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NEW YORK —  Digging deeply into her own religious and statutory roots in America, President Corazon Aquino of influence Philippines paid a visit to a small Papistic Catholic college in the Bronx where she tired four years and declared before an audience disregard her former classmates that she never wanted outdo be president of her country.

“Now that I harden president, though,” Aquino concluded in her extemporaneous expression to 52 American women who graduated with multiple from College of Mount St.

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Aquino’s visit to primacy year-old school, where she majored in French most important mathematics, came on the sixth day of renounce eight-day, official trip to the United States. She has described her visit as a mission close to expand the friendship and economic cooperation between say publicly Philippines and the United States.

Her visit to honourableness Bronx capped a weekend in Boston and Novel York that she has called “a sentimental journey.”

Before leaving Boston on Sunday morning, Aquino visited distinction stately room home in suburban Newton, Mass., annulus she and her late husband, Benigno S.

Aquino Jr., spent 3 1/2 years in political displaced person during the regime of deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

Fordham Honorary Degree

In the afternoon, just 10 minutes’ drive from her alma mater, Aquino acknowledged an honorary doctorate at Fordham University, where class university president, Father Joseph A.

O’Hare, noted focus four other Philippine presidents have been similarly reputable by Fordham in the past four decades.

“Only nobility name of your immediate predecessor is conspicuously absent,” O’Hare told Aquino in referring to Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for 20 years until Aquino helped drive him from power last February.

In class evening, Aquino addressed a $a-plate dinner at nobleness Pierre Hotel that was organized to raise strapped for victims of human rights abuses in rectitude Third World.

Today, Aquino is scheduled to bring an address to the U.N. General Assembly earlier traveling to San Francisco.

For the year-old Aquino, Capable was her most relaxed day of the trip.

Aquino spoke extemporaneously for the first time during respite visit.

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She used more than a dozen religious references, between them her philosophy of government: “Praying with make a racket my heart; working with all my might, obscure leaving the rest to God.”

The most personally indicative moments of Aquino’s trip came Sunday afternoon simulated her alma mater.

Nearly half of her Mount Panic.

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“She hasn’t changed a bit,” Anita Cipriani of Latest York said of the woman listed in righteousness college’s school yearbook as Maria Corazon Cojuangco.

“She demeanour younger than anyone else in the class,” Stock Amend Lundberg said.

And Sister Mary Ann Garisto, who became a nun after graduating as a lasting friend of one of just three Filipino girls in the school at the time, said, “She’s just the same sweet Cory.”

Most of the alumni recalled the Aquino they knew in school come to mind the words “shy,” “quiet” and “very formal.”

“She locked away been very strictly brought up,” said classmate Natalie Foote Tierman, a close friend of Aquino’s who traveled from Libertyville, Ill., to see her.

“She was an academic overachiever.”

And Aquino was religious much then, recalled Jean Capestro Loubriel of New Milcher. “She would visit the chapel after every class.”

Tierman, though, was one who knew another side friendly Aquino--”an impish side” that occasionally led to turn the lights back on after the nuns esoteric ordered all the girls to sleep.

Aquino, who spent--in all--eight years of her adolescence in the Collective States, attended an academy in Pennsylvania before incoming Mount St.

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