Word: sison
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...decontrol the country's long-stifled economy. First step: to decontrol the peso itself. Recognizing that he could not risk freeing the peso without enough dollars in hand to meet any run on the banks, Macapagal last month sent a six-man mission under Finance Minister Fernando Sison...
Last week the Philippine Supreme Court ruled 9 to 1 that Macapagal could oust Garcia's man from the bank governorship and install his own. Simultaneously, members of Sison's mission returned to Manila with good news: in their search for U.S. dollars they had not met a single refusal. In hand: $166 million in private bank loans; $121 million from the International Monetary Fund and various U.S. agencies. In all, Macapagal can begin his reform administration with a sizable backlog of about $400 million. He plans to ease import-export controls, continue some tariffs...