Word: manglapus
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...American soldier of fortune named Jack Terrell, who once worked for the contra rebels in Nicaragua, created a political storm in the Philippines last week when he implicated Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus in a bizarre plot to murder a handful of President Corazon Aquino's opponents, including rebel Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan...
Aquino defended her Foreign Secretary as "an uncomplicated man" who would never contemplate murder. Manglapus, a droll diplomat who once set his thoughts on U.S.-Philippine relations to music in a theatrical comedy called Yanky Panky, denied the allegations...
...biggest overseas bases. Unhappy with the annual $181 million the U.S. had been paying, Manila initially demanded $2.3 billion in yearly compensation. The U.S. countered with a first offer of $360 million but later added to the package. After signing the pact in Washington last week, Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus maintained that the U.S. had come close to meeting Manila's minimum demands in a "creative" three-part package that consists of $481 million a year in cash and direct assistance, as well as $355 million in "soft" loans and financial guarantees. The beauty part, according to Manglapus...
...pact covers Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base, the two largest American military installations outside the U.S. The Philippines depends heavily on the $266 million in U.S. aid and $164 million in local earnings that the bases provide each year. Even so, Philippines Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus has warned that any new treaty would require the U.S. to accept "new conditions" that would ban nuclear weapons from the bases. A similar stipulation by New Zealand prompted Washington to renounce its defense arrangement with that country...
Last week's bonhomie upset the leaders of the Philippines' moderate, basically pro-American opposition. Two of them Benigno Aquino and Raul Manglapus sent a telegram to Bush from their American exile, appealing to him not to identify the U.S. with the present government, Marcos, on the other hand, pointedly and publicly reminded Bush of the Philipines' continuing friendship, "even after Viet Nam, when it was almost impossible...