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...They are fighting the government because they want a house and land of their own," said Magsaysay. "All right, they can stop fighting, because I will give it to them. And if they are not satisfied with that, by golly, I have another big deal for them. I am going to make the Huk a capitalist. I am going to set up a carpentry shop and let the Huks run it." The Huks began to come in, at first a trickle, then by the hundreds. Many signed up with Magsaysay as special anti-Huk commando teams ("When I turned over...
...Huks are still a force to be reckoned with. But they are no longer a threat to Manila, or (in daytime) along the main highways through central Luzon. Six of the Huk Politburo are in jail. When Magsaysay took over, the Huks numbered an estimated 16,000. Now he claims there are only 8,000. Swashbuckling Luis Taruc, the dyed-in-the-Red general of the rebellion, is still at large, but with Magsaysay's 100,000-peso price on his head, reportedly has become so nervous and distrustful of his own comrades that he will let only...
...Bother Me." With the Huks calmed down, Magsaysay announced that he was going to police the islandwide elections-an announcement that was greeted by cynical smiles. He went at his apparently hopeless job with a will-and a method. In Pag-asa, he hopped around the country to beagle out phony registrations, restrain the gunnery of rival politicos, and spot the places where his troops were most needed. In one town where preelection killing had broken out, he had the entire police force arrested for murder. In still another, where a Nacionalista candidate had been kidnaped, he jailed the mayor...
Some angry, defeated Liberals wanted to read Ramon Magsaysay out of the party. But President Quirino, alternately jealous and proud of Magsaysay, has an avuncular affection for his Secretary of Defense. He has given Magsaysay extra jobs-among them, running the vital Manila Railroad and Philippines Airlines. Magsaysay himself shrugs his shoulders, twists his eloquent brown face into a broad grin and asks: "How can a person get mad because we hold honest elections? All I did was follow religiously the instructions of the President...
Freedom & Order. For a country sorely in need of both policemen and statesmen, Ramon Magsaysay has proved to be a great cop. Has he the makings of a statesman, too? It is still too early to tell. But some of his countrymen are already calling him "the Eisenhower of the Pacific." When he showed up on Manila's docks last week to welcome home his election policemen, the crowd mobbed him and sent up a chant: "Mabuhay [long live] Magsaysay, our next President...