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...White House singing." Then, her clear alto voice quavering a bit, she began the tune Mountain High, Valley Low from Lute Song. Toward the end of the refrain, Martin joined in, and the two finished with their arms around each other, beaming. The First Lady's press secretary admitted, "Mrs. Reagan may have practiced a little at the White House," but whether the President caught her singing to the mirrors remains a state secret. --By Guy D. Garcia
...those most likely to be chosen as opposition standard-bearer is Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 52, widow of the martyred Benigno Aquino, who has become the moral voice of the anti-Marcos parties. She is the one candidate who is considered capable of uniting the fractious democratic resistance to Marcos. Mrs. Aquino has said she would run only if her supporters collected 1 million signatures in her favor. The sole declared candidate to date is former Senator Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 56 (see interview). Yale educated and the son of a former Philippine President, Laurel and his United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO...
More than anyone might suspect, as it turns out, when Mrs. Lloyd (Gayle Hunnicutt), vacationing in Europe, is abducted, and father and son set out to rescue her. For Walter once led a secret life as a CIA agent, and the kidnaping of his wife is an act of belated (and misdirected) revenge for an operation that cost the lives of a Communist master-spy's family two decades earlier. The Lloyds have not reclaimed their luggage at the Paris airport before Walter is forced to dispatch a thug sent to murder him. In a matter of hours...
Shortly after President Marcos left the party caucus that ratified his call for elections, his wife Imelda, 56, appeared in the corridors of Malacaņang Palace. Smiling and greeting the delegates, Mrs. Marcos whispered to one visitor, "I leave it up to you to take care of the President and to deliver the votes." The reply: "We will give the opposition zero, ma'am." Imelda broke into laughter. "But you will make the foreign press angry. That's one thing the Western mind will never believe and understand...
Over lunch Mrs. Marcos launched into a freewheeling monologue. Of the elections she said, "The problem is that the Western press and America have succeeded in making even the Soviets believe that the Communists are strong here. Now we have to prove, more than ever, that the Filipinos are united, especially in the coming election. This is not just a matter of perception. This is a matter of survival." She blamed the U.S. for the growing Soviet presence. "It's ironic. The Americans are actually responsible for the Soviets' keen interest in the Philippines. I was told during my trip...