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...Laos last week everything was quiet except the guns. In accordance with the 14-nation Geneva agreement last July, the Communist Pathet Lao has released five U.S. and one Filipino prisoner, and anti-Communist Vice Premier Phoumi Nosa-van last week handed over six North Vietnamese prisoners to the Social Welfare Minister. One of the six turned out to be Chinese-born, and two of them said they did not want to go home. The Cabinet also designated three exit points for foreign troops. Some 800 U.S. military advisers with the Royal Laotian Army will leave via Vientiane; North Vietnamese...
...first image has endured since last November's election campaign against the corrupt Carlos Garcia regime, when Macapagal ran as a tao (common man) who would never forget his humble beginnings. The second was created when the U.S. Congress unexpectedly voted down the long-promised Filipino war claims of $73 million, and Macapagal swiftly canceled a scheduled official visit to Washington (TIME, May 25). Since then, talking about Laos, Macapagal has needled the U.S. for failing to back the anti-Communists of Southeast Asia and for throwing its support to "neutralists." It seems, cracked Macapagal, that...
...Ambassador William Stevenson, formerly president of Ohio's Oberlin College, described U.S.-Filipino differences as a "lovers' quarrel." It is a little more than that. Macapagal is successfully trying to shake off the Garcia campaign charges that he is an American lackey, at the same time is telling the U.S. that the Philippines must not be taken for granted. He is also seeking, says a U.S. observer, to give his own people a greater sense of "national dignity and identity, rather than hostility or xenophobia...
Protracted Woo. All these efforts to destroy the prevailing Filipino attitude of bahala na (easygoing fatalism) depend largely on U.S. help. As an incentive to foreign investors. Macapagal has made the peso convertible, with good results-the first four months of this year show a $23 million surplus in balance of payments compared with a $27 million deficit for the same period last year. He is hoping to set up a private, U.S.-Philippine development bank. But he is often hamstrung by a Congress still dominated by Garcia's Nacionalista Party, whose members cannot be turned out until...
...Ownership of Borneo, the world's third largest island, is also shared by Indonesia and the British dependencies of Brunei and Sarawak. North Borneo once belonged to the Filipino Sultan of Sulu, who let it go in 1878 for an income of some $1,500 a year. The Philippine government maintains that the Sultan was merely leasing his Borneo lands; the British indignantly reply that the territory was sold in perpetuity...