Word: mariano
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Brigadier General Mariano Baccay, the government's regional commander, described the massacre as the "worst ever" perpetrated by the N.P.A. against civilians. While it may have been a desperate measure by the guerrillas, who have lost the military initiative in the rural south, officials in Manila fear that the N.P.A. may soon begin an assassination campaign in major Philippine cities...
...everything written by playwright-memoirist Lillian Hellman was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.' " Much the same, Seagrave argues, could be said of Ferdinand Marcos, who blithely concocted a past for his official biographies that bore scant relationship to the truth. Ferdinand claims to be the first son of Mariano Marcos, a provincial teacher and sometime member of Congress. According to Seagrave, there is strong circumstantial evidence -- including his subject's distinctively sinoid features -- that the real father was Judge Ferdinand Chua, scion of a wealthy, politically powerful Chinese clan who came to the rescue at crucial moments in Marcos...
...episode that first brought him national notoriety, Marcos responded to a slighting of family honor in a manner worthy of Michael Corleone. In 1935 Mariano Marcos was unexpectedly defeated for a third term in the Philippine House of Representatives by a neighbor, Julio Nalundasan. When the victor flaunted this triumph in a humiliating manner, Ferdinand, who had been a member of his university's shooting team, hid in the orchard one night outside Nalundasan's home and at an opportune moment coolly fired two shots from a long-barreled .22-cal. pistol. Ferdinand was found guilty of murder...
...mood today is very happy because many are first-time voters," said Glenna M. Mariano, a poll worker at Adams House. "One girl said to her friend, `Here I go,' and then plunged into the voting booth...
...Mariano, who worked the polls at the School of Design's Gund Hall in 1984, estimated that students turned out yesterday at the same levels as in the last presidential election. "There's been an incredible amount of student participation and enthusaism today," she said...