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Died. Pedro Taruc, 68, ranking commander of the Hukbalahap agrarian rebel movement in the Philippines; by gunfire when he was waylaid by an army unit; in Angeles, near Clark airbase. A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers. His death destroys the guerrilla threat to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...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...
Preoccupied with the war in Viet Nam, the U.S. sometimes forgets that a similar struggle against Red rebels was won. in the Philippines. Under relentless pressure from President Ramon Magsaysay's counterguerrilla forces, Philippine Communist Leader Luis Taruc surrendered a decade ago and accepted amnesty, ceding command of 56,000 remaining Hukbalahap guerrillas to Jesus Lava, a wiry physician...
...modest clapboard house near Manila's center and roused a pale, gaunt man from a pre-lunch nap. His indignant protest of innocence lasted only until the agents found letters from Mao Tse-tung and other top Communist leaders. When confronted by the now respectable Luis Taruc, he admitted he was Jesus Lava, 51, general secretary of the Philippine Communist Party. After years in the backwoods, Lava had apparently come to Manila to visit his family...
...Philippines, even though economic instability and corruption remain dangerous; the hard-core armed Huks probably number only a few hundred, and they may be able to draw on perhaps 10,000 supporters in remote Mindanao and Luzon. Successor to Lava as leader of the Huks is Pedro Taruc, cousin to Luis, who seems determined to continue desultory attacks on remote villages...