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...once, the opposition refused to shrug off such election chicanery. As members of the government-dominated election commission inexplicably dawdled over counting votes, demonstrators conducted a candlelight march on Manila's city hall, waving placards that proclaimed, NINOY, YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN!, TALLY SHEET, NOT TALLY CHEAT! and ONE VOTE, ONE COUNT! In the capital's commercial center of Makati, a recount took away the victory of UNIDO Candidate Aurora ("Au-Au") Pijuan-Manotoc, 34, the former wife of Sportsman Tommy Manotoc, who is now married to the President's daughter Imee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Message for Marcos | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...Corporation; to engage in secret meetings; to vote for the first time on total divestiture in 1983; to be deadlocked; to be manipulated by Derek Bok; and to make recommendations concerning the Sullivan Principles--recommendations ignored by a crafty Corporation that always hopes to ride out harmless candlelight marches. Practically speaking, the ACSR is a cooptation of the anti-apartheid movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pull Out From ACSR | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

David J. Wright '86 read "Paradise Lost" by candlelight for his tutorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lights Go Out In Eliot House | 12/13/1983 | See Source »

...demonstrators--about half of whom were Law School students--listened to speakers including Professor of Biology Ruth Hubbard '45 and History Department Chairman John Womack before proceeding on a candlelight march through the Square and around the river Houses...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker and Jennifer A. Kingson, S | Title: 500 March Against Grenada Invasion | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...appeal to a student audience which is able to laugh at itself and at it friends. But an exlusive theme hovers over the stage a theme that is hard to put down on paper and into the mouths of the characters. Politics is much more than burning down buildings, candlelight marches and a platform of lofty ideals. It is accommodating ideals to reality by communicating them to colleagues and to voters something which the beleaguer Steve is unable to do. It is the common knowledge which we, like Steve and his friends stumble over without finding...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Radical Chic | 10/19/1983 | See Source »

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