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...November, Marcos declared that he would hold a special presidential election to convince the Reagan Administration that he still enjoyed popular support. A month later, immediately following the acquittal of Ver, Corazon Aquino announced that she would challenge Marcos for the presidency. Cardinal Sin then helped persuade former Senator Salvador Laurel to join the Aquino ticket. In the meantime Enrile had been building his reform-movement, a highly visible band of about 100 well-trained soldiers whose aim was not to topple Marcos but to pressure him to reorganize the military. Throughout the election campaign, while Enrile publicly supported Marcos...
...could not say as much for the latest elections in El Salvador where the U.S. is propping up a repressive government with massive military and economic aid. In its efforts to support democracy, the Reagan Administration has just announced that it will resume training of Salvadoran police who have been implicated in a decade of mass terror and murder...
During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino and the other major opposition candidate, Salvador ("Doy") Laurel. The primate reassured Aquino that she could successfully challenge Marcos, and helped persuade Laurel to bury his own presidential aspirations and become her running mate. Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt about which candidate the church backed. Before the election, the Cardinal sent a letter to all Philippine parishes pointedly instructing the faithful to vote for those who showed "respect for human rights and life...
...election whose outcome had been shaped by vote buying, intimidation, outright fraud and bloodshed. The legislative body also proclaimed the election of Marcos' running mate, Arturo Tolentino, 75, ending weeks of speculation that the autocrat might find a way to include Aquino's vice-presidential running mate, Salvador Laurel, 57, in his newly refurbished government...
Thirteen years ago, Chile, under the leadership of President Salvador Allende, was one of the few Latin American countries with a democratic government. A generation of popular leadership had made significant progress in social and economic reform, putting in place the rudiments of a welfare state. As one prominent journalist told me, "We had a tradition of democracy that made men proud. The Moneda [Presidential Palace] was a public way, and the president walked down the street like you or me, and took off his hat to say 'Hello...