[p.66] Played golf with the Malacañang reporters at 5:00 PM.
Everything has returned to normalcy. But I feel the HMB’s [Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan] with Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] and Ninoy [Benigno Aquino Jr.] masterminding them are planning some sabotage.
Talked to Ex-Sen. Rodolfo Ganzon and Ex-Rep. Rashid Lucman and his wife Princess Tarhata.
I have asked Roding Ganzon to infiltrate the LP. He says that [Fernando] Lopez, [Salvador] Laurel and [Sergio] Osmeña [Jr.] have agreed on an NP-LP ticket in 1973. Osmeña wants to run again and Doy Laurel may be his Vice. But of course Gerry [Gerardo] Roxas and Ninoy Aquino want to run as President.
And Lucman I asked to keep peace in Lanao and to placate the Liberals.
Boni Isip, [Jose] Joe Lukban and [Juan] Johnny Echeverri saw me. They told me of [Jose] Joe Maristela and of Ex-Sen. Estanislao Fernandez urging the students to attack at Mendiola and plying them with whiskey from a jeep without any [plate] number and loaded with whiskey bottles.
I hope to see Rep. Salipada Pendatun, brother-in-law of Ex-Gov. Udtog Matalam, leader of the Moslem Independence Movement, tomorrow. As well as Ex-Sen. Domocao Alonto and Ex-Gov. [Abdul Ghaffur?] Alonto.
We are building pillboxes at the gates and mortar defenses including baffled walls for my gymnasium where we can seek shelter in case of mortar attack.
We have cleared the lawn west of the Veranda and Ceremonial Hall for a helicopter landing this side of the Palace, complete with night landing lights.
[p.67] We are preparing anti-subversion cases against [broadcaster Roger “Bomba”] Arienda and the leaders of the Kabataang Makabayan.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.
The Muslim Independence Movement (MIM) was renamed Mindanao Independence Movement in 1968.
Arienda published in 1983 “Free Within Prison Walls”; a movie on his life “Bomba Arienda” was released in 1985 where he was played by Ace Vergel.
I feel that ultimately we must have a confrontation with the communists in this country. And that their eradication as a threat to our free way of life may be one of my main missions. It is true that if we can keep on delaying and delaying their take-off and cut off their momentum we will ultimately win, but it will be a messy and tedious job. Now we have an opportunity—perhaps the only opportunity to liquidate the movement in one clear sweep—if we plan it well enough.
Thus, if there is massive sabotage and an attempt against my life, then I might be compelled to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus and arrest all persons in the list of communists.
This will be the total solution to the ideological impasse.