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Rolling along in a pink tour van across the country she and her husband once ruled under martial law, resplendent in an aquamarine dress, Imelda Marcos explains how she has managed to survive her many ordeals. "Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivet?," she says. As she smiles, her cheeks, smoothed and buffed to an eerie luster, become even more impossibly taut. "That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad...
...After her marriage to Ferdinand Marcos, the voracious ambitions of this spoiled child and her dictator husband were to have an appalling impact on the Philippines. In 1972, the Marcoses did away with all democratic institutions. They turned the media into a propaganda tool, commandeered the courts, imprisoned any opponent bold enough to speak out against them and allegedly looted the impoverished nation...
...were in her bedroom. We stayed with her at her home. She was open and gracious when we were filming her." Diaz says she repaid Marcos by allowing her to make her own case, to dominate the stage as she's never been allowed to since she and her husband were deposed from power in 1986. "I wanted her to like the film," says Diaz. "That's her truth up on the screen. I was very careful not to make it a hit piece because making it a hit piece would have been so easy with Mrs. Marcos...
INDICTED. BENAZIR BHUTTO, 51, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; for money laundering; in Switzerland. Although Bhutto and her husband successfully appealed a similar conviction last year, she was back in a Geneva courtroom last week to face more serious allegations involving some $13.8 million. Bhutto, who heads the opposition Pakistan People's Party from her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai, claims the charges are part of a Pakistani-government smear campaign against...
...week's federal election, winning only 135 out of a possible 308 seats and forced to form the country's first minority government in 25 years, it was partly at the hands of people like Gurmant and Nina Grewal. Newly elected M.P.s from the Conservative Party and the first husband-and-wife team in the chamber, the Grewals' success is a sign of the growing political influence of Canada's Asian population...