Word: malaca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national ordeal that began 14 months ago reached a turning point last week, when Corazon Agrava, 69, chairman of the investigating panel, entered the Spanish-style Malacañang Palace for an audience with Marcos. She was immediately ushered into the presidential study. After a 15-minute discussion behind closed doors, Agrava and the President emerged together and walked to the palace's Ceremonial Hall. There, they sat in high, stiff-backed chairs before the blinding glare of television lights, until Agrava handed the President her own 121-page minority report on the killing. Said she: "Your Excellency...
Unable to stop the march, Marcos backed off. Police and soldiers stayed out of sight except around the presidential Malacañang Palace. Demonstration Organizer Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, Ninoy's brother, had feared that the centerpiece of the celebration, the statue, cast in Rome by Philippine Sculptor Tomas Concepcion and flown to Manila via New York City, would be deliberately held up by Philippine customs and had readied a similar statue made of plaster. But after a two-day standoff, during which the bronze was kept at the airport, Marcos ordered $3,970 in duties waived and the figure...
Indeed, Marcos has managed to ride out the turbulence of the past few months with singular and characteristic adroitness. In the wake of Aquino's slaying, more than a million citizens took to the streets of Manila, marching on the President's Malacañang Palace and calling outright for his resignation. But Marcos shrewdly countered their attacks with a string of concessions that were accommodating enough to mute some criticism yet narrow enough to prevent real change...
...scene at Manila's Malacañang Palace leaves little doubt that the two most powerful people in the Philippines are both named Marcos. While President Ferdinand Marcos receives a constant stream of visitors in his study, which is just off the main reception hall, First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos holds court next door in the music room. Last week, a few days before leaving on his trip to the U.S., the President discussed at length his wife, human rights and other issues with TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Ross H. Munro and Manila Stringer Nelly Sindayen. Excerpts from...
...said he was torn by conflicting ties to his family and his new wife, and under great emotional strain from his experience. Said a family intimate: "He's terrified." It appeared doubtful that Tommy and Imee could salvage their relationship. She did meet with him last week at Malacañang Palace, the presidential residence, where she has been living, and they talked frequently by phone. But insiders speculated that she has decided her first loyalty is to her father...