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Philippine Daily Inquirer board chair Marixi Prieto described the newspaper’s 30th anniversary as “like celebrating 300 years.”
Philippine Daily Inquirer board chair Marixi Prieto described the newspaper’s 30th anniversary as “like celebrating 300 years.”
Millennials who have no memory of martial law and the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. now have a book that might well be written with them in mind.
On the morning of Sept. 23, 1972, a driver from Graphic magazine, headed by Don Antonio Araneta, called to inform me that our boss, Luis (Morik) Mauricio, had been arrested and that the building had been padlocked. Martial law had been declared, and staffers more radical than I were being hunted down. The military had swung into action.
YOUR mantra for the week: “Everything is going right in my life.”
Auggie Cordero can laugh about it now, but he still remembers the numbing, disquieting feeling when the realization finally dawned 29 years ago: No one was going to knock on his door anymore. Not today, never mind tomorrow.
Your mantra for the week: “Everyone I meet feels my inner harmony.”
This compilation covers a wide range of testimonies and writings on what life and governance were like during martial law.
JOSEPH Stalin of Russia. Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany. Benito Mussolini of Italy, Mao Tse-tung of China. Sukarno of Indonesia. Kim Jong-un of North Korea. And from the Philippines—Ferdinand Edralin
An official says the Philippine government has seized 15 paintings from the former home of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, part of efforts to recover 156 artworks included in his alleged ill-gotten wealth.
Forty-one years ago, on Sept. 22, I reported to the pre-martial law Graphic Magazine office in Port Area only to find it closed.
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