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...instant last week, it appeared that Manila had trapped the group?offering the prospect of ridding the country for good of this band of seafaring bandits who work with the zeal of holy warriors. On June 3, more than 5,000 soldiers had the outlaws cornered in a hospital at Lamitan, a town on Basilan island, about 900 km south of Manila. All the army had to do was tighten the siege and the guerrillas would have been forced to surrender the hostages they had plucked from an island resort a few days before. But commanders dropped the ball...
...fury and frenzy of the Pacific war--the Japanese always fought to the death, avoiding shameful surrender--are not much remarked. Japanese war crimes--the 250,000 dead at Nanking, the 100,000 civilian deaths when they torched Manila--are largely elided in our popular histories. So is the fact that our Marines boiled Japanese skulls clean and carried them around as souvenirs. But this fact is undeniable: the war blanched all moral niceties from everyone's consciousness. Naturally our troops sobbed with relief when they heard the Bomb had been dropped. It was for men farther behind the lines...
...Philippines - especially outside of Manila - and want to go online, find one of the internet cafés with the big CBCPNET posters in the window. But if you're in the mood to surf the net for porn or play a few hands of web poker, forget about...
Howard began his career here as the Saturday secretary, while still a student at Columbia University's journalism school. Born and raised in Manila, Howard got hooked on news watching Ruther Batuigas, a police reporter for the city's Daily Star, a tabloid published by his uncle, Andrew Go. "He was forever solving some crime: interviewing the murderous leader of a jailhouse riot, bringing some fugitive in to face justice, surviving a shootout with a gunslinging gangster. One of the most exciting things I was ever allowed to do was hitch a ride with Ruther...
...produce any hard evidence that Enrile, Honasan or the others were indeed plotting to topple Arroyo. But presidential aides insist that proof does exist, and it will soon be released. Honasan, for one, denies that he was mounting a coup. In a telephone call from "somewhere close to Manila," he explained to TIME: "I've come from the dark arena of armed struggle. The only way for meaningful change to occur is peacefully." So why was he fleeing? "What Gloria is doing is unconstitutional," he explained. "There are no charges, no warrants against us. I don't want...