Word: aquilino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning the plebiscite, Aquino will also lose a part of her political family. At least three of her 26-member Cabinet, including Presidential Adviser Aquilino Pimentel, are expected to resign in time to meet the March 15 filing deadline as candidates for Congress. In the meantime, Filipinos will be preparing for the Feb. 25 anniversary of the revolution that brought Aquino to power. Last week, as a gesture of reconciliation, the President telephoned Enrile and asked him to serve on the planning committee for the event. But their political falling-out in recent months has clearly taken its toll. Replying...
...unforgiving person. She never forgets." When a former supporter, Homobono Adaza, went over to Enrile's camp, she not only stripped him of his $50,000-a-year position on the board of the San Miguel Corporation, a large state-controlled conglomerate, but replaced him with his archenemy Aquilino Pimentel. The flip side of her fidelity is inflexibility. "I have a long memory for people who have helped me," the President recently warned a group of subordinates, "but I have a longer memory for people who have stood...
...step, needed to appease the generals who have backed her and to avoid a split within the armed forces, will probably be the firing of one or more of the leftist ministers whom the military has also criticized. Among these are Labor Minister Augusto Sanchez and Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. Aquino has appeared to be reluctant to make changes, partly out of friendship and partly because she does not have many suitable candidates to offer as replacements. In addition, she needs to marshal support for the campaign to ratify the new constitution. Enrile, who may emerge as the leading...
...person, even though that person happens to be an angel or a saint." Other loyalists were disgruntled that the new plan had been drawn up by a very small group of counselors working independently of the Cabinet. "I have strong reservations about this," protested Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. "I was never consulted." Even Vice President Salvador Laurel was not fully involved in determining the contents of the final draft. Indeed, he had gone through a ceremony in which he assumed the prime ministership just four hours before the post was abolished, together with the entire Assembly...
Aquino may find the rebels more tractable than politicians in Manila. Last week members of Marcos' New Society Movement were angry because the new Minister of Local Government, Aquilino Pimentel, indicated that Aquino might name many of her own people to provincial and municipal slots and postpone local elections expected in May. The new President ran into less opposition when she attempted to recast the Marcos-dominated judiciary. By week's end she had secured resignations from ten of the twelve members of the Supreme Court and from 37 of 38 judges on the appellate court...