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Woo-DcO A-4 Santa Cruz Sentinel Monday, Sept. 14, 1987 Leadership in Philippines missing flight of the (Ferdinand) Marcos re By ROBERT H. REID to a factious Cabinet or referring them to Congress without always Analysis European agencies eager to re-enter space race PARIS AP) With a backlog of 46 satellites waiting for launch, the European Space Agency plans to re-enter the space race Tuesday after a 16-month hiatus brought on by technical failure. Officials at ESA and Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-nation space consortium, say they are brimming with confidence and anxious to get moving again after the failure of their 18th shot. On May 31, 1986, technicians destroyed an Ariane II rocket Wt minutes after it lifted off from the ESA's space center at Kourou, French Guiana, turning its $55 million telecommunications satellite payload into a ball of fire.

The U.S. space shuttle program is still grounded and working to recover from the Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger disaster, which killed the craft's seven crew members. National Aeronautics and Space Administration shuttle flights probably will not resume before next summer. That would appear to put Ariane in the commercial driver's seat with $2.45 billion worth of launch contracts in its pocket.

Three U.S. companies have agreements to launch private satellites, but none are scheduled until 1989. The Soviet Union and China also are offering to launch satellites for a fee. Despite the May 1986 aborted Ariane launch, countries and industrial concerns seeking to place satellites in orbit have maintained faith in the European launcher. Arianespace says it has signed 11 new launch contracts since May 1986.

The current schedule calls for three launches this year, including Tuesday's, eight next year and nine in 1989. The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines At the heart of the crisis besetting President Corazon Aquino's government is a failure to turn her enormous popularity into a clear national agenda backed by well-organized political machinery. Neither the president's undisputed popularity nor cliches about "people power" have restored stability to a factious archipelago nation where organized power blocs such as militant labor, disaffected soldiers and big business compete for control of national policy. In her 18 months in power, Aquino has restored democratic institutions and reversed economic decline. But her popularity has not made significant dents in an 18-year-old communist insurgency.

Nor has it put an end to military conspiracies. Popularity alone has not curbed the 30 percent increase in crime in Manila this year, pacified Moslem rebels, cowed increasingly militant labor and farmer groups or disarmed the estimated 260 private armies that rule vast areas of the rural gime," newspaper and television commentator Art Borjal says. "The perception grew that the Cory government lacked the leadership qualities demanded by the times. In time, the people's expectations began to sour." Sen. Leticia Ramos-Shahani, sister of armed forces Chief of Staff Gen.

Fidel Ramos and a strong supporter of the president, alluded to the need for firm leadership and well-defined goals during a television interview a few days after the bloody Aug. 28 coup attempt. "I think we moderate Filipinos need an ideology which can match the dedication of the ideology of the extreme right and extreme left," she said. Aquino's challenge is to define how her "centrist ideology" reconciles land reform with rights of property owners; foreign investment with demands for higher wages; U.S. bases with "independent foreign policy," and other issues where the views of Filipinos who began as Aquino allies conflict.

In those issues and more, she has avoided a firm stand, leaving details making her position clear. Even when her position is clear, Aquino lacks an effective political organization and an efficient bureaucracy to marshal support and implement controversial programs amid resistance from entrenched interests or armed opposition. In retrospect, instability appeared inevitable due to the nature of the forces that played a role in the February 1986 collapse of the 20-year Marcos administration. The "people power revolution" that mass outpouring of hundreds of thousands into the streets masked complex maneuvering between disparate and even hostile forces coalesced for a single, common purpose dump Marcos. They included a military clique behind then-Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, social activists eager for broad economic and political reform, big business fearful of economic collapse, and the United States, anxious to prevent civil war in a strategic nation.

hinterlands. Without strong political leadership, another Cabinet reshuffle is unlikely to produce much more than a breathing spell in a battle for the nation's future. Meanwhile, the leader of the Aug. 28 coup in the Philippines says that Aquino is not in control of the country, but repeated his contention that he did not want her killed during the failed uprising that sent him into hiding, according to an interview released Sunday. Col.

Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan spoke to correspondents from Newsweek and CBS News at his secret hiding place on the main island of Luzon. The interview, included in the Sept. 21 issue of Newsweek and broadcast on "60 Minutes" Sunday, took place after rebels put the blindfolded reporters in the bottom of a van and drove them to the spot. "The disenchantment over what's happening in Philippine society today is a natural offshoot of the people's high hopes after the fall and World digest From Sentinel wire services Beflnnf Examples: OBWei6ri7 MUSHROOM AOc CAPS Stuffed with crab meat sT BABY SALMON 4R TEN PAPILLOTE Z3 Baked In a champaglne I The daughter, Olga, had applied for the visa in July, after her 69-year-old father suffered a mild stroke. Because there was no quick response to her application, the elder Goldfarb applied for a visa so he could visit her in Moscow.

Police identify reggae star's killers KINGSTON, Jamaica Police have identified three gunmen suspected of killing reggae star Peter Tosh and another man and wounding five people during a robbery but no arrests have been made, a source said The source, who is close to the investigation but spoke with the condition of anonymity, said police were posted at the island's points of exit in case the suspects try to flee the country. Police said the Friday night killings happened during a robbery, but the source said detectives have not ruled out other possibilities. Tosh and the other victims apparently knew the killers, the source said. He declined to give the names of the suspects. Tosh, who along with Bob Marley and The Wailers helped make Jamaica's reggae music known internationally, was shot at his home.

Police said three men arrived on motorcycles and forced their way in, demanding that Tosh give them money. The robbers ordered the seven people in the two-story house to lie face down on the floor, ransacked the building and when they found nothing shot the victims, according to police. Ortega plans reconciliation talks SAN JACINTO, Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said Sunday his Sandinista government would begin "national reconciliation" talks with political opponents 5, but not with the U.S.-supported armed rebels. Ortega also granted pardons to 16 Central Americans captured while fighting with the contras, as the rebels are known, and relaxed a law allowing his left-wing government to seize the property of anyone remaining outside of the country for more than six months. The president displayed a U.S.-made Red Eye ground-to-air missile he said was captured Saturday from rebels near Bocay in northern Nicaragua.

It was the second Red Eye missile reported captured by the Sandinistas, who have acknowledged two Soviet-made helicopters were shot down by the weapons in months. Ortega made the annnouncements in a speech and at a news conference at the Hacienda of San Jacinto, 30 miles north of the capital of Managua, during a celebration of two important dates in Nicaraguan history. Dissident's daughter gets visa NEW YORK The daughter of Soviet dissident David Goldfarb has been granted a visa to visit her ailing father in New York City, Goldfarb's son Alex said iSunday. "She telephoned this morning that she received notice in the mail that her visitor's visa was granted," Alex 'said. RESERVATIONS 688-3254 "Best Kept Secret in Town!" 610 CLUBHOUSE DRIVE APTOS (exit Rio Del Mar, Hwy.

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