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...decisive move by Enrile and Ramos seemed to encourage the Administration to adopt a sterner posture toward Marcos. Even before U.S. officials had a chance to debrief Presidential Envoy Philip Habib, who was flying home from the Philippines, the White House issued its strongest expression yet of anti- Marcos sentiment. Although the statement stopped short of endorsing the rebellion, it denounced Marcos for electoral fraud "so extreme as to impair the capacity of government in the Philippines...
Only hours before the electrifying events at Camp Aguinaldo, U.S. Special Envoy Habib boarded a U.S. Air Force plane to fly back to Washington after his week-long visit. President Reagan had dispatched the diplomatic troubleshooter to Manila to find some way of resolving the country's electoral crisis just as the National Assembly was formally declaring Marcos President. Habib is expected to make a report to Reagan early this week...
When the President emerged from that session, he mollified some State Department concerns by describing the Philippine elections as "flawed" and "disturbing." He announced the appointment of Special Envoy Habib as a would-be mediator. The choice was shrewd. A tireless career diplomat, Habib is a veteran Asia hand who retired from the Foreign Service in 1983 after serving as the President's special emissary to the Middle East. Habib's new job, said Reagan, would be to advise on how the U.S. can "help the people of the Philippines overcome the grave problems their country faces, and to continue...
Aquino last week was watching Washington for important political signals. She was badly stung by President Reagan's offhand reference to opposition fraud during the election. She responded immediately with a press statement that coolly noted the appointment of Envoy Habib but observed that on his last White House assignment before retirement in 1983, Habib had failed to end civil strife in Lebanon. Said Aquino: "I hope neither Mr. Reagan nor Mr. Marcos is expecting to see our beloved country go the same way." Claiming that she had been cheated out of as much as 25% of the national vote...
After Reagan's press-conference remarks, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Bosworth arranged a meeting with Aquino to discuss Special Envoy Habib's impending visit. The atmosphere during the session was both awkward and frigid. Bosworth, a highly regarded career diplomat who has worked hard to gain the opposition's confidence, had apparently been taken by surprise by the President's remarks. Says a key Aquino supporter who walked in on the Bosworth-Aquino meeting: "I don't know what the Japanese Ambassador looked like when they were bombing Pearl Harbor, but I imagine he looked like Steve...