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...Many Filipinos doubted that Buscayno, a Communist guerrilla since the age of 16, could have been caught in such a simple, old-fashioned trap. To them it seemed more likely to have been a typical Filipino maneuver: lutong macao, or precooking. Dante might have consented to his own capture because of tension within his movement between younger urban activists and rural guerrillas like himself...
Flanked by his British, Filipino and Korean colleagues, American Rear Admiral Mark Frudden of the United Nations Command (U.N.C.) took his place at the long table in the Armistice Commission conference room in Panmunjom. He looked up at Major General Han Chu-Kyong, his gray-uniformed North Korean counterpart, and came right to the point: "I have called this meeting for one purpose," he said, "to inform you that our side calls for punishment of those responsible for the murder of the U.N.C. officers...
...Eastern Hemisphere, preference is given to "members of the professions* and scientists and artists of exceptional ability" and then to "skilled and unskilled workers in occupations for which labor is in short supply in the U.S." (This does not always work out as planned. So many Filipino doctors and nurses have applied for visas that there is a six-year waiting list.) 4) In the Western Hemisphere, there is no system of preferences, and visas are issued on a first-come, first-served basis. "Officially defined as doctors, lawyers, architects, nurses, engineers and teachers...
Painstakingly checking work records, the FBI narrowed the list of suspects to two Filipino nurses, Leonora Perez, 31, and Filipina Narciso, 29, both of whom were on duty when-and where -most of the trouble occurred. Subpoenaed before a grand jury, the women denied any involvement in the deaths. But at least one of them was directly implicated by a survivor...
...being treated for cancer of the bladder, said that he remembered experiencing unexpected breathing difficulties and calling out to a passing nurse of Asian origin, who turned and fled at his cry. Later, shown photographs of the hospital's nurses, he picked out one of the Filipino suspects...