There is a plan of the Kabataang Makabayan to kidnap American Ambassador Byroade, Jusmag [Joint US Military Assistance Group] Chief Gen. Pickett, US Aid [Agency for International Development] head Dr. Niblack and the USIS [United States Information Service] head. Apparently this plan is to include an exchange of the kidnapped Americans for Nilo Tayag, the head of the KM’s. Shades of South America!
We heard of this for the first time last Thursday when we went to Fort Aguinaldo for the traditional loyalty parade before my birthday and at Carmona in the resettlement area. [Henry] Byroade told Col. [Fabian] Ver about this and asked that there be a covert effort so that we can identify the planners and perpetrators. So we have given him and the others covert protection jointly with OSI [Office of Special Investigations].
Have given instructions to the missioners to the IMF [International Monetary Fund] meeting in Copenhagen as well as the Consultative Group meeting in Paris on October 1 & 2. I am sending Roman Cruz, Jr. to Bonn to back up Ambassador J.V. Cruz his brother, and Gov. [Benjamin] Romualdez and [Geronimo] Ronnie Velasco to Washington on electrification. We must push through the national electrification program.
The international commercial airlines are now searching all packages and baggages for explosives and arms in the MIA [Manila International Airport]. And I agree with the precautions.
Had dinner again with my two daughters to whom I retold the story of the characters in our family, including Bernardo the profligate drunk but who being six feet tall and unbelievably strong was the man who was to start the Ilocano folk legend of Bernardo; Father’s father, Fabian, who was the scholarly revolutionary and came down from the mountains to teach the Americans Spanish; Fructuoso, my mother’s father who was the rich Edralin and who pioneered in opening up the virgin lands in the foothills of the Cordilleras; Father who was a stern disciplinarian and who did not think much of
Official Gazette for September 12, 1970: President Marcos spent most of the day at his desk. Apart from studying official reports on a wide range of government business, he also issued directives, among which was a sterner policy against those who violate conditions of the contract to operate concessions geared to the exploitation of natural resources on public lands; and the organization of electric cooperatives teams, in every province to help the National Electrification Administration speed up its work.
The President also attended to the screening of prospective candidates for vacant posts in the government, including those recently vacated by officials who have opted to run for seats in the Constitutional Convention.
The President approved the promotion of Antonio Ruiz from first-assistant provincial fiscal to acting provincial fiscal of Pangasinan, vice Emeterio Castañeda, retired. In another action, the President accepted with regret the resignation of Felipe Ysmael, special envoy to Southeast Asia and Australia.
sending a twelve year old boy with a message through a cemetery in the dead of a rainy night; Paking who was sickly when he was young; and the poets and writers who even then looked down on trade and commerce.
And regaled them with stories of the games we played in our younger days: Juego de Anillo; the chicken buried in the sand with its head sticking out for us racers to grab (the secret was to use the smallest horse possible) racing full tilt with four other horses on a path that could accommodate only two horses; catching the larded pig; climbing up the oiled pole for its “gold” pot at the top; Filipino wrestling; Filipino arnis; cooking sweets in boiling molasses; hunting wild pig and deer in Nueva Era and Solsona at the boundary of Mt. Province and Abra and getting lost alone in the jungle—and fist fights in grade school! Poor girls finally said they were glad they were not boys!