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...Liberal Party candidate for city council in a northern Luzon town was shot to death in an ambush. In Batangas, 60 miles south of Manila, the brother and a bodyguard of the Liberal mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into...
...islands and thus helping the country's lagging industrial growth to catch up with the rise in population, requires foreign investments of at least $1 billion. Because he has lost control of the Senate to the opposition Liberal Party and a handful of defectors from his own Nacionalista Party, Marcos has been unable to get through the laws that he needs to attract money from abroad. His plan to distribute land to the peasants has run aground on the obduracy of the landlords and the ineffectiveness of his own administrators. He has made some headway in rooting out corrupt...
White for Innocence. In September 1935 occurred an incident that still haunts Marcos' career. His father had been defeated in a congressional election by Julio Nalundasan, a sharp-tongued Nacionalista who had insulted Mariano fiercely during the course of the campaign. To Filipinos, insults cannot go unanswered. On a stormy, wind-whipped night shortly after Pistol Champion Ferdie Marcos had returned to Ilocos on vacation, Nalundasan rose from his dinner table and walked to a washbasin. He was starkly silhouetted in the lighted window. A single .22-cal. bullet cracked in the banana tree outside, and Nalundasan dropped dead, shot...
...three years since his Liberal Party upset the graft-ridden Nacionalista regime of Carlos Garcia, Macapagal has tried to create a "New Era" in the Philippines. He eliminated corruption in the higher reaches of government, stabilized the peso, passed a much needed land-reform bill to break up the vast estates that date from the days of Spanish rule...
...contest most vital to Macapagal was for eight seats in the 24-man Philippine Senate, where, he complains, the twelve Nacionalista Senators have thwarted his ambitious programs for land reform, industrialization and control of inflation. Wearing his traditional baseball cap with its presidential insignia, and clad in a white barong tagalog (a light, loose-sleeved shirt), Macapa gal stumped the grass roots explaining his aims of "making capitalists out of workers...