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 Fidel Valdez Ramos
Ramos, Fidel Valdez, 1928–, Philippine general and politician, president of the Philippines (1992–98), b.
Ramos sought to cut and restructure the country's bloated bureaucracy and to prosecute tax evaders.
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 Fidel V. Ramos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928) was the 12th President of the Philippines.
Ramos' six-year term as President is characterized by rapid economic growth and political stability in the country despite facing communist insurgencies, an Islamic separatist movement in Mindanao, and the onslaught of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
Ramos repeatedly stated that the scandal is nowhere as grave as that of People Power Revolutions of 1986 and 2001, citing factors such as the stagnant Philippine economy in the final years of the Marcos regime as well as the allegedly massive corruption of the Estrada administration.
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Fidel Valdez Ramos, military hero of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution in February 1986 and victor in the first multi-party presidential elections of the country, became the 12th President of the Republic of the Philippines on June 30, 1992.
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Ramos is herself a low-profile but hard-working First Lady, whose long experience in education, sports development and plant propagation has enabled her to spearhead projects in environmental protection, culture and arts development, and livelihood generation.
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 Encyclopedia: Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928), military hero of the 1986 People Power Revolution that toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, became the 12th President of the Republic of the Philippines on June 30, 1992.
Ramos has received several military awards including the U.S. Military Academy Distinguished Award, the U.S. Legion of Merit and the French Legion of Honor.
Towards the end of his term, Ramos talked of amending the Constitution to allow for a second term (A Filipino can only serve one six-year term as President).
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 Fidel V. Ramos, President of the Philippines - Gregg Butensky
Fidel V. Ramos, the previous president of the Philippines, was the Armed Forces Vice-Chief of Staff during the dictatorial reign of Ferdinand Marcos.
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Following the snap election of 1986 - called for by Marcos in an attempt to stem opposition that had been building since the assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino - Ramos defected to the opposition in a move that lead to Marcos' downfall and the installation of Cory Aquino as president.
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 FIDEL V. RAMOS
FIDEL V. Ramos, Fidel Valdez (1928-), Filipino soldier and politician, President from 1992 to 1998, and one of the leaders of the 1986 EDSA revolution in the Philippines that drove President Ferdinand Marcos from power.
Fidel “Eddie” Ramos was the son of a diplomat and legislator who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Ramos was also identified as one of the “Rolex Twelve”, the group of close associates of the president.
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 Fidel V. Ramos - InfoSearchPoint.com
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928), popularly known by his initials FVR or by his nickname Eddie, is the 12th president of the Philippines whose term was from 1992 to 1998.
Ramos succeeded Corazon Aquino and was succeeded by Joseph Estrada.
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Fidel Ramos was born in Lingayen, Pangasinan on March 18, 1928 to former Foreign Affairs Secretary Narciso Ramos and Angela Valdez.
Ramos himself listened to the people when he was asked to step down at the end of his term.
Ramos wanted the country to become a newly industrialized economy by the year 2000, but his term was good only until 1998.
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Fidel V. Ramos was born in Pangasinan province in 1928 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1950.
President Ramos married the former Amelita Martinez and is the father of five daughters.
Ramos also retreated from earlier administrations' rhetoric on the importance of land reform, despite provisions guaranteeing such reforms in the new constitution.
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 ADB Shanghai 2002 - Seminars: Papers and Presentations - ADB.org
FIDEL V. is the 12th president of the Republic of the Philippines.
Ramos has an equally distinguished military career, having risen through the ranks of the military to become chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 1986-1988, and subsequently, secretary of national defense from 1988-1991.
Currently, he is chair of the Ramos Peace and Development Foundation and remains active in several international organizations involved with the promotion of peace, human development, and anticorruption, among many other global concerns.
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Fidel Valdez Ramos (born 1928) was inaugurated president of the Philippines in June 1992.
The eighth president of the postwar Philippine Republic, Fidel Valdez Ramos was known as a hero of the 1986 people-power revolution, the bloodless coup that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
People power was Ramos' idea of how to fight the weapons of the Marcos regime when the dictator, losing confidence in Constabulary Chief Fidel Ramos and his defense minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, set out to destroy them.
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 Malacañang Museum
Fidel V. Ramos was born in Lingayen, Pangasinan on February 8, 1928.
In the year 1950, Fidel V. Ramos graduated in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, a well know military school in the U.S.A. He also acquired his master in Civil Engineering course at the University of Illinois in the year 1951.
Fidel V. Ramos have two sisters, Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani and Gloria Ramos de Rodda, a diplomat.
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 Trail of Power Mess Leads to Ramos
Their investigation shows that former president Fidel V. Ramos personally pushed for the speedy approval of some of the most expensive power deals and justified signing more power contracts despite warnings from within the government and the World Bank that an impending oversupply of electricity could push up prices.
Ramos became known for the phrase "fast-track," used to describe swift approval of contracts and projects.
The writers found that individuals linked to Ramos lobbied for the approval of some of the more costly IPP contracts, which came with numerous other deals, including lucrative legal, technical and financial consultancies that were given to individuals and companies close to the former president.
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THE CONDITION of Carolina Ramos-Sembrano, daughter of former President Fidel V. Ramos, is improving, according to her sister.
Sembrano is the third of five daughters of Fidel and Amelita Ramos.
Ramos said that according to Dr. Victor Reyes, the country's neurosurgeon "emeritus" who is the adviser of the medical team treating her sister, Sembrano's brain has not been damaged.
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Then in 1996, Philippine president Fidel Ramos agreed to a peace accord with MNLF leader Nur Misuari.
The agreement created a four-province Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and Nur Misuari joined the political leadership of the new autonomous region.
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Fidel Valdez Ramos [f E del´ vAldes´ rA´m O s] Pronunciation Key, 1928–;, Philippine general and politician, president of the Philippines (1992–98), b.
Ramos sought to cut and restructure the country's bloated bureaucracy and to prosecute tax evaders.
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 Ramos, Fidel --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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in full Fidel Valdez Ramos, byname Eddie Ramos military leader and politician who was president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998.
Ramos was educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and at the University of Illinois, U.S. He then entered the Philippine army, serving in Korea and Vietnam.
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 Fidel Valdez Ramos Was Elected President Of... - by Sri Chinmoy
Fidel Valdez Ramos was elected President of the Republic of the Philippines in May 1992.
His election culminated a lifetime of distinguished service to his country, including being Chief of Staff for the country's defense forces and representing his country in a number of international forums.
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 Manila Bulletin: President Fidel Valdez Ramos' 74th Birth Anniversary.(Opinion & Editorial)@ HighBeam Research
BORN on March 18, 1928 in Lingayen, Pangasinan, Fidel Valdez Ramos was the son of the late respected politician and diplomat, the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Narciso Ramos.
Manila Bulletin: President Fidel Valdez Ramos' 74th Birth Anniversary.(Opinion and Editorial)@ HighBeam Research
All throughout his productive years, he devoted his time to serve the country, first as a young officer of the Philippine Armed Forces, dispatched to basically every area of operation in the country and even to foreign lands, in Korea and Vietnam, as a leading member of our civic action group.
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 Ending inequity is the key to ending terrorism - Fidel V. Ramos
This was one of the main ideas discussed by former Philippine President Fidel R. Ramos during his lecture on November 13 at the London School of Economics and Political Science, organized by the Foreign Policy Center, a prestigious think tank based in London.
After his lecture, President Ramos was interviewed by the East Asia programme of BBC World Service radio, the Asia Today programme of BBC World Television, and by Tony Tassell of the Financial Times.
FVR, as he is popularly known, was a recent visitor to the United Kingdom in the course of a 12-day international speaking engagement that also brought him to Hongkong and France.
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 .: Mindanews -- 13  May  2005 :.
When Fidel V. Ramos was President, he admonished reporters to look at the doughnut, not at the hole.
Had Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo been Fidel V. Ramos, the Philippines could have recovered from the mess that Estrada had made of the country.
Ramos was at his doughnut again during the round-table conference in Davao City last May 6.
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 Liberal Party of the Philippines
Fidel V. Ramos is ardently supporting the Presidential candidacy of Gloria Arroyo and the administration's K4 Senatorial candidates so that Gloria Arroyo can maintain her grip of the powers of the Presidency and also so that she can maintain her influence and control of the majority of the Members of Congress.
If Gloria Arroyo maintains her grip of the powers of the Presidency and she also maintains her influence and control of Congress, Fidel V. Ramos will continue to be protected by Gloria Arroyo from being investigated by the Congress for his involvement in the IPP contracts' scam.
Because of such control, she protects Fidel V. Ramos from being investigated by the Congress for his involvement in the controversial (IPP) Independent Power Producers contracts' scam which has resulted to the also controversial and anomalous (PPA) Power Purchase Adjustment.
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 1997 Prizewinners
To the applause of everyone in the room, both winners of the 1997 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, Mr Fidel V. Ramos, President the Republic of the Philippines, and Governor Nur Misuari, Chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front, publicly reconcile with each other.
Mr Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge, Vice-President of the Gabonese Republic, representing El Hadj Omar Bongo, congratulates Mr Fidel V. Ramos, co-prizewinner.
From left to right : Mr Federico Mayor, President Fidel V. Ramos, President Abdou Diouf, President Henri Konan Bédié, Mr Alioune Traoré, and Mr Nur Misuari.
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As President Aquino’s team came toward its close, she promoted the retired general, Fidel V. Ramos, to be her successor.
FIDEL Valdez Ramos graduated from West Point in 1950.
When Ramos retired as a soldier, he was chosen by President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino to serve in her Cabinet as Secretary of Defense.
www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/03/19/OPED200403195146.html   (267 words)

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