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...case, Operation Scorpio, plus the earlier arrests, was a triumph for Marcos as well as the greatest setback for the Communists since the breakdown of the old Huk guerrilla movement in the mid-1950s. The military announced that the big roundup would continue, its chief target now being the Communist Party's chairman and shrewd ideologue, José Maria Sison...
...other three areas: Java, northeastern Brazil and Central Luzon, breeding ground of the Philippines' Huk terrorists...
...construction workers at U.S. bastions elsewhere in Asia. Many have been earning ten times as much as they might get at home. Simultaneously, the U.S. is pulling a quarter of its 24,000 men out of the Philippines, and firing local employees. Peace is particular hell to the Communist Huk insurgents. Through a front company-and discreet payoffs-they had invested their surplus cash in a large housing project near Clark Air Force Base, where U.S. forces are being pared back. SOUTH KOREA sent 50,000 troops to Viet Nam, and in the past four years has collected $542 million...
...been accepted earlier and had graduated at the top of his high school class. Recently he was fired from a menial job in the computer center of the Moscow Engineering Institute. At a meeting called to discuss young Daniel's case, the rector of the institute, Nikolai Strel-huk, expressed particular dissatisfaction about the number of Jews, like Daniel, who had been hired at the institute...
...peso. Because funds are running out, Marcos will become the first allied president to pull forces out of Viet Nam. In December, he intends to bring home the 1,500-man Philippine civic-action group. He will put the men to work in the impoverished central Luzon, where the Huk guerrillas still remain troublesome. No longer the fiery Communists that they were in the insurrection of the 1950s, the Huks have turned to Mafia-style extortion, which Marcos hopes he can counter with a program of better law enforcement and increased hopes for a better life...