Word: samar
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Sandigan,* as the Catholic guerrilla organization is known, claims it has about 100 members operating in three widely separated regions: in Luzon north of Manila, on the island of Samar and in southern Mindanao. Since early this year, its armed bands have been infiltrating villages to establish bases and food-supply depots. Militarily, they are totally overshadowed by the Communists' New Peoples Army, which numbers 2,000 to 3,000. Nonetheless, one Democratic Socialis Party leader-a Jesuit priest who insists that he is still "in very good standing" with his order-claims that the Sandigan group operating near...
Last week India had further cause for annoyance with Bangladesh. India's High Commissioner, in effect ambassador, to Dacca, Samar Sen, was shot in the back and seriously wounded by six young men who had posed as visitors to his office. Bangladesh police returned the fire, killing four of the attackers and wounding...
...real problem may be keeping Taiwan from being expelled entirely. Says the Indian Ambassador to the U.N., Samar Sen: "[The U.S.] Government can simply explain that it is a question of 12 million Chinese or 750 million." One possible U.S. strategy: to agree that Chinese admission is no longer an "important" question and can be settled by a simple majority vote, but to insist that Taiwan's expulsion would be "important," thus requiring a two-thirds vote in the General Assembly. If it became clear that the Nationalists were nevertheless about to be expelled, they would almost surely quit...