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From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Congress Approves Bill Legalizing CPP
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:42:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: netnews.87963
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Congress approved a bill Friday
legalizing the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in
another major step toward peacefully ending the nation's 23-year Marxist
rebellion.
	Legislators said the bill would be sent to President Fidel Ramos for
signing, possibly early next week.
	The bill called for the repeal of Republic Act 1700, or the Anti-
Subversion Law, which punished membership in the Communist Party. It
paves the way for the insurgents' participation in elections.
	Republic Act 1700 was enacted in 1957 to stem a growing rebellion led
by guerrillas who fought the Japanese during World War II and embraced
Marxism. The party was reorganized in 1968 by a group of intellectuals.
	The proposed bill called for the release of all persons convicted for
subversion unlkess they face other charges such as murder.
	Ramos, in his first state of the nation message in July, urged
Congress to pass a law legalizing the CPP and offered amnesty to armed
rebels who lay down their guns.
	The CPP and its military wing, the 13,000-member New People's Army,
have been fighting the Manila government for the past 23 years.
	Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the
communist rebellion has persisted, mainly because of the nation's
massive poverty.
	Several communist leaders have said the repeal of the law was
inadequate because most of the estimated 600 political prisoners still
in jail were charged with common crimes like murder, kidnaping and
illegal arms possession and not with subversion. But many agreed it was
a step in the right direction.
	``This bill is a...measure designed to pursue a policy of attraction
and create a lasting peace to our divided nation,'' said Rep. Jose Yap,
the government's chief negotiator in exploratory talks with the
guerrillas.
	``This is the beginning of the road to unity of this country which
has been divided for so long by the Cold War due to differences in
ideology,'' said Sen. Leticia Shahani.
	Sen. Francisco Tatad called it a ``small step in the long journey to
peace.''
	Government and communist negotiators who ended two days of
preliminary talks in the Netherlands Tuesday have agreed to hold formal
negotiations soon in a move observers has given momentum to the peace
process.
	Two top-ranking communist officers have been freed from military
prison this week, including Romulo Kintanar, the feared former NPA
chieftain, after the government dropped objections to their freedom.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: xxapollo@utagraph.uta.edu (Mr. Apollo Silva)
Subject: Re: Little League WS Playoffs Game1
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:53:32 GMT

stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb) writes:

<stuff deleted>

: 
: 
: Tuesday's Games (All times CDT)
: 
: Int'l Bracket
: 
: Kaiserslautern, Germany vs Epyguerro, Santo Domingo, 10 am
: Zamboanga City, Philippines vs Valleyfield, Quebec, 7 pm
: 

<more stuff deleted>

: 
: COMMENTS: It will take at least two wins to qualify for the semifinals.
: It looks early on that Epyguerro and Zamboanga City have the inside track
: to meet in the semis Thursday. They are already scheduled to play each
: other Wednesday, so that would mean back-to-back games, a result of the
: change in World Series playoff rules.
: 

Are any of these games on ESPN?

<rest of text deleted>

-- 
   | Apollo R. Silva: xxapollo@utagraph.uta.edu |
From: castillo@coco.cchs.su.oz.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Is it "Pilipino"? or "Filipino"???
Date: 28 Aug 92 07:55:53 GMT
Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences

In article <1992Aug26.223622.5224@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco) writes:
> 
> In a previous article, c60a-zg@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Martin Guerrero-LabA) says:
> 
>>Also, what Filipino words have F and Z?
> 
> Mostly, these are just used for people's names (unless you are willing
> to include such bastardizations as 'badaf').
> 

Yes, some people's name just like Fortunato or Zandro and some places too,
just like Frisco, Forbes, Zapote.  But then again some badaf pronounce some
words like 'pamaypay' as 'famayfay' or 'Panay' as 'fanay. ;-)).

> -- 
> Virgilio "Dean" Velasco Jr., grad student & roboticist-in-training, CWRU
> 
> "If God does not judge the United States, then He owes |    My boss is a 
>  an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah."   - Billy Graham   |  Jewish carpenter.
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From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Mt. Pinatubo 1
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:20:49 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MABALACAT, Philippines (UPI) -- Storm-induced rains sent mudflows
thundering through two villages below Mount Pinatubo volcano Saturday,
leaving at least five persons dead, 500 houses destroyed and 10,000
people fleeing to safer ground, officials said.
	Representative Carmelo Lazatin, who visited the villages of Tabun and
Dolores in Mabalacat town, said residents climbed to rooftops and clung
to trees to avoid the torrent of volcanic debris mixed with water from
the swollen Sacobia River.
	He said five people were reported killed and several others were
injured, among them a boy whose feet were scalded by the steaming
mudflow, called lahar.
	Public Works Secretary Jose de Jesus, who also visited the area, said
the lahar along the Sacobia River was 2 miles long and moving at 50 mph.
	About 500 houses were either destroyed or damaged in Tabun and
Dolores, 50 miles north of Manila, Lazatin said.
	``I saw houses buried by the lahar, some partially, others totally,''
he said in an interview. ``Residents were on top of their houses and had
to be plucked by a helicopter.''
	Witnesses said the surge of lahar was sudden, catching many residents
unaware. Lazatin said, however, warnings issued about an hour before the
mudflows struck went unheeded.
	The regional police commander, Brig. Gen. Pantaleon Dumlao, said two
bridges were destroyed and a major road was closed by mudflows.
	In the northern mountain resort city of Baguio, officials reported
two roads were closed and 400 persons evacuated following a week of
heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Polly.
	The Manila Weather Bureau said Polly swirled out of the country
Saturday after slashing across the northern provinces of the main Luzon
Island with 60 mph center winds, gusting up to 75 mph.
	``I saw chairs, tables and plates floating,'' De Jesus said.
	He said several residents refused leave their homes even when troops
fired their guns in the air to warn them of the impending danger.
	``Authorities were telling people to leave but the people just looked
at them and did not move. It's really frightening if you will see this,''
De Jesus said.
	``If you will see this you will be convinced that we cannot fight
nature,'' he said of efforts to dredge silted rivers and build defensive
dams to slow down the lahar.
	Mount Pinatubo, 60 miles north of Manila, erupted in June 1991,
depositing millions of tons of debris on its flanks. The debris, still
hot, is washed down during the annual rainy season.
	Scientists said Saturday there is evidence the peak is exhibiting
signs of another imminent major eruption within a few days and have
advised villagers against venturing within 6 miles of it.
	A bulletin from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology said 234 low frequency volcanic quakes were recorded in the
past 24 hours, indicating a steady rise of magma, or hot rocks, to the
surface.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: aimee@wpd.sgi.com (Aimee Manosa)
Subject: Re: Bakit maporma ang mga Pilipino?
Keywords: appearances
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: soc.culture.filipino
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 22:36:01 GMT

In article <92Aug28.234654.11547@acs.ucalgary.ca>, panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio) writes:

|> So right now as I sit here typing this in an empty office on a
|> Friday afternoon, I'm wearing my Izod shirt, very soft cotton
|> sand brushed twill L.L.Bean slacks, cotton Dior cable-pattern
|> socks, and classic Timberland boat shoes in brown, and my specs
|> are in a blue-accented metal-rim Benetton frame. I'm wearing a
|> casual brown-leather strap Seiko analog/digital watch in a retro
|> style (black numerals, white face, chrome case). My hair's short.
|> I'm wearing Grey Flannel. Does this make me "maporma"?

|> Just my $0.02 worth......

So....don't keep us in suspense!!!  Are they calvin kleins, bvd's, silk
boxers....?

8^o

|> 
|> 8^)

8^)

-- 
        ~
Aimee Manosa		aimee@wpd.sgi.com
			Silicon Graphics, Inc
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Last US Dependents Leave Subic
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:52:24 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	SUBIC BAY NAVAL BASE, Philippines (UPI) -- The last group of U.S.
dependents left this sprawling U.S. naval base for the United States
Wednesday, as Washington prepared to hand over the mammoth facility to
Manila by year's end.
	Family members hugged and bade tearful farewells under a slight
drizzle as 157 dependents, 68 servicemen and five civilian employees
boarded a DC-8 Hawaiian Airlines jet at Subic's airport.
	The United States plans to turn over the base to the Philippines in
December, because the Pacific island nation's Senate rejected a treaty
extending a U.S. lease on the site.
	The pullout will end nearly a century of U.S. military presence in
the Philippines, a former American colony. The United States last year
abandoned its other giant Philippine installation, Clark Air Base, after
a volcanic eruption devastated the site.
	Subic -- a major repair and logistics center for the U.S. Seventh
Fleet -- formerly housed 7,400 U.S. troops, 11,200 dependents and 800
Department of Defense employees, but the military scaled back operations
when the pullout began in January.
	Once the last American forces leave, the Philippine government hopes
to develop Subic into an international port and industrial zone, similar
to Singapore or Hong Kong.
	Wednesday, the Americans pulling up stakes expressed mixed emotions
about leaving.
	``I am happy because at last I am going home,'' said Charles Gouge,
25, an aviation-ordnance specialist from Knoxville, Tenn. ``But I'm sad
because I'll be leaving some good Filipino friends.''
	The U.S. dependents' depature came just hours after the new U.S.
ambassador to the Philippines, Richard Solomon, arrived in Manila.
	Solomon signed on at a time when relations between the two allies are
strained because of the bases issue.
	In an arrival statement, Solomon said he looked forward to
discussions with Philippine officials ``about meeting our common
security interests in the post-bases era.''
	He declined to elaborate, but analysts believe an arrangement might
be worked out to grant U.S. forces limited access to an airport adjacent
to Subic even after they leave the base.
From: francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C Felizardo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Little League Team
Date: 29 Aug 1992 00:07:19 GMT
Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
NNTP-Posting-Host: kiko.ucsd.edu


In article <1311@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM>, dannya@ESD.3Com.COM (Danny Alvendia) 
writes:|> 
|>      Anyways, as far as I remember (others please jump in), in terms
|>      of popularity in sport, here is the breakdown:
|> 
|>              1. Basketball
|>              2. Golf
|>              3. Softball
|>              4. Baseball
|>              5. Boxing
|>              6. Soccer
|> 
|>      However, I think the most popular spectator sport is:
|> 
|>              Cockfighting

Hmmm.... I would think volleyball would be pretty high on that list. Back in 
high school volleyball was so popular with girls everyone in our barkada 
decided to add that to the list of games we played. *grin*

Some other honorable mentions you may have forgotten:

cycling - the Tour of Luzon/Tour of the Philippines/Marlboro Tour 
          always gets good coverage.

billiards - is this a sport? My brothers and I always have a hard time 
          getting a table at the neighborhood pool hall.

bowling - many of the offices I know have a yearly bowling 
          tournament, usually duckpin.

track and field - the crown jewels of the Gintong Alay program. Made 
          popular by the exploits and success of track star Lydia de 
          Vega et al in the early 80s.

>|> 
>|> /Danny

Comments welcome.

   - Francis
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From: cadizht@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Horacio Cadiz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Inggitero
Date: 31 Aug 92 01:02:26 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA


afalla@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:

> [ stuff deleted ]
>  the question is:  If you use the word to describe someone,
>does it mean the person is "naiinggit?" or is he "nang-iinggit?"

  The person is "nang-iinggit" or, in a weaker form, "nanghihili."

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb)
Subject: Little League World Series Game 3 Sked
Reply-To: stanm@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:23:59 GMT

Wednesday's Games, All Times CDT

International Bracket

Kaiserslautern, Germany (0-2) vs Valleyfield, Quebec (0-2), 1 pm
Epyguerrero, Santo Domingo (2-0) vs Zamboanga City, Philippines (2-0), 4 pm

US Bracket

Nottingham, NJ (1-1) vs South Holland, IL (0-2), 10 am
South Lake Charles, LA (1-1) vs Long Beach, CA (2-0), 7 pm

WS NOTES: 
Epyguerrero and Zamboanga City will face each other Thursday at 12:30 pm CDT
for the International Bracket championship.

Long Beach will meet either Nottingham or S Lake Charles later that day for
the US Bracket title at 4:00 pm CDT. Both games will be televised by ESPN.

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--Stan Macasieb (stanm@comm.mot.com)              | To Do List:
--Motorola, Land Mobile Products Sector           | Set VCR to record
--Schaumburg, IL (just another suburb of Chicago) | tomorrow's games
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: A6241GAC@vm.univie.ac.at (Stockinger Johann)
Subject: Re: THANKS TO ALL "Filipino? / Pilipino?"
Organization: University of Vienna
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:23:48 GMT



Source from Cruz and Arcelo, Philippine Journal of Linguistics,
Vol. 21, No.1, June 1990:

"Pilipino existed for exactly 27 years. It was created by the executive
fiat of Department of Education in 1959 and abolished by
constitutional fiat by the Aquino govenmet 1987...
Artificially born, it died an artificial death when the newly
democratic Filipino people decided to declare Filipino as their
nationa language. Filipino, of course, was not created in 1987;
it was created in earlier, in 1971, during another Constitutional
Convention ..."(Cruz)

"The 1987 Constitution is crystal clear about Filipino being the
national Language: 'The national language of the Philippines is
Filipino' (Article 14, Section6)"(Arcelo)


-----------


Surian ng Wikang Pambansa noong Abril 1, 1976:


Dahil samabilis na pag-unlad at pagbabago ng wikang pambansang Filipino
na ipinamamalasng pagpasok ng mga salita mula sa iba't ibang wikang katutubo
at banyaga, at dahil pa rin sa pagdaragdag sa alpabetong Filipino ng mga
letrang hiram upang makasabay sa progesibong pagsulong ng wika, at bilang
tugon pa rin sa hinihiling na paliwanag sa paraan ng paggamit ng mga letra
ng binagong alpabeto ng mga guro, manunulat, mannaliksik at madlang kalahatang
nagsasalita at sumusulat sa wikang Filipino, itinatakda ang mga sumusunod
na mga tuntunin ng ortograpiyang Filipino.

Ang maga tuntuning ito ay batay rin sa kalakhan sa dating mga tutuning
sinusunod ng Surian ng Wikang Pambansasa pagwawasto ng mga aklat at mga
manuskrito sa wikang Filipino. May ilan lamang pagbabago o modipikasyong
iniangkop sa pangangailangan ng modernisasyon.

------------

By the way, does anybody know something about the situation in parts
of Mindanao like Basilan, Cotabato, Marawi and Surigao del Sur?
Is it dangerous to travell there at the moment?
What's about the socalled "Mindanao-problem"?


            Thanks

Johann
From: jcruz@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Joey Cruz)
Subject: Little League World Champs
Reply-To: jcruz@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (Joey Cruz)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:42:43 GMT



Congrats Mabuhay Little League Champs!!!

--Joey

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: AS.JST@forsythe.stanford.edu (Joaquin Tadena)
Subject: Paalam sa Inyong Lahat
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:18:47 GMT

What a coincidence that just a few weeks ago, the SCF dwelled in
length the various reasons why Filipinos in the United States have
decided to go back home for good.

I am joining the ranks of those who taken that option.
I intend to be home by the 18th of September and hope to be able to
create some good opportunities to our fellow Filipinos.
it was a fruitful 16 months to have known faceless individuals
in the SCF. Please accept my gratitude to have learned a lot from
all of you and have enjoyed keeping track of the discussions in the
SCF.

Goodbye and hope I will have the chance to meet some of you back
home. Keep up the good work and good luck!

Maraming salamat po.

                                    J A K E
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Pinoy Kids in Little League World Series
From: bernal@spss.com (Raoul Bernal)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:24:17 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

I just read from Chicago Tribune about the South Holland, IL, 
pitcher's comments re the Filipino kids.  He said something like 
the Filipinos engage in mind games.  To quote him, he said "They 
try to do a psyche job on you.  When they practice, they do 
certain stuff.  When we got here, they started running around the 
field in a group and chanting."

I was just laughing when I read this.  Yes, maybe the Pinoy kids 
from Zamboanga were chanting (in Chabacano maybe?) and got the 
American kids uncomfortable.  And they (the American kids) haven't 
even played with them yet.

Well, here's wishing the Philippine team the best of luck.  Does 
someone know if these games are featured in ESPN?

-Raoul
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From: c60a-zg@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Martin Guerrero-LabA)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Is it "Pilipino"? or "Filipino"???
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:26:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley

In article <17g95vINN64j@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> argeeay@nest.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
>>
>>There is no F in the Filipino language.  I suppose you can look at it
>>two ways:
>
>  
>  There is, now.. so is "Z". - in the revised Filipino Alphabet.  
>
>
>


Really?!?  Please send more info.

Does that mean we can't sing that catchy Filipino alphabet anymore?

Also, what Filipino words have F and Z?
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Ramos Urges Congress to Approve Budget
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:55:41 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- President Fidel Ramos asked Congress
Wednesday to approve a 330.2 billion peso ($13.2 billion) budget for
1993, of which nearly 40 percent would go toward paying the country's
foreign debt.
	Ramos also urged the legislators to approve a set of severe tax
measures to raise 92.8 percent of the money to finance government
expenditures. The rest would come from domestic and foreign borrowings,
he said.
	Ramos, in a letter to Congress, vowed to use the money ``as an
instrument for responsible development and growth ... for the economic
and social upliftment'' of Filipinos.
	The budget, which is 7.5 billion pesos ($300 million) higher than
what was originally proposed by former president Corazon Aquino,
allocates more funds for infrastructure programs aimed at attracting
foreign and local investors.
	Ramos said the proposed budget would provide more government
counterpart funds needed to take advantage of millions of dollars in
pledged foreign assistance for dozens of development projects.
	Legislators say the proposed budget could raise the government
deficit to 22.1 billion pesos ($880 million) next year, but Ramos said
the spending was needed to spur the economy and alleviate the nation's
massive poverty.
	``We have no choice but to respond to the urgent need for growth, to
ease our people's suffering,'' Ramos said in urging the lawmakers to
approve the tax measures.
	He said failing to pass the new budget ``would be tantamount to
depriving our people of the relief from poverty that they have been
hankering for.''
	Ramos defended the government's decision to allocate 128.7 billion
pesos ($5 billion), or 39 percent of the budget, to service the
country's $29 billion foreign debt.
	``I am aware of our people's growing concern over the servicing of
our debt obligations,'' Ramos said, referring to calls in Congress and
militant groups to limit the country's payments.
	``But the law provides that we automatically service our obligations.
And policies of the past cannot be simply reversed abruptly without
jeopardizing the infusion of more funds into our economy.''
	Several lawmakers said they would support moves to place a limit on
how much the government could spend on debt servicing.
	Manila is targeting a 4.5 percent growth rate for 1993 with inflation
pegged at 7 percent and interest rates at 17.40 percent. Officials also
project a growth in exports by up to 14 percent.