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...backed down. Abat didn't, however, and he's not restricting his thoughts to the word processor anymore. "I'm leading the Movement for National Salvation," he says. "I'm very open about it. We've had this system for almost 60 years and now, ultimately, we're the basket case of Asia. The people are looking for change...
...people of the Philippines are traditionally anti-Communist and pro-democracy [WORLD, Nov. 18]. The Communist movement, however, is growing because Filipinos are against the corrupt and repressive Marcos regime. By establishing a dictatorship and turning this once prosperous country into an economic basket case, Marcos has destroyed the democratic form of government. Only the election of a popular leader like Corazon Aquino, the widow of assassinated Opposition Leader Ninoy Aquino, can hold back the Communists. George Carrion Makati, Philippines...
...valor by overcoming generations of inertia and fatalism. She does it by demonstrating that behind the male swagger there is usually an unsteady little boy in need of a firm maternal hand. When a neighborhood Rambo threatens to shoot at police from his window, Dolores arms herself with a basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave her the blue pajamas. She pinned them to the line and then moved them out, boldly, the pulleys on the far end of the line, on the telephone pole flush against...
During her four years at Lavietes Pavilion, Murphy went from unrecognized to indispensable. Game after game, she dove for loose balls, took charges under the basket against bigger interior post players, and made the extra pass for two points on the offensive...
...charities. They say they earn enough from their federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) check to afford coffee and tea—and an occasional danish—in the mornings. For lunch, Rick sometimes cashes in cans and bottles to buy a whole chicken from the DeMoulas Market Basket in Somerville...