The World - News from Jan. 28, 1987
Former Phillippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, keeping in close touch by telephone with friends in his homeland, said he wants to return to help prevent further violence. “I would like to go back and try to stifle all this ridiculous blood-letting,” he told reporters at his home in Honolulu. Marcos would not comment on allegations that he was behind a coup attempt by dissident soldiers in the Philippines.
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