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I won't be 'xerox copy' of Cory: Ramos
MANILA May 24: Wags call him Cory Aquino in pants, but Fidel Ramos, awaiting procla mation as the new President of the Philippines, promises he won't be a 'xerox copy' of his political patron.
In an Interview with AFP the former Defence Chief loyally defended his benefactor, but said he would be his own man provided all went well and he took over June 30. when Aquino's turbulent six-year term ends.
Ramos' victory still awaits confirmation by the Congress, which starts canvassing the May 11 polls on Monday. But a semi-official Tally has given him a million-vote margin over hts closest rival, Tycoon Eduardo Cojunangco.
Critics say a Ramos presi dency would be a sequel to the .aloof and indecisive rule of Aquino. Both are blapd, be spectacled figures given to droning speeches, and were never politicians before running for President.
" I said there should be continuity in government policies, but that doesn't mean that I will be a xerox copy of Mrs Aquino."
Aquino 59. defied her own family, the ruling party and the Roman Catholic church when she endorsed Ramos, a Protestant, to be her succes-
A housewife thursl Into politics by her senator husband's murder In 1983. Aquino challenged the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a 1986
snap election.
When Marcos blatantly ngged his victory. Ramos and other military officefs mutinied triggering the ."people power" revolt that put Aquino in power.
Ramos defended Aquino through the seven coup attempts of her term in office, which was also scarred by government in fighting and inefficiency and complicated by natural disasters and the souring of relations with main ally and aid donor, the United Stales.
But Ramos refuses to say a single word critical of Aquino. "You don't expect me to bad-mouth Mrs. Aquino?" He loH one foreign journalist.
A CM) engineer trained
al the U S Military Academy at West Point. Ramos promises to mend relations with Washington, offering it access to Philippine bases after the U S military pulfout at the end of 1992.
Asked to describe his style. Ramos, fondling one of his ever-present cigars, said the country would see "steady, hands-on. firm leadership" under him. and explained that the "continuity" he promises did not mean stagnation.
Drawing a graph on the back page of a magazine, he plotted a curve moving up and down from the time the Philippines gained independence in 1946 to the 1992 elections. It dipped at the start of every new Presidency.