February 24. The State Department and Donald Regan induced President Reagan to tell Marcos publicly that all attempts to defend his regime would be "futile". The State Department, anxious that President Marcos had already held on for three days, studied the possibility 'of freezing all Filipino assets in the United States - to force Marcos to resign. Such an action has only been taken by the United States against Libya and Iran - in the latter case, after the State Department had brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power.


February 25, 1986. After two telephone calls to Senator Paul Laxalt in the early hours of February 25 Manila time, President Marcos called Ambassador Bosworth and asked for transportation for himself, family members, and close associates to Clark Air Field Base.


Sources: 
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Chronology of the Philippines coup by EIR's Asia Bureau, Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 13, Number 10, March 7, 1986 (http://goo.gl/68dvpS)
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Photo credit: http://www.mb.com.ph/ for Marcos; http://www.bworldonline.com/ for Bosworth
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Chronology of the State Department's overthrow of the Marcos government

Phase one: the drive for elections