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Minutes before midnight, men posted on both sides of a street in suburban Manila opened fire on a passing car, killing two people and wounding Bernardo Buscayno, 43, the probable target of the ambush. Attacks by urban guerrillas of the left and right are not unusual in Manila, but this time the public furor was enormous...
President Corazon Aquino's smile was as bright as the sunshine outside when she entered the wood-paneled Cabinet room in Manila's Malacanang Palace. "Had I known this kind of victory was going to be achieved," she jokingly told her ministers, "I would have asked all of you to run." Responding with laughter and applause, the Cabinet congratulated Aquino on what appeared to be an overwhelming victory by her candidates last week in nationwide voting for 24 seats in the Senate and 200 in the House of Representatives...
...Aquino's Presidential Commission on Human Rights: "It's a dangerous phenomenon that can easily get out of hand." Conservatives, including many officials of the Roman Catholic Church, counter that the people have a right to self-protection. The vigilantes, says Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, represent the "people reacting to the violence of the rebels." Says Army Commanding General Rodolfo A. Canieso: "It is the inherent right of a citizen to defend himself. Everything else is politics...
...tool for counterinsurgency alongside the still ill-equipped and poorly paid Philippine armed forces. Nowhere is that clearer than in Davao City, the sprawling city-state in southeastern Mindanao. A year ago Davao City and its 1.4 million people were so firmly in the control of the insurgents that Manila officials called the city a Communist "urban laboratory." But in the past eight months the N.P.A. has fled into the hills, and the city has been transformed into a government stronghold. The main agent of change: the vigilante group Alsa Masa, or Uprising of the Masses...
...O.P.C. also honored Photographer Carl Mydans, whose 55 years at TIME and LIFE resulted in hundreds of photo essays and cover pictures. Having chronicled the fall of Manila in World War II and MacArthur's return to the archipelago three years later, the photographer went back to the Philippines last year for TIME. An O.P.C. Special Judges Citation recognized Mydans' Philippines coverage and pioneering record...