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Barrett is a six-year veteran of the State House, where he served as a representative from Reading until an ill-timed run for Congress left him out of office...
...four-day trip to Japan this week. The President seemed unfazed by the coup rumors -- and Enrile's persistent opposition. Ignoring his calls for immediate presidential elections, she set Feb. 2 as the date for a plebiscite on a new charter that would grant her a full six-year term in office. She announced that legislative elections would be held next May 11. At midweek government negotiators reopened talks with Communist rebels, an Aquino initiative that Enrile has sharply criticized. Only one day earlier, Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila had publicly endorsed Aquino's peace feelers. Said...
...cold. A few hours later, however, he held a press conference at which he urged that voters decide when they want new presidential elections. Until now, the election question has been subsumed under the larger issue of a recently drafted constitution. The charter, which grants both Aquino and Laurel six-year terms, will be put to a yes-no vote on Jan. 23. Last week Laurel turned on Aquino by proposing that the plebiscite should include a separate question on the election issue...
...sticking point, though, is a rider to the constitution that grants Aquino a six-year term. Chief among opponents of the clause is Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who insists that Aquino should submit to new presidential elections. Enrile argues that Aquino lost her mandate to govern when she abandoned the 1973 constitution, under which the last elections were held. Aquino counters that during last February's elections, "The people spoke so clearly, the whole world heard them." Despite Enrile's opposition, Aquino's constitution is likely to be adopted...
Despite the loss to the Big Red--which broke a six-year Crimson unbeaten streak--Harvard still owns a 30-19-2 series edge over Cornell...