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...martyred Benigno Aquino, who has become the moral voice of the 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...
...MARCOS' ANNOUNCEMENT. We favor a snap election. But the elections must be free and fair. That's all we want...
...armaments and take a hard stance against Soviet expansionism. But as Reagan prepared for this week's meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, a TIME poll showed more support for reaching an accommodation with the Soviet Union than at any other time during his presidency. The U.S. public strongly favors making significant progress in talks with the Soviets, particularly on nuclear arms control, even while it is dubious about any likely success. Alkthough a majority of Americans favor development of the President's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a solid 74% indicate a willingness to trade away the proposed missile-defense...
More surprising are public doubts about the popular Reagan. Only 30% think the President emphasizes arms control over expansion of our nuclear arsenal, although 79% personally favor that position. Fully 50% of those surveyed believe Reagan is determined to build up America's supply of nuclear weapons, but only 12% find that a good idea. Indeed, by 25% to 21%, more voters believe Reagan's nuclear policies increase rather than decrease the threat of war. (A remarkable 46% think those policies have no effect either...
...personally favor putting emphasis on ... Negotiating nuclear disarmament[*] Expanding our nuclear arsenal[*] December 1981 67% 25% March 1982 71% 21% July 1985 69% 18% November...