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...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...
...Communist-led guerrillas chose March 29, eighth anniversary of the birth of the Huk movement, * to begin their raids. Between midnight and dawn, bands of well-armed Huks sprang on four towns in the provinces surrounding Manila...
There are only 10,000 active Huks, with several hundred thousand sympathizers, among the 20 million Filipinos. But they have caused great damage in the central Luzon plain, the Philippines' rice bowl. They stage daring raids within ten miles of Manila. They have large supplies of firearms, including machine guns and mortars, which they got from the U.S. when they fought the Japanese as guerrillas, or took from the Japanese after the surrender. Last year, Huk Leader Luis Taruc, an avowed Communist, made an agreement with President Elpidio Quirino to register the Huks' arms in exchange...
...government has relied chiefly on its right hand. Social reforms have been few. The Huks feed on poverty and class bitterness. Two weeks ago police captured Raymundo Viray, a husky tenant farmer who took part in the Quezon ambush. In the "Stalin School" at Huk headquarters his instructors had taught him "Communism, songs like the Red Flag and the International, and all about Communist success in Russia and China." Awaiting trial in the Nueva Ecija provincial jail, he related how, before the Quezon ambush, his group had raided a convoy of ten trucks without harming anyone. "Why didn...
People in Private Cars. The deserted road was a grim reminder of the threat which the Huks represent for the young republic. Along it dozens of villages were deserted. Fruit rotted on mango and papaya trees. Fields were reverting to jungle. The Huks sack villages, carry off all their food and many of their young men to the Huk mountain hideouts. The U.S.-educated provincial governor, Juan Chioco, told me that nearly 150,000 people of the 500,000 in Nueva Ecija province have been forced to flee their homes...