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Before filing the suit, Aquino took a reporter to her bedroom and showed how it would be physically impossible for her to hide under the bed, which sits on a platform.
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The columnist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Beltran" class="news-link-ext" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Luis Beltran</a> of the Philippine Star, wrote in the morning's edition of October 12, 1987: 
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"The president hid under her bed while the firing was going on - perhaps the first commander-in-chief of the armed forces to have done so."
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Later on the same day, the paper's afternoon edition carried an apology from Beltran. 
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"I wasn't making fun at (sic) her - only expressing concern at the gravity of the situation, which had stopped being funny."
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Beltran said he was using the expression "hid under the bed" in a figurative, not a literal, sense. He said he received his information from a published remark of Aquino's youngest daughter Kris, who said the family was frightened during the shooting outside the presidential palace and knelt down to pray the rosary together. Beltran's statement read:
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"If I have hurt her feelings, I hereby apologize and take back what I have said.  I don't think anyone can question how brave and courageous President Aquino is."
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At the city courthouse, Aquino told reporters:
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 "I have always been a woman of courage. I don't want the soldiers of the republic to ever doubt for an instant that their commander-in-chief is a woman of courage that they look upon and respect."
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Today in Filipino History, October 12, 1987, Cory Aquino filed a libel suit against columnist Luis Beltran