Word: aquinos
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...second commission appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos to investigate the Aug. 21 assassination of former Senator Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino was running up one blind alley after another. The five-member board had heard 43 witnesses, most of them soldiers assigned to protect Marcos' chief political rival on his ill-fated return to the Philippines from exile in the U.S. Their stories were monotonously similar: at the moment of the slaying, each had been "searching the perimeter" of the security cordon for troublemakers. On hearing the fatal gunshot, each had turned back toward the plane from which Aquino had disembarked...
...witnesses cast doubt on the official version of Aquino's murder...
...International Airport on the day of the shooting. Balang's revelations were galvanizing: he was the first airport witness to give testimony under oath that is contrary to the military version of the event. His story raised grim new questions about the Marcos regime's contention that Aquino had been killed by Rolando Galman, a hired gun with alleged Communist ties. Said Juan David, a representative of the All-Asia Bar Association and an independent observer of the commission's proceedings: "The government story is beginning to collapse...
...martyred Benigno Aquino, who, despite threats of death, returned to Manila...
...economic recovery in the Philippines is threatened by the country's continuing political unrest in the wake of the assassination last August of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino Jr. Speculation is rising that if President Ferdinand Marcos does not step down voluntarily, he will be forced out. Marcos' troubles have made it difficult for him to deal firmly with the Philippines' runaway government deficit, which now totals close to 4% of the country's gross national product...