Word: pampanga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Magsaysay gave me the word: Bring Taruc down. For the first time, I had army clearance. Taruc set the rendezvous at Barrio Santa Maria, in the wilds of Pampanga Province, and the army agreed to suspend operations there between...
...driving rain, Magsaysay was whisked through bamboo forests into Pampanga province, the last region of the islands where the Huks are still strong. A limousine with six bodyguards led the way; a jeepload of Manila police guarded the rear. Peasants, alerted that Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh) was coming, waved and grinned from beneath their huge dripping salakots (hats). As the convoy sloshed into Manalin, a public address system blared the catchy Magsaysay Mambo: "Mambo, Mambo, Magsaysay,/ Our democracy will die,/ If there is no Magsaysay...
...small landowners, many tenants, a few barrio lieutenants or deputy mayors-have come to the town hall to hear speeches by officers of the 5th battalion combat team. The battalion surgeon, a young major who grew up near Bamban, is speaking in Pampango, the liquid dialect of Pampanga and Tarlac provinces. I almost never hear the word "Hukbalahap." Speakers use euphemisms for the Huks-"The New Faces," "The Mistaken People" or "Our Friends Outside...
...days later in the Philippine Senate, owl-eyed, anti-Quirinist Pablo Angeles David rose to report a new campaign of terror in Pampanga province. The perpetrators, David charged, were not Hukbalahaps, but government constabulary troops out for revenge for the assassination of one of their commanders. On Good Friday, David told the Senate, constabulary troops and civilian guards raided his home town of Bacolor, massacred some 100 men, women & children and burned 130 houses...
...Pampanga Governor José B. Lingad tried to defend the government, accused David of having once plotted to assassinate President Quirino. In the course of his attack, Lingad dropped an embarrassing admission. "The Huk dissidents," he said, "have been gaining ground. We are being pushed back to where we were in early 1947." This admission disgusted even Quirino's own men. Senate Majority Leader Tomas S. Cabili denounced the government's policies for dealing with the Huks as "utter bankruptcy." "This confession of failure," he added, "has to be made even if it scares the wits off American...