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...CABAL AMADOR Cali, Colombia
...Dead or Alive. Taruc's surrender had been arranged, with President Magsaysay's approval, through a Manila newspaper columnist named Benigno Aquino. Early one morning last week, troops of the Philippine first military area thought they had Taruc cornered north of Manila. Under Colonel Manuel Cabal, the troops were closing in on Barrio San Pablo, a hamlet near the foot of Mount Arayat (3,378 ft.), where Taruc was known to be hiding. Colonel Cabal was convinced that the rebel leader would soon be captured, dead or alive, but as the leading troops reached the village, a lieutenant...
...Accept." Cabal was fighting mad, but there was nothing he could do. The lieutenant was carrying out orders originating with President Magsaysay himself. Columnist Aqulno; "It seemed, had promised to meet Taruc without fail next morning, and the army was not supposed to interfere with his plans...
...Taruc left San Pablo, the villagers wept. They are fanatically loyal to him, said Colonel Cabal. Taruc was driven to Camp Murphy, and the government took over. He was the biggest prize taken in the eight-year-old war against the Huk guerrillas. Looking relaxed and confident, Taruc announced that he had"come down" because of"a deep conviction of the sincerity of the President . . . to work out a program which will give peace and prosperity." Magsaysay's terms, he said,"laid the basis of negotiations," and he was now "joining the forces of law and order...
Marches for What? Though he writes with a calm reserve, Author Ward manages to get in some sharp verdicts. He doubts that the "Conway Cabal"* against Washington existed at all, he sharply criticizes both sides for cruelty in the Indian campaigns, and he declares the aborted Canadian campaign which Lafayette was supposed to lead in 1778 "one of the maddest of all mad projects...