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...decade. "He's a good chairman," says the committee's ranking Democrat, Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell. "He's fair and patient and would prefer a consensus to winning a point by a vote." Lugar has also earned high praise for helping position the Administration behind Corazon Aquino during the last days of Ferdinand Marcos' rule in the Philippines...
...kidnapers' demands mixed greed with politics. They called for $50,000 in ransom and the reinstatement of a local official dismissed during political purges after Aquino came to power. But their most important demand was very simple. One kidnaper told the nuns, "It's not you we are after. It's Cory. We want her to pay attention...
Until the kidnaping, Aquino had ignored the Muslim separatist problem in Mindanao. Pushed into action, she ordered the army to "settle once and for all Lanao's problem of warlordism." The warlord that Aquino apparently had in mind was Ali Dimaporo, a Marcos loyalist who was dismissed as Governor of Lanao del Sur after Aquino took power and who, according to intelligence reports, commanded the loyalties of the kidnapers. Dimaporo denied his involvement...
...While Aquino talked tough, her aides worked quietly to secure the release of the hostages. The kidnapers of the nuns quickly cut the price of the ransom to $5,000 and then, six days after the abduction, released them. The government says no ransom was paid, but others say the kidnapers netted at least $10,000. The following day, Lawrence was freed. Princess Tarhata Alonto Lucman, the head of an important Muslim family, helped arrange his release...
...Aquino, eager to defuse a genuine political crisis in Mindanao, ordered Muslim Affairs Minister Candu Muarip to study a 1976 agreement between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front that ended a separatist rebellion in Mindanao. Negotiations over implementing the agreement broke down in 1977, and Muslim activists claim the Marcos government reneged on a promise to grant autonomy to Mindanao. Said Professor Asiri Abubakar, of the University of the Philippines: "It's about time that the Aquino government gets a good grasp of the Muslim situation before it explodes again...