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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has just about everything a Philippine President could desire. Her middle name, for starters, reminds Filipinos of former President Diosdado Macapagal, her dad. (Arroyo says she is looking forward to moving into to her old bedroom in MalacaNang Palace, the presidential residence.) Though 53 years old, she resembles a delicate ingEnue, a plus in the appearance-crazy Philippines. A Ph.D. in economics gives great gravitas. In office, Arroyo intends to be the reverse image of her disgraced predecessor, Joseph Estrada: brainy, focused and, well, sober. "I won't be drinking with my friends," she tells Time...
...worked hard to attract new investors. She was already a popular political figure, regularly outpolling Estrada in approval ratings even during his best moments in power. And like George W. Bush, who was sworn in just hours after her, she is the child of a former President: Diosdado Macapagal, who ruled the country from 1962 to 1965. In the past year, however, the Philippine elite has cooled a bit to her, worried that her popularity will not make her immune to the same issues of corruption and mismanagement that dogged Estrada. After all, Estrada, an actor, was once the most...
...Marcos' critics decided to sit out the referendum. One who spoke up, however, was former Senator Jovito Salonga, whose oratorical skills match those of Marcos. "If 90% of the population loves him," Salonga asked 300 University of the Philippines students, "why does he need martial law?" Former President Diosdado Macapagal, meanwhile, made the rounds of the city's civic clubs. "Sixty thousand people have been arrested over the past five years," Macapagal told his audiences. "Let him run in a free election, and he'll get a worse beating than Indira Gandhi...
...police found the bodies of an elderly couple, Joseph and Isabelle Diosdado, in the back room of their feed store in Compton, Calif. Each had been shot twice, and the cash register was empty. Eight weeks later, following up an informant's tip, police officers arrested Bozzie Bryant Burton III, then 16. Young Burton asked to talk to his father, an auto-plant inspector who was already at the station in search of his son, but the police refused. They did advise him, however, of his right to remain silent and to consult an attorney. In the course...
...century ago meant "to lease" or "to cede." The issue is whether the Sultan of Sulu in 1878 ceded his rights to Sabah, as the Malaysians claim, or simply leased those rights, as is maintained in Manila. There is nothing much new about the Philippine claim-former President Diosdado Macapagal raised it during his election campaign in 1961. It remained a relatively minor issue until this summer when President Ferdinand Marcos seized on it as a handy way to win votes for next year's national elections. In what appears to have been a bid for support from...