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Tuesday, June 16, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 Shultz offers support for plan =to reclaim war monuments ■lORRKGIDOR, Philippines (AP) ■ Secretary of State George P. Slat It/., a veteran of Pacific crtmi- pai^ns in World War II, pledged his e A support Monday for U.S.-Philippine [^fflns to recapture this historic is- VliitRl’s battle monuments from van dals and jungle rot. Korregidor, a S-inile-long scar of *ns con»egetation and rock at the mouth of ’atholic Manila Bay, loomed large in Ameri- n down;.lea’s consciousness in the winter ol people, |<M2 when its garrison — huddling throug6ln|tconcrete complex called the Ma- overmeE-lint i tunnel — held out against ad- ove thenmncing Japanese armies, tsorchaie^B’hotographs of the era showed i people,Irian. Douglas MacArthm standing s, atteni alithe giant mouth of the tunnel, •rthem wl icli housed his beleaguered head- bed inn (|ii;ntersand a l.OOO-bed hospital. ndlestotiHMacArthur vowed, “I shall re turn,” and American troops recap- ited,] Bed the island in 1945. Four decades later, the tunnel, the artillery batteries and the barracks are being victimized by scrap-iron scavengers, souvenir hunters and the encroaching jungle. The rot has hit a memorial and museum com memorating (lie soldiers on both sides who died on Gorregidoi. Shultz, in the first public: appear ance of a three-day trip to die Phil ippines, saw evidence of the decay during a tour of the island led by James Black Jr., a Gorregidor-born businessman and historian. Black said a down payment of $250,()()() and annual donations of $100,000 are needed to repair and maintain the museum and memorial — a circle of stone pillars sur rounded by walkways leading to a stylized sculpture representing an eternal flame. Black also wants (he American Battle Monuments Gom- mission to add Gorregidor to memo rials it maintains. The Philippine Ministry of Tou rism has a more ambitious idea. It has proposed turning the entire is land into a theme park and resort that would cater to international tourists. Fhe projected cost: $75 mil lion to $ 100 million. In a sense, Gorregidoi s battle sites and memorials are another vic tim of the Philippine government’s economic: woes: a low priority to a country that is trying to dig out from a $2(> billion debt and f inanc e a fight against Gonmumist insurgents. Shultz is scheduled to meet with President Gorazon Aquino on Tues day to sign an aid agreement worth $175 million and to hear her plans lor improving the country’s econ omy and military ef f ic iency. Kim tholicck :aled foi Cuban deaths in Angola at 10,000 fl Law bests wotil h officialij students': Iral coir,; last WecawASHINGTON (AP) —The Gu- boui20i ban general who defected to the 'uses. United States last month has told ashesouisluis. interrogators that l(),()()() Gu- authern ban troops have been killed in An- itudents Ba since 197b, according to senior oudsof administration of ficials. ■h he estimate by Brig. Gen. Rafael Hi Pino Diaz is (he first aulhorita- livi figure the United States has re- HjHved on Guhan casualties in An- gola, but the officials said it was V roughly the same as Americ an calcu lations. Over the years, Guba has kept a tight hold on information about cas ualties in Angola, never referring to the subject public ly. If the estimate of del Pino is accu rate, it would mean that Guban losses in Angola are proportionately much higher than American man power sacrifices in Vietnam. There were slightly more than 50,()()() U.S. servicemen killed in Vietnam, but the U.S. population is about 22 times the size ol Guba’s. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the U.S.- backed anti-communist rebels in An gola, said last year that the number of Guban dead in Angola totaled b,20() as of 1984. Because of the absence of diplo matic relations with Angola, U.S. in formation about developments there has always been f ragmentary and of ficials have been hopeful that del Pino would provide them with a full account. Warped by Scott McCullar Communists lose ground in Italy; Democrats, Socialists post gains ROME (AP) — Voters dealt a ma jor blow to the Gommunists in Italy’s parliamentary election while the long dominant Ghrislian Democrats and the Socialists scored gains, f irst results and projections indicated Monday. Tough bargaining between the Ghrislian Democrats and Socialists appeared likely in fashioning this nation’s 47th government since World War II. Fhe Socialists led the last coalition government, but the Ghrislian Democrats have led or dominated every postwar Gabinet. Two clays of voting ended Mon day. At stake were tbe (ISO seats in the Ghamber of Deputies and 815 in the Senate. Because of Italy’s compli cated proportional representation system, the breakdown of seats was not expected until Tuesday. Individ ual winners may not be known lor days. Elections were called a year early after a two-month political crisis that began in Marc h when Socialist Pre mier Bettino Graxi resigned at the head of a five-parly coalition over a power-sharing dispute with the Ghrislian Democrats. Projections issued by the presti gious Doxa polling agency and broadcast over state-run RAI tele vision had the Ghrislian Democrats holding their No. 1 position in the Ghamber of Deputies with 84.1 per cent, up f rom 82.9 percent in the last parliamentary election in 1988. In the Senate, the Ghrislian Democrats were projec ted to win 88.8 percent, up f rom 82.4 percent in 1988. The projections indicated the So cialists getting 14.5 percent, up from I 1.4 percent in the lower house and inc reasing by a lesser margin in tbe Senate. fhe Gommunists, Italy’s second largest party and the biggest Marxist party in the West, were projected to win 2(1.4 percent in the Ghamber of Deputies, clown from 29.9 percent. and 28.8 percent f rom 80.8 percent in the Senate. Gommunist and other politicians said the party lost votes to the Greens, who were projected to get 2.7 percent in the chamber and 2.1 percent in the Senate in their first parliamentary bid. Fhe trend was confirmed in early returns. Doxa projections gave the Ghris- lian Democrats 124 seats in the Sen ate, lour more than 1988, and the Gommunists 99, a loss of eight seats. Socialist seats were projected to re main unchanged at 88. A caretaker government led by Ghrislian Democratic Premier Amintore Eanfani oversaw the elec tions. As the largest party, the Ghrislian Democrats are likely to be asked to lot m the next government. But the Socialists are also expected to press their claim to the premiership, on the ground they control die swing votes. ini pouthern Baptists again grapple with conservative-moderate split enuftHsT. LOUIS (AP) — Southern Baptists, hi"- the nation’s largest Protestant denomina- ii" 1 'll lion, will hear a “peace report” at their reolliiiiHeeting this week intended to help conser- oiiiNi vatives and moderates patch up dilTer- ptces. But a spokesman says it could have (up 1 the opposite eff ect. |isoii,<fcH“lt may be that the peace report will start a war,” said Alvin G. Shackleford, director :lyt«« of the Southern Baptist Convention's news • court! service, the Baptist Press. “It’s really hard to istauccs say. But one of the things about our con- yentions is that all of the messengers can ; stand and say whatever (hey feel.” A struggle between conservatives and moderates for control of the 14.(1 million- member denomination has threatened to split it nearly down the middle. Gonsei va tives believe in a completely literal interpre tation of the Bible, while moderates believe there is room for other viewpoints. Fhe f undamentalists, who gained a slight edge at last year’s convention in Atlanta, are looking to consolidate their gains this year, and a greater split could develop at the an nual convention, which runs Tuesday through Thursday, Fhe Rev. Gharles Page, pastor of the First Baptist Ghurch in Nashville, Tenn., said fie is going to St. Louis with “a feeling of grave conc ern.” In years gone by, be said, before the power struggle arose, delegates, or messen gers as they are called, looked forward to the annual meetings because they would find fellowship and an emphasis on mission work. Shackleford said the Peace Gommiltee report probably will be one of the most con troversial items to be dealt with by dele gates. More than 40,<)()() people attended last year’s meeting and more than 45,000 at tended in 1985. Less “drum beating” by both sides and the relatively small facilities of the St. Louis convention center may hold attendance down to 28,000 or less, a church of ficial said. Besides the issue of interpretation of the Bible, the battle is also for control of the de nomination’s 2(1 national agencies, semina ries and other institutions with budgets to taling about $400 million a year. The Rev. E. Glenn Henson, a leading Southern Baptist scholar who advocates splitting the denomination, said: “Two groups are hopelessly polarized. One is fundamentalist to the core, equaling their way with God’s way. Fhe other is com mitted to traditional Baptist concern for f reedom, cooperation and acceptance of di versity. “We have a marriage that has broken clown irretrievably, and I am now con vinced it would be more Ghrislian and serve Ghrisfs kingdom better if we got a divorce.” ft. GilOj tv f F williouij nidi* istij el L;w«| >i imM Inin-fi* hi hadcrl refusiif ntr his it , i hat it! ntiiiaf 1 '! lent. fHl#! USm ■ iTwitii "wtS tarn 1 iMtl* I l?*H! I Ml I* irSfi* 0 SION VI jentsW* i Nile" ; ■STEtf ! Rock or Roll facility STUDENT SUMMER SPECIAL! indoor swimming pool Racquetball Volleyball Basketball Indoor jogging track Tennis Weight machines Aerobics studio Tanning bed Snack bar Lounge Join B/CS largest and most complete health club for only 720 per day! EXTENDED! 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