Word: manila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before cooling ever so slightly to 8% next year. The most remarkable comeback story in the region may prove to be the resurgence of the Philippines after the revolutionary triumph of President Corazon Aquino. Bernardo Villegas, senior vice president of the Center for Research and Communication in Manila, forecast that Philippine growth would jump from zero this year to 6% in 1987. That dramatic hike, he said, would be symbolic of Asians' "uncanny ability to roll with the punches...
...once again, Philippine President Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, fresh from swatting down a mosquito revolution of Marcos supporters in Manila three weeks ago, was confronted with another potentially dangerous crisis. The motives behind last week's snatchings were muddled in the curious combination of banditry and political activism that has turned kidnaping into a minor industry in the predominantly Muslim province of Lanao del Sur in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...
...calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men. So too, when the state of nature is disordered, do they often portend the same upset in the nature of the state. It therefore seemed a distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept up in a whirlwind of coups rumored, imagined and aborted...
...most recent of the Manila disturbances was a 40-hour comedy of errors that seemed to parody the February revolution. The charade began when about 8,000 Marcos loyalists gathered in the capital's Rizal Park, as they have done every Sunday since mid-March, to champion their exiled leader, now reigning over a seaside villa in Honolulu. Then, as is their custom, more than 1,000 members of the ragtag group drifted into the nearby Manila Hotel, the onetime playground of Imelda Marcos, for drinks. This time, however, they were joined by two truckloads of armed soldiers. The next...
...between the government of President Corazon Aquino and Communist insurgents, guerrilla warfare has not ceased. In fact, in three separate actions last week, members of the Communist New People's Army / ambushed and killed government soldiers. In the first attack, which occurred near Gumaca, about 90 miles southeast of Manila, guerrillas killed 13 military people. Two days later, eleven soldiers died in an ambush some 230 miles north of Manila. The following day, seven more were killed in a shoot-out in the Aurora province...