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Imelda Marcos says she had no idea that her late husband Ferdinand was looting the Philipine treasury. It is just the American public's visceral dislike of her abrasiveness, she complains, that makes everyone assume she is guilty...
...same courtroom that saw the bravura performances of Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. For sheer Wagnerian greed, the tale of Imelda could put the Hotel Queen to shame. Jurors will have to decide whether a wife always knows what her husband is up to -- in this case, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, who died last September. "The Marcoses were masters of deception," said prosecutors. "They elevated three- card monte ((a form of shell game)) to an art form." Scoffed Marcos' lawyer, Gerry Spence: "In this country one doesn't become a criminal by sleeping with one's husband...
...favors, no excuses." That was the motto Corazon Aquino vowed to follow after her People Power movement toppled the corrupt regime of Ferdinand Marcos. But in the tumultuous four years since Aquino became President, charges of incompetence and graft have increasingly tainted her own government. When rebellious soldiers launched the seventh abortive coup against Aquino on Dec. 1, their most pointed complaints focused on the administration's failure to deliver basic services and on allegations of corruption among the President's wealthy and influential relatives...
...revolution can cut both ways, complicating the lives of American Presidents as well as communist leaders. To the fury of Lyndon Johnson, TV brought the Viet Nam War home to the U.S. and hastened its humiliating end. Some former advisers to Ronald Reagan suspect he might have stuck by Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 had it not been for the extensive and sympathetic coverage of People Power...
...against her foes. But with the military renegades who vied to overthrow her safely underground, she has had trouble finding an enemy to get tough with. Last week, however, the President squared off against Juan Ponce Enrile, the lone opposition member of the Senate and a Defense Minister under Ferdinand Marcos. Enrile had been Aquino's nemesis ever since their brief political alliance broke up acrimoniously in November 1986. At that time, soldiers linked to Enrile had reportedly tried to stage a coup against the government...