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World and Nation
Marcos calls Aquino ‘monster’
MANILA, Philippines (AP) —
Ferdinand E. Marcos said Monday
that he was not corrupt but that
President Corazon Aquino is, and he
may return front exile to rescue Fil
ipinos front a “monster” bent on
enslaving them.
Fite former president, who fled
Feb. 2(), commented in a message
and handwritten letter, calling him
self a victim of the “blackest of prop
aganda.” He accused “elements of
the American government” of help
ing oust him.
He said Aquino was the “No. 1
looter,” a charge that has been made
against Marcos. A source close to
Marcos made a tape of the message
and a copy of the letter available to
The Associated Press.
Presidential spokesman Rene Sa-
guisag said Aquino greeted the com
ments “with typical cklm and equa
nimity.” He said Marcos, b8, may be
Peres says
Waldheim
must answer
questions
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime
Minister Shimon Peres said Sun
day he expected complete an
swers from former U.N. Secre
tary-General Kurt Waldheim
about allegations that he is hiding
a Nazi past.
“I think it’s legitimate to ask
these sort of questions and it is le
gitimate to expect an answer to
them,” Peres told West German
reporters. “The questions were
posed. Now the answers should
be given, and then we shall be
able to pass a definite judgment.”
The World Jewish Congress on
Friday demanded that Israel offi
cially take a stand on the con
gress’charges that Waldheim had
a role in atrocities against civilians
in World War II and belonged to
the Nazis’ storm troopers.
But Peres said he would not
make a statement “before all the
facts are very clear.”
Waldheim, U.N. secretary-gen
eral from 1972-1982, is a leading
conservative candidate in the May
4 elections for Austria’s presi
dent. He has said the attacks on
his past are attempts to hurt his
chances at the polls.
allowed to return “in the distant f u
ture, but not just now.”
“The greatest service Marcos has
done to the Filipino nation is to leave
it," he said. “He should not negate it
by threatening to come back.”
In a telephone statement from
Honolulu, which the source said was
taped Monday, Marcos said: “We
must war again against the monster
who imposes slavery.”
A postscript to an eight-page let
ter dated March 21 and addressed to
“My beloved Filipino countrymen”
in his home province, Ilocos Norte,
said: “Death, yes, we will accept per
haps, but slavery never, never,
never.”
Marcos told reporters in Hono
lulu on Sunday that he still considers
himself president.
The letter was written on station
ary of Malacanang Palace, which has
become a museum to preserve what
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicara
guan President Daniel Ortega said
Sunday that attacks by government
troops on rebel base camps in Hon
duras were “totally defensive opera
tions.”
Ortega also said he was willing to
negotiate with the United States and
“the chief of the Contras, which is
President Reagan,” but he refused to
say whether his government would
meet U.S. demands to negotiate with
rebel leaders.
Appearing on the GBS program
“Face The Nation,” the Nicaraguan
president said, “We have not in-
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — About 20,()()() blacks defied a
ban Monday to attend a memorial
for a Communist Party leader who
died in exile, and an activist an
nounced resumption of a regional
boycott of white businesses.
The memorial for Moses Mab-
liida, a black nationalist who died
March 8 in Mozambique, was held at
a soccer stadium in Zwide, a black
township outside the Indian Ocean
city of Port Elizabeth.
Mkhulesi Jack, a prominent anti
apartheid activist, announced dur
ing the four-hour service that a black
consumer boycott of white-owned
Aquino's government calls the ex
cesses of Marcos and his wife,
Imelda.
Marcos accused Aquino of allow
ing her followers to loot his palace
and it v on the hundreds of dresses
Imelda left behind.
“ There was looting not only by the
poor but by the rich and powerful. ...
T he more outstanding ladies in the
opposition started fitting and using
the chesses of the First Lady,” he
said.
Marcos said the “coup d’etat”
against him “was apparently helped
by some of the elements of the
American government," but he gave
no names.
“In one message from the U.S.
Embassy to the Office of Media Af
fairs, the duty officer in the U.S.
Embassy threatened the use of Ma
rines, United States Marines, against
Marcos to prevent President Marcos
vaded Honduras. We have not com
mitted any act of aggression against
Honduras.”
Ortega earlier justified last week’s
border incursion against rebel bases,
calling the rugged area between the
two countries a “war zone,” where
Honduras had given up its sover
eignty by allowing the rebels to con
trol and operate from the region.
Ortega cast aside suggestions that
his government should negotiate
with the rebels, saying, “The policy is
decided in Washington, so we have
to talk to the White House.
businesses in Port Elizabeth would
resume April 7.
A boycott last year severely af
fected white businesses. It was sus
pended after four months.
Jack said the principal reason for
renewing it was the recent killings of
blacks by police, including 1 1 deaths
last Wednesday during a distur
bance in the township of Kwazakele
neat Port Elizabeth.
More than 1,250 people have
been killed, nearly all of them black,
during 19 months of violence
against apartheid.
During a moment of silence for
Mabhida during the service, many in
from utilizing his superior military
power against the rebels,” he said.
Associates in Manila have quoted
him as saying he could have crushed
the uprising that drove him out but
did not want to shed blood. His
tanks turned away from hundreds of
thousands of people guarding rebel
soldiers in two Manila military
camps.
Marcos said he had insisted on be
ing taken from the palace to Ilocos
None, but instead the U.S. Air Force
took him to Clark Air Base and later
Guam. He said his personal luggage
was opened and ransacked.
He had Philippine currency with
him because he intended to go to
Ilocos Norte, Marcos said. U.S. Cus
toms officials said he carried the
equivalent of SI.2 million, which
Marcos said on the tape was from
campaign and personal funds.
“Isn’t it in the U.S. Congress
where U.S. policy is being formed
against Nicaragua, where the war is
being directed and financed?” Or
tega asked. “What other Congress in
the world is discussing a policy of
how to go about overthrowing an
other government?”
Ortega also said “as a product of a
U.S.-Nicaraguan agreement,” Nica
ragua would support the removal of
all foreign military advisers from
Central America, a key component
of the Contadora efforts to reach a
negotiated settlement in Central
America.
the stadium waved clenched fists.
Mabhida, who was buried with
military honors Saturday in Maputo,
Mozambique, was general secretary
of the South African Communist
Party and a member of the executive
committee of the outlawed African
National Congress guerrilla
movement. He was 62 when he died
and had been in exile for 25 years.
His family had planned to bury
him in South Africa, with tens of
thousands of mourners attending.
T he funeral was held in Maputo af
ter South African authorities said
thev would restrict it to Mabhida’s
relatives and close friends.
Ortega says troops’ attacks
in Honduras were ‘defensive’
20,000 go to service for South African exile
1 killed in fire at '16th-century London palace
LONDON (AP) — Fire raged through the
magnificent 16th-century Hampton Court Palace
of Henry VIII Monday, burning out its south
wing, damaging priceless royal art treasures and
killing one person, believed to be the widow of a
top British general.
The four-hour blaze sent the leaded roof of
the three-story south wing crashing through into
art galleries on the lower two floors, causing mil
lions of dollars worth of damage.
Among the works damaged by smoke and wa
ter were two renowned Tudor paintings, the
1520 “Field of the Cloth of Gold,” showing
Henry VIII meeting the king of France, and the
“Family Group” depicting the king and his fam
ily.
Officials said the blaze probably stalled in a
top-floor apartment in the south wing occupied
by Lady Daphne Gale, the 86-year-old widow of
Gen. Sir Richard Gale. She was thought to have
died in the fire. Seven or eight other elderly resi
dents were escorted to safety.
Queen Elizabeth II, who owns the palace set-
amid 50 acres of lawns overlooking the River
T hames, 12 miles west of London, later picked
her way through charred timbers to inspect what
aides described as “a disaster.”
The south wing was rebuilt by the famed 17th
century architect Sir Christopher Wren at the
palace cbnstructed in 1515 by Cardinal Thomas
Wolsey and presented to Henry VIII.
As flames billowed from the south wing, fire
men and palace staff ferried dozens of paintings
and other treasures from the galleries. By
chance, tapestries usually kept in the badly dam
aged Cartoon Gallery had been removed for
cleaning before the fire. Most of the valuables
were apparently salvaged.
Firefighters contained the blaze before it
spread from the south wing through the Tudor
part of the palace.
The south wing top floor consisted of “grace
and favor” apartments, allocated by the mon
arch, at low rent, to retired top diplomats, mili
tary officers and administrators in the former
British empire and their widows.
Deputy Chief Roy Snarey of the London Fire
Brigade said that the cause of the blaze was not
immediately known, but that it began in the
“grace and favor” apartments and was possibly
started by a candle.
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