Wednesday, April 2, 1986
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Aquino cuts careers of military officials
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**MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino yesterday dimissed 39 military officers, generals and colonels, in her first big move to appease younger military officers who helped topple the Ferdinand Marcos regime.**
Aquino, however, extended the terms of eight generals and three colonels who assumed what armed forces chief Gen. Fidel Ramos had 22-5 civilian-backed military revolt.
The retirement of several generals had been a repeated demand by Washington during the final years of the 20-year Marcos regime. The demand was part of a program to reform the 250,000-member military to combat a growing communist insurreency.
In the latest reported attack, the Philippine News Agency said communist rebels killed six civilians and wounded two civilians in a southern Philippine village that denied them food and revolutionary taxes.
The mass retirement of the 20 generals and 19 colonels left a big gap in the military hierarchy. Only one four-star general — Ramos — and 32 other generals with one-star rank remain. The terms of many of the 20 generals had been extended by Marcos over the protest of younger officers.
The move came on the eve of Aquino's third Cabinet meeting and her first since she enacted a provisional constitution last week that abolished the National Assembly. The constitution gave her broad powers to rule by edict in order to sweep away the remaining structures of Marcos' authoritarian rule.
Military retirements since February have reduced the number of generals and high-ranking officers from 112 to 53, and opened the way for the promotion of majors and colonels whose advancements were halted by Marcos' habit of retaining loyal generals past retirement age.
Aquino, 53, approved yesterday recommendations submitted by Ramos and endorsed by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile to retire the 20 generals and 19 colonels and extend the terms of eight generals and three colonels, the state-run news agency said.
"Marcos' practice of extending generals' terms was a source of dissatisfaction among junior officers who last year formed the Reform the Armed Forces Movement and spanned February's revolt against applauded Marcos. In Hawaii, Ramos and Enrile led the military revolt.
In the latest reported communist rebel attack, guerrillas of the 16,000-strong New Peoples Army killed six civilisers and wounded two others Sunday in the remote village of Luding in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, 510 miles south of Manila.
In Madrid, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez hinted yesterday that Spain might give asylum to Marcos if the Aquino government makes the request. Marcos is reportedly unhappy about U.S. investigations into his wealth and wants to move to another country.
The Communist Party of the Philippines' political arm, the National Democratic Front, said yesterday that seven days had passed since it raised to the Aquino government the possibility of negotiating a ceasefire.
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MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of Filipino picketers angrily rejected a call to end their 11-day-old strike against U.S. military bases yesterday, but others dismantled union barricades that had blocked access to the installations.
Filipino picketers split about strike
The mixed picket-line reaction came shortly after union leaders, U.S. negotiators and Labor Ministry officials concluded nearly eight hours of emergency talks in Manila yesterday. An agreement was made in principle to end the 11-day-old walkout — the longest ever against the bases.
Labor leaders returned to picket lines at Subic Bay Naval Base, Clark Air Base and six smaller U.S. installations north of Manila last night to persuade the 24,000 strikers to accept an agreement to immediately return to work and begin new talks on wage and benefit demands.
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Workers disbanded pickets at San Miguel Naval Communications Station, Camp O'Donnell, Clark, Wallace Air Station and a U.S. Navy transmitter site by late yesterday — and planned to lift barricades at Camp John Hay early Wednesday, said Jack Leigh, U.S. Navy spokesman.
Some 3,000 angry workers chanting 'strike,
strike, strike' hurled rocks and booed Flores last night after he ordered a dismantling of a barricade at the main gate of Subic, 50 miles north of Manila,
witnesses said.
"The problem is resistance coming from the picketers," said Roberto Flores, president of the 24,000-strong Federation of Filipino Civilian Employees Association.
But strikers remained outside Subic and a nearby microwave relay station. Leigh said.
The agreement came an hour after U.S. 7th Fleet Cmdr. Paul McCarthy diverted a five-ship amphibious assault group with 4,000 Marines and sailors from a 15-day liberty call at Subic to an undisclosed port because of the strike.
The picketers beat cars and fences in a massive noise barrage before about 30 Philippine constabulary soldiers intervened with clubs, automatic rifles and riot shields, witnesses said.
The cancellation will mean laying off 800 Filipino workers from Subic's ship repair center, officials said, and will cost the area's economy about $1.5 million.
Flores left the scene quickly and no one was reported injured. Workers later elected a new union president, Manuel Torres, a reputed radical, and threatened to hang Flores, witnesses said.
The union struck at all eight U.S. installations in the Philippines, including Subic and Clark on March 21.
Rebel attack kills eight in Nicaragua
"The mercenaries have failed again in their attempt to demonstrate some kind of military power. Defense Ministry statement said.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Nicaraguan government said yesterday that U.S.-backed rebels ambushed a police车, killing six policemen and two civilians. The car also killed two civilians and wounded eight in another attack.
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Also yesterday, the rebels, known as contras, in clandestine radio broadcasts from Honduras and
Government troops fought 23 skirmishes in three provinces between March 24 and Sunday, killing 73 conspirators. A Defense Ministry statement said.
"It was the Honduran army that counterattacked, causing the invading forces more than 300 deaths," a radio broadcast from Sept. 15 said.
rounding out one of the highest single-month casualty tolls in the 4-year-old war.
After the initial Sandinista incursion last weekend, the United States flew some 600 Honduran soldiers to the border area where they undertook sweeps to clean out pockets of trapped and fleeing Sandinista troops.
The radio also denied claims by the
leftist Sandista government that its troops destroyed the contrasts main training cen ter, about 12 miles inside Honduras.
Journalists have not been allowed into the area to verify claims by either side.
Nicarguar authorities last week said Sandinista troops had killed 350 contras and wounded another 250 in raids on contra camps in Honduras and along the Honduras-Nicarguar border. The Sandinistas reported 40 dead and 116 wounded among their own troops.
Officials said contra forces ambushed a police car in northern Jinetao province, killing six officers. In another attack attributed to the contras, two civilians were killed and eight wounded.
The Defense Ministry said the army killed or wounded another 115 rebels in the last week of fighting.
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