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t- INSIDE D-3 D-4 D-6 CLASSIFIED STOCKS COMICS EGTlONXim 3QTDBERZZH99 BEHEBESCH 7 Magazine spotlights Indian art artists By MARIAN GOAD For The New Mexican filed Elaine Miles who played Marilyn on Northern Exposure This issue was the first sold in Europe where Northern Exposure is popular Indian Artist has met frith great praise both from American Indians and non-Indians including Jane Alexander chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts The magazine is widely distributed in the United States and Canada and on a more limited basis in Europe A few subscribers are in Japan and Australia look and I just keep seeing this huge surge of Hice said Part of the mission of the magazine is to provide a forum for Indians to voice their vision of their art and to talk about their lives finally is how they Hice said When a certain artist looks promising for a -story Hice said will call up the subject and say do you feel really comfortable sitting down and talking because the subject is going to tell a lot more about who they are and Please see MAGAZINE Page D-2 When basket maker Mary Gabriel a member of the Passamaquoddy Indian tribe in Maine received a National Heritage Fellowship she was declared a national treasure and honored in a ceremony in Washington DC During her speech she spoke some words in Passamaquoddy When asked what it was like for her to speak her native tongue in the capital she said loved it! I loved it! Because that is Indian Artist a quarterly magazine Michael Hice and Lewis Nightingale have produced in Santa Fe since spring 1995 is where this interview with 88-year-old Mary Gabriel appeared along with photographs of Gabriel and her baskets The new magazine covers contemporary American Indian artists all over North America who express themselves in various forms including music literature photography film theater and dance The second issue published in fall 1995 pro Craig FnttThe New Mexican Michael Hice editor of Indian Artist an International magazine based In Santa Fe Is seated In front of Waterearrier a sculpture by Allan Hauser The first Issue was dedicated to Hauser The sculpture Is on display at The Wheelwright Museum Phone sex business goes global Tiny countries profit from new technology new American trends Lackluster summer blamed on drought Olympics and the City Council The Washington Post Bob Quick Business Beat 1 Authors plan book signing in Santa Fe Authors Sheila Patterson and Michael Gill interviewed more than 300 entrepreneurs some of them in Santa Fe for their new book Fired Up! From Corporate Kiss-Off to Entrepreneurial Kick-Off which is now for sale around the United States Priced at $2295 it was published by the Penguin Group of Viking The 244-page book is a guide to some of the highs and lows of taking that corporate job and shoving it then setting up a business of own The two will be in Santa Fe Thursday to sign their book at The Collected Works Bookstore 208-B San Francisco St Patterson has a home on Santa east side In a recent telephone interview from Portland Ore part of fheir 25-city book tour the two former high-level advertising executives discussed their book and how it came to be After leaving their corporate careers the two met in a small Connecticut town where both have houses told him I was thinking about writing a book and he said do Patterson said brain-" stormed every chapter together" Gill said he had planned being an entrepreneur all his life but was not prepared for the emotional roller coaster that was involved when striking out on his own moment on the ceiling the next down in the he said Gill also said the book talks about the importance of not being afraid to show emotions something not allowed in the uptight corporate world need to learn to trust your emotions and use your emotions to power your Patterson said why we called our book Fired Up about going from the fear of being fired to being someone fired up about what doing Marg (Venekiasen) is a perfect example of Venekiasen and her husband Gordon own Venekiasen Property Management in Santa Fe Two other Santa Fe residents mentioned in the book are Tom Maigittel former owner of the Four Seasons restaurant in New York and Gary Boyio a real estate magnate Among the 300 people interviewed for the book several failed in their original plans for a business but would go to corporate jobs Patterson said we encounter anyone who had a clear vision of what they wanted to do who achieve some form of Could the same thing that happened to the Woolworth stores in Wilmington DeL happen to Santa store? Back East according to a recent story in The Wall Street Journal they ripped out the lunch counter added more housewares and cut back on apparel also more emphasis' on famous brand names The same thing is planned for the more than 400 stores around the United States company officials say but Mika CoCins manager of the Santa Fe store said he heard when remodeling is planned here announced where going said a Woolworth Spokesman in New York adding that lease negotiations are still under way for the Santa Fe store QQQ Up in Las Vegas downtown near the Plaza Zorra Loca is making profits selling hemp products Legitimate ones that is made from the hemp plant pants shirts hats cloth and more according to owner Luis Rodriguez who owns the business at 161 Bridge St with his wife Victoria Scott Even though hemp products are perfectly legal here not in the states of Mississippi Florida and Kentucky Rodriguez said Impressed by his success Rodriguez's son Charles Mundy- Castle opened a hemp-products store in Las Cruces last weekend Bob Quick covers business for The New Mexican A A A 4 By BOB QUICK The New Mexican Whether it was the Olympics in Atlanta the drought or forest fires near Bandelier National Monument tourists come to Santa Fe in the same numbers they did last year according to tourism figures seeing a fairly dramatic decline in said Art Bouffard director of the New Mexico HotelMotel Association trying to determine what the true cause for that The Rocky Mountain Lodging Report a survey of Santa Fe hotels and motels shows that occupancy for August the busiest month of the year was 805 percent compared with 827 percent for August of 1995 Santa hotelmotel August occupancy rate peaked in 1993 at 913 percent and has been dropping since in part because of an increase in the number of rooms August rate drop continues a year-long trend of lower occupancy compared with the same months of the previous year except for May when occupancy was slightly above May 1995 Through the first eight months of the year the occupancy rate was 671 percent compared with 711 percent for' the same period in 1995 think everybody had a slow said Merry Stephen president of the Santa Fe Lodgers Association and general manager of the Inn of the Anasazi a downtown property appears to have been caused by the Olympics and the drought and the (forest) fires We got calls from people who asked Santa Fe At the Eldorado Hotel the largest general Randy Randall said the decline in occupancy at his property was because of a drop in group bookings by those taking continuing medical education classes in Santa Fe demand from transient visitors seemed to be he said was a good summer just not a great summer It was not quite as good as last The month of October helped by bookings made by visitors to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta probably going to be the busiest month since been here" Randall said just one of those months in which everything fits Out oh CerriBos Road James Paul is the new manager of the Please see TOURISM Page D-2 a boom in exports under way in the poor tropical country of Guyana Rather make that X-ports of a product the world seem to get enough of phone sex This year lone telephone company could take in nearly $100 million from its burgeoning trade in specialized information services such as telephone sex as dialers in the United States and other countries place international calls to X-rated services in Guyana New technology often has unforeseen consequences But few business trends are as strange as what has resulted from the increasing ease and reliability of international calling: Phone sex has gone global Americans who dial up numbers for sexual talk with strangers may be reaching halfway around the world often without realizing it This has sent hundreds of millions of dollars flowing out of the United States and other industrial countries experts said and into faceless phone sex operations in places such as Guyana the Philippines Poland the Netherlands Antilles islands and the tiny African country of Sao Tome For the smaller countries these telephone services have become an important source of foreign exchange a huge business for Atlantic Tele-Network Inc a US company that bought 80 percent of national phone company Guyana Telephone Telegraph for $165 million in 1991 In 1992 it began making its circuits available to those offering chat sports scores weather horoscopes and other audiotext ATN is incorporated in Delaware but has headquarters in the Virgin Islands where it also operates that phone system we bought the (Guyana) phone company we planned to run it just like a regular old phone company spokesman Edwin Crouch said Then he said found referring to the dozens of service providers in the United States and elsewhere that look for offshore places to handle calls started marketing it and treating it as a serious In 1991 Guyana was receiving no audiotext calls from abroad In 1995 it logged 102 million minutes of calling according to ATN That accounted for $91 million of Guyana Telephone Telegraph's total revenue of $131 million The figures continue to grow: Please see SEX Page D-3 tfO Clyde MuellerTha New Mexican Visitors during a walking tour of downtown Santa Fe gather on the Plaza Tourism chief to leave Santa Fe By BOB QUICK The New Mexican Dan Baxter the first executive director of the Santa Fe Lodgers Association and many would say an effective champion of the local tourism industry is moving to Aspen Colo "My wife and I lived in Aspen for 10 years and now Baxter said wife got a wonderful job opportunity an opportunity we Baxter will continue to work for the Santa Fe Lodgers Association through the end of the year He moved to Santa Fe to manage the Radisson Pica-cho Hotel then took over the lodgers association an industry group consisting of most of the major hotels in town leaving Santa Fe as some observers claim Please see CHIEF Page D-2 Dan Baxter.