Word: huks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...