среда, 7 марта 2012 г.

`Go home, Weinberger' // Defense boss jeered by radicals as he arrives in Manila

MANILA (UPI) About 50 radical Filipinos chanted "Weinberger gohome" and waved banners with anti-American slogans as DefenseSecretary Caspar W. Weinberger arrived yesterday for talks withleaders of the new Philippine government.

Weinberger is the highest-ranking Reagan administration officialto visit the Philippines since a civilian-backed military revoltousted Ferdinand E. Marcos on Feb. 25 and installed President CorazonC. Aquino.

The jeering demonstrators gathered at the airport gate forWeinberger's arrival, waving banners opposing the continued U.S. useof military bases in the Philippines.

Philippine Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, armed …

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