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...cities, leaving formerly cultivated farm land to revert to desert. At the same time, Iran, which for ages had been all but self-sufficient, suddenly had to import more than 60% of its food products. Along with imports of food came more than 1 million foreign workers: Pakistani and Filipino truck drivers, Indian engineers, Korean and Japanese workers - to say nothing of the more than 40,000 American military and civilian personnel whose advice and training were needed for the new weapons and industries. But for most Iranians the pattern of life changed slowly, if at all. Most villages still...
...revived turn-of-the-century collarless shirt, without the celluloid attachable collar, has possibilities. It is neat and extraordinarily comfortable. If only the collarless shirt did not reek so disagreeably of a sort of Bloomingdale's chic, which has the effect of somehow trivializing the wearer. For years Filipino men have managed to be both elegant and comfortable in the barong tagalog, the embroidered shirt that is a kind of national costume. The caftan might not pass as suitable business attire, and the clergyman's Roman collar can bite the neck. But among the tunics, togas, jerkins, buff...
...enthralled by First Lady Imelda Marcos' skillful blend of political harangue and folksy charm. "I can tell the President what you need here," she says. "And you know that Imelda always gets action. "As the crowd roars its approval, Mrs. Marcos sings a couple of old favorite Filipino songs and throws jasmine garlands into the audience. Then she is off-for yet another speech, her eighth...
Disini, of course, is not the only Filipino who has been known to profit from a personal relationship with Marcos. Since the President imposed martial law in 1972, his relatives and cronies, as well as those of his glamorous wife Imelda, the governor of Manila, have been amassing huge fortunes. Their blatant influence peddling has prompted one amazed diplomat in Manila to observe: "It's incredible what they've taken over." Marcos' sister Elizabeth Marcos Keon, for example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin ("Kokoy") Romualdez, Imelda's brother, who owns the Times Journal...
Even though Marcos insists that "the Westinghouse proposal was technically and scientifically better than that of G.E.," the actual details of his sudden switch remain shrouded in secrecy. Foreign and Filipino experts are convinced that-as one puts it-"the key ingredient was the entry of Disini." Marcos strongly denies this, but there seems to be considerable respect in Manila for Disini's role in influencing some presidential decisions. Jesus J. Vergara, president of Asia Industries Inc., another Disini-owned firm retained by Westinghouse, has boasted: "We leave it to Hermie [Disini] to play golf [with Marcos]. That...