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Solarz
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Filipino people a sense that the
Congress was on their side and •
also a sense to Marcos that he
had real problems with the
United States."
The Administration was put
on notice to lean more hevily on
Marcos to accept reforms.
Solarz, two years ago, suc-
ceeded in reducing military aid
to the Philippines from $85
million to $40 million. Last year,
he managed to reduce the
military allocation from $100
million to $55 dollars. The
economic aid, however, was in-
creased proportionately.
"That was very much ap-
preciated by the (Filipino) op-
position and was a source of
significant concern to Marcos," •
Solarz said.
The next most significant step
taken by Solarz was the legisla-
tion he succeeded in convincing
his subcommittee to approve,
which also went beyond mere
expressions of Congressional
concern. Again, it actually
reshaped the entire aid program.
In that legislation, entitled
"An Act to Restore Democracy
in the Philippines," Solarz pro-
posed that all of the new mil-
itary aid be placed into an
escrow account, pending the
establishment of a "legitimate"
government which had the con-
fidence of the Filipino people.
The legislation went on to
direct that all of the economic
aid be administered through
private, voluntary organiza-
tions, such as the Catholic
Church, and not .by the Philip-
pine government. It was passed
by the subcommittee by a 9 to
0 vote, with even the Republican
members supporting it.
"I think that was a very
significant development,"
Solarz said, insisting that it had
achieved three things:
"First, it sent a signal to the
Filipino people and the demo-
cratic opposition that we were
on the side of democracy, rather
than dictatorship. 'Second, it
sent 'a signal to the ruling elite
in the Philippines, which I
assume must have been read
very closely, particularly by
Enrile 'and Ramos, that the U.S.
was not prepared to continue do-
ing business as usual with a
government which had lost its
legitimacy. And third, it also
sent a signal to the Administra-
tion that the train was leaving
the station, that the Congress
was simply not prepared to sit
back and go along with a policy
of benign neutality and neglect
toward the Philippines. There-
fore, the Administration, if it
was going to remain in the loco-
motive, rather than in the
Caboose, was going to have to
begin to play hardball with Mar-
cos, more than it had been wil-
ling to do previously."
Throughout this period,
Solarz was also very active in
the news media, appearing on
numerous teleVision and radio
interview programs. The New
York Times, in early February,
published his lengthy Op-Ed
piece which quickly became the
source of significant debate.
"That piece became the basis for
the legislation which was re-
ported out of my. subcommit-
tee," he said.
In the weeks leadingop to the
Feb. 7 election, moreover, Solarz
held a separate series of hear-
ings on Marcos's hidden finan-
cial holdings in the United
States. Solarz estimated that
this sum comes to $350 million
"in the New York area alone and
that may well be the tip of the
iceberg. I think those hearings,
in which we produced compel-
ling and direct documentary
evidence that they own this real
estate in Manhattan — 40 Wall
Street, the Crown Building, 200
Madison Avenue, and Herald
Center — were very important,"
he said. "They became a major
issue in the campaign in the
Philippines. It helped to further
deligitimize him in that country
and certainly undermined the
basis for support of Marcos in
the Congress and the Admin-
istration because it was clear -
that this was a man who was a
`ganse goniff,' [Yiddish for a
`total thief']."
Solarz, however, does not
want to sound ungenerous to
the Reagan Administration.
"Fortunately," he said, "at the
23rd hour and 59th minute, the
President reversed field and did
the right thing. He did call for
Marcos to step aside. He did
threaten to cut off military aid
if they used our weapons to fire
on the Filipino people. I think
that was helpful, and ultimately,
we were successful in bringing
about a peaceful transition."
Solarz does not oppose allow-
ing Marcos to live in the United
States. "The fact that someone
like myself, who had been such
a prominent critic of Marcos,
was prepared to support as-
ylum, made it a lot easier for the
Administration to offer it to
him," he said.
Solarz believes the future of
American-Philippines relations
is solid. He said President
Aquino "has a deep commit-
ment to non-Violence. She has a
deep antipathy to' the com-
munists. She is basically very
friendly to the United States."
He summed up his current im-
pressions this way. "I think the
role I played thesp past few
years has been very helpful to
the country in giving the opposi-
tion the feeling that they had
real friends in'the United States.
And that is going to pay hand-
some dividends for the United
States today.
"One of the lessons of all of
this is that the real alternative
to communism in a country like
the Philippines is not the con-
tinuation of authoritarianism
but the restoration of dem-
ocracy."