For more than two decades, the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines’ former strongman and kleptocrat, has lain in a stone mausoleum in his northern home town, displayed to the public in a glass coffin that resembles a large aquarium. His widow, Imelda Marcos, and other family members vowed to keep him there until the government acceded to their demands for a burial in Manila’s National Heroes’ Cemetery with full military honors.