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COMMONWEALTH Utilities Corp. Executive Director Ramon S. Guerrero points to boxes containing original and photocopied checks and other documents which he said are open to inspection by the House Committee on Public Utilities, Transportation and Communication._________________________________

Guerrero may sue committee

Ramangmau pleads innocentSA IPA N re s id en t F rank H. Ramangmau yesterday pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and reckless driving charges filed against him following the acci­dent that killed Sydney George Quan last month.

Ramangmau, 25, was arraigned in the Superior Court nearly a month after Quan, 38, was hit while biking on Beach Road by a ca r be liev ed d riven byRamangmau.

A status conference will be held on June 7 to set the trial date for Ramangmau.

A scuffle ensued after yesterday’s arraignment outside

the court room. The video cam­era of Kurt Klemstein of Marianas Cable Vision, was pushed by an unidentified m ale relative of Ramangmau while the camera­man was taking footage of the suspect emerging from the court­room.

Klemstein said that prior to the proceedings, Ramangmau also pushed his camera while the sus­pect was entering the court room.

Relatives of Ramangmau, in­cluding a pregnant woman, rushed to cover the suspect getting out of the courtroom and shouted threat­ening words and profanities at the MCV cameraman as well as an-

other photographer of Saipan Cable TV.

The MCV cameraman kept fol­lowing the suspect and his rela­tives to the parking lot despite the threats and amid shouts of pro­fanities by the relatives.

Klemstein and another male relative of Ramangmau contin­ued to argue for a few minutes, Klemstein telling the relative that no one should push his video cam­era and Ramangmau’s relative shouting words, like “get out of my island.”

Klemstein filed an assault com­plaint to the police immediately

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COM M ONW EALTH U tilities Corp. Executive Director Ramon S. Guerrero yesterday said he was looking at the possibility of suing the House Committee on Utili­ties, Transportation and Commu­nication for the pain, mental an­guish and humiliation he and his family suffered due to the con­tempt charge filed against him.

“My lawyers are currently do­ing the groundwork for a possible civil action suit against the com­m ittee, perhaps including the speaker of the House, for the suf­fering and embarrassment we ex­perienced,” Guerrero said in a news conference.

“I feel there is a need to do something about the pain and hu­miliation my family had to go through because of the lawsuit,” Guerrero said. “Let’s not forget the damage has been done. Being Ray Guerrero, I could have suf­fered for everyone else. But my fam ily had a rough time too. People moved away from them during gatherings because of me. ”

The complaint was filed after Guerrero’s refusal to transfer to

the committee the original copies of checks issued by the corpora­tion from January 1990 to May 1992, totaling $99 million.

Last Friday, CUC and the com­mittee agreed to let the public auditor be the custodian of the checks until the committee fin­ished its oversight inquiry on the financial condition of the utilities firm.

The complaint was withdrawn following discovery of a defi­ciency in the legislative sub­poena.

According to Guerrero, withthe agreement designating the public auditor as custodian and actual delivery of the checks, the sub­poena has been rescinded and the issue about the extent of legisla­tive authority has been put to rest.

He said the case should not have been filed in court in the first place since it was an abuse of leg­islative authority.

Guerrero said his lawyers are currently in Hawaii doing legal re­search on civil rights in preparation for the lawsuit which may be filed before the US District Court (RHA)

300-year-old letters tell Marianas storyMORE than 50 letters, including 30 from the Northern Marianas and Guam, have been found in the Jesuit archives in Belgium after being lost for about three "centuries. They are expected to enrich the recorded history of the Marianas.

“I wouldlike thepeople (of the Northern Marianas and Guam) to know that I discovered part of their history which has not been available for 300 years,” said Rodrigue Levesque, a Canadian historian who lived in Saipan in the early eighties.

Levesque, whose wife, Vir­ginia Dacanay Levesque was di­rector of the school of nursing of Community College of

Micronesia, was inSaipan last week.He has published two out of a

projected 30-volume collection of historical documents, including many eyewitness accounts, under the general title H istory of Micronesia. “I have been searching all over the world for these for the past 1 0 years, and will continue to do so,” he said.

In an interview, Levesque said the letters he found in the Archives Generales du Royaume, Archives Jesuitiques in the province of Flandro-Belgique in Belgium were written mostly by Jesuit priests Gerard BouwensandPeterCoomans in 1670 to 1697.

The two were about to go to Hol­land to help in the campaign against

the protestantmovement when they heardaboutDiegoLuisSanvictores who was looking for priests. Thus, Bouwens and Coomans came to the Marianas and started recording, through letters to their colleagues or superiors in other places, events in the Northern Marianas.

One letter, written by Bouwens, described the typhoon which hit the Marianas on Nov. 20,1693.

Levesque also found a letter from a Fr. Wibault to another Jesuit (uni­dentified) in Manila oh Dec. 20, 1721 about another letter from a Fr. Cruydolf in Saipan in 1720 which narrated the suicide o f the last macana (witch doctor) on the island after a lengthy discussion with

continued on page 7 . Rodrigue Levesque

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Dem apan urges R epublicans to hold prim ary on May 15T H E R E P U B L IC A N Party shouldhold its primary as soon as possible to give members time to settle their differences, Senate President Juan S. Demapan said yesterday.

In an interview, Demapan said he would propose to party leaders that the primary be scheduled for May 15.

“The sooner the primary is, the better for our party to get ready for the big race in November,” he

said.Demapan is competing with

Governor Lorenzo I. Guerrero and Resident Representative Juan N. Babauta for the Republican Party nominations for governor.

T he th ree-w ay p rim ary is viewed by observers as advanta­geous to the Democratic Party because this could result to ill feelings among the Republicans.

“In the interest of the party let’s get over with the primary at once

and work together afterwards,” said Demapan.

According to Demapan, the m ost important thing for the party to consider is how to achieve greater strength in the forthcom­ing elections.

“W e have had already 60 days since the filing o f letters o f intent. There is no reason to delay the primary, especially if you have done your hom ew ork ,” said Demapan.

“Indications are that I am now leading the race. I am confident we will win the primary and the elections hands down,” Demapan said.

He does not have a running mate yet, but mentions Lt. Gover­nor Benjamin T. Manglona as his best choice.

M anglona is running w ith Guerrero while Babauta is team­ing up with Speaker Thomas P. Villagomez. (RHA) Juan S. Demapan

Immigration waits for rules to enforce 4-year limitGUIDELINES in enforcing a law that limits non-resident workers’ stay in the Northern Marianas to four yearsmay be finished today, Deputy Im m igration C hief Frank P. Villanueva said yesterday.

Villanueva said in an interview that immigration officials, Attorney General Robert C. Naraja and his staff have been meeting since last week to prepare today with the guide­lines.

He said immigration would wait for the completion of the guidelines before implementing the law.

"We are here to enforce the law. It is up to the legislature to take action if they want the law changed,” Villanueva said.

Under the law, an alien “who has completed four years as a non-resi­dent worker in the CNMI” and who seeks re-entry within three, years after having completed such term is classified as an “excludable alien.”

The law took effect on May 10, 1989 so aliens who have worked for at least four years, have left and are seeking re-entry, starting yesterday cannotretum to theCommonwealth until after three years.

Villanueva said the Division of Immigration Services which is un­der the attorney general, is ready to review alien’s records to determine who are affected.

Immigration is still in the process of having its records computerized

Frank P. Villanuevaso it would take days to determine how many workers and their depen­dents are affected, he said. He esti­mated hundreds ofworkersandtheir dependents will be affected.

Another way tocheckthenumber of alien workers affected is with the Department of Commerce and La­bor which issues alien workers’ per­mits.

Villanueva said one of the issues being resolved by representatives from the attorney general and immi- grationofficialsishow thefouryears will be counted.

If, for example, an alien worker worked in the CNMI for two years, left for a year and came back for another two years for employment with another company, the guide­lines must determine if this particu­lar worker is among those excluded for three years, he said.

The guidelines also need to clarify whetherornotanon-residentworker who has exceeded the four-year limit will be barred from re-entering CNMI if he returns under a different status, like as a tourist or business- maa.(GLD)

Ship with big cocaine load docks in FloridaM IAM I BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A ship seized in the Pacific Ocean after authorities said it was carry­ing an estimated 1 1 ,0 0 0 -pounds (5,000 kilogram s) o f cocaine along with its cargo of fish meal arrived in Florida on Sunday.

Coast Guard officials said the seizure was at least the second- largest made at sea, but the drug’s final weight would not be avail­able until later in the week.

The 225-foot ( 6 8 -meter) Sea Chariot, registered in the Carib­bean island nation o f St. Vincent, was spotted April 22 by a Navy helicopter in international waters about 300 miles (485 kms) south o f Panam a, said Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Jim Howe.

T he ship had sa iled from Esmeraldas, Ecuador, two days b efo re and w as bound fo r Manzanillo, Mexico, according to its crew.

Officials boarded the ship with permission, and, after finding the drugs, escorted it through the Panama Canal to Miami Beach.

Workers on Sunday began un­loading 230 bales of cocaine weighing betw een 40 and 60 pounds (18 to 27 kilograms) each, the Coast Guard said.

The weight was estimated at11,000 pounds (5,000 kilos), shy of the record maritime seizure of 12,201 pounds (5,527 kilos) from the vessel Zedom Sea on Oct. 2, 1989.

The Sea C hario t’s 10 crew members, from Chile, Mexico and Columbia, were taken into cus­tody Sunday by federal drug agents in Miami.

The Coast Guard said Amex Caribbean Inc. of Miami was listed as the ship’s owner. There was no answer Sunday at the company’s office.

M idw ay hosts’Jailathon’MIDWAY Motors is hosting the “Jailathon” this week for North­ern Marianas College and the American Cancer Society.

According to Ed Camacho this is the week to buy a car because all his s ta ff w ill be ja iled . Camacho will make great deals to

raise bail and get his staff re­leased. You can help by calling in a pledge.

Honk when passing Midway Motors in support of the Northern Marianas College and the Ameri­can Society and pledge bail for those behind bars. Call 235-bail.

Cops, immigration round up 100 aliens in TokyoTOKYO (AP) - Police and im­m igration authorities rounded up about 1 0 0 foreigners in a downtown Tokyo park Sunday for allegedly overstaying their visas to keep jobs in Japan, po­lice said.

The Yoyogi Parkhad become a focus o f Japanese worries about the burgeoning number, o f foreign workers in their midst. About 3,000 foreigners - many o f them Iranians - usually gath­ered there on Sundays.

The foreigners m eet friends and some sell drugs; forgedpre- paid telephone calling cards and food there, said an official of the Yoyogi police, speaking on condition of anonymity.

H e said police have kept tighter watch on foreigners at the park since late last month following complaints by citi­zens. Many Japanese have said in interviews or letters to news­papers that they were afraid to go to the park.

Some citizens’ groups, how­ever, contend that foreigners’ rights are being ignored. Kyodo News Service said several m em -' bers of these groups tried Sun­day to block police vans during the roundup.

Last month, Tokyo city offi­cials put up the fences in the park, ostensibly to plant 2 , 0 0 0

bushes in an area officials said had been trampled by the Irani­ans. The move was widely seen, however, as an effort to s top the weekly gatherings.

Iranians interviewed on tele­vision said they resented losing their meeting place. They said stereotyping was unfair, and that

only a small portion o f their countrymen were troublemak­ers.

Immigration andTokyo M et­ropolitan Police authorities in charge o f Sunday’s roundup were not immediately available to provide details.

Kyodo said authorities de­tained 1 0 2 foreigners, includ-. ing 6 8 Iranians, 11 Malaysians and a number o f Nepalese and Pakistanis. One foreigner had overstayed his visa by nearly six years, it said.

It said authorities rounded up 62 foreigners near the park in April.

As of last Nov. 1, the number o f illegal aliens in Japan was estimated at 292,800, up 35.3 percent from a year earlier, the Justice M inistry said in Febru­ary.

Japan’s high wages and a shortage o f Japanese willing to take certain jobs attracted hun­dreds of thousands of Asians and Iranians to service, construc­tion and factory jobs here, de­spite tight restrictions on work­ing visas. M any come on tourist visas and stay illegally. The nation’s economic slowdown, however, has made it harder to find jobs in recent months.

In an annual report last year, police saidthe number of crimes committedby non-Japanese here soared 71.9 percent to 6,990 cases in 1991 from the previous high o f 4,064 cases in 1990.

It said there were 4,506 cases o f theft, 116 of violent crimes, including m urder, rape and rob­bery, 377 o f fraud and 128 of extortion.

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after the scuffle at about 1 0 a.m.During the arraignment, the

government also informed the co u rt th a t c o n tra ry to Ramangmau’s claims that he does not have a passport, the govern­ment has verified that immigra­tion issu ed a p a ssp o rt to Ramangmau in October 1991.

Ramangmau was earlier told to surrender his travel documents after Assistant Attorney General Cheryl Gill informed the court of

the possibility that the suspect might flee to Yap where he has relatives.

The suspect’s lawyer later told the court that the passport was lost.

Ramangmau was released three days after the incident on a $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 unsecured bond and on condition he remain in his house between 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Ramangmau ’ s lawyer asked the court to ease Ramangmau’s cur­

few because his wife would soon be giving birth. The government agreed but only during the period when Ram angm au’s wife is in the hospital.

Police said that in the afternoon o f April 18, Ramangmau was try­ing to overtake two cars on the south-bound lanes in front of Hakubotan on Beach Road when his car swerved to the bike path and struck Quan who was head­ing north. (GLD)

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GOVERNMENT officials paid tribute to the late San Vicente Village Commissioner Joaquin S. Tudela during dedication cer­emonies of the San Vicente Vil­lage basketball and tennis courts Saturday.

Governor Lorenzo I. Guerrero led others officials and members of the Tudela clan in unveiling markers for the sports facility named after the pre- and post­war community leader.

“This is a fitting tribute to Com m issioner T udela’s p io­neering efforts in organizing the people of Tuturam into a closel y- knit neighborhood. The village o f Tuturam, which is now known as San Vicente, is so proud to have a dedicated public servant in Commissioner Tudela so it is but appropriate that we name the courts in his memory,” said Rep. Antonio M. Camacho, who was among the people behind the ini­tiative to name the courts Tudela.

Camacho and Rep. Herman T. Guerrero authored House Local Bill 8-9 to name the courts after Tudela. It was signed into local law by Governor Lorenzo I. Guerrero on April 14.

“Instead of naming our streets and facilities foreign names, it is most apt that we remember the

deeds of the late Commissioner Tudela, whose efforts towards the prosperity of the village is un­equalled,” Camacho said.

Tudela, bom on Dec. 16,1895, was a member of the first Saipan Congress in 1954. He has numer­ous children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

“The people of San Vicente should be proud of having a 1 ¿ader who paved the way for what San Vicente is today. The late com­missioner deserves such a fitting tribute,” said Rep. Pedro R. DL. Guerrero, chairman of the Saipan Legislative D elegation' that ap­proved the local law.

He said it is through the late commissioner’s hard work and sacrifice, people of the village were awarded their homesteads.

“His name would always be re­membered by way of this multi­purpose recreational facility,” Guerrero said.

Other leaders who paid tribute to the late village leader during the cerem onies w ere Saipan Mayor Jesus DL. Guerrero, and Representatives Ana S. Teregeyo, Mametto U. Maratita, Herman T. Palacios, and HermanT. Guerrero.

Aside from the tennis and bas­ketball courts, the facility also in­cludes a children’s playground.

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ALLEN Stayman (center), deputy assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior, with Speaker Thomas P. Villagomez and Resident Representative Juan N. Babauta during a meeting in Washington last week.

Babauta lists 4 options on 702 funding packageRESIDENT Representative Juan N. Babauta yesterday listed four options that a congressional committee might take in deciding the fate of the multi-year finan­cial assistance package for the Northern Marianas.

In separate letters to Governor Lorenzo I. Guerrero, Speaker Thomas P. Villagomez and Sen­ate President Juan S. Demapan, Babauta cited the following likely options:

• Status quo;• Approval, subject to condi­

tions;• Deferred funding, with condi­

tions; and• Rejection.Under the first option, the House

Natural Resources Committee chaired by Cong. George Miller will approve the agreement which w ill p rov ide the N orthern Marianas $120 million in direct federal grants for seven years, to be matched equally by the CNMI.

“In light of the highly publi­cized labor, tax and immigration problems, this scenario has no support within the House Natural Resources Committee,” Babauta said.

He said Deputy Assistant Inte­rior Secretary Allen Stayman supports this option “but what Secretary (Bruce) Babbitt or the adm inistra tion th inks is not known.”

Under the second option, the committee would approve the $ 1 2 0 million but would impose

Turner“a series of as yet unspecified conditions.”

The third option is more strin­gent than the second. Under this option, no funds would be autho­rized until the CNMI comply with certain conditions.

The fourth option, which was proposed by Cong. Elton Gallegly, is the extreme position that the committee could take. Under this option the federal government will stop direct financial assistance for capital improvement projects in the Northern Marianas.

Babauta said he was unable to determine the conditions that the committee would adopt. “This is that critical time when I wish the NMI is represented in Congress sitting on this committee,” he said.

He said that whatever the com­mittee decides to do, it should

carefully explain to the people of the Northern Marianas. “It is not sufficient, to me, for the commit­tee to act and expect that legisla­tive text, whatever it is, will speak clearly for itself,” Babauta said

In another deve lopm en t, Babauta met with Leslie Turner, President Clinton’s nominee for assistant secretary for the Office of Territorial and International Affairs.

T inner’s nomination was ap­proved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on May 5 and is expected to be con­firmed by the Senate this week.

“I was very impressed with As­s is ta n t S e c re ta ry -d es ig n a te Turner,” Babauta said after the m eeting. “ She had obviously taken a lo t of time to read and' study the Covenant. And she was extrem ely well versed on the problems at hand

Villagomez, who was also at the meeting, gave Turner an up­date on thestatus of the tax reform bill and other measures address­ing labor problems in the CNMI.

Turner indicated thatitappeared steps were being taken in the right direction.

Also at the meeting was former Lt. Gov. Pete A. Tenorio, chief CNMI negotiator for the 1986- 1992 funding agreement, who talked about the historical back­ground o f the financial assistance and the purpose of the duty-free status o f CNM I goods under Headnote 3(a).

BETTY Good (left), Saipan Cable sales manager, presents bookmarks and certificates to Rita Camacho of the Public School System and Kris Ramsey of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library for the 1993 Saipan Cable TV summer reading program.

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Drug crimes pushprison population to 883,593

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WASHINGTON (AP) - An in­crease in inmates convicted of drug crimes helped boost the US prison population to a new high of883,593 at the end of 1992, the Justice De­partment reported Sunday.

The total number of federal and state prison inmates was up 8,651, a 7.2 percent increase over the previ­ous year, the Bureau of Justice Sta­tistics announced. The federal prison population grew much faster than that o f state prisons, up 1 2 . 1 percent to 80,259 inmates, while state pris­ons grew by 6 . 8 percent to 803,334, BJS said.

“Drug offenders were a major source for the increased number of prisoners,’’Lawrence A.Greenfeld, the acting director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, said in a state­m ent

Of all new court commitments to prison in 1990 - the last year for which the bureau had available data - almost one-third were drug of­fenders, up from 11.5 percent in 1977.

Ensuring adequate prison space fra- violent criminals has been a par­ticular concern of Attorney General Janet Reno, a former Florida pros- ecutor who has said that prison over­crowding can lead to premature re­lease of violent inmates.

“The most important problem in America today is violence, and people want those who hurt and maim and kill and bnitalizeputaway and kept away for as long a time as they possibly can be,” she told re­porters recently. “That’s my goal.”

Theproblem has led Reno to sug- gestthepossibilityofreplacingsome mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders with alterna­tive sentences.

Federal prisons thus far haven’t had to free inmates early because of overcrowding, which has occurred in some state prisms.

“But... if we keep sending people to prison at the rate we’re sending them to prism, we’re going to have a tremendous shortfall in terms of monies necessary to open the pris­ons and then operate the prisons,” she said.

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PRIVATE LAND - That portion of Lot 1816 marked “A” contain­ing an area of9,362square meters shown as being encroached upon by E. A. 349 on Asia Mapping Sketch No. 14 as stated in CIVIL ACTION NO. 88-630, a DE­CREE FOR FINAL DISTRI­BUTION.

PUBLIC LAND - Saipan Lot/ Tract No. 029 L 52 Containing an area of 9,326 square meters

Sigon gi prubension siha gi 2 CMC 4141 et scc i PUBLIC PURPOSE LAND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1987, osino i propositen pupbliku na aturisasion inatulaika taño’ akton 1987, nutisia mananai ginen este put i cntension i Marianas Public Land Corporation humalom gi konlratan umatulaikan taño ni ha afefekta i p idason taño ni madeskribi gi sampapa.I mantinitika siha na petsona sina maagang i MPLC ya u marikuesta inekungok put maseha manu na priniponen put tulaikan taño, gi osino antes di Mayo 7, 1993. Yanggen m arekuesta, todo inekkungok siha put i tulaikan taño ni maiista gi sampapa siempre u fanmaeskeyul gi M ayoll, 1993, gi oran alas 9:00 gi eggaan, gi kuatton konfirensian i MPLC.

PROPOSITON PUPBLIKU - Chinile’ taño para Chalan

TAÑO PRAIBET - Ayu na patten i sitio 1816 ni mamatka “A”, ni ha konsisiste i arean 9,362 metro kuadru ni mana a annok na hinahatme halom nu i E.A. 349 gi Asai Mapping Sketch No. 14 ni mamensiona gi halom i civil Ac- tion No. 88-630, i Aturisasion para Uttimu na Distribusion (Decree for Final Distribution).

TAÑO PUPBLIKU - Saipan Lot/ Tract No. 029 L 52 ya ha konsisiste i area 9,362 metro kuadru.

Sangi akkateel me bwangil 2 CMC 4141 et sec, reel PUBLIC PURPOSELAND EXCHANGE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, nge arongorong sangi M arianas Public Land Corporation’s reel yaal ebwe ayoorapeighil faluw yeetoolong llol kka numuro e makk faal. Aramas kka re tipali ghuley me rongorong reel liwelil faluw yeel nge rebwe tooto llol bweulasiyol MPLC ulumwal May 7, 1993. Ngare autipali ammataf reel liwelil faluw yeel nge ebwe yoor arongorong wool May 11,1993, oral 9:00 leesor me llol confer­ence Room mwu MPLC.

M W O G H U T U H G U T U R TOWLAP - Bweibwoghul yaal

FALUWAL ARAMAS - Peighil falue we 1816 iwe e ghikkil “A” llapal nge 9,362 square meters fwe e bwa bwe EA 349 nge e bwalo bwe e toolong llol sangi Asia Mapping Sketch Numuro 14 iwe e ammatafa woow llol CIVIL ACTION NO. 88-630, reel alleghul ammwelul inet.

FALAWEERTOWLAP-Saipan Lot/Tract num urol 029 L 52 outol bwuley yeel nge 9,362 square meters.

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San Nicolas proves school commitmentMRS CYNTHIA San Nicolas ar­rived at San Antonio Elementary School on aone-month assignment as an acting principal in the ab­sence of Mr. Joseph Diaz who left to Honolulu to attend a principal’s leadership training.

She emphasized during a gen­eral assembly on her first day at the school that she would impose un­desired and authoritative decision­making. Rather, she offered to provide guidance, assistance and model leadership that will endure every challenge and result to pro­ductivity.

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everyone’s potentials and encour- agedfor an “open communication” and cooperation to ensure that the students continue to receive the best and most quality learning ex­perience.

Indeed, the staff found Mrs. San Nicolas proving her commitment with the school each day. She was able to make a quick assessment of the school situations that needed immediate attention and made sure that proper actions are undertaken right away. She projected a very democratic leadership style, mak­ing sure that each one is comfort­able, accommodated and heard.

Arts exhibit opensTHE ALL Schools Annual Arts Exhibit will open tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the Convention Center Art Gallery in Capitol Hill.

The public is invited to attend the student art exhibit which will open daily from 7 :30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except weekends and holi­days.

The exhibit will feature tradi­tional and contemporary art in both two and three dimensional formats produced throughout the

school year by students of Com­monwealth public and private schools. Their works include water and oil painting, drawings, collage as well as pottery, sculp­ture, weaving and other forms.

An awards ceremony will be held the morning of the exhibit closing on June 9 at 9 a.m.

For more information call Noel Quitugua, arts coordinator of the Public School System, at 322- 6452.

P etition drive postponedTHE PETITION drive to put Saipan Local Law 8-7, or the zoning law for Saipan, on the ballot has been postponed due to a death in the family of Representative Stanley T. Torres.

A statement from Torres’ office said the launching of the petition drive which was scheduled yesterday would be announced later.

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Historian traces names of old Saipan villages

By Rodrigue Levesque

LETTERS w ritten by P eter Coomans, a Belgian Jesuit during the late 1600s, provided informa­tion regarding the nam es o f Chamorro villages in Saipan.

Coomans, at that time, was fol­lowing Captain Quiroga and his band of Pampango soldiers dur- ingthe 1684military campaignin the Northern Marianas.

The Spanish ship was followed by a fleet of 40 canoes filled with Chamorro allies from Guam and Rota.

The letters of Coomans are part of a stash of over 50 letters, all written in Latin, by him and his com panion and countrym an, Gerard Bouwens, which I discov­ered recently in the archives of Belgium. It is hoped that these letters can be transcribed and translated from Latin into English and become part of a series of books en titled H isto ry o f Micronesia - A Collection of Source Documents.

O f the nine village names men­tioned in the letters, only two re­main today: Agingan and Opian (now Obyan). Six o f the other villages were along today’s Beach Road: Yuyu, Anaguan, Fucfuc, C atanhida, Harac and Araiao. The last one was in Laulau, and was called Tumhum.

Further study may reveal that the place names on the map are in the wrong places. W hat is known with some degree of certainty is that the triangular stockade built

MAP OF Saipan in 1684 showing probable location of the Chamorro villages that were visited by Captain Quiroga and his armed band of Filipino soldiers. ____________

by the Spanish was located on a point of land from which the sol­diers could catch fish with nets and was near a fresh water pond with abundant supplies of taro and rice. This points out Susupe Point andLakeSusupe as theprob- able site in question.

Araiao was the residence of the paramount chief o f Saipan; his title in Chamorro was Radahao, which literally meant Big Father. The second chief in terms o f im­portance was Punni, who lived at

Tumhüm; his title meant gover­nor in Chamorro.

The le tte rs d isc o v e re d in B elgium also prov ide in fo r­m ation regard ing the early h is­tory o f the M arianas and w ill shed som e ligh t on the people o f T in ian and Saipan before they were fo rc ib ly rem oved to Rota and Guam in 1695. W hen som e people re tu rned 15 to 2 0

years la te r som e o f the old place nam es had already been forgotten .

300..continued from page 1Cruydolf.

Levesque said the letters would be included in volumes 4 and 5 of his series, which are expected to come out during the winter of 1994.

Levesque said many of the docu­ments written by the Jesuit priests were lost when they were banned from most of the European coun­tries (except Italy) in the 18th cen­tury because of their radical ideas. Many of their properties were seized i:i 1769 by governments and were not recovered even after the restora­tion of the order in the 19th century.

In the province o f Flandro- Belgique, the Jesuit priests were either Flemish or French. The Flem­ish priests would not speak French, and so did the other side. So they all spoke in Latin. Thus, the letters found by Levesque were all written in the ancient language, some in tiny hand­writing that could only be read with the use of a magnifying glass.

Levesque used a special copying system because archive officials would not allow the volumes of letters to be opened more than 45 degrees, preventing the use of ordi­nary copiers. A special copier manu­factured- by Minolta, utilizing mir­rors, enabled Levesqueto makecop- ies of the letters without spreading the volumes flat.

He is planning to apply fora grant from the Council of Humanities to

cover travel expenses when he goes back to Belgium to arrange for trans­lations of the letters into English.

Levesque’s books are not for mass circulation. Each volume has only 500 copies and prospective buyers are informed that the series would reach 30 volumes. At $50 a volume, Levesque tries to discourage buyers who are interested oily in “the book” instead of “books.”

The bodes, however, should be a standard part of the collections of libraries in Micronesia. Levesque’s researchmakes previously unknown and inaccessible documents about Micronesia’s history available to students, researchers andhistorians.

The first volume, “European Dis­covery,” which came out last year, has704pages in large format, bound in green buckram and stamped in gold on all sides. It covers prehis­tory and early documented history of Micronesia and the North Pacific from 1521 to 1560.

The second volume, “Prelude to Conquest,” also consists of 704 pages, and covers the period 1561- 1595, during which all the Spanish voyages and expeditions in the Pa­cific were made.

Volume 3 will cover the period 1595 to 1637 while volume 4 will start w ith the shipw reck of Concepcion (1680) and may begin •to discuss the early part of the colo­nization of the Marianas.

Levesque says his objective in researching and publishing Micronesia’s history is both per­sonal and philanthropic. “Personal in the sense that I found an area of

knowledge in which new material can be found; philanthropic because, publishing that information will benefit Micronesians.” (NL)

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> MASONI PHOTO TECHNICIAN - High school jrad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15- $6.00 per hour.I MANAGER (PHOTO SHOP) - College jrad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.80- $6.00 per hour.1 SUPERVISOR (Construction) - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salaty $4 05 - $6.00 per hour.Contact: KAM CORPORATION, P.O. Box 606, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6964/7488 (5/11 )T/011167.

I PLU MBER - High school equiv., 2 yrs. ixperience. Salary $2.15 per hour. Contact: D IC TA T. TORRES, P.O. Box 312, Saipan. MP 96950, Tel. No. 234- 5287/3401 (5/18)T/011230.

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30 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR - - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $2.25 per hour.3 QUALITY CODNTROL CHECKER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $2.50 per hour.Contact: ONWEL MANUFACTURING (SAIPAN) LTD., P.O. Box 712, Saipan, NIP 96950, Tel. No. 234-9522-25 (5/ 18)T/011222.

15 CUTTER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $6.00 per hour.Contact: KYUNG SUH CO. (SAIPAN) LTD., P.O. Box 2029, Saipan MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-1501/1502 (5/11)T/4586.

MISCELLANEOUS1 UNDERWRITER - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,050 per month.Contact: MARIANAS INSURANCECOMPANY, LTD. P.O. Box 2505, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-5091/ 5092 (5/18)T/011231.

1 ALUMINUM FRAME INSTALLER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.Contact: GOLDEN BELL ENTER­PRISES, INC., Caller Box PPP 154, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-0393 (5/18)T/011228.

1 TRAVEL COUNSELOR - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $1,300 per month.Contact: HIT TOURS INC., P.O. Box 502, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234- 1814 (5/11 )T/011172.______________

1 TOUR GUIDE - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.50 per hour. Contact: STS ENTERPRISES, INC., P.O. Box 3203, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. Ne. 235-3760 to 62 (5/18)T/011224.

1 SPORTS INSTRUCTOR (SCUBA DIVING) -. High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.00 per hour. Contact: PRO-DIVE SAIPAN, INC. dba PRO-DIVE SAIPAN, P.O. Box 664, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6762 (5/18)T/011225.

1 ADMINISTRATIVE ASST. - College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $800 per month.1 DIESEL MECHANIC - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $3.15- $5.00 per hour.2 POULTRY HATCHERY LABORER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.65 - $4.00 per hour.1 STOCK CONTROL CLERK - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 - $5.00 per hour.1 LANDSCAPER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.25 - $4.00 per hour.1 FARMER - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 - $5.00 per hour.1 FAST FOOD WORKER - High school grad.,2 yrs.experience. Salary$2.15- $3.00 per hour.Contact: J.C. TENORIO ENT. INC., P.O. Box 137, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6445 ext. 7583 (5/11)T/4590.

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1 (BUSINESS) WRITER-Collegegrad.,2 yrs. experience. Salary $5.25 per hour.Contact: PACIFIC INFORMATION BANK, P.O. Box 1310, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-3348/0870 (5/11)T/ 011173.__________________________

1 WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR-High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $950 per month.Contact: MICRONESIAN SALES CO. (SAIPAN), INC., P.O. Box5239, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-3910/9728 (5/18)T/011221.______________________

1 SURVEYOR ASSISTANT, INSTRU­MENTS - College grad., 2 yrs. experi­ence. Salary $1,000 per month. Contact: JESUS LG. TAKAI dba TAKAI & ASSOCIATES, P.O. Box263, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-7180 (5/11)T/ 011169.__________________________

1 COOK SUPERVISOR (Western) - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $7.50 per hour.Contact: SAIPAN HOTEL CORPORA­TION dba HAFADAI BEACH HOTEL, P.O. Box 338, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6495 ext. 806 (5/18)T/4628.

1 (SALES) SUPERVISOR-High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $4.05- $5.00 per hour.Contact: ACRON S.J. KIM CORPORA­TION dba NEW OLYMPIC MARKET, Caller Box PPP 222, Saipan,.MP 96950 (5/11 )T/011168.

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2 ELECTRICIAN - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.50 per hour. 1 MAINTENANCE REPAIRER, BUILD­ING - High school grad., 2 yrs. experi­ence. Salary $2.50 per hour.Contact: TROPICAL PLAZA LTD. dba LA FIESTA SAN ROQUE SHOPPING PLAZA, P.O. Box 5769 CHRB, San Roque, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 322-0998/99 (5/25)T/4670.

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2TRAVEL CONSULTANT- High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $700 - $900 per month.3 WAITRESS (RESTAURANT) - High school grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $2.15 per hour.4ACCOUNTANT-College grad., 2 yrs. experience. Salary $600 - $1,200 per month.Contact: PACIFIC GLOBE & ASSOC., INC. dba UNIVERSAL RENTAL, P.O. Box 732, Saipan, MP 96950, Tel. No. 234-6477 (5/25)T/011293.

PUBLIC N O TICEIn the Superiror Court of the

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ADOPTION CASE NO. 93- 33

In the Matter of the Petition for Adoption of:SHAFQAT AHMAD and AHMAD NAWAZ,

minors,By: MOHAMMAD ASHRAF and VERNA S. FELIPE,

Petitioners.

NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that on May 20, 1993, Thursday, at 1:30 p.m. in the courthouse of the Superior Court in Susupe, C om m onw ealth o f the Norhtem Mariana Islands, the petitioners will petition the Court to adopt the above-named minors.Dated this 10th day of May, 1993.

/s/Reynaldo O. Yana Attorney for Petitioners

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YOUR BIRTHDAYBy Stella Wilder

Born today, you are highly creative in an original, unconventional man­ner, and you are always to be found following a path you charted for your­self and no one else. You insist on do­ing things your way, and though you do not expect others to follow in your footsteps, you will certainly welcome a companion along the way. Indeed, you are used to working on your own, but you know how to work with others when the opportunity or the need arises. You have a unique, rather quirky, unusual outlook.

You will realize when you are still quite young that you have what it takes to make it big; all you have to do is dedicate yourself to that kind of suc­cess and it can be yours. Also, you must be sure you are always true to yourself and your beliefs, despite any difficulties which may result.

Also born on this date are: Irving Berlin, songwriter, composer; Phil Silvers, comedian; Salvador Dali, painter.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Your dreams are likely to tell you som e­thing very important about yourself today. You may learn just what you must do!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Your ties to someone from your past are not easily broken — and today you may feel more tightly bound than usual.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A chance to explore a new avenue of expression is sure to come your way today. You’ll have to be willing to take a risk.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - It's important for you to consider the con­sequences of your actions before you act. Anticipation is the key!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) - You will discover a new option in business today, and may be able to take advan­tage of it in order to increase profits.

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stone today, provided your resolve is intact and your aim on target.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - You needn’t go along with what your superiors say and do today in order to get ahead — but it may take some time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Step back from your own complex cir­cumstances today and take an objec­tive look at the surrounding territory.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - You won’t be able to hide your feelings com pletely today, so you might as well com e clean and admit the truth!

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - You've got your eyes on something or someone you simply can’t do without today. Success depends on careful planning.

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First... Magic joins NBA stars in Finland

continued from page 12Communistleadershipbelieves that staging the Games will bolster the nation’s prestige.

Also competing to become the 2000 Olympic host are Berlin; Brasilia, Brazil; Manchester, En­gland; Istanbul, Turkey, and Sydney.

Even though the East Asian Games have only nine countries and territories participating - in­cluding international sports light­weights such as Macao, Hong Kong and Mongolia - Chinese officials have spared no effort inmaking the competition a showcase for their Olympics bid.

So concerned were they that the outdoor opening ceremony go off withoutahitch that they sentplanes into the skies southwest of Shang­hai Sunday morning to try to dis­perse any approaching rain clouds. Not an umbrella was in sight when the event began at 8 p.m. before a capacity crowd of about 30,000 people in Hongkou Stadium.

Моте than 11,000 people par­ticipated in the ceremony, full of elaborate costumes, uplifting mu­sic andhundreds of children dressed as the East Asian Games’ mascot, the rooster “Dong Dong.” There also were elaborate card sections, including one with the message, “All out for Olympic Games in .2 0 0 0 .”

By Stephan Nasstrom

HELSINKI, F in lan d (AP) - Magic Johnson, playing his first competitive basketball game in almost seven months, sewed 28 points and had seven assists as the NBA All Stars struggled to a 119- 117 v ic to ry Sunday against YMCA of Helsinki.

“I had a wonderful time out there,” Johnson said. “It was fun to play with my old teammates again.”

It was not so fun for Magic in the first quarter, however. The rustiness showed and he made several easy mistakes as he fin­ished with only two points and one assist.

“Well, I ’ve been here a lot longer than he has and I ’m still having trouble adjusting to the time change, the food and every­thing,” said Kurt Rambis, one of Johnson’s three former Los An­geles Lakers teammates who made up the NBA team.

YMCA, last year’s Finnish champions and reinforced with three national team players, led 63-56 at the half.

Johnson, who arrived late Sat­

urday from Los Angeles, came alive midway through the third quarter and brought the crowd of some 5,000 at Helsinki’s hockey arena to its feet with two straight skyhooks that tied the game at 74.

Johnson, the NBA career leader with9,921 assists and perhaps the game’s greatest guard in history, also had three spectacular passes late in the quarter and finished with another sky hook to give the NBA veterans a 90-81 lead.

The Finns rallied in the fourth quarter and took a 117-116 lead on Timo Vertio’s 3-pointer with 51 seconds le ft

Johnson, who played 42 min­utes, tied it by making one of his two free throws and then Moses Malone of the Milwaukee Bucks clinched it with a tip-in with 13 seconds le f t Markku Larkio then missed a 3-point attempt for the Finns with two seconds to go.

Malone, one of only two active NBA players onthe All Star team, finished with 33 points.

Rambis scored 22 points and Bob McAdoo.aformer three-time NBA scoring time and also a form er teammate o f Johnson, added 17 points.

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Angels 7, Athletics 6, (10)In Anaheim , C alif., Torey

Lovullo’s third clutch hit of the game, a double with one out in the 10th inning was decisive for Cali­fornia.

Lovullo, who drove in the tying run in the sixth and a go-ahead run in the eighth, doubled against Rick Honeycutt (0-2) to score Tim Salmon. He had singled and taken second on a sacrifice by John Orton.

Reliever Joe Grahe (2-1) held Oakland hitless over the final two innings.

Chad Curtis drove in three runs for California, which also got a solo homer from rookie J.T. Snow.

California went ahead 6-5 in the eighth on Lovullo’s RBI single with two outs. Oakland tied it in the ninth on Dave Henderson’s leadoff solo homer. Rangers 2, Royals 1

In Kansas City, M o., Juan Gonzalez hit a two-run homer and Kevin Brown pitched his league- best fourth complete game for Texas.

Cone went to 0-5 after his sev­enth start of the season in a game delayed 2:39 at the start by rain. Gonzalez’ homer was just one of two hits off Cone, who struck out five and walked three.

The Royals have scored just 16 runs for Cone, who pitched the 35th complete game and third two- hitter of his career.

' Brown (4-1) lowered his earned run average to 1.27, best in the majors. He gave up six hits and retired the last 12 batters. Brown did not walk a batter.

Mariano Duncan hit a grand slam in the eighth inning off Lee Smith to give the red-hot Phila­

delphia Phillies a 6-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sun­day for a three-game series sweep.

T he v ic to ry im proved Philadelphia’s record to 22-7, tops in the majors. It tied the Phillies best record ever after 29 games as they were 22-7 in both 1911 and 1913. Philadelphia has won 12 of its last 15 games.

St. Louis led 5-2 going into the bottom of the eighth and Bob Tewksbury had a seven-hitter going.

Tewksbury retired the first two batters, but D arren D aulton singled and went to third on a double by W es Chamberlain. Smith (0-1), making his first ap­pearance since April 29, relieved Tew ksbury and walked M ilt Thompson to load the bases. Dtmcan thenhit Smith’s first pitch over the left-field fence for his second home run of the year and his second career grand slam.

M ark Davis (1-0) pitched a scoreless eighth inning and Mitch Williams worked the ninth for his major league-leading 13th save.

Marlins 6 , Mets 4In New York, the Mets lost for

the 1 1 th time in their last 13 games as W alt Weiss had three hits and drove in two runs to help H onda beat New York.

The loss dropped the last-place Mets 11 games behind first-place Philadelphia in the NL East, and three games in back of the expan­sion Marlins. H onda (14-16) has won two of three in the four-game series against New York, and seven of its last 1 1 overall.

Chris Hammond (2-3) gave up one run and five hits in seven innings for the victory. Bryan Harvey got the last three outs for

his 1 0 th save in 1 1 opportunities, allowing Dave Gallagher’s RBI single in the ninth.

Mets starter Frank Tanana (2-2 ) was hit hard, allowing six runs and nine hits in three-plus innings.

Pirates 6 , Expos 5(11 innings)In Pittsburgh, Andy Van Slyke,

who hit a two-run homer earlier for Pittsburgh, singled in the win­ning run in the 1 1 th inning as Montreal closer John Wetteland blew a ninth-inning lead for the second straight game.

Montreal took a 5-3 lead into the ninth before rookie A1 Martin hit a two-out pinch homer off Jeff Shaw and Jay Bell doubled in the tying run against Wetteland, who pitched in all three games of the series.

The Expos blew a 9-8 lead when Van Slyke homered off Wetteland with two outs in the ninth in the Pirates’ 10-9, 10-inning victory Saturday night.

Bias Minor (4-0) worked out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the top of the 11th before Lloyd M cClendon w alked and was balked to second by Brian Bantes (1-1), prompting manager Felipe Alou to intentionally walk Jay Bell. Van Slyke, then singled to center.

Padres 5, Cubs 4In Chicago, Mark Grace hit for

the cycle, bu tit wasn’t enough as San Diego held on to beat Chi­cago. B ob G eren and Fred McGriff hit solo homers for the Padres.

Grace hit a three-run homer off reliever Rich Rodriguez with two outs in the ninth inning to com­plete the cycle. He also doubled in the first, singled in the third and tripled in the seventh.

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S P O R T SMilwaukee Brewers beat Boston

By The Associated Press

MIKE Boddicker, using an as­sortment o f off-speed pitches to keep Boston off balance, allowed four hits in 7 2-3 innings as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Red Sox 6-0 Sunday.

B oddicker (2-1) allow ed a double to Ernest Riles and infield single to Carlos Quintana in the first. The Red Sox didn’t get an­other hit until Mike Greenwell’s two-but single in the sixth.

The Brewers scored twice in the third o ff Joe Hesketh (2-3). Joe Kmak singled and Pat Listach doubled with one out before Bill Doran hit a grounder to Scott Cooper at third. His throw to the plate was late, making it 1 -0. Greg Vaughn followed with an RBI single.

M att M ieske’s first m ajor- league homer made it 3-0 in the fourth. Kevin Reimer had an RBI hit and Tom Brunansky a two-run

single in the fifth. Yankees 11, Tigers 2

In Detroit, New York’s Spike Owen had a three-run homer, drove in four runs and scored three, and Bob Wickman won his sev en th s tra ig h t d ec is io n . W ickman (4-0), who allowed two runs on 1 2 hits withfour strikeouts and four walks while pitching eight innings plus, is 1 0 - 1 in his career. That start - including a loss to Chicago last Sept. 14 - is second in team history behind Whitey Ford’s 16-1 beginning.

John Doherty (3-2) allowedfour runs on seven of New York’s 14 hits in S 2-3 innings.

W ith the Yankees trailing 2-0, Matt Nokes started the fifth with a single and Kevin Maas doubled before O wen’s first homer of the season - a liner into the lower deck in right - just eluded a leap­ing Tony Phillips.

Pat Kelly and W ade Boggs added two-run singles for New

Henning survives playoff to captureLegends of Golf

By Denne H. Freeman

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Harold Henning started Sunday seven shots behind George Archer and d idn’t think he had a chance in the Legends of Golf Tournament.

But Henning shot a 7-under- par65 and survived aplayoff with Tom Weiskopf and Don January to win his first tournament of the year and a $250,000 first place prize, richest in senior golf.

Henning got it up and down out o f a bunker for par on the 191- yard, par-3 No. 17 to beat Janu­ary, who bogeyed on the second hole of the playoff after he sent his second shot into a bunker.

Henning, January and Weiskopf all birdied the last hole, a 546- yard (491-meter), par-5, to tie at 1 2 -under and force the storm- plagued tournament into sudden- death.

In the playoff, Henning and January birdied the hole with 4s again as lightning flashed andrain fell.

W eiskopf, irritated because January was late getting to the tee, drove poorly into the right rough. He moved his second shot only a foot (30 centim eters), pitched out, and was on the green in four. He never putted out.

W eiskopf said before he left ftW e had to wait 15 minutes on the tee for January. That’s bull.”

The tournament was delayed four times for a total of 1 0 1 min­utes by a series of storms that hit Barton Creek Country Club.

“I didn’t think either Don or I had a chance w hen the day started,” said Henning. “I ’m just surprised to be here. I thought I was out o f it then the lights came on the last four holes.”

Henning played with a braised left foot that he injured while driv­ing his golf cart two days ago.

“I t’s more colorful then any ra inbow y o u ’ve seen ,” said Henning, who last won in 1991 at the First o f America Classic. “I didn’t think I could make it two days ago.”

Henning and A1 Geiberger won this event as partners in 1989.

Archer, who had a four-shot lead over three players when the day began, struggled to a 74 to finish at 206. He hit the ball in a hazard on the last hole and made a bogey 6 .

Gibby Gilbert shot a 69 and Bob Charles had 70 to finish a shot back at 1 1 -under.

January, 63, who has won 26 tournaments on the Super Senior Tour, rode a 40-foot (12-meter) eagle putt on the 555-yard (499- meter), par-5 No. 5 to a 6 6 .

Henning, 59, a three-time win­ner on ilie Senior Tour, fasliioned a final-round 65. Weiskopf had a 67.

York, and Don Mattingly capped the victory with a home run.

Orioles 4, Blue Jays 3In Toronto, Damon Buford -

who homered earlier - singled in the winning run with two out in the ninth inning as Baltimore ral­lied to beat Toronto. Chris Hoiles reached on a one-out walk from Duane W ard and took sec­ond on a wild pitch. Pinch-runner Jack Voigt scored the tying run on a two-strike single by Harold Reynolds, who positioned him ­self to score the winner by steal­ing second.

Reliever Mark Williamson (1-1 ) allowed one hit over three in­nings. Hestruckouttwoand didn’t walk a batter in helping the O ri­oles to a split o f the four-game series. Greg Olson pitched the ninth for his sixth save.

W ard (0-2) blew a chance for his 1 0 th save by allowing two runs on two hits over 1 1-3 in­nings.

Ed Sprague hit his forth homer to start a three-run fifth that gave the Blue Jays a 3-2 lead.

White Sox 6, Indians 5In Chicago, George Bell singled

home Ozzie Guillen in the ninth inning, giving surging Chicago a three-game sweep.

Guillen opened with a bloop single off reliever Derek Lilliquist (1-1). Joey Cora sacrificed, and G uillen took third when first baseman Paul Sorrento booted Lance Johnson’s grounder.

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intentionally, Eric Plunk re­placed Lilliquist and Bell singled to center to make a winner of reliever Scott Radinsky (2-0).

Robin Ventura drove in three runs for Chicago, which won its fourth straight game and 1 0 th in 12. The loss was Cleveland’s fourth straight.

Trailing 5-4, the Indians tied the game in eighth on Glenallen

H ill’s p in c h -h it hom er o ff Radinsky. Sorrento also homered for Cleveland. Mariners 6 , Twins 4

In Seattle, the Mariners contin­ued their early-season pow er binge, getting home runs and three RBIs apiece from Tino Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr.

Martinez and Griffey made it 1 1 home runs in four games for the Mariners, who moved into a tie with Detroit for the mos t hom­ers with 36.

Martinez had three hits and put Seattle ahead 6-4 with a three-run homer off Scott Erickson (1-4). Griffey also had twosacrifice flies.

Tim Leary (2-1) he gave up four runs on 1 0 hits and two walks in six innings. Norm Charlton worked the ninth for his sixth save.

Kent Hrbek had a homered and an RBI single, and Brian Harper drove in two runs for Minnesota,

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Stich fulfills childhood dreamH A M B U R G ,G erm any(A P) • A tearful Michael Stich ful­filled a childhood dream Sun­d ay , o u tla s tin g A n d re i Chesnokov to become the first German in 29 years to capture the his country’s national ten­nis championship.

Stich fought o ff five set points to win the decisive third set tiebreaker, and went on to beat the unseededRussian 6-3, 6-7 ,7-6 ,6-4 in the final o f the $1.7 million tournament.

Stich, who was bom and grew up in Elmshom, near Hamburg, broke into tears as he told the crowd of 1 0 , 0 0 0

that the German Open was the f irs t to u rn am en t he h a d watched as a child.

“I ’ve fulfilledmy childhood dream. I ’ve come here with m y family to watch this tour­nament for 15 or 20 years,” Stich, gasping for words, said in his victory speech.

The last German champion o f the event held on the clay courts of the Rothenbaum club

was W ilhelm Bungert in 1964. Stich lost to Stefan Edberg in last year’s final.

After.converting his fifth match pointtoclaimvictory, Stichleaped into the air with excitement and ran over to hug his wife, Jessica. In the process, he forgot the tradi­tional shake of the loser’s hand.

The Russian began to leave the court, and Stich and officials chased after him. Ranked No. 9 in the w orld tw o y ea rs ago, Chesnokov had not appeared in a final since Indian W ells, Calif., in 1992.

“I haven’t been in a final in so long, I forgot there was a victory ceremony,” Chesnokov said.

After Stich dominated the first set with his aggressive serve-and- volley game, Chesnokov began finding his rhythm, passing the Germ an at the net w ith two- handed backhands to capture the second set.

The Russian, whose appearance in the final moved him from74th to 33rd in the ATP Tour rankings, appeared to havethe match in hand

when he took a 6 - 1 lead in the third-set tiebreaker.

But Stich, who was seeded sixth, fought back with his hard serve and perfect drop volleys, slamming an ace to claim the third set and complete his dra­matic rally.

“I don’t think I was the better player today,” Stich said. “I think I was the luckier one. Andrei played a perfect clay-court game.”

The victory for, the 24-year- old Stich pushed him to ninth in the rankings and was his first title on clay since Stuttgart in 1991, the year he burst onto the tenn is scene by cap tu ring Wimbledon.

Chesnokov, whose last title was in Montreal in 1991, didn’t face a seed higher than I 2 th in gaining the finals. Most o f the topseeds.includingBoris Becker and Edberg, made early exits.

Stich’s earned 242,000 to put him over the $3 million mark in career earnings. Chesnokov earned $127,215.

First East Asian Games beginBy Dan Biers

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - The first East Asian Games began Sun­day evening with an extravagant opening ceremony designed to boost China’schances of capturing the 2000 Summer Olympics by impressing the visiting interna­tional Olympic Committee presi­dent.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, whose organization will decide Sept. 23 whether Beijing wins the 2000 Games, was wel­comed twice at the beginning of the ceremony, warmly applauded each time. He sat next to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who was only introduced once.

Earlier in the day, Samaranch was greeted at the Shanghai airport

by several dozen flower-waving young women lining a red carpet from his chartered plane. Both morning newspapers carried ad­miring front-page repeals welcom­ing the IOC president

The extraordinary VIP treatment for Samaranch reflects the Chinese government’s obsesSS5|E)ll;with wanning the Olympi

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