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...came to hear her. Many were momentarily startled when an army artillery squad fired the ceremonial 21-gun salute. They had reason to wince. The uprising had been bloody: 22 civilians, twelve loyalist soldiers and 19 rebels dead, with more than 300 injured, including Aquino's only son Benigno ("Noynoy"), 27. Perhaps more distressing, the coup attempt has exposed a deep vein of military dissatisfaction with the Aquino government, which has been bedeviled by a growing list of economic, administrative and, some allege, moral deficiencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines When the Cheering Stopped | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...that at least 20 people had died, including a photographer and a reporter, but there was widespread speculation that the toll was much higher. As many as 265 people were wounded. The President was unharmed, and the rebels reportedly never got close to her house, but her only son Benigno ("Noynoy"), 27, was seriously wounded. Caught in his car with four bodyguards during the shooting, the young Aquino was saved from death by a companion who threw himself across Noynoy's body. Three of the four guards were killed. Aquino was hit in the shoulder and neck, but is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines The Coup That Failed | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...support arises not from organized political muscle--as it did for her deposed predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos--but from personal charisma. After the martyrdom of her husband, former Senator Benigno Aquino, her political innocence became her strong card in the presidential race against the incumbent Marcos and his perceived cynical machinations...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Farmer and Landlord Should Be Friends | 7/10/1987 | See Source »

...Aquino-Harvard connection was forged between 1980 and 1983, when the President's late husband, Benigno S. Aquino, an opposition leader to deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, served as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs. At the time, Corazon Aquino was a homemaker, living in Newton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard 'Mafia' Advises Aquino Government | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard is known internationally," says John W. Thomas, a lecturer at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). "But, the fact that Ninoy [Benigno Aquino] was at Harvard has enhanced the University's reputation with the Aquino government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard 'Mafia' Advises Aquino Government | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

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