Marcos reportedly planned bribery scheme
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Top generals pledg
ed loyalty Wednesday to new President Corazon
Aquino, and a Cabinet official left for Washington in an
attempt to recover millions of dollars allegedly hidden
by ousted President Ferdinand Marcos.
Jovito Salonga, head of the Commission on Good
Government, said before leaving for the United States
that he would consider investigating a claim that Mar
cos had schemed to influence Washington with huge
campaign contributions.
Salonga said he had received a letter, purportedly
from a group of Filipino bankers, saying Marcos plann
ed to donate $57 million to President Reagan’s 1980
and 1984 election campaigns and $10 million to other
U.S. candidates.
The letter provided no documentation to support
the claim and there was no independent verification. It
also did not say that any money actually was paid or
that any U.S. official agreed to accept it.
Salonga said he received the letter Saturday from
former banker Antonio Gatmaitan, who said it was writ
ten by 14 Filipino bankers whom he refused to identify.
In Washington. White House spokesman Larry
Speak.es said he was unaware of any such influence
buying scheme by Marcos.
Aquino met for more than an hour with 61 top
generals and regional military commanders at Camp
Aguinaldo, where the revolution that put her in power
Feb. 25 began.
A videotape of the meeting showed Aquino telling
the officers. "I'm sure the Filipino people will be
forever grateful to you.”
it was apparently a reference to the military s role
in installing her. The military officials who led the
revolution backed Aquino’s claim that she won the feb.
7 presidential election although Marcos was declared
the victor by the Marcos-dominated National
Assembly.
Chief of Staff Gen. Fidel Ramos, who was Marcos'
deputy military commander before he defected to sup
port Aquino, said all the officers “pledged our support
and loyalty to the commander-in-chief.”
Earlier Wednesday. Aquino met with her full
Cabinet . The ministers put off a decision on whether to
declare a revolutionary government, assigning the mat
ter to a committee.
Such a proclamation would free Aquino to dismiss
the National Assembly and make changes in the
autocratic administrative system left by Marcos.
A second committee was assigned to plan a new
course for the troubled economy. A report submitted to
the Cabinet said the country overspent its budget by
$250 million during the first quarter of 1986. Officials
blamed it partly on Marcos' election spending
The letter lists a series of proposed contributions
by Marcos, including $7 million to the 1080 Keegan
campaign. $50 million to his 1084 re-election bid and
$10 million to "various candidates" in the 1082 con
gressional race.
The letter did not say how the bankers learned of
the planned contributions.
U S. Embassy spokesman Allan Croghan said any
implication that the payments were made was "false
and without foundation." He said the letter failed to
"take into account any of the U.S. election laws which
would make it impossible for something like this to
take place." „
Meanwhile, the Manila Times quoted an uniden
tified source on Salonga's commission as saying papers
found in the presidential palace showed Marcos had
$2.3 billion to $3 billion in Swiss bank accounts
White leaders join anti-apartheid movement
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Prominent
whites joined anti-apartheid groups
Wednesday in angry response to a report
that police fired into a black crowd
without provocation the day before, and
to banning orders against two black
leaders.
“A culture of (black) resistance is be
ing bom before our eyes," said Frederick
van Zyl Slabbert. a white politician. “I
say there cannot be any peaceful change
in South Africa. We are caught up in
violence.”
Police said the crowd of 2,000 people
outside a courtroom in Kabokweni
township Tuesday refused to disperse
and got out of control. A teen-age boy
was killed and 80 people were wounded.
Another boy was killed by police gun
fire in the township later Tuesday.
On Wednesday, a black man was
speared to death in the KaNgwane
homeland adjacent to the township, and
three ‘ blacks were injured, by stone
throwers outside Kabobwenj.
Police said a black officer .was. killed
early Wednesday in Alexandra tqwnsh.ip
near Johannesburg, scene of bloody •
rioting last month. . '
Enos Mabuza. chief minister of the
KaNgwane homeland,, demanded a full-.
investigation of Tuesday's shooting.
'.‘Most of the pupils who were interview-,
ed at the Themba Hospital had birdshot"
wounds on their backs,” he said.
Kabokweni is near White River 155
miles east- of Johannesburg, near the
Mozambique border.. „ •;
Albertina Sisulu. president of the anti
apartheid Untied Democratic Front , call- ‘
ed the shoqting."an att-of cowardice," .
The Progressive' Federal .Party,, the
main political opposition, said it had
begun its own investigation. Slabbert
resigned as party leader and member of
Parliament recently in the belief that the
Legislature will not reform .the race,
policy that gives South Africa’s 5 million
whites privilege and denies rights to 24 •
million blacks. .
‘.The international Anti-Apartheid
Movement said to London that the
shooting was. !an unspeakable act of
violence.!’ . •. . ; .
' Police said they fired tear gas and then
birdshot at the crowd that gathered out
side the small courtroom in’which black
youths were facing riot charges, t
*; Ap .official stateihent said a 14-year
old was shot dead and ’m. people were
wounded.’and a-J5Tyear-old. was kiltod
and another youth wounded ..in later
shooting. ,:.
"Whim you have a situation where a
courtroom can accommodate only 30
people and thousands are milling
. around, then the situation can very easi
ly get out of control," police spokesman
Capt. Henry Beck said.
Beck said-officers used bullhorns to
warn the. crowd to disperse - *
*ln another, episode Tuesday night, at
Kwa-Thema .township east of lohan
. • nesburg. police said they fired on blacks
setting fire-to a car.-slightly wounding-\4
‘.women.
.. Police- in' the .eastern .Cape Province
town of George found the chaired. body
of an unidentified black apparently kill
ed by other, blacks. ' ' 1 ’ '
Almost.30ft.‘people, have died in
South Africa's IB months of violence
against apartheid. ’nearly all of them
black. ■' • '
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