Suspected New People's Army rebels struck again in Brgy. Caduhaan, Cadiz on Saturday, and burned two more tractors and a cargo truck owned by Hacienda Gamboa reportedly for refusal of the management to pay P1 million in revolutionary taxes, the military said.

Lt. Col. Felicisimo Budiongan, Task Group North commander, said the hacienda is owned by the family of E.B. Magalona Mayor Alfonso Gamboa.

About a month earlier rebels also torched two farm tractors of a sugar planter in the same place, for refusal to comply with the extortion demands of the New People's Army, Budiongan added.

Osmeña: GO needs big
lead to check graft
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Osmeña was in Bacolod for a Lopez reunion*

Senator Sergio Osmeña III yesterday called on voters to support the 11 candidates of the Genuine Opposition, pointing out that the Senate is the last institution remaining that will provide a check and balance on the House and the Executive.

Osmeña, who is married to Bettina Mejia Lopez, was in Bacolod City over the weekend for a Lopez reunion.

He said the GO respects the decision of Senator Francisco Pangilinan to run as an independent, and its executive committee has not discussed a replacement candidate on its slate for him.

Pulupandan residents remove
barricades, tension rises: PNP
BY CARLA GOEMZ

Tension rose in Pulupandan yesterday as about 300 angry residents removed barricades made of barbed wire along passageways in Greenbeach, Barangay Zone 1, Pulupandan set up on orders of landowner Magdaleno Peña, Mayor Luis Mondia said.

Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, Negros Occidental police director, said he sent a team of Provincial Mobile Group men to Pulupandan to help defuse the tension that broke out at about 11 a.m.

Franco said he will hold a dialog with Peña today to discuss the problem.