior Gore aide said while many of campaign Websites have a variety of features - from post-ing speeches and policy state-ments and biographical back-ground to soliciting contributions and holding electronic town-hall meetings and conducting polls -Gore's site does it all.

Gore drew widespread ridicule \1·hen he sai\,l in a CNN interview m \farch that as a member of Cong.re,,. "1 \Ook the initiative in neating. the Internet."

Reaction wa, ,wi ft and pointed. Former \'ic~ Prc,ident Dan

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for a spelling error, fired back that if Gore invented the Internet, "I invented spell-check,'" while Sen-ate Republican Leader Trent Lott claimed to have created the paper clip.

The Republican Leadership Council. a Washington-based group. ran a TY ad on Monday

MARCELINO JOAQUIN CABRERASABLA

better known as "JOAQUIN POP OR PAUL"

Hi'IS called to his c/cmal rest in the 1;race of our Lord on Sunday. April 4, 1999 at the a1;c of 39.

PREDECEASED BY;

and Tuesday in California, coin-ciding with a Gore visit to the state, that ripped the vice president's Internet claim.

"Reality check," the announcer in the spot says. "The Internet was created in 1969 by the Penta-gon." · David Farber, a professor of

Parents: Tomas Palacios Sablan & Isabel Mendiola Cabrera Parents-in-law: Jhuan Chisato & Kliu Techur Chisato Brother & Sisters: Vicente S. Sablan, Soledad S. Basa & Rita S. Mettao In-laws: Francisco C. Basa, Fernando M. Benavente, Victoria M. Sablan &

Francisca Vicenta M. Sablan

SURVIVED BY: Wife: Grace Chisato Sablan Children: ,Jenaida, ,Josephine, Tarla, ,Joaquin, Jr. & Jose

Brothers/Sisters/in-Laws: Maria M. Sablan, Faustina S. Benavente, Gregorio S. Sablan, Ana S. & Henry T. Indalecio, ,Jesus S. & Rita G. Sablan, ,Juana S. & Daniel T. Muna, Natividad C. Sablan, Matilde S. & Martin M. Taisacan, Manuel & Consolacion C. Sablan, Raphael M. Mettao, Maria & ,Juan L. Ada, Maria &Alfredo Gonzales, Thomas C. Sablan, Isabel & Melchor lJ. Maratita, Pedro & Ignacia M. Sablan. Margarita & Jose T. Castro, Bernadita & Isidro T. Cabrera

Brothers/Sisters/in-Laws: Mitsue & Mariane Chisato, Francisca & Yoshiwotskl, Joseph & Halga Ngiracheluol, ,John & ,Julie Wills. Melanie Chisato, Juan & Glendora Camacho, Darlene Hicks, Lucia Chisato, Froline Chisato, Liverio Chisato, Dominicio Chisato (deceased).

He is additionally survived hy numerous nephews, nieces, aunts & uncles.

Last respect may he paid on Monday, Apri I 12, 1999 at the San Antonio Church from 8:00. :J:00 p.m .. Mass of Christian burial will he offered at 3:30 p.m., Interment will follow at Chalan Kanoa Cemetery.

GRACE SABLAN. CHILDREN & FAMILY

computer science at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania and one of the early Internet researchers, spoke out in Gore's defence on Tuesday.

'"I think he deserves a lot of credit," Farber said in a telephone interview, ex:plaining that legis-lation that Gore introduced in Con-gress while a member of the Sen-

It even invites users to send in campaign photographs of their own to be posted on the Web site. offers a political quiz for children and invites users to suggest changes.

TJS. pr~side~tial Pr11!1~ season starts ·Noveml5e:r'?

CONCORD, N.H. (Re~ters)-New Hampshire,. it seell1S, wiU do anything to ensure itS presi-dential primary .remains the n11tic.m' s first ..

S~ate. Representativf fitn Sp1aine, a Portsmoufa J)emo,, crat, introduced a bill on Tucs-da y that would g~ve New Hampshire's secretary of state the authority to 111o~e rhf date of what is traditionally the firsHn-the-nation presidential primary

back .... t() .. I'lo\'binbe;:.·2(+u11y~ar before.the actual election.

Offitihls in the state have. be-co111~ pervolls•·•·••that(•· New·. }famp~hire' s tr:idi.tfonal firsL presidential primarywil 1 be rriade. · · meanin$less. by····qtller ~ptes,· wbichhavebeeirgradu;tlly mov-ing ~ii prituaries earlier. . •·· ..

"We.are in~angei;qf~-ingirrelevantat least by tlle.yt!lll' 2004, if norby2()()0,'' Spl(lme

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PUBLIC NOTICE APPLICATION FOR CNMI WATER QUALITY CERTIFICATION

Th, AntiJrgr.1J,nion Policy of 1hr W:11cr Q"'dit) St;mdariJs of thr CommonwralJh of 1hr Nonhrm Marian, blanJs m1uirl's th:11 i11 making a dt'lt."m1in:1tion t\lr ;1 Watc:rQualily Ccrtilir;ition, the Commonwealth shnll ;1,;~url' 1h:11 thc protect ion :mu maintenam.:l' of thi: qu:tlity of the watas of the Commonwealth arc an historic ,ind kgal right 111' 1hl' f)l'Opk nf the Nonhcrn \'1:!riana Islands..

A11 ;1ppli(;1tio11 t'or "_';11L·r Quality Ct'rtilic11io11 mus\ tx- sub111i11cJ to 1hc Di~·ision or Environmental Quality for any proposcd ;1r11v11y ~lut will impart thl' w:11crs of lhl' Commonwe,ilth. Upon recc1vmg ,m upplicmion. DEQ issUL'S a publit· noulkllion which l.ll'sm~s tht proposed nc1ivi1y and potential impacts on water quality. :iquatic life anu hum:in health. A 1hiny (.\OJ day puclic commm1 prriou will commence rrom Jhe J;1\l' ol lht first public11i1rn of lht· no!ict'.

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By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters)-Faced with tensions between New York City police and the public, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said on Tues-day that officers should use "Hello," "Thank You" and simi-larpolite terms during arrests and official duties.

Residents, meanwhile, should treat pol ice with more respect, such as addressing them by their department rank, the mayor said in announcing the policy at a news conference at police headquar-ters.

Explaining the programme, the mayor said: "To say even to the worst criminal you're arresting, 'You're now under arrest, Sir,' will channel some of the natural human emotion of anger."

"I know there will be people who are cynical about this," he added. "I've been mayor of New York City for too long not to realise that people will be cynical about any good step that's made in the direction of decency."

Relations between the police and public have deteriorated badly since four white officers killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street

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said in an interview. The CNMI also called on the

attention of FEMA on the unstable financial conditions of the islands and its adverse impact on Y2K preparation.

"(We) stressed the negative im-pact of the Asian economic crisis on the CNMJ and appealed for financial assistance to assist the CNMI (to) remedy its Y2K prob-lems," said Persson and Calvo in a media statement

The two officials, however, did not give specific amount that will be needed to address Y2K issues.

"We are currently performing the assessment necessary to deter-mine what resources ,u-e needed," said Persson.

Key federal government agen-cies like the Department of Energy and Department of Transportation divulged their preparedness status report during the workshop. Rep-resentatives from each U.S. state and insular jurisdiction were also given five minutes each to present their Y2K preparedness status.

CN:MI, for its part, discussed the formation and goals of the Commonwealth's own Y2K Task

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said at a legislative hearing. New Hampshire state law al-

ready mandates that iis primary be held at least seven days prior to the date of any other state's, and is traditionally held on the third Tues-day in February.

But a numberof key states, nota-bly California and New York, have decided to hold their 2000 presi-dential primaries earlier in the elec-tion calendar, on March 7.

Other states, including a group in the Midwest, are trying to form

peddler, in a hail of 41 bullets on Feb. 4. The West African immi-grant was struck 19 times.

Fallout from the shooting, along with complaints of police insensitivity and brutality, are plaguing the mayor at a time when he is believed to be con-templating a run for the U.S. Senate.

Instead of receiving praise for reducing the city's crime rate to its lowest levels in a generation, he has been taking the blame for what critics say are heavy handed police tactics, particu-larly toward minorities.

In the wake of the Diallo kill-ing, protesters for weeks staged daily demonstrations outside police headquarters until the officers in the case were indicted on murder charges. More than 1,000 protesters were aiTested.

Giuliani was criticised for his handling of the case, particularly his failure to meet with the city's minority leaders and electr;:d offi-cials. ·

Critics also complained that Giuliani convened a task force in 1997 to improve community and police relations but later disputed

Force, the status of computer and embedded technology assessments in the public sector, private sector assessments, remedial actions be-ing taken, system testing, and con-tingency planning.

William L Carwille III, director ofFEMA-PacificArea,earliersaid the workshop will address the need to prioritize critical state and re-gional consequence management issues, and identify needed states and federal actions, policies and decisions.

The failure of computers and other technology to handle the Y2K issues could lead tosignificantsys-tems failures and has the potential to create an interruption in vital public services.

Expe11s warned that the Millen-nium bug threatens systems run by old computer programs which will interpret the Y car 2000 as 1900, which has the same last two digits.

Bob Webb, CNMI Y2K Task Force chai,man, assured that the government is successfully deal-ing with its small networks, desk-top systems and more complex in-formation systems such as the Com-monwealth Utilities Corporation, the Departments of Finance, Pub-lic Safety, Public Health and the Emergency Management Office to address the Y2K bug problems.

a regional bloc to hold primaries in early April instead of the usual May or June dates.

''The way d1is thing is going in the primaries, it's all going to be over by the middle of March," said former New Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gregg.

Gregg said the New Hampshire primary was unique because of the state's small size.

Without New Hampshire "what chance would any candidate ever have of ever getting to know the people of any ;late? he said.

"In the larger states it's always a tarmac reception or it's a fund-raiser," he added.

and dismissed its findings and recommendations.

Norman Siegel of the New Yark Civil Liberties Union, who worked on the task force, called this campaign "inadequate" and the mayor's view "myopic."

"This is just strictly a public relations gimmick. He doesn 'tget

it," said Siegel. 'The reason why there is col-

lective outrage in New York post the Diallo incident is because people have said, 'Enough 1s enough,'" he said.

The politeness campaign is not Giuliani 's first attempt at government by good manners.

As part of the mayor's effort to improve the quality of life in New York, city employees have been asked to be more cordial, subway riders have been urged to be better behaved and taxi cab drivers have been ordered to be civil or face the conse-quences.

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ing available underthe E-rate pro-gram will help us accomplish this:· said Sablan.

The CNMI completed the com-plex two-step application process on April 2. joining thousands of

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ogy type. .. \\Then we had it estimated to

have it fix , it was not worth it." said Mafnas. explaining that the amount would have been enough to buy Customs a patrol boat that

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the first RFP - Tasi Tours. Pa-cific Development Inc. (PDI). the Maflagaha Island Trust Corp.

Judge. • • Continued from page 7

Executor .BOS in response to Borja's motion. said such delay in hearings affects the interests of the estate's five distributees-

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workers in the islands registered a slight $0.7 million increase at$49 million during the period under review compared with I 997's $48.3 million.

Reports obtained by the Vari-ety indicated that remittances to the Philippines have been on a steady upward trend since 1993, except in 1997 which registered a slight drop compared to the previ-ous year's tally.

Filipinos remitted $37.8 mil-lion in J 993 which rose to $39 million the following year. The figure went up to S44.4 million in J 995 and toS48.6 million in 1996.

In fact. PNB Remittance Cen-ter has already expanded to four sub-centers in San Antonio. Chalan Kanoa. Garapan and Tinian since i! opened in March I 998. Works are now underway for the opening of a branch in Rota.

This could be attributed to the number of Filipino workers in the CNMI which. according to the Philippine Labor Office's previ-ous repon. has increased to 16,239 from 199Ts 12.082.

PNB is a Philippine govern-

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The budget officer described the new checks as .. different colors and funny-looking:·

The new financial system of PSS is already Y2K compliant.

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stability factors, !he economic impact... will probably felt through out the West Pacific and probably throughout the world," Doran said.

other school and library systems across the U.S. which have simi-larly submitted application pack-ages

The application for funding was completed by the Office of the Governor, PSS, Joeten-Kiyu Pub-lic Library and the Micronesian Telecommunications Corpora-tion.

is in good condition. The DCS has increased its ef-

forts to intercept smuggled "highly-taxable" goods like alco-hol and cigarettes at the ports.

In this light, officials have raised concerns smugglers may attempt to sneak in the goods through the numerous isolated drop off points across the Commonwealth.

(MITC). and MMM. Aldan, in moving to issue a new

RFP, explained BPL "believe it prudent and fair" if other CNMI-descent firms are given a chance to participate in the selection pro-cess.

Hill bl om 's four children and Hillblom Charitable Trust.

BOS said there is more than substantial doubt as to whether an answer from the high tribunal to the certified question would re-solve the action pending before the lower court.

ment-controlled banking institu-tion. I ts remittance center offers bank-to-bank transfer, as well as dollar-to-peso and dollar-to-dol-lar services to major cities and provinces in the Philippines.

The opening of the remittance services in the Northern Marianas, will help replenish the Philippine economy by increasing the country's dollar reserves, said PNB-Saipan manager Raul P. Boongaling.

Boongaling explained that the center will directly remit the dol-lars to Philippine banks, which will ensure that the greenback will circulate within the local economy.

Overseas Filipino workers on Saipan ha\'e expressed concerns over the apparent backlog of re-mittances in other industry play-ers, citing delays in the delivery ofremittancesalthough the Bank-ing Division requires the delivery of money within IO days from date of collection.

The Banking Division imposes a fine of at least SI O per day after the l 0-day delivery period ex-pires. However, It could not act on the reported delays unless a formal complaint is filed before the agency.

The financial system's hardware, which includes PCs in different schools and other terminal costs around $100,000.

PSS also have an agreement with CNMI Finance to help them in the new system which would costs a couple of hundred dollars more.

North Korea has recently been flexing its muscles. Several months ago, it test-fired mis-siles that reportedly intruded Japan's air space. The commu-nist state is also being alleged to be involved in the recent incur-sion of spy ships into Japanese waters.

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Assistant Atty. Gen. Aaron Wil-liams said in his closing argument

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* Back office and database stor-age and retrieval operations.

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have to take the back seat since local matching funds for these are to come from the proceeds of a Public School System bond which is yet to be finalized.

"I am concerned about portions of this bill regarding expenditure authority. In addition to the fact that I understand there are legal issues regarding modification of appropriations within a given Senatorial District by resolution. of a Legislative Delegation," Tenorio said.

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visions that require the use of a harbor pilot on certain vessels en-tering Guam waters. ' However, Leon Guerrero be-lieves these regulations are not consistent with Civil Code rules and may therefore be challenged leading to a federal takeover of this regulatory authority.

Thus, the senator wants Guam's pilotage law updated to enable P AG to continue exercising juris-diction over pilotage so that it can

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Variety quoted a letter from Young to House Interior Appro-priations Subcommittee Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio), saying that the failure of the Clinton ad-ministration to review the finan-

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earned in 1997. Due to the limited availability of

funds, however, DOF will be pro-cessing EiC refund on an install-ment payment schedule, with the first batch of checks to be released containing only 25 percent of the entireclaim,oraminimumof$500.

This means that those whoeamed an income tax credit of less than $500 will receive full payment, while recipient~ claiming more than the aforementioned amount will

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ment of Public Safety is closely securing bars and othernight spots for military personnel.

"Knowing the Americans, they areadventurousand they will find their way," said Santos, adding that the proximity of docking ar-eas to Garapan and other com-mercial establishments make it very comfortable for the visiting Navy personnel to roam around.

that the testimonies of witnesses, particularly those of Sablan and Rejano, proved beyond reasonable doubt that Eugenio was the one who hit Cepeda with the crowbar.

Eugenio was beaten up by po-

* Finance and trade-related ser-vices.

Features of the trade zones in-clude:

* Attractive lease rental rates on public land within the free

He stressed that reassignment of expenditure authority may cause technical problems with some of the identified projects because some conditions must be . satisfied by law, adding that ex-penditure authority should be re-tained with the Secretary of Pub-lic Works.

The CNMI chief executive ex-plained that this would help pre-vent disparity in the process of submitting projects to the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) which approves the Covenant 702 Grant Program.

" ... there are issues regarding the restriction on appropriations of

remain subject to local regulation and control.

Moreover, Leon Guerrero cited a need to amend current pilotage rules because provisions in the Civil Code of Guam dealing with pilotage is in conflict with Fed-eral law.

While the Civil Code provides that a harbor pilot (upon boarding of the vessel) is in full charge of the vessel's navigation, Federal law requires the vessel's master to remain fully responsible, with the harbor pilot serving in an ad-visory capacity only.

Under Bill 134, the master of

cial impact of the Compacts with the Freely Associated States (FAS) does not justify its pro-posal to penalize the CNMI by taking away its Covenant funding forCIPs.

Young urged for the continued granting of $ I I million in Cov-enant CIP funding to the CNMI.

The President's budget proposal

initially get 25 percent of their claims.

However, finance officials said taxpayers with outstanding or de-linquent account with the Division of Revenue and Taxation may not receive EIC payments unless un-paid dues are settled.

Across the board payments will be made to all EIC recipients, re-gardless of return or filing date. Officials said checks will be mailed out and that the finance department will not allow personal pick up.

DOF said subsequent payments will be made as soon as funding

Santos also noted that no com-plaints involving military person-nel have been received so far. He said the military men are also looking forward to sporting ac-tivities and community services like painting the hospitals just like what they did with the Tinian Health Center.

MV A expressed optimism that the visiting Navy personnel will come back to the CNMI.

Three more military hips are expected to arrive on early May. The USS David R Ray, USS

lice officers when he was arrested which prompted the Attorney General's Office to charge 11 cops. Among the 11 charged, only two officers were subsequently convicted.

trade zone. * Substantial tax incentives. * Availability of skilled labor

at reasonable rates. * Protection of US legal sys-

tem.

pachinko/poker machine license fees and public land lease pay-ments that appear to need clarifi-cation to avoid any legal difficul-ties at a later date," he told mem-bers of the Legislature.

At the same time, Tenorio ex-pressed concern on HB-1 l-380's failure to re-instate some $3.8 million to the Sanitary Landfill fund which was previously repro-grammed for the construction of new schools.

Under Public Law 11-27, these funds should be returned to the sanitary landfill project from the fiscal year 1996 Covenant Sec-tion 702 funds.

the vessel shall at all times remain in full control of the vessel and its navigation.

Aside from compulsory pilot-age, other provisions in Bill 134 deal with the issuance of pilot licenses; licensing regulations; the basis for approving license appli-cations; license fees; denial, sus-pension, or revocation oflicenses; pilotage rates; exemptions; and liens for pilotage fees. . Pilotage waters as established under the bill consist of all waters of the tenitory within two nautical miles of Apra Harbor, exclusive of federally restricted waters.

for fiscal year 2000 includes a provision that would reduce the CNMI's CIP funding by $5.42 million for the next three years.

The reduction in this fiscal year's CNMI CIP funding would then .be used to reimburse Guam for the "impact" of allowing FAS citizens to migrate to the terri-tory.

becomes available. It expressed intentions to complete payments of EiC refunds by Novemberthis year.

More than 2,500 low-income earning CNMI residents have been waiting for their 1997 EiC checks, the last after the governor signed a law scrapping the payment of the tax incentive to indigent residents with dependents.

EiC is a government incentive awarded in a form of tax breaks to low income-earning residents of the Northern Mariana Islands who have dependents under Public Law 9-22.

Ingraham and USS Stethm will make a port call for about four days in Saipan.

MV A managing director Perry Tenorio said vacationing military personnel supplements the declin-ing tourists anivals from CNMI's main markets like Japan and Ko-rea.

In a separate interview, Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio expressed hopes· that the CNMI's current moves of tapping the U.S. military personnel on rest and recreation will boost the sagging tourism industry.

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from his previous $55,000 pi::r annum income to $60,000 while prosecutor Alan Lane will receive an additional $10,000 from $50,000 to $60,000.

The salary adjustments are com-ing in time with a proposed reduc-tion in the annual salaries of 33 OP A employees, making it ap-parent the cuts are meant to subsi-dize the increase in the officials' salary.

Health and life insurance ben-efits of OP A employees have been

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dia censorship, and they had been "making decisions in any way they want to."

With the facility, the people will "make decision based on the fact and what is true."

He noted how media is being censored in 80 percent of the world.

Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio said the CNMI is proud to be a part "in advancing the missionoftheIBB, including its association organi-zation, the Voice of America, Radio for Free Asia, and the United States Information Ser-vice."

"The people of the Northern Marianas as avowed citizens of the United States are happy to be part of this picture. We are happy to see today that this facility will

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Nov. 1997 to consider legal ac-tion regarding the contract, but no such action was made.

Rasa, in an interview yester-day, said he believes that OP A's report is based on incomplete in-formation.

He noted that former Sen. Jose P. Mafnas, the TCGCC chair who signed Ras a 's contract, was not around when OPA was doing its investigation.

Rasa maintained that all "draw downs" he received was autho-rized by TCGCC.

Further, Rasa said he provided official travel reports and all re-ceipts to justify the "draw downs."

"I think the problem is that OP A misconstrued the 'draw downs' as advances-they're not," he said.

Asked to comment on OPA's describing his contract amount as "excessive," Rasa said "that's judgmental."

He added, "What is not exces-sive then? Does OPA say any-thing about a high school gradu-ate getting over $70,000 a year as gaming commissioner?"

Rasa said TCGCC employees should be paid based on their edu-cation, expertise and experience.

"Based on those criteria, I think I qualify for such a contract," he saic.l.

In.any case, it wµs TCGCC that

reduced by four percent from $48,734 in FY 1999 to $47,338 for the next fiscal year, while re-tirement benefits will be trimmed down by 24 percent from $292,402 to $284,028.

Housing allowance was raised from$ I 09,800to$166,200which is the major contributor to the increase in total personnel ben-efits to the proposed $497,566 from the present $460,566.

The increase in OP A's person-nel allotment came in apparent contrast to the governor's call for more cost-cutting measures as he stressed the CNMI government is faced with the most difficult fi. nancial situation in 20 years.

help the ability of the overseas broadcasting association to pro-vide important news and other information directly to the people of Asia through a more effective short wave communication from our island."

IBB officials said the new relay station will be expanded further with the construction of the Phase II and III that will bring in five additional transmitters and four antennas which will have a com-bined additional power of 2,000 kilowatt.

The facility was built by the American company Telesource and is being operated by plane builder Boeing Company.

Mayor Francisco M. Borja said Tinian is proud to host the international broadcasting network. He said the construc-tion of the facility will give Tinian residents more employ-ment opportunities.

approved the contract, Rasa said. At the same time, Ras a said the

recent termination of his four-year contract that was supposed to end next year was based on TCGCC's alleged failure to fol-low procurement regulations when it hired him in 1996.

"So why didn't they apply the same criteria to TCGCC's other consultants whose contracts did not also go through the procure-ment process?" Rasa said.

In his response to OPA 's re-port, Mayor B01ja said he agrees with its findings, adding that he has instmcted his legal counsel to as!

24- MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-THURSDAY- APRIL 8. 1999

Employment Wanted

·"· · ·. _ Job Vacancy · Announcement" ..

PUBLIC NOTICE All interested resident workers are

urged to register at the Dept. of Labor & Immigration,

Division of Employment Services for the job/s being advertised in which

you are qualified and available. For further assistance,

please call Alfred A Pangelinan at Tel. 664-2078.

01 SALES ENGINEER-Salary:S3.05-4.44 per hour Contact: ALKATZ CORPORATION dba Atpz Merchandising Tel. 234-5441 (4/ 8)Th30424

01 ACUPUNCTURIST-Salary:S3.05 per hour 01 PHYSICAL THERAPIST-Sal-ary:S3.05 per hour Contact: BAO SHEN CORPORATION dba Health Acupuncture Clinic Tel. 233-8897 ( 4/8)Th304 25

01 WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR (STOCKROOM)-Salary:S3.25 per hour Contact: BLANCO VENDE, LTD. dba Kiosk & Logo Shop Tel. 322-3313(41 8)Th30426

07 SALESPE RSON-Salary:S3.05-3.50 per hour Contact: YOU WON TRADING CORP. Tel. 233-2027(4/8)Th30427

01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary:S3.05-6.67 per hour Contact: SAIPAN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CLINIC dba Family Den-tistry/Optical Clinic Tel. 234-6008(4/ 5)Th30431

02 (SCUBA DIVING) INSTRUCTOR SPORTS-Salary:S700.00-1,0DO.OO per month Contact: BIG DOG CORPORATION dba Big Dog Dive Station Saipan Tel. 322-2363(418)Th30428

01 MAINTENANCE REPAIR-Sal-ary:S4 .50 per hour Contact: PACIFIC SUBSEA SAIPAN, INC. Tel. 322-7734(4/8)Th30430

02 PAINTER-Salary:S3.05 per hour Contact: JESSIE A. ARIZALA dba Sys-tems Services Co. Tel. 234-5334{4/ 8)Th30432

01 PRESSER MACHINE OPERATOR-Salary:S3.05 per hour 02 ASSEMBLER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 01 INSPECTOR-Salary:S3.05 per hour 01 INSPECTOR (FABRIC)-Sal-ary:S3.05-4.80 per hour 01 MARKER-Salary:$3.05 per hour 02 CUTTER-Salary:S3