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MANILA (AP) — Xh e govern
ment may file criminal charges
against ousted President Ferdinand
E. Marcos for allegedly looting mil
lions of dollars from the nation’s cof
fers, an oftlcial said Wednesday.
Also Wednesday, members of
Marcos’ former ruling party said
they consider “void and without
force” the interim constitution pro
claimed Tuesday by new President
Corazon Aquino.
would meet next Monday to con
sider possible responses.
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.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Police said
Wednesday they shot and killed 25 blacks in 24 hours in
unrest across South Africa, and reported the deaths of
three others in black-orv-black attacks.
Police in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana said
11 people were killed and scores were injured when po
lice opened fire with shotguns and rifles at a meeting
with 5,000 people. The meeting was called to smooth
over civilian complaints of police brutality.
Wednesday, during one of at least 11 riots in seven
townships.
The 28 deaths marked one of the bloodiest periods
since widespread unrest broke out 19 months ago
against apartheid, the system of segregation under
which 5 million whites dominate 24 million voteless
blacks.
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Col. 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.
In England, a 77-year-old white man died in East
London Wednesday, three weeks after he arid his wife
were injured by a stone-throwing crowd as they drove
through a black township.
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