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<text id=90TT0806>
<title>
Apr. 02, 1990: American Notes:New York City
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
NEW YORK CITY
Imelda's Day In Court
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<body>
<p> The prosecution insists that she was in on the plot to use
a fortune in bribes and plunder to buy a piece of Manhattan
worth more than $160 million. Her lawyers paint a different
Imelda Marcos. The First Lady of the Philippines, they say, was
a woman innocently cooling her thousands of pairs of heels as
the machinations of Malacanang Palace buzzed around her.
</p>
<p> Jury selection for her trial on racketeering and other
charges carrying up to 50 years in prison started last week in
the same courtroom that saw the bravura performances of Leona
Helmsley and Bess Myerson. For sheer Wagnerian greed, the tale
of Imelda could put the Hotel Queen to shame. Jurors will have
to decide whether a wife always knows what her husband is up
to--in this case, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, who
died last September. "The Marcoses were masters of deception,"
said prosecutors. "They elevated three-card monte [a form of
shell game] to an art form." Scoffed Marcos' lawyer, Gerry
Spence: "In this country one doesn't become a criminal by
sleeping with one's husband."
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