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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 16, 1990                   TAG: 9005160589
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/4   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: MANILA, PHILIPPINES                                LENGTH: Short

PHILIPPINES SAYS U.S. OWES $222.6 MILLION

The government claimed today that the United States owes it more than $220 million in compensation, which a Philippine official said may jeopardize talks on extending the lease for U.S. bases.

Filipino delegates complained the United States had fallen short by $222.6 million in aid promised to Manila to maintain the six U.S. military installations whose lease runs out in September 1991, said Rafael Alunan, spokesman for the Philippine panel.

At Clark Air Base, meanwhile, more than 600 people attended a memorial service for two U.S. airmen slain Sunday by communist rebels opposed to the bases. In a message, President Bush promised their deaths would not deter the United States from "the cause of freedom."

-Associated Press 


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