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WORLD, Page 56World NotesTHE PHILIPPINESA Plea to Go Home
The 6 a.m. phone call roused Philippine Vice President Salvador
Laurel from his sleep. It was a sobbing Imelda Marcos on the line
with an urgent appeal from the hospital bedside of her husband,
exiled former President Ferdinand Marcos. "The doctor told him he
hasn't much time to live," she said to Laurel, pleading for
permission for Marcos to return home so that he can die in his
native land. After flying to Honolulu, where the Marcoses have
lived since fleeing Manila in 1986, Laurel visited the ailing
ex-President and agreed that he appeared to be hovering near death.
But President Corazon Aquino, who has steadfastly refused to
allow Marcos back into the country, did not budge. Despite Laurel's
bleak assessment of Marcos, who is ailing with congestive heart
failure, pneumonia and bronchial asthma, Aquino said, "I don't
think he's dying." Aquino may have nothing to fear if Marcos
returns home, but some believe Imelda might use the occasion to
rally opposition to Aquino's rule. "Let's not kid ourselves for a
moment," wrote columnist Maximo Soliven in the pro-Aquino
Philippine Star. "She's raring for a comeback."