4/85Percentage decrease in the gross national product of the Philippines in 1984: 5.5
11/86Amount The Triumph of Beauty, a portrait of Imelda Marcos, brought at auction in August: $27,500
2/86Percentage of the Philippines’ 300 government-owned corporations that are headed by Imelda Marcos: 10
3/88Percentage of 1988 U.S. foreign economic aid that will go to Israel, Egypt, and the Philippines: 68
3/88Number of candidates in the Philippines’ January regional elections who were murdered during the campaign: 39
6/88Number of the 26 journalists murdered last year who were killed in the Philippines: 11
11/89Number of pages of his newspaper a Filipino editor says military personnel forced him to eat at gunpoint in May: 2
11/89Number of people arrested for smoking in public places in Quezon City, the Philippines, since March: 1,514
2/92Estimated change in average U.S. temperatures this winter due to a volcanic eruption in the Philippines last year: -0.9° F
Estimated number of days the Washington, D.C., cherry-blossom season will be delayed this year due to the eruption: 7
3/96Number of corruption charges still pending against Imelda Marcos in the Philippines: 306
5/01Number of pairs of Imelda Marcos’s shoes on display in the Philippines ‘ new shoe museum: 200