Word: malacanang
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...from all this. After all, the best things we see in France are the reminders of the excesses of Kings." A few came to plunder and destroy. One man threw a photograph of the departed First Lady into an ornamental fish pool. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacanang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived a block away for 40 years, and never dreamed he would ever see the day when he would set foot...
...Manila it was after 5 o'clock in the morning of the longest day of Ferdinand Marcos' life. Before it was over, he would attend his final inauguration ceremony, a foolish charade carried out in the sanctuary of his Malacanang Palace. That evening, a ruler no more, he would flee with his family and retainers aboard four American helicopters to Clark Air Base on the first leg of a flight that would take him to Guam, Hawaii and exile...
...glare of television lights, took their seats before a cluster of microphones in a social hall of the Philippine Ministry of Defense at Camp Aguinaldo. Behind them huddled about a dozen soldiers, some in full battle regalia. Outside, at the gates of the ministry, less than five miles from Malacanang Palace, the presidential residence in downtown Manila, heavily armed guards and tanks stood at the ready. When the two men began to speak, the reason for the precautions became startlingly clear, for they were proclaiming open rebellion against the 20-year regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...flip-flop made for a cool reception at the presidential Malacanang Palace. Habib twice met with Marcos. On the first visit, the President handed Habib alleged photographic evidence of ballot stealing by Aquino supporters. Afterward, Habib had no comment, but Marcos said the veteran troubleshooter had assured him that the U.S. "was not in any way telling us how to run our affairs." Habib was similarly silent after a 55-minute visit with Aquino. The meeting was apparently cordial but ended on a somber note as Aquino reiterated her position that a truce with Marcos was impossible. Said...
...galvanic response that she elicited from ordinary Filipinos as she flew from town to town during the 57-day campaign came to be known as "people power." Now a battle-hardened political veteran, Aquino intends to harness the same force in her dangerous and quixotic struggle to occupy Malacanang Palace...