Word: huks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That day, the farm commandant held a lottery and assigned each Huk family a house on a 2,000-sq. ft. lot and a 15-to 25-acre parcel of farm land. There were difficulties: the Huks had no money; the women did not have enough cooking utensils; there was little bedding, no mosquito nets to ward off the malaria-bearing anophele, no electric wiring in the houses. Bustling Secretary Magsaysay promptly chewed out the commander. "I promised these settlers electric lights," he roared. "If there's anything I hate it's being unable to keep my word...
Last week, as the second batch of 100 Huk settlers reached Mindanao, the camp had electric lights. It also had plenty of pots & pans, plates, spoons, forks, bedding, cigarettes, mosquito nets, a radio-phonograph with the latest U.S. records, a new commander...
...carpentry shop at Manila's Camp Murphy, operated by reformed Huks. This month, making mess tables for the Philippine army, the shop netted a profit of $582. Said Foreman Manuel Caiyot, a onetime Huk leader known as Ahmad the Killer: "I didn't believe it, but here we are, doing business with the army and getting cash instead of bullets...
...second resettlement area right in the heart of Huk-infested Luzon. Said Magsaysay: "I'll, make it a model farm with comfortable beds, refrigerators and movies. It will be the show window of democracy in Hukland. It will attract the Huks like a jukebox attracts teen-agers...
...Behind the Battle. For the next few days, the Huks did not know what hit them. Magsaysay's army attacked them steadily all over Luzon. In the Sierra Madre, the troops caught up with the Huk band that had murdered the Hardies, killed 20. The army fell far short of Magsaysay's quota of five Huks to every platoon (it claimed a total of 300 Huks killed last week), but the Huks were beaten back. March 29, the Huk anniversary, proved to be one of the most peaceful days the Philippines had known in years. Even bitter critics...