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Last week's display of mutual irritation was only the latest and most dramatic evidence of a progressive deterioration in U.S.-Philippine relations. In recent months prominent Filipino politicians have proposed anti-American measures ranging from economic discrimination against U.S. products to renaming Manila's Dewey Boulevard. Last month President Carlos Garcia declared that Asians "must move away from complete dependence on the protective might of the U.S.," began to drop hints that he hoped to develop an independent Philippine foreign policy based on close cooperation with other Southeast Asian nations, including cold-war neutrals...
...miles southwest of Manila, Bachelor Harold Baar awakes, puts on a pair of shorts and tennis shoes, ties a red bandanna around his neck, cooks his breakfast and gets set for a day's work. Shirtless and hatless in the hot sun, he meets with ten afflicted Filipino families, shows them how to plant, plow, repair a tractor, tries to fill them with knowledge that will help them win back respect from the island people who ostracized them...
...could not possibly hope to find a full bag of authentic Chinese, settled for any vaguely Oriental features. Dancer Denise Quan is really Canadian of Chinese origin. Shawnee Smith is American Indian (Hopi) and English. Vicki Racimo is a promising piano student (at Manhattan's Juilliard School) of Filipino-English origin. Mary Huie, of Chinese origin, was working as a clerk for Revlon when a scout spotted her on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue (she thought she was facing an attempted pickup when the stranger approached her with: "How would you like to be in a Broadway show...
...bury-the-hatchet tour of Southeast Asia last year, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi found the Filipinos least ready of all of Tokyo's World War II victims to forgive and forget. Only a military guard greeted him at Manila airport, and the Philippine public turned a cold shoulder. The stiffly formal meetings with Filipino officials were chilled by arguments over Japan's reparations payments ($550 million promised) to the Philippines. Last week, on the first anniversary of Kishi's icy reception in Manila, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia went to Tokyo. Hoping that flattery...
...cross the color line and hire Manhattan Comedian Larry Storch. "The part calls for a sharpie," says Blum, "and the Orientals can't play it. Smoothie, yes; sharpie, no." Otherwise, Blum's cast is out of character only to the extent of one Puerto Rican, one Filipino and one Hawaiian...