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During his year in office, President Ferdinand Marcos has leveled a two-pronged attack on the troublesome pockets of Huk rebellion that still persist in parts of central Luzon more than a decade after the collapse of the main Communist insurgency. One weapon is a social-reform program that aims to undercut the Huks by building schools and hospitals, repairing wells and roads, and providing land-improvement loans to farmers. The other is the cold steel and hot bullets of a 3,800-man military force under Colonel Rafael Ileto, 46, who was named last winter to hunt down...
...Stranglehold. What disturbed critics was a White Paper in which the government made plain that for the most part the freeze would persist at least through mid-1967, and perhaps for long thereafter. The decision may or may not have been wise, but it took some courage. "There is no joy in this White Paper," said the London Times. "It all adds up to a squeeze that is becoming a stranglehold...
...President's mind, this move should make it abundantly clear to both Hanoi and our Asian allies that the defeat of many Democrats in the mid-term elections does not bely any widespread popular disaffection with the Johnson Asian policy; and more important, that American resolve to persist in Vietnam has not been dampened...
...reintegrate these people as full members of our society." As Viet Nam's Premier Ky explained it, those who want to live under Communism can go North, and those who want to renounce Communism can "lay down their weapons" and stay in the South. "As for those who persist in bringing misery to the people," Ky added, "we shall give them no quarter." So far this year, some 13,000 Viet Cong have defected under the Chieu Hoi ("open arms") program, but many of them have been unable to find jobs or overcome the suspicions of local officialdom. Thus...
...percentage of non-whites in a school. The School Committee has now decided to count 671 Chinese students as white. So by the committee's figures, there are 36 imbalanced schools in the city, although state officials, using the now presumably outdated definitions of the U.S. Census Bureau, persist in counting...