European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes saturday. August 1.1987philippines files 3 new suits against Marcos associates Manila. Philippines a the government Fri Day filed three More civil lawsuits against Ferdinand e. Marcos and associates who allegedly helped the for Mer president plunder billions of dollars during his 20 year Rale. In one of Friday s lawsuits the government asked for 15.05 billion in damages from former defense minister Juan Ponce Enrite and 42 co defendants in eluding Marcos and his wife in Coda. The lawsuits the final Batch of civil eases against Marcos and his relatives and associates bring to 35 the number of civil actions naming Marcos. The local amount Tough in the lawsuits is nearly $96.7 billion. In rile now an opposition Leader was not included in the other two lawsuits tiled priday. He was one of More than so defendants named in 110.2 billion lawns wed july 22, m part of the government Effort to recover the to oiled hidden wealth allegedly amassed in the Marco Era. Friday s lawsuits were the lad that the presidential Coan Isaola on Good government planned to lie be fore sunday Dewo Ioe after that government Tarcov in of companies owned by Marcos and associates would be invalid under the Constitution. Marcos a a defendant in All is Case. Solicitor Gen eral a Vucco Chavez Laid More lawsuits May be filed later depending on the outcome of investigations. Com mum chief Ramon dial told reporters government lawyers would begin compiling evidence taunt Marcoi for criminal charge expected to be filed to Toon As possible. The lawsuit against Enrite also names As defendants sen. De Gallo Angara and three members of the House of representatives. Angara a Friend of Rennles was elected to the Senate last May on president Corazon Aquino s ticket. It accuses Enrile and others of Active collaboration and participation in Coconut firms illegally acquired by a co defendant Eduardo Cojuango a Cousin of Aquino. Cojuango fled the country after Marcos was ousted in february 1986. It said the defendants allotted to themselves excess sve salaries allowance bonuses and other Emolu ments including huge Cash Advance in millions of pesos which to Date remain a liquidated and Unac counted  the lawsuit accused Angara and partners in his Law firm of having conspired to establish private Banks using government Money. The two other lawsuits which seek $5.05 billion each accused sugar Baron Roberto Benedicto. Marcos brother in Law Benjamin Romual div. And 71 others of using their links to Marcos for personal gain. Komura Tycz was formerly the philippine ambassador to the United states. Diaz said a Swiss lawyer helping the commission track Down Marcos wealth is expected to arrive next week to help prepare criminal charges against the ousted ruler. The government alleges that the Money u hidden id Swiss Bank accounts and foreign invest ments. The main purpose of this exe Che it not jus a simple matter of filing criminal and civil Cates against Marcos but to do that the philippine government succeeds in bringing Back the millions and Bill Ion of pesos said Chavez. Marcos fled the Philippines in february 1986, after a "people1 Power uprising that resulted in the elec Tion of Aquino. He now lives in mile in Hawaii Enrile. Who look part in the uprising a gait mar cos is the object Ofa contested senatorial race in last May s general election. Aquino expressed Confidence Friday in Central Bank gov. Jose Jobo Fernandez named thursday at a defendant in one of the lawsuits. It will be up to the court to decide the Case of Jobo but 1 believe in the Maxim that a person it innocent until proven guilty Aquino said. And i have absolute Confidence in Jobo  the lawsuit alleges that Fernandez and others conspired to obtain illegal Loans for a Marcos associate from the philippine Export and foreign loan Guaran tee corp. Fernandez held the Central Bank Post under Manns and was retained by Aquino after she came to Power. Scottish Media defies court ban on spy catcher9 Case broadcast London up a scottish newspaper and radio station defied Britain s highest appeals court Friday by carrying full reports of an australian court action against a spy Book the British government is desperately trying to Baa. Seldom jus an Issue aroused More bitter comment than the House of lords ruling Thun Day that British Media not Only could not print excerpts from spy Catcher by former be Crit agent pet a fight Tut could not even report he australian court Case involving it these Are the most dangerous restrictions on a free pc ssh since the  said Andrew Neil Edi Tor of the sunday times newspaper. Lord Denning who retired recently after a Long tenure As Brit Ain s top Legal official bitterly criticized the Law lords 3-2 ruling. Wright Britain s five Taw lords who make up the nation s Nudest court of appeals ruled against three newspapers thai sought to run excerpts from the Boot. One already had begun doing so until a government injunction flopped it. A senior lawyer said the ruling was unprecedented extraordinary and an  London Timet attorney Peter Slot hard said the Extension to cover the report in of proceedings in a Commonwealth country it  this is an unprecedented subversion of the Law of this  said Duncan Campbell of the weekly new statesman Magazine it is a massive attack on civil  the courts Are progressively removing the Freedom of the  Saij John Leese editor of be London evening Standard. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher s government has gone to extraordinary lengths to ban the Book on the grounds that Wright violated his secret service con tract by writing it and Hal it spilled secrets of Britain s undercover organizations. Spy Catcher is freely available in the United states and dozens if not hundreds of copies Are circulating in Britain. Publishers said they planned to print the Book in Ireland and the Netherlands and Send it to sell in Brit ish supermarkets late night groceries and hardware stores As Well As bookshops. The Campaign for press and broadcasting Freedom a pressure group said the Book will be read in Public sunday at London s speaker s Comer the traditional bastion of soap Box free speech by left Wing member of parliament Tony Benn and others. Dale Cambell Savours also a labor party member of parliament said he would read sections of the Book aloud in parliament so they can be reported from the parliamentary record if the ban is not lifted. This judgment defies All common  said labor party Leader Neil Kinlock. It makes the Law an  the scotsman newspaper and a commercial radio station in Edinburgh Friday carried full details of the final Day of the government s australian lawsuit to Stop publication of the Book there. Ming Campbell a Liberal party member of parliament said the Law lords ruling did not apply in Scotland. Government attorneys hinted they would apply for injunctions in scottish nouns later in the Day sex journalism teacher Dies Lawrence. Kan. John Bremner t retired journalism professor died thursday this Home in Ponce int Fla. After a bout with cancer. He was 66. Bremnor Hughl reporting editing and critical writing and conducted seminars at the University of Kansas. World today soldiers to be discharged in n. Korean peace gesture Tokyo api North Korea ordered Llic military to discharge 100.000 officers and soldiers by the year s end As a step toward disarmament on the korean pen insula its official news Agency said Thun Day. The korean Central news Agency monitored in Tokyo said the supreme command of the korean people s army had ordered the discharged personnel sent to posts of social isl  the cuts were ordered to eliminate forever the Dan Ger of the outbreak of another War in Korea and pro Mote peaceful reunification the supreme command said in a communique tarried by the Agency. Four kenyans killed by drinking magic potion Nairobi. Kenya a four men died after drinking a potion thai a sorcerer did could Kin Only Thoie who were in Ilia of witchcraft newspaper reported Friday. Police refused to identify the sorcerer who was arrested after the fatal ritual at Kanyama Kologi Village in Western Kenya. The daily nation and the Standard newspaper re ported thai villager Johannes Ogola Openda hired the sorcerer to find the people he believed had bewitched 10 of his children who died this year. Such ritual Are common in Africa. Openda got a permit from the local administration Oflida allowing the ceremony. Camp suicide rate climbs for cambodians in Thailand Bangkok Thailand up cambodian Refu gee living in beak Border Camps face a new Type of suffering a growing despair Hal drives some to suicide a spokesman or the International committee of the red Cross said Friday. Speaking at the 10th annual conference on indochinese displaced persons in Thailand committee head Urs Boegli painted a grim picture of the future for about 250,000 cambodians living in temporary encampments along the thai cambodian Border. More and More of the displaced cambodian currently live a life that due to its absence of prospects at one Given moment just stopped making sense tie said. Communist rebels shoot kill 3 philippine policemen Manila Philippines a communist rebels shot dead three policemen Early Friday in a town 10 Miles South of Manila and made off Wilh five firearms from the station police said. Police said five new people s army guerrillas entered the station in the town of san Pedro around 5 30 a a and shot dead two policemen on duly. They Fetter shot a third officer at a checkpoint near the station at they fled Polke said police said the rebels look two m-16 rifles and three pistols from the station. The guerrillas have stepped up attacks this year on policemen and soldiers in the Manila area and else where in the country. More than 50 police and i Mien have been slain in Manila this year and most of the killing have been blamed of rebel assassination Lea i. Fighting in the 18-year communist insurgency at increased since a 60-Day nationwide Cewe free expired in february. Rate of refugees seeking Asylum in Germany drops Bonn api the number of refugees Teeth it Asylum in West Germany dropped substantially m the first six months of the year. Interior Minuter one Inch Gimme Mann Aid Thun Day. Bui Zimm Enmon Abo said there were Stih too Many people seeking Asylum in West Germany for economic. Rather than political reasons. Some 22,400 Peop have sought atrium Here during the Fidfl tit months of the ear. And about 60,000 Are expected to do so by year s end the minister told re port Nai a press conference. About 100.000 refugees Root from third world countries sought Asylum in Well Germany in 19b6. He added