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...first image has endured since last November's election campaign against the corrupt Carlos Garcia regime, when Macapagal ran as a tao (common man) who would never forget his humble beginnings. The second was created when the U.S. Congress unexpectedly voted down the long-promised Filipino war claims of $73 million, and Macapagal swiftly canceled a scheduled official visit to Washington (TIME, May 25). Since then, talking about Laos, Macapagal has needled the U.S. for failing to back the anti-Communists of Southeast Asia and for throwing its support to "neutralists." It seems, cracked Macapagal, that...
...Ambassador William Stevenson, formerly president of Ohio's Oberlin College, described U.S.-Filipino differences as a "lovers' quarrel." It is a little more than that. Macapagal is successfully trying to shake off the Garcia campaign charges that he is an American lackey, at the same time is telling the U.S. that the Philippines must not be taken for granted. He is also seeking, says a U.S. observer, to give his own people a greater sense of "national dignity and identity, rather than hostility or xenophobia...
Macapagal fights against this reality by personal example. Gone are the lavish presidential entertainments of the Garcia era, including the weekly poker game at which the boss handed out political favors to his cronies. While ex-President Garcia relaxes in obscure luxury at his Quezon City mansion, his successor has thrown open the presidential palace, with its private zoo, to the public; the state dining room has been largely unused. Macapagal has published a complete financial statement of what he owns (total assets: $34,485), has issued an unprecedented decree that neither his own nor his wife's relatives...
...other perception of radiation is known in humans, but eight years ago, Hunt and his associates, Donald J. Kimeldorf and John Garcia, found that rats will shun sweetened water, one of their favorite liquids, if they are dosed with radiation while they try to drink. This hardly proved that rats can sense radiation directly. Quite possibly they had been made slightly sick, associated their malaise with the sweetened water. But the hint seemed worth following...
...recently called a "national sentinel of public morality"; of a stroke; in Manila. Peppery Mayor Lacson-a former boxer, guerrilla fighter, lawyer, political-science professor, Congressman and newspaper columnist-cleaned up his tatterdemalion metropolis and became an acerbic presidential critic who crushed his Nacionalista Party mate, ex-President Carlos Garcia, and then started sniping at Liberal President Macapagal, whom he helped to power...