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...significance of the Pope's long-awaited tour goes beyond the immediate impact of John Paul visiting an 85 per cent Catholic country under seven years of martial law. While all other Filipino institutions independent of Ferdinand Marcos's dictatorship have withered, the Church has emerged reluctantly as the only mass-based organization that can and will oppose the government. And so, long after Ruiz joins his Dominican friends on the road to sainthood, the Pope's visit may fortify the position of the anti-Marcos clerics whom many hope will serve a critical role in ending the martial...
...country seemed to be sliding into anarchy and economic oblivion. A few of the more liberal clergy protested--the government raided a small number of convents and seminaries and shut down some members of the Catholic media. Jaime Cardinal Sin, head of Manila archdiocese and leader of the Filipino church, the papal Nuncio, and most others in the Catholic hierarchy, however, saw Marcos offering a much needed purgative and they issued declarations in his favor. Gradually, though, as a result of an demic of human rights violations, Marcos's "New Society" has tried the clergy's patience...
...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...
...afraid that Marcos is as much a victim of circumstances beyond his control as are the majority of the Filipino people. If he relaxes his martial rule, his enemies will be out to get him. If he maintains the so-called democratic authoritarianism, his enemies will still try to liquidate...
...PHILIPPINES. The 63,000-man Filipino army has had little conventional combat experience since the Korean War. Bolstered by an additional 45,000-member constabulary force, it keeps busy fighting the Muslim rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front in the southern Philippines, and the Maoist-led New People's Army mainly in Luzon and the Visayan Islands. In part because of the country's corrupt leadership, Washington analysts grade the Filipino performance and prospects a dismal Cminus...