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Philippine presidential campaign heats up (UPI) -- ' criticism was About 20,000 people turned out Mon- Aquino's widow stirs 20,000 prompted by the announcement of day for a campaign rally where Be-nig- no the opposition candidacy of former Aquino's widow spoke before a toe is also a candidate , the opposition Miss International Aurora 'Au-A- u" photo of slam opposition leader's widow, told the crowd she Pijuan Manotoc, 34 huge the The elections are the first for the showing blood flowing from promised over the body of her hus- Pijuan Manotoc is the former leader 200-se- at National Assembly " since band "I would continue his fight ' to of golfing champion Tommy Mano- his headspeHing "Marcos President lifted With for May 14 restore democracy to the Phil- toc, now married to Imelda Marcos' the campaign years of law 1981 lady Imel- nine martial in daughter, and soil lists Manotoc as elections heating up, first They are regarded as a critical test ippines of She spoke in front of a backdrop her husband because not da Marcos accused the opposition of his government, buffeted by pro- is ' of the picturing her husband sprawled on recognized in the mainly Roman feasting on the carcass tests the of oppo- beauty queen since assassination the runway at Manila Airport, where Catholic Philippines dead" by running a sition leader Bemgno Aquino once married to her son-in-la- w as a he was shot Aug 21 after returning secretly married candidate In the first major opposition rally from three years of self-exil-e in the Manotoc against her father's will Marcos' emotional outburst, print- since the campaign officially began A fact-findin- g commission investi- ed m Manila's major newspapers, March 27, about 20,000 people, many 'We'll carry on Ninoy's fight," gating Aquino's murder, meanwhile, came eight days after her eldest chanting 'fight, fight," packpd a Aquino's widow declared to a thun- viewed television videotapes that daughter, Imee Marcos Manotoc, 28, church square for the official an- der of applause. Ninoy is Aquino's contradicted military accounts of gave birth to a stillborn child Mano-- nouncement of six candidates nickname the assassination