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Anthony Rosales Cebu City, Philippines...
...level government task force is studying how residence restrictions and business taxes could be eased to attract Hong Kong investors. In the Philippines, three business groups have proposed new free-trade ports. Banker-Developer Enrique Zobel even suggests transforming the small, barren island of Mactan, off Cebu city, into a "mini-Hong Kong" and operating it like an autonomous business and trading center...
...Church, John Paul's mere appearance sent 2,000 nuns into a wave of near ecstasy. During a pep rally at the University of Santo Tomás, tens of thousands of students lustily chanted "J.P. Two, We Love You-You Are Super." The highest pitch came in Cebu, the cradle of Philippine Catholicism, where the city's population doubled for the day. Thousands had waited in the open air since the previous night to catch a glimpse of the Pontiff...
...interim National Assembly, the parliamentary body that Marcos designed as an improvement over the martial law that he imposed in 1972. It is a step, he claims, toward "normalcy." With anti-Marcos candidates actively campaigning not only in Manila but also far to the south in Cebu and Davao, the election, reported TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein from the capital last week, has become a crucial test of the President's popularity...
...timber-cut in Mindanao as the members of Manila's power elite discuss their endeavors. Polished ilustrados in dark Italian suits and handsome women in bright mestiza dresses nod politely to aging Carmen Soriano and her 39-year-old son José Maria, heirs of the Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany and San Miguel beer). American businessmen from Esso and Caltex, Hawaiian Dole and General Foods, are prominent in the Manila Polo Club; the Phil-Am Life Insurance Co., with its filigreed, high-pillared headquarters in downtown Manila, symbolizes U.S. and Filipino cooperation...