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Even in the violence-prone Philippines, there had never been anything like it. First, as he emerged with his wife from Manila's Legislative Building, where he had just delivered his state of the nation address, President Ferdinand Marcos was greeted with a shower of bottles, sticks and placards. Four days later, a mob of 4,000 students stormed the Malacanang presidential palace, ramming a stolen fire truck through a gate. Four students were killed and hundreds were injured in the eight-hour fracas, the worst organized demonstration since the island nation of 38 million gained independence...
...regard his peccadillos as outrageous are no longer amused; Agnew's popularity has put new muscle behind his words. His attacks have made television commentators notably more cautious in their postmortems. His gaffes on the Asian and Pacific trip-such as nearly sitting on diminutive Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos-were largely overlooked by a chastened press...
...complete in six locations, all in the name of Raquel's favorite tipple, Coca-Cola. ··· With no training beyond two years of high school, he was successful as a surgeon, a psychology professor, a deputy prison warden and a zoologist. Little has been heard from Ferdinand Waldo Demara since Tony Curtis portrayed him in the 1961 film The Great Impostor. Now he has turned up as the pastor of a small Baptist Church on an island in Puget Sound, near Seattle. His flock of 30 has heard rumors about the Rev. Dr. Fred Demara...
Agnew remained cautious and rather stiff as he attended the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, chatted with South Korean Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, and carried out such ceremonial chores as laying wreaths, visiting an experimental rice farm, and dispensing the latest U.S. diplomatic lagniappe to friendly heads of state: tiny pieces of moon rock...
Easy Victim. Consider State Secretary Georg-Ferdinand Duckwitz, 65, who coordinates diplomatic policy toward the East Bloc. After weeks of wolfing down lunch at his desk and rushing from conference to conference, Duckwitz had to be sent home for a complete rest. A few days later, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, 50, was rushed to a Bavarian sanatorium and ordered to read nothing for several days. Other top West German diplomats show symptoms of severe strain and exhaustion. Even Chancellor Brandt, who possesses an exceptionally rugged constitution, became exhausted from poring over diplomatic dispatches and consulting with foreign policy advisers...