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...bring a tape recorder to class, but that didn't even last all the way through freshman year, since he tended to just fall asleep during lecture. Playing the tapes back took too much time, so now he takes notes with a slate and stylus, punching holes in thick manila pieces of papers from right to left so later it can be read from left to right. He is majoring in Spanish--a subject he says he doesn't plan to do anything with, but he wanted very much to learn a language. Large brown folders on his bookshelf containing...
...Manila street sweepers were the first to arrive, dressed in their spectacular red gloves, pants and hats and yellow shirts. They were followed by nurses, municipal office employees and flag-waving members of the Kabataang Barangay, a civic beautification organization for teenagers. Before long the Quezon and Jones bridges, which siphon cars across the Pasig River into Manila's downtown Ermita district, were too clogged for the traffic to move. By the time President Ferdinand Marcos, First Lady Imelda, Daughter Irene and Son Bongbong reached the Luneta grandstand in Rizal Park, fully 1.6 million supporters were jammed in front...
...doubt, and Filipinos gave Marcos yet another ringing endorsement. In early returns, the proposition that he continue in office was approved 4 to 1. "If Marcos ran a referendum free of fraud and coercion, he would still win with 70% of the vote," estimated an American observer in Manila. But every Filipino, whether he was friend or foe of Marcos, knew that the referendum was mostly a test vote on presidential popularity. A big yes would silence critics, while the balloting itself was a way for Filipinos of whatever persuasion to work off their frustrations. Said one former associate...
Campaigning in Manila, for instance, attractive Imelda Marcos one day announced supercheap prices for chickens in four public markets; the next day she granted 10% pay raises to 10,800 street sweepers, as well as thousands of policemen, firemen and schoolteachers. Addressing the vast throng gathered at the Luneta bandstand, she promised the construction of more markets, a sports center, railway system and hospitals. "These are all in the planning stage," the First Lady explained pointedly. "They will materialize only if the national government under President Marcos continues...
...repressive as critics have charged, Marcos ordered controls on speech and assembly lifted for the duration of the seven-week campaign. That was of limited help to the students, liberal upper-middle-class families and pre-martial law political opponents who constitute his primary opposition.* All three leading Manila newspapers are owned by Marcos' friends, and the five television stations are controlled either by friends or by the government itself. TV was full of spot commercials, to the gaudy music of Land of Hope and Glory, urging viewers to vote. Newspapers gave heavy play to what Marcos said; when...