03.02.2002

Grumblings surface during `Balikatan'
"Filipino troops will get military training coming ut of their ears with the start in April of the regularly scheduled annual Balikatan -- literally shoulder-to-shoulder -- joint exercise with US soldiers under the Visiting Forces Agreement.

But contrary to the intended camaraderie the joint exercises are supposed to foster, grumblings have been heard from several Filipino participants there."

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