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Article: AFP chief's 'staff'.(Opinion & Editorial)

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June 17, 2002
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(Editor's note: The AFP chief of staff is not prohibited by any law or rule to recharge his batteries in a small town where his "cronies" reside.)

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Last Friday, (June 14) I met Neneng Aguillon Cimatu while waiting for a flight to Iloilo. She invited my wife to a family thanksgiving for Gen. Cimatu.

My own barkada prepared inihaw na pusit and mackerel for my afternoon meal that day. Manny Dado, 65, Gen. Cimatu's "ranking promdi adviser" sat beside me at a long table in my younger brother's open-air garage.

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