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Word: supremo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, a small man walked across the white sand of a dried river bed and held out his hand to a young Manila newsman, and to Manuel Manahan, chief of President Ramon Magsaysay's Complaints & Action Commission. After six years in the hills, Communist Luis Taruc, El Supremo of the Huk guerrillas, was keeping a rendezvous. In good English he said: "Let's get straight to the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Out of the Jungle | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

They blinked even more when they got to the end. It was signed by Luis Taruc, the slight, young (in the 30s) Communist who is El Supremo of the Huks and commander in chief of the guerrilla war which has terrorized the islands for six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Proposition from El Supremo | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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