Killings Protested in Manila; Marcos Reported Gravely Ill
About 7,000 Filipinos, vowing to avenge the police killing of two student protesters, marched Sunday on the palace of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, but riot troops blocked them several hundred yards away.
“Blood for blood . . . that is a promise,” the marchers chanted before setting fire to effigies of Marcos, President Reagan and Uncle Sam.
The protesting farmers, students, priests and nuns marched behind a jeep carrying the body of Emmanuel Lazo, 17, who was killed last Monday when police opened fire to quell a melee that erupted during a march marking the 13th anniversary of a government land reform program that critics term farcical. Another student, Danilo Balcos, 19, died Saturday after being in a coma for five days.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post, quoting intelligence and congressional sources, reported that Marcos, 68, is suffering from a recurring, usually fatal disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, and probably has no more than a 50-50 chance of living until the 1987 presidential election.
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