President on private time in Baguio for New Year.

PRESIDENT Aquino is spending his New Year in Baguio City on private time, a source close to the Chief Executive said Friday.

Reports received by the Inquirer said Mr. Aquino slept at the Mansion, the Presidents vacation residence in the countrys summer capital, on Thursday night, after having dinner at Rosebowl, a popular Chinese restaurant near Burnham Park.

A diner who saw the President said Mr. Aquino was accompanied by at least four security aides.

The source, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak about the Presidents activities, said Mr. Aquino would spend time with his sisters while in Baguio.

Some of them will come up (on Saturday), the source said when asked if the Presidents sisters would be with him in Baguio.

He said the President went up to the mountain city on Thursday. He added that Mr. Aquino brought some state papers with on his trip.