Ferdinand E. Marcos, who controlled the Philippines for a long time until he was expelled in 1986, kicked the bucket in a state of banishment here today at St. Francis Clinical Center after a long fight with heart, lung and kidney illnesses. He was 72 years of age.
A medical clinic representative, Eugene Tiwanak, said Mr. Marcos kicked the bucket of heart failure not long after 12 PM. The previous Philippine President had been hospitalized for about 10 months, frequently insensible. His better half, Imelda, was at his bedside. Mr. Marcos, an imperious pioneer who forced military law in his country from 1972 to 1981, kicked the bucket without confronting preliminary on US criminal accusations that he ravaged the Philippine Treasury of more than $100 million in his two decades in power. [ An eulogy is on page B6. ] Banished From Getting back In an announcement gave in Manila, President Corazon C. Aquino, Mr. Marcos' replacement, gave sympathies to the Marcos family.
Mrs. Aquino declared that she would not permit Mr. Marcos' body to be brought to the Philippines for entombment, saying she was representing ''the security of the individuals who might take the demise of Mr. Marcos in broadly and energetically clashing ways.'' The death in 1983 of Mrs. Aquino's significant other, the oppostion chief Benigno S. Aquino Jr., was a critical occasion in Mr. Marcos' destruction. President Aquino said Mr. Marcos' passing ''shut a section throughout the entire existence of our country, a part extraordinarily his own.'' In concession to the Marcos family, Mrs. Aquino said she would leave it ''to other people, and eventually to history,'' to survey Mr. Marcos' standard, which ''contacted the life of each Filipino who was his contemporary.''
President Shrubbery, in an announcement gave at training highest point gathering in Charlottesville, Va., praised Mr. Marcos for his exit from power in 1986 in the midst of a well known uprising and weight from the US Government after a contested presidential political decision. By leaving the Philippines at ''a basic crossroads in his country's history,'' the White House articulation stated, Mr. Marcos ''allowed the quiet change to well known, vote based guideline.''
His been known for his brutal ways. Too bad.