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...President, for her part, seemed intent on exonerating the military from any blame for the breakdown. "I know that you and I did our best to explore the path of negotiations to the utmost," she told a group of soldiers at Camp Aguinaldo, the armed forces headquarters near Manila. Still, Aquino held hope that negotiations might be renewed, at least on a regional level. The insurgents rebuffed the idea outright as a "malicious move to sow dissension and division within insurgent ranks." Said a rebel leader: "This is the most important phase of our struggle, and we shall do everything...
...Chief of Staff refused, the officer is said to have replied, "Then we'll go it alone." Later that night, as Enrile was attending a meeting of former Batasang members, six truckloads of troops, presumably under orders from Ramos, surrounded the area while another contingent went to Camp Aguinaldo, headquarters of the Defense Ministry...
Both Enrile and Ramos were longtime Marcos loyalists who, for different reasons, had become progressively disenchanted with his regime. Until the Camp Aguinaldo press conference, Defense Minister Enrile had shown little sign of restiveness. There had been widespread speculation, however, that he would be leaving the Marcos Cabinet. But there was no warning that the Harvard law graduate and architect of martial law would help mount a revolt. What may have tipped the scales was Enrile's discovery that officers loyal to Marcos were about to arrest opposition leaders and members of the military-reform movement. The allegation was later...
Only hours before the electrifying events at Camp Aguinaldo, U.S. Special Envoy Habib boarded a U.S. Air Force plane to fly back to Washington after his week-long visit. President Reagan had dispatched the diplomatic troubleshooter to Manila to find some way of resolving the country's electoral crisis just as the National Assembly was formally declaring Marcos President. Habib is expected to make a report to Reagan early this week...
...certain to be a government in name only. After enduring martial law, the Aquino assassination and a corrupt national election, the Filipino tolerance for wrongdoing finally seems to have reached its limits. Nothing emphasized that point so dramatically as the thousands of civilians who flocked to Camp Aguinaldo on Sunday, effectively offering to serve as buffers to any possible action by Marcos against the reformers...