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...cease-fire was signed at Manila's Club Filipino, the sumptuous establishment in the suburb of Greenhills where President Aquino took her oath of office ten months ago. She was not present for the historic moment. Instead, along with her friend and adviser Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, she attended a ceremony that morning marking what would have been her slain husband Benigno's 54th birthday...
...spirit of the military's demands. At week's end she announced the removal of Natural Resources Minister Ernesto Maceda and Public Works Minister Rogaciano Mercado, whose ministries have been accused of corruption. She praised both men as "stalwarts" of the opposition to Marcos and "real champions of Filipino freedom." But she added that she was "compelled by the national interest" to get rid of them...
...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...
...time she left Tokyo, she had obtained a $250 million loan for a coal-fired power station, part of a grant-and-aid package that Aquino optimistically predicted may total as much as $625 million. Aquino called the promises of economic assistance a "very clear message to the Filipino people that the Japanese government strongly supports the Aquino government...
...Luzon, Enrile was the illegitimate son of a poor village girl. At 21 he finally met his father, a well-to-do Manila lawyer who had only recently learned of the boy's existence. Subsequently Enrile studied law at the University of the Philippines, where he mingled with the Filipino elite. His classmates included Vice President Laurel, whose father had been President during the Japanese occupation of World War II, and Cabinet Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo, the scion of a land-rich family. Enrile has been particularly stung by his exclusion from Aquino's inner circle, which includes Arroyo...