Word: masaka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly in this climate, the far leftists are making more converts. Masaka, a Communist-front farmers' league, has tripled its membership to 21,000 in the past eight months. Active again in Central Luzon are the dreaded Huks (TIME, March 24), the backwoods Marxists who nearly toppled the Manila government in the early 1950s before they were brought under control. Warned a Senate report last month: "Today it is Central Luzon. Tomorrow it may be the whole country...