Word: archipelago
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...President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand, who is based in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, endured bone-jarring rides on motorcycles and military trucks while keeping up with Aquino and Laurel on campaign stops across the 115,830-sq.-mi. archipelago...
...events in the sprawling Pacific archipelago appear to be moving rapidly beyond Marcos' fading ability to control them with anything like the skill and ruthlessness that he so often displayed in the past. While the President continues to hold sway in the Spanish colonial-style Malacanang Palace, the vacuum of authority outside the palace has reached alarming proportions. Among other things, it has led U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz to warn that the Philippines is heading toward "civil war on a massive scale" within three to five years if the insurgency spearheaded by the Communist New People...
That choreographed frenzy was the latest demonstration of what even Marcos' foes concede is his tactical brilliance. For 20 years, the President has ruled the 7,000-island archipelago by keeping opposition forces in jail, in disarray and in constant uncertainty about his next move. He has also not hesitated to alter the country's democratic practices to suit his purposes. He evaded the constitution's limit of two four-year terms for the presidency by declaring martial law midway through his second term. Even when Marcos lifted martial law in 1981, he did not give up his authority...
...security policies and the human rights policies of the U.S. government. We have thousands of warheads pointed at the Soviet Union to defend ourselves, not to push for the release of Andrei Sakharov. Our adversarial relationship with the Soviets is not due to the mere existence of the Gulag Archipelago, but rather to their efforts to extend it beyond Soviet borders. To suggest that South Africa should be our enemy because of apartheid ignores the fact that, unlike some nations, the United States does not go out looking for enemies. South Africa poses no threat to our security...
...archipelago's chief problem remains its devastated economy. U.S. officials disclosed last week that the Philippines' failure to agree on future International Monetary Fund targets for economic performance has delayed $113 million in IMF loans. Inflation is expected to hit 25% this year, while the Philippines' 15% unemployment and 40% underemployment rates are the highest in the region. The Philippines, Bernardo Villegas of Metro Manila's independent Center for Research and Communications claims, "is the economic basket case" of the Asia-Pacific region. Villegas traces most of the problems to "the excesses of crony capitalism and other forms of political...