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Other victims of the Axis have opted to put the past behind them. The Philippines, which suffered a bloody, one-sided defeat and a brutal occupation by imperial Japan, will send President Corazon Aquino. Indonesia will send President Suharto. Most of Japan's modern-day trading partners seem to share the magnanimity -- and pragmatism -- of incoming U.S. President George Bush. While a Navy bomber pilot, he was shot down over the Pacific by Japanese gunners, but he professes to hold no grudge. Bush was among the first Western leaders to announce he will attend Hirohito's funeral. To those...
Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos, 60, has been one of the more discreet members of President Corazon Aquino's fractious Cabinet. Ever since Aquino came to power in February 1986, Ramos has defended her government against a succession of coup attempts. But lately, the popular politician has set Manila abuzz with some calculated innuendos. Talking to the press about his loyalty to the faltering President, he said ambiguously, "I am loyal to the constitution and the presidency. There's nothing personal about it." Ramos cautioned government officials not to use the military as a "tool of the executive branch...
Some observers think that Ramos, who this week becomes by Executive Order a de facto deputy commander of the armed forces, second in power only to Aquino, harbors his own ambitions for the presidential election scheduled for 1992. A recent poll gives him the highest approval rating of all officials in the country; he outpolled Aquino 79% to 73%. Amid rumors that Cory wants to kick him upstairs, might Ramos abandon her sinking ship of state first? "No," he said. Pause. Smile. "But then, I am a very good swimmer...
...incidentally, Britain, Canada and Japan are all ruled by their own people. The Philippines, a former U.S. colony and longtime beneficiary of American goodwill, was consigned, informally at least, to a kind of probationary status during Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship; the "People * Power" revolution and the triumph of Corazon Aquino, however flawed and fragile, have been a reminder that democracy is a sine qua non for a special relationship with...
...times -- the Soviet Union. Last April he conducted his first tour of mainland China, where his wife Ruth was raised by missionary parents. Prior to the arduous three-week visit, he was briefed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger; during it, he was the second foreign dignitary (after Corazon Aquino) to be received by new Premier Li Peng...