Word: fabian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shortly after dawn late last week, the ramrod-stiff figure of General Fabian Ver, the armed forces Chief of Staff, arrived at a govern ment office building in downtown Manila to surrender himself. Two days earlier the Tanodbayan--a four-member panel of ombudsmen--had indicted Ver, 24 other members of the military and one civil ian for their alleged involvement in the 1983 murders of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. and of Rolando Galman, the man said by the military to have killed Aquino. Ver brought $1,600 to post as bail, then left before any photographers showed...
...week after General Fabian Ver, armed forces Chief of Staff, was named by the majority of an investigating commission as a conspirator in the Aug. 21, 1983, assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino, there were signs of a split in the military over the allegation. A pro-government Manila newspaper carried a full-page advertisement signed by 68 of the 83 general officers in the 200,000-man Philippine armed forces expressing "unwavering loyalty and support to General Ver." Conspicuously absent was the name of General Fidel Ramos, the acting Chief of Staff. Some of the officers whose names were...
...look good to us from the standpoint, right now, of democratic rights," was, to put it charitably, an understatement. A few days after the debate, the majority of a Philippine inquiry commission charged that some of Marcos' military commanders, including his close friend and top general, Fabian Ver, had been behind the murder of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino when he returned to the islands last year. Even the State Department felt compelled to soften Reagan's remarks. Said Spokesman John Hughes: "I think there is certainly recognition on everybody's part that there are other forces working...
...report that implicated the military in Aquino's death so graciously received by Marcos and so tepidly greeted by the public? Chiefly because Agrava failed to include one important name among the alleged conspirators: Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver, 64, Marcos' cousin, close confidant and most powerful protector...
...legal staff, all five members of the Agrava board have accepted the memorandum's main conclusion, but they remain passionately divided over one critical point. Four of the members, along with the board's general counsel, Andres Narvasa, were said to maintain that Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver was involved in at least the coverup. For that reason, they apparently believe that Ver should be charged as an accessory in a report that should raise serious questions about his deeper participation. But Corazon Agrava, the board's chairman, reportedly refused to accept that the second most...