Manila Standard issues for February 1987

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 11 Wed

National news

• 39 soldiers... (p.1 missing ff-p.6) AFP coup attempt, dismissal, criminal case
• Misuari... (p.1 missing ff-p.6) autonomy, secession, MNLF, OIC, Islamic, Libya, Iran, Malaysia, Afghanistan
• PC major escapes (p.1 missing ff-p.6) PC, coup attempt, escape
• No Reds... (p.1 missing ff-p.6) Cory Aquino, coup attempt
• 11 NPAs... (p.1 missing ff-p.6) clashes, Central Luzon, North Cotabato, Apayao, San Pablo City
• KL airs... (p.1 missing ff-p.6) Malaysia, foreign affairs, illegal migrants, Sabah
• Opposition shifts... (p.1 missing ff-p.6) opposition, election, Senate
• Meet the Family. (p.2) Editorial staff, newspaper, Standard, Rodolfo T. Reyes
• PPSTA told to bare financial state. (p.3) Teachers, education, Lourdes Quisumbing
• Espina wants out from Unido slate. (p.3) Rene Espina, UNIDO, senator, election
• Opposition to field common slate. (p.3) opposition party, CODA, Mindanao alliance, Homobono Adaza, election, Lower House
• Interbank stock sale stopped. (p.3) Vicente T. Tan, National Development Corp., Continental Bank, Interbank, Makati RTC
• UP alumni in California set reunion. (p.3) Los Angeles, Heroico M. Aguiluz, UP Alumni Association
• Vatican urges debtors to get better terms. (p.5) Phil foreign debt. Catholic church support
• Tanod files raps vs Villa (p.6) Tanodbayan, graft, BIR, Romulo Villa
• More firepower for self-defense (p.6) AFP, PC-INP, Renato De Villa, loose firearms
• Aspiras, 4 others in PTA mess charged (p.6) Tanodbayan, graft, PTA, tourism, Jose Aspiras
• Cory proclaims charter today (p.6) new 1987 Constitution, proclamation, oathtaking
• Small-scale operations against rebs eyed (p.7) AFP, insurgency, operations, Rafael Ileto

Metro and provincial news

• Cordillera ceasefire extension inked (p.7) AFP, CPLA, peace
• Samar's boat people (photo p.8) AFP, NPA, Visayas, evacuees
• PC regional chief under fire (p.8) Central Visayas, PC-INP, Edgardo Abenina
• Cebu wants casinos out (p.8) Central Visayas, gambling
• Asia's largest bell (p.8) West Visayas, Panay, Capiz
• Evelio Javier remembered (p.8) West Visayas, Antique
• Two sleuths get medals (p.8) Northern Luzon, Sagada, drugs, hashish, police
• Program package for Cordillera (p.8) Northern Luzon, NEDA, Joseph Alabanza, autonomy
• Landless to get illegal lands (p.8) Bicol, landgrabbing
• Political Big Four breaks up (p.8) Bicol, Camarines Sur, local politics, Luis Villafuerte, Rolando Andaya, Edmundo Cea, Boboy Alfelor

Oped, features, sections

• Editorial: Room at the top. (p.4)
• Tony Gatmaitan column: The opera ain't over. (p.4) new constitution, Cory Aquino, opposition, Enrile
• Rosario A. Garcellano column: Journalists as newsmakers. (p.4) Petronilo Bn. Daroy, Luis D. Beltran
• Celso Carunungan column: An urgent call for unity. (p.4) Quick overview of Phil history
• Ricky La Vina column: A personal presidency. (p.5) Cory Aquino
• Public pulse: What do you think of the unprecedented number of dailies? (p.5)
• Name your senatorial candidates (p.5) news survey, senate, election
• Feature: The old bakery in Pateros (p.18)
• Feature: P.U.S.H. for Davao farmers (p.18) NPA, land reform, Jesuit priest, Fr. Emeterio Barcelon, poverty, marketing, technical assistance

Note

• sports section excluded
• foreign news excluded
• business news (p.13-15) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.16-17) for future indexing
• lifestyle (p.19) for future indexing
• applause (p.20) for future indexing

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 12 Thu

National news

• Truce is over; Cory unsheathes 'sword of war' (p.1)
• Tells AFP to resume operations vs Reds (p.1/6)
• 7 killed in 3 new rebel attacks (p.1/6)
• Tadeo says Mendiola evidence 'planted' (p.1/2)
• Ferrer backs opposition's Comelec bid (p.1)
• Another firm pulls out from BEPZ (p.1/2)
• Aquino proclaims Constitution (p.1/2)
• Maceda says 'Cory ticket' almost ready (p.1/2)
• NPA steps up fighters' training, recruits more from the middle class (p.6)
• A special report: Standoff at the Free Trade Zone (p.6)
• Soldier runs amuck, kills 4 men (p.6)

Metro and provincial news

• No mob rule, says fiscal (p.2) -- on the rebellion case of 119 civilian Marcos loyalists in connection with the GMA-7 takeover
• Fake drugs listed (p.2) -- health ministry bares list of fake drugs sold in local pharmacies
• Ouster of 10 HK Chinese sought (p.2)
• Kapunan denies giving 'death gun' in Olalia slaying (p.2)
• Missing PC major turns up (p.2)
• 13 jail bolters hunted (p.2)
• Gun-toting actor finds self in trouble (p.2)

Oped, features, sections

• Editorial: Killing corruption (p.4)
• Hector Villanueva: The mad scramble (p.4)
• Nelia Sancho: Choice as a woman's right (p.4)
• Kitch Ortego: A rebuff of Cory (p.4)
• Interview of Joseph Collins: 'There is an urgent need for serious agrarian reform' (p.5)
• Nestor Mata: Long live the people! (p.5)
• Feature: It pays to have a head (p.15)
• Feature: Creative home-building (p.16)
• The builders: Jerry Araos, sculptor, and Ning Encarnacion, architect

Note

• sports section excluded
• foreign news excluded
• business news (p.9-11) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.12-14) for future indexing

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 13 Fri

National news

• Pro-Cory groups forming coalition (p.1)
• 30 names considered for slate (p.1/6)
• 6.7-M Filipinos influenced by Reds--Aguirre (p.1/6)
• Fighting escalates between gov't troops, NPA rebels (p.1/6)
• Shultz chides U.S. Congress for RP aid cut (p.1/6)
• PnB eyes one-third of House seats (p.1/6)
• Strange bedfellows: PCGG and 'Bejo' (p.1/6)
• Escalante case: Long trial ahead (p.1/6)
• P3-B needed for free education (p.1)
• Custody of Wakaoji suspect stirs row (p.3)
• 2 rowdy military men probed (p.3)
• Soldiers 'humbled' by dialogue with Cory (p.3)
• City tutors to get pay hikes, finally (p.3)
• Cris Cerdeña: Unpolitical animal (p.3)
• Watch for rebel troops not yet over (p.6)
• Absconding Pinay maids alarm Kuwait (p.6)

Metro and provincial news

Oped, features

• Editorial: Normalcy in abnormal times (p.4)
• Rodolfo T. Reyes: Print has the edge (p.4)
• Celso Carunungan: Our people's gift of love (p.4)
• Tony Gatmaitan: The election fever mounts (p.4)
• Sonora Ocampo: Gains, losses from the peace talks (p.5)
• Angelo Jimenez: The myth of the Middle (p.5)
• Public Pulse: What can you say about the collapse of the peace talks? (p.5)
• Jose W. Diokno, The Autumn of the Patriot (p.14)
• Why can't a computer think like you? (p.15)
• Memory exercises you won't forget (p.15)

Note

• sports section excluded
• foreign news excluded
• business news (p.9-11) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.12-13) for future indexing
• lifestyle (p.16) for future indexing

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 14 Sat

National news

• 12 make Cory slate (p.1)
• Butz in Senate ticket (p.1/6)
• Military launches all-out anti-Red drive in Metro (p.1/6)
• MNLF bloc may quit peace talks (p.1/6)
• PCGG sequesters Liwayway publications (p.1/6)
• Abadilla, Zumel flee to Ilocos (p.1/6)
• Napolcom fires 140 policemen (p.1/6)
• Wilted flowers from jilted lovers (p.1/6)
• Cory wars on the other NPAs (p.1)
• P1.8-M Bliss disbursements questioned (p.6)
• Cory pardons 408 teachers (p.6)

Metro and provincial news

• Keep off trucks, lawmen told (p.2)
• Valenzuela cop survives slay attempt (p.2)
• 4 inmates bolt QC, Pasig jails (p.2)
• Lina boasts of P270-M MMC savings last year (p.2)
• P100-M goods from China held at pier (p.2)
• Manila's garbage woes get lift (p.2)
• 688 Makati families to get tenement units (p.2)
• Aguirre fires 2 Bicutan jail guards (p.2)
• KBL warns Comelec on PnB accreditation (p.2)
• Drilon to ECOP: Don't dread new labor rules
• CHDF out, PC units in, Ramos says (p.11)
• Cebu split folk on general's ouster (p.11)
• Laurel appointee stirs row (p.11)
• Human rights group cautions on red drive (p.11)
• Carabao's wrath (p.11)
• After 33 years, Marawi road nearing completion (p.11)
• Lawyer claims Bejo's Leyte mansion (p.11)
• Priest shot (p.11)
• Pistang Pilipino denies contempt raps (p.11)
• For getting P200 bribe, BIR exec jailed (p.11)

Oped, features

• Editorial: Redefining reconciliation (p.4)
• Nelia Sancho: The protest continues (p.4)
• Hector Villanueva: Potential NPA converts (p.4)
• Luis V. Teodoro: Invitation to intervention (p.4)
• Interview: Fulgencio Factoran Jr. -- 'The Cabinet needs staff work' (p.5)
• Our So-Called Last Chance -- NYT reprint of a 1965 article on the eve of Marcos' first term (p.5)

Note

• sports section excluded
• foreign news excluded
• business news (p.9-10) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.14) for future indexing
• arts and culture (p.15) for future indexing
• applause (p.16) for future indexing

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 15 Sun

National news

• Aquino acts on N. Ecija massacre (p.1/6)
• AFP graft board files first case (p.1)
• Palace revises Senate list (p.1/6)
• Move to flush out urban guerillas (p.1/6)
• Gov't sets barrio-level peace talks (p.1/6)
• Samar rebs reject new peace overtures, prepare for war (p.1/6)
• Workers fear delay in labor package (p.12)
• Mendiola commish seeks more time (p.12)
• Mindanao panelist says: No stopping peace talks (p.12)
• For joining rebels, Cebu priest expelled (p.12)
• Tatad urges Comelec revamp (p.6)
• Federal jury probes $350M Marcos assets (p.6)
• Ileto cites Cory dialogues with soldiers (p.6)

Metro and provincial news

• Wakaoji case hinders stability, Ople warns (p.12)
• Tunnels eyed as solution to Metro flooding (p.2)
• Cris Cerdena: Reconciliation--that much-abused word again. Meet the Manila Standard family, Part 2. (p.2)
• Comelec dismisses raps against Binay (p.2)
• Schools to teach human rights subjects (p.2)
• KBL urges hearings on May polls (p.2)
• CIS opposes transfer of Wakaoji suspect (p.2)
• Crime watch committed in the last six days (p.3)
• 2 killed in Pasay free-for-all (p.3)
• Drive on vs loose guns around Laguna Lake (p.12)
• Atis get land (p.12)
• Batasan facelift to cost P30M (p.12)
• 18 postal men fired (p.12)
• Anti-nuke groups picket Clark, seek weapons ban

Oped, features

• Editorial: Unsnarling the mess (p.4)
• Nestor Mata: Roots of social injustice (p.4)
• Rosario Garcellano: The 'good deal' (p.4)
• Kitch Ortego: Scrambled Haig (p.4)
• May polls: Aquino-Enrile battle up (p.5)

Note

• sports section excluded
• foreign news excluded
• business news (p.9-10) for future indexing
• lifestyle (p.13) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.14-15) for future indexing
• religion section (p.16) excluded

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 16 Mon

National news

• More civilians caught in clashes: Two killed in Quezon encounter (p.1/6)
• 2 nat'l youth bodies to replace KB urged (p.1/6)
• Photo: Lupao massacre victim (p.1)
• Only 7 sure bets for Cory's slate (p.1/6)
• Lupao massacre story bolstered (p.1/6)
• Lakas strives to be 'the' Aquino party (p.1/6)
• Comelec sets hearings for absentee voting (p.3)
• 5th jail bolter nabbed; 7 to go (p.3)
• Minimum wage hike ruled out (p.7)

Metro and provincial news

• Valentine's Day turns bloody (p.3)
• Floods doom Taguig to murky depths, unless... (p.3)
• Photo essay: Life beside the seawall (p.7)
• Why cops take long to solve some crimes (p.7)
• Manila officials, employes pledge loyalty to the Charter (p.7)
• Quezon City seeks 7 seats in Congress (p.7)
• Drug rehab center planned for QC (p.7)

Oped, features

• Editorial: New threat to the Center (p.4) on the Lupao massacre
• Rod Reyes: The proof of the pudding (p.4) on media ownership
• Celso Carunungan: Machiavelli in our country (p.4) on communists in government
• Tony Gatmaitan: Parable for our times (p.4/5) on the Philippine economy
• The built-in Chinese character of Vigan (p.7)

Note

• sports section excluded
• foreign news excluded
• business news (p.5) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.8-9) for future indexing

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 17 Tue

National news

• 60 rebels attack Morong town hall. Soldier, 4 cops repulse raiders (p.1/6)
• Aquino cautions troops on operations (p.1/6)
• 4 killed in Cavite pre-poll violence (p.1)
• Combined MILF-NPA drive worries Southcom; AFP launches Mindanao offensive (p.1/6)
• Election rules: Comelec, Cory differ (p.1/6)
• LRT workers go on strike, but trains running (p.1/6)
• 7 parties firming up opposition ticket (p.2)
• New names crop up in Cory slate (p.2)
• PCGG turns over sequestered land for redistribution (p.2)
• Ship captain, 5 others charged in smuggle of P10-M diesel oil (p.2)
• P57-M OK'd for water projects; to benefit 6 provinces (p.2)
• Mindanao gov coddling rebs -- Dimaporo (p.2)
• Ileto cites RP-US ties in Subic rites (p.2)
• Vietnam vets to train RP troops (p.2) Gen. John K. Singlaub,
• Health workers to get allowances (p.2)
• 'Flower drop' to mark Feb. 22 celebration (p.2)
• 'Secretary', not 'minister' please (p.6)
• Charter to be taught in schools -- Quisumbing (p.6)

Metro and provincial news

• Paramedics in Metro get pay hike (p.6)
• 5-point program eyed to solve BEPZ row (p.6)
• Novaliches asks plebiscite on towns' status (p.11) history of Rizal province and towns
• Fired employes picket QC hall (p.11)
• Litterbugs in Pasay City, watch out! (p.11)
• Makati seeks help in court maintenance (p.11)
• Chinese couple robbed, murdered in Paranaque (p.11)
• Strike called at Lyceum (p.11) with photo, teacher salaries and benefits
• Amok shot dead; 3 firemen hurt (p.11)
• BIR chief YPE guest (p.11)
• Western Visayas: Caram, Bombo Radyo trade blasts
• Eastern Visayas: Leyte folk kill 2 NPA taxmen (p.12)
• Central Luzon: Barangay chief mauls teeners (p.12)
• Central Mindanao: Armed men slay 2 in Lanao village (p.12)
• Bicol: Masbate official gets 17 years

Oped, features

• Editorial: Loose ends mean we're losing (p.4) Lupao massacre, justice under Aquino
• Nestor Mata: Peace and war (p.4) NPA, NDF
• Nelia Sancho: The women's agenda (p.4)
• Luis V. Teodoro: The parliamentary option (p.4) on Partido ng Bayan
• Interview of Brig Gen Jose Almonte (ret.): 'The military is not a sack of potatoes' (p.5)
• Contra southern front in disarray (p.5)
• Lifestyle: Manila Standard's baptismal jaunt (p.13)

Note

• sports section (p.7-8) excluded
• foreign news (p.3) excluded
• business news (p.9-10) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.14-15) for future indexing
• lifestyle (p.16) for future indexing

Manila Standard news items for 1987 Feb 18 Wed

National news

• Loyalists plotting new coup. Plotters' target date: On or before Feb. 25 (p.1/6)
• Con-Com members can't run in May (p.1/6)
• 4 holdup suspects shot dead in QC (p.1/6)
• Ferrer replacing OICs in towns where 'No' won (p.1/6)
• Medals for the men of Morong (p.1)
• Negotiations on for NPA hostages (p.1/6)
• Shahani announces her senatorial bid (p.1/6)
• No move to oust Ramos, says Palace (p.1/6)
• Opposition wants new sanctions on political dynasties (p.2)
• Quisumbing seeks P50-M for PPSTA (p.2)
• Probe body recalls officers to identify soldiers who fired at marchers (p.2) Citizen's Mendiola Commission
• Ramos ready to quit if... (p.2)
• Loyalists want FM to defend them in court (p.2)
• PCGG sets guidelines for QBA applicant (p.2)
• Slain cop's brothers keep off headquarters (p.6)
• Wakaoji kidnappers' warning (p.6)
• Governor's Lupao report: No encounter (p.6)
• Local execs to aid fight vs. graft (p.11)
• AFP to pay for GMA damages (p.11)

Metro and provincial news

• Furniture worker dies in P10-M fire (p.2)
• Cory tries peace at regional level (p.2)
• Unemployed highest in Metro, study says (p.11)
• Las Piñas vendors protest demolition (p.11)
• Downtown Manila's hawkers may be a dying breed (p.11)
• Ilocos: Baguio tourism is as seasonal as star apples (p.12)
• Bicol: Electric firm sues for co-op ownership (p.12)
• Bicol: Villafuerte, Ziga in bitter political fight (p.12)
• Mindanao: P760-M for schoolhouses (p.12)
• Mindanao: 'I wasn't fired,' says town OIC (p.12)
• Central Visayas: Magsaysay statue to be restored (p.12)
• Central Luzon: Economic recovery needs priority (p.12)

Oped, features

• Tony Gatmaitan: Tough time for PnB (p.4)
• Celso Carunungan: The bitter fruits of discord (p.4)
• Rosario Garcellano: The maverick (p.4)
• Conservation, development are not contradictory (p.5)
• Rosette Rodriguez: Insurgency and land reform (p.5)
• Cris Cerdena: Johnny won't come (p.11) on Enrile

Note

• sports section (p.7-8) excluded
• foreign news (p.3) excluded
• business news (p.9-10) for future indexing
• showbiz news (p.14-15) for future indexing
• lifestyle (p.16) for future indexing