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Though the government-controlled Philippine press reports little about the worsening war with Moslem guerrillas, military leaders speak freely with foreign correspondents. The rebels are more elusive. TIME Correspondent David Aikman made contact with a band of them last week on Basilan Island. His report...
ACOMPANIED by an intermediary - a civilian Moslem who sympathizes with the rebel soldiers - I set out from Basilan City in a motorized outrigger called a pump boat. We rode through the tranquil coastal waters for 30 minutes, then turned into a narrow creek canopied with palm fronds. It was another 30 minutes before we reached the rendezvous point - a lonely clearing on a coconut plantation...
Ambihal did most of the talking, but the others chimed in from time to time. They seemed almost completely ignorant of the campaigns of Moslem insurgents on other islands in the region, but they conveyed a sense of desperate frustration and determination about their own situation...
...sounds a little like Viet Nam. In fact, the intensifying conflict between the Philippine government and Moslem insurgents in the southern Philippines is notably different in at least one respect: no foreign power is yet directly involved on either side. Though the U.S. traditionally supplies arms to the Philippines, it has not increased its aid because of the rebellion. As for the insurgents, there is some evidence that their weapons are smuggled in by speedboats from the Malaysian state of Sabah (see map page 37), and that faraway Libya stands ready to finance fellow Moslems. But there has been...
...however, nor Sartre a Jew. But Fanon was black. His most significant work came out of his sudden realization, as a black psychiatrist in an Algerian mental hospital, that the fact of French colonial domination caused unique and grave psychic disorders in the objects of oppression, Fanon's Moslem patients...