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ongressman says
recovervtreasure from Marcos
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• MANILA, Philippines — Rep.
Stephen Solarz, an ouupoken critic
of Ferdinand E. Marcos, pledged
support Thursday in recoveting Mil
lions of dollars the formef' president
allegedly plundered from the public
treasury. * ' - ]
Solarz met for an hour with
Aquino and other offictals of the
new government. The. Democrat
.from New York told reporters that
he had asked how the United States
could help but he did oca reveal
Aquino's reply.
In other developments. l |
• The chief prosecutor in the Be-
nigno Aquino assassination trial last
year acknowledged that Marcos in
tervened in the case. He called the
acquittal of Gen. Fabian C. Ver, the
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former armed forces commander,
and the other defendanu “a failure
oflustke” that should be nullified.
• Joker Arroyo, President Cora-
con Aquino's executive secretary,
: mid resignations of judges had
* :leared the way for her to reorganize
the judiciary.
| • The government news agency
supported an aborted plot by Marcos
loyalists to commit arson, bombings
and murders during the last days of
his rule, tOrbe used as a pretext for
declaring martial law.
Marcos and his entoufage, includ
ing Gen. Ver, fled the counfry in
U.S. Air Force planes Feb. 26.
Solarz said he believed Congress
could be persuaded to increase eco
nomic and military aid to the Phil
ippines because Americans were im
pressed by Aquino's popular
support and the peaceful revolution
that brought her to power. «
“The determination as to what
those needs are and how they can be
met needs to be made in Manila
rather than in Washington/’ said So-
tarz, who is chairman of the House
subcommittee on Asian affairs and
has been a critic of Marcos for years.
He said he discussed Marcos’
“hidden wealth" with Aquino and
former Sen. Jovito Salonga, chair
man of a commission to find ways of
recovering it, and promised "our
complete cooperation in the effort to
facilitate the recovery of these re
sources.”
Salonga has estimated that Mar
cos, his relatives and cronies stole
from $5 billion to $10 billion in pub
lic funds during his two decades as
president.
Shuttle crash
may be result
of internal ice
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Investigators say a puff of steam
emerg^l from Challenger's right
booster rocket at ignition, sug
gesting rainwater collected in a
seam, froze and may have forced
open critical seals, an Hruiustry
magazine reported Thursday.
The space shuttle had stood
exposed to the elemenu on the
launch pad for 37 days, during
which time it was pelted by at
least one torrential storm with
four inches of rainfall.
possibility that internal ice
U-shaped joint triggered
The
in the
the accident is a new avenue of in
vestigation for the presidential in
vestigating commission.
The steam, newly noticed in
photographs, emerged at 0.2 sec
onds after ignition, preceding a
C ff of black smoke from the
Mter segment at 0.44 seconds,
the magazine Aviation Week and
Space Technology says in its
March 10 edition.
Experts at NASA’s Marshall
Space Flight Center were asked in
an interview February 28
whether anyone had considered
that water might have seeped into
the joints and turned to ice. Law
rence B. Mulloy, the space agen
cy's manager for booster rockets,
dismissed the notion.
AIDS possibly linked
to virus found in pigs
AiiAoCiatrd Prc„
J NEW YORK — An African virus
that causes an AIDS-like illness in
pigs may have been present in some
American AIDS patients and cduld
be a contributing cause of human
AIDS infections, according to a new
itudy.
Evidence of infection with African
swine fever virus, or ASFV, was
found in nine of 21 American AIDS
patients tested, and in only one of 16
Healthy Americans, according to a
study to be published Saturday in
the Lancet, a British medical jour-
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If future experiments prove the
expet
existence of a fink between African
* Swine fever and AIDS, it would
mean that doctors now searching for
* cure for AIDS are aiming at the
.wrong target.
The new study challenges vol-
7 umes of scientific evidence support
ing the belief that acquired immune
deficiency syndrome is caused solely
by a virus most commonly called
HTLV-III that was discovered in
j W-
John Beldekas, a researcher at the
Boston University School of Medi
cine and the principal author of the
new study, said, “I don’t think we’re
trying to say that HTLV-III is out
and ASFV is in" as the cause of
AM.
Beldekas added, "What we’re say
ing is that AIDS is complicated. It
can't be explained solely bv HTLV-
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