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Ramon Magsaysay Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography |
 | | Ramon Magsaysay was born in Iba, Zambales, on Aug. 31, 1907, to Exequiel Magsaysay, a flsmith, and Perfecta del Fierro, a schoolteacher. |
 | | Magsaysay was among those instrumental in clearing the Zambales coast of the Japanese prior to the landing of American liberation forces on Jan. 29, 1945. |
 | | Magsaysay also signed the first Agricultural Commodities Agreement with the United States in 1957, thus perpetuating the colonial pattern of the nation's economy, and was also responsible for the passage of the Antisubversion Law, which curtailed the citizens' democratic rights of assembly, free speech, and belief. |
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