Word: mindanao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippines are a chain of 7,100 islands in the Southwestern Pacific, most of them less than a square mile in size, running roughly north and south. They cover 115,600 square miles, about the area of Italy. The principal islands: Luzon (40,420 square miles) and Mindanao (36,537 square miles). Biggest city: Manila...
Religion: With the Spaniards came Catholic priests, and today the Philippines are 80% Catholic. But there are some 700,000 Moslems (the proud, independent tribesmen on Mindanao and Sulu whom the Spaniards named Moros after their own Moors), pagans (some 625,000), Buddhists (about 47,000), Shintoists (13,000), Protestants (600,000) and more than 2,000,000 members of the Filipino Independent, or Aglipayan, Church, an offshoot of Catholicism...
With almost casual candor, Dwight Eisenhower last week restated an old American feeling. The U.S. must support the "legitimate aspirations" of the Moslem world from Dakar to Mindanao, he said, "or else I don't see how we can hold true to our doctrine that we do not want to dominate anyone." Legitimate, of course, was the key word; it did not mean abandoning the Middle East to headlong, irresponsible nationalism. The great colonial powers had long preached that a people has to be emotionally, intellectually and economically ready before it can safely run its own house...
...Philippines, other scientific fishermen were combing even deeper waters. Dr. Anton F. Bruun of the Danish research ship Galathea reported that there seems to be no limit to the depths that life can sink. His men dredged the bottom of the Mindanao trench, the deepest part (35,400 ft.) of the ocean, never explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons...
Last week, as the second batch of 100 Huk settlers reached Mindanao, the camp had electric lights. It also had plenty of pots & pans, plates, spoons, forks, bedding, cigarettes, mosquito nets, a radio-phonograph with the latest U.S. records, a new commander...