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While Singapore shoots forward, the Philippines sinks. Bernardo Villegas, executive director of the Center for Research and Communication in Metro Manila and a guest economist at the TIME meeting, traced the Philippines' troubles back to 1983. Because of excessive government spending, the country was suffering from 10% inflation and a serious trade deficit. "The Philippines," said Villegas, "was like a patient in an intensive-care unit...
...other four board members went much further than Agrava. By naming Ver, they in effect struck at the very heart of the Marcos regime. The majority report named, in addition to the seven suspects mentioned by Agrava, 18 other military men, among them Major General Prospero Olivas, the Metro-Manila commander of the Philippine constabulary...
...respect for other designers. One would expect him to "adore" Vivienne Westwood, the earth mother of punk fashion. But Gaultier also "adores" Giorgio Armani and Jean Muir, and speaks with respect of the old master Yves Saint Laurent. He spends about 85% of his time working, and rides the Metro both to commute and to store up ideas...
...they had rallied under the hot sun, a vast throng swelling to embrace 450,000 people. It had been a peaceful demonstration, but now as darkness fell, a few among the crowd became restless. Gathered in Makati, Metro Manila's high-rise business district, they began setting fire to automobile tires and piles of yellow confetti. With no police or soldiers in sight, predictions by the government of President Ferdinand Marcos that the daylong rally would culminate in violence seemed about to come true...
...Metro, Paradise, and Spit round out the concert scene, and the three are the most established in the area, because they are run by the biggest music strongman in town...