Made the appointments in Foreign Affairs except Chiefs of Mission as I want to choose from the outside.
Have appointed [Felipe] Baby Ysmael as a roving trade commissioner with the rank of ambassador to look into trade possibilities in Southeast Asia. He left at 9:10 AM for Australia by JAL [Japan Airlines].
I intend to appoint Andy Soriano for the U.S., Enrique Zobel for Europe, Cesar Zalamea for U.S., Vincent Recto for Europe, Beleck Madrigal, etc.
Met Reuthers who has stayed in Russia two years. He seems to feel that the Russians are proud of their system but that ______.
Three of our agents assigned to infiltrate the gun-smuggling rings in Saigon were arrested in possession of some armalites that were sold them in an entrapment. We had to ask Sec. [Carlos] Romulo to call the Charge de Affaires [sic] of the Vietnamese Embassy to write his government to release them.
The People’s Congress in Plaza Miranda was tame and there were only about 5,000-10,000 people, many of them were class dodgers or circus spectators, although the PCC [Philippine College of Commerce] boys threw two Molotov cocktails at a Metrocom [Metropolitan Command] wagon.
Official Gazette for July 31, 1970: President Marcos ordered the Department of Labor and the Anti-Smuggling Action Center to make separate inquiries into the number of workers that may be displaced when the Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines (PICOP) takes over the disputed area claimed by the Calo logging interests in Agusan. The President also directed the two offices to ascertain whether any party is instigating trouble in the area.
The President had a number of callers in the morning. Among those he received were:
1. Secretary of Finance Cesar E. A. Virata who reported on his mission abroad. Virata arrived earlier in the morning after two weeks abroad. 2. Australian Parliament Member Neil Brown, who is here on a fact-finding tour. The Aussie solon paid a courtesy call. 3. Rep. Nicanor Yñiguez, who discussed problems of his constituency. 4. John Reuther, son of the American labor leader Victor Reuther, who was passing through from Moscow, where he studied for two years. He also paid a courtesy call, accompanied by Secretary of Labor Blas F. Ople and Robert Kinney.
The President also submitted to the Commission on Appointments more nominees to various posts, including foreign service positions, judgeships and other posts in the judiciary. (List of nominees in OG.)
Later in the afternoon, he asked Chairman Vicente Paterno of the Board of Investments to coordinate with the National Water and Air Pollution Control Commission in processing applications for the establishment of new industries. The President directed Paterno to clear all BOI applicants with the NWAPCC so as “to determine whether they have anti-pollution devices.”