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- <link 93HT0860>
- <title>
- Jan. 07, 1991: World Notes:Philippines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 07, 1991 Men Of The Year:The Two George Bushes
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 66
- World Notes
- PHILIPPINES
- A Big-Bucks Verdict
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Imelda Marcos will now have to find her shoe money
- somewhere else. She suffered a stinging--and costly--legal
- setback last week, when the Swiss Supreme Court cleared the way
- for the return to the Philippines of $350 million deposited in
- Swiss banks by her husband, former President Ferdinand Marcos.
- The court ruled that the money, which has been frozen in
- several banks since the Marcoses fled Manila in February 1986,
- would be returned to the country if a Philippine criminal court
- issued a legally binding verdict against the couple.
- </p>
- <p> President Corazon Aquino hailed the ruling as a "victory
- for the people." Neither Marcos, who died in exile in September
- 1989, nor his widow has ever been charged with a criminal
- offense in the Philippines, but prosecutors expressed confidence
- that the problem could be sidestepped by rulings in the civil
- suits filed against the Marcoses.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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