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...Manuel Roxas took over a war-shattered country with "no national economy, no export trade. Next to Warsaw, Manila is the world's most devastated city." Two decades later, in a laudatory account of President Marcos' efforts to beef up the Philippine economy, stave off the Communist-dominated Huk rebellion and give the nation a sense of identity, TIME suggested that in a country with a "perennial need for heroes, Marcos -- with luck -- could meet that need...
...moment of showdown, Cardinal Sin again played a crucial role. He publicly praised Enrile and Ramos, and called on the Philippine people to take to the streets in peaceful support of them. Radio Veritas, the Catholic station, became the unofficial broadcaster of the rebellion, reporting on military units that had joined the opposition and giving instructions to crowds...
...Administration to adopt a sterner posture toward Marcos. Even before U.S. officials had a chance to debrief Presidential Envoy Philip Habib, who was flying home from the Philippines, the White House issued its strongest expression yet of anti- Marcos sentiment. Although the statement stopped short of endorsing the rebellion, it denounced Marcos for electoral fraud "so extreme as to impair the capacity of government in the Philippines...
Whatever the outcome, last weekend's rebellion seemed to bring to a head a long-felt yearning for democratically elected leaders. Whether a transition of power in Manila can take place without bloodshed was, as this week began, in doubt. Unlike the grisly upheavals in Iran and Nicaragua, events in the Philippines last week seemed to unfold in a kind of slow motion that augured well for civil order. "There is a lot of caution in the Filipino people," noted one Pentagon official. Marcos may try to buy time by entering into negotiations with Enrile and Ramos. Even in that...
...oldest document in the exhibition is a 1775 proclamation by King George III urging the colonies to engage in "Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition." Other graphic entreaties were more persuasive. One from 1880 exhorts settlers to move into "Indian Territory, That Garden of the World, Open for Homestead." A health campaign from the 1940s warns, "Syphilis Keep Out!" Meanwhile, another broadside urges Americans to eat a balanced diet to "Make America Strong...