Word: corazon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this issue, our Woman of the Year, Corazon Aquino, is unlikely to | confuse or outrage anyone, save for die-hard supporters of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, whom she helped to oust. "She is one of the rare world leaders whose appeal crosses every barrier of ideology and geography," says Contributor Pico Iyer, who wrote the main story. "All the world can rejoice in her rise." Aquino is the third member of her sex to occupy the cover alone as the annual TIME choice. She follows Queen Elizabeth (1952) and Wallis Simpson (1936). A Women of the Year cover...
...Correspondent Sandra Burton, who wrote the box on Aquino's decision to run for the Philippine presidency, the choice was the culmination of a reporting assignment that began in 1983, when Burton was present at the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Corazon's husband. Since that dramatic moment, no Western journalist has been more privy to Corazon Aquino's rise to power than Burton...
...Woman of the Year: President Corazon Aquino...
Less than a month after his ouster as Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile quietly reentered the political arena last week. In his first public appearance since being sacked by President Corazon Aquino, Enrile spoke to members of the right-wing Nacionalista Party. He denounced Aquino's cease-fire with the Communists and indicated that he opposed the new Constitution. Though Enrile turned down an offer to head the Nacionalista Party, he may lead a coalition of opposition groups in next May's legislative elections...
This damage control method is the teflon of our "teflon President." Reagan has played the same game in every major political scrape throughout his Administration. He used it after the breakdown of the Reykjavik summit, after the Libyan disinformation scandal and during the coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Reagan has applied this method to the Iran crisis in an effort to regain his stature. But this time the damage control has failed. The media has so far sustained its onslaught...