- Title: PHILIPPINES: TYPHOON CLAIMS TWENTY LIVES: CORAZON AQUINO BANS MARCOS RALLIES.
- Date: 10th July 1986
- Summary: 1. GV Waves crashing against road 0.09 2. GVs Traffic going through flooded streets as heavy rains continue (3 shots) 0.30 3. GVs Presidential palace with cars driving through flooded road (2 shots) 0.38 4. SVs Juan Ponce Enrile arriving at palace with other ministers as photographs take pictures (2 shots) 0.46 5. SVs Corazon Aquino arriving and walking into palace (2 shots) 1.02 6. SVs Ministers rise as President Aquino enters room (2 shots) 1.14 7. SVs President Aquino,Enrile and other ministers seated at table (4 shots) 1.26 8. SVs Aquino speaking at news conference (ENGLISH SOT) (2 shots) 1.56 TRANSCRIPT: (SEQ. SEVEN): AQUINO: "To the public I say, let us put this matter behind us. The government is making provisions to ensure that it will not recur. Let us go about our business as usual secure in the knowledge that our new democracy, having passed this test with flying colours, will surely endure." InitialsMK/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 25th July 1986 13:00
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- Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
- Country: Philippines
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVAUN7IOJR74ZC5045BI6RVMHYL
- Story Text: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Typhoon Peggy hit the northern Philippines on July 9 and claimed at least 20 lives. It battered the densely populated island of Luzon and triggered floods in four northern provinces. The Office of Civil Defence and the Red Cross said that 18 of the victims were buried in landslides in and around the mountain resort city of Baguio, 125 miles (200 kilometres) north of Manila. Two people were reported as electrocuted and several houses were destroyed in Pangasinan, one of several provinces where heavy flooding was reported after two days of rain. At its centre the storm reached wind speeds of up to 100 miles per hour (175 kilometres per hour). Floods also hit the capital Manila where President Corazon Aquino was holding a Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace. She banned rallies and demonstrations by supporters of the ousted leader, former President Ferdinand Marcos, and barred leaders of the rebellion from leaving the country. She also announced that an independent board of inquiry would investigate the extent of military involvement in the 36-hour revolt. On July 6, eight pro-Marcos general supported an attempt by the former Foreign Minister, Arturo Tolentino, to form a breakaway government with himself as acting president. More than 300 soldiers from a military camp north of Manila and several thousand Marcos loyalists occupied a luxury Manila hotel until dawn on July 8 before the soldiers gave themselves up and the civilians were driven from the badly soiled, partly looted world-famous hotel. Those involved in the revolt would have to pledge allegiance to the provisional constitution of the four-month-old government, Mrs Aquino said after discussing the revolt with her Cabinet. At a news conference she also said that the government was making provisions to ensure that such an incident would not occur again.
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