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...Japanese have stirred some resentment in several Asian countries. Says Alunan Glang, a Filipino historian: "If we don't watch out, we Filipinos will no longer be known as 'little brown Americans,' but as 'little brown Japanese,' and God knows which is the lesser evil." In a speech last August, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed accused the Japanese of practicing "economic colonialism...
...Marcos is very sensitive to U.S. public opinion," said Daniel R. Sherman of a group called Friends of the Filipino People. In addition, Marcos's government receives large amounts...
Marcos conceded that the economy has deteriorated so badly that the country could only expect to "feel greater pressure and difficulties as our programs ... set in." Inflation is running at 50% a year, and the government is desperately seeking to restructure a $25.6 billion foreign debt. Banco Filipino, the nation's largest savings institution, was forced to call on troops last week to hold back angry depositors who were demanding that they be allowed to withdraw their money from one of its branches. In addition, 35% of the work force is now unemployed, though the government insists that...
...constituencies. As the days passed, that figure steadily dwindled. Though the decline was explained in part by late-arriving returns from rural areas where the K.B.L. is strongest, it inevitably aroused suspicions that the government was rectifying its losses by shamelessly altering the returns. Whatever the final tally, Filipinos may now at last have some kind of check on Marcos' one-man, one-party rule. "Despite determined attempts to thwart the popular will," declared NAMFREL Chairman Jose Concepcion, "the Filipino people have proved that democracy is still alive in this country...
Philippine influences on the school were few. Filipino cooks and houseboys took care of the 40 boarders, the school played some Filipino teams in basketball and baseball, and a few native items occasionally invaded the staunchly American menu. Mangoes were popular. Pechay, the odorous Philippine cabbage, was despised. But because students, under the eye of a faculty member at each table, were expected to eat everything on their plates, it was difficult to avoid. One boy, more imaginative and more opposed to pechay than most, went to unusual lengths. Learning that pechay was on the night's menu...