MARCOS ACTS
Offensive ordered (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MANILA, July 10. Full-scale military operations have been launched against the Maoist New People’s Army band of 1000 men trying to protect a large cache of firearms and ammunition in the northern Philippines province of Isabela. The massive land-air-sea operations were launched after a directive by President Marcos to make a fullscale counter-attack, and to recapture “at all costs” Digoyo Point, near the town of Palanan, 185 miles northeast of Manila, from the Communist rebels.
the insurgents, composed of 200 armed Regulars and a support-base of 800 guerrillas, are under the command of a renegade Army lieutenant, Victor Corpus, aged 27, commander-in-chief of the New People’s Army, the military arm of the outlawed Philippines Communist Party.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32965, 11 July 1972, Page 13
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