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Moyer was in Seoul to set up procedures for using TIME's new state-of-the- art photograph-transmission center there. He and Richer had regularly joined forces to choose pictures during last year's People Power revolution, which ousted Dictator Ferdinand Marcos and made Aquino President. "I trust his judgment," Richer says...
...espousal of unarmed vigilante groups as a line of defense against the rebels. But some Filipinos noted that Ferrer's recent firing of a clutch of governors and mayors may have provoked a settling of scores. An even more widespread belief is that supporters of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos might be behind the killings. By week's end authorities claimed to have turned up two suspects, both of them believed to be Communist supporters...
...turmoil and U.S.-Panamanian relations at their lowest ebb since the rancorous canal negotiations, the outcome is anything but certain. A Philippines-style ending, with Noriega slinking into premature retirement, seems unlikely at this point. The U.S. has far less leverage over the general than it did over Ferdinand Marcos, since Panama receives significantly less U.S. aid and its service-based economy is in relatively healthy condition, although some nervous bankers have recently withdrawn funds. Panama's opposition is largely fragmented and directionless, unlike its counterpart in South Korea...
...spoke with an American businessman last May about his wish to buy weapons for a planned invasion of the Philippines, former President Ferdinand Marcos warned the man against using the telephone. The phones, said Marcos, could be tapped and used to record their conversation. The warning was ironic. Even as he spoke with Marcos, the businessman, Electronics Executive Robert Chastain, was secretly taping their every word with a special voice-activated recorder built into his burgundy-colored briefcase...
...Noriega rules the Latin American country from behind the scenes as its military commander. Now some Panamanians are demanding that he make an exit. -- Six technicians go on trial in the Soviet Union to face charges that they caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. -- Tapes reveal a bizarre plot by Ferdinand Marcos to invade the Philippines...