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WORLD, Page 31World NotesTHE PHILIPPINESIs Imelda a Shoe-In?
What she lacks in credibility she easily makes up in
chutzpah. Just minutes after pleading not guilty to six criminal
charges, former First Lady Imelda Marcos stood on the courthouse
steps to announce her bid to succeed Corazon Aquino as President
of the Philippines.
"There is a cry, there is a need for someone to help our
people in misery," she said. After pledging to "save our country
from suffering," she stepped into her Mercedes stretch
limousine and headed back to her $2,000-a-day hotel suite.
Though 41 criminal cases against Marcos are still pending,
the ex-First Spouse's entry into the presidential race is being
taken seriously in some quarters; the masses can expect a long
season of free entertainment and handouts. But her quest to
secure the nomination of the opposition Nacionalista Party
could divide the anti-Aquino forces.
While the press would love to see a reprise of the "war of
the widows," Aquino has insisted on 92 different occasions that
she will not seek re-election in May. She even sang her message
on one occasion, warbling to the tune of I'll Never Smile Again
an off-key rendition of I'll Never Run Again.