WILD partisan cheering greeted the Sandiganbayan’s recent ruling against the 89-year-old Imelda Marcos on several counts of graft when she was Metro Manila governor in the 1970s. Although the sentence is not yet final and executory, and could still be reversed on appeal to the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, there is already so much gloating on the part of Marcos’ political enemies. They seem determined to show not only that the Marcoses committed serious crimes during martial law, but that his most unforgivable crime was to try to turn back the communist rebellion in 1972 by declaring martial law.

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