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Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos will probably defeat his challenger Corazon Aquino in the upcoming presidential elections, but it is likely that he will die in office, leaving the country in chaos, Harvard experts predicted yesterday...
More than two years later, Burton was interviewing President Ferdinand Marcos at Manila's Malacanang Palace when an aide burst in and showed the President a wire service dispatch announcing Cory Aquino's candidacy in the national presidential elections. Marcos glanced at it and predicted, accurately, that Aquino and Salvador Laurel would form a unified ticket to challenge...
Back in Manila, the capital, a different kind of spectacle was unfolding. President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, an ailing autocrat possessed of formidable political powers, made an election foray of his own from Malacanang Palace to address 7,000 longshoremen on the city's South Pier. Everything was carefully choreographed: a stream of local entertainers kept the crowd's attention until Marcos, looking drawn, tired and weak, was escorted to the podium. The President joked about rumors that he had suffered a physical collapse, and dismissed reports of his obvious ill health as so much "black propaganda." Wife Imelda...
...recurring accusation against President Ferdinand Marcos is that he, his wife Imelda and their friends have used their power to plunder the Philippines, thereby aggravating the country's economic plight. Opposition Candidate Corazon Aquino played on the issue last week, promising a thorough investigation of the Marcos family's financial dealings if she wins. "The new leadership will exert all efforts to eliminate the social cancer of graft and corruption," she declared. "What belongs to the people will be given back to the people...
...filing deadline, there was only the dimmest hope that the two opposition leaders would patch up their differences and revive plans that had collapsed three days earlier to run on a single ticket. The possibility loomed that the opposition vote would be split in the snap election--and President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, would be assured of victory...