Word: cotabato
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...southern Philippine island of Mindanao, the 30-ft. waves created by a giant underwater earthquake seemed like the wrath of heaven itself. "God in all his glory did not let this happen without reason," said one Mindanao official in an emotional appeal to the stricken population of Cotabato City (pop. 80,000), 500 miles south of Manila, to cooperate in rescue work. Observed a health officer: "We suffered the brunt of the Moslem insurgency in 1973, and we had the drought in 1972. Now this. Some of the people are saying the fates are angry...
...Ogilby, now president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. At the time this school was established, educational facilities in the Islands were practically nil for American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school in Cotabato where all instruction was given by men in Spanish and I was the only white pupil. Shortly after, an American school teacher opened a public school, and I transferred to it. I sat between a Moro kid, a Chinese, and two Mestizos, and I joined heartily in "My countree...