Word: agrava
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...more than 400 of days, the Philippines had been on edge, waiting for what could be a major turning point in its political history. The Agrava board, a fact-finding body set up by President Ferdinand Marcos to investigate the Aug. 21, 1983, assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino within moments of his return from exile, had promised to publish the results of its hearings by the anniversary of the murder. But that day passed, and so did that week. Another week went by, then a month. Questions snowballed. Tensions mounted. A steady trickle of leaks- some careless, some calculated...
According to sources on the board and among its legal staff, all five members of the Agrava board have accepted the memorandum's main conclusion, but they remain passionately divided over one critical point. Four of the members, along with the board's general counsel, Andres Narvasa, were said to maintain that Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver was involved in at least the coverup. For that reason, they apparently believe that Ver should be charged as an accessory in a report that should raise serious questions about his deeper participation. But Corazon Agrava, the board...
...Agrava board's legal staff based its argument in large part on the startling discrepancies between shards of evidence-mostly photographs, audio recordings and videotapes made on the fateful afternoon-and the well-rehearsed military account, recited by a parade of soldiers both on and off the witness stand. Last November, for example, a military sharpshooter named Rolando De Guzman testified that while sitting with a SWAT team in a parked van on the tarmac, he saw Galman shoot Aquino near by. Instantly, said De Guzman, he pumped seven bullets into the alleged assassin. Then his colleagues began firing...
Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos may not be everyone's idea of a "little Girl Scout." But that was how she described herself last week when she made an unexpected appearance before the government-appointed board of Justice Corazon Agrava to answer questions about the assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. in August 1983. Dabbing tears from her eyes, Mrs. Marcos, in a voice breaking with emotion, told how she had done everything in her power to save the life of her husband's chief political opponent. She vehemently denied reports that during a meeting with...
...Marcos' evidence came at the end of the eight-month-long investigation into Aquino's death. Despite contradictory testimony, the Marcos government has continued to stick by its story that Aquino was killed by a hired gunman in a Communist plot. Justice Agrava did little to appease suspicions that her board has been too soft on government witnesses: at the end of Mrs. Marcos' testimony, Agrava asked everyone present to sing Happy Birthday to the First Lady, who turned 55 that...