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More than two years later, Burton was interviewing President Ferdinand Marcos at Manila's Malacanang Palace when an aide burst in and showed the President a wire service dispatch announcing Cory Aquino's candidacy in the national presidential elections. Marcos glanced at it and predicted, accurately, that Aquino and Salvador Laurel would form a unified ticket to challenge...
...campaign justified Washington's growing concern about Marcos' leadership. Stewart followed the President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand, who is based in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, endured bone-jarring rides on motorcycles and military trucks while keeping up with Aquino and Laurel on campaign stops across the 115,830-sq.-mi. archipelago...
...vigil lasted for hours, under glaring sunshine and the occasional tropical downpour, but the crowds were quiet and uncomplaining. Finally, when the long-awaited political caravan straggled into view, the throngs invariably exploded into ecstasy. As small children ran alongside the open jeep that bore Opposition Candidate Corazon ("Cory") , Aquino, 53, supporters threw yellow and white confetti and shouted a welcome: "Cory! Cory! Cory...
...sure. Less than two weeks before some 30 million voters are expected to go to the polls on Feb. 7, the strange election exercise that has mesmerized the Philippines since November had blossomed into something unexpected: a real race. As city and rural folk thronged in astonishing numbers to Aquino rallies, her campaign organizers extolled the local outpouring as "people power," an antidote for the highly organized and often unscrupulous campaign machine that has kept Marcos in office since 1965. Members of the President's ruling New Society Movement, who had heard their leader predict an 80-20 victory...
...Aquino is learning how to forge positions that no longer sound startlingly naive, if idealistically attractive, to her listeners. One of her earliest promises was that if elected, she would not move into Malacanang Palace; instead she would open the residence for public wedding ceremonies. Now she sounds much less like a Filipina flower child. In her Rotary speech last week, Aquino laid out a program for lifting Marcos' "institutionalized dictatorship" that included an appeal to the Marcos-controlled National Assembly to repeal the presidential powers of preventive detention and return to the rule of habeas corpus. If the Assembly...