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Tanaka's failure to mollify the Thai students does not augur well for the rest of his good-will mission in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. His first stop had been in Manila and had gone with deceptive smoothness. That was largely due to a state of martial law that prevented any anti-Japanese outbursts and the eagerness of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for injections of more Japanese capital. But during the rest of his itinerary, Tanaka will be faced with the threat of more anti-Japanese demonstrations. Moreover, Tanaka can scarcely assure his Southeast Asian trading partners of more...
...after dinner last Thursday, Susan Owara, 25, began leafing through the San Diego Evening Tribune. In the second section she found what she was looking for: a long article on "America and the Future of Man." She read it carefully, then clipped it out and stuck it in a manila folder. Across town, Schoolteacher Jim Fallen, 34, ripped out the piece and added it to a growing stack on a table in his bedroom. And across the U.S., from Decatur, Ala., to Saint Cloud, Minn., others read and saved the same article, which is part of a novel college course...
...Duchesne, head of excess property sales for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Manila, said the agency already has asked the Philippine air force to remove the machine guns mounted on some of the 30 spotter planes...
...Maoist rebels, was not exaggerating; if convicted, he could have been sentenced to execution or life imprisonment. Despite having spent eleven months in prison since his arrest, Aquino looked trim and confident when he took his place in the dock of the courtroom, a converted army lecture hall in Manila's Fort Bonifacio. Instead of trying to answer the specific charges, however, he shrewdly grabbed every opportunity to denounce the proceeding itself as "an unconscionable mockery," clearly aiming his remarks at the 200 newsmen and spectators who jammed the courtroom...
...bent on "coercion, violence, human degradation, the total suppression of civil liberties and political processes, and the imprisonment of political enemies." Since the statement had been made in open court, it could therefore be freely reprinted despite martial law. Indeed, thousands of mimeographed copies were soon circulating all over Manila...