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...Staff, Fidel Ramos, who suddenly defected to their cause, Filipinos had mounted an essentially unarmed, democratic revolution and, perhaps to their own astonishment, triumphed. In a period of only 78 hours, as his troops and tanks backed off from confrontations with thousands of demonstrators, Marcos slipped swiftly from undisputed one-man rule to no rule at all. Just after Aquino took her presidential oath, Marcos had himself inaugurated at Malacanang; it was his last official act before fleeing to Clark Air Base, north of Manila, and thence to Guam and Hawaii...
Aquino's first challenge was to establish a cohesive administration, a task made difficult by Marcos' debilitating legacy of one-man rule. Mindful of the dangers of a political vacuum, she moved swiftly to show that she was in charge. During her first full day as President, she appointed 17 Cabinet ministers and held her first news conference. In an effort to defuse the impulse to seek revenge on Marcos followers, she spoke forcefully of the need for reconciliation. The President, who has frequently called Marcos the "No. 1 suspect" in the 1983 assassination of her husband, Senator Benigno ("Ninoy...
Neil Phillips was a one-man offensive machine for Harvard in the opening 20 minutes the following night at Cornell, scoring 10 of the squad's 16 first-half points. And although the Big Red defense shut the freshman down in the second period, Phillips' 10-point effort was still good enough to lead the squad in its most dismal offensive showing of the season...
Dukakis stands to lose his current position in the Democratic party only if a Republican candidate poses any sort of effective challenge in what is widely expected to be a one-man race...
...Yale must limit the number of Crimson power plays while capitalizing on its own one-man advantages...