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Saturday, July 11, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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P1.3-B intel fund
and UN food aid stoppage
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Because of the bombings in
Mindanao, the United Nations (UN) agencies have stopped all their
aid missions there.
“UN security has directed that
all missions in Mindanao are cancelled until further notice and all
staff movements are restricted,” said the UN’s World Food
Program (WFP). That decision severely reduces the food supply of
some 380,000 Filipinos—the Christian and Muslim
“bakwits”—living as refugees in evacuation centers in
Maguindanao and other places in Mindanao. They—entire populations
of villagers—fled their homes last year after the MILF’s
so-called rogue commanders attacked, pillaged, and burned their
villages and killed some of them (Christian and Muslim alike). Some
Filipino as well as foreign observers have been calling the
situation of the “bakwits” a humanitarian disaster.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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THE OTHER VIEW
By Elmer A. Ordońez
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US legacy in Latin
America
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President Barack Obama expressed “deep concern”
over the military coup that ousted democratically elected Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya and called for the “restoration of
constitutional order.”
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Not yet time for
peace talks with MILF
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The spate of bombings in Mindanao is worrisome but I
don’t believe it should impel the government to resume its peace
talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
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UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
By Georgie Ann Geyer
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Should journalists
talk to terrorists?
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HELSINKI: When young and gutsy New York Times
correspondent David Rohde made his daring “farewell” from a
Taliban prison camp on the Afghan/Pakistan border the other week,..
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NATURE FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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Botanic gardens
and biodiversity conservation
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When I first saw the jade vine in the botanic garden
of De La Salle-Dasmarińas, I was captivated by its beauty and the
vividness of its jade color.
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ENGLISH PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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Why an object
needn’t follow the verb ‘tell’
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A few weeks ago, an English-language speech
specialist of a Makati City-based language institute sent me a note
doubting the grammatical correctness of this sentence construction
of mine:...
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ANALYSIS
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Honduran rivals
reach no deal, businessmen reject Zelaya return
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica: Honduras’s rival leaders
abandoned mediated talks Thursday without a deal, as Costa Rican
President Oscar Arias appealed for more time to resolve the crisis
sparked by a military-backed coup last month.
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LETTER
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Clarification on EGV
and the role of Sister Superior Savita Parmar
Reject ‘Oplan
August Moon’
and other efforts
to destroy the AFP
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