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...Sept. 20, Ryan Martinito, 18, and P.J. Taporco, 19, were walking down Ponciano Reyes Street, one of Davao's main thoroughfares. Both were known cell- phone thieves who had been arrested several times and were out on bail. As several witnesses looked on, two men riding a motorcycle drove up, killed Martinito and Taporco with bullets to the head, then sped away. It was 2:30 in the afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Punisher | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...most important of all, create a government completely free of military influence. He rolled up more votes in Guatemala City than his two opponents combined-Colonel Juan de Dios Aguilar de León, 54, the government-backed candidate of the Democratic Institutional Party, and Colonel Miguel Angel Ponciano, 51, leader of the National Liberation Movement. The margin was less in the outbacks, however, and at week's end, as the counting continued, it appeared that the election might be thrown into the newly elected Congress, since Montenegro seemed to lack the absolute majority required by law. The congressional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Two for the Seesaw | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Then without warning, in a rocky cleft 88 airline miles northeast of Manila, the mountains were rent with the splat of machine-gun fire. Mayor Ponciano Bernardo of Quezon City stood up to shout, "Doña Aurora is in our party!" A slug from a Garand rifle brought him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Murder in the Mountains | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Appetizer. In Los Angeles, Ponciano Pena slipped through a 13th floor jail window, was balancing on the tenth-floor ledge when he was lured in by a jailer, who remarked that dinner was served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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