Monday, Jan. 27, 1986
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Officials want Marcos out
From Kansan wires
MANILA, Philippines — The Reagan administration now thinks the departure of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is critical to a non-communist future and U.S. interests in that country, The New York Times reported yesterday.
The newspaper reported that the administration had decided not to push Marcos out through covert means or by public attacks on him, although officials considered both options.
Instead, the Times reported, a new policy has developed to distance the United States from Marcos by publicly questioning his efforts at change and sending a special presidential envoy to express concern about the issue, administration officials said.
Marcos, under U.S. pressure to ensure a fair presidential election, yesterday promised clean and honest balloting but warned against "meddlers and interventionists in our midst."
In a statement issued after a six-hour meeting between Marcos and leaders of his ruling New Society Movement party, Marcos said "the eyes of world are focused upon us."
"In fact, there are already meddlers and interventionists in our must," he said. "To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to
them nobody needs tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election."
The presidential palace statement did not identify the meddlers, but Marcos has been critical of the foreign press and U.S. congressional leaders critical of his rule.
On Friday, Marcos announced a rollback in petroleum products prices and Saturday ordered reductions in power and transportation rates.
"This is a very cynical and transparent attempt to bribe the people," Corazon Aquino campaign press spokesman Rene Saguisag said.
Aquino's running mate, Salvador Laurel, said Saturday that Marcos' ruling party had set aside $550 million from the national budget to finance its campaign.
He said the ruling party "plans to allot a big portion of its unlimited funds for vote-buying to make the election look credible. This way the ruling party need not tamper election results in many precincts."
Marcos' running mate, Arturo Tolentino, 75, conceded the campaign was taking its toll on the president and expressed impatience with its pace.
"Naturally, sometimes he (Marcos) gets tired," Tolentino said. "I have gone through more strenuous campaigns than this. In fact I feel
that we are not campaigning hard enough. But you know the strategy of the president is different."
Marcos, said to be suffering from a degenerative kidney disease. has appeared frail and weak during the campaign and has canceled several stops.
The White House had no comment yesterday on the Times report.
Marcos 'health will drive him from the scene anyway, the Times quoted Reagan administration officials as saving.
President Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger have quietly approved the policy of distancing the United States from Marcos, the newspaper reported.
Administration officials fear the repercussions of continued U.S. identification with the Marcos government at a time of growing anti-Marcos sentiment in the 1,000-island nation, the Times said.
They also worry that Marcos is unwilling to introduce changes considered necessary to the United States and that his moderate opponents might unite with communist rebels against him, the newspaper said.
Either scenario could jeopardize U.S. bases there, which are considered vital to U.S. power in Asia and the Pacific.
Papers say U.S. denied war claims
WASHINGTON — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos ran a black market during the Japanese occupation of his country, documents say, and did so under the guise of guerrilla warfare the Army later said was fraudulent and non-existent.
United Press International
The Army records, obtained last week from the National Archives, said the Army twice denied Marcos' claims of heading an armed guerrilla unit, dubbed the Ang Mga Maharlika, during World War II.
"No such unit ever existed," the Army records said.
In other documents, Marcos acknowledged his links to a notorious Filipino black market trader engaged in selling wartime commodities to the Japanese.
Several documents indicated that although the Army did not think Marcos commanded such a unit, he was recognized by several guerrilla leaders for his trading activity.
In a 29 page "History of the Ang Mga Maharlake", submitted to the U.S. government in his bid for official recognition of his unit, Marcos conceded the problem of funds and supplies was the stumbling block in the group's efforts to combat Japanese invaders.
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Marcos said, "It was decided that an ex-servicemen's association be organized ostensibly for the purpose of engaging purely in the commerce and trade of materials not connected whatsoever with the war purposes but actually to serve the double purpose of a front for a headquarters and a continuous source of revenue."
Because Marcos was not a recognized guerrilla leader, he was not allowed to print currency to finance his activities, McCoy said. The documents show Marcos asked Gen. Douglas MacArthur for money but never received it.
In his history for the Army, Marcos said the group engaged in the manufacture of goods such as toothbrushes until December 1944, when the association was forcibly closed by the arrest of many of its members.
Marcos has ruled the Philippines as president for 20 years. He called a snap election for Feb. 7 and is getting a tough, bitter challenge from Corazon Aquino, wife of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino.
The documents also show that on July 10, 1943, Marcus told investigators he had joined forces with Cipriano Allas, later listed as the commander of the Maharlika intelligence section and an "absolutely notorious black marketeer." McCoy said.
Alfred McCoy, an American professor at Australia's University of New South Wales who discovered the once-secret documents at the National Archives, said evidence indicated that Marcos also was dealing in prized wartime commodities, including scrap metal plundered from American-owned mines.
He did not say how much money the group earned but that it continued to operate from December 1942 until 1945 when U.S. and Filipino forces retook the 1,000-island nation from the Japanese.
In a document file called "Guerilla Bandits and Black Marketeers," a Philippine Army document concluded that Allas and several other men listed on the Maharlika roster "engaged themselves in the purchases and sale of steel cables" to the Japanese.
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