Ferdinand E Marcos

A Philippine general said in sworn testimony that a U.S. Air Force officer and former First Lady Imelda Marcos were behind the December coup attempt that nearly toppled President Corazon Aquino. The U.S. Embassy denied any such involvement. Brig. Gen. Alejandro Galido alleged that a man identified himself as Air Force Col. Harold Magleo and said he worked for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, which was seeking "the overthrow of Aquino and the return of the Marcoses" from Hawaiian exile.

He doesn't look like he could cause much trouble anymore, flat on his back in an airtight glass box, toes up, eyes waxed shut. Dead. But almost 16 years after dying in exile and infamy, deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos -- or at least his reputation -- is being resurrected in the Philippines. And it's causing a commotion.

President Corazon Aquino has accepted the idea that Ferdinand E. Marcos, the man she helped drive from power two years ago, might eventually return to the Philippines from exile in Hawaii, her spokesman said on Friday. "She has accepted that," Teodoro Benigno said when asked by reporters if Aquino saw Marcos's return as inevitable. Solicitor General Francisco Chavez has said Marcos could be brought back to face criminal charges expected to be filed by the end of the year.

Caught in an unusual postscript to American foreign policy, an Anaheim man could face deportation nearly 20 years after he was granted a haven in America by the U.S. government because of his family's ties to former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Grant Bondoc and his family were members of the Marcos entourage that was evacuated to Hawaii under the Reagan administration after Marcos was ousted in 1986.

More than 10,000 people joined a funeral march through Manila on Wednesday for the mother of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the largest show of support for the exiled leader since his ouster two years ago. Thousands more lined the streets and threw confetti at the start of a 240-mile journey across rugged mountain roads to Ilocos Norte, the home province of the former president's family.

Some of the many legal charges against former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos may be resolved quickly, perhaps in as short a time as 90 days, a judge has predicted. Judge Thomas Tadeo said he hopes to complete Marcos' trial within 90 days, after Marcos entered a plea of not guilty Monday to seven charges of tax evasion, the first of about 80 criminal and civil charges the government is filing against her. The once-powerful widow of the late dictator Ferdinand E.

Deposed dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos held secret interest in virtually every industry in the Philippines and had much of his share of the proceeds--millions of pesos weekly--delivered to the presidential palace in bags or boxes of cash, according to evidence introduced Thursday in the federal fraud and racketeering trial of former first lady Imelda Marcos.

The body of deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos was laid to rest in a temporary mausoleum in a tree-lined memorial park in Honolulu at a service attended by more than 1,000 mourners. Imelda Marcos, clutching a rosary, sang "Ave Maria" and "Our Father" while her son, Ferdinand E. Marcos Jr., stood at the casket. Marcos' daughter, Irene Araneta, criticized Philippine President Corazon Aquino for refusing to allow Marcos to be buried in his homeland.

Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos remained critically ill and semi-comatose on life-support equipment in a Honolulu hospital. Marcos, 71, has suffered multiple organ failure and has a serious infection and accompanying fever, a spokesman at St. Francis Medical Center said. The spokesman said Marcos is unable to recognize visitors at his bedside.

Switzerland's highest court has decided that about $330 million stashed in Swiss bank accounts by the family of former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos should be returned to the Manila government. The Swiss Justice Ministry said that the Federal Court rejected an appeal from the Marcos family against the transfer.

The biggest statue that late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos built to immortalize himself has been severely damaged in an explosion. Sunday's blast blew away the eyes, nose and part of the ears and lips of the bust, witnesses said. The 33-foot-tall statue overlooked a major highway on the main island of Luzon. Numerous attempts have been made to destroy it.

A tentative federal court settlement that would provide $150 million in compensation for human rights victims of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos showed signs of unraveling Monday, as the plaintiffs' lawyer sought in vain to strike a paragraph from the agreement. An angry U.S. District Judge Manuel Real refused to alter the settlement's language, warning attorney Robert A. Swift that he could "wind up with zero" for his 9,539 Filipino clients.

The 13-year legal battle to secure compensation for human rights victims of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos appears to have finally concluded, with the announcement Wednesday of a $150-million settlement. The announcement represents the culmination of years of on-and-off negotiations, complicated by the fractious nature of Philippine politics and the fact that Marcos' money was tied up in Swiss bank accounts with contested ownership.

When the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos was forced from power in 1986, his rule came to a halt with a tense political drama featuring rigged elections, betrayal and a palace coup d'etat. Marcos and his family fled in the dark of night, transported by two U.S. Air Force helicopters, as crowds surged around Malacanang Palace. Many people were expecting a Philippine-style ending to the fall of Indonesia's President Suharto this week because he and Marcos shared many political traits.

Imelda Marcos has changed her mind about withdrawing from next week's presidential election after supporters threatened to commit suicide if she pulled out, an associate said. Instead, the widow of former dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos--facing a jail term and trailing in the polls--will simply stop campaigning. Marcos announced April 29 that she was dropping out of the race.

Lawyers say the transfer to the Philippines of hundreds of millions of dollars in assets belonging to the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos will be delayed by several months. The transfer was postponed after an appeal to Switzerland's highest court by Marcos family foundations, lawyers in the case said Friday on condition of anonymity.

What's the difference between Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier of Haiti and Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines? Baby Doc at least had the smarts to know when to take his wife, the money and run. Marcos doesn't! NEIL C. REINHARDT Torrance

More than $500 million in assets belonging to the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos may soon be on their way back to the Philippines. In a landmark decision, the Swiss high court ruled that the funds in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to his homeland. The court ruling upheld a 1995 order by Zurich prosecutors that the banks transfer the Marcos millions to an escrow account in the Philippines to await a final decision by courts there on who should get the cash.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles last year that sought to freeze nearly $500 million in assets of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in two Swiss banks. The decision reversed an order issued last year by U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real in a case brought by 9,539 Philippine human rights abuse victims around the world.