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...worse from then on," says Moyer. For the next 24 hours he and Richer coordinated the successful effort to give TIME readers the most up-to-date pictures to illustrate this week's WORLD story on the attempted coup against the government of Philippine President Corazon Aquino...
Moyer was in Seoul to set up procedures for using TIME's new state-of-the- art photograph-transmission center there. He and Richer had regularly joined forces to choose pictures during last year's People Power revolution, which ousted Dictator Ferdinand Marcos and made Aquino President. "I trust his judgment," Richer says...
When parliamentary elections last May produced an overwhelming victory for President Corazon Aquino, former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile denounced the balloting as a fraud. Calling the election the "dirtiest in the nation's history," he vowed not to take his seat in the 24-member Senate even if declared a winner...
...murder was the most shocking blow yet to the government of Philippine President Corazon Aquino. After calmly downing hamburgers at a snack stand in a Manila suburb, three young men, armed with .45-cal. pistols and an UZI submachine gun, opened fire on a passing silver-green Toyota Cressida. The hail of gunfire instantly killed the car's driver and fatally wounded his passenger, Local Governments Secretary Jaime Ferrer, 70, a prominent member of Aquino's Cabinet and nemesis of the country's Communist insurgents. The gunmen and two accomplices then roared away into the night...
...Marcos' plan, he was to go first to Tonga, an independent South Pacific island where he supposedly had allies. From there, he was to land by boat in his home province of Ilocos Norte, where he expected to be greeted by supporters and swept back into power. As for Aquino, Marcos said he would like to take her hostage, "not to hurt her ((but)) forcibly take her without killing...