Word: filipina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Filipina from Negros Occidental, I can personally attest to the outrageous atrocities committed by the Marcos regime upon the Filipino people. Marked by graft and corruption, the terror imposed by Marcos will continue unobstructed until the U.S. decides to step in and put its "human rights" policy into practice...
...nurses, Leonora Perez, 33, and Filipina Narciso, 31, stoutly maintained their innocence, and their case became a cause celebre. Nursing groups rallied behind them, and their supporters in both. Manila and the U.S. raised a defense fund of more than $100,000. At the University of Michigan, many feminists and liberals regarded the nurses as victims of an overzealous local FBI office eager to redeem itself after its failure to crack the still unsolved kidnaping of former Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa that same summer...
Painstakingly checking work records, the FBI narrowed the list of suspects to two Filipino nurses, Leonora Perez, 31, and Filipina Narciso, 29, both of whom were on duty when-and where -most of the trouble occurred. Subpoenaed before a grand jury, the women denied any involvement in the deaths. But at least one of them was directly implicated by a survivor...