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...People's Army. Though the insurgency is concentrated on Mindanao and some other southern islands, it spread after the Aquino assassination to 60 of the country's 74 provinces. In addition, the killing of Aquino created a nationwide crisis of confidence that caused the already stagnant economy to spiral downward, even as most other Southeast Asian nations were prospering. After the assassination, says an American official, "all these concerns took a quantum leap...
...roaring economy that grew 8% last year. But the country will have to curb that feverish growth to cut inflation, which reached 233% in 1985 and appeared to be headed for 500% this year. Last week President Jose Sarney announced a "life-and-death struggle" to halt the spiral by freezing wages and prices for a year and virtually abolishing the country's cost of living adjustments in such things as rents and contracts...
Officials say the planned increase of up to 9 percent for past renters and up to 20 percent for new renters is a result of an upward spiral in areawide rental rates over the last year...
...energy was prodigious. While her husband was in law school, she picked up a master's degree in education from Bowie State College in Maryland. Expecting her first child, she started to keep a diary in a spiral notebook, recording doctor's appointments, visitors, the deeds of the family cats. "This was my history for my children," she said. "I would have loved to know my mother's life that way." She threw herself into community work, leading a Girl Scout troop, working in day-care units and raising money for the local hospital. Teaching full time...
...basic foods. He also increased salaries for government workers 17%, hiked the minimum daily wage for peasants and industrial workers from $1 to $1.60, and froze rents on low-income housing. But these measures are not likely to stave off labor unrest if the country's downward economic spiral continues...