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COMPLIM

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In accordance with our By-Laws, the AnnualElection process for the Board of Directors willcommence mid-September.

The democratic election process is staged asfollows:

September 16-October 11 -

NOMINATION PROCESS BEGINS:

Corporate members in good standing may nomi-nate their choice(s) for next year’s Board. Anymember with past due membership fees will bedisqualified from nominations or voting privileges.

GEARING UP FOR SBFCC 2003 ELECTIONS

In early September SBFCC disseminates a pre-liminary listing of Members in Good Standingwith respective Authorized Representatives foreach member company. Should a member wishto change their reps, the time to do it is beforeSeptember 15. On September 16 the final list-ing will be disseminated and qualified Corporatemembers nominate candidates of their choiceto fill the vacant seats on the Board. CurrentBoard members whose term has expired havethe option to re-run for election.

October 14 - November 1 – CANDIDATESELECTION

Those nominated are asked for their voluntarycommitment of 10 hours per month service as aprerequisite to serve on the Board. If willing, theywill be declared as official candidates inthe voting process.

November 4 – November 20 – VOTINGPROCESS BEGINS:

Based on confirmed candidates who haveverified they are willing to serve. Ballotsare forwarded to all Corporate members whoare asked to VOTE for the candidate(s) of theirchoice.

November 21-25 – TABULATION: Votes aretabulated by the Returning Officer and verifiedby the Elections Committee.

November 26 - RESULTS:

Election Results with names of new Boardmembers are announced at November 26General Meeting.

December 13 – OFFICER SELECTION: Nextyear ’s officers (President, Vice President,Treasurer and Corporate Secretary are selectedby the new Board of Directors and will assumetheir posts on January 1, 2003.

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We have been advised that door to door mail delivery will beWe have been advised that door to door mail delivery will beWe have been advised that door to door mail delivery will beWe have been advised that door to door mail delivery will becommencing first week of September. The service is ex-commencing first week of September. The service is ex-commencing first week of September. The service is ex-commencing first week of September. The service is ex-pected to provide locators and residents a regular weeklypected to provide locators and residents a regular weeklypected to provide locators and residents a regular weeklypected to provide locators and residents a regular weeklydelivery schedule. In addition, the Post Office has madedelivery schedule. In addition, the Post Office has madedelivery schedule. In addition, the Post Office has madedelivery schedule. In addition, the Post Office has madearrangements for all mail to/from Subic to be handledarrangements for all mail to/from Subic to be handledarrangements for all mail to/from Subic to be handledarrangements for all mail to/from Subic to be handled

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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Effective August 19, 2002, Infocom Technologies, Inc. (formerlySVISP) has relocated its Subic Business Center to Subic Telecom(SubicTel) located at B-60 Sampson Avenue, SBFZ.

For inquiries, call: 252-2679; 252-2680; 252-1540; 252-5341or email: infosubic@info.com.ph.

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1) 67% wou ld like to a ) know when the p ro ject wou ld be com ple ted and b ) see s igns showing the D AT E o f com ple tion .

T here a re warn ing s ignage 's /dev ices insta lled bu t the C ontracto r was asked to ins ta ll add itiona l dev ices. Inconven ience som etim es canno t be avo ided because o f adverse clim atic cond ition tha t p reven t con tinuous pav ing /aspha lting activ ities wh ich fo rce the C ontracto r to leave som e unpaved a reas.

6 ) 41% have found con flic ting s igns con fus ing .I.e . a t R em y F ie ld there is a s ign say ing 14 th S t. B ridge is C losed . O n the N orthern s ide o f the Yach t C lub , the re is a s ign ind ica ting to tu rn righ t fo r the 14 th S t. B ridge . H ow does one know if it is open o r no t? A t the Power P lan t in te rsection , the re is bo th a s top s ign and a y ie ld s ign in the sam e loca tion . T hese signs a re con fusing .

T he C on tracto r has been asked to rem ove a ll con flic ting s igns.

P ro ject w ill be substan tia lly com p le ted by the end o f O ctober 2002 .

T he tem porary b ridge is now c losed and tra ffic tem porarily d ive rted to o ther rou te .

2 ) 67% are extrem e ly concerned abou t lack o f sa fe ty ligh ts , re flecto rs , cones o r AN Y warn ing dev ices where 2 lanes tu rn in to one , whe re pavem ent s tops, where excess ive po tho les exis t I.e .- the Sou th s ide o f Yach t C lub b ridge on R iza l. T he two lane road , a ll o f a sudden, becom es one lane w ith no warn ing s igns. A lso , on A rgonaut H ighway in the C ub i/Bo ton a rea , where there exis ts new paving on part o f the road , it sudden ly becom es unpaved fo r a short d is tance . T ra ffic flow a lm ost com es to a com ple te s tandstill.

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T here were som e po tho les tha t occu rred on the un fin ished road su rface (where on ly the firs t layer o f aspha lt has been la id ). Sa tu ra ted po tho les canno t be fixed perm anently because o f the p rob lem in com paction . T em porary fill m a te ria ls a re the re fo re p laced wh ile wa iting fo r the sa tu ra tion to subs ide wh ich a re eas ily d isp laced by pass ing heavy loads. T he C ontracto r was the re fo re asked to m a in ta in the fi ll m a te ria ls m ore frequen tly .

4 ) 50% question why s tree t ligh ts on R iza l (towards B in ic tican) we re work ing last m onth bu t a re no t illum ina ted now .

T he work o f the C ontracto r fo r the insta lla tion , com m iss ion ing and testing o f the s tree tligh ts a re a lready fin ished . C oo rd ina tion was a lready done w ith the SBM A U tilitie s D epa rtm ent so tha t opera tion o f the s tree tligh ts and correspond ing power consum ption w ill now be to the accoun t o f the SBM A U tilities D epartm ent.

3 ) 50% com pla in abou t po tho les wh ich ge t worse a fte r every ra in fa ll - VER Y low cost fix tha t doesn 't las t.

5 ) 48% com pla in b itte rly abou t the tem po rary b ridge on the A rgonaut H ighway. T he wood is a lways m iss ing , the po tho les a re to ta lly unaccep tab le , the a rea is dark and very dangerous.

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Paintings of the curbs and islands are not included in the project scope and budget.

6) 21% have asked if the curbs and islands will eventually be painted.

5) 50% question the quality of workmanship, the use of sub-standard materials as several areas already have defects, I.e. bridge near Yacht Club (where road is sinking, cracking etc.). Quality of the concrete surface on the elevated section through the Mangroves. Is the quality of the Contractors work being monitored at all? Is there any type of warranty offered on the work? Where has the money gone?

Survey Results On The Locators And Residents Concerns About The Roads And Bridges Project

3) Many expressed concern about the intended junction details at Y intersection at Coastal on Argonaut.

The Y intersection at Coastal on Argonaut will be provided with Traffic Signal Facilities.

Questions About Permanent Structure Response

Motorist coming from the 14th Street Bridge will not be allowed to turn left along the Rizal Highway. Similarly, motorist coming from the Yatch Club area going along Rizal Highway will not be allowed to turn left to the perimeter road going to 14th Street. This traffic scheme will be discussed in a meeting with SBMA Traffic Management Office and modified if necessary.

1) 86% have concerns about the 14th Street Bridge access onto Rizal being extremely dangerous.

2) 74% indicated great concern about Traffic flow management. In particular at the 14th Street Bridge junction, at the bottom of Binictican Drive, the 11 lane Royal Subic Intersection being "regulated" with mere stop signs and by LED, and the Remy Field intersection, ACER entrance, Taiwanese Business Park.

Six (6) intersections will be provided with Traffic Signal System. Proposed traffic flow will be discussed in a meeting with SBMA Traffic Management Office and modified if necessary.

Bridge approaches are temporary and will be fixed upon laying of final asphalt to have a smooth transition.

4) 50% question whether or not the uneven approaches to the bridges will be fixed.

Most of the noted defects (road sinking, cracking etc. are in the areas that are not yet fully completed as designed (where only the first layer of asphalt has been laid). Such defects therefore may not necessarily be caused by sub-standard materials. The Contractor's work is monitored by a team of Consultants. All materials used in the project passes through quality control and testing. Those materials that have been put in place but failed the tests later has to be reworked. The works done by the Contractor is subject to a one (1) year Defects Liability Period where all works that have gone defective within one (1) year after completion will be replaced/reworked by the Contractor at no additional cost to SBMA.

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The one way system at the new cut section will not be considered at this time because the intention of the project is to relieve the traffic at the Argonaut Highway including the Rizal/Argonaut intersection.

9) One way system on new cut through from bottom of Binictican Drive.

The Roundabout was discussed during the preliminary/feasibility study phase of the project but was not recommended during the Detailed Design for technical reasons.

8) Why not a Roundabout at Royal?

Survey Results On The Locators And Residents Concerns About The Roads And Bridges Project

10) Manage junction at Remy Field to remove need for policeman.

The junction at Remy Field is no longer within the project area and not part of the on-going project.

Questions About Permanent Structure Response

7) 14% question the validity of traffic flow: I.e. El Kabayo Road onto Argonaut, unless made a one way will be extremely dangerous.

The traffic flow at El Kabayo/Argonaut will be part of the Traffic Management flow discussion with SBMA Traffic Management Office.

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The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA)supports the creation of a natural park in theboundary of Bataan and the Subic Bay FreeportZone to protect and conserve wildlife habitats.

Last month, a three-day public consultation andtechnical workshop on six priority bills wasconducted in Subic by the Senate and HouseCommittees on Natural Resources to establishprotected areas in various parts of the country.

Three of these bills have been filed to classifythe Subic reserve as a natural park under theNational Integrated Protected Area System(NIPAS). These were filed by Rep. JamesGordon Jr. of Zambales, Rep. Antonio Romanof Bataan, and Sen. Robert Jaworski, chairmanof the Senate committee on natural resources.These bills all agree on major provisions,including declaration of policy, administrationand management, zoning, use of resources,and prohibited acts and penalties.

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UniAir made its Kaoshung-Subic inaugural flight with105 Taiwanese passengers yesterday (July 5) whichtouched down at the Subic Bay International Airport(SBIA) at 6 p.m.

UniAir offers a regular weekly international charteredflights that would cater to the growing numberof tourist arrivals thereby boosting tourism not onlyin the country’s premier Freeport but also in OlongapoCity, Zambales and Bataan.

“This is in support of Subic Bay MetropolitanAu tho r i t y (SBMA) Cha i rman Fe l i c i t o C .Payumo’s vision of making Subic a top tourismdestination which has contributed tremendously inboosting the local economy,” SBMA Tourismdepartment manager Armin Santos said.

Flying passengers from Kaoshung on an MD90aircraft, UniAir will arrive in SBIA at 6 p.m. onFridays, and 11:30 p.m. on Sunday which departs at5:30 a.m. the following day back to Kaoshung.

Gala Castro, administrative manager of the Vision AirFlight Support said that the SBIA presently

accommodates four other chartered flights namely,Far Eastern Air Transport, which flies thrice a week;AirAsia, four times a month; Philippine AirLines, onFridays; and AirPhil, on Sundays.

Legend Hotel Senior Vice-President for internationalmarketing Shirley Boey said that part of its sellingstretegy is to open more flight schedules to provide agateway to neighobring countries in Asia and attractmore foreign tourists.

Legenda also have chartered flights to Shenzen,China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All charteredflights except Far Eastern Air Transport are beingarranged by Legenda Hotel & Casino.

The SBMA is presently advocating a multi-facetedtourism activities that includes eco-tourism with themepark, botanical gardens, the jungle survival trainingsbeing conducted by skillful Aeta trainors and aquamarine preservation program being presented by thenewly opened Ocean Adventures featur ingboth entertainment, with whale and sea lion showsand education on the conservation of the environment.

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Among the sites proposed to be declaredas protected areas is the Subic Bay WatershedForest Reserve, which contains five distinct eco-systems spread in more than 10,000 hectaresof forests, grassland, and mangrove swamps.

The Subic Bay Watershed Forest Reserve andthe Bataan Natural Park will merge into oneprotected area which will ensure greaterprotection and survival for the two adjacent andinterlinked wildlife habitats. Under the integratedscheme, the Subic reserve shall remain underthe jurisdiction of the SBMA while the Bataanparcel shall be under the administrativejurisdiction of the Department of Environmentand Natural Resources.

Amethya dela Llana, head of the SBMA EcologyCenter, said that the Subic-Bataan Natural Parkconcept dovetails from the existing Subic BayProtected Area Management Plan, which wasformulated in consultation with the variousstakeholders in Subic, including DENR, people’sorganizations in the community, and the Aetatribe in the Freeport.

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US Ambassador Frank Ricciardone yesterdaycalled on American investors to set up theirbusiness here as he sees great business andtourism potentials of this former US Naval baseas a Freeport zone and as a safe place for foreigninvestors.

The straight talking US envoy said that the USgovernment will help promote Subic Freeport byproviding a direct link to the SBMA website fromthe US Embassy’s Foreign Commercial websiteto lure more potential American investors to knowabout this bustling economic zone.

Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA)Chairman Felicito C. Payumo briefed the USAmbassador and other embassy officials aboutthe on-going projects as well as the plans for Subicincluding the seaport development program andthe Subic-Clark toll road.

“I welcome the show of support of the USgovernment through the US embassy inpromoting Subic. I think it is for the good of bothcountries that Subic Freeport be a high profileplace in the minds of the Americans who havebeen here before to promote as center forinvestment and tourism as well,” Payumo.

SBMA records would show that the Freeportcontinues to attract more investors postingan impressive 150 percent increase in the firstsix months of the year with the approval of 81 new

projects amounting to P1.58 billion.

Ricciardone said that for the Americans, Subic isnow better as a Freeport zone than being amilitary base as they saw the on-going progressthat would help economic program of thePhilippine government.

The US Ambassador visited several US firms hereincluding the Federal Express, Coastal Petroleumand DJ Aerospace in a base tour conducted a dayafter the arrival of US battle ships for the 11-dayjoint RP-US Naval exercises here.

“Definitely Subic is better off as a Freeport zoneand Americans want to see this place take-off as

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well as the former US Clark Air Base inPampanga,” Ricciardone said.

Ricciardone said that the US government wouldsupport the plan of Payumo in creating an alliancewith Clark by setting up a road link to majorinfrastructures in these two eco-zones particularlythe International Airport in Clark and the modernport facilities in Subic.

“The SBMA Chairman is right in creating asynergy between Clark and Subic. We love to seethat happen in the near future with all thoseinfrastructures grow and develop to increase lotsof jobs and investors not just from the US but alsofrom the (Asia-Pacific) region coming in here,”Ricciardone said.

Asked about the role of Subic and Clark withregards to the Mutual Logist ics ServicesAgreement (MLSA) that would likely be signedupon arrival of US Secretary of State Collin Powellin Manila next month, Ricciardone clarified the“wrong impression” on this issue.

“MLSA has nothing to do with Subic and Clark lessit has also no connection with military bases. It isjust a technical servicing agreement to allow lowlevel logistical support,” the US Ambassador said.

He added that Subic would thrive without MLSAand there is no need or any relationship betweenthat agreement and any bases, “there is no relationbetween MLSA and Subic but we are stil lcommitted to promote Subic, anyway.”

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Benevolent Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority(SBMA) Chairman Felicito C. Payumo recentlyreleased some 4,000 sacks of imported rice worthP4 million to various local government units inCentral Luzon for distribution to thousands of floodvictims in the region.Payumo said that ten container vans with estimated400 cavans of rice each were distributed toprov inces of Zambales, Bataan, Pampanga,Bulacan, Olongapo City and to various non-government organizations based in Central Luzon.

Social Welfare and Development Asst. Sec. RuthLayug accompanied by DSWD Region II IDirector Florita Villar accepted the rice donation.Payumo also informed the DSWD officials thatthe SBMA will likewise donate 500 boxes of usedclothing for flood victims presently staying inevacuation centers.“This is part of the commitment of SBMA toassist those who are in need of our help duringemergency situations providing not just in searchand rescue operations but also in the distributionof relief goods in neighboring communities,”Payumo said.

Payumo, however, stressed that samples of therice will be submitted to the research and testingcenter of National Food Authority (NFA) in NuevaEcija as a health safety precaution and ensurenegative impurity since the seized rice have beenstored for several months here.Earlier, Payumo ordered the release of 12,000sacks of confiscated rice but officials of the Bureauof Customs (BoC) here put on-hold the remaining8,000 sacks of confiscated rice presently storedin 20 container vans after its consignee whoclaimed ownership of the rice appealed forreconsideration.

BoC Collector Felipe Bartolome said that FinanceSecretary Isidro Camacho himself has directedBoC Commissioner Antonio Bernardo to releasethe 4,000 sacks of rice for flood victims and expe-dite the forfeiture proceedings of the remaining8,000 sacks.

Bartolome added that the legal department of theBoC is still evaluating whether to forfeit the seizedrice in favor of the government or allow paymentof duties and taxes.

SBMA RELEASES P4-M WORTH OF RICE, 500 BOXES OF USED CLOTHINGFOR FLOOD VICTIMS

Several local government officials who went toSubic Freeport during the turnover were ZambalesGovernor Vic Magsaysay, Bulacan Vice GovernorRely Aurelio, Bataan Vice Governor Rogelio Roqueand Dinalupihan town Mayor Jojo Payumo.

“We are all very thankful for the benevolence ofChairman Payumo in extending helping hands forcalamity victims,” local leaders in Central Luzonechoed.

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That long wait for downloads, erratic connections,disconnections and all the other dubious pleasures of thedigital highway may be a thing of the past with theintroduction of Digital Subscriber Line internet servicesby Subictel. It seems that internet business is to get morebusiness-orientated in SBFZ.

To be part of the global economy means being connectedefficiently through the internet and using it to its maximumpotential. This is what DSL offers. Although widelyavailable in Manila, and even more so elsewhere in theworld, it is only in the past few months that DSL has beenmade quietly available in the Freeport and surroundingareas.

Florante ‘Boyet’ Cruz, , executive vice president and ChiefOperating Officer of Subictel says: “Users who spend mostof their time browsing web sites or downloading files willfind everything happening faster using Subictel DSL service”.Offering speeds from 64 kilobytes per second, kbps,upstream, and up to 384 kbps downstream, DSL is certainlyattractive. Coastal Petroleum, Legenda, Subic InternationalHotel and Fedex have already bought into DSL, as have anumber of internet cafes in Olongapo and Subic Town.

According to Subictel, it can transmit data over ordinarytelephone lines at 8 million bits a second using DSL Accessmultiplexers installed at strategic nodes in the SBFZ,Olongapo and Subic Town proper.

DSL – Fast, not Furious, on the digital highway

Speed alone is not the only advantage.DSL is always connected at a flatmonthly rate, leading to a number ofservices such as managed internetand network access including virtual

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private networks, inter-office voice calls, supportfor video conferencing and multicast video basedon software and equipment provided by Ciscosystems, which is providing Subictel’s global DSLsystems.

A real plus is that DSL is ‘phone-friendly’.Although it uses a subscriber’s normal telephoneline, calls can be made and received down thesame line in the usual way. There’s no conflictbetween using the internet and using thetelephone.

DSL isn’t for the user who sends and downloadsa few emails a couple of times a week. For powerusers with a need for constant, instant, fastcommunications, it can be a cost effectivesolution that avoids the fury initiated by thevagaries of existing dial-up connections and thehigh costs of dedicated lines.

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Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Bataan DeathMarch is a book by Hampton Sides titled Ghost Soldiers.Unlike most books, Sides spends time on the surrenderand subsequent march but his main focus is CabantuanPrison Camp and the heroic rescue of the captives thereas the Philippines was being liberated.

The book opens with the imminent invasion ofthe Americans in December of 1944. At the PuertoPrincesa Japanese prison camp in Palawan it was nota normal day. 150 American prisoners were told USplanes were coming to bomb the camp. The prisonerscrowded into makeshift shelters.

Japanese soldiers then converged on the shelters withfive-gallon cans of high-octane aviation fuel, tossing thecontents on and into sanctuaries and igniting them withbamboo torches. Men managing to free themselveswere mowed down with machine gun fire. “Men dashedtoward the fence and tried to press through it but werequickly riddled with lead, leaving a row of corpses hungfrom the barbed strands like drying cuttlefish.”A second wave of Japanese threw grenades intoshelters attempting to make it appear that Americanplanes had caused the carnage.

Amazingly, some men fell through the bottom of theshelters to the beach far below. Most of these wereshot or bayoneted by waiting soldiers. A few, making itto the water, and floating all night, were eventu-ally rescued and reconstructed the seaside massacreto authorities. Because of this incident, it was assumed,that as the liberation of the Philippines continued, re-maining camps would suffer the same fate. In fact, laterat war crime trials, a document known as, the “August1-Kill All Order,” would surface.

A rescue mission was then concocted using the newlyformed Army Rangers. Led by Lieutenant Colonel HenryMucci and Captain Robert Prince the 200-man groupprepped for the clandestine rescue effort, behindenemy lines, at the infamous Cabantuan camp.

Cabantuan was created after the original Camp

O’Donnell proved inadequate. Death figures atO’Donnell were “catastrophic.” In two months 1500Americans and 15,000 Filipinos were buried in massgraves. “It was less a prison than an incubatorium fordisease, a study in what happens when thousands ofstarving, ill men are brought together in close proximityin the tropics. Antique diseases that had long sincebeen conquered by modern medicine rose out of thelatrines for an encore performance.”

Cabantuan proved little better. Of the 9000 Americansto pass through the gates one-third would be buriedthere. “Essentially it was an extermination camp—notin the Nazi sense but through a kind of malign neglect.”

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the survivors were kept on a tennis court undera baking sun with little rice or water. The courts werenear what is now Spanish Gate. Many were seriouslywounded from shrapnel. “Fifteen of the worstAmerican casualties were placed on a truck and takeneast over the spine of the Zambales Mountains … theguards drove to a remote spot in the jungle. Theprisoners were told to crawl off the truck and assemblein a long line. The guards then drew their swords and,working steadily down the line, decapitated all fifteenAmericans.”

Eventually another ship, Enoura Maru took theremaining prisoners to Japan. They died at a rate of 4or 5 a day. Of the 1600 that had left Manila Bay nearly700 were dead when they reached Japan. Amonument to the ‘Hell Ship’ sits in front of theAmerican Legion on Magsaysay Drive in Olongapo City.

At Cabantuan the prison population had dwindled forma high of 6000 to just 500 sickly souls by late January1944. The remaining had heard the stories of the PuertoPrincessa massacre. Said one inmate, “We were posi-tive they were going to kill us. There were three or fourtanks right inside the camp, and we got the word fromthe grapevine that they were just going to run thosetanks right through us – roll over us, machine-gun us,blast our barracks. My experience with the Filipinograpevine was that it didn’t miss by much.”

In Europe Allied POW’s died at arate of 4%. In Japanese camps itwas 27%.

As the war wound down able menfrom the prison camps wereshipped to Japan to work as slavelabor in mines, munitions factoriesand shipyards. The last ship outwas the Oryoku Maru. 1600 menfrom the Cabantuan camp werejam-packed into the unlighted,unventilated hold blow decks. Thefirst night out of Manila Bay 52 mendied. The following morningAmerican planes bombed the shipand it ran aground at OlongapoPoint in Subic Bay. For six days

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They were unaware that just two miles away in the tinybarrio of Platero were 200 Rangers who had trekked30 miles from US held ground into enemy territory.Assisting these men were Philippine Scouts. The twoprimary leaders were Juan Pajota and Eduardo Josen.Farmers by day and guerillas by night they were aragged band and the mission would have beenimpossible without them.

“Rice farmers clutching bolo knives, teenagersstraddling ponies, a few old-timers stooped alongsidetheir mud-streaked carabaos. Among their diverseranks stood sixty or seventy well-trained soldiers, menhardened by three long years of hectoring the despisedJapanese. Their khaki uniforms were threadbare andfaded, and they carried old Springfield bold-action riflesfrom the battlefields of Bataan.

“The guerillas were intimately familiar with backcountrytrails and knew the size and location of everyJapanese garrison. They knew which snakeswere poisonous, which pools were drinkable and theeasiest places to cross rivers and streams.”

The day pr ior to the raid was spent with thescouts doing reconnaissance work. To complete thejob they needed to know distances, which barrackshoused the captives and which held the 200 to 300soldiers, the relationships of buildings and footpaths,where the tanks were kept, what type of locks were onthe gates. The compound was fortified with pill boxesand guard towers manned by machine gunners.

Their biggest problem was that the camp and the area

surrounding it was completely flat. “Nothing broke thehorizon for miles in any direction.” Surprise was to betheir most important element but how could 200 mensneak up on Cabantuan? In the end they did it on theirbellies, at dusk, under the noses of the guard towerson January 30, 1944. A plane also helped.

American aircraft always agitated the Japanese.Radio silence had been broken to ask for a flyover atthe exact time the men needed to snake up to the camp.Newly built by Northrop, a P-61 streaked across thesky just when it was needed most. Nicknamed the ‘BlackWidow’ it had a futuristic appearance never seen bythe Japanese or the inmate population. Both groupsstared at the sky as the plane performed a series of“taunts, feints, wheeling and stalling and revers-ing directions. “Sixth Army headquarters could nothave dreamed up a more malevolent aircraft to instillfear or attract attention.”

As night fell the Americans stormed the facility fromtwo directions. When the gunfire erupted the inmatesassumed the Japanese had decided to kill them. “Theprisoners were too mentally brittle to process the chaos.Fearing the worst they took refuge in the barest andmost pitiful of hiding places.”

“The Rangers looked exceedingly strange. They woreunfamiliar uniforms, carried unfamiliar guns. To starvedmen, the strapping soldiers looked impossibly huge,even menacing.” The Rangers were appalled at thecondition of the POW’s. One described them as “sickold birds that had just been plucked.” They were lightenough that some Rangers were able to carry two on

their backs at once. Two months later the prisonerswould sail into San Francisco Bay with the entire citycheering them.

Unlike other books dealing with Japanese wartimeatrocities such as The Rape of Nanking, Ghost Sol-diers balances the horror of the camp with the coura-geous, uplifting details of the rescue mission.

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“Don’t put your toothbrush in your mouth that way!”

I didn’t understand what Jeremy and Peter wereshouting. “Hold your toothbrush the other way!” Iwas a little light headed from not eating for four daysand wasn’t thinking clearly. So I just stood there inthe hatch with my toothbrush poised precariously inmy teeth, ready to accidentally swallow it with the nextswell. All I knew was that I had to get the taste ofvomit out of my mouth and I needed to brush my teethpronto. So how could I do that without putting thetoothbrush in my mouth?!

What Peter and Jeremy were worriedly telling me todo was to not clench my toothbrush in my teeth like acigar, or else I might accidentally swallow it and choketo death on the high seas, days from help. Chokingto death on the high seas seemed the least of myworries, for the last four days I had been feeling like Iwas dying from motion sickness, dehydration,starvation, and general contusion from being tossedabout the boat in the big swells. Choking on one’stoothbrush would be an ignoble way to go!

Who knew that sailing from Hong Kong to thePhilippines could be such fun? Truth be told, I wasout of my league. I had done a little freshwater sailingin NY and cruising on Subic Bay in nothing biggerthan a 10 foot Optimist. I wasn’t prepared for a highsea adventure, and I was lucky the captain didn’t makeme walk the plank! I was little good to anyone oncethe motion sickness really set in.

Back on the family farm in New York State, 500 milesfrom saltwater and where I probably should havestayed, my father likes to quip “A flood will drown youto death but a drought will scare you to death. Eitherway it is a bad way to go.” Well we had the worry offlood as we were caught in a tropical depression aswe made our way down from Hong Kong. We hadchecked the weather satellite images, logged on tothe 144-hour forecast, checked the sails, tuned theengine, bought diesel, filled the water tanks, andstowed the provisions. We were, as they say, ship-shape. The only concern was there may be too littlewind and we would have to motor across the SouthChina Sea, instead of getting some sailing in.

How wrong we were. Jeremy, my captain, and Peteran experienced sailor and boat builder, took theweather and equipment setbacks in stride. Meanwhile,below decks, I tried not to whimper. I must say,Shibumi is a beautiful yacht. She is balanced andhas clean lines, classic look and many amenities. Shewas put to the test that voyage. Because instead ofsmooth sailing and tedious motoring, she fought 40knot winds beating against her, high seas and swells

that broke over her bow, and a pounding that madeher shudder under the strain. And yet she endured.

Shibumi Adventure By Fr. Rich Towers, Brent International School Subic

I recall one vivid moment late in the night on the thirdday of driving rain, Jeremy was shouting instructionsto Peter as they changed watch. Despite the gustsand rain we had been trying to sail in the storm inorder to conserve fuel. Jeremy explained that hefound there was no need to hold on to the wheelbecause the boat was so well balanced that she sailedherself, as if she was on autopilot. And through thestorm she took us.

Five days into the stormy voyage we fought our wayinto the Lingayan Gulf. We had seen land since earlythat afternoon, but it wasn’t until 1:30 AM that we wereable to dock in the John Hay Economic Development

Zone for damage assessmentand additional fuel. That final 12hours of sailing taught me aboutpa t i ence . The l and , mypreoccupation since the stormyweather had started, was elusive.I could see it but it was far out ofreach. All we could do is try tocrawl inch by inch againstunfavorable wind and wave. Iwould close my eyes and waitand open them again hoping wewould be closer, but to no avail.

By the time we made our latenight emergency stop in SanFernando, La Union, Shibumi

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and her crew had been through a lot. I scrambled upthe giant tires on the coal pier and tied the lines andthen collapsed on the pier. As I lay there, swayingfrom the days at sea, I felt blessed, blessed to be alive,and blessed to know two exceptional people whohelped me through that trial. But the captain remindsme it wasn’t an exceptionally bad trip and he has seenworse. Cold comfort for me, I had just gone througha baptism by fire, or better put, a baptism bythe unforgiving sea.

Shibumi a Japanese word that defies easy definitionmay mean something like knowing, or wisdom, orknowledge. Fittingly vague. I can say that after myShibumi Adventure I was a bit wiser, much wearier,and certainly humbler.

Peter Salter at the helm of Shibumi, sailing across the South China Sea.

- TOKYO (AP) - A popular brand of diet pills from Chinahas been linked to six deaths in three Asian countries,highlighting social pressures on Asian women to havemodel-like figures and the need to regulate the region’sbooming herbal health industry.

Suspected in the deaths is Slim 10 and other herbalproducts manufactured by the Guangdong-basedYuzhitang Health Products company. Slim 10 was foundto contain substances including fenfluramine, which wasoutlawed in the United States in 1997 after being linkedto heart, thyroid and blood problems.

Dozens of people have been hospitalized after takingthe pills, their internal organs damaged and digestivesystems poisoned by substances not l isted onthe label, authorities say. Some have sought livertransplants. Fourteen new cases - including the twolatest deaths - were reported in Japan recently.Yuzhitang Health Products, which wasn’t listed in phonedirectories, could not be reached for comment.The tragedies reflect rising pressure on Asian womento be beautiful and challenges of regulating the region’sfast-growing herbal health product and drug industry.

“Women are constantly told they should be thin - fromadvertisements and television, but also from my ownwomen friends, who are thinner than me. It made mefeel like I had to lose weight,” said Yuko Okada, a 22-year-old student in Tokyo.

Complaints against Yuzhitang Health Products companyemerged in April, when health officials in Singaporefound Slim 10 contained fenfluramine, which is banned

under the country’s Poisons Act, and nicotinamide, avitamin B derivative. Singapore ordered Slim 10 off drug-store shelves and filed criminal charges againstthe distributor. Even so, a month later, Selvarani Raja,a 43-year-old Singaporean woman, died of liver failure,and the government suspected the pills. Another womansuffered liver failure in May after taking Slim 10, butwas saved by a l i ver donat ion . S ince then,China’s state-run media, Xinhua News Agency, hasreported a death linked to Yuzhitang’s slimming pillsand Beijing has banned the company’s products.

Japanese heal th author i t ies, meanwhi le, areinvestigating the products after four more deaths linkedto Yuzhitang’s products. A 60-year-old woman, died ina Tokyo hospital in May, about a month after she startedtaking the pills. On Wednesday, officials said they hadlinked a second Japanese woman’s death to theweight-reducing medication, though they also warnedthat the evidence was largely circumstantial.

On Friday, authorities said the diet pills may have beenbehind the deaths of a 36-year-old woman from severehepatitis last November and a woman in her 60s fromliver disease in February.

Japan’s Health Ministry announced Friday that 64people - all but 10 of them women - had suffered liveror thyroid damage, or other ailments that they suspectwere caused by Chinese diet medicines. It released nodetails on how serious their conditions were.

Officials say they have found traces of a thyrotropichormone and an appetite-suppressant anorectic - which

Deadly Diet Pills in Asiaare only supposed to be used in medicines - that werenot listed on the products’ label. Japanese officials pointto a lack of legislation covering safety for products thatclaim to be nature-based.

Hiroyuki Tanaka, a Japanese Health Ministry official,said diet pills and herbal supplements aren’t subjectedto tests because they aren’t supposed to contain thesynthetic components of prescription drugs, which canoften take a decade to win Japanese government ap-proval.

With its long history of producing herbal remedies, Chinahas become one of the world’s largest producers of fakemedicines, which are believed to be responsible forthousands of Chinese deaths every year. Last year,authorities closed 1,300 factories while investigating480,000 cases of counterfeit drugs, according to thestate-run newspaper China Daily.

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The ICC’s crime-fighting bureau is warning all internetusers to beware e-mails requesting help to secretlytransfer tens of millions of dollars out of Africa, even ifthe senders claim to be government officials or formerheads of state.

The alert was sparked by a new online spin to an exist-ing fraud, named the “419 scams” after a section in theNigerian Penal Code.

Fraudulent e-mails typically request the recipient’s bankaccount details so that a large sum of money can betransferred briefly to their account. Recipients are toldthey will receive up to 25% of the remittance in returnfor the service, but are warned that confidentiality isvital.

But ICC’s Commercial Crime Services (CCS) say therequest is likely to be the first move in an illegal scamwhose victims risk violence, kidnappings and the lossof tens of thousands of dollars.

“Do not reply to any of these messages,” warned CCSDirector Pottengal Mukundan. “The senders donot really have any money to transfer out, and even ifthey did, if you agree to participate in the scheme, youcould be breaking the law in your country and in thecountry where the letter originated.

“In essence, this is an invitation to participate ina conspiracy to defraud the central bank in the sender’scountry,” he said.

According to CCS, “419” letters were originally sent from

Nigeria by individuals posing as official representativesof Nigerian institutions such as the Central Bank andthe National Nigerian Petroleum Corporation - usingforged postage stamps in many cases.

Today, e-mail has multiplied the problem by making iteasy and cheap to send thousands of messages in oneclick.

Recent messages purport to come from around Africa,usually from countries with civil disturbances. Examplesinclude Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo,Somalia, Angola and Zimbabwe.

A typical message may read as follows: “I request youto assist my family by helping us secure this depositwith a financial institution in Europe…For your effortswe will discuss what remuneration I will give you whenyou reply…Do not forget to include your telephone and

lawyers, accountants, travel agents, doctors, teachersand owners of small businesses.

CCS have found most cases to be advance fee frauds.A recent example involved a US professional who wasconned into flying across the Atlantic three times to meetthe Niger ian f raudsters who had of fered himthree million dollars in return for the use of his bankaccount as a temporary holding for their money.

On each of the three occasions, the American wasasked to advance money needed to complete transferprocedures, which he duly paid. By the time herealized he was dealing with thieves, he was more than$100,000.00 out of pocket.

Captain Mukundan said other cases involve extortion.“Once the victim responds to the initial message, thefraudsters will propose a meeting with a central bankerin the country concerned,” he said.

“Having paid for his flight to Africa for a meeting of thiskind, one man was detained by people claiming to beofficials, until he paid a sum of $40,000.00 forhis release.”

CCS records show other victims of this scam have beenphysically assaulted or threatened with violence.

ICC’s advice to those who receive any suspiciouse-mails is to delete them.

“The moment you reply, you are giving away personalinformation which could be used in further frauds.” saidCaptain Mukundan.

Based in London, CCS is made up of three specializedbureaux and a cybercrime unit, which together coverall aspects of commercial crime. All provide up-to-the-minute advice on criminal methods and how to counterthem. If you are uncertain about any message, CCSinvite you to forward it to them to be checked.

Expose of Internet scams

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Captain Mukundan said:“The people sending theseemails are only trying to gettheir hands on people’s sig-nature and bank accountdetails. Once they have thisin format ion, they couldaccess your account, orrefer to it in further frauds.”

Captain Mukundan said asurprising number of peopleare duped, with vict imsincluding estate agents,

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Michael WilsonVice President

(Subic Int’l Hotels, Inc)Tel # 252 3854

Dr. Ning RidonCorporate Secretary (Pista sa

Barrio)Tel # 222 4436

Gary MendozaTreasurer (RCM Manufacturing)

Tel # 252 9073

--DIRECTORS--

Sean Chen (SBDMC, Inc)Tel # 252 3456

Jose Francisco Fausto (RCBC)Tel # 252 5025

Jeremy Simpson(Exquisite Box Company)

Tel # 252 3896

--STAFF--Susan Dudley

Executive DirectorTel # 252 3180

Cecile Sibya-AguilarExecutive Assistant

Tel # 252 3180

For more information, please call: (047) 252 2375 or fax us at (047) 252-2010Subic Telecom: Bldg. 60, Sampson Avenue, Subic Bay Freeport Zone

* Digital Subscriber LineYOUR HI-SPEED INTERNET SERVICE

What is Subic Telecom DSL?

* Is a broadband technology thatcan transmit voice, video and dataat a very high speed.

* It enables your phone line tosimultaneously transmit data withoutinterfering with your regular phoneservices.

What benefits do I get from SubicTelecom DSL?

* High Speed and Unlimited InternetAccess* Always on Availability* No need to Dial Up* No busy signal or Waiting Period toConnect* You can make voice calls or send afax while you are connected to theInternet.

What are the Subic Telecom DSLPackages?

SINGLE DSL

* Ideal Office Set Up of OneWorkstation* Up to 128 kbps Downstream* Up to 64 kbps Upstream* Provides One (1) Email Address* Up to 10 Mb Email Space

JR. DSL

* Ideal for up to 5 workstations* Up to 256 kbps Downstream* Up to 128 kbps Upstream* Provides 5 Email Addresses* Up to 20 Mb Email Space

SR. DSL

* Ideal for up to 10 workstations* Up to 384 kbps Downstream* Up to 160 kbps Upstream* Provides 10 Email Addresses* Up to 40 Mb Email Space