European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday March 6,1990 a smiling Rodolfo Aguinaldo marches with supporters through tug Garao on sunday after his forces seized a hotel there. The suspended governor of Bagayan province later fled during fighting w Ith government troops philippine soldiers continue search for fugitive governor Manila Philippines apr gunfire crackled through a Northern provincial capital monday As troops searched fora suspended governor accused in december a attempt to topple president Corazon Aquino. Gov. Rodolfo Aguinaldo fled sunday during fighting with government soldiers in tug Garao 250 Miles North of Manila after he refused to surrender on a charge of a rebellion with a general who had come to negotiate Aguinaldo a surrender was killed in the fighting. Casualty figures were still incomplete monday ranging from six to 20, according to local and National officials. Aquino said she ordered the armed forces to arrest Aguinaldo a using such Force As is necessary but taking All feasible measures for the safety of officials on monday also ordered the arrest of three mayors one Village chief and a lawyer for supporting the governor. In tug Garao. The capital of Bagayan province government forces searched House to House monday without finding Aguinaldo. Sporadic firing continued until late morning and tension in the City was High. In Manila sen. Alberto Romulo urged the Senate committee on National defense and Security to conduct an investigation of the a dastardly and brutal killing of Brig Gen. Oscar Florendo chief of the military a civil relations service. Florendo who had gone to tug Garao on feb. 28 to negotiate with Aguinaldo was among officials trapped when Aguinaldo supporters seized tug Ega Raous six Story Delfino hotel Early sunday. Government forces counterattacked several hours later in an Effort to Rescue the officials who had barricaded themselves on the second floor. Aquino said the supporters killed Florendo before fleeing the hotel. A the act of cowardice and treachery of Aguinaldo a followers will not go unpunished a she said. The other officials a local governments Secretary Luis Santos two mayors two colonels and a Navy Commodore a were rescued unharmed officials said. The decision to arrest Aguinaldo was widely seen As part of a crackdown on those suspected of involvement in the six coup attempts against Aquino since she took office four years ago. The death toll from the fighting varied. Armed forces chief Gen. Renato de Villa said monday that eight people were killed Florendo and seven of Aguinaldo s men. But the local Public information Agency in tug Garao reported 20 killed Florendo and 19 Aguinaldo followers. The regional commander col. Miguel Fontanilla. Said sunday that at least 14 people died 10 killed in a clash at a checkpoint near a Bridge three in fighting near a gasoline station and Florendo at the hotel. But a tally Board at the regional military Headquarters monday listed five Aguinaldo followers and Florendo As killed. A Robin hoods a protest poll tax London up1 a protesters dressed As Robin Hood disrupted a Council meeting monday in Central Nottingham blowing whistles and splattering legislators with shaving Cream to Mark their opposition against a new tax on people reports said. Widespread anger Over the poll tax a Revenue enhancing scheme to replace property rates with a fee for every resident has created a severe mid term Challenge to prime minister Margaret Thatcher who is lagging in opinion polls 19 Points behind the opposition labor party. The British broadcasting corp. Said the demonstration began when the Council began a meeting to decide the tax rate to be paid by residents of the county surrounding Nottingham 130 Miles North of London. Demonstrators dressed in Green tunics to resemble Robin Hood a the popular medieval figure who stole from the Rich to give to the poor a began chanting and blowing whistles when an official announced that the annual rate would be 390 pounds $625 a person 100 pounds More than expected. At least 10 activists stormed from the Public galleries into the chamber where they threw official papers to the floor raised banners and hurled paper plates filled with shaving Cream at the legislators. The bbl showed police officers entering the legislature and dragging off several protesters who offered passive resistance. The City a mayor cancelled the session it said. Thatcher envisaged that the poll tax would be More just because All residents and not Only landlords would be required to fund local Community costs but the Levy has met with fierce opposition in Scotland and Northern Ireland where it has already been imposed. Poll taxes Are to be collected in England and Wales next month and critics argue that the fee is unjust because Low income people with Many children cannot afford the sum while wealthy britons with Large estates will now pay an amount negligible to them. Local councils set the sums for each area which now Range from 128 pounds $217 to 570 pounds $969 Thatcher has accused Many councils of mismanagement for presenting estimates far greater than the governments predictions. The plan has also created outright dissent within thatchers conservative party because Many members fear their chances will be inhibited in elections that must be held before mid-1992. World today Schoolboy killed 2 Hurt in homemade bomb blast Dhaka. Bangladesh apr a 12-year-old Schoolboy was killed and two others injured when a bomb they were making exploded at an abandoned House in Dhaka police said monday. Munir Hossain died instantly in the explosion that occurred sunday night in downtown Dhaka police said speaking on condition of anonymity Hossainy a two friends were hospitalized with serious injuries. Police said they were investigating Why the boys were making a bomb. Homemade bombs arc widely used for crimes and political agitation in of 15 unearthed from grave in Guatemala Guatemala City apr the remains of 15 men who May have been assassinated eight years ago were unearthed from a common grave in the Northern province of quiche authorities said sunday. The grave was found in us Pantan 150 Miles Northwest of Guatemala City in the Highlands where tens of thousands of Indian peasants were killed in an army counterinsurgency Campaign against leftist guerrillas in the late 1970s and Early 1980s. Judge Ramiro Figueroa of Cuneo exhumed the bodies on saturday at Tierra Blanca in the Hamlet of Pericon on orders from a court in the state capital Santa Cruz Del quiche a court official said. Some human rights organizations have estimated that More than 100,000 guatemalans have been killed in political violence since 1954.pact defines boundaries of Trinidad and Venezuela port of Spain. Trinidad up a a new agreement has been reached spelling out the maritime boundaries of Trinidad and Tobago and the neighbouring state of Venezuela after six months of negotiations. Trinidad and Tobago a external affairs minister or. Mahadco Basdeo and venezuelans foreign minister. Or. Reinaldo Figueredo plan Chart signed a joint declaration on maritime boundaries on Friday night in port of Spain. Officials said sunday that venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez May come to port _ of Spain in april to sign the agreement along with prime minister Ray Robinson of Trinidad and Tobago. Describing the new delimitation agreement As comprehensive and definitive. Or. Basdeo expressed the View it will help boost relations Between both countries and minimize conflicts in the Gulf of paria involving finds yugoslav guilty of spying for Plo Jerusalem up a a recent immigrant to Israel from Yugoslavia was found guilty monday of spying for the Palestine liberation organization. Israel radio reported. Victoria David 34, pleaded guilty to charges of giving information to the enemy making Contact with an illegal organization and membership in an illegal organization the radio reported. Under israeli Law the Plo is considered an illegal organization and contacts with the group arc forbidden. David and another yugoslavian woman Pri Tania Sanzevitch 25, allegedly photographed army bases and other strategic locations in Israel and passed the pictures on to a Plo representative in Yugoslavia the radio reported. Sanzevitch deported from Israel after the two women were arrested on Jan. 7, reportedly admitted that she took the pictures but claimed she did not know their purpose. Sanzevitch entered the country As a tourist
