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...rights as much as Americans would like. In Iran, Reagan said, the fall of the Shah, which happened while the Career Administration was in power, had been followed by the rule of a "maniacal fanatic," obviously meaning the Ayatullah Khomeini. In the Philippines now, Reagan continued, the regime of Ferdinand Marcos might not "look good to us from the standpoint right now of democratic rights," but the alternative to Marcos might be the seizure of power by a Communist movement and that would hardly be any gain for democracy...
When Reagan did look ahead, he got in trouble. He almost certainly surprised, and probably dismayed, the State Department and his ambassador in the Philippines when he suggested he would continue to support Ferdinand Marcos because the opposition to him is a "large Communist movement." In fact, the anti-Marcos opposition includes many certifiably democratic elements, who will be outraged by the President's remark...
...more than 400 of days, the Philippines had been on edge, waiting for what could be a major turning point in its political history. The Agrava board, a fact-finding body set up by President Ferdinand Marcos to investigate the Aug. 21, 1983, assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino within moments of his return from exile, had promised to publish the results of its hearings by the anniversary of the murder. But that day passed, and so did that week. Another week went by, then a month. Questions snowballed. Tensions mounted. A steady trickle of leaks- some careless, some calculated...
...KNOW the situation. It's Saturday night, Madame Baltin, your latest romantic prey, has become tantalizingly available with the departure of her attendant herr, but you have a lingering engagements with pesky Ida (Carolyn Casanave). Despair not if you are Baron Ferdinand Rommer (Rex D. Hays): just have ever-solicitous Gaston ring with some appropriately vague but familiar explanation--"affairs of state" and all. Cole Porter, you certainly know your noble playboys well...
...Huntington, Lazarus succeeds in entertaining the audience with the predictable but predictably amusing romantic romps of Baron Ferdinand Rommer and his devoted servant and apprentice playboy Gaston. For the Baron, love is a sport--its victories to be savored like any triumph, its game rules as important as in any game, and its old conquests good only for colorful but dispassionate reminiscing. His servant Gaston, his name seemingly synonymous with the command "service" and too often, invoked with the same sensitivity, knows love only from the Baron's recounts and, as he laments, "from an occasional peak through the keyhole...