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The World - News from April 16, 1986

More than 4,000 supporters of Ferdinand E. Marcos marched to the U.S. Embassy in Manila and demanded the return of their leader, who urged them on from exile in Hawaii. Demonstrators burned an American flag and shouted obscenities at two U.S. officials entering the embassy. “The flame you have started shall spread,” Marcos said in an interview with a Manila radio station. He exhorted loyalists to continue protests against President Corazon Aquino’s government.

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