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...headed by Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen and Senator Charles Percy of Illinois. Most prominent among the women guests was Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, whose retinue of 40 included Mrs. Henry Ford II and Dr. and Mrs. Christiaan Barnard. They had been visiting the Marcoses in Manila and decided to come along for the party. Also on hand were a colorful assortment of maharajahs who, having lost their titles and privy purses in India, welcome the coronation of a Nepalese relative as a rare opportunity to display a little of their former princely glory...
...prize fund of $250,000, twelve times greater than any previous chess purse. In 1975 the provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes in the history of sport-$5 million...
...envelopes marked "personal and confidential." Hoover kept them in his private office, though duplicates of most of the reports were placed in the FBI's general files. After Hoover's death, his secretary shredded his personal papers. But the official said that the secretary turned over 150 manila files, containing information on more than 250 public officials and others, to then Acting Associate FBI Director Mark W. Felt. His successor since 1973, Nicholas P. Callahan, declined to talk about the files...
Hoffar submitted a sealed manila envelope. Sirica directed Court Clerk James Capitanio to read its contents aloud. The reading was swift and spare. First the name of each defendant. Then the number of each count charged against each man in the indictment. After each count, the terse declaration: "Guilty" or "Not guilty." For four of the five defendants, the news was devastatingly identical: guilty on all counts...
...Philippine government is likely to step up its fight against Moslem rebels (supplied in part by arms from Libya) on the Sulu Islands and Mindanao. The Moslems of these regions demand greater autonomy, but Manila's answer is to send in more troops. Fatalities in the past year have been running as high as 200 per month...