The Philippines's David A. Rosenberg, in Problems of corn- munism (Sept.-Oct. 1984), Superinten- New Communists dent of Documents, U.S. Government

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In 1981, President Ferdinand Marcos ended 10 years of martial law in the Philippines. During that decade, argues Rosenberg, a Middlebury College political scientist, Marcos managed through incompetence and bad judgment to rub old scars raw.
Marcos's iron-handed rule (he retains extraordinary powers) has str...