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...General Gordon (Gordy) Williams and his counterpart at nearby Subic Bay Naval Base, Rear-Admiral Edwin Kohn, described the strategic importance of the two U.S. facilities. The guest journalists met with a broad range of political figures, including Jaime Cardinal Sin and the widow of assassinated Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. They spent a total of five hours with President Ferdinand Marcos, first in a rigorous question-and-answer session (see WORLD) and then at a banquet that evening...
Marcos has come under especially sharp criticism at home and abroad for the government's conduct of the investigation into the 1983 assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, particularly the role of General Fabian C. Ver, the armed forces Chief of Staff and a longtime Marcos associate. Ver and 25 other defendants are charged with complicity in Aquino's murder. As their eight-month trial entered its final stages last week, Ver submitted a 141-page memorandum asking for acquittal. The court must return a verdict within 90 days. Though Ver has been suspended from his post since October...
...indicted on the basis of misleading statements he had made before the Agrava panel, a fact-finding commission appointed by Marcos after Aquino's death. After ten months of investigations, the panel recommended that the defendants, all military men except for one civilian, be tried for conspiracy to kill Aquino. Ver's original Agrava-panel testimony was thrown out last August after the Supreme Court upheld an earlier decision that Ver's right not to incriminate himself had been violated...
...group of citizens, including lawyers who assisted the Agrava panel, plans to ask the Supreme Court to declare a mistrial. The group cites, for instance, the alleged role of one of the judges in orchestrating the cross-examination of a key prosecution witness who had testified that she saw Aquino being shot by a soldier standing behind him as he stepped off the plane. The defendants maintain that Aquino was shot instead by a lone Communist gunman named Rolando Galman, who was killed by security guards immediately afterward...
...against General Fabian Ver, armed forces Chief of Staff and cousin of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has been the central figure in an eight-month-long conspiracy trial, could soon be dismissed. Ver and 25 others stand accused in connection with the assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino on Aug. 21, 1983. In June a trial court threw out the major evidence against Ver and seven of his military colleagues. Most of that evidence was based on the defendants' testimony in April 1984 before a civilian fact-finding panel. Last week the Supreme Court upheld that decision...