Word: aquinos
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...four strategic bridges, severing rail lines between Naga and Manila. Soon after, the army escalated its war with the N.P.A., further disrupting the local economy. Then the market where San Buenaventura sold kalamansi burned to the ground. Crossing herself, the fruit vendor offers a prayer for President Corazon Aquino. "Cory is our guiding light," she says, "our savior. She has not sinned against her fellowmen. It's only the people around her who have wronged...
...unsolved, like almost all such cases in the Philippines. "After David died," says Bueno's brother Excel, "people in tattered clothes and bare feet came to say, 'Thank you for your brother. Without him no one would have fought for us.' " But not a word of condolence came from Aquino's Human Rights Commission. "I want to support Cory because I think she's sincere," Excel says bitterly. "But sometimes I hate...
...Base, the largest overseas U.S. Air Force facility. All bore the signature of the N.P.A.'s sparrow-unit death squads, so called for their small size and great mobility. Persons claiming to represent the N.P.A. took responsibility for the murders, which came just one week after President Corazon Aquino vowed to crack down on the Communist insurgents...
...year. The N.P.A. had threatened to target American personnel after the U.S. announcement of increased military aid to Manila following the August coup attempt. Indeed, the guerrillas boasted that they would kill one American for each of the ten armored personnel carriers that the Reagan Administration delivered to the Aquino government last week. U.S. military officials ordered service members and their families at both Clark and the Subic Bay naval base to restrict travel outside the camps to essential trips and to avoid using side roads...
...avenges a missile attack with the naval bombardment of two offshore Iranian oil- loading platforms. Tehran replies by launching yet another of its deadly Silkworms against Kuwait. -- Nakasone selects Noboru Takeshita, a consummate dealmaker little known to the rest of the world, as Japan' s new Prime Minister. -- Aquino strikes back at her opponents...