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WORLD, Page 39World NotesTHE PHILIPPINESFertilizer of His Country
Imelda Marcos, the outspoken wife of the Philippines' deposed
President, is nothing if not determined to take her man home. But
Ferdinand Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, refuses to allow the
71-year-old former leader, who suffers from heart and lung
ailments, to return dead or alive from exile in Hawaii.
That being so, Imelda told a Philippine newspaper, should her
husband pass away she will have his body embalmed and put on
display in Hawaii as a political statement and "an international
spectacle." There it would remain until 1992, the next
presidential-election year. Then, under a presumably more lenient
regime, she would take his remains home, have them cremated and
scatter his ashes over the Philippines, she says, "to fertilize his
country."
Ferdinand would not be the first Marcos to be treated specially
after death. His mother Josefa, who died last May at 95, was
embalmed and remains on public display in her home village awaiting
the Marcoses' return, when she too will be interred.