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Aquino faces arrest if he returns to the Philippines, Filipino President Ferdinand E. Marcos warned Saturday, saying that Aquino faces charges implicating him in a series of summer bombings in Manila...
UNFORTUNATELY--or perhaps, inevitably, because of its encouragement of rapid economic development--the United States has become associated with the political elites that have fostered inequitable growth. The most notable recipients of U.S. support in recent years have been the Shah of Iran and Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. Often, police and military equipment supplied to these and other leaders by the United States to combat Communism have been employed to maintain domestic inequities by political repression...
Madrid, according to legend, became Spain's capital when Ferdinand drew lines from the corners of the country through the middle. They intersected at Madrid. The city is a curious mixture of ornate 16th century architecture and clean-cut neo-classical buildings constructed during the years of fascist rule. The most modern street, something of a cross between Boston's Newbury Street and New York's Fifth Avenue in atmosphere. Proudly bears the name Avenida de Generalissimo Franco...
There were also rehearsed spectacles that were part of a careful plan laid down by autocratic President Ferdinand Marcos and his powerful First Lady Imelda, who had much to gain from a festive association with John Paul. Everywhere, as if on cue, Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave...
...crisis exists, that's where the Holy Father should go." Nonetheless, a sugar-coated curtain seemed to be descending over the forthcoming visit of Pope John Paul II to the Philippines. Originally, the Pontiff planned to tour some of the more impoverished sections of the country. Yet President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda are desperately trying to keep the papal visit as sanitary as possible; some Philippine bishops had anticipated just such an attempt last year and wrote to the Pope urging him to cancel his trip to their country...