Word: abatement
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Such superheated political times produce strange phenomena. Last year, Fortunato Abat, a retired general who served as armed forces Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary under President Fidel Ramos, wrote a paper arguing that the country should be run by a junta composed of military men and civilians. When Abat distributed his paper to generals serving under Arroyo, the government said it was going to charge him with sedition. But when columnists wrote that Abat, 80, was just a harmless old man exercising his freedom of speech, the administration backed down. Abat didn't, however, and he's not restricting...
...Abat wants to junk the constitution and set up an oversight council. Beneath that would be a governing council, which would draft a new constitution and run the government. Elections would be out for "a year or two." He would head the whole shebang. (Last week the government finally filed a sedition charge against Abat for saying at a recent press conference: "Gloria has to go down now, the government has to go down...
...that "time is running out" and said that if there isn't an immediate revamp of the country's government, "no force on earth can ever stop the coming deluge of change." These exhortations for change echoed a similar call from a group led by former Defense Secretary Fortunato Abat; meanwhile, local newspapers carried ominous front-page features on the nation's increasingly angry, frustrated poor...
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