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Rabu Umanis, 23 Maret 1994 NEWS MAKER Bali Post/064 i-ramai menandai dimulainya rtangkap hat Dua pelaku pencurian terse- ada but, menurut Kapolres Lobar, ta- pernah terlibat kejahatan sebe Der lumnya. "Mereka mengaku per- pu- nah membobol toko emas," kata Ean, Abdurrahman. Selain mencuri di eng- toko emas SJ, dia mengakui pula ilik pernah membobol toko emas Jwt, tetapi tidak memperoleh hasil pat yang banyak karena sistem kan pengamanan yang cukup baik. ang ala- Kapolsek mangatakan, sebe- ada lumnya dia tidak curiga sama se- aka kali kepada DA sebagai pelaku uri- pencurian. Selain di bawah umur te- juga sering terlihat lalu-lalang di ami Cakranegara dengan tingkah ang yang tidak mencurigakan. Ka- mya rena itu, masyarakat umum di- ku- harapkan untuk lebih berhati- Der hati serta aktif dalam mencipta- wa," kan keamanan diri maupun lingkungan. (060) Minimum mya kesejahteraannya. pu Menurut dia, tuntutan pe- ah kerja di Lombok Barat masih da- Se lam tarap wajar-wajar saja dan be- tidak mengada-ada jika diban- ha dingkan dengan tuntutan tenaga ati kerja di Jawa. Ini membutuhkan u- kesadaran dari para pengusaha. Cap Misalnya dalam membentuk san unit-unit kerja SPSI. Hingga agi saat ini, jumlah unit kerja SPSI ril di beberapa perusahaan dan ka- eti- wasan mencapai ratusan, me- jar ningkat dari tahun 1990 yang ha- an nya 60 perusahaan di Lombok Barat. Jika pengusaha punya wadah, un- sudah selayaknya pekerja pun an- punya wadah untuk menunjuk- ah kan adanya keharmonisan da- ia, lam menjalankan hubungan in- te- dustrial pancasila, cetus Frits. kan (057) an 50 TKI na- kan surat jalan kepada pihak adi berwajib di pelabuhan Padang- aja bai," ungkap Kapolres Hadi Sut- an jipto sembari menyebutkan da- sat lam surat jalan yang dikeluar- um kan Camat Praya itu konon ka- ketiga TKI yang dipimpin ah Harpan asal Meteng Praya ini a. ap akan bekerja di Batam bersama 8 orang pengikutnya. Kecurigaan petugas di Pela- ng-buhan Padangbai semakin kuat, ang ketika sebagian dari kelompok gah pemuda yang berpenampilan ala ng- kadarnya itu ada yang mengaku ay- sebagai rombongan transmigrasi min mandiri. Jumlah mereka ber- ng- tambah sebanyak 17 orang. Sete- an lah diadakan eriksaan ketat, ha- jumlahnya menjadi 50 orang. uk- (044) xan KPR a- terbukti dengan banyaknya per me- mintaan dari masyarakat. at, "Besarnya angsuran setiap ni bulan bervariasi, tergantung nit dari uang muka yang diserahkan ek- konsumen," katanya. Pada Pe- an lita VI di seluruh Indonesia akan ah dibangun sebanyak 600 ribu unit ah rumah meliputi 480 ribu rumah ma, sangat sederhana (RSS) tipe 21 an dan sebanyak 120 ribu unit ru an-mah sederhana tipe 21 ke bawah. Azim mengatakan, kerja sama an BPD NTB dengan BTN untuk an menyalurkan KPR akan dilaksa- runakan sampai dengan Repelita eta VI mendatang. Kerja sama dila- pi. kukan untuk memenuhi kebu ra- tuhan perumahan rakyat yang la- terus meningkat setiap tahun. ini (064) an ABK m. Sape Labuhan Bajo dimaksud- an kan untuk membantu nakhoda. da Mualim satu KMP Komodo kebe- Ka- tulan sakit, sehingga untuk an mengantisipasi lebaran perlu se ogera ditanggulangi. Ditanya ten satang kewenangan kepala cabang is melakukan mutasi kepada na at khoda, ia membenarkan mutasi a. nakhoda dilakukan oleh pusat ak atas usul cabang. Namun jika da ya lam keadaan mendesak, cabang DP berhak melakukan mutasi Ku sementara. ka- ang Dia menyayangkan komentar g. Kepala Cabang Pelabuhan tu, ASDP Lembar, Bakarono Na- an wawi yang dinilainya turut ha membeberkan masalah intern perusahaan kepada wartawan. Can (064) Figure Skater Tonya Harding. Helps Plan Attack On Nancy Kerrigan FIGURE skater Tonya Harding helped plan the attack on Nancy Kerrigan and even used training money given her by U.S. Figure Skating Association to try and cripple her rival, a grand jury report said Monday. The comments came in a nine-page indictment of Harding's former bodyguard and two others for the clubbing of Kerrigan last January 6 which forced her out of the U.S. National Figure skating Championships. The grand jury said Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly planned the attack. Since both have struck plea bargains, they cannot be subjected to further charges. Harding last week pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution of the case and was ordered to pay $160,000 in financial penal- ties. Her lawyers reiterated Monday that Harding "categorically denies prior knowledge of, or participation in, the assault on Nancy Kerrigan." Former Harding bodyguard Shawn Eckardt, 26, and Eckardt's associates Shane 22, and Derrick Smith, 29, were indicted on Oregon state charges, including racketeering, assault and con- spiracy to commit assault. The Multnomah County grand jury's indictment said Harding and Gillooly plotted with the three defendan on December 28 "to unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly cause physical injury to Nancy Kerrigan." The indictment alleges that money intended to pay Harding's training costs went instead to pay the expenses of Stant, who has admitted smashing Kerrigan in the leg with a metal club, and Smith, when the getaway car. Kerrigan recovered from the injury and went on to win the silver medal in last month's winter Olympics, where Harding finished eighth. The indictment by the grand jury, which investigated the case for more than two man this that Gillooly, Harding and the three defendants devised they would hire Eckardt and the others as bodyguard. He and Stant's attorney said their lawyers said the decision by prosecutors to implicate the figure skater heailed at trial. Gil- looly's plea bargain (Reuter) Japan Budget Debate Forced Tokyo- Japan's ruling coalition was expected to force open parlia- mentary debate on the 1994/95 state budget on Wednesday after money-and-mobsters scandal. "We are prepared to go it alone," a ruling coalition party of ficial said of the budget debate. The opposition boycot have de- Rabu Umanis, 23 Maret 1994 Bali Post Clinton Sends Patriots To South Korea Washington- The United States decided Monday to deploy Patriot defensive missiles in South Korea and revived plans for war games on the peninsula as the dispute on North Korea's nuclear programme escalated a notch. President Clinton told repor- ters in Florida he had agreed to a WHITE HOUSE South Korean request to send the missiles as a defensive measure in light of rising tensions with North Korea. "We have agreed that it is in our national interest they we engaged with the Patriot deploy- ment," Clinton said on the day the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) referred the nuc- lear issue the United Nations Se- curity Council. CIA Director James Woolsey said S. Korea intelligence servi- ces were conviced North Korea has diverted enough material to build at least one nuclear bomb. "Our best estimate in the intel- ligence community is that they have diverted material, more li- kely than not, to manufacture at least one weapon, "Woolsey said. There are some disagree- ments. But... the weight of opi- nion in the intelligence commu- nity is that they have reprocessed enough material to make at least one weapon," he said on the Pub- lic Broadcasting S "MacNeil/ Lehrer Newshour." Patriots Be Sent By Ship The Pentagon said the Pa- triots will be sent by ship. It did not say how many weapons were included, but it would involve a battalion stationed at Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas. A Patriot battalion normally has between 650 and 800 soldiers assigned to it and has three to six batteries, with eight launchers in each. A launcher carries four missiles. WASHI U.S. President Bill Clinton Officials in South Korea missi- les would be deployed at key sites around Seoul, which stands ba- rely 30 miles (48 km) from the border with heavily armed North Korea and is highly vulnerable to missile attack. South Korea also announced it would resume preparations for joint military exercises United States. As tensions rose, Clinton sent a letter to South Korean Pre- sident Kim Young-sam saying the United States was committed to protecting the South against aggression from the North. Both the dispatch of the Pa- triots and the revival of the war game were expected after a rene- wed threat from North Korea to drop out of a global nuclear non- proliferation pact. Tensions seemed to have eased last month after North Korea English Corner agreed to allow IAEA inspectors to examine seven nuclear sites where Western intelligence ex- perts belierth has developed at least one nuclear bomb and pos- sibly more. But the inspectors were denied access to some of the most sensi- tive facilities, prompting the can- cellation last week of high-level talks between the United States and North Korea and the North- South negotiations aimed at ea- sing relations on the peninsula. The isolated and increasingly defiant North denounced the United States and threatened to pull out of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty again Mon- day, saying that "this perfidious act of the United State ating a grave situation on the Korean Pe- ninsula, which may bring the Ko- rean nation back to the phase of confrontation and war." Secretary of State Warren Christopher told reporters than diplomatic action to bring inter- national pressure to bear on North Korea would now move to "We're going to be proceeding very deliverately and prudently in this situation. The emphasis will be on proceeding in a very ca- reful and deliberate way," he said. The United States wants the support of key Asian allies to en- sure that China does not impede any U.N. action, United States also sees the Stalinist leadership of North Korea as erratic and un- predictable. It wants to avoid acts that might provoke the North into rash military moves. (Reuter) Hearing Cancelled Amid Whitewater Furore Washington- The chairman of the House of Representatives Banking Com- mittee Monday called off a hea- ring Thursday that had been sha- ping up as a partisan battle- ground on the whitewater affair. At the same time, chairman Henry Gonzalez suggested that a separate select committee be set up to investigate the affair. House Democratic leader one week-old opposition boycott, layed the budget which was sub- meanwhile were to meet Repub- mitted in mid-February. coalition party officials said on Tuesday. Normally, it is presented to The opposition bloc, an un- parliament in early January to wieldy alliance between the con- allow time for the assembly to di- servative Liberal Democratic scuss it before the April start of Party (LDP) and the Commu- the fiscal year. deman- To tide over the new fiscal lican leaders on Tuesday and De- mocratic aide said an accord on a resolution calling for Whitewater hearings was possible. nup of savings and loan institu- tions to probe the Whitewater affair. In a letter to Banking Commit- tee senior Republican Jim Leach of Iowa said he was putting off BEH MARA IBI SRODATE ADAYA AKIDANG NGODOG TADEN) DI BANDAR, DANI BUIN-NE NGADANG TADEN, WA...?! NAH YEN SOBA IA ADA UPACARA SING KENKEN! KADONG LIUNANG NGETOHIN! TADEN-SING...! TABUH RAH? DUMAH NANG, EBLONG ANAK NGODALIN) TUGU, ADAANGA TUAH TLUNG SEET! DAGANG NASI HALAMAN 5 W. SACHA 94 Generation Gap In Village Religion IT was already dark, in the vil- neighborhood), knew this was co- lage of abian Gombal, and the ming, and he had prepared his twelve odd men, all dressed in ce- line: "We all know what holding a remonial temple attire, a white cockfighting is the easiest way to shirt, yellow saput and white raise the money, and I indeed udeng head-dress, were gathered agree," he said while looking in the small public hall of the around to judge the effect of his temple, to discuss one or other of speech", but we have been doing the aspects of the temple festival it for ten years now in the "je- underway. The air was heavy, roan" (inner core of the temple") with the scent of trampled of offe- to avoid the police, and to this, I rings hovering around, a remin- object. Aren't we supposed to der of the late afternoon prayers, know already, from the many lec- when all the faithful had come to tures we have had in this very vil- pay their respects for the visiting lage, that the "jeroan" (inner core god and ask for his holy water, of the temple), as "utama man- "the water from the feet of the dala" (heigher part) is attributed gods", as the Balinese put it. to the gods, and thus, should be Now, even the sound of the ga- used for ceremonies addressed to the material public in a state- melan was gone, and there re- the gods only? Therefore, only re- mained only the low-pitched talk ligious cockfightings should take ment to the House. of the small group of men, consis- place there, with the offering on ting of the Kelian-s (head-men) of no more than three cocks, wit- the neighborhoods of Abian Gom- hout any gambling. That is why I village head. Pan Gobler, as fa- hting to the "jaban pura" (lower bal and of bendesa (customray) suggest we move our cockflig- mus for his fighting cocks as for yard of the temple), as part of the his frank talk. The meeting had "nista mandala" (lower impure) reached the topic of money: "We of the temple. need to raise funds for comple- ting the payment of the restora- tion of the temple we have had for this festival, Gobler was arguing "With the ten percent we get from the cockfighting, we should be able to raise the needed amount." Gonzalez was the second pro- minent House Democrat to sug- gest Whitewater hearings by Lee Hamilton of Indiana, chairman the hearing "until such a time as of the Foreign Affairs you can calmly and dispassiona- Committee. tely comply" with its rules. Gonzalez accused Leach of an "obdurate and obstinate refusal" to honour Fiske's request that Congress not trespass on the spe- cial counsel's investigation. Gonzalez's Letter To Foley In a separate letter to House Speaker Thomas Foley, Gonzalez Whitewater is proving a conti- recommended that House lea- nuing embarrassment to Presi- ders draft and endorse a resolu- porters' questions about a related Whitewater. controversy in a Florida speech on health care. Democrate Republican A Democratic aide said De- mocrats were approaching a meeting with Republican leaders Tuesday with an "open mind" on Republican calls for a Whitewa- ter resolution. He said it was possible there would be an accord on aution cal- ling for hearings. were "But you know that is impos- sible, Gobler replied," The police is always on the look out for transgressors. It is impossible to argument: the Balinese religion anyway, constantly adapting in of today needs money, and it is accordance with the "desa, kala, the village community which ma- patra" relativity (place, time and kes the decision of how to raise it, circumstances), -- but by what and there is no surer way to do ought to be. Often supported by this than through gambling. But itinerant preachers of the Coun- Kencrut knew this argument was cil of Hindu Affairs (Parisadha coming too, and he had prepared Hindu Dharma), they are bringin his move: he had an ally. He pin- down to the village level all the ched Drs Dewa Putu, who was teachings of modern Hinduism, sitting beside him, and it is the both in terms of rituals, and in latter who carried on: "You are terms of theology. In terms of ri- right to insist on our need to raise tuals, they insist, for example, on money, Pan Gobler, but did our the "right" understanding and ancestors, when they built our implementation of the "cosmolo- temple 7 centuries ago, built it gical" aspects of religious gestu- with the proceeds of cockfighting. res and offerings no mix-up bet- No," he looked around with a ween the godly and the demonic smile", they built it with the ear- is to be allowed as above; or they nings from their work. So, don't support the abolition of status- tell us we cannot pay 3000 per fa- heavy rights or prohibitions; at mily for the needs of the temple!!! the level of theology, they wil in- "A murmur of approval passed sist on the monotheist Sang along the small group of men. Hyang Widdhi (God) and push to tioned one is derived from a ge- hunan deities and ancestral gods nuine event -- are common in mo- of the tradition. Some will even dern Bali: young university gra- go farther: bring to the village not duates, not educated at the only Indian religious literature village level, through the old me- (Purana, Baghavad Gita, Weda) diums of wayang and village en- or Indian revivalist though of the counters, are little by little "ta- nineteenth century, but even the sects of modern India: Sai Baba. Such scenes the above men- the background the various Sesu- king power" inside the ancient pretend that a cockfighting that structures of the desa adat (tradi- The Balinese villages are a la- takes place in the "jaban pura" tional village community). They boratory of religious revival. We (lower yard) is of a religious na- are less concerned by what has are now seeing only the begin- Drs Wayan Kencrut, the new Ke- ture. And we need the money." been, i.e. the old local village ning of it. (Nyoman Sudana). lian of Banjar Kaja (the northern And he stopped, having made his tradition, often unwritten, and ding that Prime Minister Mori- year the Finance Ministry said it dent Clinton, who dismissed re- tion calling for hearings on threatening to use a procedural More Japanese Seen Going Abroad But Spending Less hiro Hosokawa clear up doubts would draft a 50-day stop-gap about a personal loan from a truc- budget, expected to top 10 trillion king company at the heart of a yen ($94.3 billion). (Reuter). Ball Post/Reuter STEVEN SPIEL BERG - Steven Spielberg proudly displays his first Oscars breaking his legendary jinx as his holocaust epic "Schindler's List" swept the Academy Awards March 21. Spielberg won Best Picture and Best Director and the film also won Best Screenplay Adaptation. "This is all a bunch of bull," the president said when he was as- ked about press reports concer- ning former Arkansas judge and entrepreneur David Hale." Hale, who accuses Clinton of pruring him into making a con- troversial loan ini the Whitewa- ter affair, has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges and will be sentenced on Tuesday, court papers in Little Rock, Arkansas, revealed Monday. News reports said Hale reac- hed a plea bargain with Special Counsel Robert Fiske under which he agreed to tell a federal grand jury what he knows about Clinton's involvement. Gonzales, a Texas Democrat, had been standing firm against Republican demands to use Thursday's hearing on the clea- "I would suggest that House hearings be held in a forum of broad reach -- possibly to commit- tee that can explore all the charges that have been brought, from accusations of obstruction even to the most absurd conspi- racy charges," Gonzalez wrote. He said the hearings should not compromise the work of "whose requests for restraint have drawn only contempt from the Republicans whose political aims are frustrated by anything less than a withchhunt in circus ring." Leach told reporters later that Foley had called him to apologise for the tone of Gonzalez's letter but Leach said he understood the feelings" that Gonzalez held. Leach had sought the testi- mony of witnesses on matters he said would embarrass the presi- dent. He said he might now make manoeuvre to force a on issue. The Senate voted 98-0 last Tokyo- week to hold hearings in a way abroad on holiday this year be- More Japanese are likely to go that would not harm Fiske's in- vestigation. Senate Republican tractive and the yen is stronger cause tour packages are more at- Leader Bob Dole said Sunday he but they will not be spending as planned to discuss the question of freely as they once did. hearings with Democratic Lea- der George Mitchell this week. "We see a record number of Ja- In another Whitewater- but we think they will spend panese visiting Overseas 1994 related development, the Gene- less," Hiroshi Kunimatsu, spo- ral Accounting Office criticised kesman for Japan's largest travel the Small Business Administra- agency Japan Travel Bureau tion for failing to see that Hale's (JTB), said in an interview. company, Capital Management services, of Little Rock, as being badly managed. JTB expects 12,4 million Japa- nese to travel over sea in 1994 compared to an estimated record Capital Management provided 11,9 million in 1993. a $300,000 loan to Susan McDou- gal, who was a partner in the largest international airline, Japan Airlines, the country's Whitewater development Corpo- sees demand for seats between ration with her husband James Japan and overseas from it and McDougal, head of Madison Gua- other airlines growing by about ranty Savings and Loan, and the four time for the fiscal year star- Clintons. (Reuter) ting April 1. Spielberg's "Schindler's List" Sweeps Oscars Los Angeles- Steven Spielberg, who has created Hollywood's biggest box- office hits only to be snubbed every year on Oscar night, finally broke his legendary jinx Monday night as Holocaust epic "Schin- dler's List" swept the Academy Bali Post/Reuter. OSCAR WINNERS The four winners of the acting categories proudly disply their Oscars March 21 at the 66th Academy Awards. They are (R to L) best actor Tom Hanks, best supporting actress Ana Paquin, best actress Holly Hunter and best supporting actor Tommy Lee Jones. Awards. ultimater snub. His films were Ending what Spielberg, 46, Sentimental Speeches nominated but he was not. The strident political state- Some critics said the man who tearfully called "the longest drought of my life," his stark, ments that marked last year's made his name as a master of es- black-and won seven awards - post-election Oscars were repla- capism -- and created four of the more than any other contender -- ced Monday night by mostly sen- 10 top-grossing films of all time-- including Best Picture, Best Di- timental speeches and plenty of had always fallen short of Oscar- rector and Best Screenplay tears. winning quality. But Hollywood Adaption. insiders believe jealousy over his "The stretts of heaven are too success also played a role. crowded with angels," Hanks, his It took "Schindler's List" -- the voice quaking, said in to AIDS true story of a German war profi- victims. "They number a thou- teer who saved more than 1,300 sand for each of the red ribbons Polish Jews from the Nazi Holo- we wear." caust for Spielberg to finally Creating one of the biggest ge- win Hollywood's respect. neration gaps in Academy Filmed on location in Poland Awards history, veteran actor virtually in the shadow of the Tommy Lee Jones, 47, and Nazi death camps, the movie 11-year-old actress Anna Paquin marked for Spielberg a culmina- won Oscars for best supporting tion of more than a decade of pre- roles. paration as well as a reimmer- Tom Hanks picked up the Best Actor award for his portrayal of a lawyer with AIDS in "Philadel- phia," and Holly Hunter was the Best Actress for her role in "The Piano" as a mute Scottish mail- order bride in 19th-century New Zealand. From the very day the nomina- tions were announced, "Schin- dler's List" -- which was up for 12 awards was Spielberg's string of losses spanning two decades. Paquin was the evening's big- sion in his Jewish faith. But his heart may have skip- gest surprise, so stunned by her ped a beat when presenter Clint triumph over actresses four ti- The director has promised to Eastwood opened the envelope mes her age that she was left take a break from filmaking, but and said "this is a big surprice of teary-eyed and literalless as she the Los Angeles Times reported Furore naming him the winner accepted the award for her role in deals that would give his produc- he is now cooking up high-tech for Best Director. "The Piano." The pixie-faced New Zealan- tion company a role, in the na- tion's emerging information su- perhighway. "I have friends who have won der was the second youngest per- this before and I swear I haven't former ever to win a competitive Jones, the son of a Texas cow- ever held one before," Spielberg Academy Award. Tatum O'Neil boy who went on to become one of told the awards audience, his was 10 when she took the Best Hollywood's most respected mo- voice cracking with emotion. Supporting Actress Oscar for the Only minutes later, he retur- 1973 film "Paper Moon." ned to the stage to accept his Best vie veterans, won Best Suppor- Picture award. Wiping away he Piano gave stiff competition, of the 1960s television series. pleaded: "Please do not to allow Spielberg's three-hour-plus While Campion's elegan "The ting Actor for his role as a relen- tlen in "The Fugitive," a remaks The Spanish film "Belle Epo- que," a romantic tale set in the the Holocaust to become a foot- drama captured the hearts -- and note in history." ballots of Oscar voters. It was an emotional and trium- 1930s, won the Oscar for Best The dinosaur epic "Jurassic phant moment for Spielberg, who out entries from Hong Kong, Bri- Foreign-Language film, beating Park" another Spielberg crea- had been nominated for directing tion--and Jane Campion's "The skills three times before -- for tain, Taiwan and Vietnam. Piano" provided the closest com- When the curtain the 66th An- petition, each winning three Os- "E.T", Raiders of the Lost Ark" nual Academy Awards, a global cars. Campion lost directing ho- and "Close Encounters of the television audience estimated at nours to Spielberg for Best Origi- Twice -- with "Jaws" and "the upward of one billion in 98 coun- nal Screenplay. Colour Purple"-- he received the tries was watching. (Reuter) Third Kind." The expected rise in overseas ($3,555) in 1993. The 1993 esti- Industry officials said tour packages which travel agencies than actual spending in 1992. travel is largely due to cheap tour mate of 5 percent were lower packages announced by major travel agencies for the April- last year, travel agency officials two factors for this trend -- people rage 20 percent last year. have been actively selling since Travel agency officials listed September period cost an ave- said. "Overseas holiday makers on tour package deals spend less "Those cheap tours are of a are increasing because travel because they are in groups and low-profit margin and will not agencies, hotels and airlines spending habits have changed in help boost sales and profits," to reduce tour package prices to mic conditions. have cooperated with each other recent years of tightening econo- JTB's Kunimatsu said. (Reuter) boost demand and win competi- tions," said a spokesman for anot- her major tourist agency, Nippon Travel Agency. Tunis- nese travellers spend during have adjourned their talks on Pa- "The amount of money Japa- PLO and Israeli negotiators their stay abroad is falling. They lestinian security in the occupied do not buy as expensive things as territories, a PLO source said on before," an official at an interna- Tuesday. tional credit card company said. An aide to PLO leader Yasser Arafat said a third round of talks Japanese Preferences was held on Monday night and beach resorts near Japan, in ted to return to Israel on Tuesday "Japanese now prefer to go to the Israeli delegation was expec- Asia, to relax there (rather) than for consultations. Kong and Singapore, which they contacts on Wednesday," the aide "We have decided to resume going shopping to Paris, Hong The yen's rise since early 1993 and its recent further increase in value will continue encouraging Japanese going no vacation over- seas, travel agency officials said. In 1994 there are also more long weekends than during a nor- mal year -- there are seven wee- kends before or right after at least 10 public holidays. Despite the brought effects for used to like," he said. holiday trips, travel agency offi- cials painted a gloomy picture on spending abroad. JTB expects Japanese over- seas travellers to spend an ave- rage 364,000 yen ($3,450) per trip in 1994, down 2,8 percent from an estimated 375,000 yen said. One analyst added: "Japanese Reporters saw PLO negotiator ten than before. And the more of- ting with the Israeli delegation. go on overseas holidays more of- Nabil Sheath at breakfast mee- ten they go abroad, the less are The renewed talks are facou- they interested in souvenirs and sing on measures to protect the other things there. Palestinians in the occupied ter- The increased holiday travel is itories and restart the peace pro- not likely to help the bottom line cess stalled by the Hebron mos- at travel agencies. que massacre. TOURISM ACTIVITIES Painters' Grant To Poverty Foundation (Reuter). A painting exhibition, presenting the collections of Kartika A. Koberl, Made Wianta and Srihadi was held in Bali Cliff Resort from January 15 to 25, 1994. A sum of Rp. 43.000.000,- collected from the succesful selling was granted recently to "Yayasan Sanatana Dharma Widyalaya", a foundation which strives to overcome poverty in Bali's poorest areas. Seen in the picture, General Manager A. Baihaqi, CHA on behalf of Bali Cliff Resort, officially handed the cheque to Mrs. Nilawati, head of the foundation. (*). Color Rendition Chart 2cm 4cm