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Friday, January 30, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Participants in failed coup attempt will be prosecuted, Aquino says
MANILA. Philippines — President Corazon Aquino yesterday ordered the prosecution of soldiers and civilians who took part in an attempted coup and said the gravity of the crime was not lessened by their peaceful surrender.
The government also said it thwarted an attempt by former President Ferdinand E. Marcos to his Philippines from his exile in Hawaii.
One Cabinet minister linked Marcos to the coup plot.
The mutineers were the last holdouts from about 500 rightist soldiers who tried Tuesday to take over key communications and military installations around Manila.
Trade Minister Jose Concepcion said he thought Marcos was behind the coup attempt.
Vice President Salvador Laurel said Marcos planned to board a chartered Boeing 707 at Honolulu Airport yesterday and return to
the country he was forced to flee 11 months ago after civilian-military unrising.
Government spokesman Teodoro Benigno said the plan was blocked by the Philippine consul general in Honolulu, Tomas Gomez III. Benigno said the government received reports that Marcos and his wife, Imleda, were preparing to fly back to the Philippines in a special plane.
In Honolulu, Marcos said he wanted to return to the Philippines as soon as possible, saying his country was in a crisis.
In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speaks said the agreement made between White House officials and Marcos when he was given sanctuary in the United States 11 months ago was that Marcos could come and go as he pleased but could not travel to the Philippines without approval by Aquino.
S. African court ends restrictions on press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
- South Africa's Supreme Court yesterday struck down government press restrictions that banned the release of the African National Congress and outlawed rebel groups.
Lawyers called the decision a significant victory.
Judge H.J. Daniels threw out a government order prohibiting the publication of any report or advertisement promoting the image or standing of the African National
Congress or seeking to explain or justify its tactics.
It was the fourth Supreme Court ruling against government media curbs since President Pietter Botha was made aware of widespread emergency rule last June 12.
But Daniels, ruling on a request by the country's two biggest newspaper groups, left intact a secondary restriction on actions or reports that could "encourage or inculcate support" for outlawed organizations.
Third suspect charged in Puerto Rican fire
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A third union worker was charged yesterday with arson, murder and conspiracy in the New Year's Eve fire that killed 96 people and injured more than 100 at the Dupont Plaza Hotel. Officials said no more arrests were expected.
The latest suspect is Jose Francisco Rivera Lopez, 40, who has worked at the hotel for the past two years as a bar and banquet worker. He was charged with 96 counts of murder and one count each of arson, destruction and conspiracy.
Like the other two suspects already in custody, Rivera Lopez is a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which just had broken off contract negotiations with the hotel at one end of a ballroom minutes before the fire started at the other end of the room.
Teamsters officials have said the union was not involved in the fire. Puerto Rico Commonwealth Magistrate Carlos Rivera Martínez set bail for Rivera Lopez at $2.7 million.
Across the Country
Reagan sent signed Bible as gift to Iranians
WASHINGTON — The White House confirmed yesterday that President Reagan signed a Bible that was sent secretly to Iranian officials, but said it was an insignificant matter.
News of the secret gift was found out when the Bible was publicly displayed at a news conference Tuesday in Teheran by Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the parliament.
Since the secret sale of U.S. arms to Tehanan was disclosed last November reports have inferred that Tehanan's establishment contacts in Tehanan have
given small gifts to Iranian officials. The White House refused to discuss the subject.
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said Reagan signed the Bible on Oct. 3 at the suggestion of John M. Poindexter, then his national security adviser. At the time, the United States already had secretly shipped weapons to Iran.
The Bible then was taken to Frankfurt, West Germany, and presented to an unidentified Iranian who was to become a new intermediary between Washington and Teheran, Speaks said.
From staff and wire reports.
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Beautiful weather will end the week with sunny skies and calm winds. The high will reach 50 degrees and the low tonight will be around 30 degrees with some clouds moving in by morning...WEEKEND
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