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...torn by conflicting ties to his family and his new wife, and under great emotional strain from his experience. Said a family intimate: "He's terrified." It appeared doubtful that Tommy and Imee could salvage their relationship. She did meet with him last week at Malacañang Palace, the presidential residence, where she has been living, and they talked frequently by phone. But insiders speculated that she has decided her first loyalty is to her father...
...couple dined quietly two nights before New Year's at Manila's cozy Las Conchas restaurant. Later, Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26, said good night and, escorted by a motorcade of security men, returned dutifully to Malacañang Palace, bastion of her father, President Ferdinand Marcos. Meanwhile the man she had secretly wed on Dec. 4 in Arlington, Va., Tomas ("Tommy") Manotoc, 32, amateur golf champion and basketball coach, drove off alone in his 1977 white Mitsubishi Galant Sigma and disappeared...
...attacked. While thumbing through a Robert Ludlum novel, it hit him--characters. He swiftly plugged them into the plot: the "very Nordic" Rick Rand, suave financial genius; the "very oriental" T'sa Li, Rick's sex-hungry girlfriend; Mikhail Sarkov, KGB agent posing as multinational chairman Greg Ballinger; T'ang Li, T'sa Li's mammoth brother and Kung Fu expert. Liddy threw in a mafia don and several Company people because, after all, they were his friends. He kept Edward Zlin, because, after all, Zlin was Liddy...
...linked to the Soviets. Rick, armed with documents stolen from Greg's safe, sets out to prove the connection. He shrewdly manipulates some multinational stock holdings and prepares to take over Greg's company. Greg kidnaps T'sa Li and runs her finger through a meat grinder. T'ang Li rescues his sister. Greg escapes by plane but Rick, piloting his private Messerschmitt, knocks him out of the sky in a dogfight over Manhattan...
Manila's Malacanñ:ang Palace recalls an 18th century European royal court. At the top of a sweeping, crimson-carpeted-staircase, huge chandeliers dominate the great hall where Cabinet ministers, ambassadors and favor-seekers wait to be received in audience. Inside the President's book-lined office, rows of brown leather chairs lead to his desk, which stands on a raised platform flanked by Philippine flags. In a palace interview last week with TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro, Marcos exuded confidence as he talked about the future of his regime and his country. Despite rumors that...