Word: aquinos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn down the Marcos account in 1986. Instead, the aging dictator's last hurrah was handled by Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, a firm established in the afterglow of helping elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. This created a bizarre situation in which the Reagan Administration was overtly backing Cory Aquino (managed by Sawyer Miller, a Democratic firm) while some of the President's own political handlers were trying to prop up Marcos...
...Later she demonstrated smarts and interviewing skills as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. As a member of the formidable 60 Minutes team since 1984, she has traveled from the garbage mounds of Cairo to the heart of the AIDS plague in Uganda, profiled the likes of Corazon Aquino and James Michener, and given then candidate George Bush perhaps his toughest TV grilling on the Iran-contra scandal. If she never seemed an indispensable cog in the powerful engine that is 60 Minutes, she was no Tinkertoy either...
Burton, who covered the Philippines as Hong Kong bureau chief from 1982 to 1986, chronicles Cory Aquino's rise to power in Impossible Dream: The Marcoses, The Aquinos, and the Unfinished Revolution, just published by Warner Books. In fact, so many of Burton's colleagues have written books lately that bookstores might consider adding a TIME Authors section. Staff writer Guy Garcia's first novel, Skin Deep (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), tells the story of a Chicano who left the East Los Angeles barrio for Harvard. Contributor Richard Schickel's Schickel on Film (Morrow) is a collection of essays on subjects...
...Impossible Dream, the black-and-white and good-and-evil of modern legend become shades of gray and swirls of clashing colors. Corazon Aquino may be a housewife in Burton's account, but she is far from naive. Her husband appears with little of the sanctity he has assumed since his martyrdom. To many & Filipinos, Burton notes, "Ninoy" Aquino and Marcos were merely two sides of the same coin. Yet, ultimately, Ninoy is a sainted Machiavellian. Scheming and plotting, he returns from self-exile in the U.S., a gambler going for broke. His last courageous bet: that Filipinos are worth...
Imelda Marcos, the outspoken wife of the Philippines' deposed President, is nothing if not determined to take her man home. But Ferdinand Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, refuses to allow the 71-year-old former leader, who suffers from heart and lung ailments, to return dead or alive from exile in Hawaii...