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...never lost an election, and in winning his Senate seat, he piled up the greatest plurality ever in a Philippine election. Wiry and energetic, he never smokes and seldom drinks. He and his wife, who is the daughter of a politically powerful family that controls Leyte and Samar, have three children. Until last year, Marcos was a leading Liberal Party man. But then, sensing Macapagal's yearnings for a second term, he bolted to the Nationalist Party, where he elbowed the other presidential hopefuls aside...
Much of the Philippines' violence rises from the chasm of poverty that separates rich and poor. Though the 7,100 islands of the republic are rich in natural resources (gold and copper on Luzon, iron on Samar, chromite on Mindanao) and fecund with such crops as tobacco, sugar, corn and rice, average Filipino income is only $120 a year. Fully 6% of the population is unemployed, and a third of all Filipinos work only three months a year. Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack...
...long report to Geneva, the International Control Commission, which is supposed to be policing the truce, simply threw up its hands. Wrote Chairman Samar Sen, an Indian civil servant: "In the jungle, it is nearly impossible to say who shot first or who gave the first provocation." Obviously, unsympathetic to what he called "the Boun Oum group," Sen said he had no "detailed evidence" to back up repeated government charges of Pathet Lao raids-and he showed no desire to go into the jungle...
...Seventh Fleet's 16 escort carriers-"baby flattops"-of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Task Group 77.4 were operating off Samar without knowing that 1) Halsey had taken off after Ozawa or 2) Kurita had come through unguarded San Bernardino Strait and was only minutes over the horizon. A half-hour later, Kurita's shells began splashing around "Taffy 3," one of Task Group 77-4's three task units, under Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague...
...destroyer and crippled a fourth carrier. U.S. surface ships and submarines sank the crippled carrier, a light cruiser and a destroyer. But Bull Halsey was not around for the slaughter; for hours he had been getting urgent queries as to his whereabouts, desperate requests for help off Samar. At 1055 Halsey gave in to the pressure, ordered a large part of his force to turn back south -and went with them. By the time he got back to Leyte Gulf, the great battle was over. With it died the Japanese navy and any chance that it could protect Japan...