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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."