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Saturday,
February 08, 1986
Housewife-turned-politician
Corazon "Cory" Aquino declared victory
early Saturday in her election battle against
President Marcos. "My fellow countrymen. This
is Cory Aquino speaking. The myth of his
invincible machine has been shattered.
"Against his guns, against his goons, and
against his gold, the Filipino people have
spoken"
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EDSA Revolution |
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Sunday,
March 02, 1986
Appearing
before a crowd of 1.5 million cheering supports,
President Corazon Aquino announced Sunday she
was restoring legal rights suspended under the
deposed regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Making her
first public appearance since Marcos fled into
exile in Hawaii, ending months of political
upheaval.
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| John McCarthy
Hostage |
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Thursday,
April 17, 1986
Terrorists apparently avenging Britain's
role in the U.S. attack on Libya killed three
Britons, kidnapped a British journalist and
fired grenades at the British ambassador's
residence, officials said today. After the
bodies were discovered, there was confusion over
their identity, but were told the bodies
were definitely British citizens.
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Wave |
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Thursday,
September 18, 1986
Arab
extremists threatened to extend the terror
campaign to the United States." We will
meet soon your venerable state. We will get
acquainted with your cities, skyscrapers, and
Statue of Liberty. American streets will know us
soon," the Committee of Solidarity with
Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners
warned in a statement
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Cicippio Hostage |
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Friday,
September 12, 1986
Gunmen
slipped through security at the American
University of Beirut and kidnapped an American
school official, the second U.S. citizen
abducted in Lebanon this week. No group
immediately claimed responsibility. Joseph
Cicippio, 51, deputy comptroller of the
university, was kidnapped after leaving his
seventh-floor apartment.
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Friday,
November 07, 1986
President
Corazon Aquino today brushed aside rumors of a
coup and said she was proceeding with her
planned state visit to Japan next week. "I
think every time I plan a trip abroad there's so
much talk about a coup and each time I say that
if I believe that there would be a coup I would
not be leaving the country."
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International Flight Bombing |
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Wednesday,
October 29, 1986
Explosives
planted in a lavatory of a Thai International
Airways jet may have caused the rupture of a
rear bulkhead that sent the plane plunging
21,000 feet Sunday before it made an emergency
landing in Osaka. A small bomb had been taken
aboard the A-300 Airbus, which was bound for
Osaka from Bangkok via Manila.
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