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...same time, pilferage is a major problem. In the first nine months of 1964, more than $171 million in goods was lifted from tightly guarded Clark Field, including hundreds of bombs, some as large as 750 Ibs. Some of the weapons and ammo filter to remnants of the Communist Huk guerrilla forces holed up on Luzon. But mostly the Filipino operators sell the explosives to dynamite-fishermen (who package it in Coke bottles to kill fish in Manila Bay) and trade the empty cases on Manila's booming scrap-metal market. Pilferers have stolen airfield landing lights, miles...
Documents captured in 1952 on Huk Communist guerrillas, said Magsaysay, listed many top Nationalist politicians as possible collaborators in a popular front. President Quirino planned to use these records to arrest all his top opponents as Communists or fellow travelers, and they knew it. Says Magsaysay: "Quirino even talked about killing Tañada. I wouldn't have anything to do with all this, because these men, whatever they may be, are not Communists. They were all afraid to run. They thought Quirino would have them assassinated. So they all stayed in their foxholes and told me to take...
...months. When the crowd swelled to 15,000, Dacca's police opened fire "in self-defense." The riots kept on for two days, and finally, after five rioters had been killed and two leading politicos smeared with filth by the mob, East Pakistan's nervous Governor Fazlul Huk gave in and asked the rabble-rousing Awami League Party to form a new provincial government...
...Agnes Keith is a serious woman. The wife of a forestry expert working in the islands, she hopped perilously through the mountains by plane to talk to resettled Huk rebels, ventured into areas where two U.S. professors had recently been murdered because they inadvertently offended Ifuagao tribesmen, watched appalled the privileged Manila society where "ladies of distinction paid a thousand dollars per dress, per ball," while "a hundred thousand Filipinos had no floors to sleep on." What moved her most was the struggle of the proud, engaging Filipino people toward democracy, culminating in the stirring election of 1953-a "miracle...
Neatly dressed in gabardine slacks and lightweight lumber jacket, a battered copy of Reader's Digest clutched in his hands, Prisoner Luis Taruc stood before the bar of justice in Manila last week. The man who had led the bloody, Communist Huk rebellion for eight years heard his sentence: twelve years in jail, a $10,000 fine. Taruc beamed, relatives happily pounded his back, bussed his cheeks. Then, with colossal effrontery, the rebel leader announced: "I can take anything for the sake of the peace of our country...