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...typical Tank session was held early last week. Before the Chiefs arrived, Filipino stewards set ashtrays, note pads and pencils (five black and two red for each Chief) round the hexagonal, Formica-topped table that is the room's centerpiece. Behind a sliding panel on one wall were maps of countries and areas scheduled to come under discus sion. On another wall was a screen for use in showing slides to accompany staff presentations. Also in the room were a 23-in. television set and six tele phones, one of them a direct line to the White House. Aides...
...violence rises from the chasm of poverty that separates rich and poor. Though the 7,100 islands of the republic are rich in natural resources (gold and copper on Luzon, iron on Samar, chromite on Mindanao) and fecund with such crops as tobacco, sugar, corn and rice, average Filipino income is only $120 a year. Fully 6% of the population is unemployed, and a third of all Filipinos work only three months a year. Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack towns along the Sulu...
...Macapagal's departure for Washington, 500 students and union members carrying bamboo torches and placards reading "Ugly American" marched to Malacanang Palace, the Philippine White House. They noisily demanded abrogation of a U.S.-Philippine trade agreement that gives American interests parity in the ownership of Filipino land, resources and public utilities. But the agreement also grants the Philippines tariff advantages in its trade with the U.S., and Macapagal is wisely avoiding any battle on that score. When the demonstrators grew violent, presidential guards drove them back with rifle butts, and Macapagal admitted a delegation of student leaders to hear...
...wasp power. The Hornet is one of the few oldies to show his age. "Sufferin' snakes!" he blurts, "that's real white of you." One mystery for modern listeners is why Kato, his faithful valet, starts out as a Japanese and winds up as a Filipino. Simple: the change of citizenship was made on Pearl Harbor...
This Spring the city sent a resident physician at the city hospital to the Phillipines to seek interns for next year, it was also revealed at Monday night's meeting. The mission was reportedly successful, and the hospital has secured its quota of interns from Filipino medical schools...