Word: aquinos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incidentally, Britain, Canada and Japan are all ruled by their own people. The Philippines, a former U.S. colony and longtime beneficiary of American goodwill, was consigned, informally at least, to a kind of probationary status during Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship; the "People * Power" revolution and the triumph of Corazon Aquino, however flawed and fragile, have been a reminder that democracy is a sine qua non for a special relationship with...
...loans and financial guarantees. The beauty part, according to Manglapus, is a complex arrangement that may amount to as much as $900 million a year in debt relief for the Philippines, which owes foreign creditors $29 billion. Nevertheless, critics in the Philippines charged that the government of President Corazon Aquino had settled too cheaply...
...gains are often fragile. The Philippines ousted its dictator Ferdinand Marcos in February 1986, the same month that Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier was forced into exile from Haiti, ending the dynasty that his father "Papa Doc" established in 1957. Since then the government of President Corazon Aquino has weathered four coup attempts. In theory, Panama is governed by a constitutionally elected President, but President Eric Arturo Delvalle discovered otherwise last February when he tried to fire General Manuel Noriega and found himself ousted instead. Next month Chileans will have an opportunity to vote in a national plebiscite...
...public challenges to the defunct Ne Win regime, called U Nu's action "preposterous." Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of a martyred national hero, told TIME that "U Nu is a possibility" to head an interim government. But she savors comparisons of herself with the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, and when asked if she was willing to head a government, she responded, "If I thought it necessary, I would...
After the formation of the new coalition was announced, however, as many as 160 seated legislators of the 204-member House declared their intention to join the Fight of Filipino Democrats, a new umbrella organization of pro- Aquino groups...