Word: manila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed agenda in the Philippines, and they also reduced the duration of his visit from two nights to one. But they stopped short of canceling the trip, partly for fear of jeopardizing the strategic U.S. military facilities in the Philippines: Clark Air Base, 50 miles north of Manila, and the big naval facility at (Subic Bay. "As of this moment," said State Department Spokesman John Hughes late last week, stressing the qualification, "he is going...
...week began peacefully enough in Manila. The government had purposely avoided head-on confrontation with opposition demonstrators and had even tried to steal some of their thunder by staging a rally of its own in Makati, Metro Manila's financial district. A special bulletin signed by the vice governor of the Metropolitan Manila Commission (Imelda Marcos, the President's powerful, unpopular wife, is the governor) was distributed to commission employees. "Attendance is a must," it decreed. "Record of attendance must be submitted to personnel management .. . Do not wear uniforms...
...crackdown. "We will not allow anarchy to rule," he said, adding that he held "the opposition and its leaders" responsible for the disturbances. His opponents responded in kind. A group called Justice for Aquino, Justice for All (JAJA) issued a statement declaring that "responsibility for the violence that rocked Manila last night rests solely on the government. The government created the economic crisis and the political uncertainty that generated the anger and protest that broke out when Ninoy Aquino was assassinated...
...crowd of more than 2,000 demonstrators marched peacefully toward the U.S. embassy to protest American support of Marcos; police broke up the march with similar methods. The next day, a fragmentation grenade ripped through the stage at a beauty pageant in Davao city, 600 miles southeast of Manila, killing at least twelve people. It was not immediately clear I who was responsible...
Even amid last week's chaos, there were efforts to open a productive dialogue. Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila and an outspoken critic of Marcos, called for the formation of a National Reconciliation Council made up of representatives from the government, the church, the opposition and the private sector. He further sought free elections, a free press and release of political prisoners. Sin described his proposal as the last chance to avoid a "bloody revolution." Marcos dismissed the growing unrest as a transitory aberration, but he asked for a meeting with Sin to discuss the proposal...