Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display of mutual irritation was only the latest and most dramatic evidence of a progressive deterioration in U.S.-Philippine relations. In recent months prominent Filipino politicians have proposed anti-American measures ranging from economic discrimination against U.S. products to renaming Manila's Dewey Boulevard. Last month President Carlos Garcia declared that Asians "must move away from complete dependence on the protective might of the U.S.," began to drop hints that he hoped to develop an independent Philippine foreign policy based on close cooperation with other Southeast Asian nations, including cold-war neutrals...
...justify their jabs at the U.S., Garcia & Co. cited a long list of grievances, old and new. The U.S., they complained, had still not settled a $972 million "omnibus claim" covering, among other things, damage done during the World War II fighting in the Philippines. It had yet to come through with the bulk of the $125 million in credits and development funds promised Garcia during his visit to Washington last June. After four years of Philippine pressure and 2½ years of on-again, off-again negotiations, the status of U.S. military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most...
...Empty Bag. For most of these grievances, the Philippine government was at least as responsible as the U.S. The negotiations over U.S. bases are stalled because of Philippine insistence on greater criminal jurisdiction over G.I.s than the U.S. has granted any country in which it has troops. Garcia returned from the U.S. without the stabilization fund loan after being indiscreet enough to boast in advance that the loan was in the bag. But U.S. officials reply that he had been privately warned on three occasions beforehand that he had no hope of getting it. Unreasonable as Garcia's complaints...
...themselves a wave of revenge against the conquered foe. Last week some 28 lesser Batista officials, left behind when the top dogs fled, were convicted in kangaroo courts and shot; another nine were executed without benefit of trial at all. Typical victims: Santiago's Maritime Police Chief Alejandro Garcia Olayón, Santa Clara's Police Chief Cornelio Rojas (see cuts). After one execution drew a crowd of 3,000, the rebels ruled that spectators would henceforth be barred-but allowed to inspect the bodies afterward...
...Matanzas, rebels grabbed one Juliana Muñoz Garcia, 42, the mother of two sons. The charge: that for $15 a week she had been a Batista informer, betraying at least two teen-age rebels to killer cops. When she screamed that she had only pointed out the house where the boys lived, the rebels hissed "Chivata!" (little goat that bleats, i.e., stool pigeon). Terrified, she awaited trial...