Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be transferred, the logistics could be handled, the arrangements could be made, without the help of some people in the CIA." He added ominously, "There's no question that lies have been told by Administration officials." At the closed-door session, witnesses will be required to testify under oath...
...cease-fire was signed at Manila's Club Filipino, the sumptuous establishment in the suburb of Greenhills where President Aquino took her oath of office ten months ago. She was not present for the historic moment. Instead, along with her friend and adviser Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, she attended a ceremony that morning marking what would have been her slain husband Benigno's 54th birthday...
...sharply. For the first time since the overthrow of Marcos, reporters were not allowed on the Malacanang Palace grounds. Checkpoints were installed on roads leading into the capital. In midafternoon, as soon as she had told the nation of her decision to oust Enrile, the President gave the oath of office to Ileto. Then she went to the Quirino grandstand in Manila's Rizal Park and declared at a religious rally that the country had been spared a catastrophe. "I suppose our prayers have again been answered," she said, "because this afternoon we have once again done something that...
...Cabinet. Our government is not the constitutional government that you have in America. What we have is a revolutionary government. Mrs. Aquino was the constitutionally elected President of the Philippines for only one month, from Feb. 25 to March 25 of this year. When she took her oath of office as President of the Philippines, it was the perception of everyone that she was taking power by virtue of her election. On March 25 she decided to organize a revolutionary government. In effect, she discarded the 1973 constitution, under which she had been governing for one month, and opted...
...plans. If I am asked to resign, I'll have to consult the people who asked me to represent them in the government. First, the record must show that Mrs. Aquino did not in fact give me a job. I was holding the position before she took her oath of office. Second, I was holding a position even higher than that of Minister of Defense. We were in control of the government...