Word: manila
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...they had rallied under the hot sun, a vast throng swelling to embrace 450,000 people. It had been a peaceful demonstration, but now as darkness fell, a few among the crowd became restless. Gathered in Makati, Metro Manila's high-rise business district, they began setting fire to automobile tires and piles of yellow confetti. With no police or soldiers in sight, predictions by the government of President Ferdinand Marcos that the daylong rally would culminate in violence seemed about to come true...
...flatbed truck rolled into view, escorted by two motorcycle policemen and by lines of yellow-shirted marchers waving small yellow flags. Aboard the truck was a nearly 7-ft.-high, flower-bedecked bronze statue of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader slain by an unknown assassin at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, on his return from exile in the U.S. As spotlights played on the figure, the crowd broke into cheers and then into the once outlawed nationalist anthem, Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). A few demonstrators even hugged the motorcycle cops. On such notes...
Hours before the assembly opened, columns of anti-Marcos demonstrators took to the streets. They were led by Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, brother of former Senator Benigno Aquino, the dynamic opposition leader who was shot to death last August as he returned to Manila after three years in exile. The protesters were determined to accompany anti-Marcos assemblymen into the chamber, but Aquino and his followers were repulsed by some 2,000 military police. The marchers regrouped in Manila's Bonifacio Plaza, where a five-hour confrontation with security forces ended in clouds of tear gas with dozens injured...
Teresito P. Ocampo Manila...
Marcos did not wait for the final results to announce a series of austerity measures last week, including a 28.6% de facto devaluation of the peso, designed to meet International Monetary Fund conditions for a new loan to the heavily indebted nation (total: $25.6 billion). The President also placed Manila on alert and had checkpoints set up in the wake of two fires and the murder of a police general...