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When parliamentary elections last May produced an overwhelming victory for President Corazon Aquino, former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile denounced the balloting as a fraud. Calling the election the "dirtiest in the nation's history," he vowed not to take his seat in the 24-member Senate even if declared a winner...
...murder was the most shocking blow yet to the government of Philippine President Corazon Aquino. After calmly downing hamburgers at a snack stand in a Manila suburb, three young men, armed with .45-cal. pistols and an UZI submachine gun, opened fire on a passing silver-green Toyota Cressida. The hail of gunfire instantly killed the car's driver and fatally wounded his passenger, Local Governments Secretary Jaime Ferrer, 70, a prominent member of Aquino's Cabinet and nemesis of the country's Communist insurgents. The gunmen and two accomplices then roared away into the night...
...insurrection, which missed its original June deadline and was rescheduled for last week, had all the trappings of a James Bond thriller, including hidden treasure and a scheme to kidnap Philippine President Corazon Aquino. If actually carried out, an invasion could also have been bloody. Marcos, who was deposed in a People Power rebellion in February 1986, planned to buy $18 million worth of Stinger missiles, M-16 rifles, tanks, grenade launchers and enough ammunition to equip 10,000 soldiers for three months...
Indeed, constitutions are living documents that are constantly being created and reshaped. Voters in the Philippines went to the polls in January to approve a new charter, the country's fifth, that prohibits human rights violations and retains Corazon Aquino as President until 1992. In Nicaragua this year, the Marxist-influenced Sandinista leadership unveiled that country's twelfth constitution in 149 years. Haitians in March approved their 23rd charter since 1804 in the country's first free election in three decades...
...Dante as he is popularly known, is something of a legend in the Philippines. The alleged commander in chief of the Communist New People's Army from its founding in 1969 until his capture in 1977, Dante pledged to fight for his ideals from within the system after President Corazon Aquino released him from jail in 1986. Though he lost a bid for the Senate last month, Dante was warmly received even by people who did not agree with him. After reports surfaced last week that the attackers were dressed in army fatigues, a military spokesman said, "The army...