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Article: Miracle in Manila. (new Philippine government)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 28, 1986
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Miracle in Manila IN THE END, Corazon Aquino was the Philippines. The steady, untutored voice of this political amateur awakened in the Filipino people their own better qualities, and they rallied to her with a fervor no other opposition politician had ever aroused. What happened in Manila was unprecedented in modern times: an authoritarian government collapsing overnight because its people--even its own appointees in the military--would not uphold it any more. It was democracy by default, by consensus, by the force of a remarkable spirit of popular unity that swept the Philippines once it became clear that Mrs. Aquino had equaled or surpassed Marcos in the polls. Whether ...