home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon
- From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: Philippines Communist Party legali
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.000206.17250@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Organization: ?
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:02:06 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Lines: 33
-
- /* Written 5:02 pm Sep 4, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
- /* ---------- "Philippines Communist Party legali" ---------- */
- From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704
-
-
- PHILIPPINES
- The Philippines government has freed a top Marxist leader and took
- the first step toward legalizing the banned Communist party.
-
- Osako Ocampo(?), 53, finished three years in jail as the Senate
- approved a bill repealing a decades-old anti-subversion law which
- outlaws the Communist Party for advocating armed struggle.
-
- After a similar bill is approved by the House of Representatives,
- President Ramos will sign it into law, legalizing the party.
-
- These developments coincide with policy talks between the
- Philippines government and the communists in the Dutch capital, the
- Hague. Chief negotiator for the rebel's National Democratic Front
- said there were good chances for full peace negotiations to take
- place.
-
- The front is an umbrella groups of rebel militias, which have waged
- a 23-year campaign. (R. Australia 9/1)
-
- =================================================================
-
- OTHER NEWS TODAY ON THE SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY WORLDP.NEWS COVER:
-
- El Salvador, Liberia, Germany, France, Thailand, Sri Lanka and
- Japan.
-
- SUBSCRIBE!
-