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...sickened by the assassination of Benigno Aquino [Sept. 5]. In all the furor over human rights in Afghanistan, Iran, El Salvador and Soviet-bloc countries, the U.S. has consistently overlooked the atrocities committed in the Philippines. Now is the time to take a close look at what is happening there and with whom we are allying ourselves...
...anxieties TIME expresses about Philippine stability in the wake of the Aquino shooting echo the fears and doubts voiced about American democracy after the killing of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. No society ever really depends for its survival on any individual, no matter how commanding or heroic. Marcos is in good health, but if he is unable to carry on, the 1973 constitution lays down an orderly method of succession...
Pauker recalls trying to persuade Aquino to put off his return, citing the dangers. He remembers finally giving up, saving, "'That is why I'm a scholar and you are a leader...
...Aquino instead chose to follow his own instincts. As one expert recalled Aquino saying at a trial for political dissidence 10 years ago when he was asked to answer charges of subversion. "I rather choose to follow my conscience and accept a tyrant's revenge...
Friends and scholars agree that Aquino's death means loss to the Philippines, made all the more tragic because Aquino's new, nonviolent approach to leadership offered promise for leading his country back to democracy. "It was a case of not only years wasted, but a waste of life," says Pye. "The country cannot afford to deny itself the benefit of a man like Ninoy...