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President Corazon Aquino receives visitors in the second-floor bedroom of a guesthouse at Malacaang Palace. Last week, when the new leader welcomed TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief Sandra Burton, a close observer of Aquino's career since their first meeting more than two years ago, the President was in her office with her daughter and personal secretary nearby. Discussing her first twelve weeks in power, Aquino was as animated and forthright as ever. Excerpts from their talk...
...little do-it-yourself fix-ups: on a rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description and bears comparison...
Maeglin said that he had watched the steady decay of the shower ceiling and that the ceiling of Eliot Hall's other second-floor bathroom may well be next...
...alarm fire broke out in the second-floor office of a Washington public relations firm, spreading upward through the five-story building and causing $500,000 worth of damage. Arab Americans quickly pointed to a disturbing coincidence: two floors above, the offices of the American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee were also badly damaged, the latest in a series of violent actions affecting the organization. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the blaze. Commented one bureau spokesman: "Given the other attacks against the ADC and related Arab Americans, we are very concerned that it might have...
Cabot Library was vandalized Wednesday night when a rock was thrown through a six-by-10-foot second-floor window during peak study hours. Noone was hurt in the incident...