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...entering the Senate chamber shortly before 4 p.m. last Wednesday, White House Courier Tim Saunders suddenly became the Invisible Man. Not that anyone actually failed to see him, or to guess what he was carrying in a manila envelope decorated with the White House seal. With Saunders in plain view, Majority Leader Robert Dole archly informed fellow Senators that Ronald Reagan had vetoed an attempt by Congress to block a sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, and * "somewhere there is a messenger who has that information." But the moment Saunders' presence was officially acknowledged, the veto would become the pending...
...meet the new President two weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz declared, without much conviction, "Well, I assume she's in control." Nonetheless, the Administration has been increasingly impressed with the calm authority of the former homemaker, and recently pledged an additional $150 million in aid to Manila. "She's surprising us in some ways," said one Washington official. "She also seems clearly preferable to any of the alternatives." That much has been underlined by the troublesome presence in Hawaii of Marcos, whose payment of supporters to stir up unrest in Manila has irritated even the usually imperturbable...
...mostly be a victim of her single great achievement: returning political freedom to the Philippines. It was Aquino, after all, who released Sison from jail, along with some 500 other political prisoners. She also permitted Marcos loyalists to protest her rule for three straight weeks in the streets of Manila. And she has actively encouraged the open questioning that Marcos so forcefully muzzled. "Less than 100 days is not enough time for a government to produce an impact," says Businessman Leonardo Alejandrino, "especially a government that almost by its own admission was not ready to hold office...
...talks here, Reagan will send several of his top aides across Asia to report to other governments on his economic talks here. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, for instance, will fly to Seoul to see President Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea and go from there to Manila for further discussions with President Corazon Aquino...
...Marcoses struggled in Hawaii to set their version of the record straight, loyalist forces took to the streets in the Philippines, chanting, "Marcos! Marcos still!" According to intelligence reports, a series of recent demonstrations, including a large rally early last week at Manila's Rizal Park, were bankrolled by officers loyal to Marcos who offered Filipinos from $5 to $10 to attend. The following day, 93 of the 177 elected members of the 200-seat National Assembly abolished by Aquino held a session in which they declared that they were reopening the defunct parliament. Marcos' vice- presidential running mate, Arturo...