Word: aquinos
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...long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...
...tactic is to play for time: Armitage argued for a 10-year phase-down and continued U.S. access to Clark air base and Subic Bay naval base. In reply, Manila's negotiators called for the return of Clark by late next year, after which the Aquino government says it hopes to turn the facility into a civilian airport...
Metropolitan Manila, though largely undamaged, was severely shaken. In Malacanang Palace, where President Corazon Aquino was presiding over a meeting with Cabinet ministers and Senators, participants scrambled for cover under the conference table. Quipped Aquino: "What the coup failed to do, the earthquake did" -- a reference to the stoutly denied report that during a failed 1987 insurrection she was cowering under...
...enmity between the two runs long and deep. The President still holds the Marcoses responsible for the murder of her husband Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, who was gunned down at the Manila airport in 1983. Marcos is said to look upon Aquino as an insolent upstart who stole Malacanang Palace from her and the late Ferdinand. "Although they are poles apart when it comes to morality," observes Benigno, "Cory and Imelda are twins when it comes to grit, determination and obstinacy...
...main bone of contention is whether Aquino will be able to keep her nemesis out of the country now that she has been cleared by a U.S. court. While most of her family's treasure trove of funds -- allegedly looted from the nation -- remains frozen pending the outcome of four civil suits in the U.S., Marcos nonetheless remains relatively free to wield influence. Were Marcos to come home, Aquino fears she would use her fortune and following to mount a political challenge to the democratic government, perhaps even run for President. That, say observers, may be just what it takes...