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...Marcos' ceremonial activities have become increasingly political of late. She has her own loyalists in the government and has reportedly influenced political appointments, thereby leading Filipinos to refer to "his" and "her" governments in Malacanang Palace. As manager of the city, she faces problems that rival those of New York's Abraham Beame. Floods during the rainy season annually cause millions of dollars in property losses; equally damaging fires break out regularly during dry months. Poverty is rampant, with its attendant ills of malnutrition, disease, crime, urban decay and omnipresent filth. Imelda's first order as manager...
...Chief Howard Callaway to call the Vice President a liability to the ticket for 1976. In addition, Rumsfeld has long been uneasily at odds with Henry Kissinger, feeling that he was taking credit-at the expense of Ford-for U.S. foreign policy decisions. Some of Rumsfeld's critics refer to him as Ford's "crown prince...
...describe them as being in their 40s and having glassy, hollow-looking eyes. According to a flyer they distributed at one meeting in California, they claim to have come from the same "kingdom" as Jesus Christ. Jesus, the flyer read, left earth "in a cloud of light (what humans refer to as UFOs) and moves and returns in the same manner ... There are two individuals here now who have also come from the next kingdom, incarnate as humans ... and will soon demonstrate that same proof of overcoming death." The Two expect to be assassinated sometime soon, rise from the dead...
When Washington did finally issue a statement on the executions, it was carefully phrased to refer to the acts by the terrorists as well as the death sentences, expressing regret at "the cycle of violence that led to this tragic out come." U.S. officials pointedly and persuasively note that those executed were shot not for political or ideological "crimes" but because they had cold bloodedly killed policemen. To be sure, the hasty trial they received in Spain's military courts scarcely qualifies as justice according to Anglo-American standards. Yet, the terrorist organizations to which they belonged have openly...
...forceful Josephine Abaijah, 32, who is the only woman in the 100-member Papua New Guinea Parliament, trumpets independence for the southern region of Papua. A more serious threat to the new nation comes from separatists on the outlying island of Bougainville. Coal-black farmers and miners who disparagingly refer to lighter-skinned mainlanders as "redskins," the Bougainville secessionists argue that their island has stronger ethnic and geographic ties to the nearby Solomons, a British protectorate, than to New Guinea. A break with Bougainville would cripple the new country; the island is the site of Papua New Guinea...