Thursday, February 20, 1986TThe Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
Marcos gets criticism fromll.S.
U.S. delivers
accusations of
election fraud
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Accusa
tions of election fraud and veiled
threats to close U.S. military bases
descended on President Ferdinand
E. Marcos from Washington on
Wednesday. Corazon Aquino, who
claims she won the presidency,
spoke of mass revolt.
Marcos accused his Western allies
of meddling and raised the possibil
ity of declaring martial law, which he
did once before during his 20 years
in power. On Wednesday he got the
first, and only, congratulatory mes
sage on his disputed election victory,
from the Soviet Union.
The National Assembly, whose
canvass is final, declared last Satur
day that Marcos had won the Feb. 7
election, but an independent poll-
watchers’ group said its count
showed Aquino the victor. Marcos
supporters hold two-thirds of the as
sembly seats.
In Washington, the Senate de
clared by an 85-9 vote that the elec
tions were “marked by such wide
spread fraud that they cannot be
considered a fair reflection of the
will of the people of the Phil
ippines.”
Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana
Republican who led a team of U.S.
observers, said before the vote that
he and his colleagues had seen wide
spread fraud.
Executive for Philippine News shot, killed
Associated Press
GLENDALE, Calif. — An ex
ecutive of the Philippine News, a
newspaper opposed to the regime
of Ferdinand Marcos, was shot to
death at home Wednesday after
receiving a threatening note, au
thorities said.
Police Sgt. Randy Tampa said
several shots were fired in Oscar
Salvatierra’s bedroom at his sin
gle-story home in the foothills
north of downtown Los Angeles.
Philippine News editor-pub
lisher Alex Esclamado said, “The
preliminary report indicated that
the man (assassin) went through
the window, that he shot Mr. Sal-
vatierra in the head and then that
he locked the door (to the bed
room). That was the mark of a
professional killer.”
Aides to Sen. Alan Cranston, a
longtime friend of Philippine
News publisher Alex Esclamado,
said the FBI had been asked to
protect Esclamado and other
News executives who had re
ceived similar threats.
Cranston said he was taking se
riously suspicions that agents of
the Marcos government were in
volved in the death.
Salvatierra, 41, a naturalized
American citizen with four chil
dren, had received a written
warning Tuesday, Aniceto said.
Salvatierra was Los Angeles bu
reau manager of the newspaper.
Cranston, a Democrat seeking
a fourth term in the Senate, said
in a statement that he had asked
FBI director William H. Webster
to investigate “this atrocity.”
Cranston said he also asked
Webster to protect Esclamado
and the paper’s sales representa
tive, Stan Aragon, and members
of their families after they re
ceived similar threats.
The senator said Esclamado
believed the killing was “the work
of Marcos’ agents and intended to
intimidate him in ceasing his op
position to the Marcos regime.
On the basis of Marcos’ behavior
in the Philippines, there is even
more reason to believe Esclama-
do’s suspicions are well founded,
Cranston said.
Secretary of State George P.
Shultz hinted that the Reagan ad
ministration would consider with
drawing from Clark Air Force Base
and Subic Bay Naval Base if it de
cides Marcos kept power by fraud
and no longer has his people’s sup
port.
“Let’s put our stake in democracy
and freedom above the bases,”
Shultz told the Senate Budget Com
mittee.
U.S. aid is a major factor in the
Philippine economy, and American
officials have tied future support for
the government to an election that is
perceived by Filipinos to be free and
honest.
The 68-year-old president said
early Wednesday that he would
“exercise to the limit the provisions
of the law and the constitution to
prevent turmoil.”
He noted that the constitution,
which he designed, gives him “cer
tain powers that can dismantle the
machineries of civil disobedience,”
but he did not say which ones he
would use. His special powers in
clude ordering arrests, ruling by de
cree and declaring martial law.
Aquino, 53, went to Angeles City
for her first post-election rally out
side Manila and declared: “Let us
not rest until we have brought down
Marcos.”
The opposition leader, whose
husband Benigno was Marcos’ chief
political foe until his murder in
1983, told 20,000 people at the rally
that she had been warned she might
be killed.
“My answer is that when Marcos
and his puppets planned the death
of Ninoy (Benigno’s nickname), they
probably told themselves that it
would be all right to kill him because
after a month or two people will for
get, but they were mistaken,” she
said.
“This is my message to Marcos
and his puppets: Do not threaten
Cory Aquino, because I am con
vinced that I am not alone.”
Navy tribunal
gives sailor
life in prison
Associated Press
NEWPORT, R.I. — A black
sailor who fatally stabbed a white
officer aboard a Navy frigate was
spared the death penalty by a mil
itary jury and sentenced to life in
prison.
The eight-member tribunal de
liberated nearly four hours Tues
day before sentencing Petty Offi
cer 3rd Class Mitchell T.
Garraway Jr, who defense law
yers said killed the officer in an
outburst triggered by shipboard
racism.
The same panel convicted Gar
raway on Jan. 30 of premeditated
murder for stabbing Lt. James K.
Sterner. Garraway’s attorney said
he would appeal the conviction.
Garraway, 22, of Suitland, Md,
showed no emotion as he listened
to the sentence, which includes a
dishonorable discharge-
Report: Some NASA officials
didn ’t get engineers’ advice
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — At least three NASA officials in
volved in the decision to launch space shuttle Chal
lenger were not told that booster rocket engineers had
“strongly urged against the launch,” the presidential
commission investigating the accident said Wednesday.
Upon learning of that problem last Friday, the com
mission ordered the space agency and booster rocket
maker Morton Thiokol “to collect and retain any and all
documents, memoranda or personal notes of all per
sons” who took part in the decision to launch the shuttle
on its ill-fated flight of Jan. 28.
The three NASA officials, described as “key,” were
not identified in the commission statement issued by
spokesman Mark Weinberg.
CBS News, however, identified them as Associate
NASA administrator Jesse Moore, Robert Sieck, the
launch director, and Arnold Aldrich, shuttle manager
at Johnson. All three are usually in the launch control
center at liftoff time.
The announcement came as a Morton Thiokol engi
neer in Brigham City, Utah, said that he and others ar
gued against launching the shuttle in weather far colder
than on any previous flight.
Allan J. McDonald, who has been at Morton Thiokol
for 26 years, said his objections were overruled by his
boss, J.C. Kilminster, who transmitted a launch-appro
val letter to NASA. McDonald said he continued to ob
ject to the launch even after the letter arrived at Cape
Canaveral.
McDonald said he feared the low temperatures
would cause synthetic rubber safety seals between seg
ments of the booster rocket to shrink and become inef
fective.
Such a failure has been cited as a likely cause of the
accident.
Morton Thiokol, through spokesman Thomas Rus
sell in Chicago, conceded that its engineers were against
the launch initially on Jan. 27, the day before the ill-
fated launch.
But Russell said that “at a subsequent time in the
early evening, after considering some additional infor
mation, Morton Thiokol was in a position to recom
mend a launch.”
The commission’s statement made it clear, however,
that there was considerable dissent from the decision. It
said, “The commission learned that although a Telefax
was later received from Thiokol indicating approval of
the launch, a number of engineers at Thiokol still
strongly urged against the launch.”
Caller says Shiite group killed Israeli soldier
Associated Press
TYRE, Lebanon — An anony
mous telephone caller claimed
Wednesday night that Moslem ex
tremists had killed one of two kid
napped Israeli soldiers after the Is
raeli army ignored a warning to stop
searching for the victims in south
Lebanon villages.
The man, saying he spoke for the
Islamic Resistance Front, said in a
call to the leading Beirut indepen
dent newspaper, An-Nahar, that the
group would release a polaroid pho
tograph of the slain Israeli on
Thursday.
About 1,000 Israeli soldiers
scoured south Lebanon for the third
day Wednesday, searching Shiite
Moslem villages for the two soldiers
who had been kidnapped in a Mon
day ambush on a checkpoint in the
Israeli “security zone” in south Leb
anon.
Guerrillas of the Islamic Resis
tance, an alliance of fundamentalist
Shiite Moslems, had said one of the
Israeli soldiers would be killed
Wednesday unless the Israelis pulled
back across the border.
Maj. Gen. Ori Orr, Israel’s north-
ern,commander, said his men would
continue the search.
The guerrillas also vowed to shell
settlements in northern Israel.
Israeli units moved by helicopter
and on the ground behind tanks,
with the support of jets and gun-
ships. Israeli patrol boats moved up
the coast, occasionally shelling high
ways to keep Moslem guerrillas in
Beirut from moving south.
Reporters saw guerrillas scram
bling in hills overlooking some Is
raeli posts that were protected by
tanks.
Hundreds of militiamen patrolled
the streets of this port city a few
miles east of the zone being
searched.
Israeli troops, armor and heli
copter gunships pushed north from
the buffer zone immediately after
the Monday ambush.
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