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Marcos Foundation, Inc., Published 1985. Hardcover, 390 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white charts, graphs, and diagrams.
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In very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Brown cloth boards show mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges. Binding tight. Previous owner's engraved bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise unmarked. Orange dust jacket with bold white and black lettering has a few short nicks and tears (1/4 inch or less) and light creasing along edges, with mild soiling. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. ISBN 971-500-002-9 printed on copyright page (not recorded in WorldCat). OCLC 54192990. The last book issued under Marcos's name, published for the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations in the final months of his presidency, less than half a year before the February 1986 snap election and the People Power Revolution. Foreword by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, dated New York City, 30 September 1985. The Philippines was a founding member of the UN, and Marcos twice addressed the General Assembly; both speeches are reprinted in the annexes. Scarce, as few copies circulated after the fall of the regime in February 1986. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; United Nations Structure and Systems; In Search of Security and Stability; Sustaining Mankind (The Global Food Problem, The Energy Problem); Reshaping the International Economic Order (The World Trade System, The International Monetary System, Interdependence and Resource Flows); Quest for Social Development; The Philippine Experience: Crisis and Opportunity; Summation; Annexes (Speech of President Marcos, 27th UN General Assembly (1966); Speech of President Marcos, 37th UN General Assembly (1982); List of United Nations members with populations; Profiles of United Nations Agencies; Achievements Through Reforms 1965-1985); Bibliography; Index. [From jacket flap] I write this book because I refuse to believe that the human race, like the dinosaurs, is doomed to extinction. I am confident that man, the only creature that has survived the cataclysms of centuries, by the creativity of his mind, and the resiliency of his spirit, can remake his world into a world of life rather than death . . . The concerns of our planet must be shared by all. While we in the Third World recognize our share, indeed, more than our share, of the burden, we cannot ignore that our problems are not all of our making.