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...decades that he has ruled the Philippines. New infusions of aid, totaling $108 million, from the International Monetary Fund and foreign banks have yet to revive the country's devastated economy. Communist insurgents are gathering strength and undertaking increasingly daring raids. Controversy continues over the murder of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the former senator who was shot and killed as he returned from exile two years ago this week. And last week Jaime Cardinal Sin, long a critic of the President, declared: "The Filipino has had enough of one-man rule. He has had enough of constitutional authoritarianism, of presidential...
...leaders of the dozen opposition parties say that in the event of a snap election they are prepared for a showdown at the polls, where their candidates garnered one-third of the vote in the 1984 national assembly elections. Their major challenge will be to unite behind one candidate. Aquino's widow Corazon could pose the most serious threat to Marcos, but she has declined to run. Another possible candidate is Salvador Laurel, a longtime presidential aspirant and the official candidate of the United National Democratic Organization, the country's biggest opposition party...
...election date allowed the President to claim magnanimity for allowing opposition parties more time to prepare for the contest. It was flexibility he could well afford: last week Marcos' civilian opponents appeared to be more deeply divided than ever. Only days after leading Opposition Figures Corazon ("Cory") Aquino and Salvador ("Doy") Laurel made a public display of their solidarity against Marcos, it seemed they were about to split over the issue of who should run against the President...
...Aquino, 52, widow of martyred Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, has long been considered the candidate most capable of uniting all elements of the splintered democratic resistance to Marcos. Until recently, she had insisted she would not run. In late October, however, the soft-spoken leader said she might step forward if her supporters collected 1 million signatures backing her candidacy. Now speculation is rife in Manila that the deeply religious Mrs. Aquino may be on the verge of opposing Marcos on the election ballot...
...Aquino's shifting position seemed to disconcert Laurel, whose United Nationalist Democratic Organization holds 37 of the 59 opposition seats in the National Assembly. The former senator declared himself a presidential candidate last June. Some form of Aquino-Laurel ticket has long been considered a strong combination, but Laurel, who turned 57 last week, has frequently, if somewhat unconvincingly, said he would step aside should another figure be chosen...