Word: manotoc
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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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...
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...
...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...