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...week began peacefully enough in Manila. The government had purposely avoided head-on confrontation with opposition demonstrators and had even tried to steal some of their thunder by staging a rally of its own in Makati, Metro Manila's financial district. A special bulletin signed by the vice governor of the Metropolitan Manila Commission (Imelda Marcos, the President's powerful, unpopular wife, is the governor) was distributed to commission employees. "Attendance is a must," it decreed. "Record of attendance must be submitted to personnel management .. . Do not wear uniforms...
...wholesale price per kilo has plummeted 50%, from $60,000 in 1981 to $30,000 now. "They've got to move the inventory," says Sergeant Skip Pearson of the Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau. "It's like an end-of-the-year sale." Explains Bureau Commander Arthur Nehrbass: "Right now, it's a buyer's market. We've been offered coke at $28,000 per kilo on credit, with two weeks...
DIED. Howard Dietz, 86, Hollywood songwriter who penned the lyrics to such standards as Dancing in the Dark, You and the Night and the Music and Louisiana Hayride; of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine...
...golf with the dashing Prince of Wales and, Hirohito later recalled, "first experienced freedom" after having been raised "like a bird in a cage." Upon his return, he permanently adopted the Western style of dressing, eating and sleeping. Even now the Emperor treasures his first purchase, a 1921 Paris Metro ticket...
...read this far, however you must be cooler than AOR and here are some places for you Spit, on Lansdowne St. is for the safety pin in the nose set The Metro, its neighbor, is only slightly more conservative. Both are hot, huge, modern dance halls replete with the latest videos. National new wave acts do make stops, but not much yet is scheduled for the summer...