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Rumors began circulating in Manila that unnamed politicians, assumed to be allied with former President Ferdinand Marcos, Enrile and elements in the military, planned to reconvene illegally the national assembly that Aquino disbanded after her accession. As word of the presumed minicoup spread, armed forces Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos moved to block it, ordering his commanders to "disregard" any orders that might come from the Defense Ministry. At Ramos' direction, government troops in trucks and armored vehicles lined the street leading to the presidential palace in Manila and secured key radio and television stations...
...FEBRUARY 26, 1986, Corazon C. Aquino was sworn in as President of the Philippines and Ferdinand Marcos fled the country for exile abroad. It was the final act of a morality play, in which the courageous widow of a martyred Filipino leader, starting without political experience or power, had "spoken truth to power" and mobilized the Philippine people to overthrow an entrenched, autocratic head of state...
...President was worried enough about what might happen during her absence that she asked Jaime Cardinal Sin, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines, to delay a trip to Rome until she returned. Sin played a crucial role during the February uprising that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos when he turned a church-run radio station over to the opposition and urged people to go into the streets in protest. Aquino told the Cardinal last week, "I'm not here, you're not here. Pity our poor people...
Along with Enrile, Ramos spearheaded the weekend rebellion that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos last February. He took action after the Philippine newspaper Business Day quoted "high-level" military sources as saying that disaffected military men planned an operation, code-named "God Save the Queen," to purge the Aquino government of "left-leaning elements" while retaining Aquino as President. The coup was to take place before the Feb. 2 referendum...
More surprising still, the crowd was egged on by none other than Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, the onetime ally and crony of Ferdinand Marcos whose decision to turn on the former President assured Aquino's peaceful takeover. In recent weeks Enrile's criticisms of Aquino have become more ominous. Three days after Enrile led the chanting anti-Aquino crowd, he was joined in his attacks by Vice President Salvador Laurel, who sided with Enrile against the President in a Cabinet dispute over when the next presidential election should be held. With Enrile headed toward open revolt and Laurel fast...