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...date allowed the President to claim magnanimity for allowing opposition parties more time to prepare for the contest. It was flexibility he could well afford: last week Marcos' civilian opponents appeared to be more deeply divided than ever. Only days after leading Opposition Figures Corazon ("Cory") Aquino and Salvador ("Doy") Laurel made a public display of their solidarity against Marcos, it seemed they were about to split over the issue of who should run against the President...
...anti-Marcos parties. She is the one candidate who is considered capable of uniting the fractious democratic resistance to Marcos. Mrs. Aquino has said she would run only if her supporters collected 1 million signatures in her favor. The sole declared candidate to date is former Senator Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 56 (see interview). Yale educated and the son of a former Philippine President, Laurel and his United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO) party have 49 of the 55 opposition seats in the National Assembly. His strongest challenger for the presidential nomination will probably be Liberal Party Leader Salonga, a center-leftist...
Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 56, discussed Philippine election prospects with TIME editors in New York City last week. Excerpts...
...move to defuse opposition charges that hasty balloting might be unfair, Marcos agreed last week to delay the election beyond the original Jan. 17 date. The stakes were high indeed. "This is an election where everything will be risked--life, liberty and honor," proclaimed Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, a major opposition candidate for the presidency. "You will have to kill us in order to cheat us." In Washington, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Paul D. Wolfowitz said before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that dishonest elections might cause a "disaster of large and indefinable proportions...
Gong says he felt “a certain loneliness” at Harvard because there were so few Asian Americans. But he remembers the help he received along the way. While working at Hong Lo Doy restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown, Dean of Freshmen Judson Shaplin came to the restaurant with his wife one Saturday evening to boost his morale and tell him not to worry about his scholarship...