
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 4, 1990                   TAG: 9004040292
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

ATTORNEY: BUSH URGED MARCOS TO INVEST IN U.S.

Imelda Marcos' attorney contended Tuesday that George Bush urged her husband to invest in U.S. real estate and that the CIA "was aware of every transaction" for which she is on trial on racketeering charges.

In opening arguments, defense attorney Gerald Spence also said he plans to call Bush as a witness.

The lawyer said that Bush, who was then the vice president, was concerned about the Marcoses negotiating an oil deal with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and suggested to Marcos during a 1981 meeting in Manila, "Why don't you invest in American properties?"

The Marcoses, "who saw themselves as children of America," took the advice, Spence said. "They abandoned any further attempt to invest in Libya and began to put their money into New York real estate." - Associated Press

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