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...star prisoner-and the object of an intensive man hunt code-named Operation Scorpio-was the most recently captured: Bernabe Buscayno, 32, alias Commander Dante, a veteran guerrilla who rose from a peasant background to become commander in chief of the N.P.A. He had been arrested only the week before-with humiliating ease -while asleep at his family's rural home. Buscayno was visiting his two-week-old daughter (named Malaya, "free") and his wife Mila, who had been released from detention in June and apparently served as an unwitting lure. Army soldiers closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILIPPINES: Operation Scorpio | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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