Word: alling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as she declared the situation under control, Aquino made a humiliating admission of weakness: she requested and was granted U.S. military assistance. The rapid deployment of several U.S. F-4 Phantoms from Clark Air Base, the American air base north of Manila, retook the skies for Aquino. The unusually...
In fact, most stood by Aquino, including Senate President Jovito Salonga, who has been critical of her policies. "It took so many years and so much sacrifice to get rid of the dictatorship," said Salonga. "We must protect this democracy despite all its faults and weaknesses."
The price paid for saving Philippine democracy, however, could one day doom it. The political situation is a shambles. A drive to win new foreign investment is now likely to be aborted. Worst of all, though U.S. jets may have flown the colors of liberty, their intervention was a psychological...
The man who succeeded Erich Honecker reveals to TIME that he told officials to disobey any order to shoot demonstrators in Leipzig. He invites "all political forces" to shape a consensus that will serve his country's majority. But he insists that present borders must be respected and takes a...
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