Dogeaters

In the First Lady’s dream, she’s alone on an island with a large, white plantation house. She heads to the beach and swims in her beaded gown, moving further from shore until the house is barely visible and the water becomes too thick to swim. She thinks she spots her daughter in a wedding dress on the veranda while a funeral tune plays on a piano.

The scene shifts to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, where she feels people laughing at her, but she can’t make out their words. She recognizes Christina Ford and George Hamilton among the crowd. Unexpectedly, she starts menstruating, something that hasn’t happened in years.

Alone in her hotel room, she sees Pope John XXIII, her favorite pope, and tries to seduce him. The dream takes another odd turn when she sees a lizard, only to realize it’s just a paper mache iguana. She is confused, believing her husband has played a practical joke on her.

The Metro Manila Daily features an interview with General Ledesma. The General talks about his strategies for dealing with rebels, focusing on winning over the Filipino population. He firmly denies any wrongdoing in his methods to suppress the rebellion, including denying any involvement in unjust killings at a church.