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Wendy Dotomeinew to the islands. In fact, thebusinessman said, such problemsdo not only exist on Rota, but alsoon Saipan and Tinian,

Bigalbal, speaking in Filipino,Continued on page 11

migration were, in our opinion,well taken and responded to bythe CNMI delegation and we weregreeted with a great deal of sensi­tivity for the islands' problems,"the HANMI said. .

The hearing held September22nd (Washington, D.C. time)called by a Senate Energy andNatural Resources Subcommit­tee, focused on CNMI immigra­tion matters and sought clarifica­tion on the current labor situationin the Marianas.

The holding alone of the hear­ing has caused a great deal ofapprehension amongCNMI lead­ers about the possibilityoffederaltakeover of local immigrationcontrol.

foul play noted.Meanwhile, a 29-year-old

security guard Wasstabbed and'serisuslywounded by a man at~~'parking lot of Lens Restau­rant in Susupe: yesterday be­fore dawn.

The victim, sustained a stabwound in the upper chest. Hewas placed under observationatCHC.

nie suspect, identified asFelixE. Mtochad, 33, was sub-

HOTEL industry representativesfrom Saipan who were present inlast Thursday's oversight hearingin Washington D.C. on immigra­tion has given the administrationhigh marks in presenting its casebefore the US Senate.

At the same time, the HotelAssociation of the NorthernMariana Islands, in a statementyesterday,expressed gladness thatthe success of the hearing hasbought the CNMI more time todeal with its own labor and immi­gration problems.

"Overall, we are pleased to re­port that the Senate Committeehearing went very well," thetwo­page statement read.

"The concerns of the Commit-

Officers noticed several peoplein the apartment where the victimwas found lying on the floor:

Emergency Medical Techni­cians applied CPR before taking­the man to the Commonwealth.Health, Center. The victim waspronounced dead at 6:56 p.m,

Police gathered that the victimwas found hanging in his room byhis friends.

Sheu said the case is' under in­vestigation. It was not indicated

CNMI fared well inhearing, says group

rape.CNMI investigators are still

looking into the allegations that apretty 24-year-old domesticworker was sexually assaultedseveral times by her employer inRota. The woman, who wasevacuated from the "friendly is­land" by human rights advocates,is now living on the island await­ing the outcome of the investiga­tion.

The alleged rape has angeredthe Philippine government andprompted Filipinos here to cometogether and identify possibleways that will help minimize if

. not halt the labor abuses.Action from RP awaited

Rolando Bigalbal, president ofthe Filipino organization CNMI­Phil-USA, told more than a hun­dred Philippine workers Sundaynight that labor abuses are nut

Man found hangingPolice probe apparent suicide in Koblerville

By Ferdie de la Torre

A 22-YEAR-old man died af­ter he was found hanging inhis room ata Koblerville apart­ment Sunday night, the De­partment of Public Safety saidyesterday.

DPS Information OfficerCathy Sheu said at 6:20 p.m.DPS received a call about ahanging case in Koblerville,

. prompting police officers to

ment officials or denounce thereported abuses in the past years.But the long years of silence seemsto be disappearing in the light ofwhat others see as worsening la­bor problems.

At a time the commonwealthgovernment was pledging toughermeasures to curb labor abuses,another serious crime was alleg­edly committed by an employeragainst his defenseless worker -

arianas %riet~~

It was the first public showingof anger by the Filipino commu­nity against labor abuses whichhave already been acknowledgedby the current administration.Governor Froilan C.Tenorio con­firmed before the U.S, Senate lastweek that labor abuses indeedexist in the commonwealth.

Philippine nationals on the is­land have been very reluctant topublicly criticize local govern-

Leo L. LaMotte

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By Rafael I. Santos

LEADERS of various Filipinoorganizations have denouncedwhat they called the widespreadabuses being committed againsttheir compatriots especially in theisland of Rota. '

At the same time, they also criti­cized the current and previousgovernments for doing little tostop the abuses.

Phil Kaplan (left), 8 human rights advocate, listens intently during a meeting of Filipino contract workersSunday night. With him are some of the workers who denounced labor abuses,

udit sees bleak futurefor the casino industryTHECASINO industry onTinian, the previous state of affairs con- -uncertainty about whether ca-once the major economic hope of tinues, but also the Commission's sinos will become operational;the island, may be facing an un- ability to continue operations. -present econorrfic downturncertain future if remedial mea- "To date, the casino industry threatening the viability of hotel-sures are not taken immediately has yet to fulfill the expected role casino investments; and

~~TIcianC~oo~rni~ ~boosti~theisland's~oo~y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Control Commission. or as a source of revenue for gov- r.According to an audit report ernment and local populace,"

submitted by Public Auditor Leo laMotte said in a cover letter toL.LaMotte, not only is the future the audit. report covering theof casinos on Tinian injeopardy if Commission's operations for fis­

cal years 1992 and 1993."No casino has actually started

operations and the unfavorableinvestment climate has made ac­tual casino operations more un­certain," LaMotte said.

He also expressed apprehen­sion about the Commission's fi­nancial condition, notably a sub-stantial deficit, cash flow prob­lems and highoperating expenseswhich according to the report hasraised substantial doubt about theCommission's ability to continueoperations.

The audit reveals that the futureof the industry is affected by thefollowing:

Filipinos abhor abuse

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Sebastian AlootAs of press time, the board was

still holding an executive session.

and battery charges with an affi­davit based on witness state­ments, medical reports, and tes­timony in Bowie trial whichended last January.

The defendants had admittedto participating in the beating ofthe two victims, Rotbart said inhis affidavit.

-physical examination con­ducted by a licensed medical fa­cility approved by the PhilippineLabor &. Employment Depart­ment from a medical facility ac­credited by the RP Department ofHealth.

According to Dela Cruz, non­resident workers from the Philip­pines arriving in the Common­wealth after October I, 1994pos­sessing a work and entry permitissued after October 1, 1994, whohave not completed a POEA exitclearance and obtained a clear­ance from the CNMI Manila Liai­son Office mus exit the Common­wealth within 72 hours of arrival.

This would be at the expenseof the non-resident worker's re­cruitrnent/placement agency or.the employer of record in theCNMI.

was run over by a wan beingdriven by Bowie.

Laude's body was found earlyin the morning of November 6, afew blocks away from his burn­ing car, which was set ablaze bythe abductors.

Assistant Attorney GeneralCharles Rotbart filed four assault

pino workers would now be re­quired to follow a five point set ofguidelines designed to preventimproper worker documentation.

These are:-possession of a valid Philip­

pine passport for overseas em­ployment;

-complerion of a PhilippineOverseas Employment Agencyexit clearance conducted by thegovernment of the Republic ofthe Philippines;

-usage of a recruitment agencyduly licensed by the RP govern­ment;

-approval and clearance of theemploymentcontract andsupport­ing documentation by the CNMILiaison Office in Manila and thePhilippine Consulate in Saipanprior to exiting the Philippines foremployment in the CNMI; and

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Philippines would take effect Sat­urday, October l st.

In a letter to all employers Sep­tember 19th, Commerce Secre­tary Pedro Q. Dela Cruz said Fili-

Laude were locked in the trunkafter the groupdecided to"throw"them "off the cliff' in Laolaobay.

While on their way to the place,the two were able to open thetrunk and Rivera managed to es­cape. Laude tried to escape tooand jumped off the car, but he'

Boardof Education members (clockwise) FelicidadOgumoro Don Farrell DanielQUitugua DinoJonesandFermin Atalig in yesterday's board meeting. ' , ,

Pedro Q. DelaCruz'

New Labor rules take effect next weekTHE CNMI Labor Departmenthas reminded all employers in theCommonwealth the new require­ments for non-resident workerscoming into the CNMI from the

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2 in '92 kidnap-slay chargedBy Rafael I. Santos Lito residence where they were

punched, kicked and stomped bya agroupofmenincludingBowieand Reyes.

VillagomezandManglona,whowere present at that time, tookpart in the beating, the govern­ment said.

After the beating, Rivera and

CRIMINAL charges have beenfiled against two Saipan men whoallegedly participated in the 1992beating of two Filipino workersthat led to the death of one ofthem.

Bruce Manglona and JohnVillagomez were each chargedwith two counts of assault andbattery in an information filedlast week in Superior Court.

The government accused thedefendants of taking part in thebeating of Eladio Laude and hisfriend Nilo Rivera OIl the night ofNovember 5, 1992.

The charges were filed eightmonths after Mario Reyes andJoseph Anthony Bowie were con­victed of kidnapping and first de­gree murder in connection withthe brutal killing of Laude.

Laude, a carpenter, died inDanDan homestead area Novem­ber 6 after he was "crushed" anddragged by a vehicle Bowie wasdriving.

The victims were driving alongBeach Road when they werepulled over by Reyes and Bowieand brought to the Department ofPublicSafety.Later,the twowork­ers were driven to Reyes's As

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After Torres, Farrell "goes after" counselBy Ferdie de la Torre the government cannot produce Quitugua said Farrell was just between the two branches of gov- .~...

the $2.25 miIlion settlement concernedwhetherthereisacon- ernment.LAWYER Sebastian Aloot, As- amount by the agreed October lst flict of interest having their coun- During last week's BOE meet-sistant Attorney General who is deadline. sel serving two entities, AG and ing, Farrell also "grilled" Educa-representing all the defendants in Aloot however, declined, say- PSS. tion Commissioner William S.the discrimination lawsuit, told ing he could' not divulge it in The chairman said although he Torres regarding among others,the Board of Education yesterday public. believes Farrell's position, he has the implementation plan.that the BOE is free to replace Farrell took again the floor, confidence on Aloots' judgment. Farrell likewise moved a mo-him and select its own legal coun- stressing that the public has the Lt. Governor Jesus C. Borja tion for termination of thesel for the Public School System right to know the situation. earlier expressed concern that ef- commissioner's contract while thein the case. "The public has the right to forts to raise the settlement money board was discussing the amended

This developed as the visibly- know. This is a public question may get snagged due to strained consent decree at the same meet-concerned BOE Vice Chairman notthequestionofPSS...Ibe1ieve relations between the executive ing.Don A. Farrell questioned Aloot we should not cover up and legislative branches. But in the executive session,about the delay in providing the things ...this is the situation, we Borjapointedoutthat themoney the board agreed that Torres v~iI1

BOE an implementation plan of (and the public) are the clients required by the lawsuit is avail- be subjected first to a performancethe consent decree during the here," the vice chairman ernpha- able but its release may get pre- review to determine whether thereboard meeting held at the PSS sized. empted by differences of opinion is enough ground for his ouster.central office. He then threw another question

Farrell confronted Aloot for at the lawyer whether he believesfailing yesterday to come up with there is a conflict of interest on histhe implementation plan which (Aloot) part for representing thethe lawyer allegedly assumed to Attorney Generals OfficeandPSScomplete six weeks ago. at the same time.

Aloot explained that the irnple- "I have to tell you I have othermentation plan is more complex, responsibilities, you can have theadding hehas "other responsibili- board to have somebody else toties for the commonwealth with represent PSS," Aloot immedi-equal importance." ately replied before he excused

When the vice chairman asked himself from the meeting.how can he handle the situation if Aloot told the Variety that the

implementation plan is a detaileddocument that requires a lot ofresearch. He said he is currentlystarting to write it before the ac­tual October 24 deadline.

On Farrell's question on howcan he handle the situation if nomoney can be produced duringthe deadline, the lawyer said hedoes not want to discuss it inpublic because it is a confidentialattorney-client information.

"Farrell has his own views butImust follow the law," hestressed.

BOE Chairman DanielQuitugua emphasized that Alootis still representing PSS in thetwo-year-old lawsuit.

Mandela visits Washington."Their visits will be occasions

to reflecton the remarkabledemo­cratic transformations of Russiaand South Africa - which theUnited States has done a greatdeal to promote," Clinton said inhis weekly radio address.

In that address, Clinton alsosaid he planned to tell the GeneralAssembly: "Our success in Haitito date shows that the internationalcommunity, with American leader­ship,canachieve inhelpingcountriesin their struggle to build democ­racy. Our mission, however, islimited." .

Hesaidhealsoplanned to teU U.N.delegates "thatitisuptothepeople inthosecountries ultimately to ensuretheirown freedom."

TaipeiandKaohsiung.Electionviolencehasbecomecom­

monplace sinceTaiwanbeganmov­ing towards democracy in the late19805.

Policesaidtheywerestudying vid­eotapes of theincident witha view to ipossible arrests. Atleast20of 1,300policemendeployed attherallywereinjured.

The New Partysaidit would sueMayorWu and Kaohsiung's police r'chiefYuYu-tang fornotcontrollingtheDPP's supporters. )

The DPPdistanced itselffrom the 'Ifighting, saying its supporters acted lindependently of the party Sunday rni~~ NewParty isviewed as repre- :jsenting the interests of conservative :\',Nationalists.

Theruling Nationalists fled toTai­wanin 1949 afterlosing acivil wartotheCommunists inChina

ter complaints that attorney ques­tioning took too long, invadedjurors' privacy and was used toindoctrinate jurors.

The public, used to watchingevery phase of this trial on televi­sion, is in for- a period of with­drawal. On the judge's orders,jury selection won't be televised.

shesaid.The Belances and their two small

daughters andsonlaterreceived politi­calasylum in theUnited States.

Mrs. Belance said she is sure thehuman rights commission isaware ofthe abuses, "but I will go there toremind them"

Groups sponsoring her appear­.ance include-the HaitianWomen'sAdvocacy Network, Haiti Com­municationsProject,Haitiwomen,tile Human Rights Program andHarvard UniversityLaw School'sImmigration and Refugee Pro­gram.

Their statement said womenhave been targeted for attack byHaitian troops "because of theirroleand status in maintaining civil soci­ety."Human rights monitors counted79 rape cases between February andMarchthisyear, itsaid

But the president was expectedto sound a more assertive note inMonday's address, backing inter­national partnerships where theUnited States leads but ones withlimited missions that depend onnations ultimately resolving theirown strife.

Clinton was also expected tofocusonsome recent internationalsuccesses - includi-ng the peaceprocess in the Middle East, themove toward stability in the re­publicans of the former SovietUnion and the end of racial strifein South Africa.

His U.N. speech comes on theeve of a summit in Washingtonwith Russian President BorisYeltsin..and a week before SouthAfrican President Nelson

tions are monitored and visits aresupervised by bailiffs.

The makeup of the jury prob­ably will not be known for at leasta month as jury questioning islikelyto be long and tedious.Onlythe judge will question prospec­tive jurors, under a law designedto speed up court proceedings af-

"SafeguardtheRepublicofChina,protect Taiwan's security."

Ju Gau-jeng, the New Party'scandidate in elections forTaiwan's governor, led anothergroup of people to the park andclashed with the DPP supporters.

Riot police had to separate ri­vals who hit one another withclubs.

The injuries were mostly minor,butfive people remained inahospitalMonday with head injuries, policesaid. Eight cars used by the rivalparties wereburnedor smashed.

WuDen-yih,theNationalistmayorof Kaohsiung, denounced the vio­lence.

"In a democratic society, peopleshould countheadsinstead ofbreak­ingothers' heads,"he said.

Inelections Dec.3,Taiwanesewillelectagovernor, a provincial assem­bly, and mayors and councils' for

Jonaissaint as being responsible forhuman rights violations.

Twowomen survivors ofabuse byHaitian forces hope to testify at thehearing. Oneofthem, Alerte Belance,32, told The Associated Press thatHaitian paramilitary soldiers hackedand beatherwith machetes last Oct16, then leftherfordead

Thetroops were seeking Belance'shusband, a known supporter of de­posed President-Jean BertrandAristide, she said. He fled, and '1didn't think they would attack'me­because I wasa woman ...Little didIknow."

Neighbors found Belance in thebushes, barely alive, andsneaked hertoahospital near Port-au-Prince. Sur­geons amputated a tom hand andre­paired machete slashes and welts onherface, tongue, neck andelsewhereduring a six-week clandestine stay,

goslavia.Clinton was expected to tell the

UnitedNationsthattheU.S.policyin Haiti is working, despite un­certainties and violence such aswhat flared over the weekend.

"There is no question that thecooperation between the UnitedStates, the U.N. and NATOisonethat also is pointing to a directionof how many regional problemscan be solved and worked on to­gether," U.S. AmbassadorMadeleine Albright said,briefingreporters in advance on Clinton'sspeech.

Just a year ago in his inauguralU.N. speech, Clinton questionedwhether theworld bodywasover­extending itself in places such asBosnia.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Morethan 80 people were injured, in­cluding five seriously, Sundaywhen advocates of Taiwanese in­dependence fought rivals whowantTaiwan reunited withChina,police said Monday.

Trouble erupted when about400 supporters of the pro-inde­pendenceDemocraticProgressiveParty hurled eggs, rocks and icecubes at candidates for the NewParty who were about to address3,000peopleina parkinthesouth­ern city of Kaohsiung.

The New Party supports reuni­fication between China and Tai­wan, which has been split fromthe mainland since 1949.Kaohsiung is a stronghold for theDPP, which wants Taiwan to de­clare independence from China.

Policesaid DPP supporters toredownNew Part)' banners marked:

ing thatmuchtimeawayfrom theirjobs."

If the judge decides he mustsequester the jury to shield themfrom publicity, that would furtherlimit the pool of available jurors.Many will not want to leave farn-.ily and friends for the isolation ofa hotel where their communica-

Cedras accusers to meetBy GENE KRAMER

80 injured in election campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) - Women'sand human rights groups said theywould presentevidenceMondayattheOrganization of American States thatHaiti's military leaders were respon­sible for systematic rape and otherviolence against women.

Theevidence, andcalls forcompen­sation forthe victims, will be madetoaclosed hearing oftheInter-AmericanHuman Rights Commission, thegroups said Sunday ina statement,

"Theevidence demonstrates a pat­tern ofsexualattack onwomen whichis a crucial part of the reign of terrorpresided overbytheillegal regime" ofmilitary ruler LL Gen. Raoul Cedras,the statement said.

Italso named Cedras' deputy, Brig.Gen. Philippe Biarnby, Police ChiefMichel Francois andPresident Emile

bly, which is celebrating its 50thanniversary this year.

The president was mixing hisU.N. appearance with a series ofmeetings with world leaders. Hemeets separately today with theleaders of Azerbaijan, Romaniaand Mexico. On Sunday, he heldtalks with U.N. Secretary-Gen­eral Boutros Boutros-Ghali andwith the president of Bosnia, AlijaIzetbegovic.

After that session, a senior ad­ministration official announced$20 million in new assistance forBosnia to help its economy and torun the government in Sarajevoand a promise to ask Congress foran additional $10 million.

Another $10 million already isin the pipeline to the former Yu-

Levenson said many prospectivejurors may be facing the reality thattheycan't affordthetimeto serve.

Of the I,OOJ LosAngeles Countyresidents summoned by SuperiorCourtJudgeLanceIto,morethan700havealready returnedone-pageques­tionnaires discussing theiravailabil­ity to serve in a trial which couldstretch into 1995.

Abouttwo-thirdshavesaiditwouJdbe a hardship.

"It' struethatformany ofthepeople,this will be more interesting thananythingelsehappeninginrheirlives,'Levenson said. "But reality sets in.The economy is not so good andpeoplewill be concerned abouttak-

Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, the jury con­sultant working for thedefense, haspinpointedanewphenomenon intheSimpson case: jurorswhowanttogeton the case becauseof its notorietyandthechancetheywill becomerichandfamous as a result

"I've never seen it before,"Dirnitriussaid,"Usually, peoplewantto know how they can get out ofservingonthejury.Inthiscase, they'recominguptomeonthestreetasking,"HowdoIbecome ajurorontheOJ.case."

By TOM RAUM

NEW YORK (AP) - PresidentClinton is seeking internationalsupport for limiting military in­tervention in regional conflictsand allowing the world's troublespots to resolve their own prob­lems.

In an address ·Monday to theUnited Nations, his second aspresident, Clinton was expectedto defend the U.S. occupation ofHaiti while offering $30 millioninnew U.S. aid to Bosnia, anotherconflict-ridden small nation oc­cupying the world institution'sattention.

Clinton was also expected tofocus on both conflicts in his ad­dress to the U.N. General Assem-

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Jury selection in O.J. Simpson beginsBy LINDA DEUTSCH

LOS ANGELES (AP)· Afterthreemonths of endless publicity in theOJ. Simpson murdercase, the firststage of jury selection beginsMon­day. Lawyers onbothsidesacknowl­edgethere'snohopeoffindingjurorsunawareofoneofthemostcelebratedcrimes in America

Norwould theywantsuchajury,saidLoyola University Law Schoolprofessor Laurie Levenson.

"You want someone on thisjurywho's at least heardabout the case,becauseyouwantafunctioningmem­herof society," Levenson said.

Yetjurorsalso need to be abletoput all prior knowledge aside anddecidethecaseon theevidence, shesaid.

Ata minimum, prospective jurorswill know that Simpson, a formerfootball star whose fame extendedintoshowbusiness, is charged withtheJune 12slashing murders of hisex-wife, Nicole BrownSimpson,andherfriend Ronald Goldman.

Theywill also knowthat Simpsonhasdedaredhimself"absolutely 100percent notgullty" andthathehasthebest team oflawyersmoneycan buy.

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Canice Taitano, a U.S. DistrictCourt clerk also took the witnessstand, contradicting Grizzard'sclaim that he did not rememberthe Mogambo altercation. Taitanowill continue his testimony to­day.

The defense has been tryingto convince the jury thatGrizzard fell on the floor notbecause he was shoved byMitchell but as a result of hisintoxication. Had he not drunktoo much alcohol, he would nothave fallen and sustained inju­ries, the defense said.

Mitchell is charged with aggra­vated assaultforpushing Grizzardduring a bar room fight. He hadpleaded not guilty to the charge.

This was the result of the barroom altercation during whichGrizzard hit his head on a' ciga­rette vending machine after hewas pushed by fellow attorneyTheodore Mitchelle, he said.

In Guam, Tanaguchi said,Grizzard was operated on .. Theattending physician describedGrizzard's brain as swelling andthat dura could not be closed,

Grizzard was later brought toHonolulu for further treatment.After conducting a CAT-scan,Tanaguchi said Grizzard's skullwas operated on and covered thelawyer's brain with a liquid mate­rial that turns into a hard plasticafter a few minutes.

Tanaguchi testified that he ob­served Grizzard as being combat­ive which he attributed to the braininjury. The Hawaii doctor con­firmed that the seizures still beingexperienced by Grizzard were dueto the injury and not to his prob­lem on alcohol.

Trapp has portrayed Grizzardsince the beginning of the trial asan excessive drinker and blamedhim for the injuries he sustainedon the night of August 9, 1993.

Tanaguchi agreed with the pros­ecution that the seizures resultingfrom chronic alcoholism weremore"general" meaning the mostparts ofthebody are affected whilethose caused by head injuries aremore "localized."

The defense presented its ownmedical "expert" from Guam inthe afternoon to in an apparentattempt to refute Tanaguchi'sstatements. A Cafe Mogamboemployee also testified for thedefense that Grizzard had fre­quented the bar-and that the law­yer was a heavy drinker.

sioner William S. Torres ex­plained that under such program,seminars are being offered toqualified elementary (grades 4-6)and secondary (grades 7-12) levelschool teachers in social studiesand humanities, and for facultymembers from colleges in socialsciences and humanities.

Torres said these short-term (4­8 weeks) study and travel oppor­tunities are available only to teach­ers who meet certain qualifica­tions.

With the scholarships, the com­missioner pointed out, the USDepartment of Education' s Cen­ter for International Educationprovides round-trip air fare, roomand board, tuition and fees, andprogram-related travel within thehost country.

Qualified elementary and sec­ondary level teachers couldchoose to travel to China,Hongkong, India, Egypt, Zimba­bwe, Japan or Malaysia.

Qualified secondary andpostsecondary level teacherscould choose to travel to Chile,Hungary and Poland or Mexico.The Japan seminars will also beoffered to qualified Japanese lan­guage teachers. (FDT)

By Rafael I. Santos

THE THEODORE Mitchelltrial turned into a bitter exchangeof arguments between a prosecu­tor and a defense counsel sparkedby allegations that Saipan attor­ney James Grizzard lied in hisprevious testimony.

Grizzard, who claimed last Fri­day he did not recall a 1992 inci­dent at Cafe Mogambo which lefthim with severe head injuries, liedto the jury, defense lawyerHoward Trapp said yesterday.

Assistant Attorney GeneralCheryl Gill, chief governmentprosecutor, rejected Howard's al­legation, prompting a long debatebefore Judge Marty Taylor.

At the' start of the jury trialyesterday morning, the govern­ment presented two witnesses in­cluding atty. William Fitzgeraldpartly to back its claim thatGrizzard's loss of memory wasdue to the bar room fight insidethe Garapan establishment.

"It's common to lose memory"for persons who sustained headinjuries, Dr.RaymondTanaguchi,a Hawaii-based neurological sur­geon said on the witness stand.

Tanaguchi, who attendedGrizzard following the latter's op­eration from Guam, said the law­yer suffered from what he calledepidural hematoma caused byfructure on his skull.

The neuro-surgeon said he wasinformed on August 12, 1993 bya Guam doctor that Grizzard sus­tained a "great laceration on thedura (skull) and had a "bruisedbrain." Had Grizzard not beenoperated on, he would have diedor erided up chomatose, he toldthe jury.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1994 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-S

BOE okays summerteachers' training

Mitchell trial spurs bitter debate

THE BOARD of Educationsanctioned yesterday the send­ing off of CNMI teachers toforeign countries for summertraining developed under afederal program.

The program, which wasbrought up by BOE memberDino Jones during the BOEmeeting at the Public SchoolSystem central office, wasunanimously "approved" bythe board.

Jone.s explained that CNMIteachers could be eligible forsummer training opportunitiesin countries outside the UnitedStates, if they qualify under ascheme established by the U.S.Department of Education'sCenter for International Edu­cation.

Underscoring the impor­tance of the training, the BOEmember said scholarship grantfunds a professional enhance­ment program calledFulbright-Hays seminars.

Impressed by the program,the board immediately sanc­tioned the move, flashing thegreen light for PSS to carryonthe scheme.

Earlier, Education Comrnis-

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Diamond Gallery has been busypreparing its inventory for the fastapproaching holiday season.Com­ing off a very successful Mother'sDay season, Sauceda is optimisticabout this year's Christmasseason.

Diamond Gallery is located inthe Cabrera Center on BeachRoad in Garapan and in the TownHouse Department Store inChalan Kanoa.

Diamond Gallerygirds for holidays

THE OFFICE of Emergency Management, Office of the Governor,wish III advise the general public that the hazy weather we arecurrently experiencing is due to the recent eruption of the volcanoesin Papua New Guinea. The haze poses no threat to the people of theC:\\11. Should you have any questions, please call the Office ofEmergency Management at 322-9529/9572/9274.

AS A PREMIEREjeweler of the:\ orthern Marianas, DiamondGallery has remained very activein the world jewelry markets, ancw« release yesterday said.

Frank Sauceda, president andchief buyer for Diamond Gallery,continues to travel the globe toselect the finest merchandise forthe CNMI consumer. Sauceda'smerchandising trips in recent­months have taken him fromHongKong to Honolulu and LasVegas to New York. While Dia­mond Gallery prides itself on of­fering truly the finest selectionfrom the world's most exquisitejewelry collections, Sauceda em­phasizes that Diamond Galleryoffers primarily finejewelry fromthe jewelry capital of the world,New York. "Over 90% of ourproduct lines come from NewYork suppliers," Sauceda ex­plained. "Through my experience,I've found that the Saipan con­sumer will not settle for anythingless than best. That's exactly whatDiamond Gallery seeks to deliver- the best," Sauceda added.

Sauceda explained that U.S.standards for jewelry design andquality are strictly regulated.

Frank Sauceda: Optimistic about Christmas season.

they could," she said.Doromal and her husband

Boboy, are now working with atask force formed by GovernorFroilan C. Tenorio to investigatethe allegations.

Doromal 's hopes are that withenough exposure, labor reformwill take place. and the island ofRota will once again truly be "thefriendly island" as it is referred toin its promotional slogan.

In December of 1993, Doromalwrote a 26 page report titled "Hu­man Rights Violations and LaborAbuse in Rota, Commonwealthof the Northern Marianas" todrawattention to the issue, she said.

"I expected their reaction to be,"Oh, we have to do something.Let's help these people. Let's in­vestigate," said Doromal. Instead,"the hostility was intense. Theywere vilifying us in every way

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the Department of Public Works is soliciting sealed bids for the American Memorial Park Gates, Ballards, and Walk­ways. The project is localed at American Memorial Park, Garapan, Saipan, CNMI. Bids in duplicate will be acceptedat the office of the Director, Division of Procurement and Supply at Lower Base, Saipan, until 2:00 p.m., local time,October 7, 1994 at which time aRd place the bids will be publicly opened and read aload. Any bids received after theabove time will not be accepted under any circumstances.

Abond of 15% of the total bid price must accompany the bid. This Security may be certified Check, Cashier,s Check,Bid Bond or other form acceptable to the Government made payable to the Treasurer, Commonwealth of the NorthernMariana Islands with anotation on the face of the Check: 'Credit Account No. 1471" Bid security is not required ifbidamount is less than $25,000.00

The bidder is required to submit with his proposal acopy of his business permit as acompliance with the contractors'sRegistration and Licensing Laws of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Specifications and plans of the project are available 'on or aner September 14,1994 at the Technical Services Divi­sion, Department of Public Works, Saipan. Anon-refundable payment of $50.00 is required for each set. Pre-bidconference for this project will be held at 2:00 p.m., local time, September 28,1994 at the Department of Public WorksConference Room.

Attention is called to the Labor Standards Provisions for Wage Rate De~ermination of the CNMI Classification andSalary Structure Plans, and payment of not less than minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the Specificationmust be paid on this project.

All bids documents received shall be the sale property of the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands with theexception of bid bonds, certified check or cashiers check which will be returned to the bidders in accordance with thespecifications section, "Institute to the Bidders", Page B-5, Paragraph No. 05, Bid Guarantee.u The Government reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waived any imperfection in the bid proposal in theinterest of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana lslanos'.

WEND Y Dorornal, human rightsand labor rights activist and a tenyear resident of Rota will betonight's guest on Cable Forum, anews release from Saipan CableTV said yesterday.

Doroma1and her husband havebeen keeping records of allegedlabor abuse violations on Rota forthe last few years which includeactions taken by government of­ficials.

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Doromal guests on Cable ForumGovernor Tenorio admitted la- Cable Forum can be seen every

bor abuse violations to the U.S. Tuesday night from 7:00p.m.-Congress last week, and assured 8:00p.m. on Saipan Cable chan-them that our government will nel 12.prosecute to the fullest extent of Viewers are encouraged to callthe law anyone convicted of hu- in with any questions or corn-man rights or labor abuse viola- ments they may have regardingtions. this issue.

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annual license cost of $0.5 mil- But the bulk of thelion so as not to lose the license. Commission's total expenditures

In addition to these, the inves- consisted of payroll $1.4 milliontor on its own must incur other (33% of total) and professionalorganizational costs for project fees at $1.8 million (43%).studies, consultation and profes- Analysis showed that most ofsional fees, making the whole the payroll cost was for the sala-endeavor much costlier. ries of five commissioners and

But yet another perceived im- the executive director which be-pediment in the progress of the gan at $50,000 per year and roseindustry is in the amount of in- to the current level of $60,000.vestment required for any casino On the other hand, most of theapplication. $1.8 million in professional fees

The report indicated that the was for investigation contractsCasino Act requires. the hotel-ca- during FYs 1990 and 1991.sino to have no less than 300 Overall, it was estimated thatrooms. just for salaries and building

"When the Commission started rental, the Commission' s monthlythree years ago, investors were cost is between $35.000 toaggressive in pursuing hotel ca- $40,000.sino applications and had less In response to the audit's find-spending restraint because ofgood ings, Commission Chairman Joseeconomic conditions. Currently, P. Mafnas in a July 20th lettertight money conditions require noted that the problems cited incaution and closer scrutiny of the audit took place during thespending," said the report. short time he started as commis-

According to figures cited in sioner.the audit, the Commission has "Our new board of commis-spent about $4.2 million for three sioners are aware of some of theyears of operation from April 1, past discrepancies by the previ-1990 to September 30, 1993. This ous commission and to that endamount is $765,000 over the $3.4 have taken great strides in chang-million revenue generated by the ing the operating methods of theCommission in the same period. Commission," said Mafnas.

Such a deficit, the report said, He gave an assurance towas mainly due to continuing LaMotte that the Commission islosses from operations brought 'working to resolve past inconsis-about by estimated revenues that tencies and will continue to do sowere not realized or collected. to avoid repeating such problems.

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total monthly revenue from alllicense fees, revenue taxes, civilpenalties and fines collected forlate payment of fees and taxes.

But according to the audit re­port, three years after, the intendedthere are quite a numberof factorsthat have adversely affected theviability of the casino industry onTinian, one being the ongoingeconomic recession.

"The funding available formul­timillion dollar investments, theexpected rate of return, and thenumber of prospective investorsmay have decreased. Investorscould have changed their outlookby being more cautious in biginvestment ventures," saidLaMotte.

He then called on the Commis­sion and the Tinian Municipalgovernment to better promote theindustry to investors by givingfiscal incentives instead of con­tinuing stiff application fees andprocedures.

Under the current practice, apotential investor spends at least$350,000 upfront without any as­surance of a casino license.

Such amount is to be paid uponapplication, broken down as a non­refundable application fee of$200,000 and a licensing costdeposit of $150,000 (for investi­gation).

Once a casino license is granted,the holder is required to pay the

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-frequenr imposition of special'fee assessments.

Hopes for a booming casinoindustry on the island were on ahigh note three years ago after thepeople of Tinian through an ini­tiative enacted the law governingthe operation of casinos in theisland. '

The Tinian Casino GamingControl Act of 1989 specificallyprovided basic procedures andguidelines for casino operation. Italso represented empowermentfor the Tinian Commission in theselection of licensees, licensingofcasino employees and servicesindustries, fees and taxes to theMunicipality, casino layout andoperation, required internal con­trols and other matters related tothe initial establishment and on­going control of the industry onTinian.

The initiative provided that alllicense fees and gambling rev­enue taxes generated by casinosshall be local revenues to be madeavailable for appropriation by theMunicipal Council and to be ex­pended by the mayor for localpublic purposes.

The local public purposes in­clude assistance in education,youth and the elderly develop­ment programs, scholarships,medical referral, agricultural andfisheries development and oth­ers.

Furthermore, each adult resi­dent ofthe Municipality ofTinianshall be eligible to receive amonthly utility subsidy of $100and a monthly cash royalty in anamount determined by the Com­mission from 20 percent of the

Man...Continued from page 1sequently arrested by police of­ficers.

Initial investigation showed thatwhile the security guard was sit­ting outside the restaurant,Mtochad and another male com­panion approached him.

Mtochad suddenly pulled' aknife and stabbed the victim.

At Airport Road, a 34-year-oldman was arrested for disturbingpeace and child abuse Sundaymorning.

Another child abuse case wasalso reported Friday morning inSusupe, No arrests were madeyet.

At Hopwood Junior HighSchool in Chalan Piao, two fe­male ju veniles were arrested afterthey were caught smoking pos­sible marijuana inside the restroom Friday morning.

The girls reportedly yielded tworolled sticks said to be marijuana.

In another incident, DPS andCivil Defense personnel rescuedtwo persons, Roman Cabrera andGreg Camacho, who were foundhanging at the channel markerslocated between Managaha Islandand Saipan after a few hours ofsearch yesterday morning.

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Specifically, the fear was thatcurrent media accounts of laborabuse and human rights viola­tions on alien workers in theCNMI may be used as a rallyingpoint to strip the CNMI of itsprivilege to control its port ofentries.

A bill is currently pending foraction at the US House of Repre­sentatives to specifically applyUS Immigration laws in theCNML

Although Governor Froilan C.Tenorio was the only CNMI offi­cial invited to testify before thehearing orally, Washington Rep­resentative Juan N. Babauta, Sen­ate President Juan S. Demapan,the HANMI and the Saipan Gar­ments Manufacturers Associationwere ac~owledged for theirwrit­ten testimonies that were added tothe record.

HANMI said the governor'sspeech and answers to questionsfrom several US senators in atten­dance were well received.

"The Committee recognizedour government's initiative toremedy its own problems. TheCommittee and federal officialswho testified seemed to prefer notto intervene," said the HANML

According to HANMI, the tes­timony given by the US Immigra­tion and Naturalization Serviceindicates application of US Im­migration laws in the CNMIwould be impractical and wouldcause numerous problems.

"INS further stated that enforce­ment must take into account theneeds of industry," said theHANMI statement indicated.

Moreover, it pointed out thatthe senators present did howeverissue a strong ultimatum that morereforms and progress must bemade in the area of labor andimmigration within the next sixmonths, "or they would be forcedto intervene in the next year."

HANMI acknowledged there ispressure to bring the local mini­mum wage up to US standards assoon as possible but noted that theCNMI has already addressed theissue through last year's enact­ment of a new wage law increas­ing basic pay by 30 cents per year.

In its statement yesterday,HANMI said it maintains its posi­tion that the wage' hike must bedone gradually to allow businessesto plan ahead.

"We remain convinced that ourcurrent law is a good sol ution andthat we should stay on the presentcourse," the statement furtherread.

The hotel association likewisenoted that its testimony receivedpositive feedback from both theSenate subcommittee the Depart­ment of Interior and from theCNMI delegation.

"We came away feeling that thehotel industry of the CNMI isrecognized as a major and pro­ductive sector of the communitythat has few labor problems," thestatement said.

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enforcement of our labor laws. Iwanted to fire him outright, butthe Mayor preempted the situa­tion by using his own authority toappoint him to a different posi­tion. A further investigation intohis activities is now pending andmay lead to criminal charges.

Meanwhile. I have advised themayors of Rota and Tinian thatwe have reserved enforcement oflabor laws and regulations to thecentral Commonwealth Govern­ment in order to ensure constitu­tional due process for nonresi­dent workers and uniform appli­cation of the law throughout theCNMI.

I recognize that the CNMI At­torney General's Office has notbeen very aggressive in prosecut­ing labor violations, at least inpart due to the weakness of ourlocal statutes. I have directed theAttorney General to increase theefforts of his office in this regard,and we have submitted legisla­tion, H.B. 272. to overhaul com­pletely our labor laws and putsome teeth in them. Our bill willenhance our ability to prosecutethe abusers and give statutorvsanction to many of the reformswe are discussing here today.

Even earlier, in fact within daysof taking office, we submitted abill to the Legislature to raise theCNMI minimum wage to U.S.levels starting this January forgarment workers and in January1996 for everyone else.

Also, in the course of examin­ing our labor situation, we foundthat some recipients of foodstamps, SSI, or other subsidieswere using their government pay­ments to employ alien maids andother household workers. This hasbeen stopped.

As part of a major governmentreorganization, we have estab­lished a new Department of La­bor and Immigration where thesematters can be dealt within asingle agency on a cohesive andintegrated basis.

weeks.These may seem like small

numbers, but in our tiny Com­monwealththeyareamajorbreak­through. In the past, there werecover-ups, both official and in thesociety at large. Instead, we havebrought more of these indictmentsin eight months than the previousadministration did in four years.

When reports of human rightsabuses on Rota first surfaced, wetook swift action. We sent a four­person Labor Task Force to Rotafor a month-long investigation,which confirmed many cases oflabor violations and abuses. Fur­thermore, the investigation con­firmed that the Resident DirectorofCommerce and Labor, who wasappointed by the Mayor of Rotaunder our Constitution, was amajor part of the problem. As aresult, we suspended this officialfrom further involvement in the

progress.We admit there is a problem.I am angry, saddened, and

ashamed to have to come herebefore you and affirm that thehorror stories of human rightsabuses of nonresident workers onRota, as well as on Saipan andTinian, are generally accurate.Workers have been cheated; paidless than the minimum wage,forced to live in subhuman condi­tions, locked in during non-workhours. and even beaten and raped.There cannot be a meaningful dis­cussion of our labor situation with­out first acknowledging theseproblems.

However, the vast majority ofour employers are decent people,who treat their employees well.The abusive minority may attractmore attention, but abuse is theexception, not the rule. Neverthe­less, there is a significant and per­sistent pattern of abuse and cor­ruption that cannot be ignored.

Employers who abuse ourguestworkers are no better than com­mon criminals, and that is just theway we are treating them. Theyare being investigated and will beprosecuted for their crimes andsubjected to strengthened admin­istrative penalties.

We are taking action.We are also making many

changes that will prevent many ofthese abuses from happening inthe future.

We are not limiting our cam­paign to abusive employers. Sinceour administration began in Janu­ary, we have indicted five gov­ernment officials for corruptionrelating to immigration and labor,including extortion and solicita­tion of bribes. One of them al­ready has been convicted and twomore face trial in the next few

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''We're taking positive steps"In June, we brought Mr. Leo

LaMotte to the Commonwealthas temporary Public Auditor. Iexpect that he will help us ferretout corruption, develop financialcontrols, and improve the deliv-ery of public services. Mr.LaMotte recently completed adistinguished career in the fed­eral government, including ser­vice with the GAO and the A.LD. ,

~~s~~~~o:o~ee~e~~Ic~~~:;~~ J.Jpermanent Public Auditor in the':!:Jnear future. I;

We recently reached an under­standing with the Philippine la-bor authorities for several proce­dural reforms by both govern­ments that will assure that work->ers from that country will be qUali-'"

~~~i~~~~i~j~~:lin~e~~~:~;d ;,~l....•...iagainst unscrupulous recruitingagencies.

We have just set up a MarianasLiaison Office in Manila to dealprimarily with labor matters andwill establish a similar office inHong Kong to deal with workersfrom the Chinese mainland. Thisinitiative will allow us to dealwith labor and immigration prob­lems from both ends. Abusiveemployers win-no longer be ableto evade prosecution by forcingthe worker to go home, since theLiaison Offices will be able toprocess complaints from workerseven after they have left the Com­monwealth. Better yet, by build­ing safeguards into the relation­ship right from the start, the liai­son Offices will be able to preventmany of these abuses from hap­pening in the first place.

We have had a few tragic casesin which the employers of non­resident workers and the suretycompanies who posted their bondsboth went bankrupt. The workerswere caught in limbo with noemployer and no way home. Wewere able to find jobs for some ofthese workers. In other cases wepaid for their repatriation. Toavoid a recurrence, we have in­creased the depository require­ments for the bonding companiesto be sure that repatriation fundsare available when needed.

We recently enacted into lawthe Immigration Enforcement Actof 1994, which imposes strongerpenalties on those who violateour immigration laws. The previ-ous law focused only on punish-ing aliens. The new law, which isbasedon federal statutes, imposessanctions on employers of illegalaliens and other persons who helpaliens violate the law.

I should mention that in the pastseveral months we already havedeported 65 aliens, nearly all ofthem former workers who over­stayed their permits. Ironically,we could have deported even morehad the Legislature appropriatedsufJ!cient funds for this purpose., (To be continued.)

(The following is the text ofGovernor Froilan C. Tenorio'stestimony during the oversighthearing conducted by the US Sen­ate Subcommittee on MineralResourcesDevelopmentandPro­duction on CNMI immigrationmatters, September 22. 1994.)

THANK you, Mr. Chairman. Thisis my first appearance before aCongressional committee as gov­ernor, and it is an honor and privi­lege to be here. I welcome theopportunity to testify on Com­monwealth immigration and re­lated issues. We have spent a lotof time on these matters duringthese last eight months and thereis much to tell.

Mr. Chairman. simply put, weknow we have serious immigra­tion and labor problems; we aretaking positive steps to resolvethem; and we need assistance, notsanctions from the Federal Gov­ernment.

As you are aware, LieutenantGovernor Jesse Borja and I wereelected last November on a plat­form of governmental reform. Wemade a lot of campaign promises,including several regarding im­migration and oUIalien laborprob­lerns. Perhaps what has surprisedpeople most about our adminis­tration is that we are keeping thosepromises.

We have changed the wholeapproach to the very real prob­lems that we have. In the past,when the CNMI Government re­ceived complaints about immi­gration or labor problems, therewas anger and denial followed bydefensiveness and grudging co­operation. Not any more. Our ad­ministration has taken a pro-ac­tive stance and is making real

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Lightning killed another sixpeople in central Vietnam'sQuang Tri province, 680 kilo­meters (420 miles) north ofHo Chi Minh City, the papersaid. Five farmers died whenlightning struck them during athunderstorm on Sept. 18. Asixth person was killed earlierin the month, it reported.

p.m. localtime,saida witness.The waterfall is one of several in

thepopularweekend recreation area.''I thought Iwoulddie,"saidsurvi­

vor Hawoa Luehem, 26, ofChachoengsao province. "Iprayed, Ithought about a lot of things: mymom,peopleIhaddonebadthings to.I said 'pleaseforgive me.' "

Hawoa saidshe wassweptunderthree times, and spentwhat sheesti­matedwas 20 minutes adrift beforetwomen rescued her.

"I heardlotsofpeopleyelling 'Helpher' but onlytwo mencameto saveme," shesaid She did notknow thenamesof her rescuers.. She spoke from her hospitalbed, where she-was being treatedfor an injured foot.

There were no reports of anyforeigners among the victims.

The weather bureau had issueda flood warning Saturday foreast­em and central Thailand becauseof heavy rains, a spokesman forthe meteorological departmentsaid Sunday.

The 80-hectare (200-acre), pri­vately owned park hit by the floodopened in 1955 and is consideredone of the finest of its type in thecountry. It caters todomestic tour­ists.

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The storms inundated two­thirds of the rice fields in LongAn, said Nhanh in a telephoneinterview. Long An 'and AnGiang together lost rice worthdong 19.7 billion ($1.8 mil­lion).

Flooding is expected to con­tinue during the next 10 days,the News reported.

tookaboutanhourforthehighwatersto subside.

Dramatic videofootage shownonTV Channel7 showedparkvisitorsclinging to tree branches and ropesthrown by rescuers as brown waterswirled fiercely downstream.

Parle officials wereabletosoundawarning buzzeronlya fewmomentsbefore the water rusheddown fromWangTakrai waterfall at about2:30

went for a walk in woods anddropped in at a pub.

Major said the weekend meet­ing, their fourth this year, "wasuseful and it was enjoyable. Itwas both of these in equal parts."

Yeltsin and Major said littleabout their talks on Bosnia, whereBritain and other European pow­ers are opposed to United Statespressure to lift the arms embargoagainst the Muslim-led govern­ment.

"Weare again entering a verydifficult period on Bosnia," saidMajor. "It is particularly impor­tant for Russia and the UnitedStates to stay close together at thistime."

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gave no further details.The flooding submerged

more than 54,000 homes anddestroyed more than 17,000tons of rice in both provinces,which lie in an area near theMekong delta known as thePlain of Reeds. The delta isVietnam's biggest grain-pro­ducing region.

Charathsi said people at the parkheardaloudroar,andthewaterrushedthrough justa fewminutes later. Shesaidtheonrush of waterappeared tohave beeen caused by some sort ofaccident of nature, perhaps a land­slidefive kilometers (threemiles) upthemountain.

The sudden flood caused thestream's depth to double from itsusual 150centimeters (5 feet), andit

spendtimewithanAmerican family.At a joint news conference Sun­

day,YeltsinandPrimeMinisterJohnMajorsaidtheystillcouldn'tbelievehowmuchthingshavechangedsincetheendof theColdWar.

''I don't think aslittle astwo,three,four, let alonefive years ago, therewould have been the possibility ofsucha meeting," Yeltsin toldreport­ers.

HeflewtoNewYorkfromBrizeNorton, a Royal Air Force base55 miles (90 kms) northwest ofLondon.

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(3 I miles) west nf Ho Chi MinhCity, said Dang Van Nhanh, anagriculture expert at the provin­cial people's committee.

Another 24 people died in AnGiang province, 189 kilometers(117 miles) southwest of Ho ChiMinh City, the state-run VietnamNews reported. Most of the vic­tims were children, but the paper

ince. "It has never happened in 40years."

The provincial hospital said the18thvictim, a boy aboutfive or sixyears old, died of injuries sustainedby the torrent of water Sunday atWangTakraipark,90kilometers (56miles) northeast of Bangkok inNakhonNayokprovince. Atleastsixotherswerebeingtreatedand11 werereported missing. .

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tional" abouttheprospectofaddress­ing the General Assembly, sayingthat givinga speechtherewasachal­lengingresponsibility.

Yeltsin arrivedintheUnitedStatesafter a relaxed weekend in the En­glish countryside. During his stop­overin theUnitedStates, heplanstoassureAmericansit's safetoinvest inRussian business.

Yeltsin insists that-Russiais readyto do business, dismissing the com­plaints ofcritics whosayinvesting inRussiais riskybecause of organizedcrime,conflicting legislation andun­predictable taxes.

Yeltsin wrapsuphistripThursdayinSeattIe, wherehewill touraBoeingCo.facility, takeanun onayachtand

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) • Flashfloods have killed 40 people, mostof them children, in areas up­stream from Vietnam's MekongRiver delta, officials said Mon­day.

Heavyrains during the past sev­eral days caused floods that killed12 children and four adults inLong An province, 50 kilometers

NAKHON NAYOK, Thailand(AP) • A youngboy died of injuriesMondaybringingto 18thenumberofholiday-makers killed when a flashflood swept down a mountainsideintoa stream whereswimmers frol­icked.

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Yeltsin seeks more outside help

Floods kill 46 Vietnamese

NEW YORK (AP) • Russian Presi­dentBoris Yeltsin has beguna five­dayswing through theUnitedStates-atriphehopeswill encourageAmeri­caninvestmentinhiscountry'sstrug­glingeconomy.

Yeltsin isscheduled toaddress theUnited Nations General Assemblyon Monday, then head to Washing­ton for two days of meetings withPresident Clinton.

The Russian president arrived atJohn F. Kennedy International Air­portlateSundayafternoon.

Speaking in Russian, he told re­porters he was preparing for a wide­ranging but difficult agenda withClinton andhopedto makeprogress"step-in-step together."

He alsosaid he felt a little "emo-

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BEIJING (AP) • Forty-fourpeople,including a Burmese, havebeen arrested in a major bust thatsmashed eight drug rings, an offi­cial report said Monday.

Yang Maoxian, from northernBurma,was among-those arrestedby police in southwest China'sYunnan province in May, theChina Daily reported. Yunnanborders Burma and Laos,which together with Thailandmake. up the "Golden Tri­angle," responsible for mostof the world's opium andheroin production.

Golden Triangle drug lordsincreasingly are smugglingnarcotics through Yunnan andacross southern China to HongKong and the West.

The report said Yang, de­scribed as a drug lord, hasconfessed to smuggling "largequantities" of drugs into Chinaand is being prosecuted. Drugdealers in China often are ex­ecuted.

The brief report did not gi veany other details of the drugbust.

suring progress inopeningJapan'smarkets. The Japanese insist theywill never agree to numerical tar­gets.

Mondale acknowledged that aprolonged trade dispute would bedamaging to both the UnitedStates and Japan, the world's larg­est economic powers.

"The United States does notlike to invoke sanctions. Wewould much rather avoid them,"he said.

ing a resolution calling for a "datecertain" for the withdrawal of U.S.troops.

But Defense Secretary WilliamPerry, also appearing on NBC, saidhe was opposed to setting a "datecertain"forwithdrawal. "I think thatcomplicates ouroperations," hesaid

Current plans call for U.S.troops to stay in Haiti throughparliamentary elections at theendof the year. Some 2,000 to 3,000U.S. forces would participate in a6,000-member U.N. peacekeep­ing mission that would remainthrough presidential elections atthe end of 1995.

Russian Ambassador VitalyKoutehouk alsohadsoughtSurkov'sdeportation "ongroundsofreciproc­ityandhumanitarianconsiderations."

The ambassador offered to ex­change a Filipino jailed in Russiaalso for possessing illegal weap­ons, but this was refused by Jus­tice Secretary Franklin Drilon.

Drilon said aliens facing crimi­nal charges can only be deportedafter they have served their sen­tence.

sanctionsagainstYugoslavia,reward­ing Serbian President SlobodanMilosevic forpromisingtoendweap­ons shipments across the border toBosnian Serbs,

The official reaffirmed that theUnited States will ask the U.N.Security Council on Oct. 15to liftan arms embargo against theMuslim-dominated governmentifBosnian Serbs do not accept thepeace plan by then.

But other administration offi­cials said Bosnian leaders voicedreservations about an influx ofweapons, even to their side.Fight­ingmight increase and "theydon'twant to be annihilated," one U.S.official said.

. applauding delegates.Labor hasbeen in power since

1983.Australia has been independent

since1901 butlikeotherfonnercolo­nies retains the British monarchas bead of state.

Keating wants to replace themonarch with an Australian presi­dent.

have to have an agreement," hesaid.

The two sides are also trying toreach accords on opening Japan'sinsurance market and on autosand auto parts - a sector that ac­counts for nearly two-thirds ofthe U.S. deficit with Japan. Saleof U.S. glass in Japan is also anissue.

Throughout the trade talks, theUnited States has pressed for ac­cords that include ways of mea-

Surkov, who was vacationing inManila, was arrested as hewasabouttoboard aplane atthe NinoyAquinoInternational Airport on Dec.1,1992after authorities found two home­made .38caliberpistolsand55 roundsof ammunition in hisluggage.

Justice Departmentrecordsshowedthere weredelays in the proceedingsafter Surkov requested a reinvestiga­tionof thecharges and latera reviewofthefinding thatheviolated Philip­pinelaw.

and settle their disputes with vio­lence," Said Sen. John McCain, R­Ariz. "Itis inevitable that Americantroops would find themselves in thecrossfire."

House Minority Whip NewtGingrich, R-Ga, saidhe wouldpushfor a resolution in the House thisweek demanding U.S. withdrawalfrom Haiti "atthemostrapidpossiblespeed."

Gingrich; speaking on CBS, saidthatafter the firelight theAmericanpublic doesn't "want to wait aroundforambushes andforboobytrapsandforallthethings thatcango wrong."

NunnsaidtheSenateis alsocraft-

government keep functioning andrebuild an economy wrecked by 21-2 years of ethnic bloodletting,the U.S. official said.

The administration is settingaside $20 million to help rebuildBosnia's economy and run thegovernment in Sarajevo and willask Congress for an additional$10 million. the official said.

Another $ 10 million already isin the pipeline to the formerYugoslav republic.

The Bosnian government hassaidit feels betrayed by the UnitedNations. Having accepted a planto end the war in Bosnia, itwatched in despair Friday as theSecurity Council relaxed some

HOBART, Australia (AP)··Prime Minister Paul Keating pre­dictedMondayhisLaborParry wouldstayinpowerlongenoughtodeclareAustralia a republic nextcentury.

Inaspeechon the openingdayofanational partycongress, Keating saidAustraliansareinthemoodforchange.

"I am sureit is takingus toward arepublic," he told several hundred

Aussie party to stay in power

munications equipment.That is one of the priority areas

in 15-month-old "framework"trade negotiations aimed at nar­rowing the United States' $60bil­lion trade deficit with Japan.

Mondale declined to saywhether an accord on public pro­curement alone would be suffi­cient to stave off sanctions, butsaid such a step would result in "a'more positive tone" to the talks.

"On public procurement, we

RP sends Russian to jailMANILA (AP)· ARussian seamanhas beensentenced to life imprison­mentafter he was caught possessingillegal firearms two years ago.

VadimSurkov, from Tuapse, Rus­sia,pleaded guilty to thecharge dur­ingarraignment Sept. I9. accordingtocourtrecords obtained Monday.

Two days after his arraignment,theRegional TrialCourtofsuburbanPasay City imposed the maximumsentence of life imprisonment forpossession of unlicensed firearms.

onry held by civilians, many frommilitary-backedanti-Aristidegroups.

ButAristide, ina message of con­dolence to the families of the 10Haitians killed, said the incident"pointsagain to the urgent needforimmediate disarmament The suc­cessof the mission to restore peace,reconciliation and justice to Haiti islinked to thiskey issue."

Congressional critics of theadministration's Haiti policy saidtheCap-Haitien hattie reinforced theirdemand foraquickwithdrawal fromHaiti.

"Instability is the norm in Haiti,where political factions are armed

us support on Bosnia urgedNEW YORK (AP) • Bosnia'spresident has asked the Clintonadministration to back the idea ofa 5-kilometer demilitarized zonearound the Bosnian capitalSarajevo.

Clinton promised to study theproposal, a senior U.S. officialsaid after the U.S. president metBosnia-Herzegovina's AlijaIzethegovic on Sunday in NewYork on the eve of Clinton'sspeech to the United Nations Gen­eral Assembly.

Izetbegovic asked Clinton toask the United Nations to supportthe proposal, the U.S.official saidon condition of anonymity.

NATO earlier this year bannedheavy weapons in a 20-kilometerradiusaround Sarajevo, whichhasbeen encircled and shelled byBosnian Serbs.virtually from thestart of the Bosnian war in 1992.

A completely demilitarizedzone would improve safety foraid transports, including the West­ern airlift of food and other sup­plies into Sarajevo.

The Clinton administration isplanning $30 million in new aidto Bosnia to help the Muslim-led

United States, said talks werecan"tinuing as the deadline ap­proaches.

Japan's trade minister, RyutaroHashimoto. will leave for Wash­ington on Tuesday for a last­minute round of talks with Kantoron the auto trade.

Thekey question, Mondale toldforeign reporters, is whether anagreementcanbe reachedon Japa­nese government procurement ofmedical equipment and telecom-

of Congress have been pressingAristide tosupport animmediate lift­ingtorelieve suffering intheWesternHemisphere's poorest nation.

'We don't want American mili­tary people down there for two orthree weekswiththeexpectations oftheHaitian peoplehigh,andyettheirsufferingcontinues,"Sen.SamNunn,D-Ga, saidSundayonNBC' s"MeetthePress."

Nunn, a memberof Carter's mis­sion, warned that "at some point, ifthatembargo isnotlifted,theAmeri­can military will suffer the conse­quences."

The 13,ClOO-member U.S. force inHaiti faced itsfirst violence Saturdayevening when armed men emergedfrom a policestation in thenortherncityof Cap-Haitien and opened fireon a patrol of Marines. One Navyinterpreter waswounded and 10Hai­tians werekilledin the tirefight.

JointChiefsofStaffChairrnanGen.JohnShalikashvili saidHaitian mili­tary leaderLt.Gen.Raoul Cedras hadbeenflown to Cap-Haitien on Sun­day and given a clear message thatsuchattacks by armed Haitians willnotbe tolerated.

Theynowknow,he saidon CBS'"Facethe Nation," "what thecost totheHaitians isforpicking afight withtheMarines."

Shalikashvili said a weapons buy­back program wouldbegin Mondayand said he was contident it couldmakea"significantdent' 'intheweap-

TOKYO (AP) • U.S. Ambassa­dor Walter Mondale expressedhopes Monday that the UnitedStates and Japan could reach atradeaccord bya Friday deadline,but said the United States standsreadyto impose sanctions if thoseefforts fail.

Foreign Minister Yohei Konoand U.S. Trade Representati veMickey Kantor have been hold­ingtalksinWashington.Mondale,who has just returned from the

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Members of Congress, mean­while, renewed calls for a speedywithdrawal of U.S. troops fromHaiti following a weekend ofvio­lent confrontations in the belea­guered Caribbean country.

In a statement Sunday from hishome-in-exile in Washington,Aristide asked the U.N. SecurityCouncil to ease sanctions so workcan bebegun on improving Haiti'spublic sanitation and hygiene sys­tems.

Healso asked nations with indi­vidual sanctions to lift those mea­suresaffecting the Haitian people.

But the populist Roman Catholicpriest, whowasoustedinSeptember1991 after barely seven months inoffice, held to his position that theU.N. trade embargo must remain inplaceuntilheisfully restoredtopower.

President Clinton was defendingtheU.S.cx::cupationofHaiti inaspeechtoday to theU.N. General Assembly.

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"There is no attorney on Rota,there's no labor [office], ...no Phil­ippine Consulate.;." No one wasis willing to help those who arebeing abused, she said.

Doromal said the Manila gov­ernment should stop deployingworkers to the CNMI' s southern­most island. Her call was laterechoed by Bigalbal.

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Wendy Doromal, a Rota schoolteacher who decided to leave the"paradise" with her husbandBoboy and their children due towhat they said was harassment tothem, could not contain her emo­tions Sunday night.

For at least twice that night, shebroke down, her eyes teary, whilerelating the abuses which she saidhad been documented by herself."Three hundred people could notlie to me," she said, referring to'those people who sought theDoromals' assistance.

The complaints, the names ofaggrieved parties and other infor­mation were documented and theFederal Bureau of Investigation,the Philippine government andthe Attorney General's Office, hadbeen provided with copies, shesaid.

Doromal was reacting to a se­ries ofdenials made by Rota offi­cials and residents concerning thereported abuses. The human rightsadvocate claimed "they are [theones] lying:"

According to Ms. Doromal, shehad recorded such abuses as ab­duction of workers, farmers be­ing left in "tin houses" with nofood and transportation, employ­ees being sent home with no com­pensation.

to join together, form a strongband and combat abuses. Thecourage exhibited by the guestworkers must ha ve been triggeredby the sad story related by a formerManilaPeninsulaHotel employeewho claimed she was locked inher employer's ranch and rapedon many occasions.

Further, the community was ap­parently encouraged by theexpose's made by local and U.S.mainland media about the humanfights abuses "on U.S. soil" andthe stem warning to the common­wealth from Washington to bettershape up or drastic actions wouldbe taken against it.

All of these plus the governor'sconfirmation that abuses exist inthe Northern Marianas may havecontributed to the public uproarexhibited by the Filipino commu­nity.

Now, leaders of various Fili­pino organizations, whose mainobjectives were to foster friend­ship and cooperation among mem­bers and between the CNMI andRP, are redefining their goals andobjectives. Now, they are hintingthat they want to be more respon­sive to their compatriots espe­cially to the victims of abuse.

Educator Ernesto Alana, pastpresident of the Marianas Asso­ciation ofFilipino Educators, saida federation of all existing Fili­pino groups is being planned sothat the community will have a"stronger" voice.

More meetings are beingplanned to discuss what other ac­tions to be taken by the Filipinocommunity.

Workers who trooped to theSunday meeting expressed fullsupport to the plan and hintedthey were open to the possibilityof contributing monetary supportto keep the group and programsmoving.

Bigalbal has earlier cited theproblem in funds to help victimsof human rights abuse. If every­one of the approximately 15,000Filipinos will donate a dollar amonth, that would be a big money,enough to accomplish the objec­tives of the community.No to dispatch of workers toRota

The meeting will be held at theCDA Confe~enceRoom, locatedat the second floor, Wak in ' sBuilding, Gualo Rai, Saipan.

The agenda for this meeting isto discuss loan applications.

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criticized what he called the fail­ure of the previous government toaddress the problems.

He called on his compatriots tounite and fight against abuses.Contract workers who filled theCafe Manila in San Jose Sundaynight, roared, clapped their handsand answered "yes" to the plannedmoves against abuses.

Bigalbal also' urged them topressure the Philippine OverseasEmployment Administration, anattached agency of Manila's la­bor and employment department,to "empower" its labor represen­tative here.

By empowering labor represen­tative, Atty. Vicente Manzano,Bigalbal meant that the Philip­pine official must be given moreauthority to look after workerswho are being abused or possiblyact in behalf of them.

Some workers have complainedthat the Philippine labor officehere has not been responsive tothe problems confronting Filipinocontract workers.

Manzano has said in previousinterviews that he cannot investi­gate or deal directly with compa­nies or employers who are ac­cused of mistreating their work­ers. The labor official said whathe can only dois assist the work­ers, instruct them what proceduresto follow, but not act on theirbehalf. Doing so would be an in­tervention into the internal affairsof the CNMI.

Manzano was not available foradditional comments yesterdaywhen contacted by the Variety.

Manzano has stressed severaltimes that POEA is not liable forFilipinos who entered the com­monwealth as tourists. Neverthe­less, he said, his office and thePhilippine Consulate, have beenhelping both tourists and workerswho encounter problems here.

But some Filipino workers, whowould not want their identity tobeknown, insist they are not get­ting much help.

Filipinos move vs abusesFilipino community leaders told

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In the western coastal cityof Gonaives, a pro-army gun­man entered the Haitian armybarracks where 105 Americanmilitary patrols were billeted,fired shots into the air. andbriefly brought down the U.S.flag, Haitian military sourcessaid Sunday.

The man was arrested and acrowd of 1,000 people latergathered outside the barracksto thank the Americans forcoming to the city, the sourcessaid. .

By nightfall Sunday in Port­au-Prince, there was a hugeoutpouring of support for de­mocracy and the U.S. troopsnear the airport.

One man running alongsidea pickup truck in a crowd ofseveral thousand packed threelayers deep with people said itwas obvious why the peoplewere flooding into the streets.

"It's because it has beenthree years since they couldcome out and they believe inthe return of Aristide." saidGarcon Moises. He said manyof the people celebrating sawnothing wrong in killing po­lice auxillaries responsible forthe 'killings, kidnappings andbeatings since Aristide' s 1991ouster.

On the muddy roads over­looking the airport, wholefamilies, many in their bestclothes, were streaming downto join the celebrations, whichhad the air of a carnival of sorts.

Korea "no choice" but to resumeits nuclear program, said a state­ment carried by North Korea'sofficial news agency.

A senior U.S. official, briefing re­porters in Geneva on condition ofanonymity, said thejoint U.S.-Japanmaneuverswereroutineexereisesanddenied they posed any threat Theexercises began last week

wounds as best they could', andgave him water to drink.

A Creole-speaking transla­tor talked with the boy andfound out where he lived. Sol­diers were sent to retrieve thechild's parents.

Samuel looked relieved afew minutes later when hismother and father arrived.

And everybody was pleasedwhen the helicopter took him tothe U.S. hospital ship docked inPort-au-Prince for further rnedi­caf treatment,

Word on the boy's conditionwas not immediately available.

the street from the police bar­racks.

Francis Jose, a Ha i t ia n­American Navy apprenticeserving as an interpreter, suf­fered a flesh wound in the legand was evacuated to the USSWasp for treatment.

Carl Denis, a senior aide toCedras, said he believed theHaitian who fired thought hewas shooting at another Hai­tian, not at American troops.

The firefight was followedby a siege as Marines tried topersuade two wounded meninside the station to gi ve them­selves up.

Marines had cleared thebuilding by Sunday morning.They did not say what hadhappened to the two holdouts,but raised the death toll fromnine to 10 and said anotherHaitian had been seriouslywounded. Outside the build­ing, Marines washed down theblood on the street.

The gunbattle fo llowed aslow escalation in tension be­tween Marines and Haitiansecurity forces.

Marine patrols had been in­creased and units were givenmore latitude to take actionagainst Haitian forces.

About 1,900Marines arrivedTuesday in Cap-Haitien toprovide security in advance ofthe planned return of exiledPresident Aristide. There areabout 10,000 U.S. troops over­all in Haiti.

shifting position on points agreedto in August. One of those issueswas compensation for energy lostwhile its nuclear program is sus­pended.

Before Sunday's session, NorthKorea's Foreign Ministry com­plained that U.S. naval maneu­vers jeopardized the talks.

Such pressure will leave North

tion of the capital, could serveas a metaphor for the deepen­ing U.S. involvement in Haiti.

Two soldiers ran in andpulled the bleeding, shirtlessboy out of the surging crowd.

Still conscious and bleed­ing from his head, the childcried out for his father as med­ics treated wounds to the boy'shead and leg. Magenta smokeswirled around the field, mark­ing the emergency landingzone.

The crowd cheered as med­ics cleaned the mud out of tKeboy's eyes, bandaged hi~

North Korea to replace its nuclearreactors with foreign-financed"light-water" reactors less suit­able for producing weapons-gradeplutonium.

Despite the continuing meet­ings, the latest round of talks hasnot gone smoothly.

On Saturday, a U.S. officialaccused the North Koreans of

More than 100 rifles, machetesand rusted-out machinegunswere surrendered along withuniforms and helmets.

One civilian even handedover a skull with a bullet hole.

"These people are reallyhappy today, but they're stillscared," said Lance Cpl. DarinMendoza of Miami. "They'retelling us they want us to stayfor another 20 years."

Marines set up checkpointsacross the city, trying to keepthe chaotic scene from turn­ing dangerous.

Near police headquarters, agroup of Haitians grabbed aman and dragged him into ahouse, apparently believing hewas an "attache," the civilianstrongmen backed by police."He will be judged," said oneman.

In another case, a crowd ap­proached aMarine checkpointand said they had captured anattache.

"I told them to go get him,tie him up and bring him inbut don't hit him," saidPetersan Jean-Pierre, a Navyseaman attached to the Ma­rines as a translator.

Cedras, the Haitian militaryleader, and Lt. Gen. Hugh

.Shelton, . commander of theU.S. operation in Haiti, flewtogether to Cap-Haitien for abrief inspection tour.

The clash began after anEcho Company platoon on itsevening patrol stopped across

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6-year-old boy trampledPORT-AU.PRINCE, Haiti(AP) - Six-year-old SamuelDesyr just wanted to get aclose look at the U.S. militaryhelicopters.

But when the choppersbringing in additional troopsset down on a soccer field inthe capital, the boy was.knocked over and trampled byan enthusiastic crowd rushingto greet the soldiers.

The incident, which delayeda planned American foot pa­trol through a southern sec­I

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there was no sign Cedrasplanned to pursue his accusa­tions.

President Clinton, speakingSunday at a church in Harlem,issued a statement saying: "Itmust be clear that U.S. forcesare prepared to respond tohostile action against them andwill do so."

After the fight, police andsoldiers abandoned Cap­Haitien's main military bar­racks, police station and abouta dozen smaller posts. Wordspread quickly to the streets,bringing hundreds out to trashthe property of those who hadruled over them.

At the main military bar­racks, Hai tians took every­thing they could get theirhands on, even tubas and trom­bones. They played the instru­ments in the streets as crowdsgathered outside.

Some people fired guns intothe air, but many appeared tobe handing the weapons overto some of the 1,900 U.S.Marines in Cap-Haitien. Oneman displayed tarnished bul­lets from an M-l assault rifleclip, which he handed to Ma­rines in an armored personelcarrier.

"I give, I give!" he cried.Hundreds of civilians hold­

ing rifles over their heads pa­raded to the bloodstained po­lice barracks where the Hai­tians died and handed theweapons over to Marines.

GENEVA (AP) - North Koreanand U.S. diplomats are still hold­ing negotiations on Pyongyang'snuclear program but giving fewclues as to whether progress isbeing made.

Members from both negotiat­ing tearns discussed the issues ontheir agenda Sunday during twosessions that lasted nearly fivehours, a U.S. official said. Theofficial, speaking on condition ofanonymity, said the heads of thetwo delegations would meet Mon­day at the North Korean missionat the United Nations' Europeanheadquarters. The latest round oftalks began Friday after a six­week break.

The United States hopes to per­suade North Korea to open itsnuclear program to internationalinspection, including two mili­tary sites that experts think mayhave been used to store atomicwaste.

Pyongyang has suspended theprogram, which it claims is peace­ful. But it insists that the sites aremilitary facilities and thus off­limits to international inspectors.

Members of the Clinton admin­istration, citing intelligence re­ports, believe that North Koreaalready has processed enoughweapons-grade plutonium tomake at least one nuclear bomb.

The United States also wants

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Authority collapses in Haitian cityBy FRED BAYLES

CAP.HAITIEN, Haiti (AP)·An American colonel on Sun­day eased off on the officialversion of a firefight that left10 Haitians dead, saying aMarine fired after a man madea threatening gesture.

But Col. Tom Jones said itwas unclear who began theshooting that sparked the firstviolent clash involving Ameri­can troops sent to restoreHaiti's elected government.

Meanwhile, police and sol­diers abandoned their postsSunday as authority collapsedin Cap-Hairien, Haiti's sec­ond-largest city. Hundreds ofHaitians, emboldened bySaturday's night's clash, ran­sacked police stations, carry­ing off guns, identity cards,even musical instruments.

"One of our patrols saw agesture by an individual withan Uzi machine gun. He tookthat individual out and afirefight began," said Jones,commanding officer of theMarine Air-Ground TaskForce.

"The lieutenant shot himwhen he made a gesture toraise his Uzi," Jones contin­ued. As to who fired first - Lt.Virg Palumbo, 24, of Windber,Pa., or the Haitian forces - "Ican't say that," Jones added.

American servicemen and asource close to the Haitianmilitary initially said the Hai­tians opened fire first.

The mayhem that followedshowed how easily the situa­tion- can flare out of controland raised the possibility thatU.S. troops may find them­selves confronted with an un­welcome choice: watchingHaiti sink into chaos or takingon the unwanted role of run­ning the country directly ­something neither the UnitedStates nor Aristide wants.

Jones said the Haitian com­mander, Raoul Cedras, wasseething Sunday about theCap-Haiti en killings.

"Cedras accused us. ofatrocities and demanded mytransfer and court-martial," hesaid.

Just before midnight Sun­day, the armed forces issuedits first public comment onthe gunbattle.

"The armed forces con­demns this brutal and odiousact," said a statement read onstate television against a back­drop of the blue-and-red Hai­tian colors. But the statementurged the public to be calm.

The communique was fol­lowed by a. Foreign Ministrystatement accusing U.S. Em­bassy spokesman StanleySchrager of "incendiary" re­marks. The Foreign Ministrycalled Schrager, who ridiculeda government ban Wednesdayon demonstrations, a special­ist in "manipulation anddisinformation."

U.S. administration officialsstressed that no military op­eration is without risk and

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Nolice is hereby given that on Oc­tober 13, 1994 at 1:30 p.mm thecourthouse of the Superior Court inSusupe, Saipan,Commonwealth- ofthe Northern Mariana Islands, thepetitioner will pelition lhe Court toadopt the above-mentioned minor.'

Dated this 23rd day o! September,1994.

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first husband.The Daily Express reported

Monday that although the queenhas supported the duchess againsthercritics, Andrew's fatherPrincePhilip is adamant she will neverreturn to the royal fold.

The Daily Mail Monday beganserializing Ferguson's book "TheGalloping Major" about hisfamily's relationship with the roy­als.

Ferguson, 62, an ex-Armyma­jor and Charles' former polo man­ager, in the book attacks royalaides as back-biting toadies whowere partly to blame for the failedmarriage.

Ferguson, who made headlineshimself six years ago when pho­tographed emerging from a Lon­don massage parlor, wrote: "Mostof them are more snobbish thaneven the most aloof member ofthe royal family. They gossip be­tween themselves all the time.There's much back-biting andcriticism."

He did not name names. But theDaily Mail, quoting anonymousfriends of the duchess, said shehad privately named some of theroyal aides she claims .let herdown. It said they include thequeen' sprivate secretary Sir Rob­ert Fellowes, who is a cousin ofFerguson, the queen' s former pri­vate secretary SeaI1O'Dwyer, andthequeen' s former detectiveBrianBaston.

Ferguson wrote that after hermarriage to Andrew, the duchessfound it hard to win the respect ofthe inner circle of courtiers. "Nohelp was forthcoming from An­drew in that department," hewrote. "She felt they had alwaysbeen out to get her and that no onewas prepared to take her side."

affair involving herformer Ameri­can financial adviser John Bryan.

Tabloids inAugust 1992 printedsneak photographs bf hercanoodling topless with Bryan.One showed him sucking her toes.

Tabloids portrayed herafter hermarriage as a brash, noisy youngwoman who preferred holidays toofficial duties and she wasblamedfor helping bring the royals intodisrepute.

Another setback for them wasthe separation of her brother-in­law Prince Charles and his wifePrincess Diana. The queen' sdaughter Princess Anne has re­married after divorce from her

radar to navigate in harbors in thedaytime. Tourists complain thattheirphotographs tum out foggy.

Theproblemisnotnew.Themurkyconditions in Singaporeare the sev­enthsuchepisodein17years, accord­ing to the Environment Ministry.

Smoggyconditions haveaffectedthe Klang Valley, where KualaLumpur is located, for more than a

.decade. The valley is prone to tem­perature inversion, wherebyparticle­ladenairisnotdispersed duetolocalclimatic conditions withinthebasin­liketopography of the area.

Thehazehasnotbeenreported -or'perhapsnotnoticed-inJakarta,whichalready suffers highlevelsof airpol­lution from emissions by industriesandmotorvehicles.

The8.2millionresidentsbreatheinan estimated' 1.5 tons a year of leadalone. AWorldBankstudysaidabout$200million ayearisspentonhealthcostsassociated withairpollution inJakarta

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in the face of opposition from thepeople at the palace and possiblyfrom other members of the fam­ily, though not the queen."

But the Daily Express saidMonday that senior palacesources, which the paper did notname, had dismissed Ferguson'scomments as "wishful thinking."

Thecouple appear to enjoy eachother's company when photo­graphed occasionally with theirdaughters, which raised specula­tion they might get back together.

The Daily Express said manypeople feel the duchess hasworked hard to rehabilitate her­self since the separation and the

Noreliefis expectedforamonthorsowhenseasonal inter-monsoon windsshouldcleartheair,saidWoonShihLai, acting director of Singapore'sMeteorological Service.

Rain offersonlya briefrespite.'The rain will clear the air for a

while. ButsincethereisstillsmokeinSumatra,thewindwill continueblow­ing fresh smoke into Singapore,"Woonadded.

Nor is the problem limitedto thissmall city-state. Tall buildings inKualaLumpurhave been shroudedinhaze fora month, andmuchof therestofpeninsuIaMalaysiaisafflicted.

Reduced visibility wasblamedfora near-miss by twojetlinersat KualaLumpuron Sept 8

The haze has been reported inBandarSen Begawan, capital of theoil-rich sultanate of Brunei.

Airports have been closed andschool physical education classescancelled. Motorists use theirhead­lights during the day. Ships need

cash and property arrangementunder a divorce agreement.

Ronald Ferguson, father of theduchess, was quoted in an inter­view Saturday with theDaily Mailas saying the former SarahFerguson would love to return toAndrew. They are both 34. Sheand the queen's second son mar­ried July 23, 1986.

"I believe Sarah does love An­drew and he'd have her back to­morrow," the Daily Mail quotedFerguson assaying. "Sarah wouldlove to go back to Andrew. I des­perately want it to happen. Butshe's concerned that he isn'tstrong enough to stand up for her

boatpeoplearewaitingfortheOct 15deadline forHaiti'stopmilitarylead­ers to resign, saidcarpenter JohnnyJoseph.

If the leaders don't step down aspromised, and repression resurges,"then they'll startleaving again," hesaid.

Joseph,who lives inanearby town,saidhisneighbors hopeforthereturnofAristide, whowasoverthrown ina1991 coup. "They have hope thateventually a better lifeawaits us,"hesaid.

Therefugee flowincreases intimeof repression, withboat people gam­blingthattheUnitedStates will provemoresympathetic to theirplight.

'Theyknow, theUnitedStateswillallow them in because of the situa­tion," said Gabriel Yacinthe, a 20­year-old student

Boat-building isthemainindustryin this village of 600 people, whererefugeescansail at theirownriskafterpaying $70 to $90.

Carpenters employ their entirefamilies as workers and spendany­where from a monthto a yearbuild­ing a boat, depending on their fi­nances and thecraft's size.

Theboats areusedbothfor legiti­mate transport of merchandise andillegal transport of people.

Middle class farmers often pur­chasetheboats to transport productsor resell them to people wanting tosailfor theUnited States.

Builders said the boats can costfromseveral hundred dollars to about$3,000 fora 4O-foot (12-meter) ves­sel.

lutants Standard Indexwasover100,indicating unhealthy airquality.

Officials blame forest fires inBorneo and Sumatra in Indonesiaandthedeliberateburningbyfarmersto prepare fields for planting inSumatra.

Indonesian forestry officials esti­mate that since mid-August morethan 6,000 hectares (14,826 acres)has burnedinSouthSumatraalone.

Winds blow the particle-ladensmokeacross theStraits ofMalacca.

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LONDON (AP) • The Duchessof York and Prince Andrew haveagreed to divorce, according to anews report Monday. The couplewhohave twodaughters aged fourand six separated in March 1992.

The London tabloid the DailyExpress quoted an unnamed se­nior member of Queen ElizabethII's household as saying their law­yers have been told to finalizedetails and that a' BuckinghamPalaceannouncement confirmingthedivorce is expected by Christ­mas.

A palace press officer said: "Iam not in a position to comment."The paper said nothing about any

CA IRA, Haiti (AP) • The crashof wavescompetes with the rhyth­mic sound of hammering in thiscoastal village as carpenters buildboats for the trickle of would-berefugees still setting sail.

Despite the arrival of U.S.troops charged with restoringHaiti's elected president, the pullof economic opportunities in theUnited States remains strong.

And if President Jean-BertrandAristidedoesn't return next monthasscheduled,orifmilitary-backedgunmen launch new repression,the trickle of folks still leavingcould again become a flood,townspeople here say.

The refugee surge peaked thissummer,withanestimated 21 ,000Haitians picked by the U.S. CoastGuardbetween lateJune andearlyJuly after fleeing their homelandon makeshift rafts.

A group of refugees set sailfrom the beach here a day or sobeforetheSept. 18agreement thathalted a planned U.S. invasion ofHaiti. They later called from Mi­ami, saying they had arrivedsafely.

Another two boats carryingabout 600 people left the coastaltownof Dame-Marie several daysafter U.S. troops arrived, said alocal sailor who identified him­self only as Jean.

"Ofthose,manydied," thesailorsaid.

But for the most part, would-be

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Romand Jazik, an 80-year-oldCanadian who has entered thetriathlon, and Australia rowersSpencer Grace, 87, and TedBromley, 81, are among the oldestparticipants in the Games, whichare being held 12 years afterBrisbane hosted the Common­wealth Games.

Athletes from almost 69 coun­tries will take part. The biggestoverseascontingentwillcomefromNew Zealand (864) followed bytheUnitedStates(360), Russia(302)and Papua New Guinea (285).

Track and field has attracted themost individualentries (2,981)fol­lowed by swimming (1,812) andgolf (1,699). Sports are structuredin five-year age groups such as 30­34, 35-39 and so on.

Most competitors are not takingtheir events too seriously. TracyStockwell will compete only in amixed medley relay alongside herhusband Mark Stockwell, a silvermedalist in swimming at the LosAngeles Olympics.

"Masters Games are about par­ticipating and feeling good," shesaid. "I'm not taking it too seri­ously, but it should be a lot of funand I'm looking forward to meet­ing athletes in their 70s. and 80swho I find quiteinspiring,"

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among those set to play in the bas­ketball competition.

Entries for the golf tournamentinclude formerPapua Ne'Y GuirieaPrimeMinisterSirMichaelSomare,Danish Olympic Committee presi­dent KaiHolm and former Austra­lian Davis Cup tennis player MalAnderson.

Fonner Australian captain NickFarr-JonesandformerNewZealandwinger Grant Batty have signed upfor the rugby union .tournament,while Daphne Fancutt and FayColthorpe, who played in the 1956Wimbledon women's doubles fi­nal, have teamed up once again forthe tennis events.

On May 16, she was arrested ina Coral Gables, Fla., motel on amisdemeanorcharge of marijuanapossession. She went into a 28­day treatment program.

Capriati, after having nottouched a racket for months, saidshe realized she wanted to playtennis again last winter.

"It wasn't like I wanted to goback to it yet," she said. "Butwhen I thought about the slams, Ialways thought, 'I'll be thereagain."

Stockwell, who as Tracy Caulkinswon three gold medalsat the 1984Los AngelesOlympics,hasentereda swim relay,and other swimmingcompetitors include AustralianTracey Wickham,thefonnerworldrecord holder in the 400 and 800meters freestyle.

Three-timeworldhurdlescham­pion Charley Miller of the UnitedStatesand 19840lympicheptathlongold medalistGlynisNunn of Aus­traliaare entered in track and field,whileforrner AustraliancricketstarsIan Chappell and Jeff Thomsonwill compete in the baseball event.

Former NBA stars DanRoundfield and Ricky Green are

Capriati Continued from page 16

game to me now."I don't care about being No. I,

but I'm ready and willing to giveit abattle, and that's what sports isall about. ... There's no ending tomy story yet."

Last year, Capriati withdrewfrom her family and in Novembermoved into her own apartment in.Boca Raton, Fla. Her legal prob­lems began Dec. 10, 1993 whenshe was arrested for shopliftingbut claims she accidentally tookthe ring from the store.

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HockeyContinued from page 16

put his home in the Holmby Hillsarea of the city on the market for$5.59 million. It said the 10,000­square-foot home was facingnearly $20 million in loans andjudgments.

McNall stepped down as theKings chairmanin April after thefederal investigation became pub­lic.

"My attitude is that I try to benormal, to be the same as I'vebeen," he said. "At time it is (dif­ficult), but not particularly. Youhave to take the good with thebad. I didn't always take the suc­cesses successfully."

By WINSOR DOBBIN

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) ­Morethan23,000cornpetitorsfromaround the globe are taking part inthe World Masters Games, whichstarted Monday in Brisbane andwill continue through Oct.8.

Fonner starsentered in 30 sportsat 103 venuesincludeOlympicgoldmedalists and world champions,but the veteranathletesarecompet­ing for fun, not glory.

American swimmer Tracy

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defeating Larsson.Jan Apell and Jonas Bjorkman

kept the Swedes alive in the best­of-5 series by beating JaredPalmer and Davis Cup rookieJonathan Stark in adoubles matchthat also went four sets.

Sampras'injurydefaultopenedthe door for the Swedes.

The world's top-ranked player,Sampras retired with a strainedright hamstring after losing thefirst set6-3to Edberg in Sunday'sfirst reverse singles.

"I knew I wasn't going to win,"Sampras said. "It didn't makesense to play on one leg and riskfurther injury."

Dr. George Fareed, the U.S.team I s physician, said Samprassustained the injury duringFriday's match against Larsson.

Sampras was sidelined (or sixweeks with an ankle injury thissummer and made his comebackin the recent U.S. Open, wherePeru's Jaime Yzaga stunned thedefending champion in the fourthround.

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and Short built up a strong advan­tage.

Adams, playing white, neededa victory to narrow the gap onAnand. But after the openingmoves it became Clear Adamscouldnot win.On move 20, Anandhad aclear advantage and thoughtfor a long time before acceptingthe draw.

The winners of the 10-matchsemifinals will face each otherearly next year with that winnerplaying Professional Chess Asso­ciation world champion GarryKasparov later in the year.

Short and Kasparov startedthe PCA last year. Kasparovbeat Short to win the title.

The PCA rivals the WorldChess Organization (FIDE),with both running champion­ship cycles.

Russian Anatoly Karpov isthe FIDE'world champion al­though the PCA title now car­riesrnore weight.

Kamsky is the only playerstill competing in both cycles.

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at the Indianapolis Motor Speed­way reminds of Japanese courses-undulating greens, shifting windsand plenty of hazards.

"I was very happy this weekthat it rained," Aoki said.

Aoki said three days of rainslowed the course, stopping ballson the greens and making his 11­under outing necessary to win.

"The last four holes here arevery difficult," said Jerry McGee,who finished fifth at 8-under."There'll be more wrecks out theretoday than in the Indianapolis500."

The final round began underthreatening skies and followedsteadyovemightrain. Tournamentofficials decided to use lift-clean­and-place rules for the secondstraight day.

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By Stella Wilder

Born toda>" you always seem tohave an original and quite colorfulview of life and the world aroundyou. You are never one to strayfrom your own beliefs, ideals oropinions.You tell it like it is in allsituations and you are not one tobe persuaded to do anythingagainst your will. You do thingswhen you are ready and not be­fore, arid you are rarely one tooverstay your welcome - beit in apersonal or professional realm.You know what you have to offer,and you know when it is time tostep aside and let others shine. In­deed, it is widely recognized thatyour self-knowledge and self­awareness are your greatest at­tributes.

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US upset in David Cupthe fourth set, when the Americanfell behind 0-40. The Swede alsoserved well, slamming 15 acespast the American.

"It's hard not to feel that l1et theteam down a little bit," Martinsaid.

"I thinkhaving experienced thisside of the Davis Cup, I realizenow how much more important itis than many other tournamentswe play."

The United States lost for onlythe second· time in eight DavisCup ties with Sweden. Sweden'sonly other victory came here inthe final ten years ago, whenJimmy Connors and J

ohn McEnroe played singles forthe Americans but lost 4-1 onslow indoor clay.

The favored Americans wonboth singles matches in four setsFriday to lead 2-0, Martin beatingStefan Edberg and Pete Sampras

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Larsson's heroics came after anup-and-down summer. He beatMartin in their first meeting infive sets in the round of 32 on hisway to the French Open semifi­nals this year. Then a sore elbowslowed down the lanky Swede,dropping to a current 34th on theATP rankings.

But rankings mean nothing inthe Davis Cup, where anythingcan happen.

Martin broke Larsson twice inthe first set. But the U.S. Opensemifinalist was simply outplayedthe rest of the way by the Swede,cheered on by a flag-waving, par­tisan crowd in the ScandinaviumArena.

Martin connected with 70 per­cent of his first serves during thefirst set, but his big serve then lethim down.

Larsson broke Martin's servefor 1-0 leads in the next two setsand broke again for a 3-2 lead in

Race trainer critical,14th horse destroyedBRISBANE, AUstralia (AP). plexes of trainers Rail, FitzgeraldLeading racehorse trainer Vic Rail and PeterHulbert remained inquar-remained hospitalized in critical antine Monday.condition Monday with a viral in- Tests for African horse sickness,fection similar to that which has equine influenza, equine herpes orcaused the deaths of 14 horses and poisoning have so far all provedforced the cancellation ofall racing negative.in th~ south .of.Queensland state. 'The tests that can be readily

Rail, 49, IS ill an intensive care applied have returned negative,"unit as doctors and veterinarians said Ian Douglas, exotic diseasesstruggle to identify the virus and its director for the Department ofPri-cause. mary Industries.

A horse had to be destroyed 'The cause ofa viruscan beveryMonday morning at Rail's stables hard to isolate."in suburban Hendra - the 12thofhis Bob Gibbs, the Queensland statehorses to die. Minister of Sport, has ordered all

Two horses at an adjacent stable racing cancelled until Saturday andbelonging to trainerJohn Fitzgerald has said the ban may be continuedalso have ciipIl Thf'~t:lhlp com- if thf' virns is not lTI1rffl

Capriati thought of suicideNEW YORK (AP) • Burned end ofthe match I couldn't waitto a groin injury. It was not clearout by tennis and despairing get off the court," she told the when she intends to play next.over her appearance and rela- newspaper. "Totally, mentally, I Capriati told the Times shetionships, Jennifer Capriati just lost it, and obviously it goes feels many of her problemss~y~ she once thought about de,eper than that one match. stem from tumingprofessionalkilling herself. 'I really was not happy with too early.

In an i~terview published myself, my tennis, my life, my "1 was always expected to~onday Ill. T?e New York parents, my coaches, my friends. be at the top, and if I didn'tT.lmes,CapnatIspokeofaten- ... When I looked in my mirror, I win, to me that meant I was arus career that began spectacu- actually saw this distorted image: loser," she said. "... I felt likelarly.at age 13 but left her in I was so ugly and fat, Ijustwanted myparentsandeverybodyelssanguish four years later. to kill myself, really." thought that tennis was the

Herpr?ble.ms came to ahead . Capriati,18,lastplayedprofes- way to make it in life, theyafter losing III the first round sionally in the 1993 Open. She thought it was good but Iof th~ 1993 U.S. Open: S~e was planning to make her come- thought no one k~ew orhad mghrn:ares after losing III back next week in Zurich, Swit- wanted to know the personthe Open m 1991 and began zerland, and the following week who was behind my tenniscrying incessantly after this in Filderstadt, Germany. life."la~7Tst loss. r">.TF However,_ the Times said, she Now, she said, "it's just a

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yourcountry. And the atmosphereis so special."

Sweden, which has won theDavis Cup four times, the last onehere in 1987 over India, will playRussia away iii the Dec. 2-4 final.

The Russians upset defendingchampion Germany in the othersemifinal in Hamburg this week­end.

It was only the third time in 61years ofDavis Cup play that Swe­den turned a 0-2 deficit into vic­tory. But the United States, ofcourse, was a much stronger op­ponent than Yugoslavia (1946)and Canada ('1992).

feet from the pin."He forced our hand by making

birdie," Wargo said, adding heread his downhill putt slower thanit played. Wargo said he also mis­read a short putt on 18 that wou1dhave forced a playoff.

"I read it to break to the right,but it straightened out," he said.

Aoki, who eamed $105,000,won his first tour victory in twoyears last week in Lexington, Ky.

He said the turning point Sun­day came when he sank a IS-footputt on No. 13 to save parand thenfinished the round bogey free.

"(I've) been putting very good,"Aoki said.

Dave Eichelberger shot acourse-record 64 to finish twostrokes back with a 135. He wastied with Graham Marsh (69),Simon Hobday (69) and second­round co-leader Jim Dent (70).Larry Gilbert, the other second­round co-leader, shot a 72 to fin­ish at 7-under.

Aoki said the redesigned course.

his comebacks in individual com­petition throughout his career thatincluded five straight Wimbledontitles.

Magnus Larsson, 24,a true teamplayer, clinchedthegreatestcome­back in Swedish team tennis his­tory with a 5-1,6-2,6-2, 6-4 vic­tory over sixth-ranked Todd Mar­tin.

"There's no doubt this is mygreatest victory," said Larsson,who was a promising ice hockeyplayer until he started concentrat­ing on tennis at age 14.

"Team play is something jiifferent. It's so fun. You play for

putted the par-3 hole after hittinghis tee shot within 12 feet of thehole. Wargo and Jimmy Powelltied for second at 134.

Powell shot a record 30 on theback nine, including a hole-in­ane on the par-3 13th.

Wargo said he ran into troublewhen he saw Aoki, who was play­ing a threesome ahead, birdie No.17 to go ll-under. Aoki one­putted the 189-yard hole after his4-iron tee shot landed about three

By STEPHAN NASSTROM

GOTEBORG, SWeden (AP) •What a year for Swedish teamsports.

The ice hockey team won theOlympic gold medal in February.

The soccer team scoredmostgoals in the World Cup en route tothe bronze medal five monthslater.

And now the tennis team is onematch away from another DavisCup title after a 3-2 come-from­behind victory Sunday over theUnited States. '

Bjorn Borg became famous for

America's Kamskyloses to Briton inint'l chess tourneyLINARES, Spain (AP)· played a draw with Britain'sBritain's Nigel Short defeated Michael Adams after 24 moves.American Gata Kamsky in 55 Anand holds a 3.5-0.5 lead overmoves Sunday in the Intel World Adams.Chess Championship semifinals Kamsky, playing white, tried toto cut Kamsky' s lead to 3-1 after surprise Short with a little knownfour matches. variation of the King's Pawn

In the other semifinal, opening. But the surprise failedViswanathan Anand of India Continued on page 15

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - IsaoAoki birdied the 17th hole to cap­ture the $700,000 BrickyardCrossing Championship by astroke Sunday, his second straightvictory on the Senior PGA Tour.

Aoki, playing the entire tourna­ment without a bogey, shot a 5­under-par 67 for a two-round to­talof11-under 133. Thefirstroundwas rained out Friday.

Tom Wargo had a one-shot leadgoing to No. 17, but he three-

Aoki wins Brickyard

Hockey not affectedby money problemsLOS ANGELES (AP) • Bruce payoff a $92 million businessMcNall, forced to sell most of his loan.share of the National Hockey Two associates have beenLeague's Los Angeles Kings, says charged in a federal bank fraudhis mounting financial and legal investigation involving $138 mil-problems have had no effect on lion in loans made by McNall.the fans. One of them, accountant Robert

"The fans have been nice," Houston, is to be arraigned Mon-McNall said. 'The bottom line is day.that they care about the game. McNall reportedly is negotiat-They could care less about the ing a plea agreement with federalextraneous stuff." prosecutors for his alleged role in

McNall, 44, has filed for bank- the scheme.ruptcy and is the target of several On Sunday, the Los Angeles

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