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That evidence was extensive. A journalist's audio tape suggested that the first shot came too soon after Aquino left the plane for him to have reached the tarmac and Galman, but the court rejected the tape as inconclusive. The justices also dismissed the testimony of Rebecca Quijano, a passenger on the plane who said that she had seen a soldier in a military police uniform shoot Aquino. Quijano's disclosures, the opinion said, were marred by "emotional instability" and a "personal animus toward the military." The court had earlier rejected the main evidence against Ver, which consisted principally...
...widely expected that the defendants would be acquitted by the three Marcos-appointed judges, so the verdict provoked few demonstrations and no violence. But opposition leaders responded to the verdict with anger. "The (court) just committed triple murder," said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 47, the slain leader's younger brother. "Not only did it kill Ninoy and Galman all over again. It also killed the country's judiciary." Said Cory Aquino, refusing to consider the matter of her husband's death closed: "My No. 1 suspect is Mr. Marcos...
Marcos deftly eluded the barrage of criticism. Twelve hours after Ver's reinstatement, he signed Cabinet Bill No. 7, calling special presidential elections for Feb. 7. That was the signal Aquino had been waiting for, and a few hours later she made her announcement. The next day Marcos gave a million government employees a pre-election reminder of where their loyalties should lie: he approved $62 million worth of Christmas bonuses for them. Ver then announced pay increases and bonuses amounting to $14.9 million for soldiers and military retirees. Ver also began what was billed as a major military reorganization...
...give up his authority to rule by decree. In recent years, however, Marcos' position has been eroded by his inability to contain a growing Communist insurgency, by charges of favoritism and economic mismanagement, by his intermittent ill health and by public suspicion about the Aquino assassination...
Despite the decline in Marcos' popularity, his newest challenger faces an uphill battle. Until the death of her husband, few Filipinos knew much about Cory Aquino. Born Jan. 25, 1933, she was the sixth of eight children in the Cojuangco family, a wealthy, politically prominent clan based in Tarlac, a province 65 miles northwest of Manila. After attending schools in Manila and the U.S., she earned degrees in French and mathematics from New York City's Mount St. Vincent College, returned to Manila and enrolled in law school. But in 1956 she abandoned the academic life to marry Ninoy Aquino...