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...pumpkin. Second, personal virtues are never a guarantee of effective or successful governance. What was truly shocking about Aquino's tumultuous six-year term as President of the Philippines was that those maxims proved untrue. Midnight always threatened Aquino but never struck; and she was a good woman whose goodness alone, at the very end, was what proved enough, if only by an iota, to save her country...
...Read TIME's 1986 Woman of the Year cover story on Aquino...
...that would later shake out the autocracies of Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In a sweep of U.S. helicopters, Marcos was whisked off to exile in Hawaii, and Aquino was proclaimed President of the Philippines. It was a most astonishing political story. Time named her Woman of the Year at the end of 1986, the first female to hold Time's annual distinction on her own since the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth...
...watching over her husband's legacy. But every now and then she would emerge from private life to tell her successors to behave. She helped lead a second People Power uprising to depose the inept government of Joseph Estrada; she also led protests against her former ally, the second woman President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to warn her against rewriting the constitution to extend her time in office...
...civilian and 25 members of the military, including General Fabian Ver, the armed-forces chief of staff and Marcos stalwart, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to murder. The defendants were acquitted in December 1985 after a yearlong trial, but few Filipinos doubted their guilt. (Read TIME's 1986 Woman of the Year cover story on Aquino...