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...people were killed when security forces moved against a protest in the town of Escalante, 310 miles south of Manila. The violence was not only on the government's side. Last week gunmen believed to be members of a Communist death squad assassinated Gregorio Murillo, the governor of Surigao del Sur province on Mindanao. Murillo, 58, was the highest civilian official killed by rebels this year...
...first six months I'll have 30% of the power," Cerezo told TIME last month. "In the first two years I'll have 50%, and I'll never have more than 70% of the power during my five-year term." Says Guatemala City Archbishop Próspero Penados del Barrio: "Whoever becomes President is going to have to move with great caution. You cannot have a dialogue with the armed forces...
...taking over Nabisco, have made dramatic moves that will change the structure of those companies. Philip Morris, which had earlier acquired Miller Brewing and Seven-Up, will now become the largest U.S. consumer-products manufacturer, with sales of more than $23 billion. Reynolds, owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Del Monte foods, will be close behind. Its revenues will exceed $19 billion. Since both cigarettes and food are sold in grocery stores and supermarkets and both depend heavily on strong consumer marketing, the businesses seem compatible...
When Nevado del Ruiz, the Colombian volcano, blew up last week after 400 years of dormancy, the news did not take long to reach B. William Mader, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. Already up and around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogotá, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogotá to join...
Associate Editor George Russell, who wrote the cover story, served as Buenos Aires bureau chief for TIME from 1979 to 1981 and covered Colombia, although he never visited Nevado del Ruiz. Says he: "Colombia is a beautiful, untamed country, where violence lurks around every corner. This week's violence, though, was of a completely different order...