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...Aquino's announcement did not resolve the larger question that loomed in the minds of Filipino voters. Would the splintered opposition forces now unite around Aquino, with former Senator Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 57, holding the vice-presidential spot on her ticket? Or would Laurel, the other leading opposition candidate, pursue his own campaign, thus forcing Marcos' challengers to field two tickets and split the opposition vote...
Five days later, the matter was addressed in another announcement, and this one sent a chill through the opposition ranks. At a Sunday press conference, Laurel declared that he would pursue the presidency. He added that he was calling off a single-ticket deal struck earlier with Aquino because she had backed away from an agreement to run under the banner of Laurel's party, the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO). "I can sacrifice myself. I can sacrifice the presidency," he said. "But I cannot sacrifice my party, my principles and the people who have worked so hard all these...
...same time, the Aquino family put out the word that their candidate would pursue her own campaign. Although the breach seemed bitter, insiders cautioned that anything, including a reconciliation, was possible before Dec. 21, when the tickets must be officially declared. After all, they noted, both Laurel and Aquino know that without a unified opposition ticket, the anti- Marcos vote will be split and the chances of defeating the President will be reduced virtually to zero...
...jolting news capped an especially dramatic week in Philippine politics. At 8:30 a.m. on Monday, 150 people crammed into a Manila courtroom to hear a clerk and two interpreters read the verdict in the trial of 26 men charged with conspiracy in the assassination of Ninoy Aquino as he stepped off a plane at the Manila international airport on Aug. 21, 1983. The opinion of the three-judge court ran to 90 pages and took more than two hours to recite, but the verdict boiled down to two words: not guilty. "Thank God, it's all over," said...
Last week's verdict rejected the conclusions of a civilian fact-finding board that a military conspiracy was behind Aquino's murder. Instead, the court supported the military's contention that Rolando Galman, an alleged Communist gunman, had somehow managed to penetrate the 1,199-man security cordon at the airport that day and shot Aquino on the tarmac before being felled by a fatal barrage from nearby guards. The justices dismissed all evidence that buttressed the prosecution's argument that Aquino was instead slain by a soldier on the jetliner's service stairway...