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...system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding, the massive system, and Bethesda in particular, has been sorely wounded in recent weeks and may be slow to recover from the strange case of Commander Donal M. Billig, whose court-martial was still under way last week at the Washington Navy Yard...
Tens of thousands of Chileans were exiled that year; many of those that left have just begun to return. Martial law was instated and has only recently been relaxed. But do not be deceived. Chilean repression has grown more sophisticated, but not weaker nor less widespread...
Under Marcos' misrule and martial law government, the Filipinos have put up with a long tradition of election fraud--that is, when there are elections. Friday's election farce culminated two months of campaigning by Marcos and Aquino; it should also culminate Marcos' power. It is now up to the United States to apply pressure in order to achieve that...
...three years after his re-election, Marcos declared martial law, citing the economic crisis of the day and the threat, then barely credible, of the Communist insurgency. His real motive was to remain in power beyond the constitutional limit of two four-year terms. For the next eight years Marcos ruled by decree, with the aim of building a New Society based on "constitutional authoritarianism." He claimed to be a dictator with a social conscience: he pushed forward with land reform (often at the expense of his landed political opponents) and carefully controlled trade unionism. More important, Marcos extended...
...Marcos ended martial law, after finding ways to retain some of his most important dictatorial powers. Chief among them was Amendment 6, an addition to a new constitution that he rammed through in 1973. Amendment 6 allows the President to rule by decree almost whenever he chooses. Other laws give Marcos the power to arrest alleged national-security violators at will under a so-called preventive-detention authority; the right of habeas corpus in such cases is effectively suspended. According to the U.S. State Department, some 500 to 600 people charged with national-security offenses were in Philippine jails...