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...MANILA, Philippines -- Corazon C. Aquino's government has frozen the bank accounts of more than a dozen close associates of Ferdinand E. Marcos to make sure the money stays in the Philippines, an official said yesterday...
Fourteen other generals have been given new duties at headquarters in Manila so Gen. Ramos can keep an eye on them, the television reported...
Members of Aquino's government who appeared with Tolentino at the same weekly breakfast forum at a Manila hotel noted that she was carried to power by a popular revolution. They said no system of law would recognize Marcos as president, because he abandoned his office...
What made Chun soften his position? One factor may have been the fall last week of Ferdinand Marcos. At the luncheon, Chun was reported to have said that he did not want South Korea to become a "second Philippines." The opposition has also watched events in Manila. Indeed, Kim Dae Jung and his wife were acquainted with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and her late husband Benigno Aquino when all four were in exile in the U.S. in the early 1980s. Said Kim: "Next it is Korea's turn...
...intransigence on Chun's part, however, is equally certain to foment national divisions and put the country at risk. As he looks toward Manila and Pyongyang, perhaps he can see that compromise rather than conflict holds out the hope of a happier outcome...