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...heart of much of the confusion is the strange and shifting alliance between President Corazon Aquino and her wily longtime antagonist and current Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile. Throughout the 7 1/2 years that her husband Benigno was in jail, Aquino had to negotiate on his behalf with Enrile, who was then Defense Minister under former President Ferdinand Marcos, even for conjugal visits. In February, it was Enrile's startling volte-face that helped topple Marcos and bring Aquino to power. Ever since, the former architect of Marcos' martial law, who has never concealed his own presidential ambitions, has remained...
Distaste for Marcos aside, however, the U.S. has yet to deliver as much aid as a disappointed Aquino government had initially hoped would be forthcoming. ( The money is sorely needed. In the four months since the new President came to office, the economy has not revived as expected, and some economists predict the country will be lucky to register a 1% growth this year. When Aquino announced her first official trip to the U.S. this September, she specifically said she was coming "to appeal to the private sector...
...cease-fire talks between the government of President Corazon Aquino and Communist insurgents, guerrilla warfare has not ceased. In fact, in three separate actions last week, members of the Communist New People's Army / ambushed and killed government soldiers. In the first attack, which occurred near Gumaca, about 90 miles southeast of Manila, guerrillas killed 13 military people. Two days later, eleven soldiers died in an ambush some 230 miles north of Manila. The following day, seven more were killed in a shoot-out in the Aurora province...
Despite the attacks, preliminary cease-fire talks were held. Agriculture Minister Ramon Mitra, one of the two government negotiators selected by President Aquino, said both sides were completing "the framework for the talks...
...bullish on the Philippines," Shultz told a news conference before departing. Still, such rhetorical support is about all Aquino can expect. She readily conceded that the current U.S. foreign aid allotment, which totals $500 million for the fiscal year, "is as far as American government assistance will go." To raise more money, she plans to turn a scheduled U.S. visit next fall into a private-sector fund-raising drive to encourage foreign investment in her country...