Mr Ecevit has little public support, and the public coffers are worryingly empty.

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The economy, for example, was headed for recession, and the government coffers were almost empty when Estrada came to power.

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But in the '70s, the talk was of crime and racial strife, of burning neighborhoods and empty municipal coffers.

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