Marcos Sr. and the April Fools affair
It was an April Fools’ day story that played out in the pages of the Bangkok Post 50 years ago, but the ending lies buried among the papers that the Marcos family left behind when they fled Malacañang in 1986.
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It was an April Fools’ day story that played out in the pages of the Bangkok Post 50 years ago, but the ending lies buried among the papers that the Marcos family left behind when they fled Malacañang in 1986.
Beth Day Romulo, long-time Manila Bulletin associate editor and columnist for almost 40 years, passed away on Nov. 11, 2022 at the age of 98. A prolific book author and veteran journalist, Beth had carved a name for herself even after her second husband, the diplomat Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, passed aw
In 1980, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs assigned three fresh graduates to be protocol officers of my father, then Minister Carlos P. Romulo.