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Under the watching eyes of Manila police, Taruc strode to the office of President Elpidio Quirino in Malacanan Palace, thrust out his hand to Constabulary General Mariano Castaneda, whose main job for two years has been to hunt Taruc. Castaneda ignored the hand, frisked the man. Taruc carried no weapons (though the seven-man bodyguard he brought along yielded, among other items, nine pistols, two submachine guns and two crowbars). Later, having pledged his loyalty and cooperation to the government and watched President Quirino sign the amnesty, Taruc seized the constabulary chief's hand and pumped it vigorously...
What General Castaneda still did not have were the weapons of the rest of Luis Taruc's men (to be registered, not surrendered), nor the men themselves. They were standing by in the swamps of Central Luzon to see whether the government would go ahead with the land redistribution the Huks demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender...
...many a U.S. citizen, as to many a Latino, an inglorious chapter in the highway's past seemed less important than the highway's future. Mexico was going ahead, would have the road completed by 1949 from border to border. Said Salvadoran President Castaneda: "The Government and people of El Salvador want to see the highway finished through Central America. It will strengthen the economic unity and friendship of our countries...
Salvadoran Army officers tried to topple El Salvador's new up-&-coming Government last week. Into President Salvador Castaneda Castro's office stalked 100 Army officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
...Said Castaneda of the rebels: "They mistook my Government's benevolence for weakness...