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...waving members of the Kabataang Barangay, a civic beautification organization for teenagers. Before long the Quezon and Jones bridges, which siphon cars across the Pasig River into Manila's downtown Ermita district, were too clogged for the traffic to move. By the time President Ferdinand Marcos, First Lady Imelda, Daughter Irene and Son Bongbong reached the Luneta grandstand in Rizal Park, fully 1.6 million supporters were jammed in front of them waving flags and shouting...
Nearly 80 faculty members of Tufts University have signed a letter protesting the university's acceptance last week of a $1.5 million grant from Imelda Marcos, the wife of the president of the Phillipines...
...Imelda Marcos, wife of Phillipines President Ferdinand E. Marcos, will attend a luncheon at Tufts University today to announce a $1 million combined grant from several private Phillipine foundations to the Asian Studies Program at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy...
...housed in 14 shiny new glass-and-cement hotels fitted out with such amenities as outdoor golf ranges and waterfalls in the lobbies. Meetings were held in the dazzling, just finished $125 million convention center. To keep the finance ministers and bankers amused between sessions, Marcos and his wife Imelda also brought in an exhibit of ancient Egyptian treasures, the Soviet Union's Bolshoi Ballet and, from the U.S., Pianist Van Cliburn and Metropolitan Opera Soprano Montserrat Caballe. Even the shanties in the city's slums were freshly whitewashed for the occasion. "It is our hope," Marcos cracked...
...statement is true, but Marcos would probably not be offended by it. The contemporary world figure admired most by both Marcos and Imelda is China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung (see story page 22). Reason: Mao, as the President puts it, united "800 million volatile and historically disparate and separated people." Except for the population figure, the phrase could equally apply to the Philippines. Marcos also admires another great historical figure. "What was Napoleon's maxim?" he asks rhetorically. " 'The art of power is not how to use your friends but how to use your enemies...