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...embarrassing and disquieting as the latest news was, it's a safe bet that President Corazon Aquino took in the headlines with astonishing equanimity. On a recent morning in Manila, seated across from me in the calm of her office, the President confessed that she only read the front pages of eight papers. Her explanation was vintage Cory: "I want to start out the day feeling very positive and confident...
...because the Government had "utterly failed in this case." For once Judge Keenan seemed to agree with Spence, asking, "What am I doing trying a case involving the theft of money from Philippine banks? I want to find out what the frauds were here in America, because ((Philippine President Corazon)) Aquino can enforce her own laws." Keenan deferred to Government policy, but the jury may share his doubts...
Other role models she has met and admired in the course of her travels include Corazon Aquino, Indira Gandhi and Thatcher. "It's been an interest for me to see how women handle power, authority, people, decisions. We are different in how we approach things. A man can sit around a bar and shake liar's dice and discuss problems. The woman doesn't do that. Decision making, I think, is a bit more formal...
...first orders of business will be to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. She alone has the moral stature to press for the end to authoritarian rule and to halt the political factionalism that brought the military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain. But unlike some of the others...
...enraged President Corazon Aquino ordered a nationwide manhunt for Bibit...