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Benigno Aquino was a fellow at the CFIA from 1980-83, and lived with Corazon in Newton. Prior to arriving in the United States in 1980, Benigno Aquino was imprisoned in Manila...
...RESULTS of the recent constitutional referendum in the Philippines provide further evidence of President Corazon Aquino's enormous personal popularity. The margin of victory--a three-to-one vote in favor of the new constitution proposed by Aquino--surprised many foreign observers and restored international confidence in the staying power of her government. Indeed, placed alongside the quick defeat of yet another coup attempt, the February 2nd vote seems to confirm the unassailable nature of the current regime...
CONGRATULATIONS--and a breath of relief--are in order for Corazon Aquino and the people of the Philippines. While the results of the February 2 plebiscite have not yet been completely tallied, it appears that Aquino has been granted an overwhelming mandate for the continuation of her presidency. Over three-quarters of the voters supported her draft constitution...
...last week's bungled takeover in Manila was a pretty tame affair. Few were hurt, and only one rebel soldier was killed. Despite some rock throwing and a few blasts of tear gas, the 61-hour drama often seemed more like a soap opera than a mutiny. Still, President Corazon Aquino did not need even a small rebellion on the eve of a critical vote on her proposed new constitution. She could not be happy that, for the second time in two months, she had to be rescued by her divided military. Nor could she be sanguine about a failed...
When thousands of demonstrators set out in Manila last week to march on Malacanang Palace, the office of President Corazon Aquino, the police took standard precautions. To contain the roisterous crowd, which chanted demands for immediate land reform, 500 riot policemen equipped with truncheons and metal shields lined up in eight-deep rows at the foot of the Mendiola Bridge, the main approach to the palace. Two water cannons and eight fire trucks pulled up as well, and a contingent of Philippine marines, on temporary security duty at Malacanang, deployed behind the police phalanx...