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Asian Democracy. Last week, 65 years after the slaughter on Samar, Filipinos and Americans were the staunchest of Asian allies. Descendants of the bolomen???1,200 soldiers from the Philippine Civic Action Group?were setting up camp beside U.S. troops in the South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A New Voice in Asia | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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