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...Conchas restaurant. Later, Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26, said good night and, escorted by a motorcade of security men, returned dutifully to Malacañang Palace, bastion of her father, President Ferdinand Marcos. Meanwhile the man she had secretly wed on Dec. 4 in Arlington, Va., Tomas ("Tommy") Manotoc, 32, amateur golf champion and basketball coach, drove off alone in his 1977 white Mitsubishi Galant Sigma and disappeared...
Four days later, a message offered to free Manotoc in return for the release of four jailed leaders of the Philippine Communist Party and the payment of $2.5 million. The government insisted that Manotoc had been kidnaped, and officials promised a relentless search. But the efforts turned out to be so casual that a full week after Manotoc's disappearance, not a single agent had gone to the restaurant where the couple had dined. Rumors began to spread through Manila that the government knew more about the kidnaping than it was saying. The President's wife Imelda...
Less than 24 hours after Manotoc vanished, President Marcos phoned the young man's father to ask him to be "discreet" and contact neither the press nor the police. But Carmen Manotoc, the missing bridegroom's mother, spoke out, blaming the Marcoses directly for the kidnaping. Said she: "I couldn't think of anything else but them. I kept warning him, 'You're playing with fire, you're way over your head.' " President Marcos angrily denied the charges and denounced what he called "wild and false speculations insinuating the involvement of the President...
...Manotoc seemed an unlikely victim for a kidnaping. He had no real wealth of his own. In 1971, he married Aurora Pijuan, then 21, a sugar planter's daughter who had a year earlier won a beauty contest title: Miss International. The couple had a son and daughter, but had become estranged by the time Manotoc met the President's daughter last February. Imee and Tommy started seeing each other at public events and later sneaking away to a condominium in Makati owned by a relative of Imee. Both families knew what was going on and the presidential...