Imelda Marcos Arrives in U.S. for Eye Treatment
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<i> Associated Press</i>
BOSTON — Imelda Marcos was greeted by a handful of supporters bearing flowers Thursday as she arrived to be treated for glaucoma.
The 68-year-old widow of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos won permission last week from her country’s Supreme Court to travel to Boston for the treatment.
The court reversed a lower court that had denied Marcos, now a congresswoman, permission to travel because of her 1993 conviction on graft charges. She had been sentenced to up to 24 years in jail but is free on bail pending an appeal of the verdict.
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