European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 14, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 Laurel wants Aquino to quit new vote held Manila Philippines a vice president Sal Vador Laurel saturday accused president Corazon Aquino of incompetence and called for her resignation and a new presidential election. He threatened to quit the coalition government if she refuses. Aquino said later that the vice president had Only himself to blame for the Small role he played in the government. But she gave no direct response to Lau Rel s Call for an election or for her to resign. The next presidential election is scheduled for May 1992. In a four Page letter to the president which he read to reporters Laurel said Aquino was not adequately fighting the nation s 19-year communist insurgency and was allowing corruption on the scale of her de posed predecessor Ferdinand Marcos. Madame president the time has come to Tell our people with humility and Candor that the presidency itself is the problem because the task requires a higher level of competence in the face of advancing communist insurgency the breakdown of Law and order the resurgence of widespread corruption the partly nation of the political will and the growing desperation of our people Laurel said. Laurel accused Aquino of not consulting him on important issues and urged her to step Down and Call for an immediate election or i will have no Choice but to forthwith dissociate myself from your Laurel told reporters later that he does not necessarily intend to quit his Post. This dissociation Means i am quitting the coalition government. I am not resigning As vice president of the Republic he said. He refused to say if he was forming an opposition group. But sen. Juan Ponce Enrile the Only opposition figure in the 23-member Senate welcomed Laurel to the opposition and said the two would meet soon to bring about a very Strong and effective opposition in this Aquino who took office in february 1986, accused Laurel of not taking an Active role in government and said at times he was More interested in playing Golf than in attending important Cabinet meetings. Aquino told reporters that when she called Mem at a news conference philippine vice president Sal Vador Laurel demands that Aquino resign. Bers of her Cabinet to an urgent meeting during a november 1986 coup attempt Laurel did t show up until late afternoon because he was playing can you imagine what would have happened if i waited for him while he played Golf Aquino said. Aquino said that during an aug. 28, 1987, coup at tempt in which 53 people were killed and hundreds wounded Laurel never issued a statement of support for her. Laurel s political base has been eroding steadily since Aquino s election. Most of his backers in the philippine House of representatives have reportedly thrown their support to Aquino. The discord Between Laurel and Aquino first surfaced in september 1987, when the vice president gave up his Post As foreign Secretary and announced he would no longer serve in the Cabinet because of fundamental differences Over the communist insurgency and other issues. Laurel who remained in the elected Post of vice president accused Aquino of refusing to take his advice on critical issues. Laurel whose family had been among the country s most influential renounced his candidacy for presi Dent against Marcos in december 1985 and agreed to run for the second spot on the Aquino ticket under pressure from the roman Catholic Hierarchy and other opposition leaders. Noriega Marks 5th anniversary As panamanian military Leader Noriega raises his arms to stress a Point in his speech. Panama City Panama a Gen. Manuel Anto Nio Noriega marked his fifth anniversary As Panama s military Leader by delivering a diatribe against the United states which has tried to oust him from Power. Noriega head of Panama s defense forces said the Reagan administration created a false crisis in an at tempt to revoke the 1977 Panama canal treaties which turn Over control of the vital waterway to Panama on dec. 31, 1999. The United states is using lies falsehoods and politics to keep North american youth in military serv ice in Panama under the risk of War that their govern ment is provoking he declared Friday. Many panamanians wrongly thought. Panama and the United states were beginning a permanent honeymoon forgetting that for the United states a treaty is no More. Than a useful but ephemeral act. The United states signs treaties knowing that it is going to violate them he said. About 12,000 . Military personnel Are based in pan Ama to protect the canal. The Headquarters of the . Southern come which directs All american military activities in Central and South America also is in Panama. Noriega spoke before an audience of thousands of government officials supporters soldiers and civilian militia at an old Section of Albrook a that has been taken Over by Panama under the canal treaties. The general began his speech by waving his fist to Ward the . Come Headquarters nearby and saying Welcome to the territory of Panama in the canal zone. Welcome until you Noriega chief of the defense forces and the Power behind the civilian government is under Federal indictment in the United states on charges of drug trafficking and Money laundering. Washington has sought his ouster since Early this year applying economic sanctions that have helped push Panama into its worst depression since the 1930s. Sleaze remark defended by . Attorney new York a . Attorney Rudolph Giu Liani defended an assistant s use of the word sleaze to describe outgoing attorney general Edwin Meese Iii after Meese called the comment first year Law Stu Dent in his last Day on the Job Friday after 3 a controversial years at the Justice department Meese blasted Giuliani and assistant . Attorney Edward Little for the remark made by Little during his closing arguments in the racketeering trial of . Rep. Mario Biaggi. I think it was poor procedure and poor practice by any prosecutor Meese said in Washington. And i think that any prosecutor who did that undermines his own the trial which stemmed from scandals surround ing the Bronx based we tech corp., ended last week with convictions against Biaggi and four others. The defense had based its Case in part on assertions that corrupt we tech executives had connections to High ranking Reagan administration officials like Meese and thus did not need the help of Biaggi or his co defendants in securing government contracts. However Little called the Meese defense a smokescreen surprising the courtroom by conceding Meese is a sleaze while adding that that should not detract from the guilt or innocence of the defendants. Giuliani said Little s words were As if they were my near the end of the trial a special prosecutor in Washington announced there was insufficient evidence to charge Meese with any wrongdoing but he questioned his ethics on several issues. Meese announced his resignation after the report was completed saying it exonerated him. Giuliani said Friday the sleaze comment was fully supported by the record in this he added that he was ready to defend it anytime anywhere Little said that had Meese been a reputable attorney general we would t have had to make that re Reagan fans did t take and lying Down Vancouver Wash. A eating break fast May be Good for one s health but using a photo of a snoozing president Reagan to make the Point is risky business a fast food Chain Learned. Full Page ads featuring the photo were pulled from five newspapers this week after the Burger Ville Chain received dozens of Calls from people who thought they made fun of Reagan said Pat Klinger vice president of Bergerville Usa s Par ent company Holland inc. The ads depicted the president with his eyes closed and wearing headphones. The picture obtained from Abc to was taken when Reagan was attending a meeting in Bonn West Germany. You can usually Tell when someone skips breakfast said the ads which extolled the nutritional benefits of a breakfast like those available at Bergerville. Twenty five Calls was All it took said Klinger who yanked the and after a one Day run in the columbian in Vancouver the oregonian in port land the Salem ore., statesman journal and the Dalles ore., chronicle. Klinger managed to Stop the and before it ran in the weekly Monmouth ore., Sun Enterprise. Bergerville with 31 outlets in Oregon an Washington often uses Eye catching advertise ments to compete with National restaurant chains but Klinger said there were limits to the attention he hoped to draw. We re not in the business of offending or up setting people be said. The and became some thing we did t
