Word: aquinos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington expects more requests for help from the Aquino regime and is determined to do all it can to keep her in power. The Aquino rescue is certain to complicate the negotiations over the two large U.S. installations at Subic Bay and Clark. Aquino, who was thought to favor the bases, may have to remove herself entirely from deliberating the issue. Says a White House official: "The chances of a satisfactory resolution were no more than 50-50 a couple of months ago, and they're less...
East Germany is faced with the dissolution of party leadership, Czechoslovakia with government paralysis. The turmoil reaches even into the Soviet Union, as Lithuania legalizes political pluralism against Gorbachev's wishes. A TIME symposium explores the future of Europe. The coup's lessons for Corazon Aquino. Colombia's scorecard in its fight against drugs...
...Corazon Cojuangco's wedding to Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1954, his best friend Salvador Laurel was part of the groom's entourage. When the widow Corazon Aquino ran for President against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Laurel stood as her Vice President. But don't let those ties fool you. Doy, as he is known to Filipinos, has chafed at being second best all these years, first to the charismatic Benigno and now to his wife. Accusing Cory of reneging on a promise to let him run the government once the two were elected, he bitterly broke off their alliance...
According to a White House official, Laurel, stranded in Hong Kong during the mutiny, had his chief of staff telephone U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Platt in Manila. Laurel's aide requested U.S. support for the Vice President's offer to broker a negotiated solution to the impasse. The deal: Aquino would be replaced by a rebel junta, presumably including Laurel himself. The U.S. declined the offer. Late last week Laurel denied he had made such a request and demanded a denial from Platt as well. The embassy replied that during the coup attempt there was no "communication" between Laurel...
...well aware of Laurel's impatience and his ambition. Soon after Doy became Aquino's Vice President, a senior administration official laid it on the line during a meeting in Washington. "Look, pal," he said. "we support Mrs. Aquino. We don't care who you go to -- the Pentagon or the State Department or whoever -- the answer is the same." But the Vice President hasn't stopped trying. As the latest coup was under way, Laurel called it a display of democracy in action. Replied the U.S. State Department's deputy spokesman Richard Boucher: "We clearly do not view...