Word: maceda
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...Having dismissed Enrile a fortnight ago after accusations that he was plotting against her, she was now slowly revamping her Cabinet at the urging of her armed forces Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos and other military leaders. Aquino had earlier announced the removal of Natural Resources Minister Ernesto Maceda and Public Works Minister Rogaciano Mercado, whose ministries had been accused of corruption. Last week she added Minister of Local Government Aquilino Pimentel to the list, though she kept him in the Cabinet as a special adviser on national affairs. Aquino also reportedly accepted the resignation of Labor Minister Augusto...
...that allows the President to arrest whomever she likes for a period of three days. She ordered the rounding up of her most bitter political foes, including Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, an Estrada loyalist and one of the heroes who toppled the Marcos regime, and former Washington ambassador Ernesto Maceda. Senator Gregorio Honasan, an Enrile ally and former army colonel involved in seven botched coup attempts in the late 1980s, refused to surrender along with nine others...
...spring of 1992, Maceda began reporting the loss and damage. She peppered her superiors with memos, suggested ways to improve security and raised concerns about the way the library police were handling crime scenes. Instructed to desist, she wrote more memos. She also sought help up the line, writing a letter to Senator Connie Mack, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the library. Acknowledges Maceda, who has worked for the library's Protective Services Office for six years and has been in law enforcement since 1979: "I made a pain in the ass of myself...
Thomas M. Jones, the head of Protective Services, signed off on disciplinary proceedings against Maceda, and she was moved to a nonpolice job in the law library. But in the end, her persistence was rewarded. Although she was unaware of it, an agreement to call in the U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI had been violated. In August, after Librarian of Congress James J. Billington received a harsh letter from Mack, he initiated an in-house investigation, acknowledging that there may have been security lapses at the country's largest and most valuable collection of books and documents...
...remains unclear why Maceda's reports did not trigger such notification, though some employees suggest that, after the problems in 1992, further security breaches might have been considered too embarrassing for the library. Billington still says he is not convinced the damage is as extensive as some believe. Then, too, some managers continue to insist that Maceda has blown the matter out of proportion, that she has a history of problems on the job, and a few have told her that they suspect she may have been involved in some of the book mutilations. Maceda is unfazed by these accusations...