Word: corazon
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There is little on the horizon that offers Haitians much hope of change. In a field crowded with presidential aspirants, no figure has come close to seizing the country's imagination, as Corazon Aquino did in the Philippines. For now, Haiti can be expected to hobble along until the presidential elections scheduled for November. If all goes according to plan, the new President will be installed by the second anniversary of Duvalier's ouster. Perhaps by then Haitians will have something to celebrate...
Benigno Aquino was a fellow at the CFIA from 1980-83, and lived with Corazon in Newton. Prior to arriving in the United States in 1980, Benigno Aquino was imprisoned in Manila...
...RESULTS of the recent constitutional referendum in the Philippines provide further evidence of President Corazon Aquino's enormous personal popularity. The margin of victory--a three-to-one vote in favor of the new constitution proposed by Aquino--surprised many foreign observers and restored international confidence in the staying power of her government. Indeed, placed alongside the quick defeat of yet another coup attempt, the February 2nd vote seems to confirm the unassailable nature of the current regime...
...Aquino-Harvard connection was forged between 1980 and 1983, when the President's late husband, Benigno S. Aquino, an opposition leader to deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, served as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs. At the time, Corazon Aquino was a homemaker, living in Newton...
...have a Harvard Mafia running our country?" queried a recent edition of The Philippine Star, a Manila-based newspaper. Four of Aquino's cabinet members, a Supreme Court Justice and the director of the Central Bank are among a core of Harvard-trained high-ranking officials in Philippine President Corazon Aquino's government...