Desperate Manoeuvering Marcos

What makes the lifting of martial imperative is the increasing [unclear: gain] momentum of the Filipino [unclear: Pec] Liberation movement in the [unclear: wak] successive failures of US [unclear: tri] technocrats to effectively tackle country's fostering economic [unclear: prob] which US designed development [unclear: p] have made worse. Marcos, with rapidly narrowing power base, hopes by the removal of the martial law, [unclear: he] revive ties with the traditional [unclear: n] elites, disenfranchised by the [unclear: martial] regimes usurpation of all political economic powers. By uniting [unclear: t] Marcos expects to mannoeuvre the [unclear: c] ridden economic situation, [unclear: forestall] inevitable political confrontation isolate the popular mass movement national liberation.

The 1973 constitution [unclear: promulgated] Marcos said, "all proclamations, [unclear: or] decrees, instructions and promulgated, issued or done by [unclear: ncumbent] president shall be part of the [unclear: aw] of the land and shall remain valid, [unclear: egal], binding and effective even after the [unclear: ifting] of martial law." Handing over [unclear: egislative] power to the rubber stamp [unclear: nterim] National Assembly and submitting himself to elections puts Marcos in no worse position for Amendment 3 and 6 makes the dictator, President and Prime Minister for an indefinite period and enpowers him to [unclear: gislate] or issue decress whenever the need arises.