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...evidence of trouble grows. As this is being written, we hear that the army has been mobilized by General Fidel Ramos to resist a coup attempt by military forces loyal to Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. Should the army, led by Enrile and his security chief Colonel Gregorio Honasan, assume power, then the attempts at reconciliation for which Aquino stands will be abandoned for an all-out military confrontation with the left. Should the military backing Aquino predominate, she will have a renewed chance to pursue her vision, but with the army's power considerably enhanced...
...weeks Manila has been rife with speculation over where armed forces Chief of Staff Fidel Ramos would stand in the event of a showdown between President Corazon Aquino and her restive Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile. While most observers have put the general in Aquino's camp, his support of some of Enrile's positions has made him difficult to read. Last week, confronted by reports that members of the military were planning a coup, Ramos sternly warned "military adventurists" that such action could be "bloody and destabilizing." Declared the general, in his clearest show of support yet for Aquino...
India's Rajiv Gandhi was there, and so were Cuba's Fidel Castro, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and some 50 heads of state. The occasion was the eighth Summit Conference of the Nonaligned, a group now made up of 101 nations that was formed 25 years ago by leaders of the postwar independence movement: Nehru of India, Tito of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nkrumah of Ghana and Nasser of Egypt. Its members claim to be neutrals in the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but its triennial meeting last week in Harare...
...smoke or not to smoke? For Fidel Castro, that is no longer the question. The Cuban President, who turned 60 last month, gave up his beloved stogies a year ago. Last week he urged others to follow his lead. "I haven't taken a single puff since last Aug. 26," Castro said. "I don't miss it, and I feel better...
Castro's resolve has sparked a nationwide anti-smoking campaign. But the leader may find Cubans, who earn some $100 million a year from tobacco exports, reluctant to stop lighting up. Said one comrade who joined Castro's forces in the 1950s: "I would follow Fidel into battle and die for him, but I'm not giving up smoking cigars...