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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report, based in part on previously secret government documents, indicates that federal officials knew more about such health dangers than has been acknowledged, and that decisions were made to keep workers in the dark...
...Aquino has always been reluctant to follow through on her shows of strength, which she equates with her predecessor Marcos. In the past, every display of post-rebellion resolve has been followed by inconsistency and a return to bureaucratic procrastination. Unfortunately, Aquino's devotion to constitutional principles is "part of the reason she is perceived as being weak," says Elliot Richardson, former U.S. Attorney General, who is now U.S. special representative for the Multilateral Assistance Initiative, an international program that has obtained pledges of $3.5 billion in development aid for the Philippines from a score of countries and institutions...
...enough to believe that all the problems will be solved. But I told him that I thought the meeting made good sense. I told him that I never had favored this kind of meeting before but that I had changed my mind. I am going to keep the personal part of this going. I'll find ways to contact him in a quiet fashion. I can write. I can call now. I'm not going to become a pen pal, but we can communicate...
NATION: And now for the hard part...
...Corazon Cojuangco's wedding to Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1954, his best friend Salvador Laurel was part of the groom's entourage. When the widow Corazon Aquino ran for President against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Laurel stood as her Vice President. But don't let those ties fool you. Doy, as he is known to Filipinos, has chafed at being second best all these years, first to the charismatic Benigno and now to his wife. Accusing Cory of reneging on a promise to let him run the government once the two were elected, he bitterly broke off their alliance...