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\quino ordering court martials
for soldiers acting in coup plot
MANILA, Philippines (AP) —
resident Corazon Aquino on
hilrsday ordered the prosecution
B)ldiers and civilians who took
Hin an attempted coup and said
ie “gravity of the crime” was not
pined by their peaceful surren-
sr.
The government also said it th-
Mted an attempt by former Presi-
ent Ferdinand E. Marcos to return
He Philippines from his exile in
awaii.
One Cabinet minister linked Mar-
>s to the coup plot.
A few hours after about 250 rebel-
dus troops and civilians surren-
ered at a downtown television sta-
on, Aquino said, “While we
mtinue to cherish the virtue of
)®jpassion, we shall have justice in
J^lcase for we must have respect
>r tne law.”
The mutineers were the last hold
outs from about 500 rightist soldiers
who tried to take over key commu
nications and military installations
around Manila on Tuesday. It was
the most serious challenge to Aqui
no’s government since she took
power last February.
She has faced down other rebel
lions, the most serious of which was a
coup bid last November by soldiers
linked to then-Defense Minister
Juan Ponce Enrile. Some of her sup
porters have criticized what until
now has been an apparent will
ingness to pardon the plotters, say
ing it could foster mutinous tenden
cies.
Except for the group at the stu
dios of Channel 7, the rebels were
quickly neutralized, with one rebel
soldier killed and 16 others
wounded in a brief battle at an air
force base adjacent to the Manila air
port.
“The gravity of the offense is not
lightened and the damage inflicted
on persons and property is not di
minished by the perpetrators’
change of heart,” Aquino said in a
speech at the installation of a univer
sity president.
She said she had ordered Defense
Minister Rafael Ileto to begin court-
martial proceedings against the sol
diers and instructed Justice Minister
Neptali Gonzales to charge the civil
ians with rebellion before the civil
courts.
Trade Minister Jose Concepcion,
interviewed from Manila on NBC’s
“Today” show was asked if he be
lieved Marcos was behind the coup
attempt.
“Probably so, because you cannot
have three simultaneous attacks in
three different places without any
master plan,” he said.
Vice President Salvador Laurel
said Marcos planned to board a
chartered Boeing 707 at Honolulu
•Airport Thursday to return to the
country he was forced to flee 11
months ago after a civilian-military
uprising.
Government spokesman Teodoro
Benigno said the plan was blocked
by the Philippine consul general in
Honolulu, Tomas Gomez III. Be
nigno said the government received
reports that Marcos and his wife
Imelda “were preparing to fly back
to the Philippines in a special plane.”
In Honolulu, an angry Marcos
told reporters he felt like a prisoner
because two State Department offi
cials, Carl Taylor and Elwood J.
MacGuire, visited him at his home
and told him not to leave Hawaii.
M^/all Street
V stock prices
l close lower
I i|NFW YORK (AP) — Stock
prices abruptly fell late Thursday
^fceavy trading, hurt by inves-
' tors who used fears of a stronger
U.S. dollar and renewed airline
fare wars as excuses to cash prof-
111 r its horn the mighty 1987 rally.
5 I ^Jhe Dow Jones average of 30
, ^Hustrial stocks, higher for most
)f the day, dropped in the last
hour of trading, finishing
\ith a loss of 3.38 points to
jatesco; j|i(j0 oi. It was the first time
iince last Friday that Wall Street’s
" ar * "H-known barometer has ended
Ul ' ower.
Most broader measurements of
itock activity also fell, but the
\merican Stock Exchange’s mar-
cetjvalue index eked out a slight
jain for its third-straight record
1 ' ligh, closing at 299.80, up 0.31.
Lin ' er ''mJechning stoc ks outran gainers
11,1 ' mthe New York Stock Exchange
0,,000thpHi boul 8-7, with 756 up, 838
gmnin; j 0W[1 an( j 379 unchanged.
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Top Soviet analyst criticizes
former Kremlin leadership
MOSCOW (AP) — A top Soviet
commentator has published stinging
personal attacks on two former
Kremlin leaders, saying Leonid
Brezhnev became a “monument to
himself” and Nikita Khrushchev be
trayed the hopes of a generation.
The article by former Brezhnev
protege Alexander Bovin appears in
the latest issue of the state-run New
Times weekly, which goes on sale
Friday. A summary was carried
Thursday by the Tass news agency.
The article contains the harshest
personal criticism ever to appear in
the Soviet Union of Brehznev, who
headed the nation’s Communist
Party from 1964 until his death in
1982.
Brezhnev’s tenure is now rou
tinely linked to stagnation and cor
ruption, but most criticisms don’t
mention the late Kremlin leader by
name. In his speech to the Commu
nist Party Central Committee on
Tuesday, Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev was critical of the Brezh
nev and Khrushchev years but did
not mention their names.
Bovin’s article accused “conserva
tives” of blocking change and was
clearly linked to the campaign
waged by Gorbachev against the par
ty’s old guard.
Although Bovin’s article was un
usual in criticizing the personalities
of the two late party chiefs, it is typ
ical in Soviet history for a Kremlin
leadership to denounce its predeces
sors. Khrushchev attacked Stalin in
1956, three years after Stalin’s
death, and Brezhnev denounced
Khrushchev after he was ousted in
1964.
Bovin’s article follows this week’s
meeting of the party Central Com
mittee, at which two Brezhnev-era
stalwarts, Dinmukhamed A. Ku
naev, 74, and Mikhail S. Zimyanin,
72, were ousted from the party’s top
echelons.
Since coming to power in March
1985, Gorbachev has criticized stag
nation of the economy under Brezh
nev and the grandiose projects and
sudden shifts in policy linked to Kh
rushchev.
Bovin, who writes for the govern
ment newspaper Izvestia, is one of
this country’s best-known political
analysts. His article was certain to be
carefully read by Soviets wanting to
know how current Kremlin leaders
re-interpret the past.
Bovin said a group of “Soviet so
cialist conservatives” stand in the
way of Gorbachev’s changes.
“Already twice in my lifetime they
rolled us back, twice blocked the way
of long overdue and essential
change,” he wrote.
He said the party’s 20th congress
in 1956, at which Khrushchev
shocked many Soviets by de
nouncing Stalin, was “a cleansing
storm which gave us a hope of the
future.”
And he described Brezhnev as “a
man who undoubtedly had innate
common sense, (but who) allowed
himself to be turned into a mon
ument to himself.”
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^ J.S. drops plans for European goods tariff
Hnihet:| w ASHINGTON (AP) — The Reagan admin-
^Rion announced Thursday it was dropping
est 0 f, Ians to impose steep tariffs on selected Euro-
j n gq U jl ean goods after a last-minute truce was nego-
j§ed in a trans-Atlantic trade war over farm
Ye neve!'H ucts '
U.S. Trade Representative Clayton K. Yeutter
ns wheitfH^ ea g an wou ld rescind his order imposing
n | < utifes of up to 200 percent on European gin,
v- Hac, cheeses and vegetables under a compro-
lise reached the day before the tariffs were to
ike effect.
”” l Yeutter said in a statement that, as part of the
greement, the 12-nation European Economic
ommunity promised “full and fair compensa-
on” to the United States for an estimated $400
lillion in lost U.S. grain sales to Spain.
The sales were lost when Spain joined the EEC
last year and adopted its tariff system.
“This is the first time that the United States
has received full compensation following an en
largement of the EEC,” Yeutter said.
However, U.S. farm groups said the compro
mise does not go far enough because part of that
compensation will be in the form of reduced tar
iffs on non-agricultural products.
Bill Wilson, a spokesman for the U.S. Feed
Grains Council, said, “We’re rather disap
pointed. We were hoping the numbers would be
higher.”
And, while the agreement appeared to signal
at least a temporary halt in an escalating trade
war with Europe, deep frictions remained.
For instance, Deputy Trade Representative
Alan Woods told a news conference that the com
promise would have no effect on other ongoing
trade disputes.
In Brussels, Willy de Clercq, the EEC’s chief
negotiator, said he was satisfied with the accord,
calling it “an honorable compromise.”
And U.S. Agriculture Secretary Richard E.
Lyng said the agreement would help avoid “a
trade war with our major trading partner” while
clearing the way for an upcoming round of
global trade liberalization talks in Geneva.
Under the four-year agreement, the EEC
promised to ensure annual imports of 2 million
metric tons of corn and 300,000 metric tons of
sorghum into Spain from the United States and
other nations, U.S. officials said.
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