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According to an entry-mate who asked not to be identified, the two were attempting to "smoke-out" their friends in the B-entry room by putting a stick of incense under the door. The two groups had been involved in a volley of pranks throughout the night, the student said, beginning with a water fight after a small party in the resident tutor's room...
...that money fails to persuade enough voters to remain loyal to his cause, Marcos now has another powerful weapon in his arsenal: his running mate, Tolentino. A 37-year veteran of Philippine politics and one of the country's leading experts on constitutional law, Tolentino is a popular vote getter who could boost the K.B.L. turnout in the critical metropolitan Manila area, his home district. In the 1984 parliamentary elections, he was the only K.B.L. candidate to win a seat in the city of Manila. An outspoken critic of the Marcos regime, Tolentino has called for the President's resignation...
...minutes, the two candidates agreed to revive their deal for a unified slate. At 10:30 p.m., Aquino and Laurel returned to COMELEC and re-registered. By agreement--and to Aquino's obvious delight--the new papers listed her as the presidential candidate and Laurel as her running mate. For Laurel, there was the satisfaction that the ticket would be fielded under the banner of the party he had spent years building, the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO...
...something he had not done for more than a decade: he designated a Vice President, a post he had abolished after he declared martial law, evidently for fear that any understudy might someday try to hasten his departure. To the surprise of many, he picked as his running mate Arturo ("Turing") Tolentino, 75, a party maverick who was sacked as Foreign Minister nine months ago for espousing views "incompatible" with the President...
...votes cast up to that point will be tallied for the person from the same party who has been named to fill the vacancy. Skeptical Filipinos, Laurel among them, have warned that Marcos might use that clause at the last minute to make First Lady Imelda his running mate or even the K.B.L.'s presidential candidate. For now, Mrs. Marcos seems determined to dispel such rumors. "I had to go to the major leaders who wanted me on the ticket and tell them no," she told TIME last week. "I really don't like any public office because...