Word: malacaã
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...expectation was palpable last week outside the gates at the presidential Malaca??ang Palace in the capital city of Manila. Participants arriving for a specially scheduled Cabinet meeting and a caucus of the ruling New Society Movement (K.B.L.) began queuing up at the palace an hour and a half early. At last, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos called on his ministers to endorse their main item of business: Cabinet Bill No. 7, a call for elections to choose a President and Vice President on Jan. 17, 1986, 16 months ahead of schedule. The order was approved within seconds...
Moments later, at the caucus meeting in Malaca??ang's ornate ceremonial reception salon, Marcos placed the same election bill before some 500 of his governing elite. "We must submit ourselves to a fresh mandate," he declared. One caucus member objected. Why not wait, he asked, until regularly scheduled presidential elections could take place in 1987? Replied Marcos: "This exercise is needed." The caucus promptly endorsed the election call and authorized Marcos to choose his running mate "in accordance with political traditions in democratic countries." The delegates also passed on the order for new elections to the 200-member National...
...ornate state dining hall of Malaca??nang Palace, the Rev. Jerry Falwell rose to salute President Ferdinand Marcos for standing tall against the specter of Communism, a compliment the right-wing U.S. evangelist had a few weeks earlier bestowed on South Africa's State President P.W. Botha. "Had it not been for the Marcos family," Falwell told an audience that included the First Couple, government supporters and officials, "the chances are that the freedoms you enjoy today would not be here." Falwell later shook his finger at the Reagan Administration for "bellyaching" about the need for financial and military reform...