Volume 32, Number 21 & 22 · January 16, 1986
Who Can Redeem Mother Filipinas?
By Ian Buruma
Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines
by David Haward Bain
Houghton Mifflin, 464 pp., $24.95
Revolution in the Philippines: The United States in a Hall of Cracked Mirrors
by Fred Poole, by Max Vanzi
McGraw-Hill, 357 pp., $18.95
The Philippines After Marcos
edited by R. J. May, edited by Francisco Nemenzo
Croom Helm (London and Sydney), 239 pp., £17.95
The view from the small church in Calamba, a village about fifty miles south of Manila, is spectacular: on one side is a large lake called Laguna de Bay, on the other is Makiling, a sacred mountain with many caves which peasants believe to be the portals of paradise. Between the mountain and the lake lie the rice fields of Luzon, a relatively prosperous region, traditionally hospitable to rebels and bandits, including some now fighting against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos.
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