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...were glimpses of gun-toting youths with checkered Arab headcloths drawn over their faces, and then the gruesome evidence of the hell unfolding for the 161 passengers and crew inside the grounded Airbus: the body of an American, stripped of all identifying papers, ignominiously dumped on the snow-dusted tarmac...
...only moments after his return to the Philippines, was not killed by Rolando Galman, the alleged Communist gunman who was identified by the military as the murderer. Instead, the board had come to another conclusion: both Aquino and Galman, who was gunned down seconds later on the airport tarmac, were victims of a carefully plotted military conspiracy. The question that remained: How high did the conspiracy reach...
After waiting on the Logan Airport tarmac for the President, Shamie joined him in the seemingly mile-long presidential motorcade and hugged so close to him on the podium that he appeared to be protecting Reagan from his own security detail...
...Rolando Galman, the lone hit man whom the military accused of shooting Aquino and who was himself killed just seconds after the opposition leader. Instead, the murderer was one of two unnamed soldiers who escorted Aquino off China Airlines Flight 811 and down a metal stairway to the tarmac at Manila International Airport. The legal panel's report recommended that one civilian and as many as 22 officers, three of them generals, be put on trial for conspiring, or acting as accessories to a conspiracy, to murder Aquino. In all, the memo highlighted "at least 40 circumstances which prove...
...made on the fateful afternoon-and the well-rehearsed military account, recited by a parade of soldiers both on and off the witness stand. Last November, for example, a military sharpshooter named Rolando De Guzman testified that while sitting with a SWAT team in a parked van on the tarmac, he saw Galman shoot Aquino near by. Instantly, said De Guzman, he pumped seven bullets into the alleged assassin. Then his colleagues began firing too. Tapes, however, revealed that De Guzman's testimony took no account at all of an opening flurry of five shots, which was followed, after...