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...second unexpected rebellion, the House refused to pass legislation that would begin carrying out the Panama Canal treaties, which require that the waterway be turned over to Panama...
From the rice fields of northern Luzon to the coconut groves of southern Mindanao, anger and rebellion are rising in the Philippines, a country that threatens to become a powder keg in the Pacific region. The resentment is directed primarily at the corruption-tinged, autocratic regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, who seven years ago imposed martial law on the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago. Today he rules as both President and Prime Minister over a dangerously deteriorating society. Despite statistically impressive increases in his country's per capita income, poverty and hunger affect most of the Philippines...
Despite a costly five-year military campaign, an armed rebellion among the Muslim Moros in Mindanao and Sulu has been contained but not suppressed. In other rural regions, the smaller Maoist New Peoples Army is growing in size. Marauding bands of N.P.A. guerrillas frequently harass army patrols and sometimes even occupy isolated villages for several days at a time. Few Filipinos, and even fewer knowledgeable Western observers, are convinced that the country is on the verge of becoming another Iran. But many fear that in the long run the confluence of injustice and bloodshed could threaten the Marcos regime...
...America's sons of bitches, and Sukarno of Indonesia, who was Moscow's and who was ousted in an anti-Communist military coup in 1966. Even today the Soviet Union is hard pressed to save the tottering Marxist dictatorship of President Noor Mohammed Taraki from an Islamic rebellion in Afghanistan...
...holy man but as the incarnate Lord of Compassion. His person is crucial to the fate of his landlocked Himalayan homeland, and thus to relations with China and the Soviet Union. He has lived in exile in Dharmsala, India, since 1959, when he fled after Chinese troops crushed a rebellion by Tibetans. His country, he told TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger, has yet to enjoy the modest liberalization that is occurring in China itself. Though their situation is improving slightly, Tibetans "are not at all happy. They practically remain prisoners. The Chinese are not yet matured fully" in their religious policy...