Word: aquinos
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...spectators were waiting when the doors of Magsaysay Hall in the Social Security Building in Quezon City opened at 8:15 a.m. last Friday. They had come to hear the Philippines' top military officer testify about why his forces were unable to prevent the assassination of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino last Aug. 21 at the Manila International Airport. General Fabian Ver, 64, chief of staff of the armed forces and a loyal confidant of President Ferdinand Marcos' was the official ultimately responsible for security at the airport. But if the crowds were waiting for Ver to incriminate himself...
...seem unlikely to be conducted in the hollow style to which the island republic is accustomed: for the first time since Marcos declared martial law in 1972, the Philippines has a free, frank opposition to the government. The shocking, still unresolved assassination of exiled Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino last August has succeeded in reawakening a long-silent populace and galvanizing the opposition. Now the anti-Marcos forces have high hopes of increasing the number of seats they hold in the 200-member parliament from 14 to more than 100. Disturbed by massive public protests, disabled at times by what...
Indeed, Marcos has managed to ride out the turbulence of the past few months with singular and characteristic adroitness. In the wake of Aquino's slaying, more than a million citizens took to the streets of Manila, marching on the President's Malacañang Palace and calling outright for his resignation. But Marcos shrewdly countered their attacks with a string of concessions that were accommodating enough to mute some criticism yet narrow enough to prevent real change...
...five-member commission he appointed to investigate the Aquino affair too partisan? He agreed to replace it with a more independent and impartial body. Did a bloody revolution seem imminent after a clash between protesters and policemen that left ten dead? He agreed to withdraw all uniformed soldiers from Manila's financial district and allow the demonstrators to police themselves. Was the daily press nothing more than a servile government mouthpiece? He agreed to let a few alternative papers criticize his policy with impunity...
...economic aid $30 million of the $180 million the U.S. plans to pay annually for continued use of military bases in the strategically important islands. The committee also added a rider to the foreign aid bill, linking future funds to the findings of the commission that is investigating Aquino's death...