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The First
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Guerrero, D. (2010). LMG. The Leon Ma. Guerrero
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and espousal of a realistic re-examination of relations with the
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We Filipinos (1984) (Posthumous anthology of his writings)
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The Diplomat-Scholar: A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero
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1183:Robert Borje
1070:Samuel Ramel
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1348:Junaid Ali
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915:Roy Cimatu
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