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Thracian men were famed for their martial valor over centuries--even the Romans admired their bravery and preferred them as gladiators (Spartacus was Thracian). Yet there was more to them than banditry alone, as this range of art works dating from around the 16th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. proves. For Thrace was the land whence came Orpheus, mythical musician-king who enchanted the most ferocious beasts and defied Pluto, the king of the underworld; it was the country where the Horseman--a god combining aspects of Apollo, Dionysos and Asclepius--was at once the object of popular...
Reforms are ballyhooed, but martial law remains
...believe that those who wanted to create disorder have learned their lesson. We are going back to normal." That statement by a ranking Manila official typifies a new mood in the Philippines. After five years of martial law ostensibly imposed to restore order against terrorism and other political violence, some Filipinos are predicting a gradual return to constitutional government. Others warn that such optimism is unjustified...
...Marcos began his reforms by releasing 157 of 1,000 prisoners he has promised to let out of the Philippines' military stockades. (Last January Marcos conceded that there were as many as 4,700 military detainees.) He has also promised to phase out the military tribunals created by martial law and to replace them with civil courts. He has ordered the arrest and trial of two military officers accused of torturing Civil Rights Leader Trinidad Herrera, who, after being visited by U.S. diplomats in Manila, was finally released from jail...
Still, Marcos has stopped far short of relinquishing his autocratic power to rule by decree. In fact, a report on the Philippines published last week by the International Commission of Jurists* lambastes the President for continuing martial law to perpetuate his own power. Despite Marcos' two public promises this year to release any prisoners against whom no charges have been filed, hundreds of such prisoners remain in captivity...