Word: ecija
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captured Raymundo Viray, a husky tenant farmer who took part in the Quezon ambush. In the "Stalin School" at Huk headquarters his instructors had taught him "Communism, songs like the Red Flag and the International, and all about Communist success in Russia and China." Awaiting trial in the Nueva Ecija provincial jail, he related how, before the Quezon ambush, his group had raided a convoy of ten trucks without harming anyone. "Why didn't you loot the Quezon party in the same way and let them go?" I asked. He replied with the Huk view of the class...
...mango and papaya trees. Fields were reverting to jungle. The Huks sack villages, carry off all their food and many of their young men to the Huk mountain hideouts. The U.S.-educated provincial governor, Juan Chioco, told me that nearly 150,000 people of the 500,000 in Nueva Ecija province have been forced to flee their homes...
Died. Aurora Aragon Quezon, 61, widow of the first President of the Philippines; of bullet wounds (her motorcade was ambushed by Filipino outlaws); in Nueva Ecija Province, P.I. (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...prevalent as in the past, head-hunting is still a sport and a ritual among some savage Luzon tribes, where a young buck often cannot qualify for marriage until he has snicked off an enemy head. Head-hunting was one of the things the officials in Pantabangan (Nueva Ecija Province) wanted to discuss, when they invited the Ibilaos...