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When Calimlim arrived at MalacaNang Palace, the President was in his office with several advisers, speaking on the phone. He had already had a few drinks and was slurring his words. In a fit of anger following the call, he ordered everyone out of the office so that he could talk privately with his former aide. "You too, Calimlim?" asked the President, referring to his earlier conversation with Reyes. "Everyone has forsaken me." The President turned despondent, saying: "You know what I'll do? I'll just wait for one soldier to come and kill me." Calimlim remarked later that...
...Imelda, being Imelda, refused to abide by the plan to join her motorcade in a safely cleared area behind the terminal. Instead, she insisted on leaving through the arrival lobby in full view of the press and supporters. After two hours of frantic calls to the Malacanang Palace, President Corazon Aquino's executive secretary instructed police to let Imelda have...
Metropolitan Manila, though largely undamaged, was severely shaken. In Malacanang Palace, where President Corazon Aquino was presiding over a meeting with Cabinet ministers and Senators, participants scrambled for cover under the conference table. Quipped Aquino: "What the coup failed to do, the earthquake did" -- a reference to the stoutly denied report that during a failed 1987 insurrection she was cowering under...
...enmity between the two runs long and deep. The President still holds the Marcoses responsible for the murder of her husband Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, who was gunned down at the Manila airport in 1983. Marcos is said to look upon Aquino as an insolent upstart who stole Malacanang Palace from her and the late Ferdinand. "Although they are poles apart when it comes to morality," observes Benigno, "Cory and Imelda are twins when it comes to grit, determination and obstinacy...
...power reduced to shards. Impassive and wan, her face puffy, she is a long way from the days when she was runner-up in the Miss Manila beauty contest, or danced cheek to cheek with President Lyndon Johnson, or took the microphone to croon for state visitors at the Malacanang Palace, or dazzled foreign capitals in her exotic Philippine gowns. Back then Imelda was a force to be reckoned with -- governor of the Manila district, Minister of Human Settlements. There was even talk that she might succeed her husband as President...