Word: tarmac
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...there was something inexplicable about the mass phenomenon that rescued the island nation from a failing dictatorship, enabling thousands of unarmed civilians to protect one faction of the armed forces from the other, there was no doubt when the process began. It was Aug. 21, 1983, on the tarmac at Manila international airport. On that day, Opposition Politician Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., 50, returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the U.S., was slain by a single bullet as he stepped off a jetliner into a crowd of soldiers and well-wishers. Though Marcos tried...
When Ferdinand Marcos arrived in Hawaii last week, he looked like most other visitors to the island paradise. Bowing to have a lei draped around his neck on an airport tarmac similar to the one Benigno Aquino was gunned down upon, all that the former Filipino strongman needed to complete the costume of a stereotypical vacationer was an instamatic camera dangling from his neck...
...released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into a pair of gray trousers brought by his brother-in-law, then stepped out onto the tarmac...
...civilian fact-finding board that a military conspiracy was behind Aquino's murder. Instead, the court supported the military's contention that Rolando Galman, an alleged Communist gunman, had somehow managed to penetrate the 1,199-man security cordon at the airport that day and shot Aquino on the tarmac before being felled by a fatal barrage from nearby guards. The justices dismissed all evidence that buttressed the prosecution's argument that Aquino was instead slain by a soldier on the jetliner's service stairway...
That evidence was extensive. A journalist's audio tape suggested that the first shot came too soon after Aquino left the plane for him to have reached the tarmac and Galman, but the court rejected the tape as inconclusive. The justices also dismissed the testimony of Rebecca Quijano, a passenger on the plane who said that she had seen a soldier in a military police uniform shoot Aquino. Quijano's disclosures, the opinion said, were marred by "emotional instability" and a "personal animus toward the military." The court had earlier rejected the main evidence against Ver, which consisted principally...