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 CIS NO: 91-H381-46
 TITLE: Situation in the Philippines.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+139 p.
 DATE: Jan. 30, 1990
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 101-2             SUDOC: Y4.F76/1:P53/13
 ITEM NO: 1017-A; 1017-B
 LC CARD NO: 91-600818               MC ENTRY NO: 91-19184

 Hearing before the Subcom on Asian and Pacific Affairs to review recent
 political and economic developments in the Philippines and related U.S.
 foreign policy, focusing on Dec. 1989 coup attempt led by military personnel
 against the government of President Corazon Aquino.
   Supplementary material (p. 99-139) includes reports.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Philippines political and economic devs and US policy
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC
     AFFAIRS. HOUSE; PHILIPPINES (Political and economic devs and US
     policy); ECONOMIC.DEVELOPMENT; FOREIGN.RELATIONS; AQUINO, CORAZON;
     INSURGENCY; MILITARY.PERSONNEL (Philippines military personnel coup
     attempt against Aquino Govt)

 91-H381-46 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Jan. 30, 1990 p. 7-139
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     LAMBERTSON, DAVID F. (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian
        and Pacific Affairs, Department of State)
     FORD, CARL W., JR. (Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asian and Pacific
        Affairs, DOD)
     REESE, THOMAS H., III (Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia
        and Near East, AID)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Description of Dec. 1989 coup attempt in the
     Philippines, with an overview of related U.S. policies; specifics of
     Philippines Government response to the coup attempt; problems with
     economic development efforts in the Philippines; merits of the
     Multilateral Assistance Initiative (MAI) for economic aid to the
     Philippines from various countries.
       Importance of U.S. military presence in and assistance to the
     Philippines; status of communist groups insurgency against the
     Philippines Government; assessment of Philippines military support for
     the Dec. 1989 coup attempt; details of AID programs in the Philippines,
     including support for MAI; review of Philippines political and economic
     developments and related U.S. policies.
 INSERTIONS: 
     a. AID, "Philippines Agrarian Reform" with tables (p. 99-109).
     b. AID, "USAID/Philippines Reform Agenda" Jan. 1990, with tables (p.
        110-129).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Philippines political and economic devs and US policy
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): DEPARTMENT.OF.DEFENSE;
     AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; FOREIGN.ASSISTANCE;
     MILITARY.ASSISTANCE; COMMUNISM AND COMMUNIST PARTIES; LAND REFORM
     ("Philippines Agrarian Reform"); DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE