Word: antipolo
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...Antipolo street winds through Manila's Sampaloc district, right along a railway line. In his 1962 novel The Pretenders, foremost contemporary Filipino novelist F. Sionil José describes the street as one of "intractable damnation," and it's not hard to see why. Shanties still line the same steel tracks on which José's tortured antihero Antonio Samson kills himself, after learning that his vapid high-society wife is having an affair. On a recent afternoon, naked boys skipped rope near piles of rotting trash. Meals bubbled over open fires, just feet from railroad ballast...
Liquidation Week. Some 50 Huks descended on an isolated dairy farm near Antipolo, 20 miles from Manila, killed the American owners, John Hardie and his wife Irene, and their Australian foreman. Two days later, the Huks struck again. A force of 150 of them, dressed in stolen army uniforms and riding in army trucks, swooped down on Candaba, 48 miles north of Manila, seized the army post sacked the town, and shot 13 antiCommunists. Three days later, several hundred Huks attacked the busy Acoje chromite mines in mountainous Zambales province (where Magsaysay was born), killed six civilians and burned...
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