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Skirting the Issue. Beyond the shooting incidents, there is a mounting resentment of the Laurel-Langley Trade Agreement,* which 1) gives U.S. businesses operating in the Philippines equal treatment with local businesses, and 2) gradually increases tariffs on Philippine exports to the U.S. By 1974, when the treaty expires, Philippine goods will receive no tariff preference from the U.S., and at the same time U.S. capital in the Philippines (now amounting to $400 million) will have to face the same restrictions as all other foreign investments. On the one hand, Filipino exporters want a return to full tariff preference...
President Diosdado Macapagal, 54, has not turned out to be the dynamic leader some hoped he would be when he was elected three years ago amid fiery promises of cleaning up corruption. Faced with a tough election in November, he has carefully skirted the Laurel-Langley issue thus far, fearing that any stand would give ammunition to his opponent, Nationalist Party Leader Ferdinand Marcos, 47. To date, at least, each candidate has been jockeying to appear more pro-American than the other, but in the wake of last week's demo, both agreed that there could be further trouble...
Magnolias and edelweiss make a proud device even in Moscow. And so last week Laurel, Miss., Soprano Leontyne Price, 37, and Salzburg-born Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 59, gathered at the Bolshoi Theater with the La Scala Opera Company to show what they could do with Verdi's Requiem. Quite a lot, as it turned out. The crowd, including Nina Khrushchev, enveloped the visitors in a bear hug, howling "Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!" and mashing its way down the aisles to pelt the stars with carnations in a 26-minute storm of applause that included 16 curtain calls...
...Sacramento mansion with a fibula fractured by stepping in a hole at a golf course, an accident that will keep him on crutches for six weeks ("But he wouldn't miss the Democratic Convention," said an aide, "if he had to crawl"); Oldtime Cine-comedian Stan Laurel, 74, at Los Angeles' Valley Doctors Hospital, where he has been receiving hundreds of letters from his ever-faithful fans while undergoing treatment for chronic diabetes...
Inevitably, there were some trouble spots, such as Laurel, Miss., and Americus and Albany, Ga. In Baton Rouge, La., a white state employee punched a Negro minister in the jaw as he and two Negro women left the state capitol cafeteria after eating. Fifteen Negroes were arrested in Slidell, La., when they sought service at a restaurant. At a variety-store lunch counter in Bessemer, Ala., a steel town near Birmingham, six Negro youths were beaten by whites wielding 24-in. baseball bats. Near Texarkana, Texas, a white man and three Negroes were wounded when another white man opened fire...