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Other supporters staged a parade in the southern city of Davao...
...clubs. At about the same time, a crowd of more than 2,000 demonstrators marched peacefully toward the U.S. embassy to protest American support of Marcos; police broke up the march with similar methods. The next day, a fragmentation grenade ripped through the stage at a beauty pageant in Davao city, 600 miles southeast of Manila, killing at least twelve people. It was not immediately clear I who was responsible...
...depots. Militarily, they are totally overshadowed by the Communists' New Peoples Army, which numbers 2,000 to 3,000. Nonetheless, one Democratic Socialis Party leader-a Jesuit priest who insists that he is still "in very good standing" with his order-claims that the Sandigan group operating near Davao in Mindanao has already made its first kills in skirmishes against tribal paramilitary forces...
...interim National Assembly, the parliamentary body that Marcos designed as an improvement over the martial law that he imposed in 1972. It is a step, he claims, toward "normalcy." With anti-Marcos candidates actively campaigning not only in Manila but also far to the south in Cebu and Davao, the election, reported TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein from the capital last week, has become a crucial test of the President's popularity...
...sent the colossal tsunami waves toward the scenic shorelines of the Sulu Islands and the Moro Gulf coast while most residents were sleeping. The waves wiped out a dozen fishing villages, knocked out bridges, and caused buildings to collapse in the coastal cities of Cotabato, Pagadian and Davao. Philippine officials said the disaster was the worst in their country's history: 3,100 dead, another 3,700 missing, 1,000 injured and nearly 90,000 homeless...