Volume 36, Number 9 · June 1, 1989
The Bartered Bride
By Ian Buruma
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
by Stanley Karnow
Random House, 494 pp., $24.95
The US and the Philippines: In Our Image Neudel, KCET, Los Angeles
A three-part television series, produced by Andrew Rearson and Eric
Ermita: A Filipino Novel
by F. Sionil José
Solidaridad Publishing House (Manila), 258 pp., Pesos 120
I heard the story from Francisco ('Franky') Sionil José, the foremost Filipino novelist in English: a group of American and Filipino friends at a smart dinner party were discussing the US bases in the Philippines. One of the Americans mentioned the increasing number of AIDS cases among American sailors. 'That's what you guys get for screwing us,' said a young Filipina, quick as a flash.
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