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...country has endured civil tumult, foreign invasion and the eternal vicious circle of flood, famine and disease. A century ago, the country was courting modernity and Western technology under the slogan "Chinese Learning for the Essence, Western Learning for the Application." Fifty years ago, Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government were encouraging economic growth, scientific advancement and managerial expertise. Both drives proved short-lived. In settling old scores, the present regime may have established new conflicts. In addition, its fondness for what Nakasone calls "a process of trial and error" makes any prediction especially precarious...
...Atwood once described herself in an interview as a "de facto feminist," taking the position that every intelligent woman is a feminist--but she can also argue from the standpoint of a crusader for women's rights, a poet, a novelist, a pioneering critic of Canadian literature, a Canadian nationalist, and an Amnesty International activist. The essays in Second Words emanate from all these Atwoods. But the tone and approach of each essay strikes one note over and over again--the personal. She remains determinedly anecdotal, specific, and sardonic throughout: on Canadian poets, on Canadian-American relations in the 1980s...
...strongest allies of the traditionally nationalist opposition may, ironically, be foreign governments and banks. For five months, the International Monetary Fund and 400 private creditor banks have refused to meet the Marcos regime's requests for rescheduling $10 billion of its $25 billion external debt and for borrowing an additional $3.3 billion. Resentful that the Central Bank of the Philippines deliberately overstated its national reserves by $600 million and skeptical that Marcos will ever institute massive spending cuts, potential lenders announced last month that no loans would be forthcoming until after the elections. Marcos knows that only a show...
...million voters prepared to trek to the polls, the seven-man race was still considered a toss-up between the controversial front runners, José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democratic Party (P.D.C.), and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as ARENA. There was a good chance that neither candidate would win the outright majority required for election, and that a runoff vote would be necessary within 30 days after Sunday's results were certified...
...country. As the end of the hard-fought, two-month presidential campaign drew near (see following story), the front runners in the race were José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democrats (P.D.C.) and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Republican Nationalist Alliance, known as ARENA. Trailing behind, according to the country's unreliable opinion polls, was the only other possible winner, Francisco José Guerrero, 58, leader of the right-of-center National Conciliation Party (P.C.N...