* Teodoro Locsin Sr.; Crusading Philippine Journalist

Teodoro M. Locsin Sr., 85, Philippine journalist who challenged the rule of former President Ferdinand Marcos. Locsin was editor of the Philippine Free Press, one of the oldest and most respected weekly magazines in the country. The magazine was among those that had repeatedly warned against a plan by Marcos to implement military rule to stay in power. Marcos declared martial law and closed the Free Press in 1972. He detained Locsin in a military camp for several months along with publisher Joaquin Roces, and thousands of other opposition leaders. Locsin refused an offer by Marcos to resume publication, believing Marcos would only use the Free Press as a mouthpiece of the martial law government. Locsin’s magazine published again only after Marcos was ousted in a popular revolt in February 1986. Locsin twice earned the Philippine Legion of Honor for his exploits as a guerrilla who fought the Japanese during World War II and for his journalistic talent and leadership. On Friday in Makati City, Philippines, of cancer.