NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1984
Page 10
Filipinos stage protest over workers' deaths
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Three thousand laborers and students jammed a downtown square yesterday to denounce police for spraying a picket line with gunfire, killing two workers and wounding several others.
The shooting at a rundown rubber factory in northern Manila began Friday after managers brought in non-union help and angry strikers from the police trying to clear the company gates, police and strikers said.
The body of one of the dead workers, Felipe Caracas, 23, struck by a single bullet just above the left eye, lay in a half-open wooden casket under a canvas tent on the ninetie line yesterday.
A National Federation of Labor spokesman said a striking worker had not been killed on a picket line since 1982.
Residents of the poor neighborhood offered condolences to Caracas' grieving mother.
The picketers said that despite the melee they would continue their 33-day-old strike until 135 furoured workers were rehired and
the company ended its harassment of union members.
Speakers condemned the police action in a Manila square bristling with shoppers and with the red flags raised by the protesters. A crowd, which peaked at about 3,000,
The speakers also repeated demands that the government of President Ferdinand Marcos, facing the worst economic crisis since World War II, hike wages 35 percent and release all detained union workers.
At sunset the demonstrators marched through the crowded streets of the district of Quiapo before disbanding.
Organizers said they called the rally to "dramatize the workers' outrage over the government's out-and-out use of brute force against striking workers as it attempts to cow them into doolity."
Labor leaders said harassment of striking workers had escalated since they aired their grievances to Labor Minister Blas Ople.
Caracas, whose body will lie in state at the picket line for a week, died instantly when the bullet pierced his head. Another worker wounded by gunfire died Saturday. Four more were seriously wounded.
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnam yesterday called China's alleged invasion of its territory a very serious act of war and said that the Pekineg regime was an extremely dangerous threat to stability in southeast Asia.
Official Radio Hanoi, monitored in Bangkok, repeated the charge that Chinese infantry troops invaded Vietnam's northern Lang Son Province on Friday after several days of artillery shelling across the frontier.
on April 6 are a very serious act of war against her. the radio quoted yesterday's Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper, Nhan Dan, as saving
"These acts have exposed the Peking reactionaries and constitute a crude encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of an independent country, a member of the United Nations," the report said.
"The Chinese infantry attacks on Peaks 820 and 636 inside Vietnam's northern border province of Lang Son
By United Press International
Vietnam says China threatening stability
The Chinese offered no immediate comment. If the Vietnamese account is accurate, the invasion would be the most serious since the communist neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979.
The Vietnamese newspaper praised the Vietnamese people and armed
forces for repulsing the attacks and inflicting heavy losses on the Chinese. Vietnam said that the Chinese had been driven off after a three-hour battle and indicated that the fight had not resumed.
Vietnam first charged China with the cross-border attack Saturday in a campaign of cyber attacks.
The Hanoi broadcast linked the latest skirmishing at the Sino-Vietnamese border with continued fighting in Cambodia between Vietnamese forces and Peking-aided guerrillas trying to overthrow the Cambodian government.
"By conducting armed provocations and military operations against Vienna," he wrote.
reactionaries have appeared in the eyes of the world public as the main and extremely dangerous threat to the region's peace and stability." Radio
Chinese news agency Xinhua did not mention a Friday attack but reported cross-border firing by Vietnamese artillery and said that 23 Vietnamese troops had been killed or wounded Thursday.
Western diplomats think that the Sino-Vietnamese skimishes reflect a Chinese move to relieve pressure on the Cambodian rebels. In 1970, China invaded Vietnam after Hanoi overran in 1968 and then sent former Rouge government in Cambodia.
IRA gunmen wound judge, kill his daughter
By United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Two Irish Republican Army gunmen critically wounded a Belfast judge and killed his daughter yesterday as his wife watched during the family's walk home from church.
Travers was rushed to a hospital and was listed in critical condition after emergency surgery. Travers' wife was taken with her and their daughter, but was not hurt.
The IRA, an outlawed Catholic paramilitary group seeking to end British rule in northern Ireland, issued a statement from the Belfast Republic-ian Press Center saying that its gunmen carried out the attack.
"The Belfast brigade of the Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for Sunday's gun attack upon resident magistrate Tom Travers." Police did
The two terrorists forced to the ground and shut Tom Travers and his daughter, Mary, 23, as they neared their house in a fashionable suburb south of the city after attending mass at St. Brigid's Roman Catholic church, witnesses said.
Mary Travers died soon after the shooting. Police said that they arrested a woman who was walking a dog near the scene of the shooting.
not immediately comment on the claim.
The IRA statement indicated that the killing of Mary Travers was accidental. "It is believed although not certain that the bullet which fatally wounded his daughter passed through Mr. Travers's body." The statement said.
Although he is a Catholic, as a magistrate Travers have been an IRA target because his duties involved dealing with terrorist cases.
The shooting occurred near the spot where a Catholic judge, William Doyle, was gunned down on a Sunday early last year as he, too, was walking home from church. The IRA claimed responsibility for that attack as well.
A woman who witnessed the shooting told reporters that the attackers lay waiting at the entrance of a tennis club near the Travers' home.
Police said that two handguns had been found near the scene of the shooting, but declined to comment on reports that they had been found on the arrested woman.
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