European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Philippine Farmers denounce Aquino land Reform plan saturday july 25, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 Manila Philippines up left Wing Farmers who suffered 12 dead in o March oui Ide the Malac Anang presiden tial Palace in january pledged to Clurn to the same site Friday 10 protest a lame Duck land Reform program thai they did had dashed the Hopes of millions of peasants. Irate Plantation owners on the Central sugar bowl Island of Negros mean while planned a massive protest of their own is outrage mounted at both ends of the political spectrum against the sweep to program signed into Law wednesday by president Corazon Aquino. To land plan the Centrepiece of the Aquino government s Effort to Case the Gonding poverty of her mainly agrarian nation orders landlords to break up All forms of farm property and turn it Over to it millions of landless Tenagli who work it. Decisions on a timetable for he redistribution and on How much land the owners will be allowed to retain have been left to a newly elected Congress which convenes for he first time Mon Day. Officials of the philippine Farmers movement or 1cmp, vowed to rally 1.000 Farmers outside the presidential Palace at 2 . Friday to protest the order Aquino has dealt a death mow to the Hopes of millions of filipino banners for genuine agrarian  the group charged in a news release. We expect Congress dominated As it is by landlords. To exclude from land Reform coverage huge landed  it Sard the. New executive order there fore is a lame Duck Law. In the final analysis president Aquino signed Noah rng.1 serious work on the land Reform Mea sure began Only after a amp organi a Farmers rally in january that ended in disaster when troops guarding the presidential Palace fired into the crowd kill ing 12 people. The incident led to the breakdown of peace talks with Hie 24,000-Membtr comr Nuisl new peo ple s army. In negro Home of the vast sugar and Coconut Plantation that provide most of the nation s foreign Exchange earnings influential Bishop Antonio Fowich said the land program he been denounced by planters workers and rebel groups alike. Planters groups some of whom signed a blood pact to oppose the Mea sure wednesday Are organizing a huge rally to be held in the Island s main City of Bacolod he said in a Telephone inter View it can be explosive if this is not handled Well it can be bloody in the Tong run he said. Negros Occidental gov. Daniel Lac ton or. However welcomed Aquino s punt Clio a ii prep iwo to Titi the  or. Order As a Compromise thai has moved the country toward social Justice while taking economic productivity into account. He urged the landlords to Wil and see what Congress does. The land Law promised in Aquino s february 1986 election Campaign will break up All the nation s 9.1 million acres of agricultural land and distribute it among More than 2 million in Jov perished families. A top limit on holdings of 17 acres had been discussed. Landowner will be paid for their land Over 10 years and encouraged to reinvest in Industrial Enterprise. The tenant will be required to pay for the land with 30 year mortgage at 6 percent interest landowners will be permitted to negotiate voluntary plans with their tenants. There ire also provisions for cooperatives profit sharing plaits and the distribution of shares in the Case of corporate  program will be funded at $2.3 billion for the first five years Wilh Money to be raised from the Sale of government assets and moves to recover the alleged ill gotten wealth of former president Fer Dinand Marcos. Rogers says missiles make nato defense credible of _. I. J i i e. Or Rolf Fufa prt.1" a Washington a the font. Supreme Allied commander in Europe said wednesday be had been ready to face Down a soviet conventional attack by warning that the soviet heartland would be hit by nuclear weapon. Retired army Gen. Bernard w. Rog ers Veteran of a 44-year army career also said Many european Leaden believe one reason the White House is pressing for an Early u.ssovie1 am control Summit is to Case the political embarrassment of the Iran Contra affair. Rogen told a House foreign affairs arms control subcommittee that while he was nato s military chief for eight Yean he believed hit ultimate weapon to sum a soviet conventional attack was his ability to make a slinging nuclear counterpunch. If soviet and Warsaw fact Force had craned into Weil Germany Rogers Laid he would hive used political channels to Send a dear menage to the Kremlin. Id menace to the other Side is look. We mean business. We Are pre pared to me unclear weapons. Cease and Bui Rouen repeating earlier statement to twid that warning would be rendered toothless if arms control negotiations succeed in eliminating All . Medium Range dear weapons in Europe particularly pending ii i Uiles. I would want to be Able to strike militarily Lipi Frant targets of the Sovi Rte deep inside the soviet heartland Rogen Aid. Rosen did ii would be dangerously insufficient for the United states to pull All land baled nuclear weapons out of Wettern Europe and rely instead on sub Marine launched weapon bombers and other weapons based elsewhere. He said inc other systems cannot offer the certainly of Success and therefore Are not credible deterrents. For six years some of us have talked about the Gas pains it s going to give us Rogers said of the possibility All . Land based and medium Range nuclear missiles in the nato command might be negotiated away in Exchange for the elimination of ail soviet medium Range monies. He said he would have liked to have seen a More limited arms control strategy in which nuclear armed cruise i Siles would be left in place pending the negotiation of a satisfactory agreement to reduce soviet conventional forces. He said the soviets have at least a 1 to-1 advantage in All conventional forces increasing to 6-to-1 in some categories. Rep Dante Fascell the foreign affairs committee chairman noted that Secretary of slate George Shutlz has called Robert views entirely incorrect and  Fascell said that As he sees it Ropert is a Yin nuclear weapons in general and to called theater nuclear weapons in Western Europe in particular always will be needed and that the United slates can forget bombers As part of a flexible response and forger. Any attempt at accommodation with he soviet Union and the Warsaw  in previous interviews and statements Rogers has said White House declarations that nuclear arms arc immoral has undermined the doctrine of nuclear de Terrence in Europe he has said that destroying the per thing Muile Force give up Ideal weapon which makes our deterrent most Credi  Irish embassy official sought for Selling passports London terrorist to. Authorities suspect that the London embassy s Pau port officer Kevin Mcdonald 37. Told Irish passports to libyans lebanese moroccans and Irani ans for up to 15,000 pounds about s27.000 each Over a four year period. Police sources could no Lay How Many allegedly were sow. Mcdonald who was not arrested was suspended from his Job and ordered Back to Dublin but he later disappeared. Irish Media report suggested thurs Day he has gone into biding in Las Arv Jel. Where his brother lives. We Are still Vesi Galing the Case and we can t Rule out whether any terrorists got passports though from what we be found Mosi simply wanted to Settle in Europe a police source said. We Uoder and the embassy official involved is in the United  the source could give no further detail on his whereabouts. Sources said no warrant Hai been is sued for Mcdonald and a Scotland Yard official said it is too Early Yel for an extradition request to be  a Lith and Irish police Are conduction a joint investigation. The police sources said Lake documents attesting those seeking he pass ports were turned to an Irish citizen allowed Mcdonald to Issue passports to  Irish passport allows its bearer to travel and live without restrictions in All 12 common Market countries. Several British lawmakers charged the scheme May have allowed tar Ronsini into Britain. Many Irish pan  Are issued to Irish citizens living in Britain because no pass ports arc needed to travel Between the two nations. The source said those already charged in the scheme apparently were recipients of the Pau ports. No other Irish embassy official Lut peeled of involvement in the scheme. The source said. Thurber s brother Dies Columbus Ohio a Robert Thurber 90, brother of Wriler James Thurber has died. He is to be buried this week in Green Lawn cemetery in col Umbus near his brother who died in 1961