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...DIED. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 60, audacious faker and inspiration for the 1960 movie The Great Impostor; of a heart attack; in Anaheim, Calif. Although he never finished high school, Demara successfully masqueraded as a Trappist monk, college philosophy teacher, cancer researcher, deputy prison warden and Canadian naval surgeon aboard a destroyer during the Korean War. His surgical feats, learned from textbooks, earned public praise that, in turn, led to his unmasking...
...Philippines, Delfin Go and Richard Fernandez were at opposite ends of a sharply divided political spectrum. Go, a member of President Ferdinand Marcos's Management Staff, researched economic issues and policy alternatives for government ministers. Fernandez, a union organizer and development specialist, was held for several months in a military detention center without charges in 1976. At the Kennedy School of Government, where they are part of a growing group of foreign students. Go and Fernandez air their divergent views over coffee. While they two remain ideological foes, the contact the School provides has made them personal friends...
Leading the defectors is Dr. Andries Treurnicht, a former clergyman and editor who had been Botha's Minister of State Administration and Statistics as well as the head of the National Party's right wing. Along with him went Dr. Ferdinand Hartzenberg, who had served as Minister of Education and Training. Exuding confidence, the Prime Minister accused the dissident group of "insubordination" and added that its members would not be missed...
...Herbert Lottman shows--among other things--that Pasternak was right. Organization did living on, in a sense, the death of art; those writers who joined forces in the 1930s against the Nazis produced few lasting works, while the loners, like Jean-Paul Sartre or the anti-semitic Louis-Ferdinand Celine, continued to create masterworks. It is a disturbing correlation that Lottman serves up without comment for his reader to ponder...
...weeks after he disappeared following his secret marriage to the daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Tomas (Tommy) Manotoc, 32, resurfaced to tell a harrowing tale. He was kidnaped by Communist guerrillas and held in a mountain hideout in the Sierra Madre, he said, and then rescued by intelligence units of the armed forces after a brief clash. At a press conference at a military base in Manila, a haggard and frightened-looking Manotoc declared that "there's definitely no truth" to charges that the Marcos family had been involved in his kidnaping...