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...August 21, the returning leader was gunned down by an unknown assassin as he stepped off an airplane in Manila. Aquino faced a life-imprisonment sentence under the Marcos regime. Marcos suspended the sentence three years ago to allow Aquino to come to the United States for an operation...
Aquino was shot in the Manila airport in August when he returned to the Philippines. He had spent the past three years as a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs and M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies...
There was not an empty seat in the room as the five-member commission assigned to investigate the assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino opened its first meeting in 24 days. The audience was particularly interested because General Prospero Olivas, Commander of the National Police for Metropolitan Manila, would present the military's official version of the events that led to Aquino's murder seconds after he stepped off a plane at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21. Instead, there was yet another surprise in the brief but checkered history of a commission whose credibility has been assailed...
...syndicated newspaper article, William H. Sullivan, who was U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from 1973 to 1977 and then Ambassador to Iran until April 1979, wrote of "the parallels between the American dilemma in Manila today and our problems in Tehran in 1978." He warned of the "dangerous similarity" of U.S. ties in each case to "an authoritarian leader without a popular base of support." In an interview with TIME, Sullivan said that the U.S. should encourage Marcos "to make an amicable deal with the moderate opposition in order to restore democracy, neutralize the small but growing ranks...
Propping up Marcos will only serve to polarize the political scene in Manila. The Filipino center symbolized by Aquino is still a vibrant force, capable of assuming leadership and reinstating democracy. But if Washington continues to ignore the center in favor of Marcos, increasingly frustrated centrists will move to the extreme left. Then the Communists will constitute the only viable alternative to Marcos. And unless the latter dismantles the authoritarian state apparatus he himself erected--an unlikely prospect--the Communists will take power and the U.S. will be out in the cold. No moral argument here, just sheer pragmatism...