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...weeks after he disappeared following his secret marriage to the daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Tomas (Tommy) Manotoc, 32, resurfaced to tell a harrowing tale. He was kidnaped by Communist guerrillas and held in a mountain hideout in the Sierra Madre, he said, and then rescued by intelligence units of the armed forces after a brief clash. At a press conference at a military base in Manila, a haggard and frightened-looking Manotoc declared that "there's definitely no truth" to charges that the Marcos family had been involved in his kidnaping...
...amateur golf champion and professional basketball coach, Manotoc disappeared Dec. 29 after a quiet, private dinner at a Manila restaurant with Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26. The couple had been wed in a civil ceremony in Arlington, Va., three weeks earlier, after Manotoc had obtained a quickie divorce from his first wife, in the Dominican Republic. The bride's family took a dim view of the pairing, however, and the groom's family subsequently accused the Marcoses of involvement in his disappearance...
Meanwhile, the Marcoses mounted a smear campaign against the Manotoc family in the government-controlled press. Dailies ran a story in which Mrs. Marcos accused Manotoc of inveigling Imee into marriage and describing her daughter as having "the mind of a 40-year-old but the heart of a ten-year...
...week before Manotoc disappeared, he had met with President Marcos to discuss the "family" problem. Marcos, who had been reading Manotoc's tax return, suggested that Manotoc could not support his daughter properly. The President reportedly promised to try to arrange some business deals. But next day, Manotoc was pessimistic. He told a friend: "I don't think this is going to work...
...Manotoc also talked of going abroad with his bride until things cleared up, thus suggesting the possibility that he may have slipped away with the hope of later rendezvousing with Imee. But that conjecture disregarded the firm conviction on the part of his family that he had been kidnaped. As for Imee, she was dining out in fashionable restaurants, but friends said she was a "good actress" who was concealing her unhappiness...