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MANILA, Monday, March 18--President Ramon Magsaysay's charred, burned body was found today by rescuers in the wreckage of his plane on Cebu Island...
...like the murder last week of a riverboat captain and three of his passengers, rate only a few paragraphs in local papers. Rebels of one kind or another-Red Flag Communists, White Flag Communists. Karens-still control large areas of Burma. The 80,000-man Burmese army has no Magsaysay dedicated to winning through against them...
When a touring U.S. rodeo troupe moseyed unwhooping into Manila's own White House, Malacanan Palace, pretty Teresita Magsaysay, 22, eldest daughter of the Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, borrowed a ten-gallon topper, looked set to ride, tall in the saddle, into the Golden West...
...irrigation dam on the Tarlac River, ordered the engineers to use bull carts as well as dump trucks to haul dirt-it would make work for the poor people in the barrios-and delivered his favorite speech: He didn't care what the politicians said about Ramon Magsaysay. They could call him stupid, uneducated, or whatever. He was interested only in the welfare of the poor people. That's why he spent more time seeing them than studying a lot of reports prepared by professors. The crowd laughed and cheered. It was 6 p.m. before his car pulled...
Last week Recto called a press conference to announce his "irrevocable decision" to run for the presidency in November, "whatever the odds and however adverse the circumstances." In the light of Magsaysay's popularity, the circumstances were certainly adverse: the Na tionalists are sure to renominate Magsaysay, and there is a strong possibility the opposition Liberals will...