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Moments after Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. was assassinated at the Manila airport on Aug. 21, 1983, a Philippine camera crew captured the anguished face of a young woman. To the reporter who questioned her, she replied, "They have killed Aquino. Why are you not crying yet?" Last week Rebecca Quijano, 32, now known as "the crying lady," became the first civilian eyewitness of the shooting to testify in the Manila courtroom where the armed forces Chief of Staff, General Fabian Ver, 24 other soldiers and one civilian are being tried for Aquino's murder. The 26 are also...
After more than two years of exile in the U.S., Kim Dae Jung, 60, South Korea's best-known dissident, finally flew home to Seoul last week. Unlike Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, the Philippine opposition leader who was assassinated at Manila airport in 1983 as he returned from exile, Kim survived the homecoming. But his arrival was anything but routine. In a rough-and- tumble airport scene, he and a number of prominent U.S. supporters were jostled, pushed and generally man-handled by South Korean security guards...
...govern ment office building in downtown Manila to surrender himself. Two days earlier the Tanodbayan--a four-member panel of ombudsmen--had indicted Ver, 24 other members of the military and one civil ian for their alleged involvement in the 1983 murders of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. and of Rolando Galman, the man said by the military to have killed Aquino. Ver brought $1,600 to post as bail, then left before any photographers showed up. Ver, a cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos, was once considered the second most powerful man in the Philippines. Now his authority...
...panel's findings, particularly in regard to Ver, resulted largely from his testimony to the Agrava board last April. According to the Tanodbayan report, that testimony was found "to be of doubtful veracity or at times . . . false." In addition to those named as accessories, 17 soldiers, including Aquino's military escorts and Brigadier General Luther Custodio, who was responsible for security at Manila airport, were charged as principals in the conspiracy and ordered held without bail. Herminio Gosuico, a Manila businessman, was named as an accomplice. Said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 45, younger brother of the slain opposition leader: "What...
...nothing sensational about the demand to have the bases taken out," he said. On the proposed legalization of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Salonga was again conciliatory. Said he, in a sentence that neatly framed the aspirations of moderates opposing the government that they hold responsible for Aquino's death: "There should be open ventilation of all opinions--except violence...