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- LETTERS, Page 9Clairvoyant Consultants
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- Hindsight is beautiful. In his article, Walter Shapiro
- implies that 20 years ago, in 1969, I should have been
- perceptive enough to know that Ferdinand Marcos did not have a
- "commitment to democracy" and that presumably I should not have
- worked for him in the last free and open democratic presidential
- election held in the Philippines (ESSAY, Sept. 4). The writer
- is correct when he says I refused to work for Marcos in 1986.
- I am sure he is not aware that on several earlier occasions I
- also rejected overtures to work for the Marcos government. I do
- wish I were blessed with the clairvoyance Shapiro suggests that
- all consultants should have, so that I could know what my
- candidates would do five or ten or 15 years after they were
- elected.
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- Joseph Napolitan New York City
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