Word: estrada
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...family were allowed to leave for Southeast Asia, purportedly for health reasons. They later went on to South Korea. China's face-saving decision came ahead of next week's vote on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympics. PHILIPPINES Keeping Silent Deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada declined to answer charges of perjury from the country's anticorruption court. The court entered a plea of not guilty and set the next hearing for August. 2. The former movie star will this month face a much more serious charge of economic plunder. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Curfew Prime Minister Mekere Morauta...
...When presented with new data or surprising briefings, Arroyo will hit the phones to cross-check the info herself. She insists on hourly updates about the drive against Abu Sayyaf. She rings her own network of contacts, built up during her days in the Senate and as Estrada's Vice President and Social Welfare Secretary. Says Rigoberto Tiglao, the palace spokesman: "As President, you get so much advice?wrong or right?that after a while, if your intellect isn't that good, you stop trying to process it and you hide in a cocoon of close advisers. But President Arroyo...
...doesn't stop Arroyo from making new allies. Since taking office in January, Arroyo has taken time to get to know her generals and regional brigade commanders. She is mindful of the seven failed coup attempts against her idol, Cory Aquino. Her schmoozing paid off, she claims, after pro-Estrada supporters tried to turn a May 2 protest against the arrest of the ex-President into an uprising against Arroyo. "Everything was in place for this coup," she says about the spring plot, "except the military component." These threats have subsided, Arroyo claims, "but we have to remain vigilant...
...than rent-a-crowds, she knew better. She understood that social discontent was bubbling away over the country's high unemployment rate, corruption and nonexistent social services, and Arroyo was an obvious target for their rage. Not only had she arrested the poor's favorite politician, former film actor Estrada, but many dispossessed Filipinos considered Arroyo a typical member of the Philippines' heedless aristocracy. That's not a view Arroyo accepts: she considers herself a far more humble person than is popularly imagined, and likes reminding people that her father grew up poor and her paternal grandmother took in laundry...