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...formal passing of the mantle of office, but the moment was telling. Front-running presidential candidate Fidel Ramos was paying a postelection call on outgoing President Corazon Aquino, whose endorsement was largely responsible for the slim lead he now holds in the ballot count of the seven-candidate race. As the pair emerged from their meeting, the normally deferential former Defense Secretary confidently stepped forward to field reporters' questions, leaving Aquino nodding in the background...
...tally is still not complete, Ramos is cautiously staking his claim to office. Voters and political experts alike, however, still wonder whether Ramos is up to the job. Acknowledging the sensitive issue of his predecessor's shortcomings, Ramos has pledged to "improve on the deficiencies and defects" that marked Aquino's tenure...
...victims of the Marcos martial-law government. Their accusations of torture and harassment at military hands dogged Ramos throughout the campaign. He portrayed himself as one of the few officers who were able to intervene with Marcos to cut prisoners' sentences. Among the beneficiaries of his intervention was Benigno Aquino, the outgoing President's late husband, who spent 7 1/2 years in Marcos jails. "The good guys are behind him," said Aquino of Ramos shortly before Aquino's 1983 airport assassination. "But I don't think Ramos will prevail. He has no instinct for infighting...
Those same skills served him well as Aquino's crisis manager, but questions persist about whether Ramos has what it takes to move beyond mere survival to inspired leadership. As armed forces Chief of Staff, he correctly assessed the lengthy insurgency by the communist New People's Army as a political, rather than military, problem rooted in the rural poverty that stifles 70% of the population. But Ramos has yet to show that he can mobilize resources to relieve the country's misery on a scale that will make a difference...
...front runners at week's end, with less than a quarter of the vote tabulated, were former Defense Minister Fidel Ramos and reform candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago. Ramos, who is President Corazon Aquino's choice to succeed her, had edged slightly ahead of Santiago, who promptly charged that "wholesale election fraud" was taking place...