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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, January 8, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aquino challenges Marcos to name her communist allies wednesday january i9b6 the stars and stripes maj Page 9 Manila philippine a Linn candidate Cora on Aquino monday called on president Ferdinand c. Marcos to prove his allegations i a she has communist support or be Salem and she said that if elected she will not name communists id her cab net. Manila business leaders gave Aquino three handing ovations m the outlined an electoral program she said would undo the evils or Marcos 20-year tenure Ai the Philippines head of slate. In other developments two leftist youth groups announced Plain to Lead a Boycott of the feb. 1 special election called by mar cos to prove to critics at Home and abroad that he still can rally popular support. The philippine daily inquirer newspaper quoting from what it said was it memorandum of he outlawed communist party of the Philippines said the parly s Central committee also had decided to support a Boycott on sunday. Marcos claimed communist rebels fighting his government were sup porting Aquino s candidacy by threatening to attack villages thai Vole for him. Me did not say How he got the information or Whai villages were involved. Speaking before 1,000 member or the a Kali business club the roman Catholic Church linked Bishops businessmen s con Ference Una the management association of the Philippines Aquino challenged mar cos to name her purported communist Al lies. Or. Marcus either you put up or you shut  said Aquino. I nil sick and tired of hearing him say thai 1 have so Pink or red  in response to a question from a panel of business people Aquino said she would not name communists 10 positions in her cab inet. She Lias said in the past that she would Welcome communists into her government if they renounce violence but her statement monday seemed to indicate they would be barred from top positions. The widow of assassinated former sen. Venigna Aquino gave a is a Mulc speech outlining her economic program including plans to dismantle the current business monopolies of Coconut and sugar. She said her first concern will be to end Masi poverty unemployment and under employment a move she said Ould help end the insurgency by the communist new people s army Thill the government says claimed 5,400 Liva last year. Aquino said she would not pamper the private sector but would Stop government from competing with it. She said she would also prosecute economic saboteurs Welcome foreign investment and give labor an Equi table share of profits. And for the male chauvinists in the audience Aquino said to intend As Well to be the commander in chief of the armed forces of the Philippines a position that goes with the presidency. Responding to a question an Haw she would Deal with the military Aquino said she would retire All overstaying generals. Nearly ail top commanders under Marcos arc now beyond retirement age. The audience response to Aquino was unprecedented for the prestigious business groups which interrupted her nine times with applause and cheered some of her an Swers to questions posed by the panel. Her husband was jailed by Marcos for eight years and then allowed to leave for three years of voluntary exile in the United states. He was assassinated on aug. 21, 198as he returned to the Philippines. Aquino said she believes members of the military killed her husband and she said she would pursue the Case despite the dec. 2 acquittals of a group of officers charged in the assassination. But i never said he Marcos was going to be arrested and jailed. These Are Marcos own words he s just giving me ideas i think she said to applause and cheers. Representatives of the two youth groups the Young Christian workers and Kadena or Chain announced their Boycott plans at a Manila election forum. Top notch firefighters members of a group pc Sunini traditional  skills perform acro Ulics Dutott hum boo ladders during monday annual new year s a arc Bri Gades Parade in Tonijo. Annul  people watched the unt hour Parade. Chou was a Shadow Boxer Book says peking a the late Premier Chou in Lai might have done More to Blunt the  mistakes of Mao tse Tung s last years says a new official biography issued in Mark the loft anniversary of Chou s death. The 238-Page paperback s a Chou was a shadowbox or who declined to confront Mao face to face. But it credits him with keeping the ship of slate afloat through the chaos of the 1966-76 great proletarian cultural revolution or a protecting thousands of to inti Al victims from ram paging red guards. Chou a Lai a pro file by Percy and Lucy Fang is packed with new anecdotes such a one about Mao discovering his study was bugged and an account of the Hasty 1927 abortion that denied Chou and a wife any children. The authors Are a chinese couple who have lived and worked abroad and have recently retire from peking radio and the weekly peking review published Only m Enyi to Rit Etish by the foreign Lan. " u Itin  available at chinese bookstores the in Iofi Raphy glosses Over Chou s Long record of for Mao up Brand of revolutionary com mums i Ifni ii til backing for the cultural Rcv Olu Ion it describes him As a consummate Diplomat and i ple Menler of policy and concentrates on his struggle in preserve stability in the 1960s in a Power struggle with leftists led by Mao s wife Jiang qing now imprisoned. The questions raised Aboul Chou s role in communist China s Moil unruly decade underline an official ambivalence in appraising Chou Premier from 1949 until his death from cancer on Jan. 8,1976. Many senior officials still Revere him As their sole pro Lector at a time when radicals were smashing lives and Homes. But the current regime of Deng Xiaoping who was purged in 1966 and again in 1976, Seldom mentions Chou or stages commemorations. Deng has condemned Mao s leftist errors and has abandoned his policies. Born into an impoverished family in 1898, Chou was Given to a Foster Mother at i year of age and was orphaned at 10. He went to live with an Uncle where a teacher converted him Loire revolutionary cause the Book says. By the 1930s, he was an experienced communist fighter and was Mao s rival for the party leadership which Mao won in 1933. No two men sharing Power at the Pinnacle could be As different in temperament the Book says describing Mao As forceful and earthy and Chou As circumspect Ond Subtle. He was Given to too much shadowboxing with Mao tse lung rather than taking Mao on in a fact to free contest of wills As sometimes seemed not Only necessary bul imperative in says. When in became apparent Hal the cultural revolution announced As a bureaucratic purge had gone wrong Chou tried to control the excesses of teen age red guards but he failed to confront Mao an official estimate says 1 million Chiacc died and 30 million were persecuted during the upheaval. The most prominent casually was head of stale Liu Shim Chi who died in a makeshift prison in 1969. Others included unc of Chou s 10 adopted children daughter Sun Welsh. A Vic Tim of Jiang i it s haired could he not have taken a firmer stand in opposition to this madness the Book asks. In says the logical answer to this question is Hal in the first five years of the cultural revolution Chou fat obliged to go along with Mao and Only retention of the premiership enabled him to hold together the sprawling Leviathan of the  but in says if fighting  was what the coun try then needed must of All and Chou s stand could have made a difference perhaps up a easily lacking the combat Vencuss to Slick to his guns nevertheless the Book says the chinese people Are inclined to pass Over Chau s failings because of his struggle to keep the ship of slate afloat and combat Jiang line s fac Tion All this from a Hospital bed in his last two. Yea  in describing the Lime in 1072 when Mao was told that Security Bass Kang Sling had bugged his residence the Book says Kang categorically denied any pm ledge. However three months later when the chairman was rearranging his study he came upon listening  before answering Mao s second summons Kang had the three technicians who actually installed them silenced forever. Dead men do not talk the Book says. As Young  in 5917, Chou and his wife Deng Yingchai. Had to flee quickly from Chiang Kai Shek s nationalists. Deng was expecting inc couple s first baby but. In order 10 flee quickly she look some tradition Al Medicine that brought on an abortion the Book says. If Only i had not left Canton our Only child might have lived the Book quotes Chou As telling his wife later  
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