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Shortly after dawn late last week, the ramrod-stiff figure of General Fabian Ver, the armed forces Chief of Staff, arrived at a govern ment office building in downtown Manila to surrender himself. Two days earlier the Tanodbayan--a four-member panel of ombudsmen--had indicted Ver, 24 other members of the military and one civil ian for their alleged involvement in the 1983 murders of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. and of Rolando Galman, the man said by the military to have killed Aquino. Ver brought $1,600 to post as bail, then left before any photographers showed...
...police. Tensions increased the next day when at least 100 gendarmes surrounded a farmhouse near La Foa, 55 miles northwest of the capital. There, Eloi Machoro, a leader of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, a militant Separatist party, and 50 of his followers were gathered. In a dawn raid, Machoro and one of his aides, Marcel Nornaro, were killed. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the president of a provisional Kanak government formed last month by the Liberation Front, charged that Machoro had been "assassinated" with Pisani's blessing. New Caledonia's High Commission had already issued a report claiming the deaths...
There were other, lesser leadership shifts last week as the Administration seemed to stumble into the dawn of its last term. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel, a brainy, amiable top aide to former Interior Secretary James Watt, will return to head the Interior Department, taking over for the California- bound Clark. Hodel, in turn, will be replaced at Energy by John S. Herrington, who earned respect as director of personnel at the White House. His departure creates yet another vacancy for Regan to fill in his new job. The Education Department will be headed by William Bennett, chairman of the National...
...Liberation Front. But at week's end Tjibaou declared that his party would be content with nothing less than complete sovereignty. The caldoches continue to argue that the Pisani plan would lead to a Kanak takeover. Pisani declared a state of emergency throughout the territory, including a dawn-to-dusk curfew. In Paris, where Premier Laurent Fabius dispatched 1,000 fresh troops to New Caledonia, a political uproar was brewing. Right-wing opponents of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government joined the island's French community in denouncing the Pisani plan...
...years of dawn-to-dusk skating paid immediate dividends and Benning was named the Notre Dame hockey team's Rockie of the Year...