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ingenue politico who actually spoke of accepting into government representatives of the New People's Army, a guerrilla band that has displayed in rural areas a ferocity comparable to that of the...
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...Contrary to the hopeful reports on her in our media, she gained no political acumen while her husband-vas alive and conferring with political allies...
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...Footnote: A couple of weeks ago, a member of one of the observer teams told me that the CIA was involved in anti-Marcos activity in the Philippines: both with NAMFREL, the volunteerwatchdog organization that steered U.S...
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...Cory Aquino whom the credulous on this side of the Pacific are trying to transform into that wonder of American folklore: the amateur who grows and deepens while in office...
...It is the great weakness of people like Marcos—and the real reason why they are so despised by left-wing idealists—that they really do seem to enjoy the trappings of power more than the reality of it...
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...Marcos supporters were "buying votes with money and rice . . . " Buying votes...
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...ingenue politico who actually spoke of accepting into government representatives of the New People's Army, a guerrilla band that has displayed in rural areas a ferocity comparable to that of the Khmer Rouge...
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...He seemed to visualize his audience merely as an enlarged version of his own immediate household of family, flatterers, and retainers...
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...Clines continued: "I'm fine and strong, I'm quite ready to go to combat," he said, surprising the nation anew by somehow managing to pop up wraithlike on the screen of a different television channel after the rebels had seized the government station...
...Should he come stateside, the left will predictably stir up a hue and cry against him...
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...What a half-hearted dictator Mar-cos really was...
...Next there was a sequence showing thousands of delegates, who might as well have been dummies, seated obediently inside the Kremlin as Gorbachev read a speech criticizing the United States...
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...In two decades he has ruined an economy once second only to Japan's in Asia...
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...Aquino is as ridiculous as her dictatorial opponent and as improbable a head of state as Woody Allen...
...Marcos, wearing a windbreaker, as he lapsed into his standard reassurance about his health...
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...Nevertheless, silliness has its place in statecraft...
...Machel must realize that he is in every respect much better off in the socialist camp...
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...Marcos's supreme hauteur, which he manifests so often especially when questioned by American TV journalists, merely emphasizes the extraordinary dimensions of his absurdity...
...After all, that shrewd French statesman of decades past, Georges Clemenceau, depreciated Americans for just this shortcoming, serving bad coffee That was his second complaint...
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...The trend in the Philippines had obviously been toward democracy...
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...Philippine civic life is grotesque...
...Finally there was an exchange between George Will and ABC regular, Manhattan-reared Vladimir Posner...
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...Someday Philippine historians may remember him as the De-spoiler of his country, and it is still more evidence of his absurdity that hesees himself as the Father of his country...
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...Every day I have been expecting this to come out in the papers, but somehow it never has...
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...But this was too snail-paced, even though America's own history tells us that League of Women Voter-approved democracy is not something that appears overnight...
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...And that is the problem right there, ABC's Walter Rodgers told us...
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...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1986 11 seen in him a fellow idealist...
...Machel would be foolish to shift his allegiance...
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...In this instance, apparently, the principle of free disclosure (always healthy, allegedly) was subordinated to the substance of policy...
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...Better be prepared for observer teams, a tour of inspection from Stephen Solarz of Brooklyn, media sermons galore...
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...Behind him, and in front of another palace, the Kremlin, a small convoy of apparently armored cars came trawling down the empty street...
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...I am not sick of anything that is malignant or incurable," he said...
...Without much conviction, Jennings told us how important the Congress was...
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...David Broder called him odious...
...Marcos that he really is a great statesman, an Asian De Gaulle...
...As I write Marcos is in Hawaii...
...Now that is power...
...There's no chance David Broder will call him odious...
...Policemen on permanent duty arresting demonstrators outside the South African embassy will be able to take a well-deserved vacation...
...How can the great leader energize the masses if the masses pay no attention...
...He held an election, he bought votes, he let in the TV cameras and crews and reporters and outside observer teams to record the details minutely...
...Here's someone who seized power when the Portuguese left and he immediately allied himself with the Soviets—analogous to the most powerful Mafia family in the region...
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...observers to just those precincts where vote fraud was most likely to occur...
...Fine—aid should be cut off everywhere...
...Yet with the Soviets we proceed obsequiously to the negotiating table-thereby conceding that we are at least partly to blame for the tension created by our resistance to Soviet aggression...
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...Marcos was a relic from the time (1937) when Franklin D. Roosevelt said of Rafael Trujillo: "A sonofabitch, but our sonofabitch...
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...Then, as though sporadically conscious of our status as a great power (we should be firm with someone), we take it out on an old-fashioned weakman with a palace full of gilt-encrusted furniture and real estate in Hawaii...
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...He didn't dictate that much either—not the way the heirs of Lenin dictate—telling you to inform on your parents, where to work, not to leave the country, not to go to church .. . Francis X. Clines of the New York Times gave us a good vignette of the dictator's last day in the Malacanang Palace, "clinging to his gold-tipped executive throne and uttering rambling lawyer's monologues about the orderli-ness he claimed to see all about him...
...Back to Ted Koppel in Manila...
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...This in turn is likely to be as unhelpful to Filipinos as it was when it went to Marcos—perhaps a good deal more so...
...Along comes the deputation from the An Alternative to Truth Squads on Campus Accuracy in Academia is creating a network of classroom informants to expose radical propaganda disguised as education...
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...She served coffee...
...Someone will reassure the somnolent Reagan that everything's all right, the goal is to "reduce the level of violence in the region...
...He had been on TV many times, all over the world no doubt, and he seemed pathetically out of touch: deluded enough to think that if only he repeated in an incredulous tone the numerous charges against him, projecting an imperial disdain for his accusers, then the charges would somehow melt away into implausibility and he would be vindicated...
...All Gorbachev has is thousands, indeed millions, of state slaves who must obey his commands under pain of death...
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...Acknowledging her own vacuous governmental background, she pledged to govern through a panel of fifty experts ("I think it would be logical for me to assume that I would be able to inspire at least fifty qualified and dedicated men and women to help me run the government," she pronounced upon declaring her candidacy...
...Marcos declared rather casually to the nation as he sat behind a large presidential shield...
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...Notice that he's still in power eleven years later...
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...Marcos promptly dubbedthese unnamed persons her "fifty nincompoops...
...He actually got a lot of laughs traveling the country asking what their identities might be, though he himself frequents seers and other quacks and though the flyblown condition of his country might never have gotten so bad had his government employed solely nincompoops...
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