Word: aquino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between President Corazon Aquino and former First Lady Imelda Marcos over the burial of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos continued last week without resolution. After meeting with 14 Congressmen and governors from northern Luzon, Aquino agreed to allow Marcos' body to be flown directly from Hawaii, where the former President died two years ago, to his northern Luzon birthplace for burial -- providing Marcos' followers would not use the event for political purposes. An agreement seemed at hand...
...base treaty needs the approval of two-thirds of the 23-member Senate. Although President Corazon Aquino, the armed forces and a large majority of the public clearly favor the agreement, 12 Senators are adamantly opposed, thus killing any chance of ratification...
Start packing the shoes -- Imelda Marcos is free to go home. For the past five years, the exiled wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has been barred from her native land by President Corazon Aquino's coup-plagued regime. But last week Manila lifted the ban so it could begin criminal prosecution of Marcos, who under Philippine law must be present at her trial. The aim: to recover $350 million in allegedly ill-gotten wealth now frozen in Swiss bank accounts...
...useful in important therapeutic ways. It is useful to have leaders such as Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Havel, Poland's Lech Walesa, the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, who have all suffered directly, in order to deal with the challenge of change for a society at that moment. There is an extraordinary burden that ordinary people endure when they recognize, perhaps after decades of having been submissive, slavelike, that freedom calls for a different set of imperatives, for a certain capacity for individual decision, judgment and action. I also think it's rather important, for the creation...
Ramos told 500 cheering delegates that "politics must serve not the faction or the party but the nation." Aquino, who has said she will not seek another six-year term, has not indicated whom she will support for the ruling-party nomination next month, but Ramos faces an uphill battle...