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Frangipani Blossoms. As President Nixon sought to convey a new shading of American policy to the leaders of Southeast Asia last week, his passage was marked by delicate Eastern ceremonial. In Manila there was an embroidered barong tagalog for him to wear; in Djakarta, white-costumed Javanese dancers strewed frangipani blossoms in the presidential path...
...Tagalog for People's Liberation Army...
Politics in the Philippines is as much a battle of bullets as ballots. As they campaign for the countrywide Nov. 14 elections for mayors, provincial governors and one-third of the 24-man Senate, the candidates are packing .45 automatics under their loose-fitting barong tagalog shirts, or are escorted by bodyguards who carry submachine guns. The precautions are sensible-but not always effective. In one two-day period last week, seven political killings took place throughout the archipelago, bringing to 21 the number of reported political murders in recent weeks. Some 50 other persons have been wounded since...
...firm! Be strong! Be a man! And then-be an angel!") that come so close to Dale Carnegie's exhortations that it might well be called How to Win Friends and Influence God. Yet The Way has sold more than 2,000,000 copies in 15 languages, including Tagalog and Swahili, and is now being translated into 15 other tongues. It is the only written credo of a rapidly expanding but widely misunderstood religious organization known as the Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross and Opus...
...confirmation that he had watched the girls enter and leave the apartment from a park near by. Apparently none of the victims put up a violent struggle, according to the survivor, though three of the girls had cried "ah!" in muffled voices. One of the Philippine nurses cried "masakit!"Tagalog for "it hurts...