Word: aguinaldo
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While many mutineers surrendered, others scattered throughout the metropolis, taking over three luxury hotels and holding positions against air and ground attacks near the Defense Department headquarters of Camp Aguinaldo. Declared Aquino: "We leave them two choices -- surrender or die." The rebels' reply: "We will fight to the end. Resign." Though the government insisted that the back of the mutiny had been broken, fierce and protracted fighting continued through the weekend. Camp Aguinaldo was set ablaze by rebel howitzers. The week's toll: at least 46 dead and 200 hurt...
...part, Honasan remained invisible and mostly silent during the uprising. Except for former RAM member Rodolfo Aguinaldo, governor of Cagayan province, in the far north, no politician publicly sided with the rebels...
Hundreds of mutineers then began marching down a major thoroughfare toward Camp Aguinaldo, headquarters of the armed forces general staff...
Other air raids damaged the head-quarters building of the Philippine Constabulary national police at Camp Crame and the home of de Villa, the chief of staff, at Camp Aguinaldo...
...such incongruities. Beginning with a penetrating look at 300 years of cruel Spanish rule in the islands, Karnow sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo's fledgling government, to Douglas MacArthur's ringing 1942 promise to return to the Philippines and Washington's support for Ferdinand Marcos until the virtual eve of Corazon Aquino's "people power" revolution...