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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new program, which will apply to all but the neediest, students will be able to borrow more money--up to $50,000--but at market rates. Worse, they must begin paying interest the day they receive their loans. Compared to the present inadequate programs, this new one is little better than loansharking with a human face...
...Student protests present Peking with a delicate dilemma. -- In Moscow, Sakharov is as outspoken as ever. -- Terror in the Mideast skies...
...traditional Filipino flesh presser, Ninoy regarded all politics as dirty politics and was content to join the rough-and-tumble system in order to beat it. Cory, however, disapproved of such chicanery, and in deference to her, Ninoy and his friends never discussed skulduggery when she was present. "The minute she entered the room," says one close family friend, "people put on their best behavior. Even Ninoy behaved when Cory was around. I was nervous when Cory served the coffee. She can be very cutting, and she will cut you in public. She has a dismissive gesture of the hand...
...military will stay quiet only if the President deals decisively with the Communist threat, which has spread to 64 of the country's 74 provinces. Few expect the present 60-day cease-fire to hold, and many hard-liners on both sides cannot wait for it to collapse. Aquino's unswerving Catholicism and her calm distaste for radical reforms make her highly unsympathetic to the Communist cause. Yet she is convinced that most of the rebels were driven to the hills not out of ideology but out of desperation, and can therefore be won back by negotiation. As the second...
...hours of meditation confirmed her in the earlier decision. "We had to present somebody who was the complete opposite of Marcos," she said, "someone who has been a victim." She was modest but unflinching in her judgment of just who that person should be. "Looking around, I may not be the worst victim, but I am the best known...