Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Filipino voters last week there was no place to hide. Signs and posters begged them to re-elect "the Congress man with the Golden Heart." Along the highways, motorists were urged, DRIVE CAREFULLY THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY HELP ELECT SERGIO OSMEÑA JR. There was no escape in movie theaters or bookstores, or on TV or even in the courts-political campaigning has taken over the national life in what has become the closest presidential race in 20 years...
...brilliant law student who passed his bar exam with the highest grade in the country, Marcos successfully appealed his case to the Supreme Court. During World War II, he led a hard-hitting guerrilla campaign against the Japanese and, at war's end, emerged with 27 U.S. and Filipino medals and citations...
...last year stated that "graft and corruption have invaded all branches of the government on a nationwide and more massive scale." The Nacionalistas have tried to use the report against Macapagal, but have been unable to pin anything on him since his personal record is remarkably clean for a Filipino politician. Anticorruption has become the main plank in the campaign of a third candidate in the race, ex-Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus, who left the Liberal Party to run for the presidency as leader of the reform-minded Party for Philippine Progress...
...there. They insisted that he was an American, despite his Japanese passport, press accreditations, and a miniature Japanese flag on his knapsack with an inscription in Vietnamese: "I am a Japanese correspondent. Mr. Okamura. Please do not kill me." He learned later that six G.I.s, two Australians and one Filipino were also imprisoned on the post, though he was not permitted to see them. Clusters of artillery shells dropped near headquarters day and night, usually landing 500 to 1,000 yards away. U.S. Skyraiders and jet fighters also made bombing and strafing runs near by several times a week. Almost...
...Saturday, Aug. 8, Grainger and two aides-a Vietnamese and a Filipino -set out in a pickup truck from Tuy Hoa to a sugar cane experimental station in Tan My, 21 miles away. Grainger was driving hard, since a leisurely pace on any road in that province is an invitation to attack. He passed two lightly manned government roadblocks, ignoring signals to turn back. At length he came to another roadblock, this one held by four Viet Cong. As Grainger tried to race through the block, a hand grenade landed in the road in front of the truck and exploded...