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When New York State Supreme Court Justice Lewis Douglass sent convicted Drug Dealer Agapito Lopez up the river to prison last year, he noted that $440,000 had been found in Lopez's Brooklyn apartment. That was merely cash on hand: in addition, the district attorney's office claims, Lopez owns three houses in New York, a car dealership, and several apartments in his native Puerto Rico. Last week Judge Douglass decided to redistribute some of Lopez's assets. He ordered the dealer to hand over more than $2 million in restitution to New York City's drug-rehabilitation programs...
...widely expected that the defendants would be acquitted by the three Marcos-appointed judges, so the verdict provoked few demonstrations and no violence. But opposition leaders responded to the verdict with anger. "The (court) just committed triple murder," said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 47, the slain leader's younger brother. "Not only did it kill Ninoy and Galman all over again. It also killed the country's judiciary." Said Cory Aquino, refusing to consider the matter of her husband's death closed: "My No. 1 suspect is Mr. Marcos...
...addition to those named as accessories, 17 soldiers, including Aquino's military escorts and Brigadier General Luther Custodio, who was responsible for security at Manila airport, were charged as principals in the conspiracy and ordered held without bail. Herminio Gosuico, a Manila businessman, was named as an accomplice. Said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 45, younger brother of the slain opposition leader: "What is lacking is the mastermind...
...prominent opponents to Marcos can command the broad-based political support Aquino might have had, their ranks include such unlikely bedfellows as Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, and Jaime Ongpin, president of the Benguet mining corporation. Also included are Corazon Aquino, Ninoy's widow, and Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, his younger brother. The opposition draws experience from such veteran Marcos foes as Salvador Laurel, head of the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization coalition, and Lorenzo Tañada, 86, the grand old man of the opposition...
Unable to stop the march, Marcos backed off. Police and soldiers stayed out of sight except around the presidential Malacañang Palace. Demonstration Organizer Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, Ninoy's brother, had feared that the centerpiece of the celebration, the statue, cast in Rome by Philippine Sculptor Tomas Concepcion and flown to Manila via New York City, would be deliberately held up by Philippine customs and had readied a similar statue made of plaster. But after a two-day standoff, during which the bronze was kept at the airport, Marcos ordered $3,970 in duties waived and the figure...