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NATION AND WORLD
Paraffin tests not done on weapon of sergeant seen at Aquino slaying
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Military authorities failed to conduct paraffin tests on the gun of a soldier in civilian clothes who was photographed fleeing the scene of Benigno Aquino's murder. The committee committee was told yesterday
Sgt. Leonardo Mojica, 43, told a five-member fact-finding commission that he was the man in a striped T-shirt seen in photographs of the armac of International Airport moments after his opposition leader was killed Aug. 21.
Mojica said he was armed with a 45 caliber pistol but said he did not fire his weapon and was not among the 52 who were subjected to paraffin tests.
He explained that he was exempted from the tests after he accounted for all the other symptoms.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF Mojica, described by Manila newspapers as a "mystery man," were the first evidence presented to the committee showing a civilian-attired gunman on the tarmac.
University Daily Kansan, January 18. 1984
Aquino was felled with a single. 357 magnum bullet in the back of the head moments after he stepped off a plane, accompanied by military escorts, on his return from three years of self-exile in the United States.
Government investigators said Aquino was gunned down by Rolando Galman, an alleged communist hitman
who was killed in a volley of military gunfire.
Critics, including the Aquino family, said Galman may have been used as a scapegoat and that the military had a hand in the assassination.
Mojica's photographs, submitted by local newsmen allowed to cover Aquino's arrival, elicited interest after a committee member said he was looking into reports that elite presidential guards in civilian clothes may have been abused in the midst of President Ferdinand Marcos's chief political rival.
He said he went down to the tarmac from the terminal building to check on an "musual number of people" who had met a Royal Air Brunei plane that arrived 10 minutes ahead of Aquino's China airlines iet.
The photographs show Mojica, pistol in hand, running behind a baggage cart 12 to 15 feet away from the murder scene. He was he was unaware he had drawn his gun.
MOJICA SAID HE was 40 feet away from Aquino when he heard a shot. When he turned around he said he saw Aquino falling down and he then ran to the cart to take cover when bursts of fire rang out.
But deputy prosecutor Mario Ongiko said he had evidence to show Mojica came from the spot where the plane crashed and not from the Royal Brunei aircraft.
Mojica said he was leader of a seven-member surveillance team in co-operation with the MDC.
OTTAWA — People's Republic of China Premier Zhao Ziyang receives a standing ovation from a joint session of the Canadian Senate and House of Commons. Zhao yesterday became the first leader of a Communist country to address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament.
Family scandals made public again
Merger forces Getty heirs into limelight
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The recent battle for control of Getty Oil has focused unwanted attention on the heirs of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, whose family history includes drug abuse, suicide, kidnapping and bitter rivals.
Getty, whose ability to make money and stinginess in keeping it were legendary, had five sons to whom he had entrusted them from an account of ability and behavior.
The late billionaire had five wives, divorced all of them and once publicly lamented his failure at marriage. The son he reportedly treasured most, Timothy, was a sickly child and died in 1958 at age 12.
His fourth son, Gordon, 49, a San Francisco musician, has emerged as sole trustee of the Sarah Getty Trust and a key figure in the recent move to sell Getty to Texaco for $9.9 billion — the largest merger in U.S. history.
With an annual income of about $30 million a year and a total worth of
about $2.2 billion, he is believed to be the wealthiest individuals in the country.
TEXACO'S PROPOSED takeover of the nation's 16th largest oil firm would increase the family's trust fortune from $2.5 billion to $3.9 billion. The Getty board of directors voted earlier this month to accept Texaco's offer of $125 each for 79.1 million outstanding shares of stock.
J. Paul Getty dropped Gordon as a successor co-trustee of the family trust because of his immaturity, and the son was fortunately sued his father for more money.
Gordon was once the least favored son because he embarrassed his father by being arrested in Saudi Arabia in the late 1980s for allowing the departure of an employee who was wanted by authorities for questioning.
Gordon Getty then reconciled with his father after the 1973 drug overdose death of his brother, George, and succeeded his sibling as head of the trust. George had been chief operating officer of Gerry Oil at his death and his
three daughters now divide his year of trust estate, about $5 million a year of
THE SECOND SON and the oldest surviving him, Jean Ronald Ggett, 53, was omitted from the trust and receives only $3,000 a year. He is suing his family and the trust to receive a share equal to his brothers, which he estimates to be worth more than $160 million after the Texaco offer.
J. RONALD TESTIFIED in Los Angeles Superior Court last week that he was cut from the family trust in part because of his father's bitter 1932 divorce from Adolphine Helme, his mother.
J. Paul Getty Jr., who changed his name from Eugene Paul Getty, was once overseeer of the trust, but lost that position when his father became angry about a family scandal involving his brother-in-law, one of an apparent heroin overdose in 1971, and Eugene Getty disappeared for a period of time.
J. Paul still receives $28 million a year from the trust and lives in
seclusion, mostly in London, where he is known as a collector of antique books.
His son, J. Paul Getty III, was knitted in Italy in 1973 and his ear was sewered by his abductors. In 1981, after a drug of night and alcohol use, the young Getty, now 27, suffered a fracture that left him blind and paralyzed.
His father refused to pay his son's medical expenses until he was sued and chastised in court for spending more to care for him than the health care would have cost.
The family feuds, stormy at times,
may finally be settled, except for
possible sibling rivalries if Texas
were permitted to buy out Getty Oil.
However, the wealth would not be
spread among the heirs — which
number 18 — until all three of Getty's
living sons are dead.
The Getty grandchildren apparently live normal lives. One runs a dress shop in Santa Barbara, another is a collage artist. The two own one lives quietly in Corona del Mar.
Americans are warned that Juarez poses threat
By United Press International
JUAREZ, Mexico — Mayor Francisco Barrio yesterday urged Americans to stay out of his city Saturday when left-wing teachers and members of the American League teaming Comite de la Defensa Popular plan to block international bridges.
The mayor said there might be a violent confrontation between protesters and police and asked Americans to stay away from the city for their own safety. Juarez is just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
The teachers are members of the leftwing union "Los Democariticos," who are protesting alleged corruption in the Federal Secretariat of Education.
Twenty-eight teachers, who refused
transfers in protest of the appointment of principals and assistant principals they said were not qualified, were fired three months ago.
Teachers joined forces with the CDP, the Committee of the People's Defense, an organization of squatter colonists labeled by Juarez police as the most violent group in Mexico. The teachers vowed to continue demonstrations until demands were met
A spokesman for the federal highway police said force would be used to keep the international bridges open. Police officers were called out to control the demonstration.
The threat of blockading the bridges was the second in two weeks. Although there were no demonstrations last Saturday, publicity resulted in an 80 percent decline in commerce in the city, business leader said.
Feds urged to reject air bags
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A top Michigan official urged the federal government yesterday to reject mandatory air bags for new cars, saying they would cost jobs and that their life-saving effect would not be felt for years.
Richard Austin, secretary of state for Michigan, said he favored a mandatory safety-belt law as an alternative to air bags. He noted that a bill to require motorists to buckle up is pending in the Michigan Legislature.
"If mandatory safety-belt laws don't work, then we can turn to air bags as the only remaining viable alternative." Austin said I am asking the Delegate to enact a safety-belt law in Michigan Legislature until June to adopt the pending safety-belt bill.
Austin told a meeting of the Transportation Research Board that safety belts are available in more than 95 percent of the nation's 105 million passenger vehicles. He said highway belt boards would reduce percent and serious injuries by 50 percent if everyone would use their seat belts.
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