Jose Maria Sison is also wanted in Leyte for multiple murder*

Self-exiled communist leader Jose Maria Sison who is being sought by authorities for the crime of multiple murder in Leyte, also faces three rebellion charges in Negros Occidental, police records show.

Inspector Perfecto Goc-ong, chief of the Negros Occidental Police Investigation Branch, yesterday said Sison and several top leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines, including those in Negros island, are facing rebellion charges, in connection with the separate raids of the Silay airport, police outposts in the cities of Escalante and Sipalay, as well as the burning of an Alter Trade cargo truck in Toboso, all of which took place last year. Sison, alias Armando Liwanag, whom the military claim to be the CPP chairman, Negrense-priest-turned-rebel Luis Jalandoni, Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Satur Ocampo, are among the 53 persons ordered to be arrested last week by Leyte Regional Trial Court Judge Ephrem Abando for the crime of multiple murder.

Special Coast Guard force
to set up base in Bacolod
DURING ALLIED SHIELD
RETRIEVAL OPERATIONS
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A special Philippine Coast Guard task force composed of three ships, an airplane and 100 men to secure the Allied Shield's recovery of oil on board MT Solar 1 that sank off the coast of Guimaras will set up base in Bacolod City starting today, Commodore Arturo Olavario said yesterday.

Olavario, head of the special task force, said their securing the Allied Shield's operations includes setting up a 1 kilometer radius no entry area around oil the recovery site.

Solar 1 sank 9 kilometers south of Guimaras to a depth of about 2,100 meters carrying about 2,000 tons of oil owned by Petron in August last year.

End Bingo closure,
court asked
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The lawyer of Phuture Visions Co. Inc., in their memorandum yesterday, asked the Court to issue a temporary mandatory order/or preliminary mandatory injunction against the Bacolod City government for the closure of a bingo outlet at SM City Bacolod.

The Happy Bingo, operated by the sons of Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella, was padlocked by the City Legal Office on Mar. 3 for lack of a Mayor's Permit.

The closure order was implemented by Legal Officer 3 Vicente Petierre III against the bingo outlet for operating without a Mayor's Permit at SM City in Brgy. 12. It was found out that the application it had submitted to the city was for the renewal of a Mayor's Permit for another business, with address at RH Building, 26th-Lacson streets in Brgy. 5, not at SM City in Brgy. 12.