Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane and ship, Philippines Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay hurried south from Manila last week to a rendezvous 600 yards off the shore of Jolo Island, where the storied swashbucklers of the Philippines, the Moros, were on the rampage. Magsaysay had a secret date with one of the toughest Moros of all-clever, poker-faced Bandit Leader Kamlon. Kamlon, leader of the most formidable of the scores of Moro bands that terrorize Jolo, had agreed to surrender...
Solemnly chewing betel nut, he walked to Magsaysay, handed over his two pistols and a symbolic stack of 24 firearms, including BARs, carbines and old Japanese guns. In smooth tau-sog, Kamlon pledged the help of his band of 300 in Magsaysay's new campaign to quell the Moros, who are second only to the Communist Huks in defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs...
...children to their real parents; in fact, the army hoped that concern for the Huklings might lure parents out of the jungle. Last week the army at last gave the children names instead of numbers, at a mass christening ceremony. One god parent: the wife of Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay, who gave a two-year-old girl her own name of Luz (which means Light...
Doubt. The Philippine government warily called in a handwriting expert to examine the signature. The expert, matching it with a five-year-old Taruc signature, pronounced it phony. But Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay, boss of the government's fight against the Huks, was not so sure. Once before, the Free Press had carried a letter from Huk Leader William Pomeroy, former American G.I. who is now a captive in Manila. It had proved to be genuine. In recent months, Taruc had shown signs of wanting to talk peace with Magsaysay...
...Magsaysay dashed off a reply for the pages of the Free Press. "Come down and let us talk things over," he urged. "There will be no double dealing." Then Manila sat back to wait for word from Luis Taruc...