Word: aquino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...
...once, Aquino acted swiftly. Instead of attempting to stall Noble with negotiations -- standard procedure in almost all previous uprisings -- armed forces Chief of Staff General Renato de Villa ordered air force overflights and bombings to level the main rebel encampment. Aquino brusquely dismissed the threat. "This is not a coup," she told reporters. "It is not spreading." Late last week De Villa declared the uprising a failure as the leader of the uprising surrendered. Asked about the loyalty of the rest of the military, De Villa said, "They will not readily join such a foolish adventure." But will they behave...
...tactic is to play for time: Armitage argued for a 10-year phase-down and continued U.S. access to Clark air base and Subic Bay naval base. In reply, Manila's negotiators called for the return of Clark by late next year, after which the Aquino government says it hopes to turn the facility into a civilian airport...
Metropolitan Manila, though largely undamaged, was severely shaken. In Malacanang Palace, where President Corazon Aquino was presiding over a meeting with Cabinet ministers and Senators, participants scrambled for cover under the conference table. Quipped Aquino: "What the coup failed to do, the earthquake did" -- a reference to the stoutly denied report that during a failed 1987 insurrection she was cowering under...
...main bone of contention is whether Aquino will be able to keep her nemesis out of the country now that she has been cleared by a U.S. court. While most of her family's treasure trove of funds -- allegedly looted from the nation -- remains frozen pending the outcome of four civil suits in the U.S., Marcos nonetheless remains relatively free to wield influence. Were Marcos to come home, Aquino fears she would use her fortune and following to mount a political challenge to the democratic government, perhaps even run for President. That, say observers, may be just what it takes...