MSOpinion How volunteerism transformed Subic into a robust eco zone “But this too bogged down and the then President Corazon Aquino issued a formal notice for the US to leave Subic by the end of 1992.” READ:
“The remarkable growth of the abandoned base over nearly three decades has completely wiped out all the gloom and doom and the prevailing pessimism at that time regarding the future of a community and its people whose existence totally depended on the presence of the American base”Thirty years after the helicopter carrier USS Belleau Wood sailed out of Subic Bay that ended an almost century of stay by the American military here, this former biggest overseas naval base of the United States—at...
It was an outcome hardly expected, considering a destructive volcanic eruption of nearby Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991 followed by a rejection of an extension of a treaty by the Philippine Senate in September of the same year.ADVERTISEMENT In December 1991, there was a last-ditch attempt by both the US and the Philippine governments to negotiate an extension that would allow a prolonged withdrawal of the US military.
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