Mr. & Mrs.

In Luzon's jagged Sierra Madre mountains one day last week, a Philippine army patrol scattered a small party of Huk guerrillas. Over the barking rifles a woman's voice cried: "I surrender! I am Celia Mariano, wife of William Pomeroy." Out of the bushes came a frightened, tired woman, long, raven-black hair falling over her bruised face, her bare feet bleeding. When the Philippine army captured her husband, U.S.-born Huk Leader William Pomeroy (TIME, April 21), she had leaped out of a window and fled into the mountains with two Huk women and two male Huk bodyguards.

Brought up in Manila slums, Celia Mariano took a B.S. degree with honors at the University of the Philippines. In April 1940 she joined a Communist cell in Manila, later took part in the Huk anti-Japanese resistance movement. After she married Pomeroy, an ex-G.I., in 1948, they jointly taught the Huks revolutionary tactics at the Huks' "Stalin Universities."

After her capture last week, she was allowed a few minutes with her husband: locked in his arms, Celia Pomeroy wept. Then she was taken to jail to await trial, like her husband. The woman who a few hours before had cried "I surrender," now fiercely declared: "The Huks and their leaders will never surrender!"

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