Word: ferdinand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independence from the U.S. in 1946. At the Malacanang Palace, giddy with excitement, hundreds of Filipinos would scale fences and storm their way through locked doors in order to glimpse--and in some cases to loot--the ornate Spanish-style palace that had served as Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos' seat of almost absolute power...
...said in her address, "it is fitting and proper that, as the rights and liberties of our people were taken away at midnight 14 years ago (when martial law was declared), the people should formally recover those rights and liberties in the full light of day." An hour later Ferdinand Marcos stepped onto the balcony at Malacanang Palace before a crowd of 4,000 cheering supporters and took the oath of office. "Whatever we have before us, we will overcome," he promised, while Imelda vowed to serve the people "all my life up to my last breath." Though...
Less than twelve hours later her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and his family climbed aboard four U.S. Air Force helicopters, bound for exile after more than 20 years of increasingly authoritarian rule. Aquino went on national television to assure the country that a great national crisis had been resolved. "We are finally free," she said. "The long agony is over...
...major news was the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. But the route to Manila last week was a meandering one for viewers of the three network news shows. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather introduced the story from San Antonio and Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where he was doing a series of reports on America's farmers. Tom Brokaw launched the NBC Nightly News coverage on Tuesday from Washington, where the big story was the inquiry into the explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where...
...U.S.S.R. is looking for ways to build bridges to China and hinting that there might be a way to resolve Moscow's long-standing dispute with Japan over the islands the Red Army occupied late in World War II. The Soviets even made a bizarre eleventh-hour overture to Ferdinand Marcos, congratulating him on his "re-election" and seeking to capitalize on his estrangement from Uncle...