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Estrada was given a deadline by a panel of opposition negotiators: he had to resign by Saturday at 6 a.m. All through Friday night, demonstrators continued to gather. This has been called the pager revolution for good reason: within minutes of the Senate vote, text messages had flashed through the Manila ether telling anti-Estrada Filipinos to GO TO EDSA. Hundreds of thousands converged on the capital, following directions to, as one message put it, WEAR BLACK TO MOURN THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY. Said another text message: EXPECT THERE TO BE RUMBLES...
...principal parties in People Power II were by Saturday morning comfortably ensconced at EDSA and preparing to march on the palace if Estrada did not honor the deadline to resign. The President's proposal: a call for snap elections in May that he promised not to contest. It met with immediate dismissal from Arroyo and her supporters, who were quick to point out that the constitution was clear on the terms of the Vice President's succession. By holding elections, he hoped to prove that he and his coalition were still popular among the country's poor. Military and civilian...
...fitting end to a week of endings and beginnings, turning pages and cutting deals, cleaning the mice out of the attic. Linda Tripp was fired from her job at the Pentagon after she refused to resign. Jesse Jackson said he would spend some time in the wilderness after a tabloid revealed he had a secret family, a hidden child. A Gore aide left this greeting on his White House voice mail: "Due to a small but significant clause in the U.S. Constitution, I will be out of the office from Jan. 21, 2001 until Jan. 20, 2005." By the time...
...time Estrada left office, reportedly headed for exile in Australia, the country was suffering its worst crisis of confidence since the Marcos years, with its banks, stock market, regulatory agencies and legislature all tainted by the revelations disclosed during the impeachment trial. Two days before Estrada was forced to resign, his newly appointed Executive Secretary, Edgardo Angara, a respected former Cabinet Secretary, voiced hope that the crisis atmosphere would "help push through those structural reforms that in normal times are so difficult to do, so that we can prove those people wrong who say democracy can never work...
Tony Blair's closest political ally, Peter Mandelson, has been forced for a second time to resign from Blair's cabinet under the cloud of scandal. How badly will this hurt Blair as Britain prepares for election in the spring...