Back Story Timeline

Coming soon a brief chronology of events which occurred before the action starts...

Finally found it buried amid a myriad of rewrites and other peripheral material; following is but one of the Chronologies I pieced together from memory and contemporaneous news stories.

CHRONOLOGY

1985

OCT. 5th SATURDAY:
Arrive Manila, get dragged out by Arnie, then round to his place for dinner…he is under the impression I’ve just come from Sydney…I’ve come from L.A. jet lag is rapidly catching me up.

OCT. 6th SUNDAY:
A day to recuperate, late lunch/early supper with Antonio

OCT. 7th MONDAY:
First work day, start of contract? (Achille Lauro incident)

OCT. 10th
(Orson Wells dies)

NOV. 6th
(Columbia, rebels seize control)

NOV. 13th
(Volcano in Columbia)

NOV. 15th
Zen's Birthday (not yet known)

DEC. 21st
Work Xmas Party

DEC. 31st
New Years at Zeny's

1986

JAN. 1st
any time after New Years, ticker tape parade pro Cory group Salcedo St.

JAN. 7-14th
Zeny...Pizza scene...Carmen

JAN. 28th TUESDAY:
(Challenger disaster) run up to election; escalating violence, protests (Olaf Palme assassinated. Halleys Comet?)

FEB. 7th FRIDAY:
Election

FEB. 9th SUNDAY:
Ballet

FEB. 10th MONDAY:
(Mir launched)

FEB. 11th TUESDAY:
30th Birthday

FEB. 22nd SATURDAY:
in the wee hours of the morning, just after midnight, the coup leaders start the ball rolling.

FEB. 23rd SUNDAY:

FEB. 24th MONDAY:
Phone call to Sydney…helicopters

6 A.M. Seven Sikorsky helicopters dispatched by Marcos loyalists land at Crame to side with rebels.

9:50 A.M. MBS Channel 4 went off the air during a live news conference in Malacañang and during an exchange between Marcos and then Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver.

The work day totally falls apart at this point. People start to trickle out, nobody comes back after lunch.

Chi Chi comes in with discs for line tester.

NOON Three rebel gunships destroy choppers on the ground at Villamor Air Base.


Rob's breakdown, after the above and before the following…


MAR. 27th THURSDAY:
trip to Hong Kong

MAR. 31st MONDAY:
Return from H.K.

APRIL 4th FRIDAY:
end of first 6 month contract

MAY
Flores de Mayo

JUNE SUNDAYS, 1,8,15,22,29
D and M’s wedding

JULY 20th SUNDAY:
Depart Manila

JULY 24th THURSDAY:
Depart Hong Kong