Word: elpidio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Articulate Ambivalence. Though the Manila Conference will deal mainly with the war effort in Viet Nam, it symbolized the rebirth of a 15-year-old Asian desire for concerted unity that has long eluded the region. The Baguio Conference of 1950, called by Philippine President Elpidio Quirino and held in the craggy, cool highlands north of Manila, brought together such disparate neighbors as Australia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand, and ended with agreement on joint action for the region. The principle of "Maphilindo," endorsed by Marcos' predecessor, Diosdado Macapagal, idealized the hope of Asia's Malay nations (Malaysia...
...China were fostering. By the late 1940s, the Huk menace was massive: it claimed 14,000 fighting men under arms, and controlled by terror and taxation some 4,000,000 Filipino peasants, mainly in central Luzon. President Roxas, who died in office of a heart attack, was succeeded by Elpidio Quirino, a well-meaning but weak lawyer who was unable to come to grips with either government corruption or the Huks...
Died. Myron Melvin Cowen, 67, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1948-49), the Philippines (1949-51) and Belgium (1952-53), whose greatest contribution came while adviser to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, when he was instrumental in planning the suppression of the Communist-led Huk rebellion and starting the near-bankrupt islands on the road to solvency, offering up to $250 million in U.S. aid, conditional upon basic reforms; of a hemorrhage following brain surgery; in Washington...
...brother, wizened, unsociable Eugenio. presides over "the Molasses Fund." the war chest out of which the Philippines' potent handful of big sugar planters underwrite the politicians of their choice. Personable Brother Fernando, the team's working politician, served as Vice President in the sleazy administration of President Elpidio Quirino (1948-53), and is currently president protem-pore of the Philippine Senate...
...medical complexities and political maneuvering conspired to make the Philippines so vulnerable. A disease that is completely preventable (by keeping water and food free of contamination by sewage), cholera has been spreading throughout southeast Asia from Red China since last summer. An epidemic reached the Philippines last September. Elpidio Valencia, then Health Secretary, correctly identified it as "choleriform enteritis caused by a vibrio (bacillus) called El Tor," which he less soundly defined as a "mild" form of cholera. A presidential campaign was in progress, and the regime of President Carlos P. Garcia was anxious to downplay any threat...