Friday, January 30, 1987/The Battalion/Page 13 \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. t pick md iw IK 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.” mpf anlf ^ 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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