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Peter W. Stanley '62, assistant professor of History, wrote that the current Philippine government is a repressive dictatorship in which Marcos is using martial law to prevent the ruling upper classes from being ousted from power...
...secretary, Marcia Williams (scandalously elevated to the peerage as Lady Faulkender a few years ago) could get nastier. Or there may be things no one has ever mentioned in the press. The surprise resignation of Willy Brandt two years ago, and the recent revelations about President Kennedy's extra-martial affairs, should have taught us never to be surprised about what politicians do in their spare time...
...Caribbean island, fear the music that wells up from the shantytowns in the capital city. Even in the privileged section of town high above the slums, the thousands of radios and speakers crashing out reggae music far below can be heard. The reggae, these whites sense, is the martial anthem of the trapped lower class, and as it drowns their elevated residences, so will the poor someday extinguish their dominion...
...Some 250,000 workers in the banking, construction and metalworking industries have walked off their jobs to protest low wages. When postal and rail workers threatened to do the same, the government responded by drafting the workers into the army, thereby making any refusal to work punishable by court-martial. The danger in the government's hard-line policies is that the dissatisfied workers, deprived of any peaceful means to make changes, will eventually resort to violence. Arias' reform program contained not a single word about free labor unions or any alteration in the government-controlled syndicates that...
Army railroad engineers were called in to operate some of the idled trains. The fledgling Cabinet of Premier Carlos Arias Navarro threatened to draft the strikers into the armed forces, thus making them liable for courts-martial if they disobeyed back-to-work orders. At week's end the subway workers settled for an immediate $455 raise and a promise of further negotiations, but they could go out again...