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...With Aquino dead, the chances for post-Marcos stability grow...
...exhorted the Philippine government to track down and punish those responsible "swiftly and vigorously." For his part, Marcos immediately condemned the killing as "heinous and outrageous" and announced that unspecified "precautionary steps" were being taken to maintain order. But the killing is bound to have serious repercussions. Aquino, the youngest governor and then the youngest senator in Philippine history, was thrown into prison under sentence of death for "subversion" in 1972, shortly after mounting a strong bid for the presidency against Marcos. Released in 1980 to undergo heart bypass surgery in the U.S., he later held fellowships at Harvard...
...Liberal, Aquino was thinking of running against Marcos in 1987, and had been working with opposition leaders against the President's heavyhanded rule. One of those leaders, Assemblyman Salvador Laurel, was at the airport along with thousands of Aquino followers when the assassination occurred. As word of the shooting rippled through the anguished crowd, Laurel glumly urged, "Be cool, be cool...
When he died, Aquino was carrying a statement he had intended to read at the airport: "It is now time for the regime to decide. Order my immediate execution or set me free." While there is no evidence that the Marcos government was involved in the death, neither is there any doubt that many of Aquino's followers will see it as an execution, possibly by the President's loyalists in the armed forces. And that could doom any hope that the Philippines will "be cool...
Another self-exiled politician had better luck than Aquino. Joshua Nkomo, portly leader of Zimbabwe's opposition ZAPU party, had promised to return "like a lion, not a lamb," and last week he flew back to Harare after five months in London. In the airport lobby, a crowd of jubilant supporters danced and clapped, shouting high-pitched cries of welcome...