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...source in Manila, who called Marcos on Saturday, quoted Marcos as saying the talk with Reagan was "friendly, congenial, productive and fruitful." The two men discussed Marcos' situation "realistically," but Marcos did not elaborate, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity...
Yesterday, Marcos spoke by telephone to a cheering crowd of about 12,000 followers in Manila, telling them he was the legitimate president of the Philippines. He urged them to demonstrate peacefully against the Aquino government, and said, "I am healthy....I am ready to fight...
...both word and deed. From his exile in Hawaii, Marcos in an interview with TIME boldly charged a direct American role in a "conspiracy for a coup d'etat" that he claimed was quashed by loyal forces before he fled the Philippines on Feb. 26. In interviews with a Manila radio station, the former dictator also reversed his calls of just a week earlier to support President Corazon Aquino and exhorted followers to agitate against the new government. Coming after three days of mounting antigovernment activity in the Manila area, the broadcast aroused speculation that Marcos himself was playing...
Warming to his anti-American theme, Marcos repeated charges that U.S. officials in Manila deceived him about his destination when they persuaded him to leave the presidential Malacanang Palace. He thought he was headed for his home province of Ilocos Norte, only to find himself being taken first to Guam and then to Hawaii instead...
Marcos vehemently denied that he and his 88-member entourage had intended to remove substantial amounts of cash and valuables from the Philippines. "We did not bring this money into the U.S. They (U.S. officials in Manila) were the ones who brought it," he said. "All the goods were taken from the palace by boat to the Army and Navy Club and then to the (U.S.) embassy, where they were ransacked." He suggested that the same officials were responsible for loading the bounty, which was later seized by U.S. Customs Service officials in Hawaii, onto American cargo planes. Philippine authorities...