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Last month, Magsaysay alerted all military installations at Manila, on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the founding of the Communist-led Huk organization. Magsaysay was sure that the Huks would try to celebrate by an attack. Magsaysay s men caught 40 Huks as they stole into town to try to free six members of the Philippine Communist Party's politburo who had been captured last fall. He put the 40 in jail, sent the six politburocrats on a cruise in Manila Bay, where they would be safely out of reach of any more rescuers, and where...
...headquarters, Magsaysay pounded the table so hard that the ashtray bounced, and barked orders: "Put more men in and around Manila. I want every suspicious person searched, and every suspicious house raided. Get every soldier in the provinces alerted. Keep pounding on all known Huk lairs. Burn the Huks out of Candaba swamps. There are 8,000 Huks in the country. That makes five Huks to each one of our platoons. Let us make this week the liquidation week...
...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...
Last month he announced a plan for doing this. With 4,000,000 pesos of government aid, Magsaysay started a land resettlement project in the fertile but undeveloped plains of Mindanao. Instead of jail sentences, each Huk who is captured or gives up will get ten hectares (25 acres) of this land, plus a house, tools and work animals. "Here is a good way to give those boys in the mountains something to come down...
Civilian Filipinos were enthusiastic about the idea. So were many Huks. In the last six weeks, since word of Magsay-say's plan spread into Luzon's hills, 500 Huks have surrendered and applied for resettlement. Three hundred hectares of flat, virgin land in Mindanao have been cleared for the first batch of Huk settlers, who will leave Luzon within the next few months. More are expected. "We keep hammering at them," said Magsaysay, "and looking for them in the jungles, and promising them this green valley where they can have their own homes and live happily with...