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...months ago Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law on his archipelago nation???to "save the Republic," he said, from leftist insurgents. Marcos quickly shut down most of the country's newspapers and television stations and jailed many of his political opponents. He also moved to halt widespread bureaucratic corruption and initiate long-promised but hopelessly delayed economic reforms, and he talked of creating a "new society" in the Philippines. TIME'S Robert Elson recently visited Manila to assess some of Marcos' changes and the Filipinos' reactions to them. His report...
...Many economists, including Democrats, predict that national production will jump by a historically high $100 billion or so next year and that the jobless rate will drop about a point, to 5%. Whether these forecasts come true will depend largely on Nixon's success in inspiring confidence within the nation???confidence that his wage-price restraints are fair and that they will work, so that consumers' dollars will no longer be ruthlessly chewed up by inflation...
Richard Nixon can ill afford such alienation either in Washington or in the rest of the nation???a fact that he now seems to realize. For months, the President did nothing to tone down Spiro Agnew's divisive statements. After Nixon's meeting last week with the eight college presidents, the word went out that Agnew would be sedated. Nixon promptly denied it, as he had to in order to avoid humiliating the man he has praised so handsomely in the past. Agnew also insisted that he was not to be "muzzled." Nonetheless, in a speech at Boise, Idaho, Agnew...
...accomplishment. He had restored a sense of nationhood to Viet Nam. He had come to represent a form of "national Communism" that left him out of both the Chinese and the Soviet orbits, but prompted both powers to court him. With the limited resources of a tiny impoverished Asian nation???and with vast help from Peking and Moscow?he had withstood the enormous firepower of the mightiest industrial nation on earth. In so doing, he had forced one U.S. President out of office and tarnished the bright memory of another. He had reached deep into American society through...
Last week 36,000 citizens in Indiana, 27,000 in California, 25,000 each in Texas and New York, 5,000 in Montana?300,000 all told in the nation???were seeking public office in next autumn's elections. Like 300,000 raisins they helped to make the U. S. political ferment seethe, burble, and spill over in dozens of different places...