European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday october 2, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 lawyers question Marcos on wealth by the los Angeles times Honolulu lawyers from los Angeles and Manila descended tuesday on he Seaside Home of deposed philippine president Ferdinand a Marcos and began questioning the exiled ruler about allegations that he robbed his nation of billions of dollars by Means of a scheme patterned after a criminal Syndi Cate. The court ordered questioning of Marcos is a major step by the philippine government in its Effort to re cover the Money that Marcos his wife. Imelda and close relative and friends allegedly removed from the philippine Treasury Between 1966 and 1986. Govern ment lawyers and investigators estimate the amount at j2 billion. Accompanying the american and filipino lawyers tuesday was a court approved video Crew that will film Marcos deposition. He is to answer under oath questions based on thousands of documents the lawyers accumulated since Marcos fled Manila last february. The lawyers say that the documents prove that for two decades the Maroses engaged in racketeering activities and criminal violations among them Mai fraud wire fraud extortion theft of american and japanese bilateral Aid Money illegal transportation of stolen property illegal laundering of funds in the United slates and the establishment of More than half a dozen Swiss Bank accounts to hide Money taken from the government. Marcos lawyers fought to prevent the questioning which was scheduled to continue until thursday. Sev eral sources close to the Case said they expected mar cos to plead the fifth amendment to the Constitution refusing to answer Many of the questions on grounds that he might tend to incriminate himself. The . District court in los Angeles where the philippine government filed its Case against the mar costs ruled in september that Marcos testimony and the videotapes should be made Public when the depositions arc completed. Texas Senate oks tax increase to offset falling world Oil prices Austin Texas up the Texas Senate undaunted by a five hour filibuster tuesday night adopted on js69 million tax increase and a package of budget cuts aimed at reducing he stale s $2.8 billion budget deficit caused by plunging world Oil prices. Republican sen. . Buster Brown filibustered against the $869 million tax Bill for More than five hours arguing that lawmakers were burdening texans with a tax increase without making deeper cuts in slate spending. After the filibuster the Senate quickly passed the package on a 25-5 vote then voted 29-1 to adopt a package of budget cuts totalling about $5 to . Oscar Mauzy dam Coralic candidate for the Texas supreme court cast the Only dissenting vote on the appropriations Bill. The tax and budget cutting measures were crafted by lawmakers in two grueling special sessions of the legislature As temporary solutions to Tejas s2.8 Bil lion Revenue shortfall. The House which adopted the tax increase and Bud get cutting measure saturday formally adjourned at mid afternoon leaving the Senate no option but to pass the tax plan without amendments or let it die. The budget deficit was spurred by a decline in world Oil prices hat slashed the amount of Oil and Gas reve Nues available to the state and sent Shock Waves throughout the Texas Economy the tax plan would increase the state sales lax from 4 a cents to 5 / cents and increase the gasoline tax from 9.5 cents per gallon to 14.5 cents. More aids victims to get drug new York not the group eligible to receive the first drug to show Promise against aids has been broadened to include most of the 7,000 aids victims who have suffered a specific form of pneumonia pneuma Cystis Carinio the Bur roughs wellcome co. Announced tuesday. The decision Means that the anti viral drug also known As at can be dispensed immediately to thou Sands More patients than originally planned. Leu than two weeks ago official of the company which makes at said that until the drug was licensed for commercial marketing they would provide it Only to patients who have had a single attack of the form of pneumonia within the previous 120 Days. Under the new policy patients now eligible for treatment with at include those who have recovered from one or More cases of the pneumonia who Are not receiving other experimental drugs and who have sufficient blood cell counts and adequate liver and kidney function. Children under 12, pregnant or nursing women with aids and certain others will be excluded. Burroughs wellcome and Federal officials agreed on the new criteria last week but delayed announcing it until tuesday the food and drug administration also announced tuesday that All experimental aids drugs had been Given a special new status to assure that they receive the speediest possible decisions from the Agency Burroughs wellcome said it hoped to apply to the Fra within weeks for a License to Market at. Feder Al officials have said that if he data warranted it such approval might be granted As Early Tut january. Law eyes new Assembly plants Detroit up United Auto workers presi Dent Owen Bieber has vowed thai All new Assembly plants built by japanese car makers on . Soil eventually will be unionized Ward s automotive International said his Tough stance Bieber said in an interview for Ward s first Issue of a twice monthly publication that the Law would be flexible in adapting to new methods of production and cited hit Union s agreement with numm1 corp., the joint venture Between general motors corp. An Toyota motor co in Fremont Calif., As a progressive step that has led to a Good relationship and High quilt by products. "numm1 ought to be an open signal to any Japa Nese company or any other foreign based Auto company that it makes Good seme to have the Law rep resenting toe people in a Plant Bieber told Ward s. The japanese transplant to North America Are expected to account for More than 1.15 million new can in the . Market by 1990.the Law has managed to get agreements at Mazda corp s s450 million Flat Rock mich., Assembly plan now under construction. But the million member Union has had difficulty representing worker Al Amer Ica Honda co s Plant in Marysville Ohio or Nissan motor co s Plant in Smyrna tcnn., both of which have shunned Law participation. To movie helps locate missing boy Brick township. . A a 7-year-old boy missing for three years was located after a neighbor recognized the child s picture when it was broadcast after a television movie police said tuesday. The photograph of Terrence Conner was among Pic Tures of to missing children broadcast by Abc after the movie Adam the song continue monday Junt. The neighbor telephoned the san Francisco based missing child foundation which called Brick town ship police who arrested the boy s Mother Ellen Lynn Conner 27, police sgt. Louis Demeglio said. She faces Alabama charges of kidnapping and inter Ference with a custody warrant. Ter Reuck who bad been taken from hit father i Birmingham ala., on nov. 14,1983, was placed in the temporary custody of the slate division of youth an family services and will be returned to nil fatter. The government s complaint filed in mid August names Marcos his wife Imelda six of their close rela Tives and friends and five corporations that they Alleg edly used to hide heir so called hidden wealth. It charges that during or. Marcos 20 years As president of the Philippines or. And mrs. Marcos created a network of mily members close associates and officials for the purpose of engaging in systematic and continuous exploitation to explain their bringing the Case in the United states the lawyers say in their complaint that Large amounts of or. And mrs. Marcos1 holdings Are now held by or for or. And mrs. Marcos in California Hawaii. New York new Jersey and the government made Public tuesday document that show according to the lawyers thai the Maroses began using Swiss Bank accounts As Early As 1968 to hide illegal assets. The current balance in those accounts according o the lawyers is now approximately $900 broken prop delays flight of voyager Edwards fab Calif. Up a broken propel Ler and noxious fuel fumes forced an Early end to what was to have been the final lest flight of the experimental plane voyager before it attempts an unprecedented flight around the world without refuelling Crew Mem Bers said tuesday. Heavy fumes of fuel Rose in the cockpit of the frag Ile looking voyager and a Blade broke on the front propeller forcing pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager to make an emergency Landing at Edwards fab 65 Miles Northeast of los Angeles. We re kind of up in the air Crew spokeswoman Terry Smith said of Selling a Date for the 12-Day, 25,000-mile journey around the world. She said the problems that occurred tuesday morn ing during the plane s j
