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...phone Agustin with a list of needed parts. Two of Agustin's accomplices, Philippine Immigrants Primitivo Cayabyab and Pedro Quito, would help pilfer the goods from Navy ships and warehouses where they worked. The Agustins then used fictitious shipping companies to transport the machinery to London. Agustin's brother Edgardo is said by the Customs Service to have managed the ring's East Coast operations. MILITARY Acquittal for a Spy Fund Manager...
Marcos, whose regime is under increasing pressure from a faltering economy and a growing Communist insurgency, has denounced the House action as interference in Philippine internal affairs. Says Edgardo Angara, president of the University of the Philippines: "We may be seeing a crucial turning point in the so-called special ties between the U.S. and the Philippines." NEW ZEALAND Tracking the Rainbow Bombers...
...heard a general was plotting to overthrow you, what would you do? If you were Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, heroine of last month's People Power II revolt in Manila, you'd get on your cell phone. At her maiden press conference last week, Arroyo was asked if Lieut. General Edgardo Espinosa, supposedly one of her most loyal military supporters, was planning a rebellion. As the news cameras rolled, Arroyo called the general and, using his nickname, asked: "Espine, are you going to stage a coup against me?" The general's response: "It's beyond my imagination...
...exile in Australia, the country was suffering its worst crisis of confidence since the Marcos years, with its banks, stock market, regulatory agencies and legislature all tainted by the revelations disclosed during the impeachment trial. Two days before Estrada was forced to resign, his newly appointed Executive Secretary, Edgardo Angara, a respected former Cabinet Secretary, voiced hope that the crisis atmosphere would "help push through those structural reforms that in normal times are so difficult to do, so that we can prove those people wrong who say democracy can never work in the Philippines...
...that she wasn't about to be overthrown in a coup. Arroyo took the bizarre step Thursday of taking out a cell phone during a presidential press conference and calling the general suspected of plotting her overthrow. "Are you going to stage a coup against me?" she asked General Edgardo Espinosa of the Marines. Listening for a moment, she then assured her audience that a coup was "beyond the general's imagination." Needless to say, that display didn't exactly allay concerns that her government may be on the brink...