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...White House, the last load of the Carters' belongings was trucked out and the first load of the Reagans' rolled in. A number of eager Reagan aides also took up their posts. Five workers entered the Oval Office just as Dominador Julian, who has served every President since Eisenhower, was polishing the brass doorknob. They rearranged the furniture as Reagan had specified, moving the sofas into a conversation area. They also took on the Cabinet Room, replacing the portraits of Jefferson and Truman with those of Eisenhower and Coolidge. As Reagan explained to his Cabinet at their first...
...eleven hours one day last week, Philippine Constabulary troopers nervously ringed a low frame house in the town of Mabalacat, 55 miles northwest of Manila. Finally, an officer arrived with a search warrant. What the Con stabulary found inside was worth waiting for: shadowy Dominador Garcia, 34, alias Commander Ely, the No. 3 man in the Hukbong Magpapalaya sa Bayan,-the backwoods Communist guerrillas known as Huks. Garcia surrendered without a fight...
Apart from draining the household funds, Defeated Candidate Garcia had spent his final hours in office giving spiteful "midnight appointments" to some 350 friends and followers whom he made ambassadors, administrators, judges. Most embarrassing to Garcia's successor was his appointment of Finance Minister Dominador Aytona to the governorship of the Central Bank of the Philippines. On the first day of the new administration, Macapagal's own appointee, Andres Castillo, arrived at the bank with an armored car and a force of constabulary rangers to oust Aytona. Ex-President Garcia shouted, "Police state," and his Nacionalista politicos denounced...
...wheeling and dealing last week could not give Senator Puyat the 60% of the convention vote needed for nomination. On the first ballot, Puyat got 487 votes to 375 for Finance Minister Dominador Aytona, 43, the energetic reformer whom Garcia brought into his administration to crack down on the more flagrant examples of corruption. Two hundred twenty-five votes went to Senator Quintin Paredes, a wealthy tobacco grower from northern Luzon...
Congress showed little enthusiasm in rushing to Garcia's defense. Though the President had declared "a total war against corruption" and picked incorruptible Dominador Aytona to clean up the Finance Department (TIME, June 20), he had briskly vetoed an anti-graft bill that made it a crime for the wife, or any other near relative of the President, Vice President or other top officials to "intervene directly or indirectly" in any transaction with the government. But Garcia controls Nacionalista Party purse strings, pressured Congress to set up a committee to investigate Osmeňa's accusations...