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...Ferdinand Marcos has secluded himself in his palace for two decades while his cronies have captured control of the nation's economy and his army has lost the support of the people. It is not just the Communists who oppose Marcos; moderates have also taken to the streets to protest him. We must re-evaluate our association with the Marcos regime if we are to maintain that special Philippine-American relationship born in Bataan and the World War II resistance. Richard Patrick Wilson Mobile...
Right-wing tyrants have a history of playing us for suckers: South Viet Nam's Diem, the Shah of Iran and Chile's Augusto Pinochet. Now add Ferdinand Marcos. The repressive rule of these leaders, with their human-rights violations, economic inequality and police-state justice, invariably creates armed internal opposition. We should drop President Marcos like a hot potato. Gary Fox Oxford, Ohio...
DIED. Carlos P. Romulo, 86, eloquent Filipino diplomat who was twice his country's Foreign Minister (most notably from 1968 to 1984 under President Ferdinand Marcos), a signatory of the 1945 charter founding the United Nations and in 1949 the first Asian president of the General Assembly; in Manila. A newspaperman before World War II and a Pulitzer prizewinner (in 1942, for a series of articles on the Japanese military threat to Southeast Asia), Romulo served as a brigadier general on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, for whom he coined the rallying cry "I shall return" that followed MacArthur...
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos [ WORLD, Dec. 16] does possess one extraordinary ability: to speak out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. At one moment he says his military forces would go it alone, "preferably" without U.S. military aid. In almost the same breath, he admits his decision to call elections was "in part" due to U.S. pressure. Ignacio Javier Hollywood...
...wish to correct President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines on one of his favorite quotes, "Don't cry like a woman over the kingdom that you lost because you did not defend it like a man," which he mistakenly attributed to Cervantes [WORLD, Dec. 16]. The source of that quote was actually Sultana Ayelsha, mother of Boabdil (Abu-Abdallah), the last king of Granada. After surrendering the city to Ferdinand and Isabella in January 1492, Boabdil left Granada. On his way out, he stopped at a mountaintop to look for the last time at the beautiful city he had lost...