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...disaffection with Marcos. It infuriated thousands of professional military men, who bitterly resented the politicization that the armed forces were undergoing and the hatred that this process was engendering. Of the assassination, Colonel Gregorio Honosan says today, "From a military viewpoint, it is technically impossible to get inside a cordon of 2,000 men, so this reinforced our belief that nobody in government could be safe...
Even as local officers issued polite messages to news organizations requesting that "journalists please refrain from entering Alexandra township," police and army forces were throwing up an impenetrable cordon around Alexandra. Several journalists climbed to hills overlooking the township to monitor and film the violence. The ruse, however, only provoked the authorities, who quickly issued new regulations banning reporters and photographers not only from Alexandra but from all surrounding areas...
Last week's verdict rejected the conclusions of a civilian fact-finding board that a military conspiracy was behind Aquino's murder. Instead, the court supported the military's contention that Rolando Galman, an alleged Communist gunman, had somehow managed to penetrate the 1,199-man security cordon at the airport that day and shot Aquino on the tarmac before being felled by a fatal barrage from nearby guards. The justices dismissed all evidence that buttressed the prosecution's argument that Aquino was instead slain by a soldier on the jetliner's service stairway...
Everybody in the country will have to be tested for the virus, despite the constitutional objections that are sure to be raised by certain suicidal do-gooders; but by the time this can be accomplished, some huge proportion will already have been infected. Will we cordon off New York? Will we quarantine the entire West Coast and wait for the inhabitants to come out of the latency phase and die? And in the meantime, before we are able to impose some sort of final solution on the problem, will panicky parents keep their kids out of school? Will they flee...
Wine makers across Europe and America are helping to quench demand for the real thing by duplicating la méthode champenoise. Two Spanish brands, Freixenet and Codorniu, have been produced according to the French technique since the 19th century. Freixenet's Cordon Negro, known for its distinctive black bottle, and Codorniu's Brut Classico both sell for about $6, yet critics have compared them favorably with French brands costing twice as much. Freixenet's shipments to the U.S. have grown from 540,000 bottles in 1979 to an estimated 9 million this year...