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...their alleged involvement in the 1983 murders of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. and of Rolando Galman, the man said by the military to have killed Aquino. Ver brought $1,600 to post as bail, then left before any photographers showed up. Ver, a cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos, was once considered the second most powerful man in the Philippines. Now his authority has been seriously weakened. With Ver's indictment, the Tanodbayan supported the findings of last fall's majority report of the Agrava board, which had been appointed by the government to investigate the deaths of Aquino...
...President Ferdinand Marcos in control of his government? That question has dominated conversation in Manila since Nov. 14, when Marcos went into virtual seclusion. Speculation had him suffering from a number of illnesses, ranging from a degenerative kidney ailment to heart disease. Rumors swept the capital that the President had undergone major surgery, that he was dying or that he was dead...
...capitals throughout the developing world. In a Harper's magazine article last year, S.C. Gwynne, a former loan officer for a "medium-size Midwestern bank," described a 1978 visit to Manila, where he met with representatives of a Philippine construction company with connections to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos. After being whisked through customs, Gwynne found a red Jaguar and a pretty 20-year-old woman at his disposal. "The girl was unexpected," he wrote. "Bangkok Bank gave me a silver Lincoln but no girl." After returning home, Gwynne, at the urging of his superiors, arranged...
...commonplace is violence in the southern Mindanao seaport of Zamboanga City that Mayor César Climaco, 68, tallied the killings on a billboard outside the municipal hall. The mayor, a leading critic of the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, last week became such a statistic himself as he was shot in broad daylight in the center of town. The assassin escaped. Inevitably, some Filipinos blamed the killing on the Marcos regime. During the past two months three opposition figures in the south have been murdered, and many suspect that Mayor Climaco right-wing military elements were involved...
Musical programs concentrated on classical music, but also included a great deal of jazz. In 1944, about a year after the first orgy, Richard L. Kaye '46 broadcast the second classical music orgy, which he called The Harold Ferdinand Van Ummerson Memorial Program...