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...descendants of the bolomen, I wish to inform you that I (and millions of other Filipinos) have never carried a gun in my life. I was born in Tondo and lived there many years, but I didn't realize that the collection of trash and scrap paper is the principal occupation in my birthplace. In all my Jeepney-riding years, I have never had pigs and call girls as co-passengers. Both are easy to identify in my country...
...later said, "I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance." He needed it, for the Aguinaldo bolomen would have tried the patience of the most saintly President. Like the Viet Cong, the Filipino terrorists were experts at ambush, using bamboo cannon loaded with scrap iron in place of Charley's captured Claymore mines. Hatred for the "Flips" was reflected in a popular Army marching song, set to the tune of Tramp, Tramp, Tramp...
...stark contrast is the Tondo slum on Manila's northern waterfront ? a maze of alleys, mud-floored huts, hovels built from packing cases. Some 8,000 pushcarts roll through Tondo in search of trash and scrap paper, the collection of which is the district's principal occupation. Tondo's kids are a combination of the worst in American and Asian street gangs: the "Canto Boys," with their distinctive madre tattoos, would as soon knife a stranger as zip-gun a passing police...
...announced his candidacy and immediately ran into a nasty, costly primary scrap with moderate Republican George Christopher, former mayor of San Francisco. Tom Kuchel, who usually avoids involvement in state party squabbles, loudly backed Christopher in the primary, saying, "I know where he stands-which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan." Nevertheless, Reagan won with 64% of the votes -and pulled 50,000 more than Governor Brown did in a much closer Democratic race against maverick Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty...
...infancy (she was a whiz at toilet training, never gave trouble about sucking her thumb, and later got A's in practically everything) up to an affair with some undocumented type in nondocumentary films. She was an only child, and Mother and Father kept and treasured every single scrap of paper she ever scribbled on. Probably that was a mistake. In any case, Rona spares no detail of life in grade school and high school, until the reader may well be desperate enough to try that martini, cherry...