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Aquino and Marcos play out a comic opera of power
Benigno S. Aquino Jr. returns to the Philippines amid peril, predicting a fight against Ferdinand Marcos. The piece recalls Aquino’s life, exile in Boston, political peril, and the deadly 1983 assassination that upended Marcos’s rule, highlighting Aquino’s belief in battling Marcos and dying for his cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold Zeitlin
Benigno S. Aquino Jr
AP Becau
Manila
Boston AP
Aquino
Boston
Philippines
Benigno $. Aquino Jr
Ferdinand B. Marcos
Imelda
Marcoses
Marcos
Ninoy
Philippine Military
Corazon
Gandhi
Mariano Ezpeleta
Andover
Agapito
U.S
Mas
Sachusetts Institute of Technology
Erwin Ver
Ver
Philippine Military Academy
Army
Fabian Ver
Armed Forces
Vers
Philippine
Nacionalista Party
Joseph O'Hare
Roman Catho
Lic America Magazine
New York
United States
Clark Air Base
Subic Bay Naval Base