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...Rizal Park, as they have done every Sunday since mid-March, to champion their exiled leader, now reigning over a seaside villa in Honolulu. Then, as is their custom, more than 1,000 members of the ragtag group drifted into the nearby Manila Hotel, the onetime playground of Imelda Marcos, for drinks. This time, however, they were joined by two truckloads of armed soldiers. The next thing they knew, Arturo Tolentino, Marcos' vice-presidential running mate in last February's elections, was reading out a letter from Marcos asking him to take over as the country's "Acting President...
When deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife Imelda and 88 members of their entourage abandoned their palace in Manila and Imelda's 3,000 pairs of shoes last February, they braced for some cutbacks in their conspicuous consumption. But, in fact, in one month the exiled Marcos & Co. ran up personal expenses of $207,000 on U.S. bases in Guam and Hawaii, says a House Armed Services subcommittee. That bought, among other items, $2,552 worth of shoes, which were not for Imelda but for others in the party. Other tabs: $19,971 for long-distance calls...
...were denied entry under a ban triggered by an article in a Sydney newspaper that charged members of Indonesian President Suharto's family and some of his associates with pocketing billions of dollars through shady business deals. The piece compared Suharto and his wife Madame Tien to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, dubbing Indonesia's First Lady "Madame Tien Per Cent." That same day New York Times Correspondent Barbara Crossette was expelled, possibly in response to a Times story by Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal classifying Suharto as a "tyrant...
After Reagan and Marcos spoke, the men's wives came to the phone and spoke privately for several minutes. A local television crew recording the Marcos' end of the conversation showed Imelda Marcos weeping, as she often has in public since the ouster...
...less critical, however, of the man who had assured him safe passage to the U.S. "President Reagan," he said, "may have been misled." Marcos also vented his anger against the U.S. media. Claiming that there is no evidence to support charges that he and his wife Imelda own nearly $300 million worth of New York City real estate, he said bitterly, "The U.S. has become a country of trial by publicity. The fairness and justice that I have been impressed about in the U.S. are slowly disappearing...