Word: magsaysay
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...Magsaysay's men uncovered enough evidence to indict Lacson and 26 henchmen for murder. The trial began in January 1952. but for one reason or another, during Quirino's presidency, it was frequently interrupted (during one interlude, Lacson was convicted of raping his housemaid and sentenced to eight years). But the Padilla case was not forgotten. In his campaign for the presidency last year, Magsaysay would climax his speeches by declaring emotionally: "When I carried the body of Moises Padilla in my arms, it was not the body of Padilla but the body of the humble people...
...took him on an impromptu road show. They toured from town to town beating and torturing Padilla, displaying him in a public square while one of the boys announced: "Here is what happens to people who oppose us." Once Padilla saw his mother and managed to mumble: "Communicate Magsaysay." But when Magsaysay reached Negros Occidental, he found Padilla's body, broken and dripping blood onto a police bench with 14 bullets in the back. Lacson smiled easily: "Shot dead in an attempt to make his getaway...
...attack his own Communist leadership, in Communist lingo, for having followed "a criminal adventurist policy of armed seizure of power through national uprising." He even praised the "U.S. Government and farsighted Filipino leaders [who] boldly decided to seize the initiative by compelling reform," and saluted President Ramon Magsaysay's "bold new program." He patted the West on the back: "The democratic camp in general, faced by the atomic age and the critical world situation. has come to realize that the only way to stop the advance of Communism is to sincerely and determinedly make complete restitution and amends...
...unrepentant) man or was simply proclaiming a new tactical retreat of the party was hard to determine from his speech. The one-time Huk leader never once referred to his surrender (TIME, May 24), instead preferred to say that he "came down" to Manila. It was plain that the Magsaysay government was happy to have him in its hands instead of on its hands : the campaign against the Huk hideouts is going well, but is also costly...
Mambo writhed its way through halt a dozen tropical and semitropical countries (Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay called it a "national calamity") before it seeped into the U.S. YANKS DIG THAT MAMBO BEAT, Variety's front page announced last June. It ran like quicksilver through the brassier ballrooms, and even rolled into such tony spots as Manhattan s Waldorf-Astoria...