Synopsis "Wear and Tear: Make My Day Book-21"
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: The Wonder of my Father, by Rosanna L. Henares Angeles - p7 PERSONALITIES - p8 Chapter I. LARRY'S ANGELS - p8 1. Cleopatra and the Dance of the Seven Veils - p8 2. Vicki the Drill Master - p9 3. The Royal Family of Makati Med - p11 4. To be gone, sadly missed and long remembered - p12 5. Testimonial for Vicky, for her application to work abroad - p13 6. How to Lose Weight - p15 7. A closure to all these and heaven too - p17 Chapter II: NINOY AQUINO - p18 1. If Ninoy Were President: Solving The Economic Crisis - p18 Ninoy Reincarnated - p19 Playing With Loaded Dice - p19 Self-Reliance - p20 The Production Base - p21 Democratizing Our Economy - p22 The Nationalist Alternative - p23 2. Was Ninoy's Death A Historical Necessity? - p24 An Exxagerated Life - p24 In The Center Of History - p25 In The Embrace Of Posterity - p26 The Historical Necessity - p27 The Magnificent Failure - p27 3. Ninoy's Symphony Of Yellow Ribbons - p28 The Prodigal Lover - p28 Part Of History - p29 Out Of A Fevered Dream - p29 The Song of Ninoy, with lyrics by Larry Henares - p30 Chapter III. NINA ESTRADA PUYAT - p30 1. A New Star Shines In The Heavens: Eulogy for Nina - p30 Chapter IV: ALEJANDRO LICHAUCO: Ding's Nationalist Economics - p33 Part One: The truth shall feed us too - p33 Part Two: Enriquito Zobel cannot eat steel - p34 Part Three: Ding almost knocked out Christian Monsod - p36 Part Four: Adam Smith is obsolete like Ptolemy - p38 Part Five: Like Noli-Fili, a Book for all Filipinos - p39 Chapter V: DANTE SILVERIO - p41 Part 1. Dante Silverio, the great Sportsman - p41 Part 2. Dante Silverio and his Cinderella team - p42 Part 3. Basketball's shame, the gamblers and the cheats - p43 Chapter VI: EUGENE TAN - p45 Part One: Supreme Court justices may err like humans - p45 Part Two: Fire away, Eugene Tan, we are your Equalizer - p46 Part Three: Eugene lost his eye and his justice crusade - p48 A Requiem: Cyclops Eugene Tan fought unwinnable battles - p50 Chapter VII: MARCOS AND THE AMERICANS - p53 Part One: Lies, self-interest, anti-nationalism - p53 Part Two: Byroade: A co-conspirator? - p54 Part Three: James Rafferty, gaffer, fixer, CIA - p57 Part Four: Kennan, Lansdale, policy and practice - p59 Part Five: Holbrooke, Derian: battle of the sexes - p61 Part Six: US supported dictators and Marcos' martial law - p63 Part Seven: Mondale and the American Chamber - p65 Part Eight: Lansdale's Eye of God - p67 Part Nine: Armacost, friend and enemy - p70 Chapter VIII: ANTONIO C. OPPEN (Deleted by Author) - p72 Chapter IX: MANUEL L. QUEZON AND SERGIO OSMEÑA - p72 Part One: Two great Filipino leaders both bastards - p72 Part Two: Quezon, "where my loyalty to my country begins" - p73 Part Three: The Independence Act forbade American bases - p74 Part Four: Happy 120th birthday, President Quezon! - p75 Chapter X. COMMANDER DANTE - p77 1. Another time, another place, Buscayno might have been a saint - p77 Chapter XI. VICKI BELO-HENARES - p79 Intro: My son Atom married Ninoy's niece, Vicki Belo - p79 Part One: Vicki Belo, the Poor Little Rich Girl - p80 Part Two: Vicki Belo felt she was an unwanted child - p81 Part Three: Vicki was drenched in human excrement and vomit - p82 Part Four: Vicki's children brought peace to her troubled soul - p84 1. Vicki's Citibank experience - p85 2. Citibank apologizes - p86 Extro: I called my wife Balut and she called me back Pinoy - p87 (more inside)
