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...Quezon City, Philippines...
Following the spread of Islam throughout Southeast Asia, Moslems dominated the southern Philippines for five centuries. They successfully defended their culture against the Spaniards who conquered the rest of the Philippines and against the Americans who replaced them. A Moslem decline began in 1938, when Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon proclaimed Mindanao the "land of opportunity," and Christian Filipinos from the crowded north started moving in. Better educated, the Christians gained control of Moslem land and of the region's economy. They also practiced religious discrimination in employment and education. Though the Moslems number more than 2,000,000, they...
...become captain of the rifle and pistol squad as well as cadet battalion commander in the ROTC. He also got his first taste of political activism. Ferdie took to the soapbox to comment acidly on everything from the curriculum to the policies of the Philippines' first President, Manuel Quezon...
...Educator Holland has gone far, so has Pediatrician del Mundo. She has done research in bacteriology as well as pediatrics, and written extensively on both. She has set up the 100-bed Children's Memorial Hospital in Quezon City (a Manila suburb), with an institute of maternal and child health recently added, and has gone deep into debt to pay the running costs. Dr. del Mundo accepts donations and whatever fees patients can pay, but no govern ment money. Now she has a new volunteer fund raiser - Albert Holland...
Macapagal fights against this reality by personal example. Gone are the lavish presidential entertainments of the Garcia era, including the weekly poker game at which the boss handed out political favors to his cronies. While ex-President Garcia relaxes in obscure luxury at his Quezon City mansion, his successor has thrown open the presidential palace, with its private zoo, to the public; the state dining room has been largely unused. Macapagal has published a complete financial statement of what he owns (total assets: $34,485), has issued an unprecedented decree that neither his own nor his wife's relatives...