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...estimated 200,000 people marched through the cities shouting "Democracy now!" and demanding the ouster of President Chun Doohwan, a former army general...
Though most analysts dismissed the possibility of U.S. involvement, the charges were enough to send thousands of angry youths into the streets to demand the ouster of Noriega and a return to democracy. The demonstrators ; constructed barricades of burning rubbish and tires, and fought pitched battles with squads of riot police nicknamed "Dobermans." At noon and 6 p.m. each day middle-class protesters hung out of their windows, waving white handkerchiefs and making an antigovernment racket by beating on pots and pans...
...sales. But instead of a celebratory gathering of the clan, the stockholders' meeting of Bacardi Corp. on Thursday was another episode in a high-stakes corporate and family feud. A battle for control of the company has split the more than 500 Bacardi heirs and apparently led to the ouster of four family members from high posts in the rum business...
...democratic legislative election in the Philippines since Marcos abolished the old Congress in 1972, later to replace it with the unicameral National Assembly, his rubber-stamp parliament. The new Congress, which convenes in July, will take over the legislative powers that Aquino has been exercising by decree since Marcos' ouster in February 1986. Last week's election was the final step in restoring a system of checks and balances under the terms of a new constitution that was approved in a national referendum last February...
...voting was not entirely free of violence. Since the campaign began last March, 72 people have been killed in election-related incidents, including 34 on polling day itself. Still, that is a marked improvement over the 158 killings reported during the 1986 presidential campaign, which precipitated Marcos' ouster. This year's death toll might have been higher if police had not disarmed an incendiary device in a toilet of the Comelec building last week. Police said the bomb, thought to have been planted by G.A.D. supporters, could have destroyed the three-story structure...