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Asian athletes to come really close to Western records. Last week at Manila, 18 Oriental nations (not including Red China) competed in the Second Asian Games and the Japanese again ran off and swam off with most of the honors. But competition from other Asian nations seemed to be getting stiffer
...Manila's Rizal Stadium was the scene of the Second Asiad, and a few Filipinos had trouble forgetting that the Japanese had holed up in that very spot for a last-ditch stand during the liberation of Manila in World War II. But such memories were soon drowned by roars of approval for the Japanese performances. One of the stars of the meet was a slender (5 ft. 4 in., 116 lbs.) 19-year-old Japanese girl named Atsuko Nambu, who won the 100-meter event, placed second at 200 meters and in the broad jump, and anchored...
Japanese women's relay team. (Atsuko's father, Chuhei Nambu, now an Osaka sportswriter, was the Olympic hop-step-jump champion in 1932). Other standouts in Manila...
...accept their verdict . . . The civil war conditions in our country must now cease and justice must reign supreme ... I am a Filipino first and last." Taruc and his eight young Tommy-gun-toting bodyguards melted back into the jungle, and the next day every paper in Manila ran his appeal...
...ceased to be a Communist or had seen the light about democracy; rather, Communist strategy now was to abandon guerrilla warfare in favor of political infiltration. Taruc's field commanders got down to cases with a team of army negotiators at Mount Banahaw, 40 miles south of Manila. They offered to deposit their arms in mountain hideouts guarded by their own men, and to surrender the arms after they were convinced of the government's sincerity. In return, they asked a general amnesty and presidential clemency for Huks convicted of crimes. Army Chief of Staff Major General Jesus...