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...Marcos' request for a final massive rally last week on the night before the second nationwide referendum that Filipinos have been called to vote on in 14 months. Once again the question was whether Marcos, 60, guiding his country into parliamentary democracy by the questionable route of martial law, should head it as both President and Prime Minister after a new transitional legislature, known as the Batasang Pambansa, is instituted next year...
...that steam is building up all that fast these days. Though martial law has resulted in the loss of considerable political freedom, the Philippine economy after five years of stern rule appears to be performing relatively well. According to the government, unemployment has dropped from 7% to 4.5%, inflation is down from 45% to 7% annually, real gross national product last year increased by 7.6%. There is also widespread appreciation of the law-and-order the regime has established. Foreign businessmen, for instance, have been attracted by liberal investment terms and the fact that as a result of martial...
...demonstrate that his administration was not as repressive as critics have charged, Marcos ordered controls on speech and assembly lifted for the duration of the seven-week campaign. That was of limited help to the students, liberal upper-middle-class families and pre-martial law political opponents who constitute his primary opposition.* All three leading Manila newspapers are owned by Marcos' friends, and the five television stations are controlled either by friends or by the government itself. TV was full of spot commercials, to the gaudy music of Land of Hope and Glory, urging viewers to vote. Newspapers gave...
...hardiest of Marcos' critics decided to sit out the referendum. One who spoke up, however, was former Senator Jovito Salonga, whose oratorical skills match those of Marcos. "If 90% of the population loves him," Salonga asked 300 University of the Philippines students, "why does he need martial law?" Former President Diosdado Macapagal, meanwhile, made the rounds of the city's civic clubs. "Sixty thousand people have been arrested over the past five years," Macapagal told his audiences. "Let him run in a free election, and he'll get a worse beating than Indira Gandhi...
...Marcos' most relentless opponent, imprisoned former Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr., by contrast, last week savored victory of sorts. After hearing Aquino argue that his murder conviction under martial law was improper, a panel of Marcos-appointed judges temporarily suspended proceedings in the case...