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...DIED. CARDINAL JAIME SIN, 76, powerful Philippine Roman Catholic leader and political figure; in Manila. Named Archbishop of Manila in 1973, a year after former Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Cardinal Sin became an outspoken critic of the authoritarian government. His influence over the Philippines' devoutly Catholic population helped spark the People Power protests that toppled two presidents?Marcos in 1986 and Joseph Estrada in 2001. "Politics without Christ is the greatest scourge of our nation," Cardinal Sin said at his 2003 retirement ceremony...
...Magazine was a brave political publication in the final years of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. It relaunched last week with an entirely different focus: health spas, feng shui, diets. The magazine's launch party was, nonetheless, jammed with political types, including Jose Luis (Linggoy) Alcuaz, former head of the National Telecommunications Commission and a director of the national sweepstakes. What's Linggoy doing these days? "I'm destabilizing full-time," he said. "I'm the only one who will admit...
...bacchanal aboard the presidential yacht, celebrating the birthday of the youngest of the three Marcos offspring, Irene Araneta, last year. A man in a baby bonnet bursts out of a cake. The First Lady jives under flashing strobe lights with an American consular official dressed in Bermuda shorts. Then Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a former provincial governor known to family and friends as Bong-bong, steps up to a mike, sporting makeup and a flashing electronic bow tie, and joins in on a raucous rendition of We Are the World, the song recorded to raise money for the starving in Ethiopia...
They flashed the now familiar "L" sign used by Corazon Aquino's followers in the Philippines and chanted antigovernment slogans similar to those that recently rang out in Manila. Inspired by Aquino's success in toppling Filipino Strongman Ferdinand Marcos, more than 4,000 South Koreans last week marched in Seoul, hoping to bring the same kind of democratic people power to their country. Said Leading Dissident Kim Dae Jung: "As the Argentine situation has affected other Latin American countries in their struggle for democratization, the Philippine situation will have a domino effect on other Asian countries fighting for democracy...
...which marks an essential date in the history of journalism." J 'Accuse was "an indictment of the forces and virtues of traditional France, its religious passion, military spirit, and hierarchies." Zola's outrage proved contagious. Slowly the bodyguard of lies surrounding the actual villains began to defect. Major Ferdinand Esterhazy, a German agent, fled the country. Lieut. Colonel Hubert Henry, who had forged Dreyfus' handwriting on incriminating documents, committed suicide...