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Though Lava faced trials for armed rebellion and murder, he was taken to Malacanan Palace for an almost cordial interview with President Diosdado Macapagal. The meeting was symbolic of the fact that the once powerful Huks are no longer a serious threat in the Philippines, even though economic instability and corruption remain dangerous; the hard-core armed Huks probably number only a few hundred, and they may be able to draw on perhaps 10,000 supporters in remote Mindanao and Luzon. Successor to Lava as leader of the Huks is Pedro Taruc, cousin to Luis, who seems determined to continue...
Overwhelming Role. With that, he climbed into a Cadillac to receive the greatest reception in Manila's history. An estimated 2,000.000 wildly cheering Filipinos lined the ten-mile route from the airport to Manila's Malacanan Palace, where MacArthur and his wife Jean were to stay. Even MacArthur, never one to view his own role in history lightly, seemed impressed. "Overwhelming," he gasped. Bands greeted him with Old Soldiers Never Die, the venerable barracks tune he applied to himself when Truman recalled him from Korea in 1951 for defiantly insisting that the war should be carried...
...Single Cause. Ike shrugged off his brief reverie to accept the Order of Sikatuna, rank of Raja, from Garcia (the Philippines' highest decoration for foreign heads of state). When the speeches were done, he met with his staff at Malacanan Palace, dictated a statement that expressed his "full and sympathetic understanding of the decision taken by the Japanese government," and his "regrets that a small, organized minority, led by professional Communist agitators . . . have been able by resort to force and violence" to prevent the good-will visit. Said Ike that night: "I would have liked to go-I still...
Renewing the Visas. When President Magsaysay was killed in a plane crash, Carlos Garcia-an old friend of former Vice President Fernando Lopez-moved into Malacanan Palace, and things began going better for Lewin. On the ground that the Philippine government wanted him for $68,450 in back taxes, President Garcia allowed Lewin to get a temporary visa. Eagerly Lewin moved back into business, opened a fancy new Manila nightclub. Each time his temporary visa expired, Lewin managed to get it renewed-first by the President's Cabinet, then by the President's executive secretary, then...
...press the nation does have, with a heightened capacity for invective, and the air is usually filled with political cries that everything and everyone is for sale. Only during the three-year presidency of the late, dedicated Ramon Magsaysay was there a notable absence of charges of corruption at Malacanan Palace. Only a little more than a year since President Magsaysay's death in a plane crash, under the stewardship of the undistinguished politician who was his Vice President, the Philippine Republic finds itself in the worst financial shape it has been in since...