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...Rico, is world champion). Almost 100 of the roughly 1,000 players in major league baseball at the beginning of the season were born in Latin America. A Hispanic All-Star team might include Pitchers Fernando Valenzuela, Joaquin Andujar and Willie Hernandez; Infielders Rod Carew, Damaso Garcia and Dave Concepcion; Outfielders Tony Armas and Pedro Guerrero...
Unable to stop the march, Marcos backed off. Police and soldiers stayed out of sight except around the presidential Malacañang Palace. Demonstration Organizer Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, Ninoy's brother, had feared that the centerpiece of the celebration, the statue, cast in Rome by Philippine Sculptor Tomas Concepcion and flown to Manila via New York City, would be deliberately held up by Philippine customs and had readied a similar statue made of plaster. But after a two-day standoff, during which the bronze was kept at the airport, Marcos ordered $3,970 in duties waived and the figure...
...inevitably aroused suspicions that the government was rectifying its losses by shamelessly altering the returns. Whatever the final tally, Filipinos may now at last have some kind of check on Marcos' one-man, one-party rule. "Despite determined attempts to thwart the popular will," declared NAMFREL Chairman Jose Concepcion, "the Filipino people have proved that democracy is still alive in this country...
...some 2,500 joggers as they arrived in Manila last week. The joggers, led by Agapito Aquino, 45, younger brother of murdered Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino Jr., had set out five days earlier on a 90-mile protest run from Aquino's birthplace in the town of Concepcion in Tarlac province to the tarmac at Manila International Airport, where Aquino was assassinated last August. They were protesting a referendum called by President Ferdinand Marcos for Jan. 27 to ratify a constitutional amendment on the presidential succession. Along the way, military police intercepted and harassed the joggers, drawing wide attention...
With respected to politics, everything is very grim and there's terrible repression. We have lamented over many dramatic events. People sent into internal exile, mass torture, large scale illegal searches of homes, deaths, and on and on without end. The other day a man in Concepcion [Chile's second major city] lit himself on fire in the central plaza because his son and daughter had disappeared. They were being held in secret prison by the CNI [Chilrean Intelligence Service, known for its practice of brutal tortures...