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- <text id=89TT1016>
- <title>
- Apr. 17, 1989: World Notes:The Philippines
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 17, 1989 Alaska
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 39
- World Notes
- THE PHILIPPINES
- Fertilizer of His Country
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Imelda Marcos, the outspoken wife of the Philippines'
- deposed President, is nothing if not determined to take her man
- home. But Ferdinand Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, refuses
- to allow the 71-year-old former leader, who suffers from heart
- and lung ailments, to return dead or alive from exile in Hawaii.
- </p>
- <p> That being so, Imelda told a Philippine newspaper, should
- her husband pass away she will have his body embalmed and put on
- display in Hawaii as a political statement and "an international
- spectacle." There it would remain until 1992, the next
- presidential-election year. Then, under a presumably more
- lenient regime, she would take his remains home, have them
- cremated and scatter his ashes over the Philippines, she says,
- "to fertilize his country."
- </p>
- <p> Ferdinand would not be the first Marcos to be treated
- specially after death. His mother Josefa, who died last May at
- 95, was embalmed and remains on public display in her home
- village awaiting the Marcoses' return, when she too will be
- interred.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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