Word: manila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elaborate main reception hall at Manila's Malacanang Palace, President Ferdinand E. Marcos, 68, looked frail but basically healthy as he greeted 52 U.S. business leaders and Time Inc. journalists traveling through Asia on a Time-sponsored Newstour. Speaking calmly and firmly, Marcos called Western reports that he was near death "really exaggerated." But he made selective use of facts and figures to dismiss the concerns of U.S. analysts, blandly promising an imminent upturn in the Philippine economy and a decline in the strength of Communist insurgents. Marcos took refuge in dubious legal arguments to defend the 1973 constitution, tailored...
...passage of a new election code. It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue. Now you say that the situation is rigged up in my favor. Well, probably if they spend more time organizing in the provinces instead of quarreling here in Manila, then they can improve the situation...
...warnings from Washington were not loud enough to penetrate the walls of Malacanang Palace, the protest chants in Manila certainly were. Last week 5,000 demonstrators marched near the palace gates, vowing to avenge the slayings of two students who had been shot by security forces during an earlier protest. The next day 2,000 women paraded through the capital to protest the "Marcos-Reagan dictatorship." Then U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth charged that 15 Americans have been killed in the Philippines during the past two years, four of them "allegedly at the hands of security forces." At week...
...Philippines' failure to agree on future International Monetary Fund targets for economic performance has delayed $113 million in IMF loans. Inflation is expected to hit 25% this year, while the Philippines' 15% unemployment and 40% underemployment rates are the highest in the region. The Philippines, Bernardo Villegas of Metro Manila's independent Center for Research and Communications claims, "is the economic basket case" of the Asia-Pacific region. Villegas traces most of the problems to "the excesses of crony capitalism and other forms of political patronage...
...with the Shah: a fear that Washington may pull the plug on an old friend. The Reagan Administration has thus far held firm to its strategy of coaxing reforms from Marcos by rewarding steps toward moderation. Given the mounting resistance both on Capitol Hill and in the streets of Manila, however, that course, like the Marcos regime, may come under increasing fire...