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...trip was President Corazon Aquino's first outside the Philippines in almost a year and a half, and it was clearly a respite from troubles at home. There, rumors swirled of another coup attempt by Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan. Though police last week arrested eight fugitive guards who had escaped with him from a prison ship two weeks earlier, Honasan remained at large. In her absence, Aquino named a military-dominated committee to run the government...
Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan is a master at manipulating military frustration. Last August thousands of underpaid soldiers joined him in an uprising that nearly toppled Philippine President Corazon Aquino. Last week Honasan apparently took advantage of unrest in the armed forces again. With the help of a reserve lieutenant said to be angry because he had not received a regular commission, Honasan escaped from a navy ship on Manila Bay, where he had been detained since his capture last December. Escaping with him on two rubber rafts were 13 of his guards. It took the government four months...
...south, in the suburb of Paranaque, stand the stately mansions of the Plazas of Dignity. It is a serene place, which should come as no surprise, since all the residents are dead. The plazas are part of Manila Memorial Park, a cemetery for the privileged. While President Corazon Aquino's late husband Benigno, assassinated in 1983, rests in a simple tomb, other graves are grandiose: white sepulchers within marble pavilions, furnished with altars and windowed with stained glass. Some even provide bathrooms and beds for mourners...
...well be the best three years of my life," she enthuses. "I am experiencing a rebirth." Such themes -- independence, job fulfillment and spiritual renewal -- are central elements of Lear's. Divided into five sections, including "Pleasures" and "Self Center," the premiere issue features an interview with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and original fiction by Doris Lessing. There are also inspirational profiles of half a dozen exemplars of the Lear's woman, a combination of elegance, success and self-awareness. Most revolutionary are the fashion pages, which feature models ranging from 33 to 60. "We are breaking the perception that...
Since Philippine President Corazon Aquino displaced long-time ruler Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, an insurgent party has stepped up a terrorist campaign, and there has been one attempted coup...