Word: snapping
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Thus the wily Philippine leader wrapped up the loose ends in an extraordinary new political gambit that he had first unveiled five days earlier. Appearing on ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley, Marcos had startled almost everyone when he declared his willingness to call a snap election "right now." Said Marcos: "I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready." After the program, the Philippine leader stated his preference for Jan. 17 balloting, which would also mark the fifth anniversary of the dissolution of the 1972 martial-law proclamation that began his era of authoritarian rule. Two days...
...whether to participate in the election or to boycott it. More realistically, oppositionists hope that a Supreme Court fight will give them more time to organize their political machinery. Twelve opposition parties agreed last June to unite around a single presidential candidate in the event of just such a snap election, but so far only three have done so. If opposition leaders can agree with the K.B.L. on the conditions for holding an election, they will then try to hammer out a common ticket, possibly holding a convention to choose their presidential and vice-presidential nominees...
...opposition presidential candidate is to have a chance against the well-oiled Marcos machine. But the Communist-influenced National Democratic Front, an outlawed political organization that exercises considerable sway over more moderate leftist groups in the Philippines, has not yet decided whether to encourage participation in the snap election. Says Antonio Zumel, a leading member of the clandestine executive committee of the Front: "I think all this is designed to befuddle the opposition. They should know Marcos. He is playing them on the defensive...
...MARCOS' ANNOUNCEMENT. We favor a snap election. But the elections must be free and fair. That's all we want...
...assembled. The film merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo; then a Road Runner--style chase zips by in superspeedy-mo. The Pig Sty denizens have the resilience of Warner Bros. cartoon characters: lips, throats, bosoms expand to gargantuan size, then snap back. Punctuating the mayhem are sound effects (mooing, clucking, cat mewls, toad croaks) worthy of a Spike Jones symphony...