Word: imelda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gift caused student and faculty protest at Tufts when Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, personally presented it in November...
...Maoist from Manila? A leftist from rebel-torn Luzon? No, the angry orator was Maria Imelda (Imee) Marcos, 22, elder daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Imee's outbursts coincided conveniently with her father's efforts to renegotiate the terms of American compensation to the Philippines for the use of the 191,705 acres occupied by Clark Air Base and the large Navy installation at Subic...
...rule by decree-his New Society Movement had made what the President himself called "a clean sweep." In Manila, where the election had turned into an emotionally charged referendum on martial law itself, Marcos' stalwarts took all 21 seats over the energetic opposition Laban Party. Marcos' wife Imelda was the biggest vote getter, but even the last-place Marcos partisan ran 300,000 votes better than Laban Leader Benigno Aquino Jr., an archfoe of Marcos, who had to campaign from the military detention center where he has been held on charges of murder and subversion since...
That unmistakable presidential warning of crackdown worked a dramatic mood change on Manila. A week earlier the capital had been alive with pre-election exhilaration as crowds gathered openly for the first time in nearly six years to hear opposition candidates blast Ferdinand and Imelda for everything from trampling civil rights to amassing private fortunes. Last week the only comments about the presidential couple were paeans from Manila's tame press...
Heading the President's K.B.L. (New Society Movement) ticket is Superwife Imelda, 48, who has served as the flamboyant, can-do governor of metropolitan Manila since 1975. The leader of the opposition party, Strength of the Nation (known as Laban, for its constant battle cry), is Marcos' bitterest political rival, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a former Liberal...