** ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2011 AND THEREAFTER ** FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 3, 1986 file picture, presidential candidate Corazon Aquino, right, and running mate Salvador Laurel campaign in the Manila suburb of Alabang, Philippines. The "People Power" uprising ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. For almost 40 years, Freedom House think tank's New York researchers have annually assessed the state of democracy and associated freedoms, classifying nations in three categories _ free, partly free or not free. Almost half the world's nations were rated not free in 1972, but by 2010 that proportion had dropped below one-quarter. (AP Photo/Dick Fung, File)