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Exactly one month after becoming President, Corazon Aquino appeared last week, clad in her trademark yellow, to announce her agenda for reviving democracy in the Philippines. Scrapping the 1973 constitution introduced by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and dissolving the effectively powerless National Assembly dominated by Marcos' followers, she imposed a provisional constitution that allows her to rule by decree until a new charter is agreed upon. Within 60 days, Aquino promised, she will appoint a committee to draft a fresh constitution. Three months after that, she hopes to put the document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well...
...search for Marcos' millions continued, President Corazon Aquino presided over a three-hour Cabinet meeting that failed, once more, to resolve the question of whether her technically illegal regime would be declared revolutionary, a move that some Aquino advisers fear would give the new government a dangerously authoritarian cast. Later, Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales said that Aquino intends to avoid further discussion of the issue. Instead, early this week she is likely to form a provisional government and announce plans for a new constitution, a return to a bicameral legislature, and local and parliamentary elections within one year...
...move is certain to please Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who has been an outspoken critic of the revolutionary approach. But it does not answer other concerns of the military, which doubts the wisdom of Aquino's well- publicized scheme to declare a six-month cease-fire with the Communist insurgents. Indeed, late last week Enrile set back Aquino's plans when he ordered troops to hunt down the insurgents who killed a town mayor and 15 others in the northern province of Cagayan. Declared Enrile: "We cannot allow innocent civilians and our soldiers to be butchered...
...strains between Aquino and the military could grow as the results of Salonga's Good Government investigation roll in. Privately, one pro-Aquino assemblyman suggested that the commission exercise prudence and not recklessly disturb Enrile, who served Marcos for more than 20 years. If the Defense Minister finds himself entangled in some complex commission investigation, say some Aquino supporters, Enrile, who oversees the country's 230,000-strong military, could easily do to Aquino what he did to Marcos: desert her government and move to establish...
...Aquino's establishment of a seven-member human rights-committee last week only heightened concern. Committee Chairman Jose Diokno announced that the government would reopen an investigation into the assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno, who was gunned down in August 1983 at Manila International Airport. When asked what would happen if the committee found evidence that former Marcos officials now allied with the Aquino government were involved in the murder, Diokno replied, "If they knew about it and did nothing, they are at least administratively guilty...