The National Press Club has reported on how Col. Vicente Tigas, Jr. cajoled some newsmen into "clarifying" their testimonies so as to exonerate him from any guilty involvement in the Aquino-Galman murder case (Inquirer, June 17-23).

We are told that the reporters signed the affidavit "out of pity" for Colonel Tigas who openly "cried before them" and said his three children had become "the objects of criticism at their school" (Inquirer, June 10-16).

Whatever sympathy I had for Colonel Tigas disappeared with the revelation that some of the reporters were paid and that the affidavits "must have been antedated in order to mislead the public and the Tanodbayan" (June 17-23).

I find it deliciously ironical that the officer who harassed the "Crying Lady" ("Yon! Yon! Yon ang dumale sa akin!")*  may yet go down in Philippine history as "the Crying Colonel."

DELANO DRILON

Ed:  *"there, there, that's he who accosted me"