Word: magsaysay
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...Ramon Magsaysay, whose influence on Philippine democracy remains tremendous even four years after his death...
Macapagal has more than personal popularity and a reputation for honesty working in his favor. Last month anti-Garcia followers of Manuel Manahan, protégé of the late President Ramon Magsaysay, formally voted to back Macapagal. Other anti-Garcia Nacionalistas are threatening a party split if Garcia is renominated at next summer's convention. Leaving nothing to chance, Macapagal starts stumping the villages for his "new era" this week, nine months before elections...
...behind PACD is Ramon P. Binamira, 33, who while still at niversity of the Southern Philippines law school organized 30,000 Filipino students into a poll-watching corps whose vigilance contributed notably to the 1953 clean election of the Philippines' late beloved President Ramon Magsaysay. Once in office, Magsaysay wanted to give Binamira a Cabinet post, but he decided instead to live a while among the barrio people, who constitute the submerged 70% of the Filipino population...
...fishing village whose people were starving because commercial trawlers had taken all the fish out of the bay. Binamira led a legal fight to force the trawlers to stay three miles offshore so that the village fishermen in their outriggers would have a chance. He also helped Magsaysay to set up a special office to train idealistic young Filipinos for village service...
...Lawyer Recto presided over the framing of the Philippine constitution in 1934-35, served as Foreign Minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese in World War II, returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could swing enough voters to his extreme views, became loudly anti-American...