Word: bayan
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...what we are fighting for." Those who remained huddled closer to the speaker's platform. After the ten-minute downpour had ended, Imelda Marcos took the stage. Supporters cheered loudly when she urged the country to stand behind her husband because he was "maka-Diyos, maka-tao, maka-bayan" (pro-God, pro- people, pro-nation...
...N.P.A. combination is one of the 22 organizations in the National Democratic Front, an outlawed coalition of community, labor, church and leftist groups that boasts a total membership of 1 million and has an executive committee dominated by Communists. In addition, many moderate opponents of Marcos have accused Bayan, a federation of leftist groups that claims 1.5 million members, of also being Communist infiltrated...
...began reciting the list of suspected conspirators that the majority of the board was recommending for indictment, there was pandemonium in the wood-paneled hall. Friends and strangers alike hugged one another, tossed flowers into the air and struck up a chorus of the once outlawed nationalist anthem Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). The first name on Tan's list was General...
...Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader slain by an unknown assassin at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, on his return from exile in the U.S. As spotlights played on the figure, the crowd broke into cheers and then into the once outlawed nationalist anthem, Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). A few demonstrators even hugged the motorcycle cops. On such notes of strength and serenity, rather than with the violence prophesied by the government, Filipinos last week marked the first anniversary of Aquino's murder in the largest protest outpouring in Manila since his funeral...
...Asia's enduring insurgency problems is the feud between the guerrillas of the Hukbong Mapagpalayang Bayan* and the Philippine government. For more than two decades, the Huks have been active in what is commonly called "Huklandia," an area in Central Luzon where social and economic ills create a fertile breeding ground for discontent. At the height of the insurgency in 1950-51, the Huks had an estimated 20,000 well-organized men under arms. A concerted government drive led by the late Ramon Magsaysay, then Defense Secretary, whittled that number down drastically, but did not succeed in stamping...