Marcos ‘off rocker’
NZPA-Reuter Manila The Philippine Presidential hopeful, Corazon Aquino, yesterday rejected assertions by President Ferdinand Marcos that she has links with the Communist Party and said: “It boggles the imagination.” Her brother-in-law, Agapito Aquino, commenting on allegations by Mr Marcos that he was a Communist, said: “I never was, never have been and never will be a Communist. The man is going off his rocker.” Mr Marcos, campaigning
for re-election on February 7, said at a rally yesterday that among Mrs Aquino’s Communist backers were the militant May First Movement labour union and a social action group founded by Mr Aquino and a former Senator, Lorenzo Tanada. Mrs Aquino, widow of the murdered Opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, had challenged Mr Marcos earlier this week to “put up or shut up” and name names to back his allegations.
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Press, 9 January 1986, Page 6
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