Word: huk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Manuel Roxas took over a war-shattered country with "no national economy, no export trade. Next to Warsaw, Manila is the world's most devastated city." Two decades later, in a laudatory account of President Marcos' efforts to beef up the Philippine economy, stave off the Communist-dominated Huk rebellion and give the nation a sense of identity, TIME suggested that in a country with a "perennial need for heroes, Marcos -- with luck -- could meet that need...