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...voters went to the polls to do something they had not done for 16 years: freely select a President. The choice appeared to be clear-cut. The candidates were President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, who has ruled for 20 years from the Spanish colonial-style Malacanang Palace, and Challenger Corazon Aquino, 53, who in the space of just ten weeks had emerged as the standard- bearer of a new force in the country, known as "people power...
Some 18 hours after the polls closed, Marcos, in a U.S. television interview, serenely declared himself the election winner. Citing unofficial vote counts by the government-controlled Philippine press, he claimed that he had gained some 13 million votes, vs. 11 million for Aquino, a margin of roughly 54% to 46%. Marcos blandly denied any attempt at fraud. An official vote count, he said, would be available in "a few days...
This round of killing is surely only a prelude to the slaughter that will follow Marcos' "re-election." As Mrs. Aquino said, "Too many will be dead the moment the world's head is turned...
Maybe the unanimous reports of election watchers, including the U.S.'s own official observer team and the State Department, that Aquino forces had not been involved in any significant fraud or violence didn't find their way to Reagan's desk...
What could possess even our President to disregard the reports of his own commission that if not for Marcos' fraud, Mrs. Aquino would have 60 to 70 percent of the vote? And why is he condoning Marcos' violence...