Word: filemon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conditions are terrible. The sleeping accommodations are even worse. Yet morale appears to be high among the 800 officers and enlisted men in the Santos Lopez counterinsurgency battalion, an elite Nicaraguan army unit stationed on the banks of the northern Bocay River. "I enjoy what I am doing," says Filemon Avilez Alfaro, 36, the battalion's commander. "None of us is obliged to be here. We want to be here." Similarly, despite reports of widespread draft resistance in Nicaragua, the 1,200 reservists of the less glamorous southern command who were recently summoned to the front in Juigalpa, about...
...days later, Marcos announced that a totally new, and presumably more independent, panel would be named. Two of its members will be appointed by the Marcos-dominated parliament, but three to five others will be chosen on the basis of recommendations from "various sectors of society." Said Commission Member Filemon Fernandez: "The eyes of the world are watching to see if the Philippine people are capable of selfcriticism, to see whether they have the capability to assert the supremacy of law and bring those responsible to the bar of justice...
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