Word: quirino
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Magsaysay's men uncovered enough evidence to indict Lacson and 26 henchmen for murder. The trial began in January 1952. but for one reason or another, during Quirino's presidency, it was frequently interrupted (during one interlude, Lacson was convicted of raping his housemaid and sentenced to eight years). But the Padilla case was not forgotten. In his campaign for the presidency last year, Magsaysay would climax his speeches by declaring emotionally: "When I carried the body of Moises Padilla in my arms, it was not the body of Padilla but the body of the humble people...
...flew in to inspect this little dictatorship; Governor Lacson turned them right around and flew them out. Occasionally, a charge of rape or murder against Lacson reached the court but nothing ever came of it. Even if he was a bit rough, he delivered solidly on election day. President Quirino's Liberal administration could not afford to quibble...
...invaded Lacson's territory by running as opposition candidate for mayor of Magallon. Lacson sent word to Padilla to drop out. Usually this sufficed ; instead Padilla, an old guerrilla fighter against the Japanese, appealed to Ramon Magsaysay. then Defense Secretary, for protection. Magsaysay also worked for Liberal President Quirino, but Magsaysay had no use for Lacson's little dictatorship. The army protected Padilla...
Magsaysay got his legislation enacted only because he finally faced up to a conflict with the senior Nacionalista Party leaders, the very men who persuaded him to leave ex-President Quirino's Liberal Party last year and run for President as a Nacionalista. The core of the conflict, the question to be decided, is whether the old politicos or Magsaysay will govern the nation, and for whose benefit...
...Vatican opposition. 53. Thousands of this new executive's followers jammed the presidential palace at his inauguration here. 54. His name: 1. Klpidio Quirino...