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...trial of Marcos' longtime political enemy, former Senator Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., 41, onetime secretary-general of the Liberal Party. Instead, the President had to watch, presumably in pain and anger, as Aquino turned the trial into an emotional and stunningly effective public challenge to the regime of martial law that Marcos imposed over eleven months ago. Startling the seven army officers who sat as judges of the military tribunal, his voice quavering with emotion, Aquino implored: "I am begging this court to be allowed to speak. I am pleading for my life...
...violent attack on Marcos' "new society" as a regime bent on "coercion, violence, human degradation, the total suppression of civil liberties and political processes, and the imprisonment of political enemies." Since the statement had been made in open court, it could therefore be freely reprinted despite martial law. Indeed, thousands of mimeographed copies were soon circulating all over Manila...
Although more than 91% of eligible Filipinos voted in favor of Marcos' "new society" in a national referendum last month, there is growing unrest over the continuation of martial law, the so-far unsuccessful military struggle against guerrillas in Mindanao and Sulu, and the prospect of the country's worst rice shortage in years. Quite clearly, the President is worried that the shrewd, ambitious Aquino, a member of one of the country's wealthiest families, might become a symbol of political dissent and persecution. Many Filipinos are well aware that the ex-Senator's grandfather...
Within hours of taking the oath of office in the Cathedral of Athens, "Papa Dop" went before the television cameras and loosed a barrage of decrees and promises. He announced the lifting of martial law from the Athens-Piraeus area, long after most of the country had been freed from its iron grip. He laid out a fixed schedule for a return to what he called "full democracy," with a timetable beginning several months earlier than he had previously suggested. A constitutional court to pass on the legitimacy of political parties will be set up next month. He promised...
...Papadopoulos regime, however, is unlikely to grant enough political freedom to give its opponents much opportunity to bother it. The new constitution gives Papadopoulos dictatorial powers, including the right to impose martial law for up to three months. Also still on the books are draconian penalties for what is vaguely called "sedition," and laws for press censorship and the drafting of activist students, 120 of whom have recently been called up. Said exiled Publisher Helen Vlachos in London: "They can amnesty me 100 times. I don't amnesty them. Vultures do not become vegetarians in 24 hours...