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                    [Title] => Lakas ng Bayan candidates
                    [Summary] => Last Monday, the nation observed the 23rd anniversary of the assassination of Ninoy Aquino. There was absolutely no mention of the then-heroes who ran with him in the 1978 Laban elections. The following were his co-candidates in Lakas ng Bayan in that election. The historically unprecedented noise barrage was an attestation they unanimously won that election, but they all lost in the counting. In alphabetical order, these are:


Ninoy Aquino, then Senator of the Republic. Arrested and detained in Fort Bonifacio, he was the People’s Coalition rallying point;
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135430 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262060 [Title] => Ninoy Aquino holiday [Summary] => Today is the 9th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ninoy Aquino, who before being assassinated in the Manila International Airport said, "The Filipino is worth dying for." I can’t think of a better way of commemorating the day than by paying homage to the other candidates of the Lakas ng Bayan Party that ran with Ninoy at the height of the Marcos regime in the April 7, 1978 elections. Ninoy, of course, led the list of candidates, but he was in jail.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 173016 [Title] => Kris Aquino’s affairs upstage Ninoy’s death [Summary] => Yesterday was the 19th anniversary of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino’s martyrdom. Incredibly enough, his youngest daughter Kris Aquino’s arrival at the airport the day before received more attention than Ninoy’s ultimate supreme sacrifice for his country. Here, we must say that this is the fault of media.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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