Word: taruc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taruc kept the appointment in the very barrio from which he had escaped. "From a distance, I spotted his lanky figure," reported Aquino afterwards. "He was standing alone, silhouetted against the morning sky . . . He met me, smiling." The two men shook hands, and Aquino said: "Do you unconditionally accept the President's terms...
...Said Taruc:"I accept...
...Taruc left San Pablo, the villagers wept. They are fanatically loyal to him, said Colonel Cabal. Taruc was driven to Camp Murphy, and the government took over. He was the biggest prize taken in the eight-year-old war against the Huk guerrillas. Looking relaxed and confident, Taruc announced that he had"come down" because of"a deep conviction of the sincerity of the President . . . to work out a program which will give peace and prosperity." Magsaysay's terms, he said,"laid the basis of negotiations," and he was now "joining the forces of law and order...
Upper Hand. He was scarcely a welcome addition. Philippine armymen bluntly recommended that Bandit Taruc be brought to trial (for murder, treason and arson) and quickly sentenced to death. They well remembered Taruc's last"surrender"-in 1948, when he accepted an amnesty, returned to his seat in the Philippine Congress (to which he was elected in the liberation days of 1946), collected his back pay, and skedaddled back to the Luzon hills. This time, snapped General Jesus Vargas, the army's chief of staff, no deal had been made; Magsaysay owed Taruc nothing."We have the upper...
...Despite the peculiar circumstances of his surrender, there could be no doubt that Taruc's guerrilla army is in despair. In the Philippines at least, the Communists are now on the run. After interviewing Taruc, General Vargas gave his own estimate that Huk strength in the field has fallen from a high of 10,000 in 1948 to less than 1,500. Huk"sympathizers," some of them starved into despair by the government's ruthless pursuit, others attracted by the government's offer of more land and security, have probably been reduced from around a million...