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Hopes of ousting Marcos
dim as opposition unity fails
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — A unity
bid between Corazon Aquino and
Salvador Laurel fell apart Sunday,
dimming opposition prospects of de
feating President Ferdinand L. Mar
cos in a Feb. 7 special election.
While Laurel’s supporters
cheered and fireworks exploded at
his familv compound, the former
senator blamed the widow of assassi
nated opposition leader Benigno
Aquino for the collapse of talks that
would have put her at the top of the
opposition ticket against Marcos.
Instead of accepting Mrs. Aqui
no’s offer to run as her vice presi
dential candidate on a single ticket,
Laurel said he would run on his own
for president.
Aquino said she hoped the oppo
sition still would unite behind her
and Laurel, and inv ited him to join
in a “grand coalition” ticket.
But fragmenting of the opposi
tion gives Marcos, at least for now,
two rivals, each with distinct follow
ings — strengthening his chances of
keeping the presidency he has held
since 1965.
“I was pleading; I was telling
them, let us not destroy ourselves
now,” Francisco Rodrigo, the chief
mediator in opposition unity talks,
said in recounting his discussions
early Sunday with Laurel and
Aquino.
“Marcos already has all the advan
tages; he has the money, the machin
ery, the resources, and he is ruthless,
and he will cheat and tell the world
he won because his opponents were
divided,” Rodrigo, a former senator,
told The Associated Press.
Marcos’ foes still have time to
patch the rift and produce a unified
ticket. The deadline for filing is
Wednesday.
Laurel said he had agreed to run
as vice president under Aquino but
insisted they use the party banner of
his United Nationalist Democratic
Organization. He said Aquino first
agreed, then changed her mind Sun
day.
Aquino said Laurel agreed to run
with her under the joint banners of
both the United Nationalist group
and the People’s Fight Party but it
was Laurel who changed his mind.
Bombs blamed for Paris store explosions
Associated Press
PARIS — Crudely made fire
bombs may have caused the explo
sions in two big department stores
filled with Christmas holiday shop
pers that injured 39 people, 12 of
them seriously, authorities said Sun
day.
This led to speculation that the at
tacks Saturday may have been the
work of a disgruntled, or unstable,
individual, rather than any known
terrorist group.
Both Gaiet ies Lafayette and Print-
emps, lavishly decorated for the
Christmas season, were filled with
shoppers when the attacks came
shortly before 6 p.m.
The two stores are next to each
other on the Boulevard Haussmann
in the city’s crowded, commercial
ninth district, not far from the Paris
Opera.
Dr. Francis Roy, who headed the
rescue effort, said 25 people were
treated and released following the
blasts and 14 remained hospitalized
Sunday, all but two of them seriously
burned.
Police said claims of responsibility
for the blasts included ones allegedly
on behalf of the Palestine Liberation
Front headed by Mohammed Abbas,
also known as Abul Abbas; the Is
lamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War Or
ganization; and the Armenian Secret
Army for the Liberation of Arme
nia, known as ASALA.
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Five years later
McCartney says he's still in mourning over Lennon's death
Associated Press
LONDON — Paul McCartney
said Sunday, on the fifth anniver
sary of the day John Lennon was
killed by a deranged fan in New
York City, that he is still mourn
ing the death of his former
Beatles songwriting partner.
“I still cannot believe he is
dead,” McCartney said in a rare
television interview.
“I think I would include myself
in a kind of top 10 list of people
who loved John most," McCart
ney said, on Independent Tele
vision’s “Good Morning Britain.”
“1 was probably more shattered
than most people when John
died," said McCartney, 43. “1 had
plenty of sort of personal grief,
out I am not very good about
public grief.”
Lennon was shot outside his
apartment in New York on Dec.
8, 1980.
McCartney said there is danger
that Lennon, who died at age 40,
could he considered a saint by
fans who overlook Lennon’s
faults.
“It is like his Auntie Mamie
would tell you, he could be
naughty as well as good, as any
mum or auntie could tell you
about their loved ones.”
McCartney said he missed Len
non musically. The two were re
sponsible f or writing nearly all of
the Beatles’ tunes from albums
such as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band," “Revolver.”
“Magical Mystery Tour” and “Ab
bey Road.”
“He was definitely the best col
laborator I have ever worked
>artney was
with. ... He was great, he was
smart, and we started off to
gether.”
New controversy about the two
Beatles’ relationship arose after
an interview with McCa
published Nov. 5.
The telephone interview with
author Hunter Davis was pub
lished in Britain’s Woman Mag
azine four years after the inter
view was conducted.
It quoted McCartney as de
scribing Lennon as jealous, inse
cure with women, and a “maneu
vering swine” who took credit for
songs he did not write.
After the interview was pub
lished, McCartney issued a
statement saying: “I’d like to
make it clear that John Lennon
was no angel, but I, like millions
of others, loved him dearly.”
Fans meet sing, recall at New York's Strawberry Fields
Associated Press
NEW YORK — They could
not be in Strawberry Fields for
ever, but many at least spent the
day there — singing, talking and
remembering John Lennon on
the fifth anniversary of his mur
der.
Dozens of fans of the former
Bealle came together Sunday at a
teardrop-shaped section of Cen
tral Park that was dedicated in
Lennon’s memory Oct. 9, shortly
after what would have been his
45th birthday.
Strawberry Fields is on the
edge of the park, and through
barren trees Lennon’s admirers
could see the spot in f ront of the
Dakota apartments where he was
shot by Mark David Chapman the
night of Dec. 8, 1980.
Chapman is serving a term of
20 years to life at Attica Correc
tional Facility in upstate New
York.
Elliot Mintz, a family spokes
man, said Lennon’s widow, Yoko
Ono, and their 10-year-old son
Sean would be in the city Sunday,
but declined to say if they would
be in their apartment at the Da
kota.
Mintz said Ono would use the
day for “quiet reflection.”
Some of those who gathered
Sunday at Strawberry Fields sat
on benches and stared.
Most were too young to re
member the British rock invasion
that brought the Beatles and their
music to the United States in
1964.
But their emotion was evident,
as young women dropped flowers
ii\.the center of a 10-foot, black-
and-white starburst mosaic fea
turing the word “Imagine,” the ti
tle of Lennon’s biggest post-
Beatles hit.”
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