Monday, March 17, 1986
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Filipinos erasing signs of Marcos
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Angry citizens across the Philippines are defacing and destroying the thousands of monuments and other symbols of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos and his 20-year rule.
Statues and portraits of Marcos — as well as signs naming streets, parks and buildings for him and his wife Iwela — are disappearing. The burgeoning movement has been compared to Germany's removal of all vestiges of Adolf Hitler after World War II.
The popular purge of the 20-year
legacy of the wealthy Marcos regime is fueled by President Corazon Aquino's exposure of the former leader's extravagant lifestyle and alleged $10 billion in hidden wealth, political observers said yesterday.
"The whole Filipino landscape is littered with what Marcos has done, with the bodies of his victims, the land he has stolen," said Luis Baca, a diversity professor and editor of the Philippine Inquirer, a daily newspaper.
He said the newspaper had received more than 100 letters calling for the government to blow up a 93-foot concrete bust of Marcos in the province of La Union, 120 miles north of Manila.
Last week local tribesmen slaughtered a pig and smeared its blood on the massive bust to excercise evil spirits of Marcos from their ancestral mountain homeland. But their army, armed with tribesmen from demolishing the bust, choosing to preserve it as a monument to folly.
In a front-page commentary Saturday, the Manila Times newspaper compared the sweeping catharsis of Marcos images to the 'de-Nazification' of post-Hitler Germany by the Allies after World War I.
"This is a national purgation," said Beitran, 49, who has been writing about Philippine politics for 25 years.
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Filipinos have been ripping Marcos' portraits from office and schoolhouse walls, calling for the demolition of his statues and the removal of his name from roads and public works projects.
"We have Marcos roads, Marcos highways and Marcos bridges all over the country, and Imelda parks," Beltran said.
Beltran said his newspaper's new "People Watch" column had generated 40 to 50 calls daily.
U.N. expulsions target Soviet spies
United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — The U.S. demand that the Soviet Union send home 105 of its U.N. diplomats is billed by the Reagan administration as a move to curb Soviet soviety in New York.
The number of Soviet personnel the United States wants to kick out by April 1,1988, represents 40 percent of a staff of 275 — the largest mission of all U.N. members.
The U.S. mission to the United Nations, the second largest, numbers 126. China is third with 116. The Soviets have not one but three U.N. missions in New York — one each for the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelorussia — a postwar victory for Josef Stalin, who demanded three seats in the newly formed organization. The United States had the
same opportunity but declined.
The U.S. order does not affect dozens of Soviet employees in the Secretariat, one of whom is Viacheslav Ustinov, the undersecretary-general for political and Security Council affairs, who has a firm hand on the conduct of the 15-monetary council, which is the highest U.N. political body.
The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based conservative group, has accused the Soviet Union of running a spy nest in the United Nations, where its diplomats and those of Soviet-bloc countries enjoy diplomatic immunity.
Recently, the State Department ordered diplomats from the Soviet Union and Soviet-bloc countries to notify a special office of any travel outside a 25-mile radius from New York's Columbus Circle. The order also covers Soviet and Soviet-
bloc nationals working in the Secretariat.
This month a Heritage Foundation study accused the Soviet Union of using the extensive U.N. library for Soviet disinformation, covert operations and espionage.
"Last spring, evidence was presented to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that confirmed what some U.N. library critics have known for some time: The U.N. library is a den of spies," the foundation said.
Apart from the fact that Soviet nationals have headed the library since 1964, the foundation said Soviet employees of the library travel throughout the United States for library conferences.
“This enables the Soviets to use the U.N. library, as a cover for intelligence-gathering activities,” it
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Swiss voters reject U.N. membership
BERN, Switzerland — Swiss voters yesterday rejected by a 3-1 margin a government-sponsored proposal to join the United Nations.
Foreign Minister Pierre Aubert, a vocal supporter of the proposal, said that the government was disappointed that the measure failed but that there would be no change in Swiss foreign policy.
Switzerland will remain an observer in the United Nations General Assembly and a full member of all U.N. specialized agencies, most of which have headquarters in Geneva.
Voter turnout was just over 50 percent of the country's 4.1 million voters, compared to a usual voter turnout of 40 percent.
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