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...archipelago. As early as 1923 the magazine was writing about Filipino politicians and their determined agitation for independence from U.S. rule. In 1935 the U.S. granted the islands semiautonomous status, and TIME's cover story on Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, noted that in moving Manila toward eventual independence, the U.S. was being "far from purely benevolent": it would mean not only unloading a heavy financial liability but a strategic responsibility that was "impossible to defend...
...were for many years "our S.O.B.s" in the fight against the Evil Empire. But, more important, it would send the wrong message to other despots the U.S. might one day like to spirit out on the first transport out of town. With the assurance of safe passage out of Manila and asylum in the U.S., Marcos at least chose to leave without shedding blood. If the U.S. were to now leave these men out in the cold,it would make it tough in the future to get other miscreant leaders to abdicate without trying to hang on until the bitter...
Raymond H. Chen '88 calls his sister and parents a lot, but when he was greeted two weeks ago by a large manila envelope from MCI with 64 pages of itemized long-distance phone calls, Chen was suddenly speechless...
...boycott took hold, Manila was abuzz with speculation that some of the seven banks singled out by Aquino had lost large deposits and that the government-controlled Bulletin Today (circ. 250,000) had suffered a plunge in readership. But there was little evidence that the tactics had done more than make investors nervous. The day after the Manila rally, the price of shares in the San Miguel Corp., a blue-chip conglomerate controlled by Marcos Ally Eduardo Cojuango, plummeted 15%. Shunning San Miguel's products, which range from beer to ice cream, may prove difficult for most Filipinos...
Whatever the outcome, last weekend's rebellion seemed to bring to a head a long-felt yearning for democratically elected leaders. Whether a transition of power in Manila can take place without bloodshed was, as this week began, in doubt. Unlike the grisly upheavals in Iran and Nicaragua, events in the Philippines last week seemed to unfold in a kind of slow motion that augured well for civil order. "There is a lot of caution in the Filipino people," noted one Pentagon official. Marcos may try to buy time by entering into negotiations with Enrile and Ramos. Even in that...