From: butch@wet.UUCP (Butch Katigbak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Marcos Burial
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:30:47 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco


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      Philippine Government: Marcos' Reburial Must Wait 
    The Philippine government, fearing disturbances, is
 barring the return of the corpse of former President
 Ferdinand Marcos to the country until after May's elections.
    But his widow, Imelda Marcos, who is running in the
 elections, vows to defy the ban. She says she'll go ahead
 with plans to bring home his embalmed remains from Hawaii
 this weekend.
    "I am willing to go to jail for it," lawyer Antonio
 Coronel quotes Marcos as saying after being told of the
 government's decision. 
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    "We are defying the ruling of the Cabinet. We are
 bringing the body as scheduled on Sunday," Coronel says.
    Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for 20 years and was
 accused of stealing billions of dollars, died in exile in
 Hawaii in late 1989. His corpse has been kept in an
 air-conditioned crypt awaiting burial in his homeland.
    President Corazon Aquino's executive secretary Franklin
 Drilon says Marcos' return could trigger disturbances before
 the May 11 polls to elect a new president and Congress.
 
                                  

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    "We cannot risk any further disturbance in public order
 and safety at this time when emotions are high as a result
 of the election campaign," he said, reading a prepared
 statement at Mount Samat in the Bataan Peninsula.
    "The primary consideration of every Filipino at this
 point is an orderly and peaceful election which is essential
 to the preservation of our democracy," Drilon said.
    Aquino was on the peninsula to mark the 50th anniversary
 of the World War II Bataan "Death March" of Americans and
 Filipinos.
                                  

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    In her speech Aquino attacked the US for its alleged
 neglect of Filipino World War II veterans, saying it has
 remembered their valor "only in word and not in deed."
    Aquino's rebuke was the latest in a string of
 denunciations of Washington, which Manila once considered
 its closest friend and ally.
    Coronel, the lawyer for Marcos, says he spoke to the
 former first lady while she was campaigning in the northern
 Philippines. She is 1 of 7 presidential candidates.

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    The Marcoses plan to retrieve the body for burial in the
 northern province of Ilocos Norte Apr 21. 
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    Aquino, swept to power in a popular revolt which ousted
 the Marcoses in 1986, had feared her old foes could use the
 corpse as a weapon in the election campaign.
    Aquino is not standing for a 2d term and is backing
 former defense chief Fidel Ramos as her successor.
    Imelda has promised a "simple soldier's funeral" for the
 late president before burial at a plot overlooking the sea.
    Aquino's lackluster leadership and failure to provide
 basic services has created a nostalgia among some Filipinos
 for a decisive, strong president.
                                  

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