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World and Nation
Marcos, Aquino finish
campaign on bitter note
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Presi
dent Ferdinand E. Marcos, at his last
rally before the election Wednesday,
accused his opponents of sowing ha
tred and revolution during the bitter
presidential campaign. Opposition
candidate Corazon Aquino called
him an old dictator whose time has
passed.
Speaking in a Manila park during
a heavy rain, Marcos addressed
these remarks to Aquino and her
supporters: “Slow down, you chil
dren of little brains, you’re no match
for the administration.
“I ask my opponents to stop what
they have begun. You have sowed an
atmosphere of hatred, anger and
revolution. Now I say to you, the
government of the Philippines is not
defenseless,” Marcos said on the last
day of campaigning allowed by law
for Friday’s presidential election
The city was plastered with post
ers calling Aquino “empty-headed.”
Aquino, 53, told a crowd in her
home province of Tarlac: “Marcos is
my only enemy.” She blames him for
the 1983 assassination of her hus
band, Benigno, who had been the
president’s main political foe.
She said in a final campaign mes
sage issued by her headquarters that
her campaign of “people power”
had won, “and as the old dictator
lurks in his palace with his dwindling
band of cronies ... I warn him: Do
not cheat the people on Friday.”
Marcos, 68, has been in power
since 1965 and ruled by martial law
for eight years beginning in 1972.
An official U.S. observer dele-
f ation of 20 members is here, led by
en. "Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. Lugar said
before leaving Washington that they
would feel free to criticize any elec
tion abuses they found.
Marcos had called the early elec
tion in an effort to show critics at
home and in the United States that
he is still popular and has the
strength to deal with a growing com
munist insurgency.
The president’s party projected
that he would win with 56 percent of
the vote. Aquino has said she needs
65 percent to provide a cushion
against vote fraud she predicts will
occur.
Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, spiritual
leader of the predominantly Roman
Catholic community, refused to at
tend a prayer rally at the presi
dential palace. He cited Election
Commission ruling against church
interference in the campaign.
Reporters and observers esti
mated Marcos’ final rally crowd at
150,000, less than one-third of total
that cheered Aquino Tuesday night
in the same government park.
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Crew's families
push manned
exploration
SPACE CENTER, Houston —
The families of the Challenger
crew Wednesday urged Ameri
cans to “keep the dream alive” by
continuing the manned explora
tion of space.
The joint statement was of
fered to the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration by
June Scobee, widow of Chal
lenger commander Dick Scobee.
The statement reads:
“The 51-L crew families want
to thank the people of our coun
try and all the countries of the
world for their thoughts, their
feelings and words of encourage
ment.
“Space flight serves as an outlet
for our human need to learn and
expand. What’s out there will
make our lives better on Earth
and help satisfy mankind’s natu
ral curosity to explore and push
the borders of the known uni-
“So that their lives were not lost
in vain, we must rededicate our
selves to the exploration of space
and to keep the dream alive.”
Others killed in the explosion
of Challenger last week were pilot
Mike Smith; mission specialists
Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair
and Judy Resnik, and payload
specialists Gregory Jarvis and
Christa McAulifTe.
Second ship sent
by NASA to search
for rocket booster
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
NASA sent a second ship Wednes
day to an area 30 miles from Chal
lenger’s launch pad to search for an
object that could be the ill-fated
shuttle’s suspect right rocket
booster.
There have been strong sonar
“hits” in that area, indicating that the
booster may be there in 1,100 feet of
water. The Independence, a booster
recovery ship, was steaming in that
direction to join another such ship,
the Liberty Star.
The Independence carried a ro
bot submarine capable of photo
graphing the object but NASA said
g lans for its use were undetermined
ecause of a choppy sea.
Sources reported, meanwhile,
that ships had recovered 17 feet of
explosives from a “destruct package”
that was on the side of Challenger’s
main fuel tank when it lifted off.
/The explosives had not been deto
nated, the sources said, removing
them from the list of possible causes
of the catastrophe.
Meanwhile, television networks
showed a dramatic photograph
made just after Challenger exploded
which clearly shows two distinct
smoke trails spurting from the ship’s
light booster, indicating that fire
somehow was coming from the side
of the booster.
The fact that only a fraction of the
shuttle and its cargo has been recov
ered — about 10 percent — was un
derscored dramatically in a video
tape showing the wreckage laid out
on a grid pattern of yellow lines in a
NASA warehouse.
The huge room was mostly empty
with items placed here and there.
Most prominent were two large sec
tions that appeared to be remnants
of wings. There was nothing in the
area where the crew cabin would be.
The crew cabin and its voice re
corders have not been found, NASA
said.
The officials in charge of NASA’s
in-house investigation of the acci
dent were in Washington, preparing
to disclose for the first time what
they think caused the shuttle to ex
plode in flames.
Members of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration’s
interim review board are to be wit
nesses in Washington Thursday
when a presidential investigating
commission holds its first hearing.
The still picture aired on tele
vision, made by an employee of a
Kennedy Space Center contractor,
shows the two boosters flying off on
their own, with twin columns of
smoke emerging from the one on
the left.
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Bankrupt farmer, 67, commits
Associated Press
WAYNESBORO, Ga. — A 67-
year-old farmer shot and killed him
self moments before his property
was to be auctioned for unpaid
debts, the latest in a series of violent
| incidents linked to the farm crisis.
“He just couldn’t stand to see his
whole life go on the steps of the
courthouse,” Deborah Jennings said
after her father, L.D. Hill III, shot
himself Tuesday at his Georgia
home.
The shooting occurred about 20
minutes before the 700-acre farm
?was scheduled to have been sold on
the steps of the county courthouse,
Burke County Sheriff Greg Coursey
said Wednesday.
“He wanted to stop the sale, which
in fact he did,” Coursey said.
Hill owed $62,000 on the land,
Jennings said.
She said the family was proud that
Hill had tried until shortly before
the auction to repay the debt.
David Morgan, president of the
Federal Land Bank of Central
Georgia and the Farmers Produc
tion Credit Association, a federal
agency that held the note on the
farm, said, “It just tore us up.”
The association had loaned Hill
money through the Federal Inter
mediate Credit Bank of Columbia,
S.C., Morgan said.
Hill had visited FPCA officials in
Waynesboro before the auction to
see if he could sell part of his prop
erty to relieve the debt, Morgan said.
Georgia Agriculture Commis
sioner Tommy Irvin said he was not
surprised by the death.
“I’m anticipating more of this, es
pecially as foreclosures pick up in
the next three or four months,” he
said. “It’s a traumatic experience for
farmers to feel they’re a failure, even
when most of the time the failure is
beyond their control.”
“I have a dream that my four little chil
dren will one day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by the color of
their skin but by the content of their cha
racter.”
Martin Luther King
Nobel Laureate for Peace
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