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3 SECTIONS 16 PAGES VOL. 111 NO. 339


Erap, Ping sued for $50M F


Dacer sisters file suit vs. 4 others in US court


BY FRANCIS EARL A. CUETO CORRESPONDENT


ORMER President Joseph “Erap” Estrada, fugitive Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and four others


were slapped with a $50-million or P2.2- billion civil suit by daughters of


slain publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer. During an exclusive interview over ABS-CBN’s morning show Umagang Kay Ganda on Friday, sisters Sabrina and Carina Dacer said that they filed the case against Estrada, Lacson, businessman


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Bacalzo case concerns DILG chief the least


SECRETARY Jesse Robredo of the De- partment of Interior and Local Govern- ment (DILG) apparently would rather focus his efforts on finding ways of com- bating jueteng than giving time investi- gating alleged involvement of Philip- pine National Police chief Raul Bacalzo in the illegal numbers game. Robredo, during a press conference on Friday, said that he preferred going forward or facing challenges than looking into accusations that lack con- crete evidence.


The DILG chief was referring to alle- gation of whistleblower Sandra Cam, linking Bacalzo to jueteng operations. Cam claimed that Bacalzo was among


the jueteng protectors named by late Wilfredo “Boy” Mayor, another whistle- blower, in his testimony before a joint Senate committee inquiry in 2005. Meanwhile, Robredo said that the DILG has been talking with the Philip- pine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO)


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BY I. CAÑETE DEMAIN E-mail: icdemain@yahoo.com


SOME pundits are saying that with the submission yesterday of the final report of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee on the hostage-taking tragedy, President Benigno Aquino 3rd now faces “the defining moment of his presidency— meaning that we will see the leader he is in how he reacts or acts on its findings and recommendations.” As I was digesting this melodramatic comment, I read online that


The Daily Telegraph of London is reporting that the long search for a treatment to cancer may have reached “its penicillin moment”— meaning that scientists may have finally made a breakthrough. The Telegraph report said, “In what is arguably the most significant use of genetic knowledge to tackle disease, scientists in California have created a drug that prevents the effects of a gene mutation linked to malignant melanoma. “In a small clinical trial, melanoma tumors shrank by nearly a


third in 24 of 32 patients with a mutation known as B-RAF-and in two other people, the tumors disappeared completely— according to the research, published in the journal Nature.” Sir Mark Walport, the director of UK cancer charity the


Welcome Trust, said that the breakthrough was a “penicillin moment” for cancer researchers. He, however, added, “We have got to balance the hype and the hope. Cancer is complicated.” The Chinese approach to the march of time is simpler: They just describe the years in terms of animals, e.g, rats, pigs, tigers, horses, etc.”


■ Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada


HOSTAGE FIASCO CASTS WIDER NET


MBC worries about govt vacancies


BY CRIS G. ODRONIA REPORTER


PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd on Friday said that his administration is wary of appointing officials, disclos- ing that he almost made the mistake of appointing someone to a key law- enforcement position. Positions in the government that re- main vacant were among the concerns


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Floyd faces 8 criminal complaints


Justice Secretary Leila de Lima attends on Friday in Quezon City a hearing on the contempt case filed against her by Maguindanao massacre prime suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr. PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ


Excommunication eyed for abortionists BY JOMAR CANLAS REPORTER


WITH the discovery of three fetuses in Metro Manila this week and the abandonment of a newborn baby in- side a passenger jet from Bahrain, the Catholic Church on Friday said that the penalty of excommunication would be imposed on abortionists. In a statement, Gaudencio Cardi-


nal Rosales condemned the incidents and he reiterated the stand of the Catholic Church against abortion. The Cardinal stressed that a de- liberately procured abortion is a moral evil and the church attaches the canonical penalty of excommu- nication to those who procure and help obtain it.


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BY LOVELYN M. QUINTOS SPECIAL TO THE MANILA TIMES


BY JUN MEDINA SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT


FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. was charged with seven more criminal complaints on Friday on top of a felony theft charge filed against him stemming from a domestic violence complaint filed against him by his former girlfriend Josie Harris.


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TV host Willie Revillame in P486-M suit


BY JEFFERSON ANTIPORDA REPORTER


■ Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman and Rep. Lani Mercado-Revilla of Cavite hold a press conference on Friday on the custody of a newborn baby found inside the toilet of a Gulf Air jet on Sunday. PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ


Reintroducing books to young generation »feature


Melody Remorca, a


“I WAS reading to her even when I was pregnant.”


storyteller by profession and mother of dedication, shares that even before giving birth to her daughter, Marquee, she already introduced books to her.


Remorca recalls how her 7-year-old daughter


started out reading at the age of five with her constant guidance and


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THE legal battle between noontime television show host Willie Revillame and ABS-CBN network


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JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima on Friday said that 12 persons might be held liable for a recent hostage-taking in Manila that left nine persons dead, including eight Chinese tourists from Hong Kong. On Thursday, de Lima, who heads the Incident Investiga- tion and Review Committee (IIRC), disclosed that 10 individu- als would be charged over their roles in the hostage incident. She neither identified the 10 persons who would be charged nor stated the charges but hinted that the list includes officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP), at least one public official and at least one media practitioner. With the list now containing 12 personalities, de Lima con- tinued refusing to name names, explaining that she would


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