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- <text id=91TT0726>
- <title>
- Apr. 08, 1991: World Notes:The Philippines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 44
- World Notes
- THE PHILIPPINES
- Ramos Jumps Into the Race
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Had the armed forces remained loyal to Ferdinand Marcos in
- the wake of massive election cheating in 1986, Corazon Aquino
- would not have become President. Had rebel factions of the army
- succeeded in the coup attempts that followed, Aquino would not
- still be in office today. In almost every case, the man who made
- the difference was General Fidel Ramos, Marcos' mutinous vice
- chief of staff and Aquino's faithful Secretary of Defense. Last
- week Ramos, 63, declared his intention to go after the top job
- himself--constitutionally. In a move that surprised many of
- the other 10 contenders, Ramos announced his candidacy for the
- 1992 presidential election at a rally of his newly organized
- United People Power Movement. He followed up his speech with a
- replay of the exuberant frog jumps with which he had greeted
- first reports of Marcos' flight from the Philippines.
- </p>
- <p> Ramos told 500 cheering delegates that "politics must
- serve not the faction or the party but the nation." Aquino, who
- has said she will not seek another six-year term, has not
- indicated whom she will support for the ruling-party nomination
- next month, but Ramos faces an uphill battle.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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