European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 17 payment. Marcos is said to have suffered from a degenerative kidney disease but has denied that. But far More important was the Marcos business Empire. Operating with the absolute Power he bestowed on himself by declaring martial Law in 1972, Marcos developed a series of techniques that were almost guaranteed to bring a Fortune to him and his associates the material uncovered by the commission indicates. During this same period the philippine Economy s growth rate was declining and the country was piling up a foreign debt of $26 billion. Among the instruments Marcos used were presidential decrees that exempted favored enterprises from government audit including the philippine National Oil co., the largest firm in the country a hich was run by Marcos close associate Geronimo z. Velasco. Another such Enterprise was the Manila Bay Casino controlled by Alfredo Romaldez a younger brother of mrs. Marcos. Several Days after Romaldez fled with the Marc oses $3.25 million in Cash was found in a Van from the Casino at his House. There were also the judicious use of presidential influence to install Marcos relatives in the Bureau of internal Revenue where they were in a position to help family members evade taxes investigators now say As Well As bribery to ensure that records of certain corporations vanished from the philippine securities and Exchange commission. Even government figures on the country s Gross National product were manipulated to forestall doubts by foreign Bankers about the deteriorating Economy economists now report. Friends of the first family also found it remarkably easy to borrow huge amounts from foreign Banks they needed Only the guarantee of one of the country s government Banks. If the firms went bankrupt the Philippines was left holding the debt. You a our wet Kieft the  1 pm Cej i in one of i Scutts closets they found 1970s, that now have Little use. Built at a Cost of nearly $50 million the Center was intended to be a showpiece for filipino Medicine. But filipinos suffer More from malnutrition than heart disease and today much of the building is used for. Government office space. His Mother was not the Only close relative Marcos left behind. One sister Fortuna Marcos Barba is said by friends to have made a Fortune from government logging concessions her brother bestowed on her. Another sister Elizabeth Marcos Roca is in a sanitarium after suffering a nervous breakdown several years ago. She had been governor of the marcoses1 Home province of Locos Norte before her medical troubles. Marcos brother or. Pacifico e. Marcos who served As head of the philippine medical care commission comparable to the medicare system in the United states also stayed in Manila. Associates of the family say or. Marcos was chairman of several companies including a Large automobile Dealership,.during his brother s reign. But in an interview he said he had been Only a Spectator at the presidential Palace and was unaware of the extent of his brother s wealth. National geographic random Rifle fire and violence have scarred sculptures among 12th Century ruins. Hope for the battered ruins of an  United press International d instant gunfire still echoes through the magnificent 12th-Century ruins of angkor wat but an International restoration group is moving to save Cambodia s greatest Monument from ravages of War and weather. Armed cambodian soldiers leaped out of a truck to guard a group making a rare visit to the elaborately carved hindu ruins at angkor 160 Miles Northwest of phenom penh. Someone must be shooting Birds one guard said through an interpreter As a burst of gunfire sounded in the distance. A Stone Bridge guarded by nagas mythical snakes crosses the 50-foot Moat that surrounds the huge three tiered rectangular Temple whose outer Walls run nearly a mile in each direction. The five Graceful towers that give the Temple its distinctive profile Are still intact but several of the outer towers have collapsed. Deep Bullet holes pock the carved Sandstone of one Entrance scars from 15 years of War that has ebbed and flowed around this relic of ancient Khmer civilizations. Rainstorms have collapsed roofs and hallways. Stone columns have been eaten away at their bases by water that blows in during the Rainy season and flows across the floor of the Central enclosure. Some of the delicate Bas reliefs that decorate the Temple s Walls Are discoloured by water seepage. Hundreds of neatly numbered blocks lie strewn in the tall grass on one Side. They Are from a Long hallway that collapsed during a storm in 1969. The numbering was from restoration efforts during the government of president lon nol that were interrupted in the Early 1970s when communist Khmer Rouge troops seized the area. The Rusty hulks of two  tanks lie along the Road to the Temple As mute witness to the fighting. A vietnamese invasion Force drove the Khmer Rouge from the Temple and from Power in the capital in 1979. Now a guerrilla War by the Khmer Rouge and two other resistance groups plagues efforts to restore and preserve the Temple. Despite the sounds of occasional gunshots no fighting was visible and the squad of cambodian government soldiers did not appear worried. Groups of Khmer Rouge guerrillas operate through most of siem reap province near Cambodia s Western Border with Thailand but the guards said there had been no fighting near angkor wat for several months. Still requests to visit the ruins of the Royal City of angkor Thorn three Miles away were refused. The Road Between siem reap town and angkor wat is lined by Barracks of a vietnamese division. Trenches and camouflaged bunkers Are visible in the Camp. Built As the funerary Temple of King sury Varman ii angkor wat was the greatest architectural achievement of the Khmer Empire that once included Southern Vietnam and most of Thailand. Completed in time for sury Varman s death in 1150, it was mysteriously abandoned to the Jungle three centuries later. Angkor wat has been claimed by successive royalist Republican and communist governments As the Symbol of the cambodian nation. Flags of both the vietnamese backed government in phenom penh and the chinese supported resistance fighters feature the towers of angkor wat. Angkor is our most precious cultural heritage chief Temple guide so Hoan told the visitors. We have a duty to save it.". He pointed with dismay to signs of War and weather destruction and said he feared that the next Rainy season due in june would inflict still More  in phenom penh Cambodia s vice minister of foreign affairs Kong Korm said an agreement had been worked out with India to help restore the Temple which resembles hindu monuments in Southern India. The Indian government is responsible for technical parts of the restoration he said. We Are responsible for labor and  the restoration however awaits sufficient funding and essential information. Kong Korm said offers had been received from polish swedish and japanese organizations to help with the project. He said Cambodia hoped Enesco would also provide funds even though it is not a member of the United nations. No Cost estimate was available. Kong Korm said an Indian Survey of the ruins recommended that restoration begin with chemical treatment of the delicate Sandstone. . Pande the Indian charge d affairs in phenom penh said his government would spend up to $3 million on the project mostly to bring and keep Indian experts on location for the seven years it would take. Kong Korm said he hoped work could Start within a year. European diplomatic sources said another hold up was French control of technical information from earlier efforts at restoration. The French. Have difficulties because they do not recognize the phenom penh government a Diplomat said