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Warming to his anti-American theme, Marcos repeated charges that U.S. officials in Manila deceived him about his destination when they persuaded him to leave the presidential Malacanang Palace. He thought he was headed for his home province of Ilocos Norte, only to find himself being taken first to Guam and then to Hawaii instead...
...Administration seemed embarrassed at having provided U.S. cargo planes for Marcos' cash-and-carry exit. "Looking back, it was a stupid thing," said a Justice Department official. "But everything moved so fast." Indeed, in the confusion at Clark Air Base, north of Manila, where Marcos stopped before traveling to Guam and then to Hawaii, U.S. military personnel loaded the President's possessions after only a cursory inspection. Marcos claimed last week that he had originally intended to fly from Clark to his home province of Ilocos Norte. Only when the Aquino government refused to let him stay in the Philippines...
...final inauguration ceremony, a foolish charade carried out in the sanctuary of his Malacanang Palace. That evening, a ruler no more, he would flee with his family and retainers aboard four American helicopters to Clark Air Base on the first leg of a flight that would take him to Guam, Hawaii and exile...
...confrontations with thousands of demonstrators, Marcos slipped swiftly from undisputed one-man rule to no rule at all. Just after Aquino took her presidential oath, Marcos had himself inaugurated at Malacanang; it was his last official act before fleeing to Clark Air Base, north of Manila, and thence to Guam and Hawaii...