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...Corazon Aquino Philippine President...
Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolutions that transformed Central and Eastern Europe, Corazon Aquino led the People Power revolution, which toppled the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. His ouster after the infamous snap election of 1986, for which I was a U.S. observer, led TIME to name her Woman of the Year. Her presidency survived eight coup attempts as she patiently restored constitutional democracy to her country, where she died a revered figure. But her legacy was global. For the U.S., it marked the start of the Reagan doctrine to oppose authoritarianism of the right...
...things stand, opinion surveys (a far from infallible guide) put senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III in the lead. A low-profile figure during nine years in Congress, the bookish-looking lawmaker was pushed to the limelight just a few months ago after the death of his admired mother Corazon, a former president and symbol of democacy during the anti-Marcos struggle. Some pundits predicted his star would quickly fade, but that hasn't happened. Manuel Villar, a rags-to-riches real estate developer born in Manila's Tondo port area, is placing second. Behind him is ousted former president Joseph...
...Macapagal-Arroyo is not the first Philippine president to come out in support of breastfeeding. In 1986 President Corazon Aquino signed into law Executive Order 51, the National Milk Code - designed to implement the objectives of the WHO's 1981 International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, which bans virtually all forms of advertising and marketing of infant formula, as well as forbidding milk-company representatives from contacting pregnant women and mothers, or distributing gifts to health workers. In its annual meeting in 1974, the WHO determined that breastfeeding was in decline around the world, and soon after drafted...
...Remembering Cory Corazon Aquino had no ambitions to enter the world of men who either kill or are killed in the name of power [Aug. 17]. But the death of her husband inevitably catapulted her from a comfortable, safe place at home to the most powerful seat of the nation. Her administration was not one without controversies and it is true what a commentator once said about her: "She will make mistakes, but honest ones." And perhaps that is how Filipinos will remember her, a mere human (imperfect and flawed), but one who tried to live life in the most...