The World - News from Dec. 15, 1986

Hundreds of Filipinos chanting pro-Communist slogans welcomed a cease-fire monitoring committee to the town of Samal in Bataan province, west of Manila. The committee was looking into charges by the Philippine military that Communist rebels violated a 60-day cease-fire last week by carrying firearms in the town while celebrating the beginning of the truce. The town is a stronghold of the rebel forces, and the mayor said there had been no violence and no truce violation. The committee members said they will decide the question today.