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...BONGBONG MARCOS Imelda's son trails badly in his bid for a seat in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: May 22, 1995 | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

Their parents were bitter opponents, but Kris Aquino, 23, and Ferdinand (``Bongbong'') Marcos Jr., 36, have turned the other cheek. The daughter of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino invited the late dictator's son, who is now a Congressman, onto her Manila TV talk show. ``Did you hate us?'' she asked meaningfully. ``Maybe in the beginning,'' he admitted. After a chat, they kissed politely. Corazon Aquino is reported to be ``very, very upset'' about the encounter on the show, but Bongbong's mother Imelda declared, ``The older generation has a lot to learn from their children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILLION-DOLLAR BOULEVARD | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...Barangay, a civic beautification organization for teenagers. Before long the Quezon and Jones bridges, which siphon cars across the Pasig River into Manila's downtown Ermita district, were too clogged for the traffic to move. By the time President Ferdinand Marcos, First Lady Imelda, Daughter Irene and Son Bongbong reached the Luneta grandstand in Rizal Park, fully 1.6 million supporters were jammed in front of them waving flags and shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILIPPINES: Marcos' Yes and Yes Vote | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

Years later, however, his guilt or innocence was to be raised again?both by political opponents and his own son. "Little boys have amazing minds," Marcos said recently. "Just the other day our nine year old, Bongbong, came to me and said: 'Hey, Dad, what's this about you having murdered a man once?' And I said: 'Well, if that had been so, I wouldn't be standing here with you now, would I?' Bongbong said: 'O.K., who did kill him then?' We just left it there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A New Voice in Asia | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...paper expect mass production to reduce the present 4½?-per-page cost to 2? or less. Main drawback: the stay-at-home subscriber must pay $417 for equipment that will buy him the dubious privilege of hearing his magazine or newspaper roar like a waterfall or merely go bongbong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Audible Ink | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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