Word: isleta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance in quelling the last mutiny. Though he had planned to ask Congress to close ranks behind Aquino, Arroyo instead spent three hours berating the military, the Roman Catholic Church and the business community for failing to support her during the uprising. He compared Ramos' spokesman Colonel Honesto Isleta with Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propagandist. Arroyo said that three of the country's leading businessmen, all longtime Aquino boosters, are guilty of treason for plotting to have him fired. He also attacked Vice President Salvador Laurel, who a few days earlier had polled loyal soldiers on their opinion of Colonel...
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