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Ignoring such distractions, Medium William Monroe managed to groan, grimace and hiccup his way into a trance. In the process, he took on an uncanny resemblance to Rock Singer Elton John. In front of Monroe was a black- draped table laden with miscellaneous memorabilia: a manila envelope containing a letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, two pairs of handcuffs, a selection of lockpicks, a yellowed photograph. Monroe's task: to contact, on the 60th anniversary of his death, the ghost of Harry Houdini, master escapologist, prestidigitator and Appleton's most celebrated son. While Monroe writhed and jerked, it must be noted...
...leader Rolando Olalia and his driver were brutally murdered, a right-wing former National Assemblyman, David Puzon, was ambushed and shot to death in a hail of automatic-weapons fire. A leading Japanese businessman was kidnaped while returning home from a round of golf. A bomb exploded in a Manila department store, injuring 13 people. Finally, at week's end Ulbert Ulama Tugung, a prominent Muslim ally of the President's, was slain outside a hotel in the capital...
Rumors began circulating in Manila that unnamed politicians, assumed to be allied with former President Ferdinand Marcos, Enrile and elements in the military, planned to reconvene illegally the national assembly that Aquino disbanded after her accession. As word of the presumed minicoup spread, armed forces Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos moved to block it, ordering his commanders to "disregard" any orders that might come from the Defense Ministry. At Ramos' direction, government troops in trucks and armored vehicles lined the street leading to the presidential palace in Manila and secured key radio and television stations...
...backers of the ousted Defense Minister had seethed after Philippine leftists took to the streets in a massive demonstration of pro-Aquino, anti- Enrile sentiment to mark Olalia's funeral. On Thursday a huge but orderly procession for the slain labor leader wound for miles through the streets of Manila. Waving red flags and placards, a crowd of more than 100,000 followed a flower-bedecked truck bearing the coffins of Olalia and his driver. J.V. Bautista, a leader of the leftist Bayan political coalition, hinted that Marcos backers might have been responsible for Olalia's death. But he spoke...
...President had barely arrived when her country's violent political problems resurfaced. On Thursday the stabbed and bullet-riddled bodies of Rolando Olalia, the president of the People's Party and the leader of the country's largest labor federation, and his driver were found beside a Manila highway. His party, a coalition of left-leaning groups, is regarded by many as a stand-in for the banned Communist Party. Before Olalia's murder, the People's Party had promised to take to the streets in a "people's uprising" if anyone attempted a coup...