The World - News from June 8, 1986

Philippine Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, a hard-liner on the country’s Communist-led insurgency, said he is willing to give a cease-fire a try but warned that it would be “just a first step, if at all, toward something else. . . . We have to discuss conditions under which peace may be had.” Meanwhile, President Corazon Aquino reversed herself and said in a statement that, for security reasons, the names of the government cease-fire negotiators would be kept secret. She announced last week that the Communist Party leadership had chosen negotiators to discuss a possible truce in the 17-year-old insurgency.