Word: ans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The American help was crucial to the Aquino cause, clearing the skies of rebel craft and allowing loyalists to consolidate their forces. In an interview late in the week, Aquino admitted that Philippine military planes had hesitated to strafe and bomb the rebel soldiers. When American might was clearly on...
Since independence in 1946, the Philippines has struggled with its complex love-hate, parent-child relationship with America. Already accused by nationalists of being an American lackey, Aquino had shrewdly kept her silence -- and "my options open" -- in the matter of renewing the leases on Clark Air Base and Subic...
"The Philippines is still dependent on the United States," says Karnow. "What's called a 'neocolonial relationship' or 'a special relationship' is still there." The rebels have seized on the issue and are holding Ambassador Platt "personally responsible" for their defeat and calling the U.S. move "an act of aggression...
When Bush climbed aboard his jet for this odyssey, he was in the hands of the U.S. Air Force. The President's three Marine helicopters had been ferried in the belly of an Air Force transport and were waiting for him on the Malta ramps. From there the machines whirled...
To stage this informal "feet on the table" pageant of peace took the skillful services of thousands of soldiers, sailors and Marines. While gratified by their new mission, they and their Soviet counterparts retained some of their fighting spirit. Soviet sailors interviewed by the Malta press implied that the older...