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World news Aquino warns Reagan not to back Marcos MANILA, Philippine* < API — Corazon Aquino war nr Presi dent Reagan on Wednesday against supporting the National Assembly'* expected proclama tion of President Ferdinand Marcos as winner of last Fri day's presidential election. The assembly, dominated by Marcos' New Society Move ment party, is to begin official tabulation of votes this Friday, using what the opposition has said are fraudulent local vote tallies .. "I would wonder at the motives of a friend of democracy who chose to con spire with Mr. Marcos to cheat ■the Filipino people of their liberation'." said Aquino, who claimed anew that she has already won the. presidency. Marcos has declared himself the "probable winner." • v ; Reagan asserted at a - news Conference Tuesday, night that the elections were marred, by . . fraud on -both sides, but' his remark Svas-disputed by several ° Cl.S. election observers who said they had keen no evidence . o f f r a u d b y- A.q u I n o '.s-. ■ supporters. ' . , • ’ No immediate react ion came from'the'presidential palace to]. Reagan's statements or to his . . decision to Send diplomatic trouble-shooter Philip Habib, to,. Manila as- his' -personaF emissary.- . .. . Aquino said only that Habib, would' likely: get a courteous , „ welcome. . '.' As to suggestions 'that she reconcile with Marcos, - she • . replied: '‘It.w.ould be a delusion of policy ' that an. opposition whose leaders and . followers have been and are being killed can suddenly settle downito a Western-style opposition role in. ' a healthy two-party system Too many will be dead the moment - the world's head is turned." ‘ , the nation's Roman Catholic bishops arranged to meet Thurs- . day to review the election. . The military say? 8(5 popple were killed during’ the two French will help in restoration of Statue of Liberty • ‘ PARIS (AP) — A French Arnerican group hus announced it will help raise : funds in France for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, which, was donated to the United States by France 100 years ago. “We want to reaffirm the gesture France made a century earlier," the Franco-American Committee for the Restoration of the Statue of Liberty said Tuesday. The group will concentrate on raising funds for a new torch to be built by the French com pany Let M e t a I 1 i e r s Champenois. Total repairs on the statue, whose restoration is to be completed by July 4, will cost about $320 million. Fundraising events include a trans-Atlantic race in May from Rouen to New York and a series of television program ex changes between Houston and Paris entitled ihe “Liberty Channel. ” month campaign, the latest be ing Aquino campaign official Evello Javier, a former governor shot dead by hooded men in Antique province. The Philip pine News Agency placed the total at 107. Results of two separate counts kept showing opposite results five days after the election Aquino had gained in the government election commis sion returns but Marcos led with 7.032,695 votes, or 50.6 percent, to 6,850.234, or 49.4 percent, with two-thirds of the precincts reporting. The independent ballot monitoring group National Movement for Free Elections had Aquino ahead. 7.158.679. or 52.3 percent, to 6.532.362, or 47.7 percent for Marcos, based on 64 percent of the precincts. Both counts were continuing although they are not legally binding. Only the National Assembly count, to be posted on chalkboards as tally sheets are read, is official. Marcos. 68, president for 20 years, has not faced real opposi tion since 1969. He ruled under martial law from 1972 to 1981. His six-year term runs until 1987, but he called a special election trying to prove lie still had overwhelming support. Most of the districts not yet reported were in areas Marcos was expected to carry. Marcos’ New Society Move ment has a two-thirds majority in the assembly. . WE RE IN HERE DRINKING LITE BECAUSE IT’S LESS FILLING AND TASTES GREAT BESIDES, WE CAN’T SKI. DICK BUTKUS & BUBBA SMITH NASTAR EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED IN A BEER. AND LESS. t 8'ew iq Co M v\ a*iK»>* Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.