Word: mindanao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marcos' new regime will last is anybody's guess. Although the Philippine army seems to have contained the relatively small cadre of Maoist insurgents on Luzon, there was a bloody clash two weeks ago between Marcos' troops and units of the fledgling New People's Army at Marawi in Mindanao, where MoslemChristian sectarian strife could provide a tinderbox for future flare-ups. Marcos has also made some powerful enemies in the past two months, including more than 4,500 civil servants who were fired from their jobs on charges of corruption and disloyalty, and wealthy oligarchs who were financially hurt...
...most areas of the earth, the Stone Age came to an end thousands of years ago, but not in the remote mountain forests of the Philippine island of Mindanao, 650 miles south of Manila. There, scientists recently discovered a lost tribe of Stone Age human beings whose way of life has remained unchanged for aeons. Excited by their unique opportunity, Philippine anthropologists last week prepared for an expedition into the jungle to live with the tribesmen and investigate their customs before the primitive culture is contaminated or obliterated by encroaching civilization...
Over the Sibuyan Sea in the central Philippines, two long-haired young Filipinos last week barged into the cockpit of a BAC-One-Eleven jet bound from Manila to the southern island of Mindanao. "This is a hijack," said one, pressing a pistol against the pilot's neck. "Head north-to Peking." A second youth nervously fingered the aircraft's fire ax, while three others guarded the passengers. Told that the Philippine Air Lines plane could not make it to Peking, 1,500 miles away, the hijackers agreed to a refueling stop at Hong Kong, where the plane...
...islands, the Huks, have been so cut up by government raids that they now amount to little more than a Mafia-like bunch of "protection" racketeers. But on Luzon, several hundred members of a Maoist New People's Army wage intermittent guerrilla war against the central government. On Mindanao, some 2,000 people died during the past year in clashes between private armies of Christians and Moslems over land and timber holdings. In Manila, during the last three months, leftist students allied with striking workers have staged a series of demonstrations, which left nine people dead and hundreds injured...