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...best explanation, Douyon believed, was that Narcisse had been poisoned in such a way that his vital signs could not be detected. The psychiatrist obtained a sample of a coma-inducing toxin from a bocor. The poison is apparently used to punish individuals who have transgressed the will of their community or family. Narcisse, for example, said that he had been "killed" by his brothers for refusing to go along with their plan to sell the family land. Ti-Femme, a female zombie also under study by Douyon, had been poisoned for refusing to marry the man her family...
...cancel his November visit too hastily. Such a move, officials argued, would amount to prejudging Marcos. Washington, however, did put considerable pressure on the Philippine President to appoint an independent committee to investigate the murder and "swiftly and vigorously track down the perpetrators of this political assassination .. . and punish them to the full extent of the law." The move put some space between Washington and Manila and left open the possibility that Reagan could say no to the visit at a later date, if the Marcos government is indeed implicated. At midweek Marcos announced the formation of a five-member...
Reacting with unusual toughness, the U.S. State Department called the murder "a cowardly and despicable act" and exhorted the Philippine government to track down and punish those responsible "swiftly and vigorously." For his part, Marcos immediately condemned the killing as "heinous and outrageous" and announced that unspecified "precautionary steps" were being taken to maintain order. But the killing is bound to have serious repercussions. Aquino, the youngest governor and then the youngest senator in Philippine history, was thrown into prison under sentence of death for "subversion" in 1972, shortly after mounting a strong bid for the presidency against Marcos. Released...
...likewise refuse jobs to nonregistrants and that other lending institutions should deny them loans. In our opinion, such arguments are not merely unpersuasive, they are vindictive and harmful. Private institutions can make and enforce rules to promote their own organizational interests. But it is the government's task to punish those who violate public laws. When private organizations assume this role, they run severe risks of inflicting penalties that are not only ill-considered and excessive but vary unjustifiably from one offender to the next. In short, law enforcement is a public responsibility: allowing it to move to private hands...
...economy. We are beginning to win the battle against inflation. Our target of 12% this year is going to be met, and we could even go below that. But we must be careful not to punish business profits because wage increases are going to be above 12%. I am confident that next year we can come to an agreement with unions and industry on a target increase of 8%. We are also managing to stem unemployment, but this is probably due less to the merits of the government than to the fact that the industrial crisis has touched bottom...