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- <text id=89TT2705>
- <title>
- Oct. 16, 1989: World Notes:The Philippines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- World Notes
- THE PHILIPPINES
- Body Politics
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Dead men may tell no tales, but they can certainly cause
- trouble. Last week, as the Philippine government continued to
- block the return of the body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage
- was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the
- political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban
- "un-Filipino." The government claimed that if Imelda Marcos was
- allowed to bring her husband home, his funeral might touch off
- disturbances that could threaten the country's economic
- recovery. Aquino knows the power of a funeral: her political
- career was ignited when massive crowds turned out for the 1983
- burial of her husband Ninoy, assassinated while being escorted
- by Marcos' soldiers.
- </p>
- <p> Marcos supporters have petitioned the Philippine Supreme
- Court to reverse its earlier decision denying re-entry to
- Marcos. In the meantime, Imelda plans to place her husband's
- body temporarily in an aboveground crypt. Plans for a wake in
- the auditorium of Manila's Honolulu consulate were dropped,
- perhaps after it was discovered that the hall was named after
- Ninoy Aquino.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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