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Ka Crispin Beltran arrested. Beltran, along with his wife Rosario and four other companions, were accosted by a certain Maj. Rene Corpuz and another unidentified person, both reportedly from the CIDG, at the gate of Francisco III Subdivision in Muzon, Bulacan around 10 am today. Daily Tribune padlocked. "I was tipped off yesterday that they [the government] were out to get me and my name was on a list of people to be arrested. No one said when," the Tribune's editor and publisher, Ninez Cacho-Olivares, said. "I left the office as I normally do around 9:30 pm and just after midnight police entered our offices and confiscated papers and documents. They sealed the offices and posted police at the front door," she added. "We view the raid on Tribune, an opposition newspaper, with alarm. It appears to signal the start of a crackdown on media organizations," Newsbreak magazine editor in chief Marites Danguilan-Vitug said.