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Word: oligario (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Filipinos thronged to their polling stations, problems with voting registries began to crop up almost immediately. At the Araullo High School, a rambling wood- and-concrete structure on United Nations Avenue in midtown Manila, Policeman Oligario Remiruta, 46, lined up to cast his vote. The local poll chairman could not find Remiruta's name on the voters' list. By noon, 84 people at the school had received the same treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Standoff in Manila | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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