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.
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Cuban deaths in Angola at 10,000
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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.”
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