Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Representatives, he moved to his country's U.N. delegation (in 1951 Macapagal had a notable verbal clash about Communist aggression with Russia's Andrei Vishinsky) and on to the vice presidency, polling 117,000 more votes in 1957 than the winning candidate for President, Carlos Garcia...
...Philippines last week, 6,500,000 voters went to the polls in a national election full of surprises. Biggest surprise: the election as President, by a plurality of 600,000, of the Liberal Party's underdog, Diosdado Macapagal (see box). The victor not only defeated incumbent President Carlos Garcia, 65, but routed Garcia's well-organized Nacionalista Party machine, which has ruled through a judicious mixture of organization and money. Macapagal carried with him his running mate, ex-Senator Emmanuel Pelaez (the President and Vice President are elected separately), and Liberals also won six of the eight contests...
Fabulous Jewels. Bread-and-butter issues won for the Liberals. Macapagal relentlessly charged the Nacionalistas with responsibility for high prices, abuse of office, nepotism and graft. "Mrs. Garcia owns the most fabulous set of jewelry in Southeast Asia!", he told newsmen in an interview; he labeled the Garcia regime the "most corrupt" in Philippine history. The government's own figures supported the charge of corruption: an official report lists 29,717 cases of administrative graft, of which 10,869 resulted in convictions, 5,563 in acquittals, and 13,285 pending...
Philippine politics gets much of its murderous passion from the compadre system, under which politicians adopt the offspring of their constituents as godchildren. Top politicos like Macapagal and Garcia are compadres to hundreds of peasant families who eagerly give their services as bodyguards, precinct workers, fund raisers and propagandists as well as voters. In return, the politicians are expected to keep their adoptive kinsmen out of jail, find places for them on the national payroll. For the country as a whole, the compadre system usually means blood feuds and built-in graft...
...stampede the free world into a state of defenseless fear, he was sadly mistaken. "We must not be cowed," said Secretary General Shigesaburo Maeo of Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when he said: "If Khrushchev's reason was to spread panic among our people...