2012 - Samoa News

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2012 - Samoa News

Army “selective”
on recruits and
re-enlistments 8
New charges in
Kaisa, Louis Tai
federal case 5
Seau’s suicide
brings worry of
post-NFL life B1
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29 Sui Fa’au’u
EMS mo Galuega Lavea’i 10
Some of the 29 graduates of the 11th Emergency
Medical Technician Academy
who received their EMT certificates in a ceremony held
on Sunday, at the Fagaalu
CCCAS church, kicking off
EMS Week, celebrated in the
Territory from May 20- 26.
(Samoa News will have more
photos and details of the event
in Thursday’s issue.) [photo: LF]
online @ samoanews.com
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
$1.00
NVTHS forum continues youth look
at this year’s candidates for office
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Staff reporter
Samoana students at the ‘Meet the Candidates’
forum hosted yesterday for the 2012 gubernatorial
[photo: Jeff Hayner]
and congressional candidates.
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The Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School, the
Senior Class and the National Technical Honor Society
hosted a ‘Meet the Candidates’ forum on Tuesday at the
Governor H. Rex Lee Auditorium, where gubernatorial and congressional candidates, in separate sessions,
responded to questions from students, which included
those from Samoana High School and Fa’asao- Marist
High School.
The forum is the second held by high schools, with
the format being a Q&A session, moderated by a student. The questions were asked by students only and
each team or candidate was given an opportunity to
answer. There seems to be no time limit on the answer
given by each responder.
The first forum was held at Fagaitua High School
and was only for gubernatorial candidates. The one
held on Monday, included a 2nd session with congressional candidates, which led to the forum being held for
close to 5 hours.
Samoa News understands that Tafuna and Leone
High Schools may hold similar forums in September.
The gubernatorial candidates attending were Afoa
Su’esu’e Lutu and Le’i Sonny Thompson, Save Tuitele
and Afioga Tofoitaufa Sandra King-Young, Lolo
Moliga and Lemanu Peleti Mauga, and, Salu HunkinFinau and Iuniasolua Savusa.
Noted is that both forums, Fagaitua and Nu’uuli
VocTech, did not include the team of Faoa Aitofele
Sunia and Taufete’e John Taufete’e.
An official from the NVTHS told Samoa News a
letter was received informing the school that the team
was not able to attend this forum, because Faoa is off
island; while for Fagaitua’s forum, Samoa News noted
that Faoa attended the opening ceremony of an official
government event due to Gov. Togiola Tulafono being
off-island at the time.
The moderator for the event was Peninatautele
Suka, the student body president; the opening prayer
was conducted by Ietitaia Falelua senior class president; welcoming remarks were made by Aloese Su’a,
the school’s student body vice president; and NHS
Treasurer Shon Henry Satele introduced the gubernatorial candidates.
(Continued on page 6)
Yesterday, the first phase of the East Side Village Waste Water Collection System was completed and a ribbon cutting ceremony was held by ASPA to celebrate
this achievement. The project is funded by the USEPA, and signifies the beginning of a series of 5 projects that will be built over the next few years to complete the
sewer line system from Atu’u, beyond the canneries all the way to Breakers point, Oneasosopo.
The completed project involved repairing an old clarigester tank and bringing it back into service so the entire WWTP can accept increased water waste flow
from the East Side Villages from Breakers Point to Leloaloa. Repairs were done by Fletcher Construction. The ribbon was cut by First Lady Mary Ann Togiola, and
[photo: Leua Aiono Frost]
remarks were offered by Gov. Togiola. Attending were government leaders and Ma’oputasi village council leaders.
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TUUAIA FAAAOGA O TUPE AUNOA MA SE FAATANAGA
Ua toe tolopo i le vaiaso fou le ulua’i iloiloga o le mataupu faasaga ia Marie Lorraine Reid, lea
o loo tuuaia e le malo i lona faaaogaina lea o ni tupe e aunoa ma se faatanaga.
I faamaumauga a le faamasinoga o lo o taua ai e faapea, o se tupe mai totonu o le teugatupe a
le American Samoa Sailing Association (ASSS) lea foi e avea ai Reid ma se tasi o saini i le tusi
tupe, o loo tuuaia na tala e le ua molia ma faaaoga e aunoa ma se faatanaga aloaia.
Fai mai faamaumauga a le faamasinoga, e lua saini e manaomia ina ia mafai ai ona tala ese mai
se tupe mai totonu o le teugatupe a le ASSS,mai lana teugatupe i le Faletupe o Hawaii.
Fai mai le malo, e 6 siaki na saini e Reid ma ia talaina ai i le faletupe o Hawaii, i le aofaiga e
$1,130 ma ia faaaoga mo ia lava. O siaki uma foi ia, e na o le saini a Reid o loo i ai peitai e lua
saini e manaoina ina ia mafai ai ona tala se siaki.
Na tuuina atu e Reid sana faamatalaga tusitusiga i leoleo e uiga i lenei mataupu ma ia taua ai
e faapea, i le va o Aokuso ma Novema 2010, sa ia sainia ai siaki mai le teugatupe a le ASSS ina
ia mafai ai ona aveese mai tupe mai ia James Mcguire. Sa ia faamaonia foi i leoleo o le tupe sa ia
faaaogaina mo ia lava.
Sa ia faamaonia foi i leoleo tauala atu i lana faamatalaga tusitusia le tasi o le saini sa ia
faaaogaina e tala mai ai siaki uma nei e 6, ma ia faaaogaina ai tupe a le ASSS mo ia lava.
E $5,000 le tupe ua faatulaga e tatala ai Reid i tua mai le toese, i lalo o poloaiga a le faamasinoga, ao faatalitali ai taualumaga o lana faamasinoga.
JULIANO TAVALE
O le alii lea o loo tuuaia i le maliu o lona atalii e tasi le tausaga le matua i le 2010, ua faatulaga
e le faamasinoga lana ulua’i iloiloga e faia lea i le aso 16 Iulai, ina ua ia teena moliaga mamafa e
lua faasaga ia te ia i le taeao ananafi i luma o le faamasinoga maualuga.
O Juliano Tavale na faatulaga lana uluai iloiloga e faia lea i luma o le faamasinoga faaitumalo
i le aso Gafua na te’a nei, peitai e lei faataunuuina lea iloiloga ina ua manatu o ia e faaagafua, ae
tuu sao atu loa lana mataupu i luma o le faamasinoga maualuga e faaauau ai.
O loo tuuaia e le malo Tavale i le moliaga mamafa o le fasioti tagata pa’ivalea, atoa ai ma le
maliu o se tagata ia te ia e mafua mai i se taavale sa ia aveina.
O ia moliaga na afua mai i se faalavelave na tulai mai i le aso 25 Iulai 2010, ao malaga Tavale
ma lona atalii i le la taavale, sa ia faailoa ai ai leoleo le tupu o se faalavelave ao ia taumafai e
faanofo lona atalii i luga o le nofoa ina ua taumafai e totolo atu i luga o lona tauau, ma faafuasei
ai ona tu lona vae i le taofi o le taavale, ma i’u ina tifa ai le taavale ma lelea atu ai lona atalii ua
tau lona ulu i le pito i luma o le taavale.
Sa faapea foi ona toe tau le ulu o lona atalii i le faitotoa ina ua tulai mai lea faalavelave. Na
faamaonia e Tavale i leoleo na te lei faaaogaina se nofoa mo tamaiti laiti e faanofo ai lona atalii
ao la o i le taavale, ae o manu’a foi sa vaaia i lona tino, na mafua mai ina ua ia sasaina o ia i le isi
vaiaso ae le’i tupu le faalavelave lea.
Fai mai faamaumauga a le faamasinoga, o le aso lea na tulai mai ai le faalavelave, na alu ai le
ua molia i le fale o le tina o lona atalii ma faanoi mai o ia, pe mafai ona la o la te eva i lona aiga i
Leone, peitai i le afiafi o le aso lava lea, na toe telefoni ai le ua molia i le tina o lona atalii e faailoa
i ai, e i ai le faalavelave ua tupu ia te ia. O loo tumau pea tuutuuga a le faamasinoga o loo tatala
ai Tavale i tua, ina ua ia totogiina le $15,000 na faatulaga e le faamasinoga e tatala ai o ia, a’o
faagasolo ai taualumaga o lona faamasinoga.
(English version of this story is in today’s Court Briefs)
LOKA LE TOATOLU AE TAOFIA I LE FALEMAI LE TOATASI
O tauaiga ma’a i le va o tupulaga i le vaveao o le aso Toona’i na te’a nei i Pago Pago, na taofia
ai e leoleo ni alii se toatolu ma tuuaia i le faatupu vevesi i nofoaga faitele, ae o le isi toatasi na
faanatinati atu i le falema’i ona o manu’a tuga na aafia ai o ia.
Na taua e le loia a le malo i le Samoa News e faapea, o se vevesi na tulai mai i le va o ni tupulaga na faai’u ai i se tauaiga ma’a atigifagu faapea ai ma le pa’ilima o nisi o i latou nei.
E le o i ai ni moliaga mamafa ua faila i le taimi nei faasaga ia i latou na taofia mai i le faaiuga
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soifua, e pei ona faamaonia mai e le itu a le malo,
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samoa news, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Page 3
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MAN ACCUSED
IN SON’S DEATH
DENIES CHARGES
A firefighter facing charges
of manslaughter and homicide
by vehicle in connection with
the death of his one year old
son two years ago has denied
the charges against him.
Iuliano Tavale of Leone,
a fireman with the local Fire
Bureau under the Department
of Public Safety was arraigned
in High Court yesterday
morning. Tavale was scheduled
to have his preliminary examination on Monday before District Court Judge John Ward,
but he waived his right to a PX.
Tavale entered his not
guilty plea before Chief Justice Michael Kruse. A Manslaughter count is a class C
felony that carries a jail term of
up to seven years, a fine of up to
$5,000, or both. A Homicide by
Vehicle count is punishable by
up to five years in jail, a fine up
to $5,000 or both.
According to the government’s case, this incident came
to light when CID Captain
Lavata’i Ta’ase Sagapolutele
received a written report from
LBJ Emergency Room’s Dr.
James Marrone, regarding a
suspected case of child abuse.
According to the government’s case, Tavale took his
son to the hospital and told Dr.
Marrone that he and his son
were in a pickup truck when his
son fell and hit his head on the
dashboard and passed out.The
one year old was placed on life
support and died the next day.
According to court documents, the autopsy performed on
the victim by Dr. Ivy Clemente
claimed the immediate cause of
death was determined to be an
Acute Subdural Hemtoma with
diffuse cerebral edema and basal
skull fracture. The underlying
cause of the hematoma was due
to “blunt force injury” to the
head said the report.
Court documents say that
Tavale admitted to police that
his son was in the passenger
seat without a child restraint
seat, and that he accidentally hit
the brakes and the car swerved
to the side of the road causing
his son to fall, hitting the back
of his head on the dashboard,
and that his son was thrown
towards the passenger side hitting his forehead on the door.
Tavale told police that he
then stopped the car and tried
to resuscitate his son, but the
child was unconscious and
not moving. When the investigating officer asked the defendant about the bruises on the
victim’s body, the defendant
admitted that he accidentally
slapped his son hard several
times prior to the incident.
Tavale apologized to police
for his carelessness towards performing his parental duties and
he should have known better
and provided his son with some
kind of restraint in the vehicle.
He is out on bail of $15,000. His
pre-trial conference is scheduled on June 22, 2012.
TULUA’AI FA’AMAUSILI
PX HEARING SET
FOR JUNE 1, 2012
Preliminary Examination for
Tuilua’ai Fa’amausili, who is
accused of passing bad checks
and stealing is now scheduled
for June 1, 2012. This hearing
is for District Court Judge John
Ward to determine whether the
government has sufficient evidence to have this matter proceed to the High Court.
Fa’amausili, who has been
in custody since Friday on bail
of $15,000 is represented by
Fiti Sunia.
According to the government’s case on December 7,
2011 Nie Ming, owner of K&
K Corporation filed a formal
complaint with the CID against
Comanche tribe makes
Depp honorary member
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Johnny Depp has been
made an honorary member of the Comanche tribe.
Depp is in New Mexico, shooting the film adaptation of “The
Lone Ranger.” He plays “Ranger” sidekick Tonto in the film.
Comanche Nation tribal member LaDonna Harris said Tuesday
that the tribal chairman presented Depp with a proclamation at her
Albuquerque home May 16. She said the Comanche adoption tradition means she now considers Depp her son. Harris said Depp
seemed humbled. His spokeswoman, Jayne Ngo, confirmed the
actor participated in a ceremony, but she declined to provide details.
Harris said she had read in interviews that Depp identified
himself as being part Native American, so she thought it would
be fun to adopt him - a tradition she says is common in Comanche
culture. She ran the idea past her adult children, and they agreed.
The Comanche Nation is based in Lawton, Okla. About half of its
15,000 members live in southwestern Oklahoma. Depp has been the
topic of much discussion in Indian Country and online since he was
cast as Tonto, with comments ranging from his costume, to the selection of a non-Native for the part, to how the role itself has historically
epitomized Hollywood’s misrepresentation of Native culture.
FTC
Corporation
owned
by the defendant Tuilua’ai
Fa’amausili and Office of Motor
Vehicle (OMV) Manager Mau
Fa’amausili for writing three
checks to the victim’s company
on three separate occasions,
but the account had insufficient
funds to cover the checks.
Tuilua’ai is charged with
three counts of passing bad
checks and three counts of
stealing. Each count of passing
bad checks is a class D felony
which is punishable with up
to five years in jail, a fine of
$5,000 a fine equal to twice the
amount of gain from the commission of the said crime up to
a maximum of $20,000 — or
both fine and imprisonment.
Each stealing charge is a
class C felony punishable for
up to seven years in jail, a fine
of up to $5,000 a fine equal to
twice the amount of gain from
the commission of the said
crime up to a maximum of
$20,000, or both the fine and
imprisonment.
Court documents say that
on February 14, 2012 a written
notice was mailed to the defendant by certified mail with
receipt as to the non-payment
of the bad checks.
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CORRECTION
In Tuesday’s issue of Samoa News, May 21, 2012, we
mistakenly identified the new hyperbaric chamber as the
territory’s first, in the photo caption. It is not. The territory
has had at least two (2) others, dating back to the 80s. Aside
from its obvious medical benefits, the availability of a hyperbaric chamber allows for insurance coverage of divers doing
contract work in the territory. Samoa News apologizes to its
readers for its inadvertent error.
Armed Forces Day
focus of territory’s
annual Military Ball
by Samoa News staff
Governor Togiola Tulafono lauded the Toa o Samoa during
the annual Military Ball held at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium last Saturday evening, in honor of National Armed Forces
Day. The black tie affair was filled with government dignitaries,
military officials, veterans, and active soldiers with their families, families of fallen soldiers, and friends.
During his speech, Togiola expressed his appreciation to all
Toa o Samoa, especially those who have died in the line of duty.
He stated that because of their sacrifice, American Samoa and
the rest of the world are able to enjoy peace and freedom.
Those in attendance also observed a moment of silence in
honor of the territory’s fallen heroes.
Special guests, who had flown in to attend National Armed
Forces Day celebrations, including the Military Ball, were
introduced during the event — Colonel Leafaina Tavai Yahn
and Command Sergeant Major Tuileama Toatolu Nua.
CSM Nua told Samoa News that this was a very special
occasion — to remember the sacrifice made by the soldiers of
American Samoa, especially those who have made the ultimate
sacrifice because they died willingly for American Samoa.
He was recently selected by the U.S. Army to be the Command Sergeant Major for the US Army 44th Medical Command in Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and is planning to return
to American Samoa this year, when he retires from the military,
after 35 years of service.
Families of fallen heroes like Sgt. Raymond Sevaaetasi, Sgt.
Malaefou M. Heather and Army Spc. Farao K. Letufuga also
attended the Military Ball.
Sgt. Sevaaetasi’s father, Tuala Sevaaetasi, told Samoa News
that although his son is missed, he is grateful that his son did not
die in vain and that he is remembered everywhere. He expressed
his appreciation for the Marist Old Boys for continuing in their
tradition of memorial services that is ongoing, for it gives them
comfort and strength to carry on. Sgt. Sevaaetasi, who died
April 11, 2007, comes from a line of soldiers, with both his dad
and grandfather being retired military officials.
Tolfie Heather, a surviving brother of fallen hero, Sgt.
Malaefou Matthew Heather, who spoke on behalf of his family,
stated that he wished he could see his brother amongst the audience in the Lee Auditorium Saturday evening. Tolfie said that
they truly miss him in all of their family functions, but are truly
proud of his service. Sgt. Heather died in 2008.
ED OP: DATE RAPE DRUG
IN AMERICAN SAMOA?
by Ipu Lefiti
Drugs used to assist a sexual assault are powerful and dangerous. It is often too difficult
to tell a drug has been slipped in your drink. They often have no color, taste or smell.
These drugs can render you defenseless. You can become weak and confused, you are
unable to refuse sex or recall what happened, sometimes you are aware of what is being
done to you, but you are unable to move. The drugs can cause you to lose consciousness
or suffer from total blackout.
Approximately 7 weeks ago, a 17-year old female from the eastern district was reported
to have been allegedly abducted, blindfolded and held captive for several days. She was
found in Vaitogi with bruises all over her body and she told a wild story of being held captive. Law Enforcement were notified on that day.
Just last week a 21-year old female was reported to have been found under similar circumstances of abduction, blindfolded, held captive and drugged, except she was admitted
to LBJ hospital.
These reported incidences are taking a frightening twist. It is taking heightened awareness to a higher level of alert. I must say if methamphetamine is flooding our umu kuka’s
(kitchens) and marijuana is planted in our ma’umaga’s and togafai’s (plantations) as farfetched as it may seem, we better believe “date rape drugs” are on our shores.
Date rape drugs don’t necessarily mean it will be slipped in your drink by a date or
known friend. It is also used by strangers or known acquaintances, who have targeted you
for their sport. Here are just a few drugs and their effects.
Rohypnol: Pill form that dissolves in liquid.
Effects: Felt within 30 minutes or depending on the amount of alcohol consumed,
lasting several hours. If drugged you may appear to be drunk, pass out and can’t remember
anything, while under the influence of the drug. The drug stays in your body for several
hours and may be detected by urine test up to 72hrs
GHB/ Liquid Ecstasy: Liquid with no odor, white powder and pill form with slight
salty taste. A sweet drink will mask the taste.
Effects: Felt within 15 minutes (very potent), lasting 3 – 4 hours. Causes relaxed
and drowsiness state, loss of consciousness, unable to remember what happened while
drugged. It leaves the body in 12 hours.
Ketamine: Liquid and light powder form.
Effects: (Very fast) You may be aware what is being done to you but unable to move,
causes memory problems and unable to recall what happened while drugged.
The potency of these drugs have the potential to cause serious health problems and
death. They all cause symptoms of dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, tremors, convulsions
etc. Victims can either appear drunk or sick, making it easier for offenders to help them
out to their car, waiting cab or behind the building.
How horrifying this drug can be while under its influence — to render you totally incapacitated while the person or persons are sodomizing and raping you. These acts are being
done to you for however long they choose. The drug can be administered throughout several days or for however long you are held captive.
Imagine the confusion of the victim, who cannot recall yet she/he knows something
was done to their body. It usually takes 8-12 hours later for you to realize it. It is frightening to be unable to account for several hours or days while drugged. The helplessness
knowing that no-one will believe you.
I implore all parents, students and communities to read up on DATE RAPE/ DRUG
FACILITATED SEXUAL ASSAULT DRUGS. The internet is full of this information
and precautionary measures.
If there is one thing we all know, a victim under these circumstances will most likely
suffer and isolate themselves to silence. As wild as their stories may be, it would behoove
us all to ‘give them the benefit of the doubt’.
Stay alert for unusual happenings and report them. Keep documentation that will come
in handy. These drugs would be easily used in club or party settings. Since being drunk
is a normal sign of partying, it would be so easy to assist you out from the crowd and
abducted. Let’s get used to the word abduction or kidnapped.
While you’re out with your friends, make a note of your surroundings, the people you
are with, especially a person/persons you see assisting someone out of the environment.
You never know when later on you find out she/ he is a missing person or a victim of a
wild abduction story.
Be protective of your drinks, at any time the drug can be slipped in them. Being drunk
will make it very hard to determine if you’ve been drugged.
We must remember, nothing a victim did, including drinking alcohol or doing drugs…
can justify rape.
Also keep in mind it’s easier to drug the underage drinkers. Very few will admit they
were under the influence of alcohol.
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Superseding indictment charges
Kaisa and Louis Tai in new case
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
Kaisa and his younger
brother Louis Tai are now
charged under a superseding
indictment handed down last
week by a federal grand jury
in Honolulu, but the pair’s
older brother, John Tai, is not
included in the new drug case.
Kaisa and Louis were
arrested in the territory last
summer and taken to Honolulu where they were charged
with other defendants in a federal drug case, while John Tai
was later arrested at his home
in California and taken to
Honolulu.
Last month John Tai pled
guilty at the federal court,
which came several days after
federal agents arrested four
people in Honolulu in a new
drug case, which identified Tai
as head of a “drug trafficking
organization”.
In this new drug case, one
of the defendants is Sifatutupu Fuamatu, who is accused
by federal agents of using her
security credentials to bypass
airport security in order to
transport drug money to California. She was an employee
of Delta Air Lines at the Honolulu airport.
SUPERSEDING
INDICTMENT
The new superseding indictment handed down last week
Wednesday charges some of
the individuals from the drug
case last year, including Kaisa
and Louis Tai and the defendants from the drug case last
month, including Sifatutupu
Fuamatu and Falefia Fuamatu.
(Samoa News has been unable
to verify from court documents
the relationship between Sifatutupu and Falefia).
Those not included in the
new 16-page indictment are the
ones who have already entered
guilty pleas and are awaiting
sentencing.
Others charged in the new
superseding indictment are
Fouina C. Toilolo, Aloali’i
To’oto’o, Harry Akana, Daniel
Fola, Walter Dominguez,
Larry Hoohena Chung and
Lloyd Talia.
The defendants are charged
with knowingly and intentionally conspiring to distribute and to possess with
intent to distribute about 400
pounds of methamphetamine,
according to the indictment
which specifies dates when
the meth transactions allegedly
occurred as well as the amount
of money collected or received
in exchange for distribution of
the meth.
For example, a cooperating
individual received around
Feb. 23, 2010 about four
pounds of meth from Louis Tai,
which was supplied by Dominguez and was later provided to
Tootoo for distribution. The
indictment further alleges that
between May 24 and Aug. 30,
2010 more than $70,000 was
exchanged between the defendants as partial payment for the
four pounds of meth.
The indictment also cited
another drug transaction where
money was exchanged as partial payment. And then in May
of last year, Dominguez allegedly sent approximately 174
pounds of meth from California to Chung in Hawai’i for
distribution.
On Sept. 18 last year, Falefia
Fuamatu flew from Honolulu to Los Angeles to deliver
$350,000 in drug proceeds to
Dominguez, according to the
indictment. The following day,
Sifatutupu Fuamatu allegedly
flew from Honolulu to Los
Angeles to deliver $604,075 in
drug proceeds to Dominguez.
It is also alleged that
between Sept. 24 and Oct. 14,
2011, Dominguez sent sepa-
rate shipments of meth totaling
156 pounds from California
to Chung for distribution in
Hawai’i.
In November, Sifatutupu
Fuamatu and Falefia Fuamatu
allegedly flew to Los Angeles
from Honolulu to deliver
$554,000 in drug proceeds to
Dominguez.
The last shipment of meth,
118 pounds, from Dominguez was in March this year,
according to the indictment,
which also alleges that one of
the defendants paid more than
$150,000 in drug proceeds to a
“confidential informant”.
All defendants charged
under the new superseding
indictment appeared Monday
in federal court where they
entered not guilty pleas.
Reach the reporter at
[email protected]
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Many big changes are in the pipeline for LBJ, and they are
experiencing several major challenges as well right now.
Mike Gerstenberger, will discuss the current situation here
on island, and efforts to address the various issues. He has
implemented many reforms, including sweeping
personnel and policy changes in the financial offices.
Topics will include a description of the existing facility and
personnel status, the problems being faced, the issue of
long term funding and associated legislation, futurs plans,
and proposed rate increases.
(This is a no host lunch)
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➧ Youth look at this year’s candidates…
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GUBERNATORIAL QUESTION
& ANSWER SESSION
There were no surprise questions by students
— they focused on what the community has
been asking out loud for the last several years.
An interesting exchange did occur between Afoa
and Lolo during the rebuttal period of the session
concerning the Low Income Housing program.
Among questions asked by the students
were what the candidates can do: to boost the
economy, to create more job opportunities; to
eliminate the practice of “who you know, not
what you know” in government; to solve the LBJ
crisis; to get government to pay its ASPA bills.
The first question was asked by a NVTHS
student: “If you don’t have the trust of the government, what will you do within your first year
that will deserve our trust in your leadership?”
AFOA & LE’I
Afoa said this question is about government
accountability. He said they have put up their
own personal motto and that is their greatest
contribution to the people — service.”
“Honest, trustworthy, reliable and consistence service, while we lead we will ensure
transparency and honesty in government.”
Afoa said when he was the Attorney General
in 1980 under Lutali’s administration and they
abided by that, which “we will abide if I’m governor — that is going to be in my administration.
“We will make sure that the directors and those
that we choose will be best of the best no matter
where you come from, no matter who you voted
for, the opportunity for you is open, but you have
to come and we will review your resume.
“…if you want to be a director you will be
given the opportunity to present to us what your
plan is, you cannot come to us to be a leader of
a department and you don’t have a plan to do
your work, we will require that you become the
person that knows the job and have the plans to
implement that job.” Afoa said that way they can
ensure they place people that are trustworthy —
that the government and the people depend on.
He assured students that if anyone in his administration breaks the law that that person will answer
to the law, and at the same time they will provide
the people that work for them support and will back
them if they are doing the right thing. “In conclusion just do the right thing and then we will have
trustworthy people in the government,” said Afoa.
SAVE & SANDRA
Save said, he doesn’t have to explain the
state the government is in currently. “We can’t
just change the roofs of our house, we can’t just
change the top leaders of the government, the
poles, which support the roof have been eaten
by termites and we need to get new leaders who
are efficient, leaders we can trust and leaders
that have the trust of the people, those are the
people who need to hold off the roof.”
Save explained that if the foundation is not
changed, the government will go back to be the
same as it was before. “However my proposal is
that we change the administration, those who have
retired and come back to work as contractors, for
the government and are not doing the job they are
suppose to be doing, they will have to terminated
or they have to find a job somewhere else”.
He said there are too many Samoans that
have come back from college, and they have to
go back to the states, because they are not given
the opportunity to work and serve the people of
American Samoa. “That’s what we need to do,
we need to put the right people at the right position, people we can trust, people who have the
training and the experience” said Save.
LOLO & LEMANU
Lolo said this question goes to the heart of
their campaign, if elected, they will be sure to
restore the integrity of the government and secondly restore the trust of public and public confidence. “Today the keyword to what we are trying
to do is qualification — that’s what it’s all about
— who will be the best person to lead government, after serving 40+ years with this government, I’ve seen what going on in government.”
Lolo told the students that he and his running
mate Lemanu have the qualifications and can gain
the trust and the confidence of the public and will
work on getting the government back on track. .
“This government needs leaders who have
experience in life, real life experience is what you
need, we all have good plans of how to run this
government, however it takes a good leader to put
that through and deliver what people need today.
“Education is always our number one priority — why? Because… better education will
greatly benefit and bring our government to the
next level, better education will bring harmony
in our society, better education will provide happiness and fulfilment in every young person.”
Lolo said if elected they will explore
every option pertaining to education and they
will make sure that they will do their best in
improving the intellectual capacity of the young
people, and the government.
SALU & IUNI
Salu responded by giving an example of trust
with money. She said if you trust someone with
money those people are good, however if you
don’t know where the money is then questions
and suspicions start to arise. “Judiciary responsibility or responsibility in taking care of the people’s money, is where you know whether these
leaders can be trusted or not. I’m going to bring it
down to DOE — it has to do with DOE. The DOE
receives about 70 million a year and my point is
pertaining to the trust in the usage of this money.
“We need to update the books, update the conditions of your classrooms, we need to get more
school buses, we need to get a Gym for NVTHS…
your teachers make little money, and may have
to use their own money to get materials to use in
the classrooms, I don’t think that’s right, teachers
need to be paid well for the work their doing.
“Equipment is not enough at NVTHS, how can
you learn carpentry without hammers and nails,
welding and no welding machine for the students.
Were talking about where the money should go to
help you out in the classrooms, and yet it should
be the most conducive place for you to learn.”
Salu said there should be online registration for students and also look into the assessment for the school monetary report in that area,
because school systems were made to help the
students, not the students going to school to try
and fit what DOE provides.
REBUTTAL
Gubernatorial candidates were given the
chance for rebuttal in regards to responses; however, Afoa asked Lolo on the status of the 1602
program, which was administrated by the Development Bank of American Samoa (DBAS), of
which Lolo is the president. Afoa said, “I want
to know what happened to the 1602 project that
deals with money, there have been a lot of complaints to his office regarding this issue.”
Lolo responded, “You’re looking at a candidate who was able to bring down over $30 million into our government and Afoa is one of the
beneficiaries of this program; and they can say
all kinds of things, because if there is any program that I’m proud to be a part of, it is the 1602
and I was able to bring down 30+million dollars.
“As leaders you have to ask yourselves what
have you done for American Samoa? I can speak
out fairly that I was able to bring down over 30
million into our economy and helped out our
people and helped the government. ‘Now ask
yourself what have you done?’, said Lolo.
BACKGROUND
The 1602 program Afoa and Lolo are referencing is the Section 1602 Low Income House
Program, which was the subject of Fono hearings
in early March of this year, in response to public
complaints of favoritism and conflicts of interest.
The program has made available $30.7 million
for construction of rental units for low income
families. Recipients must put up 15% of the
costs while 85% is a grant. DBAS has approved
funding for the construction of 450 rental homes
for 132 recipients under the program.
DBAS was the vehicle (administrator) through
which the banking and inspections were done
on behalf of the Federal Government, with final
scoring of applications, while involving the American Samoa Economic Stimulus and Recovery
Office (ASESRO), were made by DBAS.
It was in May 2011 that DBAS and ASESRO
received notice that the US Treasury would no
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acknowledgeh im,
and he will make your
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US Army more selective on
recruits and re-enlistments
WASHINGTON (AP) -Uncle Sam may not want you
after all. In sharp contrast to
the peak years of the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars, the Army
last year took in no recruits with
misconduct convictions or drug
or alcohol issues, according to
internal documents obtained by
The Associated Press. And soldiers already serving on active
duty now must meet tougher
standards to stay on for further
tours in uniform.
The Army is also spending
hundreds of thousands of dollars less in bonuses to attract
recruits or entice soldiers to
remain. It’s all part of an effort
to slash the size of the active
duty Army from about 570,000
at the height of the Iraq war to
490,000 by 2017.
The cutbacks began last
year, and as of the end of March
the Army was down to less than
558,000 troops.
For a time during the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army
lowered its recruiting standards,
raising the number of recruits
who entered the Army with
moral, medical and criminal including felony - waivers.
Recruits with misdemeanors,
which could range from petty
theft and writing bad checks to
assault, were allowed into the
Army, as well as those with
some medical problems or low
aptitude scores that might otherwise have disqualified them.
A small fraction of recruits
had waivers for felonies, which
included convictions for manslaughter, vehicular homicide,
robbery and sex crimes. The sex
crimes often involved consensual sex when one of the individuals was under 18.
In 2006, about 20 percent
of new Army recruits came in
under some type of waiver, and
by the next year it had grown
to nearly three in 10. After the
Defense Department issued
new guidelines, the percentage
needing waivers started to come
down in 2009. Now, as the
Army moves to reduce its force,
some soldiers will have to leave.
Officials say they hope to
make cuts largely through voluntary attrition. But Gen. Ray
Odierno, the Army chief of
staff, has warned that as much
as 35 percent of the cuts will be
“involuntary” ones that force
soldiers to abandon what they
had hoped would be long military careers. “This is going to be
hard,” said Gen. David Rodriguez, head of U.S. Army Forces
Command. “This is tough business. As we increase things like
re-enlistment standards, some
of the people who were able to
re-enlist three years ago won’t
be able to re-enlist again.”
The Army, in an internal slide
presentation, is blunt: “Re-enlistment is a privilege, not a right;
some ‘fully qualified’ soldiers
will be denied re-enlistment due
to force realignment requirements
and reductions in end strength.”
In a memo earlier this year,
Army Secretary John McHugh
laid out more stringent criteria for denying re-enlistment,
including rules that would
turn away soldiers who have
gotten a letter of reprimand for
a recent incident involving the
use of drugs or alcohol, or some
soldiers who were unable to
qualify for a promotion list.
“It’s all focused on allowing
us ... to retain only those soldiers who have the right skills,
the right attributes and who help
us meet the requirements and
are those soldiers which truly
have the greatest potential,” said
Army Brig. Gen. Richard P.
Mustion, the Army’s director of
military personnel management.
Last year, as the budget and
personnel cuts began to take hold,
just a bit more than 10 percent of
Army recruits needed waivers to
join. The bulk of those - about 7
percent - were medical waivers,
which can include poor eyesight
that can be corrected. About 3
percent were for misconduct that
did not involve convictions.
The decline in recent years
was almost entirely on conduct
waivers, not medical. As an
example, there were 189 recruits
with
“major
misconduct”
waivers last year, and none with
criminal convictions, compared
to 546 misconduct waivers in
2009 and 220 with convictions.
Mustion said that as Army
recruiters look at the applicants
coming in they “are truly able to
identify the very best soldiers,
future soldiers, and those who
display the greatest potential.”
He said they are evaluating
each one on his physical, academic and aptitude test performances “and, quite frankly, would
they require a waiver to come into
the military versus the next soldier
who has the same credentials but
wouldn’t require a waiver.”
Waivers have long been a
source of debate. Military officials have defended the process,
saying it allows good people
who once made a minor mistake
to enlist. But mid-level officers
serving in Iraq and Afghanistan
also told top defense officials
that the dramatic rise in the
number of bad-behavior waivers
was a problem, that they were
often spending too much time
on “problem children.”
. Steven Dale Green, a
former 101st Airborne Division
soldier, came into the Army on
a morals waiver because of an
earlier problem with drugs. He
is now serving five life terms
for killing an Iraqi family and
raping and killing the 14-yearold daughter in March 2006.
With the economy struggling,
it’s still a recruit-rich environment. But Army officials worry
that as the economy gets better,
they may not get all the high
quality recruits they need, and
their best soldiers may decide
not to re-enlist because they may
do better in the corporate world.
For now, however, the Army is
saving money in the process.
According to Mustion, soldiers in just six types of jobs are
getting bonuses when they enlist:
interpreter/translators,
divers,
cryptologic linguists, medical
laboratory specialists and explosive ordnance disposal specialists. And those bonuses average
about $3,300-$3,500, he said.
That is a steep drop from the
$16,000-$18,000 bonuses the
Army was paying on average
to new recruits in 2007-08. In
the fiscal year ending Sept. 30,
2008, the Army paid nearly
$860,000 in enlistment bonuses,
compared to just $77,000 in
the 2011 fiscal year. Re-enlistment bonuses for soldiers now
average about $7,500-$7,700.
Military leaders say the key
goal is to shape the force as they
cut, winnowing out not only
the lesser qualified, but keeping
the right number of soldiers in
critical jobs and all across the
ranks, particularly the mid-level
officers.
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Mountain lion is killed in
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police shot and
killed a mountain lion that somehow made its
way through an urban landscape before it was
found early Tuesday in a downtown Santa
Monica office building courtyard near an outdoor
mall and a bluff-top park that offers tourists views
of the ocean and the city’s famed pier. Authorities made multiple attempts to try and subdue the
young male cat, including use of a tranquilizer and
a pepper ball, before killing it, said Capt. Daniel
Sforza of the state Fish and Game Department.
The mountain lion was found about 6 a.m. by
a janitor in the courtyard near a popular open-air
mall, the Third Street Promenade, and just a couple
of blocks from the beach. The street that has a preschool, a church and other businesses was cordoned
off as a precaution. “It’s not a risk we can take with
public safety,” said police Lt. Robert Almada.
It wasn’t immediately known how the cat
ended up in the middle of the city. The National
Park Service has been monitoring mountain lions
with GPS radio-collars and cameras more than
two miles away in the Santa Monica Mountains.
A typical home range for mountain lions is
around 200 square miles for adult males, said the
agency that has been conducting a study since
2002 in the Santa Monica Mountains to determine
how urbanization is affecting the large cats.
Jeff Sikich, a biologist working on the longterm study for the National Park Service, said a
mountain lion had never been seen in the area
where the cougar was found. There are currently
about 10 mountain lions in the Santa Monica
range but the lion killed in the city was not among
those previously known, he said.
Sikich said that by age 1 1-2 lions disperse
from their mothers and try to establish their own
territories, which are so large that one adult male
could claim the entire Santa Monica range.
Young lions, however, are trapped within the
range because it is bordered by freeways to the
north and east, the ocean to the south and an agricultural plain to the west. Dispersing young males that
encounter urban areas usually turn around, and those
found dead have either been hit by cars or killed by
an adult male defending its territory, Sikich said
“Large carnivores need a lot of space,” he said.
Sforza said a necropsy will be performed to see
if the mountain lion had rabies or any other diseases. “It’s very unusual,” he said of finding the
mountain lion. “It’s just really hard to speculate.”
Lorraine Miller, 89, said she was driving to her
novels class, part of a college emeritus program for
seniors, when she learned the mountain lion was in
the building’s courtyard where she was supposed
to go. “It seemed at first it was some kind of tall
tale,” said Miller, who has lived in Santa Monica
for more than 40 years. “Then after a while you
see all of this action. It was overwhelming.”
Mountain lions are one of the most widespread
carnivores in the world with a historical range from
Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Hundreds of
mountain lion sightings are reported every year in
California, but attacks on humans are rare. Between
1890 and 2007, there have only been 16 attacks in
the state, according to Fish and Game statistics.
Miller said she believes killing the mountain
lion was the right, but unfortunate, option.
Sikich, the biologist, said mountain lions are
elusive and generally avoid people, but they are
wild, unpredictable animals and this one was in
an unnatural situation.
“It was a tough situation, especially for the
lion, but also for everyone involved,” he said.
Sikich, who arrived after the killing, took some
of its hair for testing to determine if it is related to
the other lions of the Santa Monica range, which
lack genetic diversity because of their entrapment.
FAREWELL & GOOD LUCK
Howard E. Tingley, P.E.
Words Cannot Sufficiently Express
our Heartfelt Appreciation to a
Man Who Has Done Many Things
and Asked for Nothing in Return.
The Department of Public Works
and Civil/Highway Division extend
our grateful gratitude for your
loyal, unselfish and dedicated
service; Always going that extra
mile; the fun, the laughter and the
support you gave us all.
Your professionalism and matterof-fact approach have inspired us
to be better not only as individuals
but as public servants. Faafetai
tele.
We also wish to acknowledge your
wife “Mrs.Lisa Tingley” and family
in Brookings, Oregon for their
support.
O le a Misia lava Oe. Manuia le toe
fo’i atu i Aiga i atunuu mamao.
Malo le Tautua, Taeaotui P. Tilei, DPW Director
& DPW - Civil/Highway Division Family
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O le sui ua sili ona maoa’e lona taumafai talu mai ona amata le a’oa’oga. Sa amata mai o
vaivai ae fa’afetai e le’i fa’avaivai ai, ae i’u manuia lona taumafai, Mareko Antonio.
[ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
Finau loia a Pati Lepou
e lei auai i le sola’aga
AMATA FA’AMASINOGA O PATI LEPOU
tusia Ausage Fausia
Na molimau le ali’i o Sefo Lemalu i le ulua’i aso o le fa’amasinoga o Pati Lepou, i le taeao
ananafi, o Lepou na faia le tonu latou te sosola mai i le toese i le po o le aso 22 Ianuari 2010, ina ia
latou o i le fale o Lepou i Iliili e aumai mea o lo o ia mana’omia.
Na taua e Lemalu, o ia, Lepou, David Maea ma Gasona Mafiti sa latou auai uma i le solaaga i le
po lea ma latou agai sa’o atu i le nofoaga o i ai le faletupe o le ANZ i Tafuna.
Fai mai Lemalu, e sosola mai le to’ese, ae ua toe 6 masina o lo o totoe o lona faasalaga faafalepuipui. Sa ia taua foi e faapea, sa loka faatasi i laua ma Lepou i le sela a’o tuli a la faasalaga.
O Lepou o lo o tuuaia i moliaga mamafa e tolu, e aofia ai le faomea i le tulaga muamua, faaoolima
i le tulaga muamua, atoa ai ma le sola ese mai le toese. Ae e sosola Lepou ma lana vaega ia Ianuari,
ae o lo o tuli foi seisi ona faasalaga, ina ua tausalaina i lo latou osofa’ia ma nisi ali’i, le faleaoga a le
South Pacific Academy i Tafuna, ma gaoia ni mea totino mai totonu o le ofisa o le pule aoga.
Na ta’ua e le loia a le malo, o Cecilia Reyna, i lana ulua’i folasaga ananafi, “E toatolu pagota o le
a latou faailoa i le faamasinoga, sa auai Lepou i le solaaga, o ia foi na faia le tonu ina ia latou sosola
ese mai le toese,” o le faafinauga lea a le itu a le malo, peitai na tali le loia a Lepou o Mark Ude, e le
i auai Lepou i le solaaga e pei ona taua, ma, e i ai foi isi vaega o le suesuega a leoleo e le o manino
lelei talu mai le taimi na amata mai ai lenei mataupu.
E lei faamanino e Ude i le vaega iloilo iuga po o a ia mea e lei manino lelei i suesuega a leoleo.
Fai mai le malo, o Lepou e toatasi na faia le tonu ina ia fasi le leoleopo ma gaoi le ki, ina ia mafai
ai ona latou maua se taavale latou te o ai i lona fale i Iliili. “O le a molimau alii pagota e toatolu
e faapea, o Lepou na fai ia Maea e tui le leoleopo i le naifi faapata falaoa, o ia foi na ee atu ina ia
fasioti le leoleopo,” o le faamatalaga lea a le loia mo le malo i lana folasaga.
Na taua foi e le malo e faapea, o Lepou na taina le ulu o le leoleopo i le paia u’amea ma pau ai i
lalo, ae na mafua ona taofia ia gaioiga ona sa ia vaaia se taavale o agai atu ia te i latou, o lea na latou
tuua ai loa lea nofoaga ae sosola ese.
E talitonu foi le malo, o matuia tele o manu’a na aafia ai le alii leoleo na faigata ai ona sola ese
i le taimi na osofaia ai e le ua molia ma isi pagota o ia.
Ae i le faafinauga a Ude sa ia taua ai e faapea, o le a manino i molimau a le itu tete’e e lei auai
Lepou i le solaaga e pei ona taua, ma e i ai lona talitonuga afai e lei auai o ia i le solaaga, o lona uiga
e leai ni moliaga o le faaoolima ma le faomea e ono tuuaia ai fua o ia.
Na taua e Ude e faapea, e ese lava le itu lea o loo taumafai mai i ai le malo ina ia faamaonia le
latou mau faasaga ia Lepou, peitai o lona tiute o le loia mo le ua molia, ia faailoa molimau e atagia
mai ai e leai se solitulafono sa tupu.
E toa 6 tamaitai ma le alii e toatasi o loo i totonu o le vaega iloilo iuga, lea o loo latou iloiloinase
faaiuga o lenei mataupu.
O le afioga i le alii faamasino sili ia Michael Kruse o loo faatautaia lenei mataupu, i le lagolagosua a afioga i alii faamasino lagolago ia Suapaia Pereira ma Satele Aliitai Lilio.
O le taeao nei lea ua faamoemoe e toe faaauau ai lenei iloiloga.
29 Sui Fa’au’u EMS
mo Galuega Lavea’i
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
O le aso Sa na te’a nei, sa fa’atautaia ai i le itula e 3:30 i le afiafi
se sauniga lotu fa’apitoa ma fa’aopoopo atu i ai ma le sauniga o le
fa’au’uina o Sui e to’a 29 i latou, ua pasia lelei a’oa’oga fa’apitoa
ma tomai e mo’omia mo i latou fa’atinoina galuega lavea’i mo
tagata ua gasegase a le vaega a le EMS. O le sauniga sa matua
fa’atumulia lava, ma ina ua mae’a le sauniga lava latou masani sa
fa’apea loa ona tomuli i taualumaga e fuafua patino i le fa’au’uga,
ma le tufatufaina o tusi pasi o le vasega fa’au’u.
I pese ma vi’iga na saunia e le aufaipese a le Ekalesia
Fa’apotopotoga Kerisiano i Faga’alu ma vi’iga fo’i sa saunia e le
vasega fa’au’u a le EMS sa fa’aatagia ai lava le fita ituga o lea fo’i
matata, o le taumafai e fa’auia atu e ala i a’ao ma galuega fa’atino
a i latou le mana fa’aola o le Tama o i le lagi.
O le lauga sa saunia e le susuga le Faife’au Lalomauga Pa’au,
sa fa’auia mai ai tima’iga mo i latou e fa’atinoina ia tiute aoga tele
i le lavea’ina o le soifua o le mamalu fa’agasegasea o le atunu’u.
“Ae ou te le manatua se tasi lava mea, a’o lo’u lava ola ou te
le manumanu i ai, se’i o’u fa’auma la’o momo’e ..” O upu tima’i
ia a le pelofeta o Paulo aua ua ia iloa, e le o toe manumanu i lona
ola i lona fa’atinoga o le galuega ma tofi ua tu’uina mai e Ieova
ia te ia, na te faia. Peita’i na toe fa’apea le failauga, “E ese le tofi,
ae tatau ona i ai le agava’a e mafai ai ona e fa’atinoina galuega fai
mo lea tofi.” E atili ona toe fa’apu’upu’u lea fuaitau ona fa’apea
lea, “E le o le tofi, ae o tiute o le tofi!”
E leai se faigofie o i ai i le tofi ua vala’auina ai outou tou te
fa’atinoina, lea fo’i ua faia le tiute o le matagaluega EMS o le
toe fa’aauupegaina outou i tomai mo’omia mo le fa’atinoina o la
outou matafaioi tau’ave - galuega lave’ai o le soifua!
“Ia outou mata’ala ma ia fa’amaoni, e le o sina taimi o le aso e
ao ina mataala ai, ae o le 24 itula o le aso atoa, e te mataala ai pe
a o’o ina mo’omia mai loa lau fesoasoani.”
Ona o le malu ua matua fa’atumulia i le to’atele o le ekalesia,
le vasega o aiga o e na fa’au’u, ae maise o uo ma e masani sa
auai e fa’ailo lo latou naunauta’i, ia iloga ona patipatia faiva o nei
fanau o le atunu’u, ua latou filifili e faia le galuega lavea’i o le
soifua e ala i le auaunaga a le vaega o le EMS.
O nisi o tima’iga a le Fa’afeagaiga sa ia fa’apea ai, “Ia tinou
i le tauivi, ia so’otau’au ma le Agaga Pa’ia e fesoasoani i faiva i
taimi uma, usita’i i a’oa’oga ua mae’a fa’aauupegaina ai outou, ae
o lou fa’amoemoe o lo’o i le Atua lea e alofagia fa’aola mai le ua
mo’omia ona fa’asaoina lona ola!”
I le talanoa mai a le sui mai lea matagaluega, sa ia folasia ai le
lu’iga tele i lana matagaluega, e le faigofie ona maua nisi ua mae’a
a’oa’oina, ae ua fa’afetaia i lenei vasega atoa, ua atoa le tausaga
atoa talu mai ona a’oa’oina fa’apitoa i latou i toma’i e mo’omia
mo le galuega ma ua atoatoa le latou auaunaga e faia fa’atasi ma
sui ua mae’a galulue tumau i le matagaluega, ua fefa’asoa’i ai le
tomai ina ia mautu le latou iloa i galuega lavea’i.
Na a’oa’oina fo’i le vasega atoa lenei i tomai fa’afoma’i e ao
ina mua’i faia i gasegase pe a latou o’o atu i ai, ma va’aia po’o a
ni tulaga o lo’o ua i ai lo latou soifua. Ona o ia fo’i mataupu sa
lautogia ai se tasi o le vasega atoa lenei i le togisilia, o lea sa maua
ai e John Fereti lea fa’ailoga.
O le aotelega o mataupu uma na ‘ave ae maise o le fa’atinoina
o tiute e fa’atautaia ai galuega e mo’omia mo le lavea’iga o le
soifua o tagata mama’i, sa maua lea tulaga muamua e le ali’i o
Tyrell Eugene J. Ah Kuoi. Na tolaulauina fo’i se tasi sa sili ona
maoa’e lana taumafaiga, ona sa amatalia le a’oa’oga fa’apitoa
(Faaauau itulau 12)
Tyrell Eugene Ah Kuoi lea
ua avea le togisilia i le vasega
fa’au’u a le EMS 2012.
John Fereti maua le
fa’ailoga togisilia i mataupu
fa’afoma’i a’oa’oga EMS.
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LAST/FIRST
Blackmon Togisala
Calara Ernesto
Faafiaula Natia
Faagogo Taifau
Faaolo Gabriel
Faifua Filipo
Filivao Baby
Finau Rodney
Forsythe Aigamaua
Fosi Nunuvale
Fouvale Tali
Galeai Vaimagalo
Godinet Dorisha
Gogo Mara
Gogo Osovale
Himphill Garfield
Iakopo Ann
Iaulualo Gaiuli
Ieremia Fagavao
Ilalio Victoria
Iosefa Iosefa
Iuta Joshua
Kerisiano Benjamin
Kofelogo Fulisia
Kose Fa’alavelave
Laasaga Maee
Lafaele Lafaele
Lafoga Sosefina
Lamese Tavita
Lavea Francella
Lealasola Fagavaa
Leaumoana Isaako
Leituala Maria
Leo Lui
Leota Jennifer
Leota Onosai
Lesa Rose
Lesa Rose
Lesa Mackyver
Leuluaialii Aofia
Levaoalii Solonaima
Liaina Judith
Luaiva Samasoni
Maae Talaave
Maalona Justin
Mafua Faalelua
Mageo Florina
Makalio Niume
Malauulu Semu
Malauulu Meta
Maota Tepatasi
Mariner Toto’a
Masoe Eisenhower
Matuauto Faamaepepa
Mua Siofatu
Mulitao Faatoe
Niuamoa Vinita
Patea Junior
Pati Naite
Phillip Luaono
Sakopo Raveenya
Sappa Sinatra
Sauni Simalua
Savaii Logoua
Savaii Osovale
Sea Fagava’a
Sea Vainu’u
Sealii Vegasio
Sekeli Lofi
Senetenari Tatia
Siagatonu Mose
Sialofi Temukisa
Siatiu Faalavelave
Sila Lotovale
Sio Seluia
Sofeni Taumaoe
Soliai Tuluiga
Solomua Siute
Sootaga Sootaga
Sua Matthew
Sue Lautala
Taala Arieta
Taape Kasipale
Taia Taia
Tala Lenny
Taleni Toaono
Taliva’a Ifale
Tapu Luisa
Tapui Faimalo
Tauai Jendora
Tauanu’u Aupaau
Teve Fa’aolaina
Tilo Lopi
Timoteo Tagaloa
Tuavale Lemisio
Tuavale Faainu
Tuinei Faafetai
Tuiuli Fili
Tuliloa Tipo
Uaita Fiatagata
Uele Maxwell
Umu Sofia
Vaitoa Jeffery
Visesio David
Vivi Sipaia
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Faia le tautoga a le fanau fa’au’u, matagofie le latou fo’i auaunaga!
Fa’afetaia e aiga le
kovana ona o galuega ua maua i Guam
[ata: L.A. Frost]
➧ 29 Sui Fa’au’u EMS mo Galuega…
Mai itulau 10
lenei o maulalo lava ona togi, ae matauina i le fa’ai’uga ua ausia e ia togi e pasi ai i
tiute fa’atino fa’atasi ai ma a’oa’oga masani. O ia lea o Mareko Antonio.
Na fa’afetaia e le susuga Galumalemana Fuapopo Avegalio le Pule o le EMS,
lona agaga fa’afetai tele i le fanau sa a’oa’oina i lenei vasega, aua o le to’atele o i
latou na o’o atu ina ia auai i le vasega fa’apitoa ina ua tatala mai le avanoa, ae le o
ni tagata faigaluega tumau. Sa le maua so latou totogi mo lenei taimi umi, ae le’i
fa’avaivai ai o latou loto i le galuega, ona ua latou va’aia le mo’omia o lea auaunaga,
ae maise o se galuega e faia ma le alofa tele.
Na i ai se avanoa e saunoa ai le CEO a le falema’i Maichael Gerstenberger, lea sa
ia fa’apea ai, “E pau lana galuega e ao ina faia, ia mautinoa o lelei le nofoaga e avea
ma ofisa tutotonu o le EMS, mautinoa o lava ta’avale e fa’aaogaina i latou galuega
lavea’i, po’o ua i ai uma meafaigaluega mo i latou e fa’atino ai latou tiute fai i taimi
uma e vala’auina mai ai mo se fesoasoani. E ui ina utiuti le fa’asoa a le LBJ peita’i,
ua fa’afetai o lo’o mautu mai lea vaega o le tautua, ma ua fa’afetaia le Malo, aua sa
latou tau’avea le matagaluega mo se taimi tele o lenei foi tausaga fa’ale-tupe.
O le saunoaga a le Sui Kovana e fai ai o ia ma sui o le la’ua va’a se’elua ma le
afioga le Kovana Sili e patipatia fo’i le taumafaiga ua o’o nei a lea vaega o le malo.
Sa ia fa’afetaia le fe’au tima’i a le susuga le Faifeau, ae maise o vi’iga ua fa’ailoga
ai le aoga o lea tautua e fa’atino e lea vaega to’aititi o le atunu’u, fa’afetai fo’i ia
i latou na tausaili le atamai fa’apitoa mo ia faiva, aua e mautinoa lava, “E sili ona
mana’omia e le lautele o lenei auaunaga i taimi o pagatia.”
“E mautinoa fo’i le moni o le folasaga a le susuga ta’ita’i o le EMS, o nei tiute e
ao ina fa’atino ae ua agava’a le sui o fa’atinoina i le tomai fa’apitoa mo le auaunaga,
ia lavea’i le soifua o le ua mana’omia le fa’asaoina.” O se tasi o ana saunoaga sa ia
fa’apea ai, “Afai tatou te susu’e tusi fa’amaumau a le EMS, ona tatou fa’ato’a iloa
patino lea o le tele o le mana’omia o lo’o i ai i le atunu’u lautele!”
“O nisi o ni lipoti fa’amaumauina, ua lisia ai le mamao mai o le fale o le aiga na
fa’afafa mai ai le gasegase se’ia o’o mai i le ta’avale a le EMS, o ai na ia fa’atinoina
na galuega, fa’afetai ia te outou le aufaigaluega i le agaalofa ina a tele, e faia ai le
galuega, ae o lea, e le’i totogia outou e to’atele! E ala ona outou faia tiute na, ma
fa’atino ma le tigaina tiute na, ona o le alofa ma lou va’ai ia fa’asaoina le ola o le ua
gasegase. E mautinoa e taui e le Atua le galuega lena.” Ina ua mae’a le sao o le afioga
le Lutena Kovana Faoa Ipulasi Sunia i le sauniga mamalu, sa usuina loa e le Vasega
fa’au’u le latou pese “Ave lou ola ia aoga, Le Ali’i e, i au fe’au...”
Na soso’o lea ma le tufatufaina atu o Tusi Pasi i le fanau fa’au’u ma sa tolaulauina
i latou e le susuga Jonathan Mageo MICT a le EMS. Ina ua mae’a sa taua’aoina
fa’ailoga fa’apitoa e pei ona fa’aalia i luga, ona fa’ato’a saunoa ai lea o le sui lautogia
o le EMS e fa’afetaia le Susuga le Ta’ita’i o le sauniga sui mamalu na vala’aulia
fa’apitoa mai le Malo ma lona fa’auluuluga, ae maise le Pulega a le Falema’i tele i
Faga’alu ma le mamalu lautele ua sasao i le maota o le Atua i lea afiafi e patipatia le
fa’ai’u ma le manuia o a’oa’oga a le fanau fa’au’u a le EMS. Na fa’amae’a fo’i le afiafi
i le fa’aulaga o e pele i matua ma aiga ae maise o uo ma e masani, ma le fa’asuamalie
fo’i sa tapena i ai le EMS e fa’amalu atili ai le afiafi i malae o le Fetu o le Afiafi.
O igoa nei o i latou ua mae’a fa’au’u ia Me 20, 2012: Tyrell Eugene J. Ah Kuoi,
Alisi Mamea, Tautala Amituana’i, Christian James McCutchin, Mareko Antonia, Piliopo Mikaio, Erupi Emmanuel Autele, Roy Sae, John Fereti, Fitilagipupula Siveria
Sima, Tumua’i Nofo Fiafia, Penu Ben Satele, Miles-Lance Europa Fisher, Sinaloa
Lamosa Sokimi, Henry Tyrone Hudson 11, Pa’oivaoese Tautala, Souvenier Salanoa
Ili, Atene Tevaga, Kelemete Peni Kaio, Poyer Timoteo, Iopu Kaleopa, Tofinu’u
Olive, Vaimoe Leaoa, Marcy Fa’asi’u Tuifatu, Madonna Anastasha Lemana, Fa’ai’u
Tuiveta, Jonathan Raymond Letuli, Tuive’eve’e Afoa ma Uaealesi Karoline Malaga.
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Na faafetaia e nisi o matua o alo ma fanau ua maua avanoa e galulue ai i le
teritori o Guam le kovana sili, ona o le avanoa ma galuega ua maua e a latou
fanau e galulue tumau ai ma fesoasoani mai ai i le lumanai o aiga.
“E le maua gofie avanoa faapenei e galulue ai o tatou tagata i isi teritori o le
malo tele, lea e pei ona faamanuiaina ai i latou na auina atu i Guam i lalo o le
polokalame sa saili e le alii kovana, o le agaga faafetai lena i le kovana ma le
malo,” o le saunoaga lea a se tasi o tama o loo aofia ai ma se tasi o ona alo i le toa
25 lea ua faamaonia mai le maua o avanoa e galulue tumau ai i totonu o Guam.
O le lagona lava fo’i lea na mafai ona faaleo mai e le tina o Elena Filipo
o Nuuuli, e faafetaia ai le alii kovana ona o avanoa ua faamanuiaina ai lona
to’alua o loo malaga atu ai i le silia i le toa 30 lea na o e aooga i Guam.
O lagona fiafia o aiga o i latou sa malaga i Guam mo aoaoga na mafai ona
faaleo ina ua faalauiloa e le alii kovana i luga o lana polokalame i le faaiuga o
le vaiaso na te’a nei, se tala fiafia e faatatau i le maua ai o galuega tumau a nisi
sa malaga atu i Guam.
Saunoa Togiola Tulafono e faapea, o le vaiaso nei lea ua faamoemoe e faia
ai le faauuga mo i latou e silia i le toa 30 ia sa malaga mo aoaoga, ma ua filifilia
ai le Fofoga Fetalai o le Maota o Sui ia Savali Talavou Ale e fai ma sui o le
malo, e auai atu i lea faauuga. I le faaiuina ai ma le manuia o aoaoga faapitoa
na malaga atu i ai i latou nei, na taua ai e Togiola e faapea, e toa 25 ua maua
galuega ma kamupani i Guam, e galulue ai i galuega tumau.
“O le vaiaso nei (vaiaso na te’a nei) na amata agai atu ai i latou nei ua maua
galuega tumau i fale e nonofo ai, ina ua o ese mai i fale sa aumau ai ao faagasolo
aoaoga mo le umi e 3 masina, ma o i latou nei ua maua avanoa e faa faigaluega
ai e nisi o kamupani i totonu o Guam,” o le saunoaga lea a le alii kovana.
E lei faailoa mai e le alii kovana le tulaga o le a oo i ai le isi vaega lea e lei
maua ni galuega i le taimi nei, pe o le a toe foi mai i le atunuu, pe nonofo ai pea
i Guam mo le tau sailiina o ni a latou galuega.
E le’i atoa se lua vaiaso talu ona tuua e le au malaga le teritori ae saunoa
Togiola i luga o se tasi o ana polokalame e faapea, na pau le faafitauli lea ua
feagai ma nisi o le au malaga, o le ma’i manatu mai o fanau i matua ma aiga,
ona o nisi o i latou nei o le taimi muamua lea ua o ese atu ai ma aiga.
Peitai o le faalauiloaina mai ai e Togiola o lenei mataupu i luga o lana polokalame i le faaiuga o le vaiaso na tea nei, na mafua lea ina ia taofia ai le tele o
tala muimui o loo faasalalau e le toatele ma latou fesiligia ai le mafuaaga ua
saili ai galuega i fafo ae le saili lava i Amerika Samoa nei.
Saunoa Togiola, o i latou ia e faia le muimui i tulaga faapea, o tagata pito
sili ia ona le malamalama i fuafuaga ma gaioiga a le malo o loo fai mo le
manuia o tagata uma. “Afai ua e iloa se mea e maua ma tele ai galuega, aisea
ete faatali ai ae le alu e aumai mea ia e maua ai galuega,” o le saunoaga lea a le
alii kovana, ae le iloa poo ai o loo faatatau i ai ana saunoaga.
Na taua e le alii kovana e faapea, e le maua uma foi e le malo ni avanoa
e maua ai ni galuega mo le atunuu, aua o nisi taimi e faalagolago le malo i
pisinisi e maua mai ai isi galuega faaopoopo mo tagata, ona e tapulaa galuega
a le malo i nisi o taimi. “E le soona faasalalauina galuega a le malo, aua afai e
tele galuega e tuuina atu ae leai ni tupe e faatino ai galuega, ona tulai mai foi
lea o le isi faafitauli,” o le isi lea saunoaga a le alii kovana.
“Vaai oe lea e faia le mea lea o le muimui, fai ni mea lelei ae aua le malosi
e faatulai le muimui ma le faitio ae faatulai ni mea lelei e faa faigaluega ai ni
tagata se toa 10, ae aua le na o le faalele o faamatalaga,” o le saunoaga a le alii
kovana.
O le agaga o le malo ua mafua ai ona saili galuega i fafo, poo fea lava e maua
i ai galuega, ia mafai ona faaaoga e tautua ai aiga, nuu ma ekalesia e pei ona
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Elephant & pig tapped to
predict Euro 2012 games
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Who’s going to
win the European Championship? Time to ask
an elephant - or a pig. Poland’s answer to Paul
the Octopus - the tentacled tipster who gained
worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions - is Citta the elephant. Ukraine, however,
will probably go for an enormous beer-loving pig
- but there are big doubts about whether he can
handle the media glare.
The parade of supposedly psychic animals
comes as the two Eastern European nations gear up
to co-host the continent’s most prestigious soccer
championship from June 8 to July 1. The zoo in the
southern Polish city of Krakow settled on a temperamental 33-year-old female pachyderm from
India while Ukraine - where slices of hog fat are the
national dish - is contemplating a happier destiny
for a 2-year-old already named Psychic Pig.
The pig has a fondness for beer and fries and
grunts in pleasure when he watches matches on
television with his farmer owner, his publicist
claimed Tuesday. But he still needs some PR
training before he is presented to the public.
“We want to make sure he is calm - we don’t
want him to get scared,” said Svitlana Bovkun, a
spokeswoman for Kiev city administration.
Krakow zoo director Jozef Skotnicki said
Citta, the apparently clairvoyant elephant, was
chosen over a donkey, a parrot and another elephant after she correctly predicted that Chelsea
would win the Champions League last week - the
annual competition between Europe’s top clubs.
She made her winning pick by choosing an apple
above a blue-and-white logo for Chelsea rather
one from opponent Bayern Munich, which sports
a red, white and blue logo.
That’s the same method which will be used
the day before each of the 31 matches during
the European championship, which is held once
every four years and is being hosted by these two
ex-communist countries for the first time.
The zoo is making one exception to its predictions schedule out of concern for religious
feelings in predominantly Roman Catholic
Poland: Citta will make her prediction for the
June 8 opening game two days ahead, because
June 7 falls on the Corpus Christi holiday, Skotnicki said.
He described Citta as a sensitive mammal
brought to Europe by a German circus owner.
At one point she suffered the loss of a caretaker
and went into mourning. She has never borne offspring due to a fear of males.
“Because of her past experience, Citta is
unpredictable and overreacts, and needs a special, gentle approach,” Skotnicki said.
Less is known about the Psychic Pig due to his
protective media handlers. But if the allegedly
intuitive hog can overcome his shyness he will
be brought to a specially-built house in central
Kiev outside the Olympic Stadium, where some
of the Euro 2012 matches will be played.
Ahead of each game, he will be asked to indicate the winner by deciding whether to eat from
one of two plates of food, each marked with the
national flags of the teams playing.
No one is talking about how the co-hosts
might deal with conflicting predictions.
Paul the Octopus gained fame by predicting
eight 2010 World Cup matches correctly,
including Germany’s run to the semifinals and
Spain’s victory over the Netherlands in the final.
Paul made his predictions by opening the lid of
one of two clear plastic boxes, each containing
a mussel and bearing a team flag. He died at an
aquarium in Germany later that year.
Authorities: A ‘56-pound’
meth bust Utah’s largest
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A California man found with
more than 56 pounds of methamphetamine in his vehicle says he
was promised $500 a pound for driving the drugs to Salt Lake
City, according to court records unsealed Tuesday.
Instead, Osiel Ruvalocaba-Azpeitia could face up to life in
prison and $10 million in fines if he’s convicted on a federal distribution charge. “It is the biggest meth bust in Utah,” U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration agent Ronald Anson said Tuesday.
Ruvalocaba-Azpeitia, 24, of Anaheim, Calif., will plead not
guilty to an indictment expected shortly from a grand jury, his federal defender, Rob Hunt, said after the suspect showed up in federal court in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. U.S. Magistrate Sam Alba
ordered Ruvalocaba-Azpeitia held on a federal complaint that sheds
some light on a $5 million drug shipment investigators believe originated at a so-called Mexican super-lab. According to a DEA affidavit
unsealed in court Tuesday, Ruvalocaba-Azpeitia is a U.S. citizen and
a student in need of cash to finish his college education and pay for his
mother’s surgery. He was driving another man’s Toyota FJ Cruiser
with California license plates, and was working for a Mexican drug
lord who arranged the sale to another man in Utah.
He was stopped Sunday by a West Valley City police officer
who used a dog to sniff out the drugs packed in PVC pipes and
hidden inside the SUV’s rear quarter panels, court records say. It
was no random traffic stop. DEA agents investigating the Sinaloa
cartel were notified beforehand that the shipment was on its way,
Frank Smith, assistant special agent-in-charge for the DEA’s
Rocky Mountain region, said at a news conference Monday.
On Tuesday, Smith declined comment, saying he and case
agents were prohibited from discussing a case once it lands in
federal court. Court records refer to the defendant’s partners by
pseudonyms, but prosecutors said they are affiliated with Sinaloa,
one of Mexico’s dominant drug cartels.
The U.S. is seeking to target higher-ups who arranged for the shipment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rob Lund said. “Mexican authorities
have to cooperate on that process,” Lund said outside federal court
Tuesday. “The goal of our investigation is to move up the ladder.”
Undercover drug agents arranged to purchase the 56.5 pounds
of meth for $650,000, the Deseret News of Salt Lake City reported
from Monday’s DEA news conference. Smith said the meth was
more than 97 percent pure and was believed to have been made at
a Mexican super-lab and smuggled across the U.S. border.
Authorities say the meth had a street value of about $5 million.
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Fagatele Bay National Marine
Sanctuary Advisory Council
Meeting in Executive Office
Building on Thursday,
March 24, 2012
NOAA’s Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary will hold a public meeting of the Sanctuary
Advisory Council in the Department of Commerce (DOC) Conference Room in the Executive
Office Building (EOB) in Utulei, American Samoa. The Director of the Office of National Marine
Sanctuaries, Dan Basta, will be on island to discuss the national Campaign of Engagement.
WHAT:
Sanctuary Advisory Council Meeting
WHEN:
Thursday May 24, 2012 • 1:30PM TO 3:30PM
WHERE: Department of Commerce (DOC) Conference Room
Executive Office Building (EOB) • Utulei, American Samoa
WHO:
NOAA’s Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary
To receive more information, or to request a meeting agenda, please contact Emily Gaskin at
[email protected].
Established in 2005, the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council provides
advice and recommendations on managing and protecting the sanctuary. The council is
composed of ten government and ten non-governmental representatives. Serving in a volunteer
capacity, the council members represent a variety of local user groups, as well as the general
public.
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary embraces a fringing coral reef ecosystem contained
within an eroded volcanic crater in American Samoa. The nation’s smallest marine sanctuary at
one-quarter square mile, the sanctuary is uniquely rich in both natural resources and cultural
heritage. Hundreds of species of corals, colorful reef fish, algae and other invertebrates can be
found in the sanctuary’s warm, along with sea turtles, dolphins, sharks, giant clams and
migratory humpback whales.
NOAA’s mission is to understand and predict changes in the Earth’s environment, from the
depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and to conserve and manage our coastal and
marine resources. Visit us at http://www.noaa.gov or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/
usnoaagov.
On the Web:
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary: http://fagatelebay.noaa.gov
NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries: http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov
Page 14
Woman charged in deaths
of two Canadian tourists
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A woman
arrested in the daytime stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists near an Atlantic City casino laughed,
frowned, grimaced and repeatedly asked where her
lawyer was Tuesday as she was charged with murdering the women, one of them 80 years old.
Antoinette Pelzer stabbed the women Monday
morning as they were walking in an area where
most of the city’s casinos have their entrances and
parking garages, authorities said. Pelzer’s aunt
said she has long suffered from mental illness.
Superior Court Judge Michael Donio read from
a criminal complaint that said Pelzer, 44, stabbed
the 80-year-old woman and tried to steal her pocketbook. “When the victim would not relinquish,
the suspect stabbed her additional times,” he said,
reading from the complaint.
The judge said the older woman was stabbed in
different parts of her body with a 12-inch butcher
knife, and that the younger woman, 47, was
stabbed in her lower body, hands and shoulder
when she tried to help.
Autopsies showed the older woman died from
being knifed in the heart, while the 47-year-old
woman bled to death. The victims are not being
identified until relatives can be notified.
Donio had difficulty getting the defendant to
focus and respond to his questions. Pelzer laughed
out loud when the judge asked her whether she
had applied for a public defender.
“I done trying to find out where my public
defender’s at,” she said. “Whatever you call it,
whatever. I don’t know.”
As the judge read parts of the criminal complaint charging her with murder and robbery,
Pelzer silently shook her head “no.” At other times,
she made odd faces, frowned and narrowed her
eyes while looking at the judge and the prosecutor.
Public defender Eric Shenkus said his office
had not yet received an application to represent
Pelzer but predicted it would begin representing
her shortly. Donio set her bail at $1.5 million.
Monday’s killings took place in the heart of
Atlantic City’s new tourist district, a state-designated jurisdiction encompassing the casinos,
boardwalk and shopping districts. The district is
the centerpiece of Gov. Chris Christie’s efforts to
make the nation’s third-largest gambling market
clean and safe, and thereby more attracting to
tourists.
Authorities say Pelzer approached the women
on the sidewalk on Pacific Avenue, across the
street from Bally’s Atlantic City and a half-block
from the hospital trauma center where they were
pronounced dead. A police officer on patrol intervened when he spotted the attack, subduing Pelzer
at gunpoint.
Pelzer had been living in an Ohio shelter until
December, when her mother brought her back to
Philadelphia, said Pelzer’s aunt Nadine King, also
of Philadelphia.
Pelzer has long suffered from schizophrenia
and had been homeless since January, said King,
who said she had seen her niece out “begging for
money.” She did not know how long she had been
in Atlantic City, which has long been a magnet
for the homeless, some of whom are bused there
by welfare agencies from other counties and cities.
King said her niece, a mother of three, did not
have a criminal record. She blamed her mental illness for what happened.
Gladys Pelzer, the suspect’s mother, told
WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that the stabbings
apparently occurred while her daughter was trying
to get money to buy cigarettes.
“I feel sorry about the people she hurt all
because she wanted a cigarette. That’s what this
was all about,” she told the TV station.
In addition to murder, she is charged with
assault and weapons charges.
The killings marked the third and fourth homicides involving visitors to Atlantic City in the past
two years.
Exactly two years before the women were
attacked, a casino patron from northern New
Jersey was carjacked inside the Taj Mahal casino
parking garage and later killed. A man convicted
in that case is to be sentenced on Thursday.
In September, another casino patron, also from
northern New Jersey, was carjacked from the
same garage and later fatally shot. Three young
men are awaiting trial in that case.
Jack Allton, a Bally’s customer from Jacobus,
Pa., said the attack left him shaken but that he and
his wife, Peg, will continue to come to the resort
he has been visiting for nearly 60 years.
“It’s not a positive thing for Atlantic City’s
image, is it?” he said. “But people who come down
here all the time know there’s crime here and there
always has been. It’s a real tragedy, but it happens.”
U.S. drone kills 4
in Pakistan amid
tension with U.S.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN,
Pakistan (AP) -- A U.S. drone
fired two missiles at a compound in northwest Pakistan on
Wednesday, killing four suspected militants in an attack
that comes as Washington is
running out of patience with
Islamabad’s refusal to reopen
supply routes for NATO troops
in Afghanistan.
U.S. drone strikes have complicated negotiations over the
routes, which Pakistan closed
six months ago in retaliation for
U.S. airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghan
border. Pakistan’s parliament
demanded the strikes stop in the
wake of the attack, but the U.S.
has refused.
The latest strike took place
in Datta Khel Kalai village in
the North Waziristan tribal area,
said Pakistani intelligence officials, speaking on condition of
anonymity because they were
not authorized to talk to the
media.
Parliament also demanded an
“unconditional apology” from
the U.S. for killing its troops.
The Obama administration
has expressed regret but is not
willing to tender an apology out
of concern that it could open the
president up to attacks by Republicans angry at Pakistan’s lack of
cooperation on the Afghan war.
Despite these disagreements, Pakistan appeared close
to reopening the supply routes
last week, prompting NATO to
invite President Asif Ali Zardari
to a major summit held May
20-21 in Chicago. But negotia-
In The High Court
of American Samoa
TRIAL DIVISION
HCPR No. 15-2012
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
LUAIPOU ANNE COLLINS
BY: WILLIAM PADRAIC DAVE COLLINS
Petitioner
NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION
FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Petition for Letters
of Administration has been filed in the High
Court of American Samoa, Trial Division,
Territory of American Samoa, by WILLIAM
PADRAIC DAVE COLLINS, for the Estate of
LUAIPOU ANNE COLLINS, Decedent, who died
on March 15, 2012, in the State of Hawaii.
A hearing on the Petition will be held on June
18th, 2012, at 9:00am, or as soon thereafter as
counsel may be heard, before the Trial Division
of the High Court of American Samoa, at the
Courthouse in Fagatogo, American Samoa. All
interested parties may appear before the Court
on said date to respond to this Petition.
Dated: May 9th, 2012
Clerk of Courts
Published 05/16, 05/23, 05/30
tions have faltered on Pakistan’s
demand for much higher transit
fees, and the U.S. made its frustration clear at the summit.
President Barack Obama
refused to meet one-on-one with
Zardari and did not mention Pakistan in the list of countries he
thanked in his speech Monday
for helping get war supplies into
Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, a Senate panel
approved a foreign aid budget
for next year that slashes U.S.
assistance to Pakistan by more
than half and threatens further
reductions if it fails to open the
NATO supply routes.
Lawmakers are also frustrated by suspicions that Pakistan is aiding militants who use
its territory to attack U.S. troops
in Afghanistan - allegations
Islamabad has rejected. There is
also lingering resentment over
the fact that Osama bin Laden
was found hiding deep inside
Pakistan.
But the U.S. cannot afford to
turn its back on Pakistan entirely.
The U.S. and other NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan
shipped about 30 percent of
their non-lethal supplies through
Pakistan before the attack in
November that killed Pakistani
troops. The coalition has had to
compensate since then by using a
far more expensive path through
Russia and Central Asia.
The route through Pakistan
will become even more important as the U.S. begins to withdraw a decade’s worth of equipment in the process of pulling
out most of its combat troops
from Afghanistan by the end of
2014.
Pakistan is also seen as vital
to negotiating a peace deal with
the Afghan Taliban and their
allies given the country’s historical ties with the militants.
The Pakistani government is
also keen to repair relations with
the U.S., partly to receive over a
billion dollars in American aid it
needs to fill out its budget as it
looks ahead to national elections
scheduled for 2013. But patching
up ties is politically sensitive in
a country where anti-American
sentiment is rampant.
The issue of drone strikes
is also complicated by the fact
that some elements within the
Pakistani government and military are widely believed to have
supported the attacks in the past.
That cooperation has declined as
relations between the two countries have deteriorated, but many
analysts believe there is still
some support within Pakistan’s
senior ranks.
The U.S. refuses to discuss
the covert CIA program in detail
in public, but officials have said
in private that the strikes are a
vital anti-terror tool and have
killed many senior al-Qaida and
Taliban commanders.
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longer release any funds for the 1602 program
unless reviewed and approved by the ARRA
single point of contact, who is the ASESRO
Executive Director Pat Galeai.
Prior to this US Treasury directive, DBAS had
been drawing down and disbursing the funds for
the low income housing program without going
through ASESRO, like other ARRA grantees.
According to Utu Abe Malae, former DBAS
president, right before Lolo, in an email in Feb.
2012 to Samoa News queries about the 1602
program, all the legwork for the program was
started in 2008 just before he left, and only took
off when the ARRA funding became available
during Lolo’s time.
CONGRESSIONAL Q & A
Following the nearly three hour session
given to the gubernatorial candidates, the three
candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives were given an opportunity to answer student questions.
Vying for the job of representing American
Samoa’s interests in Washington D.C., where
the territorial delegate holds a non-voting seat in
the House as a whole, but can cast a vote in committee, were incumbent Congressman Faleomavaega Eni, and two female contenders, Aumua
Amata, and Rosie Fuala’au Tago Lancaster.
Issues surrounding Manu’a transportation,
misuse of federal funds, the citizenship status
bill, educational opportunities and “gay marriage” were brought before the candidates, who
gave thoughtful and deliberate answers, sometimes agreeing with one another in principle,
while offering different solutions to the territory’s problems and challenges.
As it often does, the plight of the people of the
Manu’a islands came up, and Rosie stated simply
that our Congressional representative must work
closely with the people of Manu’a on transportation issues, particularly with their leaders.
Faleomavaega reminded the students that
he had secured funding for the MV Sili, but he
still heard complaints because the vessel could
not be used until the harbor was dredged, which
was really a local issue. Once the harbor was able
to handle the MV Sili, it was put to use for the
people, he said, and added that the harbor must be
maintained and dredged every few years so to ease
transportation problems for the Manu’a group.
Aumua Amata referred to the many options
available to ease the burden on the people of
Manu’a, particularly in regard to transportation and health care. She referred to the Flying
Doctors of America, a non-profit group she was
instrumental in bringing to the territory, who
flew to the Manu’a Islands while they were here.
They were able to bring with them medical supplies and anesthetics which were in short supply.
She mentioned the portable defibrillators which
can be in use anywhere, because they save lives.
“It shouldn’t be that hard to save lives” she stated.
She agreed with Faleomavaega that it may be
useful to redo the budget so that Manu’a would
have separate money set aside for Manu’a’s
needs. Both Aumua and Faleomavaega said
they felt that Manu’a should hold a higher priority in the budget process.
On the question of gay marriage, which has
been highlighted recently in the national press,
the students asked the candidates, “Do you
agree or disagree with it, and why or why not?”
Faleomavaega noted that “this is a moral
issue as well as a legal issue” and under the U.S.
Constitution, you have rights as a citizen who
pays taxes. He asked, “If gay people, who are
citizens, pay taxes, why should they be denied
the right of a legal union?”
He admitted that on a personal level, he
believed that marriage should be between a man
and a woman, and caused some laughter when
he said that—after all— our first parents “were
Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”.
Aumua stated simply that “Marriage is a
union between a man and a woman” and she
noted that her views are “perhaps more conservative” than her opponents, but she firmly
opposes legalizing a union between two people
of the same gender.
Rosie echoed Aumua, stating, “I believe
that marriage should be between a man and a
woman.” She added that “how you live your
life is your choice, but the family institution,
from a Christian perspective, supports marriage
between a man and a woman.
In rebuttal, Faleomavaega stated, “You
cannot legislate morality” and reminded the
students that more than 50% of the people in
America support gay marriage. Rosie admitted
that “we have a large gay population here”
drawing a little laughter from the audience, but
she stated again, “I’m a firm believer in a man
and woman raising a family together.”
On the subject of college opportunities and
affordability, Faleomavaega said, “I cannot
over-emphasize the importance of a college
education” and likened a Bachelor’s degree to
holding a high school diploma these days.
He told the students that United States students rank 25th in the world, and “I’m sad to say
that if you are taking remedial courses after high
school, something is seriously wrong here.”
“I’ve said it many times—education is the
salvation of our people” he stated, adding that “I
want you to be prepared for the future.”
He took the opportunity to mention again the
“unique relationship we have with the United
States” and added that he was fearful that the
future destiny of our territory may be decided by
outside forces”.
He referred back to education, saying, “We
need to plan seriously ... I want you to think
better, do better than you are doing today, I want
you to be prepared for the future, and seriously
address our political future.
Aumua said she was grateful for the opportunity to talk about college, because she wants
to make it more affordable. “How do we make
college more affordable for you? I believe the
number one setback to students from AS not
being able to earn a college degree is cost. As of
Friday, ASCC became a four-year college with
the graduation of two BA degree recipients and
we salute them: Mr. Selutoga Fuiava of Manu’a
and Mrs. Tasia Talamoni of Aua.
She noted however, that “many of our students go off island to earn a degree. This classifies those students as out-of-state students, thus
driving up the cost by tens of thousands of dollars
a year. My plan is this: Washington DC students
are also considered out-of-state and DC also has
a non voting delegate to Congress. However,
D.C. colleges have an agreement with colleges
all over the country to make their students instate. This is a federal program that we should be
included in. We should partner with other States
to provide in-state tuition for our students”
“Our Delegate has just said that all students
must go to college. Although I agree with him,
it is a myth to think that everyone’s going to college because some of you may not choose to. We should stress technical jobs, culinary, waiter
or waitress, flight attendants...maybe this could
be incorporated into the high school curriculum”
Aumua said her plan would be to partner
with trade schools to train a more efficient work
force. “Schools all over the US are training
workers in the trade industries.“
We must have a governor and delegate who
are business friendly and completely supportive
of the private sector because that’s where the jobs
are. One example is a trade school in Baltimore
that educates shipbuilders. This is perfect for our
students because we are surrounded by water and
ships come here everyday. “The focus should be
on helping you find a job”, she told the students.
Rosie noted that she runs an in-house program at ASCC to help students not eligible for
the Pell Grants, and it’s based on a first come/
first serve basis. Most students who apply,
receive the assistance, she said, and they are
able to earn their tuition and their way through
school with this assistance.
She said that our local DOE needs to find
more ways to help students find tuition money
for college. In closing, she turned to the students
and wished them well, and congratulated them
and their parents for their upcoming graduation, and wished them the best in their future
endeavors.
Samoa News staff writer Teri Hunkin contributed to this story.
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WACO, Texas (AP) -- A Muslim soldier on the run for three
weeks after going AWOL from a Kentucky Army post found
no help from friends in his Dallas-area hometown, where he
hatched a plan and bought supplies to blow up a restaurant filled
with Fort Hood troops, according to testimony at his federal
trial Tuesday.
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, who was AWOL from Fort Campbell, Ky., bought pressure cookers, clocks, wires and other
bomb-making components at a Dallas-area store in the early
morning of July 26, according to surveillance footage and
receipts shown to jurors. Abdo then paid $400 for a taxi ride
to Killeen, just outside Fort Hood, arriving about 3:30 a.m. at a
motel, the cabdriver testified.
After police acting on a tip detained Abdo at the motel July
27, they say they found the items in his room and backpack.
He was stopped just hours before completing assembly of the
bomb, showing he “intended to commit mass murder,” prosecutor Gregg Sofer told jurors earlier Tuesday during opening
statements.
Abdo, 22, faces up to life in prison if convicted of attempting
to use a weapon of mass destruction and five other charges.
But lead defense attorney Zach Boyd countered in U.S. District Court in Waco that no bomb was ever built and said the
government is “not going to be able to get around that fact.”
After going AWOL, Abdo bought a gun in Nashville after
meeting the seller online, according to court testimony.
He stayed in Memphis for two weeks - paying for motel
rooms, food, cabs and bus fare with cash or gift cards so he
couldn’t be tracked, and used someone else’s ID card, according
to testimony.
FBI Special Agent C. Michael Owens testified Abdo told
him that after going AWOL, he wanted to flee the country or
go to Edinburg to seek refuge with a man who helped his father
years ago.
But when the cabdriver in Dallas could not take him to South
Texas, Abdo said, he looked at a map and recognized Killeen
because of the news reports after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
rampage in which a Muslim soldier is charged, Owens said.
“He said he wanted to give faith to brother Nidal ... and said,
‘People think he’s crazy, but he’s not crazy and I came here to
remind the people,’” Owens testified.
The reference was to Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the shootings that killed 13 and wounded more
than two dozen. Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted at
his military trial, set to start in August.
Abdo told investigators that he went to Texas to “martyr himself” for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, Owens said. Abdo
told investigators he planned to put a bomb in what looked like
a gift box, leave it a Chinese buffet frequented by Fort Hood
soldiers, wait outside and shoot any survivors after the blast.
Abdo said he expected to be killed by authorities or arrested,
Owens told jurors.
Abdo said he didn’t plan an attack inside Fort Hood because
he didn’t believe he would be able to get through security at the
gates, Owens said. But Abdo said he bought a military uniform
at a local store because it was necessary to fit into the community, Owens testified.
Killeen police began investigating Abdo on July 26 after a
gun store employee reported a young man bought 6 pounds of
smokeless gunpowder, shotgun ammunition and a magazine for
a semiautomatic pistol, while seeming to know little about his
purchases, the store manager testified Tuesday.
Officers also learned that he bought a U.S. Army uniform
and a “Smith” name patch from another store, and jurors saw
surveillance footage showing Abdo leaving the store wearing
the uniform he just bought.
Another incident raised authorities’ concern after Abdo went
AWOL. On July 4, police in Oak Grove, Ky., near Fort Campbell,
reported finding a shovel, two large containers of bleach, body
bags and a digital camera in a trash bin outside a truck stop. Oak
Grove police Sgt. Victor Lynch told jurors he found Abdo’s car
at a nearby restaurant, where a truck stop employee had reported
seeing him go after dumping the items. Lynch said he found a
cattle prod, three boxes of handcuffs, trash bags and a large body
bag carrier in the car, but Abdo was nowhere to be found.
Owens testified earlier that Abdo said he had planned to offer
a Fort Campbell soldier a ride, kill him and videotape it while
reciting the names of people he felt had been wronged by the
U.S. military - including Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old
Iraqi girl who was raped before she and her family were killed
in 2006. Five current or former U.S. soldiers went to prison, one
for a life term, for their roles in that attack.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia
denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat
young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison
sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker. But Foreign Minister Bob Carr conceded
that Indonesians saw a link between the treatment of Australian Schapelle Corby and young
Indonesians held in Australian prisons.
Corby, 34, learned in a Bali prison on Tuesday
that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had granted a five-year reduction of a
20-year sentence for her 2005 conviction for
smuggling marijuana onto the resort island. Her
lawyer said that since several other cuts to her
sentence were approved previously, she could be
freed in about three months.
The successful bid for clemency comes a
week after Australia released three young Indonesians from prison based on new evidence that
they might not be adults. Crew members of Indonesian people smuggling boats who illegally
bring asylum seekers to Australia are sent home
without punishment if they are children.
Indonesia State Secretary Sudi Silalahi said
Corby’s sentence reduction was part of a reciprocal deal in which Australia would be more
lenient toward young Indonesians arrested for
crewing asylum seeker boats.
Indonesian Minister for Justice and Human
Rights Amir Syamsuddin also said the sentence
reduction should encourage Australia to release
more young Indonesians held in prison.
“That’s how the Indonesians see it,” Carr conceded. But he denied that Australia’s decision
was part of any reciprocal agreement. “We’d be
making that decision about those minors if there
were no Schapelle Corby and indeed no Austra-
lians serving time in Indonesian jails,” he said.
“We’d be doing it because it’s unconscionable
to hold minors in adult prisons.”
He said both Corby and the incarceration
of young Indonesians in Australia were on the
agenda of a bilateral summit involving foreign
and defense ministers in Canberra in March.
He said Australia had undertaken to release
Indonesian prisoners if evidence emerged that
they were minors. “In all sincerity, they can see
the issues as being linked, but for our own part,
we would have been making the decision on
minors if there were no Australians in any Indonesian prison,” Carr said.
Corby’s lawyer, Iskandar Nawing, said Indonesian authorities agreed to reduce her sentence
because of her poor mental state. Corby’s case
has attracted intense and sustained attention in
Australia, where many people believe she is
innocent of the crime which she has consistently
denied. To be “schapelled” has emerged as Australian slang for suffering a harsh injustice.
Corby maintains she does not know how 9
pounds (4.2 kilograms) of marijuana came to be
found in her surfboard bag when it was searched
on arrival at Denpasar Airport in late 2004.
She has since published an autobiography
from prison in 2006 and has twice been hospitalized for depression in 2008 and 2009.
Corby’s mother, Rosleigh Rose, told reporters
outside her home at the Australian east coast city
of Logan on Wednesday that she would fly to
Bali in July and “will be bringing her home.”
Indonesian law expert Tim Lindsay, director
of Melbourne University’s Asian Law Center,
said the clemency decision was good news for
other Australian prisoners in Indonesia, including
two on death row for heroin trafficking.
of theiving Legos
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A Silicon Valley software executive put fake bar codes on Lego sets at various Target stores,
bought the toys at a steep discount, then sold them online for
thousands of dollars, authorities said.
Thomas Langenbach, 47, appeared in court Tuesday on four
felony counts of burglary that could net him up to five years in
prison if convicted. He did not enter a plea.
Authorities say Langenbach bought Lego sets at Target
stores but covered their original bar codes with his own barcode stickers to get a cheaper price.
Examples of his thefts included a $279 box of Millenium
Falcon Legos he bought for $49 and a $90 Anakin Skywalker
Lego set he got for $35, said Cindy Seeley Hendrickson, supervising deputy district attorney for Santa Clara County.
When police obtained a search warrant for Langenbach’s
posh home south of San Francisco, they said they found hundreds of sets of the colorful toy bricks, many of which he sold
on eBay under the name “tomsbrickyard.”
Authorities say Langenbach’s house in San Carlos also was
filled with Lego creations he had built himself. Eight baggies of
bar code stickers were found in his car, police said.
Langenbach works for German software giant SAP. His
LinkedIn profile lists him as a vice president in a Northern California division.
He was already under surveillance by Target security officers who suspected him of the scheme when they spotted him at
the chain’s Mountain View store May 8. After he completed his
purchases using the bogus bar codes, the store called police and
Langenbach was arrested, authorities said.
“This particular crime, the way it was done, the sophistication, the amount of expenditure in time and money to do it, suggests there’s something way beyond money that motivated him
to do it,” Hendrickson said.
Attempts to reach Langenbach, who is free on bail, were
unsuccessful.
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Brother exonerated A $3.4 billion Indian land
of his sister’s death royalty settlement upheld
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego judge has declared a man
innocent decades after he was charged with the 1998 killing of his
12-year-old sister.
Judge Kenneth So made a rare court-ordered finding of innocence Tuesday at the conclusion of a hearing for Michael Crowe,
which means his records will be expunged of the arrest or prosecution, according to U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/Lefw13).
Stephanie Crowe was found stabbed to death in her bedroom
at her Escondido home in 1998 and police suspected her then
14-year-old brother and two of his friends, Joshua Treadway and
Aaron Houser. Tuesday’s court-ordered finding of innocence
includes Treadway.
Lawyers said Houser was not part of the hearing but the ruling
implies his name is cleared too because all three were charged
together. The teens were charged based on statements they made
during a series of grueling interrogations, despite a lack of physical evidence that connected the teens to the crime.
Charges were dropped on the eve of the trial after blood on the
shirt of a local transient matched Stephanie’s.
Richard Tuite was found guilty in 2004, but a federal appeals
court last year overturned the conviction.
Though prosecutors often fight a plea for an innocence finding,
Crowe’s hearing was unusual because the local and state prosecutors sided with him. The evidence presented to the judge, including
40 hours of taped interrogations, was unchallenged.
Last year, the Crowe family settled a federal civil rights lawsuit
against the city of Escondido for $7.25 million.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) —
A panel of appellate judges on
Tuesday upheld a $3.4 billion settlement between the U.S. government and hundreds of thousands
of Native Americans whose land
trust royalties were mismanaged
by the Interior Department.
The ruling means that settlement checks could be mailed to
members of the class-action lawsuit within weeks, said plaintiffs’
attorney Dennis Gingold. Further
appeals would delay that disbursement, and the attorney for
the challenger, Kimberly Craven
of Boulder, Colo., said they are
considering their options.
The three-judge panel from
the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia dismissed the challenge by Craven,
who had objected that the settlement did not include an actual
accounting for how much money
the government lost and said that
the deal would overcompensate a
select few beneficiaries. But the
judges said in their ruling that the
government would be unable to
perform an accurate accounting,
the deal is fair and it is the best
that can be hoped for to avoid
years of additional litigation.
Craven’s characterization of
the settlement as taking shortcuts
“is to ignore the history of this
hard-fought litigation and the
obstacles to producing an historical accounting,” the judges said
in their ruling. The settlement is
the result of a class-action lawsuit filed in 1996 by Blackfeet
tribal member Elouise Cobell,
who died of cancer in October.
The lawsuit had originally sought
to find out how much money had
been mismanaged, squandered
or lost by the Department of the
Interior, which held the trust
money for land allotted to Native
Americans under the Dawes Act
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of 1887. “Our deepest regret is
that Ms Cobell did not live long
enough to see this victory,” Gingold said in a statement
The lack of records created a
problem in creating an accurate
accounting of who was owed what,
and the cost of creating such a
record for each beneficiary would
have cost more than what they
were actually owed. After more
than 13 years of litigation, the government and Cobell made a deal.
The agreement would pay out
$1.5 billion to two classes of beneficiaries whose numbers have
been estimated to be between
300,000 and 500,000. Each
member of the first class would
be paid $1,000. Each member of
the second class would be paid
$800 plus a share of the balance
of the settlement funds as calculated by a formula.
Another $1.9 billion would
be used by the government to
purchase fractionated land allotments from willing individuals
and turn those consolidated
allotments over to the tribe. An
education scholarship for young
Indians also would be established under the agreement.
Congress approved the deal in
December 2010 and U.S. District
Judge Thomas Hogan approved
it after a June 2011 hearing.
Hogan said that while the settlement may not be as much as
some wished, the deal provides
a way out of a legal morass and
provides some certainty for the
beneficiaries. As part of the deal,
Cobell was awarded $2 million and the three other named
plaintiffs were awarded between
$150,000 and $200,000.
Craven and others objected
and appealed the settlement,
claiming the deal creates a conflict
between the beneficiaries as some
would be overpaid while others
would be undercompensated for
their claims. Creating a lump-sum
award without an accounting creates an arbitrary payout system
without knowing who is actually
owed what, she argued.
The appellate panel quoted
Hogan in saying, “It is hard to see
how there could be a better result”
than this settlement. Few beneficiaries are likely to have substantial claims, Craven did not provide
evidence that some beneficiaries
would be underpaid and Congress’ authorization of the deal
“carries significant weight and
sets this case apart from others,”
the appellate court ruled.
Ted Frank, Craven’s attorney,
said he believes they correctly
argued the shortcomings of the
settlement. Frank is considering
his options, which could include
a request for the full appellate
court to review the decision.
“So we’re certainly disappointed, because we believed we
were correct on the law, though
we understood that we had an
uphill battle given the exhaustion
factor of a case that had already
generated 22 (now 23) published
opinions,” Frank said in an email
to The Associated Press.
US goes after ex-Mexican
governor’s Texas property
McALLEN, Texas (AP)
-- The former governor of a
Mexican state bordering Texas
accepted millions of dollars in
bribes from drug cartels and
invested the money in Texas
real estate, federal prosecutors
alleged in two forfeiture cases
filed Tuesday.
No criminal charges have
been filed against Tomas Yarrington, who served as governor of Tamaulipas state
from 1999 to 2004. But the
civil actions allege that Yarrington “acquired millions of
dollars in payments” while in
public office from drug cartels
“and from various extortion or
bribery schemes.”
Yarrington
then
used
various front men and businesses “to become a major real
estate investor through various
money laundering mechanisms,” according to documents filed in Corpus Christi.
The other forfeiture case was
filed in San Antonio.
U.S. authorities are trying to
confiscate a condominium in
South Padre Island and a 46-acre
property in San Antonio.
An attorney for Yarrington in Houston said he
was reviewing the documents
released late Tuesday and did
not immediately comment.
Yarrington also served
as the mayor of Matamoros, across the border from
Brownsville, from 1992 to
1995. Matamoros has been the
headquarters of the Gulf cartel.
The Corpus Christi case
alleges that Yarrington used a
Mexican businessman who’d
had contracts with the city of
Matamoros and Tamaulipas
to be the official buyer of the
$450,000 condominium in
South Padre Island in 1998.
The property was placed in that
man’s name to avoid detection
by law enforcement, prosecutors allege.
Yarrington paid for the
condo entirely with drug proceeds, according to the forfeiture case, and has used it since
1998.
Documents filed in the San
Antonio forfeiture case note
that the details of that transaction remain under seal, but a
statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office said the 46-acre
property also was allegedly
obtained with “illicit funds” by
Yarrington and others.
Federal prosecutors also
released Tuesday the indictment of another Mexican
businessman who allegedly
received and distributed bribes
from the Gulf cartel to Tamaulipas officials to guarantee
minimal police interference in
the cartel’s activities.
The indictment of Fernando
Alejandro Cano Martinez in
Brownsville on money laundering charges alleges that he
and “one or more unindicted coconspirators” used a $6.7 million bank loan to buy a 46-acre
property in Bexar County,
where San Antonio is located.
Cano is a builder from
Ciudad Victoria, the capital of
Tamaulipas, where his company has enjoyed government
construction contracts under a
string of PRI governors since
at least 1993. One of the last
contracts awarded to his company was in 2009, for a section
of a highway accessing land he
owned in front of the industrial
port of Altamira. A federal
auditor forced him to return 2
million pesos on that project
for stretches that were paid for
but not paved.
Cano remains at large. No
attorney was listed for him.
The indictment alleges that
Cano set up several front businesses in Texas that took out
millions of dollars in loans
from various banks that he
personally guaranteed for real
estate investments and in one
case to purchase an airplane.
And from 2007 to 2009, Cano
and others used at least 10 different bank accounts in Mexico
to move tens of millions of
pesos to a Mexican money
transmitter, which then moved
them on to several accounts in
U.S. banks, according to the
indictment.
That indictment also seeks
a $20 million forfeiture from
Cano that he had represented
as his net worth.
Yarrington was also named
earlier this year in the federal indictment of Antonio
Pena Arguelles, who was also
charged with money laundering in San Antonio. That
indictment alleged that leaders
of the Gulf and Zetas cartels
paid millions to Institutional
Revolutionary Party members,
including Yarrington.
An affidavit filed in that
case said the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration
had obtained ledgers documenting millions of dollars in
payments to Yarrington’s representatives. It accused Pena
of using U.S. bank accounts to
funnel millions to Yarrington
from leaders of the Gulf and
the Zetas. Confidential informants said the money was
to buy political influence in
Tamaulipas.
Yarrington declined to comment when contacted by The
Associated Press in February
regarding those allegations.
Mexican prosecutors said in
late January they were investigating former Tamaulipas
officials in connection with
unspecified federal crimes, a
category that includes moneylaundering and drug-related
crimes. Yarrington and two
other former governors from
the same political party Manuel Cavazos, who served
until 1999, and Eugenio Hernandez, who left office in 2010
- publicly acknowledged that
they were subjects of the probe
but denied any links to crime.
The presidential candidate
of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Enrique Pena
Nieto, is leading his two main
opponents by double digits in
opinion polls ahead of Mexico’s July 1 election. His rivals,
particularly the candidate of the
current ruling party, have tried
to dent his lead by accusing the
party of maintaining decadeslong corrupt ties to organized
crime and cited the Tamaulipas
cases as prime examples.
The accusations have failed
to make much of an impact on
Pena Nieto’s showing in polls,
however, and he is widely
expected to win.
Osiel Cardenas Guillen,
who ran the Gulf cartel while
Yarrington was in office, was
sentenced to 25 years in prison
in 2010. He was arrested by
Mexican authorities in 2003 and
extradited to the U.S. in 2007.
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Joplin remembers deadly tornado, 1 year later
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JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Carrying small American flags and
wearing T-shirts bearing the names of friends and loved ones who
died when a massive tornado tore through Joplin one year ago,
thousands of people made a somber march Tuesday through some
of the town’s hardest-hit neighborhoods.
Residents and officials are dedicated to remembering their
losses but are also committed to what is certain to be a long, slow
recovery from a tornado that killed 161 people and injured hundreds of others. The storm last May wiped away entire neighborhoods in the city of 50,000, destroyed Joplin’s only public high
school and left behind a ghastly moonscape of block after city
block of foundations wiped clean of their structures.
“It’s been a roller-coaster type year. Extremely high highs
and lots of low lows,” said Debbie Fort, the principal of Erving
Elementary School, which has been operating out of temporary
facilities. “It’s important that we take a moment to reflect and
remember,” she said. “But it’s a new chapter in our lives. This
really signifies our future, the future of Joplin.”
Signs of the challenges ahead were plentiful on the 4-mile
“Walk of Unity,” from the glaring absence of century-old trees in
the city’s central neighborhoods to the ghostly shell of St. John’s
Regional Medical Center, which formed a stark backdrop at a late
afternoon memorial service marked by a moment of silence at
5:41 pm. - the exact time the tornado hit.
“There is not a handbook out there that says, ‘Here’s how
you develop a community that has an 8-mile-long, 25 to 30 cityblock wide swath of area that has basically lost everything,’” said
David Wallace, a Texas developer whose firm was hired by the
city to oversee Joplin’s rebuilding plan. He estimated the recovery
will cost nearly $2 billion, about half of which has already been
pledged by private sources.
Throughout the day, residents, hospital workers, volunteers
and politicians gathered across the disaster zone to mark the May
22, 2011, tornado, mixing somber remembrances with steely resolutions to rebuild.
“It is so fitting to begin this day, this anniversary, by reflecting
on our faith as dawn breaks over a renewed Joplin,” Missouri Gov.
Jay Nixon said at a sunrise service at Freeman Hospital, which is
eight blocks from St. John’s but was undamaged. “Scripture tells
us that the path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.”
The afternoon procession started in neighboring Duquesne,
where more than one-fourth of the community’s 750 homes were
destroyed and nine people died. The Joplin portion of the walk
began past a Wal-Mart where three people were killed and 200
survived by huddling together in employee break rooms, bathrooms and other designated safe zones.
City officials estimated the number of people who took the
somber walk at 5,000 to 6,000. They ended at Cunningham Park,
which has been rebuilt and is across the street from what is left of
the St. John’s hospital.
The medical center hasn’t yet been torn down because it sits
atop the mining tunnels that made Joplin an early 20th century
boomtown. The hospital has been operating out of a succession
of temporary facilities while construction continues at its new
permanent location, where it will reopen under the name Mercy
Hospital Joplin. Along the route, some residents sat in lawn chairs
and beneath shade umbrellas outside their partially rebuilt homes,
offering bottled water to the walkers.
The unity walk featured several stops, including a groundbreaking ceremony for the rebuilt Joplin High. Juniors and seniors
will spend the next two years attending school in a converted
department store in the city’s sole shopping mall.
“The sound of hammers has replaced the sound of sirens,” said
C.J. Huff, Joplin’s school superintendent.
A community theater where three people died after a Sunday matinee performance will be rebuilt nearby. Those on the walk included
former co-workers of Randy Mell, a 49-year-old Jasper County custodian who died while trying to save some of the more than 50 audience and cast members trapped inside the Stained Glass Theater.
Insurance policies are expected to cover most of the $2.8 billion in damage from the storm. But taxpayers could supply about
$500 million in federal and state disaster aid, low-interest loans
and local bonds backed by higher taxes. Almost one-fifth of that
money was paid to contractors who hauled off an estimated 3 million cubic yards of debris.
In January, elected officials and other members of a 45-person
recovery committee endorsed a long-term recovery plan that calls
for the creation of four new business districts that would allow residents to live and shop nearby and a unified approach to rebuilding
that ensures new construction meets certain design standards.
In March, the city selected Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, of Sugar Land, Texas, as its “master developer” to oversee the
rebuilding plan. Wallace, the company’s chief executive officer,
said he’s secured commitments from builders who want to bring
a minor league baseball stadium, a convention center and a public
performing arts center to the city near the borders of Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Kansas. One interested developer is a group led by
former Dallas Cowboys star Emmitt Smith that envisions transforming Joplin’s Main Street business corridor into a mixed-use
neighborhood with high-end lofts built atop retail space.
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Ashes of a ‘Star
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- James Doohan, Scotty from “Star
Trek,” spent his acting career whizzing through the cosmos.
Gordon Cooper was one of America’s famous Mercury seven
astronauts. And Bob Shrake spent his work life anonymously
helping send NASA’s high-tech spacecraft to other planets.
Now the three men who made space their lives are also
making space their final resting place.
Their ashes - and those of about 300 others - were aboard
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that blasted into orbit Tuesday as part
of an in-space for-profit burial business.
Shrake was an engineer who designed spaceship control
instruments for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif.
After he died in 2007, his family decided that space would be a
nice place to send some of his ashes so they spent a few thousand dollars to launch them in space with the Texas-based firm
Celestis Inc. His daughter, Robin Smith of Grapevine, Texas,
got up very early Tuesday to watch the pre-dawn launch, and
said it was fitting.
“I thought wow, he was actually up in the sky, in the place
where his work is being used,” Smith said by telephone.
The ashes were in a special container, which SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed Tuesday was in the second
stage of the Falcon rocket. That section of the rocket was jettisoned about 10 minutes after launching a capsule full of supplies
for the International Space Station. It will remain in orbit for
about a year then burn up as it returns to Earth.
You don’t have to be in the space business to have your ashes
deposited in orbit, but you do have to have nearly $3,000. Some of
what Celestis calls “participants” in this flight, which the company
called its “new frontier” mission, have no connection to space.
Some people’s ashes that flew Tuesday, including those
of Doohan and Cooper, were also on a botched 2008 SpaceX
launch that didn’t get the remains into orbit and dropped into the
Pacific Ocean. This is a makeup flight for them.
Others whose ashes have flown previously include “Star
Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and his actress-wife Majel
Barrett, who was in the series.
Smith said her father - ever the frugal engineer - might have
thought this a waste of money, but his family is glad they did
it: “Most of his career dealt with outer space and orbit and now
he’s in it.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney swept the Kentucky
and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries Tuesday,
inching closer to the GOP nomination he is certain to win.
With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts
governor easily won both contests. He won all 42 delegates at
stake in Kentucky and at least 31 of the 33 delegates at stake
in Arkansas.
Two delegates were still undecided in Arkansas.
Romney has 1,065 delegates, leaving him just 79 shy of the
1,144 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination for president. He should reach the threshold next week, when voters go
to the polls in Texas.
Assured of the party nod, Romney has been in general election mode for weeks. He’s been spending much of his time fundraising and focusing on Democratic President Barack Obama.
As voters in the two Southern states weighed in, Romney
spent Tuesday evening at a fundraising event in New York
where his campaign said he raised $5 million. Romney’s campaign has raised roughly $15 million during a three-day fundraising swing in the New York area.
He is scheduled to make a campaign appearance Wednesday
in Washington.
Romney had struggled in some previous Southern contests,
when former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich were in the race. With them on
the sidelines, Romney displayed solid support in two states he
should win in November.
Even though they have left the race, Santorum, Gingrich
and Texas Rep. Ron Paul were on the ballot in Kentucky and
Arkansas.
Texas, which offers 152 delegates, votes May 29.
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Samoa Tuna Processors, Inc.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Engineering Planner
Samoa Tuna Processors, Inc. in Atu’u currently have a vacancy in
the Engineering Department for an Engineering Planner.
Minimum and desirable qualification for successful candidate
include:
• Prefer a college graduate or training in drafting,
engineering or relevant field, at a minimum-a high
school diploma or equivalent (GED).
• Prefer six months to one year of relevant experience.
• Competent in the use of AutoCad, Microsoft Projects,
Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Ability to effectively understand, speak, read and write
English required. Effective Samoan communications
ability advantageous.
• Good employment and attendance record.
Compensation commensurate with qualifications. For
consideration, bring or send a copy of your resume including,
relevant certifications, references and application by May 31st,
2012 to (applications may be obtained at):
Samoa Mauga - Personnel Manager
P.O Box 957
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
Ph: (684) 644-5272/Ext. 349
Fax: 644-2290
Email: [email protected]
“An Equal Opportunity Employer”
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Fish Quality Inspector/Monitors
Trimarine has an immediate opening for two (2) Fish Quality
Inspectors/Monitors whose responsibilities include monitoring and
documentation of fish unloading, transshipping and processing.
Successful candidates’ required and desirable qualifications include:
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High school graduate or equivalent desirable.
Relevant work experience required.
Able to communicate clearly in English both verbally and in
writing is required.
Able to generate and submit reports of basic information is
required.
Competency in use of PC office software preferred.
Able to maintain a positive relationship with fish suppliers,
customers and staff.
Knowledgeable of fish species, weight and quality standards
and procedures highly desirable.
Competitive compensation commensurate with qualifications.
Qualified former Samoa Packing employees are welcome to apply.
For consideration, bring or send a copy of your resume including,
relevant certifications, references, ASG Immigration clearances (not
required for US Nationals, US Citizens or AS permanent residents)
and application by May 25, 2012 to (applications may be obtained
at):
Attn: Samoa Mauga - Personnel Manager
P.O. Box 957
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
Ph: (684) 644-5272/Ext. 349 / Fax: 644-2290
E-Mail: mailto:[email protected]
“An Equal Opportunity Employer”
O nai ‘tamaitai’ po o sui tauva i le tauvaga a le Miss Flowers lea na faia i tafatafa o le ta’elega a le
faletalimalo o le Tradewinds i le afiafi o le Aso To’ona’i na se’i mavae atu nei. E to’avalu i latou sa tausinio
mo lenei pale ma ua manumalo ai le Tausala o le Avapui, o Tai lea na lagolagoina lana taumafaiga e
Bertah & Don/Celia & Pa’i. O lenei tauvaga sa tu’ufa’atasia e le Penina Tausala aua se sa’iliga seleni e
[ata: L.A. Frost]
fesoasoani i se latou malaga ua fa’amoemoe mo Kolea i se vaitaimi o lata mai.
AP News Break: North Korea
upgrading rocket launch site
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Satellite imagery
shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch
site in the secretive country’s northeast to handle
larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and
intercontinental missiles, a U.S. institute claimed
Tuesday. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
said the upgrade of the Musudan-ri site began last
summer and reflects North Korean determination
to expand its rocket program. The U.S. and other
nations are worried such rockets could be developed to deliver nuclear weapons.
North Korea on Tuesday vowed to push ahead
with its nuclear program because of what it called
U.S. hostility. The international community is
pressuring North Korea to refrain from conducting
what would be its third nuclear test, following a
failed attempt in mid-April to launch a satellite into
space. That launch, using its biggest rocket to date,
the Unha-3, was from a more sophisticated site at
Sohae on the country’s northwestern coast.
An April 29 aerial image of Musudan-ri on
the opposite coast shows the initial stages of construction of a launch pad and rocket assembly
building that could support rockets at least as big
as the Unha-3, the institute told The Associated
Press. A crane is visible where the launch pad is
being built 1.1 miles from the old one. At the current pace of construction, the facilities should be
operational by 2016-2017, the institute said.
“This major upgrade program, designed to
enable Musudan-ri to launch bigger and better
rockets far into the future, represents both a significant resource commitment and an important
sign of North Korea’s determination,” said Joel
Wit, editor of the institute’s website, 38 North.
The institute says the assembly building shows
similarities to one at the Semnan launch complex
in Iran, which has a long history of missile cooperation with North Korea. But, officials there say
it’s premature to conclude the two nations cooperated in designing the new facility.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service
said Tuesday it cannot comment on whether it
has detected any new activity at the Musudan-ri
launch site. The upgrade could be of particular
concern to Japan, as rockets launched from the
site in the past have flown east over that country.
The flight path from Sohae heads south over the
Pacific Ocean in the direction of Southeast Asia,
avoiding Japan and South Korea.
The April rocket launch drew U.N. Security
Council condemnation, as the launch violated
an existing ban. Similar technology is used for
ballistic missiles. The North, however, is not
believed to have mastered how to wed a nuclear
device to a missile.
The top U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn
Davies, who is meeting this week with counterparts from Japan, South Korea and China, warned
Monday that the North conducting an atomic test
would unify the world in seeking swift, tough
punishment. Both of its previous nuclear tests, in
2006 and 2009, followed rocket launches.
A separate analysis of satellite images of a site
that North Korea has used for its nuclear tests suggests it has ramped up work there over the past
month. James Hardy, IHS Jane’s Asia-Pacific
specialist, said in a statement that there has been
heightened activity at the northeastern Punggyeri site, including mining carts, excavation equipment and a large amount of debris taken from
inside a tunnel and piled around its entrance. The
most recent image was from May 9.
In its statement Tuesday, in which North
Korea vowed to push ahead with its nuclear program, it made no direct threat of a nuclear test
and said it was open to dialogue. An analyst, Koh
Yu-hwan at Seoul’s Dongguk University, said
the statement, from the North’s Foreign Ministry,
was a message that “the U.S. should come to the
dialogue table (with North Korea) if it wants to
stop its nuclear test.”
The 2006 and 2009 long-range rocket launches
that preceded the North’s previous nuclear tests were
from Musudan-ri. Citing earlier satellite imagery of
the site, the U.S.-Korea Institute said land-clearing
for the new facilities there began in the fall, and
work has proceeded at a fast pace for eight months.
The latest image, from a commercially operated satellite, shows four concrete footings on
one side of the launch pad that appear to be for
a gantry that would prop up a rocket at launch. It
has bigger dimensions than the gantry at the more
sophisticated launch site at Sohae.
On another side of the launch pad there is a
deep “flame trench” to capture the blast from a
launched rocket. Slightly further away, on either
side of the launch pad, are two separate buildings
designed to enclose the fuel and oxidizer tanks
that would funnel propellant into the rocket.
Satellite imagery also shows that about 70
homes, five larger buildings and many sheds in
the nearby village of Taepodong have been razed
and foundations laid for a large T-shaped structure that appears intended for assembling rockets.
A road is under construction that would lead from
this building to the launch site, 1.2 miles away.
The building’s dimensions are larger than
at the comparable structure at Sohae, and the
existing one at Musudan-ri, the institute said.
A State Department spokesperson declined
to comment on the institute’s findings Tuesday,
describing it as an intelligence matter.
The CBO warns of US
falling off ‘fiscal cliff’
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new government study released
Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a
scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would
probably throw the economy into a recession.
The Congressional Budget Office report says that the
economy would shrink by 1.3 percent in the first half of next
year if the government is allowed to fall off this so-called “fiscal
cliff” on Jan. 1 - and that the higher tax rates and more than $100
billion in automatic cuts to the Pentagon and domestic agencies
are kept in place.
There’s common agreement that lawmakers will act either
late this year or early next year to head off the dramatic shift
in the government’s financial situation. But if they were left in
place, CBO says it would wring hundreds of billions of dollars
from the budget deficit that would “represent an additional drag
on the weak economic expansion.”
CBO projected that the economy would contract by 1.3 percent in the first half of 2013, which would meet the traditional
definition of a recession, which is when the economy shrinks for
two consecutive quarters.
“Such a contraction in output in the first half of 2013 would
probably be judged to be a recession,” CBO said.
The economy would rebound at a 2.3 percent growth rate in
the second half of the year, however, under CBO projections.
At issue is the full expiration of two rounds of major tax
cuts enacted during the Bush administration and automatic
spending cuts on the Pentagon and domestic programs that are
scheduled to take effect as punishment for the failure of last
year’s deficit “supercommittee” to produce a deficit-cutting
agreement last year.
Last summer’s debt and budget agreement imposed almost
$1 trillion in cuts to agency budgets over the coming decade and
required automatic cuts - dubbed a sequester in Washingtonspeak - of another $1 trillion or so over the coming decade.
The CBO study came as Capitol Hill is hopelessly gridlocked
over spending and taxes in advance of the fall elections. The
White House and top Democrats like Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid of Nevada say they will refuse to act on the expiring
tax cuts and automatic spending cuts unless Republicans show
greater flexibility on raising taxes.
“If Republicans want to walk away from the bipartisan
spending cuts agreed to last August, they will have to work with
Democrats to replace them with a balanced deficit reduction
package that asks millionaires to pay their fair share,” Reid said
in a statement.
Republicans are pressing to deal with the problem now. But
they’re not showing any more flexibility on tax increases.
“You can call this a fiscal cliff. You can call it Taxmageddon
as others have done,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. “Whatever
you call it, it will be a disaster for the middle class. And it will
be a disaster for the small businesses that will be the engine of
our economic recovery.”
The results of the elections will have a lot to do with the
ultimate solution, but several top lawmakers predict the current
Congress will punt the issue into 2013 for the newly-elected
Congress and whoever occupies the White House to deal with.
“CBO observes that simply extending all of our current tax
and spending policies will produce unsustainable deficits and
debt, which will also send the economy into decline,” said Rep.
Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the top Democrat on the Budget Committee. “We need to act and we must do so in a balanced way.”
CBO is the respected nonpartisan agency of Congress
that produces economic analysis and estimates of the cost of
legislation.
Pictured are students from Leone High School, waiting their turn to sing last Saturday at the
‘Choir Concert’ fundraiser for the American Samoa All Star Football Team that will be playing in
the 2012 International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Under 19 World Championships
representing the Oceania Region, from June 30-July 7 2012 at Burger Stadium in Austin, Texas.
[photo: Jeff Hayner]
The team is scheduled to depart the territory on June 21. AMERICAN SAMOA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ASCC PLACEMENT EXAMINATIONS
FOR SUMMER SEMESTER 2012
American Samoa Community College will offer the ASCC Placement Examination for all
interested individuals wishing to enroll in courses at the Community College summer semester
2012 at 9:00 a.m. and l:00 p.m. on May 31 and June 1, 2011. Fee is $10.00.
Report to the ASCC Office of Admissions and Records on or before May 31 or June 1, 2012
with the following documents in order to apply for admission to ASCC.
1. All applicants are required to submit the following:
a. Social Security card (if available)
b. Passport
c. Note: If a passport is not available, provide
A birth certificate and American Samoa identification card
2. Applicants under the age of 18 must submit any ONE of the following in addition to
number 1 above:
a High School diploma or General Education Diploma
b. Secondary School Certificate if entering from The British System
3. Non-U.S. Citizens/Nationals must also provide (in addition to number 1 above)
a. Alien Registration identification card from the American Samoa Government
Immigration Office (must have one) and Immigration Board authorization
document (letter) to attend ASCC.
After you have been admitted, you will go to the ASCC Business Office and pay the required
$10.00 placement test fee. Keep your receipt and bring it to the Testing Room and present it
to the Testing Officials. BRING TWO NO. 2 PENCILS.
If you have taken the SAT, your scores may be substituted for the ASCC Placement
Examinations. Your TOEFL score may be used for your English Placement; however, you will
need to take the Math Placement Examination.
STUDENTS MUST PAY A $35.00. REGISTRATION FEE BEFORE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO
REGISTER
Students with disabilities who need assistance in taking the examinations should contact the
Admissions and Records Office at least 3 weeks prior to registration.
If you have any questions, please call the Admissions & Records Office at 699 9156, ex 411,
412 or 316 If you are a veteran or a veteran’s dependent, please contact Mrs. Fualaau
Lancaster, ex. 426.
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