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Rebels abandoned the government television station and Villamor air base, which they had seized before dawn, and hundreds of mutinous marines marched out of Fort Bonifacio, their home garrison...
Escorted by a 13-vehicle motorcade of the presidential security guard, Corazon Aquino made her way through Manila's rain-slicked streets into suburban Fort Bonifacio. Immediately after she entered its precincts, tanks and heavy artillery sealed off the sprawling headquarters of the Philippine army. Only three days earlier, military rebels had come close to toppling the President. Now, on National Heroes' Day, she was determined to talk tough. Speaking to a television audience from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the fort's Graveyard of Heroes, she excoriated the mutineers as "traitors and murderers." She declared that troops...
...shot to death last August as he returned to Manila after three years in exile. The protesters were determined to accompany anti-Marcos assemblymen into the chamber, but Aquino and his followers were repulsed by some 2,000 military police. The marchers regrouped in Manila's Bonifacio Plaza, where a five-hour confrontation with security forces ended in clouds of tear gas with dozens injured...
...mechanic's uniform, lay face up a few feet away as a soldier pumped 16 rounds into his stomach at close range. Two other soldiers picked up the limp body of Aquino, loaded it into the van and sped away. Aquino was pronounced dead on arrival at Ft. Bonifacio Army Hospital...
...School Council, which is supposed to be the student voice on campus, is "virtually invisible." Bonifacio B. Garcia, one of the meeting's organizers, said yesterday...