The World - News from June 9, 1985
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The Philippine military ordered a stepped-up hunt for Communist guerrillas in Manila after the capture last week of a ranking official of the New People’s Army wounded in a shootout with police in a Manila slum district. The rebel was identified as Alexander Birondo, 35, head of an assassination squad operating in Manila.
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