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Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
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Zamboanga City
Highly Urbanized City In the Philippines
Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga, is a highly urbanized city in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of the Philippines, with a total population of 3,943,837 inhabitants. It is third-largest city by land area in the Philippines, and is also the sixth-most populous city…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Filipino lawyer and politician (1916–1984)
Cesar Cortes Climaco was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Zamboanga City for 11 years over three nonconsecutive terms. A prominent critic of the martial law regime of Ferdinand Marcos, he was famed for his toughness in governance and colorful personality.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
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