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Byline: Marites Vitug and Joe Cochrane (Stephen Glain Jennifer Ordonez Jesse Ellison Ginanne Brownell Anne Underwood Richard Wolffe)
Southeast Asia: Power Outage?
In the Philippines, the 20th anniversary of the 1986 "people-power" revolution looked scarily like the original--a maelstrom of barbed wire, riot troops, rumors, and angry mobs. After three senior military officers allegedly called on the Army to rebel last Friday morning, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared emergency rule and banned all demonstrations. A few hours later in another jittery Asian capital, Thailand's embattled leader, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, dissolved Parliament ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Periscope; Issue Dated March 6, 2006.