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Switzerland
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BERN, Switzerland — The
government on Tuesday ordered
a “precautionary” freeze on assets
in Switzerland linked to Ferdi
nand E. Marcos, the deposed
president of the Philippines. A
top police official said the move
was unprecedented.
The measure blocked “until
further notice any assets held by
the Marcos family and persons,
companies and the like connected
with them,” an official announce
ment from the governing Federal
Council said.
The announcement said the
order followed indications that
attempts were being made to
withdraw some funds linked to
Marcos. It did not provide any
details.
The new Philippine govern
ment believes that up to $10 bil
lion was moved abroad by Marcos
and his cronies and that much of
it was in Switzerland, which has
strict bank secrecy laws. Phil
ippine president Corazon Aquino
named a commission to find ways
to recover government funds
purportedly plundered during
Marcos’ rule.
Last week, The New York
Times reported that documents
taken from Marcos listed ac
counts of $9.4 million at Swiss
Bank Corp., $37.7 million at
Credit Suisse and $32.4 million at
the Swiss branch of Paribas bank.
Weinberger:
Soviet arsenal
gaining on U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The So
viet Union’s modernization of its
weapons arsenal is continuing at
such a pace that it is “challenging the
technological edge” on which U.S.
security depends, Defense Secretary
Caspar W. Weinberger said Tues
day.
“Soviet modernization has not
abated,” Weinberger said in releas
ing the Pentagon’s latest annual as
sessment of Soviet military power.
“Based on current trends, our
projections for the ’90’s give us no
reason to feel that we can rest in our
effort to prevent the Soviets from
achieving a very significant, exploi
table military advantage,” he said.
He released the study, entitled
“Soviet Military Power 1986,” dur
ing a press conference Tuesday
beamed around the world by the
U.S. Information Agency.
“It’s not necessary for us to match
the Soviet forces in each category be
cause we rely on our technological
leadership to provide systems that
are sufficiently superior so as to off
set (their) numerical advantages,”
Weinberger said.
“But their military has moved in
creasingly into an era of high tech
nology and they’re challenging the
technological edge on which our se
curity depends,” he added.
The study included previously
unreleased pictures of an interme
diate-range SS-20 missile on its
launcher; the newest version of the
Delta missile submarine, now said to
be on sea trials, and the SU-27
Fighter, a look-alike of the U.S. F-15
that the Pentagon says became oper
ational early this year.
It concludes that beyond devel
oping new generations of nuclear
missiles, the Soviets are engaged in a
massive program to protect their
land-based arsenal. They also have
attained parity with the United
States in the development of cruise
missiles, have a crude but workable
laser weapon capable of blinding spy
satellites, and are continuing to out
pace the Pentagon in building tanks,
planes, helicopters and artillery, the
study says.
The Soviets are developing two or
three new intercontinental ballistic
missiles, the booklet states.
“By the mid-1990s, the Soviet
ICBM force will have been almost
entirely replaced with new systems, a
number of which may violate SALT
II constraints,” the booklet said.
The report also said the Soviets
have now deployed more than 70
mobile SS-25 ICBMs — a missile
condemned by the United States as a
violation of SALT II.
The Soviets maintain the single
warhead SS-25 missile is an allowa
ble modernization of the aging SS-
13, a contention dismissed by the
Pentagon.
The United States does not have
any mobile missiles, although it is
now developing one, dubbed the
Midgetman.
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over ‘Color Purple’ snub
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An NAACP chapter filed a
protest Tuesday against the Motion Picture Academy
for not awarding any Oscars to “The Color Purple,”
calling it “a slap in the faces” of producer-composer
Quincy Jones and director Steven Spielberg.
Casting a further pall over Hollywood’s biggest
event, national ratings showed the Oscar telecast on
ABC lost viewers again this year, continuing a trend the
academy had fervently hoped to reverse.
The statement by the Hollywood-Beverly Hills
branch of the civil rights organization was issued by
publicist Connie Watson, who called the outcome a
“black-out,” a term the chapter uses to describe indus
try action to suppress black film projects. She said the
chapter president, Willis Edwards, sent a formal letter
of protest to the Academy.
A spokesman said the Academy would have no com
ment, noting the winners and losers were the result of
secret balloting by its 4,244 members.
The film about a rural black woman’s struggle for
self-worth had gone into the awards night with 11 nom
inations, the same number as “Out of Africa” which
won seven Oscars, including best picture.
But “The Color Purple” failed to win even once, ty
ing the 1977 movie “The Turning Point” as the most-
nominated film to lose in every category.
The shutout added to the controversy that already
surrounded the academy’s snub of Spielberg.
The NAACP statement called the film’s treatment by
voters “not only an insult to the talents of the wonderful
artists participating in this motion picture, but a direct
slap in the faces of Quincy Jones and Steven Spielberg,
f two of the most talented personalities ever to work in
this industry.”
Former academy president Walter Mirisch said, “I
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enjoyed ‘Out of Africa,’ which was a good, big-scale
movie, the kind that David Lean has made.”
Academy president Robert Wise said, “I can’t explain
it. Except that maybe it was a reaction of the Academy
at large over questioning the integrity of the director’s
branch. Perhaps the voters felt that the Academy’s rep-*
utation had been maligned.”
Wise, an Oscar winner for “The Sound of Music” and
“West Side Story,” was referring to stories suggesting
that the 230 members of the director’s branch who
made the nominations may have been envious of Spiel
berg’s success.
Sydney Pollack, winner as director and co-producer
for “Out of Africa,” declined to analyze the reason be
hind “Purple’s” failure.
“You put me in a difficult spot,” he told a reporter,
“because I can’t win no matter how I answer that ques
tion. And I would like not to put a damper on the eve
ning by trying to speculate on an undiplomatic question
with an undiplomatic answer.”
But the post-Oscar celebration was unusually sub
dued, suggesting a pall had been cast by the failure of
an acclaimed and commercially successful movie that
may have been a victim of in-fighting among Academy
members.
The Oscar show, in ratings trouble in recent years,
fell a bit more, according to national A.C. Nielsen Co.
ratings released Tuesday.
ABC-TV said the three-hour, 14-minute broadcast
had a 27.3 rating with a 43 share, slipping slightly from
last year’s national rating of 27.7 and audience share of
45. ABC estimated that 65 million viewers watched
some part of the program, compared to 70 million who
tuned in to last year’s broadcast.
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