Word: pampango
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...true, and I ask again: How many are actually going back to the villages-now? There is a long silence. The men of Bamban look at each other, and at the watching officers, and at the town's mayor. The major and the mayor talk urgently in Pampango. Across the room a hand is raised, another & another, until ten or twelve are up. Everyone else in the room stares at the men with their hands up; two or three arms are lowered again. The room is hot with unspoken tension. But the mayor and the battalion officers look pleased...
...some 70 representative citizens-a few 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...
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