UNKNOWN
FOR MEDIA 2 DECEMBER 1989
I welcome and endorse the positive and speedy response by
President Bush to the request for assistance from
President Aquino.
United States action to help counter the illegal attempt
to overthrow the freely-elected Government of the
Philippines is playing an important part in enabling it
to reassert its authority.
At the end of a year in which democracy has triumphed
through ' people power' in large parts of Eastern Europe,
it would be a tragedy if Philippines democracy fell to
force of rebel arms.
President Aquino has Australia's full support for her
efforts to restore the authority of the duly elected and
properly constituted Government of the Philippines.
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