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DEMOCRACY IS ALL the rage in Washington this week. Faced with a phenomenal popular revolt against longtime U.S. client Ferdinand Marcos, the Reagan Administration reluctantly adopted an alledgedly interventionist policy. Yet it is in spite of American policy--long one of malign neglect--that the Philippine people have finally won their freedom...
Item: Though the White House yesterday finally called on Ferdinand Marcos to step down, the Reagan Administration waffled for weeks while Corazon Aquino, the most inspiring "freedom fighter" in recent memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on the Philippine election, which Aquino correctly called a contest between good and evil, came during a new Administration initiative to funnel aid to two dubious movements: the Contras in Nicaragua and Jonas Savimbi's South Africa-backed rebels in Angola...
Inexorably, the charade moved the Philippines closer to a new turning point in a potentially explosive national drama. At week's end the National Assembly, dominated by members of President Ferdinand Marcos' ruling New Society Movement, produced its tally after angry opposition members walked out of the legislative hall to protest government railroad tactics. The rump gathering declared that Marcos, 68, had defeated his presidential rival, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 53, by 10,807,179 votes...
Police Chief David J. Thompson said that the since the killing Wednesday, "there has been widespread speculation that Salvatierra's death was politically motivated" by supporters of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos...
After telling the nation Feb. 11 that fraud and violence may have occurred "on both sides," Reagan directly blamed the party of President Ferdinand E. Marcos five days later for most of the irregularities...