Word: teodoro
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...moral -- even moralistic -- strictness, Aquino can at times treat even her Cabinet colleagues with the kind of affectionate sternness she lavishes on her children. She allows no smoking in her office, and she expects all the President's men to be prompt and tireless. Once she told Chief Speechwriter Teodoro Locsin to dress less like a gangster. The faint air of maternalism is heightened by her habit of referring to "my people," "my Cabinet," and even, most disconcertingly, "my generals...
Even as the Cabinet meeting was under way, Manila radio reported that Ramos had issued a secret directive to all regional commanders instructing them not to follow orders from Enrile or one of his closest comrades, Lieut. Colonel Gregorio Honasan. At noon, Press Secretary Teodoro Benigno left the Cabinet meeting to announce Ramos' appeal that officers maintain "calm and stability in their respective areas of jurisdiction...
...Manila's Rizal Park and declared at a religious rally that the country had been spared a catastrophe. "I suppose our prayers have again been answered," she said, "because this afternoon we have once again done something that was peaceful. All our ministers have resigned." Putting it more bluntly, Teodoro Benigno declared that with Enrile's ouster a "dagger" had been removed from the government's heart...
...self-assured, a woman who spoke for a country, molding an inchoate popular movement into a winning political force. The base of her appeal was a quiet strength, deeply rooted in her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which imbued her with seeming invincibility. "Ninoy you could hurt," said Teodoro Locsin, 37, Aquino's Minister of Information, last week. "But Cory you cannot hurt...
...course, Vadinho could not make his way back from the blue except in a land as saturated with voodoo and ghostly candomblé rituals as Bahia. "God is fat," he confides to Dona Flor. He came back, he adds, because, despite her love for Dr. Teodoro, she called him. She cannot deny it, nor can she bring herself to send him packing back to his corpulent deity...