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...dismay of the U.S. and such other Asian allies as Japan and South Korea, Marcos has shown no sign that he is willing to ease up. Last week, in a major policy speech for his 62nd birthday, Marcos defiantly declared that he had no intention of lifting the martial law imposed in 1972. This decision, though not unexpected, came as a blow to both opposition leaders and Western diplomats, who have been privately urging the President to restore democratic rule before it is too late. It also did not augur well for observances of the seventh anniversary of martial...
...martial law still justified...
...Western world think of martial law as meaning the supremacy of the military over the civilian government. We know it only as the civil government using the military to enforce the civil law. Actually, the use of the term martial law was really unwise, illadvised. But whether you call it emergency rule, or a one-party system, as they have in other countries, the thing is that the martial law you speak of, which the Western world may find so odious, is not the same type of martial law that we have here...
...crisis has dimensions that we cannot actually now determine, I would rather play safe. I may be blamed for being overly cautious, but certainly meeting both the insurgency as well as the economic crisis at the same time, I don't think this is the time to lift martial...
...Would you be willing to announce a definite timetable for phasing out martial...