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Evelio Javier, director of Corazon Aquino's campaign in the remote province of Antique, was sitting on the lawn in front of the capital building, taking a break from a debate over contested votes in his region, when a white vehicle pulled into the driveway. Without warning, a man in a black knit ski mask leaped out and started shooting. Javier jumped up and ran. Zigzagging across the building's broad concrete plaza, he tried to escape the relentless barrage of bullets. At least one hit its mark. Javier stumbled and fell into a small fishpond...
Both sides were anxious about the outcome of the conclave. Challenger Corazon Aquino visited the conference Thursday to ask its president, Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, the Archbishop of Cebu, if the bishops would support her plans to begin a campaign of civil disobedience. At 2:30 Friday morning Vidal had another visitor: First Lady Imelda Marcos roused him to ask if the pastoral letter would incite an armed uprising. Vidal reportedly assured her, "We had never entertained any idea of violence...
...opposition candidates and drafting a platform had been worked out by the so-called Jesuit Mafia, which helps form Catholic political positions. The group, which included Father Joaquin Bernas, president of Ateneo de Manila University, had already concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon...
...drama. At week's end the National Assembly, dominated by members of President Ferdinand Marcos' ruling New Society Movement, produced its tally after angry opposition members walked out of the legislative hall to protest government railroad tactics. The rump gathering declared that Marcos, 68, had defeated his presidential rival, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 53, by 10,807,179 votes...
Watching closely was the slight, determined figure of Corazon Aquino. The quiet widow who had turned into candidate and crusader, who had ignited a popular passion for change during her 57-day election campaign, continued to insist last week that she rather than Marcos was the rightful President of the Philippines. Deliberately ignoring the National Assembly hoopla, Aquino went on the personal offensive. She staged a giant rally in Manila's Rizal Park on Sunday to protest Marcos' alleged election fraud. That event was the kickoff of a protracted "People's Victory" campaign of nonviolent rallies and boycotts in coming...