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Charges 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...
...encourage emigration. Mexico's population is growing so fast that the country would have to create at least 750,000 jobs a year just to keep its unemployment rate from mounting further. Small wonder, then, that Mexico makes scant effort to assist the U.S. in reversing the tide. President Ferdinand Marcos has cited the annual exodus of 35,000 Filipinos to the U.S. as a help in offsetting two of his country's most obstinate problems: unemployment (now running at 45%) and a lopsided balance of payments. In South Korea, the departure of workers has eased some of the strains...
...based weekly with a circulation of 45,000, was founded in 1971 as a challenge to Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, the country's self-appointed President for Life. All but one of California's 24 Vietnamese papers excoriate Hanoi, while the Philippine News, with 73,000 readers, opposes Ferdinand Marcos...
...General Fabian Ver, armed forces Chief of Staff and cousin of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, involved in a conspiracy to kill exiled Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino? For the past six months, state prosecutors in Manila have tried to prove that charge as part of their case against 26 men who are accused in connection with the assassination of Aquino on Aug. 21, 1983, as he descended from a China Airlines plane at Manila International Airport. Last week the prosecutors ran into a formidable obstacle: in a five-page ruling, the three justices conducting the trial threw out the major evidence...
...Titanic sank a couple of years before we came along in spite of Marconi's invention of wireless a few years earlier. I entered the world just before Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo, triggering the Guns of August. The Model T Ford was slowly replacing the horse and electric refrigeration and oil heat were unknown in the household. The New York Central Railroad ran from New York to Albany and the Boston & Maine from Boston to Lowell in less time than they take...