Foreign News: SURRENDER AT BARRIO SANTA MARIA

How the Philippine's Top Communist Turned Himself In

Last week a resolute President of the Philippines, a powerful army and a 21 -year-old Manila Times reporter named Benigno Aquino brought about the surrender of Philippine Communist Leader Luis Tame (TIME, May 24). This is Reporter Aquino's story.

ONE day last January, I went to the Manila fish market and a friend introduced me to an old man who was carrying a basket of stinking fish. The old man was Arsenio Taruc, a blood relation of Luis Taruc, the elusive Huk (Communist) terrorist. Since his kinsman's...

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