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...Northern Mariana Islands has had its share of developmental problems with the garment industry. But we have worked to resolve them and enable the much maligned industry to enjoy relative stability over the past several years. For the U.S. Interior Department to threaten a federal takeover of immigration and labor controls because the N.M.I. does not necessarily agree with its warped findings is no reason to believe federalization will be a magic cure for developmental problems. Our people are guaranteed the right to self-government, including the right to "progressive economic self-sufficiency." The U.S. aims to force a Puerto...
...dress made its first appearance in cyberspace. On Jan. 21, Matt Drudge reported on his Internet Drudge Report that Linda Tripp had told investigators Lewinsky allegedly confided she "kept a garment with Clinton's dried semen on it--a garment she allegedly said she would never wash." Drudge declines to characterize his sources. But he says his initial report was "very valid," and he stands by his account that the dress exists. "I know it to be a black cocktail dress," Drudge says...
...largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a chain east of the Philippines. And, yes, it has been a U.S. territory since the end of World War II. Li Li is one of 40,000 foreign contract workers, mostly from China, Bangladesh and the Philippines, shipped in to service a garment industry that exploits Saipan's exemption from a number of American labor and immigration controls. This allows the garment factories, most run by Chinese or South Korean firms, to pay foreign laborers substantially less than the minimum wage but still export nearly $1 billion worth of clothes annually to American...
Terrified of losing its lucrative garment industry, the local government has been lobbying hard in Republican circles to invoke the spirit of free trade to help fight off a federal takeover. In the past year more than 90 members of the House of Representatives, their family members and aides have been flown to Saipan free of charge on inspection visits that include time on the golf courses and coral reefs for which the island is famous. A new Governor, Pedro Tenorio, was inaugurated last week, pledging to reduce the tensions with Washington. "It is in our best interest...
...Represents the garment of grace and purity...