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...answer just might be discouraging. So Garcia began acting differently. When his Defense Secretary, Alejo Santos, was charged with smuggling gifts past customs after a trip abroad. Garcia ordered an investigation instead of brushing it away with his usual benign air. Then he called Nacionalista leaders together to say that corruption was so common that "no less than a total effort is necessary to reduce this social cancer to a minimum...
...could get out on bail easily-"Goddamit," roared Lewin through the cell door, "don't let me sleep here tonight"-but Lukban saw to it that Lewin spent the night in his cell. Next morning, as the fur began to fly. Garcia's Secretary of Justice Alejo Mabanag announced that NBI Chief Lukban would be fired "for the good of the service," and Lewin, free on bail, sped away in his air-conditioned Cadillac...
...frightened priests (who celebrate separate Masses in Ilocos, one for each faction) called for peace and quiet, the Philippine government dispatched a battalion of 1,100 troops to the troubled province, and three more judges were rushed up to Vigan to help handle the overcrowded dockets. Sighed Defense Secretary Alejo Santos, making an on-the-scene inspection: "These people have created a new industry for themselves: killing. They are producing widows and orphans...
...replace Vargas as Defense Secretary, Garcia named Alejo Santos, a ruthless political operator, who piously announced that his goal as Defense Secretary would be to "uphold civilian supremacy over the military...
Home in Arequipa in the southern Peruvian Andes, Olmedo was riotously paraded, speeched and kissed. He got time for only one much interrupted lunch at the little apartment on the International Club grounds where his father is combination caretaker and tennis professional and where "Alejo"-as he is called at home-grew up. Over his favorite dish, roast guinea hen, his mother sighed, "We have not seen much of you, and now you are leaving again. But I will be brave and will not cry." That afternoon, as she stood waiting for the plane that carried Alejo back...