Marcos’ Body Will Return Home for Burial
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<i> Associated Press</i>
MANILA — Imelda Marcos made plans Tuesday to bring her husband’s body home for burial in the Philippines after accepting the government’s conditions.
“I am very happy that at last he will be in the Philippines, his motherland, his dream all along,” she told reporters.
President Corazon Aquino, who succeeded Ferdinand E. Marcos in the 1986 uprising that toppled his 20-year rule, said his body must be taken directly to Ilocos Norte province for burial after a traditional nine-day wake.
Marcos died in exile in 1989. His body has been kept in Honolulu.
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