By Menchu Aquino Sarmiento In January 1981, Ferdinand Marcos lifted Martial Law, on paper at least. He needed the optics. The world was watching. Ninoy Aquino, leading the Philippine opposition in exile, kept the spotlight on the Philippines. Pope John Paul II was visiting Manila in February. This cosmetic lifting of Martial Law was preceded with a sop to the notorious hotbed of student unrest: the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Seven years after outlawing all univers