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...meeting, which stretched into the early-morning hours, took place at the Makito home of Jose Cojuangco, brother of former President Corazon Aquino. While Cojuangco's daughter kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, outlined plans for a new government. (Saycon invited TIME's Nelly Sindayen to witness the meeting.) While more than a dozen businessmen and politicians listened, Saycon phoned a person he identified as a U.S. official in Washington. "You will still be our friend, not China," Saycon assured the man. Saycon then phoned...
...CORAZON AQUINO 1986 Former President of the Philippines; she ousted Ferdinand Marcos...
...Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials tipped off Aragoncillo's superiors that he had tried to intervene on behalf of a man who was detained for overstaying his tourist visa. That man later became known to officials as Aragoncillo's alleged Filipino handler, former senior Philippine police official Michael Ray Aquino. According to arrest papers, a subsequent FBI audit of Aragoncillo's computer use found that he had searched for documents out of his area of responsibility. But a full investigation was not initiated until July. Perhaps most troubling, during the intervening four months--and under the nose of an active...
...country's most difficult assignments; in Evanston, Illinois. The daughter of a mayor from the central Philippines, Yorac spent three months in jail in 1972 during Ferdinand Marcos' oppressive rule, emerging from prison to defend victims of government-ordered brutality. Yorac later served as head of President Corazon Aquino's Human Rights Commission and the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which was charged with recovering Marcos' hidden wealth after he was exiled. Her team of young lawyers repatriated $683 million and successfully defended the government's claims to billions more in shares of local companies. The winner...
...gifts that have been invaluable tools in guiding church policy ... When Marcos called for early presidential elections last year, the church was ready. The groundwork for selecting opposition candidates ... had been worked out by the so-called Jesuit Mafia ... [which] concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon. During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino ... THE PRIMATE REASSURED AQUINO THAT SHE COULD SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE MARCOS ... Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt about which candidate the church backed. Before the election, the Cardinal sent...