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There were no new ransom notes last week in the mysterious disappearance and presumed kidnaping on Dec. 29 of Tomas ("Tommy") Manotoc, 32, the divorced golf champion who had secretly wed the daughter of President Ferdinand Marcos. But accusations, recriminations and rumors in the strange affair continued to damage the Marcos family...
Against the wishes of the President and his wife Imelda, Manotoc had married Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26, a law student at the University of the Philippines, on Dec. 4 in Arlington, Va. Although a ransom note had offered to release Manotoc for $2.5 million and freedom for four Communists, the Manotoc family believed it to be a fake. They accused the Marcoses of being behind the kidnaping. The Marcoses, in turn, blamed a conspiracy between the Manotocs and anti-Marcos opposition groups. Since then, the two families have been feuding like the Montagues and the Capulets...
There was speculation last week, even within the President's entourage, that the Marcoses knew a great deal more about the event than they had admitted. One aide to the President told TIME that his list of those responsible for Manotoc's disappearance began with the First Lady, who had conceded that she was bitterly opposed to the marriage. Some Western diplomats in Manila suspect that aides close to Mrs. Marcos may have taken too literally her expressed desire to be rid of the problem posed by Manotoc...
...October, Manotoc got a quickie divorce in the Dominican Republic and later slipped away to the U.S. with Imee to be married. While the two were in Washington, TIME has learned, Marcos called them, urging the couple to return to the Philippines to work things out. "Mrs. Marcos is extremely angry," Marcos allegedly told Manotoc. "I can help you better here." The President's wife was indeed angry. Meeting the couple in early December in New York City, the mother went "berserk," Manotoc said later. He claimed he had never in his life been abused so violently...
Upon returning to the Philippines in mid-December with his bride, Manotoc was bound by the country's law, which does not recognize divorces. He and his wife each lived with their parents but continued to meet nearly every day. Since her husband disappeared, Imee is known to have done two things: she called Manotoc's lawyer and arranged for the return to the palace of her marriage certificate, and she phoned Manotoc's brother Dini to tell him that she had given one of Tommy's shirts to a psychic to meditate over. The psychic...