The World - News from Dec. 16, 1985
More than 20,000 Filipinos packed a Manila plaza for the first major campaign rally by opposition candidate Corazon Aquino in her bid to unseat President Ferdinand E. Marcos. “I am not a politician,” said Aquino, who blames Marcos for the 1983 assassination of her husband, Benigno S. Aquino Jr. “I do not tell lies. And I am not a dictator. I thank God I am different from Marcos.” Her running mate, Salvador Laurel, said his United Nationalist Democratic Organization will support Aquino even if other opposition groups shed him.
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