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September 21, 1987

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a reporter at large

I-THE THIN EDGE

Robert Shaplen

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Philippines. Writer visited there 18 months after the toppling of the dictatoraship of Ferdinand Marcos in Feb., 1986 & the …