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Archbishop Rufino J. Santos, 51, a native of the village of Guagua in the Philippines, has ruled the archdiocese of Manila (3,800,000 Catholics out of a total 4,000,000 population) since 1953, and his elevation is no surprise. Philippine disappointment at not getting a cardinal at the last consistory was in fact so strong that the Vatican was forced to change its papal nuncio. Archbishop Santos was responsible for the reconstruction of Manila Cathedral, which was almost totally destroyed...
Rice & Coke. With cries of Mabuhay (long live) in his ears, earnest, honest Magsaysay climbed back into his car and drove on. It was pitch dark. At several villages, the candidate and his bodyguards plodded with flashlights through inky darkness in the rain to shake hands with people. At Guagua, Magsaysay dined on chicken and rice, washed down by Coca-Cola, and told a crowd that "by coming like this among the humble people of the country, I am revolutionizing political campaigning in the Philippines . . . My policy can be summed up in one word, 'action...
...army's reinforcements were green conscripts with no passion for politics, no taste for bloody infighting. At a first-aid post where 350 casualties were treated in a few hours, an Indian mother squatted beside her dead soldier son's body and wailed: "What had my poor guagua (baby) to do with all this...
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