Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asian or African standards, the anti-American demonstration in Manila was sedate. Some Reds were undoubtedly involved, but it seemed to be the work mostly of a mixed lot of opportunistic politicians hoping to exploit nationalist feeling. Still, American and Filipino officials worried about the future of U.S.-Philippine relations and, indeed, about the stability of the strongest anti-Communist bastion in Southeast Asia. Given the deteriorating situation in South Viet Nam and the Communist menace to the whole region, the Philippine Republic, which is often hopefully regarded as the showcase of U.S. style democracy in Asia, becomes increasingly important...
...island nation, it could run out if taken too much for granted. The last three demonstrations were set off by tragic incidents on U.S. military bases. In November an off-duty U.S. airman, allegedly bird hunting with a .22-cal. rifle, shot and killed a 15-year-old Filipino boy scavenging for scrap metal on Clark Air Force Base. The next month, two Marine Corps sentries at the U.S. naval base in Subic Bay killed one of a pair of Filipino fishermen who the marines believed were pilfering from a dockside ammo dump...
...killings brought to 32 the number of Filipinos slain on U.S. bases since 1952. Under the U.S.-Philippine 99-year military-base treaty, American courts-martial have jurisdiction over U.S. servicemen, whether their transgressions are committed while on duty or off. This angers many Filipinos, who feel that Filipino courts should try off-duty offenders-and Washington has in fact indicated that it is willing to make concessions on this point...
...nine months of 1964, more than $171 million in goods was lifted from tightly guarded Clark Field, including hundreds of bombs, some as large as 750 Ibs. Some of the weapons and ammo filter to remnants of the Communist Huk guerrilla forces holed up on Luzon. But mostly the Filipino operators sell the explosives to dynamite-fishermen (who package it in Coke bottles to kill fish in Manila Bay) and trade the empty cases on Manila's booming scrap-metal market. Pilferers have stolen airfield landing lights, miles of fencing, electric cables, strips of portable runway, and even...
...when the treaty expires, Philippine goods will receive no tariff preference from the U.S., and at the same time U.S. capital in the Philippines (now amounting to $400 million) will have to face the same restrictions as all other foreign investments. On the one hand, Filipino exporters want a return to full tariff preference; on the other, burgeoning Philippine industry resents U.S. competition and wants American capital penalized...