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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>
</body></article>
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