Word: luzon
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...People's Army, which the government blamed for the attempt on Enrile's life and for bombings that have rocked the Manila area recently. With about 1,000 arms-carrying guerrillas, the N.P.A. is nowhere near as large as was the Communist Hukbalahap movement that terrorized Luzon in the 1940s and '50s; but it enjoys wide support, not only in the countryside but among disaffected urban workers and intellectuals...
...country's 1,000,000 university graduates are without meaningful jobs. The benefits of the country's gradual economic expansion have been slow to trickle down to most of its 38 million people. As a result of this summer's record floods, which devastated much of Luzon and set the economy back five years by some estimates, that trickle will be slowed even further -perhaps with explosive results...
...other three areas: Java, northeastern Brazil and Central Luzon, breeding ground of the Philippines' Huk terrorists...
...case of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines near the war's end. Yamashita was found guilty of failing to stop his army from committing various atrocities, including the killing of 25,000 unarmed civilians. In fact, he had been holed up in northern Luzon, unable to control or even communicate with most of his men. Even so, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction on the dubious assumption that he had had power to stop the atrocities and therefore, as commander, he had been responsible for his army's conduct. In sharp dissent, Justice Frank...
...more than usually beset by economic, political and social ills-and by the guns of extremists. The old scourges of the islands, the Huks, have been so cut up by government raids that they now amount to little more than a Mafia-like bunch of "protection" racketeers. But on Luzon, several hundred members of a Maoist New People's Army wage intermittent guerrilla war against the central government. On Mindanao, some 2,000 people died during the past year in clashes between private armies of Christians and Moslems over land and timber holdings. In Manila, during the last three...