The name Ople will forever be identified with the late, great Ka Blas Ople, former labor minister, foreign affairs secretary, senator, Senate president, writer, journalist, and nationalist.

The late Ka Blas was indeed an iconoclast. Although he never completed high school, he was one of the last true intellectual titans of the Philippine Senate, blessed with a sharp mind that made him a peer of the topnotch lawyers in the Upper House.

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