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From: jchavez@td2cad.intel.com (Joas Chavez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: rates for summer flights home
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:37:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA

In article <1993Jan8.172432.27243@athena.mit.edu> lvbcheng@athena.mit.edu (Beethoven Cheng) writes:
>
>Hi! Does anyone know offhand of reputable travel agencies
>that specialize in travel to the Philippines? I have read
>the FAQ in rec.travel.air and have followed all discussions
>on this newsgroup about fares and whatnot in the past few
>months. What I am particularly interested in are these
>'bucket shops' and/or consolidators mentioned in the
>rec.travel.air FAQ. Anyone have any travel agency they'd
>like to recommend? I'll post a summary if there is enough
>interest.
>
>-Beethoven Cheng

Mr. Cheng,
	Tanks for the concern,  I am also interested on the fare rates
from here to the P.I. If you can post the summary on all airlines I
think that would help a lot more.  The reasons why is bec. I had a bad
experience two years ago from PAL.  It was summer and it is also the one
of the bussiest time to go home.  PAL was fully book and they ahve to
stop over in Honalulu and Guam, and it took us 22hrs. before we reach
P.I.  Not to mentioned that the bathrooms in the plane are really smell.
It was reallly a bad experience for us after 12yrs of not seeing the
pilipinas.  Someone mentioned it to me that United is the best
alternative flight going back to gthe philippines.  I would like to
patronized our own as much as i can but, the uncomfortability and the long
journey is something you cannot tolerate. Anyway,  I thank you in
advance for your concern... maraming salamat po... jojo
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Gov Urged to Take Tougher Stand Against Imelda
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:07:09 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- The Philippines should toughen its stand
on the recovery of ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos' alleged ill-gotten
wealth by stressing more on litigation than on negotiation, a senior
official said Tuesday.
	``We must scrap the former negotiating tack in favor of a tougher
stance such as gearing more on litigation,'' said Magtanggol Gunigundo,
head of a commission tasked to recover billions of dollars Marcos
allegedly looted from the country.
	``The approach will be tougher so that those dealing with the
government will know that we mean business,'' Gunigundo told reporters.
	His remarks came amid an apparent effort by the deposed ruler's
widow, Imelda, to delay the signing of an agreement with the Philippine
government to repatriate $356 million the couple deposited in Swiss
banks.
	Manila has maintained the fund is part of the fortune the Marcoses
allegedly plundered from the country during the dictator's 20-year rule.
	Mrs. Marcos has shifted her stand on the agreement several times
since early this month, confusing government officials and the media.
	Last week, she demanded that the return of her husband's remains from
Honolulu, where he died in 1989, be part of the agreement but later
backed down. Manila has banned the return of the body for political
reasons.
	This week, she said she could not sign the pact without risking the
ire of a U.S. judge, who issued an injunction on all Marcos assets in
connection with a human rights case against the late president.
	Honolulu Judge Manuel Real ruled last year the Marcos estate was
liable for the systematic torture, rape, murder and forced
disappearances of some 10,000 Filipinos during his rule.
	Separate trials to determine how much money would be paid to the
victims were scheduled this month and could complicate the government's
claims to the Marcos billions.
	Gunigundo also complained preliminary talks to settle dozens of
corruption and tax evasion charges against Mrs. Marcos have not been
progressing well.
	``For the past six months, this matter has been explored but nothing
happened,'' he said. ``So we might shift gear by preparing now for
litigation so that the government will be ready to proceed with the
cases.
	Marcos was toppled in a civilian-backed military revolt in 1986.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: ajpg1322@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Angelo J. Paguia)
Subject: Re: Last week well getting haircut..
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:34:08 GMT

Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Friends,

>       Last week while getting haircut. A Fillipino gentlemen discussed
>with me an event about the late Mr. Marcos and some treasury he found
>that had connection with the Japanese. Please fill me in on this
>information. Thank you!

This was on the headlines back in the 70's about the "Golden Buddha".
At the end of the war, the Japanese apparently confiscated, looted, etc.
the Filipinos (I don't know if these was a house to house operation or
whether it was from the Philippine treasury or what--anyway, there was
a lot of jewelry and gold involved) to help them finance more war efforts
or something. They could not or did not transport it back to Japan and
so they hid it in the mountains, the location of which was unknown for
a long time. The news was that someone had located the loot, but Marcos
immediately clamped down on all the info about it, wiping it off the
newspapers, all the while merrily helping himself to it. The gold was
apparently melted into the form of a Golden Buddha and the jewels stored
inside it.

When Marcos was fleeing the Philippines, there was talk of all the 
jewelry and stuff that was being carted onto the US planes. Some of these
were rumored to be the Golden Buddha and other jewelry that went with it.

In all fairness, I do not know the verity of any of these rumors as
there was a lot of gossip on anything and everything during the martial
law days as that was the only form of passing on news. Everyone knew
that the newspapers carried either desensitized/censored news or even
fabricated ones. We Filipinos really went through a lot with Marcos.

Angelo
From: jchavez@td2cad.intel.com (Joas Chavez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: early fil-ams
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:28:00 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA

In article <12JAN199310093682@oregon.uoregon.edu> arboleda@oregon.uoregon.edu (Jiffin I. Arboleda) writes:
>the filipino student group at the university of oregon will be presenting its
>annual cultural night on April 25, to kick off the university's international
>week. i am asking anybody/everybody's help in finding audio, video and other
>kinds of materials concerning early filipinos in the united states. pls. e-mail
>any kind of help to me at this address:arboleda@oregon.uoregon.edu. we won't be
>able to pay anything but we will be eternally greatful and we can acknowledge
>your help in our souvenir program.
>

Mr. J. Arbodela,
	Yes! there is a thick book from University of California,
Berkeley.  The title of the Book is Asian Am. Studies 124  by: Rudy
Busto.  In 1989 it cost about $23.00 I recommend this book if you are
interested in the first Filipino in U.S. I am not sure if they still
carrying it but, you may wanna try it anyway.  It covers from the very
first Filipino, Heritage, Jose Rizal, the Culture, the Migration atbp.
I am sure this will help you. If you can't find one let me know or the
group maybe we can search also.  may god bless...  

jojo 



>maraming salamat! 

walang anuman ...



masdan ang kabukiran... 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: CMIS27@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Roda Farrell)
Subject: Re: Rookie Carroca in MFY
Organization: Motorola
Date: 7 Jan 1993 08:58:27 CST

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)

Okay, I let this topic drift by long enough.

I went to see a Broadway show recently called My Favorite Year, which was
a musical adaptation of a comedy movie. Well, the critics hated it, but
never mind. One of the minor characters in it was an ex-boxer named Rookie
Carroca, who was played by a Japanese actor sporting a semi-Chinese
accent. It wasn't until I thought about a line that was sung ("his tuna
Philippine"), and a magazine article that I realized that the character
was Filipino.

Okay, where were the hordes of protesting actors that tried to get
Jonathan Pryce dumped? I mean, here, it is clear that as far as the
producers were concerned, one Oriental was as good as another, not
bothering at all to make the distinction. Comments, anyone?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Jonathan Pryce Caucasian?  I thought
his playing a half-Asian was the issue.

Along the same lines, I just saw Miss Saigon.  Most of the Vietnamese
characters were played by Filipinos, including the Engineer
and the little boy.  Kim was Filipino-Chinese-Spanish-German.

On another tangent, does anyone have any updates re: the children left
behind by American troops in Olongapo, etc?

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Subject: Rookie Carroca in MFY
Reply-To: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:25:52 GMT

Okay, I let this topic drift by long enough.

I went to see a Broadway show recently called My Favorite Year, which was
a musical adaptation of a comedy movie. Well, the critics hated it, but
never mind. One of the minor characters in it was an ex-boxer named Rookie
Carroca, who was played by a Japanese actor sporting a semi-Chinese
accent. It wasn't until I thought about a line that was sung ("his tuna
Philippine"), and a magazine article that I realized that the character
was Filipino.

Okay, where were the hordes of protesting actors that tried to get
Jonathan Pryce dumped? I mean, here, it is clear that as far as the
producers were concerned, one Oriental was as good as another, not
bothering at all to make the distinction. Comments, anyone?

-rich
Richard Sucgang  : Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology Columbia University
(sucgang@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu | rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
"...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, individually, collectively or otherwise." 
			-Colm Wilkinson, Highlights from Jekyll and Hyde
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Gov and Imelda Agree on Swiss Accounts
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:02:50 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Government lawyers and former first lady
Imelda Marcos have agreed on the terms for the transfer to Philippine
banks of $356 million that her husband allegedly stashed in Switzerland,
an official said Tuesday.
	Solicitor General Raul Goco said the government has agreed to a
request by the widow of ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos that 70 per
cent of the amount be deposited in a government bank and the remaining
30 per cent be placed in private financial institutions.
	The agreement, which is to be signed after Mrs. Marcos arrives from
Hong Kong, will pave the way for the release of the cash by Swiss
authorities who froze the accounts in 1986 when President Marcos was
chased from power by a civilian-backed military revolt. Marcos died in
Hawaiian exile three years later.
	The Philippine government has claimed the Swiss accounts are part of
the stolen Marcos fortune.
	Under the draft agreement, the funds will be held in escrow under the
names of both the government and Mrs. Marcos until the courts decide
their rightful owner.
	``It will be deposited in the name of the two parties...and it cannot
be withdrawn without the approval of both,'' Goco said.
	The pact does not rule out the possibility of a compromise between
Mrs. Marcos and the government that could lead to the dismissal of a
string of suits against the Marcos heirs that are tied to the money.
	``This agreement is without prejudice to any further compromise that
may be entered into by (both parties ) with respect to cases that have
been filed against Mrs. Marcos and her children,'' it said.
	President Fidel Ramos said the transfer of the money to the
Philippines was a ``major step'' toward the recovery of the ill-gotten
Marcos wealth,lthough the government still did not have legal possession
of it.
	``At least, we are assured that the money is in here in the country,''
Ramos told reporters during his weekly news conference.
	``Depending on what legal agreements or decisions are made, maybe
there may be a legal way of using the money and the proceeds thereof for
the benefit of our people.''
	Under the accord, state lawyers will also appear before a Hawaiian
court to explain how the funds' transfer did not violate an injunction
it issued last year barring the return of the money to the Phillippines
until damage claims by some 10,000 human rights victims during the Marco
regime have been settled.
	Goco earlier said the Swiss accounts were public funds and not part
of the Marcos estate.
From: abner@wente.llnl.gov (Abner F. Bello)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Fil-American Named as Sole Heir
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:48:04 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

(USENET News System) writes:
>
>	MANILA,Philippines (UPI) -- A 22-year-old homeless Filipino working as
>a volunteer at a former U.S. naval base has been named the sole heir to
>the estate of the American father he never met.

       -- other stuff deleted --

>	U.S. law bars Filipino Amerasians from becoming American citizens
>unlike their counterparts in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, South Korea and
>Cambodia allegedly because there is no discrimination in the Philippines
>for mixed races.
>	Gordon said he has sought the help of the U.S. Congress to amend the
>law.

Well, seems like pure discrimination to me!  Everyone please write their
congress representative and their senator.

***********************************************************************
Abner Farrales Bello	Department of Applied Science (Physics, really)
Graduate Student	University of California, Davis/Livermore
			Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

                        abner@wente.llnl.gov
***********************************************************************
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Ramos Wants Peace Talks in Phils
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:58:23 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- President Fidel Ramos rejected Saturday
fresh demands by communist guerrillas to hold peace talks abroad and
insisted that further discussions take place in the Philippines.
	``Let us discuss this now at home because this is an internal
problem,'' Ramos said in a radio interview. ``I think we can talk about
this in our motherland.''
	Ramos, a former general, has offered peace to the country's three
insurgent groups -- communist guerrillas, right-wing military rebels and
Muslim separatists -- shortly after taking office June 30.
	His efforts have been most successful with the military rebels, who
have agreed to formal peace negotiations with a government panel this
month on ending their six-year rebellion.
	Talks with the communist rebels and Muslim separatists have been
stalled over their demands that talks be held in third countries.
	Manila last month formally invited communist leaders Jose Maria Sison
and Luis Jalandoni, who are living in exile in the Netherlands, to
Manila for the second round of exploratory talks and assured them of
their security.
	Sison is chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines while
Jalandoni, a former Roman Catholic priest, is the rebels' chief
negotiator.
	Officials said there has been no formal response from the two
communist leaders, but Sison, in published statements, has kept to his
demands.
	The first round of preliminary discussions were held in last
September in the Dutch city of Utrecht where Sison and Jalandoni keep
offices.
	Ramos said the government would try to convince the rebel leaders to
come home.
	The president said Wednesday three to four Filipinos are either
killed or wounded every day in the communist insurgency, which is now in
its 24th year.
From: jaylem@silver.spear.apana.org.au (Jaylem Roberts)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re:Notebook PC's
Date: 5 Jan 1993 23:49:14 +1100
Summary: travel to Manila
Keywords: Custom Manila

In article <iD6TwB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>, htodino@student.business.uwo.ca (Honorio S. Todino) writes:
>> Manigong bagong taon sa inyong lahat!

>Thanks!  I hope yours will be happy too!

>> I will be going to the Philippines for a conference/vacation in February. 
>> I am hoping to have a notebook PC to keep working on my research (while 
>> sitting on the beach in La Union, under the coconut trees--aaaah). Now my 
>> questions are: If any of you have tried to handcarry a PC back have you 
>> had problems with Customs? Will they ask for lagay or for customs fees? 
>> Do I need to prove that I will bring it back here? If so how? 
>> Alternatively, would it be cheaper to buy a notebook PC in the Phil. than 
>> here? Do we have any local manufacturers or stuff from Taiwan, etc.?

> I have some friends who just came back and they told me that hardware
> was more expensive in the Philippines (though software is not <grin>
> as previous posts have mentioned).  I'm not sure if the difference is
> due to some duty imposed on imports or due to the valuation of the
> Peso.  I wish UP was on the internet so we could get this kind of
> info from a reliable and timely source...

>> Tips and suggestions will be appreciated. Salamat po.
                                                    ^^
> Do I sound that old? :-)

> Cheers,

> Chris

My husband has hand carried (lugged) his Compaq 386 Portable through
Manila Airport, to and from Australia without any problems. No fees,
paperwork or anything.

Can confirm what Chris says re hardware prices.

Maligayang paglalakbay,

Jaylem Roberts
From: jaylem@silver.spear.apana.org.au (Jaylem Roberts)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re:Notebook PC's
Date: 6 Jan 1993 12:46:55 +1100
Summary: travel to Manila
Keywords: Custom Manila

In article <iD6TwB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>, htodino@student.business.uwo.ca (Honorio S. Todino) writes:
>> Manigong bagong taon sa inyong lahat!

>Thanks!  I hope yours will be happy too!

>> I will be going to the Philippines for a conference/vacation in February. 
>> I am hoping to have a notebook PC to keep working on my research (while 
>> sitting on the beach in La Union, under the coconut trees--aaaah). Now my 
>> questions are: If any of you have tried to handcarry a PC back have you 
>> had problems with Customs? Will they ask for lagay or for customs fees? 
>> Do I need to prove that I will bring it back here? If so how? 
>> Alternatively, would it be cheaper to buy a notebook PC in the Phil. than 
>> here? Do we have any local manufacturers or stuff from Taiwan, etc.?

> I have some friends who just came back and they told me that hardware
> was more expensive in the Philippines (though software is not <grin>
> as previous posts have mentioned).  I'm not sure if the difference is
> due to some duty imposed on imports or due to the valuation of the
> Peso.  I wish UP was on the internet so we could get this kind of
> info from a reliable and timely source...

>> Tips and suggestions will be appreciated. Salamat po.
                                                    ^^
> Do I sound that old? :-)

> Cheers,

> Chris

My husband has hand carried (lugged) his Compaq 386 Portable through
Manila Airport, to and from Australia without any problems. No fees,
paperwork or anything.

Can confirm what Chris says re hardware prices.

Maligayang paglalakbay,

Jaylem Roberts 




Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: albert@mathlab.sunysb.edu (Jose Ramon Albert)
Subject: Re: Last week well getting haircut..
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook, Dept. of Math
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:17:19 GMT

jpg1322@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Angelo J. Paguia) writes

> This was on the headlines back in the 70's about the "Golden Buddha"

I thought that the Golden Buddha caper was masterminded by Don~a Josefa.
I assume the reference that the Filipino gentleman at the 
barber shop made was to that of the Yamashita treasure (w/c is
another story), though similar as far as treasure grabbing is
concerned (but this time it was Marcos who stole it from the fellow 
who located the treasure).  If I am not mistaken this fellow is also now
joining the litigation cases vs the Marcos estate.  Unfortunately
for him, he has not been awarded anything so far (as a judge in 
Hawaii very recently awarded some properties back to the Phil govt 
and nothing to him).


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Jose Ramon "Toots" Albert                     "ang di lumingon sa 
albert@ams.sunysb.edu                          pinanggalingan, di
Department of Applied Math and Statistics      makararating sa
State University of New York at Stony Brook    patutungohan" 
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600
(516) 632-2192
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From: dannya@ESD.3Com.COM (Danny Alvendia)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Pinoy in the 9 Ball Semifinals
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:20:32 GMT
Organization: 3Com Corporation


 I saw in ESPN last night a semifinals match between
 Jose Parica and Buddy Hall.

 They played 9 ball and Parica (Pinoy) won the match
 9 - 5. Is this a replay? Nevertheless, I marveled at
 the way Jose Parica played and also his composure.

 I noticed however, that both players would smirk or
 give a devilish grin when they would make a great
 shot. They must be playing mind games. 

 Parica is the '92 9-Ball champion in the Philippines
 and has since moved and lives in La Puente, Cal. He was
 dwarfed by the tall and burly Hall but then pool is a 
 game of finesse and not strength.

 If this is a replay, can anyone tell me what became of
 Jose Parica?

 Salamat at ingat,

 /Danny
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: ron@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald Viegelahn)
Subject: Need " Santo nino de Cebu " festival info
Reply-To: ron@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald Viegelahn)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:08:49 GMT



 Hello 

 I'm hoping that someone will be willing to help me out with alittle
info...

 I'm looking for the details on the up-coming " Santo nino de Cebu " 
festival in San Francisco. I heard that it was on the 16th.

 My wife is interested in attending ( she's from Cebu ) and I don't
want to let her down. I could use the following info:

1: date & time mass starts

2: Name of the Church and address

3: Directions if possible, I'll be coming from vallejo on I-80.




				Thanks alot !

				Ron Viegelahn

				ron@etcheshop.Berkeley.EDU

 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: an3892@anon.penet.fi
Subject: 2 Filipinos Among Those Killed Palatine Restaurant
Organization: Anonymous contact service
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:57:27 GMT

Michael Castro, 16, of Palatine and Rico Solis, 17, of Arlington Heights,
both students at Palatine High School

source: GMA Network News, tape delayed broadcast, Jan 11, 1992

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