Word: hukbalahaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist supported Hukbalahap revolt in central Luzon is gaining popular following among the large landless agricultural class. Government controls designed to stop growing inflation have only hindered the progress of business. The treasury is empty, school teachers go unpaid, and large construction projects are at a standstill...
...Islands' government is in trouble. Inflation, resulting from unwise spending of American payments, has reduced the real income of rural and urban workers. They are becoming restive. As the Hukbalahap revolt became stronger, sudden military expenses drained the treasury...
...service are widespread. Leaders in agriculture and in business have not been sufficiently aware of their responsibility to improve the economic position of the lower-income groups. The public lacks confidence in the capacity of the government to act firmly . . . The situation is being exploited by the Communist-led Hukbalahap movement to incite lawlessness and disorder...
...deputy mayors-have come to the town hall to hear speeches by officers of the 5th battalion combat team. The battalion surgeon, a young major who grew up near Bamban, is speaking in Pampango, the liquid dialect of Pampanga and Tarlac provinces. I almost never hear the word "Hukbalahap." Speakers use euphemisms for the Huks-"The New Faces," "The Mistaken People" or "Our Friends Outside...
...months ago when top Communists Mariano Balgos and Guillermo Capadocia left Manila for the mountain hideout of insurgent Luis Taruc, many a Filipino concluded that Taruc's Hukbalahap followers would soon be on the rampage again. Last week the crackle of Huk gunfire spread through troubled Luzon...