Word: mindanao
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...down a large number of enemy units, kill 7,000 Japanese troops, and secure intelligence of the highest value. And here is one modern guerrilla insurrection that was led by Americans-for this is the story of Colonel Wendell Fertig and his men in the struggle for Mindanao during the occupation of the Philippines by Japanese troops...
Fertig and his men were rank amateurs at the start. After Corregidor fell, U.S. units left on Mindanao were ordered to surrender. A few officers and men refused to obey that order. By twos and threes they slipped into the jungle, as did several American civilians and some Filipino soldiers and constabulary. At the same time the more warlike local tribes, including the Moslem Moros, whose mountains the Americans had more or less pacified, dug their weapons out of the thatch and resumed their ancestral feuding, bushwhacking Japanese as a useful sideline. But there was only hostility among the rival...
...presidential palace, a portly aristocrat in an immaculate white suit caught up with the business at hand. With imperious dispatch, Don Andres Soriano, 64, decided on the gift boxes that his companies will use next Christmas, studied the experimental strains of barley that he hopes to grow in the Mindanao highlands, and okayed production schedules for a new instant-coffee plant near Manila. That done, he got set to fly to New York to complete negotiations with International Paper Co. for construction of a jointly owned wood pulp and paper mill-the first in the Philippines...
Balky Beneficiaries. Worst hit was the Moslem community on Mindanao around Lake Lanao. Villagers refused to stop drinking water from the lake and rivers into which they defecated, arguing "Why shouldn't I drink it, when my forefathers did and lived to be 90?" They balked at vaccinations, protesting that government health workers were "trying to inject Christian blood into our veins...
...amounting to nearly one-twentieth of the land surface of the earth, is still virgin soil. In Ethiopia alone, more than 180 million of the world's most fertile acres lie fallow. Even in crowded Asia, great tracts of potentially arable land, such as the Philippine island of Mindanao and the central highlands of South Viet Nam, remain uncultivated. Meanwhile, the U.S., surfeited with food, has put 22.5 million acres of once productive land into its soil bank...