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This week's cover story on the Philippines' remarkable liberation from the autocratic rule of Ferdinand Marcos is only the latest chapter in TIME's decades-long coverage of the strategically located archipelago. As early as 1923 the magazine was writing about Filipino politicians and their determined agitation for independence from U.S. rule. In 1935 the U.S. granted the islands semiautonomous status, and TIME's cover story on Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, noted that in moving Manila toward eventual independence, the U.S. was being "far from purely benevolent": it would mean not only unloading...
...reminders of the excesses of Kings." A few came to plunder and destroy. One man threw a photograph of the departed First Lady into an ornamental fish pool. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacanang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived a block away for 40 years, and never dreamed he would ever see the day when he would set foot in the palace...
...Opposition Politician Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., 50, returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the U.S., was slain by a single bullet as he stepped off a jetliner into a crowd of soldiers and well-wishers. Though Marcos tried to put the blame on Communist agitators, one Filipino civilian and 25 members of the military, including General Fabian Ver, the armed forces Chief of Staff and Marcos stalwart, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. The defendants were acquitted in December after a yearlong trial, but few Filipinos doubted their guilt...
...wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration--even one called at short notice. But the dignitaries and affluent friends assembled at the Club Filipino in the Manila suburb of Greenhills merely formed a splendid backdrop for the more modestly attired guest of honor. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting...
...factionalized and riddled with corruption. A Communist insurgency mounted by the New People's Army threatens large areas of the 7,100-island archipelago. To this staggering array of ills, Aquino brings a moral force and a popularity that will buy her the indulgence and goodwill of the Filipino people, at least for a while. "There are big problems in the + Philippines," said a senior U.S. State Department official last week. "We have always felt that only a government that enjoyed a genuine popular mandate could effectively address them...