Credentials and qualifications; MV Jin Teng

TY and goodbye, Steve Psinakis. He called me on February 25, 1986 in Wack Wack at eventide to say that the Marcoses would be flown out. The Greek-American was our Lafayette, who cared for A Country Not Even His Own [this is the title of his second book about the Philippines during the Marcos regime], with a passion that whips the blood.

(The townhouse Lafayette once lived in, in Washington, D.C. was part of the law office, Arnold & Porter, I once trained in.) Steve was behind courageous Serge Osmena’s daring Great Escape in 1977 (with Geny Lopez, both detained for five years).