Word: chua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Filipino officials had more loyal friends in high places than Pedro de la Pena, 36, one of the top agents in the Philippine army intelligence service, and few Manila businessmen were noisier defenders of free enterprise than his friend, Chinese-born Antonio Chua Cruz. Chua's Chinese-language weekly Free Asia was as noted in Manila for its bitter editorial attacks on Communism as Pedro was for the endless favors and help he gave those fighting the Red menace...
Dalliance & Debts. Pedro was probably not as rich as Millionaire Chua, but he had a certain gift_for piling up rewards for enterprise. An inveterate promoter, he quit high school in his sophomore year because he was already making more money than his teachers. During World War II he made even more money, buying war materials for the Japanese. It was characteristic of Pedro's suavity, however, that peace landed him not in a collaborator's jail but in a high job in the intelligence service...
...clothes, the agents who captured him soon gleaned even more information: Pedro was not only a Communist spy, he had apparently been marked down for liquidation by the Communists themselves for withholding funds. And where had the funds come from? They had been provided by the supposedly anti-Communist Chua Cruz, whose patriotic mien, according to the - government, was only a front for a Communist extortion ring which had blackmailed an estimated 10 million pesos annually from Manila's Chinese...
...poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with the men who make the misery of the people, who destroy the temples...