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...before signing any new treaty. Since then, she has repeatedly maintained that she would honor the present agreement until it expires in 1991, and between now and then keep her options open. As the campaign progressed, Aquino scored points in Washington, first for showing savvy and resilience on the stump, then, after the National Assembly declared Marcos the election winner, for keeping her + followers under control. "It became pretty clear that this was no ordinary housewife," said a senior State Department official...
...campaign wore on, Marcos scattered more and more giveaways from the stump. At a typical stop in the economically depressed, sugar-producing province of Negros Occidental, where anti-Marcos sentiment is known to be strong, the President went on just such a vote-getting spree. He announced the gift of $25 million in additional credits for a sugar-marketing organization, a cut in interest rates for sugar planters from 42% to 16%, a reduction in the cost of area electricity, and the electrification of some nearby towns. His audience of farmers and townspeople, many of whom had been paid between...
...Stump Mitchell scored on runs of 5 and 16 yards and caught Neil Lomax's 5-yard pass for another touchdown as St. Louis stopped New Orleans...
From the moment one sees June (Lisa Eichhorn) the heroine of Wildrose, hacking away at a tree stump in the woods, one realizes that this is one of those films out to defend that mythic territory of American folklore known as rugged individualism. Wildrose, like Country and Heartland, attempts to highlight Man vs. Nature as a dying theme in American culture. These films constitute a new breed of Back-To-America Realism that revives the creation myth of the endangered individual as the prototypical American...
...leaning on a cane, got started off all right but then got lost in the convolution of his story. "My lie starts back in the spring of '37. I was down here on Rock Creek fishing a pretty good-size little hole." He saw a squirrel on a stump and then a bear swallowed the squirrel. Before it was all over he had caught a fish, which weighed about half a pound, that had swallowed a coon, which weighed 22 lbs. Ernie took second place...