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...like it. From his Tegucigalpa house, boxes of arms appeared and were loaded into trucks. Soldiers were recruited, and promised pay of $2.50 a day. The force thus swiftly mobilized was uniformed in fresh suntans, and airlifted (in commercial DC-3s, at $400 a flight) to Macuelizo, Copan and Nueva Ocotepeque. Honduran hamlets on the Guatemalan frontier...
...stroke, shortly after celebrating Mass on the 61st anniversary of his ordination as a priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler), and led the Roman Catholic theological struggle against the "Independent Philippine Church," founded by Gregorio Aglipay, who had been a Roman Catholic...
...thousands of peasants and rural workers who in their underpaid, underprivileged past have never been given much reason for confidence. Who is winning this struggle now? Maybe a certain Colonel Abay knows a little of the answer. And the men of Bamban in Tarlac, and a peasant boy of Nueva Ecija-maybe they know a little. Let them speak...
Indications that the anniversary celebration was to be an extended one came the following night as attacks increased in number and violence. By the fourth day, the Huks had killed 44 Constabulary troopers and civilians, wounded some 33 more and terrorized towns all the way from Nueva Ecija Province in Central Luzon to Batangas Province south of Manila...
...money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy; an "attractive and popular" man, he had been made governor of Nueva Galicia, the province just northwest of the capital...