Word: manila
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...cause, Marcos now has another powerful weapon in his arsenal: his running mate, Tolentino. A 37-year veteran of Philippine politics and one of the country's leading experts on constitutional law, Tolentino is a popular vote getter who could boost the K.B.L. turnout in the critical metropolitan Manila area, his home district. In the 1984 parliamentary elections, he was the only K.B.L. candidate to win a seat in the city of Manila. An outspoken critic of the Marcos regime, Tolentino has called for the President's resignation several times in recent years. He also took part in the unsuccessful...
...early Wednesday afternoon, Aquino and Laurel had each met separately with Jaime Cardinal Sin, the influential Archbishop of Manila, who has been a frequent critic of the Marcos regime. Sin encouraged both to subordinate their personal ambitions to the greater interests of the country. Later Aquino and Laurel met at the house of Maur Lichauco, the sister of Aquino's husband, slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino. In just 20 minutes, the two candidates agreed to revive their deal for a unified slate. At 10:30 p.m., Aquino and Laurel returned to COMELEC and re-registered. By agreement...
...rescue came not a moment too soon. Earlier that day, the 8,462 delegates attending the nominating convention of the ruling New Society Movement (K.B.L.) had assembled at the Manila Hotel to submit the party's nominations for the presidency. As expected, Marcos' was the only name offered. Formalities concluded, the President entered the hall, borne triumphantly on the shoulders of loyal aides. With a touch of nostalgia, or perhaps superstition, he wore the same striped short-sleeved shirt jacket that he had worn to the 1965 K.B.L. nominating convention at which the stage was set for his first successful...
...newest challenger faces an uphill battle. Until the death of her husband, few Filipinos knew much about Cory Aquino. Born Jan. 25, 1933, she was the sixth of eight children in the Cojuangco family, a wealthy, politically prominent clan based in Tarlac, a province 65 miles northwest of Manila. After attending schools in Manila and the U.S., she earned degrees in French and mathematics from New York City's Mount St. Vincent College, returned to Manila and enrolled in law school. But in 1956 she abandoned the academic life to marry Ninoy Aquino, the mayor of Concepcion...
...Ninoy moved from mayor to governor to Senator, Cory stayed quietly in the background. The Aquinos' comfortable life in a middle-class Manila suburb was severely disrupted in 1972 when Marcos jailed Ninoy, his most outspoken critic. After Ninoy was released for medical reasons in 1980, the couple moved to Boston, where they lived for three years before Ninoy decided that he must return home to unite the anti-Marcos forces...