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Dire political predictions are standard fare in the Philippines, which has experienced more than 10 coup attempts and two popular uprisings in the last two decades. But last week, rumblings that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo might be overthrown by a coup or even another People Power revolt reached alarming levels. In a public statement, three Roman Catholic bishops warned the President early last week that "time is running out" and said that if there isn't an immediate revamp of the country's government, "no force on earth can ever stop the coming deluge of change." These exhortations for change...
...three years before holding a new election. The plan, the sources say, isn't fully formed: apparently the group has yet to find a political figure to lead the charge. Possible candidates such as former President Fidel V. Ramos and longtime Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile scoff at the coup rumors. "Who is going to run the country?" asks Enrile. But other politicians are more concerned. House Speaker Jose de Venecia has called for emergency "unity talks" among politicians and civic organizations to simmer things down...
...DIED. WEE KIM WEE, 89, well-loved Singaporean statesman who as President from 1985 to 1993 used his common touch to increase the accessibility of the office; in Singapore. A former journalist who scored an international exclusive with an interview of then General Suharto following Indonesia's bloody coup of 1966, Wee went into politics in 1973 and served as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to South Korea and Japan before being tapped to become the city-state's fourth President. Wee "took to diplomacy like a duck to water," said Deputy Prime Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar, and was eulogized...
...Philippines' budget deficit and a hike in electricity and petrol prices to offset rising oil costs, which have prompted numerous street protests. "These protests and bishops worry me no end," says Jose Ma. Rufino, national executive director of Arroyo's Lakas Party. "It's a new phenomenon." Unfortunately, coup tremors in the Philippines are anything...
...obviously bright,” Mendelsohn said. “What was interesting to those of us in the department was the way he moved across cultures. I think it’s a real coup for Harvard in getting someone who has this ability...