Word: mindanao
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After a rough and perilous trip of nearly 600 miles in 35 hours, MacArthur landed at dawn near a Mindanao pineapple plantation, where a B-17 bomber picked him up and flew him to Australia. On landing, he asked the first American officer he saw about the U.S. reinforcements he thought were awaiting his arrival. "So far as I know, sir," said the officer, "there are very few troops here." Said MacArthur to an aide: "Surely he is wrong...
When mutineers led by renegade Colonel Alexander Noble overran three military garrisons in the southern island of Mindanao last week with barely a shot fired, observers 500 miles away in Manila feared that a slow-motion coup attempt was under way. According to that scenario, long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...
...mutineers' disinformation kept the government off balance. Reports trickled in that large areas of Luzon and Mindanao as well as the bustling commercial city of Cebu in the central Philippines had capitulated to the rebels. Rumors flew that Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos and armed forces Chief of Staff Renato de Villa had joined the rebellion. Ramos added to the muddle by saying nothing publicly on the matter for 212 hours. Finally he went on radio to urge: "Do not believe their propaganda. It's not true. We're fighting them. They are the enemy...
Aquino's problems are likely to proliferate. The N.P.A. last week announced that it was including among its targets American businesses on the island of Mindanao. Some Filipinos believe the move is a ploy to cast Aquino as a lackey of U.S. imperialism. Said Opposition Senator Juan Ponce Enrile: "The N.P.A. will say, 'We're only fighting American imperialists. So why is the Philippine government shooting at us?' " The local elections scheduled for Jan. 18 are bound to be violent. For one thing, minor rivalries between small-town politicos could turn into bloody feuds multiplied hundreds of times over across...
Aquino immediately set about personally surveying her domain. Amid threats of imminent coups and assassinations, she visited Davao City on the strife- torn island of Mindanao. By week's end the police were tearing down strike barricades. The moves are proving to be popular, so much so that even Aquino's disaffected Vice President, Salvador Laurel, has begun to soften his criticism of her leadership. Earlier, Laurel admitted there was a tactical alliance between some of his supporters and those of Aquino's archrival, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile. After the President's speech, Laurel said his differences with...