Word: magsaysay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine times, and by an opposition-dominated Senate. Many of his reforms have been denied the appropriations necessary to make them work. More erosive to his chances for re-election is Macapagal's own personality-or lack of it. Volatile Filipinos want a volatile leader, like peppery Ramon Magsaysay, who was killed in a plane crash seven years ago. Diosdado (Spanish for "God-given") Macapagal, at 54, is well-meaning but dour, a self-proclaimed "poor boy" from the distant provinces who prefers conservative business suits to the cool, frilly barong tagalog sport shirt favored by Manila sports...
Preoccupied with the war in Viet Nam, the U.S. 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...
...practicing his broken Chinese. Since 1951, the Kadoories have disbursed almost $3,000,000 in noninterest loans and gifts for refugee aid, roads, bridges and canals in villages hard against Red China. Their work with refugees-for which the brothers won Southeast Asia's prestigious 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service-is considered enlightened self-interest by the Kadoories, on the ground that business in Hong Kong prospers only if the colony is well fed and politically stable. The brothers have also taken a lead in establishing new industries in labor-surfeited Hong Kong. They helped Refugee Cotton...
...Hukbalahaps in the Philippines had no friendly sanctuary just over the frontier, and their strength evaporated when the late President Magsaysay fought them economically as well as with guns. In Malaya, the Communist guerrillas had no contiguous border with a Red country and. being mostly Chinese, they were distinct from the Malays, who disliked them on principle. Even so, it took twelve years and 350,000 soldiers, police, and militia for Malaya to wipe out 12,000 isolated Communist guerrillas...
...career State Department officer who is a "hardline" man on Southeast Asia, wanted the U.S. to take tougher action in Laos. Cottrell is willing to use rough, unorthodox methods to stop the Communists, works closely with Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, the Pentagon's guerrilla warfare expert who helped Magsaysay crush the Huks in the Philippines and advised Ngo Dinh Diem in his battle against the Binh Xuyen gang...