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...many Filipinos resent the volume of U.S. aid to Viet Nam and Thailand, and one of Marcos' objectives in visiting Washington was to warn that without more U.S. help, the Philippines could well turn into the Viet Nam of the 1970s. Absurd? Only 15 years ago, the Communist Huk guerrillas came perilously close to taking over the nation. Even now, central Luzon is seeing a recrudescence of Huk terror as some 1,000 armed guerrillas, supported by an estimated 27,000 peasants, prowl the forests...
Manila once hoped that the Huk insurgency had been pretty well wiped out after President Ramon Magsaysay's intense four-year campaign of pacification and resettlement ended in the mid 1950s. But in the past few years, as government control has waned in Luzon, Huk influence has slowly reasserted itself. One mayor now claims that 80% of his home province of Pampanga has fallen under Communist control, and that nearly half of the area's 22 mayors are either Communists or Communist sympathizers. If these figures are somewhat high, Marcos himself puts Huk strength at 250 hard-core...
...order for the Huks to start shooting again apparently came from Peking via Manila to the Luzon countryside, and seems to have been aimed at provoking a national outcry at Marcos' recent decision to send Filipino troops to Viet Nam. So far, the Huk outbreak is far too small to spark a keep-the-troops-at-home reaction. Marcos, who as a guerrilla leader became his country's most decorated World War II hero, intends to make it smaller yet. He has seeded the troubled area with loyal officials who fought with him against the Japanese...
Died. Myron Melvin Cowen, 67, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1948-49), the Philippines (1949-51) and Belgium (1952-53), whose greatest contribution came while adviser to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, when he was instrumental in planning the suppression of the Communist-led Huk rebellion and starting the near-bankrupt islands on the road to solvency, offering up to $250 million in U.S. aid, conditional upon basic reforms; of a hemorrhage following brain surgery; in Washington...
...Mecklin and others in the U.S. Mission this rigid recalcitrance surpassed that of "a whole platoon of De Gaulles." What Viet Nam needed, in Mecklin's view, was someone like the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, who broke the back of his country's Communist Huk rebellion by offering the malcontents "total friendship or total war." Diem offered neither. Tax col lectors, not aid officials, followed his troops into liberated villages. Suspicious of his own generals, Diem rarely committed his reserve forces to battle when needed largely because he wanted to guard against a coup...