Word: pampanga
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...highly unusual step, President Arroyo - a hard-working but unloved leader - is running for a congressional seat in her family's home province of Pampanga, which is being specially vacated by her son. Some suspect a dark plot to keep Arroyo in power under a new political system being pushed by her allies. For her part, Arroyo insists public service is "emblazoned in my DNA." The odds are she will win the seat...
...reforming policies, the Huks are once more stepping up their activity in their old stomping grounds in central Luzon-particularly in four provinces. Says Senator Manuel P. Manahan, chairman of the Philippine Senate's National Defense and Security Committee: "The Huks have established an in visible government in Pampanga [north of Manila], in western sections of Bula-can and in the southern fringes of Nueva Eciha and Tarlac. They have entrenched themselves in four vital activities: Huk taxation, Huk justice, Huk business and Huk politics...
...Huks already have control in varying degrees of 1,400 square miles and 500,000 people, but their political power is growing even faster than their geographic boundaries. Two weeks ago, the Huks were able to get together 150 buses and 5,000 Pampanga villagers to drive into Manila and complain to Marcos about the "brutality" of the Constabulary, which is the chief hunter of the Huks. Matters might be much worse if the Huks and their urban comrades, the Communist Party of the Philippines, could get along. Fortunately, they are so split by ideological and personal rivalries that they...
When Ileto took over, no fugitive on the wanted list was considered more dangerous than "Commander Oscar," the pseudonym for Ricardo Ignacio, a shadowy gunman who was Huk chief tain in six towns in Pampanga and Tarlac provinces and also one of the Huks' most feared "enforcers." The government credited Oscar with at least 25 assassinations and abductions in recent months; Oscar himself openly bragged that he had led the ambush that killed the Huk-fighting mayor of Candaba last July...
...after President Ramon Magsaysay's intense four-year campaign of pacification and resettlement ended in the mid 1950s. But in the past few years, as government control has waned in Luzon, Huk influence has slowly reasserted itself. One mayor now claims that 80% of his home province of Pampanga has fallen under Communist control, and that nearly half of the area's 22 mayors are either Communists or Communist sympathizers. If these figures are somewhat high, Marcos himself puts Huk strength at 250 hard-core terrorists, 250 to 500 part-time terrorists, and a "mass base" of perhaps...