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...crowd of about 4,000 had gathered in the Plaza Miranda, a popular political forum in the heart of downtown Manila's shopping and business district. They had turned out to hear speeches by Liberal Party candidates for Manila's mayoralty and for eight of the country's 24 Senate seats. It was a festive occasion; balloons floated through the evening air and spectators waved fans printed with the candidates' names and slogans. The makeshift stage, built with old kerosene drums and boards, was crammed with Liberal Party officials, the smiling candidates and their wives...
Just as the ceremonies were to begin, two hand-grenade blasts ripped apart the speakers' platform. The explosions brought instant death to eight spectators clustered near the platform, including a five-year-old child and Manila Times Photographer Ben Roxas. Virtually everyone on the stage was injured, including incumbent Senator Jovito Salonga, who is running for reelection; Liberal Party President Geraldo Roxas; and the Liberal Party's 1969 presidential candidate, Senator Sergio Osmeria Jr., who received critical head and chest wounds. President Ferdinand Marcos termed the bombing "a national tragedy." Who had caused the tragedy? Police believed that...
...Continental Consolidated has its way, Laos and South Viet Nam may soon have similar operations. There is also a move afoot in the Philippines to legalize a score of clip joints that have operated virtually undisturbed along Manila Bay. Even tiny Nepal has opened a casino in the Soaltee Oberoi Hotel in Katmandu...
...Sharon, Conn. Having seen action in both the Spanish-American War and World War I, Tommy Hart became the oldest admiral afloat when F.D.R. extended his tour of duty past the mandatory retirement age of 64. Convinced that war was imminent, Hart kept the principal warships based in Manila Bay out of the harbor, avoiding another Pearl Harbor. Forced to move his headquarters south to Java, Hart commanded the outnumbered Americans in the three-day battle of Makassar Strait, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese fleet. In 1945, Hart, a Republican, was appointed U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Instead of seeking...
Died. Carlos Garcia, 74, President of the Philippines from 1957 to 1961; of a 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...