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...sometimes forgets that a similar struggle against Red rebels was won. in the Philippines. Under relentless pressure from President Ramon Magsaysay's counterguerrilla forces, Philippine Communist Leader Luis Taruc surrendered a decade ago and accepted amnesty, ceding command of 56,000 remaining Hukbalahap guerrillas to Jesus Lava, a wiry physician...
...Manila's center and roused a pale, gaunt man from a pre-lunch nap. His indignant protest of innocence lasted only until the agents found letters from Mao Tse-tung and other top Communist leaders. When confronted by the now respectable Luis Taruc, he admitted he was Jesus Lava, 51, general secretary of the Philippine Communist Party. After years in the backwoods, Lava had apparently come to Manila to visit his family...
...Though Lava faced trials for armed rebellion and murder, he was taken to Malacanan Palace for an almost cordial interview with President Diosdado Macapagal. The meeting was symbolic of the fact that the once powerful Huks are no longer a serious threat in the Philippines, even though economic instability and corruption remain dangerous; the hard-core armed Huks probably number only a few hundred, and they may be able to draw on perhaps 10,000 supporters in remote Mindanao and Luzon. Successor to Lava as leader of the Huks is Pedro Taruc, cousin to Luis, who seems determined to continue...
...Quinto Ghermandi coaxes bronze until it is as fragile as a leaf. Francesco Somaini, Best Foreign Sculptor in Sao Paulo's 1959 Bienal. makes magnificent metal meteorites both rugged and grand. Leoncillo bakes gres (a clay mixture) until his solder-colored shapes look as if they sprung from lava. Through June...
Such signs of life impress critical observers outside the church. "Methodism was the hottest lava in the 19th century," says Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty of Chicago. "If it is true to its own genius, it should be a religion that 'heats up' again easier than some others." Some of the heat can be felt now in the Inner City slums, where young Methodist ministers are beginning to rehabilitate all-but-abandoned churches. It can even be felt in the suburbs, where thousands of Methodist laymen have formed Christian "cells" for Biblical and theological study...