European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday april 6, 1986 How Marcos an Emp among the Marcos assets Frozen in the United states is this House on 13 acres at Lawrenceville no. A photo by Fox Butterfield new York times w Ith one of his lesser know presidential decrees Ferdinand once ordered that a Remote Island in the South China sea remade into a preserve for african animals. It was to be a natural Sanctuary he said. More than 120 families of Farmers and fishermen were then forced from their Homes on the Island Cal auit 275 Miles Southwest of Manila and herds of giraffes and zebras Impala and Bushbuck were imported from Kenya at government expense. There they roamed the Grassy Plains and rolling Hills undisturbed except for Hunting parties from the presidential Palace. The leading Hunter according to an official of the new ministry of agriculture and food was Ferdinand Marcos jr., who flew in by helicopter. They turned it into a private Hunting ground which we be now discovered was costing the government 600,000 pesos $30,000 a month said the official Carlos Dominguez a Deputy minister. It s unbelievable in a country where kids Are starving to the Island is Only one of the smaller examples of How Marcos and his family and friends converted much of the Philippines into their personal preserve. Some details of the Marc oses activities were known before their flight from the presidential Palace aboard a . Helicopter on feb. 25. But in the last month government investigators have uncovered new evidence that has stunned filipinos with its scope. From this evidence it seems that hardly an Industry or a company or an Angle escaped the attention of some member of the Marcos entourage. So far the government commission charged with recovering the Marcos wealth has seized $150 of property in the Philippines including More than a dozen companies and a number of Bank accounts. There Are in addition 30 buildings in the Philippines that were built and maintained at government expense for Marcos and his wife Imelda according to the commission. They Range from Beach resort hotels and museums to Mountaintop mansions. They Sprinkle this archipelago from Marcos Home in Luzon in the North to Leyte his wife s native area in the South. Customs officials have identified 400 cars that the Marc oses and their associates imported without paying the Normal 300 percent duty on foreign automobiles. Among them were a Rolls Royce and a Cadillac for mrs. Marcos and dozens of Mercedess for her Brothers and Sisters. There were also five kidney dialysis machines for Marcos that were discovered in the presidential Palace. The commission said they had been taken from Manila hospitals without relatives Marcos left behind new York times Josefa Marcos still passes the Day playing Mah Jong unaware of the uprising in the Philippines or that her son Ferdinand e. Marcos fled the country i february. Friends say the deposed president s Mother is at age 93, too physically weak to be told. Instead she remains where she has been for the last eight years confined to the philippine heart Center. According to or. Esperanza Cabral the director of the Center Marcos did not pay his Mother s Bill which stands at $57,250. The new government of president Corazon c. Aquino has agreed to pick up the Bill for humanitarian but Dona Josefa As she is known in Manila is not a poor woman. Investigators say she served As chairman of the Board of More than a dozen companies in her son s 20-year presidency. In one Case they say she even Lent her name to a resort development concern that fraudulently sold shares in a proposed Golf and country club on a Choice chunk of suburban land that it did not own. Marcos was said to be so angry about the Deal that he seized the company. Dona Josefa was widowed toward the close of world War ii. Her son always insisted his father hospitalized Josefa Marcos Mother of the deposed president has not been told yet of her son s departure. A photo was shot by the japanese in retaliation for his own exploits As a guerrilla Leader deeds that have been questioned by . Army investigators. Other filipinos say the father actually collaborated with the japanese and was beaten to death by filipino guerrillas. The heart Center where Dona Josefa is staying was one of a series of grandiose projects directed by the former president s wife Imelda in the late
