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...supporting the authoritarian government of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines because "the alternative . . . is a large Communist movement to take over." In fact, Marcos' strongest opposition comes from many nonCommunists, including Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila. Reagan's assertion that the Marcos government has done "things . . . that do not look good to us from the standpoint, right now, of democratic rights," was, to put it charitably, an understatement. A few days after the debate, the majority of a Philippine inquiry commission charged that some of Marcos' military commanders, including his close friend...
Although none of the prominent opponents to Marcos can command the broad-based political support Aquino might have had, their ranks include such unlikely bedfellows as Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, and Jaime Ongpin, president of the Benguet mining corporation. Also included are Corazon Aquino, Ninoy's widow, and Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, his younger brother. The opposition draws experience from such veteran Marcos foes as Salvador Laurel, head of the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization coalition, and Lorenzo Tañada, 86, the grand old man of the opposition...
Something that Winston Churchill once said of democracy applies to that curious instrument of democracy, the presidential campaign debate: "In this world of sin and woe," it is the worst of all possible systems, except for any alternative that has yet been tried. Sunday night Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale provided occasional valuable indications about how they would handle the vital foreign policy and defense issues that the nation will face in the next four years, but they did so only sporadically and, it sometimes seemed, unintentionally. The debate, like the entire campaign, encouraged generalizations, evasions, safe (as opposed...
...husbands to protect "the weaker vessel." In this case and many others, Fraser indicates how the established church reinforced the image of women as morally and physically inferior. For example, women's prayers often included "Grandmother Eve," from whom all women were said to have inherited the original sin. Yet much of Fraser's book reveals how the 17th century was a time of change, even for women in the most static of institutions...
...just because he comes from a conservative, Republican district. As chairman of the Budget Committee, Jones has led the floor fight against the President's proposed budgets, all of which projected deficits so large that no Republican dared sponsor them. He has also committed the even greater sin of offering budget plans of his own with lower deficits. To cap it off, Jones has countered Reagan's call for a balanced-budget amendment with a bill that would require the President to begin the process by submitting a balanced budget in the first place, which no President...