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LIFTED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; seven days after she assumed emergency powers, stating that the country had faced a "clear and present danger" from groups plotting to oust her; in Manila. The emergency measures, which allowed arrests without warrants, met with heavy opposition from business groups, the Catholic Church, politicians and the President's own economic advisers. "The conspiracy has been broken up and it's time for government to go back to its regular business," Arroyo said in a televised address announcing the lifting of the state of emergency...
...details have been released about the nature of the alleged coup, but on Thursday night a TIME reporter was invited to witness a meeting held at the home of Jose Cojuangco, brother of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, where a possible plan for a "withdrawal of support" from President Arroyo was being discussed. More than a dozen middle-level politicians and businessmen, including current Representative Robert Jaworski, Jr. and former Representative Ding Tanjuatco, were in and out of the meeting, which ran well past 1 a.m. While one of Cojuangco's daughters kept a buffet table piled high with chicken...
...however, was detained by the army early on Friday morning, and the plan appears to have been aborted for the moment. (Several papers reported on Saturday that Lim had contacted armed-forces Chief of Staff General Generoso Senga on Thursday night to ask that he withdraw support from Arroyo. Senga refused, and took Lim into custody.) Cojuangco spoke to TIME on Saturday and characterized the meeting at his home as a "briefing on the current crisis," rather than an active plot against the government. As of Sunday morning, none of those present at the meeting had been detained or questioned...
...Meanwhile, defying a ban on street rallies and occasionally scuffling with riot police, thousands of protesters marched to the EDSA Shrine Friday afternoon. One group of 5,000 was led by former President Aquino, who called on Arroyo to "make the supreme sacrifice" and resign. That's unlikely?Arroyo has told Time in the past that "nothing" would make her resign. But a real risk exists that in declaring emergency rule on the eve of the People Power anniversary, the President may have overplayed her hand and given her fractured opposition a unifying cause. "It could result in more political...
...Unfazed by the outcry, the government appears ready to act aggressively: on Saturday police raided the offices of an opposition newspaper, and several Arroyo critics, including leftist Congressman Crispin Beltran, were reportedly detained for questioning. But the real hinge remains the military?Arroyo cannot remain in power without their support. Though top army leaders have repeatedly pledged their allegiance to Arroyo's administration, 14 junior officers were briefly detained last Wednesday for alleged involvement in a separate coup plot, and rumors of unrest among the armed forces have become common. In her televised address on Friday, Arroyo assured the nation...