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- WORLD, Page 59World NotesTHE PHILIPPINESThe Great Escape
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- Time: 2:45 a.m. Date: April 8, 1990 Scene: Manila
- city jail Cast: Retired Lieut. Colonel Rolando ("Billy")
- Bibit, 15 or so rebel soldiers and a bunch of partygoers
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- Action: A knock at the door of the jail. Guards, inmates
- and visitors swigging beer to celebrate the deputy warden's
- birthday are expecting a delivery of more brews. Surprise!
- Black-hooded renegades crash the festivities and escape with
- Billy Bibit.
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- A former chief intelligence and security officer of the
- Bureau of Customs, Bibit was being held on charges of at
- tempting to overthrow the government during the failed December
- coup. "Today I am free again to continue our struggle for the
- cause of good government," said Bibit.
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- An enraged President Corazon Aquino ordered a nationwide
- manhunt for Bibit.
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