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...freedom. The man in the Korean street no longer observes a midnight curfew, fears no sudden police raids and is able to travel abroad much more easily than before. Nonetheless, South Korea remains a virtual police state. The former general had hardly seized power when he pushed through martial law and placed many of his enemies under house arrest. To this day, the press is muzzled and the spreading of "black rumors" against the government is illegal. By the estimates of the U.S. State Department, close to 1,000 political prisoners still languish in the country's jails. "Chun...
...revolutionary government" and those who agitated for maintaining "constitutional" rule. In her nine-page proclamation, the President stressed that she would retain all the rights guaranteed in the 1973 constitution (among them freedom of speech and assembly). The infamous Amendment Six, which allowed Marcos to claim emergency powers under martial law, was rendered moot because the proclamation gives Aquino full legislative powers. Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales, who helped frame the provisional constitution, pronounced the new government "revolutionary in origin, democratic in essence and transitory in character...
...most coronary-bypass surgery, veins taken from a patient's leg must be deftly sewn to one or more of the heart's arteries, some no thicker than a straw. Last week a nine-member court-martial jury found that Commander Donal Billig, a Navy doctor and former chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, had "wrongfully" performed that delicate operation. The result: two retired servicemen, Lieut. Colonel John Kas and Petty Officer Joe Estep, died in 1984 after Billig operated on them...
Tuesday was the day of the twin inaugurals. Aquino had wanted a daylight ceremony because, as she said in her address, "it is fitting and proper that, as the rights and liberties of our people were taken away at midnight 14 years ago (when martial law was declared), the people should formally recover those rights and liberties in the full light of day." An hour later Ferdinand Marcos stepped onto the balcony at Malacanang Palace before a crowd of 4,000 cheering supporters and took the oath of office. "Whatever we have before us, we will overcome," he promised, while...
Enrile also has a reputation for being reform-minded. Over the past two decades he has emerged as a discreet internal critic of the Marcos government, even though he was an architect and implementer of the 1972 martial law crackdown. Although Enrile had never openly criticized the President until now, despite a humiliating loss of power to General Ver, which Marcos ) sanctioned, as long as two years ago he had begun privately to confide his concerns about Ver's broad powers. If Marcos again declared martial law, he said, he would feel compelled to quit his post...