The World - News from April 15, 1987
Philippine President Corazon Aquino flew to a remote, Communist rebel stronghold on the Bondoc Peninsula to inaugurate a $1.5-million road project that the government promised last fall after rebels freed a kidnaped army lieutenant. The 20-mile road will link 21 towns, enabling farmers to bring their products to market. Meanwhile, in a village north of Manila, retired Maj. Gen. Jose Rancudo, former chief of the Philippine air force, was shot to death by rebels of the Communist New People’s Army, the military said. It also reported that guerrillas killed four soldiers and wounded seven in an ambush in the town of La Castellana on Negros Island.
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