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Closer links with the Communist states, argues Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, are "the only way to ensure our security and survival." Manila has hinted that it may ask the U.S. to renegotiate its huge Philippine air and naval bases, even though the lease runs until 1991. Marcos has sarcastically asked "whether commitments by U.S. Presidents are binding" or are merely "forms of psychological reassurances." That was a reference to the U.S.-Philippine mutual defense treaty of 1951. Although the pact was ratified by Congress, the interpretation that it requires the U.S. to "instantly repel" an attack on the Philippines...
Guam was not the U.S. Government's first choice. A far more convenient location was Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, where the first 10,000 evacuees from South Viet Nam were processed. But a day after the big influx began, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos let it be known that the refugees were not altogether welcome; with Manila seeking an accommodation with both Peking and Hanoi, Marcos worried about offending these potential friends. Almost immediately, those who had begun to settle into Clark's "Tent City" were hustled aboard Air Force C-141s and a chartered American...
Concentrating on Spain, Anti-Historian Philip Guedalla reverses history by awarding Boabdil, the Moorish King of Granada, the victory in his battle with Ferdinand and Isabella at Lanjaron in 1491. Actually, Ferdinand and Isabella won, expelled the Moors, and, for good measure, drove away Spain's Jews under the threat of forced conversion. Spain thus was depleted of most of its learning, most of its artisans and half of its cultural inheritance...
...deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva, his nephew Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo...
...much heralded meetings with foreign dignitaries, held usually in his book-lined study, are always spur-of-the-moment affairs, apparently because his doctors never know when he will be strong enough to take the strain of a visit. Last week he had an unscheduled meeting with Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of the Philippine President. A few weeks ago, he went to the seaside resort of Peitaiho, 170 miles from the capital, to meet Togolese President Etienne Eyadéma, but most of the time he remains behind the thick walls of the old Forbidden City. Premier Chou Enlai...