Word: magsaysays
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...that sits upon Manila's Pasig River. Malacañang's huge second-floor reception hall used to be filled with the guests and functionaries of Spain's colonial governors. Now the great men of Philippine national independence stare down from the walls-Aguinaldo, Quezon, Roxas, Magsaysay. The hall most conveniently serves as a waiting area for the diverse individuals and groups who daily seek audience with the President. Saudi Arabian princes, American bankers, Jaycee delegations-all get their turn and are ushered one by one into the simple, wood-paneled presidential office. Most...
...heart attack; in Manila. "There's nothing wrong with a civil servant providing for his future," claimed Garcia, who as Vice President willingly inherited the leadership of one of Asia's most graft-ridden countries when flamboyant Anti-Corruption Crusader Ramón Magsaysay was killed in a 1957 plane crash. Though Garcia had pledged an "all-out war" against graft, during his administration there were nearly 30,000 recorded cases of corruption in the Philippines-a fact used by Diosclado Macapagal to help unseat Garcia in the 1961 elections...
Died. Pedro Taruc, 68, ranking commander of the Hukbalahap agrarian rebel movement in the Philippines; by gunfire when he was waylaid by an army unit; in Angeles, near Clark airbase. A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers. His death destroys the guerrilla threat to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...called "Huklandia," an area in Central Luzon where social and economic ills create a fertile breeding ground for discontent. At the height of the insurgency in 1950-51, the Huks had an estimated 20,000 well-organized men under arms. A concerted government drive led by the late Ramon Magsaysay, then Defense Secretary, whittled that number down drastically, but did not succeed in stamping out the insurgents. To thousands of peasants, the Huks, an odd farrago of idealistic reformers, nationalists, Communists and mere bandits, are still Robin Hoods who mete out swift and bloody justice to cattle thieves and heavy...
Huks nearly tipped over the Manila government before they were decimated and pushed back into the hinterlands by Ramon Magsaysay. Now, capitalizing on the erosion of law and order that has spread across the country despite Marcos' reforming policies, the Huks are once more stepping up their activity in their old stomping grounds in central Luzon-particularly in four provinces. Says Senator Manuel P. Manahan, chairman of the Philippine Senate's National Defense and Security Committee: "The Huks have established an in visible government in Pampanga [north of Manila], in western sections of Bula...