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...revolutionary, a leader almost wistfully in search of what he calls "the internal revolution" in the nation's character. Over a frugal lunch of chicken and vegetables with Imelda and members of his Cabinet, Marcos explained what he wants of his countrymen. "I would like to return the Filipino to what he was before he was altered and modified by the softness of Western and other ways. I would like to see a change of heart and a change of mind. I would like to see a concern for his fellow...
Every day at dawn last week, Cesar Chavez was out in the green and gold California fields, pleading with Mexican, Filipino, Yemenite and native American workers. At 7:15 a.m. one day, the charismatic Chicano had to halt his early-bird campaigning and leave the Elmco Ranch near Delano, Calif. The time had arrived for the 725 workers on the huge, grape-laden spread to decide whether to join Chavez's beleaguered United Farm Workers of America or remain in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has held the union contract since 1973. The election yielded a margin...
Dafal found them. Stick-thin and lemur-eyed, he was the Daniel Boone of southern Mindanao, a solitary Filipino who wandered an unexplored 600-sq. mi. tract of rugged mountain jungle. One day in the early '60s, he followed a trail of strange footprints. Three small brown men, naked except for loin pouches made of leaves, were digging up a large root with a sharp stick. When they saw him, they fled like monkeys. Shouting reassurance, Dafal gave chase until the men stopped in a stream bed, trembling...
...took ten years for Dafal's stories about the forest people to reach the Filipino commissioner for minorities, a hard-working young millionaire named Manuel Elizalde Jr. Alarmed because logging companies were cutting roads through the Tasaday retreat, the official ordered Dafal to bring the tribe out for a meeting. Stone axes in hand, they stood like figures in an Erich von Däniken fantasy as Elizalde descended from the heavens in his helicopter. They immediately dubbed him Momo Dakel Diwata Tasaday (Big Sacred Bird of the Tasaday...
Concealed Blob. Finally, Nolen, who had not revealed his identity, tested Filipino healers by undergoing surgery himself for high blood pressure. Before the operation began, he noticed his "surgeon" palming a reddish-yellow object. During the operation, he watched the psychic double up his hands so that it would look as if they were inside Nolen's body. Nolen, who knows a little anatomy, was not fooled: the surgeon's hands never even penetrated his skin. Nor was Nolen impressed by the results of the operation. The surgeon held up the blob he had been concealing...