Word: manila
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DIED. MANUEL ELIZALDE, 60, unfairly maligned Philippine official or rogue amateur anthropologist, depending upon whether his "discovery" of a primitive tribe in Mindanao is to be believed; of undisclosed causes; in Manila. No savage seemed nobler--or more unreal--than the bare-bodied Tasaday, whom Elizalde introduced to the public in 1971. When journalists found in 1986 that these simple, food-gathering folk had traded in their leafy loincloths for jeans, T shirts and baseball caps, skeptics charged foul play...
...giving the FBI more power until it gets its house in order and proves that it can live in the boundary of existing laws." That's a long way from the days when the FBI drafted the bills it wanted passed and delivered them to the Hill in plain Manila envelopes...
...another worthy cause: defraying the Clintons' Whitewater-related legal bills. Michael Cardozo, executive director of the President's Legal Defense Trust, disclosed last week that Trie walked unannounced into Cardozo's office on March 21, introduced himself as a friend of the President's, and handed over two big manila envelopes. Inside, says Cardozo, were checks and money orders totaling $460,000. It was an astonishing donation. At that time, the trust had raised only $1.1 million...
...Nicholson joined the CIA. After almost two years of training, he was posted to Manila, then Bangkok and Tokyo, stations where young agents generally played the complicated game of recruiting spies from among the Soviet and East bloc officials. Some of them were intelligence officers themselves, who attempted in return to recruit the Americans. Within 10 years, fast progress by agency standards, he had landed a station chief's job in Bucharest, Romania...
Loida Nicolas had just graduated from an elite law school near Manila when she met young Reginald Lewis on a blind date while visiting New York City. She still recalls their romance--from courtship and marriage to dinners with heads of state at their palatial apartment on the Seine--as "breathless, magic." As Reg built his financial empire, first with the leveraged buyout of a radio station, then the McCall Pattern Co. and finally Beatrice, she put her job aside to raise their two daughters. The magic ended when he was stricken by brain cancer...