Word: mindanao
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Escorted to the ship by the dynamic Secretary himself, a batch of 75 Communist guerrillas, who had surrendered or been captured in the hills of Luzon, set sail with their families for sparsely populated Mindanao, where they would farm their own land. At first, the Huks who had volunteered for Magsaysay's resettlement program were doubtful. Some half suspected they were walking into a trap. Six days later their doubts vanished when government trucks carried them into a vast resettlement farm at Kapatagan, and they found rows of neat, new houses and 16,000 acres of fertile land waiting...
Last month he announced a plan for doing this. With 4,000,000 pesos of government aid, Magsaysay started a land resettlement project in the fertile but undeveloped plains of Mindanao. Instead of jail sentences, each Huk who is captured or gives up will get ten hectares (25 acres) of this land, plus a house, tools and work animals. "Here is a good way to give those boys in the mountains something to come down...
Civilian Filipinos were enthusiastic about the idea. So were many Huks. In the last six weeks, since word of Magsay-say's plan spread into Luzon's hills, 500 Huks have surrendered and applied for resettlement. Three hundred hectares of flat, virgin land in Mindanao have been cleared for the first batch of Huk settlers, who will leave Luzon within the next few months. More are expected. "We keep hammering at them," said Magsaysay, "and looking for them in the jungles, and promising them this green valley where they can have their own homes and live happily with...
Meanwhile, on Camiguin Island in the Mindanao Sea, Hibok-Hibok volcano erupted last week for the first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...
...fortune finally smiled on him. He caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt by subduing the fierce Moros of Mindanao. The President praised him publicly, attended his wedding to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1906 Roosevelt caused a sensation by promoting him from captain to brigadier general over the heads of 862 other officers...