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		SENATOR Blas F. Ople was born on February 3, 1927 in Hagonoy, Bulacan, to working-class parents.
		As journalist, Ople was considered as one of the youngest columnist in that golden era of journalism.
		In 1983, Ople was recipient of a Gold Medal of Appreciation from the ILO for his contributions to social justice both in his country and in the international community.
	www.nsclub.net /senate/senweb/former_senators/blas_ople.htm (865 words)

	Gulfnews: Ople calls for balanced approach
		Secretary Blas Ople, head of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), called for a balanced approach to the government's language policy that stresses the use of English as medium of instruction in schools, as he said both English and Filipino literacy should be improved in the educational system.
		Ople asserted that the pursuit of a national language, which is Filipino, remains as one of the fundamental goals of the state, as stated in the Constitution.
		Ople's statement contradicts that made by President Gloria Arroyo last week in which sheordered educators to revert to the use of English as the medium of instruction in Philippine schools to improve competency of Filipinos in what is now considered as the "language of business".
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/03/02/14/77330.html (225 words)

	PM - Blas Ople on Philippines arrests
		BLAS OPLE: A vendetta, yes, for losing their camp in Buliok, which is in Cotabato Province.
		BLAS OPLE: Yes, the MILF has been forced to the negotiating table, they're coming back to the peace table, in talks that are the responsibility of the Malaysian Government.
		BLAS OPLE: It constitutes a bluff, yes, it's a barrier to the resumption of the peace talks.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s799168.htm (614 words)

	Philippines - Death of Foreign Secretary Blas Ople
		I am saddened by the death December 13 in Taiwan of Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Blas Ople.
		As I told President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday, Blas Ople was one of the pivotal figures of the late Twentieth Century for Philippine history.
		Ople was a staunch supporter of the worldwide struggle against terrorism and of Operation Iraqi Freedom, prophesying on November 22, "Baghdad will be transformed from a symbol of brutal despotism to a new, shining symbol of human freedom.
	www.state.gov /secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/27226.htm (295 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > I remember Blas F. Ople
		Encomiums on Ople’s patriotism and statesmanship quickly flowed from the lips of his peers, from the pen of newspaper pundits and his writer-friends and from the hearts of his countless admirers.
		Ople was almost 77 years old when he died.
		Ople was one of the great statesmen his country has produced.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2006/dec/14/yehey/opinion/20061214opi4.html (839 words)

	DAILY STAR: Top Stories
		Philippine Foreign Minister Blas Ople, whose death from an apparent heart attack was announced yesterday, was a journalist-turned-statesman whose push for stronger ties with Washington helped raise his country's profile as an ally in the US-led war on terror.
		Ople, who was 76, died in a hospital in Taiwan after his flight to Bangkok from Tokyo, where he had been attending trade talks, was diverted.
		Ople framed the country's labor code and worked to promote labor rights as a minister during the dictatorial rule of Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted by a popular revolt in 1986.
	www.visayandailystar.com /2003/December/15/topstory3.htm (657 words)

	The OFW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ople said that as foreign service officers, Filipino diplomats should accept reality — the DFA has to look after the safety and welfare of seven million Filipinos abroad, representing nearly 10 percent of the country’s population.
		It was Ople, as labor minister, who launched the overseas employment program in 1974 to help relieve unemployment in the country and enable the economy to earn badly needed foreign exchange.
		Ople said that Filipino diplomats should accept the reality of a radical paradigm shift in their responsibilities as the department has now the responsibility to look after the safety and welfare of seven million Filipinos abroad, reperesenting nearly 10 percent of our total population.
	www.theofwonline.com /STORIES/z_protect_ofw.htm (803 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Blas Ople, at 76; foreign secretary
		MANILA -- Blas Ople, foreign secretary of the Philippines and a key ally of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her unflinching support for Washington's war on terror, has died of a heart attack.
		Ople died in Taipei, where the Japan Asia Airways plane on which he was flying from Tokyo to Bangkok landed Dec. 13 after declaring a medical emergency, said Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Franklin Ebdalin.
		Ople's death an "immeasurable loss to the nation of a great patriot and statesman." Employees at the Department of Foreign Affairs quietly wept as Ebdalin announced Mr.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/12/20/blas_ople_at_76_foreign_secretary?mode=PF (434 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		Blas F. Ople, born to a poor family in Hagonoy, Bulacan, rose to become one of the countryâs great statesmen and intellectuals.
		Blas broke bread with a man we all respected in the labor sector, the great labor leader Cipriano Cid, who was also the editor of the Evening News.
		Ka Blas opposed itâ”being an heir of Balagtas.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=24474 (3162 words)

	Office of the President Website - The Cabinet - BLAS F. OPLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ople’s nationalism combines a passion for conserving Filipino indigenous roots with the outlook of a global citizen who seeks to enrich the Filipino legacy from world civilization and broaden its access to the world’s common storehouse of knowledge.
		Ople raised the Labor Ministry from a minor arm to a major force in national affairs.
		Ople is married to the former Susana Vasquez and has seven children, all of them successful professionals.
	www.op.gov.ph /profiles_ople.asp (1182 words)

	Print Article: Philippine foreign minister dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Philippine Foreign Minister Blas Ople died of a heart attack shortly after the plane he was on made an emergency landing in Taipei to seek medical treatment for him, officials said.
		Ople relinquished his Senate post in July last year when Arroyo appointed him as foreign secretary, replacing Teofisto Guingona, concurrently the country's vice president, with whom Arroyo had a spat over his opposition to the US military presence in the Philippines.
		Ople was also a vocal leader in the traditionally conservative Association of South East Asian Nations, espousing more democratic reforms and the release from house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in military-ruled Burma.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/12/14/1071336807086.html (337 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Blas Ople succumbs to heart attack
		MANILA—Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas Ople, whose death from an apparent heart attack was announced yesterday, was a journalist turned statesman who helped raise Manila’s profile as a key ally in the US-led war on terror.
		Ople, 76, died in a hospital in Taiwan after his flight to Bangkok from Tokyo, where he had been attending trade talks, was diverted.
		His family said Ople “experienced difficulty in breathing and subsequently lost consciousness” and that efforts to revive him on board the plane and in the hospital proved futile.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2003/12/15/news/blas.ople.succumbs.to.heart.attack.html (569 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Filipino minister dies in Taiwan
		Ople was a heavy smoker and suffered from a lung ailment.
		Ople, the son of a boat-repairer, rose to be one of the most senior members of Ms Arroyo's cabinet.
		Ople was a senator under an opposition party starting in 1992 and was Senate president briefly in mid-1999.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3317185.stm (471 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. ally joins Arroyo cabinet - July 31, 2002
		Ople's appointment is seen as a fitting welcome for U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell who visits the Philippines on Friday.
		The Arroyo government denies that Ople's appointment was timed to facilitate the approval of a new bilateral agreement that covers the future construction of facilities for visiting American troops in the Philippines.
		Ople's appointment has widened the Arroyo administration's majority in the 24-member Senate by three, assuring her control of both houses of Congress.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/07/30/philippines.ople (530 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
		Ople chaired the roundtable discussion among 24 countries from Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America to review the regional dimensions of the implementation of the commitments made in the International Conference on Financing for Development also called the Monetary Consensus held last year in Mexico.
		Ople will serve as a co-chair in one of the round tables of the dialogue that will focus on the regional dimensions of the implementation of the results of the monetary summit.
		During the dialogue, Ople is expected to call on the international community to exert efforts to reverse the declining levels of official development assistance, implement debt swap for poverty programs for indebted developing countries and to develop a mechanism to provide micro-finance support for micro-small-and medium scale enterprises.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EK01Ae04.html (446 words)

	PM - Philippines terror tensions
		BLAS OPLE: By applying what the Americans call "appropriate pressure" on him, I believe that he can reveal many secrets of importance to Philippines, to ASEAN and to Australia.
		Ople thinks intelligence officials from the Philippines and Australia will be hoping to have their own go at questioning the Al Qaeda commander.
		BLAS OPLE: He was in Manila in 1995, when the police raided his apartment near [inaudible].
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s798280.htm (539 words)

	Bulatlat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ople’s official website describes the new foreign secretary as “a thinker, writer, soldier, leftist, labor leader, politician, nationalist and statesman.” He may have absorbed some idealism in his youth but he’s now 75 and much of his life was spent as a politician — 20 years of it with the Marcos dictatorship.
		Ople’s education as a pro-American began when he was recruited into the Magsaysay-for President Movement in the early 1950s and became a technical assistant on labor and agrarian affairs.
		Ople became Ferdinand Marcos’s labor secretary in 1967 and, in 1972, remained in that position when martial law was declared until it collapsed in 1986.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/2-25/2-25-bobby.html (1309 words)

	Philippine Foreign Secretary Ople Dies - 2003-12-15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		President Gloria Arroyo says she is deeply saddened by the death of Philippine Foreign Secretary Blas Ople, who suffered a fatal heart attack on a flight from Tokyo to Bangkok.
		Blas Ople was 75 when he passed away in Taiwan.
		Blas Ople is survived by his wife and seven children.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2003-12/a-2003-12-15-58-Philippine.cfm (339 words)

	Manila Bulletin Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Secretary Ople would have been among the first to advise the administration to desist from revising the Constitution in haste and through questionable means, his youngest daughter said.
		Ople was one of the 45 Constitutional Commission members who drafted the 1986 Constitution that was overwhelmingly ratified by the people in 1987.
		As secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the late Ople led the department in ensuring that the protection of OFWs became a cornerstone of Philippine democracy.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2006/12/14/MAIN2006121482366.html (662 words)

	Manila Standard: The Future is Ours
		It was Ople who actively encouraged the development of the foreign overseas worker movement, which even if it has drawn much criticism for exacerbating the brain drain and causing unprecedented social dislocation, has indisputably kept the economy afloat through the toughest of times.
		Even President Arroyo, who became close to Ople when they were both in the Senate, could not help but be drawn to her colleague from Bulacan, who was probably the only one who talked still sense in a chamber inexorably being taken over by sports celebrities, television news-readers and show-business riffraff.
		Besides, Ople had for years locked up the Senate foreign affairs committee, the only body he felt was still worth his while in the legislature.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=jojoRobles_dec17_2003 (959 words)

	netcyclo: Ople, Blas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ople then helped revise the national constitution under President Corazon Aquino, who came to power after Mr.
		Blas Ople had served in the country's Senate.
		He died in Taiwan after suffering a heart attack on a flight from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Japan.
	www.netcyclo.com /people/o/blasople/blasople.htm (86 words)

	Blas Ople’s son answers estafa raps in Cebu court
		The mayor of Hagonoy town in Bulacan, who is incidentally the son of the late Senator Blas Ople, appeared last Friday in a Cebu City court and entered a plea of not guilty to a P10-million estafa case filed against him by a Cebu-based dealer of used vehicles.
		Chao said Ople’s persuasion on the urgency of the project and his representations and assurances to pay the agreed amount later on, she trusted him and delivered to Hagonoy town the equipment and vehicles even before these were paid.
		She said that when Senator Blas Ople was still alive, she personally asked the senator’s help to persuade his son to settle the matter but then again nothing came out of it.
	www.thefreeman.com /local/story-20040919-22403.html (330 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
		By Miriam Grace A Go MANILA - It was somewhat ironic that Philippine foreign affairs secretary Blas Ople died on the day that United States forces announced the capture of Saddam Hussein, as the veteran diplomat was the architect behind President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo projecting Manila as a key ally in the "war on terror".
		Ople, 76, died of a heart attack in Taiwan, where the Japan Asia Airways plane on which he was flying from Tokyo to Bangkok landed after declaring a medical emergency.
		Ople's vote was expected to break the impasse - he was with the opposition, but wasn't particularly enamored by the alternative Senate president that his allies were backing.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EL23Ae03.html (1465 words)

	YEHEY!News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ople’s family said in a statement he was flying to Bahrain to prepare for the state visit of President Arroyo on a Japan Asia Airways flight.
		Ople was taken to the Minsheng hospital in northern Taiwan’s Taoyuan county for emergency treatment.
		Ople’s family immediately flew to Taipei and were arranging the return of his body to the country.
	news.yehey.com /news3.asp?i=61206&c=1 (883 words)

	eBalita - a FREE service that provides you the latest news from the Philippines through the Web and E-mail
		Foreign Secretary Blas Ople said Thursday that he had received word from Ambassador to the United Nations Alfonso Yuchengco that the Asian caucus in the UN General Assembly reached a consensus endorsing the country's bid for a non-permanent seat.
		Ople said the Philippines would be occupying the seat that Syria will vacate in December 2003.
		Ople paid tribute to the efforts of Yuchengco, the country's permanent representative to the United Nations, and his deputy, Ambassador Enrique Manalo.
	www.ebalita.net /go/news/news.php?id=588 (460 words)

	Manila Standard: The Future is Ours
		And that was probably how Blas Ople would want himself remembered — as a man who stood up for the ordinary Filipino worker, first locally as labor minister, then globally as foreign secretary.
		For the younger Ople, a journalist like her father and a master’s degree holder from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University apart from being Ka Blas’ longtime chief aide, the position will give her an opportunity to continue the Ople legacy in his old stomping grounds.
		Blas Ople may be gone, but he will not be forgotten, even in a country notorious for its amnesic attitude toward its own history.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=jojoRobles_dec31_2003 (1072 words)

	Philippinenews.com
		BLAS OPLE was a true Renaissance man, an overachiever, a Filipino whom all Filipinos could be proud of.
		For better or worse, it was Blas Ople who instituted the export of Filipino manpower to the Middle East.
		Ambassador Ople was among the last of his generation of leaders who we can really call a statesman, in every sense of the word.
	www.philippinenews.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=883e4b67302bda6f02936e27989930c9 (727 words)

	OPLE APPOINTMENT LAST NAIL ON REFORM COFFIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Senator Blas Ople’s appointment as Foreign Affairs secretary spells doom for Edsa 2’s promise of political renewal.
		With Ople and Puno’s appointments, President Arroyo says that it’s alright to work with the very people who were overthrown by popular uprisings and to hell with reform.
		Ople was chosen for the DFA post because President Arroyo clearly plans to bring back the heyday of American military presence in the country and resurrect the nightmares that came with it.
	www.akbayan.org /statements/2002-07-24ople_appointment.htm (410 words)

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