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...confiscated Pampers boxes stuffed with jewelry, including a gold crown and three gem-encrusted tiaras (not to mention $200,000 worth of gold bullion and $1 million in Philippine pesos). And that's just what they managed to load onto the C-141 cargo plane to Hawaii: back at Malaca?ang Palace, officials discovered a stash of jewelry estimated by the government to be worth $310 million, while a further $13 million in gems (which Marcos has admitted were hers) were confiscated from a Greek national attempting to leave the country a few days later...
...When President Arroyo seemed in danger of losing her job about Five weeks ago, you joined her in a press conference in Malaca?ang palace and stabilized the situation. Some people are now calling you the co-president. are you? I'm not exerting any power from here. If the President has benefited from my appearing in Malaca?ang, well and good. My support of the President is only secondary to my support of the people and the integrity of the republic. I must emphasize: I'm no stooge of anybody's, and nobody is a stooge of mine...
...adding that he was "hurt" by her remarks. Arroyo, herself a devout Catholic, quickly qualified her statements, saying that she supported "natural family planning," thereby disappointing those who hoped she would be less beholden to the church now that she's no longer seeking re-election. A source inside Malaca?ang Palace insists she plans to push the issue further. The church will be watching...
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