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TIME's story about corruption in President Garcia's Philippine administration caused an uproar in Manila last week. Pro-government newspapers denounced it in banner headlines; a copy of the issue was burned on the floor of Congress. Most denunciations centered not on the story's facts but on the propriety of printing them. Challenging anybody to deny the facts, Manila Times Columnist Alejandro Roces wrote: "Unless we take a cold sober look at ourselves, we can expect only ruin and even more critical remarks...
Like its Washington counterpart, Manila's annual National Press Club Gridiron show is enlivened by roasting the politicians in the audience. But never before had Manila's jesting correspondents gone so far in impertinence. The curtain rose on a scratching, underwear-clad figure representing President Carlos Garcia during last year's election campaign. A Chinese constituent, loaded down with pesos, came onstage and said he was "velly happy that good fliend Garcia running for Plesident." Garcia orotundly protested that he never took bribes. The Chinese was just about to leave in confusion when, from backstage, a figure...
Chits for Cash. While Magsaysay scrupulously refused to accept campaign contributions himself, Garcia let it be known that he would accept contributions personally-or they might be given to his wife, whose financial acumen and taste in jewelry are much admired in Manila. For a long while, permission to withdraw dollar reserves from the Central Bank was granted only when accompanied by chits initialed by Garcia. During his six-month campaign, the bank's dollar reserves dropped $90 million as a result of heavy but legal withdrawals...
...Producers' Federation permission to barter copra for foreign goods. The federation, Senate investigators later learned, was merely a front for a naturalized Chinese operator who exported only a fraction of the copra he was supposed to, but managed to reap a tidy $600,000 profit by selling to Manila merchants his dollar import allocation...
Methodically as a mason, Gunther laid out a foundation wall of multicolored manila folders for every chapter and subsection. Into the room-long row of folders he piled notes, clippings, dozens of scrawled, yellow-paper memos-"Why so much education?", "All small talk in modern Russian novels is about nuts and bolts." Settling down at his battered Smith-Corona typewriter, across from a child's map of the world, Gunther started out with the inside chapters on the Kremlin hierarchy, plowed through what he calls "the picture stuff," i.e., travelogue chapters, tackled science and education, wound up writing...