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That Archibald MacLeish quote, carved on a plaque outside Harvard's Center for International Affairs, was to have closed Filipino opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino's speech on his return to the Philippines after three years of exile in the United States. But Aquino was never able to deliver those remarks: He was assassinated at the airport only minutes after returning to Filipino soil on August...
...Aquino's death raised international suspicion and fueled dissident activity in the Southeast Asian country, where he had long been considered the primary foe of President Ferdinand Marcos, who has governed the nation with martial law since 1972. At Harvard, the former Filipino senator's slaying has been a source of sober reflection. The leader spent his last three years in exile in Cambridge, where he held fellowships at the CFIA between 1980-82 and at MIT last year. Aquino came to Cambridge following heart surgery in California, an operation that had secured him release from a Filipino prison where...
...opposition leader's brief tenure here left an indelible mark on area international experts. In a series of interviews last week, several scholars warmly recalled Aquino, describing "Ninoy" as a man so firmly committed to non-violent opposition that he expressed no bitterness toward his foe Marcos, who had repeatedly threatened...
Former Harvard lecturer on East Asian Studies Dr. Gui Pauker, now with the California-based Rand Corporation, recalled visiting Aquino in the spring of 1979 while he was recovering from his triple bypass operations. "He was very weak, but the first thing he said to me was I've had a lot of time to think in jail and I've realized the only solution is non-violence,'" Pauker recalled...
...Pauker who suggested that Aquino ignore Marcos's order to return to jail after recovery by accepting a fellowship at Harvard. Aquino agreed, choosing to spend the next two years researching the history of democracy in the Philippines as part of the CFIA fellows program...