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Their dialogue resembled something out of a Laurel and Hardy sketch...
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...
...work was being subjected to the annihilating silence of suppression. So he composed "The End of a Beautiful Era," a poignant elegy on past illusions with a mordant conclusion about the future: "For the innocent head there is nothing in store but an ax/ and the evergreen laurel." Last week the eerie prophecy in these lines was fulfilled. Joseph Brodsky, 47, involuntarily cut off from his homeland in 1972, was given the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...laurel may be new to Brodsky, who is one of the youngest writers to be so honored in the Nobel's 86-year history, but the recognition of his talent is by now a familiar story. His early poems were championed by such older cultural luminaries as the poet Anna Akhmatova. Getting off a plane in Vienna as a new emigre, Brodsky was taken under the protection and guidance of W.H. Auden, who had a summer house nearby. Within months he found himself in Ann Arbor, a poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan assigned, as he later whimsically...
...domain. Amid threats of imminent coups and assassinations, she visited Davao City on the strife- torn island of Mindanao. By week's end the police were tearing down strike barricades. The moves are proving to be popular, so much so that even Aquino's disaffected Vice President, Salvador Laurel, has begun to soften his criticism of her leadership. Earlier, Laurel admitted there was a tactical alliance between some of his supporters and those of Aquino's archrival, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile. After the President's speech, Laurel said his differences with her had "started to narrow." Enrile, however, dismissed...