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i m p e a c h m e n tREPUBLICAN leaders in the House of Representatives are considering the possibility of holding off the proposed im­peachment proceeding against Governor Lorenzo I. Guerrero if the latter agrees to three condi­tions.

The conditions, which were presented in meetings held at the disaster control office Thursday and Friday, were the following:

♦Removal of Ramon Guerrero from the executive director’s po­sition at the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.;

* Acceptance of Francisco Chong’s resignation from the Civil Service Commission on a retroactive basis, or from the date

he was appointed acting disaster control officer, instead of on Oct. 10 as he requested in his resigna­tion letter; and

* Return of the $5.5 million paid to Mitsubishi Corp. out of the general fund.

These conditions were also the factors that led to the impeach­ment move at the lower house.

Sources close to the participants in the meeting, which was called by party officials, said that as of yesterday the governor had not expressed agreement or disagree­ment to the conditions. The House leaders, on the other hand, were incl ined to agree with the dropping of the impeachment plan if the conditions were met.

Representative Pete Reyes ear­lier said the appointment of Chong as acting disaster control officer was illegal because the law pro­hibits CSC officials from occu­pying other positions in govern­ment which are filled up through appointments by the chief ex­ecutive.

The payment of CUC’s debt to Mitsubishi, on the other hand, was opposed by the House beeause it was not supported by legislative appropriation.

Sources said participants in the meting explained that upon the return of the money paid to the Japanese company, which sup­plied C U C ’s generators, the

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DRESSED in traditional costume, Japanese woman performs at theannual Matsuri ceremony in the Kantori Shrine at Sugar King Park Saturday.

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THE BOARD of directors of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. (CUC)has approved the increase in telephone rates sought by the Micronesian Telecommunica­tions Corp. (M TC ), this was learned yesterday.

Roy M orioka, M T C vice president and general manager, released the new telephone rates which will take effect on Oct. 26.

Residential customers will pay $15.50 a month, up 34.8 percent from the current monthly charge of $11.50. Business establish­ments with single lines will pay

$33.50 a month, an increase of 36.7 percent from the current $24.50. Business customers with rotary lines will be charged $33.50 a month, higher by 4.7 percent from $32.

The $3 monthly charge for business extension and the $15 charge* for additional business extension will be abolished.

New rates for other services are as follows:

♦Key, from $40 to $59;♦PBX, from $66.50 to $78;♦ Small call residential, from

$3 to $4; and

♦ Small call business, from $6 to $8.

The new rates represent the first stage of a two-stage rate increase proposed by h^TC. Only the rates proposed for 1992 were approved by the CUC board during its Sept. 23 meeting.

The next rate increase, which is expected to be adopted in 1993, will raise the residential charge to $19 per month.

Morioka, in a presentation to the MTC board in July, said the company needed to increase its

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SAIPAN Chamber of Commerce has new set of officers for 1993. Roy Morioka (extreme right, standing), vicepresident and general manager of Micronesian Telecommunications Corp., was elected president yesterday. Seated from left are Joanna Pai, board director; Frances Borja, vice president and Dennis Yoshimoto, outgoing president. Standing from left are treasurer Mike Johnson, director Alex Sabian, and secretary Mike Sablan. NotIn photo is director Efrain Camacho.

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TOKYO (AP) - For decades, Ja­pan has claimed moral high ground in thefight againstnuclear proliferation as the only nation to suffer an atomic bomb attack. On Sunday, several Pacific islanders recalled their region’s own his­tory as a nuclear victim to accuse Japan of reckless proliferation.

The criticisms, delivered at an anti-nuclear conference here, were part of a growing if still muted international movement to stop Tokyo’s plan to ship a ton of plutonium_enoughfor about 120 nuclear bombs _ from France this fall to fuel its commercial nuclear power program.

The shipment, the first of doz­ens planned over the next two decades, has raised fears among nations potentially along the route of an accident or terrorist attack that could leave their waters poi­soned for thousands of years.

Since the summer, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Chile and Singapore have either refused the freighter pas­sage in their waters or asked for a rerouting. It is expected to arrive in France this month to pick up the plutonium.

Speakers at the conference, who included the president of the tiny island of Nauru and the governor of the Northern Marianas, a US territory, pointedly reminded an audience of about lOOofthemid- Pacific’s past as a nuclear testing ground and dump site.

“For more than 40 years, the Pacific islanders have had cause to resent the use of their land and ocean as a nuclear playground,” said Sen. Marilyn Manibusan of the US territory of Guam. ‘Today, once again, the great nations of the world are threatening our small islands."

Though the Japanese govern­ment has insisted the shipment will go ahead and sent no repre­sentatives to the three-day con­ference, the presence of Naum President Bernard Dowiyogo has proved a minor embarrassment.

The Foreign Ministry had to greet him formally as a visiting head of state and take him in a motorcade from the airport.

“I don’t think the Japanese government will hold it against Naum for saying what it believes,” said Dowiyogo, who as president of a phosphate-rich island with one of the highest per capita in-

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ■· President Roh Tae-woo formally resigned from the governing Democratic Liberal Party Mon­day, setting the stage to name a neutral Cabinet he says will en­sure fairness in upcoming presi­dential elections.

Theresignation, whichhadbeen expected, was an effort to counter charges of vote-rigging in elec­tions earlier this year and negoti­ate a truce with the opposition which had boycotted Parliament.

“By electing a new government in fair elections, we will resolve differences and establish a stable

political climate for the future,” Roh said in a statement.

Roh is the first president to quit the governing party. His decision to do so two weeks ago stunned party loyalists. On Monday, he asked that party members “un­derstand and support my deci­sion.”

Apartial Cabinet reshuffle later this week was expected to include the prime minister, the home minister and the justice minister, all of whom are directly or indi­rectly associated with election procedures.

Opposition leaders also de­manded the resignation of the head of the national intelligence

agency. They say the agency played a key role in rigging votes in March parliamentary elections.

The new Cabinet will oversee presidential elections expected to be held in December. By law, Roh, whose five-year term ends in February, cannot succeed him­self as president.

Over the weekend, the National Assembly Parliamentresumed its session, and Roh opened talks with opposition leaders. He was to see No. 1 opposition leader Kim Dae-jung Monday night.

Roh said earlier his decision to leave the party and appoint a neu­tral, nonpartisan Cabinet were necessary to regain the trust of the.public.__________________

Taiwan's secession from China soughtTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - About 5,000 opposition supporters, beating drums and gongs, marched through Taipei streets Sunday to demand Taiwan’s formal secession from China.

Wearing yellow headbands, they shouted such slogans as “One Taiwan, one China, our only way out” and “Security, dignity and independence for Taiwan” during the 10-kilome- ter (6-mile) march.

The demonstrators, members of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, want the is­land to rejoin international orga­nizations under the name of ’Taiwan.”

Taiwan’s Nationalistgovern­ment, which fled here in 1949

after losing a civil war to Com­munist forces on the mainland, still claims to be the sole legiti­mate government of all China and uses the name “Republic of China.” The demonstrators later staged a sit-in outside the law­making Legislative Yuan, where organizers delivered pro-inde­pendence speeches.

“The Nationalists ’ one-China policy is a policy of suicide that will only lead toTaiwan’s even­tual takeover by China,” Chiang Peng-chien, a demonstration organizer, told the cheering crowd.

‘Taiwan is an orphan in Asia without even one political ally,” he said.

Man tries to throw Israel assured of military edgebomb at AkihitoTO KYO (AP) - A man tried to throw a smoke bomb at Emperor Akihito at opening ceremonies for a national athletic meet Sun­day, but the device fell short as meet officials tackled him.

Pol ice said the middle-aged man refused to answer any questions after the incident, shown on na­tional television. ButKyodoNews Service said that as he ran on to the stadium’s running track, he shouted slogans against the emperor’s planned visit to China in late October.

Empress Michiko, standing next to her husband, stretched a hand in front of the emperor in a protective gesture. Akihito, who was in the midst of a short speech, continued speaking.

The man, wearing a blue suit, ran out on the track and toward the royal box, carrying a lighted tube that looked like a candle. One white-suited meet official caught up with him and grasped his shoulder just as he tried to throw the tube, which fell in front of the stands, about 50 meters (yards) from the royal box.

About 32,000 spectators and 18,000 athletes were attending the ceremonies at the stadium in Tendo, Yamagata prefecture (state), 300kilometers (185 miles) north of Tokyo.

Two more white-suited off ici als

reached the man and helped wrestled him to the ground.

They said the man was identi­fied from fingerprints as Fumio Kurita, 44, from Kyoto, in west­ern Japan, but they had no other information about him. On Oct. 23, Akihito is to begin the first visit to China by a Japanese em­peror.

Many Japanese conservatives oppose the visit, fearing that the emperor, who is supposed to avoid anything that could be con­sidered political remarks, never­theless will come under Chinese pressure to deliver a formal apol­ogy for Japan’s past aggression in China.

Japan’s wartime actions were carried out in the emperor’ sname, although historians generally agree that hard-line generals ac­tually were responsible. The post- World War II constitution ex­plicitly limits the emperor to a ceremonial role.

Japanese extreme leftists op­pose the monarchy in general.

A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that on the royal couple’s arrival, sev­eral people in the stands shouted against the emperor’s visit to the athletic meet and were removed from the stadium. None was arrested, he added.

JERUSALEM ( AP) - The admin­istration of US President George Bush backed a promise of ad­vanced attack helicopters to Jerusalem by guaranteeing its commitment to Israel’s “qualita­tive military edge,” a defense of­ficial said Sunday.

The assurance came in a letter to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, said Rabin’s spokesman on defense affairs, Oded Ben-Ami.

Eagleburger said the US ad­ministration would maintain the $1.8 billion of annual military aid to Israel “as part of the American commitment to maintain the qualitative edge of Israel,” Ben- Ami added.

Israel always has insisted that its ability to defend itself against its Arab enemies required that it

have more advanced weapons, or a “qualitative” edge.

Last month, the United States bromised Israel Apache and Blackhawk helicopters as part of a package of dlrs 700 million in equipment. It also said it planned to pre-position arms worth up to dlrs 300 million in the Jewish state.

The package, in addition to the SI .8 billion in annual military aid given Israel, was seen as a move to convince Rabin’s government not to actively oppose the sale of 72 American F-15 jet fighters to Saudi Arabia.

The daily Haaretz said Eagleburger’s letter also prom­ised Israel advanced technologi­cal systems formerly refused to the Jewish state.

The respected newspaper added that the assurances raised US-

Israeli military relations to the level enjoyed by NATO coun­tries.

Ben-Ami, asked about the Haaretz report, said he could only confirm that Eagleburger prom­ised to maintain the amount of military aid granted to Israel.

abin had asked Bush for such assurances during their meeting in the United States in August, he added.

“As a result, the president did two things: one, he agreed to the ... pre-positioning and secondly, made sure Eagleburger sent the letter,” Ben-Ami said.

“When such a letter comes af­ter the agreement last week I un­derstand that Israel sees that the Americans are really standing behind their commitments,” he added.

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G AZA C ITY , Occupied Gaza Strip (AP) - The first Israeli gov­ernment-run college of education in the occupied territories opened Sunday in Gaza City, a result of unusual cooperation between Is­rael and the Palestinians. The military government licensed the institution and will pay teachers’ salaries and other operating costs. The one-story, white stone col­lege was built with money from a prosperous Palestinian who lives in the Gulf slate of Abu Dabi.

Israel’s support for the college fol lows its pledge to ease the lives of Palestinians in line with US- backed peace talks in Washing­ton. Israel has licensed Palestin­ian universities before, but they are financed by outside donations, including money believed tocome from the PLO.

The new institution, called simply the College of Education, will have a four-year curriculum. College Director Yusef Abu Dayeh said it would give Gaza

schools a much needed boost since most of the 4,500 teachers how have only two-year degrees.

“School teachers must have at least a B.A. The two years is not enough," said Abu Dayeh.

About 350 students are starting studies in education, Arabic, En­glish, science and mathematics at the new college and two existing school buildings, one nearby and the other in Khan Yunis to the south.

In line with Muslim tradition, men and women will study sepa­rately.

Officials from the Israeli mili­tary government and the college got together nervously at a ribbon- cutting ceremony to mark the school’s completion last Thurs­day.

The head of the military gov­ernment in Gaza arrived with soldiers toting M -l 6 assault rifles. Soldiers stood guard outside the building, which is next door to Gaza’s Islamic University, a

bastion of Muslim fundamental­ist opposition to Israel.

Palestinian officials expressed appreciation to the Israelis but gave their real praise to Hamad Hasan Harazin, who donated $500,000 for the college’s con­struction.

Harazin, who was not at the ceremony, left Gaza in 1957 when the area was under Egypt’s con­trol. He studied in Cairo and was a teacher in the Gulf before opening an import business that now has offices in London and Abu Dabi.

Brig. Gen. Dubi Gazit, head of Gaza’s m ilitary government, urged Arab donors to do more to help their people, especially now in the “good atmosphere of peace talks.”

Israel made available the site for the college on land that it declared state-owned after the Gaza Strip was captured from Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war.

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Payne’s bill to hurt US retailers, buyersUS G ARM EN T retailers and consumers may also be the big losers i f Congressman L.F. Payne’s bill to compel Saipan garment companies to increase wages is passed, according to an industry official.

The immediate loser, however, will be the CNMI government, which in fiscal year 1991 gener­ated $ 17.94 million from the gar­ment industry in the form of taxes and fees, said Carmen Gaskins, resident manager of Kyung Suh (Saipan) Co. Ltd.

Payne’s bill, which was intro­duced Thursday, will remove the duty-free status of garment prod­ucts from the Northern Marianas and prohibit manufacturers from using the “Made in USA” label unless local wages are raised to the prevailing mainland rate of $4.25 per hour or higher; and un­less the number o f resident wbrkers in the garment industry is increased to 50 percent of the total workforce.

Ms. Gaskins said the $4.25 minimum wage would be diffi­cult for some of the local garment companies to meet within.a short period of time because the pro­duction for 1993 has already been negotiated with buyers in the United States.

“It will force some companies to close as projected revenue was based on the $2.15 per hour labor cost,” she said.

“It is unfortunate and disap­pointing that the industry in gen­eral is condemned with a con­gressional act that ultimately will hurt the indigenous of the C N M I,” she added.

“I am not optimistic that should Congressman Payne ( i f re­elected) succeed in closing the garment industry in the CN M I there would be an increase in employment in the textile indus­try in his district,” Ms. Gaskins said.

Instead, she said the bill, if passed, would further punish American consumers with higher prices. She explained that closure of garment factories in the CN M I would force retailers in the main­land to buy from other sources, in the process incurring additional costs such as freight, which would be passed on to the consumers.

“In principle, the congressman merits our support for his con­cerns as to the unemployment status of his constituents, but is it right for him to take such drastic measure?” Ms. Gaskins asked. “What has Congress done about allegations. as reported in the August 5 issue of the Los Angeles Times which quoted labor au- thori ties as saying that the apparel industry is the most abusive em­ployer in Southern California? That by one estimate more than 35 percent of the workers are paid less than the minimum wage of $4.25 per hour and more than 35 percent are denied proper over­time?”

In her statement Ms. Gaskins also pointed out that the “Made in the USA” label on garments from the C N M I legitimately meets the requirements of the Textile Act, which only requires that consumers be informed of the country of origin of goods sold in the US.

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i n c o m e f r o m b o n dTHE MARIANA Islands Housing Aulhority (M IHA) may avail of the earnings from the 1986 bond flotation by the Commonwealth Development Authority only upon approval of the Legislature and the governor, CDA Chairman John S. Tcnorio said Friday.

Inanintcrvicw.Tenoriosaidthat although there might be money identifiable in the near future form the bond proceeds, there are other more urgent uses for fund than just to pay for infrastructure that is al­ready there such as the Saipan ports project.

Tcnorio was reacting to a request by M IHA Executive Director John M. Sablan that an $8.8 million obligation owned by the housing aulhority to CDA be liquidated through offsetting of infrastructure projects that it had constructed for housing projects.

The $8.8 million obligation is part of the $10 million loan M IHA got from CD A which was used in the constructionofsomc52housingunits inGarapaa

MIHA was recently declared in default of that loan and was give 60 days to settle or face possible court actioa Sablan, in a letter to Repre-

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THE DEPARTMENT of Com­merce and Labor has started freezing the hiring of alien work­ers considered “non-essential to economic development.”

Among those classified as non- essentials are massage parlor at­tendants, night club workers, es­corts, packers and other non­skilled jobs that can be filled up by the indigenous labor force.

“We have enough nightclub workers and massage attendants on the island. We intend to con­tinue this freeze until we reduce the alien labor force to a more manageable size to address the concerns raised by US Congress in the July 30 oversight hearing in Washington,” DO CL Director Joaquin Torres said in an inter­view Friday.

“I t ’s a very difficult task to bal­ance business interests and eco­nomic concerns but we have to do just that,” he added.

Torrest also reiterated his department’s position that the bond requirement for employers wishing to hire non-resident workers should be increased.

Torres disclosed that the num­ber of alien workers not being paid according to the terms of their employment contracts had increased so there is a need to ensure the financial capability of employers.

“We have had a recession for sometime now and some people are ending up not getting paid. We have to strengthen safeguards for non-resident employees in the form of pre-employment bonds

that employers should post,” Torres said.

Currently, employers put up a bond equivalent to an employee’s one month salary.

DOCL proposed an increase in the bond requirement based also on the number of alien employees an employer has, to ensure pay­ment of correct salaries and trans­portation costs.

Several lawmakers opposed the proposal, saying it would be an additional burden to employers with good standing.

“We need a higher bond re­quirement because as times get harder, the tendency for some companies to be unable to fulfill the salary requirements of their employees becomes higher,” said Torres.

sentative Heinz S. Hofschncidcr, suggested that money would be ap­propriated out of the bond earnings CDA has on a $140 million bod it floated in 1986.

Around S25 million is anticipated to be collectible in CDA’s name from trustee Bank of New York.

The port project which is being planed by CPA for quite some time now would take around $50 million. CDAhaspledgedaroundS13million whileanother$10millionisexpected from federal funding, another $25 million is still being negotiated by CPA with a private financing firm.

Tcnorio said MIHA should turn to other options rather than rely on the bond money whichcouldbcavailablc after paying off bondholders this month.

“MIHA ismakingmoncy from the 52 housing units it constructed years ago in the Garapan area. We just feel that there may be more commercial revenue for the government in the portprojectthanMIHA,Tenoriosaid.

According to Tenorio, while it is true that it was CDA which men­tioned the presence of money form the bond transaction, this was only meant to give MIHA advice on a possible option.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A man upset by his wife’s refusal to quit the Jehovah’s Witnesses church set a chapel on fire Sun­day, killing 13 people and injur­ing 27 others, police and news reports said.

Those killed included a 2-year- old infant. Police said they ex­pected the death toll to grow be­cause some of the injured were seriously burned.

The state television, KBS, quoting witnesses, said the man, identified as Won Un-shik, 35, argued with officials of the “House of Kingdom” church in Wonju, 75 kilometers (46 miles) east of Seoul, at about 2 p.m., asking

about the whereabouts of his wife.When church officials told him

his wife was not there, the man poured 2.6 gallons of gasoline into the church’s entrance and set it on fire, KBS said. About 60 people trapped inside the second- floor church rushed toward the only entrance, facing a narrow hallway, police said. Many were engulfed in flames before they could escape, officers added.

Many jumped from second- floor windows, suffering broken legs, police said.

Television footage from the scene showed bodies and debris tangled near the entrance and be­low broken windows.

The national Yonhap News Agency quoted witnesses as say­

ing the man was drunk when he arrived at the church. It said angry church members seized him after the fiery attack and turned him over to police. The man was in­jured, it added.

Police said they had detained the man, a worker at Wonju Land Registration Corp., but declined to give details pending their in­vestigations.

The man’s wife, Shin Sung-sil, 33, had rejected his repeated calls to quit the church in disputes that lasted for about six months, Yonhap said.

About 60,000 people in South Korea belong to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomi­nation.

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3,000 hold rally to demand halt to dam consructionTO KYO (AP) - More than 3,000 people rallied and marched Sun­day to demand a halt to construc­tion of a dam that they say will harm fish and plant life along the Nagara River in central Japan, police said.

The demonstration followed a one-day meeting on protecting the environment.

A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there

were no clashes between police and demonstrators near the site, in Mie prefecture (state), about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo.

The Construction Ministry is building the dam to protect rice fields from damage by sea water and to provide fresh water for drinking and industrial use. Completion is planned by March 1995.

hew s briefsF i r e k i l ls 2 in M a c a oM ACAO (AP) - Fire raged through a nightclub Sunday, killing two employees, including a watchman who clung to a window sill for more than 20 minutes before plunging to his death, police reported. Police said the blaze broke out shortly before 8 a.m. in the nightclub, on the 10th floor of a building in this Portuguese enclave at the tip of south China. The body of an accountant was found inside the nightclub after the fire was extinguished, police said. There were no customers in the club at the time, they said.

A u s tr ia n t im b e r la b e l la w h i tKU ALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia’s primary industries minister on Sunday criticized Austrian legislation requiring a “tropical timber” label on anything made from such wood. The legislation follows proposals by environmental groups that contend tropical rain forests are being destroyed. Malaysia says it carefully manages its forests. “Certainly the action by Austria is a dangerous precedent which, if followed by other countries, would put the whole system of interna­tional trade in a fix,” the minister, Lim Keng Yaik, said Sunday night.

P r ic e s r is in g in M o n g o liaBEUING (AP) - Mongolian officials have announced prices will go up for food, electricity and bus fares as part of the country’s move toward a free-market economy, official media reported Sunday. In a dispatch from the capital of Ulan Bator, China’s official Xinhua News Agency cited a report in the Mongolian newspaper People’s Right as saying meat prices would increase from 30 to 59 tugriks a kilogram (2.2 pounds). The official exchange rate is 40 tugriks to the dollar, but the black market rate varies from about 200 to 250 tugriks per dollar.

3 g o v ’t e m p lo y e e s k i l le dRAM O N MAGS AYSAY, Philippines (AP) - Gunmen killed a provin­cial agrarian reform official and two other government employees in an ambush near this southern town, police said Sunday. The victims, including Edwin Collegio of the Department of Agrarian Reform, were on their way here from Pagadian City when they were ambushed late Friday about 490 miles (785 kilometers) south of Manila, police said. Two others, including Collegio’s son, were wounded.

E s tr a d a ’s a g e n ts fa c e c h a rg e sM A N ILA (AP) - Relatives of four people slain by agents of the Philippine vice president said Sunday they would file charges claiming the victims were murdered. On Friday, agents of the Presidential Anti- Crime Commission, headed by Vice President Joseph Estrada, said they fired on the victims’ vehicle after occupants opened fire at a checkpoint along a major traffic artery. Four people, including one policeman and three passengers in a bus, were wounded. Two of the dead were policemen and a third was their lawyer. Estrada’s agents said they found a kilogram of methamphetamine crystals, an illegal drug known as “ice” or “shabu,” in the car.

R e b e ls p r o d R a m o s o n ta lk sM A N IL A (AP) - Communist rebels on Sunday urged President Fidel Ramos to act on recommendations of government emissaries so both sides can move toward peace talks to end one of the world’s last active Marxist insurgencies. Representatives of the government and the Com­munist-dominated National Democratic Front agreed last month in The Hague, Netherlands, to continue efforts to arrange peace talks. Since then, however, there has been little sign of progress in arranging further talks. Instead, the administration has launched an extensive series of consultations and has indicated it would prefer to talk with local rebel commanders rather than the national leadership.

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Gov’t vow s to oppose P ayne’s b illBy Rafael H. Arroyo

THE CO M M O NW EALTH gov­ernment w ill lobby strongly against a bill introduced in the US Congrress that will strip the duty­free status of C N M I garment ex­ports to the mainland, Lt. Gover­nor Benjamin Manglona said yesterday.

“This is very disappointing,” Manglona said in an interview. “We will definitely try our best to make a good presentation in US Congress about our side of the coin.”

The bill introduced by Con­gressman L.F. Payne intends to withdraw the duty-free status of CNMTs garment exports to the US, as provided for in Headnote 3 (a) of the US Customs and Tariff Code, and to stop garment facto­ries in Saipan from using the “Made in USA” label unless

wages in the industry are raised to the prevailing US minimum wage of $4.25 per hour.

Payne is calling for the closure of garments industry of Saipan and the ultimate demise of the whole C N M I economy, Manglona said.

Payne said Saipan’s garment factories were giving textile and apparel manufacturers in the US unfair competition by paying their employees much lower than the US minimum wage.

He also said the Saipan gar­ment industry took full advantage of its special protectorate status to exploit textile and apparel indus­tries by importing foreign labor to produce goods at low cost, only to be sold as “Made in the USA,” thus by-passing US tariffs.

Manglonasaidhewasdismayed . that the bill was filed at a time when corrective measures were

being done on the concerns raised by Congress on Saipan’s garment industry.

“During the July 30 oversight hearing in Washington, D.C., we were made to believe that they’ll give us time at least until January to do something about their con­cerns,” he said.

The industry has been generat- . ing several millions in revenue for the government Garment exports from Saipan amounted to $253 million in 1991.

“This will kill our self-suffi­ciency efforts and the discussion that we have under section702 of the Covenant where we said we may be nearing a point where we would not need any funding help would not be realized/’Manglona said.

He said that if the minimum wage was raised as proposed in the bill, a lot of on-island busi-

LL Qav. Benjamín T. Manglonaness will go broke and the C N M I would be more reliant on federal financial assistance.

With regards to the use of the “Made in the U S A ” label Manglona said the C N M I should be looked at as part of the US since it belongs to the American political family.

“We should not be treated as

though we’re aliens. Our islands belong under the US flag and we are all American citizens under the Covenant. It seems that the bill introduced by Rep. Payne was not made in the spirit of the Covenant,” he said.

Manglona is planning to write a letter to Payne to express displea­sure over the bill.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERSCPA ANNOUNCES TH E FOLLOW ING PROJECT

1. SEA LED B ID S for W EST TIN IAN AIRPO RT P ER IM ITER (S EC U R IT Y ) FEN C E, T IN IAN , M ARIAN A ISLAN D S, A IP No. 3-69-0011-05 w ill be received at the office of the E X E C U T IV E D IRECTO R, COM M ONW EALTH PORTS A U TH O R ITY , Saipan International Airport, P.O. Box 1055, Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950, until 2:00 P.M ., Monday, November 16,1992 at which time and place the sealed bids w ill be publicly opened and read.

The project, in general, consists of the replacementof the existing airport perimeter fence with a new 6 ft chain-link fence all in accordance with the plans and specifications.

The project is being financed by funds from the U .S . Federal Aviation Administration. The contract award, i f it is to be made w ill be made within two months (2) from the receipt of bids. Depending upon availability of funds, CPA reserves the right to hold such bid in effect for three (3) months from the date of bid opening.

This contract is under and subject to Executive Order 11246, as amended, of September 24, 1965, the Federal Labor provisions and the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO ) provisions as contained in the contract, specifications, and bid documents.

A ll mechanics and laborers on the project shall be paid no less than the minimum wage rate established by the U .S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of the Department of Labor Wage Rate Determination is applicable to this contract and is made a part of this specification (See Section 70-24).

Each bidder must complete, sign and furnish, prior to award of the contract (A IP No. 3-69-0011-05) the “Bidder’s Statement on Previous Contracts Subject to EEO Clause", a “Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities” (See Pro­posal).

Required Notices for A ll Contracts.a. The bidder must supply all the information required by the proposal

forms and specifications.b. The Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA), in accordance with Title

V I of the C ivil Rights Act of 1964, hereby notifies all bidders that they (bidders) must affirmatively insure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises w ill be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and w ill not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for award.

The bidder’s attention is invited to the fact that the proposed contract shall be under the subject to the equal opportunity clause as set forth in Part II I , Section 302 (b) of Executive Order 11246, as amended by Executive Order 11375 dated October 13,1977, and Section 60-1.4 (b) of the regulations of the Secretary of Labor (41 CFR60-l)asimplcmented by Section 152.61 oflheFederalAviation Regulations, to the contract and labor provisions as set forth in Section 152.55 and Appendix H, Part 152, of the Federal Aviation Regulations, and to the applicable provisions of Title V I of the C ivil rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252) implemented by Part21 of the Regulations of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Also, the proposed contract w ill be subject to the Contractor’s Certification of non-segregated facilities.

The apparent low bidder and any known first tier subcontractor will be subject to a pre-award, equal opportunity compliance review by representatives of the Office o f Federal Contract Compliance Programs, U .S. Department of Labor, before the award of the contract for the purpose of determining whether the bidder and/or His subcontractors are able to comply with the provisions of the equal opportunity clause.

I f the bidder has participated in a previous contract subject to the equal opportunity clause and has not submitted compliance reports as required by applicable instructions, the bidder shall submit, prior to award of contract, a compliance report covering the delinquent period or such other period specified by the F A A or the Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance, U .S . Department of Labor.

A bidder or prospective prime contractor or proposed subcontractor shall be required to submit such information as the FA A or the Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance, request prior to the award of a contract or subcontract. When a determination has been made to award the contract or subcontract to a specified contractor, such contractor shall be required, prior to award, or after the award, or both to furnish such other information as the FA A or the Director requests.

Contract documents, including plans and specifications, may be exam­ined at the Officeof the Executive Director, Commonwealth Ports Authority, or can be obtained from this office upon the payment of SEV EN TY F IV E D O LLA R S (S75.00) for each set of plan documents. This amount is nonrefundable. Payment shall be made by check payable to the Commonwealth Ports Authority.

A pre-bid conference w ill be held at the W EST TIN IAN A IRPO RT TER M IN A L BU ILD IN G , at 10:00 A .M . on Tuesday, November3 ,1992tocxplain and clarify any questions regarding this project. Questions should be submitted to the Consultant, in writing, at least five (5) days in advance for answers at this pre- bid conference, with a copy of same mailed simultaneously to the Executive Director, Commonwealth Ports Authority.

Each prospective bidder shall file wi th the Commonwealth Ports Authority, at the above Saipan address, a notice o f his intention to bid in a form substantially similar to that supplied herewith, not less than six (6) calendar days prior to the date hereinabove designated for opening of bids.

Each bid shall be on a form furnished by the Commonwealth PortsAuthority.

The Commonweal th Ports Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids for any reason and to waive any defects in said bids, or any of them, i f in its sole opinion to do so would be in its interest ls/}M GUERRERO Contracting Officer for CPA

F E D E R A L R E Q U IR E M E N T S FO R A D V E R T IS IN G (IN V IT A T IO N FO R B ID )

Newspaper notice or public advertisement must include the following statements:1. The proposed contract is under and subject to Executive Order 11246, as amended, of September 24,1965, and to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO ) and Federal Labor Provisions.2. All labor on the project shall be paid no less than the minimum wage rates established by the U.S. Secretary of Labor.3. Each bidder must supply all the information required by the bid documents and specifications.4. The EEO requirements, labor provisions and wage rates are included in the specifications and bid documents and are available for inspections at the Common­wealth Ports Authority.5. Each bidder must complete, sign and furnish, prior to award of the contract (at submission of the bid), the “ Bidder’s Statement on Previous Contracts Subject to EEO Clause", and the “Certifications of Nonsegregated Facilities” as contained in the Bid Proposal.6. A contractor having 50 or more employees and his subcontractors having 50 or more employees and who may be awarded a contract of $50,000 or more w ill be required to maintain an affirmative action program, the standards for which are contained in the specifications.7. To be eligible for award, each bidder must comply with the affirmative action requirements which are contained in the specifications.8. In accordance with Title V I of the C ivil rights Act of 1964. Minority business enterprises w ill be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, coIot or national origin in consideration for an award of any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement9. Women will be afforded equal opportunity in all areas of employment However, the employment of women shall not diminish the standards of requirements for the employment of minorities. io/6-t&-23-3«r9j7)

Currency mart crisis cripples reserves of France, Italy

M A D R ID , Spain (AP) - Last month’s financial market crisis crippled France and Italy’s for­eign reserve stocks while Britain and Spain were forced to spend billions of dollars to shore up their currencies, a leading daily re­ported Sunday.

Central Bank interventions left both France and Italy’s foreign currency accounts in the red while Britain used up some 58 percent and Spain 18.9 percent of their respective foreign currency stocks to try to prevent their national currencies from plummeting, the El Pais newspaper said.

The paper said that while the Italian government was expected to release official figures on its foreign currency stocks this week, both Britain and France had cam­ouflaged their losses to avoid ad­verse market reaction. There was no immediate government com­ment on the report.

In Spain, foreign reserves had dipped to S59.6 billion after the central bank used up $ 13.5 billion to prevent the peseta from plung­ing further, the paper said.

El Pais said the figures for Spain would be officially released Monday by Economy Minister

Carlos Solchaga.The paper said the government,

however, was likely to put the currency reserve drop at 11.6 bil­lion _ not $ 13.5 billion _ by omit­ting some S2.5 billion generated in September by the sale of Trea­sury bills abroad and interest on the existing foreign reserve stock.

European financial markets went into a spin in the days before and after French voters narrowly approved the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum on Sept. 20.

The crisis led to both Britain and Italy pulling out of the EC’s regulated currency.

Gates richest American at 36b y D an B lake

NEW YORK (AP) - Computer software inventor and •college dropout Bill Gates replaced en­tertainment mogul John Kluge atop the Forbes annual list of richest Americans, the magazine said Sunday.

At age 36, Gates becomes the youngest person to reach the No. 1 ranking. The founder of M i­crosoft Corp., the world’s larg­est personal computer software company, makes money from each machine that uses MS- DOS, the most widely used personal computer software.

Gates’ $6.3 billion fortune grew by $1.5 billion this year, while Kluge’s net worth dropped about $400 million to $5.5 bil­lion, the magazine estimated.

Kluge, 78, had held the top spot on the magazine’s annual list for three years since Wal- Mart stores founder Sam Walton split his wealth among his fam­ily in 1989.

Five members of the Walton family, whose, patriarch died in A p ril, occupied spots three through seven with $5.1 billion each.

Presidential candidate Ross Perot, 62, who built his fortune providing computer services, landed in 19th place on the list with an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion. That’s up from the magazine’s dlrs 2.2 billion esti­mate last year.

Others have estimated Perot’s net worth at $3.3 billion, a figure his campaign staff has called ac­curate. Forbes said it believes the higher estimate is inflated.

The magazine that celebrates wealth, offering advice on how to invest money and spend the re­turns, has been compiling the list for 11 years.

Overall, the richest Americans got an average $31 million richer last year and the total net worth for the top 400 rose 4.3 percent td S300.7 billion, Forbes said. By > comparison, wages and salaries

for Americans in general rose 2.9 percent in the past year, slightly less than inflation, ac­cording to the Labor Depart­ment.

Some of the richest felt the recession, though. O f those on this, year's list, 122 are worth less than the year before. But don’t expect many to be sifting through the bargain bins _ the minimum level to even make the list was $265 million.

Michael Milken is still on the list, but his 30 cents an hour prison labor wage hasn’t helped the net worth estimate of the one-time junk-bond financier. Milken, 46, paid hundreds of millions in civil settlements in the past year, cutting his net worth in half from last year’s $700 million estimate.

Milken, who pleaded guilty to six felonies stemming from the Wall Street insider trading scandal of the 1980s, is due to be released early next year after serving two years.

S o n y c h a i r m a n g e t s k n i g h t h o o d

LONDON (AP) - The chair­man of Sony Corp., Akio Morita, was awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth I I, the Welsh Office announced Sunday.

Morita, 71, was given the award at the British Embassy in Tokyo by Welsh Secretary David Hunt, who is leading an investment mission to the Far East.

He was given the award in recognition of his distinguished contribution to British industry and exports, as well as to Aftglo- Japanese relations, the Welsh Office said.

Several Japanese firms have operations in Wales.

Morita and fellow engineer

Masaru Ibuyka founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. in 1946, adopting the name Sony in 1958.

In the 1950s, the company bought rights to an American invention called the transistor and used it a way its origina­tors never imagined _ in ra­dios. Sony went on to shrink all kinds o f electronic equip­ment and build an empire.

M orita is fascinated by new products and ideas.

“I f you go through life con­vinced that your way is al­ways best, all the new ideas in the world w ill pass you by,” he wrote in his 1986 autobi­ography, “Made In Japan.”

P u b l i c h e a r i n g o n T i n i a n p l a n

p o s t p o n e d

TH E PUBLIC hearing on the “Tinian Master Plan Strategic Study”, originally scheduled on Oct. 9, has been postponed until further notice, the Department of · Public Works in Tinian an­nounced.

For further information, please contact the mayor’s office at (670) 433-9268 or 433-9231.

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3 conditions..continued from page 1governor could submit to the Leg­islature a request for appropria­tion, including identification of the amount, to make the debt payment legal.

Participants in the meeting in­clude the governor, Speaker Tho­mas Villagomez, Reps. Heinz Hofschneider and Pete Reyes, Senator Juan Torres, Commerce and Labor D irector Joaquin Torres, acting Republican Party Chairman Angie S. Iba and the governor.

Sources said that if Guerrero accepts the conditions the House Special Committee on Executive Actions which is studying the impeachment could just come out with a finding that there is inad­equate justification toproceed with theremoval of the govemorbefore the expiration of his term.

P a cific .. .continued from page 1comes in the world has little to fear from Japanese economic re­taliation.

Numerous nations have ex­pressed concern and anger not only over the shipment, but about not being consulted as to the route and full safety measures. The freighter’s escort is a sole coast guard cutter, and critics say it could be open to terrorist attack during the two-month journey of at least 15,000 miles (24,000kilo­meters).

The government has refused to divulge the freighter’s route or even to tell inquiring nations whether they might become

. emergency ports-of-call.“They just say the ship plans to

make no stops,” said Tim Bruce, special legal counsel to the Marianas governor, Lorenzo I. De Leon Guerrero.

“The world’s greatest ocean depth is just 60 miles (96 kilome- ters)east of the Northern Marianas,” said Guerrero in a speech. “I f the ship carrying plutonium from France to Japan sinks becauseof an accident or typhoon, will the plu­tonium containers hold up under that pressure?• “Damage from plutonium _ for

all practical purposes _ would be eternal,” he said. “We could never again think of eating anything from the ocean. The world’s marine food supply would be Finished.... Our Pacific islands would stand like grave markers, like tombstones in a dead sea.”

Japan says it has tested the pluto­nium casks to a depth of 33,000 feet, but for only 20 minutes. The Marianas trench is more than36,000 feet, Guerrero said.

Paul Leventhal, head of the Washington-based Nuclear Con­trol Institute, an organizer of the conference, said he thinks the most likely route is a wide swing around the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa and through the Indian Ocean.

Just as significant as those who are protesting the shipments, how­ever, are the nations that aren’t, including such Asian powers as, China and South Korea, European nations and the United States.

By Gaynor Dumat-ol

THE CASE filed by CNM I gov­ernment before the Superior Court against Attorney Bruce Lee Jorgensen in connection with the hit-and-run that seriously injured a runaway worker last August, is over.

Following an agreement between both sides, Jorgensen entered aplea of no contest Friday— not to the earlier charge that he failed to stop after allegedly hitting a person— but to the charge of failing to stop after hi ttinganddamagingproperty.

As a result, the Superior Court

merely fined Jorgensen $500, the maximum fine for damage to prop­erty in a hit-and-run incident

In the plea agreement entered into by both sides, the government also agreed to drop the charge that Jorgensen was driving under the influence of liquor.

The court also said $2,500 must be raisedfrom “concerned citizens” as donadon for the victim and or­dered the government to return the Suzuki caritseizedfrom Jorgensen.

Jorgensen was charged last Aug. 10 for leaving the scene of the accident on Beach Road, San Jose in which Efren N. Reyes, 35, was

injured.Reyes suffered fractures in the

pelvic bone and thigh when hit by a car while walking on the bike path on his way to the Philippine Consulate.

Philippine Consul Julius Torres said he “was surprised by the out­come of the case.”

He said it would take two years for Reyes, who was airlifted for treatment to Manila, to.be able to work again.

The consulate, Torres said, was looking into the possibility of fil­ing a civil suit on behalf of Reyes. He said he would ask Reyes to

execute a power of attorney giving the consulate authority to file a civil case on the worker’s behalf.

Assistant Attorney General Steven Pixley admitted the gov­ernment had no choice but to enter into a plea agreement with Jorgensen and his counsel James E. Hollman.

One of the reasons why the gov­ernment decided to forge a deal with the defense counsel, accord­ing to Pixley, was that the main evidence in the case, fabric and possibly human flesh samples re­covered from the car driven by Jorgensen, was lost.

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rates to finance its expansion pro­gram.

“We need to have some buffer in our efforts to upgrade the tele-

communications infrastructure of the Commonwealth as it pursues economic growth and diversifi­cation',” he said.

M TC is planning to install fiber optic cables to link the islands of Guam, Saipan, Rota andTinian in an international connection that would provide easier communi­

cations access to other parts of the world.

With a fiber optic system cellu- larusers in the Northern Mari anas can utilize Guam’s cellular sys­tem.

“ We ’ re eyeing a typhoon-proof reliability for public safety and that has been one of the reasons of

the hard cost of placing all our installations in place,” Morioka said.

According to Morioka, the new rates also took into consideration an increase in the value of ser­vice.

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200 feared dead in crashBy Jerom e S oco lovsky

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - An Israeli cargo jet crashed into an apartment complex and trig­gered a fire that raced through a crowded suburb. Police said they feared up to 200 people may have died.

The El A1 Boeing 747 experi­enced engine trouble and crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday night.

At least 12 bodies were recov­ered while fires set off by burning rubble raged through the Duivcndrccht (DOW-ven-drecht) suburb. The jet carried a three-man crew and one woman passenger, all of whom were killed, thecarrier said.

It was the Netherlands’ worst air disaster and the first crash in El A l’s 44-year history, an airline spokesman said.

The pilot was trying to fly the jumbo jet back to Schiphol Airport after both engines on the same wing died, airline officials said. An official said sabotage could not be ruled out as a possible cause.

The jet slammed into a nine- story apartment, spewing flames and burning wreckage over a wide

area six miles (10 kms) short of the airport south of the city. It hit at the junction of two wings of the com- plex_alow-incomehousingproject .. and gouged out a canyon six apartments wide and nine floors deep.

Residents searched frantically for family members in the hellish landscape of fire, smoke and chaos that shattered a clear and cool evening. Some people jumped out of the windows of their apartments toescape the inferno, radioreported.

The plane flew over a lake to dump fuel and crashed about 6:30 p.m. on the turn to make a new approach to Schiphol, one of Europe’s busiest airfields. The fire was under control but still burning five hours after the crash. Fire en­gines sucked water from a nearby canal to shoot at the building, but chemical fires continued rising to the surface.

Rescue workers dug for bodies around the edges of the mountain of rubble, but could not go further because the structures were on the verge of collapse.

“It crashed right into the build­ing. I saw the wings and all ignited. It exploded into one huge sea of

fire,” said resident Mark van der Linden.

Mayor Ed van Thijn of Duivendrecht said at leas 150 apart­ments were gutted.

Helicopters with searchlights il­luminated the scene for hundreds of rescue workers. Police reported looting in a nearby shopping mall.

The Amsterdam Medical Center Hospital said it treated at least 27 bum victims.

Officials of both countries said the crash did not appear to be ter­rorist sabotoge, which could have jeopardized sensitive Middle East peace talks. But asked about sabotage and terrorism, El A1 spokesman Nachman Klieman later said it was too soon to rule out any possible causes of the engine fail­ures. “We have no details, the in­vestigation has not taken place yet and until it does we cannot say anything,” Klieman said.

Kliemanconfirmedthecrashwas El A l’s first.

Airline officials said the pilot had reported that both engines on one wing had caught fire after taking off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest.

The pilot was given permission

toretum to the airport, about 1 Omiles (16 kms) south of Amsterdam, said Rafi Harlev, El A1 ’s executive direc­tor, at a Jerusalem news conference.

Theplane was carrying 114tonsof cargo,hesaid-YisraelCherbin,cargo manager for El A1 in Amsterdam, said it was “a regular commercial load.” Harlev said the plane was “in very good condition” andhadhadno previous problems. It was made in 1979, the most recent jumbo model belonging to the airline, he said.

Jack Gamble of Boeing Commer­cial Airplane Group in Seattle said the 747-200 cargo plane had landed 9,873 times and logged44,736flight hours by the end of June, “about normal” for a freighter.

Gamble said the plane had been fitted with Pratt and Whitney JT9D- 7J engines, the standard model. He said it had no history of problems that required the manufacturer’s atten­tion.

“That airplane really is flyable on one engine,” Gamble said. “They shouldbeabletomaneuver(ontwo). I don’t know how tightly, though.”

“I saw the plane going nose-down withtheleftwingupandtherighlwing downbehindthenextfiat(apartment) building,” said a witness to the crash, photographer Peter de Neef.

accuse cops of m assacre in ja il riot

B y S tan Lehm an

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Hu­man rights activists and inmates’ relatives accused police Sunday of committing a “massacre" when they stormed a prison to put down a riot.

Police said 111 prisoners were killedintheuprising Friday,mainly by other inmates. But an unsigned letter written on a napkin and smuggled out of Carandiru prison by inmates’ relatives Sunday said at least 200 were killed.

The letter, allegedly written by two inmates, said police lined in­mates up against walls or forced them to lie on the floor and then executed them.

Outside the prison, a crowd of angry relatives chanted “Murder­ers,” while others sobbed at news their family members were among those killed.

Those coming out of the prison after visits with inmates said they saw blood-spattered walls and smelled the “stench of death.”

Flavio Augusto Saraiva Straus of the Sao Paulo Bar Association’s human rights commission said police “massacred the prisoners.”

“It ’sallpartofstategovemment’s official policy of shoot first and ask questions later. Police do this on the streets and in the prisons,” he sa 1 Sao Paulo police chief Hermes Cruz denied such accusa­tions.

“I refuse to accept the possibility that a massacre was committed because our phiolosophy is always to act on the defensive,” he said.

According to Sao Paulo state security director Pedro Franco de Campo, a fight between rival gangs Friday sparked the riot in cell block No. 9 in the squalid, overcrowded prison, Latin America’s largest.

More than 300 riot troops with shotguns, pistols and machine guns raided the five-story cell block and quelled the riot in less than three hours.

Cruzsaid 111 inmates were killed and 32 riot troopers wounded, nine of them shot.

Cruz said prisoners were armed with 13 handguns and pipes and homemade knives.

“Thirteen firearmscan kill 1,000 people, depending on how they are used,” Cruz said.

But one man who had jus t visited his nephew in prison, and spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was told none of the prisoners had guns.

Many relatives did not want to give their names because they feared police retribution against inmates.

One woman said her son sur­vived by hiding under a pile of bodies.

Another woman said police · slashed a cross on her grandson’s back with a bayonet and stabbed inmates to death. Another said her brother, an inmate,describedpolice dogs attacking prisoners, ripping off ears, noses and genitals.

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Tourist injured in accidentA JAPANESE tourist was in­jured when hit by a car while crossing Beach Road in front of Duty Free Shop in Garapan over the weekened.

Sekina Fumitaka, 24, sus­tained lacerations in the fore­head and neck as well as bruises in other parts of his body, Assis­tant Police C h ief Ray B. Camacho said yesterday.

The driver of the car that hit Fumitaka who was identified as Antonio T . Delos Reyes, 45, of Fina Sisu, sped away after the tourist was hit but came back fiveminutes later, apolice report said.

A witness even tried chasing the car driven by Delos Reyes while other pedestrians who saw the accident tried helping Fumitaka.

Investigation disclosed that

Delos Reyes was cruising towards the southern direction of Beach Roach when the tourist, billeted at Hafa Adai hotel, was hit.

Delos Reyes was detained at DPS for driving under the influ­ence of liquor and reckless driv­ing.

The assistant police chief said investigation was going on to determine if Delos Reyes would be charged for having hit the tourist.

Another pedestrian was also hit while crossing the street last weekend.

Benito A . Aguon was walking towards Saipan Highway Super­market in Koblerville whenstruck by apickuptruckheading towards the northeast direction.

Aguon suffered a fracture in the lower right leg, a pol ice report said.

The suspect, who was driv­ing a dark colored pickup truck, fled.

Last Sunday, a man from Truk, Satamichi Saldong, was punched and stabbed by two men whom the victim only de­scribed as from Palau.

Saldong suffered a minor laceration in the hip when

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Anotherfight ensued between two men. Mark Moses suffered a laceration in the left forehead inflicted by Roberto Letada.

Meanwhile, five persons were trapped for about one hour in an elevator at Nauru building in Susupe midnight last Friday.

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Cing doubts H ouse im peachm ent p lanALTHOUGH there is need to control unappropriated executive spepding, the issue of the $5.5 million disbursement paid in be­half of the Commonwealth Utili­ties Corp. may not constitute suf­ficient grounds to impeach Gov. Larry I. Guerrero, Senator David M . Cing said yesterday.

Cing also expressed doubts that the impeachment proceedings initiated in the House of Repre­sentatives would prosper.

“The way I see it, this move is but a political act meant to boost their political careers,” he said in aninterview.Cing stressed that he opposes unathorized government spending as evidenced by motion for the temporary restraining or­der he filed in August against the governor’s emergency declara­tion to ease the budget crisis.

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He chided members o f the House who opposed his move during that time, saying they should now realize that the mo­tion was filed in the best interest of the entire Commonwealth.

“Unrestricted executive spend­ing must be stopped and the Leg­islature must be recognized as the branch of government that holds the power of appropriation,” he said.

“We will act on the impeach­ment as we seem fit. Unless there is sufficient ground, we may not support it,” Cing said.

Under the Constitution, it is the House of Representatives that ini­tiates impeachment proceedings against any executive and judiciary official.

The Senate must also approve the impeachment by a vote of two- thirds of the total membership.

Being a Democrat, Cing pointed out that he should be one of thè first to approve the move to im­peach Guerrero since it would benefit his party, but that he “frowns on the move because it seems the House is not too serious about it.”

He criticized Villagomez for joining Guerrero in his trip to Ja­pan where the latter spoke on the planned plutonium shipment in behalf of the CNM I.

Cing said if the House was so serious in their bid to oust Guerrero the speaker should not have gone to Japan with the governor.

“I think they are not so serious about their intention. Otherwise, they should have contacted the Senate leadership to ask support on their bid,” he said.

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M A N ILA (AP) - A 65-year-old Filipino woman on Monday sought an official apology and compensation from Japan for having allegedly been forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops during World War n.

In a meeting with a Japanese Embassy official, Maria Rosa Luna Henson and her lawyer sub­mitted a letter addressed to Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, de­manding a formal apology and a promise to document the practice of sexual slavery in history books.

Ms. Henson, a great-grand­mother, was the first Filipino woman to step forward to relate her experience as one of the tens of thousands of Japanese sex slaves or “comfort women” around Asia.

Ms. Hensons says she was 15 when Japanese soldiers forced her to live in a brothel in Angeles City north of Manila for nine months until guerrillas freed her and six other women.

Romeo Capulong, Ms. Henson’s lawyer, asked

Miyazawa to make “a categorical and unqualified admission” that Japanese troops used force, vio­lence and intimidation in the con­scription of the women.

He said Japan should also pay damages to surviving victims and heirs of Filipino sex slaves at an amount set by court or by settle­ment.

Reporters were barred from the meeting between the Japanese Embassy official, First Secretary Junichi Ihara, and Ms. Henson, her lawyers and members of the Task Force on Filipino Comfort Women.

Ihara, who promised to imme­diately send the letter to Miyazawa, told Ms. Henson that the Japanese Cabinetsecretary had already made an official apology last July and that the San Fran- ciscoTreaty ending World WarU hadfully settled Japan’s monetary obligations, Capulong said.

But Capulong said that the claims were private and thatsexual slavery had not been disclosed at the time of the treaty.

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DONG HOI, Vietnam (AP) - The US military’s search for clues to servicemen missing from the Vietnam War doesn’t require a warrior’s skills, but a technician’s.

An American team’s work at a suspected plane crash si te is much like an archaeological dig.

To help ensure their searching methods are meticulous, the US military has hired a field anthro­pologist with experience in ar­chaeological excavations in Southeast Asia. He’s Bert Davis, 50, of Honolulu, who served as a medic during the Vietnam War but has spent most of the past 20 years studying prehistoric sites in Thailand, Guam and Hawaii.

The 12-man team also includes a specialist in indentifying liny bits of wreckage, a linguist, mor­tuary specialists, a medic and an explosives expert.

Their operation is the latest phase of a joint effort by Viet­namese and American experts to try to resolve the fates of 1,658 American servicemen who are still unaccounted for 17 years after the end of the Vietnam War.

The work is arduous and te­dious at the site in Quang Binh province; which has a reputation as Vietnam’s hottest. Whatever their expertise, the main work of all team members is digging, moving and sifting sand and dirt. Ixjcal people are hired to man a bucket brigade that takes the dirt from diggers to sifters.

Rob Darter, a 38-year-old Air Force master sergeant from Weatherford, Texas, brings a speciality recently added to US search teams. He can identify scraps of metal and cloth often no bigger than one square inch (6.5 square centimeters) from an air­craft that crashed more than two decades ago. From these he can determine with a fair degree of certainty if a pilot went down with his plane.

“I f you ever liked putting jig­saw puzzles together, this is like that,” said Darter, inspecting scraps recovered from a sand dune.

One piece recovered earlier in the dig was part of a life preserver container _ a clue tending to con­firm the pilot crashed along with his plane.

Quang Binh province is just above the 17th parallel, which separated North from South Viet­nam until the Communist victory in 1975. It was one of the most heavily bombed areas of Vietnam and consequently was the site of many US aircraft losses. From one of two Soviet-made Mi-8 he­licopters the Vietnamese lease to the searchers, numerous bomb craters can be seen pitting the area.

Army Capt. Roger Osweiller offers some of the details that brought the recovery teams he commands to this spot. But he withholds the names of the miss­ing and asks reporters not to iden­tify the aircraft type, as a courtesy to the families who will first be informed of the details.

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B o l k i a h u r g e s s u p p o r t f o r B o s n i a 's M u s l i m sBANDAR SERI BEGAW AN, Brunei (AP) -The Sultan of Brunei marked his 25th anniversary on the throne Monday by riding through the streets of the capital in a chariot pulled by 40 men, followed by his two wives in a Rolls-Royce.

Sultan Sir Hassanal Bolkiah is considered the world’s richest man because, as absolute mon­arch, he has Brunei’s oil income and foreign currency reserves ef­fectively at his disposal _ a poten­tial wealth of $37 billion. InalO - minute speech, the sultan pledged $1 million of his own money to a national fund to aid Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and urged Brunei’s 261,000 people to also make donations.

“We are aware that the Mus-

lims there are being betrayed and oppressed. It is therefore our policy to oppose this atrocity while at the same time joining (others) in extending our assistance,” he said.

The 46-year-old sultan said in his speech that Brunei’s absolute monarchy has worked well.

‘The relationship between the monarch and the people is not purely based on the tradition of the ruler and the people, but it is also due to a sense of mutual responsibility in carrying out to­gether the ‘amanah’ (trust) of A l­lah,” he said.

After an audience for visiting royalty and government leaders in his 1,778-room palace, the world’s largest, the sultan led a ceremonial procession to greet his

subjects, who lined the three-ki- lometer (nearly two-mile) pro­cession route by the thousands.

He smiled and waved from a brown chariot encrusted with gold. It was equipped with a throne topped with a yellow parasol, and pulled by 40 army officers clad in ceremonial black trimmed with gold.

The sultan was clad in royal yellow and wore an open-top head band and many medals. A yellow sash was draped over one shoul­der and the royal “kris,” a dagger with a wavy blade, was held by a waistband.

The 46-year-old monarch’s sil­ver jubilee seemed to mark a generational change for this small but oil-rich country on the north coast of Borneo.

S t r ik e in K o re a s p r e a d in gSEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A

month-long labor strike at South Korea’s second largest broad­casting company demanding in­creased hiring and press freedom was quickly spreading across the nation on Monday.

Trade unions at five regional stations of the Munhwa Broad­casting Corp. launched indefinite strikes to protest the arrest of seven unionists during a police raid last week, an official at the company’s main union said.

Five other regional stations of the quasi-state-operated nation­wide television and radio network have staged sympathy strikes since Saturday. Trade unions at the firm’s sister companies and supporting units for technology and administration also decided

to join the strike from Tuesday, threatening to paralyze the already crippled operations of the com­pany, it said.

The company has had to resort to stopgap programs and reduced news reporting.

The union at the state-owned Korea Broadcasting System, the country’s largest and only other nationwide television network, also said Monday they would vote on a sympathy strike by Thurs­day.

About 600 police stormed into M BC’s headquarters in Seoul Friday to try to forcefully end the strike.

Dozens of unionists were ini­tially taken away following scuffles with police, but all ex­cept seven were released later.

Also, on Monday, about 500 members of the MBC union and citizen groups marched about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) in down­town Seoul after a rally protesting, the police action.

The protesters said the government’s use of police force against a peaceful labor strike was aimed at suppressing press free­dom ahead of presidential elec­tion expected in December.

“Immediately release arrested unionists,” shouted the protest­ers, handing out leaflets while marching through the streets.

“Fair and good broadcasting through people’s power,” read a large banner. Journalists and press freedom advocates have said indirect press control is being tightened as presidential elections draws near.

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C l in to n e n d o r s e s N A F T ARALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Demo­crat Bill Clinton endorsed the controversial free-trade treaty with Mexico, but said he would not sign it unless additional steps were taken to protect American workers.

“ If it is done right, it will create jobs in the United States and in Mexico,” the Arkansas governor said in an address at North Caro­lina State University on Sunday.

“ We must always remember why we’re doing it _ to help the working men and women of America.”

The announcement ended weeks of speculation over how the Democratic nominee would land on the trade pact, which was completed in August after 14 months of negotiation by the Bush administration.

Clinton sought to tread a middle ground on the issue, endorsing the pact while stressing the need to look out for US workers. The pact has been opposed by many leading Democrats, major labor groups, and environmental orga­nizations.

Gradually, over a 15-year pe­riod, all tariffs for goods and ser­

vices and all barriers to invest­ment over the borders of the United States, Mexico and Canada would be eliminated. Canada and the United States earlier had reached agreement on a trade pact.

The result would be the largest single trade bloc in the world, surpassing the European commu­nity both in consumer demand, with 360 million customers, and in economic clout, with $6 tril­lion in output.

President Bush and Mexican and Canadian officials were scheduled to observe the initial­ling of the agreement by trade ministers on Wednesday. The Bush administration predicted the treaty could create 400,000 jobs by 1995, by stimulating the economies of all three nations.

Bush spent Sunday out of sight at the White House, where he was taping an interview with the Cable News Network’s Larry King Live” program, which aired in the evening. Ross Perot, on his first weekend as a candidate, stayed under wraps, working on campaign strategy with advisers in Dallas. In the CNN interview, Bush said he should have made

clearer his concern for the unem­ployed when he publicly insisted last fall that the economy was not in recession.

“Technically I was right, but don’t tell that to the guy that’s unemployed, or don’t tell it to the family that has a job and wonders if they’re going to have it tomor­row," Bush said. “So I could have handled that better.”

The latest national polls showed Perot’s renewed candidacy attract­ing the support of about mein 10 voters, while Bush’s support re­mained frozea The candidates’ av­erage standing over the weekend in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll was 47 percentfor Clinton, 35 percent for Bush and 10 percent far Perot.

Opponents of the trade pact argue thatmanufacturers will flee the United States totakeadvantageof thecheaper labor andless-stringentpollutionlaws of its southern neighbor.

House Majority Leader Riqhard Gephardt, D-Mo., contends it should be renegotiated and Ohio Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, said the agreement could cost 550,000 U.S. jobs over the next decade. Missouri, Ohio and other Midwest industrial states are critical in the election.

USDA boosts exports while donations drop

By Jennifer Dixon

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Ag­riculture Department is stepping upexportsubsidies topromotesales of US grain overseas as the election nears, whilegovemmentdonations dwindleforrecession-batteredfood pantries and soup kitchens.

Critics say the beneficiaries of the Bush administration’s aggres­sive export policies include grain traders, oil-rich nations and coun­tries with questionable human- rights records that buy subsidized US wheat at cheaper prices than domestic millers.

The losers, they say, are America’s poor, elderly and school cafeterias that have been stretching their meals with USDA’s surplus commodities.

Farm policies, including export subsidies, have emptied govern­ment warehouses of commodities such as wheat flour. USDA, as a result, spends less on storage and handling, and the cost of farm sub­sidies drops because growers earn more from the market when price-

depressing surpluses disappear.Butthecutin donations hascome

at the same time a lingering reces­sion has forced record numbers of Americans to seek the government’s help with their gro­cery bills.

Rep. Bob Wise, D-W.Va., says boosting export subsidies also drives up the cost of food for con­sumers. “Such a policy results in a double-barreled blow against our low-income Americans because prices arc higher at the market at the same time domestic food pro­grams are shutting down.”

But a senior USDA official, speaking last week on condition of anonymity, said rewriting fed­eral farm policy to create sur­pluses for giveaways would wreck the entire food industry.

Besides, the official said, USDA already is spending nearly $35 billion on domestic food aid through food stamps, school lunches and breakfasts, summer meals and meals on wheels. “ It’s hard to imagine we need that much more.”

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5W AITER, RESTAURANT-High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 per hour.Contact: FRED D IE SAINTS dba Cafe Friedrich, #8 VESTCO R Commercial Bldg., Capitol Hills, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-6818/19 (10/13)T/09205.

1 BA KER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $400 - $600 per month.Contact: J .C . TEN O RIO EN TER- PRISEd? P.O. Box 137, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6445/6 (10/6)T/ 2924.

3 BEAUTICIAN - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: LYDIA DUENAS LACAY dba DINGSON EN TER P R ISES , P.O. Box 5433, CHRB, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1588 (10/6)T/2925.

5 YARD W ORKER8 HOUSEW ORKER- High school equlv.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.3 SEC U R ITY GUARD - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 per hour.3 SOUND MIXER - High school grad., 2 yrs.experience. Salary$600permonth.4 ADM INISTRATIVE A SSISTA N T - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $800 per month.Contact: FR E D D IE SA IN TS dbaFRED D IE SAINTS PRODUCTION, #8 VESTCO R, Commercial Center, Capi­tol Hills, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-6818/19 (10/13)T/09206.__________

1 MUSHROOM GROW ER -High school equivalent. 2 yrs. experience. Salary: $3.00 per hour.Contact: MARIANAS PRODUCE, P.O. Box 2452 Saipan, MP 96950 (10/13)T.

3 BUSINESS CONSULTANT - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,200 per month.Contact: F R E D D IE SA IN TS dbaSAINTS IN TL. TRAVEL AGENCY, #8 Vestcor Commercial Center, Capitol Hills,'Saipan, MP, 96950, Tel. No. 322- 6818/19 (10/13)T/09204._______________

1 FLIGHT OPERATIONS SU PER V I­SOR - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2,590 per month.Contact: JAPAN AIRLINES CO. LTD., P.O. Box 469, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6556 (10/6)T/2915.

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1 MANAGER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,000 per month. Contact: CWM INC., P.O. Box 2166, Saipan, MP 96905, Tel. No. 235-1035 (10/20)t/09263.

1 ASSISTAN T MANAGER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary$1,000 -$2,000 per month.Contact: N ICK'S& M ICHAEL'SCORP., P.O. Box 1219, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-3311/3399 (10/20)T/09271.

1 ACCOUNTANT-College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.20 per hour.3 COOK - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 per hour.2 W AITRESS, RESTAURANT - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 per hour.1 KITCHEN H ELP ER - High school equlv., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: C & M COMPANY dba MING PALACE C H IN ESE RESTAURAN T, P.O. Box 1219, Saipan, MP 96950, T e l.. No. 234-1005/3311/3399 (10/20)T/ 09269.

1 ACCOUNTANT - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $900 per month.2 TRAVEL AGEN T - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.50 per hour.Contact: PH IL-JAPAN IN CO RPO ­RATED, San Antonio Village, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-5455/5456 (10/ 20)T/09262.

1 MECHANICAL ENGINEER-College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.77 per hour.Contact: SHINRYO CORPORATION, P.O. Box 2484 CK, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-1195/96 (10/20)T/09264.

1 CASH IER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: JOAQUIN F . TO R R ES dba JV R EN TER P R ISES , P.O. Box 1263, Saipan. MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-7936 (10/20)T/2998.

1 W AITER/W AITRESS, HEAD - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.30 - $2.50 per hour.1KITCHENSUPERVISOR-High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.30 - $3.00 per hour.Contact: SAIPAN SPRIN G VALLEY B R EW ER Y CO. INC., P.O. Box 5236 CHRB, Saipan, MP96950, Tel. No. 234- 1923 (10/20)T/09267.

1 HEAVY EQUIPM ENT O PERATO R - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.00 per hour.Contact: EAG LE CORPORATION, P.O. Box 3044 C K , Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 235-4545 (10/20)T/09275.

1 HEAVY EQUIPM ENT O PERATO R (crane) - High school equlv., 2 yrs. expe­rience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: J & P CORPORATION, P.O. Box 3044 C K , Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1980 (10/20)T/09276.

1 MAINTENANCE CARPEN TER1 CORRUGATED COMBINING MA- CHINEOPERATOR-Highschoolgrad.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: HANA COMPANY, INC., P.O. Box 1219, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-3311/3399 (10/20)T/09270.

1 FRONT D ESK C LER K - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.88 per hour.Contact: RONALD D. SABLAN dba PACIFIC GARDENIA HOTEL, P.O. Box 144, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. (670) 234-3455/3466 (10/20)T/3000.

1 SA LES REPR ESEN TA TIV E - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $800 per month.Contact: MICRONESIAN BRO KERS , INC., Caller Box PPP 128, Saipan, MP 96950,Tel. No. 322-0318/1029 (10/20)T/ 2999.

1 GAME ROOM ATTENDANT - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: NORTHERN MARIANAS IN­VESTM EN T GROUP LTD., P.O. Box 541, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234- 6979 (10/20)T/09274.

P U B LIC N O T IC E In the Superior Court of the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

ADOPTION C A SE NO. 92-91

In the Matter of Petition for Adoption of:JO SE H. PU YAT, JR.,

minor,B Y LEO NO RA CASTRO P U Y A T and JO EL H. PU YAT,

Petitioners. NOTICE OF HEARING

Notice is hereby given that on October 15 ,19 9 2 , at 1:30 PM in the courthouse of the Superior Court in Susupe, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marinas Is­lands, the petitioners will petition the Court to adopt the above-mentioned minor. Dated this 5th day of August, 1992./s/REYNALDO O. Y A N A

Attorney for Petitioner

6 W AREHOUSE W ORKER 1 AUTOMOBILE MECHANIC 1 PU RCH ASER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.25 per hour. 6 SA LES REPRESEN TA TIV E - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.25 - $2.50 per hour.Contact: SAIPAN ICE, INC., P.O . Box 1808, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322- 9848 (10/20)T/3002.

14 COM M ERCIAL C LEA N ERS 1 BLDG. MAINTENANCE R E P A IR E R - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: ANNED. & JA IM EJ. NABONG dba AJ COM M ERCIAL S ER V IC E & ENT. P.O. Box 2645, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1923 (10/20)T/09268.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A turning point involving personal goals and career endeavors is sure to materialize before the day is out.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Money matters are sure to demand more from you today than you had ex­pected. Be sure you understand trends.

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By Ronald Blum

N EW Y O R K (AP) - Edgar Martinez and Gary Sheffield won their first batting titles Sunday while sitting the bench, and Cecil Fielder became the first player to lead the majors in runs batted in for three consecutive years. Fred McGriff was one of the new names among the leaders, winning the NL home run title with 35, the lowest total for an NL leader in a complete season since 1946.

Among the new names were a few familiar ones, like Boston’s RogerClemens, who wonhis third consecutive A L ERA title and his fourth overall. Clemens is the first

A L pitcher to lead in ERA for three straight seasons since Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia Athlet­ics from 1929-32.

Martinez hit .343 and became the first Seattle Mariner to win an A L batting title, finishing 14 points ahead of Minnesota’s Kirby Puckett. It was the highest batting average in the A L since Boston’s Wade Boggs hit .366 in 1988.

Sheffield, who flirted with a run at the NL triple crown, fin­ished at .330 for the San Diego Padres, six points ahead of Pittsburgh’s Andy Van Slyke. Martinez’s season ended after surgery to remove bone spurs from his right shoulder on Sept. 19.

3rd triathlon event slated on Oct. 24THE NORTHERN Marianas Triathlon Federation will hold a triathlon on Oct. 24, the third in a series of events in preparation for the 19 9 3 Saipan Tagaman Triathlon in May 1993.

The event, which will start at the Marpi pool, will consist of a 500-meter swim, a 25-kilometer (15 miles) bicycle race and a 7.5- kilometer (4.2 miles) run.

Entry fee is $2 for NMITF

members, S5 for non-members and $ 10 for teams.

The federation said participants should train regularly for these events, which are formatted to measure athletes’ improvement through training and practice.

If you have any suggestions about participating or volunteer­ing to help stage the event, call Wolf Mojica at234-6615 orTony Steams at 234-6585.

Bodybuilding contest setF LEX your muscles and get ready for the 1992 Northern Marianas Bodybuilding Championship. The Northern Marianas Weightlifting Association (NMWA), along with Hyatt Re­gency Saipan and Marpac, will sponsor the CNMI bodybuilding event of the year on Nov. 21 at Hyatt’s Gilligan’s.

This competition will be the only contest this year in the CNMI to be sanctioned by the International Federation of Body Builders.

Men vying for the title of cham­pion will compete in four divi­sions: bantam weight, lightweight,

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Sheffield missed the end of the season after fracturing his right index finger Tuesday night.

McGriff, who reached 30 hom­ers for the fifth straight season, had the lowest total for an NL leader since Mike Schmidt hit 31 in the strike-shortened season of 1981. Not counting that year, it’s the lowest total to lead the NL since Pittsburgh’s Ralph Kiner hit 23 in 1946. Juan Gonzalezof the Texas Rangers won the A L home run title by hitting his 43rd Sunday, beating Oakland’s Mark McGwire by one. Gonzalez, 23, is the team’s first home run cham­pion since Frank Howard hit 44 in 1970, when it was the Washing­ton Senators.

Fielder topped both leagues in RBIs wi th 124, becoming the first player to lead that category in the majors for three straight seasons since RBIs became a statistic in 1920.

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phia Phillies led the N L with 109 RBIs, while Pittsburgh’s Barry Bonds led in runs with 109 and Atlanta’s Terry Pendleton and Van Slyke tied for the lead in hits with 199 each. Pendleton led last year with 187.

Marquis Grissom of the Montreal Expos won his second straight NL steals title with 78, while Kenny Lofton of Cleveland led the AL with 66. It was only the second time since 1980 that Rickey

Henderson didn’tlead that category, and it was the first time a Cleveland player led since 1906, when Elmer Flick tied Washington’s John Anderson at 39.

Tony Phillips of Detroit topped the A L in runs with 114, the first Tiger to win that category since Ron LeFlore had 126 in 1978. Puckett won his fourth hits title with 210; he led in 1988 and 1989 and tied Kevin Seitzer for the lead in 1987.

middle weight, and heavy weight; women will compete in an open division. Contestantswillshowtheir best in compulsory poses and then display their individuality and cre­ativity in the free-posing round set to their choice of music.

The entry fee for contestants is $10, $5, for member of NMWA. Contestants from Guam are also invited to attend.

Bodybuilders throughout the is­lands are urged to start training so they can beattheirbestinNovember. For more information, contact John Davis at234-1002,Mondaythrough Saturday from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m.

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(AP) - Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky played to their third successive draw Sunday in the 15th game of their $5 million chess rematch, leaving Fischer with a 5-3 lead.

The players agreed to a draw after 32 moves.

Both players were left with a king, queen and rook as major pieces. Spassky, playing black, had six pawns to Fischer’s four after capturing a pawn on his final move, but neither player everestablishedaclearadvantage in the match.

In a surprise move, Fischer did not play pawn e4 as he has done every other time that he has had white.

Instead, he played pawn c4, the English opening, harking back to the sixth game of his celebrated world championship match with Spassky 20 years ago, which the American won. That win gave

Fischer a lead which he never relinquished in the title match.

The game 20 years ago devel­oped into a Queen’s Gambit De­clined, but on Sunday it quickly became a Catalan opening, which Fischer had never played in an official game.

Yugoslav grandmaster Drasko Velimirovic, following the game in the Blue Hall of the Sava Center, suggested as the game progressed that Spassky should be favored because he had played against the opening many times. But the game was declared a draw in the 33rd move.

A relaxed Fischer made light afterward of his failure to regain the offensive.

“ I think I had a positionally won game, but Boris found a way to mix it up,” he said. “I had a very, very good opening, but Boris found afantastic way tokeepsome counter-play, somecounterchances.”

Spassky, aRussian-bomFrench citizen, decisively won Wednes­day against Fischer, narrowing the American’s lead to 5-3. But in the two subsequent games, Thursday and Saturday, the two former chess champions drew. Draws do not count and games cannot be adjourned under pre­viously agreed game rules.

The next game is scheduled for Wednesday.

The match, which began on the Montenegrin island resort of Sveti Stefan, is beingplayedindefiance of UN sanctions against Yugo­slavia, now comprising only Serbia and Montenegro, for pro­voking war in Bosnia- Herzegovina.

Fischer, 49, and Spassky, 55, played 11 games in Sveti Stefan and resumed in Belgrade last week after a 10-day break.

Fischer, who defeated Spassky for the world title in 1972, insists he is playing for the champion­

ship. But the match is not sanc­tioned by the International Chess Federation, which stripped Fischer of his title in 1975 for refusing to defend it.

The prize money for the rematch has been put up by Yugoslav businessman Jezdimir Vasiljevic, who hopes to promote the Sveti Stefan resort and Yugoslavia.

Thefirstplayerto win lOgames

will get $3 .35 million, and the loser will get $1.6 5 million.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Here are the moves in Sunday’s game 15, a draw, in the $5 million rematch between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky (Catalan Opening - by transposition from the English Opening):

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THE AM ERICAN Red Cross Northern Mariana Islands Chap­ter recently announced that it will beholding its 7th Annual Walk- A-Thon on Saipan on Oct. 31.

The Walk-A-Thon is an annual fundraisingeventwhichhundreds of the island’s school children and interested adults participate in to help raise money for the American Red Cross. Walkers solicit pledges from people in the community for each mile they walk in the 10-mile they walk in the 10-mile event.

This year’ s W alk-A-Thon course begins at Micro Beach Park and runs south to the TownHouse Shopping Center and back.

Prizes for this year’s event in­clude a T V and VCR combo, do­nated by TownHouse, for the school that raises the most money, Walkman stereos for the top high school, intermediate and elemen­tary school &udent money raisers and a free weekend stay at the Hyatt Regency Saipan for the adult that raises the most money, KRSI Hot 98 FM radio will be doing a live remote broadcast of the event from Micro Beach Park and hundreds of great door prizes will be given out at the end of the walk.

Golfer wins event without hitting ball

PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) - Gary Hallberg won his first US PGA Tour event in five years without ever hitting a golf ball on Sunday.

The 12-year tour veteran was declared the winner of the South­ern Open after the final round was rained out. Hallberg, with a three- round total of 10-under 206, won by a shot over Jim Gallagher.

“I feel totally elated,” said Hallberg, who won $ 126,000and moved to No. 64 on the money- winning list with a season total of $234,793. “I was right on the border for 125.”

The top 125 on the earnings list are exempt from qualifying next season andHallberg’s 3-under69 on Saturday was good enough to get him a much-needed victory.

“I thought if I could just come here and play well, get into the top 1 2 5 , 1 could play next year and work on my game and get it going again,” he said.

Underpartlycloudyskies,PGA Tour officials announced thatplay had been canceled. No rain had fallen since? am., but tournament officials said the soggy condi tion of the 7,057-yard (5,351-meter) Mountain View Golf Course made it impossible for play to

continue.“We knew were going to have

cloudcovermostoftheday, which was not a good sign,” Tour offi­cial Jon Brendell said. “We just knew we weren’t going to get the hard sun and wind that we really needed.”

According to Callaway Gar­dens course superintendent Gary Wilder, 2.2 inches (5.6 centime­ters) of rain fell from 8:30 a.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday.

Brendell said the bunkers “were filled uplikelakes,” and the greens were so wet they could not be be mowed. Also, some of the fair­ways were so saturated that finding relief from casual water would have been a chore. “We did everything within the superintendent’s power and our power to squeegee,” Brendell said. “ But under the rules, it just got to thepoint where we wouldn’t have been able to play within the rules.”

Gallagher’s total of 207 was worth $75,600. Finishing third with 209 was Loren Roberts, followed by four players who finished at 6-under par and tied for fourth - Gene Sauers, Larry Silveira, Kelly Gibson and Ed Humenik. ForGallaghe.

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TO K YO (AP) - Pinch hitter Kazumasa Ichikawa singled home the winning run in the three-run eighth inning, leading the Yokohama Taiyo Whales to a 5-2 victory over the Central League’s front-running Hanshin Tigers at Yokohama Sunday.

The Tigers still have a one-game lead over the second-place Yakult Swallows, who were idle Sunday.

At Hiroshima, Kenjiro Nomura slugged a pair of a two-run home run as the Hiroshima Toyo Carp beat the Yomiuri Giants 6-3. Nomurahas 14homers this season.

The loss ended any chance for the Giants, two games behind the Tigers with only one game left, to win the league pennant.

The Tigers and Swallows each have five games remaining, in­cluding four against each other.

In the Pacific League, Tadakazu Hanyuda smashed the winninghome run in the seventh inning as the Seibu Lions, who already had clinched the league pennant, edged the Nippon Ham Fighters 5 4 at Seibu Stadium.

It was Hanyuda’s firsthomerof the season.

At Fujiidera, Kenji Kokubo and DaijiroOishieachhitatwo-runhome run,leadingthe second-place Kintetsu Buffaloes to an 8-2 victory over the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.

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