Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moises Padilla was an insignificant figure but a courageous man, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Far East forces and later a local guerrilla leader who fought the Japanese. When election time rolled around, Padilla filed as Nacionalista candidate for mayor of Magallon, a dusty little pip on the map. Governor Lacson, a member of the Liberal Party, who liked to boast that he had 200,000 votes in his pocket, notified Padilla to clear out if he valued his health...
...four days, told how the Chinese had captured three small islands off the mouth of the Yalu. The islands had been occupied last spring by South Korean marines, and the enemy could guess that they were being used as radar and weather stations, and might become springboards for guerrilla activity against the mainland...
...shooting production chief in World War II. Last month Churchill sent husky Lyttelton, now Colonial Secretary, on a trouble-shooting trip to Malaya, where Britain's 3½-year war with Communism continues perilous, indecisive and expensive (it has cost the government $60,000 for every dead Communist guerrilla...
...cannon in a seven-ton armored car, one of a convoy of twelve. The road was lined with Gurkhas and police facing outward with bayoneted rifles held at the ready. Lyttelton seemed displeased by so much protection. But on the second day of his tour, a Communist guerrilla with a live grenade in his pocket was captured. After that, Lyttelton's guard was strengthened, his itinerary changed...
...chauffeur. Later he had taken a job as mechanic in a bus company, and wound up as its manager. At war's outbreak, he went to work in the motor pool of the U.S. 31st Division, and ended the war as commander of a guerrilla army of 10,000. In 1950, as chairman of the House National Defense Committee, he attacked his own party, the Liberals, demanding an end to politics in the army, a real fight against the Huks, and a cleanup of the evils that gave them strength. When Boss Perez tried to quiet him with...