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No excise tax sought By Mar-Vic C. Munar Variety News Staff

THE CONSULTANT firm Barents Group proposed yester­day the consolidation of all taxes and the possible elimination of excise taxes.

"Those are some options that the group (proposed) to us but it doesn't mean that we will accept them," Tax Task Force chairman Jose Ayuyu said. "But I think it's moving in the right direction in terms of simplicity in the tax sys-

tern." Members of the Tax Task Force

met yesterday with Barents rep­resentative Michael Vlasailejvich at the governor's conference room to discuss the second part of the tax consultant group's report.

"We haven't made any formal recommendations,''Vlaisalejvich told reporters. "We look at op­tions to consolidate the v~rious taxes that exist on consumption including excise taxes to cut it into a single consumption tax."

The idea, he explained, is to streamline tax excesses to make the system "simpler and more supportive of the economic sys­tem in the island."

Initial research by Barents Group found that the CNMI' s tax structure was too complicated and that excise tax rates on several items were higher than the rates in Guam and Hawaii. This reduces the Commonwealth's ability to compete for tourists.

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Freshmen Representatives Michael P. Tenorio (left) and Dino M. Jones engage in private talk during yesterday's House session. House members voted to pass House Bill 10-65 to allow government hiring of non-resident workers up to the year 2000.

House OKs bill to allow hiring of aliens by gov't

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THE HOUSE of Representatives yesterday approved legislation

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that would give certain agencies a four-year exemption from the blanket prohibition on govern­menthiring of non-resident work­ers.

House Bill 10-65, authored by Rep. Pete P. Reyes, was passed on first and final reading during a session yesterday.

It is now headed to the Senate for action.

Sixteen members voted for the bill's approval while one mem­ber, Rep. Stanley T. Torres, voted no. Another member, Rep. Dino M. Jones abstained.

To be allowed to hire non-resi­dent workers, subject to certain conditions, are the Public School System, the Department of Health Services, the Office of the Public Auditor, the Department of Pub­lic works, the Northern Marianas

College, Commonwealth Utilities Corp., the Marianas Visitors Bu­reau, the Department of Finance and the Department of Commerce.

The measure seeks to extend up to the year 2000 the sunset provi­sion in Public Law 7-45 which allowed agencies to hire non-US citizens.

Such a provision expired lest Sept. 30, 1995, meaning those agencies would not be able to renew the contracts of their non­resident staff upon their expira­tion.

Affected by the hiring restric­tion, doctors and officials from the Commonwealth Health Cen­ter have petitioned the House to consider a complete repeal of Public Law 7-45 or at the very least, an exemption for the hospi-

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ernment enacted Public Law 9-22 which set large excise tax rates. The rates were rolled back nine months later, but the tax experts' group said they remained high.

Tourist products taxed higher in the CNMI include cosmetics, leather goods, jewelry, and per­fumery. Some of these items are not taxed in Guam and Hawaii.

Excise taxes are potentially ex-

portable in a visitor economy be­cause many of the consumers of taxed goods are nonresident visi­tors.

Task force vice chairman David Hawkins agreed that there was a need to "lessen the burden on tourism" since this is the major industry running the CNMI's economy.

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GOVERNOR Froilan C. Tenorio will be attending a gaming exposition in New Orleans, the Public· Informa­tion Office said yesterday. .

In an interview,· Public In­formation Officer Bruce Lloyd said Tenorio left Tuesday with .First Lady Grace Tenorio bound for Milwaukee, Wis­consin after which the gover­nor is expected to fly to New Orleans for the Smart Tech '96, a lottery and gaming expo co-hosted by the Public Garn- . ing Research Institute and the Louisiana Lottery Corp. · . "Yes,"thegovemorreceived

an invitation for-the expo and according to his schedule, he will be attending," said Lloyd.

The expo, which starts Janu­ary 18 and ends on January 21st, focuses on sales, market­ing, retailing trands and tech­nologies.

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Gov't office hours get smoked away?

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

ALLOW smoking or ban smok­ing? That's the question.

As far as the executive branch of government is concerned, this is no longer an issue; the smoke ban is a fait accompli.

In the Division of Environmen­tal Quality, just like all other ex­ecutive branch offices, the no­smoking policy has been imposed inside the office and its premises in compliance with Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio's Directive No.168.

But the DEQ, and other offices for that matter, has to contend with the "good" as well as "not so good" effects of the policy, which took effect last Jan. 2.

The directive gives no consid­eration to smokers as smoking is banned in "any building, office, hallway, rest rooms, elevator, waiting area, or any other com­mon enclosed area controlled by

the executive branch ... and motor vehicles."

No smoking room or area has been designated in each office or building.

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Chechens seize Turkish ship TRABZON, Turkey (AP) -Masked gunmen from the rebel­lious Russian republic of Chechnya seized a Turkish ferry on Tuesday, killed one passenger and threat­ened to kill all the Russians on board, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency said.

A caller, claiming to be the leader of the gunmen, said in an interview on private Turkish television Chan­nel D that he would end the ferry hijacking if the Russians halted their fight with the Chechens in southern Russia.

"This is a warning to Yeltsin," the caller, who identified himself as Muhanuned, said in reference to Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Muhammed, speaking with the station over a cellular telephone, said no one has been killed or wounded in the seizure.

However, he said they would blow up the ship at the Bosporus

strait after freeing the Turkish pas­sengers if Russia continued the battle against the Chechen fighters.

The ferry sailed at about 9:45 p.m. (1945 GMT) with a Turkish patrol boat following it, Anatolia said. Muhammed, speaking fluent Turkish, said the ship was heading to Istanbul.

Gunmen closed the boarding gates but could not leave the port earlier because the ship's Turkish captain was hiding. But the attack­ers found Capt. Mustafa Tuncay and ordered him to leave, Anatolia said.

TuncayconfumedMuhanuned's account, saying the armed men fired into the air but did not kill or wound anybody. He added that they were being treated nicely.

Aydin Gene, the city's police chief radioed the boat and told Muhammed to return to Trabzon, Anatolia said.

Gene told the gunman that the ferry did not have enough fuel to reach Istanbul. The gunman re­sponded back by saying "our prob­lem is with Russia, we have no problems with the Turkish soci­ety."

Muhammed said he was not Turkish but of Caucasian origin. He said his group recognized Chechen rebel leader Kami! Basiyev as their leader. The ship, bound for Russia, was com­mandeered in the Black Sea port city ofTrabzon as Russian troops battled with Chechen separatists holding dozens ofhostages in south­ern Russia.

The governor of Trabzon told state television that 165 people were aboard the ferry - 120 pas­sengers and 45 crew members. It was not known how many Rus­sians were aboard.

Muhammed said there was no

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By JIM ABRAMS WASHING TON (AP)· A week after they were suspended, budget negotia­tions resume Wednesday between the White House and Republicans - but with more pre-meeting talk about the C0!1Se(luences of failtrre than any like­lihocxl of success.

Late Tuesday, U.S. House of Rep­r=ntatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole released a letter warning President Clinton that not only must he present a compromise acceptable to Republicans, he must persuade Democrats to back it as weU.

"In our meefing la,t week, (House) Minority Leader(Dick) Gephanltstatcd

attend the Wednesday afternoon meeting- even that had been uncer­tain - but was not optimistic about reaching an agreement on a seven­year balanced budget plan.

White House press secretary Mike McCurry said an agreement could be close but only if Republi­cans drop their insistence on re­structuring Medicare.

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that your latest proposal would be un­likely to getamajority ofHou.seDemo­crats," they wrote. "It is important that you pre.sent a proposal that can attract bipartisan support in Congress.''

They also said they were concerned with Clinton's suggestion the two sides agree on balanced-budget spending levels and postpone policy fights until after the election.

"As we have explained time and time again, the policy and reforms we have proposed in the entitle­ment areas are just as important as long-term budgetary restraint," Dole and Gingrich said.

Senate moderates, meanwhile, are urging the negotiators not to

said. "They are now apparently af­ter something else; they want a fun­damental entitlements reform.''

At least this time, McCurry said, the talks are going forward with little threat of another government­crippling shutdown.

Talks between Clinton and Re­publican leaders were broken off a week ago with the two sides di­vided on a formula for a balanced budget that would include savings from Medicare, Medicaid and wel­fare and a tax cut.

Clinton has suggested that they agree on broad numbers and put off until the November election the tougher issues of how to change the shape of major programs such as Medicare.

\ Clinton job approval rating dips ·. WASHINGTON (AP) -I President Clinton's job rat­I ing remains slightly more

I negative than the majority approval he enjoyed in No­vember and December, ac­cording to a poll released Tuesday.

While 46 percent approve of Clinton's performance, 4 7 · percent disapprove, accord­ing to the CNN-USA Today­Gallup poll taken Friday through Monday. In three Clallup polls. late last year, Clinton's approval rating ranged from 51 percent to 53 percent, but it slid to 42 per­cent in early January just be­fore a partial truce in the fed­eral budget battle.

Those polled were more likely to have a favorable opin­ion of Clinton than an unfa­vorable view, by 54 percent to 44 percent. But Hillary Rodham Clinton's favorability rating, which was once as high as 61 percent, has slipped to 43 percent, with 51 percent viewing the president's wife unfavorably as she deals with questions about her role in the Whitewater and travel office in vcstigations.

Among Republican voters nationwide, support for Sen­ate Majority Leader Bob Dole remains as high as ever at 55 percent, compared with I 2 percent for his nearest com-

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petitor for the nomination, publisher Steve Forbes. Other Republican candidates are in single digits.

panic on the ship, and that passen­gers would be allowed off in Istanbul.

In exchanges over loudspeak­ers with Turkey's coastguard, the gunmen earlier asked for a cap­tain so they could leave immedi­ately and threatened to kill a Rus­sian every 10 minutes until their demand was met, the agency re­ported.

Six armed men firing automatic rifles seized the Panamanian­flagged Avrasya on Tuesday evening, 90 minutes before it was to leave for the Russian port city of Sochi, Alaaddin Yuksel, the governor of Trabzon, told state television.

Anatolia said there were about 20 gunmen, and that they shouted slogans demanding freedom for Chechnya. Police shut the port to traffic.

But, Muhammed said they were 50 armed men, adding tney have explosives.

A Russian woman who escaped shortly before the armed men closed the boarding gates said there were several wounded

people on the ship. Nadia Naskova told Anatolia that the assailants ordered the Russians to gather, then started beating them.

Naskovasaidtheattackerswere speaking in Turkish and Russian, and she overheard them saying they would not harm Turks. .

Predominantly Muslim Turkey sympathizes with the 3-yeardrive for independence in Chechnya, a largely Muslim republic in the Caucasus Mountains. However, Turkey has maintained a relatively low profile to avoid harming rela­tions with Russia.

Eight million Turks. are of Cau­casian origin; there is a Chechen community of about 25,000 in Turkey.

The recent crisis with the Chechens in Russia began Jan. 9, when the rebels slipped past bor­der guards and seized hostages in Kizlyarto dramatize their demand for a Russian troop withdrawal from Chechnya. Russian troops poured into Chechnya in December 1994. About 30,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the fighting. ·

Murayama reelected Socialist Party head TOKYO (AP) - Tomiichi Murayama, whoresignedsuddenly as Japan's prime minister Jan. 5, will be staying on the political front lines for a while longer.

Murayama has been re-elected chairman of the ruling coalition's Socialist party, according to results announced Tuesday, giving him re­sponsibility for leading the party through what may be its final months. ·

The 71-year-old Murayama eas­ilydefeatedhisonlyopponent, little­known legislator Tadatoshi Ak.iba, 57,59 I votes to I 0,440 in the bal­loting Sunday and Monday by So­cialist party members.

The left-leaning party is known in Japanese as the Japan Socialist Party, but it insists on being called in English the Social Democratic Party of Japan - an indication of the ideological splits that have plagued the party for its entire 50-year ex­istence.

Socialists used to oppose the U.S.-Japan military alliance and insist thatJapan's military was un­constitutional. But the party re­ve~sed those views and almost all of i"ts other long-time policies after Murayama became prime minister in 1994 in a coalition with the con­servative Liberal Democratic Party.

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"I will give every effort to build­ing a new political force as quickly as possible - a political party that is capable of taking on the reins of government," Murayama told a press conference Tuesday after his re-election.

-~West Bank shooting HALHOUL, West Bank (AP) -Shots were fired at Israeli soldiers at a West Bank intersection north of Hebron, Israel radio said Tues­day night. Two people were hos­pitalized, but their condition was unknown.

A white car at the scene was riddled with bullets, its windows shattered.

The army closed roads in the area, which is between Bethlehem and Hebron, and launched a large-

scale search. Army officials re­fused to release any information about the incident.

The shots were reportedly fired near the Palestinian village Halhoul, on the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron. The Hebron region is the only major Palestin­ian-populated area of the West Bank still under Israeli control, contributing to high tensions there.

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Hillblom estate sees profits in Vietnam By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

LARRY Lee Hillblom's estate sooner get substantial benefits from the late businessman's com­pany in Vietnam a,s all its projects will be in full operations this year.

In a court document, James J. Dennis, executive director for Hillblom's Danao International Holdings Ltd., toldBankofSaipan Vice President Joseph Waechter that Danao will generate cash flow in the first full year of operation.

Dennis said the profit is suffi­cient to meet the Vietnam Vest Limited debt service requirements as well as provide returns to the estate.

Dennis discussed the operation of the company projects as he explained the need of $8 million loan to Danao in order to com­plete all development activities.

One of Danao's projects, Riv­erside Apartments, is in partial operation, with 90 units being rented or under contract, he said.

Tenorio vetoes bill to set up deportation fund

By Rafael H. Arroyo Variety News Staff

GOVERNOR Froilan C. Tenorio has disapproved a bill that seeks to establish a sepa­rate fund to pay for the depor­tation of illegal aliens in the CNMI.

Senate Bill 9-188, authored by Sen. Ricardo S. Atalig dur­ing the Ninth CNMI Legisla­ture, was vetoed by the gover­nor Monday owing to what he sees as funding problems.

"Pay.ing for alien deporta­tion is a serious and continu­ing problem. This bill will not really solve the problem," said Tenorio in his veto message to the House and Senate.

According to the governor, the .problem with the bill is that it does not provide any sources of revenue and that it merely earmarks money from existing fees and sets it aside in a special account.

The chief executive pointed out that he has always been opposed to the idea of ear­marking money.

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said. Under the bill, an alien de­

portation fund is to be created and shall be used by the De­partment of Labor and Immi­gration to detect and deport illegal aliens in the CNMI.

The fund is to be established by taking $25 from every initial application fee and from every renewal fee for non-resident worker permits.

Although he said he approves of the intent of the bill, Tenorio said new sources of revenue have to be found to fund the services mentioned in the legislation.

The remaining 94 units, Dennis claimed, will be completed this month and to be occupied fully by March.

He, however, stressed that Riv­erside requires no additional funds from the company.

Dennis mentioned that the other projects-The Dalat Palace Golf Course and the Hotel So ti tel Dalat Palace-are fully operational, going in a break-even basis.

The Novotel and Villas that comprise 225 additional hotel rooms are under renovation.

The project is expected to be completed by April and in full operation by May this year, Den­nis said.

Dennis emphasized that ap­proximately 50 percent of the borrowed funds will be utilized to complete the Dalat projects.

The balance of the borrowed funds, Dennis said, will be uti­lized to complete the Phan Thiet Hotel and golf course projects which will commence operations in April.

Although all projects will be fully operational this year, Den­nis said Danao will not derive the benefit of a full year of operation until 1997.

David J. Lujan, counsel for pe­titioner Kaelani Kinney, earlier opposed the $8 million loan.

He said Hillblom' s asset in Viet-

nam is in jeopardy because of a federal grand jury on Guam formed to investigate Danao.

Hillblom reportedly owned 90 percent of Danao.

The grand jury is probing whether Danao started the projects before the US lifted it, trade embargo against Vietnam.

Superior Court Presiding Judge . AlexandroCastrolastweekapproved the estate's petition for subordination of the estate's right, under the Loan Agreement and Security Agreement from Danao to Lazard Asia's Viet­narnlnvestmentFund, Vietnam Vest Limited, provided that the finalized agreement is presented to the court for review.

Burglar gets 2 years in jail By Ferdie de la Torre Variety News Staff

SUPERIOR Court Associate Judge Miguel Demapan gave yesterday two years' jail term to a man who broke into two houses and stole items last year.

Pursuant to a plea agreement, Demapan sentenced John Castro Pangelinan to 10 years' imprisonment, all suspended except two years.

The judge ordered Pangelinan to seek drug and alcohol counsel­ing and perform 400 hours of community work service.

Pangelinan was also required to pay restitution to all his vic­tims.

Pangelinan was charged with three counts of burglary and two counts of theft.

If convicted of the charges, he faces a maximum of 35 years' imprisonmentand$35,000 fine.

Pangelinan, through coun­sel Chief Public Defender Daniel DeRienzo, entered a plea agreement with the gov­ernment represented by As­sistant Atty. Gen. Yvonne

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two counts of burglary. The gov­ernment recommended· the dis­missal of the remaining charges.

Court information showed that Pangelinan was charged last Oct. 30 for breaking into an apartment occupied by Juanita Valeriano.

Valeriano found him inside

the apartment. A struggle en­sued.

Pangelinan was also charged last Nov. 22 for breaking into the residence of Vincent Kai pat.

Pangelinan took Kaipat's car keys and drove the vehicle. He then detached the stereo system and speakers from the car.

Nomination scheme to US military academies soon

By Rick Alberto Variety News Staff

A SCHEME whereby prospective scholars from the CNMI to various United States military academies would be selected yearly may soon be in place.

Under the scheme, the CNMJ's resident representative in Washing­ton would be authorized to appoint high school graduates from the North­ern Marianas to attend the military academies in the United States.

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"That particular authorization is in the defense authorization bill which is pending in the Congress upon reso­lution between the President and the Congress over their bigger issues of reformandbalancedbudget,"CNMI Washington Rep. Juan Babauta said.

He said that once the issues be­tween President Clinton and Con­gress are resolved, "then the appro­priations bill will come to the Presi­dent for signature."

Babauta, however, said a nomi­nated student will not necessarily be automatically admitted.

He said that '·if for some reason the student just doesn't qualify, then my nomination will not go."

"'!he final decision is the acL11is­sions board from the.: v:nious acad­emies," he said.

Newrthdess, he :,dckd, the nmni­nation "is a major skp tow:U'd getting into the academy.''

ln the event the defen;;c authoriza­tion bill becomes a law and he is subS("{Juently authorized, B :.ibautasaid he would work closely with the Pub­licSchool System and pri vatc high schools and ask the principals' help in "setting up criteria for selection."

The education of US cadets is fully subsidized as the academics are fully funded by the US Con­gress.

At present students from the CNMI apply to these academies· on their own.

The CNMI has more than a couple of West Point and Naval Academy graduates.

Workers do compacting job on the shoulder of As Terlaje Road in preparation for the continuing four-lane widening project for Chalan Msgr. Guerrero Highway.

These graduates, according to Babauta, studied in a special school which "qualified them to enter the academy."

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7fe1s }tllcwltntflS By: John De/Rosario

MASEHA I tiempo didid' taftaf, esta guaha siha lologlug naan haye man interesao manmalago para gobietno gi otro sakan.

I ginen gobietnota pot dos tetmino as Sefior Pete P. Tenorio ha manifesta interesfia malago talo para i siyan gobietno. Ha mente lokue' na kanaha' seguro na i Presidenten i Senate a~ Sefior Jesus R. Sablan (Pepero) para gachofigfia gi este na karera.

Unos kuantos dias dispues, ha annunsia lokue· si Senor Juan N. Babauta planufia malago para i mismo offisina. Hagas ha diskute este na piano yan i ha ayeg para gachofigfia as Speaker Diego Benavente. Lao este na piano buente ti u materialisa 'nai opan planon ginen gobietnota as Teno' na para u falago gi 1997.

I ginen gobietnota lokue as Sefior Larry Guerrero ha mente na gai interesgue' malago talo. Yangin ha dagao halom tihofigfia gi halom kolat redondo, humuyofig tres na kabayeros mafigarera pot para u madetetmina haye dipotsihe i kandidaton pattidan republican para i mas tatkilo na puesto. Teug na inasoda' gi entalo' tres na higanten politika.

Y angin ta atan tatte i estorian kada uno gi entre tres kabayeros, klaro na i ginen gobietnota as Teno' solu chumage malofan gi dos eleksion pattida (primary). Fuera ha' de ha gana ennao na inasoda, ha gana lokue' i uttimo na eleksion linahyan para gobietno. Dispues de pumara gumobietno, ha kontinua bumesita i taotao siha gi megai na chechokomunida, finatai yan otro siha man namagof na okasion. Ti magtos sinattonfia gi taotaota guine.

I ginen gobietnota lokue' as Larry Guerrero ha konsige i mismo chalan gi rinikonosen sentimenton publiko. Maseha ha birague' tatte gi hagas bisnesfia (praibet), ha kontinua bumesita i man dima!as, pinite osino fina' magof na okasfon gi taotaota. Lean' gi checho linahyan ayo min a' manae' onru komo tatan tan.o dispues de humuyofig si Governor Tenorio. Lao finagchae' dimalas 'nai u makontra yan i presente na gobietnota as Froilan C. Tenorio.

I atufigo'ta as Juan N. Babauta mafietbe komo senadot ya guiya rumepresesenta hit pago giya Washington pot segundo tetmino. Ha ekspressia na dafigkulo lokue' interesiia mafietbe ayo min a' ha atrebi humatme este na inasoda'. Ginen u makontra yan ginen gobietnota as Larry Guerrero gi eleksion pattida (primary) kuatro afios malofan, lao dimalas. Gaige talo na man offrerese nu i setbisioii.a para i mas tatkilo na puesto guine.

Mientras i Republican sige ha kula este na teug asunto, gaige na i Democratic Party ha areregla lokue' halom gimafia para i sakan 1997. Esta monhayan ha annunsia si Governor Tenorio na ti para u falago talo. Este na disisionii.a hinatsa si Lt. Governor as Senor Jesse Borja komo heridero gi siyan primera kandidato para i Democratic Party. Lamegai na areglamiento debi u fan mapetsige gi preparasion para otro sakan. Debi u guaha mas man hoben mana' faiiaonao komo kandidato ya debi este na karera u inesgaiho11 pu i hagas kabayeros.

Guaha 'nai.huhufigog palabras gi halom Republican na debi i hagas kabayeros u faiiuha gi un band a pot para u masede i man nuebo man halom. Este na pun to ti kombene sa' dipotsihe huegon politika mascnala par& ayo ha' i mangai sensia sensian lulog ya sin.a hafana' dibuenamente hafa ha petsisige gi entalo' didog na chubasko. Yangin drntseguro hao, pues maulegfia un seha osino hago ha' mismo para un huchom petmanente i appottunidatmo para i man mamamaila' siha na tiempo.

Hu hufigog lokue masafigan pot idat na sifia ha' problema i hagas kabayeros gi man hoben na botadot. Lao chatmiyo dumiskuekuenta na kontodo hagas kabayeros daii.gkulo familian niha 'nai manasaonao lokue' man hoben siha na botadot.

Este kumarera para i prim et offisinan publiko hana' hahasoyo' un fino' biblia: "Megai man ma 'agafig, lao ti to dos man ma'ayeg". Sii'la ha' ilelegmo na ma'agafig hao. I para un ma' ayeg, matto gi kanifes chansamo sa' ennao na disposision mafato ginen hilo'. Kada uno gi entre hita guaha manaifia. Yangin un sen kula hafa manaimo, siempre u fato ayo na hinimidde giya hago i para un nafigga hafa madisponimo ginen hilo'. Fanayuyo~ pa yangin hago ma'ayeg, u guaha kabales na inadahe gi todo un petsige gi checho' linahyan pot para satbasion taotaomo. Yangin para un saonao pot para un banidosu.ye i siya, maulegiia un aligao-yo' giya As Gonno' ya guaho ha' bai' Iasguiye hao siyamo siyan ifit. Si Yuus Maase yan Ghilisow !

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Vietnam honors pioneering Frenchman By KA THY WILHELM

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The stone monument hon­ored a Frenchman, so the Vietnamese took it down after winning independence.

For three decades it lay in the mud at the edge of the Red River, a handy platfonn for women washing laun­dry, until a history buff rescued it.

Now Vietnam is preparing again to pay tribute to Alexander de Rhodes, the 17th century Jesuit mission­aiy who helped devise an easy-to-learn writing system for Vietnamese to replace the Chinese characters used for centuries.

'This is a small thing but it shows a change in Vietnamese people's perceptions,'' said Duong T rung Quoc, general secretary of the Association of Vietnam Historians.

"lt says we have to respect some things from the past. To some extent it also shows the openness of Vietnam. that the exchange of culture among countries ha, gained importance."

The idea of honoring a priest and advocate of colonial rulewa, anathema to Vietnam 'sCommunistleadersnot too many years ago.

The French had put up the I SO-centimeters tall (6-foot-tall)memorial stone in central Hanoi in 1941.North Vietnam' sgovenunent tore it down in 1957 and changed streets named after him.

'Theydidn 'teal! him an enemy, but they saidhedidn 't deserve this respect," said Quoc.

But in the post-Cold War world, an increasingly confident and outward-looking Viemam is ready to make a more measured a,sessment of the pluses and minuses of its French inheritance.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City, known as Saigon when it was the capital of South Vietnam, recently restored Rhodes' name to a three-block street in the city center that leads to the former Presidential Palace. The only other foreigner honored with a street name is Louis Pa,teur, inventor of the rnbics vaccine.

Quoc said officials have decided to erect the stone memorial to Rhodes in the garrlen of the National Library in Hanoi.

Rhodes arrived in Vietnam in 1624 aboard a trn<.ling ship,partofthefirstwaveofEuropean missionaries in East Asia. He quickly learned the language and wanted to distribute religious materials in Viet­namese, but found few ordinary people understood the intricate Chinese characters in official use.

Local writers had already begun adapting the characters to reflect Vietnanfese pronunciation and grammar. Some of Vietnam's greatest poems and

novels were written in this homemade system, but it was never standardized and readers still had to learn thou­sands of ideographs. Rhodes' solution was.to use the Latin alphabet. Two Portuguese had begun the task of romanizing Vietnamese. Rhodes developed it further and produced a dictionary that some historians call the first work in "quoc ngu'' - roughly pronounced "qua wk nyu ·' - the writing system use

d today. France seized Vietnam in the 19th century and began

promoting quoc ngu, hoping to reduce the influence of China, Vietnam's overlord until the 10th century.

But quoc ngu didn't catch on in a big way until early this centwy, when Vietnamese nationalist, saw it as a means to reach the masses. Peasants and workers could learn the alphabet in a few weeks and be reading simple political tracts in months. The French invention became a tool against French rule.

Not everyone agrees the time is ripe to re-erect the Rhodes stele. Historian Duong Kinh Quoc, unrelated to

· the other Quoc, said it's not yet clear how much of quoc ngu wa, invented by Rhodes and how much by his Portuguese prede;;essors and later Vietnamese scholars.

He also said Rhodes' motives were dubious. The historian quoted from Rhodes' writings on Viet­

nam: 'This is a location we have to take over. If we can take it over, European traders will find a rich source of benefits and natural resources."

Hesuggestsasupplementaryplaquebemountedwith the memorial to put Rhodes in historical context

This debate may delay the stone's restoration. But it should be in place well before Hanoi makes another bow toward its colonial heritage by holding the 1997 Francophone summit, a biannual gathering of about 40 countries to promote the French language.

Meanwhile, in a small research imtitute across Hanoi, Phan Van Cac salvages Vietnam's pre-quoc ngu heri­tage. His Sino-Norn Institute transcribes historical and liicrary works from Chinese characters to modem Viet­namese, making them accessible to today's genera­tions. Aside from a few hundred scholars and Vietnam's approximately I million ethnic Chi­nese, hardly any Vietnamese read Chinese charac­ters.

But the graceful characters remain part of the country's artistic heritage, decorating tens of thou­sands of old temples and pagodas.

"Looking at them is like looking at a painting," said Cac. "We can't restore the old characters. But if inscrip­tions in the temples were in the Latin alphabet, it would be boring."

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· ng Office receives donation AF1ER a four-year hiatus, the staff of a big software company from Japan resumed itsyearly visit to Saipan.

While on vacation on the island, the Able Corp. Ltd. also sponsored this year's ground gold toWTiament of the ManArnkos.

Aging Center Director Jose Deleon Guerrero received_ Tuesday night the check amounting to ¥ I million ($10,<XXl) from the company's presi­dent Toshinori Kumagai.

Lt.Gov.JesusBorjawasalsopresent during the rumover of the donation at the Dai-Ichi Hotel.

Managers and employees of Able C.Orp.hadbeenregularvisitorsofSaipan for IO years. The company stopped the yearly visit in 1991 but no reason was mentioned for the break.

It ~as believed that the drop in the nwnber of Japanese tourists was an aftermath of recession in Japan in that year.

Ina brief speech beforetheJapanese audience, Borja told the visitors to "tell us if there are faults that we need to be corrected."

Saipan has a lot to offer, Borja said,

citing for example "the warm weather, white sandy beaches, clear water as well as the warmth and hospitality of the people. These qualities will make you come back again and again."

He urged them to continue visiting Saipan every year.

Only a few in the audienc.e could speak and understand English. They are officers and employees of Able Corp. Lid. and other affiliated companies.

Inaninterview,BorjasaidtheCNMI has too much to be grateful to Japanese visitors. There were some 190 of them.

'They came for a vacation and I'm happy just for that fact," Borja said. "I don't how to properly thank them for their generosity."

Aside from the¥ I million check, the Aging Center received additional do­nations from the winnings of the em­ployees who joined the social bingo held also at the hotel before the turnover ceremony.

The money donated to the Aging Center will be used for the purchase of equipment and various items !1eeded for the Man Amko' s golf tournament

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AG probes 'car abuse' A 35.c YEAR-OLD woman was cited for alleged misuse of a government vehicle in Garapan Tuesday night.

Acting Public Information Officer Sgt. Edward Manalili said a police officer stopped the woman on board a car belonging to the Emergency Management Office near the Northern Marianas Housing Corp. office.

Manalili said initial investi­gations showed that the woman was using the car with a family member.

The case was forwarded to the Attorney General's Office.

Violating the law on gov­ernment vehicle misuse as re­pealed and reenacted by Pub­I ic Law 9-3 7, carries a maxi­mum penalty of three days' imprisonment and $500 fine.

In another police report, two persons were arrested for fighting at Hafa Adai Beach Hotel in Garapan Tuesday night.

Arrested were Zhang Hong, 33, of Garapan, and Kwon Young Mo, 22, of San Anto­nio.

Hong claimed that while he was standing in front of the hotel pass­ing pamphlets to tourists, Mo ap­proached and walked away with some tourists.

Hong said he followed near the hotel lobby, but Mo struck him.

Mo on the other hand, filed a counter complaint.

Mo said he arrived at the hotel to drop the customers when Hong approached and suddenly punched him for no apparent reasons. (FOT)

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Court OKs motion to talke hair samples from rape suspect

By Ferdie de la Torra Variety News Staff

THESUPERIORCourtgranted yesterday a motion allowing the government to obtain hair samplesforcornparison test from amanaccusedofrapingawoman last year.

Associate Judge Miguel Demapan approved the Attor­ney General's Office motion seeking to get hair specimen from Edwin P. Blas which to be compared by a scientific labora­tory with the evidence found at the crime scene.

Assistant Atty. Gen. Yvonne

0. Lee said the police seized hu­man hair strands and blood stains when they searched the place where the rape happened.

Blas was charged with two counts of rape with special cir­cumstances, three counts of as­sault and battery, assault with a dangerous weapon, and burglary.

Court information showed that Blas, armed with a knife, broke into the victim's residence last No­vember.

Blas punched the victim on the face. At knifepoint, he sexually abused her, said the information.

Blas, through counsel Assistant

Public Defender Ted Christo­pher, lastmonthfiledamotion tel . dismiss the care citing that the government refused to state ine· victim's name and identify her only in the complaint through initials. • • '• O

Demapan,however,deniedihe motion, saying there is no re­quirement that the government be made to fully disclose the victim's name in an infonnation.

The judge said the ruling does not mean that the government may deny the defendant the full name of the alleged victim dur­ing the discovery phase_ .

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CRM lays groundwork for retrieval of plane wreck

'_fenorio_ amends, reorg, plan.: GOVERNORFroilanC. Tenorio ha, issued a new executive order meant to improve on the setup of govern­ment he implemented under a previ­ous reorganization.

In a letter yesterday to Senate Presi­dent Jesus R. Sablan and House Speaker Diego T.Benavente, Tenorio transmitted Executive Order %-l to amendE.0.94-3,thegovemor'ssec­ond reorganization plan of 1994.

'The amendments in this Exe.:::u­tive Order are designed to fine-tune the reorganization and further pro­mote the efficient administration of our government," the governor said in a news release.

He pointed out that the reorganmi­tion has been working well for the most part, but that it will be even better with these amendmenL,.

Among changes of particular note are:

-Restorationofcertainauthorityto the Civil Service Commission.

-Regularization of existing ex­cepted service employment.

-Provision of safeguards and limi-

tations for future excepted service contracts.

-Greater autonomy for the Com­monwealth Utilities Corporation, in­cluding removing the Secretary of Finance and the Special A,sistant for Management and Budget from iL, Board of Directors.

-Restoration of the Board of Pro­fessional Licensing and the Histori­cal PreseIVation Review Board to their previous status.

-Fishing in the 200 mile Exclusive &anomic Z.One will be subject to law, rather than a 1981 executive order.

-Administration of the government health and life insurance programs by the Retirement Fund, with the government, not the Retirement Fund continuing to be liable for the liabili­ties of these programs.

The Governor said he looks for­ward to the implementation of these provisions after the (i()..day waiting period, and to working with the leg­islature to further improve the work­ings of government

By Rick Alberto posal, "satisfactorily demon-Variety News Staff strated his strong qualifications

CONCERNED agencies have to conduct this (assessment) work started laying the groundwork for due to his unique combination of the eventual retrieval of a Japa- work skills." nese warplane wreckage. Aside from being a certified

Representatives from the salvage diver, Collins, according Coastal Resources Management, to the CRM, has a "high" knowl-the Department of Lands and edge of aircraft mechanics and Natural Resources, the Historic historic aircraft. PreservationOffice,andtheCom- Collins has accordingly an ex-monwealth Ports Authority met perience with underwater diving late last month with diver Daniel in Saipan Harbor under very low Collins, who discovered the visibility conditions as well as wreckage buried 30 feet under the experience in "developing tech-sea in Tanapag Harbor in 1994. nical diagrams from carefully

Danielhasbeentappedtore-locate measured underwater observa-the wreck and assess the plane's tions." condition. The initial assessment work will be

The plane has been described funded by the CRM. asaJapaneseWorldWarllfighter Collins has offered a discounted

according to Collins, is almost intact, has not been pinpointed yet

According to the CRM, this would be tackled after the assessment worlc is completed and the actual condition of the plane is determined

During the meeting twosectionsof the plane's ailerons were displayed

The meeting was also attended by a representative from the EFC engi­neering and architectural consulting finn which is involved in the dredg­ing workfortheSaipanHarborproject.

'1twasdcterminedthatthe(wreck­age) site is not under any immediate threat by the harbor improvement work," the CRM said.

The assessment worlc will also en­tail getting the services of govern­ment divers and trained captains that will man CRM and DLNR boats.

NO excise. . . Continued from page 1 aircraft. hourly rate, which was not disclosed.

According to the CRM, Collins, The source of the funding for the According to Collins, the wreck­

age area has a quite low visibility or "is dark like midnight" Ayuyu, for his part, agreed to the

proposal to consolidate taxes. How­ever, he cited some possible repercus­sions such as loss of revenue.

"That's one issue that we will be discussing" Ayuyusaid. "Wewillhave to maice· some adjustments in other places where we have taxes."

One option, he said, is to "increase or double the taxsources--thatmeans we have to tax things that are not taxed right now."

The idea of eliminating excise taxes on all items may not be sound, accord­ing tb Ayuyu.

Fuel tax, for instance, should not be

taken off, the task force chief said. Fuel tax is in place in the United States.

The government, A yuyu said, has to fmd a way to offset any repercussions of tax consolidation.

"If we' re making $1 million in ex­cise taxes and if we consolidate them, it

' translates to a Joss of $500,CXXJ," he explained, 'That will have to be made up in some places."

Among the possible tariiets would be sale tax, corporate tax and BGRT.

'Those rates may go up slightly andmaygoacrosstheboard," Ayuyu said. "We're looking at all possibili­ties; nothing is closed at this point."

based on his assessment work pro- actual retrieval of the plane which,

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While in Louisiana, the governor is expected to swing by the shipyard where the planned floating casino of Y oshiya Philippines is undergoing con­struction.

Yoshiya Phils., a subsidiary of a Japanese gaming corporation, is plan­ning to bring over to the CNMI a $25 million casino ship which will operate off the waters ofTinian.

The ship's construction is expected

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compelled to go out of the building or totally abstain from cigarets.

"Someofourstaff smoke, but there is absolutely no smoking in our of­fice,"DEQ Director John I. Castro Jr. told the Variety.

Castro claimed the DEQ, housed on the third floorofMorgen building along Beach Road, had been a no­smoking zone even before the policy tookeffecL

Smokers from the DEQ have to go down four flights of stairs to do their thing outside the building.

Employees used to smoke just be­side the stairway on the third floor just outside the office, but according to Castro "since the new year, we re­moved all the ash trays."

The "not so good effect" of the policy insofar as the DEQ is con­cerned is this: It takes about three minutes to go down to the ground floor to smoke and climb up to report back to work, and another seven min­utes to finish a stick.

If one smokes six times during the working day, a smoker would have lessened his worktime to only seven hours, with the one hour smoked away, Castro pointed out.

"I think that people should com­pletely stop smoking," he said.

Out of its ]0 employees, the DEQ hasonlyfoursmokers,accordingtoa COWJt made by an official.

to finish by March in time for aJuneor JulyinaugurationonTinian,saidL!oyd.

Last week, Lt. Gov. Jesus C. Borja was in Manila to attend a gathering hosted by YoshiyaforCNMI and Palau officials.

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Cops raid Manila Muslim enclave By ROMY TANGBAWAN

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -Demolition teams tore down shan­ties in a Muslim enclave in the heart of Manila on Tuesday, expel­ling thousands of people as part of a program to rid the national capital of squatters. With more than 300 policemen standing guard, blue­helmeted crews descended on the

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tal. In a letter to Speaker Diego T.

Benavente, acting Medical Affairs director Beth Fox said any delay in repealing the law or giving the ex­emption will continue to compro­mise health care delivery.

Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio had ear­lier submitted requested legislation to repeal the restriction altogether.

In an interview Monday, Tenorio said he would veto the legislation if it only seeks to extend the hiring

shanties early in the morning. Within several hours, the streets and a wateIWay in the notorious Quiapo district were clear opening up a view of the Manila Golden Mosque and Cultural Center.

Researchers say more than a third of metropolitan Manila's popula­tion of 7 million are squatting, or illegally occupying government or

period for agencies. In passing the bill, House mem­

bers recognize that there is not yet a sufficient locally available labor pool to supply the professional and technical needs of some of these Commonwealth agencies.

They however, remained cogni­zant of the need to maintain as a matter of policy the rule that such agencies should eventually phase out their reliance on non-resident labor.

Thus, the legislation would re­quire each government entity to develop a comprehensive man­power training and education plan

private land. Government officials say they are removing the squatters to give slum dwellers a decent and safer place to live. But critics say the government wants to remove eyesores at the expense of the ur­ban poor.

"We are going to make this a safe and better place not only for the residents but for tourists as well,"

geared towards replacing non-resi­dent staff with local or US citizens.

In addition, the measure pro­vides that no non-resident worker certificate shall be issued or re­newed for any position in gov­ernment unless the Office of Per­sonnel Management, the presi­dent of NMC, or the Commis­sioner of Education, as the case may be, certifies that no resiJent workers are available to fill the position.

Also, the bill will prohibit hiring through manpower agencies mean­ing only direct hiring by govern­ment is allowable.

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said Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, a fonner police general who started his career patrolling the streets of Quiapo.

Tuesday's demolition lacked the violence that marred the clear­ing of the Smokey Mountain squatter area in Manila's Tondo district last November, largely because of prior negotiations be­tween Lim and local representa­tives.

One person was killed and more than 20 people were hurt in Smokey Mountain - named after a notorious burning garbage dump -when residents used guns, knives, arrows and slingshots in an at­tempt to halt the demolition.

Built in the late 1960s by then first lady Imelda Marcos, the Golden Mosque has attracted Muslims from various ethnic groups in the southern Philippines

mainly ·· Maranaos, Maguindanaos and Tausugs.

But as shanties sprang up on surrounding streets, the· area be­came known for drug dealing and

gunrunning. Since 1987, at least 17 police­

men have been killed on its streets and many more people died in fights among criminals, police say.

City officials said at least 250 households were being moved, mostly to temporary shelters in suburban Taguig city. Residents . said many households include two or three families and that the total number of displaced people could reach 4,000.

Although peaceful, the demoli­tion betrayed rivalries among the ethnic Muslim groups, with the Tausug and Maguindanao saying the Maranaos were unfairly being allowed to stay longer in their portion of the neighborhood be­cause they were well represented in meetings with city officials. ·

"It's not true, do not believe them," said Datu Amero! Gularn Ambion, a Maranao who chairs the Metro Manila Muslim Peace and Order Coordinating Coun­cil.

: Manila ·i);ewsbriefs , . . . · Tight watch on prices IN AHANDWRITfENmemorandum,PresidentRamosdirectedtheDepart­mentofTradeandlndustry (DTI), theDepartmentofFmance(OOF), the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) "to tighten and intensify price monitoring, espe­cially in µiarkets, retail outlets, restaurants and hotels."

''Charge and penalize offenders, "the President said, indicating his displea­sure at the entrepreneurs and businessmen taldng advantage on the Extended Value Added Tax (EV An to impose additional charges on consumers.

Administrative charges against price Jaw violators may also lead to fines of Pl,000 to Pl million and sanctions such as temporary closure; reprimand; censure and suspension; and revocation or cancellation or pennits. Manila Bulletin

Martial law powers mulled A PROPOSAL to grant the government martial-law type powers to fight terrorism will be among the priority issues that will be tackled by senators when Congress resumes session next Monday, Senate Presi­dent Neptali Gonzales said.

Meanwhile, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile defended his proposed Anti­Terrorism Act, saying that the call for stronger measures against terrorism is worldwide, with organized violence now affecting almost all continents.

Gonzales said that aside from Enrile' s bill which allows wiretapping, the scrutiny of bank accounts and warrantless arrests of suspected terrorists, the Senate will also consider another anti-terrorism bill filed last year by Sen. Orlando Mercado.

Mercado is asking Congress to grant Malacanang summary powers of deportation, and punishment of foreigners involved in terrorism. The Philippine Star

RP Rifts maid ban on Singapore Tl;IE PHILIPPINES has decided to lift the ban on the sending of maids to Singapore, to take effect as soon as the two governments exchange envoys, embassy officials in Singapore said.

The move signals the full normalization of RP-Singapore relations that were badly strained by the March 17 hanging of Filipino maid Flor Contemplacion in the city-state on a double murder conviction. The Philippine Star

~Pope exhorts Filipino youth POPE JOHN Paul II urged Filipino youths and other young people of the world to commit themselves again to serve their communities in order to proclaim the dignity of every human being.

Th~ Pope's message was relayed by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardmal Angelo Sodano, and read by youth leader Rica Lavilla of Makati City at the start of the Mass during the closing ceremonies of the two-day World Youth Day Anniversary celebrations at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. Manila Bulletin

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NATO takes control of key utilities ~,; ~-rz.r •f.

U.S. troops listen as they receive instructions about deactivating /and-mines from an unidentified officer in the U.S. military base near Srebrenik 20 miles north of Tuz/a Thursday. AP

By GEORGE JAHN SARAJEVO, Bosnia­Herzegovina (AP) - Alarmed by Serb threats to leave their parts of Sarajevo stripped bare and burn­ing, the commander of NA TO in Bosnia sent troops Tuesday to guard key water, gas and power stations in the Bosnian capital.

F.rench troops who took control of the four utilities stations with 150 troops, 30 armored personnel carriers and 10 light tanks en­countered no resistance -a sign that the heavily armed NATO forces command respect.

NATO officials said hostile armies across Bosnia were on schedule in moving back from front lines as mandated by the peace agreement. They must cre­ate a4-.kilometer(2.4-mile) buffer zone by Friday.

But the second failure in two days to release prisoners of war, and lingering Croat-Muslim ten­sions in the divided city ofMostar, overshadowed NATO's suc­cesses.

NATO is not directly involved in prisoner,rele~ses or in normal­izing Mostar, though failure on those two fronts could jeopardize overall compliance. The hitches demonstrated that the hostile fac­tions have little respect for provi­sions of the peace agreement not directly enforced by its military might.

A swap involving about 900 prisoners, to have taken place Monday, was thwarted by persis­tent enmity and government de­mands that the Serbs account for thousands of missing people.

On Tuesday, nine !prisoners were to be released on the front line north of Gradacac, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Tuzla. Another group of about 17 was to have been released at the Sarajevo airport, but neither release took place.

Friday is also the deadline for all war prisoners to be released under the peace agreement brokered in Dayton, Ohio, and signed in Paris Dec. 14. Navy Capt. Mark van Dyke, a NATO spokesman, said failure to com­ply on the releases would consti­tute a "certain fraying'' of the peace accord.

In Mostar, 60 kilometers (35 miles) southwest of Sarajevo, Muslims and Croats cannot agree on a unified police force and re­unifying their sectors. The distrust, a legacy of near! y a year of bitter fighting in 1993, threat­ens to scuttle the Muslim-Croat federation, a cornerstone of the peace agreement.

The federation is supposed to control 51 percent of Bosnia un­der the peace pact. If it disinte­grates, Serbs will have few ob­stacles in linking their section of

Bosnia to Serbia proper. Adm. Leighton Smith, the

American commanding the NATO-led Bosnian peace force, expressed dissatisfaction with the failed prisoner releases and said it was not NATO's job to enforce all treaty provisions.

He said NATO was not there to "beat up on people with bombs and guns."

"I cannot bring peace to the Balkans," Smith said.

He called reports of mass graves containing victims of Serb geno­cide in northwestern Bosnia "ter­rible, terrible tragedies" but said they were outside NATO's pur­view.

"My job does not incorporate investigations ofhuman tragedies and investigation~ of war crimes,'' he said. Smith said he was ready to help provide security for rights organizations researching the re­ports, but not yet. His 60,000-strong force is only at little more than half-strength.

Withdrawals, however, were going well.

On Tuesday morning, French NATO troops confirmed that Serbs had abandoned the last checkpoint on the main road east out of Sarajevo toward the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale and on toward the Serbian capital of Belgrade.

But Smith said he was worried

Yeltsin, Kuchma meet in Kremlin MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin met Tuesday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Leonid Kuchma, to discuss improving relations betw~en the two former So­viet republics.

Both presidents supported strengthening economic ties and signed an agreement to set up a joint economic coop­eration commission to be co-

chaired by their two prime ministers, news reports said.

"This commission, which will seek to invigorate multi­faceted cooperation between the two count! ies, can be com­pared to similar commissions Russia has set up with the United States and France,'' Yeltsin' s aide for international affairs Dmitry Ryurikov told the Interfax news agency.

Yeltsin and Kuchma also re­affirmed their intention to sign a friendship and coopera~on agreement between Russia and Ukraine. They stressed the need to settle remaining dis­putes over the division of the Black Sea Fleet.

Russian and Ukrainian de­fense and foreign ministers also met in Moscow on Tues­day, according to Ryurikov.

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about the situation in Serb-held suburbs of Sarajevo.

In an uproar over peace plan provisions that call for reunifica­tion of the city under the rule of the Muslim-Croat federation, resi­dents there have threatened an exodus, saying they would take or destroy anything the other side could use.

Those who have left have burned dozens of houses and some, fearing desecration ofloved ones' graves, have exhumed bod­ies to carry with them. After ordering French NA TO troops to secure the utilities stations, Smith complained that the message to Serb residents to stay was not getting across.

He blamed both the Bosnian government and rebel Serb lead­ers for not doing enough to reas­sure people in Serb-held Sarajevo that they will be safe once the city is reunited March 19. .

"I want the information to get

across- "Folks, you've got to stay here," Smith said. At the same time, though, he seemed pessi­mistic, saying he expected up to 60percentoftheestirnated70,000 Serbs to leave the four suburbs they have to hand over.

He described the move to se­cure the utilities "protective cus­tody."

Meanwhile, a British aid worker was killed Tuesday when the truck she was driving in a convoy went off a road, a British news agency reported. Julie Jane Morrant from Surrey County in southern England died when the truck carrying fuel and school supplies went out of control and down an embank­ment, the Press Association said.

Morrant had been driving in a United Nations aid convoy near Podromanija for the In­ternational Rescue Commit­tee, the agency said.

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Kobe victims pray on anniversary By HIROSHI OTABE

KOBE, Japan (AP) - Earth­quake victims lit candles and offered silent prayers before dawn Wednesday at the precise moment when a devastating quake struck one year ago.

Residents of temporary hous­ing in the western port city of Kobe held a solemn memorial service with a moment of si­lence at 5:46 a.m., marking the time when the 7 .2-magnitude quake struck, killing more than 6,000 people.

About 1,500 people attended an overnight memorial concert, and about monks chanted

prayers. Other commemorations scheduled included eulogies by those who had lost family mem­bers, speeches by several promi­nent politicians, offers of flow­ers and the reading aloud of a child's essay on the quake.

The governor of Hyogo pre­fecture (state), Toshitami Kaihara, thanked volunteer workers and donors who helped victims of the quake, which left about 300,000 people homeless. About 90,000 people are still living in temporary housing or shelters.

Firefighters and the military conducted anti-disaster drills on

At quake's epicenter, rebuilding just begun

By MARI YAMAGUCHI HOKUDAN, Japan (AP) The earth of Awaji Island, the epicenter of the ferocious Kobe quake a year ago, still bears the scars.

Off a twisting coastal road, just past a small shrine, a nar­row track through a winter­fallow rice field is ripped by a yawning crack more than a meter (yard) wide, filled with crumbling dirt.

"See this path?" says is­lander Tadayuki Katayama . "Tlie quake did that.'•

In this small farming and fishing village, everything was touched by the quake that struck just before dawn last Jan. 17. Nearly everyone knew someone who was hurt or killed. Hardly a building was unscathed .

A few kilometers (meters) down the road from the quake­riven rice field, Ryuei Negita, the Buddhist priest at the True Fountain temple, knelt on a mat. drinking tea and talking about how he is trying to help quake victims recover.

He and his temple are vic­tims themselves. The structure was flattened by the quake, and he hopes it can be rebuilt. But so far, ail that·s been fixed is a single Buddha statue, which rests on the altar in a

wall in the big main hall. "It was so cold and frighten­

ing, one minute felt like an hour,'• she said.

Retired farmer Masao Kaji, 82, said he still can't sleep sometimes thinking about what happened to him on that early winter morning. His body was thrown into the air as he slept, then buried by fur­niture and pieces of the bro­ken wall.

"I still have difficulty going to sleep whenever I begin to remember how horrifying it was," Kaji said. A family member was killed, and of about 300 houses in his dis­trict, more than 200 were dam­aged.

Along with his fearful memories, though, Kaji is still moved by strangers' kindness in the quake's aftermath.

"People from neighboring prefectures (states) sent us relief food,'' he said. "I cried when I took the first bite into the rice ball - I've never for­gotten how good it tasted.''

He said the disaster had also brought him closer to his neighbors.

" started talking to people I had never spoken with before," he said.'' I have more friends now than I had before the quake."

But he doubts whether he can prefabricated-building-turned build a home like his old one. prayer hall.

"Many followers at the temple lost their homes, so we're not ready to talk about the temple reconstruction yet," he said. "The priority is to think how we can get some stability in our daily lives, and then we can start thinking about the temple. I have no idea how long that might take.''

In a tiny hollow just below the temple is a cluster of pre­fabricated huts where Negita's 65-year-old mother Yoshiko lives.

A year after the quake, her memories of it are still vivid . She was buried beneath col­umns and broken pieces of

"Our community still has along way to go," he said.

On the island's northern tip, 81-ycar-old Ayako Higashine lives in a temporary housing compound on a windswept bluff.

"l t · s real! y cold here!" she said. And the bathtub is tiny - I can't

move. These are my only plea­sures" - and she cracked a smile . showing off a cigarette in her apron pocket.

A former barber, she earns pocket money by cutting her neighbors· hair. But she, too, sees little chance of living as she did before the quake .

"But I should stop complain­ing," she said briskly. 'Tm fortunate compared to others who suffered more."

THERE'S NO HOPE 1~pOPE I

the anniversary. In the aftermath of last year's quake, authorities were sharply criticized for failing to move quickly enough with res­cue and relief efforts.

In the quake-hit Kobe suburb of Nishinomiya, soldiers dug at a mock-up of a wrecked home, car­ried stretchers and set up a triage tent. The Tokyo fire department mobilized I 8,000 firefighters for a drill.

After the quake, many foreign residents of Kobe said they were unable to get help and follow in­structions because of language problems. On Wednesday, a new FM radio program was inaugu­rated with broadcasts in six for­eign languages-Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, English and Tagalog.

Fires devastated the city center after the quake, and broken water lines left firefighters helplessly holding empty hoses while build­ings burned down before their eyes and residents screamed at them to help.

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Quake survivor Shinichi Sato, an antique and bric-a-brac collector, is surrounded by wares gathered from his earthquake-shattered store, in his makeshift dwelling in a Kobe, Japan park. A year after the earth­quake that killed more than 6,000 people, the city is far from recovery.

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Black jurors in Simpson trial say:

'Fuhrman was key to verdict' By MICHAEL FLEEMAN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - From the moment the forewoman of the O.J. Simpson jury saw Mark Fuhrman, she thought he was a "snake.·'

And after hearing from him, she didn't believe a word he said.

"My first feeling when I saw him, he sort of looked like a Ku Klux Klan or a skinhead with hair," Armanda Cooley writes in the book "Madam Foreman," which comes out this week.

Jurors Carrie Bess and Marsha Rubin-Jackson col­laborated with Cooley on the book, which highlights the importance the former detec­tive played in the outcome of the trial.

"Fuhrman was the trial,'' Bess wrote. "Fuhrman found the hat. Fuhrman found the glove. Fuhrman found the blood. Fuhrman went over the gate. Fuhrman did everything. When you throw it out, what case do you have? You've got reasonable doubt right before you even get to the criminalists.'' Fuhrman, the first detective to arrive at the murder scene, was por­trayed by the defense as a rac­ist who tried to frame Simpson, the former football star. The mostly black jury was played an excerpt from a tape of Fuhrman uttering a racial slur.

But in "Madam Foreman," the three black jurors denied race played a role in their

thinking and contended their speedy not-guilty verdict was shaped mostly by their lack of confidence in the police and the evidence they handled.

Two of the three jurors also told "Dateline NBC" that bad they been sitting in a ci vii trial, where decisions are based on the lesser standard of a "pre­ponderance of evidence,'' they would have found Simpson guilty.

"Given that standard and based on the amount of evi­dence that was presented, ... then yes, you would have lo say that yes, he is guilty," said Cooley in an interview for broadcast Tuesday night.

'Tm standing by my ver­dict,'' Rubin-Jackson added. "But based on what I've heard

since I've been out, I would have to vote guilty" in a civil trial.

In the book, the women say they saw prosecutor Christo­pher Darden as a token black placed at the counsel table by the district attorney's office.

And they downplayed the importance of the courtroom demonstration in which Simpson seemingly struggled to pull on the gloves.

The 237-page "Madam Foreman" is the latest Simpson-related book pub­lished by Dove Books, which also put out books by two ousted jurors and by Nicole Brown Simpson's friend Faye Resnick.

A version will be available on audiotape and features the

voices'of the authors. Cefoley said although she

didn't I ike Fuhrman at first, his initial testimony "did not look good for OJ." But as Fuhrman underwent cross-ex­amination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, his demeanor changed, said Cooley, the ju­ror who sat closest to the wit­ness box.

"His breathing patterns shifted and, from where I was sitting, you could see him squirming. You could see the tension in his hands," she wrote. "Fuhrman kept push­ing his feet up against the back board of the stand. You could tell there was just a little an­ger building up in him. I'm thinking, "This man is lying."

The jurors also disliked the lead detective in the case, Philip Vannatter. They said they believed he was lying when he said he didn't ini­tially consider Simpson a sus­pect the morning after. the murders of Ms. Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Indian tribe in Oklahoma sues US gov't

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHJNGTON(AP)-Blackmem­bers of an American Indian tribe sued the goverrunent Tuesday, alleging they were denied money from a compensa­tion fund because of their race.

The class-action suit asks that the BW"eau of Indian Affairs declare the plaintiffs "legally indistinguishable" from the non-black members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

The plaintiffs are descendams of black slaves who tle.d to Florida and intermingled with the Seminole Indi­ans in the 1800s. They are seeking their share of money setasidetocompensate the tribe after the U.S. government took away its land.-

"We intend to right this wrong," said Franklin Velie of New York, one of the lawyers handling the case on behalfoftheapprox.imately l,500black members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

The suit also seeks access to about $35 million in the compensatory fund established in 1976, plus lawyers' fees and other costs.

Stephanie Hanna, a sp:ikeswoman forthelnteriorDepartment, which over­sees the B=u of Indian Affairs, de­clined tocommentonthesuit Known as the Estelusti Seminoles, the plain­tiffs are descendants of black fugitives of plantations in the South and the Caribbean who fled to Florida, where they joine.d the Seminoles in the 18th and 19th centuries. Afterwarwith the United States in the 1820s and 1830s, the government took away the Seminoles' land in Florida and forced them to resettle in what is now Okla­homa, lawyers said.

In 1976, theyearCongressappmpri­ated money for the compensation fund, the Indian Affairs Bureau said the tribe's black members were ineligible to share in it because the agency considered them slaves -not land owners - at the time the government seized the Florida land.

• THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1996 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-13

Microsoft buys software firm By RORY MARSHALL

SEATTLE (AP) - Aiming for what it considers a potentially huge market, Microsoft said Tuesday it has acquired Vermeer Technologies Inc. and its flagship product to let average computer users cre­ate full World Wide Web sites with ease. . The acquisition took place Just months after Microsoft enginf!ers -working to create their own Web pages - discov­ered Vermeer's FrontPage program. At the time Microsoft was thinking abou~ starting a similar product. "We were incredibly im­pressed,'' said Chris Peters vice president of Microsoft'; Web-authoring product unit. "Not only was it what we were imagining for the prod­uct, it was better in many ways.''

For their part, Vermeer of­ficials were "kind of amazed an~ v.ery happy that they (Microsoft executives) seemed to get that this Web authgring is really for the mass ·market," said Randy Forgaard, a co-founder of Vermeer. "It's not just for the ivory-tower types.''

Terms of the all-stock deal were not disclosed. It is the latest in Microsoft's suddenly infense foray into Internet software.

The World Wide Web por­tion of the Internet has be­come popular because infor­mation _ including graphics, sound and moving images - on computers connected to the

Web can be easily linked to­gether.

FrontPage allows the user to approach creation of a Web site like the creation of a book - moving information from one Web "page'' to another and providing an overview of the various connections between pages .

In a statement, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said FrontP~ge fills a gap in the software market between simple programs that add a key Web feature called "hypertext" to ordinary word processing documents, and complex Web publishing sys­tems that cost thousands of dollars.

For now, however, FrontPage will be sold sepa­rately rather than packaged with its popular Microsoft Office suite of programs. Companies that want employ­ees to contribute to internal or "intranet'' webs, or th; broader World Wide Web would need both Office, which sells for $500 to $600, and FrontP~ge, which has a sug­gested price of $695.

The price will likely come down over time and some FrontPage features will be in­corporated in other Microsoft programs.

Vermeer is a privately owned company in Cam­bridge, Massachusetts, that was started in April 1994 to make software for people to produce Web pages without complicated programming. Virtually all of the company's

Abbott Laboratories profits up by 10% NORTH CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) . Abbott Laboratories ~aid Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings jumped 10 percent, m part because of strong gains in sales of its pharmaceutical and.nutritional products.

~or the three months ended Dec. 31, income rose to $ 465 .4 , mdlion,,or 59 cents a share, from $422.5 million, or 53 cents a share, the comparable period a year earlier.

Revenue rose 5 percent to $2.60 billion from $2.48 billion a year previous. . The report was in line with Wall Street analyst expecta­

tions. Federal Drug Administration approval of several drugs used in the treatment of AIDS, prostate cancer, manic depression and schizophrenia contributed to strong gains throughout the year, sai:d Duane L. Burnham, Abbott chair­man and chief executive.

"Company performance for the year was strong despite challenging market conditions throughout the world •' Burnham said in a written statement. '.'Our product a~d geographic diversity remain key assets as we continue to see solid growth in global pharmaceuticals and adult nutritionals.'' .

. For the year, profits ros·e 11 percent, to $1.69 billion, or $2.1.2 a sb~e, from $1.52 billion, or $1.87 a share, a year ear~1er. Revenue rose 9. percent to $10.01 billion from $9 .16 billion.

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40 or so employees are ex­pected to transfer to Microsoft headquarters in suburban Redmond in the next three months.

Executives conceded the market for such programs is

small now, but said they're convinced it will grow quickly and dramatical! y.

"This is much more about January 1997 and January 1998," Peters said. "We think we 're ahead of the market

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FrontPage for Windows is already on the market, and a Macintosh version should be completed this year, officials said.

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Big US banks report profits By FARRELL KRAMER

NEW YORK (AP) - Chemical Banking Corp. and Chase Man­hattan Corp. reported sharply higher fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, setting a blistering pace for an industry they will soon lead as America's biggest bank.

Their $10 billion merger re­ceived final regulatory approval last week and is expected to be wrapped up by the end of March.

Meanwhile, Citicorp, currently the largest U.S. bank, said prof­its declined in comparison with the fourth quarter of 1994, when it had a smaller tax burden. Southern giant NationsBank Corp. turned in improved results. The banks' fourth-quarter profit reports capped a tumultuous year for the iridustl)', which saw major banks merge in a rush to become

more efficient and competitive. The big banking companies had been expected to report higher fourth-quarter profits.

Driving the gains were cost cut­ting, improved securities trading results and higher loan demand. Wall Street liked what it saw Tues­day, driving the shares of all four companies higher.

Leading the big banks was Chemical, with fourth-quarter net income almost tripling to dlrs 490 million, or dlrs 1.81 a share, from $179 million, or 61 cents a share, in the same period of 1994. Chemical's year-earlier profits included a $152 million restruc­turing charge. Chemical's merger partner, Chase, reported earnings up 48 percent for the quarter and NationsBank saw profits grow 26 percent. Citicorp' s

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Samsung unveils plans for $1.3B Texas chip site

By JUAN B. ELIZONDO Jr. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Four

months after choosing central Texas as the home of its first U.S. computer chip manufactur­ing site, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Tuesday formally unveiled plans for three plants worth $1.3 billion.

The company will start build­ing the first in March at a 300-acre site in northeast Travis County. It is expected to cost up to $300 million and will employ at least 1,000 people when chip production begins in 1998. Samsung plans to complete the next two factories by 2003.

The company joins Toshiba, Fujitsu and others overseas com­panies to recently decide to build expensive chip plants in the United States. Asian companies, in par­ticular, have been lured by the low value of the dollar compared to their currencies.

After entering the chip busi­ness in the early 1980s, years af­ter other electronics firms, Samsung has become the world's leading maker of memory chips. The semiconductor division is responsible for about one-fourth of the Korean conglomerate's $60 billion in annual revenue. Samsung has considered build-

ing a factory in the United States for nearly two years and settled on Austin last September after considering the Portland, Or­egon, area, where several other chipmakers have large plants. Samsung delayed the fonnal an­nouncement while lining up fi­nancing. The company received backing from the Korean gov­ernment for the project after agreeing to obtain 20 percent of its financing from Korea. Texas Gov. George W. Bush joined Samsung executives in a ceremony announcing the company's plans at the state Capitol.

Stocks rise in Tokyo as dollar is traded higher TOKYO (AP) -The key index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose Tuesday, boosted by remarks of an influential American financier recommending in­vestment in Japanese stocks. The dollar was higher against the yen. Share prices moved higher in the morning as investors welcomed the dollar's re­newed rise against the Japanese yen. A lower yen makes J apaneseexports more competitive abroad, boosting earnings of Japanese companies when sales in dollar terms are converted into yen. Buying further accelerated in the after­noon on the back of comments by financier George Soros, who recom­mended investment in Japanese stocks and in bond~ worldwide.

Soros, who made the commenl, at a global investment seminar in Tokyo on Tuesday, projected the yen will con­tinue to weaken against the dollar over the next two years. He cited continued

liquidity in the yen compared to that in the dollar a~ a reason for the yen's weakness ahead.

Hideyuki Kotaki, an equities analyst with Dai-lchi Securities, said the re­marks by Soroscame "verytirnely" as Japan's financial authorities are report­edly trying to confum the dollar's cur­rent strength against the yen in an up­coming meeting of major industrial­ized nations.

The Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers and central gover­nors is scheduled to be held in Paris this weekend.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Aver­age gained 279.65 points, or 1.38 per­cent, closing at 20,567.07 points. Tuesday's rebound came after the av­erage had fallen a total of364.66 points in the previous three trading days, in­cluding a 90.50-point fall on Friday.

The Tok-yo Stock Price Index of all

issues listed on the first section was up 10.87 points, or 0.68 percent, to l,603.08.TheTOPIXshed7.77points, or 0.48 percent, on Friday.

An estimated 418 million shares changed hands on the first section, down from Friday' s596 million shares. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners 670 to 402, with 148 issues unchanged.

Foreign exchange, stock and other financial markets were closed in Japan Monday for a national holiday.

The U.S. dollar held its strength as Japanese ·investors bought the American currency amid specula­tion that the German central bank may lower its interest rates, traders said.

Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer said Monday the dollar has room to rise further against the German mark.

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Telescope captures stellar process BY PAUL RECER

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Stars like the sun live 1()' billion years and then die in a violent eruption, leaving behind an Earth-sized ember and heav­enly etchings in bizarre shapes, according to astrono­mers who released the most detailed photos ever of this stellar process.

The sun is halfway to this final phase of its life and as­tronomer Howard Bond noted at a news conference Tues­day: "We've only got five bil­lion years to get out of town.''

Bond, of the Space Tele­scope Science Institute, said that stars roughly the size of the sun exhaust their nuclear fuel after about 10 billion years and burst into red gi-

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Some nebulae, from stars slightly larger than the sun, develop bizarre shapes, such as two overlapping circles that resemble an hour glass or lighted jets that spear the uni-

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Rushdie prom.otes book in Ne-w York NEW YORK (AP) - Salman Rushdie has emerged from under the cloud of an Iranian death threat to promote his new book.

Rushdie attended a party hosted by New Yorker maga­zine editor Tina Brown on Monday, The New York Times reported Tuesday. He plans a semi-public reading of his new novel, "The Moor's Last Sigh .~Tuesday night and will

tape a segment of the "Donahue" television pro­gram.

Rushdie was sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who said his novel "The Satanic Verses" had blasphemed Is­lam. Khomeini died shortly after issuing the death war­rant, but the Iranian govern­ment never completely lifted the threat.

verse like the beams of a searchlight. New photos from the Hubble Space Tele­scope show for the first time details of the concentric rings, and astronomers believe these rings may allow them to plot the life cycle of stars the size of the sun.

Bond said the rings were not formed in a single burst, but spewed out in episodes thou­sands of years apart. In the Hubble pictures, they re­semble frozen ripples on a pond.

One stellar nebula, called NGC7027, is seen as a box­like structure, with tempera­tures raging at 360,000 de­grees at the center. Beyond, gas clouds have formed a four­pointed crest.

Another object, called the Egg Nebula, resembles a burst of light reflecting through a

crystal. Concentric rings are split down the middle with a dark line and from opposite sides are bright streamers of light, which puzzled astrono­mers called searchlight beams.

Raghvendra Sahai of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the rings from the Egg Nebula are moving outward at more than 115,000 miles per hour (184,000 kilometers per hour) and that a dense cloud of dust makes the dark line.

"These pictures will enable us to trace the life of these stars with fantastic accuracy," said Sahai. "That has never been done before.''

"The final 10,000 years of a star's life can be studied with a clarity that we have never had before," said John T raugerof JPL.

Another nebula, called MyCnl8, is shaped like an hour­glass. Bright red ov~rlapping

rings meet at a bluish core, with a dark spot in the middle, resembling the pupil of an eye.

The violent end of life for these solar-like stars, also mark the beginning of a pro­cess that reshapes the heav­ens, said Trauger.

As the stars explode, they ere-. ate basic elements that are re­cycled into new stars, planets and even life.

"This is also the rebirth of a galaxy," said Trauger. "If things like this didn't happen, then the Earth wouldn't form and we wouldn't be here.'' Among the elements formed, said Bond, is carbon, the basic element oflife on the Earth.

"The carbon created gets re­cycled back into space, and in perhaps a billion years that car­bon will be recycled again, per­haps into a new planet, or into a new life," said Bond.

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1 dead, 7 wounded in Haitian clashes By MICHAEL NORTON

PORT -AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -A woman was shot and killed and at leastsevenpeoplewerehwtinclashes in the teeming seaside slum of Cite Soleil Tuesday, wirnesses said

The Senate, meanwhile, rejected the nomination of a former army coloneLto be chief of civilian police. Jean-Marie Foore! Celestin's nomi­nation was frowned upon by the United States, which warits to keep former army officera out of the new police force.

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Michel spoke to The Associated Press from his bed at St Catherine's Hospital.

News of the shooting spread through the slum, and youths in an area known as Cite Boston stoned a police patrol. The police opened fire, killing Martha Jean-Charles, 24, and

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Ten people were arrested, Radio Metropole reported

Anned youths threatened an Agence France Presse photographer who wanted to take pictures of a police truck damaged in the unrest

Created last year, the civilian po­lice force has been criticized in recent 111onths for incompetence and ellces-

sive use of force. Being trained by U.S., Canadian, French and Haitian advisers, the force is to assume all securitydutieswhen U.N. peacekeep­ers leave Haiti.

The U.N. mandate ends Feb. 29, although President-elect Rene Preval has asked for a six-month elltension. Preval takes office Feb. 7.

The Senate on Tuesday rejected the appointment of Celestin, who was nominated Nov. 30 by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

"Celestinisinnowaycompetentin police matters and has no clear vision

Child abuse case shocks community

By ELAINE KURTENBACH

BEUING (AP) - Liu Yingzhang believedherdaughterhadbroughta curse on the family. She strung the sill-yearold by her hair from a ceil­ing fan, pulled her fingernails out, and finally beat her almost to death before the girl was rescued.

The story of Zhang Shujuan's torment has prompted a govern­ment investigation and drawn sym­pathy from scores of local people who have called or visited the hos­pital where the girl is recovering, a reporterforthe Y angchengEvening News said in a telephone interview Monday.

Shujuan is a victim both of super­stition and of the traditional desire of rural Chinese tohavemalechildren. International human rights groups

have called attention to infanticide ofbaby girls and deliberate neglect oforphans,manyofthemunwanted baby girls, at state-run institutions.

China's strict population control policy limits most families to one child only. So when Liu gave birth to Shujuan, her second daughter, shedidnotregisterthebirthtoevade finesandotherpenalties. When she was five months old, the mother gave her to another family to raise, the Yangcheng Evening News re­ported

After her mother gave birth to yet another daughter, Shujuanretumed to her parents' home in Shilong village on the edge ofDongguan, a prosperous city 1,900 kilome­ters (1,200 miles) south of Beijing.

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Celestin was a National Palace se­curity chief and doctor in the army before Aristide was ousted in a 1991 army coup. He went into eJcile with Aristide, who returned to Haiti after a U.S.-led military force disarmed the Haitian army last year.

In the west coast city of Gonaives, demonstrators blocked streets with tire banicades to protest the drive-by shooting of a prominent business-man.

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outlets that sell lottery tickets, was killed by shots fired from a passing car Monday evening, witnesses said. There were no immediate arrests.

Angered by the shooting, a cro~d setfiretothehouseqfNazairePierre­Andre, local manager of another lot­tery chain The home of Jacques F.douard, manager of adlird chain of lottery shops, also was attacked. Schools in Gonaives closed because of the violence.

SANI'O DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) President Joaquin Balaguer dispatched hundreds of military doctors Monday to govem­menthospitalsthathavelimpedalong under a doctors' strike for 77 days.

The I0,000 striking doctors had continued attending people who sought help in emergency rooms and somecritical patientsinthemorethan 700 hospitals and clinics.

But Thursday, some of the strikers abandoned the emergency rooms.

Balaguer dispatched the military doctora to help out Armed soldiers were posted near some hospitals.

Many striking doctors still on duty responded by going home.

The president also said the govern­ment won't pay the striking doctors this month, according to Health Sec­retary Victor Garcia Santos and Luis Taveras, director of the Dominican Social Security Institute.

Francisco Cano Gonzalez, presi­dent of the striking Dominican Medi­cal Association said the military doc­tors aren'tqualifiedandare too small in number to cover the hospitals' needs.

The association, which represents J0,000 of the Caribbean country's 13,000 government doctors, started the strike Oct 30. It is calling for higher salaries and for doctors to be eligible for government housing.

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01 ELECTRICIAN-Salary $2. 75-3.25 per hour Contact: NORTH PACIFIC ENTER· PRISES, INC. TEL: 233·3990(1/25)TH22109

01 MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR-Sal­ary $3.00 per hour Contact: MARIANAS PARAMOUNT CORP. TEL: 233-4030(1/25)TH22111

01 SURVEYOR HELPER-Salary $3.25 per hour Contact: VICENTE A. SONGSONG dba BEN SONGSONG & SONS LAND SURVEYING & CONST. CO. TEL: 322·5132/2990(1/25)TH22110

01 CUTIER-Salary $2.75 per hour 14 GENERAL HELPER-Salary $2.75 per hour 02 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR· Salary:$2.75 per hour Contact: ADVANCE TEXTILE CORP. TEL: 322·5798/99(1/25)TH22113

02 TOUR GUIDE-Salary $3.00 per hour Contact: NETWORK DEVELOPMENT, INC. dba CHOl'S TOUR TEL: 235-2200/0405(1 /18)TH22029

01-FINANCE MANAGER-Salary $3.00· 5.00 per hour Contact: PACIFIC PRIME, INC. dba SHELL PUERTO RICO TEL: 322-4189/235-2200(1/ 18)TH22028

03SEWJNG MACHINE OPERATOR'S· Salary $2.75 per hour 01 COOK-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: ONWEL MFG (SAIPAN)LTD., TEL: 234-9522-25(1/18)TH22034

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01 MAINTENANCE MECHANIC-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: MIRAGE (SAIPAN) CO. LTD. TEL: 234-2481/2(1/18)TH22035

03 PHOTOGRAPHER-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: SHIN HAN CORPORATION dba KING PHOTO TEL: 234-3787(1/18)TH22032

03 COOK-Salary $2.75 per hour Contact: GREGORIO B. & NATALIA M. MAGOFNA dba M.C.M. SNACK BAR TEL: 234-8282(1/18)TH22031

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02 Tour Coordinator-Salary: $600-1,800/month Contact: Tasi Tours & Transportation, Inc. Tel. No. 234-7121(2/1)TH5201

01 Appliances Technician/Repairer-Sal· ary: $2.75/hour 01 Laundromat Attendant-Salary: $2.75/ hour Contact: Roman Matsumoto dba Garapan Safeway Recruitment Services Tel. No. 234-5765(2/1)TH-22219

01 Warehouse Worker-Salary: $3.00/ hour Contact: Blanco Vende Ltd. Tel. No. 322-3313(2/1 )TH-22222

03 Upholsterer-Salary: $2.75/hour 02 Floor Covering Installer-Salary: $2.75/hour 02 Wall Covering Texturer-Salary: $2.75/hour Contact: Chung Nam Corporation Tel. No. 234-3929(2/1)TH22221

01 Fast Food Worker-Salary: $2. 75/hour Contact: Danilo S. De Guzman dba D & C Enterprises Tel. No. 234-9869(2/1 )TH22220

01 Administrative Assistant-Salary: $2.75-3.50/hour 01 Cashier-Salary: $2. 75-3.50/hour 01 Chef, Sushi-Salary: $1,600-1.7001 month 02 Cleaner, Housekeeping-Salary: $2.75·3.50/hour 01 Cook-Salary: S2.75-3.50/hour 02 Golf course Maintenance-Laborer· Salary: $2. 75-3.50/hour 01 Waitress, Restaurant-Salary: $2.75· 4.00/hour Contact: Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd. Tel. No. 322-4692 or 322-0770 ext. 409(2/ 1)TH53990

01 Sales Supervisor-Salary: $3.25/hour Contact; Transamerica Corporation Tel. No. 234-1629/7833/6834 (21/)TH5256

01 Building Maintenance Repairer-Sal· ary: $4.00/hour Contact: Saipan Community School Tel. No. 234-6687(2/1 )TH22234

01 Store Supervisor-Salary: $2.75/hour Contact: Silver Trading Company Ltd. dba Silver Market Tel. 234-6631 (1/ 29M)22160

02 Sales Representative-Salary: $2.75/ hour Contact: Cynthia C. Castrino dba Plati­num Enterprises Tel. No. 235-2633(2/1 )TH22228

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02 Travel Counselor-Salary: $800· 1,200/month Contact: Nippon Express Hawaii, Inc. Tel. No. 234-7997 or 234-3488(2/ 1)TH22223

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02 Warehouseman-Salary: $2175/hour Contact: Philpan lnt'I. Corp. Tel. No. 235· 1041 (2/1 )TH22226

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01 Waiter-Salary: $2.75/hour Contact: H & D Corp. dba Gold Star Night Club Tel. No. 233-3087 (2/1 )TH22215

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02 Cook-Salary: S2.75-3.00/hour Contact: Niiio's, Inc. Tel. No. 233-9298(2/1 )TH5254

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Born today, you may start slow when you are young, but once you enjoy that first big break, you will burst on the scene with such ener­gy and enthusiasm that virtually nothing will hold you back. It will be important, however, to always strive to improve your skills and increase your knowledge of your chosen craft. A complete under­standing of your talents will enable you to use them to the best of your ability and allow you to avoid the pitfalls that befall so many people. Avoid self-deception and over-con­fidence.

Your personal and professional progress may not continue unin­terrupted, but you can take advan­tage of any downtime by exploring your personality with greater dili­gence. In this way, you'll be more prepared to take advantage of re­ne_wed opportunities when they anse aga!Il.

Also born on this date are: John Boorman, film director; Kevin Costner, actor and direc­ter; Steve DeBerg, football play­er.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - You will not be in the mood for a lot of fuss or complication today. You want what you want, and you want it now. Do things simply, clearly and quickly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - You may have to sit on your emotions for a while today while you figure out just what is going on personally and professiona1Jy.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -You can provide someone you know with a little more security to­day, but take care not to give so much that you have little left your­seU.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -You will want more today than the excitement a friend or loved one has to offer. You may want to de­cline an offer in favor of some time alone.

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A long-term commitment at this time may not be wise, and you may have to turn and run in order to avoid something that will just not be right for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - You should not be so reserved that you leave others wondering what you're thinking, feeling or doing. There will be a good reason to let them in on things.

VIRGO (Aui. 23-Sept. 22) -You may be a little too happy-go­lucky for your own good today. See if you can adopt a slightly more se­rious attitude, at least for now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 22) -Your approach may conflict with someone else's today, and you both 1vill have to make minor ad­justments to maximize your re­sults.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -You mav come in contact with someone who shares vour overall beliefs, but differs fundamentally in his or her methods and ap­proaches.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - Today you can keep bore­dom at bay simply by focusing on details and keeping yourseff in shape and ready for action.

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US beats Trinidad, Tobago in Gold Cup Soccer debut ANAHEIM,Calif.(AP) _ Joe-Max Moore's free kick in the second half Saturday gave the United States a 3-2 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in the CONCACAF Gold Cup soc­cer tournament

Trinidad' sfirstgoal came in the 6th minute after a weak pass by U.S. midfielderOaudio Reyna was inter­cepted near midfield. TheCaribbean team' scaptain, Russelll.atapy, sent a perfect feed to charging Arnold Dwarika, who scored with a low shot ·

to the far post Eric Wynalda tied it for the United

Statesnineminuteslater,headingina corner kick deflected by Alexi Lalas. Wynalda, the most experienced U.S. player with 66 international caps, made it 2-1 in the 33rd minute, this time on a feed from Lalas after Trinidad failed to cle.ar a corner kick

Wynalda has 20 goals for the U.S. squad, one shy of the team record by Bruce Murray.

Dwarika, whoplaysintheScottish

le.ague, made it2-2 in the43rd minute on a feed from Evans Wise, who threaded the ball between three U.S. defender.; in the penalty area

The United States came out for the second half pressing the attack. After several close calls for the home team, Moorescoredthededdinggoalinthe 54thminute fromlheedgeofthearea, on a free kick that curled around Trinidad's barrier.

The United States and El Salvador are tied for first place in Group C and

y.'ill play a deciding match in Ana­heim Tuesday. Mexico le.ads Group A and Brazil and Canada each have three points in Group B, although the Brazilians beat the Canadians 4--1 Friday.

The nine-team tournament contin­uesSundaywith Mexico facing Gua­temala in San Diego and Brazil play­ing Honduras in Los Angeles.

Lineups United States - Kasey Keller;

Paul Caliguri, Marcelo Balboa,

Alexi Lalas, Jeff Agoos; Tab Ramos,MikeSorbe.r(MikeBurns, 60th), Claudio Reyna, Cobi Jones; Joe-Max Moore (Roy Lassiter, 79th), Eric Wynalda. Trinidad and Tobago - Ross Russell; Sherwyn Julien (Terry St. Julien, 84th), Craig Demmin, Richard Theodore; Anthony Rougier, Arnold Dwarika, RusseHLatapy, DavidNakhid;AngusEve,Evans · Wise (Marvin Faustin, 59th), Dwight Yoke.

Owners take. hit from Browns fans at NFL meeting ATLANTA (AP) - Waving dog bonesandchanting''no team,nopeace," hundredsofBrownsfansdescendedon an National FOOlball League meeting Tuesday to demand that their beloved franchise remain in Cleveland. The owners,.however, were not expected to vote on the controversial move to Bal­timore..

NFL spokesman Joe Browne said the owners would not have enough timeinAtlantatoproperlyconside.rthe issueandcollllllis&onerPaul Tagliabue

was not expected to make a fonnal recommendation.

''Ithinkit'shighlywtlikelythatwe'll have a vote on the Browns at this meeting," Browne said. ·

Cleveland Mayor Michael White led a caravan to the airport hotel where Browns owner Art Medell was ex­pected to make his case to a le.ague committee Tuesday evening. The en­tiregroupofownerswillmeetWednes­day IO hear from Medell and those in Cleveland opposed IOthernove, which

is being challenged in court and under league rules needs approval from 23 of the 30 owners.

Also scheduled t0 be discussed is a new collective bargaining agreement through the year 2002. The contract alreaµy has been approved by the play­ers.

AClevelanddelegationledbyWhite, Ohio Gov. George Voinovichand city business leaders will address the own­ers, including Medell, in a one-hour session Wednesday. Medell then will

get an hour to explain to his colleagues how he has lost millions of dollim; in Cleveland with a team that consistently sold out

The Save Our Browns Committee revealed its evidence that the team should remain in Cleveland: 2.2 mil­lion signatures on petitions that were hauled into the hotel on luggage carts and placed on the floorof the lobby for the owners to see as they checked in.

One NFL soun:e said a possible compromise is to leave ·t11e Browns

narne,logoandcolorsinOevelandand allow Medell to take his franchise lo Baltimore with a new nickname. That wouldclearthewayforanotberream to move to Cleveland, where voters have approved a$ 176 million tax pack­age to renovate the aging, 80,0QO stadium that Modell says is inad­equate.

Tampa Bay, Seattle, Cincinnati and Arizona, all unhappy with their current stadiums, have been mentioned as pos­sible candidates for relcx:atioJL

Takanohana keeps Grand Sumo tournament lead at lOaO TOKYO (AP)_ Yokozuna (grand champion) Takanohana slapped downlower-rankedAsanoshoforhis l 0th vjcto[y against no defeats and kept the sole lead Tuesday with five days left in the 15-day New year Grand Sumo Tournament

Oneboutbehinc!Takanohanaat9-l wasozeki(champion)Talalllonami, followed by No. 1 rnaegashira (se­nior wrestler) Takatoriki and No. 16 maegashira Tamakasuga, both at 8-

Giants ... Continued from page 20

make $ 700,COO more in incentives based on appearances. The Giants will have the option of a fourth year for dlrs 1.4 million or a dlrs 400,000 buyout

He defected last July during a tour by the Cuban national team After his defection, he went to Miami to await an entry visa to the Dominican Re-

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before turning over the reins on July 1, 1992 _ only to take the reins back on Tuesday. , ,

When the Suns acquired Charles Barldey in June 1992, it set the tone for the team to reach the NBA Fmals before losing in six to the Chicago Bulls. Along the way, Barl<leyearned the league MVP award and the Suns set a franchise record with 62 victo­ries.

They won 56 games the next se-a-

Homeboys ... loss record after defeating No Fear by a I 0-pointmarginin threesetsofplay, 42-32.

It was a come-from-behind win for Hardcor which took the game in the last two sets.

NoFeartooksetone, match 15-10, Hardcor came bsick in the second set putting up a 3-point lead, 27-24, out out of the 17-9 set-two score. Hardcor sealedthegameforgoo:iwhenittook the third set, 15-8.

Therewerefouraces,fourxunks, 21 kees and one goal scored.

Jeff Pua ~d Alex Olopai of

2. Intheday'sfinalbout, Takanohana

sidestepped to the left in the initial charge and slapped down No. 7 maegashira Asanosho, handing Asanosho his fourth defeat against six victories.

Takanonami grabbe:d No. 5 maegashira Kotobeppu's belt and easily sent him out Kotobeppu is 2-8. American ozeki Musashimaru, or Fiamalu Penitani from Hawaii,

public, where be spent this winter going 4-3 with a 2.30 ERA in 11 games for the Licey Tigers.

Fernandez and fellow Cuban right-hander Livan Hernandez toured the United States last month, listening to bids from sev­eral major league clubs. Hernandez, 20, who defected in Mexico last September, signed a four-year contract with the Florida Marlins this past weekend.

son and 59 games and the Pacific Division title in 1994--95, but Barkley was hurt each time the Suns met the Rockets. He has missed five games this season, is shooting a career-low 46.7 percent, and has been rumored to be trade bait

Fitzsimmons, 65, was 97-67 with the Suns fium 1970-72 and217-111 fium 1988-1992, successes which helped him to an 805-7 45 recon:l in a 19-yearcoachingcareerwiththe At­lanta Hawks, Buffalo Braves, Kan­sas City Kings, San Antonio Spurs and Suns.

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Hardcorwas the game's heavy Pit­ter with one ace, one xunk and eight kees among them. Taula Pe­terofNo Fearwas his tearn' sheavy hitter with three kees.

Scheduled today is a matchup be­tween Hot '96 and Brotherhoo:i. Affares will collide with the Sisters/ Cousins Aswciation on Friday.

Village/College Standings Teams W L Buyaka 3 I Hardcor 2 l NO Fear I 3 Homeboys 2 I 2

thrust down No. 4 maegashira Akinoshima for his seventh victory against three defeats. Akinoshima is 6-4.

No. l maegashira Takatoriki bulldozed out No. 5 maegashira Kenko and No. 15 maegashira Mainoumi grabbed Tamakasuga's belt from behind and threw him down. Kenko is 5-5 and Mainoumi 7-3.

Musoyama fought off his fel-

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won her first-round match Monday. Seles' return to the tour, begun five

months ago, has been hampered by problems with her knee and ankle, a virus and, on Sunday, a right groin pull suffered in the final of a warrnup tournament

''I'm going to try and say it's not hurting, like what I did on Sunday," when she beatLlndsay Davenport in a close match.

But, she acknowledged, "it's still sore, when I had to move a few shots."

In men's matches, No. I Pete Sampras let Richard Fromberg have IO break points, but didn't allow the Australian to cash in on a single one as he won 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.

Stefan Edberg, a past No. I in his farewell year, found his touch in his serve-and-volley game in the final set, beating Czech player Jiri Novak 7-6 (8-6), 7-5, 3-6, 5-7, 6-1.

Sampras said he is over the flu that spoiled his warm-up plans for the Open, and ''I thought I hit the ball pretty well, but didn't serve great"

Volley misses by Fromberg gave Sampras the first set, and the reign.i,Jg Wimbledon and U.S. Open cham­pion turned up the presswe when he faced two break points at 3-3 in the second.

Coming to the net behind powerful ground-strokes, rather than his serve, he saved that game and then broke Fromberg in the next He broke Fromberg twice in the final set

''Hopefully my tennis can get bet­terastheweekgoeson,''saidSampras, who managed only four aces . to Fromberg's 11.

low Komusubi Qunior champion second class) Tosanoumi' s push­ing attempts by turning around _ the ring and forced him out for his seventh victory against three de­feats. Tosanoumi is 5-5. No. 8 maegashira Konishiki, or Ha­waiian-born Salevaa Fuauli Atisande, charged No. 9 maegashiraNarninohana with hand thrusts and drove him to the ring's edge, but Naminohanathrust down

Edberg, No. l in 1990-91, served three of his four aces in the final set

"I had to dig really deep today. I was lucky to come out of this," said the Swede, who has played in the most consecutive Open:..era Grand Slam toumaments - 51.

Edberg, who nuns 30 on Friday, has said this is his final year on the tour. But asked whether he is ready for the musewn, he replied: ''Not quite."

He has won six Grand Slam titles, includingtheAustralian Open in 1985 and 1987, and says: ''I think I can win another slam, starting here."

Lastyear,Edbergfell out of the top 10 after a decade in that elite group. He now is ranked No. 31, to Novak's No.36.

Men's No. 3 Thomas Muster, who has been dominant on clay but not on hardcourts like the surface here, opened with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 victory over France's Thierry Guardiola.

The Austrian left-hander said he has been improving on hardcourts and could overtake Sampras and Andre Agassi for the No. 1 ranking "if I play well on hardcourts at the beginning of the year," before the European clay season begins.

__ Sampras said that Muster "is obvi­ously the best clay court player in the world. ... But it all comes down to the end of the year."

The only men's seed to fall so far, No. 16 Paul Haarnuis of the Nether­lands, lost 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to Filip Dewulf ofBelgium.

No. 7 Thomas Enqvist of Sweden beat Marc Goellnerof Germany 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. No. 10 Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia beat Germany's Bernd Karbacher6-4, 7-6(11-9), 6-3.

No. 11 Richard Krajicek of the

the hefty foe at the ring's edge, leaving the both at 64. ·

Among foreign wrestlers in the 26-ipember juryo division, just below the top 40-member inakuuchi division, No. 9-ranked Kyokushuzan, or Mongolian Batbayar Bavaa, charged No. I!­ranked Kotokanyu (5-5) with his hand thrusts against his foe's throat and pushed him out for his sixth victory against four defeats.

Netherlands, who nearly pulled out of the tournament with an arm injury, eased past Australian Jason Stoltenberg 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. No. 12 Arnaud Boetsch beat fellow French­man Guy Forget4-o, 7-6(7-5),6-3,6-3.

No. 14 Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine beat Spaniard Carlos Moya6-4, 7-5,2-6, 7-6 (9-7), and No.15 Todd Martin of the United States ousted Daniel Vacek of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-4.

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Semi Elliott had 22 points, Vinny Del Negro 19, Will Perdue 13,Avery Johnson 14 and Chuck Person I 0.

Boston, which lost its third straight, was led by Dana Barros with 22 points, Eric Montross with 18 and Dino Radja with 13.

Pacers 110, Raptors 102 In Toronto, Reggie Miller scored

27pointsandendedToronto'sfourth­period rally by hitting consecutive 3-pointers as Indiana beat the Raptors.

Damon Stoudamire, who tied his season-high with 29 points, capped a 13-0 run in the fowth quarter with a jumper that got the Raptors within four points, 99-95, with 3:28 left

Miller then drilled a pair of 3-pointers that gave the Pacers a six-. point le.ad with l :39 left.

Rik Smits had 29 points, Antonio Davis 18 and Eddie Johnson 14 for the Pacers, who won their fourth in a row. Tony Massenburg had a season-high 24 points, Oliver Miller 15 and Alvin Robertson· 11 for the Rap tors, who lost for the seventh time in eight games.

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SPORTSm0D ~ 0lANgfJfol&1 HoJD.eboys 2 upsets Buyaka HOMEBOYS 2, after starting with two successive defeats in the 1995-%Rocbal1League,camebackstrong redeeming their place in the competi­tion with an upset victory over fa-

vored Buyaka yesterday at the Marianas High School Pugua Court inSusupe.

Homeboys 2 scored its first victory by a 10-point margin, 29-19, in three

sets. The defeat was the first setback for Buyaka after winning its first three games in the college-village division of the league.

There were 15 aces, eight xunks,

Seles, Pierce win round one matches MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -MaryPierce,thedefeodingcham­pion, and Monica Seles, who ~ never lostamatch here, both opened their quests for another Australian Open title Tuesday with lopsided victories .

.Pieice, who didn't drop a set on her way to the 19<J5 title, her only Grand S1am triumph, beat Petra Schwarz of Austria 6-3, 6-1 on a chiliy evening. · ·

Earlier, Seles, who won three con­se:eutive Australian Opens and then took two years off after being stabbed by a spectator in Germany, blasted past American qualifier Janet Lee 6-3, ~ in 47 minutes. A sore pulled groin muscle didn't appear to slow her down as she ran her unbeaten streak here to 22 matches.

Pierce, whotumed21 on Monday, alsohadtoomuchpowerforSchwarz, ranked No. 108 and now a five-time

first-round loser here. But Schwarz came up with enough shots to force Pierce into a number pf deuces.

Trying to regain the form that carried her to victory a year ago, Pierceisseededfourth, behindSeles and Spaniards Conchita Martinez and· Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Martinez opened wi,th a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Britain's Clare Wood on Tuesday, and Sanchez Vicario

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Giants win battle for Cuban pitcher SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -Osvaldo Fernandez left his wife and young daughter in Cuba when he defected last summer. He was intro­duced to his new family, the San Francisco Giants, on Tuesday.

TheGiantswonabiddingwarwith several other major league baseball teams by signing Fernandez,aformer star right-hander for the Cuban na­tional team, to a three-year contract that could be worth$ 3.9 million.

"Since the signing ofBarry Bonds, this is the most significant signing we're had," said owner Peter

Magowan, who cited the Giants' his­tory of Latin American stars includ­ing Juan Marichal, the Alou brothers and Orlando Cepeda.

Bonds,.who was taking some cuts in the hitting cage at Candlestick Parle whenFernandezappearedforanews conference, spent 30 miJiutes chat­ting - through a translator - with his newest teammate.

Fernandez, 27, who nervously tapped his right leg while Giants offi­cials talked about their excitement at acquiring him, hada22-0careerrecord in international play and was the ace

of the Cuban team that won the gold medal at the 19<J2 Barcelona Olym­pics.

"This is where I've come to realize my dream and to represent all the Latin Americans in the city of San Francisco," Fernandez said through a translator. ''I'mgoingtomakeaname for a Cuban who left his country with a lot of detennination to triumph."

Fernandez, a starting pitcher, got a $ 1.3 million signing bonus and a three-year con tract that guarantees an additional dlrs 1.9 million. He could

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six kees and three goals scored in the match.

Roppeam Haddy of Homeboys 2 was the heavy hitterwithoneace, two xunks, three kees and three goals. Patrick Pua was the heavy hitter for Buyakawithfiveacesandtwoxunks.

Homeboys 2 took the first two sets,

13-0and 16-5, fora24-pointlead,29-5. Buyaka came back strong but late in the third set and scunked the Homeboys, 14-0, cutting the lead · down to 10 points, 29-19.

In another match earlier, Hardcor improved its standing to a 2-1, win­

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Suns fire coach Westphal PHOENIX (AP)-Hailedasahero for guiding the Phoenix Suns to the National Basketball Association Fi­nals threeyears ago butlabeledaloser recently when his team fell below .500, coach Paul Westphal was fired on Tuesday.

W estphal,dismissed by Suns presi­dent and owner Jerry Colangelo was replaced by Cotton Fitzsimmons, the coach he took over from in 1992.

Fitzsimmons, a senior executive vice president and color analyst for the Suns, was glad to return to the bench. "Jerry took my sign off my desk," said the peppery, talkative Fitzsimmons, who will be the team's coachforthethirdtime. ''ltsaicl, 'Vice President of Nothing,' and he very

politely removed that sign." Colangelo said he could wait no

longer to make a move, coming on the heels of the Suns' fifth straight loss at home, an 89-74 loss to the OevelandCavaliersonSundaynight

The team, playing without injured stars Charles Barlcley, Danny Man­ning, John Williams and Kevin Johnson, sl)ot 38 percent, matched the franchise one-game low of 28 field goals set in 1990 and scored the fewest points since the record low of 68 at Kansas City in March 1981.

The Suns are 14-19 and have lost seven of their last 10 games.

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1996 4th Jam Attack Results Post Elimination Standings Team w• L Ham s 3 No Fear 6 2 NU Heights 3 5 Spankem 2 5 PIC 4 4

Final Standing Champion: NU Heights lst.Runnet up: Pacific Islands Club 2nd Rumx7 up: Inarajan Hawks 3rd Runner up: No Fear 4th Placer: Spankem

• Number of sets won in four games

Jan. 12 games: NU Heights defeated Spankem : 16-14, 15-13 (Total: 31-27) No Fear defeatedPIC : 11-12, 15-8 (Total: 26-20) NU Heights defeated Hawks : 14-6, 8-15 (Total: 22-21) Jan. 13 games No Fear defeatedHawks : 12-10, 14-12 (Total: 26-22)

. Hawks defeatedPIC : 13-8, 15-10 (Total: 28-18) NU Heights defeated No Fear : 14-13, 17-16 (Total: 31-29) PIC defeated Spankem : 15-6, 13-14 (Total: 28-20) Hawks defeated Spankem : 15-12, 14-10 (Total: 29-22) PIC defeated NU Heights: 15-9, 15-10 (Total: 30-19) Spankem defeated No Fear : 15-3, 10-13 (Total: 25-16)

Playoff results Nu Heights defeated No Fear : 9-13, 15-7 (Total: 24-20) PIC defeated Hawks : 12-15, 14-8 (Total: 26-23) Final games Hawks defeatedNoFear : 10-11, 16-14, 16-14 NUHeightsdefeatedPIC : 16-14, 15-5 (Total: 31-29) Exhibition match result No Fear defeated ISA : 8-15, 15-7 (Total: 23-22)

Rodm.an helps Bulls tie terun record with 26th hom.e win OilCAGO (AP) _Dennis Rod­man had his first career triple­doubleandhisfirst3-pointerof the season Tuesday night as the Chi~ cago Bulls tied a team record with their 26th straight home victory by beating Philadelphia 116-104.

Michael Jordan had 32 points for the Bulls (32-3), who have won nine in a row overall. Their home winning streak, matching

theirmarksetin 19<J0-91,includes 19 games this season and the final seven last year.

Jerry Stackhouse scored 24 points for Philadelphia

Playing in his 700th career game, Rodman had his triple-double with 21 rebounds, 10 points and a career­high IO as.sists. In the first half, Rod­manhad 13 rebounds to Philadelphia's 12.

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SuperSonics 99, Cavaliers 90

In Seattle, Shawn Kemp was double- and triple-teamed but still managed 31 points and 16 rebounds to lead Seattle over Oeveland

The Sonics, improving their Key Arenarecordto 15-1, wontheirthird,. gameinarowandforthe 1 lthtimein 13 games. They notched their 10th straight home-court victory.

Kemp made 12 of 17 shots from the floor, 7 of 11 from the free. throw line and had 10 points in the fourth quarter. Hersey Hawkins and Gary Payton each scored 21 points for the Sonics.

Terrell Brandon led the Cavaliers with 24 points. DanMajerleadded21 and Bobby Phills 20.

. Spurs 121, Celtics fJ7 In San Antonio, DavidRobinson' s

27 points led six Spurs players in double figures and San Antonio won its fifth in a row.

San Antonio, which outrebounded the Celtics 55-32, held a 12-point halftime lead that grew to 24 points before the third quarter was halfway over. 1he Celtics never got closer than 12 the rest of the way.

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