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Aquino and other opponents of Marcos maintain that the election will have little effect on Philippine politics unless the current constitution is amended. Under the 1973 constitution, established by Marcos during martial law, the president is "only a ceremonial officer," he said...
Frazier Meade, director of the Office of Philippine Affairs at the State Department, yesterday declined to comment on the recent election proposal. However, he recalled the official U.S. response to the January lifting of martial law, which praised the move as "a positive step," but added that the measures used to implement democracy "would have to speak for themselves...
ABBADO HAS A WEAKNESS for airy tunes played on glockenspiel and celesta. The tunes come and go between martial rhythms. Young Gustav, fascinated by the military, could never quite part with his recollections of parading soldiers. The march was to Mahler what the Ring of the Nibelung was to Wagner...
...there appeared to be few classical music lovers in San Salvador's barrios. The guerrilla attacks were beaten off by withering rifle fire and grenade attacks by the army. The government declared martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Less than 24 hours after the start of the offensive, Junta President José Napoleón Duarte called a press conference to deride the leftist efforts as "an absolute failure." Stores and businesses opened as usual the next day, and workers generally stayed on their jobs...
Several Asian specialists refused to fill the chair, named the Ferdinand E. Marcos Chair for East Asian and Pacific Studies, as a protest against Marcos's imposition of martial law in 1972, sources said yesterday...