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At the behest of the Aquino government, a State Supreme Court justice has temporarily blocked the sale, transfer or mortgaging of any properties that deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, might own in the city and on Long Island.
Philippine President Corazon Aquino wants her nation's courts to determine whether any properties were bought with money stolen from the Philippine government. If so, she expects U.S. courts to recognize that judgment and award title to the Philippines so that the properties can be sold to help refuel the Philippine economy, according to Severina Rivera, a Washington lawyer acting for Aquino's newly appointed Presidential Commission on Good Government. (As leaders of Marcos' party back Aquino, communists launch attack, Page 13.)
"This is a very significant step to retrieving these properties that belong to the Philippine people," Rivera said at a Manhattan press conference yesterday. The restraining order is answerable in State Supreme Court tomorrow.
In another victory for Aquino yesterday, customs officials in Honolulu agreed to give her government an accounting of the cash that Marcos and his entourage brought into the United States in 22 crates when they arrived Wednesday.
The crates, which Philippine officials...