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When President Ferdinand Marcos took office in December, he vowed to investigate and weed out corruption in the Philippines. Last week a Senator from his own Nationalist Party told him where to look: among the investigators...
...festival rites, fanciers could weed out the poppies from the poppycock. Side by side, split-nailed suburban housewives and well-manicured Manhattan matrons, as well as a surprising number of camera-toting men, strolled through the better commercial displays, ooohing, aaahing, envying and inquiring. "They must have a secret!" exclaimed one housewife in front of a tub of Golden Wine roses. "Ah, geraniums! I love them because they are so hardy!" said another...
...letters of preference, it will become impossible to assign freshmen according to their wishes and still preserve a roughly equal distribution in the Houses between private and public school graduates, academic and athletic stars, and other categories. The Administration will be put in the difficult position of having to weed out the iflmsier reasons for requesting a House, and distinguish "substantial" and "unsubstantial" motives...
Guiding the program will be the new Rural Construction Cadres, which are simply an expanded form of the PATs. Some cadres will conduct a census of the village, issue identification cards and weed out Viet Cong suspects. Meanwhile, other cadres will start schools, provide medical services, help farmers get crops of rice and corn planted, organize local government and help train leaders. The final, far-off stage calls for free elections and handing the village governments over to local people...
Every incoming President of the Philippines has taken office with a vow to clean up the corruption that plagues the nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the illicit traffic in whisky, cigarettes and luxury goods that cheats the national treasury of an annual $125 million in import duties. It is a huge task, but Marcos has got off to an impressively early start...