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...partners (accompanied by Jeffs wife Annette) to Manila to make a study of solid-waste disposal in the city. The project, for which they were paid $10,000, was part of an ambitious slum rebuilding program that is the special cause of Imelda Marcos, wife of Strongman President Ferdinand Marcos...
However, Reagan stops short of saying exactly how far he would go to save a Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines or the ruling junta in El Salvador from their internal enemies. On other issues, too, he remains deliberately vague. He supports Israel more vociferously than any other candidate, but he has not let himself be drawn into a debate over specific diplomatic options in the Middle East. He has decried the Carter Administration's "sellout" of Taiwan and hinted he might set up an official U.S. presence there, but he has carefully avoided saying he would re-establish full...
...this year's show, Oberammergau reformers thought they could solve the problem by replacing the Daisenberger play with an older and less passionate Passion text written by Father Ferdinand Rosner of the nearby Ettal Monastery and first performed in 1750. Rosner's allegory-laden verses blame the whole tragedy on the Devil. The "Rosnerites" raised cash for a 1977 trial production. Critics loved the show, but the villagers missed their old familiar lines, scenes and songs from the Daisenberger version. In the 1978 election of the village council, the "Daisenbergers" won and promptly scheduled the usual Passion text...
...cruelest, if most honest, of the three villains if Ferdinand, the Duchess' other brother. Shiels and Raymond have gambled heavily here, casting a woman, Kate Levin, as the lustful Ferdinand, but their bet pays off. Ferdinand is passionately in love with his own sister: Levin's casting makes incest all the more unsettling. Insanely jealous of his sister's husband, Ferdinand destroys his sister rather than see her happy with a man he thinks unworthy of her. Unlike Cort and Sands, Levin moves awkwardly--on purpose. Ferdinand struggles against an over-whelming passion, giving in to impulse and then regretting...
...want something a little more formal, consider Ferdinand's, the Blue Parrot, the Harvest, or the Hyatt...