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Moments after Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. was assassinated at the Manila airport on Aug. 21, 1983, a Philippine camera crew captured the anguished face of a young woman. To the reporter who questioned her, she replied, "They have killed Aquino. Why are you not crying yet?" Last week...
Her testimony, which was dismissed by the defense as not worth cross- examining, was in sharp contrast to the eyewitness accounts given to an investigating commission, the Agrava board, by the soldiers who escorted Aquino from the plane. They insisted that Galman, a small-time gangster, suddenly appeared and fired...
Trying to convert the past into fiction is no small act of faith either. The historical novelist must believe that he can be adequately inspired by old documents when, in fact, his imagination is better served by direct experience. Moore cites as his sources eyewitness reports and church records used...
"In addition, Macartney's work is in the form of an eyewitness account. It is much like a diary, and not too many manuscripts of this kind exist," added Wu.
Spokesman Robert Feldkamp said the agent, Enrique Salazar Camarena, "left the DEA office shortly after noon Thursday for a luncheon date with his wife and has not been seen since However, the DEA learned from an eyewitness Sunday that four armed men were seen abducting him and throwing him into...