Word: homobono
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end Aquino was facing yet another headache: release of a tape by Enrile's ally Homobono Adaza that records a phone call between the President and her representatives on the constitutional commission. The conversations indicate that Aquino strongly opposed language in the law that would bar U.S. bases, a point she addresses more gingerly in public. The only bright spot in the week, it seemed, was news that the Philippines' Western creditors had agreed to reschedule the country's $870 million debt, an important international vote of confidence in the Aquino government...
...Aquino's blaze of righteousness is partly responsible for her luminous, even numinous, magnetism, it also explains her unbending ruthlessness in applying an eye for an eye. "In some ways," says a close confidant, "she's an unforgiving person. She never forgets." When a former supporter, Homobono Adaza, went over to Enrile's camp, she not only stripped him of his $50,000-a-year position on the board of the San Miguel Corporation, a large state-controlled conglomerate, but replaced him with his archenemy Aquilino Pimentel. The flip side of her fidelity is inflexibility. "I have a long memory...
...events took their course in Manila last week, there was an uneasy feeling that the Philippines may have crossed a dangerous new threshold, that perhaps the old, more civilized rules of politics no longer applied. As Governor Homobono Adaza of the province of Misamis Oriental told TIME'S Nelly Sindayen: "If a guy like Ninoy can be killed, then just about anybody can be killed now without qualms, without conscience." -By John Nielsen. Reported by Sandra Burton/Manila and Ross H. Munro/Washington