Word: taruc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last January, I went to the Manila fish market and a friend introduced me to an old man who was carrying a basket of stinking fish. The old man was Arsenio Taruc, a blood relation of Luis Taruc, the elusive Huk (Communist) terrorist. Since his kinsman's outlawry, he had lost his social position and was working as a part-time stevedore...
Reports were circulating that Taruc the Guerrilla was dead or had left the Philippines on a Soviet submarine, but when I told Arsenio that I would like to interview his notorious cousin, he said he would help. Arsenio knew that the Philippine army was getting the upper hand in its war against the Huks, and he wanted to warn Luis before it was too late...
Arsenio introduced me to Taruc's other relatives: Romeo, 17, his only son, who had spent four years in the hills with his father; Meliton, 52, Taruc's half brother. These kinsmen formed the nucleus of a crude little intelligence unit whose job was to seek out Taruc and arrange...
...faithful Communist, Taruc may have concluded that he could best serve his waning cause by giving...
...There is no further reason," Taruc volunteered helpfully during his interrogation, "why more blood should be spilled...