Word: benigno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to remove him with an ambulance and two male nurses." Finally, the only recourse was the vote of confidence that the secretary demanded. Watching Impassively as the delegates balloted, Fanfani lost by a vote of 103-69, with eight abstentions. After three days of wrangling, the delegates chose Benigno Zaccagnini, 63, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, as an interim successor...
...Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. of the opposition Liberal Party-who would probably now be President had Marcos stepped down at the end of his elected term on Dec. 30-is still in jail on a raft of questionable charges, including murder. Hundreds of other political dissidents are also under detention. Marcos' heavyhanded use of martial law has come under increasing attack from the Roman Catholic Church, to which 90% of all Filipinos belong. The hierarchy has accused the government of harassment. Church schools have been taxed, foreign-born priests arrested and convents ransacked. Despite Marcos' periodic claims that...
...that Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, 55, watched last week did not exactly follow the script he had written. Beamed to Manila's Malacañang Palace by closed-circuit TV, the drama was supposed to be an orderly show trial of Marcos' longtime political enemy, former Senator Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., 41, onetime secretary-general of the Liberal Party. Instead, the President had to watch, presumably in pain and anger, as Aquino turned the trial into an emotional and stunningly effective public challenge to the regime of martial law that Marcos imposed over eleven months ago. Startling...
Ironically, the leading advocates of a period of strongman rule in Manila included Benigno Aquino, an opposition Liberal Party Senator and presidential aspirant whom Marcos has had arrested as a Communist collaborator. In July, Aquino argued in the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review that "our people are ready for leadership. Right now they will accept even a Lee Kuan Yew or a Chung Hee Park. They will accept a diminution in civil liberties if only these are properly explained to them. You can cut corners now." Marcos had cut the corners all right, but whether he could stitch them together...
Another target of the regime's "discipline," besides the N.P.A. guerrillas, was the President's vocal political opponents. The morning after martial law was declared, police arrested a number of Marcos' critics. Among them: the publisher of the Manila Times and Senator Benigno Aquino, a leader of the opposition Liberal Party...