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Editorials.(cover story)

Burkhalter, Holly; Lekachman, Robert | December 6, 1986 issue

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The article presents information on cease-fire between President Corazon Aquino and the New People's Army. After nine months of the Aquino presidency, what began as theater on an epic scale is settling in to the familiar contours of an American morality play. The cast of characters risks being stripped down to meet the requirements of a simon-pure conflict between "democracy" and "communism." The complex personality of the Philippine left and People Power will be made to appear one-dimensional, and Washington will renew its love affair with that enduring fantasy, "clean counterinsurgency."

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INSURGENCY; AQUINO, Corazon; DEMOCRACY; COLLECTIVISM; POLITICAL doctrines; PHILIPPINES
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