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The widow of slain Filipino opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino returned to Boston this week for the first time since the assassination of her husband, to attend a Monday memorial service held by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
Mrs. Aquino's visit also marks the creation of the Benigno S. Aquino Foundation which will raise funds to establish a memorial for her husband and create academic ties with the two universities.
Aquino was shot in the Manila airport in August when he returned to the Philippines. He had spent the past three years as a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs and M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies.
The two centers are sponsoring the memorial service, scheduled for 4:30 Monday at St. Paul's Church on Bow and Arrow Streets. Following the service, Mrs. Aquino will attend a reception organized by the C.F.I.A. in Adams House Lower Common Room.
Professor Joseph S. Nye, acting director of the C.F.I.A. who will speak at the service called Aquino "a marvelous man seriously committed to democracy in the Philippines," adding that Aquino was aware he ran a great, risk by returning to the country.
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