[ noun ] the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945 <noun.act>
The government says the plant, 60 miles northwest of Manila in Bataan province, is unsafe partly because of its design and its location on an earthquake fault and near a volcano.
The $2.3 billion power plant, on the Bataan peninsula about 60 miles west of the capital across Manila Bay, was completed three years ago in the final months of Marcos' 20-year rule.
Cesar Nazareno said Ricardo Prestosa, 29, made the confession during interrogation today by military officials in Bataan province, where Prestosa was arrested Wednesday.
The army "does not have sufficient manpower to ensure the security of every village," Col. Ramsey Ocampo, constabulary commander for Bataan, said in a recent interview.
Bankruptcies are like "a Bataan death march" for bank loans, Mr. Stolberg says.
The Philippine Constabulary said the Philippine sailors were traveling to Manila Sunday when rebels opened fire on their land rover near the town of Hermosa on the Bataan peninsula.
"But I cannot in good conscience go back and tell survivors of Bataan, Iwo Jima and all those battles in the South Pacific and tell them we have forgotten you but we are compensating the people who we moved into camps," Hecht said.
However, at a news conference Thursday, Mrs. Aquino backed the project and said her government was attempting to soothe the feelings of residents at the original site, adjacent to the government's major petroleum refinery in Bataan province.