Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Manila I informed President Magsaysay of the possibility of bringing Taruc back alive. The President referred me to the stern peace terms he had just offered the Huks...
...Dead or Alive. Taruc's surrender had been arranged, with President Magsaysay's approval, through a Manila newspaper columnist named Benigno Aquino. Early one morning last week, troops of the Philippine first military area thought they had Taruc cornered north of Manila. Under Colonel Manuel Cabal, the troops were closing in on Barrio San Pablo, a hamlet near the foot of Mount Arayat (3,378 ft.), where Taruc was known to be hiding. Colonel Cabal was convinced that the rebel leader would soon be captured, dead or alive, but as the leading troops reached the village, a lieutenant...
...Accept." Cabal was fighting mad, but there was nothing he could do. The lieutenant was carrying out orders originating with President Magsaysay himself. Columnist Aqulno; "It seemed, had promised to meet Taruc without fail next morning, and the army was not supposed to interfere with his plans...
...biggest prize taken in the eight-year-old war against the Huk guerrillas. Looking relaxed and confident, Taruc announced that he had"come down" because of"a deep conviction of the sincerity of the President . . . to work out a program which will give peace and prosperity." Magsaysay's terms, he said,"laid the basis of negotiations," and he was now "joining the forces of law and order...
...amnesty, returned to his seat in the Philippine Congress (to which he was elected in the liberation days of 1946), collected his back pay, and skedaddled back to the Luzon hills. This time, snapped General Jesus Vargas, the army's chief of staff, no deal had been made; Magsaysay owed Taruc nothing."We have the upper hand. Why should we grant conditions...