Word: luzon
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...summer grasses are especially lush where it is always summertime: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tinian, Luzon, Iwo Jima-World War II battle sites where hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers died in a losing cause. But rather than rely on troubadours to describe the battlegrounds, many Japanese are making the grim journey to these islands in the sun. Not incidentally they have spawned a lucrative sideline for Japan's booming tourist industry-senseki jumpai, or battlefield pilgrimages...
Marcos confronts other knotty challenges elsewhere. In the hill country of southern Luzon, the Maoist "New People's Army," which was severely weakened in the first months of martial law, has rebounded...
...miles north of Saigon. As part of the bargain, the South Vietnamese would release 4,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners over a four-day period. In both North and South, the U.S. captives would be loaded aboard medical-evacuation planes for Clark Air Base in the dusty Luzon plain of the Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from...
...last September, the Philippine armed forces have used their new powers in a struggle to suppress two guerrilla rebellions at opposite ends of the country. One has been organized by the Maoist New People's Army, with perhaps 1,500 combat cadres, operating In Isabela province on Luzon Island in the far north of the country. The other is a resistance movement among Moslems in the southern island of Mindanao and on the jewel-like tropical islands of the Sulu Archipelago. While the Maoists have been thrown on the defensive, martial law seems only to have added fuel...
...long the grace period for Marcos' new regime will last is anybody's guess. Although the Philippine army seems to have contained the relatively small cadre of Maoist insurgents on Luzon, there was a bloody clash two weeks ago between Marcos' troops and units of the fledgling New People's Army at Marawi in Mindanao, where MoslemChristian sectarian strife could provide a tinderbox for future flare-ups. Marcos has also made some powerful enemies in the past two months, including more than 4,500 civil servants who were fired from their jobs on charges of corruption and disloyalty, and wealthy...