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...flogged to death with rods. He decided to resign from office by stabbing himself in the throat. At least suicide spared him the fate of some other toppled rulers -- the long twilight of exile, the sort of haunted afterlife endured by Napoleon, say, or the wandering Shah of Iran. Exile is not necessarily a fate worse than death, but there is something poignantly ignominious in the spectacle of the once all-powerful turned out to graze on their memories, their paranoid retrospections, in obscure pastures...
...people had ended; any effort by him to crush the reform movement would only worsen the situation; it was of great importance to the U.S. that force not be used; and it would be damaging to U.S. standing in the world if Marcos were treated like the Shah of Iran, who was admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment but was not permitted by the Carter Administration to remain. As it turned out, Marcos was less worried about the fate of the Shah than about what happened to Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President who was assassinated during...
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...
...paper that does not have to worry about the printers' unions is Today, which debuts next week. Today represents something completely new for Britain: an electronically reproduced daily paper with four-color pages. Founded by Eddy Shah, a successful purveyor of provincial giveaway newspapers, Today will be a 44-page tabloid heavy on domestic news and sports. By setting up his state-of-the-art plant three miles from Fleet Street, Shah skirted the printers entirely, and instead is negotiating a no-strike deal with his employees. Today's staff, including deliverers, numbers only 600, anorectic by the overstuffed standards...
Though Murdoch is leading Britain's newspaper revolution, Shah and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher created the climate for the rebellion. In the early 1980s, Thatcher's government passed two laws that severely clipped union powers. No longer could workers summon other unions to support a strike, nor did employees have to belong to a particular union in order to hold their jobs. Most important, the courts could levy heavy fines and freeze the assets of unions that flouted the new rules. Shah tested the laws in 1983, when several printers walked off their jobs at his plant in northern England...