Word: filipinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order for the Huks to start shooting again apparently came from Peking via Manila to the Luzon countryside, and seems to have been aimed at provoking a national outcry at Marcos' recent decision to send Filipino troops to Viet Nam. So far, the Huk outbreak is far too small to spark a keep-the-troops-at-home reaction. Marcos, who as a guerrilla leader became his country's most decorated World War II hero, intends to make it smaller yet. He has seeded the troubled area with loyal officials who fought with him against the Japanese...
...fallen to the Japanese. Fresh from the well-fed U.S. business colony there, he was still a husky 195-pounder, determined to talk the camp authorities into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined to help the helpless American children and expectant mothers in the camp. She sweetened the camp commandant with cough syrup and talked...
Senator Alejandro Almendras openly charged that the nation's Central Investigation Service-the Filipino equivalent of the FBIwas mixing sex with sleuthing. Six young women had been hired as agents. Instead, he charged, all they did was romp with top CIS brass while at the same time buying new cars, apartment houses, and turning in fictionalized expense accounts for supposed investigative trips to the provinces. Stung, Marcos turned investigator himself, promptly ordered the six women "agents" off the payroll, then fired all nine top officials...
Maryland (the "Free State"), which adopted the nation's first antimiscegenation statute in 1661 to keep white women servants from marrying Negro slaves, also passed one of the nation's last such laws in 1935. Aimed at preventing Filipino mess boys at the Naval Academy in Annapolis from taking all-too-willing local brides, it bars marriage of either whites or Negroes with "a member of the Malay race." So, when Jo Ann Kovacs, 25, a white Baltimore nurse, and Meki Toalepai, 26, a handsome singer-dancer-musician from Western Samoa, applied for a marriage license in Baltimore...
Though Marcos is basically pro-American, his inaugural address avoided the ticklish questions of U.S. tariffs and military bases. As to a Filipino commitment in Viet Nam, Marcos also remained silent. But a veiled reference to the clash of Communism and democracy in Southeast Asia showed the direction of his own commitment: "We cannot merely contemplate the risks of our century without coming to any decision. Wherever there is a fight for freedom, we cannot remain aloof...