Word: taruc
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...Luis Taruc, for eight years the head of the bloody Communist Huk revolt in the Philippine hills, strode into Manila's packed City Hall last week to be tried for rebellion and a string of other crimes including arson, murder, kidnaping and robbery. The defense asked the court to drop seven of the 30 counts against him on the ground that a 1948 presidential amnesty absolved these crimes. The prosecution agreed, even though the seventh count-involving the ambush murder of Aurora Quezon, widow of the onetime President-was committed a full year after the amnesty had been granted...
...President Magsaysay gave me the word: Bring Taruc down. For the first time, I had army clearance. Taruc set the rendezvous at Barrio Santa Maria, in the wilds of Pampanga Province, and the army agreed to suspend operations there between...
...reached the barrio at 6:35 a.m. If I failed to return by 9 a.m., the troops would blow the place to smithereens. Taruc was waiting at the foot of Mt. Arayat, an extinct volcano. His lean figure was surrounded by the people of the barrio; like them, he wore a grey peasant shirt, brown pants and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The only question I asked was: "Do you accept the President's terms?" Taruc said: "I accept." He shook my hands warmly and said farewell to the barrio folk, many of them weeping. Minutes later we were...
This week the Philippines government formally charged Taruc with 24 counts of murder, sedition and rebellion. He will stand trial next month, and, if convicted, could be sentenced to death. The chances are, however, that President Magsaysay will grant clemency to Luis Taruc in the hope of encouraging his followers to follow his example and give...
...First reports had it that an army lieutenant stopped the advancing troops just as they were about to capture Taruc, without the aid of Aquino. Actually, it was the barrio lieutenant, a local peace officer, who intervened; the army had nothing to do with it, and clearly understood its arrangement with Reporter Aquino...