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<text id=91TT1651>
<title>
July 29, 1991: World Notes:The Philippines
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 41
World Notes
THE PHILIPPINES
A Natural Solution
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<p> Mount Pinatubo, the volcano that covered much of Luzon with
dust and ash last month, also proved a kind of mediator in the
protracted bargaining over the future of U.S. bases there. The
Philippine government had been demanding direct compensation of
$400 million annually for a seven-year lease extension on Clark
Air Base and the huge U.S. Navy facilities at Subic Bay.
Washington was offering $360 million a year and wanted an
eight- to 10-year lease.
</p>
<p> Negotiations wound up quickly last week after Secretary of
Defense Dick Cheney announced that the U.S. was no longer
interested in Clark because it would cost too much to repair the
damage done by the volcano. The next day Manila agreed to a
10-year extension of the American lease on Subic Bay for an
annual payment of $203 million, beginning in 1993.
</p>
<p> Even so, that may not be the end of it. The deal must be
approved by two-thirds of the Philippine Senate. Jovito Salonga,
president of the Senate, opposes any extension and predicts that
ratification of the pact "will be difficult."
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