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...widow of slain Filipino opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino returned to Boston this week for the first time since the assassination of her husband, to attend a Monday memorial service held by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T...
...Seno further disclosed that paraffin tests carried out on the five supposedly unarmed men who escorted Aquino off the plane indicated that two showed "positive" results for nitrates on their hands, a finding that suggested they could have handled a gun. Seno's comments appeared in Filipino newspapers after being reported by the Associated Press. On Friday, the presidential palace issued a statement saying that Seno was suing several foreign newspapers and the A.P for libel...
...unrelated development, a former Mason fellow at the Kennedy School of Government has formed an organization dedicated to the democratization of the Philippines. Heherson Alvarez, who studied at the K-School in 1981-82, said that the group will encourage Filipino nationals living in the United States to boycott Philippine taxes, as well as foster civil disobedience in that country...
Propping up Marcos will only serve to polarize the political scene in Manila. The Filipino center symbolized by Aquino is still a vibrant force, capable of assuming leadership and reinstating democracy. But if Washington continues to ignore the center in favor of Marcos, increasingly frustrated centrists will move to the extreme left. Then the Communists will constitute the only viable alternative to Marcos. And unless the latter dismantles the authoritarian state apparatus he himself erected--an unlikely prospect--the Communists will take power and the U.S. will be out in the cold. No moral argument here, just sheer pragmatism...
...visiting fellow at Harvard, in the same fellows program that Filipino dissident Benigno Aquino participated in three years ago, before his assassination as he stepped off the plane in his home country this August...