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Tuesday, August 30, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11 d Thousands mourn murder of Aquino 1 percent^ v levels, 'eful the inward fo, : y«ar,"|it| weekeoi ’g higheti er times ol United Press International MANILA, Philippines — most i e iantin g and j°gS in g alongside .wasoneoB' e h earse > huge crowds of traffic^, ifemmers Monday jammed the decade Rute of the cortege for Benigno eopledit P' Aquino Jr. for the third rjuly W et|l ai g ht da y- 3 p| eweit «Intelligence officials in Man- tesultoit-F confirmed that police were r t }, e | u |,'Steed on red alert in prepara- gfon for the slain opposition } lal hoi^Bder’s funeral and burial holiday Wednesday- A police spokes- In said members of the metro- Ilitan Manila force were on 24- ,, pur standby. 1 Clift emotion-charged wds of grieving Filipinos re- L m lyed the intensity of the JdLLK feekend, when Acjuino’s body Is carried to his home province intematioJof Tarlac, 77 miles north of i-AVit» mla - -med thfa I f he black hearse bearing nemadt a l uino ’ s flag-draped casket left tgun and I Tdac Monday and traveled lewithof: I rou gh Concepcion, his home- Tth, and then back to Manila, ssive crowds packed provin- roadsides, spilling over onto as on a e chief si| andy, 31), the roadway and causing enor mous traffic jams along the way. Aquino was gunned down at the Manila International Air port Aug. 21 as he returned from three years of self-exile in the United States. His killer has still not been identified by au thorities. In Concepcion, nearly all the town’s 80,000 people lined the town’s main thoroughfare to bid farewell to “Ninoy,” their best- known native son. Shortly after leaving Concep cion, a crowd of several hundred stopped the hearse and about 10 young men jumped onto the hood. Security guards pushed them off, but for the next 2 miles a crowd of about 200 men jog ged alongside the vehicle chant ing “fight, fight, fight.” At the small community of Dau, where the caravan was sup posed to have turned toward the four-lane Philippine-American highway to Manila, a crowd re fused to let the driver pass. They convinced the cortege instead to take the less traveled MacArthur Highway, which passes through several small towns north of Manila. Thousands of people, many throwing coins and flowers and pouring soft drinks on the hearse, joined the procession as it crept slowly toward the capital. In Angeles City, adjacent to the giant U.S. Clark Air Base, the cortege was met by the roar of F-4 Phantom jets overhead, a local brass band playing a funer al dirge on the back of a flatbed truck and the release of a flock of pigeons with yellow ribbons tied around their necks. People along the route did not appear to have much confi dence in the government account of the killing — that Aquino was shot by the gunman. “I think the government had something to do with it,” said one young man, who suggested there would be more demon strations throughout the Philip pines. Government, leftists meet officers i .S. envoy may help an Salvadoran talks er, Josepkl ■ problemsf :nam wilij said Tamil :e station ade rirem United Press International VhenthehSl Salvador — Officials in El I andy finBvador awaited special U.S. y injurinjSoy Richard Stone Monday Svara. ith the prospect he could left the[Mighten out last-minute de- sed a 3l(Ss for face-to-face talks be- pholstenSen leftist rebels and the gov- lopandaoSment to begin within several police saiij list ran amj iny where,"! Chief Gi?| police A U.S. embassy spokesman 1 Stone would arrive Monday ian Salvador from Honduras his fourth visit to Central rued gun: America since being appointed peculate jtjune. e mightSOffidM Salvadoran sources I Stone would meet with the ernment-backed Peace mission, perhaps to nge the final details of the -ever face-to-face meetings iveen the panel and leftist leaders. peace Commission President rancisco Quinonez told repor- over the weekend the group talk with the guerrillas “in a days.” the battlefront, heavy ting was reported Saturday nd the town ofjucuaran, 71 is southeast of San Salvador, re officials claim 15 guerril- Jvere killed. Military officials said counter- isurgency operations were tak- ace in half of the country’s d. "But! ■ really H ists ■tween ite i rriiia 14 provinces, and the army has claimed at least 47 rebels died in fighting last week. In Nicaragua, Interior Minis ter Tomas Borge warned that current fighting between the Sandinista army and American- backed rebels could soon involve U.S. troops. Barricada, the official news paper of the leftist Sandinista Party, quoted Borge as saying Fighting could worsen in the next few days. “We have made cold calcula tions, analyzing all the possibili ties, and if the troops from the United States come to Nicar agua they will have a worse time than in Vietnam,” Borge said. In Guatemala, a political par ty leader charged that “ultra rightist fascist” gunmen, re sponsible for the death squad executions that took place almost daily under previous re gimes, have been unleashed again by the new government. Rony Villavicencio Calderon, secretary general of the new Organized Popular Force, said Sunday that gunmen had ordered party followers to stay out of politics twice since Gen. Oscar Humbero Mejia Victores seized power earlier this month. Under the Romeo Lucas Gar cia regime, hundreds of politi cians, union activists, students and teachers were assassinated, while international human rights groups called Guatemala the worst human rights violator in the world. 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