The World - News from March 21, 1988

Philippine President Corazon Aquino, maintaining that she has no political ambitions, said she does not plan to seek reelection in 1992. “I was only meant for transition,” she said on her weekly radio program in Manila. “Even now I consider this the transition period from dictatorship to full democracy.” Aquino, who succeeded Ferdinand E. Marcos after a “people power” coup in 1986, said the “pillars of democracy”--the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the American-style government--are already in place in the Philippines. “But because of the economic problems, there is no full democracy, because we must also have economic freedom,” she said.