Word: magsaysay
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...running the war against the Communist Viet Cong his own way. To Mecklin and others in the U.S. Mission this rigid recalcitrance surpassed that of "a whole platoon of De Gaulles." What Viet Nam needed, in Mecklin's view, was someone like the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, who broke the back of his country's Communist Huk rebellion by offering the malcontents "total friendship or total war." Diem offered neither. Tax col lectors, not aid officials, followed his troops into liberated villages. Suspicious of his own generals, Diem rarely committed his reserve forces to battle when...
...Named for Philippine Senator Jose P. Laurel and New Hampshire Newspaper Publisher James M. Langley, who headed the study groups appointed by Presidents Eisenhower and Magsaysay that in 1956 ultimately amended the decade-old Philippine Trade...
...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...
Married. Ramón Magsaysay Jr., 26, only son of the Philippines' late President; and Isabel Delgado, 22, Manila socialite; in Manila...
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...