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Article: Filipino reporter cites threats
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 21, 1986
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The Chicago bureau chief of a Philippine-American newspaper was
saddened but not surprised by Wednesday's killing of a colleague in
California.
Vic Esclamado, of the weekly Philippine News, said that over the
last several years, "I and this paper occasionally, and sometimes
frequently, have received death threats and other threats."
He accused Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, saying that
his agents in this country have conducted a campaign of harassment
and terror against those who oppose him.
Wednesday, Oscar Salvatierra, an executive of the newspaper, was
shot to death in his Glendale, Calif., home after receiving a letter
threatening death. Two congressmen called for an ...