The World - News from June 4, 1985
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President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who has ruled the Philippines for nearly 20 years, announced that he will seek a new six-year term in 1987. The opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization, a coalition of moderate anti-Marcos parties, announced that it will pick its presidential nominee at a convention next week. In Washington, the State Department said the United States is not considering sending combat troops to the Philippines and that none have been requested. A department spokesman was responding to a weekend statement by Marcos that he might be compelled to ask for U.S. troops to help fight Communist rebels.
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