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...speakers stand on a makeshift platform mounted on four oil drums as Opposition Candidate Charito Planas declares, in a high resounding operatic pitch, "President Marcos is taping this rally. Let's let him hear how loud our voices are. " The crowd responds with upraised fists and shouts of "Laban! laban!" (Fight! fight...
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...
...counter Laban's growing appeal, the government has been forced to wage an unexpectedly urgent campaign of its own. In a televised speech last week, Marcos not only charged the opposition with "sowing discord, hate, confusion and resentment," but called it the "strong and willing handmaiden" of a Communist effort to "create disorder." The President has courted votes with more than just words. In the past few weeks, he has fattened government pensions by about 12%, boosted the base salaries of teachers (who will serve as vote counters) by 20%, and promised slum dwellers that they will soon...
...treasured stories of biblical cunning. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob outsmarts his parsimonious uncle Laban while tending Laban's flocks. First he tells Laban to cull all spotted sheep and goats out of the flock for safekeeping, then offers to tend the "monochrome" remainder (white sheep, black goats), taking only spotted offspring as his pay. Laban quickly agrees. Jacob sets about having the animals couple in front of peeled branches. They produce large numbers of spotted offspring, and Jacob becomes rich...
...hybrids (white sheep and black goats that carried recessive genes of "spottedness") matured sexually earlier than the pure monochromes in the flock. He mated the hybrids, and their recessive genes emerged to produce a maximum of spotted offspring in each generation. He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred, as Laban's share...