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...scarcely three months after it played in Pretoria to sell-out audiences, Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority Mystery Tour is on the road again, bigger and better than ever. Jerry and the Scripture-Screamers were booked last week for a thrilla in Manila. Belting out chorus after chorus of their new hit single, "Commie Containers," they captured the imagination of the Phillippine nation...
Falwell told reporters that he had long admired Marcos's benevolent rule. "This man has done more for freedom than Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew combined," he said while touring one of beautiful Manila's many prisons. When inmates at the correctional facility refused gifts of his newest album, "Falling Dominoes," Falwell attributed it to the international Communist conspiracy. But, he said, it was nothing to worry about. "Sure, there are troublemakers here, but we have them in the United States...
...Scripture-Screamers were booked for a show at Malacanang Palace Monday morning, but sniper fire in downtown Manila delayed the band's bus. When they finally arrived, carrying bullet-proof Bibles, it was already late afternoon...
Falwell said that the situation in the Phillippines was being distored by American reporters and that "the impression is left in the United States that Manila is a war zone." But he said, "I feel a lot safer in Manila than I do in New York or Washington, where they have those large populations of Blacks and AIDS-contaminated homosexuals." He added, "It's unreal that tourism has almost dried up here because of that kind of fear when in fact this is a paradise. The Garden of Eden was on the outskirts of Manila...
...with the Shah: a fear that Washington may pull the plug on an old friend. The Reagan Administration has thus far held firm to its strategy of coaxing reforms from Marcos by rewarding steps toward moderation. Given the mounting resistance both on Capitol Hill and in the streets of Manila, however, that course, like the Marcos regime, may come under increasing fire...