Word: honasan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three months Army Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, 39, had profoundly unsettled the Philippines. As the leader of a military uprising that exploded in Manila on Aug. 28, he ignited the most violent fighting to rack the capital since 1945, and nearly toppled President Corazon Aquino. Then, as the Philippine army swung to Aquino's side, Honasan and a band of followers embarked on a dangerous game of hide-and-seek. From sanctuaries around the capital, the colonel issued tirades against the government, castigating it for ineffectiveness in fighting the insurgent, Communist-led New People's Army. The military's inability...
...capital's defense command, of "plain detective work." As darkness fell on Las Villas de Valle Verde, an exclusive residential park in suburban Manila, 35 soldiers raided a town house in the enclave. Battering in windows and pounding their automatic rifles against walls, the squad rounded up the elusive Honasan and three associates as some of them relaxed over a meal. Some soldiers in the raiding party saluted as their captive was led away...
...Corazon Aquino's drive against the Communist-led guerrillas. Rivera is one of the N.P.A.'s experts in political assassination and a veteran of its 19-year war. In another small success for Aquino, Lieut. Colonel Roberto Navida, 38, surrendered to the government. Navida had helped Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan mount the failed August coup against Aquino and then had gone into hiding with...
Aquino's problems came into sharp focus after the bloody August mutiny of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan. The unsuccessful uprising revealed a faction-ridden military envious of Aquino's power and unwilling to give up the political clout it had gained under Marcos. The mutiny's chief blow, however, was struck at the President's almost blind faith that the democratic institutions she had restored would lead the country out of its economic and political morass. The relative serenity of her first few months in power was, after Honasan's coup attempt, reinterpreted as weakness...
Last month Aquino's disaffected Vice President, Salvador Laurel, secretly | sent feelers to Honasan, who remains at large in or around Manila and constantly threatens to strike again with rebel soldiers. Laurel, who has publicly attacked Aquino and her policies, wanted assurances that the colonel would not stage a coup while the Vice President was in the U.S. on a speaking tour. Laurel was afraid that if Aquino were ousted from the presidency while he was abroad, he would be maneuvered out of the succession. Aquino, meanwhile, was not above tweaking her Vice President. Members of Philippine consulates...