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...Larry Speakes announced that American military aid to the Philippines would be cut off if troops loyal to Marcos used the army against the Philippine reform movement forces led by Enrile and Ramos. On Sunday evening, Shultz and Under Secretary of State Armacost met at the State Department with Blas Ople, Marcos' Minister of Labor, who had come to Washington to plead the Philippine President's case. According to Ople, the American diplomats gave him a blunt message: Marcos had lost control of his army, the troops under General Ver were ineffectual, and if Marcos did not step down...
...electoral process." He demanded proof of their charges and delivered a veiled threat by saying that "if the government is forced to take action against any member of the church for certain illegal acts, that does not mean that the government is fighting the church itself." Labor Minister Blas Ople said the bishops' action "clearly poses an imminent threat to the peace and tranquillity of our country during this time when so many are blinded by partisan rage...
...Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. That commitment complicates Washington's difficulties in weighing its reservations about the Marcos regime against its worries about the insurgency. "I think the Americans have made up their minds that the incumbent government may have spent its moral force," says Marcos' Labor Minister Blas Ople, "but at the same time they are more fearful of the unpredictable consequences of a Marcos exit at this time. So American policy is in a kind of stalemate...
...evangelical Christian who is concerned about the Reagan gospel that equates being a good Christian with espousing the President's political beliefs. Such stuff is the making of inquisitions. This Administration's record with regard to the disadvantaged and its blasé attitude toward the nuclear threat are not consistent with New Testament Christianity...
...meter hurdles (47.76), a 102nd consecutive success. "It's been a terrific mental tussle this week," he said, "putting up with the pressure of all the hype about the streak." Still he seemed as cool as ever, as his wife Myrella testified. "He's really blasé about the streak," she confided. "He says, 'If I lose, then I lose. I'll just go out and start another streak.' Me? I'd be devastated...