Monday, March 08, 2004 (Philippines)

MISS WORLD. Karla Bautista (right) hopes to be in the top three in the Miss World pageant like what Ruffa Gutierrez was in 1992. Maricar Balagtas (center) will represent the Philippines in the Miss Universe contest while Margaret Ann Bayot (left) will join the Miss International pageant. Story, bewlo(AFP Foto) A RANKING official of the Air Transportation Office (ATO) and his wife were caught in a police checkpoint in Calinan town, Davao del Sur yesterday morning, allegedly bringing 13 guns to be sold in Davao City and Sta. Cruz town. Manuel Matig-a, 60, and his wife Miguela were begging for mercy as they told the chief of the Regional Mobile Group (RMG) in Region 11 that low income forced them into gun-running. [full story]

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