Imelda has put her foot down and does not allow me to take a plane to go to Cagayan. So Bongbong goes alone to a hunt at Liwan, Kalinga-Apayao at the hacienda of the Gonzales and Congressman David Puzon.
It will be ducks, fishing and a big drive with the hunters waiting for the game running downhill. There will be 200 beaters with dogs. This usually means plenty of game.
I had wanted so much to be there when Bongbong bags his first real game. But there also many problems that have arisen and I must stay. There is the airplane pilots 24-hour strike or sit down protest against alleged deficiencies in navigational aids. Then there is the legislative program and the meeting with the 4-H clubs on their awards dinner.
Official Gazette for May 13, 1970: President Marcos received a number of delegations, notably a group of farmers from Central Luzon, the officers of the Jose P. Laurel Foundation, and this day being Congressmen’s Day in Malacañang, several congressmen.
The President also received a group of visitors from the United Arab Republic, including M. Kanem, president of the El Nasr Export-Import Company of Cairo, who suggested that a wider export trade relationship be explored between the Philippines and the UAR Others in the group were M. Sheta, M. Rashdi and Imam Abdul Rhenan. The group was accompanied to Malacafiang by UAR Ambassador Abdel Abdel-hamid Fadel, Representative Ali Dimaporo of Lanao del gur, BOI Chairman Antonio Ayala and UP Professor Gerardo Sicat.
Also calling on the President was a group of Spanish visitors. In the group were Coronel Seijas of the Institute Nacional Industria de España, who was accompanied by the Spanish embassy’s charge d’affaires, Jose Maria Otero de Leon; Antonio Llord, Tabacalera general manager; Enrique Sta. Maria, commercial attache; Vicente Quesada, Defense Undersecretary Manuel Salientes and Col. Salvador Villa. The Spanish delegation presented the President with two C-2 Caliber 9 mm sub-machineguns manufactured in Spain.
Otherwise, the President spent most of his working hours at his desk, studying reports and acting on papers. Among others, he signed the papers granting to the Jose P. Laurel Foundation a parcel of land on which the Foundation building will be built. Present at the signing were Speaker Jose B. Laurel, Jr., Senator Salvador Laurel, Dr. Sotero Laurel, former Senator Pedro Subido and Sixto Y. Orosa, Sr., officials of the Foundation. The President reiterated his plan to promote cooperative farming as a new approach to the land reform program.
The President told some 110 officers of the Federation of Land Reform Farmers of Central and Southern Luzon, led by Mac Fabian, that he was determined to extend land reform such that the entire country will be covered before his term expires in 1973.
Later, the President created a presidential advisory committee on civil aviation, naming as its ex-officio members CAA Administrator Federico Ablan, Jr., Brig. Gen. Jesus Singson, PAF chief; and the heads of existing pilot associations.
The President at the same time certified to Congress H. B. 2159, entitled the National Aviation Omnibus Bill, which, among others aims at improving the overall domestic civil aviation facilities, and seeks the creation of an aeronautical special fund.
And we will be watching the Cambodia developments. It would not look good if I go hunting while there are serious problems that are unsolved.
Today I met the Federation of land reform farmers headed by Mac Fabian. Then I received a Spanish C-2 submachine gun and the offer to build an arms factory, then the Egyptian ambassador and oil people offering crude oil from Egypt and the Middle East. The Egyptian Ambassador sought my intercession with Pres. [Richard] Nixon to stop the U.S. from further aiding Israel. I asked him how much Egypt has received from Russia. He admitted the amount of $1 billion in arms, but no Russian pilots, rather “instructor.”