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...helped precipitate the revolt of Enrile and Ramos against the Marcos regime last February; more recently it had become dissatisfied with the way Aquino was running the country. When officers of the movement did not show up at the Nov. 22 meeting, Ramos feared that a coup was under way. He immediately summoned the chiefs of the armed services and dispatched troops to defend the palace, the Assembly building and strategic TV and radio installations. That evening, one RAM officer reportedly called Ramos and urged him to join the revolt. When the Chief of Staff refused, the officer is said...
Thus the break between the President and Enrile was at last complete. On Friday morning, during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new chapel on the outskirts of Manila, she went out of her way to thank him for the role he had played in the February revolt, but he was not pres-ent to receive the compliment. In a ceremony at the Defense Ministry four hours later, Enrile received the Philippine Legion of Honor, the nation's highest civilian award, which is customarily presented to the recipient by the President in person. On this occasion, however, Aquino...
...drivers' revolt won despite expensive pro-seat-belt campaigns supported by automakers, who face a federal mandate to install air bags in cars if two- thirds of the population is not required to buckle up by 1989. Opponents had argued that seat-belt laws interfered with personal liberty. But freedom has its price: with accident claims certain to rise, insurance companies in both states are already threatening hikes in their auto premiums...
...they called him Danny the Red -- a tribute both to Daniel Cohn- Bendit's hair and to his ideology. Today Cohn-Bendit, 41, the onetime leader of a student revolt that shook France to its foundations, is a member of the West German Green Party and an author. His latest project: We So Loved the Revolution, a coffee-table book that takes a backward look at himself and other young European and American radicals of the 1960s. The book is full of pictures and interviews with the likes of Yippie Turned Yuppie Jerry Rubin, now an entrepreneur. Since its September...
...past. The seeds of discord date from the very revolution that put Aquino in Malacanang Palace and Enrile at her side. Aquino supporters describe the heady February revolution as a popular uprising that was backed by the military. Enrile, on the other hand, paints Marcos' ouster as a military revolt that enjoyed popular support. "Cory didn't give me my job. I already had it," Enrile said more than once last week. "The military gave...