Partial review: A knotty problem solved by wisdom

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Title: Partial review: A knotty problem solved by wisdom
Creator: Diez, Andres G.
Language: English
Year: 1967
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Fulltext: 2_* TUE B1C0L STAR * September 16, 1967 A knotty problem solved by wisdom For the last six months, Mr. Napoleon Valiente brought a knotty problem to the Nacionalistas of Camaligan by assuring all and sundry that he was a candidate for Mayor whether official} or not. This is the way lie made the people believe in all six months of intensive campaign. But because convention is mandatory following the Rules of the party, Mr. 'Valiente was earnestly supplicated by the local chairman to enter the municipal convention which was set for yesterday Sept. 13. 1967 even if only to prove that he was a loyal Nacionalista This supplication was offered to him for several times but his answer was always firmly on the negative One day before the convention, Standing Cledera. the NP official candidate for governor, always intellectually resourceful as he is, called Mr. Valiente to a conference for the purpose of making him see the side of the question that he (Mr. Valiente) could not clearly see. Watch now the beauty of thought that was expressed in simple terms to Mr. Valiente. “I called for you this morning to tell you that the'convention of our party will be held in your town tomorrow evening. I was reliably informed that you will not. by any consideration, enter the convention. That will leave Mr, Loriaga the lone candidate for Mayor and because he has no opponent his election in the convention is already a matter of fact, lou have been assuring the people of Camaligan that you are definitely a candidate for 'Mayor whether official or not. In that case, there will be two of you for the Nacionahsta to choose against only one for the Liberals. How can both of you hope to win under such adverse position! Two against one. that certainly is a hopeless fight. Considering further that the odds are in favor of the Liberal candidate, one, because he is the incumbent and two, because he has money, 1 honestly believe that both of you are as good as beaten from the beginning to the end, “But one decides to be a candidate because he wants to win and not to be defeated. This should be your point of view. Between you and Loriaga, you are my choice but a I I the people in Camaligan with wh >m I had personally contacted for general opinion, are unanimous that Loriaga can lick the present Mayor. It is for this reason and for the sake of public interest that I am now asking you to be the team mate of Loriaga for the position of Vice-Mayor instead of Mayor. It is my opinion that both of you will be Jormidably unbeatable. “Now, before we end. my last question is: Are you agreeable to my proposition! Convinced that there was wisdom in the sermon of Cledera, Valieate's reply was a curt “Yes". The conference was ended. The municipal convention was held as scheduled, unanimously voted Loriaga for Mayor and Valiente for Vice Mayor after which and in accordance thereto were proclaimed by Atty. Abonal, the party's official candidate for Board Member amidst cheers and ovations and the congratulations of everyone that was present.” My reason of putting this event into'writing is primarily because of my personal admiration for the beauty and splendor of Cledera s imagination in solving problems that are considered knotty by the ordinary minds. Greetings from— Kalayaan Wines & Liquors Igualdad St. Naga City Advertise in— £>tar The Oldest Regional Newspaper in the Bicol Region. ' 603-D P. Zamora St., City of Naga Art Tilt at NPS The on the-«pot Pefiafranoia Art Contest sponsored by the Holy Rosary Major Seminary’s Missionary Union of the Clergy and the Ateneo de Naga’s Apostleship of Prayer was held at 3:00 P.M. last Thursday, Sept. 14th, within the Naga Paroobial School Qiadrangle All budding ortiote (professionals are disqualified) assembled witbin the quadrangle fifteen minutes before time for briefing. They brought their own drawing materials for either the bla k Jc white or colored oategoriea they vlih to enterAll entries are on display in the “Faith Through the Missions’* exhibit room at Santoe Hall; ADN campur. Prizes will be awarled io the morning of the 18th and all □on wiuning entries may be reolaimed. ADNAA Reunion On Rizal Day The Atsneo de N»ga Alum ni Homeooming will be held on Deoember 30 this year, it was agreed at the last ADNAA monthly meeting last Sunday. The day’s festivities, starting with a Coocelebrated Mass to be offered by alumoi-piiestsin the school ehap l f >r the late Er. Fran oia D. Burns S.J., 1st ADN Reuter. w II be capped by tbe traditional alumni ball and induction of officers. In between, there will be a motorcade around tbe city streets and a floral offering at the Rizal monument, tbe morning business meeting and election of new board members) luncheon, and basketball g mes featuring loud and out of-town teams. Io ebvga of thia yasr’t alumni affair are tbe * 68 AD. NAA board beaded by Frank Timmer, president; Juen Ragragio, oioe-president; Jean Navera L'orin, secretary and Armando Pural, treasurer. Meanwhile, Fr. Alfredo G. Parpan, 8 J., ADNAA Moderator, announced that tbe long awaited alumni directory now in the proccau of correction and up - dating, would include tbs ’67 graduates and should be out before the end of tbe school year. DBP Has New Coco Financing Program The Development Bank of the Philippines is pleased to announce its new Coconut Financing Program which is designed to insure the steady and orderly development of the industry, thereby stabilizing and strengthening the country's previous position in the world market; and to promote the efficient production of copra and other exportable coconut products. The financing plans under this program are of two (2) broad categories: the special coconut financing plan and the ordinary straight coconut loans. Under the first set-up, (Conf, on page 8) Gene E. Balfertnoso FROM THE HILLTOP American Responsibility To The Free World (Nineteenth of a series) ' One of our great mistakes was to assure (lie enemy in advance wc were not going to use such nuclear weapons.” Former President Dwight Eisenhower The Vietnamese Resistance Continued—The’ rallying point in the stalemated American involvement in South Vietnam is the belief that U.S. supremacy in the land and air war which has gone to the point ot escalation is the quid pro quo that military victory is in sight Gen Wesley Westmoreland, the American allied commander in South Vietnam lias made the assurance that to meet the primacy of this requirement - there fshould be a comparative increase in U.S. manpower deployment to an aggregate of 1,000 0(>0 soldiers that could handle effectively the recurrent problems ol North Vietnamese infiltration passing the notorious Ho Chi Minh frail onto South Vietnam. The situation t? be rightly appraised would mean that in filtration is going on steadily despite the U.S. bombing runs which Defense Secretary Robert McNamara definitively answered his critics that the bombings is intended solely to reduce the mode of infiltration of North Vietnamese military manpower and equipment. Todate the American manpower status in South Vietnam is placed at 545,000 soldiers thus overshotting the half-million mark. With the request of Gen. Westmoreland for more fighting units-the U.S is expected to bolster its fighting men to 3/4 million or 750 000 soldiers by the end of 1967 and may reach the million mark by the middle of 1968. Thus far it is safe to sav that the U.S. pragmatic policy is that U.S. involvement as a result of continued Vietnamese resistance is to live in an indefinite doldrums until such time as American strategy to devise better means or deploy better weapons of war as will compel and break the backbone of North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. Vo Nguyen Giap—North Vietnamese Tactician Tn the preceding installment the writer discussed and traced the movement of the Vietnamese resistance culminating in the ignominious defeat of the French forces at Dien Bien in 1854 Nominally the Indo-Chinese war wts so costly to the French trying the main bulk ol the French armed forces to the Asiatic mainland for over a decade, The defeat of the French forces automatically reduced France as a second rate power. In the travestry of the stiffened and continuing North Vietnamese resistance from 1944 to the end of the Indo-Chinese wirii 1954 and from the year 1954 when the Americans took the cudgel for the defense of freedom in Southeast Asia-one man aside from President H> Chi Minh of the North Vietnamese Republic is to be reckoned with and who consistently keeps the communist forces feverishly fighting without let up .for their amor patriae The man is Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap-the agile North Vietnamese Hanoi Professor turned military man. As Secretary of Defense of the North Vietnamess communist forces lie has indoctrinated th • wily art of guerrilla warfare to the point that Nguyen Giap personality has become the symbol of the continuing Vietnam dialogue and ever continuing stiffened resistance. From the year 1954 when the Kingdom of Annam (Indo China) was partitioned as a result of the Geneva Conference , the United Stales has practically stayed in South Vietnam for 13 years in a straight row without yet knowing for sure when the undeclared war would end. Compliments of: NAGA Hardware Gen. Luna St. , Naga City Mr. & Mrs. Sabas Adanzo, Sr. and family Welcome Penafrancia pilgrims and devotees ©EDEN ADANZO ©JUDGE FELIX ADANZO ©CELY ADANZO ©SABAS ADANZO, JR. ©MRS. LINA ADANZO YANTO Daet Cams. Norte Compliments of: SAUJD’S STORE laualdad St. Naga C|ty Compliments of: STEDMAN TAILORING Gen. Luna St._____________ Naga Chy