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...birthright as a child, the sixth of eight, of Jose and Demetria Cojuangco. After coming to the Philippines from Fujian province in China just three generations earlier, the Cojuangcos had quickly parlayed a small rice mill and a sugar mill into the richest empire in Tarlac province...
...victory. As he prepared to fly from Manila to his hometown of Batac in the northerly province of Ilocos Norte, the President declared that "if the difference is only 3 million (votes), I'll be disappointed." Aquino voted in her hometown of San Miguel, in the southern province of Tarlac. Said she: "Today is my day. I hope to see you all at my inaugural...
Despite the decline in Marcos' popularity, his newest challenger faces an uphill battle. Until the death of her husband, few Filipinos knew much about Cory Aquino. Born Jan. 25, 1933, she was the sixth of eight children in the Cojuangco family, a wealthy, politically prominent clan based in Tarlac, a province 65 miles northwest of Manila. After attending schools in Manila and the U.S., she earned degrees in French and mathematics from New York City's Mount St. Vincent College, returned to Manila and enrolled in law school. But in 1956 she abandoned the academic life to marry Ninoy Aquino...
...joggers as they arrived in Manila last week. The joggers, led by Agapito Aquino, 45, younger brother of murdered Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino Jr., had set out five days earlier on a 90-mile protest run from Aquino's birthplace in the town of Concepcion in Tarlac province to the tarmac at Manila International Airport, where Aquino was assassinated last August. They were protesting a referendum called by President Ferdinand Marcos for Jan. 27 to ratify a constitutional amendment on the presidential succession. Along the way, military police intercepted and harassed the joggers, drawing wide attention to the marathon...
...became the youngest mayor of Concepcion, while continuing in his capacity as special assistant for foreign affairs to Magsaysay. In 1957, he worked as special domestic adviser to President Garcia before becoming governor of Tarlac province...