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Aquino's tenacity was apparent earlier in the week when she kicked off her "People's Victory" campaign at a rally in Manila's Rizal Park. While hundreds of thousands of supporters swirled below her, Aquino announced a program of nonviolent protest designed to pressure Marcos into calling it quits. At the center of the campaign is a boycott of businesses, news media and banks controlled by the government or Marcos intimates. The culmination is a 24-hour work stoppage planned for this week, one day after Marcos' scheduled Feb. 25 inauguration...
...ignited a popular passion for change during her 57-day election campaign, continued to insist last week that she rather than Marcos was the rightful President of the Philippines. Deliberately ignoring the National Assembly hoopla, Aquino went on the personal offensive. She staged a giant rally in Manila's Rizal Park on Sunday to protest Marcos' alleged election fraud. That event was the kickoff of a protracted "People's Victory" campaign of nonviolent rallies and boycotts in coming weeks around the country...
Public support for Aquino reached a spectacular climax three days before the balloting, at the challenger's final rally. The gathering easily ranked among the largest in Philippine history. An enormous crush of humanity flocked to Manila's Rizal Park to hear Aquino and Laurel make their concluding speeches. A sea of yellow T shirts and banners, reflecting Aquino's campaign color, overflowed the sprawling harbor-front park. Yellow ticker tape and confetti rained down from office buildings surrounding the capacious square. < In contrast to earlier Aquino rallies, which had had a decidedly homespun air, an array of professional singing...
Later in the day, Marcos held his own concluding rally at Rizal Park. A horde of workers had descended on the area and replaced yellow-and-green Aquino-Laurel posters with red-white-and-blue placards extolling Marcos and his running mate, Arturo ("Turing") Tolentino, 75. Buses and flatbed trucks full of New Society faithful rolled in from outlying suburbs. Estimates of the crowd in the area ranged as high as 500,000. Many of those gathered for the extravaganza admitted openly that they had been paid from $2.50 to $5 to attend. As the time approached for the scheduled...
...fatalistic in his insistence on returning, convinced that he was destined to play a crucial role in the post-Marcos transition. "I'm committed to return," he told a friend from childhood. "If fate falls that I should be killed, so be it." Aquino liked to recall Jose Rizal, a Filipino patriot who returned from exile before he was executed by a Spanish firing squad in 1896. Rizal's death sparked the Philippine war of independence...