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...call "bold" movies, which are only slightly less explicit. The Philippines' most popular actor-director-producers are Joseph Estrada, who in real life is mayor of San Juan, and Fernando Poe Jr. Both are masters of swashbuckling adventures. Poe has just been signed to play the guerrilla hero Ferdinand Marcos−who was one in World War II and is now the country's strong-willed president...
...Archduke, who prefers to be known as Dr. Habsburg, is an author and lecturer on the cause of European unification. He lives outside Munich; he and his wife, German Princess Regina, have seven heirs. Also throneless as a result of World War I is Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 68, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He has a doctorate in philosophy and occupies himself with administering the family fortunes. His late wife, the Grand Duchess Kira, was the sister of Vladimir; he has seven children and lives near Bremen...
...United States faces the possibility of involvement in another Vietnamese-type conflict if it maintains its support of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, a member of the History Department wrote in an article for the upcoming issue of Harvard magazine...
Betty Ford, who entered the White House with deep misgivings, has learned some of the special pleasures of "living a page of history." She has sorted out those paintings that have extra meaning for her (John Singleton Copley's Lady in Blue, Ferdinand Reichardt's Philadelphia, 1858, and Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two Children are three other favorites). She has found the times of day, the special vistas and the moody corners that deepen her enjoyment...
...When Ferdinand Marcos was elected the sixth President of the Philippines ten years ago, his island nation was in political turmoil. Even his opponents concede that Marcos, 58, has revived the Philippine economy and brought the country safely through a period of "anarchy, public confusion, terror and despair. "But the price has been high. Three years ago, Marcos imposed martial law and made himself a virtual dictator. Today an estimated 6,000 political prisoners are still in jail, including former Liberal Party Secretary-General Benigno Aquino Jr., 43, who might have defeated Marcos if elections had been held...