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...ARRESTED. Gregorio (Gringo) Honasan, 58, former Philippines Senator and army colonel; for his alleged involvement in a February coup attempt against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; in Quezon City. Honasan, the Philippines' self-described "resident adviser on failed coup attempts," led unsuccessful revolts against Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino in the 1980s, escaped from a prison ship in 1988 and won a Senate seat in 1995 after being granted amnesty. Honasan, who had been in hiding since the failed coup, denied the charges...
...DIED. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American jailed, amid post-World War II anti-Japanese prejudice, as the seductive, traitorous radio host Tokyo Rose; in Chicago. In fact, there was no Tokyo Rose-the name was given by U.S. troops to any English-speaking female on Radio Japan, the propaganda outlet where D'Aquino was forced to work after being stranded during a visit to Tokyo by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. With references to listeners as "our friends-I mean, our enemies" and off-air efforts to aid American POWs, she made clear her loyalty...
...Polish song Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). Manila March 10, 1986 The men wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration - even one called at short notice. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon (Cory) Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting on a leather-bound Bible. "I am taking power in the name of the Filipino people...
...official details have been released about the nature of the alleged coup, but on Thursday night a TIME reporter was invited to witness a meeting held at the home of Jose Cojuangco, brother of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, where a possible plan for a "withdrawal of support" from President Arroyo was being discussed. More than a dozen middle-level politicians and businessmen, including current Representative Robert Jaworski, Jr. and former Representative Ding Tanjuatco, were in and out of the meeting, which ran well past 1 a.m. While one of Cojuangco's daughters kept a buffet table piled high with...
...Meanwhile, defying a ban on street rallies and occasionally scuffling with riot police, thousands of protesters marched to the EDSA Shrine Friday afternoon. One group of 5,000 was led by former President Aquino, who called on Arroyo to "make the supreme sacrifice" and resign. That's unlikely?Arroyo has told Time in the past that "nothing" would make her resign. But a real risk exists that in declaring emergency rule on the eve of the People Power anniversary, the President may have overplayed her hand and given her fractured opposition a unifying cause. "It could result in more political...