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Philippines Election
Friday, Feb. 7, 1986
PHILIPPINES/Almanac
- People:
Population: 55.5 million. Language: Filipino, English (both official). Ethnic groups: Malays (the majority); Chinese, Americans and Spanish are minorities. Religions: Roman Catholics — 83 percent; Protestants — 9 percent; Muslims — 5 percent.
Dongguan.
Geography:
Economy:
Capital: Quezon City, pop. 1.1 million. (Manila, 1.6 million, is the de facto capital). Area: 115,831 sq. mi. The country consists of about 7,100 islands; about 95 percent of the population lives on the 11 largest islands.
Electronics
Chief crops; Sugar, rice, corn, pineapple. Minerals: Cobalt, copper, gold, nickel. All natural resources belong to the state.
Only Philippine citizens or corporations that are 60 percent owned by citizens can exploit the natural resources.
Government:
Republic, Head of state. President Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos became president in December 1965. Martial law was declared in September 1972 and lifted in January 1981. At that time, Marcos was elected to a new 6-year term, winning 88 percent of the vote.
Reagan wants to maintain Philippine bases and amity
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — No matter who wins the election in the Philippines, the United States will attempt to maintain its military bases there, as well as the historic friendship between the two nations, President Reagan said yesterday.
Reagan was asked about the election race between President Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino during an Oval Office photo session. Asked how he would judge whether the outcome of the election was free and fair, Reagan said, "That's up to the people of the Philippines to decide."
The president refused to comment
on such matters as Aquino's lack of access to television in the campaign, saying it would be improper for him to criticize their method of conducting the election.
Reagan said, "The United States and the Philippines have had an historic friendship for many years, and we want it to continue. When they have made their decision, which is theirs to make, as to the future government, why we will seek to go along with their decision and to maintain our relationship with the Philipines."
In response to a question, Reagan said the United States wanted to maintain its military bases in the Philippines.
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MANILA, Philippines — A spokesman for Corazon Aquino charged yesterday that millions of fake ballots had been handed out to military commanders to ensure President Ferdinand Marcos' victory in today's presidential election.
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Rene Sagusag, Aquino campaign spokesman, said 2.2 million phony balloons were delivered to Brig. Gen. Cesar Tapia on Tuesday at Awang Airport in the central Mindanao province of Cotabato.
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Sagusug said the information was obtained from reliable sources. His
He quoted a telegram from Omar Dianalan, a recent defector to the political opposition from Marcos ruling New Society Movement, the KBL, as saying, "KBL leaders, particularly mayors and their goons," were threatening violence against Aquino supporters.
Saguisag said the ballots were to be distributed secretly throughout the southern island of Mindanao by private aircraft. He did not say who gave the ballots to the officers.
charges could not be independently confirmed.
"Unless election postponed, blood-shed inevitable," the telegram from
The fighting also would be used as an excuse to move ballot boxes from precincts to town halls and private warehouses where they could be easily rigged, he said.
Marcos; ruler of the Philippines for 20 years, called the election in November — 16 months ahead of schedule — while under pressure from the United States to institute political and economic reforms.
The Aquino spokesman said preparations for vote fraud appeared to be under way throughout Mindanao, where troops were deployed to battle command insurgents.
The United States has urged Marcos to hold fair elections and has sent a team to monitor the balloting. Reagan administration officials had hinted that aid to the Philippines would be increased if the voting was judged to be fair.
Mindanao said.
Saguisua quoted opposition representatives as saying 513 ghost precincts, had been added to election rolls in Cavite Province, across Manila Bay from the capital. He said the precincts represented 180,000 non-existent voters.
He said a mock war against pro-Marcos goons dressed as communist guerrillas was raging in five towns.
U.S. won't run election interference
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Richard Lugar, head of a delegation sent by President Reagan to observe today's election in the Philippines, said yesterday that Washington had no intention of interfering with the outcome.
But he warned that friends of the Philippines would want to know the results as quickly as possible and urged election officials not to prevent a civilian watchdog group from rapidly tallying the vote.
"Twenty of us been asked by the president to come — not to advocate, not to argue, and not to proscribe and not to judge — but simply to observe," said Lugar. R-Ind.
Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, heads a 20-member White House group sent to observe the contest between President Ferdinand Marcos and challenger Corazon Aquino.
Lugar denied that the presence of U.S. warships at the U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base north of Manila was connected to the vote.
"The United States has absolutely no interest in influencing this election with the use of warships — the use of anything for that matter," he said.
The presence of the White House team and more than 130 other international observers has prompted charges of meddling in Philippine internal affairs despite Marcos' personal invitation to foreigners to monitor the polling.
"We make an appeal to all who have something to do with the election system to make certain the Namrel volunteers have the voting results as rapidly as possible so that all of us, especially friends of the Philippines . . . will know as rapidly as possible what has occurred." Lugar said.
Unofficial quick counts of the vote will be released by both the government's Commission on Elections, or Comelec, and an independent watchdog group, the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections, or Namrefel.
blocked by provincial election officials who must sign the returns before the group's 500,000 volunteers could transmit them to Manila.
Jose Concepcion, Namfrel chairman, said he feared his planned Operation Quick Count might be
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