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...certainly cause trouble. Last week, as the Philippine government continued to block the return of the body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban "un-Filipino." The government claimed that if Imelda Marcos was allowed to bring her husband home, his funeral might touch off disturbances that could threaten the country's economic recovery. Aquino knows the power of a funeral: her political career was ignited when massive crowds turned out for the 1983 burial of her husband Ninoy, assassinated while being escorted...
...badly, even in Hawaii. Toward the end, Ferdinand Marcos, once overlord of the Philippines, had become a joke. He mumbled that he was living on charity, but visitors to his rented $2.5 million residence $ outside Honolulu saw the dozen servants, the 30 bodyguards and the chauffeured limousine. His wife Imelda was a regular at posh local shops and every now and then gave in to the temptation to show off her finery -- except for new shoes...
...December 1988 a physician testing the deposed President's fitness to travel to New York said Marcos faked pains. A week later, when Marcos was hospitalized with congestive heart failure, many scoffed. As if to spite his critics, Marcos became truly ill and died last week at 72. Imelda once said she might refuse to bury him unless Manila allowed her to bring the corpse home. But though Aquino had flags lowered to half-staff, she reiterated that Marcos, even in death, would remain an exile for an unspecified time. As Philippine forces girded for protests by Marcos loyalists, Washington...
...always liked the sound of her own voice, and used to warble to the crowds at her husband's election rallies. Now former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos is hoping to reach a less captive audience in the U.S. with the release this week of a cassette of twelve "songs of love and friendship" that she recorded with Philippine pop singer Imelda Papin. Titled Imelda Papin Featuring Imelda Romualdez Marcos, the cassette will be produced in a limited edition of 5,000, and includes five solos by Mrs. Marcos. Papin says the songs, including Feelings and I Just Called...
That being so, Imelda told a Philippine newspaper, should her husband pass away she will have his body embalmed and put on display in Hawaii as a political statement and "an international spectacle." There it would remain until 1992, the next presidential-election year. Then, under a presumably more lenient regime, she would take his remains home, have them cremated and scatter his ashes over the Philippines, she says, "to fertilize his country...