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                    [Title] => Another reader speaks on the pipeline
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The following letter was sent by Max Domacena, one of our readers, reacting to an earlier published letter by another reader on the 117-kilometer pipeline owned and operated by First Philippine Industrial Corp. that sprung a leak in an urban residential area in Bangkal, Makati last year.

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My fearful answer: There would be more confusion, nay, chaos, considering the many spirited horses pulling in various directions.

There are different scenarios suggested by various groups pushing different post-Arroyo agenda:
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286029 [Title] => In defense of the Vice President [Summary] => Below is the response of Vice President Noli de Castro’s legal counsel to my column on Loren Legarda’s electoral protest.

"We are the legal counsel of Vice President Noli de Castro and we write on his behalf to Ms. Domini M. Torrevillas’ attack in her column From the Stands that was published in the July 2, 2005 issue of the Philippine STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 284176 [Title] => Noli wants Congress to probe poll fraud [Summary] => Vice President Noli de Castro wants Congress to investigate allegations that President Arroyo was involved in massive fraud in last year’s presidential election to erase doubts from the minds of the people.

Speaking to reporters at the Hyatt Hotel in Manila, lawyer Jesse Andres, De Castro’s chief of staff, said the Vice President is in favor of pursuing the truth about the wiretapped conversation, which Mrs. Arroyo admitted took place between her and an election official.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259264 [Title] => The prime of Dinky Soliman [Summary] => This might be the prime of Corazon "Dinky" Soliman, the Cabinet Secretary closest to the President who almost lost her job but got it back before her replacement took over. The Social Welfare and Development head has been in the news recently – because her post was supposed to have been given to Vice-President Noli de Castro, and because she was shown on television shouting like hell at media persons who had created pandemonium around Angelo de Castro at his homecoming in Pampanga that they could have killed him at his doorstep.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Another reader speaks on the pipeline
                    [Summary] => 

The following letter was sent by Max Domacena, one of our readers, reacting to an earlier published letter by another reader on the 117-kilometer pipeline owned and operated by First Philippine Industrial Corp. that sprung a leak in an urban residential area in Bangkal, Makati last year.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286276 [Title] => Assuming GMA quits, what awaits the nation? [Summary] => OPTIONS LEFT: President Arroyo has said time and again that she will not resign. But, assuming the unlikely event that the headstrong Chief Executive would oblige her detractors and resigns, what happens?

My fearful answer: There would be more confusion, nay, chaos, considering the many spirited horses pulling in various directions.

There are different scenarios suggested by various groups pushing different post-Arroyo agenda:
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286029 [Title] => In defense of the Vice President [Summary] => Below is the response of Vice President Noli de Castro’s legal counsel to my column on Loren Legarda’s electoral protest.

"We are the legal counsel of Vice President Noli de Castro and we write on his behalf to Ms. Domini M. Torrevillas’ attack in her column From the Stands that was published in the July 2, 2005 issue of the Philippine STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 284176 [Title] => Noli wants Congress to probe poll fraud [Summary] => Vice President Noli de Castro wants Congress to investigate allegations that President Arroyo was involved in massive fraud in last year’s presidential election to erase doubts from the minds of the people.

Speaking to reporters at the Hyatt Hotel in Manila, lawyer Jesse Andres, De Castro’s chief of staff, said the Vice President is in favor of pursuing the truth about the wiretapped conversation, which Mrs. Arroyo admitted took place between her and an election official.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259264 [Title] => The prime of Dinky Soliman [Summary] => This might be the prime of Corazon "Dinky" Soliman, the Cabinet Secretary closest to the President who almost lost her job but got it back before her replacement took over. The Social Welfare and Development head has been in the news recently – because her post was supposed to have been given to Vice-President Noli de Castro, and because she was shown on television shouting like hell at media persons who had created pandemonium around Angelo de Castro at his homecoming in Pampanga that they could have killed him at his doorstep.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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