University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1985 NATION AND WORLD --- Aquino trial brings opposition criticism By United Press International MANILA, Philippines — Opposition leaders warned yesterday that the failure of key witnesses to testify in the Benigno Aquino murder trial and other courtroom developments threaten to turn the proceedings into a "mockery of justice." "We are alerting our people to exert extra vigilance over the trial," leaders of the country's largest opposition parties said in a statement since the trial began Feb. 22 in a special anti-craft court. Gen. Fabian Ver, armed forces chief and a cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos, is on trial with 25 other defendants in the Aquino The popular opposition leader was killed Aug. 21, 1983, at the Mamla airport as he returned from a period of self-exile in the United States. THE GOVERNMENT contends that Aquino was shot by communist hit man Rolando Gelman, himself killed in a hall of military gunfire moments after the Aquino shooting. The defendants have been charged in both shootings. The trial followed a nearly yearlong investigation by a civilian panel which implicated the inquiry in the slaying instead of Galman. The one-page statement issued yesterday noted the "mysterious disappearance of the certain wit" and the "suspected tractions" of testimony by others. Government prosecutors have been unable to locate four key witnesses whose testimony before the judges helped lead to the indictments. ANOTHER SETBACK for the prosecution has been the retraction of testimony by two witnesses — an airline mechanic and Galman's step-daughter — who earlier had implicated the military. V, ver. facing 20 years in prison if convicted as an accessory for attempting to cover up the slaying, has stepped aside pending trial. Acting Armed Forces chief Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, under a court order, has directed a nationwide search for the missing witnesses but no progress report has been released. Rebels doubt Vietnamese pullout By United Press International BANGKOK, Thailand — Communist Cambodian rebels yesterday denounced Vietnam's promise to withdraw some of its occupation troops from Cambodia this week as a "tricky declaration." Hanoi recently announced it would transfer up to 15,000 of its 160,000 to 180,000 troops from Cambodia to Vietnam from Vietnam's central highlands this week. The Vietnamese have announced troop withdrawals from Cambodia in each of the past three years. But Thai and Western sources say the Vietnamese secretly replaced the soldiers with fresh men and equipment. "The Hanoi Vietnamese recently declared once again the partial withdrawal of their aggressor troops from Cambodia," the Voice of France said. The destine radio of the communist Khmer Rouge rebels, said yesterday. "THIS TRICKY declaration shows to the world once again the true reason why the Hanoi Vietnam who cheat with the Rancher radio broadcast monitored in Bangkok. "In the past, while they trickly declared the partial withdrawal of their aggressor troops from Cambodia, the Hanoi Vietnamese gathered their forces inside Cambodia, their reinforcement troops from South Vietnam and their forces that they secretly sent from North Vietnam." the radio said. The Khmer Rouge, which ousted the U.-backed Lon Nol government in 1975, ruled Cambodia until the Vietnamese invasion and takeover in early 1979. Western experts say that from 1.5 million to 2 million people, of a population of 7 million, died or were executed during Khmer Rouge rule. Since 1979, however, the Khmer Rouge and two noncommunist rebel groups have joined in a government-in-exile to fight the Khmeneese forces in Cambodia and weaken their equipment supplied by the Chinese. For six years, the U.N. General Assembly has called on Vietnam to withdraw all its troops and to allow free elections. Iran warned to protect hostages By United Press International LONDON — The United States secretly warned Iran that it faces military retaliation if Americans recently kidnapped in Lebanon are tried or executed. The Sunday Times reported. Five Americans are missing since they were kidnapped in Beirut at different times in the past year. The Islamic Jihad, an extremist Muslim group with connections to the Iranian government of Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, said it is holding all of them. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny that such a message was sent to Iran. But last week, Robert McParlane, President Reagan's national security chief, advocated American military action Western intelligence sources said the White House warning was conveyed to Iran by the Swiss diplomatic agency in early March, the paper reported. 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