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Marcos leading Aquino in official count
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Fer
dinand Marcos was well ahead Thursday in the
official vote count by the National Assembly,
which his party controls. Corazon Aquino, who
claims she won the election, said he must resign
to prevent violence.
Aquino’s aides reported that another of her
campaign workers was killed Thursday, bringing
the total since the Feb. 7 presidential election to
more than 20.
After seven hours of tabulating tally sheets
from the archipelago’s 74 provinces and more
than 60 cities, the assembly had Marcos ahead
with 6,403,785 votes to 5,584,581 for Aquino.
That gave Marcos an edge of about 53 percent to
Aquino’s 46 percent with about 46 percent of the
votes tallied.
The assembly's count determines the out
come under Philippine law.
The National Movement for Free Elections,
an independent poll-watchers' group called Nam
frel, had Aquino ahead in its unofficial count. It
gave her 7,158,679 votes to 6,532.362 for Marcos,
based on 64 percent of more than 86.000
precincts reporting.
The tally sheet delivered to the National
Assembly from the president's home province of
Ilocos Norte said the votes came from 761
precincts. The province has 624 registered
precincts,
Aquino claims the elections were fraudulent
and the National Assembly’s canvass is rigged.
Marcos, who has governed the Philippines
for 20 years, appeared on government television
and pledged to "honor, without reservations, the
people's verdict at the polls."
The president deplored the violence and said
he also had lost supporters, including a town
mayor he said was killed by communist rebels
"encouraged by the opposition."
Aquino said the president should resign
because "the failure of the electoral process to
move swiftly to a fair conclusion has dangerously
heightened tensions." An aide read her statement
soon after the Marcos broadcast.
She said the resignation would “defuse some
of the swelling political anger" of Filipinos who
feel they have been cheated, and allow the ques
tion of who won the election to be settled in a
manner acceptable to all. She did not say how
that could be done.
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Election watchers report
rip fraud on Aquino’s side
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Several members of.Ihe tJ.Sl.team sent
• toobserv«? the/Philippine election dispute President Reagan'* asser
_ tion that violence and fraud can be blamed equally. on supporters 01
President Ferdinand.Marcos and his challenger. Cora/bn Aquino
” \ f-Ke election watchers said Wednesday that‘because theelec
Uon machinery „wbs controlled by the Mart.os government. there
wm little opportunity for cheating by Aquino's supporters, while
.thVrewas apparent- manipulation of the -government’s vote .count
A congressional aide, who asked not to be identified by. name.
^ said the delegation head. Sen. Richard Lugfr. R-Ind., belie vesthe
Reagan administration should not concetde’the. election to Marcos
.because "it was o.ur impression that Marcos apparently, did not
steal enough vptes to win in any legitimate way.” o' ’
Reagan told a news conference Tuesday night that he was
"concerned about the violence... and the possibility of fraud,
although it could have been that all of that was occurring on both
sides.!'' . ; '■
Rut according to I.ugar spokesman Mark Helrhke, ■' 'The delega*
tion received 100 times more reports of alleged fraud by the Marcos
side than came in about the Aquino side. Rut no .one was able to
confirm reports of fraud" by Aquino supporters.- by llnida.' her'Pp
position party, or by Namfrel, the National Movement for Free
Elections. •
One delegate, Mortimer Zuckerman, publisher ofU.S. News &
World Report, said he agrees with the president's efforts to distance
himself equally from both sides to avoid prejudicing the eventual
outcome.
Paper shut down, mayor arrested
as Haiti’s new rulers reorganizing
PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti
(APJ — Haiti's new rulers shut
down the government
newspaper, announced the ar
rest of the capital city’s mayor
and said they may consider con
fiscating the property of depos
ed President Jean-Claude
Duvalier.
The six-man National
Government Council on
Wednesday ordered the paper
Le Nouveau Monde closed "for
reorganization," but did not say
when it might be reopened.
Other newspapers, some of
which had been pro-Duvaiier
but privately owned, continue
to publish.
The military-civilian council
took power Feb. 7 when
thivalier, "president for life"
since inheriting the title from
his father Francois Duvaller in
1971, fled to temporary exile in
France.
Police said they arrested the
capital's mayor, former army
Col. Frank Remain, Tuesday
night and that he was in protec
tive custody. Neighbors said a
convoy of police vehicles
whisked him off as a mob was
threatening his home.