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Early Wednesday morning, the children of Musmos Daycare Center, in Manila's Tondo slum, were supposed to be headed on an excursion to the nearby resort town of Tagaytay. Instead they spent the day parked in their school bus near Manila's city hall - hostages in a nationally televised, eight-and-a-half-hour standoff between their daycare center's owner and Manila police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Hostages Released in Manila | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

...take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove to the southern outskirts of Manila in 104 hours. The 511th Regimental Combat Team made the first paratroop drop of the Philippine campaign, landing along the Tagaytay ridge in support of the11th Airborne's ground drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Ike & the Eighth | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...closest to the U.S.'s lost naval base at Cavite, seaborne elements of the nth Airborne Division drove ashore two days after the landing above Olongapo. As they bored toward the city, part of their 511th Regiment dropped down from the sky ahead of the advance, took Tagaytay Ridge overlooking Manila from the south. Meanwhile the 37th Division and the cavalry, were within striking distance of the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: With Mac to Manila | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Again she had to stay behind while he went to Manila. She caught up two weeks before Pearl Harbor. Married immediately, they slipped away for a two-day rainy honeymoon in a cottage at Tagaytay. But they were not alone; they had to see to the care & feeding of two baby giant pandas, gifts of Madame Chiang Kaishek, en route to the U.S. Their magnificent wedding presents from Chinese officials-red satin embroidered blankets, silver filigree china, Tao silver and bamboo vases-went up in smoke a week later when Manila fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Line of Duty | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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