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Most notable among the changes was the official cashiering of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan from his command of special operations at a provincial fort. Honasan, the leader of the failed revolt, remained at large with as many as 2,000 renegade troops. According to press reports, Honasan has been secretly slipping in and out of Manila under the protection of military guards. Members of the business community may now be funding him, and some observers predicted he would launch a new coup attempt within a few weeks. If so, he could win support among government troops and officers, a majority...
Meanwhile, nearly a month after the violent mutiny of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan and 14 of the country's 86 army battalions, disaffection with Aquino among Philippine troops continued to grow. Playing for time, the President appears to have become heavily dependent on loyal officers in the armed forces. Contributing to the rising sense of danger, the Manila press crackled with new rumors of coups and palace intrigue...
...counter Honasan's publicity blitz, General Fidel Ramos, the armed forces Chief of Staff, began one of his own. Ramos charged that the colonel, despite his fierce anti-Communist stance, had actually shirked duty in N.P.A.-infested combat zones. He said Honasan did not have enough supplies and manpower to launch another serious attack. But even Ramos was forced to admit that Honasan's popular appeal "is a long-range time bomb planted in the heart of the military...
...government's performance in quelling the last mutiny. Though he had planned to ask Congress to close ranks behind Aquino, Arroyo instead spent three hours berating the military, the Roman Catholic Church and the business community for failing to support her during the uprising. He compared Ramos' spokesman Colonel Honesto Isleta with Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propagandist. Arroyo said that three of the country's leading businessmen, all longtime Aquino boosters, are guilty of treason for plotting to have him fired. He also attacked Vice President Salvador Laurel, who a few days earlier had polled loyal soldiers on their opinion...
...quest for a ban on all nuclear testing, the Soviet Union publicly unveiled a novel proposal last week. Speaking in Washington, Colonel General Nikolai Chervov, one of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's closest arms-control advisers, invited the U.S. to explode an atom bomb at a Soviet nuclear test site. Purpose: to enable Washington to fine-tune its monitoring equipment and thus ensure that any treaty violation could be detected. Chervov added that the Soviets should then be allowed to detonate a bomb at a U.S. test site...