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Confronting the menace of fascism : Rationale and objectives -- The japanese boycott: L'affaire bautista -- Dueling with Quezon -- 1940: year of challenge for CLU -- Quezon-sumulong confrontation -- CLU gives abad Santos a break -- Quezon goes on the offensive -- The notorious jai lai case -- Cause celebre: the hartendrop case -- The soriano case: a conspiracy of silence? -- Quezon threatens to hang CLU members -- Heroic struggle under fire : Free philippines: its first martyr -- Monitoring collaborator activity -- The top three fall -- Trial and agony: life in fort santiago -- Postmortem: tribute to CLU martyrs -- The shift to military political action : MacArthur lets the collaborators loose -- Osmeña yields under pressure -- CLU demands mcnutt's recall -- Confrontation with quirino -- The shellborne incident -- The recto-magsaysay feud -- CLU questions "special" agreements -- Filipino first: scuttled before take-off -- The supreme court and civil liberties -- Under the Marcos authoritarian rule : Trends toward militarization -- Confusion over parity rights -- CLU's tv forum on charter changes -- The plaza miranda bombing and the writ -- The continuing assaults on civil liberties -- Quintero: an honest man from leyte -- The revival of McCarthyism -- The CLU under martial law -- PCOs, PDAs and the credibility gap -- A question of our sovereign status -- Grenada: the arrogance of power -- The role of foreign capital -- An alternative agenda -- Epilogue,I-X -- Postscript: June 1987 : The buscayno ambush -- The vigilantes and the CIA -- The military role -- The ferrer factor -- The Cory mystique -- References -- Other related new day books.