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Raul Daza, a member of the Com mission on Good Government that was set up by Aquino to track down Marcos’ wealth, told a news confer ence that Filing charges against the former president may be the only way to recover the money. Much of it thought to be in Swiss banks. The constitution abolishes the Na tional Assembly, dominated by members of Marcos’ New Society Movement, and gives Aquino sole law-making powers. Marcos’ labor minister. Bias Ople, said Aquino was setting up a dictatorship. Daza said, “You might see the commission bring criminal charges against Marcos” after commission Chairman Jovito Salonga returns next week from the United States. Salonga is following up several law suits to recover Marcos’ holdings there. Several assemblymen who had supported Aquino also criticized the interim constitution and said they Daza said two other commission members were in Switzerland and Canada to investigate reported Mar cos holdings in those countries. Swit zerland on Tuesday took the un precedented step of freezing all assets placed there by Marcos and his family. Neither Swiss nor Philippine offi cials have said how much money Marcos is believed to have deposited in Swiss banks. One commission offi cial said two weeks ago he had re ceived a report that Marcos depos ited $800 million in one Swiss bank, but the commission has not said if it verified the report. Swiss banking authorities have said bank secrecy laws can be lifted in criminal proceedings. Daza did not say what charges the commission was considering against Marcos. He said he and Salonga are optimistic the government can prove Marcos used illegal means to amass his wealth, but he did not say how this could be done. 4207 Wellborn - Campus/W. Bryan 260-9060 & 3131 Briarcrest - Bryan 776-0076 Video King 3729 E. 29th St. Bryan. TX 77802 (409) 846-KING 900-17 E. Harvey Rd. 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M.A. Molope, district police commander, said the crowd began throwing gasoline bombs and stones and police fired in self-defense. Residents said they believed as many as 100 people were injured when police fired rifles and shotguns dur ing the meeting on a soccer field in Winterveld. They said more than 1,000 were taken into custody. Elsewhere, police said they shot and killed nine blacks among a crowd of 100 who attacked a liquor store with rocks and gasoline bombs in Kwazakele town ship near Port Elizabeth. More than 1,250 people have died in riots in black communities, nearly all of them blacks and two-thirds killed by police and soldiers. Others have died in fight ing between rival black groups and in mob attacks oh individuals. Winterveld, a community of 500,000 residents housed in shacks and bungalows, provides labor to the South African capital of Pretoria. Bophuthatswana is one of four tribal homelands declared independent by South Africa under the system of apartheid. Police said they killed two other blacks in Kwazakele, two in the Crossroads shanty city near Cape Town and one in Kagiso township near Johannesburg — all dur ing stone-throwing and firebomb outbreaks late Tues day. Two black men were reported burned to death near Durban — one with a flaming tire around his neck — in a type of assault used by black militants against people they see as cooperating with the white-led minority gov ernment. Police said a child was stabbed to death near Durban Pretoria’s Roman Catholic archbishop, George Dan iels, and 12 others obtained a Bophuthatswana Su preme Court order this month barring homeland po lice from illegally detaining and assaulting government opponents. Catholic Deacon Hans Hlalethwa, chairman of the Winterveld Action Committee, said police continued to harass children and took more than 100 into custody over the weekend. 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