Word: would
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corruption will increase. Everybody will feather his nest. At that point, she will be nudged to the side and be made a scapegoat for the mess. Then the military will take over. They will say, 'Well, we've given you your chance.' But they will have made sure she would fail. They will then throw her to the people, and they will come in as the great saviors of the republic." The prediction was made by the President's husband Benigno Aquino Jr. shortly before he was assassinated in August 1983. And though he was talking about Imelda Marcos...
...denies that the group is out to kill Aquino. "We shall give her a pleasurable life as a private citizen," said Abenina. "Her official acts -- like the declaration of state of emergency -- we will not question." But he said they would scrutinize her private failure to discipline manipulative ; relatives. For the past year, Aquino has promised to prosecute "one big fish" on graft charges but has yet failed to land a catch. Abenina added, "Had America not intervened, this civil war would have been over...
...told him there was one question that always kept coming up. What would happen if trouble developed inside the Soviet Union and they had to use force to put it down? I said I always refused to answer such a hypothetical question, but Americans were asking it. He did not give a direct answer, but he strongly implied, 'Look, I'm going to succeed...
...Government. After only four days as Deputy Prime Minister, Marian Calfa won the top job last week when Ladislav Adamec quit. At week's end Calfa offered to form a Cabinet in which half the members would have no ties to the Communist Party...
...return to an assertive, confident, Stalinist renewal. Instead, we'll probably see a turn toward some highly nationalistic form of dictatorship, perhaps what I call a "Holy Alliance" between the Soviet Army and the Russian Orthodox Church, galvanized by a sense of desperate Great Russian nationalism. That would then produce even more intense reactions from non-Russians. It could be a very ugly picture...