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- <text id=91TT1764>
- <title>
- Aug. 12, 1991: World Notes:The Philippines
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- THE PHILIPPINES
- You Can Go Home Again
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Start packing the shoes--Imelda Marcos is free to go home.
- For the past five years, the exiled wife of former Philippine
- President Ferdinand Marcos has been barred from her native land
- by President Corazon Aquino's coup-plagued regime. But last week
- Manila lifted the ban so it could begin criminal prosecution of
- Marcos, who under Philippine law must be present at her trial.
- The aim: to recover $350 million in allegedly ill-gotten wealth
- now frozen in Swiss bank accounts.
- </p>
- <p> The Swiss federal court ruled in December that the money
- should be freed in one year unless Marcos is indicted in the
- Philippines on criminal charges linked to the accounts. A day
- after announcing that Marcos and her three children could come
- home, Manila filed 29 charges of tax fraud against the family,
- including 11 against Imelda.
- </p>
- <p> The government, however, refused to allow the remains of
- Ferdinand Marcos, who died in Hawaii in 1989, to be returned for
- burial. Imelda, who lives in New York City, denounced that as
- "cruel" and said "it will be up to the lawyers" whether she goes
- home or not.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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