Word: malacanang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marcos' ceremonial activities have become increasingly political of late. She has her own loyalists in the government and has reportedly influenced political appointments, thereby leading Filipinos to refer to "his" and "her" governments in Malacanang Palace. As manager of the city, she faces problems that rival those of New York's Abraham Beame. Floods during the rainy season annually cause millions of dollars in property losses; equally damaging fires break out regularly during dry months. Poverty is rampant, with its attendant ills of malnutrition, disease, crime, urban decay and omnipresent filth. Imelda's first order as manager...
Last week President Marcos, 56, discussed these and other issues in a three-hour interview at Malacanang Palace in Manila with TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan. Cabled Rowan: "The small, sinewy President is possibly the most athletic chief of state in the world-a below-par golfer, water skier, pelota player and former wrestler and boxer-and he looked ready for 15 rounds. 'Never make a big decision when you're angry, hungry or happy,' he declared at the outset of our interview. So it was with extreme deliberation that he deftly explained the moves...
...Mindanao, where his labors on behalf of minorities and poor farmers in a land dispute provoked the wrath of local officials. Now Cullen has been released, but is under the custody of the Philippines provincial. While Cullen chafes, a fellow Jesuit, Father James Donelan, regularly offers Mass at Marcos' Malacanang Palace, and other Jesuits have given retreats for the President...
...slot machines. Newspapers that are allowed to resume publication will be forbidden to run editorials, society pages, gossip columns and lurid crime stories-a significant literary genre in a nation whose homicide rate is eight times that of the U.S. After a few nasty incidents, word came out of Malacanang Palace, Marcos' downtown Manila residence, that soldiers were not to cut off long hair or rip off miniskirts on sight. But Marcos' press secretary, Francisco Tatad, declared that ROTC units would be turned out to use "friendly persuasion" to encourage short hair and longer skirts. They will also...
...emphasize that his reforms did not pose a threat to foreign capital. That mainly comes from U.S. corporations, who have a $1 billion stake-more than in any other Asian country except Japan-in oil, mining and other industries in the Philippines. In a telegram to Malacanang Palace, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Manila, forgetting its manners as a foreign guest, effusively praised Marcos' program...