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Whatever the ups and downs of his health, Marcos has always insisted on keeping a patriarchal grip on the apparatus of power. An outsider who was allowed to visit a caucus of the ruling New Society Movement last year reported that the session resembled "a big meeting of all the warring tribes, in which the President was like the chief, called upon to arbitrate all of their family feuds." None of the burning national difficulties of the day, such as the Communist insurgency and the ailing economy, were discussed. Instead, local and provincial party bosses offered up their special pleading...
...outgoing government of General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores contend that political kidnapings and killings, aimed mostly at peasants, union members and university students, persist. Families of the "disappeared" blame government security forces. Last week Cerezo announced that one of his first goals will be to clean up the security apparatus. He declared, "The army cannot limit the power of the head of the armed forces (the President), and if they try to do so, they will have to create a coup...
...natural substance called interleukin-2 (IL-2), one of a variety of chemical messengers called lymphokines that help control the activities of the immune system. Studies have shown that IL-2 is capable of transforming certain white blood cells into powerful, anticancer killer cells. Using an elaborate blood-separating apparatus, Rosenberg and his team withdrew white cells from each patient and treated them with IL-2. After incubating for three or four days, the activated cells were injected back into the patient, along with more IL-2, and the "killers" went to work...
Beyond the strategic disadvantages, both opposition candidates face the prospect of dishonest elections. It is hardly a secret that Marcos has tight control of the electoral apparatus. The Marcos-dominated Commission on Elections (COMELEC) supervises the polls. Moreover, each step of the vote- tabulating process, from the precincts to urban and provincial centers, and finally to the National Assembly, is dominated by government employees and K.B.L. members...
...terrorist organizations. There is no one person, there is no one capital in the world that controls terrorism. There is an apparatus made up of about 50 major terrorist organizations. Some of them will be hired by one country to carry out a job, some by another. But these states also have their own apparatus: Iran has the Revolutionary Guards; Libya has its own gang of thugs. So the entire structure is very mixed up and highly complicated. It is very important that sanctions be imposed on these states, that they be economically squeezed and that their diplomatic apparatus...