The World - News from Jan. 12, 1987
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About 30,000 chanting leftists marched to the presidential palace in Manila and burned copies of Philippine President Corazon Aquino’s proposed constitution in the largest demonstration yet against the draft charter. At another rally, about 2,000 supporters of ousted ruler Ferdinand E. Marcos flashed “V” signs and also torched copies of the constitution that will go before the voters in a Feb. 2 plebiscite. Aquino, meanwhile, flew to four cities as part of her monthlong campaign for the ratification of the charter to replace the one tailored by Marcos in 1973.
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