MONDAY |SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 | PHILIPPINES

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Forget appeal, ask
for pardon: Apostol

Says 70-year-old Erap eligible for clemency

BY REGINA BENGCO

CHIEF presidential legal counsel Sergio Apostol has unsolicited advice to former President Joseph Estrada: Let the guilty verdict become final and executory then apply for presidential pardon.

Apostol yesterday said Estrada is eligible for pardon because he is already 70 years old.

He said applying for pardon takes a shorter time than appealing the decision of the anti-graft court, and if denied, moving on to the Supreme Court.

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Gov’t worried Joma will sabotage amnesty program

NATIONAL security adviser Norberto Gonzales yesterday said communist leaders led by its founding chairman Jose Maria Sison might sabotage government’s amnesty program to the point of trying and sentencing comrades in "people’s courts" to scare off amnesty applicants.

Gonzales said Sison and his associates did this in the past.

He said he was not airing the warning to scare the people but "to inform the concerned agencies so they can act appropriately."

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Mindoro boasts of another indigenous species

BY REINIR PADUA

FIRST it was the Philippine "tamaraw" (water buffalo) then there was the bleeding pigeon.

Now the island of Mindoro takes pride as the only sanctuary of a new bat species called the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat (styloctenium mindorensis), prompting experts to note the rising endemism of wildlife in the country.

Dr. Theresa Mundita Lim, director of the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said the new bat species was found by Filipino and foreign scientists on Mt. Siburan in Sablayan, Mindoro Occidental, in February last year.

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