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...State governments serve all citizens, regardless of their political beliefs,” said PP President Gloria Feldt when the “Choose Life” plate was overturned. “If a public forum is open to one political group, it must be open to all.” In that, she is right. The South Carolina legislature is a forum that is open to all beliefs. If that forum decides to produce “Choose Life” plates, then so be it. PP and the courts should stay...
Revolution and martyrdom are powerful concepts in the Philippines. Few people recognize this as well as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. After all, she was elevated to the top job in 2001 through a popular uprising that ousted President Joseph Estrada. Last week, Arroyo attempted to switch from revolutionary hero to political martyr by announcing she wouldn't run for the presidency in the scheduled May 2004 elections. "If I don't make a sacrifice," she said during an event marking the anniversary of the death of martyred revolutionary hero José Rizal, "what will happen to our country...
...Rocked by a slew of recent explosions and bombarded by warnings of more to come, the Philippines these days has something of a siege mentality. Even the gala Dec. 15 opening of the new, $500-million Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal has been indefinitely postponed by a worried President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "The need to take extreme security measures cannot be overemphasized," Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza said in a statement...
Terrorism has hit the Philippines hard in the last couple of weeks?including five bombings that killed 13 and a grenade attack Oct. 17 in Manila's financial district?and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has responded with a show of political testosterone intended to impress her APEC summit partners this week in Los Cabos, Mexico. She backed a controversial plan for a national ID card that will help keep tabs on bad guys. Her government also announced the deployment of 500 "secret marshals," plainclothes cops who will scour the nation looking for hoodlums. Arroyo's crackdown contrasted nicely with...
...people outside the town of Pardes Hanna in northern Israel. PHILIPPINES Caught in the Act Five men were arrested in connection with bombings that killed eight people and injured 150 in the southern city of Zamboanga. In an unusual display, they were paraded on national TV before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who said the men were apprehended as they were preparing another attack. She promised tougher steps against terror groups. Police said the men were members of the Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf, which wants an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. IVORY COAST Neighborly Interest Burkina Faso demanded...