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Give Ferdinand Marcos credit for trying. The deposed President of the Philippines has attempted everything from flattery to pleas for sympathy to plotting a coup d'etat. But Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, has blocked all his maneuvers to return home. So Marcos, 70, is trying a new tactic. According to intermediaries, he has offered to turn over $5 billion, enough to pay nearly 20% of the country's foreign debt, if Aquino will change her mind. Although she reportedly rejected the proposed deal, Aquino at one point challenged Marcos: "Send the $5 billion, and then we will talk...
Since Marcos was ousted in 1986, Aquino's government has tried to recover the $10 billion that it claims Marcos stole from the country. From his Hawaiian exile, Marcos acknowledged that he tried to strike a deal; but of the $5 billion overture, he snapped, "That is a lie." Said Aquino's press secretary, Teodoro Benigno: "One of the world's greatest illusionists is at work...
...Students do not work for us on projects that require Secret Service clearance, such as when President Aquino came to speak," Rogers says. "The FAS faculty meetings are taped by an officer of the University, and a professional, full-time worker who has been with the department for the last 17 years records the Board [of Overseers] meetings...
...died at age 95, her body is still under glass in a bronze coffin at a funeral home in a well-to-do Manila suburb. White lilies sent by her absent son from exile in Hawaii are fading. Blocking her burial is a contest of wills between President Corazon Aquino and supporters of the deposed Ferdinand Marcos...
Citing national security, Aquino has refused to allow the man she replaced more than two years ago to re-enter the country for his mother's funeral. The President has permitted Marcos' three children to return, however. Last week, when some 7,000 Marcos supporters began hurling rocks and bottles near the U.S. embassy, police used truncheons and tear gas to disperse them. Marcos' sister, Fortuna Barba, remains hopeful. "((Aquino)) might still change her mind," she said. "The angel of the Lord touches her heart...