Word: manila
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Standing in Tiananmen Square last week watching the surging crowds of Chinese intoxicated by the idea of democracy, Beijing bureau chief Sandra Burton was reminded of another time and another place. "It looked like Manila in 1986, when the Filipinos flooded the streets demanding the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos," said Burton. "There was the same improvisational air as people who had never protested before climbed on their bicycles and pedaled into the fray...
...relationship with its former colony with a keen eye for such incongruities. Beginning with a penetrating look at 300 years of cruel Spanish rule in the islands, Karnow sketches a history suffused with politics both Machiavellian and messianic: from Commodore George Dewey's whipping the Spaniards at Manila Bay in 1898 and America's later subversion of Emilio Aguinaldo's fledgling government, to Douglas MacArthur's ringing 1942 promise to return to the Philippines and Washington's support for Ferdinand Marcos until the virtual eve of Corazon Aquino's "people power" revolution...
...ought to get out," he growled. Gradually, others agreed. The bay's tugboat captains were worried that a submerged pipe might snag their anchors. City Councilman Dan Hauser, now a state assemblyman, feared an invasion of developers along a pipe near Highway 101. Then a citizens' committee in nearby Manila, a residential ( district near a planned pipeline, sued and stalled the project for nearly two years...
...husband, exiled former President Ferdinand Marcos. "The doctor told him he hasn't much time to live," she said to Laurel, pleading for permission for Marcos to return home so that he can die in his native land. After flying to Honolulu, where the Marcoses have lived since fleeing Manila in 1986, Laurel visited the ailing ex-President and agreed that he appeared to be hovering near death...
Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos, 60, has been one of the more discreet members of President Corazon Aquino's fractious Cabinet. Ever since Aquino came to power in February 1986, Ramos has defended her government against a succession of coup attempts. But lately, the popular politician has set Manila abuzz with some calculated innuendos. Talking to the press about his loyalty to the faltering President, he said ambiguously, "I am loyal to the constitution and the presidency. There's nothing personal about it." Ramos cautioned government officials not to use the military as a "tool of the executive branch...