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...slow count of ballots cast last Friday, the government election commission showed President Ferdinand E. Marcos leading by 53 percent to 47 percent. An unofficial count by a citizens' poll-watching group of more votes showed challenger Corazon Aquino ahead by the same margin...
...Aquino Claims Victory...
...political novice who had spent recent years as a housewife, Mrs. Aquino entered politics after her husband, a former visiting professor at Harvard and Marcos' prime political opponent, was shot in 1983 upon returning from self-imposed exile to the Philippines...
...presidential election, Marcos did not sound like an indomitable incumbent. Miffed at press reports casting doubt on his wartime record and personal finances, he angrily denounced those "now ! engaged in rumor-mongering and black propaganda." He suggested that the reports emanated from the "dirty tricks department" of Challenger Corazon Aquino's "desperate campaign." Late in the week, Marcos announced that the military had uncovered a plot to assassinate him while he was on a campaign trip to Iloilo City...
Asked by reporters what had been his biggest mistake during the campaign, Marcos quipped, "Some say it was to hold this special election." Aquino, meanwhile, had a cool response for Marcos' heated rhetoric: "I think he is panicking...