European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March 2,1986 persistent queries Spur presidential expletive Washington a president Reagan after try ing to end a picture taking session Friday at which report ers were seeking to question him turned to the person sitting next to him and remarked sons of  the expletive was picked up by the White House Micro phones in front of Reagan and was clearly audible As news organizations throughput the White House press room monitored the session in the Cabinet room where Only a few reporters were permitted. Later As he left for his Camp David Retreat in Mary land Reagan was asked by reporters whom he had in mind and he replied i thought it was one of you saying it about  when that was greeted by a Good natured chorus of no the president smiling said it was t  although White House aides prevented some television Crews from recording the remark by unplugging their Ca Bles from the White House sound system a lbs news videotape of the session showed Reagan uttering the words. The news people had been escorted into the room to watch Reagan accept the interim report of his Blue rib Bon commission on defense management and after Rea Gan and chairman David Packard completed their pre pared remarks reporters sought to question the president. The Brief photo sessions Are among the few occasions when reporters have an Opportunity to ask the president about issues of the Day. A White House staff person usually signals the end of such sessions by calling lights which directs the lighting technicians to turn off their High intensity television lights. But As often happens the questioning continued after the Call for lights this time Reagan himself sought to Cut off further interrogation after replying to a question about wasteful defense spending and another on the United states helping former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his associates bring Money and jewelry into the United states. I think now we be got to get on with some More meet Ings Reagan said. Another reporter then asked if philippine president co Razon Aquino should have released a marxist Leader from prison. I Don t know Reagan said. I really Don t  Denny Brisley a Junior member of the White House press office staff then told reporters and camera Crews which she had been trying to escort out of the Cabinet room let s go. Thank you. This Way  and in a highly unusual step Brisley began pulling the camera Crews cables out of the White House sound sys tem. At least one camera was still focused on Reagan when its audio went dead. Before that Point the president turned to Packard tapped the Index cards containing his prepared remarks on the table and uttered sons of  presidential spokesman Larry Speakes asked about Reagan s comment said the president does t recall say ing it. He does t recall anybody else saying  if he said anything Speakes added he said it sunny and you re Rich " asked to whom Reagan was referring the spokesman said they know who they  the White House transcript of the session ends with Reagan s reply to the last question. Speakes later telephoned the associated press to protest the reporting of Brisley s actions. He insisted that an Industry technician asked for help unplugging the machines although the technician Tom Hammer ski of Abc denied doing so. Reputed philippine communist chief s release delayed Manila Philippines a the Man who reportedly leads the philippine communist party will not be among hundreds of political prisoners whose immediate release has been ordered by president Corazon Aquino a presidential spokesman said sat urday. Rene Saguisag the spokesman said the government s five member committee for the immediate release of political detainees would meet again wednesday to con Sider freeing reputed communist party Leader Jose Maria Sison and three others identified As radicals. Aquino who promised during her presidential Campaign to free political detainees on Friday ordered the release of All political prisoners jailed under Ferdinand Marcos including those suspected of leading communist rebels. Saguisag said Domestic considerations were delaying the release of Sison Bernabe Biscayno the suspected head of the communist new people s army rebels and two members of the guerrillas special operations  he did not elaborate. Saguisag said thursday the government encountered very Strong resistance from the military Over the suspected communists release. Sison and Biscayno known As com Mander Dante were arrested in 1976. The prisoners Are among the last of More than 70,000 imprisoned by Marcos after he began More than eight years of martial Law in 1972. The government said 441 remained in military Camps after Marcos downfall while an Independent task Force has put the number at 603. Sison said he was not discouraged. I am sure i will be released Sison told reporters who were allowed for the first time into a military facility where he has been held for eight years three months and nine Days. Asked if he would renounce violence Sison said i Don t have to renounce Vio Lence but i am against the unjust use of violence. I am not going to sign anything that simplistically renounces violence As if i have been using violence  Marcos on wednesday fled the asian Island nation that he had ruled for 20 years faced with a military backed popular uprising that followed the fraud marred feb. 7 election in which Marcos claimed to have beaten Aquino. Saguisag said More than 400 other prisoners still in detention would be freed As soon As administrative processing is com plete. The . Ambassador in an interview saturday said he sees tremendous Public backing for Aquino but her new govern ment s popularity May depend on its ability to get the philippine Economy moving. Doing that will be a major determinant in their ability to continue to enjoy the enormous popular support they have now said Stephen h. Bosworth the american ambassador. The Philippines is now struggling with a Zens $26 billion foreign debt. Its Economy beset by poor management and falling world prices for its major exports of sugar and Coconut contracted last year for the second year in a Row and economists Are pessimistic about chances for recovery this year. The Economy went into a Tail pm follow ing the August 1983 assassination of Aqui no s husband Benigno Aquino which Trig gered a massive flight of capital and a collapse of Confidence among business peo ple. In Hawaii Marcos made his first Public comment since leaving his country saying on Friday that he relinquished Power be cause i have no heart to shed  see photo Page 3. In a Brief letter read at Hickam fab in Honolulu where he and his entourage have been staying Marcos said he decided not to use his Superior military Power to crush the rebellion that toppled him because employment of such an overwhelming Force no matter How legitimate would have resulted in bloody carnage among innocent Citi Manila to seek ref urn of marcos7 assets news update new York a the Philippines government will go to court in the United tales to try to recover billions of dollars in property Art jewelry and Cash it says was stolen by former president Ferdinand e. Marcos a civil rights group said Friday. As dictators fall the United states should not be a Haven for their ill Begotten wealth said Morton Stavis president of the Center for constitutional rights a non profit Legal and educational group founded in 1966 to focus on human and civil rights issues. The Center will represent the philippine government in Manila he said. Since wednesday Marcos has been Liv ing with his 90-member entourage under heavy Security at Hickam fab in Honolulu his second Stop after fleeing the Philippines aboard a . Military Jet As opposition Leader Corazon Aquino took Power. Estimates of Marcos holdings in the United states and other countries Are As High As $30 billion said Peter Weiss the Center s vice president. In Manhattan alone it is estimated that he Marcos has $350 million in holdings said Bonifacio Gillego a philippine govern ment official. Secretary of state George Shultz asked what the . Response would be to a philippine request for a seizure of Marcos As sets replied undoubtedly whatever proper and Legal Steps should be taken will be taken and obviously we Are a Law abiding country and will go along with  president Reagan said Friday that there s no Way for us to know anything about reports that Marcos brought millions of dollars in Cash and jewelry from the Philippines. The philippine Mission in Hawaii has re Quested the Center for constitutional rights Send a lawyer to witness the inventory of a plan Load of goods that Marcos says is his personal property. Lawyer Severina Rivera said she had been authorized by Aquino s government to take whatever Legal Steps Are necessary to recover property and assets. Stavis said there were ample Legal remedies available in . Courts to recover the property that Marcos purloined from his own  lawyers said they were considering Legal action both in Federal and state courts. Gillego said the list of Marcos holdings included an $18 million mansion in London a $20 million mansion in Rome the former Charlie Chaplin estate in Beverly Hills Worth $25 million and two estates in Honolulu Worth $2 million. Nato warned on abolishing nukes Munich a defense minister Manfred Woerner on saturday warned nato against a single minded Rush to abolish nuclear weapons saying this could magnify the danger of the soviet conventional arms Edge Over the West. Woerner also advocated Pursuit of a european counterpart to the . Star wars program As a deterrent to soviet Short Range missiles that can be fired at Western Europe. Woerner was speaking to More than 150top nato officials and observers at the Weh Kunde an annual Alliance seminar concurrent defense issues. The German defense minister a conservative Christian Democrat said the goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons maybe  soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev made sweeping proposal in january for dismantling All nuclear weapons by the year 2000. But Woerner noted that the soviets re Tain a significant conventional arms advantage Over nato in the foreseeable future there will Beno strategy without nuclear weapons not globally and not in Europe said woe Nerat the conference in a Munich hotel. Destroying nuclear arsenals without re solving the soviet conventional arms Edge would have to result in instability prone Ness to crises and yes the danger of  terrorist released Alessandria Italy a Patrizio Peci a notorious Leader of the red brigades terrorists who turned in Formant for italian authorities has been released from prison the italian news Agency Agi reported. The Agi report which did not name any sources said Peci 35, was released from the maximum Security prison Here recently after serving an eight month term for robbery. No Independent official confirmation was immediately available. Peci led one of the columns of the left Wing red brigades in the Northern Industrial City of Turin until his capture in february 1980. Although he was convicted of a string of terrorist acts that killed seven people and wounded 17, he began cooperating with authorities and eventually received a reduced four year prison sentence. Murder charge Sticks los Angeles up a judge has refused to dismiss a second degree murder charge against Cathy Evelyn Smith and has set a May trial Date for the former Rock backup Singer accused of killing comedian John Belushi with a drug overdose. Defense attorneys for Smith 38,an sex Rock Groupie and heroin addict from Toronto Canada argued that there was insufficient evidence