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<text id=91TT2085>
<title>
Sep. 23, 1991: World Notes:The Philippines
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 37
World Notes
THE PHILIPPINES
Farewell to Subic Bay
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<p> The Philippine Senate seemed set this week to vote against
the treaty signed last July that extended U.S. access to its
giant naval base at Subic Bay for 10 years. Rejection of the
agreement will bring to an end more than 90 years of American
military presence in the Philippines.
</p>
<p> The new base treaty needs the approval of two-thirds of
the 23-member Senate. Although President Corazon Aquino, the
armed forces and a large majority of the public clearly favor
the agreement, 12 Senators are adamantly opposed, thus killing
any chance of ratification.
</p>
<p> The Philippines faces the loss of $305 million annually,
which the U.S. had agreed to pay for the use of Subic Bay over
the next 10 years; some 25,000 jobs for Filipinos on and around
the base, with a payroll of more than $110 million annually; and
the prospect of diminished economic and military aid. Secretary
of Defense Dick Cheney reflected Washington's tough response
when he declared last week, "We'll pack up and move. That's it."
But other officials indicated that the U.S. would listen if, in
the next few months, the Philippines can find a way around the
Senate's rejection.
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</body></article>
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