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Guinea's president narrowly survived an assassination attempt Tuesday after gunmen surrounded his home overnight and pounded his bedroom with rockets, throwing into doubt the stability of the country's first democratically elected government in a part of the world that has long been ruled by the gun.

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[DatePublished] => 2006-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 285521 [Title] => FVR: New Charter, leaders by June 2006 [Summary] => Former President Fidel Ramos called yesterday for a swift revision of the Constitution to pave the way for a parliamentary form of government and new elections within the next 10 months as a way out of a crisis threatening the Arroyo administration.

"It is a graceful exit option" for President Arroyo, Ramos said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 219310 [Title] => The soldier’s creed [Summary] => One newspaper claims that Defense Secretary Angelo T. Reyes was "caught" by President Macapagal-Arroyo plotting a military coup against her government, and therefore was told to quit or be "fired". We’re a great country for conspiracy theories.

If you ask me, if ever a plot was being hatched in the armed forces it was more likely to have been hatched against Reyes – so let’s leave that harebrained theory alone.
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Don’t you think these teledramas telenobelas, talk-fest, military psy-warfare orgies, legal nitpicking, national breastbeasting, fingerpointing, and litanies of warning messages have gone on long enough? It’s time to strive to return to normalcy, and go back to work.
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Guinea's president narrowly survived an assassination attempt Tuesday after gunmen surrounded his home overnight and pounded his bedroom with rockets, throwing into doubt the stability of the country's first democratically elected government in a part of the world that has long been ruled by the gun.

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"It is a graceful exit option" for President Arroyo, Ramos said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 219310 [Title] => The soldier’s creed [Summary] => One newspaper claims that Defense Secretary Angelo T. Reyes was "caught" by President Macapagal-Arroyo plotting a military coup against her government, and therefore was told to quit or be "fired". We’re a great country for conspiracy theories.

If you ask me, if ever a plot was being hatched in the armed forces it was more likely to have been hatched against Reyes – so let’s leave that harebrained theory alone.
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Don’t you think these teledramas telenobelas, talk-fest, military psy-warfare orgies, legal nitpicking, national breastbeasting, fingerpointing, and litanies of warning messages have gone on long enough? It’s time to strive to return to normalcy, and go back to work.
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