Word: mindanao
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...same time, the Communist New People's Army has, in recent months, managed to field an estimated 10,000 armed guerrillas in most of the country's 73 provinces. In parts of the southern island of Mindanao, the guerrillas have organized virtual surrogate governments. Earlier this month, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage told the House Subcommittee for Asian and Pacific Affairs that without reforms, Marcos' regime could be overthrown by the Communists "within less than a decade...
...torrent of rain. Together, wind and water left a trail of misery last week that stunned even those Asians long inured to natural disasters. Typhoon Ike hit the southern Philippine coast with gusts of over 120 m.p.h., leaving a path of destruction that reached into the northern tip of Mindanao and pummeled the islands of Cebu, Negros and Panay. The storm left more than 2,000 dead and 200,000 homeless before moving across the South China Sea to northeastern Thailand, causing several more deaths and extensive flooding. Total damage in the Philippines was estimated at $100 million...
That commission has turned up several witnesses whose accounts directly contradict the government's official explanation. But the investigation is just one of the thorns in Marcos' side. On the southern island of Mindanao and elsewhere, some of the 10,000 armed Communist insurgents belonging to the New People's Army have gathered enough popular support to operate what amounts to local surrogate governments. In the absence of financial support from abroad, moreover, thousands of citizens are destined for unemployment and hundreds of factories for closure. The coming election may only compound Marcos' woes...
...that the New People's Army (N.P.A.), a loose association of radical nationalists inspired by Mao, now has 7,000 to 10,000 armed members, supported by a base of 100,000 sympathizers. The movement's greatest strength is concentrated in northern Luzon, Samar, and in eastern Mindanao, where N.P.A. bands, sometimes numbering as many as 200 guerrillas, have attacked military outposts and where the organization claims to control 200 villages. The government has dealt harshly with the Communist insurgents, publishing lists of the most wanted leaders and offering rewards for their capture, and jailing Catholic clergy suspected...
...PHILIPPINES. As the southern island of Mindanao suffers through its worst drought in 50 years, 3 million farmers have lost some 60,000 tons of rice and corn, causing exportable rice stocks to plunge by 69%. Not even faraway Manila is immune: six major dams, the main source of the capital's water and electricity, may soon have to be closed down. As in other blighted areas, the physical wasteland has become a political minefield. President Marcos' wife Imelda perplexed compatriots in May by reportedly pressing the government into phasing out its $320 million U.S. food-assistance program...