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...kept his airplanes busy. Under the cover of legitimate freight and charter services, Doole's airlines supplied a 30,000-man secret army in the mountains of Laos for a ten-year war against the Pathet Lao, dropped scores of agents into Red China, and helped stage an unsuccessful revolt in Indonesia. Not surprisingly, all this flying about aroused curiosity. In 1970 a New York Times reporter asked Doole if Air America had any connection with the CIA. "If 'someone out there' is behind all this," Doole airily replied, "we don't know about...
Just six weeks after President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled to France, Haitians were again in revolt against their government. Many were indignant at the failure of the five-member ruling National Council of Government to begin addressing the impoverished country's problems. That resentment boiled over when an irate army captain ordered his men to beat a bus driver after a routine traffic incident, sparking strikes last week that left the country's public transportion completely paralyzed. In response, troops opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least four people. Mobs blocked off routes leading...
...revolt in the armed forces began to take shape as long ago as 1977, when a power struggle within the Marcos government eroded the influence of the President's longtime political ally Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. "It began as a self-defense action," recalls Navy Captain Rex Robles, a spokesman for the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, which Enrile now confirms he clandestinely helped establish. Realizing that he was being pushed aside in a power struggle with General Ver, Enrile, a Harvard-trained lawyer, began to work secretly to protect himself and lay the groundwork for the inevitable post...
...activities after Lieut. General Fidel Ramos and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile staged their revolt. The house we were staying in was very close to the army camp. (My brother) Peping said, "The sooner you can get out of this house, the better." They asked me, "Where do you think you should stay?" I said at the Carmelite monastery. I got to the monastery, which was like The Sound of Music, and these nuns welcomed me. They said, "Cory, you will be very safe here, because they will have to kill all of us before they do anything...
Aquino had the good fortune to lead a truly democratic rebellion, something quite different from the upheaval that ousted the Shah of Iran in 1979 and then degenerated into a regime of religious zealots. "This is not a revolt of the extremes," says Salvador Lopez, a former Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations. "This is a revolution of the center." For the moment, Filipinos, profoundly desirous of change, seem content simply to celebrate their emancipation. Says Lopez: "The people are happy that Marcos is gone, and that is the main thing." The challenge for the new President is to harness...