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Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos will probably defeat his challenger Corazon Aquino in the upcoming presidential elections, but it is likely that he will die in office, leaving the country in chaos, Harvard experts predicted yesterday...
...countdown to disaster had already begun. On Monday, Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 57, marched into the office of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and filed as a candidate in the Feb. 7 presidential election. On Wednesday, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 52, did the same thing. With the ink on Aquino's registration papers barely dry and with only hours remaining before the midnight filing deadline, there was only the dimmest hope that the two opposition leaders would patch up their differences and revive plans that had collapsed three days earlier to run on a single ticket. The possibility loomed that...
Chants of "Cory! Cory!" filled the room as Corazon Aquino, 52, spoke into the microphone. "I hereby affirm my candidacy and confirm my willingness if elected to serve our people as President of the Republic of the Philippines." With that declaration, the widow of slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr.--a career housewife and mother of five who has never before run for office--ended weeks of speculation and confirmed that she would ) oppose President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, in a snap election called...
...political opponents are in disarray. Moderates among them say that if the President were to call a "snap election," as he has threatened on occasion, the parties would be able to unite around a single candidate. But the jostling has turned up no clear favorite, save Aquino's widow Corazon, who is resisting pressure to run. Meanwhile, the anti-U.S. leftist opposition seems to be growing in strength...
...been seriously weakened. With Ver's indictment, the Tanodbayan supported the findings of last fall's majority report of the Agrava board, which had been appointed by the government to investigate the deaths of Aquino and Galman. Four of the five members of the commission--all except Chairwoman Corazon Agrava--had implicated the same 26 men who were indicted last week. Ver and the officer he assigned to investigate the killing, Major General Prospero Olivas, were among eight men named by the Tanodbayan as accessories for their part in concealing evidence of the crime...