Word: corazon
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...formal passing of the mantle of office, but the moment was telling. Front-running presidential candidate Fidel Ramos was paying a postelection call on outgoing President Corazon Aquino, whose endorsement was largely responsible for the slim lead he now holds in the ballot count of the seven-candidate race. As the pair emerged from their meeting, the normally deferential former Defense Secretary confidently stepped forward to field reporters' questions, leaving Aquino nodding in the background...
...front runners at week's end, with less than a quarter of the vote tabulated, were former Defense Minister Fidel Ramos and reform candidate Miriam Defensor Santiago. Ramos, who is President Corazon Aquino's choice to succeed her, had edged slightly ahead of Santiago, who promptly charged that "wholesale election fraud" was taking place...
What she lacks in credibility she easily makes up in chutzpah. Just minutes after pleading not guilty to six criminal charges, former First Lady Imelda Marcos stood on the courthouse steps to announce her bid to succeed Corazon Aquino as President of the Philippines...
...Imelda, being Imelda, refused to abide by the plan to join her motorcade in a safely cleared area behind the terminal. Instead, she insisted on leaving through the arrival lobby in full view of the press and supporters. After two hours of frantic calls to the Malacanang Palace, President Corazon Aquino's executive secretary instructed police to let Imelda have...
...American soldier of fortune named Jack Terrell, who once worked for the contra rebels in Nicaragua, created a political storm in the Philippines last week when he implicated Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus in a bizarre plot to murder a handful of President Corazon Aquino's opponents, including rebel Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan...