High Rebel Leader Caught, Manila Says
Associated Press
MANILA —
The military said today that it had captured a top communist rebel leader and 40 other insurgents, striking “another crippling blow” to the country’s 19-year-old communist insurgency.
The chief of staff, Gen. Renato de Villa, told reporters that Francisco Pascual, an alleged member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and the others were arrested in raids Monday night in the northern province of Pangasinan.
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