Word: ocampo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much use those lines would see was unclear. Saturnino Ocampo, the top negotiator for the Communist insurgents, insisted that the guerrillas would observe the truce until Feb. 7, but did not appear optimistic about a resumption of discussions. Francisco Pascual, another rebel official, suggested that last week's killings might "affect the peace talks because we support the marchers' right to organize and air their grievances." Evidence also surfaced that the Communists had been prepared all along to pull out of the negotiations. In several towns guerrillas who had come out of the jungle during the cease-fire disappeared, apparently...
...cease-fire between Philippine government forces and Communist rebels began last week amid prayer services, pealing church bells and jubilant marches. It almost did not come off: last-minute objections by both sides over the pact's provisions drew warnings from National Democratic Front Negotiator Satur Ocampo that the cease-fire was "in jeopardy." How long it will last is another matter. The day after peace supposedly broke out, rebels paraded through a small village brandishing automatic weapons...
Before the signing, Mitra held a press conference with the N.D.F.'s chief negotiator, Satur Ocampo. Both men sounded guardedly hopeful. "We're holding onto our guns," said Ocampo. "It will be a cease-fire in place." Still, he pledged that the rebels, who control 18% of the country's 42,000 villages, would honor the truce. Said Mitra, for his part: "Both sides won the war." He added that the negotiations had been "eased through friendship and goodwill," noting that he and the N.D.F. negotiators had been journalistic colleagues long before President Ferdinand Marcos declared war on the insurgents...
Teresito P. Ocampo Manila...