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...soon as the bill was law, William Whitelaw, the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland-"the Supremo of Ulster," as the newspapers dubbed him-flew by helicopter to Windsor to accept his seals of office from Queen Elizabeth, and then proceeded to Belfast. One of his first tasks, he promised Parliament, would be to review the files of the internees-numbering some 720-and free some of them...
...guerre of Commander Freddie. The action apparently resulted in part from factional division and rivalry among the insurgents. Government forces had trapped Freddie and his men on a tip-off -and that tip-off had evidently come from Commander Sumulong, who ranks directly below Huk Supremo Pedro Taruc. Sumulong had apparently felt challenged by Freddie. Last week, far from shattered, and united again at least in revenge, the Huks struck back...
...Rodgers' girl friend (Charlotte Rampling) is a pert socialite making her criminal debut as the temptress assigned to dazzle a lieutenant of the armed guards, though much of her wickedness is spent in murdering the Queen's English with such nauseous effusions as "how rave-making" or "supremo!" All of Rotten's cast labors mightily. But on recent evidence, England's humor of idiosyncrasy is dead or in extremis, for nothing so dampens the spirit as to see the muse of comedy working up a sweat...
Undaunted, Zanuck continues to press on with his stupefying re-creation of the most dramatic hours of the European war. Operating out of a blue-striped field headquarters tent, the Supremo has gone on the wagon for the duration, strictly limiting himself to an occasional bottle of beer, to set a solid example for his troupers. Cigar set grimly between his teeth, he takes to the air in a little French Alouette helicopter, zipping back and forth between production units, letting his men see their leader taking risks. He frankly admits that his "filmization" will often mow down the facts...
...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...