Word: corazon
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Last week Marcos' luck finally ran out. As Filipinos joyously welcomed a new hero, President Corazon Aquino, TIME was once again very much on the scene. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, along with Manila-based Reporter Nelly Sindayen, had witnessed most of the events of the past 2 1/2 years that led up to last week's revolution, from Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino's assassination in August 1983 to the emergence of "Cory" Aquino from shy widowhood to the Philippines' highest office. They were joined by Bangkok Bureau Chief James Willwerth and Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold in covering...
Even as Marcos spoke, thousands of Filipinos streamed into the darkened streets, marching toward Camp Aguinaldo on the outskirts of Manila. The demonstrators, many of them carrying candles, were jubilant as they gathered outside the gates. "Cory! Cory!" they chanted, invoking the nickname of Opposition Leader Corazon Aquino, the slight, bespectacled widow of slain former Senator Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, who had challenged Marcos for the presidency and lost in an election tainted by ballot stealing and bloodshed. Aquino was leading a rally in the central Philippine city of Cebu when the uprising occurred at Camp Aguinaldo. Supporters, fearful...
Item: Though the White House yesterday finally called on Ferdinand Marcos to step down, the Reagan Administration waffled for weeks while Corazon Aquino, the most inspiring "freedom fighter" in recent memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on the Philippine election, which Aquino correctly called a contest between good and evil, came during a new Administration initiative to funnel aid to two dubious movements: the Contras in Nicaragua and Jonas Savimbi's South Africa-backed rebels in Angola...
...drama. At week's end the National Assembly, dominated by members of President Ferdinand Marcos' ruling New Society Movement, produced its tally after angry opposition members walked out of the legislative hall to protest government railroad tactics. The rump gathering declared that Marcos, 68, had defeated his presidential rival, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 53, by 10,807,179 votes...
Watching closely was the slight, determined figure of Corazon Aquino. The quiet widow who had turned into candidate and crusader, who had ignited a popular passion for change during her 57-day election campaign, continued to insist last week that she rather than Marcos was the rightful President of the Philippines. Deliberately ignoring the National Assembly hoopla, Aquino went on the personal offensive. She staged a giant rally in Manila's Rizal Park on Sunday to protest Marcos' alleged election fraud. That event was the kickoff of a protracted "People's Victory" campaign of nonviolent rallies and boycotts in coming...