LETTER TO THE EDITOR / PHILIPPINE INQUIRER / MAY 1, 1985

If Chato Olivas were to admit to an obsession, she would describe herself as "obsessed with jumping at every negative and unsubstantiated allegation against my father" (Inquirer, Apr. 22).

Alas, her self-description is not supported by her behavior.

Look at her reaction to two letters the Inquirer published April 1. One letter was written by George Ladera who nicknamed Chato "the saling-pusa of the defense panel;" the other was written by M. Santos who repeated the charge that Gen. Prospero Olivas had misled the Agrava Board.

If Chato was really "obsessed with jumping at every negative and unsubstantiated allegation against" her father, she should have gone after Santos tooth and nail. But no, Chato skipped over the man who called her father a liar and pounced instead on the man who called her a saling-pusa.

Look at two other Inquirer letters. One was a slashing counter-attack against J. Antonio Dizon, who had made derogatory remarks against the general (Feb. 25). In the other letter (Apr. 1), Chato quarreled with Epifanio Densing on the tacit understandings governing publication of letters-to-the-editor.

In two of three letters, Chato was defending herself, not her father.

Chato wants us to believe that every time she pounces on a Dizon, Densing, or Ladera, she is making a leap of faith in the innocence and integrity of her father. But the record indicates that every time she springs at a person she may simply be hopping off on an ego trip.

MAX ILANO