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...Manila, filling the empty ambassador's post, Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, 52, Ambassador to Moscow since 1953, veteran (28 years) Foreign Service officer and a ranking Department Russian scholar with extensive service as interpreter and adviser at international conferences (e.g., Teheran, Yalta) before reaching his present rank. In the wake of President Magsaysay's death (see FOREIGN NEWS), troubleshooting Chip Bohlen's work in the Philippines seems...
...took off smoothly from the Cebu airport and into the moon-bright Philippine night. It was 1:17 a.m., and the plane radioed the tower at Malacanan Palace to have President Ramon Magsaysay's car at Manila's Nichols Field at 3:15 a.m. Then there was only silence. Two hours later, when the plane failed to arrive, the silence became ominous. By dawn, Philippine naval vessels and air-force planes, later joined by the U.S. Air Force, were scouring the lovely inland sea between Cebu and Manila. By radio and whisper, the news spread: the Philippines...
...Communist Hukbahalaps in 1950 were 16,000 strong; in some areas they levied taxes, ran their own schools, newspapers and factories. They maintained their headquarters brazenly in Manila and drew up a plan for seizure of the city itself. Farmers, forced under antiquated laws to pay 70% of their crops to hereditary landlords, gave the Huks sanctuary, and soldiers, often unpaid for months, felt small inclination to hunt them down. Sleeping only three hours a night, Magsaysay took to the air, island-hopped from army post to army post. When he found soldiers living in shacks and eating miserable food...
This blasted the lingering hope of his family and staff in Manila that he might have survived the fiery crash on a Cebu mountain Sunday...
...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...