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...flip-flop made for a cool reception at the presidential Malacanang Palace. Habib twice met with Marcos. On the first visit, the President handed Habib alleged photographic evidence of ballot stealing by Aquino supporters. Afterward, Habib had no comment, but Marcos said the veteran troubleshooter had assured him that the U.S. "was not in any way telling us how to run our affairs." Habib was similarly silent after a 55-minute visit with Aquino. The meeting was apparently cordial but ended on a somber note as Aquino reiterated her position that a truce with Marcos was impossible. Said...
...Aquino's tenacity was apparent earlier in the week when she kicked off her "People's Victory" campaign at a rally in Manila's Rizal Park. While hundreds of thousands of supporters swirled below her, Aquino announced a program of nonviolent protest designed to pressure Marcos into calling it quits. At the center of the campaign is a boycott of businesses, news media and banks controlled by the government or Marcos intimates. The culmination is a 24-hour work stoppage planned for this week, one day after Marcos' scheduled Feb. 25 inauguration...
...boycott took hold, Manila was abuzz with speculation that some of the seven banks singled out by Aquino had lost large deposits and that the government-controlled Bulletin Today (circ. 250,000) had suffered a plunge in readership. But there was little evidence that the tactics had done more than make investors nervous. The day after the Manila rally, the price of shares in the San Miguel Corp., a blue-chip conglomerate controlled by Marcos Ally Eduardo Cojuango, plummeted 15%. Shunning San Miguel's products, which range from beer to ice cream, may prove difficult for most Filipinos...
...Marcos' re-election, which ranged from lukewarm to hostile. In 1981, when Marcos defeated a little-known challenger, he received 28 official letters of congratulation from leaders around the world. This time only the Soviet ambassador conveyed his best wishes. Several West European diplomats emerged from a meeting with Aquino last week and indicated that they might boycott Marcos' inauguration. And by week's end Belgium and Canada announced flatly that they would not attend. The Reagan Administration, for its part, had not yet decided whom it would send to the ceremony...
...President seemed determined to go through with his inauguration this week. However, the government that he ushers in is certain to be a government in name only. After enduring martial law, the Aquino assassination and a corrupt national election, the Filipino tolerance for wrongdoing finally seems to have reached its limits. Nothing emphasized that point so dramatically as the thousands of civilians who flocked to Camp Aguinaldo on Sunday, effectively offering to serve as buffers to any possible action by Marcos against the reformers...