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...only did he take the belt from Liston, he regained his championship by defeating George Foreman in Zaire despite an earlier 3 1/2-year absence from the ring. In Manila in 1975, he and the magnificently noble Joe Frazier fought the greatest heavyweight fight of all time, 14 rounds of explosive leather, pure will and muscle until Frazier's eyes swelled closed and he could not meet the bell...
Osama who? U.S. media may have spent the week fretting over the whereabouts of Bin Laden and the fate of John Walker, but concerns abroad are elsewhere. Argentina's economic and political meltdown dominated headlines from London to Manila, much of the world media bracing for some scary global financial fallout. (Not that foreign media were immune to the fate of John Walker - Pakistan's Peshawar-based Frontier Post, whose op-ed pages are more commonly filled with denunciations of America's campaign in Afghanistan, carried a piece by conservative American columnist Anne Coulter expressing the hope that "the government...
...very good movie about perhaps the greatest fighter who ever lived, and you release it the day before Boxing Day! If you’re going to release it a day before, do it in only one theater at an obscure locale where Ali actually fought—Manila, perhaps. Or Kinshasa, the Sony Loews at Kinshasha would have been a good call...
...security cordon was set up to keep the Muslim rebels out of the city and angry residents in. Five guerrillas were hacked to death by citizens infuriated by a government decision to give rebels safe passage back to their camp in exchange for the freedom of 110 civilian hostages. Manila charged renegade Governor and MNLF leader Nur Misuari with rebellion and sedition in connection with the violence, which broke a 1996 peace pact between the government and the guerrilla group...
...ballot was determined to have a vote for the candidate for whom it was originally counted, the ballot went into a manila envelope with the candidate’s name on it. Otherwise, it went into a gray plastic bin to be included later in the correct envelope...