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...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...
...times Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, 52, tries to minimize the growing unrest among the country's 39 million people. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar in Manila's Malacanang Palace, Marcos insisted: "There's not as much turbulence here, I would say, as in some Western countries, perhaps the U.S. and Belfast, Ireland." But at other times Marcos concedes that Philippine society is "sick, so sick that it must either be cured now or buried in a deluge of reforms...
Less than a month after a massive student attack on the Malacanang presidential palace (TIME, Feb. 16), another violent demonstration took place last week in Manila. This time the target was the U.S. embassy. When it was all over, both the embassy and U.S.-Philippine relations had been somewhat damaged, 78 people were under arrest and the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos seemed less secure than ever...
...fortifications? At first, Marcos spoke of "nonstudent provocateurs." By week's end he was talking of "an insurrection" and a "plan to take over Malacanang Palace" organized by agitators who "believe in Mao Tse-tung." It was an odd performance for a normally ebullient man who only last November became the first President in Philippine history to win a second term. Marcos' current siege mentality is widely attributed to the influence of one Virginia Dimalanta, a soothsayer who has predicted that he will be assassinated before April by "a light-skinned man wearing a suit." Long before...