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When Ferdinand Marcos arrived in Hawaii last week, he looked like most other visitors to the island paradise. Bowing to have a lei draped around his neck on an airport tarmac similar to the one Benigno Aquino was gunned down upon, all that the former Filipino strongman needed to complete the costume of a stereotypical vacationer was an instamatic camera dangling from his neck...
...Filipino commission estimated Tuesday that he and his friends may have as much as $10 billion invested in Western banks and real estate. When the final decision was being made by Marcos to either abdicate or fight the demonstrators outside the Presidential palace, Imelda Marcos reportedly asked her husband, "If we wipe them out, what will happen to our assets...
...Reagan Adminstration doesn't have the luxury of operating in the moral climate of hotel managers. Filipino law--written by Marcos and his cronies--places strict restrictions upon flights of capital and valuables out of the country. The new Aquino government will ask for it to be returned...
...should be allowed to go on living like a king after the revolution has knocked him off the throne and out of the palace. The cash and valuables they spirited out last week and the property they bought with American aid should be confiscated and returned to the Filipino people. And if Marcos still feels he's strapped for cash, well, I'm sure he can always get a guest gig on Magnum...
...take place without bloodshed was, as this week began, in doubt. Unlike the grisly upheavals in Iran and Nicaragua, events in the Philippines last week seemed to unfold in a kind of slow motion that augured well for civil order. "There is a lot of caution in the Filipino people," noted one Pentagon official. Marcos may try to buy time by entering into negotiations with Enrile and Ramos. Even in that event, violence may be unavoidable. "If things remain as they are now, it will continue to be a stalemate," said General Farolan. "The military solution may have...