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...center of the novel is Rizalina, a sweet and resilient servant girl, who comes to Manila to work as a servant for Zamora L?pez de Legazpi, a rich man who claims to have discovered a group of Stone Age cave dwellers in the country's south. (Hagedorn's inspiration for this plot line is the real-life "discovery" of the Tasaday tribe in 1971, later denounced as a hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American...
...shot at again, this time by men in police uniforms. Although Pala escaped unscathed, two of his bodyguards were seriously injured. A fellow Filipino radio broadcaster wasn't so lucky. The same day Pala was attacked, John Villanueva, a procommunist talk show host from the northern Luzon city of Legazpi, was shot to death on his way home from the radio station by two motorcycle-riding military...
BERNARD HERSCHBERG Legazpi City, The Philippines...
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