European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a the stars and stripes monday March 5, 1990 philippine troops rout hostage holding rebels Manila. Philippines apr government troops in a Northern City sunday attacked a hotel seized by supporters of a governor indicted in a coup attempt freeing a Cabinet minister and other officials trapped inside the military said. At least 14 people died in the fighting including a general held hostage. At least 10 others were wounded and scores of mutineers were arrested the military said. The suspended governor Rodolfo Aguinaldo fled during the fighting and his whereabouts were unknown after the army Defeated his forces which surrounded the six Story Del Fin hotel in tug Garao before Dawn. The capital of Bagayan province is 250 Miles North of Manila. Military chief of staff Gen. Renato de Villa placed the nations armed forces on Alert and ordered the capture of Aguinaldo a at All  Brig. Gen. Oscar Florindo 51-year-old chief of the suspended gov. Rodolfo Aguinaldo jogs near his Hometown of Gat Taran saturday a Day before the hotel raid. Military a civil relations service was wounded during the Rescue and was dead on arrival at a City Hospital defense spokeswoman Lourdes Lustre said. Ilustre said local governments Secretary Luis Santos and other officials trapped in the hotel were rescued. Santos and Florindo had travelled to tug Garao to serve an arrest warrant on Aguinaldo. Who had been indicted by the government tuesday on murder and rebellion charges stemming from the dec. 1-9 coup attempt to oust president Corazon Aquino. It. Butch Bustillos one of Florendo a aides said the general slipped away from his captors when the firing began and hid in a hotel restroom. Aguinaldo a forces assumed he had escaped tied up the aides and threatened to a a executed them Bustillos said. But after a second Volley of gunfire the mutineers fled he said. The aides found Florendo 35 minutes later wounded and unconscious in the restroom. Bustillos said. At least two other people were killed near tug Garao on sunday in clashes Between Aguinaldo a forces and government troopers. The dead were not identified a government spokesman said. In Manila a red Cross official said 10 others were wounded in the fighting but the final figure could increase because fighting was continuing around the City. Authorities said about 200 of Aguinaldo a followers were arrested but the governor was missing. Aguinaldo had threatened to take his followers into the mountains and become a rebel. Aquino said in statement that Florendo a was killed by one of the followers of suspended governor Rodolfo Aguinaldo. The act of cowardice and treachery of Aguinaldo a followers will not go unpunished. A i Call on All our people to continue to reject violence and uphold our constitutional democracy and the processes of Law in a peaceful  in a radio interview at the hotel earlier sunday. Aguinaldo said he was a a victim of injustice. I done to mind dying As a  Aguinaldo had earlier been holed up in his Hometown of Gat Taran. About 45 Miles North of tug Garao. He was suspended in january As governor of Bagayan province for allegedly supporting the military rebellion. He told a Manila radio station on dec. 1 that he was sending tanks and artillei7 to the City to support mutineers trying to oust Aquino. The governor was indicted along with sen. Juan Ponce Enrile and five others in connection with the sixth and bloodiest attempt so far to topple Aquino since she took Power in the february 1986 uprising against the late president Ferdinand Marcos. Bagayan is Enrile a Home province and his political stronghold. The colourful Aguinaldo a former lieutenant colonel was implicated but never charged in an August 1987 coup attempt. Later he resigned his commission and raised a private army ostensibly to fight communist guerrillas. He ran for provincial governor in january 1988 and was elected by a landslide. Aguinaldo was formerly the provincial commander of Bagayan and Many of the enlisted troopers assigned there Are believed to be Loyal to him and not to the philippine military command. Ruling conservatives battered by labor in British paper polls London apr the ruling conservative party lagged 19 percent behind the opposition labor party in a poll published on sunday the tories worst showing in 20 years. Another poll showed the conservatives in danger of losing a formerly Safe seat in parliament in an election later this month in Central England and voters said a new tax introduced by the government would be the most important Issue in the election. A poll published in the sunday correspondent showed labor favored by 52 percent of those polled the first time the poll had showed the opposition party with a majority. That was a 4 percent gain for labor since january while the conservatives dropped four Points to 33 percent. The poll was conducted by ice research which interviewed 1,439 adults on feb. 23 and 24. The margin of error was not reported. A Gallup poll published Friday put the conservatives 18.5 Points behind the labor party a a 20-year Low in the Gallup Survey. A poll for the sunday times done in mid Staffordshire where voters will chose a member of parliament on March 22, showed labor leading the conservatives by 50 percent to 36 percent. In the 1987 general election the conservative candidate a who died two months ago a won 50.6 percent of the vote to the labor candidates 24.7 percent. Eighty three percent of those polled said the governments new Community charge a a tax on every adult that replaces the property tax for supporting local government a would be one of the top issues in the Campaign. The second ranking Issue High interest rates was mentioned by 28 percent. The poll was conducted by Market and opinion research International for the sunday times. It was based on interviews with 862 adults Between feb. 28 and March 2. The margin of error was not reported. World Toda Yex official facing charge resigns from greek party Athens Greece apr a former Deputy prime minister accused of receiving a $2 million bribe has resigned from the socialist party three Days after Swiss authorities sent his Bank records to greek investigators. Agamemnon Koutsogiorga 68, said he was resigning temporarily until he cleared his name. He was indicted by parliament in september on charges of accepting a bribe from banker George Koskotas. A former aide Yannis Mantzouranis told a parliamentary inquiry that Koutsogiorga received a $2 million bribe in 1988 after passing legislation allegedly hindering Central Bank audits of Koskotas privately owned Bank of Crete. Koskotas has been charged with embezzling $210 million from the Bank. He fled to the United states in november 1988, where he is imprisoned in a Boston area jail fighting extradition to Greece. Papandreou and three other senior socialist officials have also been indicted in connection with Koskotas allegations that they authorized and took part in the embezzlement scheme. They face possible prison sentences of 10 years to life if convicted. No trial dates have been  to receive soviet compensation Bern Switzerland apr the soviet Union has agreed to pay Switzerland $3.9 million to compensate for assets nationalized by Moscow in world War ii officials have said. The compensation agreement relates to property owned by about 900 Swiss companies and individuals in areas of the soviet Union that were formerly part of East Poland East Prussia the Baltic and Bessarabia a foreign ministry statement said. The agreement however does not include Swiss assets seized after the communists came to Power in 1917. Switzerland has already signed similar accords with Poland and Hungary. The Swiss government will decide How to distribute the funds after ratification of the agreement the Date of which was not divulged after a meeting in the Swiss capital. Education Roundup association for gifted kids schedules Spring meeting Wiesbaden West Germany a the National association for gifted children Germany will conduct its second annual Spring conference March 17 at the Hanau Middle school the conference open to parents and teachers features a Daylong workshop with a special guest. Do a Roger Taylor an expert in gifted education. Taylor will address the characteristics of the gifted and the need for special programming. He will also discuss the moral and social development of the gifted As compared with others the same age. Admission is free to association members. Preregistration is encouraged. More information is available from Jeanne Leach at Aschaffenbur elementary Junior High school civilian 06021-93828.honors concert planned at historic German Hall Wiesbaden West Germany a students from 22 Germany Region High schools will perform a concert March 14 at the Regen Tenbeau concert Hall in Baa Kissinger. The concert which is the culmination of the Honor festival that runs March 11-14 in bad Kissinger. Marks the sixth consecutive year that american students have performed in this famous concert Hall Bui by King Ludwig ii. A total of 125 students Are selected from audition tapes to take part in the festival. They prepare Musi. Together with their teachers then join the other partic pants for three Days of intensive rehearsals. The 7 30 . Honors band and chorus concert. I free of charge and open to the Public. For More Trio mation Contact Bob Benson at ets 339-3612 or i Ian 06121-88242