Word: baguio
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...read in one of the prescribed political-science texts that the U.S. had no formal foreign policy. It is the same today. But by now the U.S., including President Bush, should better understand the problem in promoting democracy in places where it has no history. Valentine N. Anthony Baguio City, the Philippines
...area is about a 10-hour drive north of Manila. An alternate return route is via Sagada to the west, where villagers place their dead in coffins suspended from cliffs, and then south to Baguio. The unpaved road between them through the Cordillera (good walking country) can be spectacular. From Baguio, return to Manila by road...
Henceforth, let no American analyze with condescension any other country's elections that are marked by protests and recounts. I trust that Americans now see that such events are the simple manifestations of democracy at work. RENE VALDES Baguio City, the Philippines...
...Monday, a massive temblor shook the northern island of Luzon. At its epicenter in Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, it measured 8.0 on the Richter scale (last month's quake in northwestern Iran registered 7.7). One of the worst-hit cities was the mountain resort of Baguio, 150 miles north of Manila, where dozens of buildings collapsed. By week's end the quake had killed more than 700 people and injured nearly 3,000. Hundreds were missing, most trapped in the rubble of shattered buildings...
Elsewhere, Honasan's rebellion made itself felt in more tangible ways. In the northern city of Baguio, 600 cadets at the Philippine Military Academy staged a three-day hunger strike in sympathy with Honasan. The N.P.A., declaring its intention to take advantage of the confusion caused by Honasan's revolt, killed 27 police and soldiers in an ambush in two provinces. Though Aquino has called Honasan a coward for abandoning hundreds of his men, his image as a dashing, reform-minded renegade could establish him as a folk hero to rival the President. "That young man should be shot," says...