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    Thursday, March 6, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
^iquino frees two communist leaders
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IMANILA, Philippines — Presi-
ient Corazon Aquino freed two for-
taer communist rebel leaders
jVednesday despite reservations
fom the military, and paid her first
pt to the palace in which Ferdi-
land E. Marcos lived for 20 years.
■Meanwhile, attorney Lupino Laz-
Bsaid two men cleared in the 1983
nurder of Aquino’s husband, Be-
ligno, had given sworn statements
Knitting involvement and implicat-
ng the former president, his wife
melda and four former Cabinet
ninisters.
Ken. Fabian C. Ver, Marcos’ mili
ary commander, was among the 26
people acquitted.
Kl’m sorry for the delay,” Aquino
old Jose Maria Sison and Bernabe
luscayno when they were ushered
nto her temporary office less than
Hhour after being freed from mili-
arv prisons.
■Two alleged members of a rebel
■assination squad also were re
leased.
hAqnino had pledged to free all
bolitical prisoners held by Marcos,
Bio fled the country a week ago.
Mid the four were the last on the list.
■Most of the prisoners have not yet
Bne home because of required
medical checkups and paper work,
presidential spokesman Rene Sa-
luisag said the four men were re-
teased after a “candid, cordial and
Borous exchange of views” with
■itary commanders, worried that
By would take up arms again.
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day it was providing the Phil
ippine government “in a spirit,of
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Her top military advisers had ar
gued the four men should not be
freed unconditionally.
Sison acknowledged at a news
conference a few hours after his re
lease that he founded the Commu
nist Party of the Philippines in 1968
and led the armed struggle against
the Marcos government until his
capture in November 1977.
He had refused throughout his
imprisonment to answer questions
about his party role.
Buscayno, who was captured in
August 1976, was the alleged com
mander of the party’s New People’s
Army guerrillas and was known as
Commander Dante.
The two other men released were
Alexander Birondo and Ruben
Alegre.
Both were arrested within the past
two years.
Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, archbishop
of Manila, said in Rome that the esti
mated 12,500 insurgents might sur
render this month because “there’s
no reason for them to stay in the
mountains” with Marcos gone.
Sin, who led the nation’s Roman
Catholic bishops in support of
Aquino, was on a visit to the Vatican.
Sison told journalists, however,
that there is no certainty that the re
bels will lay down their arms.
Saguisag said 517 political prison
ers have been ordered released.
The military says it has no more
such prisoners, but Saguisag said the
government was checking reports by
human rights organizations that up
to 200 people listed as common
criminals may be held for political
reasons.
At the Malacanang presidential
palace, Aquino waved from a win
dow to people strolling on the park
like grounds and told officials ac
companying her that the opulent,
Spanish-style mansion “looks like a
hotel.”
More members of the Supreme
Court offered resignations Wednes
day, leaving only two or three of the
tribunal’s 13 justices resisting Mrs.
Aquino’s demand that they quit so
she can reorganize the judiciary.
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