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...sooner was Marcos left conspicuously alone at the starting gate than the breakfast clubs and coffee shops, where Filipino politicians, reporters and businessmen regularly trade information and gossip, were swept with rumors that the President's backers were dangling big money in front of potential candidates so that somebody would run against him. Assemblyman Reuben Canoy told TIME that a supporter of Marcos' had offered the equivalent of $1.3 million to Canoy if he would challenge the President. Canoy turned the opportunity down. A longtime Marcos ally eventually surfaced as a candidate: Alejo Santos, 69, the fourth choice...
...between rich and poor. Among the most downtrodden: the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians. Those descendants of the islands' original Polynesian settlers make up less than 20% of the total population of 975,000. (Of the rest, 26% are Caucasian, 25% are of Japanese stock and the balance Filipino, Chinese and Korean, among other ethnic groups). Poorly educated and relegated for the most part to the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians resent the immigrants, or malihinis, for dominating the political and commercial landscape of the lands that once belonged to them. Says Hawaiian Activist...
...Toyko to discuss the June presidential election in the Philippines with other Filipino leaders, Aquino has strongly opposed the Marcos' regime. In 1973, Marcos jailed Aquino shortly after cancelling a presidential election which Aquino was favored...
Aquino faces arrest if he returns to the Philippines, Filipino President Ferdinand E. Marcos warned Saturday, saying that Aquino faces charges implicating him in a series of summer bombings in Manila...
...nothing else, the Pope's visit will serve to regularize a number of informal liaisons among Filipino believers. Father Melchor Dano, pastor of a parish in Tondo, last month performed a mass wedding for 36 couples who had been living in sin. He followed that with a mass baptism for their children-so that all concerned could greet the Pope as bona fide Catholics...