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...their election campaigning against Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino and her vice-presidential running mate, Salvador Laurel, were often photographed kneeling together in prayer before church altars. Seeing the pious pair, some Filipinos quipped that the couple looked as though they were being married. Indeed, the Aquino-Laurel partnership was a political marriage, though merely one of convenience. He shared his well-greased political machine with her. She shared her enormous popularity with him. Little else...
...they have nothing. Laurel announced last week that because he opposed many of Aquino's policies, he could not remain in his Cabinet post as Foreign Secretary, though he would retain the vice presidency. He complained bitterly + of having been treated as an outcast in her government. Using the Tagalog word for the mosquito netting draped over conjugal beds, Laurel said that Aquino had kept him "outside the kulambo...
...THIS writing, the downward spiral of the Aquino administration is continuing. Military commanders, unimpressed with Aquino's brand of leadership, are increasingly drawn to Honasan; the people, seeing the administration threatened, are beginning to lose faith in Aquino as a capable president...
...imminently--catastrophic. The Philippines is of immense strategic importance to the United States, and the loss of a viable centrist position there will mean the worsening of the 17-year civil war, with little hope for positive resolution. Some have suggested a massive influx of emergency funds to bolster Aquino's sagging position, including both military and economic...
...nice to think that, by flexing a little economic muscle, the United States can make any problem go away anywhere in the world. As Vietnam demonstrated so handily, however, this is rarely the case. While the grave economic crisis of the Philippines has certainly been an albatross around Aquino's neck, it is not the only, or indeed even the most major, of her problems. So even if American aid could suddenly put the economy on its feet--which it can't--stability would not return...