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...everything will be perfect. He appointed his brother-in-law, Benjamin Romualdez, as Ambassador to Washington expressly to handle the U.S. trip. In recent weeks, Manila's leading corporations and advertising agencies have dispatched their top public relations executives to convince the skeptical U.S. media that Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, who are scheduled to set foot on the White House lawn this week, are just about the best friends that Washington has in Asia...
Crucial friends to be sure: Clark Air Force Base and Subic Naval Base, the major U.S. military facilities in the Philippines, are vital staging areas for forces in the Pacific, a point that Imelda Marcos delights in driving home. "The Americans need us more than we need them," she told TIME. "They don't realize that if they lose their last bastion in the Pacific, they cannot be a superpower here. We will not allow the U.S. to treat us shabbily." President Ronald Reagan, who has down-played human rights issues since taking office, is exempt from that resentment...
...scene at Manila's Malacañang Palace leaves little doubt that the two most powerful people in the Philippines are both named Marcos. While President Ferdinand Marcos receives a constant stream of visitors in his study, which is just off the main reception hall, First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos holds court next door in the music room. Last week, a few days before leaving on his trip to the U.S., the President discussed at length his wife, human rights and other issues with TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Ross H. Munro and Manila Stringer Nelly Sindayen. Excerpts from...
...amateur golf champion and professional basketball coach, Manotoc disappeared Dec. 29 after a quiet, private dinner at a Manila restaurant with Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26. The couple had been wed in a civil ceremony in Arlington, Va., three weeks earlier, after Manotoc had obtained a quickie divorce from his first wife, in the Dominican Republic. The bride's family took a dim view of the pairing, however, and the groom's family subsequently accused the Marcoses of involvement in his disappearance...
Against the wishes of the President and his wife Imelda, Manotoc had married Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26, a law student at the University of the Philippines, on Dec. 4 in Arlington, Va. Although a ransom note had offered to release Manotoc for $2.5 million and freedom for four Communists, the Manotoc family believed it to be a fake. They accused the Marcoses of being behind the kidnaping. The Marcoses, in turn, blamed a conspiracy between the Manotocs and anti-Marcos opposition groups. Since then, the two families have been feuding like the Montagues and the Capulets...