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...ARLINGTON, Va.-It's no secret anymore. The word is out, and it has traveled as far south as down-home Virginia...
Reader Anne Plossl, in response to your article "Some Bones of Contention," wrote to ask [Jan. 11], "If white men wanted to learn about their own history, would they dig up Arlington National Cemetery?" The answer is yes-if anything could be learned. White men have been unearthing the bones of their ancestors for decades: in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt, just to name a few areas...
Against the wishes of the President and his wife Imelda, Manotoc had married Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26, a law student at the University of the Philippines, on Dec. 4 in Arlington, Va. Although a ransom note had offered to release Manotoc for $2.5 million and freedom for four Communists, the Manotoc family believed it to be a fake. They accused the Marcoses of being behind the kidnaping. The Marcoses, in turn, blamed a conspiracy between the Manotocs and anti-Marcos opposition groups. Since then, the two families have been feuding like the Montagues and the Capulets...
...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...
...article "Soirje Bones of Contention" Curator Francis Riddell says that by allowing California Indians to rebury the bones of their ancestors, "we are unwittingly assisting the Indians in destroying their past." If white men wanted to learn about their own history, would they dig up Arlington National Cemetery...