The Washington Post, September 29th, 1989
BY THE END, the consensus judgment on Ferdinand Marcos, the 72-year-old former president of the Philippines (1966-86) who died yesterday in Honolulu exile, centered on his corruption, mismanagement and dictatorial ways. He was widely pictured as the last and prototypical strong man of the right among an embarrassingly large collection of such authoritarian leaders whom the United States imprudently indulged in the cause of anticommunism. His failure to tend efficiently to his country's underlying social and economic problems, and the element of American complicity in that failure, now loom lar...
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