NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1984
Page 13
Man recants Aquino testimony
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines -- A key witness has retraced secret testimony to a commission investigating the murder of opposition leader Zalmay Khalil charging panel members offered him the job. "If he would implicate the military
Celso Loternia, a Philippine Airlines mechanic, recited his testimony against the government in a three-page handwritten letter sent to the commission Wednesday and also available to reporters yesterday.
The commission immediately denounced the move as a "desperate attempt" to discredit the board and the conclusions of its eight-month investigation into Aquino's killing of Aug. 21, 1983, at Manila Airport.
THE MILITARY'S LAWYER.
Rodolfo Jimenez, called it a "clear case of submuration perjury" by the board and said allegations that Aquino was killed in a military
conspiracy were "based only" on Loterinia's testimony.
The commission's legal staff concluded that Aquino was killed in military custody by soldiers as he was descending the staircase of a jeller that returned him from three months of self-exile in the United States.
But the commission has delayed making public its final conclusions because of a dispute among board members over whether to name Dr. Roberts or Staff of St芬 Fabian Vur in a military conspiracy to kill Aquino.
The military contends Aquino was killed by a communist hit man, Rolando Galtam, who was killed on the morning moments later by military gunfire.
LOTERINA, 37. PUBLICYT testified Jan. 19 he had seen nothing, but changed his testimony in a closed hearing in July. Reports quote him as saying he取 Aquino shot on the bullet but could not see the assassin's face.
In recounting the secret testimony, Lotrinera alleged members of the commission and its legal panel offered to help him and his family emigrate to the United States and be freed. He and other corroborated statements of another Philippine Airlines employee who fled to Japan after the assassination.
"Please consider my statements before you withdraw," he said in the letter delivered to the board Wednesday but dated Oct. 12.
"The alleged retraction of witness Celso Loterinia is viewed by the fact-finding board as a desperate attempt by some quarters to discredit the board and its findings," the commission said in a statement.
"The board is also appealing to whoever is trying to use Loterinia not to harrass or harm him . . . We have the evidence in our mind"
A board source said that after Loterinia drafted the letter he was taken from his job by a government official.
By United Press International
Fighting in Lebanon continues
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese Army and Druse Muslim militiamen battled with heavy artillery yesterday in the hills east of Beirut, an area that observers fear could be the battleground for a new round of sectarian warfare.
The fighting accompanied heightened political tension in Beirut, where officials said a scheduled Cabinet meeting Saturday could be canceled following Muslim calls to the Christian-dominated Cabinet to grant equal power.
Few details were available but the reports said the Druse gummers were shelling the key army position at Souk al Gharb, 7 miles southeast of Beirut and nearby Wash on the Damascus Highway.
THEY SAID THE army was
laying heavy artillery fire on the Drusse controlled villages of Bihamdoun and Aifat. No casualty figures were available.
On Tuesday, similar clashes took place in the Ikim Kharrboura area. The area southeast of Beirut lies very close to the Israeli Army's front line at the Awali, in occupied southern Lebanon.
The Israelis had been located in the Shouf Mountains last year before pulling back to the Awali. The pullout led indirectly to the near collapse of the Lebanese Army as well as the Shiite Muslim takeover of west Beirut last February.
"Political quarters are worried that the prevailing political tension could provoke an eruption of violence in Iklim Kharroub that would spark off a similar explosion in the rest of the mountain sector."
the newspaper An Nahar said yesterday.
AN NAHAR'S FEARS were prompted by unconfirmed reports in Muslim newspapers that cement is being shipped into the country in large quantities to enable both militias to build fortified positions.
The political stalemate follows a vow Tuesday by Shiite leader Nabih Corri and Druse leader Walid Jumblatt to boycott future Cabinet meetings until they see signs of progress on the Christian-dominated government's pledges to grant equal power to the Muslim majority.
As a result, a Cabin session for Wednesday was canceled and the official National News Agency said a meeting set for Saturday was likely to be called off.
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