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Antonio Zumel, the revolutionary
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise / Business World MANILA — Last August 10 was the 80th birthday of Antonio Zumel, newspaperman extraordinaire, pioneering trade unionist in the newspaper industry and President of the National Press Club in its heyday, as well as one-of-a-kind revolutionary leader, the first Chairperson of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines…
Saluting a great revolutionary, writer and editor Antonio Zumel
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“The People’s Interests Come First”
By ANTONIO ZUMEL I WAS BORN to Antonio Zumel and Basilisa (Bessie) de Leon in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte on Aug. 10, 1932. My father was a lawyer while my mother used to be a schoolteacher. I am the second of their six children — three boys and three girls. My father had a relatively…