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While such disputes may involve genuine differences over the future course of Philippine democracy, it became clear last week that much of Enrile's rancor is rooted in the recent past. The seeds of discord date from the very revolution that put Aquino in Malacanang Palace and Enrile at her side. Aquino supporters describe the heady February revolution as a popular uprising that was backed by the military. Enrile, on the other hand, paints Marcos' ouster as a military revolt that enjoyed popular support. "Cory didn't give me my job. I already had it," Enrile said more than once...
...presidents, Pusey was much concerned with fund raising. In 1956 he launched a successful campaign to raise the then unprecedented sum of $82.5 million for new professorships, faculty salaries and scholarships. By 1968 he had increased the university's endowment to $1 billion. But these were times of extreme discord, and many students paid little attention to Pusey's ambitions. In the fall of 1967 a band of about 250 leftist students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Co., chief manufacturer of the napalm being used in Viet Nam, and held him prisoner for seven hours. Pusey...
...President's speech had all the trappings of a major offensive, but in fact he was fighting a rearguard defense. When Ronald Reagan took to the airwaves last week to beseech the nation to continue backing his massive defense buildup, the rumbles of discord threatened to drown out his ardent pleas and shift the public attention from funding the Pentagon to reforming...
...budget proposals hit Capitol Hill, but the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger forced a delay. "We planned to ride the thing for a week," said Director of Communications Pat Buchanan. Even a stunt by bureaucrats in the Office of Management and Budget did little to soften the discord that came on Wednesday...
...News it has been a year of almost nonstop discord. Morale plummeted after 74 staffers were dismissed in September as part of companywide cutbacks. The jazzy new magazine show West 57th and the revamped CBS Morning News inspired cries of outrage from news traditionalists. A group of CBS News stars even inquired about possibly buying their division from the company. Last week the target of much of the staff discontent, CBS News President Edward Joyce, 52, was replaced. His job goes to Van Gordon Sauter, 50, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group and Joyce's immediate predecessor...