Word: huk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mouth & Ears. Jones took to hanging around poolrooms and corner stores in the central Luzon town of Angeles, giving out that he was "wanted" by the army. "At first it wasn't easy," he said. "Those Huk fellows don't trust anything that's got mouth and ears. But what really clinched my story was when, by arrangement with Magsaysay, I had my hotel room raided by the army while I was right across the street talking to a Huk contact...
...Huk decided that Jones was O.K., took him into the mountains. The first Huk notable he met was an ex-G.I. named William Pomeroy, of Rochester, N.Y., who serves the Communist rebels as a sort of propaganda director. "He had about 15 bodyguards around him, armed to the teeth," Jones said. "Here we were, two Americans, one white, the other colored, both wasting their time thousands of miles from home, one for a foolish creed, the other for a silly...
...trip from the supply base to the Huk stronghold on Mt. Dortz-a 500-acre plateau, 4,000 feet high and only 15 miles from the U.S.'s Clark Field-usually takes the tough, nimble Huks eight to ten hours. With David Jones, who was constantly stumbling and slipping, it took 17 hours. "We never hit a public road, just trails, and there was no stopping except when it was time...
...some radio gear. Once in the capital, Jones got his information to Secretary Magsaysay, who immediately sent 6,000 soldiers converging on Mt. Dortz from four sides. They routed the outnumbered Reds, destroyed 57 buildings, killed more than too, including Peregrino and Rebecca Taruc, cousin and sister of Huk Army Commander Luis Taruc. Exulted Magsaysay last week: "We have just disrupted the biggest and most active Huk regional command in central Luzon and seized what was probably the Huk army's most strategically located stronghold...
According to latest government estimates, 8,000-10,000 Huk guerrillas still lurk in the Philippine hills, and enough more are joining them each day to make up for those captured or surrendered. Defense Secretary Magsaysay hopes that he can lick the Huk problem "in maybe five years." But fighting Huks-as well as giving them land-is expensive. "Only God knows," says the Secretary, "whether our government can spend $89 million every year for five years and still live...